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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, September 19, 2011

19 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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renewable recycling conservation
GOP senator sought money from renewable energy program he now calls 'reckless'
Washington Post
David Vitter says the Obama administration has been “reckless” as it awards billions of dollar taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy projects, including a $528 million loan to a now-bankrupt California solar panel maker. ...
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Renewables stir growth, create jobs: EU adviser
Reuters
By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A major expansion of renewable energy could create millions of jobs worldwide, stir economic growth in heavily indebted countries and help fight climate change at the same time, an American adviser to the German ...
TVA backs renewable energy — with an eye on cost
The Tennessean
TVA has indeed played a pivotal role in developing this region's thriving solar industry, and changes to our Generation Partners program will allow us to continue supporting solar and other forms of renewable energy as well as the jobs associated with ...
Renewable Industry in Turmoil
Wall Street Journal
By REBECCA SMITH An American wind-turbine designer's recent decision to sue its biggest customer—a major Chinese manufacturer—for corporate espionage is the latest sign of the turmoil sweeping through the renewable-energy industry. ...
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Human Habitat

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State suing Wahkiakum County over septic sludge
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The state Ecology Department says no. It sued Wahkiakum County in May, saying a county ordinance is unconstitutional because it conflicts with state regulations. County commissioners passed an ordinance after residents complained about plans by a Long ...
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Water evaporated from trees cools global climate
Tucson Citizen
New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, not just the local area of evaporation, demonstrating that evaporation of water from trees and lakes could have a cooling effect on ...
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Energy, economy, ecology
Toledo Blade
Gov. John Kasich is sponsoring a conference this week on energy and economic issues in Ohio. Organizers have recruited an impressive array of industry executives, government officials, educators, and -- hearteningly -- environmentalists to discuss the ...
Sunken barge with 900 gallons of fuel leaks into Moses Lake
Yakima Herald-Republic
MOSES LAKE -- Firefighters and state Ecology staff are working to contain up to 900 gallons of diesel and oil on board a dredge barge that sank in Moses Lake on Saturday. Kathy Davis, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Ecology in Olympia, ...
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Water Power

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Water main burst turns Central Park West in rushing river
New York Daily News
BY Trevor Kapp AND Helen Kennedy Emergency personnel respond to 106th Street and Central Park West where a large water main rupture flooded the neighborhood, creating a 4 block long river down CPW. Original Filename: CTW_1369.jpg A 94-year-old water ...
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Lake Lanier Water Dispute: Court Won't Rehear Ruling
Huffington Post
By RAY HENRY 09/19/11 01:54 PM ET ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court will not reconsider a ruling that gave metro Atlanta the right to tap a reservoir that provides water to roughly 3 million people. That means Alabama and Florida must now decide ...
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Hospital Water Hit by Bacteria
Wall Street Journal
By PERVAIZ SHALLWANI Patients and staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are being told to temporarily stop using tap water for drinking and showers after small traces of a water-transferred bacteria were found in the water supply, ...
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Tampa Bay Water settles reservoir lawsuit for $30 million
Tampabay.com
By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer Tampa Bay Water and the company that designed its flawed reservoir agreed Monday to settle their lawsuit, with HDR Engineering handing over $30 million. Two of the contractors that worked on the reservoir had ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia ready for more nuclear cooperation with ...
    Summary: Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko on Sunday promised further nuclear cooperation with Iran, after building the Islamic republic's first atomic power plant despite US objections. "I say with certainty that in the future, we will have more cooperation in the Bushehr power plant, ...
  • Iran desires to establish brotherly ties with ...
    Summary: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)President Ahmadinejad accused the United States and its allies of plotting to destabilize the Middle East, and expressed readiness to host a meeting for the Muslim nations to help in settling the problems in Syria "without intervention of the foreigners." " ...
  • 9/11, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE ISLAMIC REP ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsEarlier this week, as part of Al Jazeera’s coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Hillary appeared on Al Jazeera English to talk about the war on terror and American foreign policy, see here. She made a series of points that warrant serious discussion by Americans ...
  • Iran ups criticism of Turkey over NATO missile ...
    Summary: TEHRAN — Iran toughened Thursday its criticism of Turkey over its plan to host an early-warning radar as part of NATO's missile defence system, saying it will create tension and lead to "complicated consequences." source: AFPread more
  • 'West bullies Syria to salvage Israel'
    Summary: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insists that the ongoing Western threats waged against Syria are aimed at salvaging the Israeli regime and promoting the West's own interests in the region source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Milky Way Might Harbor Thousands of Ticki ...
    New research shows that some old stars might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as supernovae. Thousands of these "time bombs" could be scattered throughout our Galaxy. Why could this be important?...
  • Galaxies -A Trillion Space Telescopes Unlock M ...
    Astronomers are now using galaxies as lenses to explore the distant universe, providing them with precise tool to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding. The measurement determines a value for the Hubble...
  • The "Earth Strain" --Have NASA Missions Alread ...
    When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. NASA's Mars mission lends living credibility a...
  • Does Dolphin Intelligence Hint at Possible Typ ...
    In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams noted that "On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so...
  • Image of the Day: Earth Aurora from the ISS

Natural News

  • Melatonin plays an important role in healthy d ...
    (NaturalNews) Melatonin is known as the regulator of the sleep wake cycle in the body. It is produced in the pineal gland of the brain and monitors sleep cycles while playing an important role in healing and anti-oxidant protection. New indicators are showing that it may play an even more import ...
  • Police grant Apple security officials unlawful ...
    (NaturalNews) Just weeks before the speculated launch of Apple Inc.'s long-awaited iPhone 5, the technology giant has once again lost a critical prototype of the unreleased smartphone, according to SF Weekly. After supposedly tracing the device back to the home of a San Francisco man, undercover ...
  • While homes burned, feds told Texas volunteer ...
    (NaturalNews) Daniel Miller of the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), a group that advocates Texas become its own sovereign nation rather than a "state" of the USA. Regardless of whether or not you believe in the growing movement toward states' independence from federal control, ...
  • Chocolate and cocoa polyphenols vindicated in ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have finally published solid evidence to demonstrate the consumption of chocolate is associated with improved heart and vascular health. Writing in the prestigious BMJ (British Medical Journal), Dr. Oscar Franco and his team d ...
  • BMJ had secret financial ties to Merck during ...
    (NaturalNews) When a corrupt medical group wants to discourage dissidence from within, it targets a high profile figure to disgrace. This intimidates others from doing the right thing if it disrupts the lies and profits of Big Pharma.Dr. Andrew Wakefield was a high profile scapegoat, smeared wit ...

Threat Level

  • Copyright Troll Righthaven Goes on Life Support
    The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end. Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was ...
  • CIA, Mossad, Also Targeted in Massive DigiNota ...
    The list of fraudulent certificates obtained by hackers who breached a Dutch certificate authority has grown to more than 500 and includes certificates for domains owned by three intelligence agencies: the CIA, Israel's Mossad and the UK's MI6.
  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rick Perry's Texas-Sized Lies on Health Care
    Republicans frontrunner Rick Perry raised some eyebrows during Wednesday's GOP presidential debate by blaming the federal government for his state's staggering number of uninsured. As it turns out, those jaws were dropping with good reason. After all, just months ago Perry advocated opting out ...
  • GOP Explains When a Tax Cut Isn't a Tax Cut
    When is a tax cut not a tax cut? According to Republicans, when those receiving it are working Americans and the President proposing it is a Democrat. Because after they spent 2010 ensuring the extension of the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy by insisting "you should never have to offset ...
  • The Republican Party Wishes You a Happy Labor Day!
    To mark Labor Day 2011, conservative flame-thrower Michelle Malkin offered American workers a look back at the "top 10 union thug moments of the year." As it turns out, Malkin's union-bashing hyperbole differs little from the leading lights of the Republican Party. While Sarah Palin has decrie ...
  • Job One for Debt Panel? Pay for America's 9/1 ...
    Three stories will dominate American politics over the next week. As it turns out, they are very much related. On Thursday, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan which will invariably be opposed by Republicans claiming "America is broke." That same day, Congress' debt "super committee" wi ...
  • GOP Debt Ceiling "Uncertainty" Fueled Grim Job ...
    On Friday, Republicans deployed two talking points - one new, one old - in response to the grim news that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August. The same GOP leaders who in January gave credit to the "newly elected House Republican Majority" for the economy's strong performance in the fo ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell May ...
    Gareth Porter: In focusing entirely Hezbollah Special Tribunal refuses to acknowledge stronger evidence Al-Qaeda was responsible for the assassination
  • Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon
    Traboulsi: Wealthy elites directly control government, indebted the state to their own banks
  • GUEST INFORMANT: Colleen Nika & EHF
    Colleen returns to bring you a fantastic mix that she let me listen to a few days ago. Today, I’m excited to unveil Nightvision‘s first ever guest mix from one of England’s most visionary emergent threats, Endless House Foundation. This audience may particularly appreciate not only its expansive ...
  • Smog v. Jobs: Is Obama Admin Endangering U.S. ...
    As the nation headed into Labor Day weekend, the Obama administration quietly asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a plan to limit smog pollution that was projected to prevent 2,200 heart attacks and 23,000 asthma attacks annually. Obama said he made the decision in hopes o ...
  • Discovered Files Show U.S., Britain Had Extens ...
    Human Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry proving the Gaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks. The documents expose how the CIA rendered suspects to Libyan ...

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

  • Generating Electricity while Walking
    Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have improved their ability to generate considerably more electricity from human footfalls. Related posts:Are We There Yet? Hydrogen Generating Technology Should Going Green Come With Big Monetary Costs? Ontario’s Electricity Hike Wind and S ...
  • Clouds Do Not Cause Climate Change
    Despite recent scientific speculation to the contrary, clouds do not cause climate change, says Texas A&M atmospheric sciences professor Andrew Dessler. Rather, they act almost singularly as a feedback mechanism. Related posts:Global Climate and Warming Affected by Cloud Feedback Did Climate S ...
  • Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Oper ...
    This is a repost of a tremendous article by a true political insider, on just how much the GOP is owned by large corporations and willing to hold the country hostage to accomplish a few societally unhelpful goals (with bolding added by me until the sections on the GOP's principal tenets at the b ...
  • Top Activism Stories
    Some tip green activism news of the past few days for you: Related posts:Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week Daryl Hannah, Greenpeace USA Executive Director, & More Arrested at White House; Tim DeChristopher Sends Letter from Prison (+ Top Activism Stories) Top Activism Stories
  • Wireless Solar-Powered Keyboard for Macs (& To ...
    Here are some top green living stories of the past day or so, following this repost from sister site CleanTechnica on a new solar-powered keyboard for Mac users: Related posts:Solar PV to Double in US in 2011 (+ Top Green Living Stories) Solar-Powered 3-Wheeler — Icare Twike (+ Top Green Livin ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Afghan Resistance Bombs U.S. Base, Wounding 77 ...
    "Each year, 9/11 reminds the Afghans of an event in which they had no role whatsoever. American colonialism has shed the blood of tens of thousands of miserable and innocent Afghans. The Afghans have an endless stamina for a long war. Through a countrywide uprising, the Afghans will send the...
  • NATO Mercenaries infiltrated, disorganized, un ...
    Libya NTC rebel fighters ambushed in Bani Walid by Gaddafi loyalists by Dominique Soguel near Bani Walid, Libya September 12, 2011 FIGHTERS backing the new regime in Libya have met strong resistance in the Libyan oasis town of Bani Walid, where they came under sniper fire from ...
  • White Hats. Americans' remarkable incapacity f ...
    When Lois Griffin gets elected mayor of Quahog, MA by pandering to the stupidest and most meaningless references to 9/11, audiences roar. But when that same scenario is replayed over and over again in a largely successful attempt to separate people from their intellect, their conscience and thei ...
  • The Imperial Media, Libya and the Battle of Ba ...
    The Western Media Examining the facts and finding the truth of what began Friday night as The Battle for Bani Walid has not been easy due to the many conflicting stories published by the pro-invader media. That the western media has organized itself to blantantly lie about the NATO war...
  • Support the Palestinian Initiative in the UN f ...
    Virginia Tilley, writing in the Electronic Intifada, under the title, "Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood" has argued that the Palestinian Authority's move toward a UN resolution declaring statehood is destructive of Palestinian aspiration for statehood.   Unfor ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • How Social Security is Like a Ponzi Scheme
    It's not. From Mother Jones: (Last) Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a group of voters that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" and a "monstrous lie" to younger Americans. It's not the first time the GOP presidential candidate has made such claims. The Texas governor also described Social Se ...
  • Reverse Inequality is the Only Solution
    We have been moving toward a lords-and-serfs economy for so long, and the right-wing noise machine has drilled acceptance of inequality into the national consciousness so deeply that we are no longer able to recognize, much less address, the real cause of our current crisis. Robert Reich at Nati ...
  • Think Your Right to Vote is Secure? Think Again
    By @KYYellowDog We've known since at least November 2000 that repugs are all about stopping Democratic voters from voting. They've always pretended they're fighting "voter fraud," which doesn't exist but which gives them a nice cover for actual election fraud. Now they've dropped the pretense. F ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD @DavidGregory's non-existent insight and phenomenal douchebaggery were in full flower on Sunday. He thinks the Iraq war would have been more popular if it had "gone well." American's you see, don't care whether a war is justified, or that the administration lied us into it and got nea ...
  • The Teamsters celebrate Labor Day in Detroit
    By @MBersin James Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, had a few things to say in Detroit (via Media Matters): James Hoffa, Jr: ...Everybody here's gotta vote. If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong. [che ...

