3 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Dandelion Salad

• The Greatest Plot Against the Ron Paul Camp To ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post August 30, 2011 Who ‘Really’ Is this Bruce Fein? “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is kno ...
• Michael Parenti: Privatization of Libya + The ...
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org August 27, 2011 http://rt.com/ August 21, 2011 Political scientist Michael Parenti, based in Berkeley, California, says protecting civilians was just a pretext for NATO to step into Libya, topple Gaddafi and redirect the ...
• War by Deception (repost)
  Dandelion Salad Dandelion Salad Update: Aug. 21, 2011; added the Director’s Cut version, see below.  Feb 20, 2008 How a Zionist cabal planned and faked evidence and news stories to create a war with Iraq and the ultimate false flag 9/11. The Pentagon is the largest corporation in the world and ...
• The Election March of the Trolls by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 29, 2011 We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the ...
• We have no bargaining power with Obama by Ralp ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 29, 2011 This is the second week of protests, led by Bill McKibben, in front of the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject a proposed 1700 mile pipeline transporting the dirtiest oil from Alberta, Canada th ...

Your New Reality

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  Hurricane Irene : Apocalypse Fail From the front page of the New York Times print edition, Sunday, August 28 : The aftermath, via an AP headline that sounds like the title of an unwritten RadioHead song. Little Damage Seen In Many Places : From AP : From North Caroli ...
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  Hurricane Irene Might Not Be Fake, But It's Most Popular Photo Is As Hurricane Irene comes ashore in New Jersey, with New York City in its sights, the most retweeted photo of Irene over North Carolina is a flat-out fake. But an impressive one : That this photo is a fak is irrevel ...
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  Hurricane Irene, from its birth more than a week ago to its first landfall on the US East Coat today : New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg tells New Yorkers if they are told to evacuate and they don't leave, "they will be on their own." Sunday afternoon might prove to be ...
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  Hurricane Irene Prepares To Devour US East Coast How Do You Evacuate Atlantic City? How Do You Evacuate New York City? NASA satellite image From the Weather Channel : This is the most serious hurricane threat to the east coast of the United States in more than fi ...
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  A remarkable, hard to find documentary by Orson Welles on the nature of fakery in what we perceive to be reality :

Wired - Science

• New ‘Demon’ Bat Species Found in Vietnam
  Three new bat species, one resembling the Lord of the Underworld, have been discovered in the tropical forests of southern Indochina. The tiny 'demon,' named Beelzebub’s tube-nosed bat, has been seen only in Vietnam.
• How to See a Supernova This Weekend From Your ...
  Starting this weekend, the closest supernova found in at least 25 years will be visible from your backyard with just binoculars or a small telescope. Here's how.
• Captive Chimps Could Be Declared Endangered Sp ...
  A regulatory oddity that gives different levels of protection to wild and captive chimpanzees is up for review, potentially changing how humanity's closest living relatives are used in research and entertainment. As of now, wild chimps are officially endangered, but captive chimps are only threa ...
• Oldest Advanced Tools Found in Kenya
  Scientists are pushing back the date of the first sophisticated stone tools.
• Gender Gap Vanishes in Female-Empowered Cultures
  A study of tribes in India suggest differences between men and women in spatial-reasoning abilities may be the product of society.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israeli Arab MKs laud Turkey move to expel Isr ...
  Haneen Zoabi: "Just as Israelis are beginning to seriously consider a new social order, they must also consider a new diplomatic order in which Israel will pay a heavy price for its policy of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Mehdi Hassan: a State of Palestine would backf ...
  The Palestinians are walking into a trap of their own making. With the so-called "peace process" going nowhere, and with the number of Israeli settlements on the rise, the UN vote is an act of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Anti-Israel protest disrupts Philharmonic show ...
  Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupt Israeli orchestra’s London performance. BBC Radio forced to suspend broadcast. UK minister tweets: Demonstrators turned entire audience pro-Israel. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Max Blumenthal, Joseph Dana: The exclusive rev ...
  One of the greatest misperceptions of Israeli politics is that the right-wing politicians who claim Jabotinsky’s writings as their lodestar perpetuate the most egregious violence against the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank s ...
  Sygmunt Bauman: "Israel does not see the missiles falling on communities along the border as a bad thing. On the contrary, they would be worried and even alarmed were it not for this fire." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia to extend lease of Tajikistan military base
  The presidents of Russia and Tajikistan agreed to prepare in early 2012 an agreement extending Russia's lease of a military base in Tajikistan by 49 years.
• Anti-missile radar to be deployed in Turkey - ...
  An early warning radar system will be deployed in Turkey within the NATO missile defense program, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said on Friday.
• Test of new U.S. interceptor missile results i ...
  A modernized version of the SM-3 missile has failed to intercept a ballistic missile target during a test over the Pacific Ocean.
• Russia signs off 2011 arms procurement deals
  Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said he has signed all deals under an ambitious weapons procurement program except for one, following official criticism that the military was falling short of its annual plan.
• Russian servicemen to rehearse underwater tank ...
  Cadets from Russia's Central Military District army training unit will develop underwater tank driving skills during a drill which kicked off in Sverdlovsk Region on Thursday, the information center for the military district said.

NewsWise

• World Trade Center-Exposed NYC Firefighters Fa ...
  In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven year ...
• ATS Publishes Clinical Practice Guidelines on ...
  The American Thoracic Society has issued the first-ever guidelines on the use of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) address when to use FENO and how to interpret FENO levels in different clinical settings. The guidelines, which appear in the September 1 American Journal of Respiratory and Cr ...
• West Virginia United Health System Selects Gei ...
  West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS) and Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) have announced the organizations are partnering for the administration of health benefits for Morgantown-based WVU Healthcare employees and their dependents for 2012.
• Feeding Cows Natural Plant Extracts Can Reduce ...
  With citizens' groups seeking government regulation of foul-smelling ammonia emissions from large dairy farms, scientists today reported that adding natural plant extracts to cow feed can reduce levels of the gas by one-third while reducing the need to fortify cow feed with expensive protein sup ...
• Dendritic Cells in Liver Protect Against Ace ...
  NYU School of Medicine researchers have discovered that dendritic cells in the liver have a protective role against the toxicity of acetaminophen, the widely used over-the-counter pain reliever and fever reducer for adults and children. The study's findings are published in the September issue o ...

Natural Health News

• How Hospitals Harm You
  Most people believe that hospitals are the best place to be when you’re sick and you want to get better. And just about everyone believes that, of all the hospitals in the world, U.S. hospitals are the best there are. But a new report that summarizes data on hospital-acquired infections, errors ...
• Half the U.S. Population Over Age 2 Consumes S ...
  In the Leave-It-to-Beaver days, when a couple ordered a bottle of soda pop and stuck two straws in it so they could share it, that bottle was a mere 6.5 ounces. And, soda pop was something that was considered a treat, something you only got once in a while, like when you were on a date. But toda ...
• Why Does this Drug Used for High Blood Pressur ...
  An FDA safety alert has called attention to another drug linked to serious adverse health problems. This one, an antidepressant that is also commonly used to treat hypertension, can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart, which can lead to abnormal heart rhythm, and possi ...
• Are Unvaccinated Children Healthier?
  For years, consumers have asked for a vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study that might answer the question: Are unvaccinated children healthier? And now, a startling � and exciting � new survey appears to give an answer. While the project is ongoing, over 7600 people have participated in this survey ...
• This Supplement Can Actually Make You Happy
  In our never-ending quest for happiness, it sometimes doesn�t occur to us that what we�re searching for may be as close as our own bodies. And now, a new study shows that it�s possible the answer to our search may begin with the bacteria in our bellies. According to Science News: � �Mice fed b ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• So What Did You Do On Your Summer Vacation (Be ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Well, at least one student at UCLA will have story to beat all others. AN NAWFALIYAH, LIBYA // At the centre of a circle of cheering rebel soldiers near Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown this week stood an improbable figure who gives new meaning to the term “road tri ...
• 11th Circuit Dismisses ATS Claims in Bolivia Case
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson John Bellinger writes at Lawfare on the 11th Circuit’s dismissal of Alien Tort Statute claims against former senior Bolivian government officials.  (Jack Goldsmith served as defense co-counsel.)  This case (opinion) involves former government officials ...
• Blockade, International Armed Conflict, and th ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As Julian noted earlier today, the UN’s Palmer Committee has released its report on the Mavi Marmara incident, concluding that Israel’s actions regarding the ship were were excessive and unreasonable, but that the blockade of Gaza itself is legal. I have ...
• Chevron Wins Another Round Against Ecuador
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve lost track of the enormously complex series of disputes between Chevron and Ecuador. It stems from lawsuits brought against Chevron in Ecuadorian courts, and then attempts to enforce them in the U.S. (and attempts to block the enforcement).  And there are Chevro ...
• Chevron Wins Another Round Against Ecuador
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve lost track of the enormously complex series of disputes between Chevron and Ecuador. It stems from lawsuits brought against Chevron in Ecuadorian courts, and then attempts to enforce them in the U.S. (and attempts to block the enforcement).  And there are Chevro ...

Public News Service

• Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief ...
  Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief Event Tucson, AZ - One year ago, the Four Mile Canyon Fire west of Boulder became the most devastating fire in Colorado history. On September 7 (the fire anniversary), Tucson chef and area cabin owner Janos Wilder is hosting a fundraiser for the ongo ...
• Some School Supplies Made with Toxic Plastic
  Some School Supplies Made with Toxic Plastic Phoenix, AZ - The group Healthy Legacy is out with a guide to help parents steer clear of school supplies that may contain toxic chemicals - specifically polyvinyl chloride, more commonly known as PVC. Lunchboxes, backpacks and binders need extra scru ...
• To 3 Rs, add HS – Healthy Start
  To 3 Rs, add HS – Healthy Start Phoenix, AZ – Starting kindergarten is a major milestone for young children in Arizona and their parents. One organization is helping communities identify health-related school readiness. Comments from Judith Meyers, president and CEO of the Child Health and Deve ...
• Four Corners Could Soon Be Breathing Easier
  Four Corners Could Soon Be Breathing Easier Teec Nos Pos, AZ – Many of the aging coal-fired power plants across the west are at the end of their lifespans and must be retrofitted to reduce emissions, or replaced by clean energy technology. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ruled that ...
• Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in R ...
  Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in Rural Arizona Phoenix, AZ – One week after an appeals court allowed key parts of a state law restricting abortion to take effect, Planned Parenthood Arizona has announced it will no longer offer abortion services outside of Metro Phoenix and Tucson. S ...

Center for Food Safety

• Lawsuit To Halt GE Crops On Southeastern Refuges
  Genetically Engineered Crops on 25 Refuges in 8 States Are Illegal A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast.  The suit is ...
• U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
  23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
• U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
  Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
• FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
  Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
• Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
  Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Pensieve

• El Salto, Nuevo Leon
  El Salto, in Nuevo Le�n, is a waterfall in the Sierra Madre Oriental that cut through a hairpin bend in a canyon wall. It is a favorite Sunday haunt of Neoleonenses. In those few months of the year when it has water, you will find the pool at its base filled with ATVs, Jeeps, Land [...] Relate ...
• Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
  What do you get when you mash up the most popular video games of the 1980′s and the 2010s? Many of you probably have fond memories of playing Super Mario Bro’s (S.M.B. hereafter) in the 1980′s. The absurdly popular Super NES was a staple of the living room in the days before the internet took [. ...
• Web Designers vs. Web Developers
  Web Designers vs Web Developers is brought to you by Wix.com Use creative design to make a Free Website You are most welcome to share this infographic with your audience. Related posts:Your Web Alphabet Free Burma! Inductee to the Creative Class One Hundred Thousand People March Against Zelaya W ...
• Massacre in Monterrey Casino
  I am without words. This is the worst attack so far in the escalating war between drug cartels and the Mexican government. According to the video above, the attackers set fire to this casino as a retaliation for not giving in to extortion. 53 people were trapped inside by the explosions, and die ...
• My Retreat into Theism
  After a long and torturous journey, I have arrived at theism, a belief in an active, benevolent, personal and omnipotent God, but no more. In a sense, I’ve been a theist most of my life. Because, Christianity, Catholic or Protestant, is a form of theism. But perhaps I should say, I am no longer ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 09/08/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• White Crane for Peace and Remberance
    66 years have passed since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima (6-Aug) and Nagasaki (9-Aug). Following the horror of the earthquake and tsunami and the impact on the Fukushima Nuclear plant, Japan has now vowed to become nuclear-free. The crane is a symbol of health and longevity in Japan, and ...
• Environmental News 08/08/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Iguazu falls
    Iguazu falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, deserves its place as one of the most beautiful and stunning falls in the world! Established as a National Park (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html), the area provides shelter for an incredible array of fauna (wildlife/fauna.html) and fl ...
• Hiroshima Day 2011
  “I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world”... remembering Hiroshima 66 years on...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
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• Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
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• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
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• BREAKING SILENCE news release
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• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Freedom Theatre attacked yet again
  Missed this item last week because of earthquake/hurricane, but the Freedom Theatre was attacked again on August 22nd:   Freedom Theatre targeted again After the Israeli army targeted the theatre twice during the last month, arresting three of its members, today at approximately 02:00 in the mo ...
• Israel’s Tahrir [1]: Will the Revolution ...
  Ok… a little bird told me there was this teeny, modest wavelet of demonstrations in Israel, so maybe it’s time I write something about it. (snark, snark; actually my mom, two of my siblings and a couple of nieces were among those 4-5% of Israel’s population, over 300,000 people, taking to the st ...
• Report on Summer Camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir
  The summer camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir have just ended. Both camps are organized locally, and funded with the help of outside donors. Villages Group activists help arrange these funds, work with organizers to help meet their needs, and – most rewardingly – visit the camps to interact with th ...
• Freedom Theatre Update: First rule about being ...
   `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here’s an update about the latest arrest at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The previous ...
• Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
  My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futili ...

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 ...

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

• Modern History of Libya… Not what you he ...
  Socialist? Yes. Fair to women? Yes. The money that pays for the programs you see here (that will no longer exist) came from OIL Revenues! What if every day Louisianans could draw from their resources? Montanans? Texans? What have we done? Now that NATO ( the global army) has intervened, Libya is ...
• 911 = 7 countries in 5 years
  As you listen to this …. ask yourself, just Who are the “They” the general keeps referring to? ($ @ 2:20)
• The Arab League Tribute – 911 anniversar ...
  Never Forget Hiphopistan… With the help of US Ambassador Jack Blood – The exporting of dope beats was at an all time HIGH in 2006…. those beats are now made at Foxconn. Shame. From the days of truth music, and activism – Dedicated to O’Busha:
• Mexican police cross US border, fire on Hunter ...
    EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Border Patrol officials are investigating an incursion by Mexican federal police into the United State on Thursday morning. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said armed officers with Mexico’s Secretaria de Seguridad Publica federal police were in the incursion, w ...
• Blowback? Libya rebel commander contends was t ...
  � � Libyan rebel Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj in Tripoli Aug. 31, 2011. (Francois Mori/AP) Yahoo The top Libyan rebel military commander in Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with the New York Times yesterday: In  2004, he said, two CIA ...

The Air Vent

• Global Sea Ice Anomaly Record Approaching
  Global sea ice anomaly is nearing a record low. It is quite possible that we will break it in the coming weeks. The Antarctic seems unremarkable but the Arctic is running close to the lowest levels measured in the past 30 years.� It looks from figure 1 like we may have tied for the minimum [...]
• A penny lost is a penny not-earned
  Another global warming whitewash courtesy of the whitehouse ‘economic stimulus programs’ aka,  green for greens. At this point, only the rock dumb or those not paying any attention at all have not noticed that the alleged stimulus programs were simply payoffs to those who contributed to corrupt ...
• Lindzen Choi Presentation
  Andrew of the hypothesis testing blog left a link to a PDF by Dr. Lindzen explaining his recent paper in simple terms.  I found it worth reading. acs-2011-lindzen[1]
• Media gone wild
  What is up with the Irene coverage? People are having their homes and lives ruined yet the media is insistent on covering this category 1 storm as some kind of global warming doom event. There is no real evidence that hurricanes have any correlation to warming, they may because it makes sense, b ...
• Confirmation Again
  This post is due to a reader who brought my attention to the recently published critiques of Zhao and Running almost a year ago. I sort of lost my cool with an obviously bad paper some time ago.   Charlatans of Science Zhao and Running.  Looking back, I could have worded it better but they publi ...

