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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 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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.

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

k2p blog

  • Sangiliyandi Gurunathan on his way to another ...
    Sangiliyandi Gurunathan who was required to resign from Kalasalingam University for scientific misconduct is on his way to another private University in South India.
  • UN is only as good as its worst member: Urugua ...
    The UN is only as good as its worst member. Uruguay announced it has sacked a navy commander with the UN mission in Haiti after a video was circulated of an alleged sexual assault on a young Haitian man by members of a Uruguayan peacekeeping unit.
  • Remote Sensing: A case of editorial cowardice ...
    A paper which did not support global warming orthodoxy was published in the journal Remote Sensing after peer review. The global warming orthodoxy has been so upset by this that the editor has resigned saying the paper should not have been published even though there is no move by the journal to ...
  • Are Universities cracking down on academic and ...
    The world-wide web and the on-line community are already contributing to universities becoming much more responsive to allegations of academic dishonesty and scientific misconduct.
  • Chasing losses for Corporate tax planning
    Corporates are not just shifting profits to tax havens but are now aggressively shifting their losses to high-taxed countries says an OECD report.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Guy From Green Day Kicked Off Southwest Becaus ...
    Add "saggy pants" to list of reasons you, or your favorite celebrity, can get kicked off Southwest Airlines. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong objected to being told to pull up his pants by a flight attendant, and, according to an eyewitness who happens to be a producer for ABC 7 in San ...
  • Money-Saving Tips For Students
    Newsflash for college students: That student loan money may seem like a never-ending fountain of easy cash, but you'll probably be paying for the ridiculous junk you buy now well into your 30s. Pennies you manage to save now will pay off in the long run. MoneySense offers some ways for college ...
  • Use iTunes Feature To Get Rid Of Awful Music Y ...
    When you're listening to your music collection, it's easy to get annoyed with yourself for stuffing so many terrible songs that you once liked for some inexplicable reason. Apple knows you all too well, and has provided a feature that helps you shed the chaff. Macworld points out how accessing ...
  • How To Get By When You Run Out Of Funds
    Thanks to the volatile job market, many people are only a missed paycheck or two away from a financial emergency. Stockpiling a massive reserve fund isn't an option for everyone, so it makes sense to develop a contingency plan for a monetary worst-case scenario. MainStreet offers some advice: ...
  • The All-In-One Virus Removal, Website Design, ...
    In these uncertain days and times, it's important for businesses to diversify and build new streams of revenue. Companies need to be creative and brainstorm ways to leverage their existing resources into new markets, even ones that might seem counterintuitive, or appear ancillary to their core ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Connecticut AG Dismisses 513 of 699 Whistleblo ...
    Associated Press: Conn. AG Drops Whistleblower Claims Summary: Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who assumed his position earlier this year, has closed 513 of the 699 whistleblower cases he inherited from his predecessor, saying that most of the probes lacked merit. His predecessor l ...
  • Bea Edwards Named GAP Executive Director
    Today, GAP officially announced�that International Reform Director Bea Edwards has been named Executive Director of the organization. For the past three months, she has served as Acting Executive Director. Edwards has been with GAP since 2006, and brings an impressive track record of success to ...
  • Obama Failing Scientific Integrity & Whistlebl ...
    Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Flickr accountBloomberg: Whistleblowers Say Obama Fails Scientists Summary: Groups in the whistleblower community are unhappy with the Obama administration's failure to ensure scientific integrity work performed by government researchers. President Obama ...
  • Government Behaving Badly: Renditions Revealed ...
    This week provides both an example of the Justice Department's selective approaches to secrecy and an example of the Justice Department's alarming Fourth Amendment interpretations. Selective Secrecy Today,�The Washington Post�reported on an New York lawsuit�between two government contractors ...
  • Amid "Fast & Furious" Controversy, ATF Head Re ...
    Washington Post: ATF Head Kenneth Melson Reassigned Amid Gun-Trafficking Probe Summary: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives acting director has been reassigned in the wake of the bungled �Fast and Furious� operation involving gun-trafficking with Mexican gangs. Details of ...

UK Progressive

  • Gov. Rick Perry and His Record
    by Braden Goyette, ProPublica Rick Perry has made plenty of headlines since he announced his presidential bid. But with the deluge of day-to-day coverage, itâs hard to get a sense of his actual record. Weâve selected some of the best reading on Perry to help you get oriented. The basics: If ...
  • Grassley Challenges DOJ, FBI on Anthrax Case
    by Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, Mike Wiser, FRONTLINE, and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica This story was co-published with PBS Frontline and McClatchy. WASHINGTON — A senior Republican senator has asked the Justice Department to explain why its civil lawyers filed court papers questioni ...
  • Obama’s Jobs Plan: Will He Offer Policy Miniat ...
    Next Thursday President Obama will unveil his jobs plan. He’ll choose either Plan A or Plan B. Plan A would be big enough to restart the economy (now barely growing) and reduce unemployment (which continues to grow). That means spending another trillion dollars over the next two years – rebuildi ...
  • Pentagon Allows Near “Slavery” Conditions Amon ...
    Many of the 70,000 “third country national”(TCN) service workers employed in Afghanistan and Iraq “recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by their subcontractor bosses,” reports Sarah ...
  • The Zero Economy
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada. Well, not quite. The strike at Verizon reduced the labor force by 45,000. Minnesota government employees returned to work, adding 22,000. So in reality, America added 23,000 jobs. Almost zero. In reality, wo ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • How to go out with a bang — score points for c ...
    An editor has resigned after committing the dastardliest of crimes: He helped publish a skeptical paper in a peer-reviewed journal. God-forbid, imagine a paper being reviewed only by people who have some sympathies with your results? It’s unthinkable. We all know that Nature and Science, for exa ...
  • NIPCC report: Rising CO2 is beneficial
    For those who want science and not politics, the enormous scientific compendium known as the NIPCC reports has been updated to incorporate new results. There are hundreds of references to peer reviewed research. It is as always, thorough, professional and comprehensive. The authors of the new NI ...
  • NIPCC report: Rising CO2 is beneficial
    For those who want science and not politics, the enormous scientific compendium known as the NIPCC reports has been updated to incorporate new results. There are hundreds of references to peer reviewed research. It is as always, thorough, professional and comprehensive. The authors of the new NI ...
  • Ask what she won’t stand for…
    There’s not much point in me posting scientific information at the moment. Let’s face it, the political situation Down-under has reached new peaks of grand maladroitness and irascible incompetence, and most of the comments will want to unpack that. Bolt is forecasting that Gillard will be gone b ...
  • Ask what she won’t stand for…
    There’s not much point in me posting scientific information at the moment. Let’s face it, the political situation Down-under has reached new peaks of grand maladroitness and irascible incompetence, and most of the comments will want to unpack that. Bolt is forecasting that Gillard will be gone b ...

ReNew America

  • Book review: How the railroad changed a nation
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - History has pictured the great railroad-driven 19th century settlement of the deserts, mountains and flatlands of the American West as a mixed blessing. The railroad barons of the era were devious and knew how to cut ethical corners, but they achieved the noble end res ...
  • Tell Congress: Stand with Israel!
    (Declaration Alliance) - International news sources report that Arab rockets and terror attacks continue to rock the Israeli countryside, despite Hamas and Islamic Jihad claims of a cease fire...
  • House Foreign Affairs chair to UN: Recognize P ...
    (Big Peace) - Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and she has drawn a line in the sand for the United States. She has introduced a bill which would dramatically cut U.S. contributions to the United Nations if that body votes for Palesti ...
  • Sexual anarchy
    (J. Matt Barber) - In "Batman," the Joker rhetorically asks a young Bruce Wayne: "Tell me, kid -- you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?" Well, I have. Not by the pale moonlight, but in a brightly lit Four Points Sheraton in Baltimore, Md....
  • America's Uncle Omar problem
    (Michelle Malkin) - "Always remember. Never forget." The phrase is now emblazoned in red across the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website. But as the Obama administration disseminates its talking points to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 jihadist attacks, the White House remains sto ...

Truth Offering

  • The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
    If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...
  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...

2012 Blog

  • Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat
    One of my best sources of information is Google Alerts – it lets me know all the new websites and web pages that show up for a particular key phrase. Alerts for keywords like 2012 ...Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Comet Creates Magnetic Pole Shift ...
  • Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC
    Many independent researchers believe that something must of occurred in 3114BC to trigger the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar – and therefore any information about events from 5,000 years ago catch my eye – like ...Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • Dreams About 2012
    As a child I had a few recurring dreams. One of them could’ve been a nightmare but wasn’t. I was standing in the front yard of my home in cookie-cutter suburb. My parents and siblings were ...Dreams About 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 Forum – Becoming Very Internation ...
  • Tornado vs Basement
    Those who study survivalism will come across many opinions, a few anecdotes, and virtually no facts. 2012ers therefore have no certainty of what will occur, and no certainty on how to survive it. So it ...Tornado vs Basement is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:More Tornado Survivors ...
  • Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix
    If you look at the DNA of the natives of Easter Island, and exclude whose ancestors interbred with Europeans (who arrived in 1722), then you’ll find most of the genes point to a colonization from Asia. But ...Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix is a post from: 2012 Blog Related post ...