Care 2

  • LIBYA: New Chapter Opens After Gaddafi
    Libyan children will go back to school without Muammar Gaddafi�s ubiquitous presence, despite a lack of new books.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Eco Labeling: Do You Know the Difference?
    As the world moves more toward sustainability, our personal life choices follow suit.The amount of labels is so confusing, even the experts are not entirely clear about what they mean. It�s hard to sort through it all. But if everyone did understand eco-lSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Life ...
  • Never-Wrong Pundit Picks Obama to Win in 2012 ...
    �Even if I am being conservative, I don�t see how Obama can lose,� says Lichtman, the brains behind The Keys to the White House.Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: Ban Horse Drawn Carriages! ...
    Horses don't belong to NYC traffic. They suffer from noise disturbances from buses, long hours of work, bad living and health conditions and accidents. Often, horses get de-hydrated from the heat and may cause death. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Happy Feet the penguin begins long swim home
    Happy Feet was released back into the Southern Ocean to begin a long swim home to Antarctica. He has been fitted with a satellite tracker and microchip and his progress can be followed on http://www.nzemperor.com.Submitted by Julie P. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Where Have All The Jobs Gone? And Who’s To Bl ...
    Hmmm… where to start? I know going in that my opinions and observations will be sure to gore everyone’s ox at some point, so I’ll try to be sure I don’t miss anyone. Oh, and the opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and not necessarily those of anyone else in [...]
  • Let Cheney’s Head Explode
    Thanks to Carl Hiaasen for a list of questions he recommends that should make Dick Cheney’s “head explode.” Cheney, who is touring touting his delusional version of his eight years as Vice President, generally has received kid-glove treatment from questioners and shied away from venues that pose ...
  • Labor Day Threats From Union President Hoffa ( ...
    Labor Day is a union holiday that the rest of us get to be off work, too.  The origins of Labor Day are somewhat disputed, attributed to two different men, both of whom were union leaders.  So let’s give thanks to the unions for Labor Day.  But nothing else! Let me put it another way.  [...]
  • Tea Party Eclipse (+ Larry On Radio)
    Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • Stunner! Maureen Dowd’s “One and Done?” (& Ope ...
    I’m struggling to complete a post on the dramatic, shocking shifts against Obama within the Democratic party and progressive movements. In the meantime, here’s a JOLT from the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd, in snippets: [...] And why is the White House so cocky about Obama as a TV draw against q ...

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

  • Beauty – It’s More Than Skin Deep
    An unrealistic body shape has become the standard by which all celebrities measure themselves. As Demi Lovato bared her new and significantly fuller body at the MTV Video Music Awards last week, many were pleased to see that her treatment for eating problems seemed to be working. She looked vibr ...
  • New Study Suggests Mindfulness is Beneficial t ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: Mindfulness is a therapeutic technique that teaches one to focus entirely on the present moment as a method of coping with negative psychological symptoms. For first responders, including fire-fighters, this type of practice could be particularly beneficial. “Min ...
  • Substance Use Linked to Increased Intimate Par ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: Do men who abuse drugs perpetrate more relational violence? According to a new study of men who were receiving treatment for alcohol misuse, they do. “Importantly, male perpetrators’ antisocial characteristics predicted increased stimulant and cannabis use, which ...
  • Reward Delay Influences Impulsivity in Individ ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Impulsivity and distorted reward valuation is a common symptom in people with both schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Specifically, the manic state of bipolar includes extreme behaviors such as risky sexual activities, substance abuse and overspending, ...
  • Joyful Solutions to Relationship Difficulties
    Note: This article is for couples who have experienced love and compatibility but our having current challenges. This article is not for people who are in a relationship with someone who is abusive or unable to be present due to addiction. Abuse and addiction situations require other kinds of co ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Letter: Clean up or shut down existing fleet o ...
    Letter: Clean up or shut down existing fleet of deadly coal plants, he says Pierce County Herald TO THE EDITOR: Coal mining has always been a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. TO THE EDITOR: Coal mining has always been a dirty, dangerous busin ...
  • A Good Mozzarella Is Hard to Find - TIME
    A Good Mozzarella Is Hard to Find TIME (It's amazing that the government can be so far-sighted and judicious about their policy toward clean air, fracking and mountaintop removal, but so draconian when it comes to policing milk.) My feeling is that if you can't get someone to make you great ... ...
  • STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to ...
    RH Reality Check (blog) STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory ... RH Reality Check (blog) As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southw ...
  • Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can ...
    Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can be stopped River Falls Journal Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. After blowing up more than 500 mountains in Appalachia to uncover coal seams, mining companies have dumped million ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaineer football, coal and symbols Charleston Gazette (blog) When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop rem ...

Memeorandum

  • Eli Lake to Newsweek/The Daily Beast (Keach Ha ...
    Keach Hagey / The Politico: Eli Lake to Newsweek/The Daily Beast  —  Eli Lake, the national security correspondent for the Washington Times, is leaving to join the Washington staff of Newsweek/The Daily Beast as a national security reporter, focusing on intelligence, military and cybersecurity, ...
  • Rep. Allen West Commemorates 9/11 By Screening ...
    Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress: Rep. Allen West Commemorates 9/11 By Screening Muslim-Bashing Film  —  Florida Rep. Allen West's fringe anti-Muslim beliefs are a well-established fact, whether he's doing events with anti-Muslim activists like Pamela Geller, smearing his Muslim Congressiona ...
  • Deadly Explosion Strikes Courthouse in New Del ...
    Jim Yardley / New York Times: Deadly Explosion Strikes Courthouse in New Delhi  —  NEW DELHI — An explosion ripped through the reception gate of an Indian courthouse on Wednesday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring 47 others, according to local police.  The blast was the second ...
  • Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Tea Partiers ...
    Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress: Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Tea Partiers And Fox News Viewers Think Islam Is Incompatible With American Values  —  According to a poll of American attitudes released today by the Brookings Institution (PDF), conservatives, Republicans, and Fox News viewers ar ...
  • Liberals Create Video Game in Which Tea Partie ...
    Aurelius / Pundit Press: Liberals Create Video Game in Which Tea Partiers are Murdered  —  The party of civility is at it again.  —  Refusing to have a legitimate discussion on the merits of each side's economic ideology, the Left has just gone ahead and decided that Tea Partiers are zombies.  ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • “Traders will be prosecuted”
    US justice officials are taking their fight against illicit timber to China and Russia, where they want to boost awareness of the risks of breaking import laws. Jenny Johnson reports.In the untamed landscapes of eastern Siberia, where the last few hundred wild Amur tigers live, one of the world’ ...
  • Public storm in Dalian
    The triumph of protests against a Chinese chemical plant conceals sinister truths: from officials to activists, everyone is ignoring the rules, says Tang Hao.As Typhoon Meihua battered China’s east coast in early August, it also whipped up a public storm: a dyke protecting China’s largest manufa ...
  • Tibet’s mining menace
    The Tibetan Plateau holds the key to China’s accelerating demand for heavy metals, say authorities. But this plan is driven by resource nationalism rather than market logic, argues Gabriel Lafitte. China’s fast growth continues, largely financed by state investment and, until very recently, chea ...
  • Changes ahead in US corn belt
    As the American congress reviews 30 years of corn-ethanol subsidies, rising worldwide food costs and famine in east Africa are casting biofuel production in a negative light. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart ...
  • Hopes for a more humble Apple
    Campaigners fighting for cleaner IT in China would do well to study Apple’s own techniques – only when they get consumers on side, will they strike an effective blow, writes Guo Peiyuan.A coalition of Chinese environmental groups, including Friends of Nature and the Institute of Public and Envir ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Copyright Troll Righthaven Goes on Life Support
    The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end. Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was ...
  • CIA, Mossad, Also Targeted in Massive DigiNota ...
    The list of fraudulent certificates obtained by hackers who breached a Dutch certificate authority has grown to more than 500 and includes certificates for domains owned by three intelligence agencies: the CIA, Israel's Mossad and the UK's MI6.
  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Consumers - Increase Cook Temperature and Ther ...
    A new poll commissioned by the American Meat Institute (AMI) and conducted by Harris Interactive found that while almost nine out of 10 U.S. adults (88 percent) cook hamburgers or poultry (chicken or turkey) burgers, only 19 percent of those who do use an instant read thermometer to determine th ...
  • California Walnuts Recalled in Canada Due to E ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Johnvince Foods announced a recall on Thursday of some President's Choice and Reddi Snack walnuts because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw, shelled walnuts products were imported from the U.S. and packaged in Canada, the CFIA ...
  • Colorado continues to have a Listeria problem ...
    Officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced today that the state health department has identified a sharp increase in the number of Listeria monocytogenes infections reported to public health agencies. Nine cases were reported during August, with seven of the ...
  • A bit(e) of history - It is now time for the U ...
    According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains - O26, O45, O111, O121, O145, and O103 - are considered less pervasive, sickening “only” an estimated 37,000 people a year and killing nearly 30. E. coli O157: ...
  • Del Monte Fresh's suit against Oregon is a fri ...
    I have a knack for being subtle. As reported by the AP, Del Monte Fresh (you will love the background music) has threatened to sue Oregon Public Health and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, for playing a part in gathering evidence against the company’s cantaloupes that ten state health ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Elon Musk bets Dan Neil $1 million he ...
    Can a million dollars hold Elon Musks' feet to the fire? That's the value of a bet that Wall Street Journal auto journalist and all-around interesting guy Dan Neil and the Tesla Motors CEO reportedly have going over the release of the upcoming Model S. According to Green Car Reports, the ...
  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...

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!

  • The 9/11 Decade: Voices of Dissent on Democrac ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...
  • Book Excerpt / MP3: "Blowback" - A Look Back a ...
    As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, on 9/11, the families of the 9/11 victims who called for peace, the other September 11ths and more. The chapter is titled "Blowback." Click here to read C ...
  • 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message
    The body bag marked “Victim 0001” on Sept. 11, 2001, contained the corpse of Father Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with the Fire Department of New York. When he heard about the disaster at the World Trade Center, he donned his Catholic collar and firefighter garb and raced downtown. He saw p ...
  • A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria
    Democracy Now! correspondent, Sharif Abdel Kouddous profiles renowned Syrian human rights lawyer, Haitham al-Maleh, for The Nation magazine. Below is an excerpt from A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria. Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his lif ...
  • Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's ...
    On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husbandâs suicide on Saturday ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. In part two of our interview, Joppa-Hagemann calls for a ...

Suzie-Q

  • 911 Remembrance: Understanding our government ...
    Aired September 14, 2001 Early Show Video compliments of IranContraScumDid911 You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don’t Know the Official 9/11 Story TvNewswLiews Monday, Sep 05th Jesse Richard I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! ...
  • Anonymous To Occupy Wall Street On September 17th
  • Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglade ...
    GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann dou ...
  • Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost ...
    The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper.  It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national ...
  • NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in ...
    Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklah ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report – 9.08.11
    Numerous issues are coming to a head — sovereign debt, mortgage debt, student debt are just a few I will talk about on Thursday evening on this week’s Solari Report.  There is growing panic as more and more people come to appreciate the instability in the various systems and leadership behavio ...
  • Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
    By Steven Greenhouse The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to [...]
  • Europeans Talk of Sharp Change in Fiscal Affairs
    By Louise Story and Matthew Saltmarsh As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union work The idea is to create a central financial authority — with powers in areas li ...
  • Valedictorian Speaks Out Against School
    Watch this valedictorian speak out about the education she received. This is a fantastic speech. The first mistake is people assume that people with degrees are educated. It’s so far from the truth. We need to change our educational system from the ground up. School is a joke. It doesn’t make y ...
  • Help Save One of America’s Heirloom Seed ...
    From a Reader: D. Landreth Seeds is America’s oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed varieties. Many of the plants and vegetable varieties we now grow in our gardens are there thanks to Landreth introducing them to this country. F ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A Washington Insider looks at America, but doe ...
    Summary:  A Washington insider clearly sees the dangerous deterioration of our political system, but ventures outside Washington and misunderstands what he sees.  We can learn from his error. From the always interesting James Fallows at The Atlantic:  “‘People Don’t Realize How Fragile Democr ...
  • One of the top questions for our time: how wi ...
    Summary:  Peak oil might hit sometime during the next five years.  How might this affect the world economy.  We we examine important dynamics about oil prices, some misunderstood by many writing about Peak Oil — from doomsters to cornucopians.  The bottom line:  we cannot reliably forec ...
  • A small incident that tells much about America
    Summary:  This is a picture of America today, a snapshot of why we might be a nation in decline.  It’s a small incident, but typical of so much that takes place today — many times per month (week?  day?) around the nation.  Perhaps above all, it is about adults acting as children. (1)  On ...
  • Attritionist Letter #3: Do as you are told ( ...
    Summary:   Here we see the USMC version of The Empire Strikes Back.  After becoming one of the most modern land forces in the world, in a tactical sense, elements of the USMC’s senior leadership attempt a counter-revolution, dragging the Corps back to its WWI (second generation warfare) roots ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it. Free answers, so you cannot overpay. Update: The first question is excellent, timely and important.

