29 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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

• EU aid official ‘encouraged’ by visit
  EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva sees hopes of govt allowing access to troubled regions for foreign aid on two day visit
• Protest for the release of jailed journalist H ...
  Protest for the release of jailed journalist Hla Hla win
• Authorities arrest farmers in land confiscatio ...
  Farmers arrested after ransacking govt coffee plantation on land allegedly confiscated from villagers as the company starts selling off portions
• New US envoy meets ministers on first visit
  New US envoy Derek Mitchell began his first trip to the country by meeting with govt ministers in Naypyidaw
• Indian separatists attacked in Burma
  India alleged to be supplying heavy weaponry to the Burmese as Indian separatists ULFA come under attack by Burmese forces

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Arctic sea ice falls to record low
  The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area.
• The lights may go out in Germany even sooner t ...
  Germany's energy policy looks like a disaster in the making, says Christopher Booker.
• The energy-efficient lightbulbs that keep us i ...
  The energy-saving lightbulb is not a bright idea, says Christopher Howse.
• Rain, hail and yet more rain: The British Summ ...
  A cold and damp Max Davidson is very glad to see the back of the worst summer in 18 years.
• El Nino more likely to cause internal unrest
  Countries affected by the notorious El Nino weather event are twice as likely to be hit by internal unrest compared to the phenomenon's cooler, wetter counterpart, La Nina, according to a study.

National Geographic | Environment

• Trading Oil for Natural Gas in the Truck Lane
  Some U.S. companies are finding that the cost of switching to vehicles that run on alternative fuels is worth it over the long haul.
• New Shark Species Found in Food Market
  Trolling a Taiwan fish market for data, researchers reeled in a surprising catch—a deepwater shark unknown to science.
• Pictures We Love: Best of August
  NoneSee National Geographic photo editors' favorite news pictures of the month—an invisible man, sardine "storm," Swiss daredevil, and more.
• Largest U.S. Dam Removal to Restore Salmon Runs
  The deconstruction of two obsolete dams in the U.S. Pacific Northwest will restore rivers and benefit more than a hundred species, experts say.
• First New U.S. Bird Species in Decades—Already ...
  A new bird species has been found in the U.S. for the first time in decades—but the species may have already flown the coop for good.

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

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• 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

• Junk rule pits rural ideals against suburban s ...
  In New Mexico's San Juan County, a new ordinance pits upper class aesthetics against a rural lifestyle.
• Helping Hummingbirds with Citizen Science
  The dedicated volunteers of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network gather field data to help conserve the birds they love.
• California tribe competes with the state to re ...
  The Mountain Maidu Indians and the state Department of Fish and Game are both seeking control of California's Humbug Valley.
• How I survive scorching Phoenix summers
  The midsummer heat of Phoenix is unbearable to an adult human being - unless you take a lesson from the desert wildlife, and adapt.
• Tribes use land conservancies to reclaim ances ...
  The Kumeyaay Indians of Southern California are among the tribes using new strategies to reclaim rights to their lands.

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 ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
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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

• Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a cont ...
  An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government.
• Vladimir Putin plays for high stakes in the oi ...
  It has always suited Moscow to play the oil companies off against each other, argues George Trefgarne.
• The new Libya needs Britain to give, not take
  The best reward for our role in deposing Muammar Gaddafi would be stability in the North African state, says Malcolm Rifkind.
• The new Libya needs Britain to give, not take
  The best reward for our role in deposing Muammar Gaddafi would be stability in the North African state, says Malcolm Rifkind.
• North Sea oil spill is worst in a decade
  An oil spill from a Shell platform has become the worst in the North Sea in a decade, it was disclosed last night.

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

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• 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

• The onward march of the Obesity Orwellians
  When kids are snatched from their parents simply for being too fat, it’s clearly the expansion of the state, not our waistlines, that is out of control.
• Where did all the goodies and baddies go?
  Hollywood’s post-9/11 films have ditched old-style patriotic chest-beating in favour of moral self-flagellation.
• The Battle of Cable Street it wasn’t
  Dancing around to music while 3,000 policemen prevent right-wingers from marching does not echo the events of 1936.
• After 9/11: ten years of a war against… who?
  In the first of his series of ‘On Reflection’ essays, Frank Furedi reflects on our leaders' inability to give a name to their post-9/11 wars.
• The NSPCC doesn’t help kids - it harms them
  With its ceaseless promotion of fear and suspicion of adults, the NSPCC undermines organic bonds between generations.

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

• Will Hurricane Irene be a Blessing in Disguise?
  Bastiat is correct, Krugman is wrong, destruction is not a boon to the economy.
• Ron Paul is the Only One
  Wanted: a new president with an understanding of economics, knowledge of international affairs, and a dedication to constitutional rights.
• We Can’t Afford to Raise the Debt Ceiling
  Obama was correct to reject raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• We Could Take a Lesson From Islamist Militants ...
  Islamist militants pull off successful operations for a mere pittance.
• 100 Members of Hamas Arrested Just Before UN V ...
  Israeli security forces report that they have arrested at least 100 suspected members of Hamas, claiming to have foiled multiple bombing and kidnapping plots.
• How Can a Junta Survive With a Weak Army?
  Despite ruling Burma for decades, its military isn't as strong as you'd think.
• The South China Sea Conundrum
  A more stable U.S.-China relationship is needed to avoid great-power conflict in the South China Sea.
• Time to Disband NATO: A Rogue Alliance
  When the Cold War ended, many believed there would be a peace dividend, nuclear disarmament, and dismantling of the war machine with industrial conversion to peaceful technology. Instead, we've witnessed the aggressive expansion of NATO, to include the former Soviet Republics, right up to the Ru ...

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• 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

• September 05, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan breaks down the week's news, including the banning of light-bulbs and end of military processions in Wootton Bassett.
• Nuclear War In Los Angeles: What We Once Feared
  The year is 1980 and at the back of everyone's mind was total nuclear annihilation.
• Green Lobby & EU Fascists Ban 60w Light-bulbs, ...
  Switch to expensive green light-bulbs pose a litany of health problems, including headaches, auto-immune responses, mercury toxicity and cancer.
• PC Yvonne Fletcher’s Murder Was A False Flag
  Rare 90s documentary refutes official story that shots from the Libyan Embassy murdered PC Yvonne Fletcher.
• Wootton Bassett: 4 Years of Military Propagand ...
  Wootton Bassett pays final tribute to victim of Afghan war as it stops its military processions, but what was really behind the war? And why are we glorifying it?

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

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

Just World News

• 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

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

J Kozy

• 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

• About This Journal [About This Journal]
• Graduate Medical Education, 2010-2011 [Appendix]
• Medical Schools in the United States, 2010-201 ...
• Medical Specialties [JAMA Patient Page]
• Incorrect Number and Percentage in: Change in ...

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

• President Obama’s (Hoped for) “Amaze Speech”
  What if President Obama rose above political expedience and leveled with the American people?
• Why Do So Many People Believe in the Fantasy o ...
  If we don't start asking, "why?" real soon, our kids will one day be asking "How did we let this happen?"
• The New Congressional Debt Panel: An Opportuni ...
  Brent Blackwelder describes why now is the time to put pressure on the media and the 12 members of the Congressional debt panel.
• ¡Buenas noticias! ¡La recuperación económica s ...
  Traducción al Español - Dave Gardner perspectivas sobre la economía se estancó.
• Growth, Debt, and the World Bank
  Herman Daly wonders how the World Bank got in the business of increasing the debt of poor countries.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: Spot the Traitor edition
  "A newly established think-tank, the Council on the Future of Europe, whose members include Schroeder, Tony Blair, former commission president Jacques Delors, former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and economists Nouriel Roubini and Joseph Stiglitz on Monday issued a manifesto that called ...
• Oooh la lah! Now even the French are saying 'F ...
• We Are Change attempt to ask questions of Chai ...
  H/T: InfoWars Ireland
• England and The Coronation Oath: 1688 vs. 1953
  Staying on a quest to ponder the flagrant disregard exhibited for the common law and constitution of England, I thought this was rather interesting. Spot the difference - we've highlighted the relevant bit to make it easier. First up, the Coronation Oath of 1688: Will you solemnely prom ...
• Ideas for England: Let's follow Frestonia's ex ...
  Just a little food for thought for the disenfranchised English - no Parliament and under subjugation of the European Union against our consent. While they were pro-Europe, is there anything that can be learned and followed from the example set in 1977 by the 'Free and Independent Republic of ...

