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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, September 3, 2011

3 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Groklaw

  • Agency May Have Violated Law With Microsoft Co ...
    A federal agency may have violated U.S. procurement laws when it selected Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s products over Google Inc. (GOOG)'s without full competition for a planned $59.3 million e-mail services contract, a judge said. ..."There is a justifiable basis for me to find" violations of procur ...
  • Internet Explorer market share slips, even as ...
    Microsoft's Internet Explorer is losing market share worldwide, even though adoption of IE9 is increasing among Windows 7 users, according to new statistics from web metrics firm Net Applications. - TechFlash
  • Mosaid sees rescue in its Nokia-Microsoft deal
    A patent licensing pact reached with tech giants Nokia and Microsoft will transform Canada's Mosaid Technologies (MSD.TO: Quote), its CEO said on Thursday, and could help protect it from a C$480 million ($490 million) hostile takeover bid. Mosaid said it will buy about 2,000 wireless patents fr ...
  • Super Troll Lodsys Stalks Blackberry App Devel ...
    "I never thought they were interpreting the patent so broadly," Mr. Radcliffe said, adding that the free version of Lonely Turret simply contains a link to a BlackBerry app marketplace, where users can buy the premium version of the game. "It's just a link ... The two apps are entirely separate. ...
  • The Judge's Order in Oracle v. SAP AG (PDF)
    Before the court is the renewed motion [PDF] of defendants SAP, AG, SAP America, Inc., and TomorrowNow, Inc. ("SAP") for judgment as a matter of law, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b), and motion for a new trial [PDF], pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59. Plaintiffs Or ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Now don’t go getting hysterical about climate ...
    A block of ice four times the size of Manhattan has split off from a Greenland glacier and melted–an event so dramatic that it’s shocked the scientists who study the area. I’m sure all of this is due to completely normal fluctuations in temperature and climate and has nothing, I repeat nothing, ...
  • Polizeros podcast. Renewable energy problems, ...
    This show ranged all over! Topics included: Solyndra bankruptcy. It will lead to loan guarantees and tax credits for renewable energy being cut and this could well disrupt plans for new grid-scale solar and wind projects. But $537 million got burned through in a year. Republicans want an investi ...
  • Gunwalker investigation uncovers possible coverup
    The US Attorney’s office working both the Terry murder and the “Fast and Furious” operation did not immediately disclose the two had any link. Two Republicans investigating the scandal, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) say there’s evidence that officials at ATF and the ...
  • US to sue big banks over mortgages
    The suits — which seek billions in compensation — allege that lenders including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank inaccurately represented the mortgage securities they put together and sold during the housing bubble. We need criminal indictments, not civil lawsuit ...
  • California cities facing major revenue shortfa ...
    Vallejo is the poster child for what’s ailing California cities. It filed for bankruptcy in 2008, a victim of the real estate crash, losing a major employer in the process, and facing pension costs it cannot possibly meet. Its police department was cut by one-third, and no longer has the resour ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 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 ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...

frogblog

  • The nose that knows
    Frogblog readers may have read that Green MP Gareth Hughes broke his nose playing for the Parliamentary Rugby XV last week. The good news for Gareth is that he has now had surgery to straighten his nose, and it is on the mend. The bad news is that he has to wear a rather annoying [...]
  • Making Jaws look civilised
    On Sunday, baffled visitors found between one and two hundred juvenile rig sharks missing their backs washed up on Waiheke Island, in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. What happened?
  • Skynet goes live
    Today the Copyright (Infringing File-Sharing) Act, or better know as the Skynet law goes live. From today copyright holders can detect people illegally sharing files like movies online and send notices through the infringers ISP with a ‘third-strike’ leading to up-to $15,000 fines and possible i ...
  • Cutting Canterbury Uni staff is short-sighted
    In the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake, the University of Canterbury’s plan to cut more than 350 jobs over the next three years is a short-sighted way to cut costs. Documents released today by concerned staff at Canterbury reveal that there is no expectation that the government will all ...
  • How many jobs will oil and gas bring NZ?
    On Tuesday the Government released the final version of its backwards-looking energy strategy. Of passing note is the removal of any overt reference to lignite coal.  Of course bioenergy could be code for it, or ‘alternative transport fuels’ (the Energy Outlook 2010 specifically cites lignite di ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Widely Prescribed Drug that's No Better th ...
    Researchers have found that antipsychotic drugs which are widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos.� In addition, the drugs come with serious side effects. The finding is such a serious blow to current treatment standards ...
  • The Common Toxin that Can Be FAR More Damaging ...
    Story at-a-glance Mold in your home, school or workplace is a serious concern for your health, since up to 40 percent of American schools and 25 percent of homes have mold infesta ...
  • The Easiest Way to Eat ALL the Veggies You Nee ...
    By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance Juicing is a simple�way to reach your daily target for vegetables,�and allows you to add a wider variety of vegetables to your diet that you might not normally en ...
  • Another Reason to Ignore the Warnings About Th ...
    By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance Eggs contain high quality proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. And, according to new research, you can also add antioxidant properties to the list. ...
  • What You Don't Know About Flavor Enhancers Can ...
    Senomyx is a high tech research and development business that is "dedicated to finding new flavors to reduce sugars and reduce salt." But their focus is not on whole, organic fruits and vegetables, or grass-pastured meats, dairy and eggs. Senomyx develops patented flavor enhancers by using "prop ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...
  • Living the longest – indigenous Brazilian cele ...
    Maria Lucimar Pereira of the Kaxinawá tribe is thought to be the oldest person in the world © INSS/Survival Survival has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the world, as she prepares to celebrate her 121st birthday. Maria Lucimar Pereira is one of the Ka ...
  • UN more worried about its logo than human righ ...
    A Totobiegosode woman after she was forced out of the forest, Paraguayan Chaco. © Ruedi Suter/Survival Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay have been left amazed by the UN’s reaction to a formal complaint they issued against cattle ranching company Yaguarete Pora. In May, Ayoreo leaders issued a for ...

Montreal Gazette

  • 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.
  • Inspection reports: the stonewalling must stop
    After holding out for months for patently spurious reasons, Quebec's transport ministry recently said that inspection reports for the Mercier Bridge and other provincial infrastructure would be made public after all. That was at the beginning of last month, but with a new month upon us we're sti ...
  • Montreal needs your input
    After many failed attempts over the past two decades, the Communaut� m�tropolitaine de Montr�al and the 82 municipalities it serves are now legally bound to adopt a Metropolitan Land Use and Development Plan by the end of the year.
  • Legault's immigration plan needs some scrutiny
    Fran�ois Legault, who stands a good chance of becoming Quebec's next premier if he manages to organize a functional political party before too much longer, got it right this week when he said that integration of immigrants into Quebec society would be a priority should he come to head a government.
  • Your Views: Problems with public transit; birt ...
    Public transit is not the solution for everyone.

Food World Order

  • 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 ...
  • blue plastic chips found in ground beef
    from food safety news: A North Carolina-based company has issued a recall of its ground beef product after a consumer found an unexpected ingredient in the product - blue plastic chips. Vantage Foods of Lenoir, North Carolina is recalling 1,642 pounds of ground beef that may contain the foreig ...
  • 8/18 binge & purge: profit, problems & poop
    video: somalia, famine-for-profit & east-african food crisis* audio: arizona among worst states for family food hardship (PDF)* expert says gmo to blame for problems in colorado plants, animals* hepatitis a shot class action filed against n. carolina olive garden (PDF)* suit filed ag ...

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

  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 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 ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • Wake Up America! 10 Very Obvious Reasons Why T ...
    Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can't find work?  Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.  Right now there are approximately 13.9 million unemployed Americans.  That does not count those that "are not looking for work ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Whatever you do, don't mention multiculturalis ...
    Iconic comedian John Cleese has stepped into the political spotlight today after telling of his concerns about the nature of London. Speaking on Australian TV where he is currently performing, the star of the iconic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers told his ABC interviewer: "I’m not sure what’s going ...
  • THE CROWN (not Queen Elizabeth of the House of ...
    Either there are a growing number of people talking utter rot, else the awakening of the corporate slaves is escalating. Which is it? You decide: UPDATE: I wonder... when you've looked at this, ask yourself if it all makes sense when you realise that England has a constitution and common l ...
  • 14th Anniversary Tributes at Kensington Palace ...
    By request, we - as primarily a political blog while maintaining a role as one of the loyal Diana supporting places online - are happy to share more of our photographs of the tributes at Kensington Palace. It was beautiful to be asked. Just to add some context, we were only there for a brief ...
  • Quote of the Day: Totalitarian Theresa Gets Ow ...
    "The ban on marches is so broad and excessive that it violates both international and UK law on freedom of expression and assembly and should be reversed immediately." - Barbora Bukovská of Article 19, quoted in the Evening Standard We did say the English Defence League should take Theresa ...
  • Now unelected EU Diktat-or wants to tax the world
    Prefixing the leaders of the EU with the word 'unelected' is mostly unnecessary - not one of them is elected and yet they swan around their goldfish bowl in Brussels making decisions on behalf of a continent of people who cannot get rid of their rulers. One exception to this rule is the utter ...