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

  • Ten Theses (Mostly Concerning Foreign Policy) ...
    Counterfactual theses: Absent 9/11 or a 9/11-style attack, the US would not have invaded Afghanistan but might very well �have used force against Iraq. Rationale: despite the Bush campaign's repeated condemnation of "nation-building" and calls for a more "humble" foreign policy (remember that?) ...
  • Community in an Age of Hatred
    Osama bin Laden will go down in history as a religious fanatic twisted by virulent anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, and messianic self-righteousness. It is striking that his objective of a global terrorist campaign against all American and allied citizens and interests was so extreme and so ...
  • The End of Twentieth-Century Warfare
    9/11 was the defining event of the new millennium, but not for the reasons we thought for most of the ensuing decade. For most of that period we would have pointed to 9/11 as the beginning of twenty-first century warfare: perpetual vigilance and probing pre-emptive strikes against an ill-defined ...
  • The Politics of Terrorism . . . Ten Years Later
    Over at the Atlantic, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross rather counterintuitively argues that a decade after 9/11 the United States is less safe from terrorism. Considering that America's key jihadist enemy has been forced out of their safe haven, decimated by US military strikes and seen their ideolog ...
  • Diplomacy Can Be Ugly: Turkey, Israel and Gaza
    The friction between Turkey and Israel is a diplomatic problem being expressed in the media as a naval confrontation. This article by Reuters is a great example how the problem is being exaggerated. Raising the stakes in Turkey's row with Israel over its refusal to apologize for the killings, P ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Anti-Government Conservatism, Sort Of
    We'd all agree that our politics would function better if conservatives and progressives could understand each other's point of view better, instead of simply vilifying one another. In that spirit, I'd like to offer a window into the way we on the left think on one particular issue -- and partic ...
  • Gun-Shy Governor
    (Photo: Flickr/Gage Skidmore) By most accounts, Rick Perry has become the Republican front-runner less than a month after he entered the race. He not only leads by wide margins in national polls, besting�former leader Mitt Romney by 15 percent in a survey released yesterday; he appears to ho ...
  • Polls On Obama Looking Surprisingly Good
    Before we get into this post about polling in the presidential race, please understand that I'm not saying that anything we're seeing today predicts what will happen next November. With that out of the way, let me point out something interesting. Yesterday, two new polls came out on President ...
  • Courts Push Back Against Republicans
    A.G. Sulzberger has a good article about about recent federal court decisions preventing various radical anti-abortion and anti-immigration measures passed by Tea Party-dominated legislatures from going into effect. Particularly interesting are the injunctions against measures like South Dako ...
  • Addressing Our Troubling Lack of Reagan
    This morning, Mitt Romney published an op-ed in USA Today laying out his economic plan, which will no doubt be read eagerly by people staying in hotels all across America. It's full of all the expected claptrap and flim-flammery, but there's one part I wanted to point out: Where President Obama ...

Buzzflash

  • The Latest WikiLeaks Revelations About Hugo Chavez
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For the past year or so, I've been writing steadily about WikiLeaks and U.S. diplomatic correspondence between various American embassies in Latin America and the State Department in Washington, D.C.  For a full inventory of these pieces, you may head to ...
  • And God Said Banish Those Who Would Harm the E ...
    STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT From the Huffington Post, August 26, 2011: "Televangelist Pat Robertson suggested Wednesday that cracks in the Washington Monument caused by the August 23 (Virginia) earthquake could be a sign from God, and the natural disaster 'means that we're closer to ...
  • It's Long Past Time to Get Over 9-11
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We've wallowed too long in our victimhood 9-11 was indeed a devastating loss of personal life.  Those who died were mostly US citizens, but included people of all nations, such as the wait staff and bus boys at the sky high restaurant in the Twin Towe ...
  • If 9-11 Had Happened When a Democrat Was Presi ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT With the 10-year anniversary of September 11 approaching, I have been listening to the increased discussions about how the people of America came together and were so unified in the aftermath of this horrific tragedy and how so many people now wish that our co ...
  • The Green Movement, Labor, and the Unemployed ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When there are zero jobs available, any job will do. This fact has been exploited by corporations now re-labeling themselves "job creators," since being a job creator in a time of depression brings a religious status similar to a rain god during a drough ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Are herbal remedies medicines?
    If herbal medicines are truly physiologically active, regardless of whether multiple ingredients are deemed necessary for efficacy, they should be assessed as medical products. The producers of such products should be able to offer evidence to prove this is the case and to offer safety advice re ...
  • Rare diseases and rarer treatments
    R&D into new pharmaceuticals has improved quality of life and boosted life expectancy significantly since the very first physician told a patient to take two aspirin. Despite the doom-mongering about antibiotic resistant superbugs and the emergence of new diseases, such swine flu, vaccinations, ...
  • Herbal remedy help or hindrance?
    Herbal remedy help or hindrance? – The safety issues surrounding so-called herbal remedies have been called into question again and again. However, new regulations aimed at protecting consumers will not encompass all products in the way legislators and scientists might have hoped, as some produc ...
  • Not slippery when wet
    Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do with rain treads, Ha ...
  • Catching up with The Alchemist
    Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could serve ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Most Medical Schools Offer Students Poor Cover ...
    Most U.S. medical schools offer their students poor health insurance coverage for the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders, a practice that imperils the well-being of our nation’s future doctors and their patients, a group of Boston-area researchers report in JAMA, the Journa ...
  • Ben & Jerry Join Local and National Groups Cal ...
    As a major Pacific Rim trade summit begins in downtown Chicago aimed at concluding a massive new international trade pact, iconic ice cream makers Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield joined fair trade advocates from the labor, environmental, family farm, public health and consumer movements today to ...
  • Left-Right Coalition Urges $380 Billion in Cut ...
    McClatchy reports that “the bipartisan ‘super-committee’ of six Democrats and six Republicans has a goal of finding at least $1.5 trillion more in deficit reduction by Thanksgiving … will hold its first meeting on Sept. 8 [Thursday].”read more
  • Consumers Union Urges Senate to Confirm Richar ...
    Consumers Union is urging the Senate to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to oppose efforts to undermine the new watchdog. Cordray is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Banking Committee, which is holding a hearing on his nom ...
  • Friends of the Earth Opposes NAFTA-Style Inves ...
    As representatives from the United States and eight other Pacific countries gathered behind closed doors in a Chicago hotel to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, environmental, public health, family farm, labor and consumer organizations gathered today to demand a fair deal ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Did 9/11 Make Peace Passé?
    John Feffer Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all the think tanks and congressional lapdogs that lie in the k ...
  • It’s Time for a New—and Real—Populist Uprising
    Imagine this: Americans are frustrated by taxation policies that they consider to be unfair. They scoff at politicians who are either corrupted or uncaring. They demand a drastic fiscal policy change to address serious shortcomings in the economy.Photo of People's Party convention at Columbus, N ...
  • The 9/11 Story I Choose to Tell: We All Belong ...
    Rinku Sen September 11 has become a national day of reflection and resolution. Collective reflection creates a story of the event, sometimes more than one. One version of the event’s aftermath is that the country came together while grief ...
  • Headlines or Not, the Iraq War is Not Over
    Phyllis Bennis It might seem like cause for celebration after reading the New York Times headline, "Iraq War Marks First Month with No U.S.read more
  • The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhoo ...
    David Sirota "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday�New York Times.(Monkey Busi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Tampa Bay thrives with help from desalination
    When faced with drought, vanishing lakes and wetlands, the Tampa Bay, Fla., region built a seawater desalination plant, and the environment is rebounding.
  • Farm storage-pond bill heads to governor's office
    A move to speed up the approval process for small farm irrigation ponds has earned the support of rival factions in the region's water wars.
  • Can Water Treaties Be Climate-Proofed?
    International agreements on how to manage rivers used by more than one country are too inflexible, making them poor tools to deal with changes in freshwater availability caused by climate change.
  • Lawmakers attend meeting about water
    Forsyth County was well represented at the recent meeting of the Joint Study Committee on Water Supply.District 23 state Rep. Mark Hamilton and District 27 state Sen. Jack Murphy, both Republicans from Cumming, attended the session, which focused on the tri-state water wars and on Gov.Nathan Dea ...
  • Isakson: States should be motivated for water ...
    jstone: August 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. Well, Isaakson just lost my vote. I didn't realize he wrote the AYP bill. My sister just retired from teaching and another family member is struggling to keep a job.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Israel chokes Palestinian trade, says UN study
    The Electronic Intifada Ramallah West Bank trade remains largely isolated from global markets due to restrictions imposed on the movement of goods, according to a July 2011 study by the UN Conference on Trade and�Development.
  • Uncovered: Israel's role in planned US lawsuit ...
    Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boyc ...
  • How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Isra ...
    Mike Coogan The Electronic Intifada In spite of US government statements about its displeasure with the expansion of Israeli settlements, US based organizations are abusing the 501(C)3 section of US tax codes to provide billions in subsidies to do exactly�that.
  • Israeli harassment campaign masquerades as mur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theater over recent weeks, in their investigation into the murder of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis.
  • Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish ch ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

The Wonk Room

  • Perry Accused Of Distorting Redistricting Map ...
    At a trial that began in federal court this week in San Antonio, GOP presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) faces allegations of intentionally distorting a congressional redistricting map to dilute the power of the state’s burgeoning Latino vote. The state legislature’s Mexican Ame ...
  • The Parking Lot Cycle
    Lydia DePillis has a story about development in Dupont Circle that reminds us that you don’t need formal regulatory parking minimums for the dysfunctional land use regulatory process to end up generating an above-market share of parking spaces: There are no balconies on the O Street side of the ...
  • At 9/11 Event, Rep. Allen West Slams ‘Th ...
    Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is commemorating 9/11 by screening a virulently anti-Muslim documentary about the Park51 community center project in the Capitol building today. In the press conference kicking off the event, West blamed multiculturalism for making America vulnerable. “My fear is that mayb ...
  • State Department Advocates Against Uganda&#821 ...
    Johnnie Carson, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has confirmed the State Department is condemning Uganda’s proposed “Kill The Gays” bill, saying, “I have spoken to the most senior officials in the Ugandan government about this issue, and stand ready to add my voice as requir ...
  • War Hawks Attack Obama After Report That He&#8 ...
    Yesterday Fox News reported that the Obama administration had decided that the United States will keep only 3,000 troops in Iraq past 2011. Fox said that “senior commanders are said to be livid at the decision, which has already been signed off by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.” However Panetta ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Raising Taxes in Ontario and Jeffrey Simpson
    On September 1st I was reading a print version of the Globe and Mail (I won't buy the paper because of their stupid columnists AND because of their endorsement of stephen harper in the last federal election. The latter crime revealed the paper's utter contempt for Canadian democracy and is unfor ...
  • Ontario Election: NDP Should Win By Default
    I'm still dealing with the culture shock of moving from one of the country's poorest postal codes to one of the wealthiest. Back in Hamilton, the political contest was always between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP usually being the incumbent. Here in Forest Hill, it appears that a "conse ...
  • Wrong About Everything: Toronto Sun on Jack Layton
    "No cuts. GUARANTEED!" Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Because I'm going to be writing about the Toronto Sun's attempt to set the record straight about the economics of Jack Layton's politics, and the first thing we should remember is that this is the same piece-of-shit newspaper th ...
  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Rogers Communications taps into finance sector ...
    Rogers Communications is known in Canada for its various services, such as digital cable, Internet and wireless phones, but they may now also become Rogers Bank. A company spokesperson confirmed that Rogers filed an application to become a bank.
  • McDonald's to spend $1 billion on brand transf ...
    The international fast-food giant McDonald's recently announced that it plans to invest $1 billion on a brand transformation for its franchises in Canada. The company is hoping to reinvigorate its image in the country.
  • Ontario Green Party launches election campaign ...
    Official campaigning for this year's Ontario election is underway, and the Green Party of Ontario launched its largest campaign in front of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto. Mike Schreiner, GPO Leader, said they plan to focus on jobs, energy and health.
  • 9/11 — How one event changed my view of the world
    The day the world changed. I've heard it many times over since September 11, 2001. Being from a small Canadian town, I never thought there could be much of an affect on me from the events of that day.
  • Ontario Liberal Premier makes 45 new promises ...
    With less than one month until Ontario voters head to the polls, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled the party's platform during a rally in Toronto Monday. What is McGuinty promising this year? Do the numbers add up?