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

• Today on New Scientist: 9 September 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: The dark side of altruism, evolution of the female orgasm and hurricane Katia to hit the UK
• Colourful allure of sudden oak death
  This tree disease doesn't sound pretty but snap it with the right camera, from the right angle and it becomes alluring
• Science rears its head in Republican debates
  Yesterday's debate between Republican candidates for the US presidency was surprising in how much air time was given to science-related issues
• Today on New Scientist: 8 September 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: primitive "ape-men", near-death experiences and the next generation of airships
• Seeking eternal shadow on moon's north pole
  We're familiar with the full moon, half moon and far side of the moon, but this polar view is one you won't have seen before

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

• The Eternal Night Time of the Eternally Damned
  By Les Visible We’re at the midway point of the month between the beginning and the anniversary bash of 9/11. Many things are going on in the background and I’m going to list some of them with my take, unsupported by links, though there are some out there, if you are of a mind to [...]
• Why Ron Paul (In 60 Seconds)
• Greenhouse Gas Theory Discredited by ‘Coolant’ ...
  By: John O’Sullivan Science professor, a former global warming believer now denier, publishes groundbreaking paper to prove carbon dioxide cools, not warms our atmosphere. Professor Nasif Nahle found something deeply troubling about the man-made global warming theory (AGW). He explains, “I start ...
• Climategate ‘hide the decline’ exp ...
• Quote of the Day – If there is one princ ...
  If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. Thomas Jefferson

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

• Rudnick to lead Americas in GolinHarris global ...
  CHICAGO, IL: Following its recent agency reorganization, GolinHarris has put in place a new global leadership team, with Gary Rudnick promoted to president of the Americas.
• Borenstein Group acquires Q2 Marketing
  FAIRFAX, VA: The Borenstein Group has acquired Q2 Marketing, a B2B technology marketing communications firm, for an undisclosed amount.
• Patton tapped as Edelman's chief talent officer
  NEW YORK: Edelman has promoted Claudia Patton to chief talent officer, a new global position in which she will report directly to CEO Richard Edelman.
• Port of San Francisco issues RFQ
  SAN FRANCISCO: The Port of San Francisco has issued an RFQ for PR support as it prepares for its 150th anniversary and the proposed America's Cup event, both set for 2013.
• Burson-Marsteller hires Miller as senior advisor
  NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller has appointed Matt Miller as a senior advisor within the firm's global strategy group, effective immediately.

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

• Glasman: Businesses want Labour and the unions ...
  Maurice Glasman says businesses “do not think the coalition government is serious about growth”; they think Labour and the unions should be “partners in growth”.
• Cuts threaten to “destroy BBC Wales” claim NUJ
  The National Union of Journalists has told Left Foot Forward reductions to programming threaten to “destroy BBC Wales as a separate entity”, reports Ed Jacobs.
• Grassroots Lib Dems: The current bill dismantl ...
  The Social Liberal Forum calls for a clearer duty to provide on behalf of the health minister, a curbing of the national commissioning baord to promote choice, making GP consortia more accountable and the retention of the cap on private treatment.
• “Private” Fraser is jumping the gun in predict ...
  “Private” Murdo Fraser, who is hoping to lead the Conservatives in Scotland, is jumping the gun in predicting the Scottish Tories are doomed, writes Kevin Meagher.
• Will Clarke stay the course on his latest U-turn?
  Johann Koehler, a researcher at Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology, responds to Ken Clarke’s latest U-turn on crime and reoffending.

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

• Obama 2012 Bundlers : The Wealthy Who Like Obama
  Open Secrets reports:244 elites are directing at least $34,950,000 for Obama's re-election efforts -- money that has gone into the coffers of his campaign as well as the Democratic National Committee.
• California’s Water Wars
  City Journal
• Now Obama Wants To Extend Tax Breaks For Corpo ...
  Instapundit
• Businesses post most job openings in 3 years
  USA Today
• Generational Wealth Redistribution: Dem Rep Br ...
  The Blaze

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 ...

ReNew America

• Book review: 'Hollywood Left and Right'
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Most Americans who pay attention to politics believe Hollywood's political influence in American life and culture is heavily weighted on the left. Steven J. Ross, a historian who teaches at the University of Southern California, begs to differ. He believes the evidence ...
• America remembers
  (NewsMax) - View tribute...
• Photo essay: Remembering and understanding 9/11
  (Looking at the Left) - September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of that morning in 2001 when a 7th century Arabian warriors' creed attacked the very heart of the modern world at the dawn of the 21st century. Ten years later we find America in a state of confusion and disunity concerning the ...
• NYC, Washington increase security, manhunt for ...
  (NewsMax) - The hunt continued on Friday for three men -- one a U.S. citizen -- believed to be planning a massive car-bomb attack to mark Sunday's tenth anniversary of 9/11...
• American civilization wiped off the earth? A t ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - "America's mayor," Rudy Giuliani, told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that there had been about 40 attempted/planned attacks on America in the ten years since 9/11, and he assumed there will be more. He believes future attacks on America could come at us in a f ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Tunguska-type Event in New Zealand?
  In the South Island of New Zealand, near the small town of Tapanui, you can find the above crater. Well, some scientists believe it to be a small landslide… According to the great array of evidence ...Tunguska-type Event in New Zealand? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Pravda repo ...
• Farewell Elenin
  Confirmed today by Sky and Telescope, Comet Elenin has either broken in half or disintegrated completely. Astronomers have seen its brightness halving in the last week, and the bright core has become “elongated and diffuse”. ...Farewell Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:New I ...
• Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat
  One of my best sources of information is Google Alerts – it lets me know all the new websites and web pages that show up for a particular key phrase. Alerts for keywords like 2012 ...Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Comet Creates Magnetic Pole Shift ...
• Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC
  Many independent researchers believe that something must of occurred in 3114BC to trigger the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar – and therefore any information about events from 5,000 years ago catch my eye – like ...Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
• Dreams About 2012
  As a child I had a few recurring dreams. One of them could’ve been a nightmare but wasn’t. I was standing in the front yard of my home in cookie-cutter suburb. My parents and siblings were ...Dreams About 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 Forum – Becoming Very Internation ...

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 ...

One News Page

• Lewis Hamilton No. 1 driver, says Formula One ...
  Formula One legend Gerhard Berger has rated 2008 champion Lewis Hamilton as the top racer of the current generation.
• Delhi among 30 cities at high risk of earthquake!
  Delhi is among 30 important cities in the country that fall into high risk zone while Srinagar is among places at very high risk of earthquakes.
• Petra Ecclestone bought GBP 52m mansion 'so he ...
• Britney Spears to shoot new video promo in London
• Jessica Simpson - face of beauty site BeautyMint

Global Research TV

• Manipulating Video Images: Sloppy Journalism o ...
• Report from Tripoli: "NATO carpet bombed Libya"
• NATO Uses Libya To Match, Surpass and Supplant UN
• Guerres Vertes... humanitaires - NON NON NON ! ...
• The Toronto 9/11 Hearings - 9/11/11

Daily Tech

• South Korea's Antitrust Investigation Into Goo ...
  Asian nation is concerned about whether Android is blocking competitors' search engines
• Groupon Delays IPO Due to SEC Questioning
  Groupon is not cancelling the IPO, but is putting it on hold for the time being because of SEC questioning and the dismal outlook of developed economies' stock markets
• Netflix Limits Accounts to One Stream Per Subs ...
  Certain plans will no longer allow families (who share accounts) to watch more than one instant stream at the same time
• 9/7/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Wednesday
• HP Unveils New Range of AIO Computers
  Line includes consumer and business offerings