Facing South

  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Revolt In Libya a Message to Chavez
    The Libyan rebels’ August 23 attack on the Venezuelan embassy and compound in Tripoli went largely unreported, though fatalities were narrowly averted as Venezuelan ambassador Afif Tajeldine and the embassy staff moved to a safer location at the last moment and left Libya shortly thereafter. It ...
  • West’s Intervention in Libya Opens New Epoch
    It looks like the global community has not fully realized the seriousness of what is going on in Libya. Mass media are still reporting on some local ârebelsâ in Libya and only somewhere on the background of public conscience âBritish special troopsâ and âCIA expertsâ emerge from time to time… Bu ...
  • The Arab League: Trying to Keep up with Arab S ...
    A PR campaign conducted by the Arab League in recent years and attempts to dampen Iran’s “imperial ambitions” and prevent uncoordinated actions by Arab countries have proven ineffective. And if the Arab League’s new head fails to make this pan-Arab organization over into a driving force in regio ...
  • The Arab Spring Grows Into Muslim Turmoil
    Informational warfare launched by the West in the Muslim world could not but result in the Arab youth betraying their traditional values and taking to the streets to express their protest. It is absolutely evident that these protests were orchestrated from overseas. This became particularly clea ...
  • It Is Going to Be Syria’s Turn
    The visuals beamed from Tripoli last night had an eerie familiarity. Cars blowing horns, Kalashnikovs firing into the air, youth and children aimlessly wandering on streets littered with heaps of debris, western cameramen eagerly lapping up the precious words in broken English by any local fello ...

BlogHer

  • Targets of Hate: Why We Can't Just Let Bullying Go
    She was thirteen years old. Standing in front of a room full of women at the largest blogging conference in North America, she told us in a quivering voice of how she had been bullied at one school, then the next, and finally online. They told her she was useless. Unworthy. They told her she ...
  • Rosemary Balsamic Steak Marinade
    Rosemary has amazing antimicrobial properties. I consider it not just a culinary herb, but a medicinal herb as well. Traditional cultures that ate pork consistently served it with rosemary for its anti-parasitic properties. It's a powerful anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory, and has been used to ...
  • Back to School Educational Apps for Kids
    Cool Mom Tech found some educational apps for kids that will help reinforce their new back to school routine with games at home. They write, Getting my kids to do a few math or grammar workbook pages is not easy. But getting them to play an educational app on my iPad? Piece of cake. Image Cr ...
  • Real Warriors Dash in Skirts (And Other Outfits)
    (Editor's Note: This race sounds grueling. Where do I sign up? ~js) Real Warriors Dash in Skirts I heard, �mud-crawling, fire-leaping, extreme run from hell,� and signed up for The Warrior Dash immediately. I was hoping my skirt didn't go up in flames. It sounded like a good way to relive my chi ...
  • Balancing Fear of Abduction and a Kid's Need f ...
    [Editor's Note: One of my biggest fears is that something will happen to my children -- whether preventable or not -- and that includes the fear of child abduction. Kimberly at Zook Book Nook delves into this topic in an honest way that left me wanting to hug both her and my sons. It's scary, th ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotic Use &# ...
    Blood letting. Mercury. Lead based products. GMOs. The absolute horrors of common practices aren’t fully realized until decades later; sometimes centuries. Antibiotic use, it turns out, does more damage than just leading to drug resistant diseases. ...
  • Therapy Can Drive You Mad – Study On 9/1 ...
    Depending on the therapy and the circumstances requiring help, therapy might be counterproductive. A report to be published in American Psychologist looks into the after effects of 9/11 victims and suggests that trauma and Post Traumatic ...
  • McDonald’s Pushes Dangerous Vaccinations On Sc ...
    We can expect to see an even bigger vaccine campaign this fall and winter. The media and medical push is in full throttle. Now McDonald’s is lending a helping hand to government and health organizations with ...
  • Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: BEETLE Develops Bt- ...
    By Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides.  Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance.  The Western rootworm beetle – one of the most serious threats ...
  • Not Your Grandma’s Strawberries
    Unfortunately, the typical fruits and veggies of today’s world are not the vital source of nutrition they used to be. Find out the major causes of nutrient depletion and the estimated percentages of reduction. The reduction ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Sept. 2, 2011
    In this May 26, 2011 photo, a tailings pond is seen at the Bingham Copper Mine in Magna, Utah (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Mike Terry) Four coal miners died late last week when a mine collapsed in northern Mexican state of Coahuila. As Reuters pointed out, this comes a few months after a May expl ...
  • Will Rep. McKinley attend citizen meeting?
    Well, according to the Daily Mail, Rep. David McKinley took in $20,000 at a fundraiser over at The Greenbrier, where West Virginia’s leaders of business and industry are holding their annual summit. But so far, his office has declined to say whether he’s planning to accept an invitation to meet ...
  • President Obama blocks EPA smog standards
    Here’s the White House statement: Over the last two and half years, my administration, under the leadership of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has taken some of the strongest actions since the enactment of the Clean Air Act four decades ago to protect our environment and the health of our famili ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols
    When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop removal mining (See previous posts here, here, here and here). Now, as our state gears up for S ...
  • OSMRE and Brushy Fork: What’s a fed to do?
    Citizen groups weren’t very happy earlier this week, when OSMRE Charleston Field Office Director Roger Calhoun informed them of his decision on the Brushy Fork coal-slurry impoundment. As we reported: Federal regulators this week backed off any separate enforcement action at a huge Raleigh Count ...

Daniel Miessler

  • HeyTell | Walkie Talkies for iPhone
    View In iTunes FreeCategory: Social NetworkingUpdated: Jul 30, 2011Current Version: 2.3.02.3.0 (iOS 4.0 Tested)Size: 6.6 MBLanguages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, SpanishSeller: Voxilate© 2010, 2011 Voxilate, Inc.Rated 4+Requirements: Compatible with ...
  • The Sriracha Spray Bottle
    via i.imgur.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Oatmeal Loves SrirachaDon’t Be a Cryptic AssEarth vs. Google EarthPolitical Perspective NeededObama and Jesus | ImgurJoplin Tornado: Wood vs. ConcreteDrawing Created Using Bic Mechanical Pencils
  • Want Jobs? Rebuild the Dream | Common Dreams
    People say, “Well, it’s not possible, because of the deficit.” Au contraire. If we just went back to Clinton-era tax policy and military expenditures, we could kill the whole deficit in 10 years. It’s impossible to deal with the deficit if you refuse to put increased tax revenues on the table an ...
  • On Poverty | Roger E. Olson
    It seems there are two kinds of people—those who regard America as something like a family and those who regard it as a collection of individuals unrelated to each other and even in competition with each other.Of course, a single person might be a mixture of both—sometimes leaning one way and so ...
  • The Evil Elves
    A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov’s The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. “Gandalf’s the crazy person who wants to start a ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 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 ...
  • Duck and Cover ‘Hippies’
    By Anthony Paletta – As David Monteyneâs fascinating volume, Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), makes clear, the most important thing to remember is that these structures were not meant to advertise blast protection. The Cold War g ...
  • London march halted by police Anti-fascists st ...
    guardian.co.uk – Large crowds assembled in east London to oppose a demonstration by the far-right English Defence League on Saturday. There were frequent angry confrontations. At one stage EDL members chanted “You’re scum and you know you are” to foreign tourists, while an Asian man singled out ...

