6 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• today's daft question - how come we can fly a ...
  abelard explains why - simples, if not very politically or socially acceptable (correct) at the moment.
• trusting the fossil media: the groaniad and vi ...
  An example of how the mathematically niave will be fooled by an 'expert', in this case, an apparently authoritive graph.
• why are fools like obama desperately trying t ...
  Looking behind the so-called deficit crisis.
• a climber's race - this year's vuelta a espagn ...
  With unprecidentedly steep climbs, and lots of them, this year's race will be tough to ride and spectacular to watch.
• some commentary on the utoya shootings | beha ...
  With more expectation that adults, however young, can take responsibility, in this case be allowed to carry firearms, perhaps this would not have happened.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Are You a Downloade ...
  Who is “the public?” Where are they? This is far more difficult to answer than we think. The public is everywhere, all around us, frequenting shops and living in communities. But how do we address them? If we were to bring about democratic renewal, how would we make it truly public? There is a d ...
• Citizenship – “Investing In One An ...
  Democracy was never a commodity, something you buy from a catalogue. It was a representative system devised as a means whereby we might deal effectively with our challenges and explore our opportunities. The mechanisms designed and put in place to facilitate that process have recently fallen int ...
• Citizenship – “Our Public Choice T ...
  In 1517, a young priest named Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the great church in Wittenberg, Germany and started a Reformation, or more likely a revolution. I have visited that door a number of times and always marvel that from such an obscure place so much change can occur. All h ...
• Citizenship – “Online Map but Offl ...
  Interesting responses on the last two posts on the Internet and democracy, and, as expected, they have been divided, at times even sharp. Some view the digital world as a vast sea of unrefined opinions, whereas others believe no filters should be put in place – let citizens sift through it for t ...
• Citizenship – “Information vs. Kno ...
  New figures have just been released revealing that two-thirds of Canadian households have internet access and eight out of ten have home computers – all this higher than the OECD average.  With that distinct cutting-edge advantage, one would think Canada would enjoy a deeply engaged citizenry. S ...

Vaccine Awakening

• What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
• Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...

2020 Science

• Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
  I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
• Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
  Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...
• What do people think about synthetic biology?
  The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
• Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
  This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...

Reader Supported News

• Koch Brothers Join WellPoint to Stop Wisconsin ...
  Excerpt: "Republican and Democratic groups are pouring money into Wisconsin with eight legislative recalls scheduled this month and control of the state Senate hanging in the balance." David H. Koch of Koch Industries, 08/30/10. (photo: Richard Schulman/Corbis) Read more - WellPoint Ro ...
• Understanding ALEC's Influence on Your State Law
  Lois Beckett reports: "ALEC and its members favor 'federalism and conservative public policy solutions,' and ALEC representatives tell reporters that its mission is fundamentally 'educational.' ALEC spokeswoman Raegan Weber told the Los Angeles Times, 'Legislators should hear from those the gove ...
• Understanding ALEC's Influence on Your State Law
  Lois Beckett reports: "ALEC and its members favor 'federalism and conservative public policy solutions,' and ALEC representatives tell reporters that its mission is fundamentally 'educational.' ALEC spokeswoman Raegan Weber told the Los Angeles Times, 'Legislators should hear from those the gove ...
• Arrest Warrant Sought for CIA Lawyer Who Autho ...
  Tara McKelvey reports: "On July 18, Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, working with Smith, filed a formal complaint, or a First Information Report, in a police station in Islamabad, accusing Rizzo of murder and war crimes. The written complaint holds him responsible for the death of an 8-year ...
• Arrest Warrant Sought for CIA Lawyer Who Autho ...
  Tara McKelvey reports: "On July 18, Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, working with Smith, filed a formal complaint, or a First Information Report, in a police station in Islamabad, accusing Rizzo of murder and war crimes. The written complaint holds him responsible for the death of an 8-year ...

War Resisters League

• “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
  [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
• Wisconsin Updates!
  Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
• Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
  At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...
• WRL Organizers Criss-cross the Country
  The following are several brief reports from organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa on their travels across the country from Chicago to New Mexico, and Pittsburgh to Detroit. On May 31st, field organizer Ali Issa made a trip to Chicago where he took part in a joint stra ...
• No Surprises from the War-Makers!
  Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Salmonella Outbreak: USDA Gets It Half-Right
  The newest superbug in town is Salmonella Heidelberg, and the USDA has issued words of caution to U.S. consumers and instructions for proper meat handling—but it needs to press for reform in agricultural practices, as well. The CDC has identified S. Heidelberg as “resistant to many commonly pres ...
• Hey, USDA, Who’s Your Daddy?
  For whom does the USDA work? A recent development involving a vanished technical review makes me wonder if the agency is working to assure a safe and nutritious food supply for the U.S. citizenry, or to protect the profits of the agro-industrial complex. Tom Philpott did a great job covering the ...
• Threats from Nervous Hog Farmers
  Mark Bittman, whose regular food systems columns in the New York Times are an excellent source of thoughtful commentary on the ills of industrialized agriculture, commented last month on the odd-couple arrangement brokered by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Prod ...
• Nutrition Programs: How Many Spending Cuts Can ...
  In the midst of economic instability, it’s become clear that funding for major federal programs will be subject to cuts, and nutrition programs are no exception. Perhaps cuts are unavoidable, but it is essential that we examine their potential impact on public health. According to a recent USDA ...
• Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
  Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• How to Prevent More “Potatogates”
  New Report Makes Recommendations on Future Public Land Sales Alberta Wilderness Association 4 Aug 2011 The “Potatogate” lan ...
• The Water Log — August 3, 2011
  Water Matters The August 3, 2011 issue of The Water Log is available on the Water Matters website. Contents Drilling Below the Surface: Groundwater Risks and In Situ Oil Sands�Development A Nervous Summer for the Land-Use Fram ...
• Sign-on to Letter to Environment Minister on M ...
  Climate Action Network Canada Climate Action Network Canada (CAN Canada) is seeking high-level sign-on from organizations across the country�for this letter to Environment Minister Peter�Kent. CAN Canada is also asking for your urgent ...
• Alberta Utilities Commission faces court chall ...
  Pembina Institute Ecojustice 2 Aug 2011 CALGARY — Ecojustice and the Pembina Institute are taking the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) ...
• World Water Monitoring Day
  Water Environment Federation International Water Association Greetings, Members of the Alberta Environmental Network might be interested to learn about an international public education and o ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 6 ...
  ==== Media Coalition: NATO, Israel Breached Geneva Convention, Security Council Resolution NATO “Protects” Libyan Civilians By Killing Them U.S. Navy Drone Shot Down Along Libyan Coast U.S. Marines Extend Counterinsurgency Front From Black To Caspian Sea Afghanistan: Four Killed In Anti-NATO Ral ...
• Lesya Ukrainka: Do you understand that word ca ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Lesya Ukrainka From an untitled poem (1890) Translated by Gladys Evans “You’re lucky children, to be born In such a peaceful time, to live so carefree. You listen to my talk of past wild times As if it were some frightening fairy tale. ...
• Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts o ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stendhal From Comments on a reply to General Ségur (1825) Three quarters of the officers engaged in the Moscow expedition are referred to in M. de Ségur’s History, but, according to the partisans of the nation’s honour, he has said th ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 4 ...
  ==== NATO Plans Campaign In Syria, Tightens Noose Around Iran: Rogozin NATO Bombardment Of Libyan Capital Causes Ten Powerful Explosions Libya: NATO Conducts Deadly Bombing In Zlitan Libyan Mother, Children Buried After NATO Raids Washington: U.S. To Hand Libyan Embassy Over To Rebels Kosovo: Cr ...
• Paul Valéry on global conflicts, Europe govern ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Paul Valéry Quote on the Nie wieder Krieg/Plus jamais la guerre monument at Saint-Appolinaire: La guerre est le massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne massacrent pas entre eux. War is th ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• The Stunning Effect of This Single Vitamin on ...
  By Dr. Joseph Mercola Mercola.com August 5, 2011 What if a cure for cancer has been right here all along? What if the very agency charged with protecting your health is the one keeping you from that cure? A Lawless, Rogue Agency Out of Control � Ten years ago a former New York State assemblyman, ...
• More Reports Of Unmarked Black Helicopters Thi ...
  The Intel Hub August 6, 2011 In the last 2 weeks The Intel Hub has received over two dozen reports of unmarked black helicopters in areas that they have never been observed before. This, coupled with videos, pictures, no fly zones, and eyewitness reports, paints an eerie picture of troop buildup ...
• Weather Manipulation Via Frequency = Explanati ...
  YouTube August 6, 2011 All The Proof In The World: HAARP Is Wrecking Havoc Worldwide Weather Modification: A Covert Weapon Of Destruction http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/?p=660 http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/?p=605 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
• US and British-Backed Bahrain Regime: the Use ...
  By Finian Cunningham Global Research August 6, 2011 After more than five months of popular opposition to its autocratic rule, the US and British-backed unelected monarchy in Bahrain is deploying a new tactic of repression – toxic terror. Unable to thwart widespread calls for democratic freedom, ...
• TSA Illegally Confiscates Pregnant Woman’s Ins ...
  Keeping America safe from diabetes sufferers Steve Watson Infowars.com Aug 5, 2011 The TSA is at it again. Putting in danger and infringing on the rights of every day Americans attempting to go about their daily business is now par for the course in the nation’s airports. This time the agency fa ...

FRS

• Egypt: The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
  [A strong advocate of secular revolution posted this report of the 7/30/11 rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo, on www.3arabawy.org.  Given the history of what came to replace the Shah of Iran, these are timely insights for the worldwide revolutionary movement to discuss and debate. -- Frontlines ed ...
• People’s Hearing: “Charge the SFPD ...
  People’s Tribunal on Racism and Police Violence http://peopleshearing.wordpress.com Charge the SFPD with Murder of Kenneth Harding and Serial Murders in the Black Community! Unite to Create an Independent Investigation to Indict the Murderers! Justice for Kenneth Harding! Stop the Cover-up! Stop ...
• Nepal One Year Later: Still Waiting to be Born
  � [In this report for the interesting blog Winter Has Its End, the writers describe the current situation in Nepal as a very contradictory and  eery calm of frustration and anticipation.  It relates the unsure optimism of grassroots activists that this could be the calm before a revolutionary st ...
• Egypt: the long shadow of Mubarak and the rol ...
  “Long live Egypt’s Supreme Council” — With Mubarak out of power and SCAF taking the reigns, what’s next for the country?  Joseph Massad 28 Jul 2011 Egyptians have been protesting against the country’s military rulers continuing Mubarak-esque policies [EPA] Many Egyptians are expressing concerns ...
• Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
  Kenneth Harding, the San Francisco Police and the Media July 27, 2011 by MICHAEL CALDERÓN-ZAKS I should mention my connection to both San Francisco (where I was born, raised, and reside) and Seattle (where I received a Bachelors degree), where 19-year old Kenneth Harding is from and had an exagg ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
  am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
• One for the Women
  It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
• Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
  Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
• Slander vs. Sanity
  Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
• NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
  On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]

StillSmallVoice

• Happy Saturday!
• Never thought I'd say this, but:
  You tell 'em, Gov. Christie. The New Jersey governor nominated a Muslim judge to serve on the state Superior Court, and told critics who worried Sohail Mohammed would usher in sharia law that their concerns were "crap." And thanks, Dave, for letting me steal this link from you on Facebook.
• Do feminists support all women in power, no ma ...
  Well, no. Do all men support all men, no matter what? This came up when Hillary Clinton ran for president. Remember? Flickr photo
• Think this French McDonald's ad would work here?
  In France, McDonald's has been using this ad campaign -- Come As You Are.
• The health care law does not include taxpayer- ...
  So we can put that to rest. A judge has ruled that a defamation suit filed by a former Ohio representative against Susan B. Anthony List can move forward, in no small part because the organization lied and said the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes federally-funded abortions. ...