Oriental Review

• Taliban’s New Strategy
  If Taliban head Mullah Omar’s recent Eid ul-Fitr (marking end of Muslim holy month Ramadan) speech serves any indication – it is Taliban’s latest strategy to regroup and enhance its prospects to rule Afghanistan but in a new format…Besides some of the high sounding and oft repeated slogans such ...
• Revolt In Libya a Message to Chavez
  The Libyan rebels’ August 23 attack on the Venezuelan embassy and compound in Tripoli went largely unreported, though fatalities were narrowly averted as Venezuelan ambassador Afif Tajeldine and the embassy staff moved to a safer location at the last moment and left Libya shortly thereafter. It ...
• West’s Intervention in Libya Opens New Epoch
  It looks like the global community has not fully realized the seriousness of what is going on in Libya. Mass media are still reporting on some local ârebelsâ in Libya and only somewhere on the background of public conscience âBritish special troopsâ and âCIA expertsâ emerge from time to time… Bu ...
• The Arab League: Trying to Keep up with Arab S ...
  A PR campaign conducted by the Arab League in recent years and attempts to dampen Iran’s “imperial ambitions” and prevent uncoordinated actions by Arab countries have proven ineffective. And if the Arab League’s new head fails to make this pan-Arab organization over into a driving force in regio ...
• The Arab Spring Grows Into Muslim Turmoil
  Informational warfare launched by the West in the Muslim world could not but result in the Arab youth betraying their traditional values and taking to the streets to express their protest. It is absolutely evident that these protests were orchestrated from overseas. This became particularly clea ...

BlogHer

• Homemade Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
  Making these little cookie ice cream sandwiches made me so happy today! My favorite little twins are coming over and I was going to buy one of their favorite desserts, ice cream sandwiches, but decided instead that I would create healthier and tastier ones. So I�baked oatmeal cookies made with w ...
• You Can't Cheat Death By Smiling
  [Editor's Note: Laurie's post touches on a lot of different aspects of battling cancer -- a positive outlook can only do so much, and in the end sometimes it comes down to "you get cancer and die", it's not about losing a battle and it's not something that can be changed by smiling a little more ...
• Shelf Clearing Controversy Kicks off Season Tw ...
  I think I'm the only couponer in the entire world who isn't annoyed by season 2 of TLC's Extreme Couponing, which starts September 28 at 10pm (9pm CT). Not only am I not annoyed by it, I'm actually looking forward to it and I'm hoping that I can live Chatter/Tweet the shows again this year. (I k ...
• Respect Billable Time
  Can I pick your brain? Perhaps the worst 5 words you can speak to an entrepreneur. What it means is "Can I ask you to work for me for free?" While there are times when it is absolutely great to give your time and expertise away pro-bono, doing it too often will result in your business folding. ...
• Maybe It's Time You Stopped Blogging...
  [Editor's Note: My Life as an Ungraceful, Unhinged, and Unwilling Draftee into the Autism Army has a very amusing post giving the top ten signs that you should stop blogging. I'll give you the middle of the list below, but you'll need to click over to read the whole thing (and laugh!). --Mel] ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Vaccines Are Dangerous – The Government ...
  Dr. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer Finally! The mainstream admits that vaccines are dangerous and cause certain side effects, sometimes serious ones! AP writer Lauran Neergaard did not have the nerve to put in print that the rare but really serious ...
• ConAgra Sued Over GMO ’100% Natural&#821 ...
  “If you use Wesson brand cooking oils, you might be able to join a class action suit against food giant ConAgra for deceptively marketing the products as natural.” One plaintiff is making waves by suing ...
• The Spiritual Nature of Cancer
  Could there be a spiritual correlation between getting cancer and how the patient heals? Conventional medicine often segregates the physical aspect of sickness. It is often left out of the equation completely. One’s soul, spirit, and ...
• Mercury Poisoning Linked To Beauty Cream
  A Mexican facial cream called Crema Aguamary is causing mercury blood poisoning in some South Texas people. Cream samples tested showed mercury levels hundreds of thousands of times higher than US permitted levels. Mercury contamination was ...
• Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotic Use &# ...
  Blood letting. Mercury. Lead based products. GMOs. The absolute horrors of common practices aren’t fully realized until decades later; sometimes centuries. Antibiotic use, it turns out, does more damage than just leading to drug resistant diseases. ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Alpha to take on MSHA over enforcement
  Anyone who follows the coal industry is by now familiar with Alpha Natural Resources and its pitch that its operations are “Running Right,” especially compared to Massey Energy. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., is among those who assures us that with new ownership now in Southern West Virginia thin ...
• MSHA warning device rule would save millions
  There’s a lot of talk these days about the costs of burdensome regulations. But I often wonder if those discussions take into account the money our society saves by protecting the environment, consumers and public health. Take the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s proposal for requiri ...
• Happy Labor Day
  A union coal miner at work at Alpha Natural Resources’ Emerald Mine in Greene County, Pa. Photo by Phil Smith, UMWA Journal. Itâs a good day not only to spend time with family and friends, but to remember the workers who do so much for all of us ⦠Hereâs hoping everyone has a safe [...]
• Friday roundup, Sept. 2, 2011
  In this May 26, 2011 photo, a tailings pond is seen at the Bingham Copper Mine in Magna, Utah (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Mike Terry) Four coal miners died late last week when a mine collapsed in northern Mexican state of Coahuila. As Reuters pointed out, this comes a few months after a May expl ...
• Will Rep. McKinley attend citizen meeting?
  Well, according to the Daily Mail, Rep. David McKinley took in $20,000 at a fundraiser over at The Greenbrier, where West Virginia’s leaders of business and industry are holding their annual summit. But so far, his office has declined to say whether he’s planning to accept an invitation to meet ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Truths of America in 2011
  There is shockingly little truth in any of the normal outlets in America. Universities, mainstream media, common conversation — they all focus on their own particular vector and spin on truth. And often they’re not even lying: they’re just biased and wrong. So let me give my version of biased an ...
• Bill Moyers on Obama
  “Obama seems obsessed with wanting to lead the country in what he sees as a post-partisan era while his opponents are so partisan they have only one goal in mindâto destroy him even if they have to burn down the house to do it. Well, you may want with all your heart to save your [...]
• The Information Ages
  Historian Robert Darnton says there have been four great Information Ages in all human history, where a new technology has transformed how we communicate and interact—and he goes back to 4000 BC Mesopotamia for the first of these, the invention of writing. Then comes movable type, then mass stea ...
• Is Rick Perry Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Not ...
  Just this past Thursday in New Hampshire, in response to a child’s question, Perry described evolution as “a theory that’s out there” and one that’s “got some gaps in it.” His latest statement is remarkably similar to what his office wrote to a Texas voter in 2006 when questioned about intellige ...
• David Korten on America
  We in America rely on foreign consumer credit to live ever further beyond our own means, while allowing our physical, social, and productive infrastructure to deteriorate from neglect. It is the classic path of a dying Empire in decline and denial.� via yesmagazine.org Posted via email from dani ...

Fitwatch

• ‘Intelligence on the cheap’? Only if you don’ ...
  According to an Evening Standard article on Friday, those poor detectives at NPOIU are providing 'intelligence on the cheap', having to buy heaters for their freezing offices and living off Mcdonalds and Burger King. However, like the majority of Evening Standard articles, the facts and figures ...
• Avon and Somerset police repress local paper
  On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Auton ...
• Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
  The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
• The reason why the youth hate the police
  This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
• This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
  The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?