Focal Point

• NYT Misses the Mark on Bloomberg, Goldsmith, a ...
  Now here's a backhanded way to normalize a mayor covering up his deputy's arrest for domestic violence: "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s management style has its hallmarks: unwavering loyalty to aides and a deep distaste for exposing private lives to public scrutiny." That's Michael Bar ...
• Guilty Pleasures
  Amanda Marcotte, Matt Yglesias, and Atrios are debating the concept of "guilty pleasures" in pop culture. Here's my theory of what guilty pleasures are. For people my age, taste is a personal aesthetic code. Good taste can be idiosyncratic, in fact, it's expected to be. You're supposed to like ...
• Obama's Pick to Head Council of Economic Advis ...
  Interesting fact about Alan Krueger, Obama's pick to head the Council of Economic Advisers, Alan B. Krueger. His research showed that raising the minimum wage doesn't destroy minimum wage jobs, it helps fill job vacancies: Mr. Krueger is best known for his studies testing widely held econom ...
• Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island W ...
  Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news . ...
• What's At Stake In the Tar Sands Fight
  Unsure if you should care about the Keystone XL pipeline controversy? In his latest essay for Dissent, my friend Mark Engler neatly encapsulates the issues at stake. It's not just another land use battle to preserve pristine wilderness, it's the front line in the fight against climate change its ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Project Spartan, Lamebook, P ...
  More Info on Facebookâs Spartan – TechCrunch reported more information about BoltJS, a UI framework designed by Facebook and written in JavaScript that runs in the browser. Apparently itâs part of Facebookâs Project Spartan, which may not be fully revealed until f8. Facebook Settles With Lameboo ...
• Facebook Is Testing a “Translate” Button for C ...
  Facebook may be poised to let users translate comments from other languages — that’s 750 million users around the world who are going to have an easier time talking to each other. In tests that we and others are now seeing on some parts of the site (only on Pages, at this point), comments in [...]
• “Hide All Posts” From Pages No Longer an Optio ...
  Facebook has made a small interface change with a potentially big impact. Within the last day or two it has removed the option to “Hide All Posts” from the menu of options available for editing posts in the news feed. Many users instead are seeing only the options to hide the individual post, re ...
• Microsoft, Yahoo, TripAdvisor, Yelp and VEVO N ...
  The Facebook platform is best known for social games, but another class of applications has been on the rise in the past couple years: integrations of Facebook features by large media and tech companies into their own properties. They are now among the largest applications on the platform. Most ...
• Vote to See Inside Facebook and Inside Network ...
  The Inside Network editorial team has proposed several panels for this yearâs South By Southwest Interactive and Music Conferences, but we need your votes to get them on the program — and voting is just about to end, so now is the time to check them out if you haven’t already. The panels look at ...

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ReDress News

• 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.

Amazon Rainforest

• World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
  The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
• World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
  The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
• Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
  The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
• Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
  United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
• Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
  The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Fethullah Gulen Foundations in US on Our Tax D ...
  Gulen US Charter Schools: Where is Your Money Going?! This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal, Censorship of War Casualties in US, First Presidential Campaign Finance Report, The Harrowing Drone Damages in Pakistan, US Accuses Iran of “Secret Deal” with Al-Qaeda, DOD Full-Spectrum Cyberspace Budget Lunacy, The Coming Partition of Libya? & ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
• BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
  All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...

Afro Spear

• “Don’t even ask” by Mr. Fish
  Seen over at Truthdig
• Father and Son: A painful moment
• “Gadaffi, Dictators and faint memory if ...
  On 30thDecember 2006, the world witnessed humiliating hanging of Saddam Hussein, former Iraq’s tyrant, after being arrested bolted in a spider hole. Many thought other dictators would make a note of the sudden and unceremoniously demise and downfall of Saddam. Go figure. They didn’t because of a ...
• “Go Gaddafi Go!” by Nkwazi Mhango
  Go Gadaffi go ye Muamar Go without turning thy head back ever The game is up and over sir Go son of hell, a coward in your own light Go Muamar go down standing like a dolt In flames go down like that In a shame go even faster Go go Abuminyal go go and [...]
• “Is Mubarak’s trial shame or fame ...
  Among the people who were moved, pained and disturbed by the tribulations and trials of former Egyptian strong man, Hosni Mubarak recently, is former Nigerian two-time president Olusegun Obassanjo. Obassanjo aired his view in Mombasa. Kenya where he was attending former presidents’ meeting, when ...

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Ode Magazine

• Expanding the border of local food advocates
  By: thayerd Thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been walking for days. Not just a day or two, they've been walking for fifteen to twenty days, bound for Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Many of the women have lost children to hunger during the tre ...
• Sharing optimism and joy with sidewalk chalk
  By: mmlarsen Remember when you were a kid and you’d draw pictures and write happy thoughts with chalk in your driveway and down the sidewalks of your street? And the adults always smiled when they read the big, paste-colored messages? This is just like that. On ...
• OdeLive presents health pioneer Johan Boswinkel
  By: Ode Warning! This story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and yes, countless skeptics are eagerly lining up to attack ...
• Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
  By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
• Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
  By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...

OpEd News

• Advancing U.S.-Canada Economic, Energy and Sec ...
  Canada has already enacted many U.S. security measures. As part of a continental security perimeter arrangement, Canada could be forced to comply with any new U.S. requirements, regardless of the risks they may pose to privacy and civil liberties.
• Obama's Jobs Plan: Will it be Policy Miniature ...
  At exactly the same time the President is laying out his jobs plan next Wednesday night, Republican presidential hopefuls will be holding their first big debate. The winner will be the one who comes off as the toughest fighter for average Americans. And the winner of the 2012 presidential electi ...
• Return of the Malaise
  Harry Frankfort made the term "bullshit" acceptable and no other term can quite characterize the state of American politics at this juncture. It is deeper than it has ever been. It's a harbinger of even worse times to come.
• In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated
  The practice of sending heavily armed teams into American homes has resulted in many senseless murders of US citizens. The practice must be halted and SWAT teams disbanded. SWAT teams have murdered far more innocents than they have dangerous criminals. A country this utterly corrupt is certainly ...
• Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third ...
  Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third Continent

Switchboard

• Keystone XL tar sands pipeline makes history a ...
  Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC Today marked a watershed for the environmental community and for civil disobedience as a powerful democratic tool.  The number of citizens arrested engaging in peaceful sit-ins at the White Hous ...
• A Storm of Anxiety Over Fresh Oil Batters the Gulf
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC In the Gulf, another maelstrom has hit. But the tropical storm Mother Nature has brewed  is not the top concern on some resident’s minds. Instead they are worried about the threat of fresh oi ...
• Danielle Droitsch Guest Blog: Council on Forei ...
  Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. This is a guest post by Danielle Droitsch, Senior Advisor to NRDC's International Program. Michael Levi with the Council of Foreign Relations recently attempted to separate f ...
• For Labor Day, Celebrating the American Clean ...
  Josh Mogerman, Senior Media Associate, Chicago I am ready for the Labor Day weekend because, frankly, it’s been a disappointing couple of weeks with some hugely disappointing messages coming from the administration on Keystone XL ...
• Obama Administration Delays Life-Saving Smog S ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Today the Obama Administration made a decision that will endanger the health of tens of thousands of Americans. Its choice to delay stronger standards for smog lets polluters off the hook and leav ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Endless Disappointment
  Obama’s decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting clean energy and fighting climate change, he’s had to scale much of that back in the face of congressional opposi ...
• Most Prominent Politicians (XIV): Vermont
  Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet position, for instance. This isn’t too surprising, given Vermont’s size and proximity to two giants. 1. Ethan Allen–even a ...
• Why You Should Root for Oregon Football
  This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there’s good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring out punishments for violators with no rhyme or reason. The system exploits the labor of young men. Corruption run ...
• Are Finns White?
  This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He came to this country sometime before 1882. But he was [...]
• Why Perry is the Frontrunner
  I don’t have time to fully defend my claim in comments, so allow me to outsource to Jon Chait. Obviously, the fact that Perry is leading in the polls does not in and of itself make him the frontrunner, but I think it should be clear that he’s no Lieberman or Giuliani who has views [...]

Desert Research Institute

• ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
  Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
• DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
  DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
• Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
  There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
• In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
  President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
• DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
  A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.

Earth Techling

• UK Students Go Down Under For Solar Race
  Students from Durham University in the UK are preparing to race their solar powered car in a worldwide race this October in Australia.
• What Clean Energy Out West Could Mean
  A report showing two possible futures-one relying on traditional energy sources and one relying on clean energy-prompts cities in the western US to go green.
• Hurricane Irene Doesn’t Kill Wave Energy
  A wave energy company reports its recently deployed marine energy buoy off of New Jersey rode out Hurricane Irene quite nicely and is still producing power.
• Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt Sales Battle It Out
  Green car sales for August 2011 show decent numbers among Toyota hybrids, while Nissan significantly leads GM in year to date sales of the Leaf versus Volt.
• VW NILS Electric Car Concept Makes Tails Wag
  The VW NILS electric vehicle concept, set to debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, is seen as an ideal electric car commuter ride for Germans and others.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• MIDWEST REPORT
  Our survey of market conditions in Midwestern cities finds Detroit firms expanding into other regions to find business, while Chicago ranks as one of the fastest-growing legal centers in the country.
• Homeland security, civil liberties and the rul ...
  Our long-established reliance on the principles of democracy and the rule of law is the key to reconciling liberty with national security.
• OPINION: POLICIES IN RESPONSE TO THE TERRORIST ...
  It is past time to return to our commitment to the rule of law for everyone, real limits on government intrusion and the principle of nondiscrimination.
• OPINION: POLICIES IN RESPONSE TO THE TERRORIST ...
  The steps that placed the United States on a war footing after Sept. 11, 2001, responded to a threat that had been building, and killing, for decades.
• LAW SCHOOLS: A SPECIAL REPORT
  Law schools around the country are launching solo and small firm "incubators" — programs that helps recent graduates establish solo practices while also encouraging free or low-cost legal services to underserved communities.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Controversial billboard depicting contaminated ...
  The Sautners from Dimock put up a billboard that has a picture of their dirty water and the words “FIX IT” on Rt. 29 in the heart of Cabot Oil & Gas territory. As soon as it went up, they held a press conference.  Angry pro-gas neighbors were also there –  and Cabot spokesman George Stark. [...]
• Waterdog Training August 11th
  Below is note from Erica about the upcoming Waterdog training at Ives Run. Hello Everyone I just wanted to remind everyone that we are hosting another Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11th at Ives Run from 5-9 pm.  Please let me know if you can make it and also please feel free to share it [...]
• PennFuture files federal lawsuit against Marce ...
  Harrisburg, PA (July 21, 2011) – Citizens for Pennsylvania‟s Future (PennFuture) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Ultra Resources, Inc., for air pollution at its Marcellus Shale drilling sites, which violates the federal Cl ...
• Advanced Waterdog Training in August
  An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
• A Substitute for Tears…
  Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...

News Blaze

• UNESCO Chief Voices Alarm At Ongoing Abuses Ag ...
  These include news that Syrian caricaturist Ali Ferzat had been beaten by armed men on 25 August, and concern for freelance journalist Hanadi Zahlout, who has been in jail since her arrest on 25 July.
• Consultative Meeting on Somalia to Take Place ...
  A high level Consultative Meeting on Ending the Transition will take place in the Mogadishu from 4 - 6 September, the United Nations political office for Somalia revealed here on Friday.
• Slovak Republic Celebrates Its National Day
  Ms. Clinton stressed that the Slovak Republic is a pillar of regional stability, a leader in economic integration, and a model for security cooperation. She added that United States and Slovak Republic share a mutual commitment to promoting freedom
• 2011 Human Rights Youth Summit Creates Leaders ...
  Speakers included a former U.N. Assistant Secretary General, several representatives of permanent missions to the U.N. and non-government organization (NGO) consultants to the United Nations, and youth delegates from Belgium, Taiwan, Sri Lanka,
• 'Mercy Ships' Deliver Free and World-Class Hea ...
  Partnerships with local governments and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) allow Mercy Ships to keep their in-country costs down. One critical benefit is free berthing space in the port for their ship, the Africa Mercy.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

• Hurricane Irene aims at New England, but its e ...
  The worst-case scenario sounds scary: Hurricane Irene could sweep ashore in New England this weekend, dousing the state with torrential rains, and lashing it with damaging wind gusts, while heavy surf pounds the coasts and water rises in streams. But it’s still “highly uncertain” exactly where a ...
• Earthquake damages Washington monument
  The Washington Monument is not tilting. However, a closer look at the world’s tallest obelisk brought National Park Service officials to discover cracks near the top of the 555-foot monument. After taking a closer look at the Washington monument Tuesday, National Park Service officials found som ...
• Biggest Earthquake to hit Virginia in 110 Year ...
  The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck in Virginia and was felt in New York and Washington D.C. today was a rare event for the east coast. But the shaking was believed to be so widespread because the tremors of the quake were shallow at between one and four miles deep. It’s the strongest quake ...
• Red Ice TV - Episode 5 - The Secret Space Program
  In this episode, we discuss the secret space program, what it is, who is behind it and why? Is there a human civilization living off-world with highly advanced technology and knowledge about the existence of aliens? Why are we being kept in the dark? We feature Peter Levenda, Richard Dolan, Rich ...
• Algorithms Control the World
  Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are ...

Russia Today

• Slashing US dues to UN a step backward
  Passing a Republican-proposed bill that would slash US dues to the UN bodies that back Palestinian statehood would be a step backward for Washington, says David Shorr from the Stanley Foundation.
• Too late to apologize – former Israeli envoy
  It is too late for Israel to apologize to Turkey over a deadly flotilla assault in 2010, says a former Israeli diplomat in Ankara, and the only thing Israel can do to restore ties with its former ally is to improve...
• "Doubtful NTC can fulfill its promises"
  Libyan rebels have abandoned non-violent measures against Gaddafi's regime, and now the country is flooded with weapons. And as UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk told RT, the country faces a very uncertain future.
• Space junk threat 'critical'
  A NASA-sponsored report says the amount of space junk orbiting Earth is alarmingly high and may have reached a point where it could jeopardize all future space exploration.
• Crude ban for Syria
  The EU is to impose an oil embargo on Syria, freezing almost all business between Damascus and the EU, Syria's main trading partner. The embargo will take effect on September 3.

Not My Tribe

• My Lai every day
  From Wikipedia:The My Lai Massacre (Vietnamese: thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tÊ°ÉÌËm ÊÉÌËt mÇË lÉËj]; English pronunciation: /ËmiËËlaɪ/ ( listen), also /ËmiËËleɪ, ËmaɪËlaɪ/,[1] Vietnamese: [mÇËlÉËj]) was the mass murder of 347â504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted by “C ...
• Wikileaked: US soldiers are babykillers
  A document released last week by Wikileaks tells of a 2006 raid by US troops on a farmhouse near Balad, Iraq, where the American soldiers handcuffed a household of ten, and executed them with gunshots to the head. Killed: one male adult, three female relatives, an elderly woman, four children ag ...
• 36 Gigabucks in fraud? Dig harder or dig in an ...
  Cause there’s a much more massive gap between what was reported to us as the cost of the war as late as oh. let me see… Last Week, where the cost of the War on An Amorphous Emotion Peopled By Shadowy Dark Skinned People In Far Corners of The Empire was “set” at being somewhere [...]
• From Adbusters: let #USDaysOfRage begin #Sept1 ...
• Things to De-Celebrate this National Hate Week
  Which is a smack to the back of the head to all those who told us in 1984 that the Police State setup from the BOOK of the same name couldn’t possibly happen in America because it was all about Socialist Dystopia and nobody, no not ever, could set up a CAPITALIST dictatorship. God, they’re [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

• Propaganda Wars, Episode 2: The BBC Strikes Back!
  9/11: Conspiracy Road Trip - Sept 8, 2011, 21:00 GMT, BBC3 This September marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, one of the biggest terrorist atrocities of the 21st Century. Nineteen hijackers, all members of Al Qaeda, crashed four planes on American soil, leading to the deaths of 2,9 ...
• The Eleventh Fail: The BBC & 9/11 Truth ... Fo ...
  Written by Scootle Royale, with help from John-Michael Talboo. Shortly before the BBC Conspiracy Files hitpiece aired on Monday, I published a blog listing my top ten debunker fails. After seeing watching the piece, I think the entire program deserves to be considered the eleventh fail. Th ...
• A Message of Peace and a Pledge of Tolerance
  Earlier today I received this email: Hello John In memory of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I would like to offer you and your readers of Debunking The Debunkers a message of peace in a short video and a pledge of tolerance. If you are able to post or tweet about the video and the p ...
• Debunking the George W. Bush National Geograph ...
  Early on in George W. Bush's interview about 9/11 which aired on the National Geographic channel last night, he states, "I went from a president that was primarily focused on domestic issues to a wartime president — something that I never anticipated, nor something I ever wanted to be." As Ma ...
• My Top 10 Debunker Fails
  The tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, and while people are beginning to reflect on the tragedy of the day and how, since then, the terrorists have clearly won, I thought I'd look back on ten amusing moments of patheticness from the world of duh-bunking. 10) Shyam Sunder squirms and debunk ...