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 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 ...
  • 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 Cen ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • RED ALERT: NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR SOUND MO ...
     *NEW  POLITICAL  MOVEMENT  FOR  SOUND  MONEY  AND  FINANCIAL  DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN  LAUNCHED  IN  VIENNA *VIENNA  ECONOMICS  PROFESSOR  FRANZ  HÖRMANN  TO   LEAD  GRASSROOTS EUROZONE  MOVEMENT  FOR  REFORM  OF  MONEY  SYSTEM *PRIVATE  INTEREST-BEARING  MONEY  TO  BE  ABOLISHED  AND  REPLACED  BY  ...
  • 76% of Germans have no faith in euro: take act ...
    If you live in Germany, you can send an email to the lawmakers to protest the most outrageous money grab by the banking cartel and complicit politicians since 1933.  http://info.kopp-verlag.de/nachrichten/rettungsschirm-buerger-koennen-sich-beschweren.html Politicians across all political parti ...
  • Merkel cabinet greenlights bankster shakedown ...
    FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)-German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble cautioned in a television interview against taking parliamentary control of the euro zone’s rescue fund, the EFSF, too far. Laws dictating parliamentary approval in future EFSF bailouts must be set up so that the fund “can fulfill ...
  • Former head of Germany’s industrial fede ...
    From The Telegraph: “Hans-Olaf Henkel, former head of Germany’s industry federation (BDI), wrote in the Financial Times that his support for the euro had been “the biggest professional mistake I have ever made”. He described EMU as an unworkable experiment that is turning Europe’s nations agains ...
  • Children herded like cattle into Maryland cour ...
    (NaturalNews) Following the State of Maryland’s threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Prince George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their w ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Becau ...
    I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrat ...
  • ‘Contempt’ for Not Standing on a B ...
    By KEVIN KOENINGER RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) – A man who was eating a taco at a Raleigh bus stop says a cop swept-kicked him to the ground, broke his leg and arrested him, then hauled him before a judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail for contempt, because he could not stand on [...]
  • Dick Cheney, War Criminal and Chicken Hawk Deluxe
    By Les Visible I’m fairly competent in the use of words but I am rendered speechless in my attempts to reach a definition or describe you. All I can come up with are things like, “you vicious, evil sonofabitch” and “you monstrous low to the ground, blood sucking, shit-weasel” These don’t get the ...
  • Jackie O., A “Conspiracy Nut”?
    Tapes that were recorded within months of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and that have been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston are soon to be released. In the tapes, former First Lady Jackie Kennedy reveals that she believed Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and oth ...
  • New alloy could split water to make fuel
    Kate TaylorTG Daily A team of Kentucky scientists has found a way to ‘tweak’ an inexpensive semiconductor to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.Through theoretical computations, they’ve demonstrated that an alloy formed by a two percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has th ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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 ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

k2p blog

  • Chasing losses for Corporate tax planning
    Corporates are not just shifting profits to tax havens but are now aggressively shifting their losses to high-taxed countries says an OECD report.
  • Etna erupts for 12th time this year
    Mt. Etna erupted spectacularly for the 12th time this year on Monday but the eruption does not pose any great hazard.
  • Harvard criticised for being too lenient with ...
    The Harvard Crimson writes that allowing Marc Hauser to resign from the University was an insufficient consequence. Harvard should have taken a more aggressive stance in response to the findings of the investigative committee and fired Hauser.
  • Blogging as therapy: My 1000th post
    This is my 1000th post. I find it therapeutic. I continue blogging primarily for myself. I have no agenda other than to feel better in my own mind. If in addition some people read what I write and if some few find it readable or provoking or just interesting then that is a bonus. But what reader ...
  • 7 billion people from October 31st by UN decre ...
    World population will reach 7 billion this year and it is assumed that this will happen on 31st October in India or in China. The expectation is that the rate of population growth has started reducing with UN predictions for 2050 ranging from 8.0 to 10.5 billion.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Money-Saving Tips For Students
    Newsflash for college students: That student loan money may seem like a never-ending fountain of easy cash, but you'll probably be paying for the ridiculous junk you buy now well into your 30s. Pennies you manage to save now will pay off in the long run. MoneySense offers some ways for college ...
  • Use iTunes Feature To Get Rid Of Awful Music Y ...
    When you're listening to your music collection, it's easy to get annoyed with yourself for stuffing so many terrible songs that you once liked for some inexplicable reason. Apple knows you all too well, and has provided a feature that helps you shed the chaff. Macworld points out how accessing ...
  • How To Get By When You Run Out Of Funds
    Thanks to the volatile job market, many people are only a missed paycheck or two away from a financial emergency. Stockpiling a massive reserve fund isn't an option for everyone, so it makes sense to develop a contingency plan for a monetary worst-case scenario. MainStreet offers some advice: ...
  • The All-In-One Virus Removal, Website Design, ...
    In these uncertain days and times, it's important for businesses to diversify and build new streams of revenue. Companies need to be creative and brainstorm ways to leverage their existing resources into new markets, even ones that might seem counterintuitive, or appear ancillary to their core ...
  • How About Some Customer Service, Cricket? Resp ...
    Cricket is perfectly capable of selling reader skokieguy a smartphone for several hundred dollars, but when it comes time to replace his defective battery for free under warranty, all of a sudden they become powerless. Skokieguy writes:I've have been a long-time fan of Cricket. $55.00 gets me ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • 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 ...
  • Obama Failing Scientific Integrity & Whistlebl ...
    Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Flickr accountBloomberg: Whistleblowers Say Obama Fails Scientists Summary: Groups in the whistleblower community are unhappy with the Obama administration's failure to ensure scientific integrity work performed by government researchers. President Obama ...
  • Government Behaving Badly: Renditions Revealed ...
    This week provides both an example of the Justice Department's selective approaches to secrecy and an example of the Justice Department's alarming Fourth Amendment interpretations. Selective Secrecy Today,�The Washington Post�reported on an New York lawsuit�between two government contractors ...
  • Amid "Fast & Furious" Controversy, ATF Head Re ...
    Washington Post: ATF Head Kenneth Melson Reassigned Amid Gun-Trafficking Probe Summary: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives acting director has been reassigned in the wake of the bungled �Fast and Furious� operation involving gun-trafficking with Mexican gangs. Details of ...

UK Progressive

  • Rick Perry’s Secret Plan to Save Blue States f ...
    Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states’ rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. “We’ve got a great Union,” he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. “There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washin ...
  • Nevada Wallops Bank of America With Sweeping Suit
    by Paul Kiel, ProPublica This post has been updated to reflect Bank of America’s response. The state of Nevada dramatically expanded its lawsuit against Bank of America today, turning the narrow case it filed late last year into a broadside that targets virtually all aspects of the bank’s mort ...
  • Chaz Comes Out Dancing
    As the only child of world renowned pop duo Sonny and Cher Bono, many of us remember Chaz as their cherub-faced daughter Chastity, blowing kisses to the audience of her parents top-rated variety television show “Sonny & Cher.” In 1995, Chaz was outed as a lesbian. But this time Chaz is in contro ...
  • America’s Wicked Witch
    Several male rats are in a cage. They roughhouse but get along. Then a female rat is introduced to the cage. After several days she selects her mate and through a reign of horror the female and her chosen male kill and torture the others to death. This aggressive selection is how nature, includi ...
  • Education Department Backs Away From Fix to He ...
    by Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica This story was co-published with the Chronicle of Higher Education. After suffering from panic attacks and episodes of psychosis, Donita McDonald was diagnosed with a severe mental illness in 2009. She was unable to work or attend school, so the Social Security Admin ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ask what she won’t stand for…
    There’s not much point in me posting scientific information at the moment. Let’s face it, the political situation Down-under has reached new peaks of grand maladroitness and irascible incompetence, and most of the comments will want to unpack that. Bolt is forecasting that Gillard will be gone b ...
  • Ask what she won’t stand for…
    There’s not much point in me posting scientific information at the moment. Let’s face it, the political situation Down-under has reached new peaks of grand maladroitness and irascible incompetence, and most of the comments will want to unpack that. Bolt is forecasting that Gillard will be gone b ...
  • Government mismanagement kills 2,500 people a year
    Bad governments don’t just “waste millions of dollars” — mismanagement kills. We live in one of the richest nations on Earth. But waiting times for one type of cancer treatment in Australia have blown out to the point where 2,500 people are dying every year. Why do we have money to waste on frui ...

ReNew America

  • Report: Buffett's Berkshire owes $1 billion in ...
    (NewsMax) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett triggered a major debate over taxes recently when he wrote in The New York Times that he should be paying more to the federal government. He called on Washington lawmakers to up tax rates on the rich...
  • My solution: how to restore freedom of associa ...
    (Selwyn Duke) - Unfortunately, many Americans have become inured to the trampling of freedom of association. You can work your fingers to the bone starting a business, and the government becomes a partner that contributes nothing but extracts much...
  • Liberals and 'moderates' unwittingly campaign ...
    (Chris Adamo) - All too predictably, the insidious onslaught against Texas Governor Rick Perry is now in full swing. On the heels of the very first rumors last spring that he might consider a run for the presidency, and long before he officially announced, the Democrat political hit machine, its ...
  • Rick Perry -- candidate of real change?
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Ho hum. Another conservative presidential candidate is trashed by the civility-talking media. Rick Perry shoots to the top of the polls just days after entering the Republican field, and in no time, he gets the "he's stupid" treatment accorded Ronald Reagan (whose pred ...
  • State Senate OKs part of California Dream Act
    (Los Angeles Times) - The college dreams of thousands of students who are illegal immigrants moved closer to fulfillment Wednesday after the state Senate approved a bill that for the first time would give them access to public financial aid...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Tornado vs Basement
    Those who study survivalism will come across many opinions, a few anecdotes, and virtually no facts. 2012ers therefore have no certainty of what will occur, and no certainty on how to survive it. So it ...Tornado vs Basement is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:More Tornado Survivors ...
  • Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix
    If you look at the DNA of the natives of Easter Island, and exclude whose ancestors interbred with Europeans (who arrived in 1722), then you’ll find most of the genes point to a colonization from Asia. But ...Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix is a post from: 2012 Blog Related post ...

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

One News Page

  • 'Persona 4' remake announced for Vita
    Persona 4 will be released on the PlayStation Vita.
  • Ashley Greene - Ashley Greene Calls For End To ...
    Twilight star Ashley Greene has signed up to front a new campaign aimed at stamping out domestic violence. Greene has become the celebrity spokesperson for U. S. beauty publication Glamour magazine's Tell Somebody campaign. As part of her role, the ac...
  • Gandhian Anna Hazare spits fire at govt.
     Anna Hazare may have won the latest round on the Jan Lokpal bill but his anger against the government hasn't subsided. On Friday, in a speech to a gram sabha at Ralegan Siddhi, the Gandhian spewed venom on the UPA dispensation, singling out Union home minister P Chidambaram for the strongest ...
  • Britain prepares to discipline schoolchildren
    Schools in Britain are being empowered with an increased authority to ensure a disciplined environment, as teachers will get the right to use physical force while dealing with students.
  • Typhoon Talas hits Japan’s Shikoku island
     Slow-moving Typhoon Talas has made landfall in southern Japan, dumping heavy rain across a wide swath of the country. Public broadcaster NHK says one person has died and three others are missing.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • 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 ...
  • It Is Going to Be Syria’s Turn
    The visuals beamed from Tripoli last night had an eerie familiarity. Cars blowing horns, Kalashnikovs firing into the air, youth and children aimlessly wandering on streets littered with heaps of debris, western cameramen eagerly lapping up the precious words in broken English by any local fello ...
  • NATO Land Operation in Libya Carried Out at Fu ...
    A source from Libya reports that early morning August 23, 2011 a commando unit from British Special Air Service (SAS) was disclosed and eliminated in Tripoli. Their local guide was captured and will be prosecuted shortly. An anti-subversive team of the Libyan 32nd Special Force Brigade responsib ...
  • NATO’s Planned Bloodbath in Tripoli
    NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Through August 22, air operations ...

