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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

7 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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TVA's Generation Partners to focus on smaller projects
Knoxville News Sentinel
By Ed Marcum TVA is again retooling its Generation Partners renewable energy program to shift the focus from larger projects that generate 200 kilowatts per year to smaller ones that produce a maximum of 50 kilowatts per year to promote more ...
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Consumers Energy to lower renewable energy surcharge
The Detroit News
Consumers Energy said Wednesday it will lower electric customers' renewable energy surcharge from $2.50 to 65 cents a month, beginning with September bills. The Jackson-based utility has charged electric customers the $2.50 surcharge since September ...
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Building Turbines Completes Acquisition of Green City Development
MarketWatch (press release)
"Green City's eco-innovative technology and knowledge will be perfect additions to our renewable energy development roadmap," said John Graham, CEO of Building Turbines, Inc. Solar installations, energy audits, residential and commercial ...
GE to Deliver 188 Wind Turbines to E.ON Climate and Renewables North America
EnergyBoom
This news comes after just three weeks after E.ON Climate & Renewables ordered 112 of Vestas' V100-1.8202 MW turbines for an undisclosed wind farm. Both the GE and Vestas deals include maintenance and operational services. These orders are part E.ON's ...
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Ecology Coatings Nominated for the U.S. Green Chemistry Challenge
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ecology Coatings, Inc. (otcqb:ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, today announced that it has been nominated for the US Green Chemistry ...
Sabey generators approved in Quincy data center expansion
TechFlash
Sabey Corp. has received the green light from the Washington State Department of Ecology to add generators to its 520000-square-foot data center campus in Quincy, Wash. Construction on the Integrate.Quincy campus broke ground in April, ...
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Meeting to address water needs in Columbia Basin
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
The Washington State Department of Ecology is developing the 20-year forecast with assistance from Washington State University and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. "For the first time, we'll have a comprehensive evaluation of what ...
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UC Merced Connect: Photographer pursuing college degree
Merced Sun-Star
Brantley said he's talked to various professors about climatology, ecology and other subjects, asking "all of the questions I've accumulated over 30 years." In anthropology, Brantley hopes to combine his passions. He wants to be a naturalist — someone ...
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GreenHunter Water Announces Marcellus Shale Water Reuse Project
MarketWatch (press release)
This facility will receive and treat water used in hydraulic fracturing. The process includes the removal of chemicals and impurities in a sufficient amount for reuse in new wells scheduled for fracture stimulation. This is the latest product available ...
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American Water Launches New Smart Grid Partnership with ENBALA Power Networks
MarketWatch (press release)
The partnership, a result of the company's Innovation Development Process, establishes American Water as the first US water utility to use ENBALA's Smart Grid technology, which harnesses the flexibility of the company's demand-side assets to deliver ...
Missouri, Texas researchers use drought machine to help develop hardier, heat ...
Washington Post
The plant scientist and his colleagues at the University of Missouri are using a new device to deprive plants of water in an effort to better understand how they're affected by drought. The researchers hope their work will help develop ...
As water warms, big storms grow
Palm Beach Post
Warm water is a tropical cyclone's fuel. By August and September, water is bathtub-warm, as high as 85 or 86 degrees. Tropical systems are more likely to form off the African coast, giving them thousands of miles of open water to cross, ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • In Surprise Move, Iran Offers New Nuclear Deal
    Summary: In a move which appears to have been so surprising to Western officials that they weren’t able to muster their usual canned condemnation, the Iranian government has offered a broad-based new nuclear deal with the international community. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Bushehr connected to power grid
    Summary: Dr ShahriariOvercoming repeated setbacks, Iran has connected its first nuclear plant at Bushehr to the country's national electricity grid with an initial contribution of 60 megawatts of power. source: Then Hinduread more
  • Iran connects Bushehr nuclear power plant to ...
    Summary: TEHRAN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran has connected its first nuclear power plant, Bushehr, to the national grid with a supply of 60 megawatts, the state IRIB TV reported Sunday. source: China Viewread more
  • It's a TOTAL war, monsieur
    Summary: The winners of that "kinetic" thing in northern Africa (the Barack Obama administration swears it's not a war) - collectively described as Friends of Libya (FOL) - were all in a jolly mood as they gathered in Paris on Thursday, with no air-conditioning but potent odors of runny Brie ...
  • Iran fully cooperating, IAEA report says
    Summary: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano's latest report on Iran's nuclear activities shows that Tehran has taken great steps to cooperate with the agency, Press TV reports. source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Did Antarctica Yield the Remnants of a Dwarf P ...
    "This is a piece of a dwarf-planet size body that apparently no longer exists. We have here a sample of a strange new world, a sample we've never seen before." Allain Treiman, Lunar & Planetary Institute Rocks can be many...
  • "The Naked Quasar" --Proof that Black Holes "B ...
    The answer may have been found to the question of whether a galaxy or its black hole comes first -one of the most debated subjects in astrophysics today. A recent study suggests that supermassive black holes can trigger the formation...
  • Terzan 5! -- Ancient Dwarf Galaxy Remnant & So ...
    It's not the name a Japanese horror movie...Scientists have spotted stellar fossils in the center of the Milky Way, globular clusters orbiting in the central bulge which seem to have come from somewhere else. Like all fossils these are vital...
  • Whale "Billboard" --'Pop Culture' of the Plane ...
    Scientists are starting to consider the notion that whales might have a pretty cool culture. It looks as though Herman Melville picked the right hero for his epic novel. "Whales are pretty hard to study, but evidence is coming up...
  • A Giant Step Closer to Intelligent Computers t ...
    "We now have the seeds of a new architecture that can allow us to mine the boundary between the physical and the digital world in an ever more efficient way." Dharmendra Modha, IBM Research IBM has created prototype chips that...

Natural News

  • Chocolate and cocoa polyphenols vindicated in ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have finally published solid evidence to demonstrate the consumption of chocolate is associated with improved heart and vascular health. Writing in the prestigious BMJ (British Medical Journal), Dr. Oscar Franco and his team d ...
  • BMJ had secret financial ties to Merck during ...
    (NaturalNews) When a corrupt medical group wants to discourage dissidence from within, it targets a high profile figure to disgrace. This intimidates others from doing the right thing if it disrupts the lies and profits of Big Pharma.Dr. Andrew Wakefield was a high profile scapegoat, smeared wit ...
  • As wildfires rage across Texas, feds take cont ...
    (NaturalNews) As fires raged across central Texas for the past three days, local citizens sprang into action to protect their lives and property. Local churches opened their doors and began hosting refugees left homeless by the fires which have now destroyed more than 1,000 homes and 100,000 acr ...
  • SerratioPeptidase is a potent anti-inflammator ...
    (NaturalNews) Proteolytic enzymes are specific enzymes that metabolize protein. These enzymes are naturally produced by the human body and other living organisms and help carry out essential functions. Supplementing with these enzymes has shown to have a favorable anti-inflammatory effect on the ...
  • New green compliant 60-watt LED bulb to cost $15
    (NaturalNews) When the US federal government begins to unlawfully rip away Americans' freedom to purchase the light bulbs of their choice beginning on January 1, 2012, the only available choices will be poisonous compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, which are loaded with toxic mercury, or expensive ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Republican Party Wishes You a Happy Labor Day!
    To mark Labor Day 2011, conservative flame-thrower Michelle Malkin offered American workers a look back at the "top 10 union thug moments of the year." As it turns out, Malkin's union-bashing hyperbole differs little from the leading lights of the Republican Party. While Sarah Palin has decrie ...
  • Job One for Debt Panel? Pay for America's 9/1 ...
    Three stories will dominate American politics over the next week. As it turns out, they are very much related. On Thursday, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan which will invariably be opposed by Republicans claiming "America is broke." That same day, Congress' debt "super committee" wi ...
  • GOP Debt Ceiling "Uncertainty" Fueled Grim Job ...
    On Friday, Republicans deployed two talking points - one new, one old - in response to the grim news that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August. The same GOP leaders who in January gave credit to the "newly elected House Republican Majority" for the economy's strong performance in the fo ...
  • Unprecedented
    "Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner's move was unprecedented." While the New York Times was referring to Speaker John Boehner's refusal to grant the President's request for a September 7 address to joint session of Congress, "unprecedented" is apt description for the stone wall of Republ ...
  • Cheney Was For Auto Bailout Before He Was Agai ...
    In December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a stern warning to Senate Republicans opposed to President Bush's proposed bailout of the U.S. auto industry then teetering on collapse. "If we don't do this," Cheney cautioned his GOP colleagues behind closed doors, "we will be known as th ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell May ...
    Gareth Porter: In focusing entirely Hezbollah Special Tribunal refuses to acknowledge stronger evidence Al-Qaeda was responsible for the assassination
  • Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon
    Traboulsi: Wealthy elites directly control government, indebted the state to their own banks
  • GUEST INFORMANT: Colleen Nika & EHF
    Colleen returns to bring you a fantastic mix that she let me listen to a few days ago. Today, I’m excited to unveil Nightvision‘s first ever guest mix from one of England’s most visionary emergent threats, Endless House Foundation. This audience may particularly appreciate not only its expansive ...
  • Smog v. Jobs: Is Obama Admin Endangering U.S. ...
    As the nation headed into Labor Day weekend, the Obama administration quietly asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a plan to limit smog pollution that was projected to prevent 2,200 heart attacks and 23,000 asthma attacks annually. Obama said he made the decision in hopes o ...
  • Discovered Files Show U.S., Britain Had Extens ...
    Human Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry proving the Gaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks. The documents expose how the CIA rendered suspects to Libyan ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Oper ...
    This is a repost of a tremendous article by a true political insider, on just how much the GOP is owned by large corporations and willing to hold the country hostage to accomplish a few societally unhelpful goals (with bolding added by me until the sections on the GOP's principal tenets at the b ...
  • Top Activism Stories
    Some tip green activism news of the past few days for you: Related posts:Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week Daryl Hannah, Greenpeace USA Executive Director, & More Arrested at White House; Tim DeChristopher Sends Letter from Prison (+ Top Activism Stories) Top Activism Stories
  • Wireless Solar-Powered Keyboard for Macs (& To ...
    Here are some top green living stories of the past day or so, following this repost from sister site CleanTechnica on a new solar-powered keyboard for Mac users: Related posts:Solar PV to Double in US in 2011 (+ Top Green Living Stories) Solar-Powered 3-Wheeler — Icare Twike (+ Top Green Livin ...
  • Report: ‘Space Junk’ Accumulation Is Past ‘Tip ...
    Litter is not just a problem here on Earth; ever since the launch of Sputnik in 1957 by the former Soviet Union, and the commencement of the space race between U.S.S.R. and the U.S., a growing, orbiting field of debris has been slowly filling up the space surrounding our blue planet. The steady ...
  • Obama Reverses Course on Smog Rule
    In a surprise move on Friday, President Obama ordered the EPA to withdraw its proposed regulation to tighten ground level ozone standards. Seen as yet another retreat from the president, the decision brought claims of victory from his GOP and industry rivals, and quick rebuke from his supporters ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Lizzie Phelan: "Free Tripoli" - Just Don't Men ...
    Editor’s Note: In this article Lizzie Phelan begins to unravel the web of deception woven by mainstream media and presents the facts she is gathering from contacts inside Libya. ~Alexandra Valiente The war on Libya has not only been a war that has vindicated NATO’s claim to the most ...
  • Target Syria - Featured
    The United States is watching the violence in Syria "with horror”, said White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney recently. The “horror”, of course, is the result of ongoing U.S. interference in Syria’s internal affairs aimed at destabilising Syria. The U.S.-sponsored armed insurrection in Sy ...
  • America to the World: We Want Everything -- If ...
    Here we go again. The cheering crowds. The deposed dictator. The encomiums to freedom and liberty. The American military as savior. You would think we would have learned in Afghanistan or Iraq. But I guess not. I am waiting for a trucked-in crowd to rejoice as a Gadhafi statue is...
  • Israelis Begin Their Assault on the South Suda ...
    South Sudan: Another Kitchen-Garden? Its was expected; nevertheless, the announcement that agricultural development will be among the top cooperation priorities between Israel and South Sudan has raised fresh, deep fears in Cairo and Khartoum that intensive farming techniques and dams constr ...
  • Don't understand the Bank Bailout by the Fed? ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • Think Your Right to Vote is Secure? Think Again
    By @KYYellowDog We've known since at least November 2000 that repugs are all about stopping Democratic voters from voting. They've always pretended they're fighting "voter fraud," which doesn't exist but which gives them a nice cover for actual election fraud. Now they've dropped the pretense. F ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD @DavidGregory's non-existent insight and phenomenal douchebaggery were in full flower on Sunday. He thinks the Iraq war would have been more popular if it had "gone well." American's you see, don't care whether a war is justified, or that the administration lied us into it and got nea ...
  • The Teamsters celebrate Labor Day in Detroit
    By @MBersin James Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, had a few things to say in Detroit (via Media Matters): James Hoffa, Jr: ...Everybody here's gotta vote. If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong. [che ...
  • Lack of Regulation is What Kills
    By @KYYellowDog Let's end Labor Day with a reminder that strong labor, a strong middle class and a strong economy depend on strong regulations strongly enforced. The first government regulations, from more than a century ago, were put in place to save lives. Adulterated food and patent medicines ...
  • On Labor Day, Remembering Who Really Built America
    Once almost 20 years ago, when I was having a conversation with a young man whom I knew to be politically right-wing, the subject somehow moved to entrepreneurs. "Entrepreneurs built this country," he told me. I tend to be reluctant to get into arguments with people whose minds, I know, cannot b ...

