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Monday, August 8, 2011

8 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Solazyme, Bunge Team Up for Facility in Brazil
Greentech Media (blog)
Ultimately, as the cost of producing oil from algae comes down, Solazyme will sell a renewable form of diesel for the fuel market. In the second quarter, Solayzme reported revenue of $7.4 million, up from $4.4 million a year ago, but losses of $17 ...
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On The Money: Reading up on green investing
Sacramento Bee
By CHUCK MYERS The green revolution has fueled a strong interest in potential investment opportunities, particularly in the renewable energy sector. If you'd like to get up to speed about green investing, a number of books offer a range of insights ...
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NREL seeks industry input to illuminate trends in renewable energy financing
Environmental Expert (press release)
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is seeking input from energy developers and financiers as part of an ongoing effort to collect and share quantitative data on renewable energy financing terms and to assess ...
IKEA Buys Scottish Wind Farm and Plans 39000 Solar Panels in UK
CleanTechnica
IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer from Sweden, has set a goal to derive all of its energy from renewable sources, and it is now installing 39000 solar panels on the rooftops of it's stores in the United Kingdom to help achieve that goal. ...
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Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology: Exploring the World of the Microbes
EurekAlert (press release)
In a new two volume set, the Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology, Professor Frans J. de Bruijn reveals how the field of microbiology has been transformed by the recent emergence of metagenomics, a discipline which allows microbiologists to study ...
Flame Retardants, Chemicals Found in Child Car Seats
WebMD
3, 2011 -- Some child car safety seats may contain hazardous chemicals including flame retardants, according to the fourth annual report by the Ecology Center, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based nonprofit environmental organization. Researchers tested more than ...
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Amarnath Yatra: An environmental disaster in the making
Newstrack India
It specifically pointed out that the situation in Pahalgam, the main base camp of the yatra, was alarming and called for immediate measures to protect the sensitive ecology of the Pahalgam valley. Instead of acting on the recommendations and reducing ...
Ecology of Binghamton examined in study
Press & Sun-Bulletin
BINGHAMTON -- A new environmental initiative is putting the emphasis on how the city's ecology is affecting urban life and government. The newly formed Binghamton Urban Ecosystem Initiative will consider Binghamton as a habitat for nature and will ...
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Water Power

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Texas Town To Recycle Urine
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The drought in Texas has gotten so severe officials have turned to a once unthinkable idea: recycling sewage water. Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced by ...
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North Texas town runs out of water
KVUE
by JONATHAN BETZ KEMP — This small town on the shore of Cedar Creek Reservoir ran out of water on Sunday. "No water. No water. Zero water," said Kemp Mayor Donald Kile. "We're in pretty bad shape, to be honest with you." As the temperature surged into ...
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United Water Signs 5-Year Contract with Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, to Operate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
HARRINGTON PARK, NJ, Aug 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- United Water, a SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT subsidiary, announced it reached an agreement with the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, for a five year contract to operate, maintain and manage its Arlington and ...
American States Water Q2 Profit Soars - Quick Facts
RTT News
(RTTNews) - American States Water Co. (AWR: News ) posted second-quarter net income of $15.96 million or $0.85 per share, up from $8.98 million or $0.48 per share reported a year ago. The company noted that the increased earnings were the result of ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • How Iran Defeated Obama
    Summary: Assassinations and other acts of state terrorism are short-term expedients that usually end up being paid for dearly. Countries have long memories. Hate isn’t easily expunged. The United States, and to a lesser extent Britain, are still paying for their clandestine overthrow in 1953 ...
  • The allegation that Iran is developing nuclear ...
    Summary: Adib-MoghaddamThere is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. No IAEA report, not even national intelligence agencies hostile to the Iranian state such as the CIA and the Mossad in Israel have provided any evidence to that end. So the nuclear weapons allegation is a pol ...
  • Iran’s oil bourse, a new pressure on U.S. dollar
    Summary: If the main oil consuming and producing nations in the world conspire to trade oil over an open exchange, similar to Iran’s Oil Bourse, and price the oil in currencies other than or as well as the U.S. dollar, then the world is likely to be economically more stable. Iran’s IOB is n ...
  • Iran not looking to make atomic bomb - Ahmadin ...
    Summary: "When we say we don't want to build an atomic bomb it means we really do not want to build an atomic bomb," Ahmadinejad, interviewed by the Euronews TV channel, said. source: Reutersread more
  • Making an Enemy of Iran
    Summary: Barack Obama has thrown in the towel regarding negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and yielded to his advisors’ policy of relentlessly demonising Iran, notes Patrick Seale. source: Middle East Onlineread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Weekend Image: Saturn's "Great White Spot" ...
    This is a false-color image of a giant, raging storm on Saturn, released by NASA. The hyperstorm, the Great White Spot, is nearly as wide as Earth — about 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers). It has a tail of white clouds...
  • The Search for Merging Black Holes --Engines o ...
    The two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/radio (pink) image above of Galaxy 3C 75 are thought to be co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source. Surrounded by multimillion degree x-ray emitting gas, and...
  • Will the Planck Satellite Find Evidence that W ...
    British scientists are searching for disk-like patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation - heat radiation left over from the Big Bang – which could provide evidence of collisions between other universes, each existing in their individual bubbles. "The...
  • Moon's Mountainous Far Side Created by a Colli ...
    The mountainous region on the far side of the moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary scientists at the University...
  • Image of the Day: Hidden Galaxy Clusters with ...
    Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new open clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. Thirty of these clusters are shown in this mosaic....