BlogHer

  • Make Community Service Part of Your Homeschool
    [Editor's Note: Teaching children the benefits of helping others in their community is one of those important lessons we shouldn't skip -- whether we homeschool or not. This post Sarah at The Homeschool Classroom shared a great post of tips and advice how to add some community service to your ho ...
  • BlogHer Conference Update -- September 2, 2011
    Happy weekend -- and for those of us in the US, happy Labor Day! As a housekeeping note, our offices will be closed on Monday. Now, on to the conference update: BlogHer '11 Conference Video Posted! Opening General Session with BlogHer co-foundersVoices of the YearLunch keynote - Indra Nooyi, C ...
  • Kneaded Kale Salad
    We are in for a "dangerous" heatwave for the rest of the week. So, I decided to make this salad with the kale that we received from our CSA on Thursday. The lemon tenderizes the kale until it's soft, but still has body. I have a feeling that this salad is going to be our dinner for the next few ...
  • Forums: Helpers or -icks?
    �I love forums. They are my digital lifeline. Nearly all helpers in forums are intelligent, experienced, helpful, patient, and likable. Not to mention beneficent for taking time out daily to lead the blind. These forum gods and goddesses are the kind of people us newbies worship more than cele ...
  • How I Handled Professor Feminism and his Mansp ...
    Editor's Note: Don't you just get exhausted trying to explain to men why mansplaining is, well, sexist? Then you'll definitely want to read this brilliant and funny post about the "mansplanation" that cropped up around a post about the HBO series Game of Thrones (and the series of books written ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: BEETLE Develops Bt- ...
    By Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides.  Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance.  The Western rootworm beetle – one of the most serious threats ...
  • Not Your Grandma’s Strawberries
    Unfortunately, the typical fruits and veggies of today’s world are not the vital source of nutrition they used to be. Find out the major causes of nutrient depletion and the estimated percentages of reduction. The reduction ...
  • US Newborn Death Rate Higher Than 40 Other Nations
    Did you know that in 2009, around 3.3 million babies died during their first month after birth? Even though that number is down from 4.6 million in the early 90′s, the US mortality rates are ...
  • Spices Protect Against The Effects of Fatty Foods
    Spice up your food life! Using spices like paprika, cinnamon, turmeric and more can do more for you food than flavor. Powdering your meals with some spices not only protect against fatty acids, but also against ...
  • Brand New Tick-borne Disease
    Land sake’s, another mysterious new tick-borne disease! This one is a new type of Ehrlichia bacteria, making its way through Wisconsin and Minnesota. It matters not that media outlets call it rare. Lyme and Babesiosis were considered ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, 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 ...
  • President Obama blocks EPA smog standards
    Here’s the White House statement: Over the last two and half years, my administration, under the leadership of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has taken some of the strongest actions since the enactment of the Clean Air Act four decades ago to protect our environment and the health of our famili ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols
    When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop removal mining (See previous posts here, here, here and here). Now, as our state gears up for S ...
  • OSMRE and Brushy Fork: What’s a fed to do?
    Citizen groups weren’t very happy earlier this week, when OSMRE Charleston Field Office Director Roger Calhoun informed them of his decision on the Brushy Fork coal-slurry impoundment. As we reported: Federal regulators this week backed off any separate enforcement action at a huge Raleigh Count ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Michele Bachmann Says Quake and Hurricane Are ...
    I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians,â Bachmann said to supporters. âWe’ve had an earthquake; weâve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here? Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They ...
  • Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth
    via calamitiesofnature.com Pure comedy. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsIn 2009, Only 4 in 10 Believe in EvolutionA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfVisual.ly | Infographics & VisualizationsEliminating Redundancies | Dilbert
  • C.S. Lewis on Creativity
    No [person] who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work’s sake, and what [people] call originality will come unsought. via azspot.net Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous R ...
  • Sam Harris on Wealth Distribution
    How many Republicans who have vowed not to raise taxes on billionaires would want to live in a country with a trillionaire and 30 percent unemployment? If the answer is “none”—and it really must be—then everyone is in favor of “wealth redistribution.” They just haven’t been forced to admit it. v ...
  • CHART OF THE DAY: *Government* Jobs Led To Per ...
    via tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com Hilarious. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling – The AtlanticVisualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart | Doug McCuneXKCD Radiation Dose ChartUpdated Subnetting Po ...

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

  • Hooray for Hypocrisy!
    Glenn Simpson – WWH – There aren’t many things that make me laugh out loud as much as Hypocrisy. American satirist Mo Rocca hit the nail on the head with his quote “Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy”, how right he was. Some recent events, reported in the UK Media, border on the ridiculous. In ...
  • Your Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! Answer to last weeks question -Harrison Ford Winner – Kelli Woods PLEASE SEND YOUR MAILING ADDRESS TO j ...
  • Letters to the Editor; My Fellow Americans
    Elizabeth Potter, WWH- My Fellow American is an online film and social media project that calls upon concerned Americans to pledge and spread a message that Muslims are our fellow Americans. It asks people of other backgrounds to pledge, and share a real life story about a Muslim friend, neighbo ...
  • Baby Boomers to question the generation’ ...
    couriermail.com.au – THERE must be a point at which every lemming realises it is his turn at the cliff edge. So it is for the first of the Baby Boomers who turn 65 this year. From the precipice, the past seems amazingly long, the present horribly scary and the future frighteningly short. It is a ...
  • Panda Poop… a Biofuel Breakthrough?
    WWH - Panda poop contains bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of “biofuels” produced not from corn and other food sources, but from grass, wood chips and crop wastes, scientists reported today at the 242nd National M ...

reference frame

  • EU Parliament votes to spend millions to cure ...
    The European Parliament is the intellectual elite on Europe. As we learn from the Daily Mail and other sources, their agriculture committee has decided that the European Union will spend 2 million euros for homeopathical treatment of farm animals. Prince Charles and Czech ex-p ...
  • Klaus, Papandreou, and ouzo
    Last Saturday, Czech president Václav Klaus was explaining why the common currency isn't a good idea under certain circumstances - e.g. those that exist in the EU today. On the pages of Právo, a center-left daily that has evolved from the official communist newspapers before 1989, he said t ...
  • Does the melting Petermann glacier render you ...
    Imagine that you were hired to find some evidence that there is something unusual going on with the climate. There is nothing obviously unusual so you have to search intensely. Finally, you figure out that something marginally interesting - something that could look anomalous to an observer ...
  • PBS: Albert Einstein: How I see the world
    This is a PBS documentary about Einstein's life. Well, it's mostly about the political background, the violin, his relatives, Einstein as a self-described Jew, Zionist, and - in the last of the 6 parts - a candidate to become the president of Israel. Lots of ancient ...
  • Nir Shaviv: The CLOUD is clearing
    Guest blog by Prof Nir Shaviv (HUJI), a top expert in cosmoclimatology Reprinted from sciencebits.com with author's permission The CLOUD collaboration from CERN finally had their results published in Nature (TRF, full PDF), showing that ionization increases the nucleation rate of ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • 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 ...
  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...

Truth About Our World

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • 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 ...
  • DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
    By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
    By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