Fooducate

• SIX Ways to Use Vinegar with Your Food
  It gets rid of mold, it’s good for cleaning windows and it makes amazing “volcano” science fair projects when combined with baking soda. But did you know that vinegar can be used in your kitchen too? Here are six quick ways you can use vinegar in the kitchen and around: ONE: As a Simple Salad [...]
• Do You Know How Many Soft Drinks Your Kids are ...
  The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) likes stats. They run surveys on a myriad of topics. And they try to figure out not just how to control disease, but how to prevent it. When it comes to obesity and diabetes, the CDC would very much like to learn what are the causes. They [...]
• Is Milk Good for Me or Bad for Me?
  A new documentary, Got the facts on Milk?, now available on DVD,  answers the question unequivocally: Milk is BAD for everyone. Got the facts on Milk? is the work of filmaker Shira Lane whose dairy allergy prompted her to examine the scientific research on the subject. Apparently she did not fin ...
• Bummer – Weight Loss is Not Linear
  Dieting is hard. Anyone who has tried to lose weight will tell you that. And it seems to be harder to shed the pounds the further into the diet you are. Through the basic laws of thermodynamics and energy (which is what a calorie is) we know that a decrease of 3500 calories will result [...]
• What’s Coating Your Fruits & Veggies?
  Clementines, if you are not familiar with them, are type of orange. They are slightly smaller, seedless, easy to peel, and very sweet. You can find them in supermarkets produce section, usually in netted bags such as above. Being the label readers that we are, the following information from the ...

Traffikd

• Use Social Media For Increased Blog Traffic
  Finding ways to increase traffic to your blog can be a challenge for anyone in every niche. If you're releasing good content at a steady rate then check out these tips for using social media outlets to get the traffic you want. Use Social Media Sites to Your Advantage Why should you use social ...
• Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
  Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
• 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
  As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Hamptons Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina
  by Greg Palast Don't worry:  the bankers are safe.  The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies' personal trainers, the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the warning that in a couple of day ...
• Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
  by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...
• Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
  by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
• Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
  I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
• It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
  by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or upcycle trainer socks/glove ...
  About seven or eight years ago now, I had a bit of a thing for trainer socks/glove socks/foot socks — those socks that stop before your ankle so they almost disappear in trainers/sneakers — and bought quite a few pairs to wear for work. Now seven or eight years later, arrgh, I hate them. They [...]
• How can I reuse, recycle or revamp a rucksack/ ...
  We’ve kinda covered this already but Janette has such a specific question that I thought it was worth looking at it again: I have a backpack I would like to recycle and reuse. I have the straps and the part that goes against our back but would like to change the rest of it with [...]
• How can I repair/revamp a stained cotton rug?
  I haven’t done a “repair this” for a while but this is something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: how can I repair/revamp a stained rug? It’s a circular cotton rug with off-white (even before the stains!) and pale blue strips, and even though it was pretty cheap, I love it. But [...]
• How can I use up buffet sandwiches?
  We’ve had a “clever idea” email from Jos, telling us about their personal battle against food waste at work: This sounds so cheap but I regularly “steal” the last of the sandwiches after meetings at work because they’d go in the bin if I didn’t take them. I eat some fresh, freeze others to eat [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle boring white buttons?
  We’ve had an email from Sally: I always snip buttons from old clothes before using them for rags but after a few years of my three’s school shirts, I’ve got more plain white buttons than I know what to do with. If they were pretty I’d keep them for crafts but they’re boring! Any ideas? [...]

Age of Autism

• Autism Kick! Tae Bo® Creator, Billy Blanks® Wi ...
  Tae Bo® Creator, Billy Blanks® Will Lead Attempt to Break World Kickboxing Record Tampa Event will be held on October 1st and benefit the National Autism Association Tampa, FL – The National Autism Association (NAA) and fitness expert Billy Blanks®...
• Cognitively Challenged Miami Man Fatally Shot ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Here's a tragedy straight from the AofA "Nightmare" files. Ernest Vassell was fatally shot by police who assumed the rifle he was brandishing was real, and not a toy. Who (if anyone) allowed an adult with a...
• Call Into Advisory Commission on Childhood Vac ...
  The ACCV advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on issues relating to the operation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). There are nine voting members who provide oversight of the VICP and...
• Age of Autism Contest: OurKidsASD Lee Silsby S ...
  Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD are offering you a chance to try two popular and useful products for back to school for free in this latest contest. Leave a comment to win a bottle of...
• Best of Age of Autism: Drug Store Disability f ...
  Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post last December. As the "Get your Flu Shot Here!" signs pop up outside every drug store, we remind you that no medical intervention is fully safe for all. The government compensation should remind...

Global BDS Movement

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• BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
    The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
• Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
  Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
• Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
  Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
• Trade Unions
  The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

• Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
  Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
• The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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• Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
  The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
• Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
  As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...
• TS Radio: Glenn Morton on Obamacare
  Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Date / Time: 08-23-11 6:00 pm PST 8:00 pm CST 9:00 pm EST “My name is Glenn Morton, and I am President of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. I have been in the health care/health insurance business for almost 20 years, working ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings rel ...
  BBC – Newly released government files on UFOs show a lack of will and resources to study thousands of reported sightings. The Ministry of Defence files released by the National Archives cover reported sightings of UFOs from 1985 to 2007. Read Article
• Satellite Sees UFO Flying Over Hurricane Irene
  Epoch Times - In a video captured by the International Space Station, a satellite orbiting Earth, a UFO is seen flying through the space between the satellite and Hurricane Irene. Judging by its distance from the satellite, the roughly rectangular UFO appears quite large, and seems to have wing- ...
• Kashmir border deaths spark India and Pakistan row
  BBC – Indian forces have killed three Pakistani soldiers in firing across the Line of Control in the disputed region of Kashmir, the Pakistani army says. It has accused Indian forces of opening “unprovoked” fire across the LoC – which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan – in the Neelum va ...
• Suit charges Windows 7 smartphones track users
  AFP – Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a lawsuit charging that smartphones powered by Windows 7 software noted the whereabouts of users even if they didn’t want to be tracked. A suit filed Wednesday on behalf of a woman from the US state of Michigan maintained that Microsoft gathered location i ...
• Special Report: A pinch of doubt over salt
  Reuters – In Britain it started with Sid, the “giant slug with a message”, who slicked his way onto television screens back in 2004 as part of a government health campaign to warn people about the dangers of consuming too much salt. “Stay away from fast cars, loose women and SALT!” he screamed. ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• End of the line for California solar firm
  A California solar panel manufacturer is filing for bankruptcy protection. Solyndra of Fremont, Calif., received a high-profile $535-million Energy Department loan guarantee said it was ceasing operations, laying of 1,100 workers and preparing to file for bankruptcy protection. Solyndra said...
• California says yes to recycled water
  If signed by the governor, the new state law would prohibit local jurisdictions from banning graywater systems, which have gained in popularity as more municipalities face restrictions on fresh water.
• Sierra magazine ranks UC Irvine among top 10 g ...
  Sierra Magazine ranks UC Irvine: An environmentally minded magazine has named UC Irvine as one of America's top 10 coolest schools for green initiatives.
• Rocky Mountain pikas not nearing extinction, s ...
  A team of researchers from the University of Colorado has concluded that pikas, hamster-sized mammals, are doing better than previously believed, finding the population is holding its own in the southern Rocky Mountains. The study, in the September issue of the journal Ecology, paints a brighter ...
• Mountain lion killed in attempt to cross 405 F ...
  One of a handful of mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains was killed Tuesday trying to cross the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center at the start of the morning rush hour.

water.org

• Levi’s drive for Water.org via Facebook ...
  Leviâs Drive for Water.org via Facebook (New York Times) – Leviâs is adding a hue to its marketing efforts: Facebook blue. The purveyor of all things denim has teamed up with the social media giant on the next phase of its âGo Forthâ campaign. On Tuesday, Leviâs will announce the campaign exclus ...
• The @water Twakeover (Globe and Mail)
  New trend on Twitter: handing over your account (Globe and Mail) – This month the latest social media trend seems to be encouraging legitimate takeovers. The Water.org group (@water), which works with communities in developing countries to meet water and sanitation needs, will soon be handing it ...
• Water.org will hand over its Twitter (Mashable)
  Water.org Will Hand Over Its Twitter Account to Contest Winner (Mashable) – Water.org is surrendering its Twitter account, @Water, for an entire week to the user who racks up the most votes on its site. To enter, you must be following @Water on Twitter. Then sign up to participate with a shor ...
• Gary White talks water on MSNBC
  World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
• Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
  Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

• The Enemies Within: The 20 Most Dangerous Cons ...
  America has enemies. Not just abroad, but within our shores as well. And our domestic enemies, as it turns out, are MORE dangerous and destructive than the terrorists could ever hope to be. Because while the terrorists want to destroy us,Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...
• Refugees Tossed Between Iraq and Syria
  The International Crisis Group (ICG) estimates that two-and-a-half million Iraqis fled the country during the war, with an equal number internally displacedSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GOOD NEWS! Peru passes landmark indigenous r ...
  A new administration in Peru is moving toward granting indigenous people long-sought legal rights, reports Survival International. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Child dies every six minutes in Somalia famine
  A child is dying from starvation every six minutes in drought-hit Somalia, shocked aid workers revealed recently. It means that around 250 malnourished youngsters under five die each day. Any petition or donation link is highly appreciated.Submitted by Elias Ayad to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Conversations on the Road To Compassion - VIDEO
  Canadians for Compassion-- interviews Canadians from all walks of life on three questions: How would you define compassion? Where do you see compassion working in your home/school/community? Where do you see the need for more compassion?Submitted by Care For All to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Canadian Solar Provides Panels for Germany's L ...
  Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ), one of the world's largest global solar companies, has announced it has supplied the solar modules for Germany's largest solar power plant. read more
• First Solar Continues to Position Itself as a ...
  Based out of Arizona, First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest solar company, has made three announcements this week demonstrating the company's dominance and growing reach in the global solar market. read more
• NextEra Finalizes Financing on Genesis Solar P ...
  NextEra Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) has secured financing for its Genesis solar farm in Riverside County, California. read more
• A Big Month For California's SunPower Corp.
  Solar manufacturer and developer SunPower Corp.'s (NASDAQ: SPWRA) stocks were up 5 percent in early morning trading Monday after the company announced that France's Akuo Energy had agreed to purchase 75,000 of its solar panels. rea ...
• BLM Nixes Cogentrix Nevada Solar Plans
  Nevada Solar One Since January of 2007, Cogentrix Solar Services LLC, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, has been sitting on a series of exclusive solar applications for N ...

News Blaze

• UNESCO Chief Voices Alarm At Ongoing Abuses Ag ...
  These include news that Syrian caricaturist Ali Ferzat had been beaten by armed men on 25 August, and concern for freelance journalist Hanadi Zahlout, who has been in jail since her arrest on 25 July.
• Consultative Meeting on Somalia to Take Place ...
  A high level Consultative Meeting on Ending the Transition will take place in the Mogadishu from 4 - 6 September, the United Nations political office for Somalia revealed here on Friday.
• Slovak Republic Celebrates Its National Day
  Ms. Clinton stressed that the Slovak Republic is a pillar of regional stability, a leader in economic integration, and a model for security cooperation. She added that United States and Slovak Republic share a mutual commitment to promoting freedom
• 2011 Human Rights Youth Summit Creates Leaders ...
  Speakers included a former U.N. Assistant Secretary General, several representatives of permanent missions to the U.N. and non-government organization (NGO) consultants to the United Nations, and youth delegates from Belgium, Taiwan, Sri Lanka,
• 'Mercy Ships' Deliver Free and World-Class Hea ...
  Partnerships with local governments and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) allow Mercy Ships to keep their in-country costs down. One critical benefit is free berthing space in the port for their ship, the Africa Mercy.

Worldnews

• Libyans, UN, experts work on stabilizatio ...
  PARIS - Libya's interim leaders are holding talks with U.N. and other international officials to work out specific ways to help Libya rebuild after Moammar Gadhafi's ouster. Enlarge French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, welcomes Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel ...
• Turkey downgrades ties with Israel
  Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and suspended military co-operation between the countries in anticipation of the release of a United Nations report into Israel's raid of a Gaza-bound ship. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, announced the measures on Friday hour ...
• Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaz ...
  Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel. Turkish...
• Fearing infiltration, combing operations ...
  On Friday, Army intensified search and combing operations along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir following fresh infiltration bids by militants and two ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops over the past three days. Army troops have increased vigil along the LoC...
• Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas claims A ...
  The Gunners made a late attempt to bring in the France international star, who only joined the Ligue 1 outfit from Bordeaux last summer, as a replacement for Samir Nasri Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By David Lynch Tweet 1 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, O. Lyon, Yoann Gourcuff ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Loaf of bread 'as salty as seawater'
  Popular loaves of bread contain as much salt in every slice as a packet of crisps and some are as salty as seawater, a new survey shows. (Source: Telegraph Health)
• CALCIUM ACETATE (Calcium Acetate) Capsule [REM ...
  Updated Date: Sep 2, 2011 EST
• [News Focus] Biodefense: 10 Years After: Reinv ...
  The government's efforts to protect the public from bioattacks have been hampered by ongoing struggles to mesh military and civilian strategies. Author: Jon Cohen
• [News of the Week] Random Sample
  According to DNA evidence, Britain's oldest mummies are actually "jigsaws" of body parts assembled from several individuals before being buried. And plans to close the Pathological Museum, a collection of medical specimens and curiosities at Charit�, the Berlin Medical University, are raising an ...
• STOMACH RELIEF (Bismuth Subsalicylate) Liquid ...
  Updated Date: Sep 1, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Apollo 18: Why we haven't bee ...
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• ExamineReligion: Man encounters a bear in Minn ...
  ExamineReligion: Man encounters a bear in Minnesota; does staying present benefit us all? http://t.co/nqburr6
• ExamineReligion: Faith-Based Organizations Uni ...
  ExamineReligion: Faith-Based Organizations Unite In Hurricane Irene Relief Efforts http://t.co/nSAEhLK
• ExamineReligion: Fundamentalist Republicans Pr ...
  ExamineReligion: Fundamentalist Republicans Presidential Candidates Are Perilous To Our Democracy http://t.co/GC5UFwH

Energy Collective

• Rick Perry, Lyin’ and Denyin’
  �How can Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry talk so irresponsibly about global warming�and get away with it?
• How Small Is That Revised Marcellus Estimate?
  I see in The Hill that some critics of shale gas drilling are pointing to a revised estimate of the shale gas resources in the Marcellus formation as evidence that there's not enough gas to justify any risk from hydraulic fracturing.
• Insurers and Climate Risk
  Climate Risk Disclosure by Insurers: Evaluating Insurer Responses to the NAIC Climate Disclosure Survey:
• Energy Innovation: If You Don’t Fail Occasiona ...
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• Killer Apps For The Smartgrid
  Silicon Valley is always chasing the next killer app, and it�s an activity that is very relevant to the Smart Grid.� What are the killer apps?� It depends on your perspective.� In some cases, the answer will be a technology breakthrough in materials science rather than an innovation in softw ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• PRESS RELEASE: Ian Crane, Ex-Schlumberger Oilm ...
  By Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference ALL POINTS BULLETIN RE: IAN R. CRANE The Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference, an 11 month-old International Citizens’ Initiative, is filing criminal charges in Tallahassee, FL against Ian Crane, a former Schlumberger oil executive.  The GOSRC has forwa ...
• Ian R. Crane Poses As Gulf Oil Spill Advocate
  By Sheila Samarski ‘Journalists’ Ian Crane & Deborah Dupre destroy Gulf citizens’ movement Ian R Crane hawking his Gulf oil spill products online Just who is Ian R. Crane and why does he, together with the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, persist in destroying the Gulf Oil Spill citizens’ movemen ...
• BEWARE of Deborah Dupre and Delia LaBarre
  By Maurice Ellsberg Who are the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors? The following story is the product of months of intensive investigation regarding a group of individuals who call themselves the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors (GCBD).  They are led by one Delia LaBarre of NOLA and jointly founded with h ...
• Silencing the Independent Voices Of Truth on t ...
  By BK Lim, et. al. (14 Feb 2011, updated 20 Feb 2011) Three things you can’t hide: The Sun, The Moon and The Truth.” ~ Buddha. All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing. – Edmund Burke No Nothing is what it seems in the BP’s Mega Oil Spill disaster. P ...
• “Without Love All There Is Is War” ...
  By Gary G. Kohls, MD I have a habit of rescuing old used books from garage sales, used book stores and library book sales, books that are at risk of being tossed into the flames or shredders because they haven’t been read or checked out of the library for decades. It is a sad commentary on ou ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• The Voice of Nunavut: Learning from the Easter ...
  In 1999, Nunavut was officially celebrated and regarded as a governance gem: a masterfully crafted work of public administration that would serve the Inuit in the best way. However, today, more than 10 years after its creation, although it has a government, policies and legislation in place whic ...
• The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario f ...
  A new CCPA study finds that over the past two decades, Ontario's system of financing higher education has become more regressive, exploiting already over-stretched families who want to help their children pursue their educational aspirations. In 1990, a middle income family in Ontario could ear ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2011/12 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between th ...
• CCPA statement at the passing of Jack Layton
  We are all heartbroken at the passing of Jack Layton. On behalf of the staff and Board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, our deepest condolences, love and support to Olivia and family, and to his NDP family. An inspirational leader, he carried the hopes and dreams of all of us in ...
• Inequality Bad for Business
  CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.