Associated Content

• 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' a Strong Prequel
  Critic Robert Denerstein, a sucker for 'Planet of the Apes' movies, says the latest edition has plenty of kick.Contributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Aug 04, 2011
• 36 Million Lbs. of Turkey Recalled After Salmo ...
  76 people became ill and one person has died from eating ground turkey tainted with salmonella. Cargill processors recalled 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen turkey, including Honeysuckle White, Kroger, Spartan and other major brands.Contributor: Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben Published: Aug 04 ...
• Thank You, Jerry Lewis, for Years of Service a ...
  MDA National Chairman Jerry Lewis announced Thursday that he will step down from his position and will not appear on this year's Labor Day Telethon.Contributor: Dan McGinnis Published: Aug 04, 2011
• Rick Perry Pushes Religious Envelope Too Far w ...
  Some of the GOP presidential candidates, and potential candidates, would like to make our entire country's beliefs based on their own. Here is why we should not allow this to happen.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 04, 2011
• A Brief History of Income Taxes
  Friday marks the 150th anniversary of the law that created the U.S. income tax system. While many Americans won't be celebrating the milestone, the income tax is vitally important running the government. Ever wonder how our income tax system came to be?Contributor: Jennifer LeMaire Published: Au ...

Popsci - Science

• Gallery: Armoring Juno Against Fierce Solar Ra ...
• A Single Box of Girl Scout Cookies Could Yield ...
  Next time you’re inhaling an entire box of Girl Scout shortbread cookies, just think of the potential you’re wasting: a full $15 billion worth of graphene. At least, that’s the estimate given by a team of Rice University researchers working on a dare. Published as part of a paper recently publi ...
• Tactile Glove Uses Small Vibrations to Improve ...
  Researchers at Georgia Tech have found that a little vibration goes a long way toward upping a person’s sense of touch. Using a glove of their own design, they’ve found that they can heighten tactile sensitivity by applying a small, high-frequency vibration to the side of the fingertip. The glo ...
• Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons That Collide ...
  A primordial second moon may have smacked into our existing moon billions of years ago, its remains pancaking across its larger sibling and disrupting the bigger moon’s still-cooling surface. This new theory could explain why the moon’s far side looks so different from the one that perennially ...
• Can You Split Atoms of Uranium at Home in Your ...
  Yes, it turns out, but it's frowned upon Here at PopSci we like to nurture that DIY, can-do, experimental spirit, but file this one under what not to do: A Swedish gentleman, citing a a curiosity about whether or not it’s possible to split atoms in one’s own home, has been arrested for trying t ...

Veterans Today

• Arabs should put their own houses in order
  With its silence, the Arab League is opening the door to Syria’s western enemies which have their own agendas in the Middle East.
• 66 Years of Nuclear Insanity and Real Change w ...
  This August 6th and 9th mark the 66th anniversaries of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• War on error
  Israel’s terror has been America’s error. In 2003, I questioned both the official story of 9/11 and several of the conspiracy theories advanced at the time. My concern then was who benefited from 9/11? My conclusion? Israel.
• What Comes Next After Norway Northwoods?
  Five weeks ago we published Germany False Flag Forecast, Summer 2011, in which we identified two anniversaries as the most likely dates for a North Europe terror attack over the next ten weeks: July 20 for the German officers coup against Hitler, and July 22 for the Jewish terror attack against ...
• VA, SSDI, SSI, Disability Reviews, Cuts, Termi ...
  Hidden in New Debt Deal is requirement that Disability claims be reviewed, redetermined, terminated!

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• 'Risk-Free' No More: S&P Downgrades US Debt
  When I was studying for an MBA sometime ago, the textbook 'risk free' rate of return was represented by US Treasuries, of course implying that the risk of default was virtually nil. After today, I guess they'll have to rewrite the textbooks as it's now been downgraded to AA+. You can say the US ...
• ABC News: US Preparing for S&P Downgrade
  If not now, in the near future methinks. Among major US networks, ABC is generally adjudged more credible than the others. See what you make of it... A government official tells ABC News that the federal government is expecting and preparing for bond rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade ...
• Italy...If You Can't Beat Rating Agencies, Rai ...
  Italy is often caricatured as a relatively lawless, cult of personality-type of republic in contrast to supposedly more enlightened states in the Eurozone. Certainly Silvio Berlusconi's antics don't inspire confidence among many outside of the country. This latest caper is certainly not one to a ...
• Batten Down FX Hatches; 'Currency War' Resumes
  So, where exactly are the win-win scenarios of globalization at this point in time? With stock bourses around the world swooning like those in hapless, hopeless America, currencies are once more in the front lines of international economic conflict. As in recent months, the key combatants are th ...
• Swiss, Japanese Confront US Currency Parasitism
  With the US economy showing signs of skidding into the gutter and falling from there into the sewer to paraphrase a certain British politician, other countries with widely traded currencies are girding up to protect themselves from American beggar-thy-neighbour ZIRP as QE3 looms over the horizon ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• Ukraine’s ex-PM Tymoshenko arrested
  A Ukrainian court has ordered the arrest of country’s former Prime Minister and high-profile opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko. ­Around 30 police officers surrounded Tymoshenko’s table and escorted the ex-PM out of the court room. After the judge voiced his decision, Ukrainian parliamentary de ...
• US shows concern over China’s growing military ...
  The fast increasing military might of China is a growing concern for the US, a top Pentagon official said. “Having just visited China recently, certainly both South Korea and Japan; we’re all concerned with sustaining continued stability in the region,” Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint ...
• NATO plans campaign in Syria, tightens noose a ...
  NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. The UN Security Council condemned on Wednesday ongoing violence in Sy ...
• Japanese to create intellectual robots
  Japanese scientists in Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built a robot that is capable of thinking, learning and having human reactions. The robot has been designed based on “unsupervised learning mechanismâ called Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and enabl ...
• Run On US-European Banks Brings World To Brink ...
  A shocking Russian Finance Ministry report prepared for Prime Minister Putin is warning today that massive liquidity runs on American and European financial institutions over the past fortnight are in danger of collapsing the entire global economic system leaving war as the only “option” for the ...

Voiceless Victim

• Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
  Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
• Imagine How It Feels
  How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
  Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]

WL Central

• 2011-08-05 Violent police repression of studen ...
  Tweet Over 800 arrested during running street battles, as student protesters defy official protest ban to demonstrate for equal access to education. For�two months now, young Chileans have been taking to the streets to protest against neoliberal reforms in education spearheaded by the country� ...
• 2011-08-05 In Spain, defiant indignados receiv ...
  Tweet In just two days, the Spanish police have spoken out against the government and in support of the indignados — while at the same time beating them up. (Photo: Iker Etxarte) Either the police have lost it, or the government has lost the police. Or both. Whatever way it may be, the predicted ...
• 2011-08-05 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 04:00 AM WikiLeaks is among the websites targeted by the U.S. National O ...
• 2011-08-04 How WikiLeaks Is Helping Change Mal ...
  TweetLate last year, Malaysian Opposition Leader Dr Anwar Ibrahim was being labelled "WikiLeaks' first Malaysian victim" after the Sydney Morning Herald released a US cable suggesting he had knowingly "walked into" a sex trap. But the purported evidence quickly dissolved into hearsay when Singap ...
• 2011-08-03 How to Start A Revolution #globalre ...
  TweetBy Willie Osterweil A camp in Athens, Greece (via wikimedia) The protest camp proved a central part of the revolution in Egypt. It’s impossible to say where the movements built around the camps of Spain and Greece, which closed earlier this month, will lead, but it is totally clear that th ...

U N News

• Murder of Dominican journalist sparks condemna ...
  The United Nations agency tasked with promoting press freedom today deplored the slaying of a print and television journalist in the Dominican Republic who had spoken out against drug trafficking.
• UN encourages Haitians to reach consensus on n ...
  The United Nations has encouraged all political actors in Haiti to search for a consensus amid the ongoing struggle between President Michel Martelly and Parliament over the confirmation of a new prime minister.
• UN helps Belize fight highest incidence of HIV ...
  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is implementing an HIV/AIDS grant agreement with Belize to treat and prevent the disease among the large number of teens and young adults in the country, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Central America.
• Haiti: UN forces on standby for emergency reli ...
  Nearly 12,000 United Nations peacekeepers are on emergency standby in Haiti as tropical storm Emily barrels towards the impoverished Caribbean country, which is still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.3 million others.
• UNESCO condemns murders of journalists in Mexi ...
  The United Nations agency tasked with defending and promoting press freedom today condemned the murders of journalists in Mexico and Brazil, two Latin American countries where reporters have already been killed this year.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
  You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
• Population Control – Eugenics Depopulation Agenda
  Eugenicists who have still caught on to the discredited principles of eugenics, now attach these ideas to environmentalism and population control in an attempt to carry on eugenics in a more veiled form. Malthusian population control was now emphasized.
• CAMP FEMA: American Lockdown
  The martial law portions of Rex 84 were outlined in a 1982 memo, written by FEMA deputy John Brinkerhoff. Martial law was to be declared in the event of a national crisis, yet the plan did not define the term "national crisis". The plan allowed FEMA to take control of both federal and state gove ...
• 2012 – Science or Superstition – End Times Pre ...
  December 21, 2012, the end date of the sophisticated long count calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps; those for casting apocalypse, the end of time, and t ...
• A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
  There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...

Rewilding Institute

• Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
  What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
• Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
  Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

• US Precipitates India, Iran Oil Crisis
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A vigilant Washington seeks to stop payments for Iranian oil
• Japan's New Women
  • (http://twitter.com/share) But the glass ceiling is still said to be impervious
• India Enters China's Backyard
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Delhi and Seoul make nice
• Killing the Irrawaddy
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Chinese thirst for power drains Burma’s rivers
• Malaysian PM's Wife Draws flak
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s wife blazes her own controversial trail

We Know the Lies

• Gun Owners of America Chief Warns... Super Con ...
• Ron Paul Warns... New Super Congress Will be U ...
• Minnesota... Huge Win for Organic Farmers!
• The Clintons and Federal Reserve Bankers Link ...
• Facebook and Facial Recognition Software to be ...

Tarpley

• Syrian Army Quells Rebellion of CIA-Backed Mos ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today August 4, 2011 [download file]
• Français
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Operation sous Fausse Bandière en Norvège: Attention aux Taupes, aux Techniciens, et aux Exercices Policiers, et seulement après au Lampiste ...
• Tea Party Should Cut Off Funds for Libya War t ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Adam vs. The Man August 3, 2011 [download file]
• Oppose Obama’s Unconstitutional Supercon ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com August 3, 2011 [download audio]
• Српски/Srpski
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   VEBSTER TARPLI Mreža zla na ostrvu Utoja PeÄat – 1. авгÑÑÑ, 2011 [permalink] [...]