reference frame

  • Joe Polchinski on failure of all Lorentz-break ...
    In June 2011, Joe Polchinski, the main father of D-branes and other things, clarified some confusion in another June 2011 paper. (Yes, I took this Wikipedia picture in Santa Barbara. If you think that Joe is a cowboy just like e.g. Rick Perry, yes, he is a cowboy but a left-wing one.) ...
  • James Hansen plans to arrest Hillary Clinton, ...
    On the same week when CERN has shown that cosmic rays strongly determine the rate of the birth of condensation nuclei and cloud condensation nuclei, and they and the Sun therefore decide about much of the climate change on Earth, the alarmist scientists are not sleeping, either. ...
  • Ten new things modern physics has learned abou ...
    Note that it may take half a minute for your browser to display various formulae in \(\LaTeX\) that are included in the text below. Here is a somewhat balanced, completed, and corrected version of a Cosmic Variance�(CV) summary: Time is just another, imaginary dimension of space: thi ...
  • EU Parliament votes to spend millions to cure ...
    The European Parliament is the intellectual elite on Europe. As we learn from the Daily Mail and other sources, their agriculture committee has decided that the European Union will spend 2 million euros for homeopathical treatment of farm animals. Prince Charles and Czech ex-p ...
  • Klaus, Papandreou, and ouzo
    Last Saturday, Czech president Václav Klaus was explaining why the common currency isn't a good idea under certain circumstances - e.g. those that exist in the EU today. On the pages of Právo, a center-left daily that has evolved from the official communist newspapers before 1989, he said t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • NATO Libyan War Crimes
    This video is not for the faint of heart but you need to see what your tax dollars are financing. NATO is no different than the Nazis. This is a sick and sad testament to the evil that controls us. Refuse to partake in this system. A contrived and unprovoked war – NATO’s terrorism knows [...] ...
  • British Bullshit Corporation BBC Lies to the S ...
    I will let the kid do the talking. He has it pegged. Tell me why you haven’t figured it out yet? Are ya a moran? Technorati Tags: BBC, Libya, Media, Lies, British Bullshit Corporation Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Truth About the Lies FULL DOCUMENTARY The Truth ab ...
  • Silver! Final Warning!
    Last call. Get in or kiss your ass goodbye. Heretic Productions present : Silver Shield’s Final Warning. dont-tread-on.me Video Rating: 4 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Silver Shield – Chris Duan ...
  • Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
    This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...
  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Cemeteries: The Next Drilling Frontier?
    By Alex Rindler, Government Affairs Assistant When it comes to drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the natural gas industry leaves no stone unturned. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported that Huntley & Huntley, Inc., a self-described "God fearing"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at the University... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
    By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
    By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Bloomberg on Goldsmith and how 'basic decency' ...
    Michael Bloomberg said today that he makes "no apology" for not disclosing the arrest and accusations of domestic violence that led to the dismissal of Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. More
  • Mad Max: After civilization, and before Mel Gi ...
    Love it or hate it, a key part of writer-director-star Evan Glodell�s indie hit Bellflower is its characters� decisively post- post-modern viewership of The Road Warrior.Though the characters in the film don�t call it Mad Max 2 but rather just �Mad Max,� t ...
  • Bill de Blasio is very angry about Michael Blo ...
    Up until now, it's been Comptroller John Liu's strategy to appear as Mayor Bloomberg's biggest adversary. But now, it's Public Advocate Bill de Blasio taking on that role. More
  • The House Republicans aren't putting their mon ...
    Republican Bob Turner may be �neck and neck� in his race against David Weprin for sext-crazed Anthony Weiner�s old seat, but that has yet to translate into substantial financial support from the national party.With less than two weeks until the Sept. 13 sp ...
  • David Weprin explains his same-sex marriage po ...
    Referring to the speech he gave before voting to legalize same-sex marriage, David Weprin said, "I said I am an Orthodox Jew but I did not consider it a religious issue…not that I was saying it was acceptable as an Orthodox Jew, acceptable under the Orthod ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Javelin star disappointed
    Many athletes would be thrilled with a silver medal in a world championships. Norway’s javelin-throwing star Andreas Thorkildsen, however, was his own worst critic over the weekend, after failing to win gold at the International Association of Athletics World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. ...
  • Labour slips in the polls
    Norway’s Labour Party, which has government power and won huge support after the July 22 terrorist attacks, has slipped in the most recent public opinion polls. It remains the country’s largest party, though, and has gained in several townships. The poll, conducted by research firm Respons for n ...
  • Passenger train derails in Hedmark
    A passenger train heading from the historic mining town of Røros to Hamar derailed Monday morning, not far from the scene of a fatal train accident on the same line in Hedmark County 11 years ago. This time, though, passengers escaped death, and injuries were believed to be relatively minor. Nor ...
  • New threats made against Norway
    The world mourned with Norway after the terrorist attacks on July 22 but now come reports that several Norwegian embassies and institutions abroad also have received threats in the weeks since. Police believe the individuals and organizations behind the threats are merely trying to grab attentio ...
  • Breivik won’t name names
    Terrorist defendant Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to carrying out the July 22 attacks on Norway, has claimed he has met many like-minded right-wing extremists but won’t reveal their identities. Police in Norway and around 30 other countries continue to investigate whether Breivik act ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Looking at the Urban Permaculture Landscape De ...
    Arts Factory Backpackers Lodge, Byron Bay In June, students underwent the PRI’s first Urban Landscape Design Course which aimed at formulating the skills required to successfully transfer the theoretical knowledge of Permaculture into a professional, efficient and effective small business opera ...
  • Food Forest Workshop at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm ...
    The 3-day Food Forest Workshop at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm, starting September 21st, is drawing near. Book now to secure your place. This Black Sapote (sometimes called chocolate pudding fruit) sits in a pool of light coming through foliage of surrounding support species One of the main conce ...
  • A Small, Productive Fruit Farm In Cambodia
    A newly-planted section of bananas, papayas, and citrus on this organic fruit farm near Siem Reap, Cambodia. As I’ve wandered around southeast Asia for the last 10 months I’ve kept my eye out for interesting farming techniques among the locals, but have mostly been disappointed. Whatever anc ...
  • German Military Peak Oil Study – Full English ...
    Peak Oil: Security policy implications of scarce resources Download PDF (1.77mb) In previous articles (here and here) we’ve linked to the German language version of a study recently undertaken by the German military on the topic of peak oil, and we also [...]
  • Shale Fail
    It looks as if the UK government is allowing shale gas fracking companies to regulate themselves. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Before the government approves a new industrial process in the UK it must have ensured that ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • The Help 2: "I did not apologize!" Starring Ja ...
    Below, excerpts from the Library Chronicles Blog, which posted some excellent commentary today on the Jackie Clarkson Controversy: Even if we were in the mood to be charitable toward Jackie...we still have to point out just how easy it could have been for her to better handle this situation. ...
  • Appeal in Anti-Muslim Conviction Set for Tomor ...
    We urge all supporters of justice to come tomorrow at 9:30am to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to support the defendants in the "Holy Land Five" case. Oral arguments for the defendants' appeal in the Holy Land Five case are tomorrow morning. The largest Muslim charitable organi ...
  • Friends and Family of Henry Glover Announce Ne ...
    From Reverend Raymond Brown: Friends and family of shooting victim Henry Glover will hold a news conference on the site where Mr. Henry Glover was killed 6 years ago by two New Orleans Police Officers. Ms. Rebecca Glover and Mr. William Tanner will be guest speakers at the news conference. ...
  • MARK OUR WORDS: Taking Heed of Hurricane Katr ...
    By Tracie L. Washington, Esq. Director/Counsel, Louisiana Justice Institute There was an odd sense of relief in New Orleans and all along the Gulf Coast as we approached this sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We had survived another year without a major storm. But that joy is alwa ...
  • Landlord of "Whites Only" Cop Bar Also Owns "W ...
    Today, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached a settlement in a case brought by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center against a Midcity landlord who was caught on tape making racially discriminatory comments. The landlord, Betty Bouchon, owns a 16-unit building a ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Videos, DVDS and Web sites Posted: August 30, 2011 Anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracists have released a flood of videos, DVDs and Web sites ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    'The illuminists' are after Bob becuase he knows too much. Statistics: Posted by scorpio — Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:45 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    I keep going back to this link on the Populists... we've been here before almost 120 years ago... and we may go back again.... there's a reason why the American 'Populists' theories are derided in all "economics" courses... they essentially cut out the scamming "Jew" between city and country.. ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Well that settles it for me: India is the next, or should I say again, refuge for the continued jew rape and jew pillaging. Holy Cow, what a benevolent piece of Garbage stating that they can lift the 600 Million poor from $0.50 to $ 2.00 a day!!, and the rest can purchase lipstick and Starbuc ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
    Great show guys! Thanks for covering these topics... sadly, looks like things Globally are getting turned up a notch. Nice to hear Mike Delaney on the show and discussion of MSMD's great work. There should be a wreck coming during the next few weeks Economically -- like a 300 year wreck. EU a ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Process Uses Plastic Bottles to Remove Arsenic ...
    U.S. researchers say they have developed a simple, inexpensive process that uses common plastic bottles to remove arsenic from drinking water, a problem facing nearly 100 million people in developing nations. In the process, pieces of plastic soda or water bottles are coated with cysteine — an a ...
  • 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...