World Wide Hippies

• First Nations and American Indian Leaders Arre ...
  WWH – American Indian and Canadian Native leaders were arrested today in front of the White House. Representatives of Native governments and organizations from the United States and Canada traveled long distances to Washington DC to tell President Barack Obama not to issue a permit for the const ...
• Cop Tasers Mentally Ill Guy With His Hands Up
  gawker.com – What is happening this week in America’s #1 state, Arizona? In Prescott a police officer tasered a mentally handicapped man who was standing there with his hands up. The officer, of course, had no choice: A tribal police officer says he was forced to Tase the 41-year-old. According ...
• 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 ...

FourWinds10

• SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
• Military Debris Threaten Oceans
  BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
• Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
  No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
• Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
  HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
• Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

• Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
  We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References â General and Applied Statistics References â E ...
• Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
  When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
• Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
  When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
• Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
  … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
• How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
  Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Investor Interest in U.S. Biofuel Production S ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post I just finished writing the 4th chapter in my book tonight. This chapter was a primer on renewable energy, covering biomass, hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal, and ocean energy technologies. Interesting tidbit from this chapter: The world’s largest produ ...
• Book and Travel Update, and Some Interesting S ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Book Update I have mentioned it on here a couple of times, but I am under contract to deliver a book on energy by the end of this year. I initially had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to write, but that has evolved a bit as [...]
• The Battle for Libya’s Post-Gadhaffi Soul (and ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post As hostilities in Libya wind down, one thing is clear: A number of nations will jockey for access to Libya’s oil. It happened in Iraq, where ironically the U.S. was shut out as Russia, China, and France won bids to develop Iraq’s fields. The new government ...
• Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to get elected. By now, you have surely heard the news that Republican ...
• How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Music Notation Training
  Tags: music, notationby: Dean Mantz
• Measuring distances with the Google Earth Rule ...
  Tags: Ruler, measuring, google, google earth, earth, education, classroomby: Fred Delventhal
• Back to School: Bulk Import Overview – DEN Blo ...
  Tags: DEN, school, bulk, import, students, kid, learning, educationby: Fred Delventhal
• We the People | The White House
  Tags: people, white, houseby: Greg Limperis
• The Seven Steps to Becoming a 21st Century Sch ...
  Tags: 21stcenturylearning, education, edutopia, edchat, technology, 7stepsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• The InGREENspirational 7!
  "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• Purple Potatoes: Your New Blood Pressure Medicine
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Want to lose weight and lower your blood pressure? read more
• 8 Ways to Deal With a Goose Invasion
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you've ever visited a park or even your own back yard and had the misfortune of stepping in goose dung left behind by an army of Canada geese, you may find the following f read more
• Homemade Ice Cream: 2 Chef-Created, Deliciousl ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Notice somed odd new offerings at your favorite ice cream eateries this summer? read more

big think

• How To Search the Scientific Literature: Tips ...
  Robin Chin Roemer, assistant librarian at American University, has launched a new blog focused on library resources related to communication and the media.� Given the strong focus among AU communication faculty and students on issues related to sustainability, the environment and science, in a g ...
• New Lessons from Holmes today on Scientific Am ...
  Lessons from Sherlock Holmes fans: a new installment of the series is now available at Scientific American, here. I will not be posting any more series updates on this blog, but you can expect new columns regularly—for now, every Tuesday and Friday—on Scientific American. Again, if you'd like to ...
• Leading the Libyan Revolution (From Europe)
  What's the Latest Development? With the�Gaddafi regime seemingly in its last throes, the world unites in Paris to discuss Libya's future. Given Italy's long relationship with Libya, it is sure to play a leading role in the talks. Here, Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini offers his point ...
• Using Visual Language to Innovate
  What's the Latest Development?  Business author Sunni Brown uses a visual communication system to shake up the workplace and get everybody on the same page. She calls her approach Gamestorming. "Gamestorming is a mashup of game principles, game mechanics and work. ... It’s a structured way to ...
• Rick Perry and the Satanic Statue of Liberty
  Texas Governor Rick Perry's August 6th prayer rally, The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis, has already garnered criticism for being a Christians-only affair that blurred the line between church and state and featured speakers with extreme beliefs far outside of the mainstream. O ...

Information Liberation

• D.C. officer allegedly solicits sex from trans ...
  An off-duty District police officer fired a handgun at several people, hitting at least one, during a confrontation early Friday, police said. Police offered few details about the incident. According to a news release and statements by Chief Cathy...
• TSA agent accused of lewdless with a child
  SPRING CREEK * A city officer arrested a Spring Creek man Wednesday morning at the Elko Area Regional Airport, where he works for the Transportation Security Administration, on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness with a child. The Elko Count...
• 19-year-old faces five years in prison for str ...
  A 19-year-old New York man faces up to five years in prison after federal authorities arrested him on Tuesday for allegedly streaming live copyrighted sporting events over the Internet. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland...
• Obama invokes Sept 11 attacks in call for serv ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to recall the spirit that united the country after the September 11 attacks and take part in a national day of service to mark the anniversary next month. In remarks acknowl...
• The Arrogance of Authority
  A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, *I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.* The rancher said, *Okay , but don*t go in that field over there**, as he pointed out the locatio...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part III – Ju ...
  I said the other day that the Thomson scandal threatened to blow up into Australia’s Watergate. Boy, I wasn’t wrong! The muck is being piled higher and higher. Now it’s reached the person of Julia Gillard herself. OK, first a … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part II: End This N ...
  Since I posted my previous thread on this subject four weeks ago, things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The rather tawdry scandal involving Craig Thomson, Labor MHR for the seat of Dobell in New South Wales, has … Continue reading →
• Playing The Race Card Part II: Anarchy In The UK
  What do you make of the riots happening in many British cities? I’ve read with some interest the discussion on GE’s blog, although I personally believe the emphasis on race is misplaced. I’m just returned from a week on the … Continue reading →
• Now Reap The Whirlwind
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 pointsâthe biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisisâin the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →
• Same Old Same Old…
  I’ve been scanning the news pages for anything that reads like common sense in this whole debt ceiling issue. With very little success. And with less than twelve hours to go before Brucker Bummer, the American Precedent, must sign off … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Not slippery when wet
  Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do with rain treads, Ha ...
• Catching up with The Alchemist
  Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could serve ...
• Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
  Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record – My son just returned with his GCSE results to a very proud Mum and Dad, and sister, with a clutch of excellent passes in his exams. Very pleased he got an excellent grade in chemistry, although he claims to hate "my" subject. One thing I will say, [...]Ris ...
• More chemical wonders
  More chemical wonders – Yet more chemical wonders fall under the gaze of The Alchemist this week. First up, spray on radiators coming to a home near you to help cut heating bills by a third while ethanol-imbibing bacteria offer an important clue to preventing biofuel pipeline cracks. In the anal ...
• Dissonant teaching changes environmental minds
  There are many educational and ethical issues regarding the environment and environmentalism that are generally not addressed, especially when it comes to teaching non-science students. Independent environmental services professional and college professor Chyrisse P. Tabone, who is based in Tamp ...

RFF Library

• Offset Markets for Nutrient and Sediment Disch ...
  US  EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Andrew Manale, Cynthia Morgan, Glenn Sheriff, and David Simpson http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2011-05?OpenDocument [Abstract] Considerable interest has been expressed recently in prospects for water quality trading marke ...
• A Field-Based Aquatic Life Benchmark for Condu ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=231508 [Website]  This report investigates the issues and challenges associated with identifying, calculating, and mapping indicators of the relative vulnerability of water quality and aqu ...
• Preventing Disaster after a Disaster: Lessons ...
  Fraser Institute / by Neil Mohindra http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/display.aspx?id=17957 [From Abstract]  in addition to the hardships caused by property loss and injury, policyholders may face major impediments to recovery when insurance coverage from a natural disaster is split—a ...
• Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Sub ...
  US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf [CNSnews.com Post]   In addition to the 2009 economic stimulus law which, among other things, created financial incentives for clean energy, a new report by the Department of Energy shows that ...
• Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinke ...
  Econ Journal Watch http://econjwatch.org/file_download/487/DavisMay2011.pdf [From an InFoDocket Post] We sent a survey to economics professors through out the United States, and 299 returned a completed survey. The survey asked about favorites in the following areas: economic thinkers who wrote ...

Scientific American - News

• Scientists Perceive NASA Bias Against Venus
  By Eric Hand and Nature magazineVenus would seem to be a tempting destination for planetary probes: conveniently close, and an extreme laboratory for atmospheric processes familiar on Earth. So why won't NASA send a mission there? That was the frustrated question coming from scientists at the ...
• Tibet Was Cradle of Evolution for Pre-Ice Age ...
  High on the Tibetan Plateau, paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a previously unknown species of ancient rhino, a woolly furred animal that came equipped with a built-in snow shovel on its face.This curiosity, a flat, paddle-like horn that would have allowed it to brush away snow and fin ...
• Night Owls More Likely to Suffer from Nightmar ...
  Night owls might think staying up late is a real hoot, but a new study hints that delayed sleep might have a sinister side. People who hit the sack late might have a greater risk of experiencing nightmares , according to scientists, although they add that follow-up research is needed to confirm ...
• Passing Fear: Do Fuel Economy Gains Compromise ...
  Let's say a driver approaches a red light at 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and coasts to slow down, then the light turns green and he or she floors the accelerator. As the car slows down, the transmission automatically downshifts into lower gears, but a sudden command to increase sp ...
• What If NASA's Apollo Program Had Not Been Can ...
  "There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon," teases the poster for the new horror sci-fi flick "Apollo 18." The movie claims to reveal decades-old footage of astronauts on a secret mission two years after Apollo 17 -- the last real expedition to the moon -- flew in 1972. (Without gi ...

First Truths

• The irreducible subjectivity of economic pheno ...
  A private, group email correspondence with a number of C4SS colleagues yielding the following pithy comment: > Can catastrophe force behavior that mimics�> a lowering of time preference, resulting in> long-term quantitative reduction of cost or> increase in profit/savings? Not if cost is defi ...
• Saul Newman on Zerzan, Bookchin, and Postmoder ...
  From Saul Newman's The Politics of Postanarchism: Yet, these two thinkers have more in common than it may appear: they both hang on to the Enlightenment desire for social fullness. That is, the idea of a rational social harmony and the overcoming of alienation. Bookchin seeks this social fullne ...
• The Cost Principle and the Sovereignty Principle
  Benjamin Tucker, from Liberty, Vol. V.�No. 12.:It does not follow, because I have the right, and every other man has the right to the products of his labor and to the liberty of retaining them forever in his own hands, that it is, therefore, either right or best that all men should retain all ...
• "[A]narchism is the usher of science"
  From Albert R. Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the one word "Liberty;" yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation, are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered s ...
• Carson on NATO
  In a private email, Kevin Carson offers an accurate summary of NATO's role within the framework of empire: Just give it a few years -- they'll be readjusting the boundaries of this "mutual defense pact" eastward and southward until they include Japan and Angola. Maybe Venezuela as well. And righ ...

Media Co-Op

• Interview with J.Stevens (shoestringstudios.or ...
  with the songs Stately Dissonance and Voted
• CKUT's Syria Uprising Broadcast: Oil and Blood ...
  Interviews with Mary Foster of Collective for Syria and Suncor's Spokesperson Last Friday, Montrealers made their voices heard about Canada's largest oil company, Suncor's working relationship with the Syrian regime. The Collective for Sy ...
• Interview with Dan Kellar: Independent Journal ...
  Undercover police, media freedoms, and security culture "If we know the information, we gotta keep spreading it" - Dan Kellar, arrested for a blog post about undercover police. CKUT spoke recently with independent journalist and activist D ...
• CKUT's Off the Hour: McGill Students Try to Br ...
  Interview with Joel Pedneault CKUT spoke with Joel Pedneault from Tuition Truth which�is�a campaign of the Students Society of McGill University and the Professional and Graduate Student Society. In the 1960s students paid less than $600 t ...
• Celebrating the Poverty Olympics Torch
  ... and Its Violations of Vancouver's Recent Bylaw Amendments About one hour before midnight on 19 April 2011, Vancouver City Council went through more contortions than a sideshow acrobat in order to approve a nefarious set of amendments t ...

David Seaton's News Links

• From Utoya Island to Capitol Hill
  David Seaton's News LinksDefinition of DECLASSTransitive verb: to remove from a class; especially to assign to a lower social status It is ridiculed by poets and libertines; idolized by moralists; the target of speeches by politicians, popes and all others who climb into the pulpit to recruit vo ...
• Norway: a taste of the magma
  David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
• A tribute to Amy Winehouse
  This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I sa ...
• Somalia Famine
  David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...
• The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
  David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 2 September 2011
  This week's catblogging plan originally focused on cats and laser pointers. Unfortunately, it was too dark and none of the pictures turned out. So instead we get preprandial playtime — a fixture of our day around here. On the left, Inkblot is rolling around and looking at a big black blob. T ...
• Caving In on the Economy
  Barack Obama has pretty much caved in to the Republican contention that budget deficits are the biggest problem our economy faces. He's pretty much caved in to the Republican contention that higher taxes are bad for the economy. And he's pretty much caved in to the Republican contention that ...
• The Immigration Trap
  Ed Kilgore notes that Rick Perry will be spending his Labor Day weekend in South Carolina and might end up walking into a buzz saw: It’s well known that Perry’s record and positions on immigration represent the one glaring area where he’s significantly out of step with conservative orthod ...
• Chart of the Day: The Real Employment Picture
  Another day, another lousy jobs report. The Washington Post headlined it like this: Job creation in U.S. comes to a halt in August At the risk of being tiresome, this isn't correct. We need to add about 150,000 jobs each month merely to keep up with population growth, which means that ...
• Perry and the Press
  Last weekend, Rick Perry held a private Q&A with evangelical leaders to assure them that he was Christian enough for their taste. Fine. Political leaders meet with interest groups all the time. But there's also this: Attendees were struck not only by the clout of those who participated, b ...

Insanity Report

• Random Thoughts: Kreayshawn & V-Nasty
  I’ve heard the name “Kreayshawn” before but I wasn’t really sure what exactly what it was.  Then I saw this picture from the VMAs and was reminded why I don’t watch the VMAs: Kreayshawn looks like Amy Whinehouse if Whinehouse had been addicted to STDs instead of drugs.  Rod from the Black Guy Wh ...
• State Trooper “Gets it in” on the Hood of a Car
  These type of segments on CNN typically annoy me but this one was actually kind of funny. I actually feel bad for the cop. It’s probably his girlfriend/wife and they wanted to “spruce up” their sex life and where better to do it than outside in front of an abandoned ranch in the middle of [...]
• IC 267: Wayne’s Jeggings
  Topics: Fuck Pepco Was Hurricane Irene “over-hyped”? Will & Jada almost break up according to Twitter & black marriages everywhere fail The VMAs Beyonce’s pregnant and people lose their minds What the fuck is wrong with Lady Gaga? Lil Wayne performs in women’s pants Share with your friends:
• FacePalm of the Week: About that Gun Play….
  The FBI said former Georgia Tech basketball star Javaris Crittenton was arrested at a Southern California airport Monday night and will face a murder charge in an Atlanta shooting. He was taken into custody at John Wayne Airport after checking in for a Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta, the FBI ...
• Bachmann Says Hurricane is Message From God To ...
  I swear Bachmann sees a political opportunity in everything.  It’s quite annoying “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’” Bachmann, a third-term Minneso ...

Simple Climate

• Climate cycles drive civil wars
  Countries affected by El Niño are twice as likely to have internal conflict during the warmer part of the cycle than the cold, say Mark Cane and colleagues at Columbia University.
• Climate change gets nature moving
  Our warming planet is driving species away from the Equator towards cooler climes at the poles at 17.6 kilometres per decade, find Chris Thomas from the University of York, UK, and his colleagues, up to three times as fast as previously thought.
• More turtles could become fish supper with warming
  By collecting baby green turtles and clothing them in “swimming vests”, University of Queensland's David Booth and Andrew Evans have showed that higher temperatures reduce their swimming ability, making it more likely they'll be eaten as they enter the sea.
• Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
  Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.
• Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
  After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.

e!Science News

• Engaging land-use stakeholders is model behavior
  Taking land-use models out of the lab for a test drive with the people who live the models gives scientists a new way to develop possible future scenarios. read more
• Louisiana Tech University researchers, NASA pa ...
  Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that could benefit future NASA astronauts. read more
• U of T study suggests sexual orientation uncon ...
  Studies by psychologists at the University of Toronto reveal that when it comes to white men, being straight may make you more likable but in the case of black men, gays have a likability edge. read more
• Why cancer cells change their appearance?
  Like snakes, tumour cells shed their skin. Cancer is not a static disease but during its development the disease accumulates changes to evade natural defences adapting to new environmental circumstances, protecting against chemotherapy and radiotherapy and invading neighbouring organs, eventuall ...
• People think the 'typical' member of a group l ...
  What does a typical European face look like according to Europeans? It all depends on which European you ask. Germans think the typical European looks more German; Portuguese people think the typical European looks more Portuguese. That's the conclusion of a new study which will be published in ...

unEarthed

• We Are Acting On Smog Rules Even If Obama Won't
  Today's failure by Obama illustrates why Earthjustice is in court President Barack Obama This morning, the President tried to yank the rug out from under ye ...
• President Bush -- er, Obama -- Keeps Weak Ozon ...
  Obama administration pushes ozone health protection reconsideration to 2013 Weak Bush-era ozone health standards will be maintained by the Obama administration. ...
• Friday Finds: Daryl Hannah Gets Her Hands Dirty
  Cancerous ink, climate change craziness, industry schooling Daryl Hannah. Photo courtesy of guano Daryl Hannah faces off against tar sands pipeline She ma ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Rebellion Against Coal Ash in Ill ...
  Joliet residents protest outside congressmanâs office Residents protest outside Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger's office.. Illinois has the dubious distinctio ...
• Drilling in Russian Arctic Threatens Entire Ec ...
  Exxon signs $3.2 billion deal with Rosneft Oil development in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Photo by Florian Schulz Environmentalist author Chellis Glendinning’s 200 ...

