6 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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• Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tri ...
  Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-c ...
• Polar Bear Kills Teenage Boy in the Arctic
  Photo: flickrfavorites via Flickr/CC BY Reports are coming in that a tragic attack has occurred on an Arctic expedition in Svalbard, Norway: A British teenager taking part on the trek was attacked and killed by a polar bear -- four others were wounded, and the bear was shot dead. ...Read th ...
• Shark Week: Interesting Facts About Sharks!
  Photo: Wikipedia, CC 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜^〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 With Discovery's Shark Week almost over, now is a good time to look back on some of what we've learned this week, and to learn a few facts about these magnificent ocean predators. (Yes, those little waves when a triangle above are supposed to be water a ...
• Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
  Read the full story on TreeHugger
• The 100+ State Parks Facing Closure - Is Your ...
  The United States is home to 6,624 state parks and has an annual attendance of over 700 million. Yet state parks are being threatened by budget cuts and economic downturn. Here's a list of all state parks set to get the axe. Does your favorite make the cut? ...Read the full story on Tre ...

Biosingularity

• Study: Many With ADHD Can’t Control Emotions
  More than half of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also have trouble regulating their emotions, and that difficulty may be passed through families, a new study shows. Researchers are calling this cluster of symptoms deficient emotional self-regulation (DESR). It involv ...
• Synthetic Biology
• Stem cell-related changes that may contribute ...
  A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. The study, published as the cover story in the May 6 issue of Cell Stem Cell, suggests that thi ...
• Mutation provides new insight into the molecul ...
  A new study identifies the mutation that underlies a rare, inherited accelerated-aging disease and provides key insight into normal human aging. The research, published by Cell Press online May 5 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, highlights the importance of a cellular structure called ...
• Removable ‘cloak’ for nanoparticle ...
  MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumors: They are more acidic than healthy tissues. Such particles could target nearly any type of tumor, and can be designed to carry virtually any type of drug, says Paula Ha ...

CFACT

• Not much pop to corn controversy
• The icky problem of sewage treatment
• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests

Ria Novosti Online News

• U.S. downgrading 'no danger' to Russia - expert
  The loss of the United States' AAA credit rating is unlikely to affect the Russian market, a senior Moscow lawmaker said on Saturday.
• Afghan chopper crash kills dozens
  A NATO helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 31 U.S. forces and seven Afghan soldiers, in the worst single loss of life for U.S. forces in the nearly decade-long conflict, President Hamid Karzai's office said.
• Ukraine lawmaker in emergency Tymoshenko parli ...
  The Ukrainian parliament's vice-speaker has called for an emergency debate on the detention of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on a judge's orders for violating court rules during her trial for abuse of office in Kiev.
• Zvonareva reaches Carlsbad semis
  Vera Zvonareva faces resurgent Ana Ivanovic for a place in the Mercury Insurance Open final after cruising past Germany's Sabine Lisicki in the quarter-finals.
• U.S. AAA credit rating downgraded
  Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded the United States' top-notch AAA credit score for the first time ever, citing concerns about the country's record budget deficits and rising debt burden.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• NASA launches Juno probe to explore Jupiter
  The sun-powered unmanned probe Juno set off on Friday on a five-year cruise to Jupiter to explore the secrets of the Solar System formation through scrutinizing the biggest planet, NASA said.
• Russian cosmonauts complete spacewalk outside ISS
  Two Russian cosmonauts, Alexander Samokutyayev and Sergei Volkov, completed their 6-hour spacewalk on Thursday with a 40-minute delay and returned to the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS).
• Two Russian cosmonauts leave ISS for spacewalk
  Two Russian cosmonauts left the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-hour spacewalk on Wednesday during which they plan to carry out a manual launch of a mini-satellite and install new stream video equipment on the station's outer surface.
• Russian radio telescope makes first loop aroun ...
  Russia's Spectr-R spacecraft with a powerful radio telescope passed the lowest point of its highly elliptical orbit for the first time since its launch on July 18, the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscomos, said on Thursday.
• ISS to be de-orbited and sunk in Pacific after ...
  The International Space Station (ISS) will be de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean after 2020 like its Russian predecessor Mir, Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Head Vitaly Davydov said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

• So, anything interesting going on?
  I’m getting away from it all this week, and it looks like I picked a fine week to do so.
• Protesting FedEx Tax Dodgery and Union Busting
   FedEx is notorious for union busting and tax dodging. So US Uncut and the Madison Socialist Alternative got some folks together, made some signs, and headed down to the local branch here in Madison, WI to let them know how we feel about that.  Package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in ...
• Did Wall Street Kill Rock and Roll? No, and ne ...
  Earlier this week Mother Nature paid us a harsh visit:There was pretty significant damage to our yard and no electricity for over a day. On the bright side, no one was hurt and our house was largely unscathed. And that’s a pretty darn bright side. However, there have also been calls and arran ...
• GOP Booze Cruise Protest Flotilla
  On Sunday night, the Walworth County, WI GOP held a fundraiser/rich guy boat party in Lake Geneva. In attendance were Rep. Paul “Medicare Vouchers” Ryan and WI Lieutenant Governor Rebecca “Gay Marriage Is Like People Marrying Their Furniture” Kleefisch.  So, of course, also in attendance were ab ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Giving fake vaccines to poor people breaks the Evil Meter.And Reuters, you do not have to call the people getting killed suspected ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Farmers Markets Could Generate Tens of Thousan ...
  - Over the last several decades, thousands of farmers markets have been popping up in cities and towns across the country, benefiting local farmers, consumers and economies, but they could be doing a lot better, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Wha ...
• New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises
  As many as a thousand people will risk arrest in daily protests at the White House over the last two weeks of August, making it the largest outbreak of civil disobedience in recent environmental history. Click here to read this article
• Explosive Evidence: 1500 Architects and Engine ...
  9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out is the exciting new documentary film by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.Click here to read this article
• Whole Paycheck and Organic Food Deserts: The C ...
  After decades of grassroots public education, battles to safeguard standards, and hard work, organic food and farming has become the fastest growing sector of U.S. agriculture. Organics have surged in popularity to become a $30 billion dollar industry in the United States, representing approxima ...
• The Fires This Time: In Coverage of Extreme We ...
  On April 14, a massive storm swept down out of the Rocky Mountains into the Midwest and South, spawning more than 150 tornadoes that killed 43 people across 16 statesClick here to read this article

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
  A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
  FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
• BREAKING SILENCE news release
  BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...

My Care2 Picks

• The second Great Contraction
  The global economy is misdiagnosed as being in a "Great Recession", but the real problem is an overleveraged system.There is no quick escape without a scheme to transfer wealth from creditors to debtorsSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• What the USDA Doesn't Want You to Know about A ...
  Here is a document the USDA doesn't want you to see.Submitted by Reynard L. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Industrial Scars: The Art of Environmental Pol ...
  A photographer simultaneously captures the beauty and horror of human pollution, from thick oil spills to dirty coal miningSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
  Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I�m sure you�re careful to buy the kind that�s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that�s the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind-->Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
• Check this out: Learning About Public Educatio ...
  Diane Ravitch is the Elizabeth Warren of education: She knows how the system works and isn't afraid to speak truth to power. She does it with clarity, cutting through the bs of current so-called reform efforts and exposing the agendas behind them.Submitted by Myron Scott to Society & Culture � ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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

• 'NATO planning military attack on Iran'
  ShareThis'NATO planning military attack on Iran' 06 Aug 2011 Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin says the NATO is planning a military strike against the Islamic Republic to overthrow the Iranian government. Rogozin said in an interview with Russia's Izvestia daily newspaper published on Friday ...
• Taliban down US helicopter in Afghanistan, kil ...
  ShareThisTaliban down US helicopter in Afghanistan, killing more than 20 Navy SEALs 06 Aug 2011 Thirty-one U.S. troops, including more than 20 Navy SEALs, and seven Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against 'Taliban insurgents' in eastern Afgh ...
• US Postal Service warns it could default
  ShareThisUS Postal Service warns it could default 05 Aug 2011 The US Postal Service warned on Friday that it could default on payments it owes the federal government, just days after the US government itself narrowly averted a default. The government's mail service said it lost $3.1 billion in t ...
• Romney pledges opposition to gay marriage and ...
  ShareThisRomney pledges opposition to gay marriage and to establish 'religious liberty' commission 04 Aug 2011 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has signed a pledge sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage promising to support a federal constitutional amendment "defining m ...
• States can't opt out of Secure Communities program
  ShareThisStates can't opt out of Secure Communities program 06 Aug 2011 In an unusual move, the Obama regime has told governors they cannot exempt their states from the controversial Secure Communities program, which uses fingerprints collected by local and state police to help immigration autho ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tri ...
  Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-c ...
• Polar Bear Kills Teenage Boy in the Arctic
  Photo: flickrfavorites via Flickr/CC BY Reports are coming in that a tragic attack has occurred on an Arctic expedition in Svalbard, Norway: A British teenager taking part on the trek was attacked and killed by a polar bear -- four others were wounded, and the bear was shot dead. ...Read th ...
• Shark Week: Interesting Facts About Sharks!
  Photo: Wikipedia, CC 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜^〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 With Discovery's Shark Week almost over, now is a good time to look back on some of what we've learned this week, and to learn a few facts about these magnificent ocean predators. (Yes, those little waves when a triangle above are supposed to be water a ...
• Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
  Read the full story on TreeHugger
• The 100+ State Parks Facing Closure - Is Your ...
  The United States is home to 6,624 state parks and has an annual attendance of over 700 million. Yet state parks are being threatened by budget cuts and economic downturn. Here's a list of all state parks set to get the axe. Does your favorite make the cut? ...Read the full story on Tre ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Thailand’s illegal abortion scourge
  Thailand's illegal abortion scourge
• Floods destroy refugee huts, food stocks
  Hundreds of houses destroyed in two refugee camps in western Thailand as days of heavy rain bring threat of landslides
• Scorched earth threat in Shan state
  Burmese troops tell village headmen that houses will be razed if fighting spreads to a township in southern Shan state
• Russia closing deal over 20 fighter jets
  Shipment of MiG-29s expected to arrive in Burma before the end of next year as government looks to double fighter jet fleet
• NLD prepares for UN council appeal
  Opposition sees lack of legal chances in Burma as reason enough to take appeal over its dissolution to UN Human Rights Council