Worldwide Hippies

• WWH News Briefs Wednesday
  3 Guard members killed in Nevada IHOP rampage CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) â The burst of bullets came suddenly in Nevada’s capital. Just before 9 a.m., the gunman stepped onto an IHOP parking lot from his blue minivan with a yellow “Support Our Troops” sticker on it. He opened fire, then continued in ...
• Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
  By Deena Stryker – An Italian radio program’s story about Icelandâs on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were men ...
• Dis- Order in the courts
  Back-Up Plans For The Individual Mandate? kaiserhealthnews.org – What happens if the health law’s individual mandate — the provision that requires almost all Americans to obtain health insurance or face a penalty — is overturned by the Supreme Court? Though more legal action is likely before the ...
• Study: Sexist men and women made for each other
  usatoday.com – When it comes to aggressive courtship strategies, sexist men and women seem to be perfect for each other, new research suggests. U.S. researchers conducted two surveys: One included 363 college students at a large Midwestern university, and the other was a national Internet poll o ...
• We’re Checking Out
  By Diana May-Waldman, WWH-I used to live in the suburbs and recently moved back to the city, We chose a smaller house closer to the beach. My former home had four bedrooms and three bathrooms and as my nest grew smaller, I felt the overwhelming urge to downsize. Not only did I want a smaller [...]

reference frame

• WSJ on politics of cosmoclimatology
  Willie sent me a pretty insightful article in the Wall Street Journal. Anne Jolis (see the picture) wrote about The Other Climate Theory,namely cosmoclimatology. It remarkably seems to go beneath the surface. The modern theory began with a 1975 paper by Robert Dickinson�(even though Sir W ...
• TRF prediction came true: John Cook won the Eu ...
  On Wednesday, August 24th, I wrote the following blog entry: John Cook will receive lots of money for climate propagandaIn that text, I claimed that a hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous redundant tiny stalking appendices of your humble correspondent (and of a few others) will win t ...
• CRESST-II joins dark matter's war on existence
  In May 2011, TRF readers were reminded about the ongoing full-fledged war of existence of the dark matter: CoGeNT sees seasons (and maybe dark matter)Recall that there are two opposing camps of experimenters, namely DMIS (dark matter is seen) and DMINS (dark matter is not seen). At the en ...
• Andrew Dessler: clouds don't reflect light
  The consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of the journal to resign. By the way, Mr Alexander Ač of Czech Globe, an ex-student ...
• NASA 3D app: Eyes on the Solar System
  If you want to see how any object in the Solar System looks like from the viewpoint of any probe NASA sent, is sending, or will send in the space, see this 3-minute introduction to a new NASA app. Attractive American Astronomer Amy (AAAA) on the video above will instruct you to g ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Are you a Fiatard? Gold is not in a bubble.
  Only a retard says that Gold is in a bubble. If you hear anyone make that claim or claim that gold and silver are nothing but commodities, you are either talking to a shill or a retard. In either case tune them out. Speaking of out, get out of dollars before your wealth is toast. [...] Rela ...
• NATO Libyan War Crimes
  This video is not for the faint of heart but you need to see what your tax dollars are financing. NATO is no different than the Nazis. This is a sick and sad testament to the evil that controls us. Refuse to partake in this system. A contrived and unprovoked war – NATO’s terrorism knows [...] ...
• British Bullshit Corporation BBC Lies to the S ...
  I will let the kid do the talking. He has it pegged. Tell me why you haven’t figured it out yet? Are ya a moran? Technorati Tags: BBC, Libya, Media, Lies, British Bullshit Corporation Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Truth About the Lies FULL DOCUMENTARY The Truth ab ...
• Silver! Final Warning!
  Last call. Get in or kiss your ass goodbye. Heretic Productions present : Silver Shield’s Final Warning. dont-tread-on.me Video Rating: 4 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Silver Shield – Chris Duan ...
• Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
  This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...

Truth About Our World

• Frank Zappa speaks his mind…
• The electrical retribalization of society
• The Real Face of the European Union
• 9/11 Building 7 – Martin Noakes
  � The Georgia Guidestones: http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm � Agenda 21: http://green-agenda.com/agenda21.html � New World Order: http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/ � Nikola Tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxD_4n3KMg � Freeman on the Land http://www.exploringinfinity.com/2010/01/import ...
• The Herd Mentality

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Salad bars surge in D.C. schools
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Local bok choy and baby spinach, a mesclun mix with mandarin oranges and broccoli florets topped with Asian chicken strips. No, it's not the lunch menu at Chez Panisse, the influential organic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Keeping You in the Dark on Tap Water Contaminants
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior V-P for Research More than 300 pollutants contaminate the water Americans drink, an EWG analysis of almost 20 million public records found. Truly pure tap water is a rare commodity in the U.S., but until... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Support a Climate Rider for EWG
  By Lauren Heumann, EWG intern and climate rider Growing up, I was a huge fan of the Environmental Working Group. It had me hooked with its first Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. I always rely on EWG's Sunscreen Safety... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• Cemeteries: The Next Drilling Frontier?
  By Alex Rindler, Government Affairs Assistant When it comes to drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the natural gas industry leaves no stone unturned. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported that Huntley & Huntley, Inc., a self-described "God fearing"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at the University... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Turner targets conservative-leaning Jews of th ...
  The Bob Turner campaign has launched a new ad campaign aimed squarely at the conservative-leaning Jewish vote in the Ninth Congressional District, a demographic that has received a disproportionate amount of attention in the run-up to the September 13 spec ...
• Hearkening back to New York's '90s 'war on str ...
  "[T]he principal policing problem right now" is that police officers are "not paying enough attention to young minority men," argues the New York Post editorial page. Jumaane Williams and Kirsten John Foy and many elected officials in New York City may not ...
• Gun incidents and Rex Ryan dominate New York, ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Seeking a root cause for the shootings, other ...
  The Associated Press is out with a story trying to get at a root cause of the deadly violence this weekend that left approximately three dozen New Yorkers shot and wounded. But they're focusing on the West Indian American Day Parade and not some wider issu ...
• How a top aide to the public advocate ended up ...
  Kirsten John Foy, a top legislative aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, is seen being tripped to the ground and later, being led away in handcuffs, after he and City Councilman Jumaane Williams were stopped by police officers at the end of the West Ind ...

Views & News from Norway

• Norway’s Euro 2012 dream in tatters
  Norway’s national football team (landslaget) was easily beaten 2-0 by Nordic rivals Denmark on Tuesday night in Copenhagen, leaving its chances of qualifying for the European Championships in 2012 (‘Euro 2012′) looking very slim indeed. The team’s qualifying credentials were reaffirmed with a 1 ...
• Philippine peace talks set to resume
  Norway is poised to once again host talks aimed at bringing peace between the government of the Philippines and the country’s communist insurgents. Representatives for both sides  have agreed on a new effort to resume peace talks in Oslo next month. News bureau NTB reported that the communists ...
• Heavy rains take a heavy toll
  Residents of southern Norway were mopping up again on Wednesday after another deluge, with the promise of a few days of respite from the rain that’s fallen with alarming frequency since early June. The bad weather doesn’t just dampen spirits, but also carries a heavy cost. More torrential rain d ...
• Rain didn’t dampen ‘day out’
  Neither rain, nor wind nor lots of mud managed to stop thousands of Norwegians from heading into the great outdoors over the weekend, and officials at the Norwegian Trekking Association (Den Norske Turistforening, DNT) hope such hearty spirit will last through the autumn storm season as well. On ...
• School elections cheer Labour Party
  Never before has the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) done so well in the school elections held as a test of young Norwegians’ choices before general elections. Labour’s victory in the elections held at 368 schools around the country on Tuesday was called “historic.” Labour attracted 29.7 perc ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Two New School Permaculture Projects for Ethiopia
  by Geraldine Quinlan, from Ireland, a new intern at the Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in Ethiopia 1. Gocha In the morning we visited Gocha Primary School. Before starting work together Tichafa gathered everyone in the classroom. He spoke about the importance of growing food for independence fro ...
• Sustainable World Radio Interviews Margie Bush ...
  Margie Bushman & Wes Roe on Amazon boat tour, IPC8 Brazil Here’s a great opportunity to get a bit of background and foreground on the International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC10), which is now imminent! Listen to the podcast below to hear Margie and Wes talk to Sustainable Worl ...
• Abrupt Climate Change – and the Geo-Engineerin ...
  Sahel Drought – worst of the 20th Century I thought I’d supplement the previous post by George Monbiot by expanding a little on his mention of the Sahel drought and its cause. Being one of the worst environmental disasters of the last century, it’s certainly worth a little [...]
• Balloon Debate
  Why is the government spending £1.6m on a geo-engineering experiment whose results can never be used? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It’s atmospheric liposuction: a retrospective fix for planetary over-indulgence. Geo- ...
• Gold Coast Permaculture – Healthy and Active W ...
  Our in-house teachers made a sterling start to the Gold Coast City Council-sponsored Active and Healthy Programme on Saturday 23 July, with two workshops taking place at Gold Coast Permaculture’s (GCP) 270 Ferry Rd Southport headquarters. A total of 36 participants in the workshops arrived, a nu ...

