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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, September 5, 2011

5 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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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

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

  • Wind lens could triple wind turbine output, sa ...
    The lens focuses the wind and makes the blades turn faster. Treehugger has more.
  • FDA to charge fees to re-examine imported food
    The fee is for re-examining food where there was a violation during the first examination. Yet FDA may not actually examine the food the first time. It get murkier. The new regulations may be so broadly worded that the $224 an hour fees (ouch) get leveled on many importers. FDAimports think thi ...
  • CIA and Gaddafi government were buddies, appar ...
    Documents seized at the Libyan intelligence headquarters have revealed a surprisingly close relationship between the CIA and their counterparts in the Gadhafi regime. Why they even sent Christmas presents to each other. Isn’t that sweet? One report, in The New York Times, said documents suggeste ...
  • Whatever happened to ‘The Vision Thing’?
    New Geography As of August 2011, fourteen months away from what promises to be perhaps the most polarizing Presidential election in our Nation’s history, we are farther away than we have ever been from having a shared national vision for the future of our country. Not only do we not have a sha ...
  • How a smart grid can minimize blackouts
    ComEd of Chicago explains. If Smart Grid technology had been in place, here’s how it would have minimized the impact of the storm: ComEd would have known customers were out of power without them having to call us. Technology would have pinpointed outages allowing us to dispatch crews more quickl ...

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

  • CIA Blackwater Op Infiltrated Ron Paul Campaign
  • Oceania vs The World
    � WASHINGTON � Every day, Michael G. Vickers gets an update on how many in Al Qaeda�s senior leadership the United States has removed from the battlefield, and lately there has been much to report. Al Qaeda�s No. 2 died in a C.I.A. drone strike late last month, another senior commander was taken ...
  • CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi punish dissidents
    (Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist g ...
  • Libyan Rebels Listed by US State Department as ...
    In March 2011, the London Telegraph reported that Libya’s rebels had direct ties to Al Qaeda and that both leaders and fighters had spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan combating US troops. The article titled, “Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links” featured Abdel-Hak ...
  • 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 ...

The Air Vent

  • Can we now agree that the climate peer review ...
    Think anyone feels the heat? UPDATE #3: At the end of the Guardian article, it says Andy Dessler has a paper coming out in GRL next week, supposedly refuting our recent paper. This has GOT to be a record turnaround for writing a paper and getting it peer reviewed. And, as usual, we NEVER get [...]
  • Redefining Peer Review — Editor Resigns
    UPDATE:  Roger Pielke Sr.  has his own take on the issue here.   An excerpt from his take is quite similar to my own.  A single paper referenced with no specifics regarding the critique, my red bold below. My Comment:  Wagner is not an expert on the subject of the Spencer and Braswell paper, so ...
  • 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]

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

  • The Top 25 Facebook Games for September 2011
    Heading into September 2011, we have a slew of new games joining the ranks of the top 25 Facebook games by traffic as tracked by AppData — and shockingly, not all of them are from Zynga. We begin with the top 25 Facebook games by daily active users. This figure is useful in determining the [...]
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, August 29th, 2011 Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Electronic Arts, Chillingo, Booyah & Mediocre Games Show Off New Release ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Nanigans, King.com, Identified, 5th Planet Games, Liquid Ent ...
  • 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 [...]

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing
    Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey's decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv's refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream ...
  • Israel's settler army and government poised to ...
    Uri Avnery says Israel's settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.
  • America's FBI goes rogue
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
  • From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
    Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.
  • 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".

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

  • Oh George! You got some ‘splainin‘ to do!
    Who at Alex Station knew what in August-September 2001? By Kevin Fenton Recent allegations made by former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke against former CIA Director George Tenet and two other former CIA managers, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, have thrown one of the key unanswered questio ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 12 ...
    Escobar: Syria- Why the Regime Won’t Fall, Lebanon Intercepts Covert Arms Shipment Bound for Syria, DHS Trying to Make New Terrorist “Watchlist Service” Exempt from Privacy Act, Bank of America’s Backdoor Bailout, Begging for Change, Russia & Azerbaijan: An Obstacle to the U.S. in the Caucasus & ...
  • Answers in Absolute for ‘Why 9/11?’
    Why ‘some’ Still Question, Seek Answer(s) & Accountability For ‘some’ reason I have been receiving more than a few ‘eye-rolling’ responses when I mention our theme for the month leading up to September 11- the tenth year. You and I know where the conscious but mostly subconscious eye-rolling and ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 11 ...
    State Department-Funded Nonprofit Trains Somali Troop, US government wants to use secret witnesses in CIA leak trial, Washington’s Silk Road Dream, NATO Massacres of Civilians in Libya, Texas Congressman Praises Iranian Terrorist Group as “Freedom Fighters”, Kosovo: The ‘Hoodlum’ Myth, Baloch ...
  • 9/11, Psychological Warfare & the American Nar ...
    A Campaign Where the Lie Became the Truth and the Truth Became the Enemy of the State By Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald  9/11. The number still rings in the mind as if chosen to act as a Pavlovian trigger: Outrage, anger, paranoia, retribution. A shadowy band of religious zealots fly not one, ...

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

  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    As usual, many of those running around righteously condemning WikiLeaks for the potential, prospective, unintentional harm to innocents caused by this leak will have nothing to say about these actual, deliberate acts of wanton slaughter by the U.S.
  • Dogs of War
    The fact remains that the settlements are by far the main obstacle to peace and the welfare state. Not just because of their cost, not just because of the pogroms their inhabitants carry out from time to time, not just because of the way they dominate the political system. But because of their v ...
  • Insider Tells Why Obama Chose Not to Prosecute ...
    Two Years Ago Obama Decided Not to Prosecute Torturers Now We Get An Account of Why
  • The Zero Economy
    Why don't Republicans get it? Either they're knaves--they want the economy to stay awful through next Election Day so Obama gets the boot. Or they're fools--they've bought the lie that reducing the deficit creates more jobs. Every time you hear anyone say we're "broke" or "can't afford to spend ...
  • Article seven, Constitution of Massachusetts
    Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasib ...

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

  • Sunday Book Review: Nancy Langston, Toxic Bodi ...
    Nancy Langston’s superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American regulatory agencies, how cultural conceptions about gender have shaped our resp ...
  • Thanks!
    Thanks to all of the people who showed up at yesterday’s Meet and Greet. It’s fair to say that the turnout exceeded expectations, but the Elysian was in relatively good form.  Apologies for my distraction and the… unpleasantness.  Good to put faces to names!
  • Remaking Straw Dogs?
    So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK, not Convoy, but certainly Cross of Iron). The Wild Bunch is one of my favorite movies of all time. But it’s really, really hard to [...]
  • Best Environmental Presidents
    So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air restrictions. That’s fine, he can say what he wants. Unless it has no merit. Such as this comment: Obama is significantly better than every ...
  • More on Obama v. the EPA
    From Plumer and Sheppard.

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

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

  • PA TV Honors Two Terrorists Serving Multiple L ...
    Palestinian Authority TV has chosen to honor two more terrorists serving multiple life sentences for murder in its continuous glorification of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
  • UN Chief Confers With Australian Foreign Minis ...
    The 21-member High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability was created by the Secretary-General in August 2009 and tasked with finding ways to lift people out of poverty while tackling climate change and ensuring that economic development is environmen
  • Somalis Meet to Decide on Their Country's Future
    The president of the transitional federal government {TFG} of Somalia Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has officially opened the consultative meeting on the country's future at the peoples Mansion in Mogadishu.
  • Ambassador Melanne S. Verveer Travels to Nethe ...
    Organized by the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and The Atlantic Commission, the conference aims to highlight the need for greater European support for Afghan women and girls through economic development.
  • National Tea Party Express Holds Rallies Today ...
    As the tour crosses the country, more presidential candidates will attend to address the tea party audience including Gary Johnson, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain. Sarah Palin will attend Monday's event in Manchester, NH.