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

  • Bill de Blasio is very angry about Michael Blo ...
    Up until now, it's been Comptroller John Liu's strategy to appear as Mayor Bloomberg's biggest adversary. But now, it's Public Advocate Bill de Blasio taking on that role. More
  • The House Republicans aren't putting their mon ...
    Republican Bob Turner may be �neck and neck� in his race against David Weprin for sext-crazed Anthony Weiner�s old seat, but that has yet to translate into substantial financial support from the national party.With less than two weeks until the Sept. 13 sp ...
  • David Weprin explains his same-sex marriage po ...
    Referring to the speech he gave before voting to legalize same-sex marriage, David Weprin said, "I said I am an Orthodox Jew but I did not consider it a religious issue…not that I was saying it was acceptable as an Orthodox Jew, acceptable under the Orthod ...
  • After Irene, Eric Cantor presents New York Rep ...
    Eric Cantor put East Coast Republicans in an awkward spot this week, and handed Democrats what they hope might be a chance to regain some ground after an embarrassing end-of-summer defeat on the debt ceiling.Asked about the potential costs of Irene-relat ...
  • Briefing: Now John Gambling is asking question ...
    Michael Bloomberg's silence—and however else you want to characterize the way he first described Stephen Goldsmith's departure last month—has made him an irresistibly easy target.What's getting buried in much of the Goldsmith fiasco is that at the time of ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Carew saves Norway to beat Iceland
    The Norwegian national football team (landslaget) left it until the 88th minute to beat Iceland in their crucial European Championships qualifying match in Oslo on Friday night – with the arrival of veteran striker John Carew late in the game inspiring the team to a precious if unimpressive 1-0 ...
  • Norway ‘happily’ enters Oscar race
    The Norwegian film “Sykt lykkelig,” a comedy translated into “Happy, Happy” for an international audience, has been chosen as Norway’s entry into the competition for Best Foreign Language Film at the next Academy Awards show. The film by young Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky already won the Wo ...
  • Oil & Energy Minister under siege
    Norway’s relatively new government minister in charge of oil and energy, Ola Borten Moe, has managed to infuriate the Norwegian environmental movement to a degree rarely seen in local political debate. Some of Norway’s top environmental advocates are calling for Moe’s resignation, and he’s also ...
  • Revealing Munch’s genius at work
    As they carefully rolled out a huge, historic canvas at the Munch Museum on Thursday, even the museum’s art experts seemed to be holding their breath. They’re about to display a large assortment of paintings and drawings by Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch, many of which they’d never se ...
  • Embattled PST boss won’t step down
    Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway’s special police intelligence unit PST (Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste), is fending off calls for her resignation amidst strong criticism that she and her staff made too many mistakes before and after the July 22 terrorist attacks. She also has received support fr ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Small, Productive Fruit Farm In Cambodia
    A newly-planted section of bananas, papayas, and citrus on this organic fruit farm near Siem Reap, Cambodia. As I’ve wandered around southeast Asia for the last 10 months I’ve kept my eye out for interesting farming techniques among the locals, but have mostly been disappointed. Whatever anc ...
  • German Military Peak Oil Study – Full English ...
    Peak Oil: Security policy implications of scarce resources Download PDF (1.77mb) In previous articles (here and here) we’ve linked to the German language version of a study recently undertaken by the German military on the topic of peak oil, and we also [...]
  • Shale Fail
    It looks as if the UK government is allowing shale gas fracking companies to regulate themselves. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Before the government approves a new industrial process in the UK it must have ensured that ...
  • Introduction to Food Sovereignty: Food and Dem ...
    Editor’s Preamble: Some of you may have noticed a slowdown in our usual flurry of posts of late. I’ve had a significant personal event to attend to, so thanks for your patience at this time. Additionally, now I am behind the 8-ball in preparations for the IPC, so will be focusing on that as much ...
  • A Practical Example of How Attitudes Can Be Le ...
    Editor’s Note: It’s a trend we’re increasingly seeing with permaculture unfortunately — that of the rise of permaculture perfectionists. Many readers have noticed this in comments on this and other permaculture sites, where people are quick to judge and criticise, feeling superior in their own p ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Landlord of "Whites Only" Cop Bar Also Owns "W ...
    Today, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached a settlement in a case brought by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center against a Midcity landlord who was caught on tape making racially discriminatory comments. The landlord, Betty Bouchon, owns a 16-unit building a ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Sex and the Jews: Letter to a Jewish Correspondent Dr. Lasha Darkmoon “What was forbidden is now permitted.” — Rabbi Samuel Dresner A few months ago, I received an angry email from a young woman called Victoria. Having ticked me off severely for various things I’d said in an article — and ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Mike is not banned on TiU and Ry wasn't a member please send donations for another crazy idea to King John asapStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:36 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Joe, did you take heed and start adding hash tags to TIU tweets? JAM and Delaney should be allowed back on TIU, that is if they want to post here. Anyone with me?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:34 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Uggghhh, not Jammie JAM again! Despite his idiotic return, let us please keep to the thread's topic: ADL attacks Delany and Dawson because of the 911-truth films they produced.Statistics: Posted by joeblow — Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:30 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Military academy students, from left to right, Kelly Laurent, Mollie Hebda and Ian Cameron, learn to hate at Auschwitz. Just thinking out loud ... that angry fellow pictured below appears to have strong Breivik potential, not by nature, but by conditioning; through those 'Holocaust' headphon ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • 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 ...
  • Hobbled U.S. Solar Sector Puts China in Domina ...
    The bankruptcies of three major U.S. solar companies in recent weeks have propelled China into a dominant position in the global market for solar panel production, with the Chinese now commanding nearly three-fifths of the world’s production capacity. While many U.S., Japanese, and European sola ...
  • Invasive Beetle Threatens New England Maple Fo ...
    Invasive beetles that have infested maple trees in U.S. cities could pose a threat to New England’s iconic hardwood forests, a new study says. While earlier outbreaks of the Asian longhorned beetle have occurred on tree-lined streets in city neighborhoods, including in Chicago, New York and Bost ...
  • First New U.S. Bird Species Identified in Deca ...
    Scientists have been able to confirm the first new bird species identified in the U.S. in nearly four decades, but say the tiny seabird discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands may have gone extinct since its last sighting. Using DNA tests on a single sample found at Reginald David/Smiths ...
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Passes Key Hurdle as Protes ...
    A controversial 1,711-mile pipeline that would link Canada’s tar sands to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast has passed a critical hurdle, even as environmental advocates continue to demonstrate outside the White House in opposition to the project. While the project must still must pass seve ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • U.S. bags three more golds
    For nearly three decades, Mary Slaney owned this territory. No American had been able to equal her success at 1,500 meters at the world championships. Now there's Jenny Barringer Simpson.
  • Noda's new Cabinet inclusive, fresh-faced
    Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda formed his Cabinet on Friday, handing key posts to ministerial rookies, including Osamu Fujimura as chief Cabinet secretary and Jun Azumi as finance minister, and including supporters of Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa in an attempt to reunite the ...
  • Federer, Djokovic, Serena advance to third rou ...
    Roger Federer provided a tennis clinic both during and after his win over Dudi Sela at the U.S. Open on Thursday. Prompted in the on-court interview after his 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over the Israeli to give all the tennis players in the stands a few quick pointers about how to dial in their ser ...
  • Foreign, defense picks disappoint analysts
    Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's choice of ministers for foreign diplomacy and security reflects an emphasis on fence-mending in his party rather than plans to address imminent diplomatic challenges, analysts said Friday. The appointment of Koichiro Genba as foreign minister and Yasuo Ichikawa ...
  • Survivors, evacuees just want results
    Survivors of the March 11 disasters had mixed feelings Friday about Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's first Cabinet and are hoping the new leader won't fail them at a time when thousands are still struggling to get back on their feet. Emiko Yoshida, a 62-year-old resident of Okuma, Fukushima Pre ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

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

  • 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.
  • Murky anti-Semitism - Zionist style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the culture behind efforts by Zionist lobbyists in the United States to censor free debate of Zionism and Israel's policies through pressure, blackmail and smearing the advocates of free speech as "anti-Semites" or "self-hating Jews".
  • Understanding the opposition to NATO's interve ...
    Uri Avnery argues that opponents of military intervention in Libya are motivated more by hatred of the USA and NATO than by any concern for the people of Libya.

Physics Today

  • Creating a nano-sized mirror
    Science: Physicists at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, have turned a single atom into a mirror. Gabriel Hétet, Rainer Blatt, and colleagues set up a Fabry–Pérot interferometer, replacing one of the device’s two mirrors with a barium ion. Using an electronic trap to hold the ion in place ...
  • NASA rover finds further evidence of past wate ...
    New York Times: Zinc and bromine in a rock that was collected from the rim of Mars’s Endeavour crater and examined by NASA’s Opportunity rover suggest that Mars’s geology may have been formed with heat and water, writes Kenneth Chang for the New York Times. Opportunity, one of a pair of rovers o ...
  • Giant balloon proposed to combat global warming
    Daily Mail: To mitigate climate change, scientists in the UK have proposed a method of geoengineering that uses a giant helium balloon and a large hose to mimic the cooling effect of an erupting volcano. The balloon would be tethered some 22 km above Earth by the hose, through which tons of chem ...
  • A faster way of boarding planes
    Economist: A Fermilab astrophysicist has used his analytical skills to come up with a more efficient way to board planes. Most people are familiar with the usual holdups when boarding: waiting for the person ahead to stow his or her luggage, and having to dislodge seated passengers to get to a c ...
  • Computer simulates Milky Way galaxy formation
    MSNBC: With the use of a powerful supercomputer, a team of researchers has produced the first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Zürich took advantage of 1.4 million processor-hours on NASA' ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • 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 ...
  • basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:02:36 GMT) First hand material. Go for the full article before it disappears. Quote, "basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit the tower!” Richard Roepke William “Willy” Rodriguez is the 9/11 hero who helped save hundreds of lives, and the last p ...
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:39:15 GMT) This is a covert totalitarian country. The elected politicians don't represent the voice of their voters. They rule the country by controlled intelligence and media. They select politicians through rigged election and justify the election res ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:30:04 GMT) Ron Paul wins New Hampshire straw poll, raises 1.5 million in a day! GOP Operatives Fear Lasting Ron Paul Problem Byron York 8/23/2011 "Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if they keep him in there," said Rush Limbaugh the day after t ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:25:34 GMT) Quote, "18 US Soldiers commit suicide every day on average May 11, 2011 Written by jafrianews The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has received orders from a federal appeals court to overhaul its mental health care system, larg ...

Peakwater

  • Illegal Dam Construction On The Mekong Must Be ...
    “A field visit to the site of the proposed Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River in Laos has revealed that construction on the dam’s access road and work camp is rapidly forging ahead, in spite of commitments by the government of Laos to temporarily suspend the project. The trip to the Xayaburi dam s ...
  • Yunnan’s Chromium Trail
    “The dumping of 5,000 tonnes of toxic metal tailings next to an important drinking source has brought to light years of illegal disposal of factory waste. In mid-August, the Yunnan-based blogger Dong Rubin revealed that a nearby factory in south-west China â Luliang Chemicals â had dumped 5,00 ...
  • Monterey Peninsula Mayors Ask for Action in De ...
    “Mayors from Carmel, Del Rey Oaks, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Sand City, and Seaside said they’re worried about the Monterey Peninsula’s economic vitality if plans for a controversial desal plant are canceled. The peninsula needs the plant because the State said the cities must cut how much water ...
  • Are Quakes And Fracking Connected?
    “U.S. Geological Survey scientist Mike Blanpied stated that while the drilling process has been linked to very small earthquakes, it has not been known to induce large quakes. However Blanpied admitted that âthe thing that can induce larger earthquakes is the high-pressure waste fluid injection ...
  • How The Environment Agency Has Spun The News O ...
    “But we must take the EA’s words with a heavy pinch of salt. The Wandle, which it says has “become a vibrant rich habitat due to better environmental regulation”, was massively polluted only a few years ago when Thames Water spilled thousands of gallons of industrial-strength chlorine into it; ...

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

  • … Exercising control begins in our own b ...
    � TRANSPARENCY �� in politics will only occur when �we� (that�s you & me) demand and accept nothing less �� � �� Until then thanks to our taking our eye off the ball the ball in now squarely in the hands of the corporatist$ �� who control our Congre$$� �� and our Court$ �� and [...]
  • need 90 pink slips
    � �� Though the 90 nincompoop currently masquerading as representatives of the citizens of Arizona are unable to find value in funding CPS �� it appears the voters � taxpayers of Arizona see the situation from a fundamentally different perspective ��. �� Legislative session 2012 should prove mos ...
  • walk that mile in their moccasins
    �� Thank you �� Mr. Montini �� for reminding me that before wagging my finger at CPS or their personnel the ethical thing for me to do would be to walk that mile in their moccasins as so correctly espoused the lore of Native American culture �� � Filed under: Blogroll
  • I can’t see it …
    … In re-reading Ms. Bahr’s position I cannot find where she advocates it is better to do business with Nigeria, Venezuela or Iran as opposed to Canada … … You are free Mr. Bosserman to read into her position anything you choose … being able to defend your position or provide proof is another sto ...
  • … RAW MILK …
      ⦠RAW MILK ⦠   http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/31/us-government-data-proves-that-raw-milk-is-safe.aspx?e_cid=20110831_DNL_art_1   ·         According to the US government’s own data, you are about 35,000 times more likely to get sick from other foods than you are ...