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

  • None of Canada’s “bargain” subs operational
    None of Canada’s four Victoria-class submarines, billed as a “bargain” when they were bought used from Britain in 1998, are currently operational (David Pugliese, “All Canadian submarines now out of commission,” Postmedia News, 4 September 2011): The navyâs last operational submarine is now side ...
  • Granatstein: Don’t kill DND grants to academia
    Well-known Canadian military historian, commentator, and fan of the Rideau Institute (OK, we made that last bit up) Jack Granatstein is taking issue with the Harper government’s plan to cut Department of National Defence funding for the Security and Defence Forum (SDF), a program that supports a ...
  • Hundreds leave tributes to Jack Layton on Ceas ...
    I'm certain he will be remembered as second only to Tommy Douglas himself, one of Canada's greatest Canadians.
  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Improper Use Of Popular Painkillers On The Rise
    May 3, 2011 CBS News Only 41 percent of the people questioned in a new study said they read the labels of medications they take. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers — and ignorance, in particular, of acetaminophen being in more than 600 over-the-counter and prescription medicines ...
  • The Collapse Of Our Modern World Has Already Begun
    May 3, 2011 Natural News By Mike Adams A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end [...]
  • USDA To Allow Monsanto To Perform Own GMO Studies
    May 3, 2011 Natural News By Neev M. Arnell Last August, a federal judge admonished the USDA for approving genetically modified seeds without first doing the required environmental impact study. Now, the USDA has a solution–allow the biotech industry to conduct the studies itself. This means that ...
  • Researchers Find Genes Linked To Most Common F ...
    May 3, 2011 The Telegraph By Stephen Adams The genes could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating hormonal breast cancer, also known as oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer, which is responsible for four out of five cases, or 36,000 a year in Britain. In particular, they found one gene ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-3-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the facts about the food industry that they don’t want you to know about! Plus, find out which cleanses Kevin uses to stay healthy! Self Help: Give Your Immune System A Boost! Cleanse For Vitality My Favorite First Time Cleanse Remove The Viruses Which Cleanse Is Right For Y ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...

War in Context

  • Gaddafi used torture squads in bid to preserve ...
    Reuters reports: Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi deployed special squads which held suspected opponents in shipping containers, tortured them for information about insurgent networks and disposed of their bodies in unmarked graves in a campaign to smash the revolt against his rule. Evidence gathered b ...
  • Endless war served by endless distraction
    Glenn Greenwald writes: The Washington Post woke up a few days ago and realized that despite everything that has happened since 9/11 — no successful Terrorist attacks on the Homeland in 10 years, a country mired in debt and imposing “austerity” on ordinary Americans, and the election of a wonde ...
  • Noam Chomsky: the imperial mentality and 9/11
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.”  And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like.  Here’s a little reminder of that moment just before September 1 ...
  • How not to become a whistle-blower
    The New York Times reports: When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.” After Mr. Le ...
  • Israel’s ability to kill Americans with impunity
    Roger Cohen writes: Here’s what the United Nations report on Israel’s raid last year on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara had to say about the killing of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen on board: “At least one of those killed, Furkan Dogan, was shot at extremely close range. Mr. Dogan sustained woun ...

Watts Up With That?

  • 24 hours of Gorepocrisy
    Just a note to let readers know that there’s a plan in the works for some fun on the 14th related to Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality aka Gorefest11. Josh will be leading the charge chortles. Here’s the … Continue reading →
  • Frozen Global Warming Research
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of nations conduct research in Antarctica. To do research in Antarctica, you need to have an icebreaker. As the old saying goes, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few icebergs … … Continue reading →
  • Uranium munching microbes
    From Michigan State University Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste EAST LANSING, Mich. â Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals. Details … Continue r ...
  • Mann hires attorneys to halt FOIA document pro ...
    From the there’s “nothing to see here and my lawyer says so too” department, we have news that Dr. Michael Mann really doesn’t want those UVA emails to get sunlight. From ATI: âHockey Stickâ Creator Michael Mann Seeks Courtâs Help … Continue reading →
  • Dessler’s GRL paper video
    Perhaps fearing that his fast tracked no hurdles rebuttal to Spencer and Braswell wouldn’t be enough to have it the buzz of the blogosphere, highlighted in Real Climate, and blasted all over the web via compliant MSM via the press … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • The Vegan Zombie Cooks Fettuccine Alfredo (Video)
    Image credit: The Vegan Zombie Like the meat-loving chef that eats little or not meat most days, I am no vegan—but some of my favorite meals are either vegan or very heavily vegetable-centric. And with the Vegan Black Metal Chef preaching his dark, yet ethical, gospel, I am increasingly int ...
  • 5 Gorgeous Scarves From Etsy to Smarten Up You ...
    Photo: tocamade.etsy.com A lightweight scarf may just be fall's most ideal accessory: Delicate enough to wear on unexpectedly sunny autumn days but a welcome layer when the sun goes down or the wind kicks up, they're also an easy way to perk up simple fall outfits (from tees and blazers pa ...
  • Craft and Science are Combined in One New Exhi ...
    Photo: B.Alter The Power of Making is the new craft show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a mix of craft and science: a coming-together of the disciplines. With more than 200 objects, the show explores how different materials can be used in imaginative ways. Think edible b ...
  • Retired Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First ...
    Screenshot via YouTube The warm, golden glow of sunlight is one of those gifts in life we so often take for granted, though not only does it make life on Earth possible -- it makes it worth living. But for the first time in their lives, a group of chimpanzees in Austria were allowed to see s ...
  • Trinity Root is 9/11 Memorial Inspired by Real ...
    Image credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid under a Creative Commons license. Despite root systems living all around us, something about their form often grabs me. I'll often find myself doodling trees with roots stretching wide beneath a line of a journal page or notice concert posters or ...

Biosingularity

  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...
  • Researchers discover gene required to maintain ...
    University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life. The research team, led by Drs. David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the U of M Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Devel ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Debris from Yak-42 plane crash site. Eyewitnes ...
    A Yak-42 plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashed after take-off in the Yaroslavl Region on September 7. More than 40 people died in the crash.
  • A visit by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Ru ...
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark took part in the opening ceremony of a Danish-Russian photo exhibition dedicated to the Arctic at the Moscow House of Photography.
  • The Danish royal yacht welcomed in St. Petersb ...
    The Danish Royal Yacht, Dannebrog, accompanied by the Thetis patrol frigate of the Danish Navy and the Russian corvette, Steregushchy, docked at the English Embankment in St. Petersburg on September 6. The vessel, which serves as the official residence of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmar ...
  • The Gas Comedy
    Ukraine has all the needed documents to appeal its gas contracts with Russia in the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal, but still hopes to solve the dispute through negotiations, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said.
  • North Korean embassy in Moscow marks national day
    The North Korean embassy in Moscow has marked the 59th anniversary of the founding of the nation with an evening of speeches and music.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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.On the same topic:Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication t ...
  • Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out
    National Nurses United (@NationalNurses) held a Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out in front of Rep. Ryan’s Janesville office. The purpose was to draw attention to the connection between Wall Street and Washington and point out the huge and growing income disparity in the US. NNU is demanding ...
  • 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 Pfc. Jesse W. Dietrich, 20, of Venus, TX.Army Sgt. Andrew R. Tobin, 24, of Jacksonville, IL.Army ...
  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • 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:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Health Hazards of Dental Mercury
    Dr. Dave Simone works with Consumers for Dental Choice to fight amalgam because he fully appreciates how deviating amalgam fillings can be to your health. Dental amalgam emits mercury vapor even after it is placed in your mouth. This mercury is bioaccumulative and endangers your health in many w ...
  • Wikileaks Reveals Monsanto's Close Relationshi ...
    In cables released by Wikileaks this past August, 2011, US diplomats asked the State Department for funding to send biotechnology experts to "target countries" for discussions with high-profile politicians and agricultural officials.Click here to read this article
  • Organic Farming Can Be More Profitable in the ...
    Organic farming is more profitable and economically secure than conventional farming even over the long-term, according to a new study in Agronomy Journal. Using experimental farm plots, researchers with the University of Minnesota found that organic beat conventional even if organic price premi ...
  • EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey
    BRUSSELS - Honey that contains traces of pollen from genetically modified crops needs special authorization before it can be sold in Europe, the European Union's top court said Tuesday, in a judgment that could have widespread consequences on the bloc's policy on genetically modified organisms, ...
  • The Dangerously Deranged Ethics of Biotech Ag
    My unease about genetically engineered crops and animals dates back to the beginning. I had immediate concerns in the late 1980s and early 90s as I began to learn about the technology and associated marketplace machinations. Over the following decades as more and more facts emerged my concerns d ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • You’ve Got Mail: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal ...
    Given their close contact with animals and animal waste in the workplace, employees of IFAP facilities are the ones at greatest risk for becoming infected with drug-resistant pathogens. Also, IFAP sites degrade the communities in which they’re sited by contaminating air, water and soils with an ...
  • Peak Oil, Food Systems, Irene, Debt and Deadlines
    What if we could force peak oil into the spotlight with our own grand deadline and list of actions?
  • The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
    This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
  • Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
    Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • 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...

My Care2 Picks

  • Psychology: "Why Can't Men Love Like Women?"
    Men are wired to act during times of high emotion, since emotion can lead to violence; there is a shut-off mechanism. men are actually more reactive to emotion than women, so they are genetically programmed to avoid it.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A New Federal Vaccine Planand a Bad State Bill
    Why are the vaccines piled on top of each other in one doctor visit? Because the medical establishment is afraid to ask parents to bring their children back over and over again. So for reasons of �compliance� and �convenience� the child�s immune system...Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Debt ridden country spends 1 Billion destroyin ...
    debt ridden country's "news" uses propaganda to trick its people to think otherwise, using "HUMANITARIAN REASONS" as the usual FAKE reasonSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Answer to Alan Simpson From Man in Montana
    We paid for Social Security, so we are entitled to it. Instead of cutting Social Security back, we should remove the $106.8 cap on the tax that pays into it. That way, we could lower the age to retire and even increase the pay.Submitted by Michael Dewey to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Extending Grace: A Lesson from Parenting
    I enjoy watching my preschooler play with her toys.She cares more about what a toy can do than what it was made to do.Those toys, even though they are being used incorrectly, are teaching her about the world around her.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...