Brave New Climate

• What is your energy philosophy?
  People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect. So here’s a post to clari ...
• Open Thread 18
  The previous Open Thread has gone past 550 comments, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of ...
• Risk perception – of fans and fission re ...
  Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...
• Nuclear risk insurance
  Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get ...
• TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
  In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Republicans are a Disease

• GOP Sabotage Anyone?
  So what are the Republicans planning to make sure President Obama isn’t able to create ANY jobs? One has to wonder.
• Class War Update The Rich Killed 50,000 Americ ...
  Over 50,000 Americans died last year because they couldn’t afford a doctor, or medications. They are the victims of the class war. You know, the class war where the rich are killing us for “corporate profits” or worse. I guess turning a profit on your portfolio is far more important than taking ...
• Dick Cheney On Tour!
  Prepare yourselves folks. Dick Cheney is attempting to stimulate sales of his “book” by going on a tour. What shall we call it? How about the “I lied about WMD’s and tortured people” book tour. Coming to an alternate universe embracing media pundit near you. Why is this war criminal not behind b ...
• Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
  Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]
• Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
  What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

• Federal Reserve Policy + Extreme Weather = Rev ...
  By David DeGraw Federal Reserve policy mixed with extreme weather has put the world on a fast track to revolution and war. Here's why the Fed cannot get away with another round of Quantitative Easing. [Read More]
• Open Letter to Warren Buffett: Put Your Money ...
  By David DeGraw If you are truly sick and tried of the "mega-rich" being "coddled" by a "billionaire-friendly Congress," as you said in your recent NY Times editorial, why don't you back up your words with some real action and put your money where your mouth is? [Read More]
• Download Free PDF, Kindle, Word Doc of Full Re ...
  You can now download the full version of our groundbreaking extensive new report, “Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America,” in several file formats here. [Read More]
• EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Financial Terrorism in ...
  By David DeGraw Groundbreaking extensive new report on the financial destruction of the United States: "Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has e ...
• The Covert Origins of World War III – US ...
  By Nick Turse Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. [Read More]

+972

• The September journey part 3: Invisible cities
  Staying on the move in Israel and the Palestinian Territories through a month of trial. Second excursion: to the old neighborhood and beyond, far beyond. I grew up on a settlement, not one inhabited by fierce ideologists, not even one that is recognized as a settlement by the Israeli people or ...
• Best J14 animation ever: “The Israel Mac ...
  There have been many inspiring or funny J14 videos posted in recent weeks, but this one is by far the best, getting all the important issues–from militarism through the deportation of migrant workers and refugees to the Separation Wall–wrapped to one and a half minutes. Watch it with sound: The ...
• Focusing on Sarah Netanyahu, the media misses ...
  Do Sarah Netanyahu’s scandals serve as a lightning rod for her husband? They are, after all, business partners Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, as she demands others refer to her, was once again in the midst of another scandal this week. This time, the claims were she was treating her old father’s caregive ...
• The September journey part 2: What are the cha ...
  Staying on the move in Israel and the Palestinian Territories through a month of trial. First excursion: Beit Shean and Tel Al-Baida. First experience: Uncertainty. . . Tel Aviv has become such a carnival of protest this summer, that leaving it can be a bit of an emotional zig-zag. On the sher ...
• How the IDF ruined one of my favorite songs
  When I learned that the IDF and Israel Police are calling their preparations for the UN vote in September “Operation Summer Seeds,” I was very disappointed. But even before the disappointment settled in, I did what probably every Israeli did when they heard the name of the upcoming operation: th ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Address to National Press Club
  Speech: Australian Government response to to the Report of the independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
• Reforms better for the environment, better fo ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today outlined the first major overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 since it was created more than a decade ago, which includes the Government's response to an independent review of the Act by Allan Hawke AC.
• Draft north and north-west marine plans released
  The Gillard Government today released draft marine bioregional plans and proposed marine reserves networks to protect Australia's north and north-west marine environment.
• The Gillard Government welcomes national effo ...
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, and Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability, Senator Don Farrell, today welcomed Keep Australia Beautiful's National Litter Index.
• Sustainable development for the Perth and Pee ...
  The Australian and Western Australian governments have agreed on a process to provide long­term certainty and cut red tape in the Perth and Peel regions, Environment and Communities Minister Tony Burke announced today.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Robo Signing And Desecration of Our Courts- Th ...
  You would have thought the banksters would have gotten the message…they were after all given a total pass.  Not even a slap on the wrist, it was just a collective dodge….they were permitted to moonwalk away from the crime scenes. Did they learn any lesson?  You bet, the lesson is we can just k ...
• Fraudclosure in Florida, A Survey and The Cris ...
  Florida was well into the acute phase of the foreclosure crisis during the dark days of fall 2008 when Bush and Paulson wrote the blank checks that bailed out the banks, Wall Street institutions and the criminals that brought our country to the brink of economic Armageddon.  Bush wrote the check ...
• BOMBSHELL- Listen to This Rally on The Steps o ...
  The First Annual Rally in Tally! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• LYTTLE v. BANKUNITED- Another Headscratcher of ...
  Here goes another spellbinding appeal written by that masterful author George Gingo. You really must sit down and study the attached appellate brief which reads more like a nail biting crime novel than some dry academic appeal. I mean, seriously. Put yourself in the moment, picture the courtroom ...
• Brand New, Hot Off The Presses MERS Policy Bul ...
  After years of claiming that assignments don’t matter and the date of assignment certainly doesn’t matter, the MERS Monster has finally changed its tune, effective July 21, 2011: The Certifying Officer must execute the assignment of the Security Instrument from MERS before initiating foreclosure ...

abelard - news

• adieu to the recreator of colossus | science a ...
  Not only did he rebuild Colossus, the machine that helped England defeat the Germans in WW2, but he also was key to saving Betchley Park, home of English decoders including Alan Turing.
• fascist 'new' labour's broken society | politi ...
  "Bad behaviour and criminality has been glamorised on the streets. Teachers are scared to punish children."
• nz throwing out asylum seeker - would they do ...
  Who can be nasty to a penguin?
• british 1st and 3rd overall in the spanish lyc ...
  Extraordinary result, where a comparative unknown pips a great man to the post. To be watched.
• disaster - wussy easy coasters facing armagedd ...
  Taking a proportionate view of the current bad weather in the eastern United States.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “41,654 to 10″
  That great rebel for liberty, Thomas Paine, wrote of his take on the society of his day: “Society is composed of distinct, unconnected individuals who are continually meeting, crossing, uniting, opposing and separating from each other as accident, interest and circumstances shall direct.” That w ...
• Citizenship – “Paying it Forward&# ...
  One of the most fundamental traits of good citizens is that they know they are building on foundations established at great cost by others who preceded them. They have a heritage to protect and not just a future to build. Much of that framework was built by hard work, innovation, investments, so ...
• Citizenship – “Blessed Are The Lea ...
  Jodi and Shawn are on something of a journey. Young professionals, they have been community leaders in their own right for the last number of years, but as part of the group of 10 that met a couple of weeks ago, I’ve watched them become more animated in their desire to make citizenship meaningfu ...
• Citizenship – “Not Leaders, But Le ...
  People are programmed to avoid painful decisions, and these days it appears as though many politicians are as well, for obvious reasons. Basic choices force people to analyze their deepest motives. As long as politics is around, and political representatives say that are willing to make those ch ...
• Citizenship – “For the Believers&# ...
  So we commence the last week of posts, recognizing that the task before Canadians today is a formidable one.  Citizenship as a useful political concept is in danger of being torn into many parts. By a bitter twist of historical fate, the concept which evolved to provide a sense of identity and c ...

Vaccine Awakening

• The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
  “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taki ...
• What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...

2020 Science

• Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
  The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
• Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
  A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...
• Lost in the Maize
  One thing they don’t warn you about going into academia is the business of making sense of your paycheck. When I started working for the US government in 2000, I was bowled over by the bureaucracy. Compared to the lean, mean government of a UK emerging from the Thatcher years, it was like going ...

Reader Supported News

• 9/11: The Tapping Point
  David Rose writes: "What if, two years before the 9/11 attacks - with the installation of a cell-phone-and-Internet system in Afghanistan - the U.S. had been handed complete access to al-Qaeda and Taliban calls and e-mails? A secret deal was in place in 1999, the author reveals, but Washington d ...
• Inside the GOP's War on Voting
  Ari Berman wites: "As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literac ...
• Inside the GOP's War on Voting
  Ari Berman wites: "As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literac ...
• Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Protesters Direct Ire a ...
  Sue Sturgis reports: "The protesters charge that giving the pipeline the go-ahead would represent a betrayal of the promise Obama made during his campaign to open a 'new chapter in American leadership on climate change.' Many of the protesters outside the White House can be seen wearing Obama bu ...
• Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Protesters Direct Ire a ...
  Sue Sturgis reports: "The protesters charge that giving the pipeline the go-ahead would represent a betrayal of the promise Obama made during his campaign to open a 'new chapter in American leadership on climate change.' Many of the protesters outside the White House can be seen wearing Obama bu ...

War Resisters League

• Portand: Veteran Organizing and Economic Justice
  This past week, WRL organizers Kimber Heinz and Ali Issa attended the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace 2011 conventions. In addition to attending workshops on the GI resistance movement now, as well as building relationships with … Continue reading →
• Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
  Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...
• “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
  [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
• Wisconsin Updates!
  Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
• Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
  At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...

Center for a Livable Future

• The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
  This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
• Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
  Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
• Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
  Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
• Dam Water in China: Water Losers
  Along the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
• Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
  In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Protect Canada's Caribou
  Ecojustice
• Last Dance for Sage-grouse?
  Just 13 Male Birds Remain in Alberta, as Recovery Fails Alberta Wilderness Association 1 Sep 2011 In 2011, just thirteen ma ...
• Alberta's Native Prairie Sell-Off is Back
  Alberta Wilderness Association 31 Aug 2011 On August 30, the Alberta government again placed 16,000 acres of Cypress County native grassland up for sale for conversion to intensive ...
• RCEN e-Bulletin: August 31, 2011 Edition
  Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) Network News Webinar: Getting Ready foâr the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act  Expected to come into force thi ...
• Revised Draft of Lower Athabasca Regional Plan ...
  Sierra Club Prairie Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation 30 Aug 2011 Edmonton — Alberta’s Government’s Department of Sustainable Resource Dev ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== Sarkozy: NATO To Continue To Bomb Libya Into Total Submission, Rubble Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project And NATO War Crimes Italy: Canadian Prime Minister Meets Troops, Hails War Against Libya Romania: U.S. To Aim Interceptor Missiles At Russia, Iran, Syria Deadliest Month To Date Debunk ...
• Selma Lagerlöf: The Fifth Commandment. The Gre ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Selma Lagerlöf From The Outcast (1918) Translated by Felma Swanston Howard The Fifth Commandment While the crowd still waited for the conclusion of the sermon, a voice was heard, not from the graveside, but from somewhere farther out. ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== NATO Can Continue Libyan Naval Blockade, Air Campaign Indefinitely Global Policeman: NATO Uses Libya To Match, Surpass And Supplant UN, Says Russian Envoy Libya: NATO’s Pyrrhic Victory Ecuador Denounces NATO’s War On Libya, Warns Other Nations NATO’s Deceitful Libya War Of Aggression And Me ...
• Heinrich Mann: Mission of letters in a world i ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Heinrich Mann From letter to his brother Thomas January 5, 1918 Translated by Don Reneau Self-righteousness? Oh, no – far more likely, rather, a feeling shared with those others who, like me, know how much all of us, the art of our gene ...
• Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third ...
  ==== Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 31, 2011 ==== Voice of Russia August 31, 2011 Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in John Robles Interview conducted on August 27 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Massive Wave Of Lawsuits To Be Filed By The US ...
  Zero Hedge September 1, 2011 In a move that could either send BAC stock limit down overnight or send it soaring (we are still trying to figure out just what is going on here), the NYT has broken major news that the US is preparing to go nuclear on more than a dozen big banks [...]
• Pentagon: China Has Workable “Aircraft K ...
  China Has ‘Workable’ Anti-Ship Missile Design, Pentagon Says Bloomberg September 2, 2011 China has developed a “workable design” of the world’s first anti-ship ballistic missile, potentially capable of hitting and disabling a U.S. aircraft carrier, according to Pentagon officials. China also has ...
• Big Sis Janet Napolitano Fear Mongers Over Ter ...
  The Intel Hub September 2, 2011 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has warned that while there are no credible threats of a 9/11 anniversary terror attack, officials must be vigilant in order to protect the American population. The fact that most terror attacks and the 9/11 attack i ...
• Presenting Goldman Sachs Top Secret “The World ...
  The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer September 2, 2011 Here It Is: Presenting Goldmanâ Sachs Top Secret âState Of The Markets â Long and Short Risk Strategiesâ â or as Tyler Durden calls it âThe World Is Ending So Letâs All Profitâ â Report. Zero Hedge has posted a âtop secre ...
• The Greatest Plot Against the Ron Paul Camp To ...
  By Sibel Edmonds Boiling Frogs Blog September 1, 2011 Who ‘Really’ Is this Bruce Fein?   “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor mo ...

FRS

• Breaking News from Nepal: “Major Protest ...
  Kathmandu, September 2 By Eric Ribellarsi, Winter has Its End Today, the Kiran faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has launched a major protest program against the disarming of the People’s Liberation Army being led by Nepal’s new Prime Minister, Baburam Bhattarai. The Maois ...
• We condemn liquidation of People’s Liberation ...
  September 2nd, 2011, The Next Front A leader of the revolutionary Maoists in Nepal, Comrade Baidhya (The Next Front:  “The design and mission of Prachanda and Baburam, who had long been planning to disarm, dissolve and liquidate the Peopleâs Army under various pretexts, have finally come to fru ...
• Baidya denounces handover of arms containers’ ...
  Thursday, 01 September 2011 21:25 UCPN (Maoist) vice chairman Mohan Baidya, who has been critical of party’s decision to handover keys of arms containers to the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC), has condemned the decision reached in AISC meeting yesterday. Issuing a press release shortl ...
• Nepal: A Plan of National Surrender
  The Next Front (http://thenextfront.com/politics/a-plan-of-national-surrender.html) September 1st, 2011 Prachanda and Baburam have decided to handover of arms container’s key to Army Integration Special Committee (AISC). After all  they have come out in their real color. Now they have fulfilled ...
• Nepal: UCPN (Maoist) starts handing over keys ...
  Thursday, 01 September 2011 In what would be viewed as a major headway in ongoing peace process, ruling UCPN (Maoist) Thursday started handing over keys of the weapons containers to Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) as per the party’s earlier decision. Despite facing sharp opposition fro ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
  Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...
• Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
  am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
• One for the Women
  It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
• Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
  Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
• Slander vs. Sanity
  Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...

StillSmallVoice

• No title
  View "Irene visits East Haven, CT" on Storify
• Ah, Vermont...
• Coming soon to a television screen near you
  Working class heroes -- sort of.
• Sen. Rubio, Ed Schultz is calling you out
  Looks like these two guys need to hug it out. And thanks, DickG., for the link.
• Tolerance begins with me
  United Religions Initiative encourages interested folk to take a pledge right here. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• Factbox: Ned Kelly
  Ending over 130 years of speculation, DNA analysis has proved that a skeleton unearthed from a mass grave is indeed that of fabled Irish-Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. Here is a look at key events in the life of the notorious Australian folk hero and outlaw.Contributor: Jennifer LeMaire Published: Sep ...
• 9/11, Politics 10 Years Later
  The United States hasn't been the same since the unifying events of Sept. 11, 2001.Contributor: William Browning Published: Sep 01, 2011
• Hurricane Katia on the Move
  Here is the need-to-know information about the new hurricane in the central Atlantic.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Sep 01, 2011
• Robert Downey Jr., Alyssa Milano Announce Baby ...
  Babies, babies, babies. That's the big news coming out of Hollywood this week. Robert Downey Jr. is the latest celeb to announce that he and wife Susan Downey are expecting!Contributor: Sarah F. Sullivan Published: Aug 31, 2011
• Justice Dept. Hits AT&T with Antitrust Suit; W ...
  Competition is the basis of capitalism, but the government seems to be going crazy with antitrust lawsuits. If companies are never allowed to become the biggest and best, how are we ever going to keep up with China? Is there another way?Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Aug 31, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, August 29-September 2 ...
  In the future, when we can translate thoughts into words, we can only hope that our thoughts will be as G-rated and well-informed as our astronaut friend here. Thanks for reading this week's PopSci so thoroughly, future-naut! Want to win this thoughtful Baarbarian illustration on a t-shirt? It' ...
• Scientists Map the Mouse Taste Cortex, Pinpoin ...
  For all our knowledge about how the brain processes sight, sound, smell and touch, very little is understood about taste. Researchers have been unsure whether specific brain cell groups are devoted to the five main taste groups, just like there are specific, finely tuned taste receptors on your ...
• Archive Gallery: 10 Renowned Scientists Make T ...
  Early appearances by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Ernest Rutherford, and other notable 20th-century scientists If there's one thing in our archives more impressive than the retrofuturistic illustrations, it's the number of superstar scientists who have shown up in our magazine over the years. ...
• New Genetic Circuit Detects Cancerous Cells an ...
  A new DNA-based logic circuit can sense the signs of cancer, compute that a cell is cancerous, and then cause it to self-destruct, researchers say. The cell-level diagnostic system could be used for drug screening or perhaps for disease treatment, killing tumors while leaving healthy cells alon ...
• Study Finds That Injecting Old Mice With Young ...
  Researchers at Stanford University just published a study in Nature that may give new hope to those looking to stop the effects of aging on the brain. The study found that when blood from a young mouse was injected into an older mouse, that older mouse enjoyed what could almost be termed a "rej ...