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

• Could Seawater Solve the Freshwater Crisis?
  To make much needed fresh water, just de-salt saltwater? Experts weigh in on what needs to be done to make it as easy as it sounds.
• Japan Earthquake Vibrations Nearly Reached Space
  The Japan earthquake and tsunami were so strong that their vibrations made it to Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study says.
• Philips Wins L Prize, but the Race Is Still on ...
  Philips captures the U.S. government's $10 million L Prize for its LED replacement for the 60-watt bulb, but efficient lighting must still win consumers' hearts.
• Philips Wins L Prize, but the Race Is Still on ...
  Philips captures the U.S. government's $10 million L Prize for its LED replacement for the 60-watt bulb, but efficient lighting must still win consumers' hearts.
• Pictures: In Search of Green Air-Conditioning
  NoneAir-conditioning has transformed summer living, but at tremendous energy cost. Ideas for greener cooling focus on making better use of the forces of nature.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Israel Supreme Court orders watershed removal ...
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Israel [official website, in Hebrew] on Tuesday issued for the first time an order for the Israeli government to dismantle an illegal outpost in the West Bank. The order calls for Migron, the largest outpost in the West Bank, to be razed by the end of March 2012 [Ha ...
• UK secret interrogation policy revealed
  [JURIST] The Guardian [media website] released a top secret document [text] Thursday revealing details [Guardian report] about the interrogation policies of UK intelligence officials. The document indicates that officers from the UK security and secret intelligence agencies, MI5 and MI6 [officia ...
• ACLU appeals same-sex domestic partnership cas ...
  [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] appealed [press release] a case over same-sex domestic partnerships Thursday to the the Montana Supreme Court [official website], arguing that denying partnership rights to same-sex couples violates the state constitution [tex ...
• Cuba high court upholds US contractor's 15-yea ...
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Cuba [official website, in Spanish] on Friday upheld [Cubadebate report, in Spanish] a 15-year sentence [JURIST report] for Alan Gross, a US citizen accused of "acts against the independence or integrity of the state." Gross was arrested in 2009 and has served 20 mo ...
• Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko arrested
  [JURIST] Ukrainian Judge Rodion Kireyev on Friday ordered the arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive], also imposing a travel ban. Reversing a decision he made last week [JURIST report], Kireyev arrested Tymoshenko [press release] on contempt char ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• J14 Tent Protest Movement Israel’s Wave of Future?
  NOTE: Thanks to readers who’ve expressed concern about not hearing from me for the past week.  No fear.  My family went away for a week to the Oregon high desert where we enjoyed a rafting trip, hiking, and swimming near Bend.  I found it too difficult to both enjoy a vacation and give the un ...
• Maariv Political Correspondent Warns of ‘Milit ...
  In the past week, Israel has witnessed the largest mass social protest movement in decades. 150,000 demonstrated a few nights ago in cities and towns throughout Israel against the rising cost of living and deterioration in virtually every aspect of Israeli quality of life including massive cuts ...
• Geller Accessory After Fact to Breivik Massacre?
  Little Green Footballs reports that Pam Geller published an e-mail from an unnamed Norwegian anti- jihadi in 2007, which indicated he was planning a major terror attack to dramatize his cause. Geller was so shocked by what he wrote that she called it “devastating in its matter of factness.” She ...
• Settler MKs Welcome Russian Neo-Nazi Holocaust ...
  When an Israeli reader sent this story to me I couldn’t believe the headline summarized above.  Further, in this day and age of Norwegian neo-Nazi, anti-jihadi attacks which wrap themselves in the Israeli flag, this story is simply mind-blowing. It begins with a visit from a Russian neo-Nazi de ...
• Truthout Publishes My Latest Piece on Possible ...
  I’ve distilled my reporting on Iran in the past month and added some new material in this new piece published today at Truthout: Senior Israeli, US Intelligence Figures Warn of Israeli Attack Against Iran.  The heading above the title says it has 108,000 Facebook Likes.  Given that Truthout i ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• Environmental Edge - Aerosol Particles Affect ...
  Aerosol particles, including soot and sulfur dioxide from burning fossil fuels, essentially mask the effects of greenhouse gases and are at the heart of the biggest uncertainty in climate change prediction. New research from the University of Michigan shows that satellite-based projections of ae ...
• The Race for EVs - There is Plenty of Lithium ...
  Researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. have assessed the global availability of lithium and compared it to the potential demand from large-scale global use of electric vehicles. The research findings, published in the current issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, co ...
• The Race for Solar - White House Budget Office ...
  The White House budget office raised flags about the first energy loan guarantee awarded under the Obama administration, adding another layer of questions to the taxpayer backed financing now at the center of a House investigation.In 2009, as the Department of Energy pushed to close the $535 mil ...
• Myanmar on Edge - More Oversight Needed for My ...
  Federal aid officials have not shown adequate monitoring of cyclone relief efforts in Myanmar, according to a recent audit ordered by Congress—oversight deemed necessary to ensure aid monies are not touched by the repressive Myanmar government and military.On May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck M ...
• Media on Edge - Rupert Murdoch: The Last Titan ...
  Amid the crying of foul and media hype surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World Scandal a fundamental fact seems to have been lost. That is, before Rupert Murdoch came along and almost single-handedly saved it, the newspaper industry as we know it was dying an ignominious death.To wit, Mur ...

High Country News

• The return of the Lords of Yesterday
  The Old West-style extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the insatiable energy needs of countries like China.
• Bootstrapping in Roundup
  When the Musselshell River flooded Roundup, Mont., it did damage to everything but the townsfolk's indomitable spirit.
• Ice matters
  We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.
• Suckling responds: Cashing in? Nope, just savi ...
  Kieran Suckling responds to Ted Williams' column arguing his group files gratuitous lawsuits and profits off them.
• The Global West: how foreign investment fuels ...
  China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Will Al Gore Slam The Ice Caps for Not Disappe ...
  A scare tactic of the global warming hoaxers is "man-made warming" will cause the polar ice caps to melt so drastically they will� pass some sort of "tipping point" and like my hair,� will never be able to regrow. Of course in my case it is nothing to worry about because I live at the coast, whi ...
• STUNNING ! Newsbusted Exclusive: Michael Moore ...
  In a stunning announcement, ultra-liberal filmmaker Michael Moore has announced that his political philosophy has done a 180, and he has now decided to become part of the tea party movement.� What could make this serial-progressive to make such a radical switch? The answer to that question can b ...
• Polls Prove Strength, Not Weakness, of Islamis ...
  By Barry Rubin Several recent polls purport to show the Muslim Brotherhood is unpopular in Egypt. An article in the Atlantic is particularly laughable, claiming the Brotherhood is less popular than Richard Nixon when he resigned! The most important single point is this: the Brotherho ...
• The Fast of Tisha B'av, The Two Kamtzas and th ...
  Note: As some of you know, I write a weekly column for a local Jewish Newspaper called the Jewish Star. In the weekly pieces, my task is to take the major political story, provide insight into why it happened, explain what it means to the lives of our readers while trying to relate it to one o ...
• Six Years Since Israel's Suicidal Peace Move, ...
  My family went to Israel during the summer of 2005.We flew home from Israel almost five years ago today,� three days before the disengagement from Gaza began. During our two-week trip we asked Israelis how the felt about the upcoming give back of Gaza Strip. There was one person whos ...

The Real Agenda

• United States Credit Rating Downgraded
  S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time by Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post August 5, 2011 Standard & Poor’s announced Friday night that it has downgraded the sterling U.S. credit rating for the first time. The move came even though the Treasury Department said that it had found a ma ...
• Planet’s Temperature Controls CO2 Emissi ...
  Human emissions do not control the climate or the planet’s CO2 levels. by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda August 5, 2011 In recent days, it was revealed that NASA’s satellite data for the years of 2000 through 2011 showed Earth’s atmosphere had allowed more heat to be released into space than pr ...
• Economías Emergentes Compran $ 10 Billones en Oro
  Por Luis R. Miranda Reuters 03 de agosto 2011 Los bancos centrales de los países de mercados emergentes como Corea y Tailandia han añadido más de $ 10 billones de dólares en oro a sus reservas de este año en un signo de fe menguante en los bonos de referencia de Occidente y las monedas [...]
• Inspecciones y Detecciones de Comportamiento e ...
  Nuestra probabilidad de ser elegidos en una nación de sospechosos Por Luis R. Miranda Boiling Frogs 4 de agosto 2011 La Agencia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria de Estados Unidos (TSA) está a punto de comenzar programas de control en âpuestos de control de comportamiento y seguridad” en los aeropuer ...
• Biometría de Facebook declarada Ilegal en Alemania
  Por Luis R. Miranda CSM 4 de agosto 2011 En junio, la Unión Europea anunció que estudiaría el uso de Facebook de un software que utiliza el reconocimiento facial para ayudar a clasificar y etiquetar las fotografías de sus usuarios. Ahora Caspar Johannes, un experto en protección de datos con la ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Investors Dump Stocks over Economic Worries
  “What began as a weak day in the stock markets ended in the worst rout in more than two years, as investors dumped stocks amid anxiety that both Europe and the United States were failing to fix deepening economic problems.” (New York Times) A vote of no-confidence for statist solutions? FEE Time ...
• The Debt Sky
  Some pundits wonder if the economy can "weather budget cuts" (sic).
• Public’s View of Congress Plummets
  “Americans have looked disapprovingly at their representatives in Congress for decades. But it’s never been this bad.” (CBS News) What will they do about it? FEE Timely Classic “Americaâs Permanent Criminal Class” by Doug Bandow
• New Recession Feared
  “It has been three decades since the United States suffered a recession that followed on the heels of the previous one. But it could be happening again.” (New York Times) Will a second downturn get the ruling elite to rethink things? FEE Timely Classic “Americaâs Depression within a Depression, ...
• Government Borrowing Skyrockets
  “U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday â the largest one-day bump in history â as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this weekâs debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on T ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• BP oil spill compensation fund chief blasted f ...
  Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The other was for victims of the 9/11 t ...
• VOICES: Does the debt deal make you sick?
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Sinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem. The announcement by Cargill that it is recalling an astounding 36 million pounds of salmonella-tainted ground turkey product ...
• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• If you’re pro-Obama you’re an idiot, on the pa ...
  Look folks, at this point, Obama has made possible what a Republican president like McCain couldn’t do.  What a Republican president like Bush failed to do: he is gutting social security and Medicare. Americans would have been better off with McCain because the Democratic party would not have a ...
• What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You
  This is not primarily about the Tea Party It is about what rich donors want.  The Tea Party does not even have the amount of muscle progressives do.  Progressives can bring tens of thousands of people out, the Tea Party can rarely even get above 1,000.  They are a convenient excuse to do what th ...
• Boehner’s plan has 900 billion in cuts
  Obama’s has 4 trillion. Boehner’s plan also calls for a committee to find another 1.8 billion.  Even with that, we’re talking 2.7 billion of cuts, still less than Obama’s plan That is all.
• Predicted August 2nd 2008
  20) A huge push to gut entitlements in 2009, no matter who is president. Even if the US quickly pulls out of Iraq, the deficit will be totally out of control, and hundreds of billions will be needed for bailouts. A rapid consensus will form that rather than increasing taxes significantly on the ...
• Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst p ...
  Well?  Go on over, and see what you think, where does Obama rank in terms of worst presidents ever? I mean, he didn’t/hasn’t caused a civil war, so he’s probably not in first place.  But… Also a detailed explanation of how the debt limit is raised, and a good list of the worst things Obama [...]