Care 2

  • The Yellowstone spill: One more reason to get ...
    Our dependence on oil has eaten away at our paychecks, polluted our skies, destroyed our beaches and spewed more global warming pollution than any other energy source. The latest victim is the Yellowstone River, where an ExxonMobil pipelineSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Open Thread - 9/4/2011
    Personal news, blog news, a Jig Zone Puzzle, 2 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Justice for Mya the German Shepherd ! PLEASE S ...
    Mya was found less than 24 hours after she was shot thru her heart in a pile of dogs. She was on top of a decomposing pitbull and some other skeletons. A man came out (we couldn't see him as it was dark) and yelled 'What are you doing down there?Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Urge the Government to Protect Captive Chimpan ...
    The Humane Society of the United States, along with other conservation and animal protection organizations, filed a legal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking the agency to list all chimpanzees as "endangered," which would help protectSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Rescind Approval for the Environmentally Devas ...
    On August 26th, the US Department of State approved TransCanada�s 1,711-mile scar across America�s environmentally vulnerable Great Plains and Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL Pipeline will transport crude oil from Alberta to TexasSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Where Have All The Jobs Gone? And Who’s To Bl ...
    Hmmm… where to start? I know going in that my opinions and observations will be sure to gore everyone’s ox at some point, so I’ll try to be sure I don’t miss anyone. Oh, and the opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and not necessarily those of anyone else in [...]
  • Let Cheney’s Head Explode
    Thanks to Carl Hiaasen for a list of questions he recommends that should make Dick Cheney’s “head explode.” Cheney, who is touring touting his delusional version of his eight years as Vice President, generally has received kid-glove treatment from questioners and shied away from venues that pose ...
  • Labor Day Threats From Union President Hoffa ( ...
    Labor Day is a union holiday that the rest of us get to be off work, too.  The origins of Labor Day are somewhat disputed, attributed to two different men, both of whom were union leaders.  So let’s give thanks to the unions for Labor Day.  But nothing else! Let me put it another way.  [...]
  • Tea Party Eclipse (+ Larry On Radio)
    Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • Stunner! Maureen Dowd’s “One and Done?” (& Ope ...
    I’m struggling to complete a post on the dramatic, shocking shifts against Obama within the Democratic party and progressive movements. In the meantime, here’s a JOLT from the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd, in snippets: [...] And why is the White House so cocky about Obama as a TV draw against q ...

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 ...

Therapy News

  • Beauty – It’s More Than Skin Deep
    An unrealistic body shape has become the standard by which all celebrities measure themselves. As Demi Lovato bared her new and significantly fuller body at the MTV Video Music Awards last week, many were pleased to see that her treatment for eating problems seemed to be working. She looked vibr ...
  • New Study Suggests Mindfulness is Beneficial t ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: Mindfulness is a therapeutic technique that teaches one to focus entirely on the present moment as a method of coping with negative psychological symptoms. For first responders, including fire-fighters, this type of practice could be particularly beneficial. “Min ...
  • Substance Use Linked to Increased Intimate Par ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: Do men who abuse drugs perpetrate more relational violence? According to a new study of men who were receiving treatment for alcohol misuse, they do. “Importantly, male perpetrators’ antisocial characteristics predicted increased stimulant and cannabis use, which ...
  • Reward Delay Influences Impulsivity in Individ ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Impulsivity and distorted reward valuation is a common symptom in people with both schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Specifically, the manic state of bipolar includes extreme behaviors such as risky sexual activities, substance abuse and overspending, ...
  • Joyful Solutions to Relationship Difficulties
    Note: This article is for couples who have experienced love and compatibility but our having current challenges. This article is not for people who are in a relationship with someone who is abusive or unable to be present due to addiction. Abuse and addiction situations require other kinds of co ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to ...
    RH Reality Check (blog) STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory ... RH Reality Check (blog) As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southw ...
  • Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can ...
    Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can be stopped River Falls Journal Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. After blowing up more than 500 mountains in Appalachia to uncover coal seams, mining companies have dumped million ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaineer football, coal and symbols Charleston Gazette (blog) 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 rem ...
  • Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil prote ...
    USA Today Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil protest 6abc.com Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from a Masse ...
  • Checking North Anna - The Free Lance-Star
    Checking North Anna The Free Lance-Star Coal, also dirty, is dangerous to mine using traditional methods and devastating to the land when mountaintop removal is the methodology. Windmills kill birds, including eagles in California, and solar awaits a better battery. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speec ...
    Courtney Comstock / Business Insider: Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speech In Frankfurt  —  Josef Ackermann just gave a terrifying speech about the fragility of the Euro banking sector right now.  —  At a conference in Frankfurt he said, “It is an open secret that numerous European ...
  • Should Democrats Play by Republican Rules? (Br ...
    Bruce Bartlett / Economix: Should Democrats Play by Republican Rules?  —  Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul.  —  It's the nature of complex phenomena to have multiple caus ...
  • Swiss draw line in the sand to cap runaway fra ...
    Reuters: Swiss draw line in the sand to cap runaway franc  —  (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank shocked markets on Tuesday by setting an exchange rate cap on the soaring franc to stave off a recession, discouraging investors anxious about flagging global growth from using the currency as a s ...
  • Lawyer for Levi Aron Defends Her Clients, and ...
    Liz Robbins / New York Times: Lawyer for Levi Aron Defends Her Clients, and Herself  —  The death threats and hate mail, she says, have slowed, and she keeps her office door unlocked in defiance.  There, Jennifer L. McCann sits behind her desk, wearing leopard print pumps, poised for an argument.
  • Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of ...
    Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml: Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War  —  Any time a major bank releases a report saying a given course of action is too costly, too prohibitive, too blonde, or simply too impossi ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • “Traders will be prosecuted”
    US justice officials are taking their fight against illicit timber to China and Russia, where they want to boost awareness of the risks of breaking import laws. Jenny Johnson reports.In the untamed landscapes of eastern Siberia, where the last few hundred wild Amur tigers live, one of the world’ ...
  • Public storm in Dalian
    The triumph of protests against a Chinese chemical plant conceals sinister truths: from officials to activists, everyone is ignoring the rules, says Tang Hao.As Typhoon Meihua battered China’s east coast in early August, it also whipped up a public storm: a dyke protecting China’s largest manufa ...
  • Tibet’s mining menace
    The Tibetan Plateau holds the key to China’s accelerating demand for heavy metals, say authorities. But this plan is driven by resource nationalism rather than market logic, argues Gabriel Lafitte. China’s fast growth continues, largely financed by state investment and, until very recently, chea ...
  • Changes ahead in US corn belt
    As the American congress reviews 30 years of corn-ethanol subsidies, rising worldwide food costs and famine in east Africa are casting biofuel production in a negative light. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart ...
  • Hopes for a more humble Apple
    Campaigners fighting for cleaner IT in China would do well to study Apple’s own techniques – only when they get consumers on side, will they strike an effective blow, writes Guo Peiyuan.A coalition of Chinese environmental groups, including Friends of Nature and the Institute of Public and Envir ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Consumers - Increase Cook Temperature and Ther ...
    A new poll commissioned by the American Meat Institute (AMI) and conducted by Harris Interactive found that while almost nine out of 10 U.S. adults (88 percent) cook hamburgers or poultry (chicken or turkey) burgers, only 19 percent of those who do use an instant read thermometer to determine th ...
  • California Walnuts Recalled in Canada Due to E ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Johnvince Foods announced a recall on Thursday of some President's Choice and Reddi Snack walnuts because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw, shelled walnuts products were imported from the U.S. and packaged in Canada, the CFIA ...
  • Colorado continues to have a Listeria problem ...
    Officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced today that the state health department has identified a sharp increase in the number of Listeria monocytogenes infections reported to public health agencies. Nine cases were reported during August, with seven of the ...
  • A bit(e) of history - It is now time for the U ...
    According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains - O26, O45, O111, O121, O145, and O103 - are considered less pervasive, sickening “only” an estimated 37,000 people a year and killing nearly 30. E. coli O157: ...
  • Del Monte Fresh's suit against Oregon is a fri ...
    I have a knack for being subtle. As reported by the AP, Del Monte Fresh (you will love the background music) has threatened to sue Oregon Public Health and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, for playing a part in gathering evidence against the company’s cantaloupes that ten state health ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Elon Musk bets Dan Neil $1 million he ...
    Can a million dollars hold Elon Musks' feet to the fire? That's the value of a bet that Wall Street Journal auto journalist and all-around interesting guy Dan Neil and the Tesla Motors CEO reportedly have going over the release of the upcoming Model S. According to Green Car Reports, the ...
  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria
    Democracy Now! correspondent, Sharif Abdel Kouddous profiles renowned Syrian human rights lawyer, Haitham al-Maleh, for The Nation magazine. Below is an excerpt from A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria. Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his lif ...
  • Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's ...
    On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husbandâs suicide on Saturday ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. In part two of our interview, Joppa-Hagemann calls for a ...
  • "Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propagan ...
    By Amy Goodman Cheney remains staunch in his convictions on issues from the invasion of Iraq to the use of torture. Telling NBC News in an interview that “there are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington” as a result of the revelations in the book, Cheney’s memoir follows one by his ...
  • D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake
    The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates. More than 2,100 people say they’ll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy crude oil from the ta ...
  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...