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

  • 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...
  • Adidas goes barefoot
    Adidas is going barefoot.The world's second-largest athletic company unveiled its first "barefoot" training shoe Tuesday, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot while providing the protection, traction...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Rick Perry's Criminal Justice Record
    In this week's column, I discuss the case of Tim Cole, who was convicted of rape based on mistaken eyewitness tetimony and died while serving a 25-year sentence in a Texas prison. (He was denied parole twice because he refused to accept responsibility for a crime he did not commit.) I ...
  • Corporations Want Your Children's Brains
    In case you haven't heard, evil corporations are grasping for control of our schools—and our children. At The Daily, Reihan Salam explains that the whole problem is that they already won that battle long, long ago: Among public school teachers and their advocates, a new phrase ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Cathy Young on Cor ...
    At The Daily, Contributing Editor Cathy Young reports that the oil company BP has become the latest victim of Russia’s corrupt practices: A day after the signing of an Arctic exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft, the state-controlled Russian oil company, the wrath of ...
  • Paul Berman's Wars
    Liberal journalist and influential interventionist Paul Berman has a long, solipsistic, and interesting essay for The New Republic's 9/11 anniversary issue, attempting (among other things) to compare the collapse of communism to Arab Spring. Excerpt: Once the communist system ...
  • Texas Sporting News
    A Texas law (PDF) that took effect yesterday makes it a Class A misdemeanor (punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine) to manufacture, sell, buy, or possess "a gaff, slasher, or other sharp implement designed for attachment to a cock." Although this provision brings to m ...

Mercury Rising

  • Maybe Russ Feingold would re-consider (Obama d ...
    Go read Hunter. This is one of those gratuitously obnoxious things that none of the public and all of the worst corporations are in favor of: failing to regulate ozone even as loosely as Bush wanted to. Russ, please run for president [*]. Please? _______________ * Or any non-corrupt Democrat wit ...
  • Is Austerity Killing Europe’s Recovery? ...
    The WaPo’s Howard Schneider (or his headline writer) asks “Is austerity killing Europe’s recovery?” He then proceeds to answer his own question: The campaign to reduce government deficits has come in response to a European debt crisis that could endanger the global banking system. And the budget ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Followup on Hariri slaying
    This follows up on a story from long ago that suggested that western powers were misusing the UN to try to implicate Syria in the assassination of Lebanese macherRafiq al-Hariri. Gareth Porter: In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that k ...
  • Boehner’s Whine Brings Back Memories
    The whole ridiculous whine of John Boehner’s about Obama’s speech’s timing brings back memories. The first thing Obama should have done is to point out that Republicans proclaimed this as a slap because itâs the sort of slap that Republicans like to admininster. Case in point: the June 2003 Demo ...

Reality Sandwich

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    � � This article is excerpted from Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness, available now on Amazon. � read more
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  • Conscientia: The Reality Sandwich Fall Retreat
    CONSCIENTIA: THE REALITY SANDWICH FALL RETREAT Ross Bleckner, Graham Hancock, Daniel Pinchbeck, Android Jones, Santha Faila, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Palmer Sept. 25 - Sept. 30, Boulder, UTAH read more
  • Shapeshifting the Future
    We have entered a time prophesied by many cultures for shapeshifting into higher consciousness. Polynesian shamans shapeshift through oceans, Amazon warriors transform into anacondas, Andean birdpeople and Tibetan monks bilocate across mountains. These shamans have taught John Perkins that shap ...

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

Press TV

  • 'Somalia needs more than financial aid'
    Financial aid without addressing underlying issues will not resolve the famine crisis in Somalia, a political analyst tells Press TV.
  • Iraq to probe 2006 US carnage of Iraqis
    A senior Iraqi official says his country is going to launch a probe into the massacre of at least 10 Iraqis, including women and children, by US troops in 2006.
  • Turkey vows legal action against Israel
    Turkey says it will seek legal action against the Israeli regime for its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound relief aid Flotilla last year after Ankara further downgraded its ties with Tel Aviv.
  • JSOC authority most dangerous pattern
    US President Barack Obama has reportedly given authority to the US assassination team JSOC to take matters into their own hands without the need for congressional approval.
  • Iran urges total nuclear disarmament
    Iran's Deputy Ambassador to the UN Eshaq Ale-Habib has called for total nuclear disarmament as the only guarantee that would keep the world entirely safe from nuclear weapons.

SciDev.net

  • Who and where are the science journalists?
    We need more information about science journalists in the developing world, and what they need to develop their skills.
  • Brazil's high publication rate 'hides drop in ...
    The rise in the number of scientific papers published by Brazilian researchers may hide a decrease in quality caused by reduced funding.
  • Advancing research to support smallholder farmers
    Scientists can help smallholder farmers get more out of their crops in changing food markets.
  • Cut price latrine on design award shortlist
    Two inventions aimed at providing better latrines and safer drinking water in Cambodia are among 60 competing for the INDEX awards.
  • Critics indicate flaws in India’s new vaccine ...
    India’s new vaccination policy has been criticised for relaxing rules on introducing new vaccines.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MEXICO: Murders of Reporters Heighten Despair ...
    "And how do you escape this anxiety, this sensation that nothing we do does any good?" a Mexican journalist wrote on her Facebook page after the murder of two of her colleagues in Mexico City.
  • Q&A: "Civilians Should Not Suffer the Effects ...
    Indigenous people in the province of Cauca in southwest Colombia want their territory to be free of war, and are organising a protest march to demand that the police and military close down their bases and the guerrillas abandon their camps in the native reservations in the north of this mount ...
  • Flotilla Report Leaks, Turkey Expels Israeli A ...
    A highly anticipated and controversial report on Israel's May 2010 interception of an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip and subsequent killing of nine civilians and wounding of many others was finally leaked on Thursday, as diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey continued t ...
  • NIGERIA: Lax Security Reason for U.N. Bombing
    Security experts say that unless something is done to regulate the high level of illicit transactions and proliferation of commercial explosives in Nigeria, scenes like the United Nations suicide bombing will become more frequent.
  • U.S. Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges
    With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. In fact, the U.S. exports more oil than it imports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration - and has done so for nearly tw ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Flight to safety tops Lehman crisis
    Central banks and official bodies have parked record sums of dollars at the US Federal Reserve for safe-keeping, indicating a clear loss of trust in commercial banks. Data from the St Louis Fed shows that reserve funds from "official foreign accounts" have doubled since the start of the year, ...
  • Libyan rebels accused of targeting black workers
    Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries, the African Union says. ''The NTC [National Transitional Council] seems to confuse black people with mercenaries,'' the African Union chairman, Jean Ping, said. ...
  • FBI Informants in Islamic Communities Disclosed
    Mother Jones has published story by Investigative Reporting Fellow Trevor Aaronson that discloses how the FBI built a network of informants in Muslim communities. Aaronson’s story, “The Informants," reveals how the FBI's program was designed to find would-be terrorists before they strike, res ...
  • UK: Middle-class homelessness to rise
    The economic downturn and the government's deep cuts to welfare will drive up homelessness over the next few years, raising the spectre of middle class people living on the streets, a major study warns. The report by the homelessness charity Crisis, seen by the Guardian, says there is a direc ...
  • The Secret to Making Money
    Last month we learned that the "wealth creators" of this country have done remarkably well, in spite of the global economic situation. We were told in the National Business Review's annual rich list that this is cause for celebration, given the wealth of the 151 richest individuals "has climbed ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Fox and Aleutian Islands, Alaska - Earthquake ...
    Date-Time: Friday, September 02, 2011 at 10:55:54 UTC Friday, September 02, 2011 at 01:55:54 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 52.185�N, 171.684�W Depth: 35.5 km (22.1 miles) Region: FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA Distances: 45 km (27 miles) SW of ...
  • California, US: Sea lion bites caused mysterio ...
    Underwater attacks by biting sea lions are responsible for injuring or killing nearly a dozen brown pelicans off the Central Coast of California since last week, state wildlife officials said Wednesday. Until now it had been a mystery what was causing the seabirds to appear along the coast ne ...
  • Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over flotilla ...
    Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and will cut military ties with the country over its refusal to apologize for last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, officials said Friday, further straining a relationship that had been a cornerstone of regional stability. Turkey's move came ...
  • Russia to protect economic interests in Libya
    Russia will protect the interests of its national companies in Libya under the country's new leadership, a Kremlin source said on Friday. "We are not just thinking about it, but take concrete measures. The government is working on it," the source said, adding the prospects for Russian compani ...
  • Trust in Your Neighbors Could Benefit Your Hea ...
    Here's an easy way to improve your health: trust your neighbors. A new study from the University of Missouri shows that increasing trust in neighbors is associated with better self-reported health. "I examined the idea of 'relative position,' or where one fits into the income distribution in ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • "A handful of soldiers...
    ...is better than a mouthful of arguments." ���������������������������������� - Stephen Harper, Trapani, Italy, 1 September 2011 Sometimes a little more argument makes all the difference.
  • Sex sells . . .
    Part of a Japanese pamphlet written for Australian soldiers. The implication was that while Australian men were fighting in the Pacific Theater, the depraved Americans would swoop in and cavort with their women. IO9 has a great article by Cyriaque Lamar, "The pornographic psychological warf ...
  • Daryl Hannah: NJAPF* . . . .
    *Not Just Another Pretty Face Don't limit your thoughts of Daryl Hannah to her "Steel Magnolias" and "Kill Bill" roles. She is one tough debater as the shill for Big Oil finds out in their debate on CBC's "Power and Politics" today. She handles herself very well, is well-versed ...
  • Art
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  • Darth Vader's Memoirs . . .
    Darth, himself. GETTING AWAY WITH TORTURE, the title of Dahlia Lithwick's article in Slate, commenting on the publication of Dick Cheney's memoir, "In My Time", seems to be a fair summation of Dick's adventures to date, unless, of course, some brave soul in the US gov't. decides to give it a t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Still Pushing Myth That Stimulus Failed
    Fox News' Stuart Varney is citing revisions to economic projections for 2012 to revive the myth that the 2009 stimulus failed. In fact, independent economists agree that the stimulus significantly raised employment and increased GDP, and experts say it is the winding down of stimulus spending t ...
  • Can't Wait: Conservative Media Attack Obama's ...
    Conservative media have attacked President Obama's jobs plan as a "catastrophe," a "political stunt," and a "giveaway" to groups that Obama "favor" before the plan has even been released.Obama's Jobs Plan Has Yet To Be Released... AP: President Obama Will "Deliver An Address On Jobs And The Ec ...
  • Fox Still Wrong About NLRB's Complaint Against ...
    Fox News' Juliet Huddy falsely claimed that the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) complaint against Boeing is the result of planned Boeing jobs in South Carolina being "nonunion" and that the NLRB's action is "unprecedented." Huddy is the latest Fox figure to mangle the facts about the NL ...
  • Fox's Bolling Forwards Myth That Texas Economy ...
    Eric Bolling attributed job creation in Texas to low taxes and the state's lack of regulations. In fact, Texas' economy has been helped by rising public-sector employment, federal stimulus money, and regulations that helped shield the state from the housing bubble.Bolling Cites "Low Tax, Low Re ...
  • Dick Morris Uses Fox To Push His Anti-Muslim P ...
    In recent days, Fox News contributor Dick Morris has repeatedly used his Fox appearances to promote a petition on his website opposing the Park51 Islamic community center. Morris has a history of inflammatory attacks on Park51, including the outrageous claim that the community center is "design ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Capitalist Crack-Up
    Fitzgerald, by then deep into an inglorious relationship with Gin Rickeys, was lucid enough, in 1936, to explain that "all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you rememb ...
  • Why Obama's Beltway Apologists are Letting Us Down
    This essay, which has been linked hundreds of times since it went up two days ago on Huffington Post, is as long (4300 words) as it is damning. I hope that you'll copy it onto a document and print it out in order to read it over the weekend and that you'll agree with me that the subtle horror of ...
  • Palestinian Strategy
    There has been a great deal of anxious speculation about what Palestinians really want, the speculation tied to the questionable mandate of a president who has not stood for election since 2005 (and his prime minister who was never elected at all), the anxiety tied to concern that, if you take t ...
  • Nukes and Dictator Survival
    On Wednesday night's Last Word, Chris Hayes and Steve Clemons fretted over the effect of Qaddafi's overthrow on other despots' survival strategies with regard to nuclear weapons. Bear in mind that Qaddafi agreed in 2003 to hand over the entire contents of his budding yet substantial nuclear weap ...
  • Libya, The Climax
    I wrote about my time in Libya, and of the country's serious potential, back in February, just as the uprising started. I am not sure there is anything to add, except to caution against all the analysis that emphasizes the country's tribal divisions and lack of a functioning government--as if we ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • ERCOT calls for energy conservation this weekend
    Its predicted that the entire state will have record temperatures this weekend. Please take all measures to avoid using unnecessary energy. They might have a hurricane on the east coast but we have a heat wave in Texas and there might not be enough electricity to go around. Statement from ERCOT ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...
  • TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
    TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean ...
  • SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...
  • Pipelines trump your property rights.
    Energy companies are increasingly suing South Texas landowners as they work to build pipelines to accommodate surging oil and gas production. The question isn’t whether a company can route a pipeline across a property owner’s land.  Pipeline companies, under Texas law, wield the power of eminen ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Free – but not for you and me: Winners and Los ...
    chimage.php_.jpg With the political extravaganza of the debt ceiling debate now in their rear view mirror, the U.S. Congress will soon vote on “free” trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Despite major concerns raised ...
  • Latest Attacks Bring Fire and Fear to Gaza
    border_boy.jpg Soon after shameful attacks killed six in southern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that militants would pay �a very heavy price.��And then his warplanes proceeded to pound civilian areas with missiles. So far nine Pale ...
  • Seeing REDD
    no_redd.jpg Like most other market-based solutions, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and its more recent avatar REDD +, are fundamentally about profit – not forests, not people, and not global warming or ...
  • Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team.�The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots� mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifications:� ...
  • Youth carry the work forward
    Subheadline:� Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more