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Controversial weed-killer to be pulled from market
  An herbicide recently accused of killing trees will be recalled and discontinued, DuPont announced this week. The herbicide, called Imprelis (aminocyclopyrachlor), targets broad-leafed plants including dandelions and seemed particularly promising because it was not very toxic to mammals. It i ...
• Juno lifts off
  After a last-minute delay, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter launched today, just after 12:25 PM local time. Juno is a US$1.1 billion mission to the largest planet in the solar system. After a five-year journey it will enter a highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter, skimming it 33 times before fina ...
• Happy birthday, WWW
  Posted on behalf of George Wigmore. Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the first website going live at CERN. Born out the dreams of Libertarian hippies in 1970s California, and the anti-authoritarian aspirations of internet-pioneers such as Ted Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, from ...
• Video: Relaxing on a virtual beach
  Posted on behalf of Daniel Cressey. For centuries a stroll in the countryside has been touted as beneficial to health – something modern science has confirmed. But for many people these benefits are out of reach. Nature Video took a trip recently to the laboratory of Robert Stone in Birmin ...
• Senator urges White House not to weaken resear ...
  The US Senate's leading advocate for government transparency wrote today to the White House's budget office, demanding that it protect a proposed rule that would obligate universities to post their publicly-funded biomedical researchers' financial conflicts on a publicly accessible website. " ...

new geography

• The Shifting Geography of Black America
  Black population changes in various cities have been one of the few pieces of the latest Census to receive significant media coverage.  The New York Times, for example, noted that many blacks have returned to the South nationally and particularly from New York City.  The overall narrative h ...
• A Detailed Look at Workforce Skill Shortages
  As the United States continues to fight its way out of the Great Recession, more attention has been directed to the question of why is has taken so long for workers to find re-employment. In economist parlance, this is primarily a question of “structural unemployment.” This describes the ...
• Banana-nomics
  The price of bananas is again making headlines as it pushes up inflation and threatens rising interest rates. But what’s the price of the humble ‘nana got to do with property markets? Plenty. Banana prices have risen almost 500% since Cyclone Yasi wiped out much of north Queensland’s ...
• Things They Don't Tell You About GDP
  I was watching Book TV on C-SPAN last week and I came upon Mr. Ha-Joon Chang talking about his book “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism.” For example, Thing #1 is “there is no such thing as a free market.” I actually use this line in my finance and economics courses. If someone t ...
• Sustaining the Suburbs
  The proposition is simple, if not overwhelming.  If we want sustainable cities � however you define �sustainable� � we had better put some effort into the quality of suburban life.  We need to get over denigrating suburbs and sprawl.  That simply ducks the issue of where and how most peo ...

GM Watch

• Fedoroff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Fedoroff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
• Fedoroff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Fedoroff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
• Federoff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Federoff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...

spiked

• Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism
  Last night’s edition of the BBC’s current-affairs show was a one-sided showcase for the anti-alcohol lobby.
• The elitist struggle against Mein Kampf
  Why are some people so frightened by Hitler's book? It's so tedious the only thing it's likely to induce is snoozing.
• ‘Did I cause the Norway massacre? That&# ...
  Thilo Sarrazin, controversial author of Germany Abolishes Itself, tells spiked that those blaming him for Norway are ‘insane’.
• Defending the right to be anonymous online
  We should be able to use the web as we want, even if those who hide their identities sometimes act childishly.
• E-Petitions: first as tragedy, then as farce
  The resurrection of the idea that the UK's citizens should appeal for political change online confirms how cut off the elite is today.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• RUTF, THE ‘WONDER’ TREATMENT OF ACUTE MALNUTRI ...
  âWONDERâ TREATMENT ON FRONT LINE OF UN BATTLE AGAINST ACUTE MALNUTRITION New York, Aug  5 2011  4:05PM As thousands of desperately malnourished children from famine-wracked Somalia pour into United Nations refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, small sachets of a … Continue reading →
• Bumper harvest at irrigation schemes in midst ...
  Read at : AfricaFiles Title: Horn of Africa: Bumper harvest at irrigation schemes in midst of hunger Author: Barnabas Bii Category: Food and Land Date: 8/1/2011 Source: Daily Nation, Kenya Source Website: http://www.nation.co.ke/ Summary & Comment: In the midst of … Continue reading →
• Leaders to blame for food crisis (opinion) &#8 ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid={7761d485-574b-4315-a15e-639e20be85c7} Middle East North Africa Financial Network They only give knee-jerk reactions when images of the dying invade their living rooms and appetites. And if deat ...
• Frail children are bearing the full force of t ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/August/middleeast_August122.xml&section=middleeast 650,000 children acutely malnourished in Somalia Allan Jacob DUBAI â Frail children are bearing the full force of t ...
• Broken Lands, Broken Lives? (IISD / F. FLINTAN)
  Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List REGLAP (Regional and Advocacy Learning Programme) Nairobi,  have released the report “Broken Lands, Broken Lives? Causes, processes and impacts of land fragmentation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda” in face … Co ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• From Arab spring to Israeli summer
  israeli summer.jpg Adam Ford writes on the wave of protest sweeping across Israel, where hundreds of thousands of people are standing up to high rents and low wages. In years t ...
• Serbia: State offensive against the libertaria ...
  freebg6.jpg An analysis of the current wave of state repression of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative. Since the official forming of our organisation in late 2002, not a single ...
• Chilean miners strike and join wave of protest ...
  chile copper.jpg Strikes in Chilean mines strengthen workers' struggles throughout the copper industry, and reflect growing political unrest in Chile. 2,300 miners at Chile's E ...
• A contribution to the discussion around SolFed ...
  Snapshot 2011-08-04 00-43-07.jpg From the SolFed Community Strategy thread: Martin O Neill wrote: On Community Self Management: How will community organisations relate to industrial organisations? ...
• Anti-fascist festival and anarchist bookfair i ...
  The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. in the Cultural C ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.

Scotts Contracting

• Join Scotty’s Fantasy Football League
  League Name: Midwest Mayhem ln: Warriors Only Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID: 352267 League Passwor ...
• Solar Tracker Information / Guide
  Solar trackers can generate substantially more power than fixed. Selection of a tracker type is dependent on multiple factors, including installation size, electric rates, government incentives, land constraints, budget constraints, latitude and local weather. Single-axis trackers are able to ge ...
• MO Coalition for the Environment Monthly Diges ...
  Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Follow us on: Facebook Twitter MCE Monthly Digest Once a month, MCE sends a brief update on the work of each of our program areas. If you’d like to receive a program’s more frequent updates, click the "update profile" link at the bottom of this email. Clean E ...
• sign our EMERGENCY LETTER to President Obama
  Dear Readers, The New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that President Obama may offer cuts to Social Security and Medicare to the GOP in their Debt Ceiling deal. This is an “All hands on deck” moment for every progressive in America: the same Republicans who raised the debt ceili ...
• Lighting Design Basics- Electrical Issues
  ELECTRICAL: Lighting Design Basics AMBIENT HOUSE LIGHTING Ambient light (or fill light) is the soft, general illumination that fills a room and softens the shadows. As a rule, the fixtures (often called luminaires in the lighting industry) used to provide ambient light should not draw attention ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• 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.
• Review: America's Challenge
  Michael Swaine suggests concrete ways to improve U.S.-China relations.
• Nuclear Deterrence: a Bridge Not Yet Crossed
  Deterrence has long outlived its usefulness.
• Ramadan Stops Libyan Rebels Neither From Fight ...
  Rebel forces claim that they need not observe Ramadan.
• Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinfor ...
  If there are general rules of war, certainly one of them is: "Do not fight in places that the Rand McNally three-dimensional map puts lots of bumps."

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Iran’s rich eat ice cream covered in gold as p ...
  TEHRAN — Gold-flecked ice cream wasn’t part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the poor by distributing the country’s vast oil income equally across society.
• Are Iran's Leaders About to Get Rid of Ahmadin ...
  Could Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be facing the ultimate pink slip? Could his job as president be threatened by a severe rift within the Iranian leadership? The possibility is not as far-fetched as it might sound. A major rift between Ahmadinejad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...
• آسیب شناسی روشنفکری ایرانی
  آسیب شناسی روشنفکری ایرانی read more
• يک زندانی سياسی بر اثر شکنجه های بازجويان وزار ...
  بنابه گزارشات رسيده به"فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسی در ايران" چشم زندانی سياسی افشين بايمانی بر اثر شکنجۀ جسمی توسط بازجويان وزارت اطلاعات در معرض خطر جدی کور شدن قرار دارد. read more
• متن نامه دکتر محمد ملکی مبنی بر عدم حضور در دا ...
  دکتر ملکی برای اینکه رسما در حضور قاضی اعلام کند دادگاه را به رسمیت نمیشناسد، در دادگاه حضور یافت و طبق یادداشتی بار دیگر اعلام کرد دادگاه را صاحب صلاحیت رسیدگی به اتهامات خود نمی داند. . .read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Teen Homelessness: An American Disgrace
  Homeless teens No one disputes that teen homelessness is both the strongest and most alarming symptom of the disintegration of US society. Homeless children and teenagers under 18 represent one-third of the US homeless population. 2.8 million American children have at least one episode of homele ...
• Is the US Ripe for a Generation Z Revolution?
  Tthis is the fourth of a series of posts on teenagers and political rebellion) There’s no question in my mind that psychological oppression (manifested by widespread apathy and resignation in the face of major corporate and government attacks on working Americans) is at an all time high in the ...
• Teenagers in the First Intifada
  1987 Intifada - note slingshot Like the 1976 Soweto uprising, the teenagers who sparked the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987 were influenced by a similar breakdown in parental authority, though for different reasons. From 1967, when Israel first seized the Gaza strip from Egypt, until the ...
• Lessons from Soweto
  Soweto Uprising This is the second in a series of posts regarding the potential for a generation Z uprising. The 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa is widely credited as heralding the start of mass popular resistance to apartheid. While various scholars dispute its significance relative to oth ...
• Generation Z and Psychological Oppression
  Egyptian teenagers (Generation Z consists of young people born after 1990) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The historical significance of the mass insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Debunking stereotypes of Muslim Americans
  One the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Gallup has released a major new study on attitudes of the Muslim community in the United States, as well as views of Muslims among other religious groups.
• The real confidence crisis
  We're supposed to be relieved that the jobs picture brightened a bit in July. Yes, the private sector created 117,000 jobs, and that's a good thing. The unemployment rate went down too -- but that may be a bad thing. The decline very likely reflects more people giving up on having a job. As A ...
• America's deficit chart surplus
  Are you writing something about the massive federal deficit? Do you want a hot blogging tip? Here you go: Put a chart on it!
• The new era of hostage politics
  When I arrived in Washington this past Sunday, just as the debt ceiling crisis was approaching its climax, all the flags surrounding the capital’s Union Station stood at half-mast. I blackly joked with my brother and sister-in-law that maybe they’d been lowered to mark the death of the New De ...
• Fox Nation shocker: Obama invited black guys t ...
  So, it's a little weird that Fox has its own right-wing news site, right? Anyway, this is the "Fox Nation" top story, right now: Charles Barkley ate ribs at the White House. Black people! Hip-hop!