Angry Indian News

  • Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues ...
    Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues Hostility Toward NATO Invasion of Libya: by Amiel Ungar - WikipediaIt was only with difficulty that the Western countries managed to extract permission... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • inteldaily.com: African Union Refuses Appeals ...
    African Union Refuses Appeals to Recognize Libya’s Rebels: VOA News - The African Union [AU] has rejected calls for recognition of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council. The decision highlights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time ...
    Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time and resources [uhurunews.com] The Obama administration has rejected a call for a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Garvey, calling it a waste of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | ...
    Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 23, Peru's Congress unanimously approved a new law that guarantees indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part 4)
    The current method for detecting oil and Corexit contamination in Gulf seafood is a simple sniff test, in which FDA inspectors hold a bag of fish up to their nose and if the inspector does not detect any “strange odors, the fish passes the food safety inspection test and is eligible to be proces ...
  • Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
    Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
  • The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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  • Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
    The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
  • Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
    As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq
    ShareThis8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq 07 Sep 2011 According to Iraqi police, a commando of armed men [Blackwater?] killed eight soldiers, among them an officer, in Haditha, in the Province of Anbar, and then burned the corpses. The attack was carried out last night; the commando, ...
  • CIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program i ...
    ShareThisCIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program is kept from leaving Pakistan 07 Sep 2011 A doctor who helped the CIA find 'Osama bin Laden' has been barred from leaving Pakistan, a commission investigating the killing of the Al Qaeda leader said yesterday. Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a phony va ...
  • Assange Lashes Back at Mayawati
    ShareThisAssange Lashes Back at Mayawati 07 Sep 2011 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, didn't take kindly to Kumari Mayawati's words that he should be sent to a mental asylum. So Mr. Assange lashed back. Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks called Ms. Mayawati, th ...
  • Mayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to ...
    ShareThisMayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to Mental Asylum 06 Sep 2011 Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, launched a scathing attack on Web site WikiLeaks Tuesday, a day after a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claimed she once sent an empty ...
  • Plan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline
    ShareThisPlan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline 07 Sep 2011 Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year's end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior m ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in the body. All vaccine d ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix solutions ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, s ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • New Britches
    07 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan American troops have been losing their britches in combat.� Until now, I�ve never seen so many troops exposing their hardware in battle.� Many warriors go �commando� into the fighting, meaning that in the name of hygiene, comfort, or perhaps in ...
  • The Elusive Kandahar Cougar & Murphy’s Laws of ...
    Sergeant TJ Vowell insists he's seen the mysterious big cats of Kandahar many times. Recently, Sergeant Vowell got shot.� 06 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan 4-4 Cav, Bravo Troop, 2nd Platoon 2nd Squad There is much talk about �jaguars� or �cougars� among the t ...
  • Censoring Afghanistan
    Censorship 04 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A message came today that a certain General has told me to unpublish "Battlefield Forensics."� �Battlefield Forensics� was first published on 18 August 2011. This dispatch violates no policies.� It has cleared all OPSEC hurdles.� Aga ...
  • Mosquitoes
    Afghan Soldier caught by infrared flash with specially modified camera. 31 August 2011 Afghanistan A Soldier sleeps in a body bag to keep off the bugs. American and Afghan Soldiers share an Afghan family compound overnight in the heart of Taliban country. During the dark nights, the ...
  • We Need Better Pants
    30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day�s work here.� Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill us ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • The Vegan Zombie Cooks Fettuccine Alfredo (Video)
    Image credit: The Vegan Zombie Like the meat-loving chef that eats little or not meat most days, I am no vegan—but some of my favorite meals are either vegan or very heavily vegetable-centric. And with the Vegan Black Metal Chef preaching his dark, yet ethical, gospel, I am increasingly int ...
  • 5 Gorgeous Scarves From Etsy to Smarten Up You ...
    Photo: tocamade.etsy.com A lightweight scarf may just be fall's most ideal accessory: Delicate enough to wear on unexpectedly sunny autumn days but a welcome layer when the sun goes down or the wind kicks up, they're also an easy way to perk up simple fall outfits (from tees and blazers pa ...
  • Craft and Science are Combined in One New Exhi ...
    Photo: B.Alter The Power of Making is the new craft show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a mix of craft and science: a coming-together of the disciplines. With more than 200 objects, the show explores how different materials can be used in imaginative ways. Think edible b ...
  • Retired Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First ...
    Screenshot via YouTube The warm, golden glow of sunlight is one of those gifts in life we so often take for granted, though not only does it make life on Earth possible -- it makes it worth living. But for the first time in their lives, a group of chimpanzees in Austria were allowed to see s ...
  • Trinity Root is 9/11 Memorial Inspired by Real ...
    Image credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid under a Creative Commons license. Despite root systems living all around us, something about their form often grabs me. I'll often find myself doodling trees with roots stretching wide beneath a line of a journal page or notice concert posters or ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UK to allow cameras in criminal courts
    [JURIST] UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke [Guardian profile] announced Tuesday that cameras will be allowed into criminal courts in the UK and Wales to improve transparency in courts. Two acts of Parliament [official website] in place since 1925 have banned filming [BBC report] in both Welsh ...
  • Ukraine threatens international arbitration ov ...
    [JURIST] Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych [BBC profile] on Tuesday threatened to take Russia to international arbitration over gas disputes. Ukraine relies heavily on Russian oil imports [Reuters report], and its territory provides transit for 80 percent of Russia's oil supplies to Europe. Y ...
  • Europe rights commissioner urges probes into s ...
    [JURIST] The Council of Europe [official website] Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg [official profile] on Monday urged [press release] Lithuania, Poland and Romania to investigate the roles their governments played in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] prog ...
  • Bahrain court hears protester appeals
    [JURIST] A special security court in Bahrain [JURIST news archive] heard the appeals of jailed anti-government protesters on Tuesday. According to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights [official website], the National Safety Court of Appeal, a court composed of military prosecutors and civilian an ...
  • Myanmar government forms human rights commission
    [JURIST] Myanmar's government on Monday formed the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) to promote and safeguard the country's constitutional rights. Members of the commission include former government officials, diplomats, academics, doctors and lawyers, some of whom have made state ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Minneapolis JCRC: Brush Up Your Hasbara
    The Minneapolis JCRC is desperately trying to push the horse back in the barn after I reported (with the journalistic legwork of Mordecai Spektor) that its staff relayed negative information about Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American member of Congress, to Israel’s Chicago consulate.   ...
  • Israel: Things Going to Hell in Hand Basket
    Ethan Bronner wrote a story today with the deeply ironic (for him) title:Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege. Ironic, of course, because one of the major themes of the Israeli Occupation of late has been the siege against Gaza. Now it appears, the siege is staring Israel right back in the ...
  • Israeli Consul, StandWithUs Engage in Lawfare ...
    The eavesdropping transcripts Shamai Leibowitz leaked in 2009 contained information about covert Israeli penetration of the American political environment. If I had transcripts of current Israeli diplomatic traffic now, I’d be hearing conversations concerning the story I’m about to tell. Electro ...
  • Obama, Clinton Intervene to Protect Israeli Di ...
    I don’t know about you, but I find remarkable this passage from Al Jazeera’s report on today’s Cairo riots which swirled around the Israeli embassy and spilled over into attacks on neighboring Egyptian security facilities: US President Barack Obama was first to react, calling on Egypt to protect ...
  • Adelson, Lauder Compel Israel’s Channel 10 to ...
    Israel’s Channel 10 is considered one of the most bold and independent among the nation’s TV channels.  It’s the one which airs Tzinor Layla, where I’ve appeared several times.  As part of its reporting, it aired an extremely unflattering profile (segment begins at 20:30 of video) of gambling ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to arms in anger, ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
    � Dear Editor, � The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". � How can flying "an unlimited number"of U.S fl ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
    There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules that are ...
  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • 'The State Decoded' Squeezes Rich Metadata Out ...
    At first blush, state legal codes seem pretty simple. You've got titles, which are composed of chapters, which in turn comprise sections -- or something very much like that. It's a straightforward hierarchy, and you might not think that there's a lot of interesting metadata to be extracted from ...
  • Sourcemap Crowdsources Product Supply Chains, ...
    This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media. Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from different places. The provenance of a work t ...
  • Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand ...
    This month's Carnival of Journalism, a site that I've organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same topic, was hosted by Kathy Gill, a social media consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Washington, who seized on the new social network that is Google+. Still in i ...
  • ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
    Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
  • Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
    Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - Al-Qaeda and Affiliates St ...
    On August 15, terrorist groups affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) struck seven cities with 15 separate car bombings and attacks against security forces, civilian markets, and religious pilgrims. This strike was the first such large-scale coordinated attack in Iraq since August 2010, when AQI ...
  • The Digital Edge - German Giant Bosch Invests ...
    Robert Bosch Venture Capital has led an investment of 7.1 million euro (about $10 million) in Ident Technology AG (Gilching, Germany), a developer of electric field sensors that can be used for 3-D gesture recognition. Bosch participated with existing investors MIG Funds and Danube Equity and th ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - The Post 9/11 Wars were Su ...
    It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That causes me to be wary. I prefer being the lonely voice, but the fact is that 9/11 was a defining moment in American history. On Sept. 12, 2001, few would have anticipated the course ...
  • Financial Jihad - Australian Newspaper Likens ...
    A leading Aussie newspaper, The Australian, has editorialized about the Nazi-style tactics of the anti-Israel boycott movement, patterned after and evolved from the one begun by the Hitler regime. During the 1930's, Hitler's Brownshirts, disrupted concerts featuring Jewish performers, and picket ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistani Non-Muslims Seek ...
    Members of minority religions in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim, are prepared to “take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. Tasser is the son of a prominent Muslim businessman and politician who was murdered earlier this year after he had ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Is The Tea Party Becoming Obama's "Jews?"
    For much of the past 2,000 years political elements across the world have taken a� group that looked and prayed differently, lumped them together and dehumanized them with the purpose of deflecting public anger their way and away the failure of politicians. I am talking of course about the Jews. ...
  • Some "Big" Sons of Bitches Visit Media Matters ...
    Note: there are two videos at the bottom of this post, if you cannot see them please click here. �Earlier today, two of my favorite Editors Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, and Big Government editor Mike Flynn joined their boss Andrew Breitbart (collectively described as the "Big" Sons of ...
  • Libya Begins to Fall Apart
    Dr. Waldman: �This creature of yours should be kept under guard. Mark my words. He will prove dangerous.� Dr. Henry Frankenstein: Dangerous! Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous?��. Dr. Waldman: You�re young, my friend. Your success [and Nobel Peace Pr ...
  • That Horrible Day in September: The Munich Oly ...
    (Note: There are two videos in this post one at the beginning and one at the end, If you cannot see them, please click here) Thirty-nine years ago. Yassir Arafat sent five Palestinian Terrorists into an Olympic Village dedicated to peace and international cooperation. Their successful ...
  • Israel’s Strategic Situation: Plenty to Worry ...
    By Barry Rubin Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic, I periodically remind people why I’m an optimist, at least when it comes to Israel. Even today, Israel’s security situation is as good as or better than it has been since any time since the estab ...

The Real Agenda

  • Decline of the United States of America: The M ...
    by Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research September 7, 2011 âThe deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.â Montesquieu, (Charles Louis de Secondat)  (1689-1755) âI am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the ...
  • 9/11 Responders Screened as Terrorists
    by Mike Mculiff HoffPost.com WASHINGTON — A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned. The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction ...
  • Associated Press: Americans to cause coming Te ...
    Just as the Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama and the corporate media have propagandized for the past couple of months, Associated Press is now echoing the talking point that Americans are the next Terrorists that will attack their own land. No proof of this has been shown. Associate ...
  • Greeks Going Back to their Farming Roots
    by Tania Georgiopoulou ekathimerini.com September 1, 2011 «Here you can go a week without spending a single euro over here,” says a man who moved back to Crete two years ago to live in the village of his birth. “You get fresh food from your farm and if you need something extra, like olive oil [...]
  • Iraq: Victim or Beneficiary of September 11 at ...
    By Waleed Ibrahim Reuters September 9, 2011 (Reuters) – Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship. While the sectarian slaughter t ...

Wind Watch

  • Residents in wind-turbine shadows seek noise, ...
    It�s nothing but misery. That�s the assessment of town of Fairfield resident Monique Consolazio, who lives in the shadow of two of the towering wind turbines making up the Hardscrabble Wind Project. Hers is a plight shared by many who have lodged complaints against the global giant Iberdrola Ren ...
  • Study looks at wind farm impact on Union
    A recently-completed study on possible impacts of the proposed Antelope Ridge Farm on the city of Union says that while the likelihood of serious impacts is mostly low, the city may have trouble paying for them if they do occur. The independent review, looking at possible impacts to the city in ...
  • Locals cut off by Griffin windfarm crane accident
    The fears of a Perthshire community were realised at the weekend after an accident involving a large crane blocked a road, forcing them to make an 80-mile round trip to their nearest town. The normally short route into Dunkeld was cut off on Saturday following the accident on the A822 near Troch ...
  • Bay County wind farm project divides township, ...
    “It’s friends, neighbors and even families against each other. It’s just too bad.”
  • Health board to analyze turbine complaints
    Falmouth Board of Health has received more than 90 complaints about the wind turbines in town since June 7. That total was ��led by 11 residents reporting headaches, nausea, concentration problems, anxiety, anger and the inability to sleep. Two-thirds of the complaints concern the Notus Clean En ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Pass Bill, Save Jobs, Obama Admonishes Congress
    “In a run-up to his much-anticipated jobs speech next Thursday, President Obama is banging the drum for legislation that would save thousands â perhaps millions â of jobs around the country right now.” (Christian Science Monitor) He believes in the tooth fairy too. FEE Timely Classic “Why Govern ...
  • Public Increasingly Pessimistic about Economy
    “Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obamaâs inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.” (Washington Post ...
  • President Makes False Claims about Tax Cut
    “The presidentâs Labor Day speech in Detroit featured an assertion that contained a number of warning signs that it might be an errant fact: âbiggest middle-class tax cut in history.â” (Washington Post) A president fibs? FEE Timely Classic “Paying for Tax Cuts?” by Sheldon Richman
  • Fed to Push Interest Rates Lower
    “The Federal Reserve is moving toward new steps aimed at lowering interest rates on mortgages and other kinds of long-term loans, without making another massive infusion of money into the economy.” (Washington Post) Low interest rates helped get us into this mess. FEE Timely Classic “Quantitativ ...
  • Obama Will Ask for $300 Billion Jobs Plan
    “President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.” (Bloomberg) Whereâs the money coming from? FEE Timely Classic “What Is See ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, students learn: “Show, ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there that ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...