Suzie-Q

  • 911 Remembrance: Understanding our government ...
    Aired September 14, 2001 Early Show Video compliments of IranContraScumDid911 You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don’t Know the Official 9/11 Story TvNewswLiews Monday, Sep 05th Jesse Richard I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! ...
  • Anonymous To Occupy Wall Street On September 17th
  • Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglade ...
    GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann dou ...
  • Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost ...
    The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper.  It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national ...
  • NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in ...
    Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklah ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report – 9.08.11
    Numerous issues are coming to a head — sovereign debt, mortgage debt, student debt are just a few I will talk about on Thursday evening on this week’s Solari Report.  There is growing panic as more and more people come to appreciate the instability in the various systems and leadership behavio ...
  • Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
    By Steven Greenhouse The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to [...]
  • Europeans Talk of Sharp Change in Fiscal Affairs
    By Louise Story and Matthew Saltmarsh As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union work The idea is to create a central financial authority — with powers in areas li ...
  • Valedictorian Speaks Out Against School
    Watch this valedictorian speak out about the education she received. This is a fantastic speech. The first mistake is people assume that people with degrees are educated. It’s so far from the truth. We need to change our educational system from the ground up. School is a joke. It doesn’t make y ...
  • Help Save One of America’s Heirloom Seed ...
    From a Reader: D. Landreth Seeds is America’s oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed varieties. Many of the plants and vegetable varieties we now grow in our gardens are there thanks to Landreth introducing them to this country. F ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • One of the top questions for our time: how wi ...
    Summary:  Peak oil might hit sometime during the next five years.  How might this affect the world economy.  We we examine important dynamics about oil prices, some misunderstood by many writing about Peak Oil — from doomsters to cornucopians.  The bottom line:  we cannot reliably forec ...
  • A small incident that tells much about America
    Summary:  This is a picture of America today, a snapshot of why we might be a nation in decline.  It’s a small incident, but typical of so much that takes place today — many times per month (week?  day?) around the nation.  Perhaps above all, it is about adults acting as children. (1)  On ...
  • Attritionist Letter #3: Do as you are told ( ...
    Summary:   Here we see the USMC version of The Empire Strikes Back.  After becoming one of the most modern land forces in the world, in a tactical sense, elements of the USMC’s senior leadership attempt a counter-revolution, dragging the Corps back to its WWI (second generation warfare) roots ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it. Free answers, so you cannot overpay. Update: The first question is excellent, timely and important.
  • Important information in today’s jobs re ...
    Summary: Today’s jobs report has important lessons about the economic cycle that America remains locked in.  These are blindingly obvious lessons, which we refuse to see, which is why we remain locked in this cycle. Today’s jobs report astonishes Wall Street because they refuse to see the natu ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Obama Administration Dropping Troop Levels in ...
    Fox News is reporting that the Obama administration plans to withdraw all but about 3,000 of the more than 40,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq, a move that is consistent with President Barack Obama’s repeated promises to end the war in Iraq. Sources told Fox that the number of troops begrudging ...
  • Iran Bans Two Reformist Publications
    According to the Iranian Studentsâ News Agency, ISNA, Rouzgar daily, a reformist publication, and Shahrvand-e Emrouz, a weekly reformist news magazine, were banned by the order of the Tehranâs prosecutor office on September 5. According to ISNA, Iranâs Press Supervisory Board, a watchdog organi ...
  • The Never Ending COIN Boosterism
    So to mark the 10th anniversary of September 11th, RUSI has an interesting compendium of pieces looking back on the significance of 9/11 from a national security perspective. John Nagl not surprisingly argues that as a result of 9/11, the US military has now become the most capable counter-insu ...
  • Do Robert Gates and David Petraeus Agree on "L ...
    Jeffrey Goldberg’s report on a meeting of National Security Council Principals Committee (NSC/PC), in which Secretary of Defense Robert Gates expressed frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence on the peace process and the fact that “the U.S. has received nothi ...
  • Cyber Attacks Against NATO, Then and Now
    Now that NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR over Libya is winding down, it is worth noting how few cyber incidents were directed in protest against the Alliance. Certainly, there was a cyber component to the liberation of Libya, but it was more about content and Internet freedom (the most newswo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Addressing Our Troubling Lack of Reagan
    This morning, Mitt Romney published an op-ed in USA Today laying out his economic plan, which will no doubt be read eagerly by people staying in hotels all across America. It's full of all the expected claptrap and flim-flammery, but there's one part I wanted to point out: Where President Obama ...
  • Scenes From the Campaign Trail
    Imagine it's the 2008 primary season. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and the other candidates troop up to Vermont for a candidate forum. The questioners, who ask a series of questions demanding fealty to a variety of liberal principles, are Bernie Sanders, Maxine W ...
  • Local News Is Awesome
    Even in the age of the Internet, local television news remains the top source of information for Americans. And it's almost undoubtedly the worst, a festering stew of fearmongering and triviality, with the occasional waterskiing squirrel thrown in. So for your Friday amusement, via The Hairpin, ...
  • Some Context on the Coming GOP Immigration Debate
    Could immigration be Rick Perry's Achilles' heel? Folks are beginning to ask. Republican primary voters, The Washington Post tells us, are pestering Republican presidential candidates about it. Ed Kilgore suggests it could be a problem for Perry in South Carolina. So we might be headed for a rep ...
  • What a Bad Politician Looks Like
    Hapless presidential candidate Rick Santorum is not a happy man. Watch how he talks about same sex marriage, even before being challenged, in this video taken at an event at Penn State (via Andrew Sullivan): "Does anybody go out there and make the argument as to why this a good thing, because ...

Buzzflash

  • Whichever Party Runs the Government in the UK, ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT  Tony Blair didn't just play godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's daughters by his third wife. Blair is the godfather. People generally pick close friends to honor by being a godparent, so Murdoch didn't choose Blair by accident. According to The G ...
  • Advice For Left-Wing Pundits (Including Myself)
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Instead of responding to every Republican Bit of lunacy --- a mistake I made More than once --- maybe it's smarter to Ignore every typical GOP tirade. Don't take the bait, stuck to your guns and Avoid becoming an accidental inflator Of the vile views of B ...
  • Labor Pains in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
    WALTER BRASCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend. For Kirk Artley, it means he has about six weeks left of employment. On Aug. 24, RR Donnelley, a Chicago-based megacorporation that claims to be "the wor ...
  • Forget About Their Reported Falling Out: For R ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT While they are not spitting images of each other, there's an eerie similarity in how the press is covering Rick Perry's first weeks on the campaign trail. In addition, Perry is counting on tapping into the same funding sources that paved the way for G ...
  • Who You Gonna' Believe: WikiLeaks or Rupert Mu ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Remember learning in school about how American revolutionaries changed ground warfare? For centuries soldiers from opposing armies marched in straight lines towards each other engaging in face to face battle. America's out-manned and out-armed  citize ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Are herbal remedies medicines?
    If herbal medicines are truly physiologically active, regardless of whether multiple ingredients are deemed necessary for efficacy, they should be assessed as medical products. The producers of such products should be able to offer evidence to prove this is the case and to offer safety advice re ...
  • Rare diseases and rarer treatments
    R&D into new pharmaceuticals has improved quality of life and boosted life expectancy significantly since the very first physician told a patient to take two aspirin. Despite the doom-mongering about antibiotic resistant superbugs and the emergence of new diseases, such swine flu, vaccinations, ...
  • Herbal remedy help or hindrance?
    Herbal remedy help or hindrance? – The safety issues surrounding so-called herbal remedies have been called into question again and again. However, new regulations aimed at protecting consumers will not encompass all products in the way legislators and scientists might have hoped, as some produc ...
  • Not slippery when wet
    Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do with rain treads, Ha ...
  • Catching up with The Alchemist
    Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could serve ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Hits New Low by Abandoning Smog-reductio ...
    After intense lobbying from polluting industries, President Barack Obama today abandoned badly needed plans to reduce smog and improve public health around the country. In a statement this morning, the president told the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its draft Ozone National Ambien ...
  • Obama Hits New Low by Abandoning Smog-reductio ...
    After intense lobbying from polluting industries, President Barack Obama today abandoned badly needed plans to reduce smog and improve public health around the country. In a statement this morning, the president told the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its draft Ozone National Ambien ...
  • CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla
    In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, which was leaked yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement:read more
  • CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla
    In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, which was leaked yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement:read more
  • President Obama Undercuts Science with Smog St ...
    President Obama today asked the Environmental Protection Agency to ignore its obligation under the Clean Air Act to update ground-level ozone pollution standards for the United States based on the best available science. Because of President Obama’s decision, the ground-level ozone standards wil ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Endless War and the Culture of Unrestrained Power
    Glenn Greenwald The Washington Post woke up a few days ago and realized that despite everything that has happened since 9/11 -- no successful Terrorist attacks on the Homeland in 10 years, a country mired in debt and imposing "austerity" ...
  • 9/11 and the Imperial Mentality
    Noam Chomsky We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world.read more
  • Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests ...
    Ann Wright The U.S. missile ‘defense” system is simply not defensive.  It is offensive in every sense of the word and it is increasing tensions throughout the world. Even on the day where the world is to think about peace--- World Peace Da ...
  • 10 Years of 9/11 Wars is Enough
    Peter Hart The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is sure to bring televised images of somber reflection. Looking back is, in some ways, easier for commentators and pundits than wrestling with the current state of Washington's so-called ...
  • Labor Day and the Spirit of Joe Hill
    Clancy Sigal l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die – "The Preacher and the Slave", a parody hymn written by rebel singer and labour icon Joe Hillr ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Tampa Bay thrives with help from desalination
    When faced with drought, vanishing lakes and wetlands, the Tampa Bay, Fla., region built a seawater desalination plant, and the environment is rebounding.
  • Farm storage-pond bill heads to governor's office
    A move to speed up the approval process for small farm irrigation ponds has earned the support of rival factions in the region's water wars.
  • Can Water Treaties Be Climate-Proofed?
    International agreements on how to manage rivers used by more than one country are too inflexible, making them poor tools to deal with changes in freshwater availability caused by climate change.
  • Lawmakers attend meeting about water
    Forsyth County was well represented at the recent meeting of the Joint Study Committee on Water Supply.District 23 state Rep. Mark Hamilton and District 27 state Sen. Jack Murphy, both Republicans from Cumming, attended the session, which focused on the tri-state water wars and on Gov.Nathan Dea ...
  • Isakson: States should be motivated for water ...
    jstone: August 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. Well, Isaakson just lost my vote. I didn't realize he wrote the AYP bill. My sister just retired from teaching and another family member is struggling to keep a job.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Isra ...
    Mike Coogan The Electronic Intifada In spite of US government statements about its displeasure with the expansion of Israeli settlements, US based organizations are abusing the 501(C)3 section of US tax codes to provide billions in subsidies to do exactly�that.
  • Israeli harassment campaign masquerades as mur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theater over recent weeks, in their investigation into the murder of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis.
  • Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish ch ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
  • Palestinians in Jordan refugee camp long to return
    John Ridley The Electronic Intifada Behind every door in Baqaa refugee camp, one finds tragedy as well as�perseverance.
  • Israeli court rejects al-Walaja's appeal again ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja are undaunted by a setback in their fight against home demolitions, the confiscation of land, the expansion of the nearby Jewish-only settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo and construction of a ...