Modern Survivalism

• There IS Good Economic News!
  Oil Prices are down! As of this post date, this week the stock market has been walloped with tremendous losses, while today alone the Dow has sunk 500 points, the most since December, 2008. Instead of posting on the bad news of it all (and there is much bad news…), I thought I would glean [...]
• Debts and Deficits lead to Currency Downfall
  The common denominator that led to the downfall of past currencies was Debts and Deficits. Most Americans don’t believe the U.S. dollar will collapse. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts from a recent article from the Market Oracle, Morgan Stanley reported in 2009 that thereâs âno histori ...
• Major Geomagnetic Storm Warning
  Two Solar CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejection) are inbound on their way to Earth and they may have merged into a single cloud that could produce significant storming when they reach Earth on August 5th around 10:00 UT. STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: Active sunspot 1261 has unleashed a significant solar flare. T ...
• Emergency Reserve.com Food Supply Kits
  msb-note This website depends heavily upon the the support that you provide by clicking-on and purchasing products that are advertised here. Without your support, this site could not sustain itself because it takes time and money to stay on the air. For our direct sponsors whose advertisements a ...
• Today in the News:
  News Today (August 3, 2011) US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic product after the government’s debt ceiling was lifted. Wait a minute… I thought they cut spending??? US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury What we’re having is a classical technical breakdown. The ...

Fast Company

• The Soylentularity, The Zizekularity, And Thre ...
  The Singularity. That exciting future moment drawing all too near when artificial intelligence finally surpasses the human variety, leading to an unimaginable Matrix-like universe of virtual reality, immortality, and....Bor-ing. We've all heard that before. What about some new ideas?Currently a ...
• Why There Are So Few Successful Transportation ...
  To really get innovation we need to look at electric batteries in cars as distributed sources of energy for the grid that just happen to be on four wheels. The two energy crises in the 1970s spurred the United States to start the Department of Energy, and in turn, to pour billions of dollars int ...
• This Week In Bots: Learning Bots, Baking Bots, ...
  Robots are ever closer to being clever enough, autonomous enough, and useful enough to actually become part of daily life. Here are the latest robo-developments. Learning, Thinking RobotThe Tokyo Institute of Technology's Hasegawa Group has built self-organizing neural networks into the brain of ...
• Hackers Cruise In The Wake Of Booming Square A ...
  The faster tech businesses boom, the faster scam artists see opportunities to exploit them. Two hacks targeting Facebook and credit card service Square offer further lessons in failure at the speed of light. The FBI has arrested the "Spam King" Sanford Wallace and charged him with 11 counts of f ...
• The Material Genome Initiative Puts High-Tech ...
  It can take years for a new engineering feat to go from concept to commercialization. The rechargeable batteries in your phone took 20 years to develop. So the federal government is launching a project to speed up invention and hopefully save U.S. manufacturing. It takes decades for new materia ...

Jadaliyya

• Tahrir August 1st: Masquerade for a Lost Legit ...
  After a nearly three-week long sit-in, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sent their forces—the same forces that are reportedly tasked with “defending us from our external enemies”—to violently attack peaceful demonstrators, clear a site of protest, and, with the help of a pr ...
• Rap Rage Revolt
  Two months ago the private radio station Mosaïque FM asked Rachid Ghannouchi whether he preferred rap music or mizwid (Tunisia�s most popular sha�bi or folk music, whose name derives from the main instrument that accompanies the singing, i.e., the goatskin bagpipe). Ghannouchi, leader of ...
• Bodies Moving to Memory
  antinormanybody. Curated by Barrak Alzaid. Organized with the support of Kleio Projects & International Resource Network. June 23 � August 10, 2011. Kleio Projects: 153½ Stanton Street, New York, NY. I wandered the Lower East Side on a sweaty summer morning in search of Kleio Projects ...
• One Night in Hamra
  [The following is an eye-witness account of the violent dispersion of an anti-regime protest that took place this past Tuesday outside the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. The author of the report-back has chosen to remain anonymous.] Last Tuesday evening at around 8 o�clock, a group of people ...
• Hope, Translated
  Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2005. Tahar Ben Jelloun, A Palace in the Old Village. Translated by Linda Coverdale. New York: Penguin, 2011. Already, the narratives of the Arab Spring dominating the American media have a nebulous relationsh ...

mediagazer

• A hacking "exclusive" that never was (Will Stu ...
  Will Sturgeon / themediablog.typepad.com: A hacking “exclusive” that never was  —  John Higginson, a journalist at free sheet The Metro began trailing an “exclusive” on Twitter last night which at first glance promised a fresh twist in the phone hacking story:  —  But the “exclusive” was actua ...
• The Washington Post Company Reports Second Qua ...
  Washington Post: The Washington Post Company Reports Second Quarter Earnings  —  Companies:  —  Related Quotes  —  SymbolPriceChange  —  WPO  —  387.90  —  WASHINGTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO - News) today reported net income available for common shares of $45.6 mi ...
• 'Wired' to Raise Rate Base (Lucia Moses/Adweek)
  Lucia Moses / Adweek: ‘Wired’ to Raise Rate Base  —  Few magazines have been willing to raise the circulation numbers they guarantee advertisers in recent years, but Wired, which has been buoyed by demand for its tablet editions as well as its print magazine, is doing just that.  The Condé Nas ...
• Tavi Goes Out on Her Own (Zeke Turner/WWD)
  Zeke Turner / WWD: Tavi Goes Out on Her Own … Almost eight months after Tavi Gevinson revealed that she would be partnering with Jane Pratt, the founding editor of Sassy and Jane magazines, on her own magazine for teenage girls, Pratt's involvement with the project has become uncertain.
• Did AOL just out-Flipboard Flipboard? (JP Mang ...
  JP Mangalindan / Fortune: Did AOL just out-Flipboard Flipboard?  —  The company's new news app aggregates content based on your interests, reading habits and your friends — and it takes the digital magazine concept to the extreme.  —  By JP Mangalindan, writer-reporter  —  Every issue of Editi ...

Chemtrail News

• ~ I'm SICK of this ~ Chemtrails ~ A ...
  Once again the skies turned toxic. This seems to be more the norm lately and I truly am SICK of it. My throat is very sore, I have brain fog and feel drugg.chemtruth.ning.com/video/i-m-sick-of-this-chemtrails
• 200 Million Tons of Aluminum Aerosol Chemtr ...
  I mean, "Is this true?" are we actively spraying the skies with aluminium nano- powder to 'help the global warming scam'?en.paperblog.com/200-million-tons-of-aluminum-aerosol-che...
• Chemtrail Tropical Storm? Green Lifesty ...
  Chemtrail Influence on Tropical Storm Emily Paul Harris of meteorological-lies. com examines images indicating that chemtrails are being used to affect ...greenplanetparadise.com/3014/chemtrail-tropical-storm
• Air Berlin Airbus 330 with chemtrail en ...
  Lufthansa Airbus 380 enroute · Air Berlin Airbus 330 with chemtrail enroute · American Airlines enroute · Singapore Airlines Airbus 380 enroute ...www.flickr.com/photos/picturejohn64/6005124782/
• Chemtrails in Bowral, Southern Highland ...
  As you can see, chemtrail jet had started going backwards and forwards over Mittagong, Bowral, Moss Vale, and other areas. The Jet covered a wide area.www.chrisroubis.com/wp-content/uploads/.../chemtrails.jpg

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activi ...
  The list of people who've accepted $150,000 from an advocacy organization is a long one. There are lots of PhDs here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.
• Pew, What’s That Smell?
  An activist group has been funding a particular corner of scientific research to the tune of $1 million a year for more than two decades. Do we really think this hasn't influenced how those working in that field see the world?
• Greenpeace’s Fear Machine
  17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.
• Canadian Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund
  When hundreds of Canadian scientists - and 12 science bodies - joined a World Wildlife Fund ad campaign they undermined their own authority. They became politically-motivated actors in a political discussion.
• How the IPCC Defines ‘Distinguished Scie ...
  Where, on the CV of a person employed by Greenpeace for the past 17 years, does it say distinguished scientist?

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

• 8/5/11 - Find Your Body Mass Index (BMI)
  obesity.procon.org - NEW: Find Your Body Mass Index (BMI) - The average BMI in the US is 27.8 for males and 28.1 for females. Use our new chart to find your BMI and see how you compare to the national average.
• 8/5/11 - US and Global Obesity Levels: The Fat ...
  obesity.procon.org - NEW: US and Global Obesity Levels: The Fat Chart - 21.8% of the total global population and 33.9% of the US population is obese. Between 1960 and 2006 obesity rates in the US more than doubled, making the US the most obese industrialized country on Earth. See our new chart t ...
• 8/4/11 - Six States with Pending Legislation t ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills in six states died in committee when legislative sessions adjourned, leaving pending legislation in IL, MA, NH, NY, OH, and PA.
• 7/27/11 - ACLU Historical Timeline
  aclu.procon.org - UPDATED: ACLU Historical Timeline - Read about the history of the American Civil Liberties Union from its formation in 1920, through their organizational split over Japanese internment in 1942, to the ACLU's defense of the right for American Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in 1977 ...
• 7/27/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic b ...
  immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con statements from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (pro), Dr. Alan Greenspan (con), Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen (pro), the Washington Post (con), and many others in our recen ...

Truth About Our World

• Real American History that’s NOT in Hist ...
  � How to KILL your STRAWMAN and be truly FREE! (Part 1) -         Steve Beckow From: http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-kill-your-strawman-and-be-truly.html You see, I�ve been studying the law: constitutional, maritime, Universal Commercial Code (UCC), common law, etc, and I am a ...
• George Carlin and Bill Hicks tell it like it is
• Time For Laughs… and a bit of reality
• How to Change Our Reality
• Taking Responsibility (Taking your power back)

Gyrovague's Raves

• Violent "Counter-Jihadism"
  What — and Who — Inspired Anders Behring Breivikâs Violence? Ãyvind Strømmen Summary: Like many of the violent jihadists he so feared, the man responsible for last weekâs attacks in Norway seems to have been radicalized via the Internet. ÃYVIND STRÃMMEN is a Norwegian journalist and a contribut ...
• The Muslims of Norway
  Islam and Multiculturalism Under Attack Shoaib Sultan Summary: The attacks in Norway last week targeted the very idea behind the country’s multicultural society and, in particular, the place of Muslims within it. As Norway comes to terms with the tragedy, how will the fallout affect the country’ ...
• Red, Delicious, and Rotten
  How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party. BY CHRISTINA LARSON A friend in Beijing recently told me a story about the time a China Telecom technician came over to install the Internet connection for her Apple laptop. The man, an experienced worker, puzzled over the ...
• Leaf acts as an echo beacon to lure bat pollin ...
  Yun Xie A montage shows a bat approaching a disk-shaped leaf. As a Pallasâs long-tongued bat flies around a rainforest looking for nectar, it relies on echolocation from the sound it emits to find flowers. From a plantâs perspective, it’s good to be found by bats, which are highly mobile pollina ...
• Intel integrated graphics: finally good enough ...
  Chris Foresman At long last, Apple released Intel’s highly anticipated Sandy Bridge updates on both the MacBook Air and Mac mini earlier this month. However, many of these machinesâalong with the 13" MacBook Pro introduced earlier this yearârely solely on Intel’s integrated graphics, a move that ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Open meeting on open science – some highlights
  FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
• Engineering public engagement
  FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...