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Death on a sunset stroll
  Why did police take down a mentally disabled man out for a walk with his mother to get a pizza?
• A bickerfest we don’t need
  Should Dalton McGuinty be feuding publicly with Stephen Harper instead of squaring off with his provincial rivals before the election?
• Corporate runaways can’t trump the greater good
  In this era of deregulation, it seems private companies like IQT can padlock their doors and take their business elsewhere.
• Putting green energy front and centre
  After watching its green energy policy become a punching bag for critics, Ontario’s Liberal government has moved to fix its most controversial element, and not a moment too soon. ...
• You’ll just feel a little pinch
  Measles and mumps viruses are on the prowl. They can easily be deterred – but if only you make an effort and get a needle.

Energy Collective

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

EU 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 ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Libya foes in propaganda war, seeking rifts in ...
  Mired in a slow-moving ground war, Libya’s warring parties are turning to propaganda to try to splinter each other’s support base and gain leverage in talks on a political settlement. Muammar Qaddafi is playing on fears among Libyans that Western-backed rebels will tip the country deeper into c ...
• S&P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating
  Somebody noticed that we are a dysfunctional nation: Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the credit rating of the United States, stripping the world's largest economy of its prized AAA status. In its report Friday, S&P ruled that the U.S. fell short: "The downgrade refle ...
• 300 Dead in Hama in 6 Days
  The al-Assad family has long been killing people in Hama. Yet, the city endures as a center of resistance. alArabiya : At least 58 civilians have been killed by the Syrian army and security forces in Hama on Friday, raising the death toll in the flashpoint city to 300 in six days, local coordin ...
• Japan city of Hiroshima remembers bombing
  HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese city of Hiroshima is commemorating the 66th anniversary of the bombing, as the nation fights a different kind of disaster from atomic technology – a nuclear plant in a meltdown crisis after being hit by a tsunami. The site of the world’s first A-bomb attack ...
• Yankees take out the Red Sox, take over first ...
  The Yankees have regained control of the American League East. In the opener of a three-game series at Fenway, the Yankees rallied to beat the Red Sox 3-2 and take over first place in the division. Nick Swisher drove in the go-ahead run in a three-run sixth inning, but it was the Yankees bullpe ...

Groklaw

• SoftwarePatent
  I think almost everyone I know in the software development field has a deep hatred for patents and the way they've been used in our field. I've had a post on my todo list for ages about this and have finally been moved to write about it after a particularly good piece of investigative journalis ...
• US internet providers hijacking users' search ...
  Searches made by millions of internet users are being hijacked and redirected by some internet service providers in the US. Patents filed by Paxfire, the company involved in the hijacking, suggest that it may be part of a larger plan to allow ISPs to generate revenue by tracking the sites their ...
• Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Nam ...
  Imagine you're walking down the street and you say out loud, "Down with the government!" For all non-megastars, the vast majority of people within earshot will have no idea who you are. They won't have access to your employment history or your social network or any of the other things that a Goo ...
• Barbie-in-a-blender artist wins $1.8 million award
  Mattel, guardian of Barbie, has lost the latest round of its legal battle with an artist who published a series of photographs showing the popular plastic doll naked, in compromising positions, or stuffed inside ovens, blenders and even a fondue. The company has been ordered to reimburse artist ...
• HTC swallows cloud app biz Dashwire
  Smartphone maker HTC has taken time out from its long-running patent battle with Apple to bid $18.5m for US web-based application developer Dashwire. The platform allows users to download apps, personalise their phones and access content across multiple devices, and will be integrated into the ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

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

frogblog

• General debate, August 6, 2011
• You gotta be cool on Wall Street when your ind ...
  USA Today reports: Global stock markets tumbled Friday amid fears the U.S. may be heading back into recession and Europe’s debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off follows the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. Oil extended sharp losses to fall below $84 ...
• And end to Seed Exchanges?
  I have had many queries about the Food Bill, with some suggesting it is a ghastly plot to make seed saving and seed exchange programmes illegal, and even activities such as the Willing Workers on Organic Farm systems (WWOOFing). These concerns, unfortunately, were never raised during the submiss ...
• John Key is wrong on Green plan to end child p ...
  On Wednesday Green Co-Leader Metiria Turei launched the Green Party’s plan to bring 100,000 children out of poverty within three years. John Key poured cold water on both the Working for Families and minimum wage proposals contained in the package. But he is wrong on both counts.
• Batteries and the Basel Convention
  I asked some questions in the House on Thursday of the Minister for Environment, about how well (or more to the point how badly) we are meeting our obligations under the Basel Convention in regard to lead acid batteries. The Convention came into force in the early ‘90s as a response to the then ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Before You Give Your Child This, Ask Yourself: ...
  New data has added more evidence supporting a link between the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine and narcolepsy in children and adolescents. The findings suggest that those who were vaccinated had a close to 660 percent increase in risk for the condition. The Sweden's Medical Products Agency (MPA) e ...
• The Stunning Effect of This Single Vitamin on ...
  By Dr. Joseph Mercola 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, Daniel Haley, wro ...
• Lung Cancer Scans Can be Unreliable
  Evidence suggests that CT scans to measure lung tumors can be unreliable.� This could potentially lead patients and doctors to believe the cancer is growing when it's not. A new study found that changes of up to 10 percent can happen simply as a result of the inherent variability of CT imaging. ...
• 50% of Rats Given this Died -- Why is it On Yo ...
  The first report was recently issued on ambient levels of glyphosate and its major degradation product, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), in air and rain. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. Weekly air particle and rain samples were collected during two growing seasons in ...
• Harnessing Your Body's Own Chemistry to Treat ...
  Researchers have discovered that a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN) can have an extraordinarily potent antitumor effect on human ovarian cancer in tissue culture. The discovery provides new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of ovarian neoplasia, which is the 4th lea ...

JAMA

• Elder Abuse [JAMA Patient Page]
• The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria [Boo ...
• The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and ...
• Child Abuse and Neglect: Diagnosis, Treatment ...
• Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict [Book and M ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• The Gazette's view, in short
  Canadians live longer and healthier lives than Americans and, as if to rub salt in Americans' wounds, we also manage to do so while paying less for our health care. High administrative costs in the U.S. are a real problem. A new study, published this month in the journal Health Affairs, found U. ...
• The hard task of providing aid to Horn of Africa
  Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were understandably cool this week to the idea of military intervention in drought-ravaged Somalia, even though famine is stalking more than 6 million people, and half of all children are facing severe malnutrition.
• Your Views: Infrastructure madness, mayhem; Re ...
  Mayor G�rald Tremblay mentioned that federal and provincial taxes on gasoline generate $2 billion annually for infrastructure maintenance
• The Gazette's View: The hard task of providing ...
  Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were understandably cool this week to the idea of military intervention in drought-ravaged Somalia, even though famine is stalking more than 6 million people, and half of all children are facing severe malnutrition.
• The Gazette’s Vew, in Short
  Canadians live longer and healthier lives than Americans and, as if to rub salt in Americans’ wounds

Food World Order

• wafting poison makes fertile ground for suit i ...
  Court rules pesticide drifting onto organic farm constitutes trespass. Oluf Johnson's 1,500-acre farm in Stearns County is an organic island in a sea of chemically treated corn and soybeans... Improperly applied pesticides repeatedly drift over from neighboring farms, often with dire consequence ...
• eating healthy food costs more money in US
  Eating healthier food can add almost 10 percent to the average American's food bill -- and that is just to boost a single nutrient like potassium. Researchers from the University of Washington looked at the economic impact of following new U.S. dietary guidelines, which recommend eating more pot ...
• rawesome raided in attack on raw foods as mass ...
  When you realize that the federal government actually approved aspartame yet raids raw milk and raw cheese buying clubs, the open eugenics plan becomes very clear.
• russia becomes a magnet for american fast-food ...
  Earlier in his career, Christopher Wynne put his Russian expertise to work researching arms proliferation for the American government. Now he’s engaged in geopolitics of another sort: deploying American fast food for the emerging Russian middle class.
• cargill recalls more than 36 million pounds of ...
  Food giant Cargill recalls fresh and frozen ground turkey produced at its Springdale, Ark., facility because the meat may be contaminated with salmonella.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• An open response to the Ministry of Justice an ...
  The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation exercise on a proposed 'UK Bill of Rights'. They openly admit that the exercise is intended to: "investigate the creation of a UK Bill of Rights that incorporates and builds on all our obligations under the European Convention on Human Right ...
• Shaming of a nation: The Spanish people were u ...
  There can be no further contrast between the mindset of a nation than the comparative pictures from Spain and here in Blighty. That contrast, yesterday, led to the shaming of a nation. Our own. Earlier this week, we posted a clip from a news report showing how Spanish communities were form ...
• Death Penalty Debate: Sickened, beyond belief
  This morning, this blog author has been subjected to the most sickening and outrageous vision of bloodlust via the social networking site Twitter. It is quite clear that a large number of people who claim to be libertarians think that it is quite reasonable to ask the State to go around execu ...
• Bailouts: The biggest criminal act in the hist ...
  So, another day in The Great 'Bailout' Looting of the people comes to an end. Quite frankly, this is getting beyond a joke. Not even an ardent 'EU-sceptic' can take too much pleasure from all that we are seeing - because what we are witnessing is organised criminality on a scale that humanity ...
• Quote of the Day: 'There really are dark force ...
  Remember this? You do? Great... ...then what do you make of this, in The Guardian? "When I was first elected, I was a completely naive and gauche politician. You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers – they've all got their formal role, and then nestli ...