Natural News

  • Centering meditation
    (NaturalNews) Today I am going to share about meditation and prayer. One of the goals is to get the mind's velocity below the supersonic level and further down to the point where you are ready to touch down on experiences of being. We will wash our minds and bring our awareness into the heart ch ...
  • Europe to lead the financial collapse of the West?
    (NaturalNews) In case you haven't noticed - and, in lieu of the press generated by the recent battle royal over how much to increase the U.S. national debt, most of you probably haven't - Europe is on the brink of financial collapse. But before you shed too many tears for the Mother Continent, s ...
  • USA loses AAA credit rating as S&P downgrades ...
    (NaturalNews) The USA lost its long-coveted AAA debt rating late Friday as Standard and Poor's downgraded the nation's debt to AA+, citing out-of-control government spending and record budget deficits. This is something that key members of the Obama administration promised would never happen (ht ...
  • Trio of Los Angeles raw food advocates reporte ...
    (NaturalNews) The raid on Rawesome Foods by a combined force of agents from the FDA, LA County Dept of Agriculture, CDC and the LA County Sheriff's office wasn't the only SWAT-style armed raid that took place today. Sharon Palmer, a mom and owner of Healthy Family Farms was also arrested and tak ...
  • Massive public protest announced against gover ...
    (NaturalNews) As promised, a massive public protest is now being announced to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their outrage against today's arrest of three raw foods advocates who are all being charged with conspiracy.The protest will be held at the LA County Courthouse lo ...

Threat Level

  • Researchers: Anonymous and Lulzsec Need to Foc ...
    The online vigilante groups Anonymous and LulzSec are weakening their cause with scattershot attacks and need to get more intelligent and focused, according to a panel of computer security experts at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. “We have an opportunity to not just cause chaos, but ...
  • Hacking Home Automation Systems Through Your P ...
    LAS VEGAS – Hacking the grid took on new meaning at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when two independent security researchers demonstrated two tools they designed to hack home and business automation and security systems that operate though power lines. The automation systems let users co ...
  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Call Republicans Hostage Takers an ...
    Among the things we learned during this week's debt ceiling debacle is that Republicans in general and their Tea Party hardliners in particular don't like to be called "hostage-takers" and "terrorists." While Sarah Palin called Vice President Biden's alleged use of the T-word "appalling," Rep. ...
  • A Tale of Two Recessions
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Just for different groups of Americans. That's the picture emerging from a wave of stories about the depths of the American economic downturn. On the same day The Economist revealed that the U.S. economic contraction beginning in late 2007 ...
  • A Birthday Gift for President Obama
    In 2008, I gave my money and my vote to Barack Obama. With somewhat less enthusiasm, I'll do the same in 2012. But on this his 50th birthday, it's time for a gift the President could really use. After his latest capitulation to Republicans in this week's debt ceiling debacle, the presents wo ...
  • 25 Things We Learned During the Debt Crisis
    If nothing else, the debt ceiling crisis provided what Barack Obama is so fond of calling a "teachable moment." Hopefully, that extends to the President himself. After seeing his nominees blocked, his legislation filibustered and popular upper-income tax increases delayed by Republicans who w ...
  • The Casey Anthony Party
    In the wake of the debt ceiling deal they opposed, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are predictably apoplectic that Vice President Joe Biden allegedly likened Tea Partiers to "terrorists." In that case, they must really be furious with observers like New York Times reporter Joe Nocera and Georg ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • How to Create Art to Inspire Green Living
    Our society is moving toward green and eco-friendly living in a number of different ways. There are a number of techniques you can use to inspire thoughts of green living, and one such opportunity is to create art that exemplifies the concepts of environmentalism. Obviously the best way to do t ...
  • Green Travel
    Webster’s Dictionary defines mindfulness as “the trait of staying aware (paying close attention to) your responsibilities and/or being present in the moment.” When traveling, I strive for a mindful experience, meaning I am present and fully take in my experiences in the moment and try to stay aw ...
  • Rick Perry, Here’s an Image for You..
    Well, actually, I've got a few images I think Rick Perry should see, but this first one is the one that inspired me to write this post. Related posts:Rick Perry: Praying for Rain, Ignoring Climate Science Rick Santorum: Does His Ignorance Qualify Him to be President? Second Warmest July and Wa ...
  • Rick Perry: Praying for Rain, Ignoring Climate ...
    The sad thing is not that Texas Governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry is rallying his state to prayer for rain -- prayer is all the state's got at this point in the midst of this massive, harmful, record drought and heat wave. The sad thing is, Rick Perry and his GOP are doing ...
  • Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Eruption & Lava Overf ...
    Hawaii's Kilauea volcano had an eruption and lava overflow this week. For more, check out the Guardian video below: Related posts:Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea Eruption Images Hawaii Volcano Erupts [VIDEOS] Volcanic Activity at Kilauea