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Preserving 4 Percent of Ocean Would Benefit Mo ...
    A new study says the preservation of just 4 percent of the world’s oceans would protect critical habitat for most of the world’s marine mammal species. After comparing maps of where each of the planet’s 129 marine mammal NOAAA humpback whale species are found — and where conservation efforts wou ...

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

Not My Tribe

  • It Was Always, Always You
    My maternal grandparents had a favorite song, Irving Berlin’s suitably sentimental Always. With “always” capping every line and recurring as a chorus echo, the theme quickly packed a saccharine wallop if it wasn’t you celebrating your 50th or 60th anniversary. I’ve wandered into another lyric of ...
  • Problems Per Perry’s Precipitation Petit ...
    There’s a failsafe in the rainmaker/faith healer scam that lets the thief off the ol’ hook so that either way he gets paid. If the sufferer is healed, even if say, he was “laid hands on” on the 6th day of a 7 day cold and was much better the next day, like that, then [...]
  • 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 [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Maybe with Some Goading Keith Olbermann Will F ...
    Send tweets to Keith Olbermann: @KeithOlbermann -- Richard Gage from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth AE911Truth.org : in New York around 9/11. PLEASE interview him!!! Also, Thumbs Up this Current TV request: http://getsatisfaction.com/currentcom/topics/please_have_olbermann_intevi ...
  • Maybe with a Little Goading Keith Olbermann Wi ...
    Send tweets to Keith Olbermann: @KeithOlbermann -- Richard Gage from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth AE911Truth.org : in New York around 9/11. PLEASE interview him!!! Also, Thumbs Up this Current TV request: http://getsatisfaction.com/currentcom/topics/please_have_olbermann_intevi ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Burritos, Willie Nelson, and Sustainable Agric ...
    Chipotle’s motto is “Food with Integrity.” Although the burrito joint is a fast food establishment, it tries to source meat and other ingredients from small farms practicing sustainable agriculture. Animals are treated like … animals, not factory inputs. To emphasize their values, Chipotle recen ...
  • Hormel’s 100% Natural Deli Meats and High Pres ...
    Fooducate community member Tom emailed us with a question about deli meats: Hi Fooducaters - Wondering if you can turn a critical eye towards Hormel’s Natural Choice line. I have been buying it, but frankly, it does not seem expensive enough to make me believe they are truly producing a heal ...
  • 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 ...

Traffikd

  • Brand You – How to Brand a Blog
    Brands bring something recognizable to the table that readers or customers can see and immediately identify with to get a picture of what the brand stands for. If you are making yourself into a personal brand your goal can be to make yourself, your image and your name instantly recognizable as a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • MMR, the Murdochs and British Medical Journal: ...
    By John Stone BMJ editor, Fiona Godlee, is scheduled to give a presentation under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health in the Washington DC area on Tuesday renewing her and BMJ’s onslaught on the reputation of gastro-enterologist Andrew...
  • What I Did on My Summer Vacation
    By Cathy Jameson This and That I never knew challenging was going to describe much of my life that includes helping my special needs son. Life drastically changed when he got sick. Things aren’t always easy for him or me,...
  • Pathways To Recovery The Yasko Protocol Confer ...
    Holistic Health International is proud to host Dr. Amy Yasko’s conference in Los Angeles, CA- October 7-9, 2011. Our conference in Boston last summer was a resounding success for both newcomers and veterans of the protocol. This year we look...
  • Lack of Preparedness of Autism Abounds: FL Cha ...
    I've been talking to parents and DDS management and caregivers about the dearth of programs in place ready to handle the behavioral challenges of autism. Group home? How does a boy who punches out windows live in one? Work at...
  • SacBee Reports Autism Quadruples in Local Schools
    The comments on this article are interesting, we suggest you take a look at The SacBee article. Seems the SacBee hasn't read the study from their own state U that said, A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D....

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • 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 ...
    Official Trailer
  • 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

  • Human trafficking increases in Ukraine
  • EDL protest in east London sees 60 arrested
    BBC – Sixty people have been arrested after English Defence League (EDL) members clashed with police in east London. Police said 16 arrests were made during a demonstration by the group, while 44 people on a coach were held later on suspicion of violent disorder. Read Article
  • U.S. Debt Held by Public Tops $10T for 1st Tim ...
    CNSNews – At the close of business on Aug. 31–for the first time in the history of the country–the publicly held debt of the federal government topped $10 trillion, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Department at 4:00 p.m. yesterday. During Obama’s presidency, debt held by the publ ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Cutting Soot E ...
    ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2011) â A new study of dust-like particles of soot in the air — now emerging as the second most important, but previously overlooked, factor in global warming — provides fresh evidence that reducing soot emissions from diesel engines and other sources could slow melting of ...
  • Apple Corporate Security Team Searched a Man’s ...
    SF Weekly – The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Woman brings some green to her Huntington Beac ...
    Shirley Knopf still walks regularly past the school where she taught for 14 years. But this summer, she was starting to have trouble recognizing the front of it. Hawes Elementary School, where Knopf taught computer classes until 1997, had become...
  • Helping apartment dwellers recycle
    Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills) has sponsored a bill requiring owners of buildings with five or more units to provide recycling services. He recently joined with representatives of organizations supporting the bill in a news conference at the Bella Vista...
  • 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.

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

Before It's News

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

  • Turkey is not the enemy
    While the report states that Israel's blockade of Gaza does not contravene international law, it avoids a determination as to whether such a blockade is the most efficient and moral means of fighting.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palestinian Authority official: Some 140 count ...
    "The Palestinian side is determined to achieve full membership of the state of Palestine in the United Nations, counting on the wide support the Palestinians have gained during the recent tours and visits," said Shaath.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Right Wing and GOP Presidential Candidate ...
    The Islamophobic crusade raging across the country is in line with longstanding goals of conservative organizing, and is being used to further the agenda of big business. What? Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PA TV host sends "best wishes" to "our gloriou ...
    Palestinian Authority TV has chosen to honor two more terrorists serving multiple life sentences for murder in its continuous glorification of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi drove a suicide bomber to the Sbarro pizza shop in JeSubmitted by Gillian no fwds please no po ...
  • 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- ...

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

  • PA TV Honors Two Terrorists Serving Multiple L ...
    Palestinian Authority TV has chosen to honor two more terrorists serving multiple life sentences for murder in its continuous glorification of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
  • UN Chief Confers With Australian Foreign Minis ...
    The 21-member High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability was created by the Secretary-General in August 2009 and tasked with finding ways to lift people out of poverty while tackling climate change and ensuring that economic development is environmen
  • Somalis Meet to Decide on Their Country's Future
    The president of the transitional federal government {TFG} of Somalia Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has officially opened the consultative meeting on the country's future at the peoples Mansion in Mogadishu.
  • Ambassador Melanne S. Verveer Travels to Nethe ...
    Organized by the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and The Atlantic Commission, the conference aims to highlight the need for greater European support for Afghan women and girls through economic development.
  • National Tea Party Express Holds Rallies Today ...
    As the tour crosses the country, more presidential candidates will attend to address the tea party audience including Gary Johnson, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain. Sarah Palin will attend Monday's event in Manchester, NH.