Facing South

• BP oil spill compensation fund chief blasted f ...
  Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The other was for victims of the 9/11 t ...
• VOICES: Does the debt deal make you sick?
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Sinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem. The announcement by Cargill that it is recalling an astounding 36 million pounds of salmonella-tainted ground turkey product ...
• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 5 August 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Prized tuna bred in captivity for first time, sex on the brain, and freaky flipped faces
• Ah, the beauty of photoluminescent ginkgo leaves
  Etched on a photoluminescent display, these liquid crystal leaves change colour in response to temperature and mechanical force
• Oil industry admits liability for Niger delta ...
  A UN report lays much of the blame for oil spills in the Niger delta on the doorstep of oil companies – and says the clean-up could take decades
• Boeing selects Atlas V rocket for space taxi s ...
  The next time astronauts launch from US soil to the International Space Station, it could be on an Atlas V rocket
• To boldly go where no Lego man has gone before
  The shuttle programme may be over, but NASA has not stopped taking passengers into space

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Unheimlich and Strano
  by Les Visible My goodness, is this so? I guess it has to be. As I’ve said many times, if something horrible and heinous and violent is taking place, you can track it to Israel and Zionism pretty much refero. Now we have Sue Rabbitt Roff promoting organ sales to pay down student loan debts [...]
• As we Come to The Changing Line
  By Les Visible Well now. It is something to see isn’t it? But I had a point in mind when I did it because I wanted to get it out of the way for myself ahead of time. I have certain gifts, I don’t think they are all that remarkable and I don’t actually possess [...]
• The Dolphins Sunbathing on The Armageddon Train
  By Les Visible Tell me that you are surprised. Go ahead, it is okay. This congressional bill that they spent so much time wrangling over and twisting their little hands over while their mouths were busy elsewhere working on the bankers, accomplished not only no good but attacked the very things ...
• Palestine and the Irresistible Winds of Change
  By Les Visible The Palestinians are going to declare statehood, or nationhood, in September, regardless of whatever does or doesn’t happen, concerning the international backing being sought. Right on cue, the Ashke-Nazi’s have come up with their own final solution to the problem they created. Wh ...
• Dr Sue Rabbitt Roff wants a NHS organ harvesti ...
  Dear All To get through life, you need all your body parts and preferably in good condition. I spoke out against the idea of presumed consent for organ donation because it is a violation of sovereignty of people’s bodies. The State doesn’t own you when alive and they have certain no right to can ...

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!

electric politics

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

PR News

• Meltwater Group purchases IceRocket
  SAN FRANCISCO: Online analytics software maker Meltwater Group has purchased IceRocket, a real-time social search engine firm based in Dallas.
• PR chiefs weigh in on market freefall
  NEW YORK: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 500 points on Thursday, setting off recessionary red flags. How do PR CEOs view the economic uncertainty?
• Edelman awarded Access Pharmaceuticals account
  NEW YORK: Access Pharmaceuticals has hired Edelman through December of this year to help promote its MuGard brand, a treatment for oral mucositis.
• Kraft comms unchanged despite coming split
  NORTHFIELD, IL: Kraft Foods will keep its in-house communications and PR structure unchanged for at least a year despite an upcoming company split.
• Influencing the influencers at BlogHer 2011
  More brands are recognizing the importance of the BlogHer conference, a pivotal yearly meeting that attracts key women influencers from across the online space.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• A rash of rescinded PhD’s as German Univ ...
  Responding to media and on-line pressure German Universities are cleaning house. A number of politician PhD's have been rescinded for plagiarism and many investigations are ongoing.
• Global Warming has “paused” and cl ...
  The Met Office admits that global warming has "paused" while a study from Lancaster University charges that ​climate change forecasts used to set policy and billions of pounds in investment are "flawed" and that the overwhelming focus on limiting green house gases alone may well be mis-guided.
• Hold on to bricks and mortar while stock marke ...
  As stock markets crash, I do not know how long it will last or how deep this second dip will go, but bricks and mortar and the "making of real things" that people want will eventually prevail. So I shall get rid of my shares in any companies that do not make "real things" and create real wealth.
• A sandwich and a soda (paid for) is Ryanair&#8 ...
  Ryanair cabin crew treated a passenger having a cardiac arrest with a sandwich and a soda - which then had to be paid for. For all their successes Ryanair can never be accused of caring for their passengers.
• Peder Nøstvold Jensen admits to being Anders B ...
  A 36 year old Norwegian, Peder Nøstvold Jensen has admitted to being the blogger "Fjordman". The mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik refers 111 times to Fjordman in his manifesto.

Left Foot Forward

• Legalising drugs would help reduce the deficit
  Legalising drugs reduce public spending, boost tax receipts, and lower addiction
• Robin Hood Tax would lead to calmer markets
  The volatility of the markets is linked to the pursuit of high profit and air of invincibility enjoyed by banks. The Robin Hood Tax would help deal with these root causes
• Markets are telling Osborne to increase spending
  Despite a record low for government bonds, the treasury refuses to release the purse strings, condemning us to a 'paradox of thrift'
• Politics is too important to be left to politi ...
  The Canadian province of British columbia shows how citizens' juries can build political solutions from the bottom up, building support along the way.
• A call for progressives to back directly-elect ...
  Directly-elected mayors would avoid a schooling of internal party politics for city premiers, and could stand up toofficers. Progressives should back them.

Consumerist

• Friday Tipster Round-Up: Inappropriately Bolde ...
  Thousands of readers have already downloaded our free Consumerist Tipster App. Here are just a handful of the photos they've sent in. Remember that you can always see even more Tipster photos on our Facebook page. Marc: "Odd choice in what to BOLD on this product." Reader saleenl learn ...
• Man With Breast Cancer Can't Get Medicaid Cove ...
  While breast cancer in males is not common, it's no yellow lobster. But a South Carolina state program that provides Medicaid to breast cancer patients in need had to deny a patient because of his Y chromosome. The patient, a 26-year-old male whose job laying tile doesn't pay enough for him to ...
• Elderly Woman Dies From Heat After Her A/C Was ...
  Two days after she reported her central air conditioning had been stolen, a 79-year old woman in Texas died from heat-related causes. The woman's air conditioning unit sat on the ground outside her house and was only protected by a cage with a lock on it. The most recent theft was at least the ...
• Woman & Carriage Driver Disagree About Horse's ...
  Imagine you're visiting New York City and you decide to take your family on a ride through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. Now imagine that the horse pulling said carriage has a bit of a freak out and collapses mid-ride. What do you do when, moments later, you see that same horse and dr ...
• Record-High 45.8 Millions Americans Using Food ...
  According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's latest report on its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps), a record 45.8 million Americans received SNAP benefits during the month of May, up 12% from the same month in 2010 and 34% from two years ago. The largest increase cam ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• A Shocking View of Bullying
  I would imagine that Amy Hatch, a freelance writer contributing to the Huffington Post, is as good a mother as she is a writer. However, neither of those occupations prepared her to write intelligently about the deadly scourge that infects the lives of too many American teens and pre-teens and, ...
• While on Summer Recess, Congress Blocks Recess ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica As many have noted, members of Congress left behind some unfinished business when they headed home for their August recess. But here’s something else you should know: Even though hordes of lawmakers have left D.C., neither chamber of Congress officially adjourned. The ...
• The Republican’s Double-Dip and What Must Be Done
  John Boehner said Tuesday the Republicans got “98 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 – but onl ...
• Sex, GMO’s, Fukushima and Linny outside NBC Dr ...
  In an effort to understand the topics our readers most enjoy, there are several winners this time around based on your viewing habits. We wanted to share them with you, our 30,000 monthly readers. Thanks for making UK Progressive magazine a part of your day. We always appreciate your support and ...
• FAQ: Why Congress Flew Home While Airport Insp ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica Thought Congress had averted a government shutdown by striking a 2011 budget deal back in April? That’s only partly true. While lawmakers deadlocked over long-term deficit reduction plans tied to the raising of the debt ceiling, one federal agency—the Federal Aviation ...

NewsAlert

• America’s debt downgrade is a damning indictme ...
  The Telegraph
• County to return $2.4 million in property taxe ...
  The Arizona Republic
• China demands U.S. 'live within its means'
  The L.A.Times reports:The largest foreign holder of U.S. treasuries responds to the S&P downgrading by calling for decreases in U.S. military outlays and social spending.
• How to brace your portfolio for another recession
  Marketwatch
• S&P cuts U.S. debt rating, cites 'weakening' o ...
  McClatchy

JoNova

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

ReNew America

• Schooling Matt Damon
  (Michelle Malkin) - Actor Matt Damon is a walking, talking public service reminder to immunize your children early and often against La-La-Land disease. In Damon's world, all public school teachers are selfless angels. Government workers and Hollywood entertainers are impervious to economic ince ...
• The case against Perry
  (Joseph Farah) - Some people still don't appreciate why Rick Perry's remark to Republican fat cats condoning the New York Legislature's vote to approve same-sex marriage should disqualify him from consideration for the Republican presidential nomination. Here's an example of one quizzical letter ...
• DeMint may turn on GOP backers of debt bill
  (Newsmax) - Some of the 28 Republican senators who voted for the new debt/deficit law may find themselves on the receiving end of powerhouse conservative Sen. Jim DeMint's ire. The South Carolina Republican pledged after last year's elections that he wouldn't support any challengers to his Repub ...
• Boehner, tea party, and leadership: the power ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - "I love you guys," House Speaker John Boehner is reported to have said at a meeting with the tea party freshmen. That comment despite the fact that those same men and women who came to this city to "change the way Washington works" gave the Ohioan a hellfire test of hi ...
• U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day
  (Washington Times) - U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday -- the largest one-day bump in history -- as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week's debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit ...

Truth Offering

• Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
  Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
• Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
  MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
• Today's Quote
  "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
• Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
  This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
• Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
  This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

• BP oil spill compensation fund chief blasted f ...
  Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The other was for victims of the 9/11 t ...
• VOICES: Does the debt deal make you sick?
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Sinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem. The announcement by Cargill that it is recalling an astounding 36 million pounds of salmonella-tainted ground turkey product ...
• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...

One News Page

• Scarlett Johansson ‘Wants to Get Back With Rya ...
  SCARLETT Johansson wants to get back with ex-husband Ryan Reynolds — according to a new report. Us Weekly claims that Scarlett is determined to win Ryan back after seeing him flirt with Sandra Bullock at the premiere of The Change-Up. “She has been calling him incessantly trying to see him, ...
• U.S. loses AAA rating; G7 may meet as euro zon ...
  NEW YORK/ROME (Reuters) - The United States lost its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard and Poor's on Friday, hours after investors alarmed by the euro zone debt crisis forced Italy to speed up an austerity drive.
• Charlize Theron - Charlize Theron Splits With ...
  Charlize Theron is reportedly 'bummed out' after Ryan Reynolds ended their relationship. The 36-year-old actress had been dating the 34-year-old actor - whose divorce from Scarlett Johansson was finalised in June - for two months but he has called tim...
• Three Afghan civilians killed at anti-NATO rally!
  Insurgents opened fire on Afghan police at an anti-NATO rally in southern Afghanistan.
• NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

Global Research TV

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

Daily Tech

• Time Warner Goes Down on Porn Losses, Blames N ...
  It's getting harder and harder to get customers to submit to loads of porn purchases
• 8/05/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• NYC Starbucks': Laptop Loiterers Take Up Too M ...
  Annoyed by the amount of space these digital dawdler's hog on a daily basis, Starbucks has started blocking electrical outlets
• Boeing Chooses Atlas V to Shoot CST-100 Capsul ...
  Boeing is part of the ULA partnership that makes the Atlas V rocket chosen
• Insulin Pumps/Glucose Monitors Susceptible to ...
  An attacker could intercept wireless signals with a powerful antenna and "broadcast a stronger signal," which would cause blood-sugar levels on the monitor to change

Oriental Review

• Changing Dynamics in the Af-Pak
  The visit of Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff to China and later to Afghanistan towards in July have given rise to speculations about the probable coming together of the two powers to adopt an accommodative approach on various issues including Afghanistan…Though ...
• Political Battles on Kyrgyzstan’s Horizon
  For the first time in Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet history, the elections which are due in the fall of 2011 present the republic with a chance to name a new country leader at the polling booths rather than at the peak of public unrest. Its previous two regime changes which culminated in the unseatin ...
• The Ideology of the Loser
  Is Not a Winning Strategy The more that we observe our fellow man, the more obvious it becomes that humanity is unable to understand the problems that it causes for itself.  If humans do not have the intellectual capacity to recognize most of their problems as being self-generated, then they are ...
• Covering the Somalian Famine
  The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as a result of a global oversupply of grain staples. Since the 1980s, grain markets have been deregulated under the supervision of the World Ba ...
• African Deadlock
  The war in Libya has reached a deadlock: Libyans are being killed under NATO and coalition bombs; the money of the U.S., France, Great Britain is going nowhere; the leader of the Jamahiriya does not leave power and ‘there is no light at the end of the tunnel’, no quick victory, a complete dead e ...