NAU Resistance

• U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
  - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• No Carbon Tax Protest: photos
  Some random thoughts as we steam towards the biggest social and economic blunder of the millennium. Calculations about what people will pay on average per week are speculative and have no guarantees attached. That’s clearly just a marketing gimmick. What we should be more concerned about is wh ...
• TVO Canada interviews Gage, Zwicker, Zarembka ...
  http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/513-tvo-debate.html Written by AE911Truth Staff | 17 may 2011 Canadian Public Broadcasting TV Station TVO Interviewed AE911Truth's Richard Gage, AIA, Barrie Zwicker (Towers of Deception), Author Paul Zarembka on the program "The Agenda" wi ...
• A green tide sweeps Canberra
  On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
• 9/11 Troll Alert
  Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
• TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
  There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...

Beacon

• Friday Infographic: Sharks
  We�ve been featuring infographics by artist Don Foley for the past few Fridays, but we thought it appropriate wrap up shark week with a snazzy infographic by shark-loving blogger Kaelah Bee. Thanks for celebrating shark week with us - don't forget to take action to protect threatened sharks if ...
• A Safe Haven for Sharks
  Editor's note: Happy Shark Week! All week long we’ve been re-capping some highlights from Shark Week programming. Today we review last night's "Shark City." Shark Week wrapped up last night with an appearance from this year’s Chief Shark Officer, Andy Samberg, in “Shark City.” This episode wa ...
• Breaking: Oregon Governor Signs Shark Fin Trad ...
  Great news this shark week! We just got word that Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber will sign a bill this afternoon banning the sale, trade, and possession of shark fins in the state. Oceana was instrumental in the passage of this bill, which passed the State House and Senate with bipartisan suppor ...
• Kristin Bauer: Let’s Save Sharks this Shark Week
  Actress and Oceana supporter Kristin Bauer. I might play a blood-sucking vampire on “True Blood,” but in real life I’m a devoted animal lover and conservationist. In the past few weeks, I’ve followed the proposed ban on the shark fin trade in California, and – in honor of Shark Week – I wa ...
• Shark Myths vs. Facts
  The largest fish in the ocean, the whale shark. © Tony Rath Editor's note: Happy Shark Week! All week long we are re-capping some highlights from Shark Week programming. Today we review last night's "How Sharks Hunt." Sharks have been swimming the world’s oceans for over 400 million y ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Mission To Get Bin Laden, In The New Yorker
  The nine other SEALs, including Mark, formed three-man units for clearing the inner courtyard. The Americans suspected that several more men were in the house: Kuwaiti’s thirty-three-year-old brother, Abrar; bin Laden’s sons Hamza and Khalid; and bin Laden himself. One SEAL unit had no sooner tr ...
• The War No One Knows About.
  Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya Al- Shabaab means the “youth” in Arabic. It refers to the Radicalized Islamic political organization that we really should fear and keep a watch on. This group is the Al-Quaeda of the Horn of Africa, and they are represented in the anarchic daimyo known as The Islamic Cour ...
• Coca Cola Goes To War.
  Coca Cola Plant In North Africa During WWII Coca Cola  CEO Robert Woodruff insisted that Coca Cola be served to US troops over seas. Eisenhower thought it was a great idea and commissioned three plants to be opened in the North African theater of operations in 1942. The attempt to support troops ...
• One Of The Greatest Boxing Matches Of All Time ...
  Click here to view the [...]
• Excogitations On The Messy Birth Of The Contin ...
  The Revolutionary states were mostly an aggregation of agricultural communities who traded raw goods for British and French surplus goods. Roads were inadequate to provide major thoroughfares from one state to the next, so trade was mostly conducted along rivers. Let's face it. This was not a na ...

Taylor Marsh

• ABC News: The Deserved Downgrade Cometh
  From Jake Tapper: A government official tells ABC News that the federal government is expecting and preparing for bond rating agency Standard & Poorâs to downgrade the rating of US debt from its current AAA value. Pres. Obama makes more history, just not the kind he’d hoped. Quite an accomplishm ...
• A Friendly Rebuttal to David Sirota (from the ...
  David Sirota has taken up the multi-dimensional chess argument for Obama, though in a different way than his loyalists and fan boys. David begins by excusing the results we’ve had so far as simply being that he isn’t a liberal. Well, that’s an understatement, but then he says Obama is a “bizarro ...
• Two Parties = Too Few Choices Part II
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Not that it was needed, but the Great Debt Ceiling Faux Crisis of 2011 provided yet another example of the failures and dangers of the Two Party Front for the Oligarchy. Vastleft, writing last week at Corrente, provides o ...
• So Much for Optimism
  Paul Krugman tells the story, but here are the bloody facts: At the close, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 60.27 points, or 4.78 percent, to 1,200.07. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 512.76 points, or 4.31 percent, to 11,383.68, and the Nasdaq was down 136.68, or 5.08 per ...
• Florida, Florida…
  From Quinnipiac: The national debt ceiling deal does not rescue President Barack Obama’s crashing job approval rating in Florida as he gets a negative 44 – 51 percent score among voters surveyed August 1 – 2, after the deal was announced, compared to a negative 44 – 50 percent score among voters ...

Hudson New York

• The Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi Alliance
  As the world focuses its attention on the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, extremist Islamic groups are working toward turning Egypt into an Islamic Republic. If the Egyptian authorities do not move quickly to crush the extremists and
• Pakistan's Spy Game in the U.S.
  Relations between U.S. and Pakistan grow more and more tense. In July, the FBI arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, a Kashmiri-born activist accused of participating as an agent for the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in secret lobbying efforts
• Turkey Trading 'Soldier's Bayonet' for PM's 'T ...
  Turkey has been freed from the "soldier's bayonet" only to face the prime minister's "truncheon," the deputy group chairman of the country's main opposition said. The Republican People's Party, or CHP's, Muharrem İnce made the comments ahead of a crucial
• Muslim Countries Financing Jihad in Spain
  Muslim countries in the Persian Gulf and North Africa are funnelling large sums of money to radical Islamic groups in towns and cities across Spain in a competing effort to exert control over the estimated 1.5 million Muslims in the country. A newly
• New Muslim 'Reality' Show Is Anything But
  The American TV network TLC recently announced that it is making a reality series following the lives of Muslims living in America. The program—called "All American Muslim"—will follow five Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, hoping to expose the

Urban Survival

• BLS Jobs Data Wrap Up
  OK, we finally got a good connection into the BLS data and here’s where things are:  First the summery press release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 117,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.1 percent, … Continue reading →
• Waiting on Good Data
  BLS Server Issues Continue to evolve…will keep you posted.
• Jobs: We Having Fun, Yet? 9.1????!!!!
  Are we having fun, yet?  I sure am.  We I told you on Tuesday morning that we were “Back in Crash Country” I wasn’t just blowing smoke.  And when I tell you we may be only half way through the … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the Winds of Change
  Sometimes, its awe inspiring to be a time monk.  Since whatever we’re doing seems to be rewarded in most unusual ways by Universe around here.  And it all seems to involve the winds of change.  Which, just in case you’ve … Continue reading →
• Markets: Swing That Thing
  Say, yesterday’s report on the market getting into “crash country” has been almost as much fun as poking myself in the eye with a sharp stick.  I was on the short side, which became handsomely profitable, yet when the time … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Past, Present & Future - A New World Order
  What we need is someone uncorruptible,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-08-05 [del.icio.us]
  Bill Maher : The Magic of Obama is gone | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Bill Maher : The Magic of Obama is gone | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Bill Maher : The Magic of Obama is gone Bob Chapman & Ted Anderson on The Alex Jones - 05 Aug 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog B ...
• The Financial Armageddon Is almost here 2011
  What is the world moving toward quickly? What is... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Bill Maher : The Magic of Obama is gone
  Bill Maher : "...for a lot of people who like... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The House of Rothschild : The Money Prophets
  Secret History of the International Bond... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• NIGERIAN POLICE vs POLICE IN ENGLAND
  The Nigerian police force is indeed a force to be reckoned with. Not only do they protect and serve, but they also obtain, harass and embarass, which is a short list of their often diverse responsibilities. It is a rare thing to experience a society where you are much more likely to get stopped ...
• NIGERIAN EDUCATION vs EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
  As a result of the parents I had I was priviledged enough to receive a substancial education in both England and Nigeria. I was a student in what was allegedly one of the top 5 secondary schools in England, and my Nigerian counter parts spared no cost either. So on a level, I would say [...]
• NIGERIAN WOMEN vs WOMEN IN ENGLAND
  It is almost an impossible challenge to attempt to describe a Nigerian woman without a sudden sense of fear gripping my fingers. Even though there are only words in front of me, I can’t help but see hundreds of Nigerian female faces staring down at me too; their eyes shouting “oya talk now!”, da ...
• NIGERIAN BELIEFS vs BELIEFS IN ENGLAND
  Haven’t you heard? Nobody ever dies of natural causes in Nigeria. In fact the most common form of death is as a result of a spiritual curse sent by a spiteful relative in a village. Nigerians are without a doubt amongst the most superstitious of all cultures. Regardless of their diversity, educa ...
• CHALK ART – By: Julian Beever
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: art, creativity

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Guest Post: Boston meeting shines spotlight on ...
  Guest post by Karolina Maciag, a graduate Student at Hacohen Lab at the Broad Institute and Jen Manne a student at Harvard School of Public Health/BU School of Medicine. Last month, Boston hosted the inaugural Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) meeting of the International Society for Infectiou ...
• Cape Cod shark talk tonight in Wellfleet
  Sharks are a big topic on the Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. A trip to a Vineyard beach might bring you to a site of a Jaws shoot. And, the state routinely monitors sharks spotted off Chatham and elsewhere on the Cape. Tonight University of Rhode Island biologis ...
• Research waverunner measures bay's bathymetry
  From the (Martha's) Vineyard Gazette: This month scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will descend on Edgartown with a sonar-equipped waverunner to map, in unprecedented resolution, the ever-shifting sands and currents of Katama Bay. While the bathymetry of the body of water ...
• A call for more naturally derived medicinals
  Keeley Wray, is the Technology Marketing Specialist in the Technology and Innovation Development Office at Children's Hospital Boston asks : Where's the business model for "naturally derived medicinals"? From Children's Vector blog: If more companies found ways to commercialize natural comp ...
• Woods Hole, the Gulf oil spill and the istisob ...
  As some of us rumble on and off the ferry to Martha's Vineyard, the scientists at the nearby WHOI are working away. An article in the lab's Oceanus magazine tells the tale of yet another useful, custom-built, underwater device. This time, their work aims to answer questions about the Gulf oil sp ...

  NRDC 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 5, 2011: 5 New Orleans LA cops found guilty on all 25 counts for fatal Danziger Bridge shootings & cover-up [0] http://ow.ly/1vmLc4 Brea CA police sued by family of man suspec ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 4, 2011: Attleboro MA police sued by father & daughter alleging brutality, repeated harassment & false arrests [3] http://ow.ly/1vllfM Bethlehem PA cop gets probation in red ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 3, 2011: 4 Tampa FL cops sued by deaf man claiming cops repeatedly tasered & beat him after dragging him out of a bar. While they allegedly fractured his orbital bones in t ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 2, 2011: Elyria OH settles suit for $50k to man who was punched by a cop while cuffed to hospital bed because of comment [0] http://ow.ly/1vfTor Montgomery Co MD police rebuk ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 1, 2011: 2 Detroit MI cops subject of suit by ex-Army medic claiming they rammed his car then beat him while he was cuffed. [3] http://ow.ly/1vf3jJ Miami Beach FL settles suit ...