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Axis of Logic

  • Physics Envy ** - Featured
    It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell   Physics is all about understanding how the world, the solar system, and the universe that contains them work. And the physic ...
  • Latin America’s TeleSUR Now Available to U.S. ...
    Merida, August 4th 2011 – This week Latin American television network teleSUR expanded its distribution capacity to allow the Caracas-based news channel to reach over 100 million homes across the United States. In an agreement signed with Globecast WorldTV, teleSUR is now available free of charg ...
  • Media Disinformation and the Causes of the Som ...
    BBC news coverage of the famine in Somalia has been saturating the airwaves and it's always like this whenever 'natural disasters' strike. Fundamentally it's little more than a fund-raising promo paid for with our taxes as endlessly repeated shots of emaciated babies and dying people serves no i ...
  • 31 U.S. Special Operations Troops Killed in Af ...
    "Eyewitnesses in the area say that there were several helicopters involved in the action and that the Chinook came down after trying to lift off from a house where insurgents had gathered.  "The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the incident. In a release the group says it used a rocke ...
  • Colombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace - Critic ...
    Invited paper to be presented to the “Encuentro Nacional de comunidades Campesinas, Afrodescendientes e Indigenas por la Tierra y la Paz de Colombia” “El dialogo es la Ruta” 12 al 15 de agosto 2011 Barrancabermeja – Colombia Introduction ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • In the land of Brewer, Kyl and McCain which ti ...
    Yes, they do exist.
  • Debt Deal Not Necessarily Set in Stone
    But overturning its economy-killing terms is going to take hard work by all of us. David Dayen at Firedoglake: Nate Silver's analysis of the debt deal is broadly similar to mine, actually. He acknowledges that fiscal policy will be anti-expansionary in the near term, but that the cuts are not th ...
  • Tribal Resentment Has Always Driven Conservatives
    No, the repugs have not suddenly gone insane. �They haven't changed at all. �Forget the party name change - radical conservatives are still the same reactionary tribe whose temper tantrum over not getting its way killed 600,000 of their fellow Americans. Digby: Reading �this piece by John Judis ...
  • Nuking for Jesus
    No, this isn't as bad as that Army jerkoff who announced that his troops were launching a new crusade against non-christians, but disturbing nonetheless. Jason Leopold at Truthout: The Air Force, in response to an exclusive report published by Truthout earlier this week, has withdrawn materials ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    @ThisBowers has the latest evidence that the tea kettle has boiled dry. "The Tea Party Express bus rolled into Hudson Friday, drawing a crowd of people who support Senator Sheila Harsdorf, the 10th District Republican who faces a recall election next Tuesday. [...] The Tea Partiers were matched ...

Care 2

  • Delayed Katrina Justice
    See 1st commentSubmitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Bad Week for the Army Corps of Engineers
    It was a very bad week for the Army Corps of Engineers--a story of political abuse iwth real consequences!Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A-Bomb Survivor Looks Back On A Life Lived In ...
    Aged 78, Nobuko Pollock knows she is among the last of the survivors and worries that the commemorations - to which she faithfully tunes in on her satellite TV every year - will lessen ovet time.Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 1,040 Paper Cranes made By 96-year-old Woman T ...
    "The disaster claimed the lives of people in the prime of their lives, young people with big dreams, and even children who made everyone smile. When I thought about the people who lost their loved ones, all I could do was fold paper cranes in prayer."Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • PLEASE TELL EVERYONE.
    Sol will die on the 9th of August, URGENT, PLEASE HELP TO SAVE POOR SOL. PLEASE VISIT THIS WEBSITE BELOW. MANY THANKS. http://blog.myletsadopt.com/2011/07/27/sol-will-die-on-the-9th-of-august/Submitted by Barbara Save Frogs Please to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Delusional Leftist Economics
    I’ve been having a private email exchange with a friend, who is a died in the wool “progressive.” My friend, unfortunately, is living in a fantasy world that is all too typical of the folks on the left end of the political spectrum. I’m going to share it with you to help you understand the [...]
  • Weekend Open Thread * The Morning After
    There’s enough commentary on yesterday’s S&P downgrade of the U.S.’s rating from AAA to AA+ to keep you reading all weekend. Here are a couple standouts: (1) The WaPo’s progressive blogger Ezra Klein has posted, “Standard & Poorâs has been wrong before. But theyâre right now.” 2) Reuters publish ...
  • Breaking: S&P Downgrades United States
    From contributing writer Larry Doyle‘s blog, Sense on Cents. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Standard & Poors has just downgraded the credit rating of the United States from a AAA rating. This is a HUUUUGE story. What do I see as the implications? 1. Short term lending markets will get ...
  • More Killing Osama Bullshit Courtesy of Obama ...
    Can’t help myself, but this scab needs picking. There is one part of the now infamous Nick Schmidle account that appears to have been accepted at face value but is pure bullshit. Here’s the crazy portion: The Americans hurried toward the bedroom door. The first SEAL pushed it open. Two of bin La ...
  • Why Obama
    If you’ve been wondering why President Obamaâs âfixesâ for solving healthcare, unemployment, the housing foreclosure crisis and now the debt ceiling “crisis’ have only managed to continue the downward spiral for the American people? If, since 2009, you’ve wondered why President Obama has been su ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Teens Respond Well to Online CBT for Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study, aimed at identifying the most effective treatment protocol for adolescent anxiety, was recently conducted comparing clinic-based cognitive-behavioral therapy and online anxiety treatment. Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Quee ...
  • Self-Esteem Web Conference at GoodTherapy.org ...
    Please consider joining us at GoodTherapy.org next Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific (7:00 p.m. Eastern) for a free teleconference event, Low Self-Esteem: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions, presented by Tina Gilbertson, MA. Tina is a therapist based out of Portland, OR, and she has e ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! Enjoy this week’s top news :-) Trend May Help Explain Decline in Marriage Rate, Particularly Among Young Adults Amy Winehouse Loses Battle with Drug Addiction How the Brain Keeps Track of What We’re Doing Words May Predict Treat ...
  • Does Positive Affect Predict Employee Proactivity?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People with positive dispositions and affect tend to display more self-initiative and higher goal setting than those with low moods. A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Western Australia, the University of Sheffield and the University College ...
  • In Case of Emergency: Seeking Help When a Love ...
    I’m returning once more to the issue of living with a friend or family member who is struggling with addiction. First, let me thank again those of you who take the time to read these posts and/or comment. It means a lot to me and I am very touched by what I read. It drives home [...]