BlogHer

• Why Christians Are Not The Boss Of Marriage
  I�ve been doing some thinking about marriage lately, in light of the recent decision by New York state in the U.S. to legalise homosexual marriage, as reported by�the New York Times�just a few weeks ago.��������I myself am married. I committed this act when I was all of nineteen years old. The p ...
• Two Thoughts at the Beginning of a Year with PPD
  1. Two days after my son was born, the nurse parked my wheelchair by the curb and wished us luck. Life, apparently, had been moving at its normal pace outside my hospital room. There were cars in the parking lot, people on their way to work, deliveries being made.I'd been delivered from a plac ...
• Macaroni Salad
  [Editor's Note: If Macaroni Salad is a favorite of yours, but you're someone who maintains a gluten-free and vegan diet, it may have seemed a dish out of reach. But now, with this great recipe, even folks with dietary restrictions can enjoy this summer picnic side dish! --Genie] For the recent ...
• Animals are the New Slaves? PETA Says So
  [Editor's Note: PeTA thrives on shock value to get its message across. Womanist Musings writes that PeTA's new exhibit in Washington D.C. uses the slogan "Animals are the New Slaves" and quotes Martin Luther King. Is this taking animal rights too far? There's animal cruelty... and there's injust ...
• Determine Color Codes for Images Using Photoshop
  Ever see a photo that you'd like to make a color scheme out of? The Blogarista shows you step by step how to do that using Photoshop. She writes, Ever see those fun color palettes on the web or Pinterest and wonder what color codes they are? Well wonder no more! It took me a while to figure it ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• RAWESOME Raid – Quick Facts, Updates, Fo ...
  The government has definitely escalated the situation in its attack on food rights by aggressively raiding Rawesome foods club and arresting owner James Stewart, Sharon Palmer of Healthy Family Farms, and her volunteer (Eugenie) Victoria ...
• Irony: Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak Kills ...
  For months, since March, antibiotic resistant salmonella has sickened people from across the states with one death so far due to contaminated ground turkey. The CDC and USDA have been slowly tracking the cases since ...
• RAWSOME Foods: Swat Style Multi-Agency Raid, 3 ...
  Another raid on Rawsome Foods, Venice, California: this time it’s serious and this time it’s making huge waves across the nation as the story explodes and a protest is planned. James Stewart (owner), Sharon Palmer (Healthy ...
• Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath
  What is the slingshot that will bring the mighty Goliath down? What is Monsanto’s Achilles heel; the two things it does not possess that will allow us to fight back in the war against GMOs? Our ...
• Feds Silence Scientist Over Salmon Disappearance
  A leading fishery scientist believes she has solved the mystery of a new salmon disappearance. Dr. Kristi Miller’s findings were so telling, they were published in Science journal in January and media outlets everywhere were ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Aug. 5, 2011
  Relatives mourn over a coffin with remains of a miner killed in a mine accident in Bazhanova coal mine in the small town of Makeyevka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday, July 31, 2011. Many people were killed in two separate mine accidents in eastern Ukraine on Friday. Sunday was declared ...
• Judge to lawmakers: ‘Beef up” WVDEP
  I’m just back from a status conference where U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver heard from citizen groups, state officials and the federal government regarding the status of West Virginia’s Special Reclamation Fund — the WVDEP program meant to clean up coal-mine sites abandoned since 1977. J ...
• Citizens sue over ‘frivolous’ Blai ...
  On the heels of last week’s demand for an investigation of  what the United Mine Workers alleges are misleading coal exhibits at the West Virginia State Museum, citizen groups have now sued the state Department of Environmental Protection over its refusal to consider “lands unsuitable for minin ...
• SCSR troubles: What’s a coal miner to do?
  A government photo shows the SCSRs that Sago miners tried to use to survive after the January 2006 explosion. We broke the story in this morning’s Gazette about what federal mine safety regulators are calling a plan to “phase out” the troubled SR-100 self-contained, self-rescuer devices manufact ...
• Alpha reports $56.4 million quarterly loss
  This just in from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S. coal producer, reported a second quarter loss of $56.4 million or $0.36 per diluted share, including the impact of $254.4 million of pre-tax merger-related expenses, which included a $108.3 milli ...

Daniel Miessler

• Don’t Be Agnostic About Ridiculous Propositions
  Many are confused about the meaning of agnosticism as it relates to things we as humans are not certain about. The common mistake is combining things we don’t know yet (A) with those that are probably unknowable (B) with those things that are ridiculous (C). Agnosticism is reserved for types A a ...
• SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev
  I believe too many people take the wrong approach to security, or “hacking”. Most who seek this ability clamor for answers to questions like, “How can I hack SQL?” “How can I hack Linux?” “How can I hack web applications?” There’s a really simple answer. Learn SQL. Learn Linux. Learn to build we ...
• SQL Injection is 95% SQL, and the Rest of Info ...
  I’ve been frustrated for a long time with the ‘teach me to hack’ mentality. Not because I have a problem with beginners (quite the opposite, actually), but because certain people just never get the concept of security testing in the first place. Yes, “hacking” is a loaded term. I am using it as ...
• Polygot Programmers
  Programming enthusiast Joe is browsing Hacker News on a Saturday afternoon, and sees a story about Clojure, a Lisp-like programming language which he keeps hearing about. The comments on the story are filled with positive experiences reported by his peers, so he decides to spend a few hours chec ...
• Daring Fireball: Google: Patently Absurd
  No one other than Nathan Myhrvold and his cronies sees the U.S. patent system as functioning properly, but Google’s hypocrisy here is absurd. Google isn’t arguing against a handful of never-should-have-been-issued software patents. They’re not arguing against patent trolls like Myhrvold and his ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Happy birthday, World Wide Web
  blogs.nature.com – Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the first website going live at CERN. Born out the dreams of Libertarian hippies in 1970s California, and the anti-authoritarian aspirations of internet-pioneers such as Ted Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, from its early incarnatio ...
• Polar bear kills teen camper, injures 4 others ...
  BY BJOERN H. AMLAND, AP – OSLO, Norway – A polar bear attacked a group of British students camping on a remote Arctic glacier as part of a high-end adventure holiday, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring four other young people Friday before a trip member fatally shot the bear. Two were hospit ...
• Taste-testing and rating Lollapalooza’s “Chow ...
  suntimes.com – As much as fans rave about Lollapaloozaâs rich buffet of hip-hop, old school grunge and hard-to-categorize bands, the food scene at the annual three-day concert has become something of a headliner itself. For a second year, local chef and restaurateur Graham Elliot has been the cu ...
• WWH News Briefs Today
  38 Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash VOA – Afghan President Hamid Karzai says 31 U.S. troops and 7 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Wardak province. Officials say Saturday’s crash represents the the biggest death toll in a single incident for international forces ...
• S&P Downgrades US Credit Rating for First Time
  WOW! Never saw that coming. VOA – The credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country’s elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a “negative outlook.” In a statement late Friday, S&P said it made the move because the deficit-reductio ...

reference frame

• RIP: Standard & Poor's AAA rating of U.S. bond ...
  In November 1917, the Bolsheviks ignited their October Revolution and overtook Russia. They were ultimately successful despite the attempts of some forces that tried to stop them. Czechoslovak Legions grabbed about one-half of Siberia. Here they proudly pose above some hunted dow ...
• Andrea Rossi and cold fusion
  There are lots of interesting articles on Anthony Watts' blog but when I saw the text by Ric Werme Andrea Rossi’s E-cat fusion device on targetand noticed that it has a perfect, 5-star rating, I had to tell myself: holy cow! Do the skeptics really abandon 100% of their skepticism in order ...
• Can one sharply separate forcings and feedbacks?
  Andrew Dessler is employed as a climate alarmist in Texas (at Texas A&M). He recently expressed his opinion about the new paper by Spencer and Braswell (reactions in the media via Google News). According to Dessler, the "paper is not really intended for other scientists, since th ...
• HadCRUT3: 31% of stations saw cooling since 1979
  A few days ago, I analyzed the warming trends at all stations included in the HadCRUT3 zipped data that were recently released. Click to zoom in. I chose high contrast colors to make the picture nice. Note that the very red Arctic is actually a very small area on the Earth - whic ...
• Viktoria Pilsen beats Rosenborg Trondheim
  My hometown soccer team, Viktoria Pilsen, the winner of the Top Czech Gambrinus Soccer League (Gambrinus, the sponsor, is the most widely drunk beer in Czechia, one produced in Pilsen as well, of course, and a Scandinavian God of beer), has made it to the playoff of the European (UEFA) Cham ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• 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)

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

Enviroblog

• On Fracking: Now, Cracks in the Façade
  By LeeAnn Brown, EWG Press Secretary Imagine, if you can: Nearly overnight, your water well begins producing slimy, off-color foul smelling and worse tasting water. It's unusable. You can't drink it. You can't bathe in it. You can't wash dishes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
  By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
  By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Reusing Your Gray Water: State Laws Vary for H ...
  By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst Recently, we took a look at the water-saving potential of residential "gray" water, which, naturally, leads people to wonder: Can I use this technology in my home, too? The answer? It depends. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
  By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• A retrospective highlighting the dark worldvie ...
  It’s striking that BAM Cinematek is kicking off its comprehensive retrospective of the films of Francesco Rosi with The Truce. The Truce is an adaptation of The Reawakening, Primo Levi’s memoirs about his journey back to Italy after his imprisonment in Aus ...
• Dow in a disastrous dive; Yankees seek a Bosto ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Taking a break from seniors, David Weprin targ ...
  This afternoon, Assemblyman David Weprin was standing in front of Queens Borough Hall with his wife, two daughters and a host of elected officials. He was the only man on the steps.Since being handed the Democratic nomination in a special election for Anth ...
• 'Arthur,' annotated: Some comedies are funnier ...
  I was leaving the Trinity Church soup kitchen last Wednesday afternoon when I heard a guy yelling across its courtyard, “…and they hand out free snacks!”He was calling out to a woman on the sidewalk near the church gate. She was tapping her head and mo ...
• Going bananas for James Franco, cashing in on ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