Worldnews

  • Africa Cup of Nations: Sunday qualifiers ...
    Uganda will have to wait until their final Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against neighbours Kenya next month after falling to a 2-0 defeat in Angola. The result - Uganda's first defeat of the campaign - keeps them at the top of their group, but only by a point from Angola, as the east Afr ...
  • When the Camera Takes Over for the Eye
    SCIENTISTS have yet to determine what percentage of art-viewing these days is done through the viewfinder of a camera or a cellphone, but clearly the figure is on the rise. That’s why Ruth Fremson, the intrepid photographer for The New York Times who covered the Venice Biennale this summer, ...
  • Air India chief reinstates two executive ...
    NEW DELHI: Air India chairman Rohit Nandan has reinstated two key officials who were shown the door by his predecessor, seeking to restore confidence among the 40,000 employees of the beleaguered national carrier that is reeling under a mountain of debt. Anoop Srivatsava and Amol Sharma, wh ...
  • Aromatherapy for a soft, supple skin
    Skincare in aromatherapy is about the use of essential oils in different treatments for the skin. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the first step to having beautiful and healthy skin; aromatherapy skin care is the next. You will be amazed at how many different oils can help soothe aging, ...
  • Avastin® contamination causes eye infecti ...
      Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert regarding the cancer drug Avastin®. Avastin® is manufactured by Genentech, and was primarily developed as a cancer treatment. It is approved by the FDA for that purpose.  However, it has been gaining popularity as an inexpen ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Regulations, Taxes Aren't Killing Small Busine ...
    WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.read more
  • More Afghan Soldiers Deserting the Army, NATO ...
    KABUL — At least one in seven Afghan soldiers walked off the job during the first six months of this year, according to statistics compiled by NATO that show an increase in desertion. Between January and June, more than 24,000 soldiers walked off the job, more than twice as many as in the same p ...
  • A Messy Peace in Libya
    In Libya effective rebel military control is visibly outfacing the establishment of political stability. There are checkpoints everywhere in Tripoli and along the coast road east and west. Security is surprisingly good, given that the war in these heavily populated areas has only just ended. Eve ...
  • Report: Weapons Manufacturers 'Lost' More Than ...
    More than 16,000 guns were “lost” from gun manufacturers’ inventories over the last two years, according to a report by a gun control advocacy group. The report, released by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, pulled data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ...
  • Labor Unions Adjust to New Reality Under Obama
    WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Obama administration, organized labor had grand visions of pushing through a sweeping agenda that would help boost sagging membership and help revive union strength. Now labor faces this reality: Public employee unions are in a drawn-out fight for their very ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • A Storm of Anxiety Over Fresh Oil Batters the Gulf
    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 oil sighted in the�in the general vicinity of BP�s Macondo well.��
  • Will Solar Bankruptcies Be Different From Etha ...
    The solar equipment business appears to be undergoing a shakeout, as three US solar firms have declared bankruptcy in the last few weeks. The most prominent of these was Solyndra, which was notable for its receipt of a $535 million federal loan guarantee.
  • 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:

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The two faces of Barack Obama
    Mary Shaw With President Obama running for a second term, I cannot help but wonder which Obama we will see as the reelection campaign heats up over the coming year. In 2008, we saw Obama the Candidate, who promised us change we can believe in. He inspired and energized us. Now many of us on t ...
  • Turkey/Israeli War of Words
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed release of the leaked UN Palmer Commission's report on Israel's May 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre, killing nine Turkish nationals in cold blood. Access it through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/09/un-report-on-mavi-ma ...
  • Libya, Inc.: Coming Waste, Fraud and Other For ...
    by Stephen Lendman Like in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, wherever America and its Western allies show up, pillaging is sure to follow. Libya is no exception, earmarked as another profit center to be exploited. A previous article discussed it, accessed through the following link: ...
  • Promoting Fear and Hate in America
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles explained how fear is used in America, notably against Muslims for political advantage. They're described as fundamentalists, extremists, terrorists, and fanatics. They're identified with violence, when, in fact, Islam has common roots with Christi ...
  • Carving up the Libya Corpse for Profit
    by Stephen Lendman On September 1, dozens of predator states met in Paris to pick apart Libya's bones even though it's breathing, if barely. We've seen it before, notably in Iraq under Paul Bremer's 100 orders that turned the country into a cutthroat capitalist laboratory. Baghdad was op ...

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

  • Dear Mr. President,
    By: Juanita Jean – I love you. I voted for you. I worked for you. I believe in you. The reason I supported you over Hillary Clinton in the primary is that Hillary was unsuccessful in getting health care for all Americans, and then she quit the fight for the next seven years. She dropped [...]
  • WWH News Briefs Monday
    Dismal jobs data shakes world markets WASHINGTON (AP) — The dismal U.S. job market, which has intensified fears of another recession, may be even worse than the unemployment numbers suggest. The shockwaves from the Labor Department report on Friday that employers stopped hiring in August have ri ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60′s Trying to turn off
    Sherry Pasquarello – Pittsburgh in the 60′s, WWH – Sometimes I need to take a break to just breathe. So many things that need to be followed. So many things that cry out to be fixed. So so many problems. Like a stone in a pond. Those rings keep moving on in circles til they [...]
  • Regulations, We Don’t Need No Stinkin&#8 ...
    By Ed Croft, WWH – The regulation that Obama has backed down on has to do with the emissions that cause smog and other contaminants in the air. These contaminants are what is behind the uptick in cases of asthma, allergies, and other respiratory illnesses. Businesses want these regulations undon ...
  • No-protest zone may be unconstitutional
    beaconnews.suntimes.com – Let me start off by stipulating thereâs a special place in hell for Fred Phelps and his band of Westboro Baptist Church lunatics. Any group willing to descend on military funerals with signs reading âThank God for Dead Soldiersâ and worse someday will face the kind of k ...

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

  • Reality Settling in at the White House
    Join the forum discussion on this post Hug the Green Industry, Kill Big Oil When Barack Obama was campaigning for president, I thought he displayed a “comic book” view of the energy industry: Lots of stereotypes of the good guys and the bad guys. He would support the good guys (those who aspi ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

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 ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • 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

big think

  • Lower College Tuition Fees Could Reduce Teen Sex
    Next time you buy a coffee make sure you are polite to the person who serves you – after all, her tax dollars helped fund your college education. Public funding of education doesn’t just benefit the recipient though; lower college tuition fees can reduce teen risky sexual behavior as high school ...
  • This is Our Greatest Generation: Reflections ...
    Editor's Note: Lea Carpenter writes the English Lessons column for Big Think about what we can learn from the writing we love. She interviewed former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens for Big Think, and wrote this post. Everyone knows “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for ...
  • Fashionable Avatars
    When you think of Burberry, do you think of prim and proper English models wearing plaid coats or do you think of beautiful exotic scantily clad holographic models walking on a virtual runway in the middle of Beijing? Probably the former, but the truth is actually the latter (or perhaps both ... ...
  • Lessons From The Arab Spring
    As soon as commentators began to refer to the popular uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East as the ‘Arab Spring’, I began to worry that the near universal optimism that had accompanied the revolts might be misplaced. Remember the Prague Spring? In 1968, Alexander Dubcek’s attempt to ...
  • Temporal "Cloaks of Invisibility" for Events
    Ever since scientists in Germany announced last year the ability to create a small-scale cloak of invisibility for a 3D object the size of a human hair, there has been growing excitement about the ability to extend this “cloak of invisibility” to larger objects. Now, researchers at Cornell led ...