The Wonk Room

  • Coming Soon: Wearing Shoes Through Airport Sec ...
    U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Politico that Americans will be soon be able to again wear their shoes through airport security. “We are moving towards an intelligence and risk-based approach to how we screen,” she said. “I think one of the first things you will see over t ...
  • Arizona Will Charge Families To Visit Their In ...
    A new Arizona law enables the Arizona prison system to charge people $25 a head before they can visit their friends or family members in prison. As David Fathi, director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, explains, the fee will ultimately undermine the state’s ...
  • Equality North Carolina Releases Detailed &#82 ...
    During next week’s special session of the North Carolina legislature, Republican leadership will be pushing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. While the amendment’s proponents have been busy consorting with anti-gay hate groups, Equality North Carolina has been raising awaren ...
  • ‘Bones’ Takes The Next Pop Culture ...
    I wrote back in May that I thought one of the core problems with Bones is that the show doesn’t know how to do a Big Bad â more specifically, the kind of Big Bad that would require the extended efforts and concentration of a bunch of highly trained and highly paid crime-fightin’ federal scientis ...
  • Bachamann On Muslims In 2005: ‘Not All C ...
    GOP presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a history of snubbing her Muslim constituents and saying Muslims in Europe are “taking over” and “diminishing” Western culture. The Washington Post reports that in her nearly five years in Congress, Bachmann has relied on her connection ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Ontario Election: NDP Should Win By Default
    I'm still dealing with the culture shock of moving from one of the country's poorest postal codes to one of the wealthiest. Back in Hamilton, the political contest was always between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP usually being the incumbent. Here in Forest Hill, it appears that a "conse ...
  • Wrong About Everything: Toronto Sun on Jack Layton
    "No cuts. GUARANTEED!" Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Because I'm going to be writing about the Toronto Sun's attempt to set the record straight about the economics of Jack Layton's politics, and the first thing we should remember is that this is the same piece-of-shit newspaper th ...
  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...
  • Thoughts About Jack Layton
    While I preferred the Jack Layton who held Paul Martin directly responsible for homeless deaths, to the "serious" statesman who wouldn't let his MPs heckle the war-criminal criminal moron psychopath bush II when that piece of shit slithered across our border and was making noises about addressin ...

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  • Toronto students at Queen's Park for 'Take It ...
    On the first day of school in Toronto some students were at Queen's Park calling for all of Ontario's party leaders to make secondary education affordable.
  • Plane model crashed in Chile had two previous ...
    The CASA C-212 aircraft model that recently crashed in Chile killing 21 people had several accidents before the incident, two of which happened early in 2011, one in Canada and another one in Indonesia.
  • Manitoba, PEI set to begin the campaign trail ...
    As Ontario voters are gearing up for next month's elections, two other provinces in Canada are also readying for a fall election. Manitoba will dissolve the legislature for an Oct. 6 election and Prince Edward Island is set in stone for Oct. 3.
  • Ontario Liberal Premier makes 45 new promises ...
    With less than one month until Ontario voters head to the polls, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled the party's platform during a rally in Toronto Monday. What is McGuinty promising this year? Do the numbers add up?
  • MIT scientists develop novel drug to fight vir ...
    Scientists operating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an antiviral drug that promises to end infections from virtually all known viruses, from the common cold to exotic hemorrhagic fevers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • None of Canada’s “bargain” subs operational
    None of Canada’s four Victoria-class submarines, billed as a “bargain” when they were bought used from Britain in 1998, are currently operational (David Pugliese, “All Canadian submarines now out of commission,” Postmedia News, 4 September 2011): The navyâs last operational submarine is now side ...
  • Granatstein: Don’t kill DND grants to academia
    Well-known Canadian military historian, commentator, and fan of the Rideau Institute (OK, we made that last bit up) Jack Granatstein is taking issue with the Harper government’s plan to cut Department of National Defence funding for the Security and Defence Forum (SDF), a program that supports a ...
  • Hundreds leave tributes to Jack Layton on Ceas ...
    I'm certain he will be remembered as second only to Tommy Douglas himself, one of Canada's greatest Canadians.
  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Dr. Josh Axe
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Josh Axe and click here to purchase The Real Food Diet Cookbook. Dr. Josh Axe on The Kevin Trudeau Show 05/10/11
  • The Dirty Little Secret of the Meat Industry
    May 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Mike Adams Are you eating meat cemented together by “meat glue”? It may sound shocking and far-fetched to most people, but a recent news story covered by the Australian Today Tonight show unveils how the meat you’re eating could be made up of scraps glued together ...
  • 9 Salads (Calorically) Worse Than A Big Mac
    May 11th, 2011 The Huffington Post By: Laura Shocker When eating out, we tend to think we’re “being good” by ordering an entrée salad instead of a big, juicy burger. But many of those salads have an undeserved health halo, packing in more calories and saturated fat than the poster food for an un ...
  • Bipolar Drug’s Long-Term Use Questioned
    May 11th, 2011 The Huffington Post The growing use of a popular drug in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder is based largely on a single, flawed clinical trial that may be steering doctors and patients away from drugs with a more established track record, a new review published this week ...
  • Recall Roundup: Migraine Medicine, Hair Mousse ...
    May 11th, 2011 WalletPop.com By: Linda Doell Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week’s roundup: Ortho-McNeil Neurologics recalled about 57,000 bottles of the migraine a ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...

War in Context

  • Gaddafi used torture squads in bid to preserve ...
    Reuters reports: Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi deployed special squads which held suspected opponents in shipping containers, tortured them for information about insurgent networks and disposed of their bodies in unmarked graves in a campaign to smash the revolt against his rule. Evidence gathered b ...
  • Endless war served by endless distraction
    Glenn Greenwald writes: The Washington Post woke up a few days ago and realized that despite everything that has happened since 9/11 — no successful Terrorist attacks on the Homeland in 10 years, a country mired in debt and imposing “austerity” on ordinary Americans, and the election of a wonde ...
  • Noam Chomsky: the imperial mentality and 9/11
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.”  And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like.  Here’s a little reminder of that moment just before September 1 ...
  • How not to become a whistle-blower
    The New York Times reports: When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.” After Mr. Le ...
  • Israel’s ability to kill Americans with impunity
    Roger Cohen writes: Here’s what the United Nations report on Israel’s raid last year on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara had to say about the killing of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen on board: “At least one of those killed, Furkan Dogan, was shot at extremely close range. Mr. Dogan sustained woun ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Hot off the press: Dessler’s record turn ...
    I’ve been given an advance copy, for which I’ve posted excerpts below. This paper appears to have been made ready in record time, with a turnaround from submission to acceptance and publication of about six weeks based on the July … Continue reading →
  • Hurricane Katia now category 4
    Katia, after dropping into tropical storm speeds has regained hurricane strength and has rapidly grown to a Category 4 hurricane. Fortunately, it appears it will miss the USA east coast. Here’s the latest tracks and bulletins: Track: Tracking map in … Continue reading →
  • CET -vs- METO: A problem with Temperature
    WUWT reader “Ari” tips us to this interesting puzzle on the Central England Temperature series and the Met Office temperature series in the UK doing some wonky diversion. Reposted from: TheWeatherOutlook  »  TWO Community Discussion  »  Weather  » A problem … Continue reading →
  • Journal Deliverance: The True Story of the Cli ...
    Guest post by Les Johnson (With apologies for lifting the Daily Bayonet tag line multiple times below). âInterconnectedâ is the theme of this post. It starts of course, with the resignation of Wolfgang Wagner, from the journal called Remote Sensing, … Continue reading →
  • Monday mirthiness: Autumn – time to test ...
    Josh provides some insight on how Kev and Gav test “the package”of  fireworks. For those finding this via web search, here is the context.

treehugger

  • The Vegan Zombie Cooks Fettuccine Alfredo (Video)
    Image credit: The Vegan Zombie Like the meat-loving chef that eats little or not meat most days, I am no vegan—but some of my favorite meals are either vegan or very heavily vegetable-centric. And with the Vegan Black Metal Chef preaching his dark, yet ethical, gospel, I am increasingly int ...
  • 5 Gorgeous Scarves From Etsy to Smarten Up You ...
    Photo: tocamade.etsy.com A lightweight scarf may just be fall's most ideal accessory: Delicate enough to wear on unexpectedly sunny autumn days but a welcome layer when the sun goes down or the wind kicks up, they're also an easy way to perk up simple fall outfits (from tees and blazers pa ...
  • Craft and Science are Combined in One New Exhi ...
    Photo: B.Alter The Power of Making is the new craft show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a mix of craft and science: a coming-together of the disciplines. With more than 200 objects, the show explores how different materials can be used in imaginative ways. Think edible b ...
  • Retired Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First ...
    Screenshot via YouTube The warm, golden glow of sunlight is one of those gifts in life we so often take for granted, though not only does it make life on Earth possible -- it makes it worth living. But for the first time in their lives, a group of chimpanzees in Austria were allowed to see s ...
  • Trinity Root is 9/11 Memorial Inspired by Real ...
    Image credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid under a Creative Commons license. Despite root systems living all around us, something about their form often grabs me. I'll often find myself doodling trees with roots stretching wide beneath a line of a journal page or notice concert posters or ...