Pointman's

• Ship.
  The craft hurled across the cold light years, a gutted wreck. Inside the pierced hull, the litter of habitation floated idly, free from the long gone bounds of artificially induced gravity and free from the orderliness of her crew. Indeed, their bodies formed a part of the slow motion blizzard o ...
• So, which is it; Global Warming, Climate Disru ...
  We had nearly two decades worth of propaganda telling us we were the cause of the planet warming up and unless we stopped emitting carbon, we were all going to burn up in the looming thermogeddon. This scare was branded Global Warming and gradually entered the popular consciousness. People natur ...
• London’s burning, an alternative viewpoint.
  You know what you do when one or two hundred kids in hoodies turn up in your high street and start looting it? Nothing. Thatâs what you do because youâre helpless. Thereâs only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, youâve called them but youâre just another one … ...
• I’m not a scientist but …
  For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
• On murderous madmen.
  The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• VAYLA Press Conference: Six Public High School ...
  From the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA): About 18 months ago, students began to examine conditions in six public high schools, embarking on the most extensive, youth-led evaluation of New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina. In total, we have gather ...
• The Help 2: "I did not apologize!" Starring Ja ...
  Below, excerpts from the Library Chronicles Blog, which posted some excellent commentary today on the Jackie Clarkson Controversy: Even if we were in the mood to be charitable toward Jackie...we still have to point out just how easy it could have been for her to better handle this situation. ...
• Appeal in Anti-Muslim Conviction Set for Tomor ...
  We urge all supporters of justice to come tomorrow at 9:30am to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to support the defendants in the "Holy Land Five" case. Oral arguments for the defendants' appeal in the Holy Land Five case are tomorrow morning. The largest Muslim charitable organi ...
• Friends and Family of Henry Glover Announce Ne ...
  From Reverend Raymond Brown: Friends and family of shooting victim Henry Glover will hold a news conference on the site where Mr. Henry Glover was killed 6 years ago by two New Orleans Police Officers. Ms. Rebecca Glover and Mr. William Tanner will be guest speakers at the news conference. ...
• MARK OUR WORDS: Taking Heed of Hurricane Katr ...
  By Tracie L. Washington, Esq. Director/Counsel, Louisiana Justice Institute There was an odd sense of relief in New Orleans and all along the Gulf Coast as we approached this sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We had survived another year without a major storm. But that joy is alwa ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Running both sides of every conflict is the Jew MO. Look at Libya: the Jew Ghadaffi versus the Jews' NATO. How can you lose if you are on both sides? Believing anything at face value should not be the first reaction of an informed person reading the news. Could this be connected to the Gule ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Something wrong with this. Turkey has been run by Jews since forever. Me thinks the jews are actually doing more in the long run for Turkey, i.e. get Turkey in the "FUTURE" into Europe, i.e. Banking, one of their own.Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:17 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Timothy-Fitzpatrick said Looks like Wood is a Jew shill Please enlighten me Tim-Fitz ! Looks like I need to brush up on my "Jew shill" spotting capabilities ! There is a tenuous connection here. This goes back to 2007 but we can see the enemy at work and you can bet they have pushed their ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUpVeRh2R7Y It's the very least that they should do imo.I wonder what we'll be seeing next.PKK attacks? Here's a knesset members view of the situation. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyx1Sh4bHaI I know i've watched too many movies, but does she ...
• Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
  I wonder how the Jobs family is going to feel when the heebie-jeebies fuck Syria up-the-ass like these creatures have done to virtually the ENTIRE ARAB WORLD in the past 18 months. Maybe a brave reporter should ask him DIRECTLY how he feels about the impending destruction of Syria, very simila ...

TVNZ

• Amnesty International seeks probe on Sri Lanka ...
  Amnesty International says a national inquiry into Sri Lanka's civil war has failed.
• NATO suspends transfers to some Afghan prisons
  NATO-led forces have stopped handing over prisoners to several Afghan jails.
• Bomb at India High Court kills nine
  A powerful bomb in New Delhi has killed at least nine people and injured 45.
• Mubarak back in court over protester deaths
  An Egyptian court trying Hosni Mubarak will hear more testimonies today.
• Gaddafi staffer denies convoy to Niger
  A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi has denied he has fled to Niger.

environment 360

• Scientists Calls for Ban On Industrial Deep-Se ...
  A new report by a team of international scientists calls for a ban on industrial deep-sea fishing, saying that decades of overexploitation have depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other species. The report, published in the journal Marine Policy, says that depletion of global f ...
• New Global Warming Survey is First to Include ...
  A new survey on U.S. views concerning global warming based on political party affiliation finds agreement across party lines for the need to fund renewable energy research, but wide disparity over whether global warming is even happening. The survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communi ...
• Debt-Ridden Greece Proposes Huge Solar Power E ...
  Greek officials are calling for an ambitious expansion of solar power generation in their sunny country, hoping that large-scale production of renewable energy will generate significant revenues and green jobs for the country’s troubled economy. Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou says ...
• Post-Irene Sediment Clouds Hudson River and Ne ...
  This NASA satellite image, taken after Hurricane Irene deluged the New York City area with heavy rains, shows Click to enlarge NASANew York Harbor, post-Irene massive amounts of sediment mixing with the darker waters of New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the pale green, brown, ...
• Process Uses Plastic Bottles to Remove Arsenic ...
  U.S. researchers say they have developed a simple, inexpensive process that uses common plastic bottles to remove arsenic from drinking water, a problem facing nearly 100 million people in developing nations. In the process, pieces of plastic soda or water bottles are coated with cysteine — an a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Cheney's Love Letter to Himself
  Paul Begala on why Dick Cheney was one of the most incompetent, destructive public officials of our time.
• Unions Turn on Obama
  Labor unions have lost enthusiasm for the president just as he needs their help for 2012. By Eleanor Clift.
• GOP Debaters Gun for Perry
  Wednesday night’s debate won’t be about President Obama this time but Rick Perry, says Mark McKinnon.
• The Anti-Glam Leading Man
  From his fratty start as Ben Affleck’s other half, Matt Damon has quietly evolved into a terrific actor.
• Bizarre Mansion Death a Suicide?
  A cryptic message, mysterious bruises—new details raise questions over the police ruling on Rebecca Zahau.

Loonwatch

• Lieberman: Obama’s concern with offending Musl ...
  Lieberman buys into Islamophobic line that "Obama" is afraid of "offending Muslims."
• Rep. Allen West Goes “Nuts!”
  Rep.Allen West goes "nuts" along with his anti-Muslim base of support.
• NYPD Spying on Mosques, Muslim Restaurants, an ...
  NYPD's finest violate the Fourth Amendment, illegally spying on Muslims.
• Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America
  States’ efforts to outlaw Islamic law resemble 19th-century anti-Semitism.
• The DOJ’s escalating criminalization of ...
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes.