Information Liberation

  • Cops Love Surfing!
    Four surfers turned outlaws attempt to ride the radical waves of hurricane Irene! ...
  • Obama Blinks
    President Obama has pulled back on imposing new "air quality" regulations. The regulations would have hobbled many industries and created many spillover effects. The Republicans have estimated costs as high as $90 billion, but they are just sayin...
  • Money: How to Get It and Keep It
    Even if you are already wealthy, some thought on this topic is worthwhile. What would you do if some act of God or of government, a catastrophic lawsuit or a really serious misjudgment took you back to Square One? One thing about a real depressio...
  • SHOCK CHART: Goldbugs Vs Warren Buffett -- Who ...
    Via CaseyResearch....
  • Job Killer in Chief
    This morning many on Wall Street were stunned by the big fat zero put up by the August jobs report, the worst showing in 11 months. The data convinced many previously optimistic economists that the United States will slip back into recession. I b...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Spending More Than We Earn
    I’m sure you’re growing a little weary of the farce that Australian politics has become this last week. I’ll keep the previous thread going, with updates as they occur. If, as I suspect, moves begin in Cabinet against Gillard, I’ll … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • U.S. Solar Energy Trade Assessment 2011: Trade ...
    GTM for Solar Energy Industries Association http://www.seia.org/galleries/pdf/GTM-SEIA_U.S._Solar_Energy_Trade_Balance_2011.pdf [From Executive Summary] A new report shows that the U.S. is central to the global solar supply chain. In 2010, U.S. solar firms achieved a positive trade flow of $1.9 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The G20 Papers
    A call out for participants We are seeking journalists, academics, bloggers and other commentators who want to be provided with thousands of pages of G20 security documents�before we publish the collection online. It has been over a year s ...
  • Wild Salmon Warrior Rally
    200 Gather to Protect Wild Salmon in Vancouver Over 200 people rallied at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, to raise awareness about the threats faced by wild salmon populations. These include industrial logging and comm ...
  • Interview with Allan Antliff, anarchist resear ...
    http://library.uvic.ca/dig/AnarchistArchive.html   *Wednesday September 7th* Anarchism & Insurrection: A Talk with Allan Antliff & Ann Hansen 2:00 pm, University of Victoria, McPherson Library Special Collections, Rm A0003 Anarchist Bookfair Collective member Allan Antliff will discuss anarchism ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Will this all end with a bang or a whimper?
    David Seaton's News Links� U.S. corporate profits and efficiency are getting absurd. On Friday we saw record quarterly profits of $1,450 billion, making up a record share of GDP at 10.1%. We're also at record corporate efficiency of $15,278.72 -- up 22.3% from last year (...). That last one says ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Europe's Day of Reckoning
    Ezra Klein recommends this LRB piece about the current phase of our economic crisis by popularizer John Lanchester. And why not? It's pretty good.1 European banks, he says, are in way worse shape than they've ever been willing to admit. This is true — and it's something that a lot of us have ...
  • What's in a Name?
    From the Washington Post today: Next up: How Kafakaesque was Kafka? Was Old Blood and Guts really bloody and gutsy? How Platonically lovely was Plato's life? Did Oedipus actually have an Oedipus complex? Was Christ a Christian? Was Buddha a Buddhist?� Did Henry Ford truly practice Fo ...
  • 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 ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 268: On Some Real N@#ga Shit
    Topics: Followup on Dylan’s Strawberry Letter The new Strawberry Letter segment Beyonce’s career is apparently over cause she’s pregnant The worst Lil Wayne lyrics on the Carter IV Kriss & Dylan are exposed to “Real Nigga Shit” by 2 white girls, Kreayshawn & V-Nasty Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Tension simmers over climate link to plant growth
    Two separate groups have criticised how Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running from the University of Montana, Missoula worked out that plants are growing more slowly due to large-scale droughts from satellite data – but Zhao and Running say these do not impact the overall conclusions.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully k ...
    A bacterial strain that specifically targets tumours could soon be used as a vehicle to deliver drugs in frontline cancer therapy. The strain is expected to be tested in cancer patients in 2013 says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference at the University of York ...
  • Crowd-sourcing the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak
    Ten variants of the deadly Escherichia coli strain that hit Germany in May 2011 have been sequenced across the world. The unprecedented level of collaboration across the scientific community should give insight into how the outbreak arose, says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology ...
  • Scientists announce human intestinal stem cell ...
    Human colon stem cells have been identified and grown in a petri dish in the lab for the first time. This achievement, made by researchers of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and published in Nature Medicine, is a crucial advance towards rege ...
  • A whole new light on graphene metamaterials
    Long-wavelength terahertz light is invisible -- it's at the farthest end of the far infrared -- but it's useful for everything from detecting explosives at the airport to designing drugs to diagnosing skin cancer. Now, for the first time, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Be ...
  • Hiding objects with a terahertz invisibility cloak
    Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range. Though this design can't translate into an invisibility cloak for the visible spectrum, it could have implications in diagnostics, security, and communica ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Civil disorder and nuclear power
    Nuclear fission, like any other energy source, carries benefits and risks. In discussion on future deployment of different sustainable energy sources, the commentary in this blog has placed a lot of emphasis on the rational weighting of factors such as: (i) lives lost per unit of energy delivere ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Dear Senator Rubio – Go Fuck Yourself
    We no longer need to wonder what Republicans dream of at night. It seems their only goal in life is to make sure seniors live out their golden years scared to death. Scared, no knowing how their medications will be paid for, or how they will eat, or heat their homes. Pulling their “safety nets” ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As ...
    Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the financial elite start turning on each other, the la ...
  • Extreme Weather Roundup: Severe Flooding To Hi ...
    Tropical storm Lee threatens severe flooding in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi | Vermonters shocked by Irene’s destruction | 80% of Texas in "exceptional" drought | Vast ice island set to break off Greenland glacier | New leak near Deepwater Horizon site quickly becoming a massive oil slick ...
  • 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]

+972

  • The September journey part 5: One bubbly street
    Staying on the move in Israel and the Palestinian Territories through a month of trial. And today: walking the miracle mile. Last night was too good for me to leave Tel-Aviv just yet. The city that hosted the biggest demonstration in this country’s history not only deserves another day, it begs ...
  • Top Ten observations from a fictitious revolution
    1. Felt like Yom Kippur 2. Felt like Gay Pride Parade 3. Too many people in line for Cinnabon 4. Racial profiling – anyone with a proper beard searched 5. Leaders without the guts to talk about the Occupation 6. Animal rights group around shawarma joints 7. Israeli Independence-sty ...
  • Rick’s Weekly Wrap-Up: 500K march more i ...
    Who can guess the name of a new political party to emerge in Israel? Why weren’t trains running last night and why an Israeli law from 1985 stands between Israelis and democracy. âRickâ Berman gives you the weekâs top stories as they ought to be told. A weekly feature on +972 By Rechavia “Rick” ...
  • J14: Initial thoughts on final rally
    A week of anticipation and seven weeks of breathtaking national energy wrapped up – for this phase â with a massive rally in Tel Avivâs Kikar Hamedina attended by roughly 300,000 people and over 100,000 in other parts of the country. An hour before, families streamed down the streets and people ...
  • The September journey part 4: Vive les revolut ...
    Staying on the move in Israel and the Palestinian Territories through a month of trial. And today: enjoying the city and the March of a million with a guest from outer space. A dear friend of mine is visiting Tel-Aviv. Her name will have to remain a secret, because she lives in Syria, serving ...

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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 ...

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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

  • The Libya Files
    Anderson begins: "In a series of trashed offices around the Libyan capital, many of Libya's previously secret intelligence files now lie in plain sight. Yesterday afternoon, with a couple of representatives of Human Rights Watch, the New York-based human-rights organization, and several fellow r ...
  • Nurses Protest in 60 Cities, Demanding Tax on ...
    Intro: "Thousands of nurses and supporters descended on their local Congressional offices nationwide Thursday, demanding that Wall Street pay for the crisis it created. The 60 protests in 21 states targeted both Democrats and Republicans, with austerity champions like Eric Cantor of Virginia and ...
  • 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 ...