Total Collapse

• Putin says US a ‘parasite’ on world economy
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of acting as a “parasite” on the world economy by accumulating massive debts that threaten the global financial system. “The country is living in debt. It is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibili ...
• China To ‘Employ’ 1 Million Robots
  A Taiwanese manufacturer of parts for Apple, Nokia and Dell is planning to replace staff on assembly lines in its Chinese factories with robots. Foxconn also counts Hewlett-Packard and Sony Ericsson amongst its clients. The company presently “employs” 10,000 robots, but plans to increase this to ...
• Debt deal likely to face defeat in US House on ...
  The markets are popping champagne. The traders are clapping and cheering. The media is awash with the phrase “the crisis is over”. But for a default to be averted, a vote on the agreement reached today still needs to be voted on and approved. Democratic and Republican leaders have conceded that ...
• Turkey’s Entire Military Command Quits
  Turkey’s army chief-of-staff and the entire military command have resigned in a row with the government about promotions for generals held in an alleged anti-government plot, broadcasters reported Friday. General Isik Kosaner stepped down after having met with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyi ...
• “MARTIAL LAW” Rule In New Debt Bill ? (FOX NEWS)
  WTF IS GOING ON IN AMERICA ? Fox news aired live on july 28th a new rule in the debt ceiling talks called ” Martial Law” WHAT THE F*** ? Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis—usually only temporary—when the civilian g ...

Daily Dose

• What will the Internet be like in 20 years?
  On the day the World Wide Web celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it’s worth considering what the future holds for the Web and the Internet as a whole. Yesterday I threw out the question on Twitter and Google+, receiving some excellent answers back. Here are some of the best. Thanks to everyo ...
• 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened ...
  Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, published the first Web page and gave birth to a new technology which would fundament ...
• iPhone users click on WAY more ads than Androi ...
  According to a report by ad company Jumpstart, iPhone users click on far more ads than Android users, to the tune of 1.6x as much in fact. The industry average click-through rate for ads is 0.52% and Android users hover just below that at 0.47%. iPhone users, on the other hand, are up at 0.78%. ...
• The Adoption Lifecycle of Social Networks [Inf ...
  Vincenzo Cosenza, an Italian digital strategist, has just finished his latest research on Social Networks Adoption Lifecycle. Cosenza has applied the Innovation Adoption Model, a model that shows the stages in the adoption process for a new product by a consumer, to social networks diffusion to ...
• Find a great domain name for your startup with ...
  The domain name market is a messy business – if you want a really good domain name, these days you’ll probably have to be prepared to shell out a small (or maybe even large) fortune. NameLayer is a new service launching that aims to make getting a good quality name easier and cheaper than it ha ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Solar Thermal a Key Driver of Renewable Energy ...
  New data released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that, over the last financial quarter, a staggering $US41.7billion of new capital was invested globally in the renewable energy sector. Investments in the innovative concentrating solar thermal (CST) industry were identified as a key drive ...
• Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
  Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
• BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
• Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
  Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...
• Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...
  The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto e ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Little-known animal picture of the day: the ve ...
  The velvet asity is a small bird endemic to Madagascar. The species is a part of a family of birds that only includes four species, all native to Madagascar.
• Famine spreads: 29,000 young children perish
  As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished from starvation in the last 90 days: 29,000. Nearly half of the total population of Somalia is ...
• Protected areas not enough to save life on Earth
  Since the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 protected areas have spread across the world. Today, over 100,000 protected areas—national parks, wildlife refuges, game reserves, marine protected areas (MPAs), wildlife sanctuaries, etc.—cover some 7.3 million square miles (19 million kil ...
• Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for ...
  Legal rights and recognition for the diverse indigenous peoples of Suriname have lagged behind those in other South American countries. Despite pressure from the UN and binding judgments by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Suriname has yet to recognize indigenous and tribal land rights, ...
• Picture of the day: horse-and-rider in the Amazon
  Riding a horse in the world's greatest tropical rainforest may be the definition of what kids today call 'bad-ass'. It certainly makes cowboys in Texas look prosaic.

Sierra Express

• “Bio is a coupist,” APC Victor Foh blasts
  Bio is blemished, he is a killer, and violator of human rights. And it is clearly stated in the TRC report ( flipping the pages ) that the “NPRC junta was involved in very serious human rights abuses, ranging from the extra judicial execution of James Bambay Kamara, Colonel Yayah Kanu and others ...
• 10 vehicles, money, appropriated at SLBC
  Following recent antipathy by staff of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), it has reached this press that 10 vehicles belonging to the corporation were unscrupulously sold and the proceeds put into the pockets of individuals. It is disclosed that a total of about 10 vehicles (prope ...
• Usman Boie speaks to the nation
  Let me first thank the Almighty God for helping the SLPP and the leadership in steering a successful convention despite the many hiccups in the past few months. To our newly elected flag bearer, Rtd. Brigadier Julius Madda Bio, I say congratulations to you and wish you well in the struggle to le ...
• Africell’s big promo for Ramadan
  Sierra Leone’s biggest and fastest mobile communication company Africell, Wednesday 3rd launched two promotions for the month of Ramadan – âMoney Na Wi domotâ and âGentry Na wi domot.â Speaking to a cross section of journalists, Abdul Aziz Gabisi, Africellâs Administrative Director said that his ...
• Mr Idiot – The Benjamin and Bio fight
  The twitter box in the warehouse of Mr. Idiot has hacked information of combat fighting between Julius Maada Bio and John Oponjo Benjamin (notorious coupists). Catch it live – the Idiot has it unconcealed.  Itâs been told that Bio is claiming supremacy over John Benjamin and wants the money in ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Cabinet to decide on milk inquiry
  The Government is "very interested" in getting to the bottom of milk prices and may back a parliamentary inquiry into the issue, Prime Minister John Key says.Labour and the Greens have called for a select committee investigation...
• Dairy prices close to bottom of curve, say eco ...
  International dairy prices continue to fall in Fonterra's online auction but the latest result suggests the bottom of the curve is getting closer, say economists.The New Zealand dollar also kept dropping yesterday from post-float...
• World dairy prices dip 1.3pc overnight
  Average prices of dairy products fell for the fourth sale in a row in Fonterra's latest online auction, tracking a broader decline in global commodity prices.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 1.3 per cent to US$3,716 a metric tonne,...
• No reason for milk price probe - Fonterra
  Fonterra has welcomed the Commerce Commission's decision not to make an inquiry into the price of milk.The dairy co-operative always believed there was no justification for a price control inquiry or further regulation at any level...
• Focus turns to secret milk-price formula
  Fonterra's secret formula for setting underlying milk prices has become the focus of concerns about high consumer prices after the Commerce Commission ruled out taking action in the retail and wholesale markets.Labour and the Greens...

The Bovine

• Rawsome raw milk raid in the NY Times
  From Ian Lovett, in the New York Times: “LOS ANGELES â Raw food enthusiasts fit right in here, in the earthy, health-conscious beach communities of Venice and Santa Monica, along with the farmersâ markets, health food stores and vegan restaurants. But this … Continue reading →
• Massive radiation spikes in B.C. from the rece ...
  From Alex Roslin, in the Georgia Straight: “After Japanâs Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this country. In fact, there was reason to … Continue rea ...
• The Rawsome raw milk attack and the future of ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “When you watch the brief video below [above] of the raid yesterday on Rawesome Food Club, resist the inclination to focus on the conversation and shouting happening off to the left. … Continue reading →
• LA Times story about the Rawsome raid refers t ...
  Stuart Pfeifer and P.J Huffstutter, in the LA Times: “The owner of a Venice health food market and two other people were arrested on charges related to the allegedly unlawful production and sale of unpasteurized dairy products, a spokesman for … Continue reading →
• Latest Rawsome raw milk raid stories picked up ...
  Excerpts from several Natural News.com stories on the case: Breaking News — Multi-Agency Raid on Rawsome Foods in L.A. “(NaturalNews) This is a NaturalNews exclusive breaking new report. Please credit NaturalNews.com. A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning … Continue rea ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Surprising Optimism in Face of Weekly Global E ...
  Wall Street is unwavering in its outlook that the S&P will hit 1400 this year. That is nearly a 17% rally from here. Please consider Strategists Sticking With 17% S&P 500 Rally by Year-End on Rising ProfitWall Street has never been more sure that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will rally in 20 ...
• Stocks Rally on News ECB to Buy Italian Bonds; ...
  Stocks surged in a mid-morning to early-afternoon ramp on news the ECB will step in to buy Italian bonds and that Italy has agreed to balance its budget by 2013. Please consider Italy pledges to balance budget by 2013, make balanced budget a constitutional requirementItaly is pledging to work f ...
• ISM and Recessions - Is there any Predictive V ...
  Reader Jamie at the research department of the University of California asks an interesting question about the predictive capability of ISM data.Hi Mish, I'm wondering what a 3-mo rolling average of the ISM reports would look like, plotted against the quarterly GDP report of annualized growth. ...
• Another Gap-and-Crap on Payroll Report - Jobs ...
  Thoughts on the Jobs Report European stock market rallied from a potential bloodbath on news of a "good" US jobs report. What passes for "good" decreases with time. US futures were solidly in the green at the open but it was an immediate "sell the news" reaction. Here is an overview of toda ...
• Bloodbath in Europe Follows Bloodbath in Asia; ...
  Bond yields of Italy, Spain, and Belgium continue their relentless march higher. Yields are at record or near-record highs in all three countries relative to Germany. Italy 10 Year Government Bonds Spain 10 Year Government Bonds Belgium 10 Year Government Bonds Italy debt yields nearly ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  New US Jails in Afghanistan, the Syrian Paradox, MIC: The Enemy Within, Media’s Endless War Propaganda, CIA in Business with the Parent Group to Al-Qaeda … & More! Newsworthy ‘Deadliest Six Months’ for Civilians in Afghanistan U.S. Building New Jails across Afghanistan Iran Rejects US Claims of ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  CIA Secret Sites in Somalia, the Next Massacre: Pakistan, What Panetta Saw-What we got, Questioning the âTruthâ about 9/11 & More! The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike Next Up: Pakistan- Ominous signs of a major new war Why Ahmed Wali Karzai w ...
• The Assassination of Afghan Kingpin Karzai: A ...
  Time to Look at the New Heirs ala CIA There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and ope ...
• Coming Up Soon: Boiling Frogs Video
  Boiling Frogs Post Site Update & Upcoming Subscription Program We have a few updates on Boiling Frogs Post and our soon to be launched subscription program. I am excited to announce our upcoming Boiling Frogs Video series to be produced by our new partner James Corbett, an independent journalist ...
• Podcast Show #45
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and comple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• We Sail the Ocean Blue, but We’re Going Green, Too
  USS Carl Vinson Strike Group, Exercise Tandem Thrust 2003, US Navy Photo WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) Rear Adm. (Ret.) Robert James’s characterization of the Navy’s pursuit of Continue Reading »
• Dear Santa: I would like a Perini Navi so I ca ...
  The naval architects at Perini Navi have done a spectacular job with this new 55 meter Picchiotti Ice-Class Motor Yacht.  The raised forward bulwarks mean Continue Reading �
• This Is Only A Test – Freefall Lifeboat Design ...
  Aboard ship one always hopes they never need to take a sleigh ride into an unfriendly sea but ship happens. When it does you’re going Continue Reading »
• Weather Avoidance the Fedex Way
  If only ships could sail as fast as airplanes, then we could conduct weather avoidance the Fedex way. Watch the video below to see a Continue Reading �
• Transocean CEO on new contracts, speculative s ...
  In a webcast yesterday, Transocean, Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) CEO, Steven Newman, had a lot of positive news for investors, in stark contrast to their dismal stock Continue Reading �

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• ISRAEL: High Costs Force New Settlements of Sorts
  About 10,000 people marched through the streets of downtown Jerusalem last week chanting "The people demand social justice" and calling for access to affordable housing. The demonstration was one of about a dozen taking place simultaneously throughout Israel – which drew nearly 150,000 t ...
• PAKISTAN: Tourism Takes On Taliban
  Standing in the busy main market place of Mingora, it is hard to think that just two years ago this city in Swat district was under the tyranny of the Taliban.
• Between Libya and the Deep Sea
  NATO's five-month bombing campaign in Libya, run under the guise of protecting civilians, is also killing victims fleeing the conflict, directly and indirectly.
• ECUADOR: Big Bucks from China Drive Domestic D ...
  Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news," because they are long-term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund)," leftwing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told analysts critical of th ...
• COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries Dig in to Fight Retur ...
  While President Juan Manuel Santos described his government's land restitution policy as "a veritable revolution" during a speech in northwest Colombia, some 300 far-right paramilitaries were taking up positions less than 100 km from there to fight the effort to return land to small farmers di ...