Energy News

• The Texas radiation coverup — New 5-part ...
  A Matter of Risk: Radiation, Drinking Water and Deception, KHOU by ...Read More
• Locals: Talk of Fukushima area being a testing ...
  More families leave Fukushima over radiation fears, DPA by Takehiko Kambayashi, ...Read More
• Former Japan leader says meltdown of Fukushima ...
  Former Japan PM: I thought nuke mishap could destroy Tokyo, Dong-a ...Read More
• Prime Minister Kan: I thought nuke mishap coul ...
  Former Japan PM: I thought nuke mishap could destroy Tokyo, Dong-a ...Read More
• Tweet: Cesium detected in well water @ 31 becq ...
  Tweet by @HayakawaYukio (Yukio Hayakawa), 21,563 Followers, August 31, 2011: Translation ...Read More

Japan Times

• (M)otocompo's theater challenges stale indie ...
  Shuffling onto the stage in a flurry of robotic jerks come three men wearing glazed expressions and identical striped tops. In time with the retro-futurist synthesizer chirps and bleeps, they then lurch into a kind of clockwork dance routine, while a fourth man, wearing a construction helmet and ...
• Mental care centers planned for kids orphaned ...
  The welfare ministry decided Wednesday to set up mental health care centers for children who lost parents to the March disaster in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, ministry sources said. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has concluded that such facilities are necessary to enlist m ...
• China turns up the heat
  As Chinese President Hu Jintao greeted his Philippine counterpart Benigno Aquino in Beijing recently at the start of a state visit, the official Xinhua news agency laid out terms for a sustained improvement in relations between the world's second biggest economy and its much smaller and weaker S ...
• Noda could visit China as early as October
  Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda could visit China as early as October, government sources said Wednesday. If the trip can be arranged, Noda would hold talks with President Hu Jintao or Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing on strengthening the bilateral relationship, the sources said.
• "Jamaica Rocks"
  A group of Jamaican musicians and dancers led by explosive "singjay" Abijah, as well as Tessanne Chin and rising star I Eye, have set off on a major tour of Japan. The tour is being coordinated by the Min-On Concert Association, in collaboration with the Embassy of Jamaica in Tokyo, and Jamaica' ...

Alexander Higgins

• #WikiLeaks – US, France Knew In 2007 Fin ...
  In 2007 top US and France officials knew rampant fraud being committed by regulators, rating agencies and Wall Street Banks would soon cause a global financial collapse.
• #WikiLeaks: Israel Warns Chemical Weapons Will ...
  Wikileaks Tel Aviv cable reveals Israel's chemical weapon plan to crackdown on peaceful Palestine protests with a senior official quoted saying "we don't do Gandhi very well."
• Police Kill Autistic Man, Taser Mentally Disab ...
  Video captures police killing autistic man, tasering surrending mentally disabled man, after lethal beating cover ups as cops seek life sentences for filming officers.
• Mega Disasters – Japan Great Earthquake ...
  One hour Mega Disasters documentary on the Japan Great Earthquake 2011 covering the loss of life, destruction and the ongoing level 7 nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima.
• Epic Santelli Rant – The Real Spectacle ...
  Santelli rants the real spectacle is running up of in trillions of debt in the first place and now stripping the poor of everything they have to pay it back

Macleans - Central

• Forget Gosling, Pitt and Clooney—check out the ...
  Some of TIFF's brightest stars are unknown kids acting without a net
• From the magazine
  Here, from this week’s print edition, is a brief consideration of where the NDP...
• Looking back on the summer’s big art sho ...
  At first blush, the two big art shows in Canada this summer—the National Gallery’s...
• The price of peace with the Taliban
  The prospect of a negotiated end to the war is increasingly tantalizing
• Eddie Murphy Hosts Oscars; Bob Hope Still Un-T ...
  Here’s the official announcement that Eddie Murphy will be the next host of the...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Rising Tuition Fees: A debt sentence for Ontar ...
  Recently the Financial Post suggested a steady diet of Kraft Dinner and encouraging 13 year olds to become more entrepreneurial were strategic elements in helping students bear the rising cost of higher education. (I’m exaggerating–but only just.) Because I guess the problem that needs to be add ...
• Hurricane Trichet Hits Jackson Hole
  I just finished watching Jack Layton’s state funeral and notice that Jean-Claude Trichet’s speech from Jackson Hole is out. The European Central Bank president does not seem to get it. Far from acknowledging that last month’s interest-rate hike was premature, he touts “price stability.” His main ...
• Recession Ahead?
  TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable to recession than it was in 2008.  It highlights reduced capacity for governments to respond given that interest rates are already very low ...
• Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins
  Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of Cana ...
• The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
  The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences.  This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...

ReDress

• Gaza not represented in UN's blockade whitewas ...
  Stuart Littlewood analyses the conclusions of the UN's Palmer inquiry into the fatal Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara: a "bizarre reframing of the situation - that the illegal occupier, Israel, is the victim of the Palestinians' lawful resistance and that Israel's sec ...
• Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing
  Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey's decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv's refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream ...
• Israel's settler army and government poised to ...
  Uri Avnery says Israel's settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.
• America's FBI goes rogue
  Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
• From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
  Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.

Physics Today

• Former US government scientist tried to sell n ...
  BBC: Stewart Nozette, a former planetary scientist who ran a nonprofit technology company, has admitted to charges that he attempted to sell technological secrets to Israel. Nozette was caught when he offered details of the US nuclear missile program to an FBI agent who pretended to work for Isr ...
• Turkish Academy of Sciences fights government ...
  Science: Turkey's government has decreed that the Turkish Academy of Sciences (known by its Turkish abbreviation T�BA) will no longer choose all its own members. From now on, the government will directly appoint one-third of new academy members. Another one-third will be appointed by the governm ...
• Editor-in-chief who published flawed article r ...
  Think Progress: In a stunning move, the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Remote Sensing has resigned over the journal’s publication of what he calls a “fundamentally flawed” paper by climate science deniers Roy Spencer and William Braswell of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In ...
• Tech company to build innovative test town in ...
  Washington Post: A Washington DC–based technology company plans to build in New Mexico a 20-square-mile model of a typical American town. The $200 million “Center,” the first of its kind in the US, will boast highways, houses, and commercial buildings—old and new—all designed to test everything ...
• Electrified bacterial filaments zap uranium
  Nature: Pili, which are hairlike filaments that sprout from some bacteria, can enable the bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater without becoming poisoned in the process. Geobacter sulfurreducens, for example, obtains energy by reducing, or adding electrons to, metals in the en ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Andrew Napolitano, Fox Business Host, Reveals ...
  by username (Posted Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:57:24 GMT) check ur 6. Big brother is watching.
• Nothing To Celebrate - Osama Won The War
  by DC (Posted Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:53:52 GMT) ... and now he has 79 virgins he has to support? That's winning?
• FF News: Celeb Talk
  by footprints (Posted Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:07:47 GMT) Re:FF News: 'Movie-Magic,' News 3 Days, 7 Hours ago Karma: 0 Leonardo DiCaprio is pleading with fans in California to back a bill banning the sale of shark fins in the state. The Hollywood star, a passionate animal rights campaigner, previ ...
• FF News: President Abdulla talks about Washington
  by footprints (Posted Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:21:14 GMT) ASHINGTON — The Justice Department says George Washington's home at Mount Vernon will undergo improvements to help the disabled, with accessible walkways, closed captioning for films and sign language and audio tours in the mansion and the gro ...
• FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-Augu ...
  by footprints (Posted Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:00:04 GMT) FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-August 2011 5 Minutes ago Karma: 0 Key Searches of Footprints Filmworks from 1 August 2011-31 August 2011... Footprints Filmworks 71293 Omar Abdulla 36543 Zunaid Moti 30212 Fehmeda Ismail 30000 Sham ...