Veterans Today

• Israel’s Operation Summer Seeds
  Ahead of the General Assembly's likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests.
• The road out of PTSD hell
  The road out of PTSD hell is worse than combat for most
• VA Acknowledges Ships Associated with Presumpt ...
  Now the VA offers a list of ships who were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam Conflict.
• Years Later, Vietnam Combat Nurse Found Help f ...
  Edie Meeks, RN, seems very positive on first impression. But, she says the sadness and anger that resulted from her service as a combat nurse in Vietnam has never left her.
• Dick Cheney, The Ultimate American Terrorist
  It is axiomatic by now: when someone leaves government service, especially a high-profile position, they write a book. They all do it, sometimes more than once.

War is Business

• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• A poor August ends another disappointing summer
  August has once more turned out to be a disappointing month. Overall, the UK has received 126% of the normal August rainfall, and it's been much duller than normal with only 76% of average sunshine. Averaged across the UK maximum temperatures were 0.8C below normal. Provisional figures also s ...
• July global temperatures show further rise
  The latest global temperature for July, according to the UAH satellite measure, has shown a further rise from June, and now stands at 0.372C above the running 30 year mean. Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now approximately +0.625C ...
• August warmth to be short lived
  The warm air that has greeted the start of August looks set to a blip in what is certain to be described come September as yet another disappointing, unsettled summer. Highest temperatures will be in the Southeast of the UK, where 30C (86F) is likely in the next 24 hours, but the warmth will be ...
• Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
  Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...
• My experience with solar panels
  I thought I might share a recent personal experience of mine. Having considered the idea of generating my own electricity by way of solar photo voltaic panels on my roof for the last few months, I have finally taken the plunge. My house is directly south facing, so the roof is in a prime posi ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Luxury, or Where Moammar Meets Smith and Marx
  Blogging is often inspired by odd things. This post, for instance, came to me while reading about how Moammar Gathafi (it is spelled thusly on his passport) was a big fan of the FT's How To Spend It feature. In our interlinked world economy, how can the existence of such a vainglorious character ...
• A New Merger Gimmick: 'We'll Onshore Jobs'
  Coming from the the world's call centre capital, I found this news interesting since it may mean T-Mobile call centre jobs in the Philippines being repatriated to the US. A few months ago, I wrote about how Kraft vowed--and then reneged--on keeping British jobs when it took over chocolate giant ...
• Travel Fad Du Jour: PRC Communist 'Red Tourism'
  Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lipservice to Marxism; they too attack "dogmatism". But what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism - Mao Zedong So ...
• When Corporations Ruled...Creditworthiness
  I enjoy the writings of Gillian Tett of the Financial Times for a very good reason. In contrast to the usual mindless econo-blather you get from financial journalists and the economists they cover, she is a social anthropologist. Unlike the neat and tidy world of neoclassical economics, processe ...
• Changing of the Guard: Migrate to China, Not US
  It's time to quit messing with deck chairs and abandon the fast-sinking America. Destination: Davy Jones' Locker. The story here is a straightforward application of differences in economic performance between one country that has next to no GDP growth (the US) and one racking up nearly 10% GDP g ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Announcing Freedom #5 - Anunciando el número 5 ...
  We are proud to release issue #5 of Freedom/Libertad, NEFAC New England's English/Spanish periodical. This issue features a brand new design and...
• Interview with Jay Donahue about the Californi ...
  Jay talks about the continuing struggle inside California State prisons Download At: ...
• Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, 2011
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• Need Tech Help? Offering it? Put a free ad in ...
  Are you part of a cool hacking, DIY, or tech project that needs more volunteers, users, or testers? Are you part of a radical project that needs...
• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...

E U Times

• Muammar Gaddafi urges followers to turn Libya ...
  A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as ‘traitors’, and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to ‘collaborators’. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has issued his latest apocalyptic statement, urging his surrounded followers to “keep fighting” and promising to turn Libya “into a hell”. In an audi ...
• Huge “Ocean” Discovered Inside Earth
  The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will ...
• Leaked Videos Show Missile Hitting Pentagon on ...
  On the verge of the 9/11 tenth anniversary, leaked videos confirm eye-witnesses’ accounts that the attack was made by a cruise missile rather than a passenger plane, an editor told Press TV’s US Desk. “There were 85 videos; another video was released yesterday (August 29). Now it hasn’t been car ...
• Australian PM Julia Gillard hits out at asylum ...
  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit out at a High Court decision that ruled an asylum deal with Malaysia was unlawful. Ms Gillard called the ruling “deeply disappointing” and said the court had “rewritten the Migration Act”. Under the deal, Australia would have sent 800 asylum-seeker ...
• Scientist simulate Milky Way creation
  Scientists at the University of Zurich in Switzerland say they have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with astronomers at the University of California maintain that their recent video simulation ...

Voiceless Victim

• Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
  The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...
• Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
  Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
• Imagine How It Feels
  How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...

WL Central

• 2011-09-02 Polish CIA prison: US and Poland ha ...
  TweetA new Wikileaks release 05WARSAW4030 finally proves that the United States and Poland colluded in their efforts to silence questions about a CIA prison in Masovia. This is what the cable says: "[FM] Meller's staff expects that the renditions and "CIA prisons" issue will continue to dog the ...
• 2011-09-02 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on # ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. Cablegate2 release WikiLeaks' full Cablegate archive became available online, primarily due to ...
• COMPETITION: Imperium ex Nihilo
  TweetAuthored by JP Orient Abstract: This analysis argues that today's financial crisis is driven by computational heuristics, discoveries made by machines, to find logical rationales for maintaining moribund power structures. Rather than using computational heuristics to lead societies toward a ...
• Guardian responds to Wikileaks accusations
  TweetThe Guardian has now responded to Wikileaks' accusations. They state that they were told that the password was only temporary, and that the server from which the file was downloaded was only live for a few hours. They also claim that the file was available on BitTorrent at some point. This ...
• WIKILEAKS EDITORIAL - Guardian disclosure [Update]
  TweetWikileaks just posted this editorial: WIKILEAKS EDITORIAL - Guardian disclosure Wed Aug 31 23:44:00 2011 GMT A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables. Knowledge of the G ...

U N News

• Haiti: UN expert welcomes declarations on rule ...
  The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today welcomed declarations by the new Haitian authorities of measures in the field of the rule of law, adding that he hoped that the declarations will soon be implemented and followed by positive impacts.
• UN human rights chief lauds conviction of high ...
  The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed the decision by Bolivia's top court to convict several high-level officials for their part in the deaths of over 60 people during anti-government protests in 2003, calling it an important step in the fight against impunity.
• UN chief condemns deadly arson attack in Mexico
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the arson attack that left 53 people dead in Monterrey, Mexico, yesterday and voiced solidarity with the country's people, the families of the victims and the country's Government.
• Peru: UN human rights expert commends new indi ...
  Peru has taken "an important step forward" by approving a law compelling private companies to consult indigenous communities before going ahead with major projects such as mines, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
• Hurricane Irene killed two in Haiti and floode ...
  Hurricane Irene killed two people in Haiti, flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed landslides and devastated farm fields during its passage off the coast of the Caribbean country earlier this week, the United Nations reported today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• The Magic Weed
  Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
• Blood Coltan
  Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
• CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
  Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
• Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
  Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
• HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
  You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

• Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave – The Popu ...
  Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” mu ...
• The Keystone XL Pipeline: buried by bad decisions
  Today’s guest post is from Brian L. Horejsi, one of Canada’s toughest conservationists. As early as fall 2011 President Obama and administration insiders will approve the construction of the massive Keystone XL pipeline. With the stroke of that pen the gates will open to the daily flow of about ...
• Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
  What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
• Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
  Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...

Asia Sentinel

• Thailand Continues to Cool
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Subcabinet appointments designed to mollify Red Shirt supporters
• Hazare spooks Indian Parliament
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Anti-Corruption Proposal has fishhooks for them
• Oz Court Decision on Refugees Creates a Quandary
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Both Malaysia and Australia ask what next
• The Challenge of Global Overconsumption
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The world’s largest population centers, centered in Asia, cannot aspire to live like Americans
• A Newspaper War Looms in Hong Kong
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The territory’s biggest publishers gear up to print millions of free copies daily

We Know the Lies

• Cesium-137... Simulation Map by CEREA Shows Co ...
  �France�s CEREA has the simulation map of ground deposition of cesium-137 from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident on its �Fukushima� page. It not only shows Japan but also the entire northern Pacific Rim, from Russian Siberia to Alaska to the West Coast of the US to the entire US. ~ ...
• MASSIVE COVER-UP Under Way... Nuclear Expert S ...
  �There has been a lot of disinformation regarding the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. It appears the government agencies of other nations cooperated with Japan while the international nuclear industry sided with TEPCO�s (Tokyo Electric Power Company) disinformation and denial campaign.read more
• Martial Law Drills In America Have Been Taking ...
  ��The United Nations has trained inside the United States in preparation for civil unrest and possible martial law for years. ~ Video read more
• State Dep't Says... 'Job-Creating Keystone Pip ...
  �In its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs and �transport 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to Oklahoma and Texas, a State Department official said. read more
• Judge Rules on Obama’s Social Security Number
  �Announcing it�s �not her lucky day,� a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has told an eligibility attorney he has dismissed her case demanding information from the Social Security Administration regarding President Obama�s Social Security Number, sought because of suspicions it may be fraudul ...

Tarpley

• Four Years Later: The Kennebunkport Warning of ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net August 31, 2011 This week marks the fourth anniversary of the Kennebunkport Warning, whose text the reader will find elsewhere on this web site, together with related documentation. The Kennebunkport Warning of late August 2007 sought to prevent a false flag ...
• Stop the NATO-Libyan Rebel Genocide against Si ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
• Deutsch
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 16 Verunglimpfung light: die Süddeutsche Zeitung über Tarpleys Analyse von den Terror-Anschlä ...
• Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reig ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 [download video]
• Will Turkey Accept Role of US-UK Kamikaze Pupp ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. I.N.N. World Report August 25, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• 2011, The HOTTEST Year for Texas
  For most of Texas, 2011 is now the hottest year on record while city after city shatter records of 100 degree days. Texas is in a severe drought, only averaging about 1 inch of rain during July, and in many areas things are becoming desperate. Wichita Falls and San Angelo have topped 95 and 93 [...]
• First Circuit Court of Appeals Rules OK to Fil ...
  Please be advised that the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has just ruled on August 26, 2011 that citizens have the right under the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States to record the police. You will find beginning on page 8 of the copy of that ruling that ...
• Today in the News:
  News Today (Sep 2, 2011) U.S. government is escalating security, lone terrorist attack a concern. “It’s been a long buildup as we approach the anniversary of 9/11″ Security Rises for 9/11 Anniversary Homeowners should beware of scam artists and unscrupulous contractors… Hurricane Irene is Over, ...
• Contagion, The Pandemic May Soon Be Upon Us
  Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact. Contagion. The Warner Bros. movie opening Sept. 9 looks to be an interesting one. This type of thing, an invisible organism, virus, bacteria, a pandemic, so easily spread, is truly something to be fearful of. It has happened before, and is most ...
• Survival Kit for at Work
  We spend much of our day ‘at work’, so, I wonder how many of us keep a survival kit of sorts at our place of work? Don’t focus solely on building your preparedness supplies at home when the reality is that most of us spend a significant part of each weekday somewhere else – at [...]

Fast Company

• This Week In Bots: Space Droids, Dog Droids, C ...
  Do Astronauts Dream of Electric DEXTREs?Potentially evoking creepy memories of external circuit failures from the film 2001, an important circuit breaker aboard the ISS recently popped and had to be replaced. The thing is, it sits in an electronics sled outside the ISS, and would've necessitated ...
• NYC's MTA Takes The 2/3 Train To Yesteryear Fo ...
  New York commuters can ride a vintage 1920 train in September, compliments of Nucky Thompson. The MTA is going older school than usual starting Labor Day weekend, compliments of your favorite lovable crime lord, Nucky Thompson. As part of the “Compliments of Nucky” campaign promoting the ...
• Fake TabCo Borrowed Lessons From "The Wire" To ...
  [youtube _z1bwFD9bug]A number in the "very high six figures." That's how much it cost TabCo to run its recent eye-grabbing campaign, pitched to reveal a revolutionary innovation in the tablet PC market, according to Jonathan Bloom CEO of McGrath Power, the firm that ran it. That amount is a meas ...
• The Made For Good Model Of Successful Cause Ma ...
  Cause marketing has been proven to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty, but are the new models of embedded generosity a passing fad or the new fundamental?Cause marketing has been proven to boost sales, engagement and customer loyalty, but are the new models of embedded generosity a pa ...
• Want To Win The Talent War In Emerging Markets ...
  In the three years since �Goldman�Sachs launched its business in Brazil, growth has exceeded all�expectations. Head count in the São Paulo headquarters has grown from�25 to 250, and Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank�in Brazil, predicts it will double again in the next two to th ...

Jadaliyya

• Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Rev ...
  Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat (AS&AK): The Syrian people have been resisting for months now and keep coming out on the streets despite escalating repression. How would you characterize the uprising in Syria and where do you think it is heading? Fawwaz Trabulsi (FT):�People I�ve talked to ...
• Our Solidarity [Gone to Palestine: 6]
  A group of us activists went to Qalqilya, a town so far west that it sits not in the dry hills, but on the humid coastal plane. Though the uprising had been effectively suppressed, we felt that our trip, in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, was important. After all, the violence ...
• Palestinian Options at the United Nations
  What could be called the September “Wende” is fast approaching, and interpretations put forward by Palestinian officials abound as to what it will be possible and impossible to attain then at the United Nations (UN). This has engendered a certain confusion in Palestinian, Arab and intern ...
• New Texts Out Now: The Back to School Edition
  Just in time for the new semester, we are happy to present a series of eminently teachable texts in the latest edition of NEWTON: James Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History and The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know Stephen Sheehi, Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign A ...
• New Texts Out Now: James Gelvin, "The Modern M ...
  James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write The ...

mediagazer

• Hollywood's TV Factory (Amy Chozick/Wall Stree ...
  Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal: Hollywood's TV Factory  —  A surprising number of TV's most popular shows, from CBS's ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to NBC's ‘The Voice,’ come from one source.  Backstage at the busiest studio in America.  —  “Casablanca” was shot at the Warner Bros. studio lot here, ...
• Forced vacation use ordered at L.A. Times (Kev ...
  Kevin Roderick / LA Observed: Forced vacation use ordered at L.A. Times  —  More cost cutting: the same week that parent Tribune asked the bankruptcy judge to approve bonuses for 640 managers, Los Angeles Times employees received an email saying they will not accrue vacation for the rest of 2011.
• Social media editor role expands to include fi ...
  Steve Myers / Poynter: Social media editor role expands to include fighting misinformation during breaking news  —  The buzzwords for social media editors at news outlets are conversation, curation and collaboration.  But when using Twitter and its ilk to collect and disseminate news in real-ti ...
• Online video finally chipping away at broadcas ...
  Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Online video finally chipping away at broadcast TV  —  A quarter of people in countries with access to high-speed broadband are streaming video to their TV, although more than 80 percent still watch broadcast television as well.  But that's slowly beginning to cha ...
• How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Vide ...
  Tim Carmody / Epicenter: How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video  —  Illustration photoshopped by Tim Carmody  —  The dissolution of the Netflix-Starz relationship is a meaningful loss to both companies as well as their customers.  Without Starz's participation as an early partner and ...