Daily Beast

  • GOP Debate Live Chat
    Join The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz and other top contributors for a live chat this Wednesday, September 7th starting at 7:45pm ET.
  • Stop Shackling Pregnant Prisoners!
    Alex Berg reports on states’ new push to ban restraining pregnant inmates during labor.
  • Bill Clinton to the Rescue
    John Avlon on why Obama should follow Bill Clinton’s advice on jobs.
  • The Catch in “Catch-22”
    Joseph Heller’s iconic novel “Catch-22” set the political and moral agenda of the last 50 years with its hilarious cynical viewpoint says Morris Dickstein.
  • The SEALs’ Big-Screen Moment
    A harrowing new documentary divulges fresh details of the raid that killed bin Laden. By David A. Graham

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • DisneySea celebrates 10-year mark
    Dressed in colorful outfits, the staff at Tokyo DisneySea welcomed visitors to the amusement park on its 10th anniversary Sunday. Operated by Oriental Land Co., the park kicked off a series of events to commemorate the anniversary, including a new show in which Disney characters dance on boats ...
  • MLB scouts doing due diligence on Fighters' Da ...
    The press box at QVC Marine Field isn't exactly state-of-the-art. Upfront are three sections of long desks topped with aging, faded wood looking out onto the field from ground level, behind a net and tinted glass. The rear resembles a school cafeteria, with an old television resting on a filing ...
  • 20 dead, 55 missing in Talas' wake
    A powerful typhoon that hit the Kinki and Shikoku regions passed into the Sea of Japan Sunday after leaving at least 20 people dead and 55 missing in six prefectures. The dead included 12 in Wakayama Prefecture and three more in Nara Prefecture.
  • Working holiday anniversary
    This year marks the 30th anniversary of the working holiday system in Japan. The program has enabled 20,000 young Japanese a year to live and work abroad, gaining valuable experience and broadening their point of view, but that number should be more. The re-energized attitudes and global outlook ...
  • Buffaloes beat Fighters, stretch streak to seven
    Mitsutaka Goto went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs Sunday, helping lead the Orix Buffaloes to their seventh win in a row in a 5-3 victory over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. Sho Nakata got Nippon Ham on the scoreboard with a run-scoring single in the first inning, but Orix went ahead 3-1 ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • 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".

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla talks about Washington
    by footprints (Posted Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:21:14 GMT) ASHINGTON — The Justice Department says George Washington's home at Mount Vernon will undergo improvements to help the disabled, with accessible walkways, closed captioning for films and sign language and audio tours in the mansion and the gro ...
  • FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-Augu ...
    by footprints (Posted Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:00:04 GMT) FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-August 2011 5 Minutes ago Karma: 0 Key Searches of Footprints Filmworks from 1 August 2011-31 August 2011... Footprints Filmworks 71293 Omar Abdulla 36543 Zunaid Moti 30212 Fehmeda Ismail 30000 Sham ...
  • basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:02:36 GMT) First hand material. Go for the full article before it disappears. Quote, "basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit the tower!” Richard Roepke William “Willy” Rodriguez is the 9/11 hero who helped save hundreds of lives, and the last p ...
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:39:15 GMT) This is a covert totalitarian country. The elected politicians don't represent the voice of their voters. They rule the country by controlled intelligence and media. They select politicians through rigged election and justify the election res ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:30:04 GMT) Ron Paul wins New Hampshire straw poll, raises 1.5 million in a day! GOP Operatives Fear Lasting Ron Paul Problem Byron York 8/23/2011 "Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if they keep him in there," said Rush Limbaugh the day after t ...

Peakwater

  • Gadhafi Turns Water Project Into A Weapon
    “Moammar Gadhafi’s retreating loyalists have cut off water supplies to Tripoli, the rebel-held capital, from the Great Man-Made River, a $33 billion system he built to tap into a vast underground aquifer in the Sahara to sustain his arid country. It was hailed as an engineering masterpiece when ...
  • Illegal Marijuana Operations Are Destroying Pu ...
    “The scene law enforcement uncovered that day in Oregon was one of ecological devastation. Several miles of plastic drip lines, piles of trash and hundreds of pounds of chemicals and herbicides were discovered in a remote part of the state’s scenic Wallowa County. Dozens of trees were cut along ...
  • Extreme Drought Spreads into North Georgia
    “Extreme drought conditions now cover most of Georgia south of the mountains. Extreme drought is the next to highest drought category. All counties in Georgia are now classified as being in moderate, severe or extreme drought. All counties south of Carroll, Douglas, south Fulton, Clayton, Henry, ...
  • Illegal Dam Construction On The Mekong Must Be ...
    “A field visit to the site of the proposed Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River in Laos has revealed that construction on the dam’s access road and work camp is rapidly forging ahead, in spite of commitments by the government of Laos to temporarily suspend the project. The trip to the Xayaburi dam s ...
  • Yunnan’s Chromium Trail
    “The dumping of 5,000 tonnes of toxic metal tailings next to an important drinking source has brought to light years of illegal disposal of factory waste. In mid-August, the Yunnan-based blogger Dong Rubin revealed that a nearby factory in south-west China â Luliang Chemicals â had dumped 5,00 ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • cut to the chase
      â¦Letâs cut to the chase ⦠corporate does NOT want anything disclosed or to become transparent⦠  Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release   By Muriel Kane â¦Friday, September 2nd, 2011 — 10:57 pm  ⦠ Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release Since the u ...
  • I have serious doubt$ about $tanton’$ co ...
    ⦠I can support this agenda ⦠BUT ⦠I confess I have serious doubt$ about $tantonâ$ commitment to ending lobbyi$t influence at Phoenix City Hall⦠Greg Stanton – Plan for First 100 Days in Office   Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 AM PDT ⦠Posted by AzBlueMeanie ⦠http://www.blogforarizona.com/blo ...
  • TWI$TING ARIZONA’S POLITICAL LAND$CAPE
    � �� KOCH BRO$ & GROVER NORQUIST TWI$TING ARIZONA�S POLITICAL LAND$CAPE �� This week in: ALEC and the Arizona Legislature � Posted: 02 Sep 2011 05:05 PM PDT�� by David Safier� ��. http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/09/this-week-in-alec-and-the-arizona-legislature.html?utm_source=feedburner& ...
  • … Why is it we require a degree of discl ...
    � �� I subscribe to Ms. Roberts assertion that CPS is �stonewalling�� and most likely illegally �� �� But for me �� CPS action merely reflects the action we allow of ALL of our elected leaders �� from the President of our nation down to the COP on beat patrol �� From our Governor Jan [...]
  • The prevailing paradigm championed by American ...
    �� The prevailing paradigm championed by American media eliminates to the fullest extent possible all governmental (that�s you & me) regulation and control of business activity�� �� The corporate controlled John Roberts US $upreme Court strikes down anything which fosters any form of imagined in ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Big Tobacco's brazen denials and dirty tricks
    Ever since the link between smoking and lung cancer was established more than 50 years ago, the tobacco industry has displayed extraordinary tenacity when it comes to denying the scientific evidence showing that smoking kills.In...
  • Through good works, to global growth
    An innovative Wellington business believes that by doing good, it can do very well indeed.Im-Able specialises in rehabilitating stroke patients and uses an unusual hybrid of public- and private-sector expertise and intellectual...
  • School sitting on buried treasure
    Children at an Auckland school will not have to go far to learn about geology, with the rediscovery of a lava cave running under their playing field.The cave, which is about 40m long and 2m high in places, starts in the lower corner...
  • Enough life to sink the ark
    Noah's Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about 8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them undiscovered, according to what is believed to be the most authoritative estimate carried out of...
  • Adidas goes barefoot
    Adidas is going barefoot.The world's second-largest athletic company unveiled its first "barefoot" training shoe Tuesday, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot while providing the protection, traction...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Special Edition Reason Atlas Shrugged DVD Now ...
    You’ve read the novel. You’ve seen the film in theaters. Now don’t miss your chance to own Atlas Shrugged Part I on DVD! This very special Collector’s Edition DVD, produced in conjunction with Reason.tv, features the complete Atlas Shrugged Part I film PLUS original v ...
  • Rick Perry's Criminal Justice Record
    In this week's column, I discuss the case of Tim Cole, who was convicted of rape based on mistaken eyewitness tetimony and died while serving a 25-year sentence in a Texas prison. (He was denied parole twice because he refused to accept responsibility for a crime he did not commit.) I ...
  • Corporations Want Your Children's Brains
    In case you haven't heard, evil corporations are grasping for control of our schools—and our children. At The Daily, Reihan Salam explains that the whole problem is that they already won that battle long, long ago: Among public school teachers and their advocates, a new phrase ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Cathy Young on Cor ...
    At The Daily, Contributing Editor Cathy Young reports that the oil company BP has become the latest victim of Russia’s corrupt practices: A day after the signing of an Arctic exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft, the state-controlled Russian oil company, the wrath of ...
  • Paul Berman's Wars
    Liberal journalist and influential interventionist Paul Berman has a long, solipsistic, and interesting essay for The New Republic's 9/11 anniversary issue, attempting (among other things) to compare the collapse of communism to Arab Spring. Excerpt: Once the communist system ...