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

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== Libya: NATO Air Combat Missions Exceed 8,000 For First Time In Its History, NATO War Led By European Powers BRICS Nations Fear West Plans Libya-Type Scenario In Syria Gaddafi’s Libya As Demon United Nations Hijacked On Libya Pakistani Minister: NATO Behind Attack That Killed 36 Soldiers === ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== NATO’s Air War Against Libya: 21,322 Sorties, 7,998 Strike Sorties Azerbaijan To Join NATO As U.S. Targets Iran, Russia NATO’s Strategic Concept: U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar In Turkey U.S. Unwilling To Compromise On Missile Shield: Russian Foreign Minister NATO To Build Joint Interceptor ...
  • Rasul Gamzatov: For women war is never over
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Rasul Gamzatov From Octaves Translated by Peter Tempest So many men were torn away From us in war’s dread sweep… Remembrance of it to this day Makes wives and mothers weep. New grass has grown, and grown are now The sons of those who di ...
  • Stop NATO articles 2009-2011
    Stop NATO articles 2009-2011       In Past Ten Years U.S. Has Expanded Military Network Throughout The World July 22, 2011 http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/in-past-ten-years-u-s-has-expanded-military-network-throughout-the-world/     Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone W ...
  • Notice on recent service problems
    ===== NOTICE: On Friday, September 2 WordPress blocked all updates on this site, issuing a generic statement about “concern about some of the content on your blog.” Today WordPress e-mailed an equally standard-format apology for doing so. There is no guarantee that the problem will not occur aga ...

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Intel Hub

  • Would United Nations Recognition Really Change ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie September 4, 2011 For most of my readers it is probably clear by now that I am a defender of the human rights of Palestinians and a vocal opponent of American funds being exported to Israel while record numbers of people at home [...]
  • Still Carrying Around This Potent Neurotoxin N ...
    Important! The producers of this powerful film are allowing a full and FREE preview through September 10th in celebration of Mercury Awareness Week (September 4 – 10)! Please tell everyone you know to watch this film in its entirety through September 10th, 2011. You can support the Consumers for ...
  • Israel Vs Jews – Learn The Difference
    Rys2sense September 4, 2011 Israel vs Jews Learn the difference. And boycott Israel var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
  • IDF To Simulate Attack On Dimona Nuclear Reactor
    JPost.com By Yaakov Katz September 4, 2011 Home Front Command to hold large exercise called âFernandoâ; Israel closely studying recent crisis at Japan’s Fukushima plant. The IDF Home Front Command and the Israel Atomic Energy Commission will hold a large exercise this week to simulate a missile ...
  • Cruise Missle Hits Pentagon Video Is At Least ...
    The Intel Hub September 4, 2011 A video going around the internet that includes parts released five years ago and supposedly shows a missile hitting the Pentagon is at least partially fake. The video, “Cruise Missle Hits Pentagon CLASSIFIED” includes a mainstream news clip, the supposed Pentagon ...

FRS

  • US: With ‘Leaders’ Like These
    by Mumia Abu-Jamal (8/20/11) It has taken a while to reach this conclusion, but upon reflection, it is inescapable. Why, after over a ½ century of the vote and the election of more Black political leaders than at any time since Reconstruction, are the lives, fortunes, prospects and hopes of Blac ...
  • Chile: Mapuche Teens Takeover Town to End “Po ...
    A decades-old is heating up as Chilean cities spend their winter under a blanket of protests. Forty teenagers staged a toma, or takeover, in Ercilla. byKatie Manning 30 August 2011 Photo By: Leyla Noriega Zegarra A decades-old debate over a 150-year-old conflict is heating up as Chilean cities s ...
  • Nepal: A Sea of Torches that Refuse Surrender
    By Eric Ribellarsi (photos and video by Eric Ribellarsi and Peter Tobin), Winter Has Its End Last night, Kathmandu and cities throughout the entire country were rocked by militant torch demonstrations. We watched as literally thousands and thousands of demonstrators challenged the decision of Ne ...
  • Oil imperialists scrambling for mega-deals in ...
    [Of course, US and EU petrodollar imperialists have had a firm hold on Libyan resources for a number of years.  But the end of Gaddafi will open the door for some to get into the lucrative holdings, or to expand those they already have--at the expense of others untied to the NTC.  Here is the [...]
  • Arrests and beatings at Nepal protests against ...
    The Next Front Joint Press Statement by Comrade Kiran and Comrade Badal Let us oppose the decision of handing over the keys! Let us implement the decision of dignified army integration! The abrupt step taken at 5 pm on September 1 to hand over the keys of containers of the weapons in the cantonm ...

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

Associated Content

  • Sarah Palin Triangulates in Iowa
    In her speech at the tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maybe or maybe not candidate for president of the United States, performed an act of triangulation that must have taken even Bill Clinton's breath awayContributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 03, 2011
  • Oklahoma Hints at Leaving Big 12 Conference
    Oklahoma University may be the latest school to leave the Big-12 Conference.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Sep 03, 2011
  • Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary: A Look Back at t ...
    Pearl Jam has endured through many years, and as they celebrate two decades of music, here is a look back at these exceptional musicians.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Sep 03, 2011
  • Preview: Obama Jobs Speech
    I don't need to hear Obama's speech on Sept. 8. I've already hear it a hundred times. The promised 'details' the president will present in this new jobs speech will be as vague and vacuous as those made in his many prior jobs speeches.Contributor: Patricia Campion Published: Sep 02, 2011
  • T.I. Arrested Just After Release
    While most convicts do eventually become repeat offenders, rapper T.I. Harris may have set a new record when he was apprehended my U.S. Marshals shortly after reaching a halfway house on the day he was released from federal custody.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Sep 02, 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

  • 9/11 – The War on America’s Children
    We are going to talk a little bit about a coloring book for children, one about 9/11 that is, at best, criminal, those responsible for it well deserving of burning in hell. Instead, they will be enriched, enshrined and, eventually, entombed, too late for my liking.
  • Promoting Fear and Hate in America
    Numerous previous articles explained how fear is used in America, notably against Muslims for political advantage.
  • Derek Bird Went On Rampage For Fear OF Being M ...
    No part of Britain has experienced more change since World War II than Cumbria, that wild, isolated northwestern corner of the kingdom which has surprisingly improved considerably because of government help, especially in the military and energy sectors.
  • Book review: The Wandering WHO?
    Gilad Atzmon, scholar, prolific writer and leading jazz saxophonist has authored the book The Wandering WHO? In it he astutely explores the identity crisis he himself experienced and one faced by many Jews.
  • Bill Hicks – It’s just a ride
    Bill Hicks, was brilliant, prophetic and way ahead of his time. His only drawback in my opinion was his relentless use of the F Word, which made him look like a very angry, ranting, man. It is a pity his life was cut short by cancer.