Scoop - NZ

• Stallman: Resist the temptations of the Cloud
  In the age of cloud computing, technology companies decide which programs users can load on to their smart phones, while Facebook sells personal data to other companies to use. Internet users need to swim against the stream if they want to protect their privacy.
• Truth Emerges About IED Carnage in Afghanistan
  Gen. David Petraeus has been gone but a month from his role as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, yet we’re already seeing the paint on his Potemkin village peel away to reveal an unseemly rot underneath. That may sound a bit harsh, but there is no better way to describe one of the grea ...
• Right-Wing Euro Populists Find Israeli Allies
  Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
• Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man
  What do we really know about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway mass murderer who killed in the name of his anti-Muslim ideology, nearly a week after his horrific rampage? We know what he did, and why he did it: he left behind not only a 1,500 page manifesto, in which he pours out his hatred of ...
• Krugman: The President Surrenders
  A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong. For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It will damage a ...

Independent - London

• United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
  Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said today it had downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings.
• EU faces crisis of legitimacy, warns former Eu ...
  The European Union is squandering its remaining legitimacy, and must be urgently overhauled to safeguard its future, a former Europe minister warned last night.
• Denis MacShane: Slash and burn: less Brussels, ...
  Has the word "leadership" been expunged from the dictionaries of Europe? It is not just David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel who are all on holiday. The crisis of the eurozone exposes a Europe whose institutions no longer work.
• Polar bear kills British teenager on remote No ...
  An arctic expedition by a group of British teenagers turned to tragedy yesterday when a polar bear tore through their camp, mauling one boy to death and seriously injuring four others.
• Shell given go-ahead to drill off Alaska
  The keys to vast reserves of oil off the coast of Alaska may have been handed to Shell this week after President Barack Obama's administration granted it provisional permission to drill exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea's frigid waters despite fierce opposition from environmentalists.

Rogue Government.com

• Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
  Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
  Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
• EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• US Troops Kill Iraqi Child and Policeman
  Local officials in Iraq have said that US troops in the country have killed an Iraqi child as well as a policeman in the Salahuddin province north of Baghdad. Officials say the two were killed during an apparent mistaken raid. Reports on further causalities remain sketchy so far, Press TV re ...
• Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arrested
  Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been taken to a detention center on the orders of the judge at her trial for "systematically violating courtroom proceedings." After Judge Rodion Kireyev adjourned the court until Monday, Tymoshenko was driven away from the court under a heav ...
• NATO Airstrike Kills 8 Afghan Civilians
  Eight civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a US-led NATO airstrike in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Provincial officials said the attack was carried out at 2 p.m. local time on Friday after Taliban militants attacked US-led troops in the area, a Press TV cor ...
• 1000s Protest Police Brutality in Spain
  Thousands of Spanish protesters have held rallies in the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest at the use of force by country's police officers during an earlier demonstration. The protesters accused the authorities of abusing their power after 20 people were injured in clashes with riot polic ...
• One in Seven Americans Lives on Food Stamps
  Believe it or not, one in seven Americans - 15 percent of the country - now need government-provided food stamps simply to survive, according to latest government figures. Nearly 46 million Americans receive food stamps out of a population of some 311 million people, the US Department of Agricu ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Abdelrazik, Kenney, and the extension of the state
  So today we find CSIS has leaked a document suggesting that Abousfian Abdelrazik had a phone conversation where he plotted with Adil Charkaoui to blow up an airliner. In 2000. Some things come to mind. First, this has not been proven. Second, if true, there are criminal laws on the books in C ...
• Be your own boss . . .
  AH, THE JOYS OF THE OWNER-OPERATOR. The freight biz has changed over the last 30 years; railroad freight declined, and humongous 18-wheelers took over. With the advent of cheap PC's and bookkeeping software, the corporate accountants realized that they could get rid of all the fleet driver jobs ...
• caption needed...
  Not entirely sure what's going on here, but Rona seems to be looking at the Clement-burns in a most interesting way. [CBC]
• Hope juice and radical mediocrity
  Uh, Paul, I might further suggest that hope is all you've got when you think you've run out of options.� Me? I think the Obama crew are like our federal Liberals in the sense that they're simply afraid of doing anything too decisive. Mediocre action actually feels less risky than radical actio ...
• Dear Jason Kenney et al.,
  Regarding your "war criminal" list, you say, "The notion that such an individual enjoys the same privacy rights as a law-abiding Canadian citizen is bizarre in the extreme," Kenney has told Postmedia. "And the fact that people are concerned about this just shows the kind of ideological proce ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox, Limbaugh Campaign Against Majority Rule I ...
  Rush Limbaugh and Fox News contributor Dana Perino have claimed that the FAA shutdown was caused by a dispute over the Democrats' "backdoor way to help the unions with the card check bill." In reality, the dispute involves corporate and Republican opposition to a decision by the National Mediat ...
• Doocy Revives "Bogus" Cost-Per-Job Math To Att ...
  Recently, Fox News' Steve Doocy has repeatedly recycled the right-wing attack that the stimulus cost taxpayers between $200,000 and $278,000 per job. In fact, PolitiFact Texas rated this claim "False," and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called the math upon which this calculation is based "bogus." ...
• Barack Ogabe: The Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Who ...
  Rush Limbaugh claimed that President Obama's economic "role model" is Rubert Mugabe, who "took the white people's farms." Other conservatives have claimed that Obama is an "African colonial" and that the core of his faith "is African nativism." Limbaugh: The "Next Thing To Look Out For Is For ...
• After Insisting Debt Was "Issue Number One," F ...
  Fox News has repeatedly played up the national debt as the "number one issue" facing the country, despite statements from economists that unemployment is a more pressing problem. Now, in the aftermath of a default crisis that was manufactured by conservatives, Fox is criticizing Obama for "pivo ...
• False "Cell Phones Are Now A Civil Right" Meme ...
  A New York Post blogger criticizing a government program that provides cell phones and monthly minutes free of charge to low-income individuals baselessly stated that free cell phones are now a "civil right." Despite that phrase appearing nowhere in the news article the Post linked to, the meme ...

Global Research.ca

• America's Economic Chaos: Don't Panic, Get Inf ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Barack Obama: The Bizarro FDR
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US and British-Backed Bahrain Regime: the Use ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Anti-war & Black activists unite against Libya ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• 35 Years of Harassment: Why is Leonard Peltier ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Republican's Double-Dip, and What Must Be Done
  John Boehner said Tuesday the Republicans got "90 percent of what we wanted" from the budget deal. So presumably he and his colleagues are willing to take responsibility for some 450 points of today's mammoth 513-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. I'm being a bit facetious - bu ...
• Brave New World Redux
  This is a very long essay. I'm going to post some of it here, but you can read the whole thing at my blog. After Thursday's stock market crash, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a potential double-dip recession. Republican's, having ignored the history lesson of the business lobby 1 ...
• Palestinians will soon come full circle
  The Palestinian national liberation movement has reached its end. As the Palestinian leadership - if there is such a legitimate body today - prepares to bring the issue of statehood to the UN this September, the weeks and months ahead will witness the last desperate attempt to get the internatio ...
• Don't Fall for the GOP Lie: There is No Budget ...
  A friend who's been watching the absurd machinations in Congress asked me "what happens if we don't solve the budget crisis and we run out of money to pay the nation's bills?" It was only then I realized how effective Republicans lies have been. That we're calling it a "budget crisis" and wor ...
• Ransom Paid
  Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate -- who are now taking home a lar ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• EU 'profoundly disappointed' by new Israeli se ...
  EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday roundly disapproved Israel's go-ahead to the building of 900 new homes in east Jerusalem, saying new settlements damaged the prospec ...
• Could Arab staying power ultimately defeat Zio ...
  There is an Arabic word you come across a lot when Palestinians talk about their future. Sumud means steadfastness, and it has turned into a strategy: when the imbalance of power is s ...
• Palestinian pride: Israel protests influenced ...
  Palestinian social leaders believe the social protests that have erupted throughout Israel are largely influenced by the Arab Spring, contending Israelis must realize they too are suf ...
• Soldiers fire tear gas at protests across the ...
  Israeli forces targeted three separate rallies across the West Bank on Friday, firing tear gas at participants and lightly injuring dozens. Soldiers fired tear gas at weekly Friday de ...
• Wall Gate # 300: The Story of Toura al Gharbiy ...
  This video examines the situation of Toura al Gharbiya, a village in the illegally occupied West Bank. The village is located 25 kilometers west of Jenin and has approximately 1,000 r ...

Water - AlterNet

• Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Pla ...
  Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay call for new strategy to stave off environmental catastrophe.
• 'Exceptional' Drought Parches United States
  About 41 percent of the country is facing abnormal dryness or drought.
• The Tea Party's Next Target: Taking Out the EP ...
  In the midst of a packed schedule snapping at President Obama's heels, Republicans have found time to try and rip the heart out of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Our Biggest Security Threat Is Global Warming- ...
  We risk losing our country to permanent droughts and extreme natural disasters.
• US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will D ...
  The debt ceiling deal simultaneously slashes programs crucial to our country's functioning and opens the door to more devastating- and mandatory - cuts.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Deregulation has put Texas energy security at ...
  The PUC wants to have a meeting at the end of August to try to figure out how to fix Texas’s experiment of a deregulated generation market, as we look like we are going to run out of energy during what could be ever increasing hot summers. It seems the current market based behavior doesn’t [...]
• Shut off unnessary equipment before ERCOT is f ...
  As temperatures soared yesterday, ERCOT estimates that electricity usage reached an all-time peak high (breaking Wednesday’s record) with Texans using 60,157 MW of power – flying past the official record set on August 31, 2000 when 57,606 MW of power was consumed by Texans in the ERCOT service ...
• Temperatures in Texas soar — and so do energy ...
  This is a reprint of a post by Jake Dyer from the RechargeTexas.com blog The rolling blackouts that swept through Texas last February have been blamed on the unexpected failure of generation plants. The temperature dropped during a cold snap, the plants froze up, and then — before anybody really ...
• LCRA cancels board meeting with the White Stal ...
  August 10 LCRA Board meeting canceled after White Stallion water contract pulled from agenda Discussion and possible action by the LCRA Board of Directors on a contract to provide water to a proposed new coal plant in Matagorda County has been postponed indefinitely. This decision comes after th ...
• STP, the nuclear expansion project that just w ...
  Despite the fact that NRG/Toshiba (formally know together as NINA) has been unsuccessful in their multi-year efforts to expand by two units, the South Texas “Nuclear” Project (STP) – the process for their Combined License (COL) is proceeding.  An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel wi ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Huge network of Stone Age tunnels found
  A vast network of neolithic tunnels built 12,000 years ago would have criss-crossed the UK and Europe. The tunnels have been found underneath sites al...
• Live rat found in supermarket loaf
  A woman in Australia got the shock of her life when she discovered a live rat inside a loaf of bread. She'd bought the bread at a supermarket and was ...
• Light shed on South Pole dog-sized dinosaurs
  Small dinosaurs that lived near the south pole were able to survive through months of darkness. Scientists attempting to unravel their secrets were su...
• NASA finds possible water flowing on Mars
  NASA have announced the discovery of evidence suggesting salt water flows on the surface of Mars. The find is based on photographs from the Mars Recon...
• Near-death experiences on the rise
  Its one of the most enduring questions of all time - just what does happen when we die ? In ABC's "Beyond Belief: Near Death Experiences" survivors wh...