Chemtrail News

• Highly Excessive Chemtrail Activity In ...
  Hey Avie's, today here in NY we had an overabundance of Chemtrail activity. What made the scenario a bit different is the fact that some of these planes were ...projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29417-Highly...
• ~Taxpayers Pay Chemtrail Death Dumps Fo ...
  Please rate and comment on original page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 05tXonkndrU chemtrails evergreen air murdering men women ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTWYf0JaPk
• No Fuel Sept 1-11 (chemtrail truth-acti ...
  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106579419446495 If our national leaders will not respond to our letters about chemtrails then perhaps we should do ...chemtruth.ning.com/.../no-fuel-sept-1-11-chemtrail-truth-actio...
• Former FBI Chief Ted Gunderson Says Chemtra ...
  Discussion about Former FBI Chief Ted Gunderson Says Chemtrail Death Dumps Must Be Stopped at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1615088/pg1
• Chemtrails 303 - David Icke's Offic ...
  Chemtrails 303 Earth Changes / Global Warming / Chemtrails / Weather Warfare.forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=181415

World News - Top Stories

• Libyans, UN, experts work on stabilizatio ...
  PARIS - Libya's interim leaders are holding talks with U.N. and other international officials to work out specific ways to help Libya rebuild after Moammar Gadhafi's ouster. Enlarge French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, welcomes Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel ...
• Turkey downgrades ties with Israel
  Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and suspended military co-operation between the countries in anticipation of the release of a United Nations report into Israel's raid of a Gaza-bound ship. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, announced the measures on Friday hour ...
• Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaz ...
  Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel. Turkish...
• Fearing infiltration, combing operations ...
  On Friday, Army intensified search and combing operations along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir following fresh infiltration bids by militants and two ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops over the past three days. Army troops have increased vigil along the LoC...
• Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas claims A ...
  The Gunners made a late attempt to bring in the France international star, who only joined the Ligue 1 outfit from Bordeaux last summer, as a replacement for Samir Nasri Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By David Lynch Tweet 1 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, O. Lyon, Yoann Gourcuff ...

no frakking consensus

• The IAC Report One Year Later
  A year after a damning assessment was released, the IPCC continues to thumb its nose at key recommendations.
• Comic Book Analysis from the Leader of the IPCC
  History, according to the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reads like a comic book full of stark environmental villains and bizarre motives.
• Pachauri’s Squishy Timeline
  In 2007 the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world was at a defining moment, that the next 2 to 3 years would determine our future. Without a new emissions treaty by 2012, he said, it would be too late.
• The Journal of Climate & the IPCC
  We're supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.
• The Backstory to the ‘Fleeing Species&#8 ...
  Journalists aren't telling you that the lead researcher behind the species-are-fleeing-global-warming story has come to questionable conclusions in the past.

Anna's News

• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitariesSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Green energy investment hits record global high
  Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
• News of the World staff shocked at closure
  Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 8/31/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - On Aug. 12, 2011 a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled (2-1) that the insurance mandate of the PPACA is unconstitutional, while a previous appeals court had ruled that ...
• 8/30/11 - Forms of Execution in the United Sta ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: Forms of Execution in the United States, 1977 - 2009. Between 1977 and 2009, 1,188 people were executed in the US. 1,016 (85%) were executed by lethal injection and 156 (13.1%) were electrocuted. 672 (56.6%) of those executed were white and 411 (34.6%) were bla ...
• 8/26/11 - Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 Pres ...
  vegetarian.procon.org - UPDATED: Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 President Bill Clinton adopted a vegan diet (no meat, eggs, or dairy) after his second heart surgery. In Aug. 2011, President Clinton stated, "my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, ...
• 8/25/11 - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 st ...
  teachertenure.procon.org - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 state legislatures modified their teacher tenure laws. Many states chose to include teacher performance evaluations into their revised tenure legislation, and the Idaho legislature passed SB 1108 which phased out tenure for new teacher ...
• 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
  milk.procon.org - The National School Lunch Act requires that schools serve milk. In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that milk from cloned cows was safe for human consumption. The retail sale of raw cow's milk for human consumption is illegal in 42 states. Read about these and ...

Truth About Our World

• The Herd Mentality
• Within and Without
• Gordon Duff – Pentagon Attacked By A Cru ...
• Fear – Mind Control – The Thought ...
  The Police State is alive and well in the US. I was witness to it this past week when I visited Rhode Island. You may not recognize it if you’re living with it on a daily basis, but for someone who comes from the outside, it was very obvious… The presence of cops and State troopers everywhere wa ...
• NWO Plans Exposed By Insider In 1969
    ‘This is a transcript of two out of three tapes on the “New World System.” Tapes one and two were recorded in 1988 and are the recollections of Dr. Lawrence Dunegan regarding a lecture he attended on March 20, 1969 at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Paediatric Society. The lecturer at that gatheri ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Hannah Arendt’s challenge to Adolf Eichmann
  In her treatise on the banality of evil, Arendt demanded a rethink of established ideas about moral responsibility Judith Butler Fifty years ago the writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt witnessed the end of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major figures in the organisation of the Holocaus ...
• The Sexual Lives of Missionaries
  A novel excerpt by Kyle Minor There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones⦠Photograph via Flickr by Brian C. Carter In Koulèv-Ville, Haiti, spring of 1983, the bachelor missionary Samuel Tillotson stropped his fatherâs straight razor on the ...
• Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age
  Cathy N. Davidson Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research over in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate intensely on one task, causes us to miss ...
• Adolf & Eva
  Richard J. Evans IN THE small hours of the morning of April 29, 1945, as the Red Armyâs guns and tanks could be heard bombarding the center of Berlin, a curious event took place in Hitlerâs bunker deep under the garden of the old Reich Chancellery. Witnessed by Reich propaganda minister Joseph G ...
• DSK Mentally Ill?
  Jessica Grose Photo by DAVID KARP/AFP/Getty Images Last night on French TV, former Prime Minister Michel Rocard called his fellow socialist party member Dominque Strauss-Kahn mentally ill because of his repeated alleged misconduct with women. According to The Telegraph: Mr Rocard – French prime ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• A current student’s perspective on higher educ ...
   Martha Henriques is about to start the third year of her Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge. She has recently spent a week as an intern in the Science Policy Centre, which included some time looking over the Government’s recent Higher Education White Paper. As a current scie ...
• Access to contraceptive services – a woman’s l ...
  FROM CLAIRE CHIVERS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE A joint report from the Centre for Reproductive Rights and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was presented at the UK parliament in July 2011.  Entitled ‘The right to contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents’, the b ...
• PolicyLab on open science
  On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
• Open meeting on open science – some highlights
  FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
• Engineering public engagement
  FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...

NAU Resistance

• 1 Million Signatures Against Further Canadian/ ...
  By: Terry Wilson August 30, 2011 After reading a column in the Globe and Mail by: PAOLA LORIGGIO. Titled Nearly half of Canadians oppose greater integration with U.S. law enforcement. The Canadian Awareness Network has decided to start a nation wide online petition to the Canadian government to ...
• Perimeter Security Deal Full Of Lies And Decep ...
  On Monday August 15, 2011 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Big Sis) took some time out of her busy schedule to meet with her Canadian counterpart, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in what just so happens to be the home province of the "NAFTA Superhighway", Winnipeg Manitoba.
• Concerned B.C. Residents Say No To HST! No To NAU!
  "Bill Vander Zalm says citizens David beat HST Goliath in mismatched battle"
• The Consolidation Of North America Continues B ...
  Top Priority "According to a newly released study by Angus Reid on behalf of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, 60% of respondents support changing Provincial rules that currently prevent convenience and grocery stores from selling alcohol"
• U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
  - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time

Gaea Times

• Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
  BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
• Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
  CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
• Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
  WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
• Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
  CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Maritime Union of Aust ...
• Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
  WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been using turmeric ...

TruthNews Australia

• Convoy of No Consequence - March and Rally
  MARRICKVILLE - 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 AT 12 NOON A march will begin at the corner of Marrickville and Livingstone Roads, Marrickville tomorrow at 12 noon to protest about Mr Albanese's derogatory comments concerning the Convoy of No Confidence in Canberra on 22nd August. The protesters will march ...
• Debunking Peak Oil with Ian Crane
  Ian Crane is a former oil industry executive with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history and geopolitics of oil. Tonight Ian leads us on a fascinating journey through the many facets of the global power structures which are built on the trade and price fixing of oil. In particular we look at ...
• New NPR Hit-Piece: Conspiracy Theories And The ...
  This radio broadcast is a text-book example of propaganda masquerading as journalism. The program purports to be an investigation, but in fact there is only one viable point of view presented. NPR has blood on its hands! http://911blogger.com/news/2011-08-24/...kay Audio Archive: Strea ...
• Interview: Keelan Balderson on the U.K. civil ...
  Tonight we welcome to the show Keelan Balderson, editor of wideshut.co.uk, and creator of a great short film on the U.K. riots: Perfect Storm, The England Riots Documentary. Keelan's film examines the way in which larger geo-political forces, the banker bailouts, austerity measures and large s ...
• A dark satire comes to life: David Cameron&#82 ...
  U.K. Prime minister David Cameron has announced sweeping new powers to be given to police to curb violence and restore law and order in the country. Many of the themes in his speech before Parliament on 11 August are reminiscent of the film "V for Vendetta", which is a satirical depiction of a ...

Beacon

• 10 Fascinating Marine Species
  The peacock mantis shrimp. For millennia, people have wondered just how many species live on Earth. The latest study looking to answer this question suggests there are about 8.7 million species, the majority of which scientists can’t even name. The oceans, as almost three-quarters of the E ...
• Play Deep-Sea Dress-Up
  If you can put lipstick on a pig, can you put it on a fish? The answer is yes, and you can do it for a good cause. The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, of which Oceana is a member, is asking people to create funny pictures of fish and send them to the UN Secretary General to get his attenti ...
• Expedition in the Med Comes to a Close
  A marbled electric ray in Portugal's Gorringe Bank seamount. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez This year’s expedition in the Mediterranean and Portuguese Atlantic has come to a close, and we’re proud to report that it was a resounding success. The highlight of the Ranger's journey was Portugal’s Gorr ...
• Guest Post: Tech Trends in Traceability
  Image via istockphoto.com Guest blogger Jon Bowermaster is a writer and filmmaker. In this post, Jon reports on the latest trends in seafood traceability. �One of the oldest tricks in the fishmonger�s book is trotting out the notion that the cod, snapper, flounder or mahi mahi that you are ...
• Friday Infographic: Seafood Traceability
  This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Have you ever asked yourself, �Where does my seafood come from?� It's not as easy to fi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Rosie The Riveter Won WWII.
  Rosie The Riveter One of the great misconceptions about World War II one discovers in the United States, is the notion that the United States single handedly won the war. As a member of one of the largest industrialized nations in the world, one of the fields where we lack is history. Six in ten ...
• Fabulous Film Made In Germany In World War II ...
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• The Gay Bomb.
  Pink Tank A Freedom of Information Act request in the nineties produced a proposal written at the United States Air Force Research Lab. The idea was to drop bombs with pheromone-laden aphrodisiacs that would cause soldiers to be homosexual. The paper mentions it would be “Distasteful but non let ...
• Iraq II Political Cartoons
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• US Army Drill Team
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Taylor Marsh

• Progressive Notes: Obama to Breathers- “Choke ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Boy every day has another great jaw dropper doesn’t it? Today Obama told the EPA to halt stronger regulations on smog pollution. Obama claims, like every major Republican candidate, that such regulations would harm the economy. What ...
• Pres. Obama and Sarah Palin have A Lot in Common
  No two people represent the preening, whining celebrity culture of our politics more than Mr. Obama and Mrs. Palin. After Speaker Boehner stiff-armed Pres. Obama, I was waiting for this predictable storyline to surface. It’s fitting it comes from Roger Simon. Who cares? The White House cares. Ve ...
• Two Parties = Too Few Choices Part VI
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. The Left, Dr. Seuss & Glittering “Why won’t America embrace the left?” is the question put to Michael Kazin in a Salon interview last week. Whatever you think of Kazin’s analysis, one reason the Two Party Front for the Ol ...
• Adieu, Summer
  We tore out ivy, weeds and overgrowth this year, planting anew across the yard. It was a labor of love. The companion to the beautiful grass pictured here is fennel flowering. The waxy leaves give it a fairyland look, which the dragonflies adore, as do the butterflies, which were plentiful becau ...
• Progressive Notes: PPP Has Obama Losing Union ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. PPP polls have been dead on accurate for several years now. And boy does their latest show trouble for Obama 2012. Their latest has 54 percent disapproving of the president. I sure wish the folks in the WH would read real polls somet ...

Hudson New York

• Failed Leaders Do Not Deserve to Become "Presi ...
  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants to go down in history as a leader who defied Israel, the US and many EU countries by asking the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state. He wants to be remembered as a leader who made a historic
• Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba Still Support Ga ...
  Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba continue to be the staunchest supporters of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have both declared that they w ill not abandon Gaddafi in this time of
• Spanish Town Becoming "New Mecca of the Most R ...
  The municipality of Salt, a town near Barcelona where Muslim immigrants now make up 40% of the population, has approved a one-year ban on the construction of new mosques. It is the first ban of its kind in Spain. The moratorium follows public outrage
• Sarkozy's Triumph over Gaddafi and De Gaulle
  Should President Obama get credit for the overthrow of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi? The victory over Gaddafi clearly belongs foremost to the Libyans themselves. The rebels were able to organize a ramshackle but effective military machine that fought
• The Walls That Divide Europe
  Walls can be used to keep people in and keep people out, as was true of he Berlin Wall erected in 1961 and today of the walls being erected throughout Europe. These contemporary walls operate under the name of "no go" zones, areas that are off limits to

Urban Survival

• Doing a Job On Us
  There’s hardly anything so much fun here lately as getting the government jobs reports, except, maybe lashing myself with the end of a Grade 70 3/8”x25′ Binder chain for example.  Got your chain ready?  This is a bad jobs report….and … Continue reading →
• Coping: Quake Trends & Lenticular Cloud Spotti ...
  We were talking yesterday morning about the large number of people who have been spotting lenticular clouds lately.  These are the so-called “earthquake clouds” than seem to appear prior to a major swarm of quake activity. So let’s start with … Continue reading →
• Numbers with the Wheaties
  With the market rallying going into the holiday, what could possibly derail the party atmosphere?  I mean besides a big downer today and tomorrow in markets?  Well, Europe has turn guess which way?  And leading the way down is Germany.  … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the Death of Elenin
  Oh well.  Sky and Telescope outed the story Wednesday:  Comet Elenin Self-Destructs. Damn shame, particularly for my liver.  ¿Por que? Ah, well, here’s what I did.  A number of people who had been writing in telling me I should “Quick!  … Continue reading →
• Ship’s Hit the Fan
  There’s a report that Israel this morning has sent two war ships heading toward the Egyptian border area.  And, not only has Iran reportedly moved ships in response, but we’re reading how they also have one of their diesel submarines … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• The Coming Global Economic Meltdown
  The Inevitable Collapse of the U.S. Economy :... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Joel Skousen: Preparing for the Next World War
  Joel Skousen - Financial Sense Newshour 01 Sept... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-09-01 [del.icio.us]
  Patriotism the most dangerous human disease | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Patriotism the most dangerous human disease | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Patriotism the most dangerous human disease | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Patriotism the most dangerous human disease Patriotism the most da ...
• Surviving the New World Order
  The founders of this country warned us about... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Economic Collapse - Argentina Vs America
  Ferfal Aguirre went through the financial... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• RESPONSE TO DAVID STARKEY’S “WHITE ...
  Filed under: EXPOSURE Tagged: Black Crime, Crime, Criminality, David Starkey, government, life, London riots, society, UK riots
• THE CHILDISH LOOK
  There’s something about the way a baby looks at people that’s different. Perhaps its something to do with the fact that for the first year or so they have a fairly limited vocabulary, and their eyes are the window through which they gain their first perceptions of life. When an adult makes eye c ...
• DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH 2: Primal Religions
  It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of religious beliefs, so it would be much wiser to assume that several religions were at play within different cultures at opposite ends of the world. Continents like Africa, Asia and the America’s traditionally held on to certain beliefs and life ...
• MAKE US LAUGH
  Welcome once again to “Make Us Laugh!”. The rules are simple – Tell a short funny story using the featured picture as inspiration, in 50 words or less. We’ll kick start with a story of our own. Let’s see who can “Make Us Laugh!”. Feel free to also comment on whose story you think is [...]
• NIGERIAN GANGSTERS vs GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND
  “Its a beef ting, and man dem wanna come at me like I aint gon do nufink! This aint no joke, what do you fink vis is? Man lookin to lick them if they don quit gassing.” The anger on the English streets is evident in the language, even though the language itself struggles to [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Getting Iggy in Cambridge: Ig Noble Awards on ...
  A visit to the Improbable Research website bring us news of memorials for two Iggy scientists, as well as a program for the upcoming Ig Nobel awards event. Details below. September 10, 2011, Saturday, 2:00 pm. Memorial event for William Lipscomb, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA -- This ...
• New restaurants and street life show up in Ken ...
  The Kendall Square section of Cambridge used to be home to underused warehouses and MIT buildings with numbers instead of names. The biotech companies moved in in the 1990s, but it's taken a good decades for a street life to emerge. Now , with a burst of new restaurants, the neighborhood is, ...
• Avalanche of events arrives with fall's student
  September brings students back to Boston and along with them seminars, lecture, conferences and other scientific events. We're squeezed our updated calendar below or you can link to it here.
• NYTimes: New approach to gene sequencing is a ...
  Gina Kolata of the New York Times reports that "New methods of quickly sequencing entire microbial genomes are revolutionizing the field." The first bacterial genome was sequenced in 1995 -- a triumph at the time, requiring 13 months of work. Today researchers can sequence the DNA that constit ...
• MIT science news review on Irene and climate c ...
  Every time there is a major weather event - or not - expect to see a lot of reporting on the link between bad weather and climate change. Charlie Petit at the MIT's Knight Science Journalism Tracker calls the coverage "a lot of blather" and asks Was Irene a global warming storm? (wrong question. ...