War is Business

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

  • Arsene Wenger, the 'Warren Buffett of Football'?
    A few years ago, Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane penned the bestseller Moneyball discussing the use of advanced statistics to better assess the performance and hence value of various players. As salaries of baseball players have increased, picking winners--especially affordable ones over ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The L ...
    If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011.  So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy.  But your day may be coming soon.  This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.  The ...
  • 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 ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • UK: Children could be removed from their Famil ...
    Although it sounds like a story from the Twilight Zone, it looks like in England it’s illegal to be fat. Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control. In the first case of its ...
  • Typhoon Talas kills 15 in Japan
    Heavy rains and mudslides from Typhoon Talas have left at least 15 people dead and more than 43 others missing in Japan, local media reports. Evacuation orders and advisories have been issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan, Kyodo News agency reported. The Japan Meteorological Age ...
  • Libya: Gaddafi’s army of mercenaries face backlash
    Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged. Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the capital and wait for for ...
  • England football players insulted by Bulgarian ...
    Football Association chiefs have made an official complaint after black England footballers were subjected to vile racist abuse from Bulgarian fans. Manchester United’s Ashley Young and Arsenal’s Theo Walcott were taunted with monkey noises and Nazi salutes during England’s victory in Sofia last ...
  • Sarkozy wants to attack Iran
    It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventiv ...

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

  • 2011-09-04 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    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. All the times are GMT. 09:30 PM U.S. Embassy cables published by WikiLeaks regarding pharmaceut ...
  • 2011-09-04 The "Gipsy with Lenin" writes to th ...
    Tweet Your Excellency, One year ago you were opening a bridge connecting the Roma district in Tsarevo with the rest of the Black Sea town. You were standing among the audience next to the town’s Mayor, Petko Arnaudov, and Regional Governor, Konstantin Grebenarov. Both are former members of a pa ...
  • 2011-09-03 And Wikileaks tells us also why Hez ...
    TweetAuthored by @ZakYahya. Photo credit AFP. We all know the reasons why Hezbollah is keeping its arms in Lebanon, despite the liberation of the South from Israeli occupation (except Sheba’s farms). This is directly related to an Iranian decision facilitated by Syria, so it’s much more than a m ...
  • 2011-09-03 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    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. >> Updates on WikiLeaks news from #wlfind twitter hashtag (as curated by @wikileaks): * FBI Dir ...
  • 2011-09-03 New York City Police Department's s ...
    TweetU.S. media outlets have recently been abuzz about new documents showing that, for the past decade, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) ran a secret anti-terrorism unit headed by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials. Not only did this "Intelligence Division" -- which some have ...

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

We Know the Lies

  • No Old Jobs... No New Jobs... No Real Jobs... ...
    �Move over, Richard Nixon and Adolf Hitler. Your slave labor jobs programs are being replaced by that of the current British puppet in the White House, Barack Obama.read more
  • Are You A Loyal Member of the NRA?...
    �This may change you mind... EXPOSED!... Jack Blood discovers the NRA as PRO FED and ANTI GUN! ~ Audioread more
  • The 'Orchestrated' H1N1 Pandemic + Media Fea ...
    �Liberty is a principle so basic it�s like the ground we walk on. We take for granted that nothing can change this � as Americans we believe it�s a given.� A closer look at just how many of our liberties are in danger should be warning enough to take immediate action to protect and guard them. ...
  • U.S. Taxpayer Money Being Used to Defray Costs ...
    �Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) is asking President Obama to immediately suspend the U.S. Peace Corps program in China, where American volunteers are restricted to teaching English in Chinese universities. read more
  • 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. ~ ...

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

  • Prepping For Economic Collapse
    So, your main concern and reason for prepping and preparing to ‘make it’ when times get tough, is because of the threatening economic situation (house of cards) in Europe and the United States. From the standpoint of survival preparedness for economic survival, what are the specifics that may be ...
  • Gerald Celente 2011, They Gave It Their Best Shot
    Everyone knows that the only way they can keep the Ponzi scheme going is by printing more money. They label it ‘QE2′, or ‘QE3′, but it’s just printing more money. The bubble is the fake money that the Fed and European banks are printing. They have to do something to keep pumping money into the [...]
  • 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, ...

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

  • العلماء والسلطة: سوريا نموذجاً
    ع�ا�ة ع�ماء ا�د�� با�س�طة �� ا�تار�خ ا�إس�ام� ع�ا�ة مع�دة� �إ� �ا�ت تم�� �� أغ�ب ا�أح�ا�� خاصة بعد ا��ر� ا�خامس �جر�/ا�حاد� عشر م��اد�� إ�� ا�ت�اطؤ �ا�استز�ام.� �ا�ع�ماء ا�س�ة بش�� خاص ��د�ا ا����� ا�ذ� تب�� ��م م� ا�است��ا��ة ا�تشر�ع�ة �ا��ظ���ة �ا�ما��ة مع مج�ء ا�س�اج�ة ا�تر� م� س��ب آ ...
  • 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 ...

mediagazer

  • A Tech Blogger Who Leaps Over the Line (David ...
    David Carr / New York Times: A Tech Blogger Who Leaps Over the Line  —  When Michael Arrington, the editor of the popular Web site TechCrunch, told his bosses at AOL that he was forming a venture capital company to finance some of the technology start-ups that his site wrote about, they did no ...
  • Politico's Way - To cover American politics, P ...
    Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: Politico's Way  —  To cover American politics, Politico deploys an editorial staff of 150.  This is more than any news organization in the United States for the same beat.  It all started five years ago: a niche website launched by three seasoned political report ...
  • Reliable Sources Panel Debates Whether Sarah P ...
    Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Reliable Sources Panel Debates Whether Sarah Palin Is Getting Too Much Media Attention  —  There are currently about... seven thousand Republicans officially in the presidential race so far, and yet many in the media cannot take their eyes off Sarah Palin.  Whenever th ...
  • Ex-News Corp. executives aim to shift blame in ...
    Robert Hutton / Vancouver Sun: Ex-News Corp. executives aim to shift blame in testimony  —  A screen grab image taken from television on shows News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the phone hacking scandal, as Rupert Murdoch ...
  • TV In The Cloud (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
    Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: TV In The Cloud  —  TV is moving to the cloud.  It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet.  Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when it comes to distributing traditional TV shows ...

Chemtrail News

  • Clouds Sylphs and Chemtrails
    There are those that believe we can call upon sylphs to clean up the mess chemtrails are making in our sky. While I realize this is a fanciful idea that ...nexus.2012info.ca/forum/showthread.php?5371-Clouds...
  • Why don't chemtrail advocates DO so ...
    Discussion about Why don't chemtrail advocates DO something about the trails? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1622686/pg1
  • Noble Please stop troll clogging the chemtr ...
    Discussion about Noble- Please stop troll clogging the chemtrail threads. at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1623895/pg1
  • CHEMTRAIL PETITION FOR UK - YouTube
    Please SIGN HERE http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1308 PLEASE COPY ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DMHfoZKzc&feature...
  • 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...

World News - Top Stories

  • Africa Cup of Nations: Sunday qualifiers ...
    Uganda will have to wait until their final Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against neighbours Kenya next month after falling to a 2-0 defeat in Angola. The result - Uganda's first defeat of the campaign - keeps them at the top of their group, but only by a point from Angola, as the east Afr ...
  • When the Camera Takes Over for the Eye
    SCIENTISTS have yet to determine what percentage of art-viewing these days is done through the viewfinder of a camera or a cellphone, but clearly the figure is on the rise. That’s why Ruth Fremson, the intrepid photographer for The New York Times who covered the Venice Biennale this summer, ...
  • Air India chief reinstates two executive ...
    NEW DELHI: Air India chairman Rohit Nandan has reinstated two key officials who were shown the door by his predecessor, seeking to restore confidence among the 40,000 employees of the beleaguered national carrier that is reeling under a mountain of debt. Anoop Srivatsava and Amol Sharma, wh ...
  • Aromatherapy for a soft, supple skin
    Skincare in aromatherapy is about the use of essential oils in different treatments for the skin. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the first step to having beautiful and healthy skin; aromatherapy skin care is the next. You will be amazed at how many different oils can help soothe aging, ...
  • Avastin® contamination causes eye infecti ...
      Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert regarding the cancer drug Avastin®. Avastin® is manufactured by Genentech, and was primarily developed as a cancer treatment. It is approved by the FDA for that purpose.  However, it has been gaining popularity as an inexpen ...