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

  • S&P rating: 'Outrageous', 'nothing good to say ...
    Seung Min Kim / The Politico: S&P rating: ‘Outrageous’, ‘nothing good to say’  —  Outrage over Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating extended to both sides of the political aisle on Sunday.  —  Steve Forbes, CEO of Forbes Inc. and a former Republican presidential conte ...
  • What Happened to Obama? - Drew Westen is a pro ...
    Drew Westen / New York Times: What Happened to Obama?  —  Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of “The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.”  —  Atlanta  —  IT was a blustery day in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009, as it of ...
  • Origins of the debt showdown (Washington Post)
    Washington Post: Origins of the debt showdown  —  This article was reported by Lori Montgomery, Paul Kane, Brady Dennis, Alec MacGillis, David Fahrenthold, Rosalind Helderman, Felicia Sonmez and Dan Balz.  It was written by Dennis, MacGillis and Montgomery.  —  In mid-January, newly installed …
  • If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, ...
    Janet Daley / Telegraph: If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, we need to face the truth  —  The idea that a capitalist economy can support a socialist welfare state is collapsing before our eyes, says Janet Daley.  —  Getting it right: the Tea Party recognised where America's policies ...
  • WRAPUP 9-World leaders confer on debt crises t ...
    Reuters: WRAPUP 9-World leaders confer on debt crises this weekend  —  * ECB to hold rare emergency meeting on Sunday - sources  —  * Sarkozy, Cameron confer on US debt downgrade, euro zone  —  * Obama urges lawmakers to work together on fiscal plans  —  * China chides United States for debt ad ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

  • US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will D ...
    The debt ceiling deal simultaneously slashes programs crucial to our country's functioning and opens the door to more devastating- and mandatory - cuts.
  • How Abortion Caused the Debt Crisis
    Last night, right before the fatal deadline, the U.S. Congress finally came to a deal that allows us to raise the debt ceiling, without which the federal government would basically shut down completely and start to default on its loans, creating a cascade of economic disasters.  Congress came to ...
  • In Israel, the Winds of Social Change Are Blowing
    by David Harris-Gershon Crossposted from Tikkun Daily The popular protests now engulfing Israel, originally spurred by a housing crisis, have quickly morphed into an amalgamation of economic and social demands, leaving many in Israel’s progressive left to wonder exactly how broad these protes ...
  • Left gets its Panties in a Bunch over some Who ...
    Talking on the radio on Friday, GOP Colorado Rep. Doug     Lamborn said the following about Obama. “Now, I don’t even want to be associated with him, it’s like touching a, a tar baby and you get it…you know you’re stuck and you’re part of the problem and you can’t get away.” And THIS is the ...
  • In the Aftermath of the Debt Ceiling Debacle: ...
    Barack Obama’s debt ceiling plan is an unsatisfying as well as disappointing compromise for the American people. I used to think that the President was playing a game of 3 dimensional chess with the Tea Party GOP. I still have faith that the dude I voted for will one day reappear. Alas, [...] ...