Biosingularity

  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...
  • Researchers discover gene required to maintain ...
    University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life. The research team, led by Drs. David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the U of M Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Devel ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.On the same topic:Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication t ...
  • Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out
    National Nurses United (@NationalNurses) held a Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out in front of Rep. Ryan’s Janesville office. The purpose was to draw attention to the connection between Wall Street and Washington and point out the huge and growing income disparity in the US. NNU is demanding ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Jesse W. Dietrich, 20, of Venus, TX.Army Sgt. Andrew R. Tobin, 24, of Jacksonville, IL.Army ...
  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • ConAgra Anti-GMO "All Natural" Lawsuit Has Big ...
    Product labeling is an area where loopholes and CSR seem to converge. It is precisely these loopholes that make it easy for companies to engage in a degree of greenwash but there is a thin line between 'greenwash' and 'misleading the consumer.' Click here to read this article
  • Climate Change a Key Factor in Mexican Migrat ...
    MEXICO CITY - Climate change is playing an important role in spurring the migration of Mexicans to the United States, BBVA bank said in a report released in Mexico.Click here to read this article
  • What Does Climate Change Have to Do With Human ...
    Climate change is not just a problem for rivers and reservoirs that are running dry or forests that are seeing more wildfires, or polar bears who are running out of frozen habitat. It's a problem for people, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is tackling that problem. C ...
  • Taking On Big Ag: Is Monsanto Useful?
    Ira Wallace and other small organic farmers have banded together to challenge an mighty agricultural giant, arguing that Monsanto's patented transgenic seeds do not benefit society.Click here to read this article
  • Healthy Eating Does Not Always Come Naturally
    If there's one thing Americans are used to hearing nowadays, from others as well as ourselves, it's that we're overweight, unhealthy and destroyers of the environment. The food discussion in this country has taken on considerable steam, with childhood obesity rates dwarfing those of most other c ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...

My Care2 Picks

  • Psychology: "Why Can't Men Love Like Women?"
    Men are wired to act during times of high emotion, since emotion can lead to violence; there is a shut-off mechanism. men are actually more reactive to emotion than women, so they are genetically programmed to avoid it.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A New Federal Vaccine Planand a Bad State Bill
    Why are the vaccines piled on top of each other in one doctor visit? Because the medical establishment is afraid to ask parents to bring their children back over and over again. So for reasons of �compliance� and �convenience� the child�s immune system...Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Debt ridden country spends 1 Billion destroyin ...
    debt ridden country's "news" uses propaganda to trick its people to think otherwise, using "HUMANITARIAN REASONS" as the usual FAKE reasonSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Answer to Alan Simpson From Man in Montana
    We paid for Social Security, so we are entitled to it. Instead of cutting Social Security back, we should remove the $106.8 cap on the tax that pays into it. That way, we could lower the age to retire and even increase the pay.Submitted by Michael Dewey to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Extending Grace: A Lesson from Parenting
    I enjoy watching my preschooler play with her toys.She cares more about what a toy can do than what it was made to do.Those toys, even though they are being used incorrectly, are teaching her about the world around her.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...

Angry Indian News

  • Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues ...
    Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues Hostility Toward NATO Invasion of Libya: by Amiel Ungar - WikipediaIt was only with difficulty that the Western countries managed to extract permission... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • inteldaily.com: African Union Refuses Appeals ...
    African Union Refuses Appeals to Recognize Libya’s Rebels: VOA News - The African Union [AU] has rejected calls for recognition of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council. The decision highlights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time ...
    Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time and resources [uhurunews.com] The Obama administration has rejected a call for a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Garvey, calling it a waste of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | ...
    Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 23, Peru's Congress unanimously approved a new law that guarantees indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part 4)
    The current method for detecting oil and Corexit contamination in Gulf seafood is a simple sniff test, in which FDA inspectors hold a bag of fish up to their nose and if the inspector does not detect any “strange odors, the fish passes the food safety inspection test and is eligible to be proces ...
  • Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
    Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
  • The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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  • Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
    The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
  • Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
    As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq
    ShareThis8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq 07 Sep 2011 According to Iraqi police, a commando of armed men [Blackwater?] killed eight soldiers, among them an officer, in Haditha, in the Province of Anbar, and then burned the corpses. The attack was carried out last night; the commando, ...
  • CIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program i ...
    ShareThisCIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program is kept from leaving Pakistan 07 Sep 2011 A doctor who helped the CIA find 'Osama bin Laden' has been barred from leaving Pakistan, a commission investigating the killing of the Al Qaeda leader said yesterday. Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a phony va ...
  • Assange Lashes Back at Mayawati
    ShareThisAssange Lashes Back at Mayawati 07 Sep 2011 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, didn't take kindly to Kumari Mayawati's words that he should be sent to a mental asylum. So Mr. Assange lashed back. Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks called Ms. Mayawati, th ...
  • Mayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to ...
    ShareThisMayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to Mental Asylum 06 Sep 2011 Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, launched a scathing attack on Web site WikiLeaks Tuesday, a day after a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claimed she once sent an empty ...
  • Plan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline
    ShareThisPlan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline 07 Sep 2011 Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year's end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior m ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in the body. All vaccine d ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix solutions ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, s ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • The Elusive Kandahar Cougar & Murphy’s Laws of ...
    Sergeant TJ Vowell insists he's seen the mysterious big cats of Kandahar many times. Recently, Sergeant Vowell got shot.� 06 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan 4-4 Cav, Bravo Troop, 2nd Platoon 2nd Squad There is much talk about �jaguars� or �cougars� among the t ...
  • Censoring Afghanistan
    Censorship 04 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A message came today that a certain General has told me to unpublish "Battlefield Forensics."� �Battlefield Forensics� was first published on 18 August 2011. This dispatch violates no policies.� It has cleared all OPSEC hurdles.� Aga ...
  • Mosquitoes
    Afghan Soldier caught by infrared flash with specially modified camera. 31 August 2011 Afghanistan A Soldier sleeps in a body bag to keep off the bugs. American and Afghan Soldiers share an Afghan family compound overnight in the heart of Taliban country. During the dark nights, the ...
  • We Need Better Pants
    30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day�s work here.� Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill us ...
  • The Art, Science, and Carpentry of Explosives
    Blocks of M112 C-4 prepared for mission beside roll of M456 detonation cord and accessories. 29 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav There is much to know about explosives.� A wealth of art, science, and carpentry has developed around uncountabl ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • The Vegan Zombie Cooks Fettuccine Alfredo (Video)
    Image credit: The Vegan Zombie Like the meat-loving chef that eats little or not meat most days, I am no vegan—but some of my favorite meals are either vegan or very heavily vegetable-centric. And with the Vegan Black Metal Chef preaching his dark, yet ethical, gospel, I am increasingly int ...
  • 5 Gorgeous Scarves From Etsy to Smarten Up You ...
    Photo: tocamade.etsy.com A lightweight scarf may just be fall's most ideal accessory: Delicate enough to wear on unexpectedly sunny autumn days but a welcome layer when the sun goes down or the wind kicks up, they're also an easy way to perk up simple fall outfits (from tees and blazers pa ...
  • Craft and Science are Combined in One New Exhi ...
    Photo: B.Alter The Power of Making is the new craft show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a mix of craft and science: a coming-together of the disciplines. With more than 200 objects, the show explores how different materials can be used in imaginative ways. Think edible b ...
  • Retired Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First ...
    Screenshot via YouTube The warm, golden glow of sunlight is one of those gifts in life we so often take for granted, though not only does it make life on Earth possible -- it makes it worth living. But for the first time in their lives, a group of chimpanzees in Austria were allowed to see s ...
  • Trinity Root is 9/11 Memorial Inspired by Real ...
    Image credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid under a Creative Commons license. Despite root systems living all around us, something about their form often grabs me. I'll often find myself doodling trees with roots stretching wide beneath a line of a journal page or notice concert posters or ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UK to allow cameras in criminal courts
    [JURIST] UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke [Guardian profile] announced Tuesday that cameras will be allowed into criminal courts in the UK and Wales to improve transparency in courts. Two acts of Parliament [official website] in place since 1925 have banned filming [BBC report] in both Welsh ...
  • Ukraine threatens international arbitration ov ...
    [JURIST] Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych [BBC profile] on Tuesday threatened to take Russia to international arbitration over gas disputes. Ukraine relies heavily on Russian oil imports [Reuters report], and its territory provides transit for 80 percent of Russia's oil supplies to Europe. Y ...
  • Europe rights commissioner urges probes into s ...
    [JURIST] The Council of Europe [official website] Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg [official profile] on Monday urged [press release] Lithuania, Poland and Romania to investigate the roles their governments played in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] prog ...
  • Bahrain court hears protester appeals
    [JURIST] A special security court in Bahrain [JURIST news archive] heard the appeals of jailed anti-government protesters on Tuesday. According to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights [official website], the National Safety Court of Appeal, a court composed of military prosecutors and civilian an ...
  • Myanmar government forms human rights commission
    [JURIST] Myanmar's government on Monday formed the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) to promote and safeguard the country's constitutional rights. Members of the commission include former government officials, diplomats, academics, doctors and lawyers, some of whom have made state ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Leibowitz Leak Story in NY Times
    I’ve kept silent till now about the publication of yesterday’s front page story in the NY Times about my collaboration with Shamai Leibowitz in leaking U.S. surveillance of a covert Israeli campaign to drum up hostility in this country toward Iran.  I’ll have more to say about it by and by.  R ...
  • Netanyahu Gags Shabak Director, Subverts Kness ...
    For those of you who harbor quaint notions about Israeli democracy, tonight’s post should further disabuse you of your illusions.  In most western democracies, the legislative branch of government exercises some oversight of military and intelligence functions.  In the U.S., this includes Hous ...
  • As UN Vote on Palestinian Statehood Approaches ...
    I wasn’t going to write a blog post on this story, but I read one statement from a clueless U.S. official that was so galling I just had to, if only to express my outrage as a U.S. citizen at the increasing outrageousness and irrelevance of U.S. policy concerning Palestine.  The NY Times report ...
  • Still, Small Voice of Reason: While Israeli Me ...
    Israeli media is filled with headlines claiming the Palmer Report vindicated its attack on the Mavi Marmara and tut-tutting about Turkey’s threats against it.  You read headlines saying Erdogan is a dangerous megalomaniac, that Turkey aims to start a war, etc.  But you don’t hear hard-headed r ...
  • Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador, Ends Militar ...
    Turkey today expelled Israel’s ambassador and announced it would downgrade relations between the two countries to the lowest level possible, while still maintaining them.  This development, which was expected, is part of a round of measures Turkish officials have promised in response to Israel’ ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to arms in anger, ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
    � Dear Editor, � The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". � How can flying "an unlimited number"of U.S fl ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
    There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules that are ...
  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Sourcemap Crowdsources Product Supply Chains, ...
    This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media. Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from different places. The provenance of a work t ...
  • Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand ...
    This month's Carnival of Journalism, a site that I've organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same topic, was hosted by Kathy Gill, a social media consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Washington, who seized on the new social network that is Google+. Still in i ...
  • ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
    Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
  • Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
    Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...
  • PANDA Aims to Make Data Analysis Easier for Jo ...
    What's got rows and columns and sucks at data? Excel. Though to be fair, we misuse it. Excel was built for spreadsheets, but it's become most folks' go-to kit for poking at data. It's installed on your computer. It opens CSV files. It's what you know. Of course, databases are great at data, b ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - Al-Qaeda and Affiliates St ...
    On August 15, terrorist groups affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) struck seven cities with 15 separate car bombings and attacks against security forces, civilian markets, and religious pilgrims. This strike was the first such large-scale coordinated attack in Iraq since August 2010, when AQI ...
  • The Digital Edge - German Giant Bosch Invests ...
    Robert Bosch Venture Capital has led an investment of 7.1 million euro (about $10 million) in Ident Technology AG (Gilching, Germany), a developer of electric field sensors that can be used for 3-D gesture recognition. Bosch participated with existing investors MIG Funds and Danube Equity and th ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - The Post 9/11 Wars were Su ...
    It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That causes me to be wary. I prefer being the lonely voice, but the fact is that 9/11 was a defining moment in American history. On Sept. 12, 2001, few would have anticipated the course ...
  • Financial Jihad - Australian Newspaper Likens ...
    A leading Aussie newspaper, The Australian, has editorialized about the Nazi-style tactics of the anti-Israel boycott movement, patterned after and evolved from the one begun by the Hitler regime. During the 1930's, Hitler's Brownshirts, disrupted concerts featuring Jewish performers, and picket ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistani Non-Muslims Seek ...
    Members of minority religions in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim, are prepared to “take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. Tasser is the son of a prominent Muslim businessman and politician who was murdered earlier this year after he had ...