Climate

  • Is a Nuclear-Powered Car in Our Future?
    Source:� CNET News Thorium is being explored as a less toxic and more plentiful element than uranium to use in nuclear reactors�but could it also be used to power vehicles?
  • Computers to Pinpoint Wild Weather Forecasts
    Source:� Reuters Computer simulations of the weather workings of the entire planet will be able to make forecasts to within a few kilometers accuracy, helping predict the effects of deadly weather systems.
  • Insurers Worried About Recent Water Damage
    Source:� Postmedia News The Insurance Bureau of Canada says global warming � and the apparent increase in the severity and number of tropical storms � is having a negative effect on the industry and that insurers are particula ...
  • Russian, U.S. Scientists Set to Study Methane ...
    Source:� RIA Novosti A group of Russian and U.S. scientists will leave the port of Vladivostok on Friday on board a Russian research ship to study methane emissions in the eastern part of the Arctic.
  • Crossing the 20% Mark: Green Energy Use Jumps ...
    Source:� Spiegel Online During the first half of 2011, the share of renewable energy sources used by Germans in their total energy mix grew to one-fifth -- a hefty boost over 2010. It's a small step toward Germany's ambition t ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Taliban talks and Mullah Omar’s Eid message
    The Eid message from Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar offers less than meets the eye, especially given the haziness of U.S. policy on Afghanistan
  • UN Syria sanctions draft targets Assad, family
    Western nations circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Tuesday that calls for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, influential members of his family and key associates.
  • America in Afghanistan until 2024 ?
    Afghanistan and the United Statesd are negotiating a status of forces pact, under which according to reports, troops may stay on well beyond 2014.
  • UN tells Mbeki he got it wrong on Ivory Coast
    This week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, defended the United Nations' record on Ivory Coast, telling Thabo Mbeki in a highly unusual public rebuttal that it was the former South African president -- not the international community -- who got it wrong in the w ...
  • UN sends mixed signals on civilian deaths in Libya
    The United Nations has been sending mixed signals lately about NATO's record with civilian casualties in the alliance's sixth month of air strikes against troops and military sites linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Booman Tribune

  • FHFA To Sue Banks
    The Federal Housing Finance Agency is filing suit today or on Tuesday against JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of American, and more than a half-dozen other large banks, in an effort to recoup billions in losses from shitty AAA-rated mortgage securities. It's about time. The statute of ...
  • GOP's Immigration Problem
    Personally, whenever I think about the increasing racial diversity of the country at all, it's usually in the favorable context of better food choices both at grocery stores and in restaurants. The truth is, I don't really think about racial diversity much at all. Yet, it seems to be an all-co ...
  • I Handed Out Burglary Tools to Criminals
    Well, at least he's honest about how he feels about my work helping poor people to register to vote. Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politic ...
  • Casual Observation
    When I saw that former Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle and current Congressman Jon Runyan (R-NJ) had compared Michele Bachmann to Terrell Owens, I thought he meant it as a compliment. Turns out, not so much. Discuss
  • Odds & Ends
    I got a giggle out of this headline. Check out Will Bunch on our stupid discourse. Thoughts on Jesus and Joey Vento. JCPenney fail. Something to ponder. Sadly, No!. Don't let them turn Pennsylvania into Arizona. I'm gonna be in NYC today, so behave yourselves. Got ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Momma Alligator Rescues Baby from Heron's Beak
    Watch the amazing rescue of a baby alligator by its mother from the clutches of a heron... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Dependence on Cars has Changed Our Lifesty ...
    Today, there are over 1 billion cars on the planet - 1 for every 6 people. A great success story, they have changed our lifestyle drastically. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Most Colorful Lizards on Earth
    Incredible lizards of many different species, united by one characteristic: their fullness of color and outstanding beauty! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 18 Hottest Links of the Week
    From badass sisters who altered the course of history, to liquifying your dead body as a green burial solution, we present for you some tasty little nuggets... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
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  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List disease di ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's mark ...
  • Mercury in Retrograde; 2012 is a trick says Au ...
    I don't really get the Mercury Retrograde thing but a lot of people swear by it. Consult here: Is Mercury in Retrograde? It apparently will be retrograde for the next 5 days -- I am supposed to be careful with communications... 2011 Taurus Year Ahead... More on retrograde. I don't know, astrolog ...
  • After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
    Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few lat ...
  • Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
    UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...

Daily Censored

  • THIEF IN THE LIVING ROOM
    By Saul Landau A rogue elephant ravishes the American living room. But instead of stopping the criminal antics, the people and elected officials salute, praise and honor him, and keep him close to our hearts and wallets. The scoundrel’s name? The Defense Department. Thanks to clever PR teams, th ...
  • Libya and the Masculinity of War: Whose Victory?
    Libyan rebels have established their National Transitional Council.  Without women.  No surprise considering the parades of victorious men driven by the blinding macho of their rebellion against Gadhafi who continue to shoot off their guns in celebration. The rebels make their victory indistingu ...
  • National Blogger Censored by his Publisher
    Carlos Miller, whose whose blog Photography is Not A Crime tirelessly covers the intersection of police and cameras, thought he had come  upon as story made of pure gold, it had sex, a lawless cop, and even a kitten. But when his publisher pulled the article without even contacting him, he saw h ...
  • Michael Vick’s America: Redemption of the Pawns
    Michael Vick has signed a $100 million contract to play for the Philadelphia Eagles over the next six years. Coming on the heels of a lengthy prison sentence and status as a third-string quarterback for the Eagles just a season ago, this mega-contract is part of, according to Ashley Fox at ESPN, ...
  • Michael Collins: Gaddafi Jihadist Rehab Progr ...
    Monday was the day we heard that the “US believes al-Qa’ida is on the verge of defeat after deputy leader’s death” as The Independent headlined the story. It stood out as a sequel to the recent United States action in Pakistan, which brought us the news (but not the body) of a dead Osama bin [...]