Threat Level

  • Researchers: Anonymous and Lulzsec Need to Foc ...
    The online vigilante groups Anonymous and LulzSec are weakening their cause with scattershot attacks and need to get more intelligent and focused, according to a panel of computer security experts at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. “We have an opportunity to not just cause chaos, but ...
  • Hacking Home Automation Systems Through Your P ...
    LAS VEGAS – Hacking the grid took on new meaning at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when two independent security researchers demonstrated two tools they designed to hack home and business automation and security systems that operate though power lines. The automation systems let users co ...
  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • How Big is Cargill's Food Poisoning Problem?
    Almost four years ago I penned – “Cargill, getting reacquainted with the Enemy” – in response to Cargill recalling nearly 2,000,000 pounds of E. coli O157:H7 tainted hamburger (that is nearly enough to give every New Yorker a quarter pounder) in October and November of 2007. As I said then it w ...
  • Marler Clark to Cargill: Start Testing and We ...
    Marler Clark, the nation’s only law firm dedicated solely to representing victims of foodborne illness, is making a unique offer to Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., the company whose ground turkey has been identified as the source of a national outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmo ...
  • Butz, Supreme Beef and FSIS's Salmonella Polic ...
    This week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground beef products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press release, “Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 36 million pounds ...
  • Cargill's Salmonella Heidelberg Ground Turkey ...
    USDA/FSIS defines a Class I Recall as: This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death. No kidding! Here are the dirty half dozen of Class I Recalls since I started tracking them: ...
  • Salmonella Heidelberg Slams Seventy-seven, Kil ...
    CDC has updated the ongoing Salmonella Heidelberg Outbreak linked to Cargill turkey burger: A total of 78 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 26 states between March 1 and August 3, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • S&P Downgrades USA to AA+
    By John Detrixhe Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.âs AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nationâs political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending enough to reduce record budget deficits. S&P lowered the U.S. one level to AA+ while keeping the outlook a ...
  • Full Text of S&P Statement
    “We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating. * ”We have also removed both the short- and long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative. * ”The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal ...
  • Fannie Mae Seeks $5.1bn More From Taxpayers
    By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans made prior to 2009. The largest U.S. residential mortgage funds provider on Friday also reported a ...
  • Federal Budget 101 & Catherine’s Response
    By: David Thomas Chief Executive Officer Equitas Capital Advisors LLC The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let’s put the 2011 federal budget into per ...
  • UnAnswered Questions About Rawsome Food
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Yesterday, Rawsome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested. There are numerous unanswered questions about why. Nearby,  at Whole Foods in Venice it was business as usual. Indeed, having just agreed to “co-exist” w ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The downgrade of US credit rating by S&P shows ...
    Summary:  A look at the ratings agencies.  What is their real function in our system?  Who do they serve, and how well do they perform?  The answers are not what the news media usually tell us. Contents The ratings agencies are neither stupid nor corrupt, nor do they work for us Should we fear t ...
  • A warning from the past. Might the American E ...
    Summary:  Hubris is the great destroyer of Empires.  Especially the mad American Empire, which costs much, brings no economic benefits (no treasure ships coming home, no advantage to our exports), and multiplies our enemies.  Britain’s post-imperial periods was painful, as it will be for us i ...
  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Things That Didn't Happen to US Government Pol ...
    This part of Andrew Sullivan's defense of Obama simply isn't true: On policy: ending the US torture regime; prevention of a second Great Depression; enacting universal healthcare; taking the first serious steps toward reining in healthcare costs; two new female Supreme Court Justices; endin ...
  • What Can Be Done About the Somalia Famine? Hin ...
    Everyday brings grim new figures from the famine in Somalia. The latest is this: according to nutrition and mortality surveys by USAID 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last 90 days in southern Somalia. And it’s going from bad to worse. On Wednesday, the UN announced that the f ...
  • Al-Qaeda’s North African Franchise Moves South
    British and Italian officials are checking a video received Thursday by Agence France-Presse which, if authenticated, will confirm not only the fate of two Westerners abducted in Nigeria in May, but the worrisome fact that al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), has now extended its ...
  • Defense Reductions Done Right
    This week has seen a good deal of commentary about looming defense budget reductions, enough that a round-up of salient points is warranted. Any defense spending reductions discussion needs to start with strategy. Joe Nye’s piece in the Times today gets at that point. He proposes a move away fr ...
  • Iran’s New Oil Minister
    One trend of the past decade or so of Iranian history has been the growing involvement in the IRGC in Iran’s economy. Now, a prominent officer/businessman has become the country’s oil minister: “Iran’s parliament has voted to approve Rostam Qasemi, a Revolutionary Guards commander, to head the ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