High Country News

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • Is The Tea Party Becoming Obama's "Jews?"
    For much of the past 2,000 years political elements across the world have taken a� group that looked and prayed differently, lumped them together and dehumanized them with the purpose of deflecting public anger their way and away the failure of politicians. I am talking of course about the Jews. ...
  • Some "Big" Sons of Bitches Visit Media Matters ...
    Note: there are two videos at the bottom of this post, if you cannot see them please click here. �Earlier today, two of my favorite Editors Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, and Big Government editor Mike Flynn joined their boss Andrew Breitbart (collectively described as the "Big" Sons of ...
  • Libya Begins to Fall Apart
    Dr. Waldman: �This creature of yours should be kept under guard. Mark my words. He will prove dangerous.� Dr. Henry Frankenstein: Dangerous! Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous?��. Dr. Waldman: You�re young, my friend. Your success [and Nobel Peace Pr ...
  • That Horrible Day in September: The Munich Oly ...
    (Note: There are two videos in this post one at the beginning and one at the end, If you cannot see them, please click here) Thirty-nine years ago. Yassir Arafat sent five Palestinian Terrorists into an Olympic Village dedicated to peace and international cooperation. Their successful ...
  • Israel’s Strategic Situation: Plenty to Worry ...
    By Barry Rubin Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic, I periodically remind people why I’m an optimist, at least when it comes to Israel. Even today, Israel’s security situation is as good as or better than it has been since any time since the estab ...

The Real Agenda

  • Bankers Play the Fear Card on Economic Outlook
    by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com September 6, 2011 Any time a major bank releases a report saying a given course of action is too costly, too prohibitive, too blonde, or simply too impossible, it is nearly guaranteed that that is precisely the course of action about to be undertaken. Which is why a ...
  • A Texas Ranger Warns about Government Enabling ...
    by Chuck Norris TownHall.com September 6, 2011 Ten years ago, after 9/11, Americans chanted, “We will never forget.” Today the White House is chanting that it is not “just about us.” Alex Jones’ Infowars.com recently documented several examples of how the feds have “dispensed with all pretense o ...
  • 9/11 Report Outline Written Before Investigati ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda September 6, 2011 The bag of surprises called the 9/11 cover-up is the gift that keeps on giving. A new video by Wearechange.org reports on how the outline used to redact the infamous report on the terrorist attacks perpetrated on the American people a decade a ...
  • China in Control of Most Rare-Earth-Element Pr ...
    by Joao Peixe OilPrice.com September 5, 2011 China is currently responsible for more than 90 percent of the worlds rare-earth production, and some analysts allege that China is using its de facto monopoly to lure a high tech companies to China. U.S. Magnetic Materials Association president  Ed ...
  • Swiss Central Bank Begins Manipulation of Franc
    Bankers move against Franc to try to save Euro. Swiss economy to suffer due to artificial manipulation. Associated Press September 6, 2011 GENEVA (AP) — In what experts called a last-ditch “nuclear option,” the Swiss National Bank set a ceiling Tuesday on the value of its currency, which has sky ...

Wind Watch

  • Bay County wind farm project divides township, ...
    “It’s friends, neighbors and even families against each other. It’s just too bad.”
  • Health board to analyze turbine complaints
    Falmouth Board of Health has received more than 90 complaints about the wind turbines in town since June 7. That total was ��led by 11 residents reporting headaches, nausea, concentration problems, anxiety, anger and the inability to sleep. Two-thirds of the complaints concern the Notus Clean En ...
  • Ferndale residents say ‘no’ to win ...
    The project would use up to 25 wind turbines along the ridge south of Ferndale. The turbines and towers would need to be transported up to the ridge, possibly through town.
  • Environmental groups welcome wind farm plannin ...
    The Victorian Landscape Guardians and the Australian Environment Foundation have welcomed Planning Minister Matthew Guy’s announcement of amendments to planning provisions for the establishment of wind farms in Victoria. The amendment reforms the way wind farms can be approved and prohibits a wi ...
  • Wind farm no-go zones to be established
    The State Government is set to introduce new planning rules that will restrict where wind farms can be constructed. Sweeping changes to the rules governing the construction of wind farms in Victoria will be gazetted today. The Planning Minister, Matthew Guy, has amended local government planning ...

Tippers News

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    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
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  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Fear ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Pass Bill, Save Jobs, Obama Admonishes Congress
    “In a run-up to his much-anticipated jobs speech next Thursday, President Obama is banging the drum for legislation that would save thousands â perhaps millions â of jobs around the country right now.” (Christian Science Monitor) He believes in the tooth fairy too. FEE Timely Classic “Why Govern ...
  • Public Increasingly Pessimistic about Economy
    “Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obamaâs inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.” (Washington Post ...
  • President Makes False Claims about Tax Cut
    “The presidentâs Labor Day speech in Detroit featured an assertion that contained a number of warning signs that it might be an errant fact: âbiggest middle-class tax cut in history.â” (Washington Post) A president fibs? FEE Timely Classic “Paying for Tax Cuts?” by Sheldon Richman
  • Fed to Push Interest Rates Lower
    “The Federal Reserve is moving toward new steps aimed at lowering interest rates on mortgages and other kinds of long-term loans, without making another massive infusion of money into the economy.” (Washington Post) Low interest rates helped get us into this mess. FEE Timely Classic “Quantitativ ...
  • Obama Will Ask for $300 Billion Jobs Plan
    “President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.” (Bloomberg) Whereâs the money coming from? FEE Timely Classic “What Is See ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, students learn: “Show, ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there that ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...

Facing South

  • Should the poor be allowed to vote?
    Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
  • Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
  • Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
    A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Golden Laws of Prosperity
    Implement policy which is as good for as many people as possible. Keep the rich poor. Punish negative externalities, encourage positive externalities. Tax economic rents punishingly. Do not allow pipeline companies (app stores, telecom companies, railways, etc…) to extract monopoly profits. Enfo ...
  • The basics
    To paraphrase many of the greatest religious and moral leaders, there is only one law: imagine you are in someone else’s shoes, then treat them as you would wish to be treated. Or, put another way, act towards everyone as if you loved them. The vast majority of political and economic commentary ...
  • Again, the absolute inability to consider obvi ...
    The NYTimes on solutions to the scarcity of important drugs which are generic and thus of little interest to big pharma: Beyond limited responses, like using the F.D.A.’s discretionary powers to expedite temporary imports of drugs that are sold overseas but not here, there are very few ways to e ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Fukushima nuclear crisis, six months later
    The meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant has led to an ongoing crisis in Japan. Nature Video provides an update on efforts to stabilize the reactors, and the consequences of the emergency for Japan and nuclear power worldwide. Check out our previous video on the ...
  • Directly comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl
    Zoom out to view Chernobyl's radiation over Fukushima. Rotate to the Ukraine to see Chernobyl in context. Download file (source: UNSCEAR/MEXT)This embedded version of Google Earth may have limited functionality on some browsers.This Sunday (11 September) marks the six-month anniversary of the t ...
  • Dutch universities ponder merger
    Posted on behalf of Katrin Kohnert What do you do when science budgets stagnate? Three large Dutch universities think the answer is to intensify collaboration. They may even go as far as to merge with each other. Speaking at the opening of the Dutch academic year on 5 September, offic ...
  • Balzan Prize winners announced
    Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. Two scientists have been awarded the prestigious International Balzan Prize for 2011, announced in Milan last night. American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, Russell Lande, currently a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College, London is ...
  • Illegal drug sales threaten vultures in India
    Critically endangered vultures in India are still at risk of exposure to the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, through widespread illegal sales of the drug. The Indian government banned use of the drug for veterinary purposes in 2006 after it brought vultures to the brink of extinction. Vul ...

new geography

  • Obama's Economic Trifecta: How The President H ...
    President Barack Obama�s �pivot� on jobs this week shows that the president has finally � if belatedly � acknowledged the real misery caused by the Great Recession. However, it does not shed his complicity in the ever deepening employment crisis. Unemployment remains high, exceeding 9% � 16% if ...
  • Applying Lessons from the UK Riots to Australia
    Many commentators correctly attribute the UK rioting to decades of misgoverning and miseducating youth. Contributing to this has been the breakdown of family discipline, the replacement of working fathers as role models and the creation of a culture of entitlement. Tony Blair has talked about ...
  • The Golden State Is Crumbling
    The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rea ...
  • Whatever Happened to 'The Vision Thing'? Part II
    More than two years ago (March 2009, to be precise), New Geography published an article I wrote, entitled Whatever Happened to ‘The Vision Thing'?. It began: When I was in elementary school, I remember reading about the remarkable transformations that the future would bring: Flying cars, manned ...
  • Millennials Have the Answer to the Country’s F ...
    America is about to enter a presidential campaign that promises to be filled with divisive rhetoric and sharp differences over which direction the nominees want to take the country. This will be the fourth time in American history that the country has been sharply divided over the question o ...