Mercury Rising

  • Anti-Gay Group Sets Up Stealth Minnesota State ...
    Last Sunday, when I first went to the Minnesota State Fair this year, the corner of Wright and Underwood didn’t have a booth on it. Yesterday, on my second visit, I saw a booth operated by a local group opposed to marriage equality. This booth was allowed — and apparently sneaked in at the last ...
  • Schedule the IMF riots for April (take 2)
    Bob Pisani, CNBC: I read dozens of articles and analyst reports each week; the most interesting piece I saw this week was an interview in the German newsmagazine Spiegel with economic historian Hans-Joachim Voth. Voth has examined the history of 28 European countries over the last 90 years. His ...
  • Jonathan Chait Rewrites History, Assumes His R ...
    Jonathan Chait crafted a carnival of utter wrongness for the New York Times today. Here’s one steaming attempt to rewrite recent history: At the time, Obamaâs $800 billion stimulus was seen by Congress, pundits and business leaders â that is to say, just about everybody who mattered â as mind-bo ...
  • Murdoch phone hacking, 9/3/11 update
    James Robinson, The Guardian: A 30-year-old man who has been arrested by police investigating the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World is believed to be Ross Hall, a former journalist at the paper who now works for a financial PR firm. Hall, who worked under the name Ross Hindley until ...
  • CIA (hearts) Moammar
    Rod Nordland, NYTimes News Service, via t/o: Tripoli, Libya – Documents found at the abandoned office of Libyaâs former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service â most notably suggesting that the Am ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Gone To Burning Man '11
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  • Arutum: Wisdom From the Amazon
    � � This article is excerpted from Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness, available now on Amazon. � read more
  • Eshu and Ananse: Liberation by Subversive Know ...
    Brian George, Figure with bow, lightning arrow, and descending sphere, 2003 read more
  • Conscientia: The Reality Sandwich Fall Retreat
    CONSCIENTIA: THE REALITY SANDWICH FALL RETREAT Ross Bleckner, Graham Hancock, Daniel Pinchbeck, Android Jones, Santha Faila, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Palmer Sept. 25 - Sept. 30, Boulder, UTAH read more
  • Shapeshifting the Future
    We have entered a time prophesied by many cultures for shapeshifting into higher consciousness. Polynesian shamans shapeshift through oceans, Amazon warriors transform into anacondas, Andean birdpeople and Tibetan monks bilocate across mountains. These shamans have taught John Perkins that shap ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • US drone raids kill dozens in S Somalia
    US drone attacks have killed dozens of al-Shabab fighters in southern Somalia during the past 24 hours, Press TV reports.
  • Kids living with smokers miss school
    A new study suggests that children who live in households with a tobacco smoker may miss more days of school than those living in smoke-free homes.
  • 'Iran-KRG trade volume to hit $5bn'
    The volume of trade between Iran and Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is expected to stand at over USD five billion in 2011, a KRG official says.
  • '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.
  • Resisting temptation not to ease with age
    US researchers say problems with self-control and resisting temptation do not ease by growing up and can persist from childhood to adulthood.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
    Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. Blog postings on Wednesday and Thursday discussed two aspects of that outlook—the amount of discretionary spending that will occur over the coming decade under current law, and the estimated impact of fiscal poli ...
  • More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
    Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. Yesterday’s blog posting discussed one aspect of that outlook—the amount of discretionary spending that will occur over the coming decade under current law. Today we’ll summarize the estimated impact of fiscal po ...
  • More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Econo ...
    Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook. The blog posting for that release focused on CBO’s overall economic and budget projections, so we didn’t have a chance to highlight specific aspects of those projections that may be interesting to some people. Th ...
  • CBO’s Estimates of ARRA’s Impact on Employment ...
    As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which is often referred to as the economic stimulus package. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provides estimates of ARRA’s ...
  • CBO Releases Its Annual Summer Update of the B ...
    The United States continues to face profound budgetary and economic challenges. CBO discusses those challenges in the Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update—an annual report, released today, which presents the agency’s updated budget and economic projections for the current year and the next dec ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SOMALIA: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims
    Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen, an investigation has revealed.
  • INDIA: Campuses Lead Gay Rights Struggle
    It was with some trepidation that Nivvedan, a student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay, helped launch ‘Saathi' (Companion), catering to the needs of people with different sexual orientations on campus.
  • ISRAEL: Netanyahu Besieged, From Within and Wi ...
    More and more Israelis seem to realise that the only policy that causes bad luck is bad policy. In a fortnight, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found himself politically besieged from within and from without.
  • SRI LANKA: Less Guns Mean More Food
    As paddy cultivation revives in Sri Lanka's former war zones, prospects for the island's food security have improved dramatically.
  • EGYPT: Mubarak Faces Court Without the Circus
    With the trial of Hosni Mubarak set to resume Monday, attorneys representing the families of protesters killed during Egypt's uprising are trying to cut out the deadwood in their midst.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • Scuffles as Egyptians demand to see Mubarak trial
    Relatives of protesters killed during Egypt's uprising scuffled with police and tried to force their way into a Cairo courtroom today, demanding to be allowed to attend the latest session in the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
  • Raid catches top al-Qa'ida member
    Three al-Qa'ida members including a top operative believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the world have been held in Pakistan.
  • Italian heritage vandal is caught
    Italian police have arrested a vandal who confessed to smashing a marble statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain.
  • Police to testify as Hosni Mubarak returns to ...
    Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak returned to court today for a third hearing in his trial on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the 18-day-uprising that toppled him.
  • Killer typhoon brings more misery to Japan
    Rescuers and search parties scoured central Japan today as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 26, adding more misery to a nation still reeling from its catastrophic tsunami six months ago.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • American Jailed in Cuba: I was 'Trusting Fool'
    An American government subcontractor sentenced to 15 years in prison after illegally bringing communications equipment into Cuba told a Havana court he was a "trusting fool" and never meant any harm to the government, according to excerpts from his testimony released Friday by his lawyer. Alan ...
  • US: Rebecca Zahau Suicide Likely Tied to Boy's ...
    Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai who committed suicide at his Coronado mansion, was distraught over injuries his son suffered in her care and that is apparently why she decided to hang herself, authorities said Friday. Zahau's nude body was found in the c ...
  • American Campaign Seeks to Avert Clash Over Pa ...
    The United States has begun a diplomatic campaign to prevent a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations. The Obama administration has begun a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan ...
  • Israel Knesset Member to Clinton: 'Declare Tur ...
    Following a Turkish ultimatum warning Israel to apologize for the raid of the Mavi Marmara or face snactions, Likud MK Danny Danon on Thursday sent a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling on Washington to declare Turkey a "terror-supporting state." "Turkey has gotten closer to ...
  • Japan hit by powerful typhoon
    Heavy rains and landslides leave 20 dead and many missing as flooded rivers and collapsed bridges hamper rescue operations At least 20 people have been killed and 50 others missing in Japan after the country's western coast was hit by typhoon Talas on Sunday. The typhoon has unleashed heavy ra ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Drones . . .
    Check out the mission symbols.WIRED has an article by Spencer Ackerman, "How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’". It's an account of how the CIA got up to speed with its efforts to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to Spencer, the CIA started from zero.On April 1 ...
  • Stuff . . .
    GEORGE CARLIN was very perceptive about our stuff. You know, all the artifacts of life we seem to assiduously acquire.How all that stuff gets made and distributed has shaped how we live for well over a thousand years. From Greek amphorae of antiquity to the 2-litre pop bottle of today. TXCHNOLO ...
  • On a positive note . . .
  • "A handful of soldiers...
    ...is better than a mouthful of arguments." ���������������������������������� - Stephen Harper, Trapani, Italy, 1 September 2011 Sometimes a little more argument makes all the difference.
  • Sex sells . . .
    Part of a Japanese pamphlet written for Australian soldiers. The implication was that while Australian men were fighting in the Pacific Theater, the depraved Americans would swoop in and cavort with their women. IO9 has a great article by Cyriaque Lamar, "The pornographic psychological warf ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Great Orations vs. Great Obfuscations
    I often enjoy and benefit from Maureen Dowd's columns, but today she's fallen off the wagon of arch and noble punditry into the smallish world-view, or Beltanschauung, of the Washington Beltway's sophisticated chattering classes. These worthy purveyors of Capitol-corridor realism believe -- or f ...
  • The Capitalist Crack-Up
    Fitzgerald, by then deep into an inglorious relationship with Gin Rickeys, was lucid enough, in 1936, to explain that "all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you rememb ...
  • Why Obama's Beltway Apologists are Letting Us Down
    This essay, which has been linked hundreds of times since it went up two days ago on Huffington Post, is as long (4300 words) as it is damning. I hope that you'll copy it onto a document and print it out in order to read it over the weekend and that you'll agree with me that the subtle horror of ...
  • Palestinian Strategy
    There has been a great deal of anxious speculation about what Palestinians really want, the speculation tied to the questionable mandate of a president who has not stood for election since 2005 (and his prime minister who was never elected at all), the anxiety tied to concern that, if you take t ...
  • Nukes and Dictator Survival
    On Wednesday night's Last Word, Chris Hayes and Steve Clemons fretted over the effect of Qaddafi's overthrow on other despots' survival strategies with regard to nuclear weapons. Bear in mind that Qaddafi agreed in 2003 to hand over the entire contents of his budding yet substantial nuclear weap ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • ERCOT calls for energy conservation this weekend
    Its predicted that the entire state will have record temperatures this weekend. Please take all measures to avoid using unnecessary energy. They might have a hurricane on the east coast but we have a heat wave in Texas and there might not be enough electricity to go around. Statement from ERCOT ...
  • Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
    Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...
  • TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
    TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean ...
  • SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Pig with "human face" born after UFO sighting
    Santa Cruz El Chol has been the scene of a mysterious birth following sightings of strange lights. Residents of the South American village are convinc...
  • Australia to remove "BC" from dates
    In a move towards political correctness Australia is removing biblical references from dates. The new date system will replace BC ( Before Christ ) wi...
  • Spare human body parts to be grown in labs
    Scientists have discovered several new methods for growing replacement human organs. In just a few years time it may be possible for patients awaiting...
  • Alien life more likely on 'Dune' planets
    Life in the universe may be most likely to exist on desert planets rather than Earth-like worlds. Up until now the search for life in our solar system...
  • Swedish man "shoots down UFO"
    A man in Sweden was arrested after firing pistols out of his window at what he claims was a UFO. The man, who has a history of mental illness, was con...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Journal Editor Resigns Over Contrarian Climate ...
    Source:� ScienceInsider The editor-in-chief of the journal Remote Sensing has resigned over the publication of a paper questioning the reliability of climate models.
  • NRC Critical of Mass. Nuke Plant Post-Shutdown
    Source:� AP Federal nuclear regulators have issued a critical report following the unplanned shutdown of a Massachusetts nuclear power plant in May.
  • Dutch Court Dismisses RWE Plant Building Ban R ...
    Source:� Reuters A top court in the Netherlands on Friday rejected the latest attempt by environmentalists to block the construction of a coal plant of utility RWE, although the project's future is not yet assured.
  • Solarworld in Renewable Energy 'War’ with China
    Source:� Bloomberg Solarworld AG, Germany�s largest module maker, plans to close a factory to cut costs and compete against Chinese manufacturers that its chief executive officer says are subsidized by the state.
  • Pennsylvania Withdraws from 5 Federal Pollutio ...
    Source:� AP According to federal court records, the state withdrew from four cases it joined in 2010 in support of EPA's "endangerment" rule on Aug. 5., as well as a lawsuit that challenged EPA's 2008 smog regulations as too ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • On Palestine's Quest for Recognition
    The issue of whether or not Palestine should push for formal United Nations' recognition as a state is complex. In the abstract, it's kind of a no-brainer, but when you get down to details it isn't as clear that the effort is wise. The United States feels compelled to veto the effort even thou ...
  • Your Assigned Reading
    Mike Lofgren's diatribe about the Republican Party ought to be required reading in all our high schools. It's not only a fine example of a political polemic written in excellent English, it's something everyone needs to internalize. Because Lofgren just retired after a 16-year career as a GOP ...
  • Cantor: No Museums for You
    Why should we spend money on museums or the preservation of historic sites? Let's eliminate all federal funding for such nonsense, shall we? Congressional Republicans may be opposed to President Obamas call for new infrastructure spending, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is p ...
  • Real History
    One of the more pernicious myths current in our contemporary political discourse is the idea that George W. Bush was a strong leader who got whatever he wanted through Congress. The way this argument is usually made is highly misleading. First, we need to make a distinction between the times w ...
  • Bush's Crimes Won't Go Away
    One unintended consequence of toppling the Gaddafi regime is that the CIA's close relationship with Libyan intelligence has now been revealed, including details about our rendition program from 2003-2007. It's just more evidence of Bush-era crimes. It seems like we can't keep any secrets anymo ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Abandoned Cold War Listening Station Built ...
    Incredible images of the abandoned Cold War listening station of Teufelsberg, which towers over West Berlin... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • San Francisco Built Out of 100,000 Toothpicks!
    The incredible "Rolling Through the Bay" kinetic sculpture took 100,000 toothpicks and 34 years to complete. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Momma Alligator Rescues Baby from Heron's Beak
    Watch the amazing rescue of a baby alligator by its mother from the clutches of a heron... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Dependence on Cars has Changed Our Lifesty ...
    Today, there are over 1 billion cars on the planet - 1 for every 6 people. A great success story, they have changed our lifestyle drastically. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Most Colorful Lizards on Earth
    Incredible lizards of many different species, united by one characteristic: their fullness of color and outstanding beauty! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