Grassroots

• Development, a fairy tale of catastrophic prop ...
  times_square.jpg Amnesty International released a report on indigenous rights this week called �Sacrificing Rights in the Name of Development: Indigenous Peoples Under Threat in the Americas,� which exposes the impact of development projec ...
• Challenging Mega-Dams through the People’s Per ...
  anaa_logo.jpg The La Parota mega-dam being constructed in Guerrero, Mexico will displace over 5,000 families and have an indirect impact on an additional 15,000 lives.� That is unless the Assembly of Environmentally Impacted Communities (A ...
• Monsanto Nation
  Subheadline:� Taking Down Goliath Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consu ...
• Losing Jerusalem, Piece by Piece
  snaking_wall.jpg In Bir Nabala, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Israel’s separation Wall provides a concrete backdrop to what was once a view of the old city. On a stormy afternoon, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel Haj Tawfik Nabeli guided m ...
• Taking on TIAA-CREF, with pain and outrage
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, a Grassroots International supporter, and author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish Trauma and Resilience." Her website is www.alicerothchild.com. ...

Climate

• E.P.A. Is 'Greening the Apple'
  Source:� NYT Green The agency's New York City blog covers anything from dredging in the Hudson River to goings-on at local Superfund sites to the Energy Star program's efforts to make religious congregations more energy-effic ...
• City Cycle Schemes Save Lives, Cut CO2: Study
  Source:� Reuters Public bicycle sharing schemes such as Barcelona's "Bicing" program or London's "Boris Bikes" save lives and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study on Friday.
• Philips' Ultra-Efficient Lightbulb Wins $10M Prize
  Source:� Greenbiz.com Philips Lighting has taken the top award for the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize, netting a $10 million cash prize for its LED�light bulb that uses less than 10 watts to generate as much light as the stan ...
• Blackstone to Invest Billions in German Wind F ...
  Source:� Reuters Blackstone is set to announce its largest renewable energy deal with the investment of a combined $3.5 billion into the construction of Germany's biggest ever offshore wind farm, the Financial Times said on Fr ...
• Solar Power Glass House Helps Pump Oil
  Source:� CNET News GlassPoint Solar has signed a deal in Oman to install solar concentrators to produce steam for oil recovery in existing fields. The goal is to lower natural gas use and lighten the environmental impact.

GreenBiz

• Philips' Ultra-Efficient Lightbulb Wins $10M Prize
  Philips Lighting has taken the top award for the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize, netting a $10 million cash prize for its LED�light bulb that uses less than 10 watts to generate as much light as the standard 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
• Military Housing Goes Red, White & Green
  Lend Lease, a low-profile property development firm that has cornered the market on military housing, is in the midst of building two of the largest solar-powered communities in the nation.
• First Takes: E.U.'s Fish-Dumping Problem, Floo ...
  Fish dumped due to the European Union's fish quota system, fees for recycling and composting in the U.K., and the effect recent floods had on the oxygen-deprived "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico are among the stories we're looking at this morning.
• 6 Things You Need to Know to Get Certified Und ...
  During a webcast organized by GreenBiz.com this week, representatives from the US Department of Energy and Underwriters Laboratories walked through the details of the just-released energy management standard, and how companies can get on board, quickly.
• First Takes: Budget Cuts May Kill Gov't Green ...
  Automakers agree to 54.5 mpg by 2025; budget cuts likely to doom green government spending; China moves forward with climate change strategy, and more ...

Reuters Global

• Video: DSK accuser press conference
  Live video: DSK accuser press conference
• India and Pakistan: moving out of intensive care
  The Birkin bag was amusing but irrelevant. The direction of policy on India and Pakistan is to be found in the joint statement, for all its caution and unanswered questions.
• The power of a soccer ball
  Anyone who watched the women's World Cup final might have wondered if it's possible to harness that pure human energy. Turns out, it is.
• On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border : cutting o ...
  Pakistan's defence minister has threatened to move forces away from the Afghan border, where they are deployed to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, if the United States cuts off aid to the cash-strapped country
• Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?
  Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.

Booman Tribune

• If Romney Can't Win in the South...
  I wish the calendar for the GOP nomination process wasn't such a mess. It makes it nearly impossible to game out how the process will unfold. As of now, there isn't much of a Super Tuesday, and there is also a new rule that's going to change things dramatically. Primaries held before April wil ...
• The Strange Rise in Gold Prices
  No, this isn't a diary touting you to buy gold. I'm not Glenn Beck in disguise. This is a small story about a single commodity with little value in and of itself (except to jewelers) that I hope reveals a larger truth. To begin, let's go back to February 2001. (Cont.) Read more...
• Could the GOP Kill Our Credit Rating?
  There is quite a bit of confusion about whether or not Standard & Poor is going to lower the country's credit rating because the White House claims that S&P made some kind of mathematical error in their calculations. It could be that nothing happens at all. But, if we do lose our rock-solid tr ...
• Is This Appropriate?
  I think this should really be a lot more controversial than it appears to be: [Texas Governor] Rick Perry will host his much-buzzed about Christian prayer-fest "The Response" in Houston on Saturday, where participants will ask for divine help to overcome America's myriad problems. "A hist ...
• Police Brutality and Roid Rage
  There are lots of reasons many police officers have traditionally been accused of brutalizing people. Racism plays a role in far too many cases as the Rodney King incident made clear. Fear and the constant exposure of police to dangerous and unsavory characters. How many people you know w ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 15 Incredible Escape Tools Made by Prison Inmates
  Inmates have recycled numerous items to make their escapes, both successful and not! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Creepiest Abandoned Morgues on Earth
  The creepiness of abandoned morgues is something to behold. Urban explorers have entered these decaying places of the dead, sometimes surreptitiously. Would you? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Ecological Importance of the Yellow-Bellie ...
  The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, a medium-sized woodpecker, has significant ecological importance. How does this bird benefit hummingbirds and other species? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Hottest Links of the Week
  It's link roundup time again, and we at EG have collected some of the best of what's currently on the web for your viewing pleasure! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Incredible Swirling Pool of Elakala Falls
  One of the most beautiful but little known treasures on the planet. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Obama's Approach to Disarmament as Self-Sabota ...
  As with the debt-ceiling deal, there's no end to the largesse that the Obama administration bestows on the nuclear weapons program.
• UN Origins Project Series, Part 1: How the All ...
  The project intends to show how the United Nations was born in 1942, creating a relatively stable and peaceful post-war international system.
• Doha Peace Agreement: Khartoum and the Rebel G ...
  If the Bashir administration allows the Doha agreement to become a meaningless piece of paper, all semblance of regional trust could be destroyed.
• Women's Exclusion Worsens Somali Crises
  Somalia is now suffering from a drought on top of its civil war. Including women in decision-making roles is part of solving both crises.
• Review: America's Challenge
  Michael Swaine suggests concrete ways to improve U.S.-China relations.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Populist Polish politician found dead
  Andrzej Lepper, who rose from pig farmer to deputy prime minister, is found hanged in his party office in Warsaw.
• Afghan helicopter crash kills 31 US troops
  Taliban claims hit as seven Afghan troops also die after aircraft crashes during operation against fighters in Wardak.
• Al-Shabab rebels withdraw from Somali capital
  Islamist fighters pull back overnight from Mogadishu, as country remains gripped by famine.
• Hiroshima marks anniversary of atomic bomb
  PM says Japan should aim to end its dependence on atomic power, as Fukushima crisis prompts anti-nuclear rallies.
• Gunman killed near Saudi prince's palace
  Officers kill a man who opened fire at a checkpoint near interior minister's palace in Jeddah.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Reddy Kilowatt Works Up a Sweat
  As record levels of power demand were set in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and part of Texas, grids were not equipped to help one another much.
• Hudson Valley Lures Green City Folk
  Te migration began with weekender incursions in the '80s and '90s, gained a more urgent tone after 9/11, stumbled during the real estate bust and is now finding its way again, with a green emphasis.
• As Humans Draw Nearer, Leopards Attack in India
  Many of this year's attacks took place on the edges of forest reserves, reflecting the growing encroachment of humans on the leopard's ecosystem, experts say.
• Challenges Ahead on Arctic Drilling
  Even if the federal government grants Shell all of the permits that are needed to drill in the Beaufort Sea, legal challenges are certain to be filed.
• Hurricane Season Is Looking More Serious
  Government forecasters say that there is now an 85 percent chance of above-average hurricane activity this year, with as many as five major hurricanes.

Dot Earth News

• On the Shark Beat
  A seasoned political reporter turns her back on Capitol Hill's predators and dives in with real sharks.
• A Climate Scientist's View of a Famine's Roots
  A climate scientist lays out the argument for ocean warming underpinning Somali hunger.
• Somali Agony and the Outside World
  Considering the roots of Somalia's famine.
• A New Look at Population Bombs and Bulges
  A fresh look at humanity's cresting growth spurt and its implications, for good or ill.
• Radiation's Role in (Safely) Feeding the Planet
  After recent outbreaks of deadly food-borne illness, the notion of irradiating food gets a bit of traction.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Special Analysis :-P The interstellar/local en ...
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• The Great Default & End of July; Minneapolis' ...
  Looks like they just announced some kind of debt deal, staving off total collapse for a month or 2. Next up..... In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United State ...
• Middle East nets Liberal Revolutions with Anar ...
  I had to snag a bit of this from the site Jadaliyya: Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring -- the tipping point is referencing Max Weber, who we just don't hear enough about these days. Interesting site. I wonder to what extent the Egypt scenario connec ...
• Bernie Sanders causes exposure of $16,000,000, ...
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• Minnesota Government Shutdown Over: threat of ...
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Daily Censored

• Is there a Revolution Coming this October? (YW ...
  Click the link below to listen to the show now: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/08/04/is-there-a-revolution-coming-in-october Join us this episode as we spoke with Dr. Margaret Flowers to discuss the October 6th Movement to “Stop the Machine and Create a New World”. Dr. Flowers ...
• THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE CRAZY
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• Racial Wealth Gap Largest on Record as General ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Debt and Empire
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• Budgeting for the Great American Train Wreck
  Our economy needs a new stimulus package, not a poison pill.
• The Lineup: Week of Aug. 1-7, 2011
  Donald Kaul underscores the GOP's intransigence over raising the debt ceiling.
• Murdoch Gets Caught Red-Handed
  He created the perfect atmosphere for criminal activities and called it "freedom of the press."
• Ruin by Recklessness
  It is the height of recklessness for the current crop of uncompromising Republicans in Congress to play political games with our nation's economic soundness.