GM Watch

  • EU court puts limits on modified honey
    1.EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey 2.Court ruling on GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence NOTE: ECJ file available at http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=FR&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-442/09 EXTRACT: "Zero tolerance must mean just that: traces of GMOs, no mat ...
  • Changing our global approach to farming
    EXTRACTS: "We have tried to have ever more efficient farming, with fewer people, more machines and a greater dependency on pesticides, fertilisers, GM crops and energy, using 10 kilocalories to produce 1 kilocalorie. But that is only possible if there is cheap oil. The system is basically bankru ...
  • Let bees pollinate, not contaminate
    FRIENDS OF THE EARTH EUROPE Press release For immediate release: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 *** EUROPEAN COURT TO RULE ON GM CONTAMINATION IN HONEY Let bees pollinate, not contaminate, says Friends of the Earth Europe *** Brussels/Luxembourg, September 6, 2011 – The European Court of Justice ( ...
  • Are GM crops a dangerous diversion?
    1.Will Genetic Engineering Divert Us from Essential Food Production Science? 2.Engineered Pest Problems NOTE: The Union of Concerned Scientists has started a new blog covering all of the issues they work on. Several scientists and analysts that work on food and agriculture issues are part of t ...
  • Are GM crops a dangerous diversion?
    1.Will Genetic Engineering Divert Us from Essential Food Production Science? 2.Engineered Pest Problems NOTE: The Union of Concerned Scientists has started a new blog covering all of the issues they work on. Several scientists and analysts that work on food and agriculture issues are part of t ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
    The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment.  The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidl ...
  • Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The L ...
    If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011.  So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy.  But your day may be coming soon.  This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.  The ...
  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...

Desertification

  • A FOOD WALL to alleviate hunger and malnutriti ...
    A FOOD WALL FOR ARID REGIONS, COMBINING SACK GARDENING WITH LIVE NAVAJO WILLOWS The numerous advantages of sack gardening and growing drought-tolerant Navajo willows have been described earlier: (a) Sack gardening http://desertification.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/farming-in-small-spaces-by-filling ...
  • Drought prediction (Google / NOAA)
    VIDEO Seen at : http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/video/2011/predicting-drought-in-east-africa Predicting Drought in East Africa Brad Lyon is a Research Scientist with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. An expert on climate conditions in East Africa describes the climat ...
  • Boy building a windmill (Google / WBIR)
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.wbir.com/news/article/182285/8/Author-inspires-Pellissippi-students-with-true-story Author inspires Pellissippi students with true story Written by Emily Stroud ……………………. The curious teen knew pumping water and generating electrici ...
  • Dew harvesting (Green Prophet)
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/06/tal-ya-water-dew-irrigation/ Tal Ya Water Irrigation Trays Make the Most of Dew Karin Kloosterman The ancient Israelites used stones to collect dew from the air, now the modern ones are taking the idea further. A new Israeli company … Continue reading →
  • Climate change and drought (Google / Canadian ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/news/1496/drought_in_east_africa_is_it_due_to_climate_change.aspx Drought in East Africa: Is It Due To Climate Change? The images of starving children in East Africa have got a lot of people talking about whatâs c ...

The Paper Trail

  • Congressional reform and interoperability stil ...
    National Security Bipartisan Policy Center report says some post-9/11 recommendations haven't been implemented The twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center send smoke billowing across Manhattan's skyline. Marty Lederhandler/AP file Disorganized congressional o ...
  • 35K 'terrorists' convicted worldwide after 9/11
    WorldNational Security Nearly 120K arrested for acts of terror such as holding a political sign or supporting protestors U.S. Capitol security Charles Dharapak/AP At least 35,000 people worldwide have been convicted as terrorists in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks ...
  • Appalachian-area vies for huge new Shell gas p ...
    The Politics of Energy Natural gas refinery could bring 17K jobs, and an onslaught of risks A water treatment worker tests samples of treated water in Pennsylvania. Keith Srakocic/AP file Big industry may be coming back to the northeast United States. Shell Oil Co. is ne ...
  • A crawling issue: Head lice treatments worse t ...
    Perils of the New Pesticides Head lice Gilles San Martin/Flickr As children flock back to school, the annual plague of head lice lurks beyond the classroom doors.
  • India: U.S. family planning aid in limbo
    World Unmet goals, unspent money threaten heralded program Crowds in a market area of New Dehli. Manish Swarup/AP A U.S. government-sponsored family planning program in India has more than $40 million in the bank—and no one is sure what to do with it.

backofthebook.ca

  • The Globe’s cracked Alberta history
    By Brian Brennan Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives are celebrating 40 uninterrupted years in power. A Globe and Mail reporter talks to some unnamed "Tory stalwarts, opposition leaders and observers." He concludes that the PC dynasty was "forged in the fire of Alberta’s hatred for Pierre Tru ...
  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...

libcom

  • The Prince and the Pauper
    “The general lesson learnt by political England from its experience of pauperism is none other than that, in the course of history and despite all administrative measures, pauperism has developed into a national institution which has inevitably become the object of a highly ramified and extensi ...
  • The rebellion in Chile
    Chile_anarquista.jpg A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9 at 4 p.m.. This flier explains o ...
  • Don't Riot Just Buy It
    Music Video inspired by the LONDON RIOTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZz3MdGBiY
  • Unions Call for House Committee Investigation ...
    Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Commit ...
  • Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, summer 2011 (ful ...
    punkway_zine_6_eng.jpg We do not need sympathizers. We do not need someone who like our magazine. We do not need people who carry it in a backpack. We need those people who are walking with us nip an ...

Free Range International

  • Magical Thinking in the Land Down Under
    Like most humans, I’m a creature of routine.  Every morning when I get into the office I take the first 20 minutes or so of the workday and dedicate them to browsing the top news headlines.  Obviously, I read a lot about Afghanistan.  I’ve been reading at least one snort-worthy article per day f ...
  • Masters of the Obvious
    The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released.  It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (but not our b ...
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
    A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge [...]
  • The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
    “NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality.  The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.  
  • WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
    Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
  • “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
    birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends.  Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released.  Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “killing” on May 1, -  the birth certifi ...
  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

  • More Reasons Solar Panels are a Good Investmen ...
    Solar Panels Shade(1) your Roof Thus helps lower your Summertime Cooling Costs because: Study Shows a buildingâs ceiling was five degrees cooler under solar energy panels than under an exposed roof. Solar Panels Protect your Roof Thus increasing the Lifetime Expectancy of your Roof *Scott’s Cont ...
  • creating sustainable energy systems of the future
    The climate problems are becoming ever more urgent, but the energy systems of the future present even more issues. Technologically, we have good opportunities for creating sustainable energy systems However, climate change is not the only energy challenge: We need energy services to drive global ...
  • Hydrogen Energy Storage
    a practical, multi-home storage solution for surplus energy Creative Energy Homes (CEH) project, which aims to stimulate ideas for sustainable design and promote new ways to provide affordable, environmentally sustainable and innovative housing. Under a new phase of the CEH project, the universi ...
  • Bay Window Detail Drawing
    Custom Bay Window Detail by Scotty Scotts Contracting Dual Pane with Blinds in the Glass Energy Star Rated Windows for St Louis Area Advanced Framing Techniques All Exterior Joints Sealed with Caulk and Dow Window and Door Sealer 2×4 and 2×6 Framing Members 1/2 ” plywood sheeting Prefinished Oak ...
  • Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
    Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Study Guide on Humanitarian Crises
    I have become extremely cynical about the epidemic of humanitarian crises and political instability in the oil-rich regions of the third world. There is always a back story of US military or covert intervention, which is rarely – if ever – reported in the mainstream media. The story line is so ...
  • Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective
    Book Reviewers Needed – Free Download I have just finished my third book Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective. It’s my first non-fiction work, a collection of essays on change making. Right now it’s only available as an ebook. However it should be out in soft cover by the end of the ...
  • The Bush EPA and Fluoride
    The following is a second excerpt from my submission to New Plymouth District Council on fluoridation. It describes a study the Bush EPA commissioned from the National Research Council that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dental fluorosis - present in 41% of US teenagers The ...
  • Ending Water Fluoridation: One We Can Win
    At present the residents of New Plymouth (population 55,000) are embroiled in a battle to end water fluoridation. A group of about 90 of us have been organizing since April. You can visit our Facebook page Fluoride-free Taranaki at http://www.facebook.com/groups/207748655919333/ - you can even j ...
  • Sticking It to Ron Paul
    It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar to the hatchet job the “alternative” media performed on Ralph Nader in 2004 and 2008. Cou ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
    Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she's talk ...
  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
    "Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe ...
  • This Labor Day, we need protests
    Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Every gift matters
    United Way Toronto aims high, with a $116 million fundraising target, and it’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t miss.
  • One member, one vote
    The NDP can do itself and other progressive-minded Canadians a favour by ditching the rule that sets aside a quarter of the votes at leadership conventions.
  • Breaks for students and senior citizens
    A big break on university tuition, help to keep frail seniors in their homes, a long-term promise of better transit between cities and a tax reduction for small business. These are ...
  • Developers line up while public shut out
    The Ford administration’s plan for Toronto’s waterfront smacks of old-time, backroom land dealing.
  • Keep bicycles off the sidewalks
    The dramatic increase in people riding bikes means we need stronger, simpler rules on where they can ride.

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Australian school curriculum to force acceptan ...
    School students are being targeted in a major new push to force acceptance of multiculturalism by “embedding” it in the national curriculum. Young Australians will be trained in “cultural competency” during classes as part of the Gillard Government’s plan to boost support for multiculturalism an ...
  • Italians fired up at tax hike up
    Tens of thousands of people are stranded. Factories are closed, airports and train stations deserted. An entire nation comes to a standstill as Italy’s largest trade union, the CGIL, calls on its 6 million members to strike. The nationwide transport strike was called in protest at Prime Minister ...
  • Spaniards Protest Austerity Measures
    Thousands of Spaniards have launched rallies in the Spanish capital Madrid against their government’s austerity measures, Press TV reported. The three-day protest starting on Tuesday was initiated by Spain’s two largest trade unions, the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) as well as the Unio’n General de ...
  • Swedish police: Islamic terrorism is key threat
    Islamic terrorism remains the greatest threat to Sweden, according to Anders Danielsson, head of Sweden’s Security Service (Säpo). Speaking at a seminar on Monday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the US on September 11th 2001, Danielsson said that the strength o ...
  • Wikileaks: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has Cancer
    Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank governor Gideon Gono as saying Mr Mugabe’s doctors had urged him to quit. The cable, writt ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • How Brian Moynihan Forced Sallie Krawcheck Out ...
    Sallie Krawcheck got Sontaged. Krawcheck, the most powerful woman on Wall Street, stepped down Tuesday night from her position running Bank of America 's two wealth management units. She has no immediate plans for the future, said a person familiar with the matter. Krawcheck ran the Merrill Lyn ...
  • Jay Carney: Hoffa Speaks for Himself
    At the White House press conference today Jake Tapper questioned White House mouthpiece Jay Carney about civil discourse (among other things) and the statements made by Teamsters boss James Hoffa during an opening act for President Obama. Predictably, Carney refused to disavow Hoffa’s remarks, ...
  • Bank of America Shakeup: Krawchek, Price Ousted
    Bank of America ( BAC ) CEO Brian Moynihan is replacing wealth management head Sallie Krawchek and consumer and small business banking chief Joseph Price, his first major management shakeup, the bank announced late on Tuesday. The bank appointed two COOâs, with David Darnell overseeing consume ...
  • Obama focus on policy, not polls – White House
    The White House is downplaying several new polls showing President Obama’s job approval ratings plunging to new lows along with rising public concern over high unemployment and the sluggish economy
  • Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Gets Longer Than Expecte ...
    Carol Bartz, who still had over one year left on her contract with Yahoo, was fired via a telephone call on Tuesday. She was hired in January of 2009 to grow Yahooâs revenues, manage Yahooâs valuable Asian assets, and combat Googleâs takeover of Yahooâs market share. Since accepting the positio ...