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  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List disease di ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's mark ...
  • Mercury in Retrograde; 2012 is a trick says Au ...
    I don't really get the Mercury Retrograde thing but a lot of people swear by it. Consult here: Is Mercury in Retrograde? It apparently will be retrograde for the next 5 days -- I am supposed to be careful with communications... 2011 Taurus Year Ahead... More on retrograde. I don't know, astrolog ...
  • After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
    Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few lat ...
  • Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
    UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...

Daily Censored

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

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IntelNews

  • CIA Helped Gaddafi Torture Libyan Dissidents, ...
    Back in February, when Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi blamed the popular revolt against him on al-Qaeda, he was ridiculed in the international media. But documents discovered at an abandoned Libyan government office complex show that the Libyan rebels’ supreme military commander was abducted i ...
  • News you may have missed #584
    Billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA flights. French admit secret service spied on reporter. NZ let Israeli spies go free in return for passports.
  • News you may have missed #583
    Ex-Akamai worker pleads guilty to spy charge. Taiwan ex-spy cleared of corruption charge. Wiretaps seen as key in hunt for Gaddafi.
  • News you may have missed #582
    US government conceals Bush surveillance memos. Ex-CIA bin Laden Unit boss wants rendition back. French firm helped Gaddafi spy on opposition.
  • Ex-Bush official advised Gaddafi until early A ...
    Intelligence documents found at the headquarters of Libya’s abandoned spy agency appear to show that the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi enjoyed the support of an American diplomat who served in the Bush administration. Al Jazeera reports that David Welch, who was Assistant Secretary of State for N ...

War is a Crime.org

  • How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Ba ...
    ��How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War � by Stephen Lendman� � ISBN: 978-0-9833539-4-2 192 pp. $16.95 2011� � read more
  • Turkey/Israeli War of Words
    ��Turkey and 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: � read more
  • Libya, Inc.: Coming Waste, Fraud and Other For ...
    ��Libya, Inc.: Coming Waste, Fraud and Other Forms of Plunder on a Grand Scale - 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 exploite ...
  • Have You Been to Jail for Justice?
  • War Justified by Evilness of Gadaffi Who Was S ...
    This makes perfect sense: Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit �

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • New Treatments For Baldness? Scientists Find S ...
    Researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.
  • Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus
    Sometimes the sky above can become quite a show. Last week, for example, the Moon and Venus converged, creating quite a sight by itself for sky enthusiasts around the globe. From some locations, though, the sky was even more picturesque.
  • World's smallest electric motor made from a si ...
    Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices that could be used in applications ranging from medicine to engineering.
  • Scientists Find Cells inHuman Brain That Only ...
    A part of the brain called the amygdala has cells specialized to detect animals, researchers have found. One reason we have these cells may be that some animals posed a threat to our ancestors. But researchers also found cells that respond specifically to cute animals like puppies or bunnies.
  • Faster, Smaller, Better: Does Physics Put an U ...
    Just as shrinking transistors makes computers more powerful, brains with smaller components could in principle pack in more power and become faster. The human neuron, however—and in particular, its long “tail,” called an axon—may already be at (or close to) their physical limit.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Ron Paul: CIA Chooses Dictators Around the Wor ...
    Speaking about his contention that the CIA had orchestrated a “coup” in America against the government, Congressman Ron Paul told the Alex Jones Show that the Agency was also behind the choosing of dictators around the world. “For the CIA to really be running the show….the CIA is involved in war ...
  • 9-11 Research: Insider Trading
    Financial transactions in the days before the attack suggest that certain individuals used foreknowledge of the attack to reap huge profits. 1 The evidence of insider trading includes: Huge surges in purchases of put options on stocks of the two airlines used in the attack — United Airlines and ...
  • Record protest in Israel demands social reform
    More than 400,000 Israelis poured into streets across the Jewish state to protest against the high cost of living, after organisers called for a “million-man march” to revitalise their movement. The estimated figures were record-breaking, exceeding the 300,000 people who took part in similar dem ...
  • Heroes, Losers and Window Shopping Troglodytes
    By Les Visible The next morning when I awoke from my troubled sleep, I did my best to avoid the good doctors at the complimentary breakfast buffet but I had left something in my hotel room. That meant I had to traverse across the space where they could see me pass because I had already [...]
  • The World’s Largest Slave Auction
    By Jim Kirwan Moreover the rest of the planet will not remain idle while we implode into nothingness; and besides that, the largest by-product of all this aggression by this government against its own people; will have to be seen to vindicate everything that the rest of the planet has always sus ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Spain’s Hospital Sant Joan de Rues Infuses the ...
    Read the rest of Spain’s Hospital Sant Joan de Rues Infuses the Urban Environment With Green Space Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Barcelona, Daylighting, eco design, eco hospital, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, hospital ...
  • Urban Lace: Elegant Jewelry Made from Recycled ...
    With its line of elegant-yet-rugged jewelry, a Portland-based company is giving new meaning to the term ‘cycle chic.’ Urban Lace (previously known as Inner Beauty) has a full line of filigreed cuffs, necklaces, earrings, and masks (yes, masks), all made from recycled bicycle inner tubes from. Th ...
  • Vycon Plans to Tap Speeding Subway Trains for ...
    London, New York, Paris – what do they all have in common? Apart from being among the world’s most energy-hungry cities, they all have underground subway systems. These public transport systems help millions of people each day to get to and from work, but what if they could also be used to help ...
  • Solar Industry Responsible for Dumping 2.4 Mil ...
    It turns out that some members of the solar panel manufacturing industry might actually be doing harm while advancing renewable energy by dumping millions of tons of lead into the environment in China and India. It’s something we’ve heard before — Apple had issues last year with this very proble ...
  • Frii, A New Recycled Plastic Bike by Dror Peleg
    The Frii tri-color recycled plastic bike has a snap-together design that is light weight, but seriously durable.  Made out of recycled plastic, Dror Peleg designed it with the cityscape in mind, hoping that governments would see the value in using landfill-fated plastic to make brand new bikes!  ...