Facing South

  • Should the poor be allowed to vote?
    Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
  • Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
  • Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
    A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • How to fix Europe’s Financial Crisis
    It’s not complicated.  It’s just unthinkable. 1) Let the banks go under if they’re bankrupt.  Make their private owners take the losses. 2) Refloat the banks, this will cost a TON less than having governments pay of private losses. 3) For countries with “unsustainable” debts after doing this, ...
  • 9/11
    is a day which should be a reminder of how fear can make a people give up their liberties and prosperity and, in response to an atrocity, commit worse atrocities.
  • Ontario NDP leader promises no income tax raises
    Guess, I just gave my last donation to the Ontario NDP while she’s leader.  If I want Tory policies, I’ll vote for the real thing. Although I am looking forward to the next fundraising call.
  • The Short on the President’s “Job Plan”
    The plan is supposedly 447 billion.  By my count about 253 billion of that is in tax cuts.  Corporations are sitting on a ton of money, tax cuts will not make them hire.  Minor tax cuts for households will be used primarily for debt de-leveraging unless there is a general recovery with wage incr ...
  • The Golden Laws of Prosperity
    Implement policy which is as good for as many people as possible. Keep the rich poor. Punish negative externalities, encourage positive externalities. Tax economic rents punishingly. Do not allow pipeline companies (app stores, telecom companies, railways, etc…) to extract monopoly profits. Enfo ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Fukushima nuclear crisis, six months later
    The meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant has led to an ongoing crisis in Japan. Nature Video provides an update on efforts to stabilize the reactors, and the consequences of the emergency for Japan and nuclear power worldwide. Check out our previous video on the ...
  • Directly comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl
    Zoom out to view Chernobyl's radiation over Fukushima. Rotate to the Ukraine to see Chernobyl in context. Download file (source: UNSCEAR/MEXT)This embedded version of Google Earth may have limited functionality on some browsers.This Sunday (11 September) marks the six-month anniversary of the t ...
  • Dutch universities ponder merger
    Posted on behalf of Katrin Kohnert What do you do when science budgets stagnate? Three large Dutch universities think the answer is to intensify collaboration. They may even go as far as to merge with each other. Speaking at the opening of the Dutch academic year on 5 September, offic ...
  • Balzan Prize winners announced
    Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. Two scientists have been awarded the prestigious International Balzan Prize for 2011, announced in Milan last night. American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, Russell Lande, currently a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College, London is ...
  • Illegal drug sales threaten vultures in India
    Critically endangered vultures in India are still at risk of exposure to the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, through widespread illegal sales of the drug. The Indian government banned use of the drug for veterinary purposes in 2006 after it brought vultures to the brink of extinction. Vul ...

new geography

  • Obama's Economic Trifecta: How The President H ...
    President Barack Obama�s �pivot� on jobs this week shows that the president has finally � if belatedly � acknowledged the real misery caused by the Great Recession. However, it does not shed his complicity in the ever deepening employment crisis. Unemployment remains high, exceeding 9% � 16% if ...
  • Applying Lessons from the UK Riots to Australia
    Many commentators correctly attribute the UK rioting to decades of misgoverning and miseducating youth. Contributing to this has been the breakdown of family discipline, the replacement of working fathers as role models and the creation of a culture of entitlement. Tony Blair has talked about ...
  • The Golden State Is Crumbling
    The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rea ...
  • Whatever Happened to 'The Vision Thing'? Part II
    More than two years ago (March 2009, to be precise), New Geography published an article I wrote, entitled Whatever Happened to ‘The Vision Thing'?. It began: When I was in elementary school, I remember reading about the remarkable transformations that the future would bring: Flying cars, manned ...
  • Millennials Have the Answer to the Country’s F ...
    America is about to enter a presidential campaign that promises to be filled with divisive rhetoric and sharp differences over which direction the nominees want to take the country. This will be the fourth time in American history that the country has been sharply divided over the question o ...

GM Watch

  • Suit over GM foods labelled "natural" could op ...
    NOTE: John F. Banzhaf III is a Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School [http://banzhaf.net/] where he is best known for his work challenging the tobacco industry [http://ash.org/] and his work challenging the food industry over obesity [http://banzhaf.net/obes ...
  • Monsanto reaping gold through media manipulation
    NOTE: This article brilliantly exposes the gap between the slick PR spin on Bt cotton in India and the harrowing reality. Worth reading in full. --- --- Media ethics: Got a plant, will republish for a fee MANU MOUDGIL The Hoot: Watching the media in the subcontinent 6 September 2011 http://www.t ...
  • Hundreds rally against GMOs in Boulder County
    TAKE ACTION: Join the GMO Right2Know March from New York City to DC Oct 1-16 2011. Find out more:http://www.right2knowmarch.org/ --- --- Hundreds rally against GMOs on Boulder County open space Laura Snider Daily Camera, 6 September 2011 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18837604 ...
  • EU court puts limits on modified honey
    1.EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey 2.Court ruling on GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence NOTE: ECJ file available at http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=FR&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-442/09 EXTRACT: "Zero tolerance must mean just that: traces of GMOs, no mat ...
  • EU court puts limits on modified honey
    1.EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey 2.Court ruling on GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence NOTE: ECJ file available at http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=FR&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-442/09 EXTRACT: "Zero tolerance must mean just that: traces of GMOs, no mat ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Quotes From European Leaders That Prove Tha ...
    The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt.  If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plunge the entire globe into chaos.  The EU has a larger economy and a large ...
  • Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
    The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment.  The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidl ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...

Desertification

  • Water conservation (Best Colleges Online)
    Read at : http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2011/09/06/40-important-ways-that-colleges-are-conserving-water/ 40 Important Ways that Colleges Are Conserving Water Water is a precious resource, and although it flows freely from the tap, itâs not infinite. Green campus lawns, clean cafeteria p ...
  • A “roadmap” to stop encroaching de ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKMqz9KeP1oaVIgsQ3HHfSy7bPiQ?docId=CNG.8985ed4521bc45b8185e003ab7a01846.a1 Algiers conference to tackle Africa desertification ALGIERS â Regional cooperation to improve the fight against creeping desertif ...
  • A FOOD WALL to alleviate hunger and malnutriti ...
    A FOOD WALL FOR ARID REGIONS, COMBINING SACK GARDENING WITH LIVE NAVAJO WILLOWS The numerous advantages of sack gardening and growing drought-tolerant Navajo willows have been described earlier: (a) Sack gardening http://desertification.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/farming-in-small-spaces-by-filling ...
  • Drought prediction (Google / NOAA)
    VIDEO Seen at : http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/video/2011/predicting-drought-in-east-africa Predicting Drought in East Africa Brad Lyon is a Research Scientist with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. An expert on climate conditions in East Africa describes the climat ...
  • Boy building a windmill (Google / WBIR)
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.wbir.com/news/article/182285/8/Author-inspires-Pellissippi-students-with-true-story Author inspires Pellissippi students with true story Written by Emily Stroud ……………………. The curious teen knew pumping water and generating electrici ...

The Paper Trail

  • Grassley says IRS whistleblower program needs ...
    Whistleblower Warfare GAO report says program hindered by incomplete record keeping Sen. Chuck Grassely, R-Iowa Alex Brandon/AP The Internal Revenue Service needs to boost resources for investigating tips about tax cheats the architect of the agency’s whistleblower rewar ...
  • Solyndra investigation expands as agents visit ...
    Solyndra CEO and founder of politically connected company questioned on day of raid. Now some Democrats wonder if they'd been misled FBI agents confiscate boxes from Solyndra headquarters to be used as evidence in their investigation. Paul Sakuma/AP UPDATE 9/10/11 9 am E ...
  • Obama's new plan for underwater mortgages may ...
    Consumer Finance Earlier programs helped only a few distressed homeowners Home under foreclosure in Los Angeles Reed Saxon/AP It was almost a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in President Barack Obama’s jobs speech, but for about 20 seconds—after he urged Congress to pass hi ...
  • FACT CHECK: Is Obama's jobs plan truly paid fo ...
    FactWatch Likelihood that jobs plan will not add to deficit is 'highly iffy' President Obama during his job speech in a joint session of Congress. Kevin Lamarque/AP President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highl ...
  • Public health suffers as Indonesia ignores cal ...
    Smoke Screen Part II Smoking Tigers: India and Indonesia represent the biggest challenges to global tobacco reform Indonesian cigarette vendors at a recent rally in Jakarta, protesting government talks over a tobacco-control law. Thousands of�vendors were organized and deployed�by a ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Globe’s cracked Alberta history
    By Brian Brennan Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives are celebrating 40 uninterrupted years in power. A Globe and Mail reporter talks to some unnamed "Tory stalwarts, opposition leaders and observers." He concludes that the PC dynasty was "forged in the fire of Alberta’s hatred for Pierre Tru ...
  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...

libcom

  • Here's why Washington longshore workers are so ...
    longshore.jpg Violence erupted 7 September in a major labor dispute that has simmered for months at the Port of Longview, leading to work shutdowns at ports up and down the Washington coast. Why ar ...
  • Longshore workers attack grain terminal
    ILWU Longview, WA 7 Sept 2011.jpg In a dispute over the new EGT Grain Terminal in Longview, Washington and management's refusal to recognize the International Longshore and Warehouse Union as the wor ...
  • Solidarity for the win - victory against Chase ...
    chase_o.jpg Seattle Solidarity Network gets a Chase Bank customer $1000 he was owed by a swift direct action campaign. Seattle Solidarity Network member Neftali walked out of a ...
  • The Prince and the Pauper
    “The general lesson learnt by political England from its experience of pauperism is none other than that, in the course of history and despite all administrative measures, pauperism has developed into a national institution which has inevitably become the object of a highly ramified and extensi ...
  • The rebellion in Chile
    Chile_anarquista.jpg A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9 at 4 p.m.. This flier explains o ...

Free Range International

  • Magical Thinking in the Land Down Under
    Like most humans, I’m a creature of routine.  Every morning when I get into the office I take the first 20 minutes or so of the workday and dedicate them to browsing the top news headlines.  Obviously, I read a lot about Afghanistan.  I’ve been reading at least one snort-worthy article per day f ...
  • Masters of the Obvious
    The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released.  It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (but not our b ...
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
    A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge [...]
  • The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
    “NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality.  The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.  
  • WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
    Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
  • “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
    birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends.  Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released.  Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “killing” on May 1, -  the birth certifi ...
  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

  • More Reasons Solar Panels are a Good Investmen ...
    Solar Panels Shade(1) your Roof Thus helps lower your Summertime Cooling Costs because: Study Shows a buildingâs ceiling was five degrees cooler under solar energy panels than under an exposed roof. Solar Panels Protect your Roof Thus increasing the Lifetime Expectancy of your Roof *Scott’s Cont ...
  • creating sustainable energy systems of the future
    The climate problems are becoming ever more urgent, but the energy systems of the future present even more issues. Technologically, we have good opportunities for creating sustainable energy systems However, climate change is not the only energy challenge: We need energy services to drive global ...
  • Hydrogen Energy Storage
    a practical, multi-home storage solution for surplus energy Creative Energy Homes (CEH) project, which aims to stimulate ideas for sustainable design and promote new ways to provide affordable, environmentally sustainable and innovative housing. Under a new phase of the CEH project, the universi ...
  • Bay Window Detail Drawing
    Custom Bay Window Detail by Scotty Scotts Contracting Dual Pane with Blinds in the Glass Energy Star Rated Windows for St Louis Area Advanced Framing Techniques All Exterior Joints Sealed with Caulk and Dow Window and Door Sealer 2×4 and 2×6 Framing Members 1/2 ” plywood sheeting Prefinished Oak ...
  • Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
    Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranians hit in email hack attack
    Up to 300,000 Iranians may have had their Google email monitored using security certificates stolen from Dutch firm DigiNotar. The figure came from a report into the breach at DigiNotar which let attackers generate hundreds of fake certificates. The report suggests the certificates were used in ...
  • Iran Says Nuclear Cooperation Would Have Limits
    Iran has indicated that an offer that could give United Nations inspectors “full supervision” of Iranian nuclear activities does not include allowing inspections on short notice. Iranian nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani says Tehran has fully cooperated with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agenc ...
  • Iran Cracks Down on Dissent
    BEIRUT—Iran has raised pressure on activists and opposition members in the past two months in an apparent move to preempt antigovernment protests, as regional uprisings gained momentum in Syria and Libya, according to activists and human-rights organizations. The scope of the government's crackd ...
  • وزیر دفاع ایران از استقرار سپر دفاع موشکی ناتو ...
    روز سه شنبه، ۱۵ شهریور (۶ سپتامبر)، خبرگزاری فارس متن گفتگو با سرتیپ پاسدار احمد وحیدی، وزیر دفاع جمهوری اسلامی را منتشر کرد که در آن، استقرار سامانه دفاع ضد موشکی پیمان اتلانتیک شمالی - ناتو - در خاک ترکیه را مورد انتقاد شدید قرار داده است. read more
  • A Look At 41 Of Iran’s Best Video Games
    We’ve recently written a bit about Mir Mahna and I’m always fascinated with how different cultures can create different sorts of games, so I ended up spending some time walking along the displays of the Iran National Foundation of Computer Games checking out what they had to offer. Unfortunately ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Study Guide on Humanitarian Crises
    I have become extremely cynical about the epidemic of humanitarian crises and political instability in the oil-rich regions of the third world. There is always a back story of US military or covert intervention, which is rarely – if ever – reported in the mainstream media. The story line is so ...
  • Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective
    Book Reviewers Needed – Free Download I have just finished my third book Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective. It’s my first non-fiction work, a collection of essays on change making. Right now it’s only available as an ebook. However it should be out in soft cover by the end of the ...
  • The Bush EPA and Fluoride
    The following is a second excerpt from my submission to New Plymouth District Council on fluoridation. It describes a study the Bush EPA commissioned from the National Research Council that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dental fluorosis - present in 41% of US teenagers The ...
  • Ending Water Fluoridation: One We Can Win
    At present the residents of New Plymouth (population 55,000) are embroiled in a battle to end water fluoridation. A group of about 90 of us have been organizing since April. You can visit our Facebook page Fluoride-free Taranaki at http://www.facebook.com/groups/207748655919333/ - you can even j ...
  • Sticking It to Ron Paul
    It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar to the hatchet job the “alternative” media performed on Ralph Nader in 2004 and 2008. Cou ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
    Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she's talk ...
  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
    "Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe ...
  • This Labor Day, we need protests
    Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Every gift matters
    United Way Toronto aims high, with a $116 million fundraising target, and it’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t miss.
  • One member, one vote
    The NDP can do itself and other progressive-minded Canadians a favour by ditching the rule that sets aside a quarter of the votes at leadership conventions.
  • Breaks for students and senior citizens
    A big break on university tuition, help to keep frail seniors in their homes, a long-term promise of better transit between cities and a tax reduction for small business. These are ...
  • Developers line up while public shut out
    The Ford administration’s plan for Toronto’s waterfront smacks of old-time, backroom land dealing.
  • Keep bicycles off the sidewalks
    The dramatic increase in people riding bikes means we need stronger, simpler rules on where they can ride.