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

Buzzflash

  • Where Do Progressives Go From Here?
    ROBERT CREAMER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT No doubt about it.  There is widespread disappointment among Progressives at the outcome of the debt ceiling deal. So where do Progressives go from here? Right now in Europe politicians are struggling to avoid default that would lead their economies to ...
  • Will It Take a Second Revolution to Get The We ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In 1786, just ten years after the American Revolution, a large group of debt-ridden farmers rose up against local government and the wealthy businessmen who sought to maximize profits from their investments in our new country. Small farmers were losing the ...
  • The White House Gives Credibiity to the Psycho ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is a false equivalency that comes into play when President Obama insists on presenting himself as a "reasonable" mediator between two political sides. Since BuzzFlash was founded in May of 2000, we have lambasted many Democratic leaders for l ...
  • Republicans Pledge Allegiance to Grover Norqui ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT 'It's a wonderful step in the right direction. It's much better than anything we've been doing for the last 20 years," says Norquist. In recent weeks, he's been called "the most visible mouthpiece and muse of the lower-taxes, less-government troops th ...
  • Gridlock in Washington Veers to the Right
    Body   How strange and other-worldly were the cheers and applause that greeted Republican 'victories' in the House last week during the debt-ceiling intrigues - - and how dispiriting. The lesson learned we are told by conservatives is that the American people are hell bent on b ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Physicians Group: Debt Deal Threatens Health o ...
    The New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an 18,000-member national organization, denounces the federal debt ceiling deal signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday. “Politicians who say Medicare and Social Security are spared cuts are not being honest,” s ...
  • Physicians Group: Debt Deal Threatens Health o ...
    The New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an 18,000-member national organization, denounces the federal debt ceiling deal signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday. “Politicians who say Medicare and Social Security are spared cuts are not being honest,” s ...
  • Missouri Education Group Will No Longer Provid ...
    The Missouri Research & Education Network (“MOREnet”), a consortium that provides Internet access and filtering software to 100 school districts across the state, confirmed today it will no longer activate a feature on its filtering software that blocked non-sexual content geared toward the lesb ...
  • Missouri Education Group Will No Longer Provid ...
    The Missouri Research & Education Network (“MOREnet”), a consortium that provides Internet access and filtering software to 100 school districts across the state, confirmed today it will no longer activate a feature on its filtering software that blocked non-sexual content geared toward the lesb ...
  • Court Rules Continuing Supplemental Feeding on ...
    A federal appeals court confirmed yesterday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's obligation to phase out artificial winter feeding of elk and bison at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The court's ruling responds to a lawsuit brought by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Jackson ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Stop Sacrificing US Soldiers for Afghan Debacle
    Medea Benjamin The 38 deaths in Saturday’s helicopter crash in Afghanistan include 31 Americans, making this the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the war began. The tragic loss of American lives might be worth the sacrifice if it was ma ...
  • Stop Sacrificing US Soldiers for Afghan Debacle
    Medea Benjamin The 38 deaths in Saturday’s helicopter crash in Afghanistan include 31 Americans, making this the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the war began. The tragic loss of American lives might be worth the sacrifice if it was ma ...
  • How to Think About Standard and Poor's Downgrade
    Dean Baker Standard and Poor's downgrade of U.S. government debt captured headlines across the country and around the world. It is a newsworthy event, but primarily as another colossal failure by a major credit rating agency.read more
  • How to Think About Standard and Poor's Downgrade
    Dean Baker Standard and Poor's downgrade of U.S. government debt captured headlines across the country and around the world. It is a newsworthy event, but primarily as another colossal failure by a major credit rating agency.read more
  • The New Era of Hostage Politics
    Michael Winship 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 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • California's water wars
    The west side of the Central Valley supports California's booming agricultural prosperity. We can't afford to let it go dry. California's water wars aren't about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation's most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for b ...
  • Tri-state 'Water Wars' ongoing
    The Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa case involves watersheds in St. Clair County, including the Coosa River, which feeds Logan Martin Lake in Pell City. Michael Mee/News-Aegis
  • Exclusive: Caloosahatchee River in firing line ...
    It's an old story: In times of drought, some people get water, and some don't.
  • Exclusive: Caloosahatchee River in firing line ...
    It's an old story: In times of drought, some people get water, and some don't.
  • Hippies vs. Hipsters: Water Wars
    Joseph SchellWar is hell. We're reminding ourselves of this, yes... Finally, a way to convince hippies to wash. Finally, a ploy to convince hipsters to inadvertently shrink their too-tight pants to th