Peakwater

• Controversial Chinese projects in Cambodia bow ...
  “CSG, a state-owned company established in 2002 to transmit and distribute electrical power in China’s southern provinces, has quit all its potential power projects in Cambodia, said the company’s spokesman Rambo Niu Feng. The power utility had conducted feasibility studies for at least six prop ...
• Farmers’ Right To Water
  “The recent killing of three innocent farmers by police in Maval of Pune district, Maharashtra led to pandemonium in Parliament and in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Questions were raised on why it happened and who was responsible for the killing. The Government was reportedly planning to div ...
• Citarum River Brings Fresh Water Along With Di ...
  “The heavily polluted Citarum River has become a vector for disease for the 25 million people in western Java who rely on it for potable water and irrigation. In the first of three articles, The Jakarta Postâs Tifa Asrianti reports on the riverâs deteriorating condition and its public health eff ...
• Botswana Bushmen Drink From Reopened Borehole
  “Survival International says Botswana’s Bushmen are drinking water from a borehole in the Kalahari desert for the first time in nine years. It is a significant victory against the government that once evicted them from their ancestral lands. The government capped the well at Mothomelo in 2002 to ...
• Vegas tries to kick its water addiction
  “At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, where water seems ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich: Jobs Report Shows Urgent Need for Bo ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement in response to the latest report by the Department of Labor that the U.S. economy added no jobs in the month of August.� �The grim numbers reported by the Labor Department are a warning that budget cuts and talk of auste ...
• Regarding a Non-Violent Conclusion to the Even ...
  The Guardian newspaper recently reported that it found communications between me and an intermediary regarding a possible visit to Libya. From the beginning of the conflict, I have led the effort in challenging the Obama Administration�s war in Libya and to seeking a just, peaceful resoluti ...
• Kucinich to GE’s Immelt: What Other U.S. Techn ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to Jeffrey Immelt, C.E.O. of General Electric, who also heads President Obama�s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, requesting more information about GE�s apparent transfer of technology to China that was originally derived from U.S. taxpayer-funded rese ...
• Administration Waived U.S. Law 46 Times to Hel ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after news outlets reported that the Obama Administration waived the Jones Act no less than 46 times following its decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in late June. � The Jones Act, a section of ...
• Kucinich Continues to Build Opposition to Free ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich is continuing to build opposition to the three pending free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia Congress is expected to vote on in the fall. He sent a letter to his colleagues today highlighting the role that multinational corporations have played in outs ...

Authentically Wired

• BACK TO CRUDE …
  ⦠IF ⦠true why isnât this mandatoryâ¦? This Company Turns Plastic Bottles Back Into Crude Oil   When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But if life gives you plastic? Make crude oil.  Vadxx, an Ohio-based energy company, is taking even plastics that can’t be recycled and reverting them to ...
• AN EYE OPENER …
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• NO ONE WILL DO IT FOR US …
  … You can count on one hand all substantive action Congre$$ will take until the fall election of 2012 … We will sit by and watch as Congre$$ … whether ‘red’ or ‘blue’ … GOP – Tea Party – Republican – Independent – Democrat … engage in senseless squabbles full of sound and fury while [...]
• … a face you can trust … right &#8 ...
  � �� Hey �� Billy boy always has your best interest in mind with his Microsoft products �� laughs all the way to the bank �� � Microsoft �intentionally designed software for phones to track customers without their consent� Microsoft is being sued for intentionally designing camera software on th ...
• Human Microchipping
  �� So you think �corporate� media wants you to be aware��?� Discovery for yourself �� read �� ask questions �� do not accept the standard pro-forma 30 second sound bite response �� It�s your life you are investigating �� ! ! Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda (video) � By� ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film docum ...
  In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts as he runs a chainsaw into a massive tropical tree. Prior to this we have already heard from an official how employees operating chainsaws must have a bevy of protective equipment as well as traini ...
• Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
  As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwash'. In addi ...
• The glass is half-full: conservation has made ...
  Don't despair: that's the message of a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which argues that decades of conservation actions at multiple scales have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. While such actions have not yet turned back the tide of the current mas ...
• Science has been nearly silent in Brazil&#8217 ...
  A recent push to revise Brazil’s forest code has emerged as one of the more contentious political issues in the country, pitting agribuisness against environmentalists trying to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Historically, the forest code has required private landowners to maintain a substanti ...
• Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
  Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Sharpest ever moon images snapped
  A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.Images taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles...
• Big Tobacco's brazen denials and dirty tricks
  Ever since the link between smoking and lung cancer was established more than 50 years ago, the tobacco industry has displayed extraordinary tenacity when it comes to denying the scientific evidence showing that smoking kills.In...
• Through good works, to global growth
  An innovative Wellington business believes that by doing good, it can do very well indeed.Im-Able specialises in rehabilitating stroke patients and uses an unusual hybrid of public- and private-sector expertise and intellectual...
• School sitting on buried treasure
  Children at an Auckland school will not have to go far to learn about geology, with the rediscovery of a lava cave running under their playing field.The cave, which is about 40m long and 2m high in places, starts in the lower corner...
• Enough life to sink the ark
  Noah's Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about 8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them undiscovered, according to what is believed to be the most authoritative estimate carried out of...

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    This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
• WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
  Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
• DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

• Remembering 9/11: Unity Gives Way to Politics, ...
  Throughout this week, we'll be posting old and new Reason material related to the 9/11 attacks. To see a snapshot of what Reason.com (then called Reason Online) looked like in late September 2001, go here. On September 12, 2001, Reason Washington Correspondent Sam MacDonald observ ...
• New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the Moribund Pr ...
  Last week 9/11 Commission co-chairmen Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton noted that the federal government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been "dormant" since 2008 because neither George W. Bush nor Barack Obama has managed to appoint its five members. Senior Editor Jacob ...
• New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Asks How Scared o ...
  Ten years ago, Americans were shocked by the horror of watching hijacked planes smash into buildings, killing nearly 3,000 people. Frightened by this atrocity, Americans have spent more than $1 trillion on counterterrorism security measures and allowed federal officials to usurp som ...
• Property Rights, the Clean Water Act, and the ...
  Business Week reports on a major property rights case brought by the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation that the Supreme Court will be hearing this term: When Mike and Chantell Sackett paid $23,000 for a lot near the banks of Priest Lake in northern Idaho in 2005, they thought th ...
• New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Big-Governm ...
  If there's one thing Virginia's leading Republicans agree on, observes A. Barton Hinkle, it's government regulation. They're against it. So why do these same conservatives support arbitrary and unnecessary new government regulations on abortion clinics? Evidently their commitment to t ...

Mercury Rising

• Phone hacking, 9/7/2011
  The interview of Colin Myler (News of the World editor) and Tom Crone (NotW legal affairs head) by the Levenson Select Committee of parliament was a bust. Myler and Crone repeated their allegation that James Murdoch was informed about the memo by reporter Ross Hindley that appeared to be a trans ...
• And now for something completely different…
  Muppets: 4. In the film, Kermit sings the song and plays the banjo while seated on a log in a swamp. To perform the number, Jim Henson had to work underwater. He squeezed himself into a metal container equipped with an air hose, a rubber sleeve for his hand to manipulate Kermit and a monitor [...]
• The Grand Casino
  I realize that for a lot of readers, the stock markets are just a surreal casino, and that the many posts I have done on them are widely ignored. You’ll get no argument from me that the stock market does not represent real investment or the real health of an economy. However, I think that [...]
• Mitch McConnell: Why Isn’t Obama Shippin ...
  Mitch McConnell was given valuable Washington Post column space to argue for the further destruction of America’s industrial base and what’s left of America’s middle and working classes so that their jobs can be done overseas by people in horrific working conditions who risk being murdered if th ...
• Asian, European selloff
  Markets look ugly for Tuesday. Europe and Asia down about 2-3% The German DAX -5.3%. The French CAC -4.7%. Hong Kong -3%. US futures down 2% or so. One of the most alarming bits of data was what happened to European CDS levels. Italy and Greece dropped by over 10%. An excerpt from Bill McBride [...]