Groklaw

  • The Microsoft revolving door: Former Powerset ...
    Again, as I've wondered aloud in several recent posts on various Microsoft defections, what gives? Why are folks jumping ship now (besides the oft-cited stock-vesting reasons)? One of my readers with good knowledge of Microsoft's inner-workings had an interesting theory. "The opportunities for ...
  • Learning Unix
    As I meet new Unix hackers using Linux or Mac, sometimes I am surprised at how few Unix tricks they know. It is sometimes painful to watch developers perform manual tasks on the shell. What follows are my recommendations on how to improve your Unix skills, with a little introduction as to why y ...
  • Google Said to Be Raided by South Korean Antit ...
    Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Seoul office was raided by South Korea's antitrust regulator as part of a probe into whether the owner of the world's largest search engine unfairly blocked competitors in the mobile-search market, a person familiar with the investigation said... "We will work with the FTC t ...
  • TornadoGuard
    The problem with average star ratings. - xkcd
  • Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg gives historica ...
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she probably would not have made it to the high court under the current climate claiming the confirmation process has become more partisan. "I wish we could have a magic wand and go back to those days when the process was truly bipartisan ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Governor Jerry Brown still a moonbeam?
    In 1976, when Jerry Brown was California governor the first time, Chicago columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed him “Governor Moonbeam.” The moniker stuck, even if Royko later apologized for it. But perhaps he had a point after all. Starry-eyed, perky optimism does indeed have its place. Without ...
  • Rusko live dubstep 2010
  • Corporationwiki
    Look up a person or business on Corporationwiki to view the links to other entities and people. It uses public data from California Secretary of State, Florida Department of State and Texas Secretary of State. Here’s the data for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. [...]
  • Storing solar power directly in molten salt
    Instead of focusing heat from the sun onto a central tower to power turbines and storing excess heat in molten salt, researchers at MIT propose putting the heliostats on hillsides and using them to directly heat the salt. They say this could provide power 24/7 when the sun is out during the day.
  • Solyndra bankruptcy will hurt Obama, renewable ...
    Solyndra executives donated and raised large sums for Democrats and Obama. The company got over half a billion in loan guarantees. The money is gone and Solyndra just filed for bankruptcy. Republicans predictably and maybe accurately think the whole deal is stinky and plan investigations. Even ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Libya: The longer view
    The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
  • I've been on vacation...
    ... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...

frogblog

  • Closing rural railway lines will mean more tru ...
    The crash between a logging truck and a school bus in Ruatoki yesterday was a tragedy. I am sure that, like me, you are hoping that the children involved will be able to make a full recovery. The crash reminded me of what a transport advocate said some days ago when she came down to [...]
  • Vehicle emissions standards will save lives
    In general, my views on transport funding and policy are pretty diametrically opposed to the Minister’s. That’s why it nice to see the Minister of Transport is championing at least one cause we can agree on. He has remained resolute in his determination to improve vehicle emissions standards for ...
  • Open letter to Judge Philippa Cunningham
    Jan Logie is ranked 9th on the Green Party list.  On current polling, she is a certainty to be an MP after the next election.  Jan has her own blog site, and today she posted an open letter there to Judge Philippa Cunningham, who last week discharged without conviction a man who admitted sexuall ...
  • Book reinforces Green criticism of NZ deployme ...
    Nicky Hager’s Other People’s Wars, shows that New Zealand was more involved in the Iraq war than most people think. The book’s reinforces the points I was making at the time, that our Orion and frigate in the Gulf, and our army engineers in Basra, were actually assisting the US/UK war effort. Ou ...
  • General debate, September 4, 2011

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazilian Indians demand Shell leave their land
    Guarani man. Shell is using sugarcane planted on Guarani land. © Fiona Watson/ Survival Indians of the Guarani tribe in Brazil have demanded that energy giant Shell stop using their ancestral land for ethanol production. Ambrosio Vilhalva, a Guarani man from one of the communities affec ...
  • Borehole breakthrough for Botswana’s Bushmen
    Two men from Kikao wait for water at the Mothomelo borehole © Vox United/Survival Survival International has been speaking to Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as they celebrate drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time in nine years. It marks a significant ...
  • Savannah Miller designs t-shirt for Survival
    Savannah Miller modeling her t-shirt designed for Survival. © James Betts / Survival Fashion designer Savannah Miller has designed an exclusive limited edition T-shirt for Survival International – inspired by the Bushmen of the Kalahari in Botswana and their struggle to defend their lands ...
  • New signs indicate uncontacted Amazon Indians ...
    The uncontacted Indians of this region made worldwide headlines in February 2011. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival A recent expedition in the western Brazilian Amazon has found new signs of uncontacted Indians, indicating that they are moving to different parts of the forest. It is likely ...
  • Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 3 ...
    Nukak mother and child. © David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. The campaign responds to a barrage ...

Montreal Gazette

  • CBC shouldn't be using our money to fight openness
    Taxpayers are rightly upset that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is using public funds to challenge a court ruling that the publicly funded broadcaster should be more open as to how it is spending their money.
  • Quebec's seat allotment in the Commons
    Opposition parties in the House of Commons are generally favourable to the idea of giving Quebec special dispensation in the allocation of Commons seats.
  • Montreal and its place in the world
    We came in 16th this time in the widely touted Livability Survey conducted annually by Britain's the Economist magazine. We rated even lower, 24th, in this year's Monocle magazine Quality of Life Survey. In this one we came second-last among the 25 towns surveyed. Well, big deal.
  • Some political mergers have more appeal than o ...
    The gush of talk this week about a merger between the federal Liberal and New Democratic parties was for the most part mediagenerated hot air in late-summer days when nothing much was stirring in the nation's capital, save a gathering of Liberal caucus survivors still in collective shock from th ...
  • It's in everyone's interests to keep kids in s ...
    There are high hopes for a new program, to which the provincial government is contributing $1.5 million, aimed at encouraging young Quebecers to complete their high school education.

Food World Order

  • 20 unusual uses for honey you never thought of
    from moisturizer to apocalypse prepper... from ecosalon: It was brought to my attention last week that September is in fact National Honey Month. Honey gets an entire month all to itself? Why yes, it certainly does. Turns out that Americans consume 1.5 pounds of honey per person annually, and ...
  • monsanto's pesticide problems & corporate envi ...
    from forbes: Monsanto, the world’s largest agriculture seed producer, is under fire after scientists in the U.S. recently discovered what they believe to be a case of crop-eating bugs developing a resistance to the company’s genetically modified corn plants. Some researchers believe that the dis ...
  • 9/1 binge & purge: sugar, slave, blast
    Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey's* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
  • usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
    from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
  • ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
    from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit ou ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from M ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
    The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment.  The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidl ...
  • Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The L ...
    If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011.  So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy.  But your day may be coming soon.  This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.  The ...
  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

Facing South

  • Should the poor be allowed to vote?
    Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
  • Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
  • Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
    A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 15 Must Have Android Games
    Android is growing at a stupendous rate and so is Android Market. Number is applications in Android Market is nearing 300,000 now and the rate of growth is only increasing. Trying to pick the very best of Android games from that enormous list is tough. I will try to give it my best shot anyw ...
  • 12 Things New in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric[Screensho ...
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is marching ahead. Through our detailed reviews of Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 releases, we followed Ubuntu 11.10 in its each and every developmental phase so far. A lot of things have changed since the third alpha release and as we had promised, here is a preview of lates ...
  • Awesome Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet for Beginners
    Got a mail recently from freeworld's Raphael where he introduced me to his recent creation - a Linux bash shell cheat sheet meant for beginners. Very useful list of commands and keyboard shortcuts for Terminal with descriptions, more relevant if you are an avid Ubuntu/Debian user. ...
  • How Open Source is Android After all?
    Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world�s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects. How Ope ...
  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cent ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • ENDGAME FOR EURO: GERMAN LAWMAKERS REVOLT ...
    *GERMAN LAWMAKERS FAIL TO SUPPORT NEW EUROZONE BAILOUT FUND IN TRIAL VOTE *90% OF GERMANS OPPOSE NEW BANKSTER BAILOUT FUND *CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING ON LEGALITY OF BAILOUTS AND ROLE OF PARLIAMENT EXPECTED TOMORROW *GREECE SINKS DEEPER INTO DEBT UNDERLINING FAILURE OF BAILOUTS *ITALY ON STRIKE ...
  • UK journalist recognises Germany is fighting t ...
    German endgame for EMU draws ever nearer By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, The Telegraph 6:03PM BST 04 Sep 2011 It bankrolled French farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy, that disguised tithe for war reparations. It then bankrolled Spanish farmers as well. It f ...
  • Recombinant HPV DNA contamination found in Gar ...
    By Sane Vax  At the request of medical consumers concerned about HPV vaccine safety and efficacy, SANE Vax Inc. has retained a private laboratory to test a number of samples of HPV 4 Gardasil™ (Merck) for possible contamination by human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the vaccine lots distributed to ...
  • US SUES MEGA BANKS OVER SUBPRIME FRAUD
    Major banks sued over mortgages, Reuters Posted: 12:02 AM, September 3, 2011 A Us regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housi ...
  • Italy strikes over austerity
    ROME, Business Week Italy’s president is warning the country’s leaders to heed what he calls the “alarming’ signals of worsening financial crisis and urgently enact austerity measures. President Giorgio Napolitano’s appeal to government and parliament was prompted Monday evening by the widening ...

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  • When the Baathists Read their History
    To prepare for the new Syria, people have been digging up their not too distant past, well into the pre-Ba’ath era – not to copy it, but to learn from it.
  • SEPTEMBER 11- Exploitation
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  • 9/11: Watch, Explain, I Can’t Even Begi ...
    The scientists had described it, but I could never really believe it possible. I am flabbergasted.
  • Israel Wages Lawfare Against Gaza Flotilla
    Lawfare is bloodless warfare. � by Philip Giraldi  � I have already reported how �lawfare,� which was defined by Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap following 9/11, is becoming the new hot button for defenders of Washington�s and Tel Aviv�s foreign policies. Using th ...
  • Let’s Talk “Turkey,”
    Everything else reported in the US about Turkey is false, dangerously false. The worst lies are the reports that Turkey's democratic government, freely elected, is "Islamist" and "extremist."

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  • 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 ...

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  • Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
    A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge [...]
  • The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
    “NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality.  The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.  
  • WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
    Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
  • “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
    birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends.  Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released.  Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “killing” on May 1, -  the birth certifi ...
  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
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