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Electronic Intifada

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

The Wonk Room

  • Paul Ryan Signals Willingness To Raise Revenue ...
    House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he is open to revenue increases as part of a deal to reduce the deficit today, seemingly shifting positions from the hardline opposition his party has maintained against revenue growth. Ryan said on Fox News Sunday that he would be open to a deal that ...
  • Education Subsidies And Activist Culture
    Via Zunguzungu an interesting point that starts as a discussion of the debt ceiling deal’s reduced subsidies for graduate students but is really about the origins of protest culture: Large debtâand the fear it createsâis a pacifying force. There was no tuition at the City University of New York ...
  • VIDEO: Protesters Picket Gov. Rick Perry&#8217 ...
    Yesterday at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Gov. Rick Perry hosted “The Response,” a prayer rally with evangelical pastors like John Hagee, Jim Garlow, and David Barton. Like Perry, many of the leaders of the rally have espoused a hate ideology, demonizing the LGBT community, programs for the poor, ...
  • Donald Trump and His Hair Oppose Offshore Wind ...
    Donald Trump has pledged to use “any legal means” to block the building of an offshore windfarm near his championship golf course in Aberdeenshire, claiming the development would spoil his view. The proposed windfarm in Aberdeen Bay, about 1.5 miles from the golf resort, would install the next g ...
  • Sen. John Kerry: This Is The ‘Tea Party ...
    Appearing on Meet the Press today, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) slammed Republicans’ and the Tea Party’s intransigence and hostage taking on negotiating over the debt, calling S&P’s downgrade of U.S. debt the “Tea Party downgrade”: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the econ ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Hiroshima day, 2011
    Today, August 6th, is the 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time a nuclear weapon was used against human beings. The second, and so far last, use of nuclear weapons against people was the atomic bombing of Nagasaki three days later on August 9th, ...
  • Afghan interpreters allowed into Canada “disap ...
    The government has proclaimed its intent to help Afghan interpreters who worked with the Canadian Forces to come to Canada, but many of those who have already arrived feel “abandoned” and “disappointed”. Reporting for Ipolitics.ca, Murray Brewster and Steve Rennie have found discontent among for ...
  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Chemtrails Are Real And They Are Damaging Our ...
    June 1st, 2011 Natural News By: Paul Fassa It’s hard to convince others that chemtrails even exist. Most shrug and wonder what the fuss is about. After all, jets have exhaust trails, don’t they? Yes they do. Those are seen sometimes as contrails. But contrails don’t trail for more than a few pla ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-1-11
    Today, guest hosts Wendy Snyder & Bill Leff prove that Kevin Trudeau was right AGAIN! Plus, find out why Cadbury is being called racist and why Wendy puts her thumb in her bellybutton every time a funeral hearse passes her on the road.   Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin ...
  • USA headed for Great GREAT Depression says CNBC
    June 1st, 2011 CNBC By: Margo D. Beller Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the U.S. economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market strategist for Yastrow Origer, told CNBC. “What weâve got right now is almost near panic going on with ...
  • breaking news from CNBC
    It’s always darkest before the dawn. I’ve been saying for months the economy is going to get worse. Now CNBC is saying we’re on the verge of  “a great GREAT depression, and the Federal Reserve knows it.” Read all about it here: http://bit.ly/knKQoS The good news is, you are armed with informat ...
  • Europe E.coli Outbreak Caused By Toxic New Strain
    June 2nd, 2011 Yahoo! News By: Tan Ee Lyn and Steve Gutterman A deadly outbreak of E.coli centred in Germany and spreading across Europe is caused by a dangerous new strain, Chinese scientists who analyzed the bacteria said. The scientists said the outbreak, which has killed 17 and made more tha ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Egypt comes to Israel
    Noam Sheizaf reports: Around 300 thousands Israelis took the streets on Saturday night, calling for social justice and the introduction of a welfare state. Estimates are that this has been the largest demonstration in the country’s history. The biggest of several rallies took place in Tel Aviv ...
  • Financial market meltdown
  • After historic downgrade, U.S. must address it ...
    A commentary in China’s official Xinhua News Agency says: The days when the debt-ridden Uncle Sam could leisurely squander unlimited overseas borrowing appeared to be numbered as its triple A-credit rating was slashed by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) for the first time on Friday. Though the U.S. Tre ...
  • ‘Israel is inadvertently becoming a part of th ...
    Amira Hass reports: Palestinian social leaders believe the social protests that have erupted throughout Israel are largely influenced by the Arab Spring, contending Israelis must realize they too are suffering due to the occupation and money spent on settlements in the West Bank. Israelis are ...
  • Tent 1948
    Abir Kopty writes: If you are Palestinian, it will be difficult to find anything to identify with in Tel Aviv’s tentsâ city, until you reach Tent 1948. My first tour there was a few days ago, when I decided to join Tent 1948. Tent 1948’s main message is that social justice should be for all. It ...

Watts Up With That?

  • U.S. East Coast is the next wild weather target
    By Joseph DâAleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, Weatherbell co-chief Meteorologist This is August and the east coast season peaks in September with activity in October. August systems often provide just a hint at what is to follow. This year after the … Continue reading →
  • McIntyre: From Climategate To Guardiangate
    The Guardian Is âBemusedâ by Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, 6 August 2011 David Leigh of the Guardian has been added to the list of UK journalists whoâve engaged in phone hacking and other illegal/unethical conduct. Some of the more questionable conduct … Continue reading →
  • Gore FAIL – Gore starts cussing in clima ...
    The fact that he has started cussing while addressing audiences(even supportive ones) clearly shows that he has lost the battle. âThereâs no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is … Continue reading →
  • Australian government prepares for massive cli ...
    This film, being shown all throughout Australia, and now available here at WUWT shows what the Gillard government is doing to prepare for the worst unstoppable effects of climate change. It’s quite something. RealClimate has declined comment. Happy Friday Funny … Continue reading →
  • The Big Sky “drill baby drill” pr ...
    From Montana State University, news of a big drilling project, except this one produces nothing. MSU moves forward with U.S. Department of Energy backed carbon dioxide storage project in northern Montana Montana State University finalized negotiations with the U.S. Department … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • Holistically Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Alzheim ...
    Photo: bravenewtraveler A holistically healthy lifestyle marked by ample exercise and a healthy whole foods diet means less risk of Alzheimer's. Basically, the way you treat your body has a lot to do with your mind. New research links activity level, blood pressure, weight, and smoking to A ...
  • Pocket Gardens Sprout on Paris's Anti-Parking ...
    A 'Potogreen' in Paris. Photo: Anne Mazauric via Paule Kingleur. Necessary as they are to keep cars from blocking the sidewalk, anti-parking posts, or bollards, can be an ugly sight in a city. Parisian artist Paule Kingleur has commandeered some of the 335,000 posts in the French capital as ...
  • Fungi Thriving in a Warmer World Suspected in ...
    Image: Dominic/CC Pandas and tigers make better poster children for human impacts on biodiversity. But in the face of news like the massive recall of turkey meat with antibiotic res...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Scientists May Have Found Flowing Water on Mars
    Image: Idaho National Laboratory under a Creative Commons license. In the last few years, evidence arguing for the possibility of life on Mars has been piling up. The presence of ice on Earth's red neighbor is now established, but for microbial organisms to live, liquid water is necessary. ...
  • Stylish Recycled Sawdust & "Shavings" Furnitur ...
    Photos: Yoav Avinoam Sawdust is a multi-purpose "waste" material that can apparently be reused in many ways: turn it into mulch, throw it by the handful into a composting toilet, or transform it into furniture as Israeli designer Yoav Avinoam has done with his down-to-earth but stylish "Sha ...