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  • News you may have missed #582
    US government conceals Bush surveillance memos. Ex-CIA bin Laden Unit boss wants rendition back. French firm helped Gaddafi spy on opposition.
  • Ex-Bush official advised Gaddafi until early A ...
    Intelligence documents found at the headquarters of Libya’s abandoned spy agency appear to show that the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi enjoyed the support of an American diplomat who served in the Bush administration. Al Jazeera reports that David Welch, who was Assistant Secretary of State for N ...
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    CIA wants to censor book by ex-FBI agent. New scandal at India’s SIGINT agency. China silent about spy lecture leak.
  • New Zealand base in Afghanistan was secret CIA ...
    A Kiwi “peacekeeping” and “civil reconstruction” base in Afghanistan was a secret station for the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to a new book by New Zealand’s preeminent investigative writer.
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    Ex-MI5 director says Iraq posed not threat to UK. Interview about DAS wiretaps with Colombia Attorney General. Taiwan losing spy game with China.

War is a Crime.org

  • That Does It! They've Arrested Steve Cobble. ...
    Advisor to presidential candidates arrested:
  • Insider Tells Why Obama Chose Not to Prosecute ...
    Two Years Ago Obama Decided Not to Prosecute Torturers Now We Get An Account of Why By David Swanson If you can think back all the way to January 2009, back when wars were ending, Guantanamo was closing, the Pentagon was getting oversight, employees were going to have free choice, the rich would ...
  • I Just Found 29 Million Jobs
    No, not 29 million job offers. I'm no better at applying for jobs than you are, and my town offers nothing but dead-end McJobs or positions in the military industrial complex, just like yours. I mean I just spotted an easy way to create 29 million jobs, one for every unemployed or underemployed ...
  • Stop US War Crimes Now on the 10th Anniversary ...
    by Debra Sweet, National Director, World Can't Wait.� I credit The World Can't Wait's founding work to "drive out the Bush regime" in the summer of 2005 with helping to change public perception of George W. Bush from "dumb" to "dangerous." As the former president will stand at the World Trade Ce ...
  • South Koreans Oppose US Military Bases, Tea Pa ...

Grist - News

  • How to assess hurricane damage using waffles
    by Jess Zimmerman. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has an idiosyncratic (and tasty) way of determining the damage caused by a hurricane: the Waffle House Index. The iconic Southern chain is so widespread -- and so stalwart -- that you can gauge a storm's severity based on wheth ...
  • Texas’ official water plan defiantly inc ...
    by Christopher Mims. The last time Texas created a long-term water plan, in 2007, it conspicuously and controversially left out any mention of the effects of climate change on the state's water resources. In the midst of a drought of biblical proportions, one line from that report in part ...
  • Obama blows smog in everyone’s face
    by Jess Zimmerman. President Obama has yanked back the EPA's proposed new restrictions on ground-level ozone (i.e. smog). That's a huge win for Big Business, which had claimed it couldn't weather an economic downturn AND keep from suffocating people at the same time. But it's an equally h ...
  • Raising chickens is totally rock and roll
    by Jess Zimmerman. Jenifer Jourdanne has expensive tastes, expensive shoes, and "designer chickens." In an essay in xoJane, she talks about how her long-standing backyard coop didn't dent her rocker cred: I will have you know I was a maverick. I was the girl in the early 90s at Vi ...
  • Cheap alloy could produce zero-carbon hydrogen ...
    by Christopher Mims. An inexpensive combination of two metals common in the manufacture of computer chips can generate hydrogen from water, using only sunlight as an energy source. If the process can be made commercially viable -- and the simplicity and cost suggests it might -- it would ...

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  • Lightning sensors thwart forest fire flare-ups
    Technology is giving fire officials early warning of forest fires by letting them pinpoint where lightning has struck in the boreal forest, just moments after it happens.
  • New method eyed to remove radiation from soil ...
    An improved method to remove radioactive cesium from soil may mean Japanese authorities will no longer have to strip vast amounts of dirt to clean up areas contaminated by the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years,a Japanese research institute said.
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    A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one's eyeballs, all the time.
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    Seriously, you guys, this is a real story. The Japanese branch of popular American circle-of-grease manufacturer Domino's has unveiled plans to build a dome-shaped Domino's pizza on the moon. The moon. The artist's rendering, above, features a drive-through which the Domino's concept artist thin ...
  • Feel Good Dog Transformations
    Honestly there aren't many more sad things than seeing a picture like this.   At the same time there's no greater feeling than knowing a dog with as much

Invisible Opportunity

  • You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Becau ...
    I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrat ...
  • ‘Contempt’ for Not Standing on a B ...
    By KEVIN KOENINGER RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) – A man who was eating a taco at a Raleigh bus stop says a cop swept-kicked him to the ground, broke his leg and arrested him, then hauled him before a judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail for contempt, because he could not stand on [...]
  • Dick Cheney, War Criminal and Chicken Hawk Deluxe
    By Les Visible I’m fairly competent in the use of words but I am rendered speechless in my attempts to reach a definition or describe you. All I can come up with are things like, “you vicious, evil sonofabitch” and “you monstrous low to the ground, blood sucking, shit-weasel” These don’t get the ...
  • Jackie O., A “Conspiracy Nut”?
    Tapes that were recorded within months of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and that have been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston are soon to be released. In the tapes, former First Lady Jackie Kennedy reveals that she believed Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and oth ...
  • New alloy could split water to make fuel
    Kate TaylorTG Daily A team of Kentucky scientists has found a way to ‘tweak’ an inexpensive semiconductor to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.Through theoretical computations, they’ve demonstrated that an alloy formed by a two percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has th ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • The Sandcrawler: LucasFilm’s Singapore Headqua ...
    Read the rest of The Sandcrawler: LucasFilm’s Singapore Headquarters is a High Performance Building Straight Out of Tatooine Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aedas, eco design, fritted glass, george lucas, green architecture, Green Building, green design, high performance facade, ...
  • 3013 Installation Made From Recycled Wood Casc ...
    Read the rest of 3013 Installation Made From Recycled Wood Cascades Down a London Building Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3013 installation, Architectural Association, eco design, green design, Jesse randzio, Lawrence Lek, London, Onur Ozkaya, Recycled Materials, recycled plywo ...
  • Cellular Green-Roofed Pajariro Jardin Infantil ...
    Read the rest of Cellular Green-Roofed Pajariro Jardin Infantil La Aurora Kindergarten Sprouts in Colombia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Aburra Valley, colombia, Ctrl G, eco design, green design, green roof, kindergarten, Pajariro Jardin Infantil La Aurora, sustainable design
  • Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm is a Self-Suffi ...
    Read the rest of Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm is a Self-Sufficient Mini Ecosystem for London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, food production, green architecture, Green Building, green design, London, london tower farm, rainwater, renewab ...
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  • Officially Declared Nuclear Nightmare
    Nothing good about the nuclear news at the end of August as we have official recognition (finally) of what is going on in Japan and thus what is threatening the rest of the world, especially the northern hemisphere. It is now being said that the amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from ...
  • Comet Elenin Could Be Disintegrating
    Astronomers monitoring Comet Elenin have noticed the comet has decreased in brightness the past week, and the coma is now elongating and diffusing. Some astronomers predict the comet will disintegrate and not survive perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. On August 19, a massive solar f ...
  • A Primer On “Martial Law”
    It is difficult these days not to come upon some pessimistic patriotic commentator expressing the fear that something called “martial law” may soon be imposed on this country, as the General Government’s response to a new “terrorist attack”, or to the economic and social chaos arising out of a c ...
  • Making Wars Is Biggest Industry In U.S.
    A pair of vitally important news reports were lost recently amid a blizzard of stories about the gyrating stock market and a rogue East Coast earthquake.The first came from US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who announced that a deal had been struck to keep US forces in Iraq beyond the oft-publi ...
  • 10,000 Earthquakes In Swarm Reported On German ...
    The Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic says it has recorded almost 10,000 earthquakes during the last three days in West Bohemia, a region located close to the Czech Republic’s western border with Germany. The earthquake swarm started late on Tuesday and continue ...

Andy Worthington

  • The UK “Riots” and Why the Vile an ...
    I left the UK for a family holiday in Greece in the middle of what were termed “the riots,” a four-day explosion of violence, looting and arson that didn’t really come as a surprise to me, as it was both a bitter response to an increasingly divided society, and a dreadful demonstration of how we ...
  • Can Kuwait Break the Guantánamo Deadlock?
    As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, those hoping for the closure of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo, which was, and remains the most notorious emblem of the Bush administration’s excessive and misguided response to the attacks, are wondering how the prison will eve ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, 700,000-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by Wikile ...
  • Tyler Cabot’s Important Profile of Guant ...
    Every now and then, mainstream media magazines pick up on a story from Guantánamo and run with it, reaching a wide audience and providing detailed coverage of the Bush administration’s shameful prison, which Barack Obama has found himself unable to close, and which, for the 171 men still held, ...
  • An End to Gaddafi’s Tyranny: The Liberat ...
    With Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in hiding, the uprising against his 42-year rule that began on February 15, and that, almost since it began, has been contentiously supported by NATO, has finally succeeded in providing a shadowy glimpse of a new life for the Libyan people. Huge diffi ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Judge in MLK Day Bomb Case Orders FBI to Explo ...
    The FBI was ordered Friday to build and detonate six bombs similar to the one  allegedly built by a man accused of planting an improvised explosive device on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane last January. The order came from U.S. District Judge Justin Quackenbush in Spokane, ...
  • Georgia Governor Appoints Nativist Hate Group ...
    Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal today appointed a longtime leader in an anti-immigrant hate group to serve on a new state panel charged with enforcing the state’s harsh new immigration law. Phil Kent was among those named by Deal to a new Immigration Enforcement Review Board. Created as part of Georgia ...
  • New Roundup for September 2, 2011
    A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of California teen who allegedly shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab class. Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision on the degree of Brandon McInerney’s guilt for killing 15-year-old Larry King. Prosecuto ...
  • Hypocrisy Unlimited: Anti-Gay Groups Denounce ...
    Boycotts are a time-honored and almost always legal tool that has been used throughout American history by activists across the political spectrum to help force or prevent certain actions. Most people see the decision not to buy from particular outlets as a legitimate and precious part of our Fi ...
  • News Roundup for September 1, 2011
    An Independence woman allegedly helped others in 2006 to vandalize and set fire to a biracial man’s mobile home because they wanted him out of their neighborhood. A federal grand jury indicted Teresa Witthar, 43, on seven counts Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to violate the man’s civil right ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to his f ...