NRDC Switchboard

• A Storm of Anxiety Over Fresh Oil Batters the Gulf
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC In the Gulf, another maelstrom has hit. But the tropical storm Mother Nature has brewed  is not the top concern on some resident’s minds. Instead they are worried about the threat of fresh oi ...
• Keystone XL tar sands pipeline makes history a ...
  Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC Today marked a watershed for the environmental community and for civil disobedience as a powerful democratic tool.  The number of citizens arrested engaging in peaceful sit-ins at the White Hous ...
• Danielle Droitsch Guest Blog: Council on Forei ...
  Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. This is a guest post by Danielle Droitsch, Senior Advisor to NRDC's International Program. Michael Levi with the Council of Foreign Relations recently attempted to separate f ...
• For Labor Day, Celebrating the American Clean ...
  Josh Mogerman, Senior Media Associate, Chicago I am ready for the Labor Day weekend because, frankly, it’s been a disappointing couple of weeks with some hugely disappointing messages coming from the administration on Keystone XL ...
• Obama Administration Delays Life-Saving Smog S ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Today the Obama Administration made a decision that will endanger the health of tens of thousands of Americans. Its choice to delay stronger standards for smog lets polluters off the hook and leav ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 29 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, September 1, 2011: 3 San Bernardino Co CA deputies sued alleging 5 taser cartridges were used for over 10mins when a man was tasered to death for honking at cop [3] on.msnbc.com/p9 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 38 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this record-breaking* Wednesday, August 31, 2011: Washington Co OR sued by man who was unarmed & only dressed in underwear when he was shot by deputies who burst into the house he was staying in ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 30, 2011: Long Beach CA police claims that a man shot to death by a cop was running away from an alleged stabbing incident are being questioned by residents of that neighborh ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 29, 2011: Yavapai-Prescott AZ cop caught on video tasering man twice while he had his hands up, no comment from police about the case so far. [3] bit.ly/pdGJLA  Orlando FL un ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-27 ...
  It was an exceptionally slow weekend for reports in the National Police Misconduct News Feed for August 27-28, 2011: A Culpeper County VA deputy was suspended while she’s the subject of a federal investigation into allegations she was caught on video beating a female detainee after she had been ...

Total Collapse

• N. Korea warns of war as US-S. Korea exercise ...
  South Korea and the United States launched a massive joint military exercise on Tuesday, prompting the North to condemn the manoeuvres as provocative and warn that “all-out war” could erupt. The two allies have described the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise as defensive and routine but the ...
• U.S., South Korea start military exercises wit ...
  U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called “defense-oriented” during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North. The annual “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” exercise involves about 530,000 troops from South Kor ...
• US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft ...
  The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims. “We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment,” Stat ...
• Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest
  Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain’s colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country. âNo one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people’s wrath ...
• Syria, Saudi Arabia and the coming regional se ...
  While all the Saudi media pub­lished the speech of the King Abdul­lah (video) defend­ing the human rights of the Syr­ian peo­ple, one Saudi news­pa­per missed the story and pub­lished anarti­cle about poverty in one of the rich­est king­doms in the world. Inter­pret­ing the King’s words, it is n ...

Daily Dose

• Twitter adds a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ butto ...
  Twitter has added a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ button in the user profiles section that will allow you to quickly and easily link your Twitter account to your Facebook account. The button, when clicked, will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and then link the two accounts, allowing your ...
• Apple’s Eddy Cue gets 100k share stock bonus w ...
  Earlier this week Apple announced that it was promoting Eddy Cue to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, a move that appears to be placing Cue in charge of the new iCloud and the flagging iAd products. Now, Cue has been given a 1000,000 restricted stock unit bonus worth $37. ...
• Apparently, the SF Police ‘assisted’ Apple inv ...
  The San Francisco PD is now saying that Apple investigators were accompanied by three or four plain clothed officers, reports SF Weekly. The SFPD had previously told the publication that they were uninvolved in the investigation. This led the publication to draw the conclusion that Apple’s inve ...
• Novation’s Twitch DJ controller shows how chan ...
  Changing user behavior. It’s a dangerous game. Sometimes it works and you succeed, sometimes it doesn’t and you fail. More often than not, the latter is the case. It’s with this in mind that I approached the Novation Twitch controller for Serato Itch with caution. As a long-time DJ, coming from ...
• Google Notebook to be shut down. All existing ...
  All Google Notesbooks content is being rolled into Google Docs, the company announced today, as part of a wider revelation that it is pulling the plug on several of its popular products. Google Notebook enabled people to combine clipped URLs from the web and free-form notes into documents they ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Ballieu Government Anti-Wind Stance Closes the ...
  Changes to the planning rules for wind energy projects introduced by the Ballieu Government will cost Victoria hundreds of jobs billions of dollard in investment. Beyond Zero Emissions� Executive Director Matthew Wright says wind energy developments will reduce the cost of electricity: �Wind pr ...
• Politicians Question the Role of Gas in Austra ...
  Politicians have raised fresh questions about the role of coal seam gas in Australia's energy future. Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne, along with MP Adam Bandt have all expressed concern about the emissions intensity of coal seam gas in the first week of the autumn session of parl ...
• Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
  Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
• BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
• Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
  Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Background: the Lacey Act and the Fish & Wildl ...
  On 24 August 2011, agents of the Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, seizing ebony and rosewood material, guitars and guitar parts as evidence of suspected violation(s) of the U.S. Lacey Act. The Lacey Act is a long-standing anti-tra ...
• New plan to restore 150 million hectares of forest
  Conservationists and politicians meeting in Bonn on Friday launched a new initiative to restore 150 million hectares (580,000 square miles) of deforested and degraded forests, reports the World Resources Institute (WRI), an NGO that is involved in the effort.
• EcoCommerce 101: adding an ecological dimensio ...
  EcoCommerce 101: Adding an Ecological Dimension to the Economy provides a foundation for an analysis of environmental economics from the perspective of a theorist and a practitioner. The author, a fifth-generation farmer living in the USA with a background in economics, separates his book into t ...
• Reducing Disaster Risks: Progress and Challeng ...
  Disaster management is a global policy problem with a critical land-use change component related to settlement patterns, deforestation, and agriculture development. This is further exacerbated by climate change.
• Supermarket challenges toilet paper marker to ...
  A major New Zealand supermarket chain has asked Cottonsoft to prove its environmental credentials after testing by WWF and Greenpeace revealed the toilet paper maker was using mixed tropical hardwoods sourced from Indonesia's rainforests in its tissue. reports The Dominion Post.

Sierra Express

• Give AIDS the Red Card initiative launched at ...
  Maputo, Mozambique, 2 September 2011—The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibé and Mozambique’s Minister of Youth and Sports Pedrito Caetano launched the UNAIDS Give AIDS the Red Card initiative today at the Joaquim Chissano International Con ...
• AML pays Le 523 to Buya Romende land owners
  African Minerals has paid over Le523,600,000 (five hundred and twenty-three million six hundred thousand leones) as compensation to over 200 landowners and chiefdom authorities in Buya Romende in the Port Loko district. Corporate Affairs Manager of African Minerals, Mustapha Kamara, said he was ...
• Youth President taunts Mines Minister!
  The ruling All People’s Congress (APC) Youth President, Honorable Alimamy Kamara (in photo) is reportedly touching nerves of the Mines Minister, accusing him of organizing a meeting with sections of APC youths without his approval. It is told that Honorable Alimamy has lately stopped a number of ...
• Bio breaks quietness tomorrow
  After about two months of Maada Bio’s winning of the Sierra Leone People’s Party flagbearer election, it is sure he will be breaking his silence tomorrow Saturday 3rd. Bio’s breaking of silence has come not as a surprise to number of SLPP members at all. He shall be talking to the entire members ...
• APC to bring VP I & II?
  The Sierra Express’ leaks have it buoyant that the ruling APC intends bringing back the positions of Vice President I and II as was in days past.  (Photo: Hon. Musa Tarawallie) It could be recalled that this press has had serialized publications of stories revealing the unpromising reappointment ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Fonterra confirms forecast for 2012 payout
  Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, has confirmed the forecast payment for the 2012 season, which is expected to decline from 2011's record payout as global commodity prices ease from their highs.The operating...
• Cost of tomatoes, broccoli soars
  A spike in the cost of tomatoes and broccoli helped bump up the Food Price Index by 2 per cent during July, Statistics New Zealand said.Tomatoes averaged $13.25 per kg in July, up 34 per cent on the previous month, while the cost...
• Cartoon: Rich enough for milk
• Fonterra cuts organic milk production
  Fonterra is cutting back on organic milk as the global financial crisis and changing consumer preferences depress demand for the product.The dairy co-operative was meeting organic farmers this week to discuss a four-point plan aimed...
• Fonterra pulls back on organic dairy
  Fonterra said today it is planning to scale back its unprofitable organic dairy operations amid waning public appetite to pay a premium for such products.The cooperative plans to concentrate most of its North Island organic suppliers...

The Bovine

• FDA dairy czar John Sheehan’s resume
  It’s taken a lot of investigative journalism, freedom of information requests, and a Nietchean “long will” but now at last, the work history of the leader of the FDA’s dairy enforcement czar has finally been revealed, in spite of the … Continue reading →
• Fukushima Is Continually Blasting All Of Us Wi ...
  From “End of the American Dream.com”: Fukushima is now far and away the worst nuclear disaster in all of human history. Chernobyl was a Sunday picnic compared to Fukushima and the amount of cesium-137 released at Fukushima this year so far … Continue reading →
• “We’ve been snookered” &#821 ...
  Joel Salatin talks about his new book, titled: “Folks This Ain’t Normal”: “We hope you enjoy this clip of Joel Salatin talking about his soon-to-be-released book . . . This is the first of Joel’s books to be published by … Continue reading →
• Consumer groups fights for continued access to ...
  Washington, DC–September, 1, 2011– The Weston A. Price Foundation, a consumer nutrition organization, has filed its third set of comments with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the agencyâs implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).  The … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt’s statement regarding ac ...
  Statement regarding the Raw milk farm search by health authorities in BC [by Michael Schmidt, who is the agister for "Our Cows"]: Fraser Health followed exactly my suggestion which I made last year to Tim Chum who is head of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Is it Acceptable to Present a $196 Billion Sac ...
  The FHA has filed a $196 Billion lawsuit against 17 banks accusing said banks of "misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about the soundness of the mortgages underlying the securities". Inquiring minds note BofA, JPMorgan Among 17 Banks Sued by U.S. for $196 Billion.Bank of America Corp. and ...
• 2-Year, 10-Year Treasury Yields at Record Lows ...
  Curve Watchers Anonymous is watching the US Yield Curve once again. Treasuries soared today (yields plunged) on the "unexpected" news the economy created no jobs. Yield Curve as of 2011-09-02 click on chart for sharper image $TYX : 30-Yr Treasuries $TNX : 10-Yr Treasuries ...
• Global Recession, Right Here, Right Now: Japan ...
  It's time to stop debating whether or not the US or Europe is headed into recession. The facts show the entire global economy is in recession. Global Recession Supporting Data-Points Euro zone’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell to a two-year low of 49.0 in August, down fro ...
• Italy Backs Down on Austerity Measures; Bank o ...
  In the wake of fresh sex and bribe scandals of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as well as Italy's backing down on austerity measures, interest rates are once again creeping back up on Italy. 10-Year Italian Government Bond Yields Italy Drops Plan to Tax Higher Earners Fr ...
• Zero Jobs Growth, Unemployment Rate Flat at 9. ...
  Jobs Report at a Glance Here is an overview of today's numbers. US Payrolls +0US Unemployment Rate Flat at 9.1% Participation Rate +.1 to 64.0% Actual number of Employed (by Household Survey) rose by 331,000Unemployment rose by 36,000 Those not in the labor force dropped by 165,00 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  A Charter for Torture, Paramilitary Monster: From CIA to CKA-Central Killing Agency, The price of 9/11, How Global Speculators Make Money Out of Hunger, Pepe Escobar: It’s a Total War Monsieur, Secret Files Libya: US Officials Aided Gaddafi, The Think Tank Behind Rick Perry, China Curbs Iran Ene ...
• Coming Up Next Week at Boiling Frogs Post
  Gould-Fitzgerald Grand Finale on 9/11 & US Psychological Warfare Series, Paul Thompson Part II, Kevin Fenton’s CIA & 9/11 & More! We are going to have a busy and highly interesting week starting on Monday, September 5. Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald will present you with their Grand Finale, ...
• Countdown Day 4: Nervous Fein Publicists Hard ...
  “Whether a client is a giant corporation handcuffed by ill-conceived United States government policies or a foreign government anxious to influence the decisions of Congress, the President, agencies, the judiciary, or State governments, The Lichfield Group is armed with the skills and contacts i ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 17 ...
  Assassination as US Foreign Policy, Islamabad Demands Veto on Drones, Who & What Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid, the Empire at Dusk, More âWar with Iranâ Propaganda, $360 Millions in U.S.  Tax Dollars Ends Up with Taliban & Criminals, Shaping a New World Order, Al Jaze ...
• Richard Clarke Is Being Too Nice to George Tenet
  “Tenet v Clarke: Whom to believe? It is a no-brainer!” By David Swanson Former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-Terrorism Richard Clarke suggests that former CIA Director George Tenet blocked the sharing of information within the government on two members ...

bloody crossroads

• Is Obama a Fraud?
  The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many Iâve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
• The Tyranny of American Healthcare
  For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly youâre being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

• USCG takes possession of 3rd National Security ...
  Today, the United States Coast Guard officially accepted the NSC Stratton, the third ship in the new Legend-class of cutters.  Provided below is the press Continue Reading �
• Ulstein Heavy Lift Design nominated for presti ...
  Ulstein’s SOC 5000 heavy lift vessel Ulstein’s “Sea of Solutions” 5000 heavy lift vessel design has been nominated for the prestigious Dutch HME Maritime Innovation Continue Reading »
• LaHood names new members of Maritime Industry ...
  U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has announced the appointment of 29 members to the new Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC), established to Continue Reading �
• UK releases historical records of 1 million se ...
  The UK’s National Archive says it is releasing the records of 1 million Merchant Navy seafarers serving from 1918 to 1941 who were part of Continue Reading »
• Halliburton Sues BP Over False Information, De ...
  Halliburton Co. (HAL) yesterday filed a lawsuit against BP PLC in Texas state court claiming negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the April Continue Reading �

Blogging Canadians

• What Is It With American Politicians And 'Corn ...
  There seems to be some unwritten rule that American politicians must be photographed eating a corndog. To a non-American, I have to wonder what this ritual is all about. Perhaps it is a combination of two separate 'American' political messages: 1) The 'hotdog' is truly an American cultura ...
• "The Media and Hollywood"
  CALL TO ARMS! JOIN ANON IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD! JOIN ANON!!!! #HWleaks #anonCELEBS by Jesse Medina As originally posted on: Jesse Medina (Holidayjess) on Twitter August 29, 2011
• A Very Sad Day For One Newfoundland Family - M ...
  This is a very sad day for one Newfoundland family and for the entire province of Saskatchewan. Local RCMP have now confirmed that human remains found in a farmers field are indeed those of a missing Nfld woman, Carol King. For the last few weeks, Sask residents in the hundreds have been combin ...
• "The Person who Hurt Me the Most"
  I know I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. But the worst one was thinking the person who hurt me the most, wouldn't hurt me again. by Thee Gomez As originally posted on: TeensInLove ♥ (TeensInLove) on Twitter June 21, 2011
• BC Referendum - Right Move, Wrong Target
  So, BC voters chose to scrap the HST and to return to the old GST/PST arrangement. Not a good choice if you ask me. I still believe that the HST is a better option - simply because it's a user-end value-added tax that doesn't have the cascading effect of a sales tax. Yes, in just 18 months, ther ...

Press TV - Middle East

• 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.
• Hamas slams UN's flotilla report
  The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has blasted a UN report on the deadly Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound relief aid convoy Freedom Flotilla in international waters, Press TV reports.
• Yemenis continue anti-regime protests
  Thousands of Yemeni pro- and anti-government protesters have once again poured into the streets across Yemen months after the country's political uprising began in January, Press TV reported.
• Armed groups kill 3 Syrian forces
  Three members of the Syrian security forces have been killed and several others have been injured in attacks by armed groups in the Hammourieh and Erbin districts of Damascus and the city of Homs, Press TV reports.