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• Ex-CIA counterterrorist chief says al-Qaeda to ...
  The strategic retreat currently being experienced by al-Qaeda will force the group to concentrate on inflicting damage on its enemies through the Internet. This is the opinion of Cofer Black, the straight-talking CIA veteran who retired in 2002 as Director of the Agency’s Counterterrorism Center.
• News you may have missed #558
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War is a Crime.org

• Rude Awakening
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• Solomon Comissiong: Why I Will Be There
• Ellen Davidson: Why I Will Be There
• Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
  On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. �It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British 'Grand Slam' whic ...

Grist - News

• Most of the country had record heat in July
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• By God, Donald Trump will not let this wind fa ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Not satisfied with making (more of) a mockery of the electoral process, Donald Trump is now going after wind power, vowing to use "any legal means" to block a planned windfarm near his golf course in Scotland. Trump claims it's not simple rich-white-guy opposition to ...
• How to cover 100 percent of your car expenses ...
  by Christopher Mims. Getaround is a car-sharing service like ZipCar, except instead of borrowing the company's vehicles, you're borrowing your neighbors'. If you have a set of wheels you'd like to rent out, it's possible to pay 100 percent of your vehicle expenses simply by making it a ...
• EPA found over 20 years ago that fracking cont ...
  by Sarah Laskow. Fracking companies like to say that there’s never been a single case of fracking contaminating a water well. But, well, there has, and they’ve known that for over 20 years. An EPA report released in 1987 said that a tainted well in West Virginia was contaminated by fracki ...
• Texans drinking urine, consulting Bibles in fa ...
  by Christopher Mims. Texas is now in the midst of its worst-ever one-year drought. Austin, Texas' capital, has received less than two inches of rain since October, a period that would normally see 18 inches. Here are just a few of the impacts of the state's ongoing drought, which is entir ...

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Invisible Opportunity

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Twilight Earth

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  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Inhabitat

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• Human Cells a Chimera of Ancient Life
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PakAlert

• Comet Elenin Close Encounter with Earth
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• Intel Report Suggests That Saudi Royals Are Cr ...
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• Former CIA Official Predicts Cyber 9/11
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• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
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• News Roundup for August 5, 2011
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• Racist Cult Leader Warren Jeffs Convicted of R ...
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• Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s AFA-sponsored Prayer R ...
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• Adding Fuel to S-Comm Controversy, DHS Scraps ...
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• Victory! Miami-Dade Animal Services Director R ...
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  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
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Lifehacker

• The Information Node Desktop [Featured Desktop]
  DeviantART user mxmlmn took a simple wallpaper resembling circuitry and used Rainmeter to create nodes that display little bits of information. A few other customizations keep this desktop minimal and useful without ever getting too distr ...
• How to Build a Computer from Scratch, Lesson 5 ...
  This week we ran through the basic steps of building your first computer, but there's a lot more info out there. Here's some more reading that we recommend for both the building process and what to do after you've built your machine. M ...
• Beat the Heat, Bugs, and Unpleasant Aspects of ...
  This year has made for one hostile summer, and if you've had enough perhaps it's time for you to use your weekend to start fighting back. Here are a bunch of projects, tips, and tricks to make your summer more pleasant, cool, and bug-free ...
• Get Rid of Household Odors with Vanilla Extrac ...
  A little vanilla extract in the oven can get rid of any smell permeating your house. More��
• Remains of the Day: Verizon Starts Blocking Ja ...
  Verizon begins blocking tethering for jailbroken phones, Google Docs gets the same design refresh as its siblings, and Google Dictionary closes its doors. More��

Water Privatization

• CCOP approves privatization of NPCC and HEC
  ISLAMABAD : The Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCOP) here on Friday approved the privatization of "Transaction Structure of National Power Construction Corporation" and "Transaction Structure of Heavy Electrical Complex".
• Hard water numbers tough to swallow
  I recently read Mrs. Dalton's letter to the editor 'Current water rates are awash in inequity' (Times, July 26) and I too am concerned over the sharp increase in water rates.
• Kenya: Port Asked to Support Council
  JOMVU Kuu Councilor, Badi Twalib has challenged the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to give incentive to the municipal council of Mombasa. He said since water is a natural resource to Mombasa residents, KPA must give money towards boosting services offered by the council.
• India’s Water Management Challenge
  Widespread and perennial conflicts over land are a curtain raiser to the coming conflicts over water.
• Donald Blinken: Privatization Helps: The Hunga ...
  As Greece works itself out of financial crisis, it should look to Hungary fifteen years ago for part of the answer. Far too large a segment of the Greek economy remains locked up in public hands.

Guardian

• US stripped of AAA credit rating by S&P as age ...
  The US government's credit rating has been lowered to AA+, the first downgrade in modern US history, despite furious lobbyingThe credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has stripped the US of its top-notch AAA credit rating, downgrading it to AA+ and warning of further future downgrades because o ...
• Elisabeth Murdoch opts not to join board of Ne ...
  Statement from conglomerate says she suggested it would be 'inappropriate' for her to join board of father's companyElisabeth Murdoch will not be joining the board of her father Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation conglomerate, despite expectations that she would do so.The company said in a statem ...
• Tesco attacked by Labour as 'almighty conglome ...
  Party claims other supermarket chains are likely to lobby for tougher competition laws to keep Tesco in checkTesco has become "an almighty conglomerate" abusing its unfettered market power to dominate towns at the expense of small retailers, Labour claimed as it called on the government to confr ...
• Why do women become sex workers, and why do me ...
  What drives some men to pay for sex, and some women to sell it? Here, both sides tell their stories.The womenLet me preface this by saying I grew up in a well-to-do family. I had more opportunity and�privilege than most, but the divorce of my�parents in my first year of university ultimately dro ...
• Greece's healthcare system is on the brink of ...
  Patients who cannot afford treatment and hospitals without critical supplies are among victims of the financial meltdownAdonis Kostakos is unemployed and diabetic. Aged 50, he last worked regularly four years ago in the port of Piraeus. Back then he used Greece's public hospital system to have h ...

McClatchey

• Taliban down U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan, 3 ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Thirty-one U.S. special forces troops and seven Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, according to statement issued Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
• US loses top credit rating as debt plan 'falls ...
  Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating from the highest level for the first time in the nation's history, saying this week's deal to cut spending "falls short" of what's needed to stabilize the government's longer-term finances.
• S&P cuts U.S. debt rating, cites 'weakening' o ...
  WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the AAA credit rating the United States has enjoyed for 70 years late Friday night in a move that had been expected, but still left the Obama administration angry and combative.
• Don't feed the Cascade red foxes
  Like a bored and lonely latchkey kid, the Cascade red fox kit stared blankly across the parking lot toward the snow-covered Tatoosh range at Mount Rainier National Park.
• California plumber learns it's best just to pa ...
  WASHINGTON — Mark DeVries, a plumber from Bakersfield, Calif., defied the tax man. Bad idea.

Afghanistan Sun

• Soldier pleads guilty to deaths of Afghan civi ...
  Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, Washington (CNN) -- A military judge sentenced a soldier accused of being part of a rogue Army "kill squad" that murdered civilians in Afghanistan to three years ...
• Whistle-blower in Afghan probe pleads guilty
  (08-05) 21:05 PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- A soldier who tried to blow the whistle on a plot to murder Afghan civilians pleaded guilty at his court-martial Friday to a charge of ...
• Afghan TV series targets government with &#039 ...
  KABUL -- Britain and the United States poke fun at incompetent, arrogant middle managers in the television comedy "The Office," but in Afghanistan the target is a fictional minister of ...
• Homemade IEDs swell in Afghanistan
  American servicemen in Afghanistan are facing an alarming new trend - homemade fertilizer bombs originating in Pakistan have tripled the number of multiple amputations this year. David Martin ...
• Soldier amputations from Afghan IEDs up sharply
  Special Report: Afghanistan What happened to Sgt. Kennedy -- who had already done two tours in Iraq and has the names of five buddies who died there tattooed on his arm -- was a double leg ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
  In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
• NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...
• Legal Battle Finally Over for an "American Hero"
  The NWC is pleased to announce that whistleblower hero Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse has finally won a six-year legal battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2005, Ms. Greenhouse blew the whistle on the Army Corps for extensive contractor fraud in which they were awarding secret, non- ...
• Whistleblower Center in NYC
  The NWC is preparing for a full day of whistleblower events in New York City today. Join the NWC staff and Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at two events teaching the public about whistleblower rights and the latest whistleblower protection laws. First, come learn about the latest whistleblo ...
• NWC seminar on Dodd-Frank a huge success
  David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Photo by Lindsey Williams. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• When Innovation Meets the Old Guard
  You've probably heard of Khan Academy, the online lessons that have been praised so highly. Wired recently put up an article on how it's a complete game changer, and how children have been able to advance at a blistering pace using their materials. So what does the public school system think o ...
• What's In A Name: The Importance Of Pseudonymi ...
  It feels like we've been having this debate for a long, long time. I still remember back in 2003 when Friendster users were up in arms over that site's sudden decision to delete "Fakester" profiles that did not use a person's real names. Four years later, Facebook started doing the same thing ...
• Mattel's Lawsuit To Claim Ownership Of Bratz C ...
  As Stephan Kinsella notes, "live by IP, die by IP." You may recall the infamous legal fight over who owns the Bratz dolls. I won't go through the full history, but basically Mattel claimed that it owned the rights to Bratz dolls, because the creator of those dolls worked at Mattel (though not ...
• DailyDirt: Wacky Inventions and Inventors...
  Inventions aim to improve anything and everything. So there are a lot of pretty trivial inventions out there, but every so often there are some really cool things, too. Here are just a few quick links about inventions and inventors. This device has to be seen to be believed -- and even after ...
• Rent Is Too Damn High Guy Increasing Rent For ...
  Lots of people got a kick out of the "rent is too damn high" guy, Jimmy McMillan, running for governor of New York last year. He certainly was entertaining. However, it appears that McMillan's own rent may be too damn low... meaning that he's a part of the damn reason that the rent is too damn ...

VacTruth

• Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
  Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.
• Time to Say “Enough!”
  There comes a time in everyone’s consciousness and life when one realizes that too many things are going off beam and that life is becoming more problematic day by day, especially now when it comes to our health, which probably is our most valued personal possession, and which seems to be underm ...
• How To Find The Poisons In Vaccines In 5 Secon ...
  This short video shows you how to find the poisons in vaccines in 5 seconds or less.
• Murdoch’s Vaccine World
  Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played in the professional evisceration of respected B ...
• The FDA Approved New DPT Vaccine For Seniors
  It has been announced that a new vaccine has been approved by the FDA for the over 65's. GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix vaccine is said to be able to protect the elderly from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). The vaccine was originally approved for use in adolescents in 2005.

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
• Deal Breaker
  I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Issues Emergency Statement on Europea ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche Webcast: Mark Your Calendar for July 21
  EIR News Service press release.
• Coverup Breaking in Saudi Role in 9-11
  EIR News Service press release.
• The Euro Reaches the End of the Line
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: A Nationalist Bloc Is Emerging
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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