Pogue's Posts

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PakAlert

  • 5 Unexpected Places You Can Be Tracked With Fa ...
    Earlier this summer Facebook rolled out facial recognition software that identifies users even when they appear in untagged photos. Like every other time the social networking site has introduced a creepy, invasive new feature, they made it the default setting without telling anyone. Once people ...
  • France Warns Iranian Threat May Lead To Pre-Em ...
    France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday that Iran’s alleged attempts to build long-range missiles and nuclear weapons could lead unnamed countries to launch a pre-emptive attack. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventiv ...
  • Elenin – “Unnatural” = Richard Hoagland
    Important update on Elenin from Richard C. Hoagland - Elenin is a Tetrahedron! Note: there is a disinfo campaign going on to spread the word that Elenin is disintegrating... this is not true!!! From Richard C. Hoagland www.enterprisemission.com "St ereo-B is one of two unmanned spacecra ...
  • Coming Solar Storms Impact On Earth: Major NAS ...
    NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to discuss new observations about solar flares that can impact communication and navigation systems. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is providing new data and images for scientists to better understand the s ...
  • Dick Cheney, The Ultimate American Terrorist
    It is axiomatic by now: when someone leaves government service, especially from a high-profile position, they write a book. They all do it, sometimes more than once. Richard Nixon is the main example of one who produced a multi-volume apologia; by the time he went into the ground, he’d penned en ...

Andy Worthington

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

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Judge in MLK Day Bomb Case Orders FBI to Explo ...
    The FBI was ordered Friday to build and detonate six bombs similar to the one  allegedly built by a man accused of planting an improvised explosive device on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane last January. The order came from U.S. District Judge Justin Quackenbush in Spokane, ...
  • Georgia Governor Appoints Nativist Hate Group ...
    Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal today appointed a longtime leader in an anti-immigrant hate group to serve on a new state panel charged with enforcing the state’s harsh new immigration law. Phil Kent was among those named by Deal to a new Immigration Enforcement Review Board. Created as part of Georgia ...
  • News Roundup for August 31, 2011
    Jury deliberations resumed Monday in the trial of a California teen accused of murdering a gay classmate three years ago. Seventeen-year-old Brandon McInerney is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 15-year-old Larry King at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard. McInerney has pl ...
  • New Roundup for September 2, 2011
    A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of California teen who allegedly shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab class. Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision on the degree of Brandon McInerney’s guilt for killing 15-year-old Larry King. Prosecuto ...
  • Hypocrisy Unlimited: Anti-Gay Groups Denounce ...
    Boycotts are a time-honored and almost always legal tool that has been used throughout American history by activists across the political spectrum to help force or prevent certain actions. Most people see the decision not to buy from particular outlets as a legitimate and precious part of our Fi ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • NotiPage Alerts You When Selected Web Pages ar ...
    Windows: Freeware app NotiPage can track up to 20 sites, sending you a visible and/or audible alert when the page updates. You can set the app to monitor distant server accessibility, web site updates, and the appearance of specific words ...
  • Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
    I have been thinking about getting off of GMail and using a desktop client like Thunderbird or Outlook but I am having a hard time with how they function. Would like the desktop client to somewhat function like GMail but I find odd hacks that don't work. Any suggestions? I go ...
  • Build a Recycling Organizer from Corrugated Pl ...
    It can be difficult to organize oddly-shaped storage areas. Do-It-Yourself blog Man Made DIY came up with the design for this corrugated plastic recycling organizer to fit the bottom shelf of a pantry that is only 10 inches deep. The organ ...
  • Utilize Daily Objects as Improvised Weapons in ...
    If you're unlucky enough to be in a situation where you must defend yourself from an attacker, you should consider what objects around you make serviceable improvised weapons. Everyone knows about pool cues and beer bottles, but have you t ...
  • How to Cut a Whole Chicken into Pieces
    Individually cut chicken pieces can cost twice as much as a whole bird. If you have a good knife, cutting up a whole chicken only takes a few minutes as shown in the video guide above by The Gastrocast Cooking Show. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • PSALM: Korea Water still keen on Angat plant
    Korea Water Resources Corp., the state water utility company of South Korea, is still interested in acquiring the 218-megawatt Angat hydroelectric power plant, a government official said Friday.
  • Glencore expresses interest in Larko and EYDAP
    Glencore, the multinational mining and commodities trading company, has expressed interest in the privatization of Larko, an old ailing mining concern, and EYDAP, the Athens water supply company, according to sources.
  • Glencore expresses interest in Larko and EYDAP
    Glencore, the multinational mining and commodities trading company, has expressed interest in the privatization of Larko, an old ailing mining concern, and EYDAP, the Athens water supply company, according to sources.
  • Ghana: Let Not the Bank Toy With Our Water!
    The World Bank would want us believe that it is committed to good democratic governance, yet the same Bank, through its Country Assistance Strategies and actions arising thereof often undermines the sovereign will of the people and short circuits due democratic processes in partner countries, es ...
  • Gazette.Net: Commissioners approve pilot progr ...
    Developers, not Frederick County employees, will handle the contracts, inspections and supervision of some water and sewer construction projects for the next 18 months, under a new pilot program.

Guardian

  • Torture inquiry to investigate UK-Libya rendit ...
    PM says Gibson inquiry will examine extent of intelligence-sharing by British secret services with the Gaddafi regimeDavid Cameron has asked the Gibson inquiry into alleged UK complicity in torture to be widened to examine the extent of intelligence-sharing by British secret services with the Li ...
  • Riot jail sentences in crown courts up to thre ...
    Typical sentence for theft or handling stolen goods in riots is 13.6 months, compared with 4.1 months for same offence last yearRioters sentenced in crown courts have received jail terms that are much more severe than usual, replicating the punitive response by magistrates, the Guardian can reve ...
  • Reading the Riots study to examine causes and ...
    The Guardian and the London School of Economics will work together on the first empirical study into the rioting and lootingThe causes and consequences of the English riots last month, the most serious bout of civil unrest in a generation, will be examined in a study by the Guardian and the Lond ...
  • Al-Qaida 'foreign minister' captured by Pakist ...
    Younis al-Mauritani detained in western city of Quetta with two other members of terror groupYounis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaida commander believed by some experts to be the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working with the CIA, the Pakistani a ...
  • News International to sell Wapping site
    Sun, Times and former News of the World publisher decides not to redevelop site that was scene of bitter 1986 union disputeRupert Murdoch's News International, publisher of the Sun and the Times, is to sell Wapping, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.The move was announced in an ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan drug production – greater threat ...
    KABUL, September 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The drug production in Kabul is a threat to peace and security, probably even a greater threat than modern terrorism, the chief of the Russian State Anti-Drug ...
  • US told about Australia's Afghanistan tro ...
    Australian solider in Afghanistan, October 2008. Photo: Wikipedia Commons In 2007, Australian government officials repeatedly told the US embassy in Canberra of its plans to increase Australian ...
  • Pak urges Karzai to help free boys held by Taliban
    Taliban say it abducted them because they belong to a tribe opposed to the militants. In comments to reporters, minister Rehman Malik requested Karzai get the boys released. Afghan officials have ...
  • Anger After a Raid Kills a Wealthy Afghan With ...
    After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he claimed to be on the side of the Americans in the hunt for Al Qaeda, but United States troops accused him of helping Osama bin Laden and his ...
  • 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 ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    No time to waste, so let's get right to it. Voted most insightful this week... a comment from Marcus Carab on the story about the 1st Circuit appeals court ruling stating that arresting a guy for filming the police was a violation of his 1st Amendment rights (4th Amendment too, but that was spe ...
  • Taoareyou's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's favorites come from the wonderfully named taoareyou. While I read almost every post from this blog, the ones that really catch my eye are those involving U.S civil liberties (because I live here, not that I don't take interest in the plight of others). ...
  • If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents W ...
    More than seven years ago, we first wrote about Ernest Miller's concept of Bitcatching -- a name that never caught on -- which was the combination of RSS + BitTorrent, allowing the ability to "subscribe" to certain video programs. Miller envisioned that as a legal and useful way for TV broadcas ...
  • If You Don't Plan To Enforce Your 'Rights,' Wh ...
    Automatic Copyright is sort of like issuing everyone a gun. I've met many authors and artists who insist their restrictive licenses aren't anti-fan, because they wouldn't actually enforce them. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
  • Record Label Execs Suddenly Upset That False C ...
    We already wrote about how a prankster used bogus copyright claims to takedown the videos of Justin Bieber on YouTube. It turns out that the mysterious prankster didn't just target Bieber, but also got videos by Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Shakira taken down. But what's funny is how some (anonymous ...