Energy Collective

  • JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
    We are less than two days out from President Barack Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress and to the nation to outline proposals to help put Americans back to work. This speech could be a strident call for all-out measures to reinvigorate American employment, a more limited set of p ...
  • The Market Sorted, Solyndra Lost
    President Obama Visiting
  • Burden of Proof
    One delayer tactic is to demand "proof" of "global warming" before advocating "hugely expensive actions". (*)
  • China Restarts Progress On Its Nuclear Energy ...
    Post-Fukushima safety checks are done, but the size of the new build will be smaller
  • Why the Smart Grid Is Taking So Long
    �The smart grid is coming. It��is��just��coming��very��slowly.

EU Times

  • Australian school curriculum to force acceptan ...
    School students are being targeted in a major new push to force acceptance of multiculturalism by “embedding” it in the national curriculum. Young Australians will be trained in “cultural competency” during classes as part of the Gillard Government’s plan to boost support for multiculturalism an ...
  • Italians fired up at tax hike up
    Tens of thousands of people are stranded. Factories are closed, airports and train stations deserted. An entire nation comes to a standstill as Italy’s largest trade union, the CGIL, calls on its 6 million members to strike. The nationwide transport strike was called in protest at Prime Minister ...
  • Spaniards Protest Austerity Measures
    Thousands of Spaniards have launched rallies in the Spanish capital Madrid against their government’s austerity measures, Press TV reported. The three-day protest starting on Tuesday was initiated by Spain’s two largest trade unions, the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) as well as the Unio’n General de ...
  • Swedish police: Islamic terrorism is key threat
    Islamic terrorism remains the greatest threat to Sweden, according to Anders Danielsson, head of Sweden’s Security Service (Säpo). Speaking at a seminar on Monday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the US on September 11th 2001, Danielsson said that the strength o ...
  • Wikileaks: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has Cancer
    Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank governor Gideon Gono as saying Mr Mugabe’s doctors had urged him to quit. The cable, writt ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • How Brian Moynihan Forced Sallie Krawcheck Out ...
    Sallie Krawcheck got Sontaged. Krawcheck, the most powerful woman on Wall Street, stepped down Tuesday night from her position running Bank of America 's two wealth management units. She has no immediate plans for the future, said a person familiar with the matter. Krawcheck ran the Merrill Lyn ...
  • Jay Carney: Hoffa Speaks for Himself
    At the White House press conference today Jake Tapper questioned White House mouthpiece Jay Carney about civil discourse (among other things) and the statements made by Teamsters boss James Hoffa during an opening act for President Obama. Predictably, Carney refused to disavow Hoffa’s remarks, ...
  • Bank of America Shakeup: Krawchek, Price Ousted
    Bank of America ( BAC ) CEO Brian Moynihan is replacing wealth management head Sallie Krawchek and consumer and small business banking chief Joseph Price, his first major management shakeup, the bank announced late on Tuesday. The bank appointed two COOâs, with David Darnell overseeing consume ...
  • Obama focus on policy, not polls – White House
    The White House is downplaying several new polls showing President Obama’s job approval ratings plunging to new lows along with rising public concern over high unemployment and the sluggish economy
  • Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Gets Longer Than Expecte ...
    Carol Bartz, who still had over one year left on her contract with Yahoo, was fired via a telephone call on Tuesday. She was hired in January of 2009 to grow Yahooâs revenues, manage Yahooâs valuable Asian assets, and combat Googleâs takeover of Yahooâs market share. Since accepting the positio ...

Groklaw

  • The Microsoft revolving door: Former Powerset ...
    Again, as I've wondered aloud in several recent posts on various Microsoft defections, what gives? Why are folks jumping ship now (besides the oft-cited stock-vesting reasons)? One of my readers with good knowledge of Microsoft's inner-workings had an interesting theory. "The opportunities for ...
  • Learning Unix
    As I meet new Unix hackers using Linux or Mac, sometimes I am surprised at how few Unix tricks they know. It is sometimes painful to watch developers perform manual tasks on the shell. What follows are my recommendations on how to improve your Unix skills, with a little introduction as to why y ...
  • Google Said to Be Raided by South Korean Antit ...
    Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Seoul office was raided by South Korea's antitrust regulator as part of a probe into whether the owner of the world's largest search engine unfairly blocked competitors in the mobile-search market, a person familiar with the investigation said... "We will work with the FTC t ...
  • TornadoGuard
    The problem with average star ratings. - xkcd
  • Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg gives historica ...
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she probably would not have made it to the high court under the current climate claiming the confirmation process has become more partisan. "I wish we could have a magic wand and go back to those days when the process was truly bipartisan ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Governor Jerry Brown still a moonbeam?
    In 1976, when Jerry Brown was California governor the first time, Chicago columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed him “Governor Moonbeam.” The moniker stuck, even if Royko later apologized for it. But perhaps he had a point after all. Starry-eyed, perky optimism does indeed have its place. Without ...
  • Rusko live dubstep 2010
  • Corporationwiki
    Look up a person or business on Corporationwiki to view the links to other entities and people. It uses public data from California Secretary of State, Florida Department of State and Texas Secretary of State. Here’s the data for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. [...]
  • Storing solar power directly in molten salt
    Instead of focusing heat from the sun onto a central tower to power turbines and storing excess heat in molten salt, researchers at MIT propose putting the heliostats on hillsides and using them to directly heat the salt. They say this could provide power 24/7 when the sun is out during the day.
  • Solyndra bankruptcy will hurt Obama, renewable ...
    Solyndra executives donated and raised large sums for Democrats and Obama. The company got over half a billion in loan guarantees. The money is gone and Solyndra just filed for bankruptcy. Republicans predictably and maybe accurately think the whole deal is stinky and plan investigations. Even ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 9/11, Iraq, and the historical record
    The U.S. discourse space is filling up rapidly with "ten years after" pieces related to 9/11. Me, these days I mainly just feel tired, tired. People in the U.S. political elite never listened to those of us who, prior to September 2011, had spent a whole career studying and interacting with the ...
  • Libya: The longer view
    The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
  • I've been on vacation...
    ... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...

frogblog

  • Terrorist plot at Auckland’s Sylvia Park ...
    Here’s the live footage: On a less paranoid note, Green MP Keith Locke today called for an independent inquiry into the ongoing debacle arising from the Police decision to invoke the Terrorism Suppression Act and engage in an over-the-top paramilitary action which caused great offence and distre ...
  • Boom times for oil and gas?
    This morning’s  Dominion article about âboom timesâ for the gas and oil exploration industry is an intriguing, even slightly funny, mix of boosterism, drum beating and dissimulation. The Chair of PEPANZ appears almost breathless with excitement as he seeks to fulfil the primary objective of his ...
  • General debate, September 7, 2011
  • Closing rural railway lines will mean more tru ...
    The crash between a logging truck and a school bus in Ruatoki yesterday was a tragedy. I am sure that, like me, you are hoping that the children involved will be able to make a full recovery. The crash reminded me of what a transport advocate said some days ago when she came down to [...]
  • Vehicle emissions standards will save lives
    In general, my views on transport funding and policy are pretty diametrically opposed to the Minister’s. That’s why it nice to see the Minister of Transport is championing at least one cause we can agree on. He has remained resolute in his determination to improve vehicle emissions standards for ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Mineral That Helps Fight Fatigue, Stress, ...
    Story at-a-glance Sulfur is third most abundant mineral in your body. �It is required for proper synthesis and biological activity of proteins and enzymes, and plays an important role in your bo ...
  • Surprise! Guess Who's Viewing Your "Confidenti ...
    If you believe that your medical and personal information should be kept in strict privacy, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. Your medical information is not actually private -- you sell it without realizing it. If you look at your office bill or EOB (explanation of benefits), you'll se ...
  • Are You Being Tricked Into Having this Neuroto ...
    By Dr. Mercola With Consumers for Dental Choice Story at-a-glance Thanks to deceptive, manipulative efforts by the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...
  • Ten Best Foods to Eat Frequently for a Terrifi ...
    By Dr. Mercola If optimal health is your goal, there's no getting around your diet. Your physical health is a direct reflection of what you put into your body, and how you live your life in general. Pre-packaged processed foods may be convenient, but cooking from scratch using fresh unprocess ...
  • Why Almost All Sinus Infections are Misdiagnos ...
    By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance The vast majority of people suffering from chronic respiratory infections are not aware that their problem is related to mold exposure. And unfortunately, their ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazilian Indians demand Shell leave their land
    Guarani man. Shell is using sugarcane planted on Guarani land. © Fiona Watson/ Survival Indians of the Guarani tribe in Brazil have demanded that energy giant Shell stop using their ancestral land for ethanol production. Ambrosio Vilhalva, a Guarani man from one of the communities affec ...
  • Borehole breakthrough for Botswana’s Bushmen
    Two men from Kikao wait for water at the Mothomelo borehole © Vox United/Survival Survival International has been speaking to Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as they celebrate drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time in nine years. It marks a significant ...
  • Savannah Miller designs t-shirt for Survival
    Savannah Miller modeling her t-shirt designed for Survival. © James Betts / Survival Fashion designer Savannah Miller has designed an exclusive limited edition T-shirt for Survival International – inspired by the Bushmen of the Kalahari in Botswana and their struggle to defend their lands ...
  • New signs indicate uncontacted Amazon Indians ...
    The uncontacted Indians of this region made worldwide headlines in February 2011. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival A recent expedition in the western Brazilian Amazon has found new signs of uncontacted Indians, indicating that they are moving to different parts of the forest. It is likely ...
  • Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 3 ...
    Nukak mother and child. © David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. The campaign responds to a barrage ...

Montreal Gazette

  • CBC shouldn't be using our money to fight openness
    Taxpayers are rightly upset that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is using public funds to challenge a court ruling that the publicly funded broadcaster should be more open as to how it is spending their money.
  • Quebec's seat allotment in the Commons
    Opposition parties in the House of Commons are generally favourable to the idea of giving Quebec special dispensation in the allocation of Commons seats.
  • Montreal and its place in the world
    We came in 16th this time in the widely touted Livability Survey conducted annually by Britain's the Economist magazine. We rated even lower, 24th, in this year's Monocle magazine Quality of Life Survey. In this one we came second-last among the 25 towns surveyed. Well, big deal.
  • Some political mergers have more appeal than o ...
    The gush of talk this week about a merger between the federal Liberal and New Democratic parties was for the most part mediagenerated hot air in late-summer days when nothing much was stirring in the nation's capital, save a gathering of Liberal caucus survivors still in collective shock from th ...
  • It's in everyone's interests to keep kids in s ...
    There are high hopes for a new program, to which the provincial government is contributing $1.5 million, aimed at encouraging young Quebecers to complete their high school education.