Common Dreams -News

  • U.S. Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges
    With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. In fact, the U.S. exports more oil than it imports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration - and has done so for nearly two decades. ...
  • Industry Victory: Obama Withdraws EPA's Strict ...
    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has bowed to the demands of U.S. manufacturers and asked the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards. read more
  • Cable: UN Peacekeepers 'Traded Food for Sex wi ...
    United Nations peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast enticed underage girls to trade sex for food, according to a U.S. Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. The cable, written in January, 2010 focuses on the behavior of Beninese peacekeepers stationed in the war-torn western town of Toulepleu. A random ...
  • Chant of 'Tax the Rich' Growing Louder in Nation
    Billionaire Warren Buffett may not seem to have much in common with angry laborers at town hall meetings or armies of California nurses protesting in the streets. read more
  • Economy Adds Zero Jobs in August as Recession ...
    The U.S. economy added a net total of zero jobs for the month of August, prompting new fears about a double-dip recession. Private-sector firms added 17,000 jobs, while state and local governments continued to shed workers. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent. The result was worse t ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Glencore expresses interest in Larko and EYDAP
    Glencore, the multinational mining and commodities trading company, has expressed interest in the privatization of Larko, an old ailing mining concern, and EYDAP, the Athens water supply company, according to sources.
  • Ghana: Let Not the Bank Toy With Our Water!
    The World Bank would want us believe that it is committed to good democratic governance, yet the same Bank, through its Country Assistance Strategies and actions arising thereof often undermines the sovereign will of the people and short circuits due democratic processes in partner countries, es ...
  • Gazette.Net: Commissioners approve pilot progr ...
    Developers, not Frederick County employees, will handle the contracts, inspections and supervision of some water and sewer construction projects for the next 18 months, under a new pilot program.
  • Water proposals worry cost-conscious Lodi council
    LODI - Proposals from two contractors interested in staffing Lodi's new water treatment facility west of Lodi Lake could generate some cost savings for the city in the short term, but the City Council on Tuesday said they are concerned the long term...
  • Water proposals worry cost-conscious Lodi council
    LODI - Proposals from two contractors interested in staffing Lodi's new water treatment facility west of Lodi Lake could generate some cost savings for the city in the short term, but the City Council on Tuesday said they are concerned the long term...

Guardian

  • Plane crashes off Chilean coast
    Rescuers are searching for wreckage among the Juan Fernandez islands, 500 miles from the country's Pacific coastA Chilean air force plane with 21 people aboard, including a popular local television host, crashed in the Juan Fernandez islands off the country's Pacific coast, authorities said.Juan ...
  • Leona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Sim ...
    Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia PattersonLeona Lewis, despite her 9m album sales, three Grammy nominations and audience of 2 billion at the Olympic closing ceremony in Beijing in 2008 (with Jimmy Page on guitar and David Beckham on balls), ...
  • Storm Lee could unleash torrential rains and f ...
    Mississippi and Louisiana declare state of emergency, and New Orleans put on alert as tropical storm gathers strengthMississippi declared a state of emergency in seven counties on Friday as it prepares for tropical storm Lee. The storm has formed in the waters off Louisiana and is expected to un ...
  • Brian Paddick picked by Liberal Democrats for ...
    2012 race will be rematch between Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and former Met deputy assistant commissionerLondon's mayoral election next year will be a rematch between Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and Brian Paddick, after the former Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner was selected a ...
  • Obama backs down on tighter smog regulations
    Environmental groups dismayed as president � under pressure from GOP � delays enacting stricter standards until 2013Barack Obama has bowed to pressure from Republicans in Congress to postpone plans to introduce tighter controls over smog-producing companies.The decision provoked expressions of d ...

McClatchey

  • At cemetery for Gadhafi fighters, grisly work ...
    MISRATA, Libya — A rudimentary cemetery sits on a sand dune overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Under headstones fashioned from cinder blocks lie the bodies of more than 700 men who Libyan revolutionaries say were killed fighting for former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
  • Payrolls flat in August, unemployment remains ...
    WASHINGTON — Another weaker-than-expected government jobs report Friday put new pressure on policymakers and the Federal Reserve to find ways to spark economic activity and boost hiring, experts said.
  • Obama can't create many jobs without Congress' ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's own job may be on the line as he presents his plan for job creation next week, with the nation's unemployment rate mired at 9.1 percent and his popularity at a record low.
  • In Alaska, earthquakes are a fact of life
    WASHINGTON — When a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the East Coast last week, millions of people felt it. When a 6.8 magnitude quake struck in Alaska's remote Aleutian island chain early Friday, few noticed — though it was about 10 times more powerful.
  • Obama yanks plan to tighten dirty air rule, sa ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sided with business interests against the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday and ordered a sudden halt to a plan to toughen the Bush administration's limits on smog.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Dad arrives from Afghanistan to surprise his c ...
    John Paul Stevens High School to see his eldest child, Brianna, a freshman. Ibarra was flanked by his wife, Laura, and his two youngest children, Isaiah, 3, and Aidan, 15 months. Laura Ibarra said ...
  • 30 boys kidnapped in Afghanistan
    KHAR, Pakistan -; Suspected Taliban militants were holding a group of around 30 Pakistani boys on Friday after luring them into Afghanistan and kidnapping them, Pakistani officials said. The ...
  • Medic Saves Boy's Life in Afghanistan
    By Air Force Master Sgt. J. LavoieGhazni Provincial Reconstruction Team GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2011 An Army medic serving with the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team here ...
  • Combined Force Captures Taliban Leader
    Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2011 A combined Afghan and coalition security force yesterday detained a Taliban leader and ...
  • Should Congress Re-Start the Military Draft to ...
    Unless, of course, that foreign policy idea can both help address the jobs scarcity issue and address a foreign policy concern, and that can be accomplished by -- you guessed it -- a U.S military ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Armicus Brief argues for SOX coverage for Vill ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief this week in Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, a case pending at the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief argues that SOX should protect whis ...
  • August 26th Premiere of Documentary "Chasing M ...
    A new documentary about the infamous Madoff scandal opens in theaters across the country on Friday August 26th. I am looking forward to seeing Chasing Madoff on Friday and learning more about Harry Markopolos’ struggle to blow the whistle on a financial fraud that rocked the US economy. I highly ...
  • Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
    Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whistlebl ...
  • IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
    Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...
  • Senate Whistleblower Bill called "Bride of Fra ...
    Julia Davis, a notable whistleblower who prevailed in her struggle against the Department of Homeland Security, recently released an article concerning the reintroduction of the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 743). Ms. Davis notes that one of the main supporte ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Record Label Execs Suddenly Upset That False C ...
    We already wrote about how a prankster used bogus copyright claims to takedown the videos of Justin Bieber on YouTube. It turns out that the mysterious prankster didn't just target Bieber, but also got videos by Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Shakira taken down. But what's funny is how some (anonymous ...
  • DailyDirt: Food That's Not Quite For Eating...
    Parents everywhere are usually scolding their kids for playing with their food, but maybe kids are right to look at food as building materials and decorating items. Here are just a few unconventional uses for edible goods. SPAM Lip Glaze probably doesn't have the same shelf life as regular S ...
  • Professor Behind Two Chatbots Chatting Discuss ...
    By now, I assume you've already seen the two chatbots talking to each other, but on the off-chance you haven't (or in case you just want to see it again), here it is: The video went crazy viral quickly, and the folks at The Alyona Show moved quickly and got the professor behind the projec ...
  • Starz, Netflix And How Industry Jealousies Str ...
    In a somewhat surprising move, Starz has decided to not renew its contract with Netflix. Many other TV channels and movie studios are sure to follow as their current contracts end. Even though Netflix is somewhat braced for this, Starz was one of the few providers willing to supply newer titles, ...
  • Man Claims Apple Investigators Pretended To Be ...
    Update: Please read the update at the bottom of the story. Earlier this week, News.com broke a story of yet another Apple employee losing an iPhone prototype in a bar (stop me if you've heard this one before...). Unlike the last one, this one (as far as we know) did not get sold to some te ...

VacTruth

  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for August
    Parents of Kitsap County are exempting their children from shots in increasing numbers. It was said that roughly 7 percent of Kitsap students skipped one or more shots during the past school year. That vaccine story and more for the month of August...
  • Dr Andrew Wakefield To Speak At National Autis ...
    The National Autism Association is having Dr Andrew Wakefield speak at their forthcoming conference about his new book which is to be released in the spring.
  • Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
    Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...
  • Families Sue Their Lawyers For Negligence Over ...
    The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism.
  • Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
    Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m still missing most everything, but I managed to catch a few bits of news. Indigenous people in Ecuador are being targeted for protest. The Eastern Navajo Diné filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the hopes of stopping uranium mining.  The petition is wor ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned Wiki ...
    Since the unanticipated release this week, in complete and unredacted form, of all 251,287 U.S. State Department cables held by WikiLeaks, there has been plenty of blame to go around — and the possible repercussions have grown increasingly dire. Most obviously in danger are the informants in pla ...
  • Right-wing commentator: Poor people voting is ...
    Many conservatives appear to think badly of poor people, but Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center takes it a step further. According to the title of his latest article for American Thinker, he believes that “registering the poor to vote is un-American.” “Why are left-wing activist groups ...
  • Tropical Storm Lee could bring flooding to Lou ...
    NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal warned on Friday that Tropical Storm Lee is likely to produce flash flooding in low-lying parts of the New Orleans metropolitan area throughout the holiday weekend. Winds as high as 65 miles per hour could affect coastal communities as the stor ...
  • Turkey: Israel told “Pack your bags”
    By Gordon DuffFriday, September 2nd, 2011 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolu. AA photo Turkey expels Israeli diplomats after UN report     ISTANBUL/ANKARA – Daily News with wires   Editor’s preface: A publishable note, part of the text of the email which included this story from Turkey, sen ...
  • Libya Warned Smugglers are Looting Gaddafi’s Guns
    Richard Norton-Taylor and Nick Hopkins London Guardian Friday, September 2, 2011 RELATED: NATO Gives Al-Qaeda Access to Deadly Weapons Stockpile Comment: The spin here is that only African Gaddafi mercenaries are looting the weapons. In reality, terrorist rebel groups controlled by Al-Qaeda comm ...
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