• Soldiers come home from Libya
  Norwegian soldiers who have returned from the NATO operations in Libya this week have described their experience in the military conflict, while domestic criticism continued. Norway had contributed to the NATO operations in Libya with six F-16 fighter jets, reduced to four in June, which return ...
• Stocks and oil fund take further hit
  The Norwegian stock exchange fell to a new low for the year on Friday despite promising unemployment figures from the USA, as it was revealed that the country’s sovereign wealth fund (often referred to as the “oil fund”) had also suffered from the difficult international financial environment. ...
• ‘Fjordman’ reveals identity
  36 year-old Peder Jensen has given an interview to Norwegian newspaper VG where he reveals that he is the man behind the “Fjordman” blog referenced repeatedly in the online manifesto of Oslo and Utøya attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik. After being identified by the police and subsequently ...
• Polar bear kills one in Svalbard
  UPDATED: A polar bear has killed one and seriously injured four others who were part of a British school trip at the Von Postbreen glacier on the remote island of Spitsbergen, the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago. The bear has been shot by those in the vicinity. New ...
• Flowers taken in as dead laid to rest
  Oslo city council and many others around Norway have begun the work of gathering in flowers and other items left at places around the country to remember the victims of the Oslo and Utøya terrorist attacks. This week has seen the funerals for many of those who died, with those buried thus far li ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Naomi Klein on Geoengineering and the Western ...
  Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, gives an insightful talk in the podcast below on the madness of our western lifestyles and the geoengineering it’s giving birth to. For more reading on geoengineering click here, and to understand global dimming, click here. Click play below ...
• Geoff Lawton Asks for Your Help!
  To assist, please go here and make your contribution to the spread of permaculture in some of the neediest places on earth.
• Armed Raid on Raw Food Producers – the FDA Has ...
  The U.S. government obviously thinks raw food producers are extremely dangerous people. Why else would they send armed men to deal with them? A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Off ...
• Designers & Consultants Resource Page
  Since I starting teaching at the PRI with the new Urban Landscape Design Course there have been calls to make the information from the course available to students and interested people out there in the world that can’t jump on a plane and get to The Channon. Our fearless webmaster Craig Macki ...
• All is Not Well With the U.S. Organic Trade As ...
  Most permaculturists are aware that in regards to food today, ‘organic’ can often mean little, or nothing at all. The video below proves that the name can actually mean even worse than nothing — as we see that the U.S.’s ‘Organic Trade Association’ is unlike anything their name suggests. Indeed, ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Danziger Officers Found Guilty - Statements of ...
  Statement of Lance Madison I am thankful to have some closure after six long years of struggling for justice. I am most grateful to my family, and especially my brother Romell. Without the support and hard work of my family, I might still be in prison on false charges, and the truth about ...
• Three Arrested in BP Protest in Downtown New O ...
  Yesterday, more than 75 people protested BP's continued negligence in the Gulf. Chanting, "The oil's still here, and so are we!" the group was protesting a lack of clean-up and recovery. Activist Cherri Foytlin informed the group that state police had said they could not approach the entrance to ...
• Jury Begins Deliberations in Danziger Trial
  A version of this article was originally published on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website: With closing statements completed on Tuesday, focus in the Danziger incident now turns to the jury, which begins deliberating today on the 25 charges faced by the officers, after receiving final ...
• State of Louisiana Continues to Support Sex Of ...
  This June, criminal justice activists in Louisiana won a major victory with the passage of a bill that effectively moved prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor, heralding the end of Louisiana's archaic practice of forcing sex workers to register as sex offenders. But lawyers ...
• Defense rests in Danziger Trial, insisting vic ...
  This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website: After less than one full week and having presented the testimony of only one of the five defendants, the defense in the Danziger police violence trial rested their case on Thursday. Much of the defense relied ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Dear bluejelly, Western neonazis or just Jew wise anti-Zionists like the ones you referred to may be on a very different wavelength than European skinheads. There is not much transfer of ideas back and forth because of the language barrier, so there is no reason to assume that the Russians be ...
• False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
  enough to blow away a 4ft plus reinforced concrete wall ! Jim Stone is now saying it was a 12 ft concrete wall. If one looks at the photo of the wall with the car superimposed on top of it, one has to agree it was a lot thicker than 4 ft. I think he was trying to be ultra conservative when ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  It is all crap, China is inflating, causing property bubbles etc etc all on their own in china. The US does not owe China anything, for over 10 years since buying up US government debt, they have been the arseholes that enabled the US to go on a spending spree, both are to blame. Anyway, if yo ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  http://www.tradingeconomics.com/switzer ... erest-rate Swiss National Bank Cuts Rates Published: 8/3/2011 10:35:24 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, SNB The Swiss National Bank cut its interest rate target band from 0.00–0.75% to 0.00– 0.25% on August 3, in a surprise move to stem the rapid ri ...
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  AND NOW THE PANIC BEGINS.....all that money across the entire world devalued. Now the chaos will really start, finally....Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:35 am

TVNZ

• Gaddafi's son not dead say Libyan leaders
  The Libyan Government is denying reports Gaddafi's son was killed in a NATO airstrike.
• Polar bear kills British boy in Norway, hurts four
  A polar bear has attacked a group of British campers, killing a 17-year-old boy and seriously injuring four people camping in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, Norwegian officials said
• Elisabeth Murdoch not joining News Corp board
  Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth won't join News Corp's board after criticism it is populated by family insiders.
• Venezuela frees more than 2,000 prisoners
  Venezuela has freed more than 2,000 inmates to improve conditions in its violent and overcrowded prisons.
• Authorities move to cut Schapelle Corby's sentence
  Indonesian authorities have recommended sentence cuts for convicted Australian drug smugglers Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence.

environment 360

• U.S. Conditionally Approves Shell’s Oil Drilli ...
  U.S. government regulators have conditionally approved Shell Exploration’s plans to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska. Drilling could begin as early as next July. The decision is a setback for various environmental groups and indigenous people, who are concerned that dril ...
• Rising CO2 Levels Could Offset Drying Effects ...
  As the world warms, rising temperatures are expected to dry out the planet’s semi-arid rangelands. But a new study by U.S. scientists suggests that the effects of that drying are likely to be offset by the way in which plants react to elevated concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. Higher temp ...
• Link Between Dust, Plankton, and Cooling Probe ...
  New research by Swiss scientists shows a strong correlation over the past 4 million years between the amount of iron-rich dust in the oceans — which fertilizes plankton growth — and periods of global cooling and glaciation. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, examining mari ...
• Crops With Deeper Roots Could Boost CO2 Storag ...
  Breeding crops with deeper roots could significantly reduce atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and make crops more drought resistant, according to a study by a researcher at the University of Manchester. Reporting in the journal, Annals of Botany, professor Douglas Kell calculated that breedin ...
• Facial Recognition Software Used in Research o ...
  Researchers are developing software that will help them better identify individual apes and elephants in their natural habitat, an innovation they say could improve Tobias Deschner/MPI EVA tracking of species populations in the wild and provide insights into animal behavior. Using video and pho ...

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Last Chance Summer Reads
  Must your summer reads involve beach house rentals, hot sex, and young love? Absolutely, but read these too, says Carolyn Sun.
• Obama Is Too Good for Us: Charles Fried on the ...
  The debt fiasco proved that any decent, honest politician like the president doesn’t stand a chance.
• S&P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating for Politica ...
  This time, political infighting cost America's its sterling borrowing rating—and both parties own the blame.
• The Week’s Best Reads
  The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.
• Rick Perry Prays for Rain
  The Texas governor’s prayer rally could undermine the GOP’s branding as a fiscal party.

Loonwatch

• 2012: Rick Perry Ally Wants to Bar Muslims fro ...
  This weekend, Gov. Rick Perry will host a mass Christian prayer rally in his home state of Texas. Find out who he'll be praying with.
• Thomas Jefferson’s Iftar
  “Ramadan,” said President Obama at a White House iftar dinner in 2010, “is a reminder that Islam has always been a part of America.
• Frank Gaffney’s Latest Conspiracy: Herman Cain ...
  Herman Cain had actually been meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood?
• Huckabee Generates Cash With 9/11 ‘History’ Ca ...
  "Three thousand Americans were murdered, and it's for his personal gain. I think it's blood money," Riches told PIX 11.
• Gallup Poll: Jews and Christians Way More Like ...
  Muslims are least likely to condone the targeting and killing of civilians.

Energy News

• Jacques Cousteau: Nuclear power the gravest da ...
  32 years later, ‘No Nukes’ concert stars reunite for new show, ...Read More
• Method for cooling Reactor No. 3 “isn&#8 ...
  TEPCO may use ‘shower spray’ on troubled reactor, Asahi Shimbun, August ...Read More
• 3.6 sieverts/hour detected at rainwater drain pipe
  Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 3.6 Sieverts/Hr at Stack Drain Pipe for ...Read More
• Tweet: 2 sieverts per hour found at surface of ...
  Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 2 Sieverts/Hr on Water Surface in the ...Read More
• Member of Parliament: Health Canada “neg ...
  Health Canada “negligent” on Fukushima nuclear-radiation threats, Liberal MP Joyce Murray ...Read More

Japan Times

• Trade balance fell into red in July
  Japan registered a �317.43 billion trade deficit in the first 20 days of last month, affected by slower production following the March quake and tsunami, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The figure compares with a �226.51 billion surplus recorded during the same period a year earlier. ...
• Temp staffer wins maternity leave, via union
  When female nonregular workers become pregnant, employers often refuse to renew their contracts. However, a Japanese-Brazilian woman in the Tokai region stood up and joined a local labor union to protest the practice. Currently on child-care leave, Michelle Rosa Egidio, 35, happily looks into ...
• Forex intervention raises doubts
  Thursday's intervention in currency markets by the government clearly illustrated their fear that the economy could collapse unless they take action. The world's third-biggest economy was already under serious downward pressure from the massive earthquake and tsunami in March, which disrupted ...
• Cracks in the Chinese wall
  In the face of a spreading ethnic Uighur rebellion, authorities in Chinese-ruled Xinjiang have alleged that a prominent Uighur separatist they captured had received terrorist training in Pakistan, China's "all-weather ally." The charge came on a day when Pakistan's spy agency chief, Lt. Gen. A ...
• China severs ties with Olympian Wang
  China's most decorated Winter Olympic athlete Wang Meng has been expelled from the country's short track speedskating squad after a drunken brawl with her team manager. China's sports governing body said Thursday that the 26-year-old's conduct violated the team's disciplinary code and jeopardi ...