Reality Sandwich

• Electric Car Runs Wild
  The Schluckspecht electric car has shattered the world record for total distance traveled on a single charge.  The former record of 623.3 miles, held by the Japan Electric Vehicle Club, gave way to the 1,013.77 mile effort.  Though the vehicle kept a modest pace, the advances made in battery te ...
• Star Crossed Lovers
  � In my first year as an astrologer the most relentless question I've fielded in over 500 sessions has been "When will I meet my soul mate?" Astrology has always had a lot to say on the subject of love. The answers aren't always what people want to hear but they are almost always what people ...
• Mythology of Business Part 2: The Dark Side
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• Hacking The Future: The Technology Spore
  Evolver.net and Bioneers present: Hacking the Future: The Technology Spore Wed, Sept. 21 read more
• This Week in Psychedelics
  � "This Week in Psychedelics" is a Reality Sandwich column that follows the multifaceted media appearances of this class of chemicals and their effects in popular culture. Like the facebook page. � read more

Desertification

• 8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
  The life support system that generates the planet's air, water, and food is powered by 8.7 million living species according to the newest and best estimate. We know next to nothing about 99 percent of those unique species - except that lots of them are going extinct.
• OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables ...
  People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expa ...
• EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
  International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
• Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
  "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
• UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
  The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

Automatic Earth

• September 5 2011: The US Sues Itself While Eur ...
• September 2 2011: Austerity is Coming to the P ...
• August 30 2011: Europe squanders its last shre ...
• August 27 2011: Et tu, Commodities?
• August 25 2011: Sex, Lies and Bank Stocks

Press TV

• European stocks plunge over debt crisis
  European stock markets have plunged by about three percent as concerns rise over Greek default and the deepening eurozone governments' sovereign debt crisis.
• Media dumbs down American thinking
  An analyst reports that many Americans still believe the official 9/11 story; that Saddam Hussein had WMDs; that Iraq had something to do with 9/11; and that Saddam and Bin Laden were friends.
• Countdown begins for Bushehr N-plant
  Iran will officially launch Bushehr nuclear power plant within hours, ending the countdown for the inauguration of the first atomic plant in the country, Press TV reports.
• Pakistani protesters rap US over wars
  Hundreds of Pakistani protesters have staged rallies in the city of Karachi to denounce the United States' use of 9/11 as a pretext to wage wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Press TV reports.
• 'Iran Majlis hails raid on Israel embassy'
  A senior Iranian lawmaker says members of Iran's Majlis (parliament) have expressed their full support for the ransacking of the Israeli embassy in Egypt's capital city of Cairo by the Egyptians.

SciDev.net

• Fellowships for African women scientists a big hit
  A mentoring scheme for African women in agricultural science has been inundated with applications.
• Plastic bottles could clean arsenic-contaminat ...
  Plastic bottles coated in a common chemical can cheaply and effectively rid water of arsenic, a study has found.
• Afghanistan tops disaster risk league
  The World Risk Report 2011 uses a novel index that shows Afghanistan and some African countries to be most vulnerable to hazards.
• Mexican plan on visual health for children win ...
  A scheme that improved performance and dropout rates in Mexican schools by dissemination of free spectacles has won an international award.
• Medical innovations must meet local needs
  Assessing each country's needs is key to ensuring that medical technologies fulfil their promise, say Sidhartha R. Sinha and Michele Barry.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• The Federal Budget Deficit: $1.23 Trillion Thr ...
  The federal budget deficit totaled $1.23 trillion through the first 11 months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review—$28 billion less than the deficit incurred in the same period last year. Revenues were about 7.6 percent higher through August than they were at th ...
• More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
  Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. Blog postings on Wednesday and Thursday discussed two aspects of that outlook—the amount of discretionary spending that will occur over the coming decade under current law, and the estimated impact of fiscal poli ...
• More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
  Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. Yesterday’s blog posting discussed one aspect of that outlook—the amount of discretionary spending that will occur over the coming decade under current law. Today we’ll summarize the estimated impact of fiscal po ...
• More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
  Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. The blog posting for that release focused on CBO’s overall economic and budget projections, so we didn’t have a chance to highlight specific aspects of those projections that may be interesting to some people. Th ...
• CBO’s Estimates of ARRA’s Impact on Employment ...
  As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which is often referred to as the economic stimulus package. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provides estimates of ARRA’s ...

Addicting Info

• Progressive, Heal Thyself
  I think it’s fair to say that many progressives and liberals are disappointed in the Obama Presidency. There is no small number of us on the left that feel he has compromised too often, not fought hard enough on core issues, and in some cases, simply been too slow in action. I share some of thes ...
• Jihadist Smackdown of the Day: Special 9/11 Ed ...
  bin Laden gets his long overdue Smackdown!
• Justin’s Daily Sleepy Time Thought: 9-11 ...
  Tonight's Thought is brought to by Obama Derangement Syndrome. Some people will go to ANY lengths to hate.
• Yet Another Musing On 9/11…
  Ten years ago, and non-stop ever since, I have been told that 'we' are totally innocent victims of a single and singularly terrible atrocity. That no one could have foreseen it or kept it from happening. That nothing like it had ever happened before in the whole history of mankind. That because ...
• GAME ON! The Battle for 2012 Starts Now
  I have two questions to ask the man addressing a joint session of Congress Thursday night: Who are you? and What have you done with the President of the United States?

Destructionist

• Fukushima Fallout in California Waters: A Threat?
  The radioactive fallout from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant accident has spread as far as California waters, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley. But although the level of radioactivity in the water was higher than normal, they said, it was still very low and ...
• Soros & Roubini: US Is Already In Recession: E ...
  Stock markets around the world tumbled in early trading today following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will proceed with a a new $400bn bond-buying plan to ward off a double-dip recession, and yet both George Soros and Nouriel Roubini say the US is already in a recession, and that it ...
• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...
  Roughly a year and a half after the BP oil disaster left the Gulf of Mexico saturated with crude oil and toxic Corexit chemicals, new evidence has surfaced showing what appears to be more crude oil spewing into the ocean. Raw Story explains that Dr. Bonny Schumaker, founder of OnWingsOfCare.org, ...
• Depressed As A Nation? 80 Percent Of Americans ...
  According to a brand new Gallup poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that we are in a recession right now. Of course the government insists that the recession ended quite some time ago, but apparently the message is not sinking in. Not only that, most Americans also do not believe that things ...
• Soros: Embrace Mass Centralization Of Power In ...
  Billionaire globalist George Soros says that the world will face a second Great Depression unless leaders in Europe come together in a closer political union to push through bold new policies, including the creation of a European Treasury....“There is no alternative but to give birth to the miss ...

PakAlert Press

• Videos: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations – Th ...
  US Day of Rage just as what's happening worldwide which was started as an Arab spring before it spread to southern Europe and to the rest of the world , the common man just cannot take it anymore ....I wish the police would protect us from getting robbed by corrupted officials who funnel tax pay ...
• Video: Major General Chief Of US. Military Int ...
  I would urge you to watch this 5-minute interview of Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, US Army (Ret.). Gen. Stubblebine was former former Commanding General of US Army Intelligence and Security Command:
• Engineered Epidemic: Forensic Evidence Indicat ...
  Positive forensic evidence has surfaced indicating that the e. coli superstrain that recently ravaged Europe, was created by humans Science has proved that the bacteria is resistant to 8 different types of antibiotics and possesses DNA sequences from plague bacteria, a combination utterly unp ...
• Moody’s Downgrades Three US Banks
  Moody's Investor Service has downgraded the debt ratings of three major US banks, amid worries over the lack of government support for top lenders in case of crisis. Moody's on Wednesday downgraded the long-term debt ratings for Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank, AP reported. The credi ...
• 21 Signs That Something Big Is About To Happen ...
  Will global financial markets reach a breaking point during the month of October? Right now there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to experience a nervous breakdown. Massive amounts of investor money is being pulled out of the stock market and mammoth bets are being mad ...