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 ...
  • New evidence that caffeine is a healthful anti ...
    Scientists are reporting an in-depth analysis of how the caffeine in coffee, tea, and other foods seems to protect against conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease on the most fundamental levels. The report, which describes the chemistry behind caffeine’s antioxidant effects, app ...

CFACT

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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

  • 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.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Staff Sgt. Kirk A. Owen, 37, of Sapulpa, OK.Marine Staff Sgt. Leon H. Lucas Jr., 32, of Wilson, N ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class D ...
    From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's downward slide?" They say they've heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to college on just one parent's income (and that college in states like California and New York was al ...
  • ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sew ...
    In the past few decades, intensive corporatization of farming has threatened both the future of family farming and the ability of neighbors to regulate the development of industrial agricultural operations that have transmogrified many farms into factoriesClick here to read this article
  • How The U.S. Population Can Overcome Its World ...
    When we think of the millions of U.S. Americans who have needlessly attacked or harmed millions of others in dozens of countries, and have harmed themselves -- without fully knowing why -- and when we acknowledge that many in the U.S. seem resigned to allow more of the same, one can extend this ...
  • Organic Farming Systems Yield Energy Savings o ...
    We concluded that the evidence strongly favors organic farming with respect to whole-farm energy use and energy efficiency both on a per hectare and per farm product basisClick here to read this article
  • It Takes Courage, Patience and Persistence Wit ...
    The Trailblazers for Good Q&A Series sits down with the most world shaking individuals leading the movement to align impact, profit and purpose. Click 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

  • Concealed Weapons Against the Environment
    2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agencyincluded an astonishing 39 anti-environmental riders Here are some of the other riders that were still pending as of FridaySubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Is The Monterey Bay Aquarium Greenwashing ...
    Nation�s major sustainable food writers and bloggers converge on Monterey, CA for an invite-only sustainable food conference. New sponsor this year: Kellogg Garden Products that has contaminated �organic� school gardens in LA with sewerage sludgeSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • A Timeline of Events
    Mar 2011 Congressional Republicans declare intention to hold full faith and credit of the United States hostage � a move without precedent in American history � until massive debt-reduction plan is approved.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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
  • CHEMTRAIL HEALTH EFFECTS ON HUMANS AND ENVIRONMENT
    More than the story of chemtrails, this video touches on vaccines, Spacewars and exotic weapons systems used to attack people without their knowledge including perversion of the food supplySubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • PressTV - Cameron's US supercop approach rejected
    PressTV - Cameron's US supercop approach rejected: No 10 Downing Street emerged to have approached Bill Bratton, former police chief in Boston, New York and Los Angles and a favorite of Prime... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 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...]]

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Shooting Sheriffs Saturday
    ShareThisShooting Sheriffs Saturday --AntiSec Official Release Statement By voice 05 Aug 2011 [CLG summary - see�original.] "Alright Dirty, yall boys ready? Bout to turn drive-bys revolutionary" ANTISEC DELIVERS OVER 10GB OF PRIVATE POLICE EMAILS, TRAINING FILES, SNITCH INFO AND PERSONAL INFO IN ...
  • AntiSec Hackers Release 10GB of Law Enforcemen ...
    ShareThisAntiSec Hackers Release 10GB of Law Enforcement Data --Name of hackers' release: 'Shooting Sheriffs Saturday' 06 Aug 2011 Hackers associated with the "AntiSec" collaboration between Anonymous and recently disbanded hacker group LulzSec have released more than 10GB of information from 70 ...
  • America's black day: Bin Laden hit team troops ...
    ShareThisAmerica's black day: Bin Laden hit team troops shot out of sky by Taliban --31 dead after rocket-propelled grenade destroys Chinook helicopter --News comes as USA loses gold-plated AAA credit rating --Deadliest single incident since Afghan war began in 2001 06 Aug 2011 More than 20 US N ...
  • US frees Abu Ghraib abuse ringleader Charles G ...
    ShareThisUS frees Abu Ghraib abuse ringleader Charles Graner 06 Aug 2011 The ringleader of the US military guards who photographed their abuse of suspected Iraqi 'insurgents' at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison has been released. Charles Graner served more than six-and-a-half years of a 10-year sente ...
  • Mystery million-dollar Romney donor revealed
    ShareThisMystery million-dollar Romney donor revealed --Former director of investment firm once headed by GOP hopeful behind donation 06 Aug 2011 In a move aimed at tamping down a mounting controversy over secret money in presidential politics, a political committee backing Mitt Romney Saturday ...

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 ...
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Vaccine Resistance Movement

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    “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 ...
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B.C. Preppers Network

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Michael Yon

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  • Day of The Deployed
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