Alexander Higgins

• Watch Live: Web Cam And Thermal Images &#8212 ...
  A live webcam and thermal images show the start of a volcano eruption in Stromboli Italy which is now underway.
• 57 Senators Sign Letter Telling To Protect Sec ...
  57 Senators sign a letter protesting calls from globalist to infringe on Second Amendment rights through a United Nations Trade Treaty
• Natural Gas Fracking Polluting Drinking Water ...
  An Investigation Into Feds Coverup Of Natural Gas Fracking Reveals Drilling Pollutes The Drinking Water With Corexit's Main Neurotoxin Pesticide Ingredient.
• Global Stock Sell-Off Follows Today’s 51 ...
  Massive global stock sell-off follows today's 512 point crash of the DOW, which was the worse drop since the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 9th worse ever.
• Major Paper : Canada Government Covered Up &#8 ...
  A Major Canadian Paper Reports That The Government Covered Up Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Material From Fukushima In Canadian Air" And Are Continuing To Manipulate Radiation Monitoring Data.

Macleans - Central

• The separatists amongst us
  Colin Horgan notes the presence of Michel Rivard in the Conservative caucus. The Conservative...
• The barbeque they don’t want you to see
  Video of the Prime Minister speaking at Rob Ford’s barbeque was apparently removed from...
• ‘The Future’ looks, well, depressing
  This quirky, insightful dramedy is a cautionary tale for aimless thirty-somethings
• ‘In Quebec it is not that big a deal’
  Francois-Pierre Gingras defends Nycole Turmel’s sovereignist associations. âIt will make a good number of...
• Iranian police crush grave threat to national ...
  It’s beyond parody.

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

• No turning back for light
  Nature: Optical computer chips carry information via light rather than electrical current and transfer data at about 10 gigabits per second, which is more than 100 times faster than the best electronic chips. However, to be commercially viable, optical chips need their own equivalent of the elec ...
• Japan earthquake vibrations nearly reached space
  National Geographic: The vertical motion of the March 2011 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami in eastern Japan produced vibrations that affected Earth's atmosphere—all the way up through the ionosphere. The vibrations at ground level were akin to low-frequency sound waves and didn't tra ...
• Liquid water may flow on Mars
  New York Times: As scientists report today in Science, Mars may have liquid water flowing on its surface. They base their theory on the observation of fingerlike streaks up to five yards wide on some of the planet’s steep slopes. The streaks, which appear to grow and shift in summer and fade in ...
• Science stereotypes reexamined
  Telegraph: “Not many girls appreciate how much fun science can be,” according to 14-year-old Samara Villion, who was participating in a school program at the Royal Institution of Great Britain’s Young Scientist Centre. Although more women are pursuing careers in science, writes Sally Williams fo ...
• A long, hot summer for Tokyo universities
  Chronicle of Higher Education: Across Tokyo, universities are trying to cut their electricity use by 15%. Tokyo's power comes from Tepco, operator of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plants, which have been inoperable since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Many other reactors are also ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Norway massacre is a false flag
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:26 GMT) It's a false flag attack. The killer said he hates Muslims but what his target were the sons and daughters of the government elites. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets not Muslims whose presence he detests, but the Labor Party ...
• Oil price and Iran war
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:52:53 GMT) 13. Harassment from Feds (12/28/08) I said oil price started to drop after my article of July 4th. When the planed Iran war went soured in August, the Inside group planed a financial crisis to stabilize the dollar. It started on 9/14, when Lem ...
• The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:49:57 GMT) Two years ago I predicted the Feds would use Bin Laden, Al Qaida and Pakistan to activate false flag nuclear bomb attack. Operation Geronimo was exactly the practise of that plan. 587. A nuclear bombing to justify Iran war (2/10/09) For the ...
• CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:42:36 GMT) 675. Virus attack and boat sinking (7/19/2011) In web site unforumzed.com, a man kept on suggesting me to stop post the revelation article. Cake Balls by Autumn: “Maybe if you stopped posting crap all over the internet, the FBI wouldn't be ...
• News media won't report
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:38:52 GMT) Quote, "Late Night Snack: Arrested in Orlando for Feeding the Homeless July 2, 2011By Sarah Jones Food Not Bombs activists get arrested for feeding the homeless, chanting “Food is a right, not a privilege”. Twice a week, these activists gat ...

Peakwater

• When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts
  “For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their travels de ...
• Shell faces first Nigeria spill claims in UK
  “A British court has ruled that a Nigerian community devastated by oil spills can claim compensation in the UK from the energy giant Shell. Royal Dutch Shell has already accepted responsibility and promised to pay some form of compensation for the spills, which took place in 2008 and 2009, destr ...
• Work underway on controversial Mekong River dam
  “By building this dam, Laos is disregarding its regional commitments and robbing the future of millions of people in the region who rely upon the river for their livelihood and food security,” said Ame Trandem, Southeast Asia program director for International Rivers. The dam â the first of 1 ...
• In Arid South African Lands, Fracking Controve ...
  “The controversy has put the government in a tough spot. Seventeen years after the end of apartheid, the African National Congress-led government is under pressure to deliver jobs, services, and greater prosperity to the countryâs largely impoverished and increasingly impatient population. The s ...
• Harvest rainwater or your taps could run dry
  “BANGALORE: The BWSSB has empowered itself to take stern action against owners of those houses where rainwater harvesting (RWH) apparatus is not installed. Having issued a deadline of December 31, 2011, for installation, and published a gazette notification on July 7, BWSSB can now cut off wate ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• let’s at least be fair to duct tape and ...
  ��Come on now �� let�s at least be fair to duct tape and bailing wire �� they have performed admirably under very unusual situations and uses �� best use for duct tape in DC would be to tape all politicians mouth shut �� and wire their hand behind their� backs �� no need for Alka-Seltzer [...]
• the “hot-button” at the moment
  � �� The object is to keep this on everyone�s mind using whatever tactic is necessary �� jobs being the �hot-button� at the moment �� next week it will be something else �� SNWA �� Water pipeline construction will create how many jobs��? � By�Cy Ryan� �� Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 | 1:36 p.m. �� [...]
• demonstrates his is a “flake/patsy/puppe ...
  ⦠Why are House Republicans so mad at Mother Natureâ¦?  And that definitely includes Az. Congressman (R) Jeff Flake ⦠who clearly demonstrates his is a âflake/patsy/puppetâ for mining interest$ ⦠House Republicans, especially those of the "tea party" ilk, think they know the cause of our coun ...
• Like sure I trust a panel composed ONLY
  � �� Like sure I trust a panel composed ONLY of Ag business and pest control first to review Az laws governing pesticides use �� YUP �� bet your bottom dollar they have your best interest in mind when they meet �� forget they are likely sponsored by Mon$anto & Friend$ �� Panel to review [...]
• Injection wells appear to stop spread of SW Va ...
  � ��Two questions �� One don�t these injection wells belie the oll/gas �fracking� story their toxic soup does not migrate �� Two �� what is being injected into these West Valley wells �� or aren�t we suppose to know��? �� ADEQ �� don�t ask �� don�t tell �� just trust us we have your back [...]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
  The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
• FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
  Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
• Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
  After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
• Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
  The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
• Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
  At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...

Science - NZ Herald

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

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Hit & Run | Reason

• Attn, Cincinnati-Dayton-Oxford (Ohio) Reasonoi ...
  The book tour for The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America makes its next stop in the charming college town of Oxford, Ohio, which is home to Miami University, the corpse of Weeb Ewbank, and me. On Saturday, July 13, Matt Welch an ...
• Standard & Poor's Downgrades U.S. Debt
  Story here; PDF here. Those (many) who are rubbishing the eminently rubbishable S&P tonight are generally not grappling with something we've been talking about for years around these parts: The current fiscal trajectory of the United States is not just deteriorating rapidly, ...
• New at Reason: Mike Riggs on the Higher Educat ...
  A growing chorus of economists and educators think that the higher education industry will be America's next bubble. The combination of easy credit, high tuition, and poor job prospects, writes Associate Editor Mike Riggs, have resulted in growing delinquency and default rates on n ...
• How Many Medical Marijuana Patients Are Fakers ...
  A recent survey of 1,746 patients at nine medical marijuana evaluation clinics in California indicates that "the patient population has evolved from mostly HIV/AIDS and cancer patients to a significantly more diverse array." University of California at Santa Cruz sociologist Craig R ...
• Reason.tv: Jacob G. Hornberger on Obama, Forei ...
  At FreedomFest in July, Reason's Matt Welch talked with Jacob G. Hornberger, founder of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger explains why he thinks that Obama is no better than Bush when it comes to foreign policy and civil liberties. He explains why libertarian ...

Mercury Rising

• The return of slavery
  One of the reasons I used to refuse to invest in China, and now do so only selectively, is that they use some prison labor. Prison labor, unless it’s done at a competitive wage, is a form of slavery. So, to be consistent, I should divest from the US. Mike Elk and Bob Sloan, The [...]
• The triumph of voodoo
  A couple of days ago, I posted in comments: Adding, 8/3: For those who believe in voodoo, markets at noon are below resistance, at about 1240 (S&P). Next line of resistance is ca. 1180, which would be a ca. 12% drop from recent highs. The 50% retracement would be at 1025 and the 33% retracement ...
• Friday Cat Blogging
• More things that make you go, “hmmm&#823 ...
  Jill Treanor and Nick Fletcher, The Guardian: Amid the rout, it emerged that police acting on orders from the prosecutors of Trani, a port on Italy’s Adriatic coast, had raided the Milan offices of the rating agencies, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, as part of continuing investigations into thei ...
• Can You Guess This Guy’s Boss?
  Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting in Kieran’s drinking Two Gingers (house brand) whisky while my friend the attorney was drinking pints of Guinness and regaling me with stories. One story will interest you both: Seems a while back — I didn’t find out exactly when, but it was during the health c ...

Reality Sandwich

• Overdose at the Airport
  As the rate of cancer spikes among Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers who work near the full-body scanners at the Boston Logan Airport, union reps are alarmed at having been misinformed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and TSA regarding the safety of these machines.read more
• This Week in Psychedelics
  "This Week in Psychedelics" is a Reality Sandwich column that follows the multifaceted media appearances of this class of chemicals and their effects in popular culture. read more
• The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of ...
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• 25 Cents to Save a Life?
  Two studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Botswana) suggest that antiretroviral medicine can play an essential role in the fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS. read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

• August 5 2011: Europe throws in the towel
• August 3 2011: The Next Bank Bailout Bloodbath ...
• August 1 2011: Of Ceilings and Dungeons
• July 28 2011: Real Black. Real Swan.
• July 26 2011: Austerity is coming to the U.S.A.