VacTruth

  • “The Act of Vaccination or Inoculation W ...
    Jeffry John Aufderheide interviews Dr. Tim O'Shea on vaccinations.
  • MMR Victim Refused Compensation For Not Being ...
    It has now been proven that the ‘Vaccine Damage Payments Unit’ (VDPU) not only cherry pick who they award compensation to, depending on the level of disability but also change their rules to suit their needs, as they go along. Katie Stephen has been left permanently and profoundly deaf in he ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for August
    Parents of Kitsap County are exempting their children from shots in increasing numbers. It was said that roughly 7 percent of Kitsap students skipped one or more shots during the past school year. That vaccine story and more for the month of August...
  • Dr Andrew Wakefield To Speak At National Autis ...
    The National Autism Association is having Dr Andrew Wakefield speak at their forthcoming conference about his new book which is to be released in the spring.
  • Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
    Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Central Banks, BIS and Goldman Sachs Coercion
    By SARTREMonday, September 5th, 2011 Did you ever wonder why countries allow private central banks to issue their money? Somehow, missing in the self-governing status of governments is the courage to deny the seduction or the threats of the global banking cabal, over the control of a nations cur ...
  • Blair was ‘godfather to Murdoch’s daughter’
    LONDON â Former prime minister Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch’s young children, sources said on Monday, raising fresh questions about British political links to the media mogul’s empire. The revelation first emerged in a Vogue magazine interview with Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng, ...
  • Thin Red Line: Israel allows shooting at Pales ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Israel allows security forces to shoot at Palestinian protesters who are preparing to march in support of their bid for statehood at the UN later this month. Tel Aviv claims its trying to prevent bloodshed by arming settlers in the West Bank for self-defence. RT on Twitte ...
  • Establishment Media Re-Brands Racist, Bloodthi ...
    NY Times, BBC label Belhaj ‘grateful ally of the west’ as his fighters incarcerate, torture and kill black Libyans Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, September 5, 2011 Western-backed Al-Qaeda rebels are preparing to subvert the post-Gaddafi government in Libya according to intelligence ...
  • The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself… ...
    Zero Hedge Monday, September 5, 2011 As is well-known by now, following America’s collapse in the first Great Depression back in 1929, one of the first decisions undertaken by president FDR, not even a month following the first of four inaugural speeches (in which he notably said that “the only ...

Dandelion Salad

  • All empires eventually eat away at their own a ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page August 31, 2011 The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance ...
  • Looming Tragedy: As NATO Members Eat, Libyans ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 2 September 2011 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.) As Eid, the great post Ramadan celebration of that month of abstinence, self sacrifice and reflection, dawned on Libya, marked there this year ...
  • A Reflection on Dick Cheney, U.S. Terrorist by ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer August 31, 2011 Dick Cheney, now touting his very warped version of reality in his book, is nothing less than a war criminal and a torturer, of course, and, as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin suggests, his book should rightly be placed in the crime sectio ...
  • Rick Rozoff: Libya: NATO Acquires Military Out ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism August 31, 2011 Voice of Russia August 31, 2011 Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in John Robles Interview conducted on August 27 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website a ...
  • Voterism: A Government for The New Millennium ...
    by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org August 31, 2011 Are you tired of trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between Republican and Democratic politicians, and whether there’s a difference between liberals and progressives, libertarians and anarchist ...

Your New Reality

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    When You Wish Upon Hydrogen And Helium, With A Small Amount Of Lithium... The most widely accepted theories on how stars come into existence, from the dawn of the Universe and on, may need to be rewritten, after the discovery of a 16 billion year old star. Here's the current theory : ...
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    From the Maysles Brothers sensational, shocking Rolling Stones doco Gimme Shelter :
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    Keepon - A Toy Designed For Autistic Children - Will Hypnotize The Masses This Christmas A theurapetic robot designed to help children with autism learn how to interact with the world, and its people : Fortunately for the toy industry, and considering it has no arms or legs, Keep ...
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    The War Inside You, every second of your life :
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    Hurricane Irene : Apocalypse Fail From the front page of the New York Times print edition, Sunday, August 28 : The aftermath, via an AP headline that sounds like the title of an unwritten RadioHead song. Little Damage Seen In Many Places : From AP : From North Caroli ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • WikiLeaks: IDF uses drones to assassinate Gaza ...
    Human rights groups and international media have been reporting for years that the IDF uses unmanned drones armed with missiles in order to attack targets in Gaza. This is the first instance of it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israeli Arab MKs laud Turkey move to expel Isr ...
    Haneen Zoabi: "Just as Israelis are beginning to seriously consider a new social order, they must also consider a new diplomatic order in which Israel will pay a heavy price for its policy of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Mehdi Hassan: a State of Palestine would backf ...
    The Palestinians are walking into a trap of their own making. With the so-called "peace process" going nowhere, and with the number of Israeli settlements on the rise, the UN vote is an act of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Anti-Israel protest disrupts Philharmonic show ...
    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupt Israeli orchestra’s London performance. BBC Radio forced to suspend broadcast. UK minister tweets: Demonstrators turned entire audience pro-Israel. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Max Blumenthal, Joseph Dana: The exclusive rev ...
    One of the greatest misperceptions of Israeli politics is that the right-wing politicians who claim Jabotinsky’s writings as their lodestar perpetuate the most egregious violence against the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • TB Vaccine Candidate Shows Early Promise
    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report in the September 4 online edition of Nature Medicine that they have developed a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate that proved both potent and safe in animal studies. According to the World Health Organization, TB k ...
  • World's Smallest Electric Motor Made From a Si ...
    Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices that could be used in applications ranging from medicine to engineering.
  • Four Cancer Researchers Chosen for SWOG's 2011 ...
    Intensive three-day workshop gives cancer researchers tools to design and conduct national clinical trials in NCI cooperative group setting.
  • Nearly Half of Runners May be Drinking Too Muc ...
    Nearly half of recreational runners may be drinking too much fluid during races, according to a survey of runners by Loyola University Health System researchers.
  • Air and Paintball Gun Injuries Caused More tha ...
    Hospital emergency departments saw over 20,000 injuries due to air and paintball guns in 2008. This is a 20 percent decrease in ER visits for these injuries from 2006.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Turkey’s Blustery ICJ Threat
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Turkey-Israel relations have hit a new low after the release of the U.N. Report on the Flotilla. Actually, Turkey seems to be the one most angry with the report, and it is taking it out on Israel, by demanding an apology and expelling Israel’s ambassador.  Turkish bl ...
  • “We Don’t Do Gandhi Very Well”
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the most disturbing line from another invaluable WikiLeaks cable about Israel and the Palestinians.  As the cable makes clear, Israel is willing to use force — of the non-lethal variety, fortunately — to disrupt even completely peaceful protest a ...
  • Israel Would View ICC Investigation as “War” b ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A February 2010 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv to the State Department concerning a discussion with the IDF’s Military Advocate General about the Palestinian Authority’s request for the ICC to investigate Operation Cast Lead contains the following ...
  • Bernstein on The Palmer Report and My Claim Ab ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein has a pointless “gotcha” post at Volokh Conspiracy today in which he argues that the Palmer Report somehow contradicts my claim that blockade is only permissible in international armed conflict (IAC), whether between states or between a s ...
  • Washington Post Stories on the CIA and JSOC – ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I wanted to flag for reader attention two articles in the Washington Post on the CIA and JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), and their evolving roles as central counterterrorism fighters.  The first is by Greg Miller and Julie Tate, “Since Sept. 11, ...
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