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

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Amo Amari
    Alonely woman falls in love with Campari, Aperol, and other bitters. Troy Patterson Bitters can be used for Negronis, pictured, and many other cocktailsIn the middle of the summer of her 40th year, Sophie Bitterson went very slightly mad, contentedly so. Retrospectively, reviewing her intense fl ...
  • A Year of Biblical Womanhood
    An evangelical blogger is spending 12 months following the Bible’s instructions for womenâand she’s doing it for egalitarian reasons. Ruth Graham Rachel Held Evans is writing a book about the Bible’s rules for women Before Easter this year, Rachel Held Evans camped out for the weekend in a purpl ...
  • Autoimmunity Is From Venus
    Why do women have more problems like Sjögren’s syndrome and lupus? Jeremy Singer-Vine Nobody knows, but scientists have a few theories. The sex bias in autoimmune diseases, in which the body’s immune system attacks its host, has been known for more than a century. (Women account for roughly thr ...
  • Flash Memory That’ll Keep On Shrinking
    Using atom-thick carbon instead of silicon could pack ever more data into portable electronics. Katherine Bourzac Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the largest manufacturers of computer memory, Samsung, have created a new kind of flash memory that uses graphene ...
  • The typewriter lives on in India
    India’s typewriter culture survives the age of computers in offices where bureaucracy demands typed forms and in rural areas where many homes don’t have electricity. Mark Magnier It’s a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades- ...

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

  • Dancing With The Troops.
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  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Battl ...
    He often found himself stuffed into the back of some flatbed truck covered in olive green tarp riding along bumpy roads from encampments to ship yards or airports. Ten of thousands of freshly trained recruits were stuffed on troop transport ships that were often as not moribund passenger liners ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Chris Wallace Proves (again) Why He’s the Wors ...
    … But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP. [...] – Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult Fox Ne ...
  • Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday, I’m Stacy and I’ll be your host. On this day in history, September 4, 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. I’ve perus ...
  • Progressive Notes: Must See Save SS Vid, Shea ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Strengthen Social Security, the umbrella organization devoted to protecting SS, Medicare and Medicaid, has launched a fantastic easy to understand video explaining what Obama is proposing and how it will directly impact you and your ...
  • Queer Talk: Tell me what you see
    I’ve never met anyone who included in their introduction something like: “Hi, I’m Chris, and I’m transgender.” Or “bisexual,” or “gay,” or “lesbian.” Or “heterosexual.” I’d wonder a bit if they did. But the general presumption in our society is that you’re heterosexual. There is a great deal mor ...
  • Dash of Dan: Rosemary Cornbread
    When I was younger (yes younger) I spent many a summer in Vermont. I’d pack up my things and for two weeks trade in skyscrapers for green mountains, passing trains for crickets, and bialys for…well let’s just say beyond New York, you won’t find these. This was all made available through the Fres ...

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

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  • Max Igan : Fight the New World Order with Glob ...
    Max Igan - Surviving The Matrix - 09/02/11 Trust... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Urban Farming - The coming trend
    Urban Farming - The coming trend Nice... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-09-03 [del.icio.us]
    Mike Maloney : Ben Bernanke is dumber than Gold | Gold and Silver Blog Mike Maloney : Ben Bernanke is dumber than Gold | Gold and Silver Blog Mike Maloney : Ben Bernanke is dumber than Gold Mike Maloney : Ben Bernanke is dumber than Gold | Gold and Silver Blog Mike Maloney : Ben Bernan ...
  • The CIA and 9/11 Explosive Connections
    The CIA and 9/11 Explosive Connections No... [[ 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 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, September 2, 2011: Raleigh NC is being sued by a man claiming a cop broke his leg and shattered his knee without cause then a judge jailed him for contempt because he couldn’t stand ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Match the piece to the puzzle, not the other w ...
    I spoke to an entrepreneur who had a plan. An ambitious, grand plan. As we spoke about the details I discovered a pattern. I noticed that every detail was depending on something else to happen first. She wanted to do one thing, but not before something else happened. She wanted to do another t ...
  • ‘Foursquare for hotels’, IM Guest taps hotelie ...
    Back in January this year we introduced you to IMGuest, a service that lets users improve their networking by ‘following’ other users to see when they’re staying in hotels close to them. Now the Israel-based startup has launched premium features which it hopes will get hotels themselves using ...
  • PayMeBack for iPhone helps you keep track of m ...
    Ever lent money to someone and forgotten all about it, only to remember it months later when they ask for another loan? Or, even more embarrassingly, perhaps you find yourself borrowing money from others and having to be reminded by them before you pay them back. If you tote an iPhone around, P ...
  • China’s Baidu launches new mobile platform bas ...
    Baidu launched its own mobile applications platform on Friday and laid out plans to release a mobile operating system based on it in the future, according to a report by Reuters. Named Baidu Yi, the apps platform is based on a heavily modified version of Android. The apps platform launched by t ...
  • Thailand plans 100m new numbers in response to ...
    Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is set to increase the capacity for mobile usage by adding the possibility of 100 million new numbers through the addition of a new prefix, the Bangkok Post reports. The new set of numbersâwhich will begin with â09ââare p ...

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 )

  • Picture of the day: where the Andes meets the ...
    The zone where the Amazon rainforest meets the Andes mountains is the most biodiverse place on Earth. Large amounts of rainfall and altitudinal gradients create a variety of microclimates and niches that are exploited by a wide range of species. The Western Amazon—especially its submontane and ...
  • 62% of deforested Amazon land ends up as cattl ...
    62 percent of the area deforested in the Brazilian Amazon until 2008 is occupied by cattle pasture, reports a new satellite-based analysis by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and its Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa).
  • 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 ...

Sierra Express

  • Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara delivers speech at At ...
    Mr Chairman, Compatriots, Ladies, and Gentlemen:  I am happy to see you all and express my sincerest appreciation to all of you, who in diverse ways have made this event a successful one by it even taking place. I am particularly gratified by the efforts of all in organising this event and the i ...
  • Youngsters steal the show in Bo
    The Airtel Rising Stars is all about spotting discovering future football stars and so far in Bo there has been no shortage in achieving that. In Makeni, Mariatu Conteh and Yusufu Koroma showed the way forward and now in Bo Fere Musu Kamara for Southern Queens and Mohamed Akar for Edmund Michael ...
  • 2-1 Sierra Leone dethrone Egypt!
    1833 RESULT Sierra Leone have beaten Egypt 2-1 and that’s the end of the Pharaohs as African Champions. They cannot make it to the finals of the Nations Cup in 2012. The Leone Stars on the other hand go level with South Africa at the top of the table. South Africa play Niger in Niamey [...]
  • 2012 Afcon qualifying preview: Sierra Leone – ...
    Egypt are essentially disqualified while their hosts, Sierra Leone, must win at home to keep their slim chances of making it to the 2012 continental competition alive Kick-off: September 3, 2011 at 23:00 CET. Brookfields National Stadium, Freetown Leone Stars look to battle inconsistency The Leo ...
  • Fight-back rescues Bonthe United FC
    The fight for dominance in the ongoing Airtel Rising Stars tourney in the south of Sierra Leone moved to its second day on Friday as Pat Foundation tried in vain to give the boys from Sierra Leone’s biggest island an early return ticket home. Bonthe United had a magical comeback after trailing 1 ...