Food World Order

  • 20 unusual uses for honey you never thought of
    from moisturizer to apocalypse prepper... from ecosalon: It was brought to my attention last week that September is in fact National Honey Month. Honey gets an entire month all to itself? Why yes, it certainly does. Turns out that Americans consume 1.5 pounds of honey per person annually, and ...
  • monsanto's pesticide problems & corporate envi ...
    from forbes: Monsanto, the world’s largest agriculture seed producer, is under fire after scientists in the U.S. recently discovered what they believe to be a case of crop-eating bugs developing a resistance to the company’s genetically modified corn plants. Some researchers believe that the dis ...
  • 9/1 binge & purge: sugar, slave, blast
    Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey's* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
  • usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
    from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
  • ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
    from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit ou ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from M ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Quotes From European Leaders That Prove Tha ...
    The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt.  If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plunge the entire globe into chaos.  The EU has a larger economy and a large ...
  • Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
    The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment.  The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidl ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

Facing South

  • Should the poor be allowed to vote?
    Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
  • Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
  • Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
    A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Lawâs Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 15 Must Have Android Games
    Android is growing at a stupendous rate and so is Android Market. Number is applications in Android Market is nearing 300,000 now and the rate of growth is only increasing. Trying to pick the very best of Android games from that enormous list is tough. I will try to give it my best shot anyw ...
  • 12 Things New in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric[Screensho ...
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is marching ahead. Through our detailed reviews of Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 releases, we followed Ubuntu 11.10 in its each and every developmental phase so far. A lot of things have changed since the third alpha release and as we had promised, here is a preview of lates ...
  • Awesome Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet for Beginners
    Got a mail recently from freeworld's Raphael where he introduced me to his recent creation - a Linux bash shell cheat sheet meant for beginners. Very useful list of commands and keyboard shortcuts for Terminal with descriptions, more relevant if you are an avid Ubuntu/Debian user. ...
  • How Open Source is Android After all?
    Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world�s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects. How Ope ...
  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cent ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • ENDGAME FOR EURO: GERMAN LAWMAKERS REVOLT ...
    *GERMAN LAWMAKERS FAIL TO SUPPORT NEW EUROZONE BAILOUT FUND IN TRIAL VOTE *90% OF GERMANS OPPOSE NEW BANKSTER BAILOUT FUND *CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING ON LEGALITY OF BAILOUTS AND ROLE OF PARLIAMENT EXPECTED TOMORROW *GREECE SINKS DEEPER INTO DEBT UNDERLINING FAILURE OF BAILOUTS *ITALY ON STRIKE ...
  • UK journalist recognises Germany is fighting t ...
    German endgame for EMU draws ever nearer By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, The Telegraph 6:03PM BST 04 Sep 2011 It bankrolled French farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy, that disguised tithe for war reparations. It then bankrolled Spanish farmers as well. It f ...
  • Recombinant HPV DNA contamination found in Gar ...
    By Sane Vax  At the request of medical consumers concerned about HPV vaccine safety and efficacy, SANE Vax Inc. has retained a private laboratory to test a number of samples of HPV 4 Gardasil™ (Merck) for possible contamination by human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the vaccine lots distributed to ...
  • US SUES MEGA BANKS OVER SUBPRIME FRAUD
    Major banks sued over mortgages, Reuters Posted: 12:02 AM, September 3, 2011 A Us regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housi ...
  • Italy strikes over austerity
    ROME, Business Week Italy’s president is warning the country’s leaders to heed what he calls the “alarming’ signals of worsening financial crisis and urgently enact austerity measures. President Giorgio Napolitano’s appeal to government and parliament was prompted Monday evening by the widening ...

Invisible Opportunity

Veterans Today

  • When the Baathists Read their History
    To prepare for the new Syria, people have been digging up their not too distant past, well into the pre-Ba’ath era – not to copy it, but to learn from it.
  • SEPTEMBER 11- Exploitation
    With the 10th Anniversary of September 11th fast approaching. I, for one, am getting tired of (or is it immune to) how every politician regardless of ideology, most every lame stream media outlet, and especially the Pentagon has exploited 9/11 for political, ideological, psychological, and propa ...
  • 9/11: Watch, Explain, I Can’t Even Begi ...
    The scientists had described it, but I could never really believe it possible. I am flabbergasted.
  • Israel Wages Lawfare Against Gaza Flotilla
    Lawfare is bloodless warfare. � by Philip Giraldi  � I have already reported how �lawfare,� which was defined by Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap following 9/11, is becoming the new hot button for defenders of Washington�s and Tel Aviv�s foreign policies. Using th ...
  • Let’s Talk “Turkey,”
    Everything else reported in the US about Turkey is false, dangerously false. The worst lies are the reports that Turkey's democratic government, freely elected, is "Islamist" and "extremist."

electric politics

  • The Lie
    We're lucky to have Dr. John J. Mearsheimer to apply his original powers of observation to the practice of lying in international politics. John develops a theoretical typology, finding five sorts of strategic lies — from lies governments tell their own people to lies governments tell each othe ...
  • Where's the Strategy?
    It's disappointing, to say the least, that after ten years in Afghanistan we seem not to have a strategy, or at least a strategy people can easily discern, one that's related to known U.S. national security interests. Whatever U.S. policy is, if it can't be put into a single, simple, declarativ ...
  • Permanent Aridification Transforms the America ...
    It's happening now but we won't be able to say with absolute certainty that it's happened for probably another couple of decades. Thanks to anthropogenic climate change the American Southwest is entering a new, and permanent, condition of increased aridity. It's not a "drought," it's the new no ...
  • Debt Doldrums
    Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
    A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge [...]
  • The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
    “NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality.  The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.  
  • WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
    Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
  • “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
    birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends.  Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released.  Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “killing” on May 1, -  the birth certifi ...
  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...

k2p blog

  • Was Tony Blair just doing Murdoch’s bidd ...
    Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch’s young children, it has emerged in an interview with the media tycoon’s wife Wendi. She also revealed that Tony Blair was very close indeed to Murdoch. It begins to seem plausible that Blair was merely following his "instructions" in taking the U ...
  • Sangiliyandi Gurunathan on his way to another ...
    Sangiliyandi Gurunathan who was required to resign from Kalasalingam University for scientific misconduct is on his way to another private University in South India.
  • UN is only as good as its worst member: Urugua ...
    The UN is only as good as its worst member. Uruguay announced it has sacked a navy commander with the UN mission in Haiti after a video was circulated of an alleged sexual assault on a young Haitian man by members of a Uruguayan peacekeeping unit.
  • Remote Sensing: A case of editorial cowardice ...
    A paper which did not support global warming orthodoxy was published in the journal Remote Sensing after peer review. The global warming orthodoxy has been so upset by this that the editor has resigned saying the paper should not have been published even though there is no move by the journal to ...
  • Are Universities cracking down on academic and ...
    The world-wide web and the on-line community are already contributing to universities becoming much more responsive to allegations of academic dishonesty and scientific misconduct.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • New Netflix Restriction: One Stream Per Customer
    Netflix continued its recent tightening and price-raising by making it so there can only be one streaming video feed per account. For families that share accounts and want to be able to watch more than one instant stream at the same time, they'll have to sign up for an additional Unlimited St ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingTanga.com: [ESNY Totes Satin Shoes] ESNY Totes Isotoner Satin Ballerina Bridal Shoes w/ Rhinestones for $3.99ShoeMetro: [Shoes] [50% off Ed Hardy Doheny Platform Shoes]Old Navy: [Clothing & Accessories] Save 25% Off Any Order with coupon code ONBDAY25.Kohl's: [Apparel] 20% Off Entire Pu ...
  • Former Citi VP Admits To Stealing $22 Million ...
    If you think you need Ben Affleck in a creepy nun mask to heist millions from a bank, there's a former VP of Citigroup who can teach you a thing or two about a bloodless robbery. Of course, this guy also got caught and has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $22 million from his former emplo ...
  • Walmart Shopper Borrows Electric Shopping Cart ...
    You know those electric shopping carts you can use while shopping at Walmart? Then you likely also know that you're supposed to return the cart when you are done shopping. You're certainly not supposed to keep it for 11 days until you get ticketed by police for driving it down a public road. B ...
  • Sprint Sues To Block AT&T From Buying T-Mobile
    Less than one week after the Justice Dept. filed a lawsuit to block AT&T's pending $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, Sprint has filed a lawsuit of its own (but related to the DOJ suit), seeking to have the deal called off. "Sprint opposes AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile," said Sprint' ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Border Patrol Whistleblower Seeks Transfer aft ...
    Seattle Weekly: Christian Sanchez, Border Patrol Whistleblower, Requests Transfer from Olympic Peninsula After �Retaliation� Summary: Border Patrol whistleblower and GAP client Christian Sanchez, who has alleged that officials and agents are paid overtime for doing no extra work at Port Angele ...
  • Blogger to N.Y. Times: Leibowitz is a Whistleb ...
    At the time federal judge Alexander Williams Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Maryland sentenced former FBI translator Shamai Leibowitz for disclosing supposedly classified information to a blogger, even Judge Williams did not know the nature of the information Leibowitz disclosed.�The�New Yo ...
  • Problems at the Border Patrol in Washington St ...
    CNN: Border Agent Says There�s Nothing to Do, Says Money is Being Wasted Summary: Border Patrol whistleblower and GAP client Christian Sanchez has alleged that officials and agents are paid overtime for doing no extra work at all at Port Angeles in Washington state. Sanchez described the stati ...
  • Connecticut AG Dismisses 513 of 699 Whistleblo ...
    Associated Press: Conn. AG Drops Whistleblower Claims Summary: Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who assumed his position earlier this year, has closed 513 of the 699 whistleblower cases he inherited from his predecessor, saying that most of the probes lacked merit. His predecessor l ...
  • Bea Edwards Named GAP Executive Director
    Today, GAP officially announced�that International Reform Director Bea Edwards has been named Executive Director of the organization. For the past three months, she has served as Acting Executive Director. Edwards has been with GAP since 2006, and brings an impressive track record of success to ...

UK Progressive

  • Inside Govt’s Cuckoo’s Nest: ‘Keep Calm and Ca ...
    Textbook definition of insanity is to continue doing things exactly as you have and expect a different result. Well welcome to Herbert Hooverville, global financial chaos edition where the US and UK governments think the way to change the situation is to… carry on and do nothing differently. An ...
  • Jobs: A Grand Bargain
    America is a nation of Great Generation citizens, a lost generation of workers and a failed generation of self-centered and small-minded operators in business, government and finance who appear incapable of leading the nation. I will suggest below a grand compromise to create jobs that is curren ...
  • Farewell Trey: Pity We Couldn’t Help You Mend ...
    I live in Wales atop the Glamorgan Heritage Coast’s sand and limestone cliffs. It sits alongside the widest part of the Severn River dividing Southern England and Wales opening into the Irish Sea. Along with the world’s 2nd highest tidal swing it is home to incredible cliff and rocky beach walks ...
  • Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers?
    by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gasâoften touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energyâhas come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry’s rosy business projections. The Securiti ...
  • If Al Gore Had Won
    A recent poll by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair found that a majority of Americans, and a majority of Democrats, do not believe things would have changed much if Al Gore had been inaugurated president in January 2001. With a jobless scandal gripping the nation, the presiden’ts popularity collapsed f ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Carbon Tax going through next week. ALP set to ...
    You wouldn’t wish a wounded government on any nation. They’re too dangerous. The timing could hardly be worse. We’re about to force our nation to spend far more on its energy than it has too, while our competitors are decidedly not doing that, and the world faces a economic meltdown of the “gene ...
  • Newspoll — New record low for Gillard
    We all knew a fall was coming after the debacle with the Malaysian swap of asylum seekers for refugees. The Australian: Tony Abbott’s record lead over Julia Gillard: Newspoll After a devastating decision in the High Court last week wiped out the Prime Minister’s Malaysia Solution for asylum-seek ...
  • Do Tropical Storms correlate with CO2? In a wo ...
    Catastrophic killer storms are coming! ‘The Australian Greens say Tropical Cyclone Yasi is a “tragedy of climate change”.’ “DESTRUCTIVE hurricanes such as Katrina and Rita are likely to be more common … Tim Flannery warns.” “These hurricanes have been a catastrophe just waiting to happen.” … The ...
  • How to go out with a bang — score points for c ...
    An editor has resigned after committing the dastardliest of crimes: He helped publish a skeptical paper in a peer-reviewed journal. God-forbid, imagine a paper being reviewed only by people who have some sympathies with your results? It’s unthinkable. We all know that Nature and Science, for exa ...
  • NIPCC report: Rising CO2 is beneficial
    For those who want science and not politics, the enormous scientific compendium known as the NIPCC reports has been updated to incorporate new results. There are hundreds of references to peer reviewed research. It is as always, thorough, professional and comprehensive. The authors of the new NI ...
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