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

  • Three strikes and you’re out: the attack ...
    From Anna Lappe at Civil Eats: News flash: the chairman of the board of one of the largest food companies in the worldâwhose tripling in profits from 2009 to nearly $43 billion in 2010 was generating from selling mainly processed foods produced … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Telegraph Reports Italy Needs to Rollover Reco ...
    On September 7 Germany's top court to rule on euro bailouts.The Karlsruhe-based Federal Constitutional Court will announce its verdict on September 7 at 4 a.m. EDT, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The court is considering three lawsuits brought by six eurosceptic plaintiffs -- five acade ...
  • Merkel's Credibility Shattered; CDU Party Defe ...
    The Telegraph reports Angela Merkel slumps to defeat in home state elections Exit polls for the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gave Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats just 24 per cent of the vote, down from the 28 per cent they garnered in the last vote in 2006. Adding to her woe was the performan ...
  • Nevada Dramatically Expands Lawsuit Against Ba ...
    Last week the state of Nevada amended its previous complaints against Bank of America. The Amended Complaint accuses Countrywide Financial of a "pattern of pattern and practice of deceptive conduct ... misconduct cut across virtually every aspect of Defendants' operations - from originating ...
  • If Donkeys Could Vote; Orwellian Madness
    On the lighter side ... Link if video does not play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6etfJgZQ7A&feature=player_embedded Orwellian Madness Here is something straight from the insane asylum: Reich: Government Has To Spend More To Get Out Of Debt "At this point, there's a hug ...
  • Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in ...
    According to a Treasury Inspector General audit, Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable CreditsRedaction Legend: 1. Tax Return/Return Information 2(f). Risk circumvention of agency Regulations or Statutes IMPACT ON TAXPAYERS ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Oh George! You got some ‘splainin‘ to do!
    Who at Alex Station knew what in August-September 2001? By Kevin Fenton Recent allegations made by former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke against former CIA Director George Tenet and two other former CIA managers, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, have thrown one of the key unanswered questio ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 12 ...
    Escobar: Syria- Why the Regime Won’t Fall, Lebanon Intercepts Covert Arms Shipment Bound for Syria, DHS Trying to Make New Terrorist “Watchlist Service” Exempt from Privacy Act, Bank of America’s Backdoor Bailout, Begging for Change, Russia & Azerbaijan: An Obstacle to the U.S. in the Caucasus & ...
  • Answers in Absolute for ‘Why 9/11?’
    Why ‘some’ Still Question, Seek Answer(s) & Accountability For ‘some’ reason I have been receiving more than a few ‘eye-rolling’ responses when I mention our theme for the month leading up to September 11- the tenth year. You and I know where the conscious but mostly subconscious eye-rolling and ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 11 ...
    State Department-Funded Nonprofit Trains Somali Troop, US government wants to use secret witnesses in CIA leak trial, Washington’s Silk Road Dream, NATO Massacres of Civilians in Libya, Texas Congressman Praises Iranian Terrorist Group as “Freedom Fighters”, Kosovo: The ‘Hoodlum’ Myth, Baloch ...
  • 9/11, Psychological Warfare & the American Nar ...
    A Campaign Where the Lie Became the Truth and the Truth Became the Enemy of the State By Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald  9/11. The number still rings in the mind as if chosen to act as a Pavlovian trigger: Outrage, anger, paranoia, retribution. A shadowy band of religious zealots fly not one, ...

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

  • Maritime Monday; Sept 5, 2011
    Would you like Friesland with that? Mark Polk grabs a couple of lines from a docking tanker�by OneEighteen more new photos » Japanese Nagato class Continue Reading �
  • China puts stop to Conoco offshore production ...
    SHANGHAIâChina’s coastal waters regulator on Friday ordered ConocoPhillips to suspend production in the country’s largest off-shore oil field, citing “negligence” by the U.S. energy company Continue Reading »
  • 5 Billion Barrels of Undiscovered Oil: US dele ...
    Liberian-flagged and DNV-classed, Scarabeo 9 is a semi-submersible drilling vessel recently built by Yantai Raffles.  It will be on contract by Repsol YPF for deepwater Continue Reading �
  • UN Security Council concerned over West Africa ...
    The Security Council this week voiced concern over increasing incidents of maritime piracy, armed robbery and reports of hostage-taking in the Gulf of Guinea, and Continue Reading �
  • United States’ maritime security advance ...
    On December 21st, 2004, former President Bush signed the National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-41 that stated: It is critical that the United States develop an Continue Reading �

Blogging Canadians

  • Edmonton Heads for the Cloud
    I'm confident that somewhere in Canada, some resource strapped innovative small town has abandoned desktop software and uses a cloud based service but so far no city of any real size has even publicly said they were considering the possibility. That is, until today. Looks like Edmonton's IT grou ...
  • One last, brief word about Mr. Layton…
    Scores of Canadians are going to speak and write eloquently about Mr. Layton, and what – if any – legacy he will leave, and they will opine on this truly amazing week which culminated in the funeral this afternoon. So I will not attempt to sum all of “this” up. I could not do it [...]
  • Suprise! Pauline Marois is Right!
    As the feeding frenzy progresses, with militants seeking to undermine or outright destroy the Parti Quebecois, I can only sit back in utter amazement at a spectacle that reminds me of an unstable and desperate mental patient inflicting tiny cuts on his body by way of multiple stab wounds, leadin ...
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • Reuters: Netanyahu refuses to apologize to Tur ...
    Dear Reuters: hard-line conservatives never apologize or admit they are wrong. They are professional victims who feel every word uttered critical of them is an attack upon their very souls and they will do anything to strike back. And they never give an inch. We do not need to apologize that the ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 'Israelis detained at Istanbul's airport'
    A number of Israeli passengers claim they were detained and questioned at Istanbul's airport in Turkey, amid rising tensions between Tel Aviv and Ankara over Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
  • 'Israeli PM meets with Tantawi in secret'
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secretly met with Egypt's head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, a report says.
  • Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque
    Israeli settlers have set fire to a mosque near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Press TV reported.
  • PKK militants kill two, injure eight
    The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have killed two people and wounded eight others in an attack against a group of Turkish policemen.
  • Angry protests rage on in Bahrain
    Bahraini people have once again protested against the ruling Al Khalifa regime over the killing of a teenage boy by Saudi-backed forces of the sheikhdom.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What I Learned From The Job Interview Process
    “It’s a bad economy.” “We’re in a recession.” “You gotta take what you can get.” “Nobody is hiring anymore.” “Those old jobs are not coming back.” We are hearing a lot of negativity about the job market these days. The fact that the unemployment rate is hovering around 9% nationwide is not helpi ...
  • Welcome Letter to Students from Dean John Mogu ...
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming school year. Whether you are a new or returning student, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the fall 2011 term and to thank you for ...
  • Life After Graduation
    Its been a little over two months since graduation and I had so many plans as to what I wanted to do once June 7th passed. I was going to read more (because all my reading time was used reading class material). I was going to spend more time with my daughter. I was going [...]
  • Run for the Wild: Soundtracks for Running
    Music is a big part of my life and I’ve found that listening to music when I work out really helps me to push myself when I’m tired or just don’t feel like doing anything.  That said, it’s sometimes tough to listen to the same music over and over again. Below are some of the [...]
  • Run for the Wild: Desk Chair to 5K
    First things first, and in the interest of full disclosure, I want to be clear about this… I’m not a runner. Don’t get me wrong, I used to enjoy running when I was in shape to run…you know, back in high school.  Now that I’m no longer, shall we say, conditioned, I’ll be the first [...]

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