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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, September 9, 2011

9 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Turner targets conservative-leaning Jews of th ...
    The Bob Turner campaign has launched a new ad campaign aimed squarely at the conservative-leaning Jewish vote in the Ninth Congressional District, a demographic that has received a disproportionate amount of attention in the run-up to the September 13 spec ...
  • Hearkening back to New York's '90s 'war on str ...
    "[T]he principal policing problem right now" is that police officers are "not paying enough attention to young minority men," argues the New York Post editorial page. Jumaane Williams and Kirsten John Foy and many elected officials in New York City may not ...
  • Gun incidents and Rex Ryan dominate New York, ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Seeking a root cause for the shootings, other ...
    The Associated Press is out with a story trying to get at a root cause of the deadly violence this weekend that left approximately three dozen New Yorkers shot and wounded. But they're focusing on the West Indian American Day Parade and not some wider issu ...
  • How a top aide to the public advocate ended up ...
    Kirsten John Foy, a top legislative aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, is seen being tripped to the ground and later, being led away in handcuffs, after he and City Councilman Jumaane Williams were stopped by police officers at the end of the West Ind ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Norway’s Euro 2012 dream in tatters
    Norway’s national football team (landslaget) was easily beaten 2-0 by Nordic rivals Denmark on Tuesday night in Copenhagen, leaving its chances of qualifying for the European Championships in 2012 (‘Euro 2012′) looking very slim indeed. The team’s qualifying credentials were reaffirmed with a 1 ...
  • Philippine peace talks set to resume
    Norway is poised to once again host talks aimed at bringing peace between the government of the Philippines and the country’s communist insurgents. Representatives for both sides  have agreed on a new effort to resume peace talks in Oslo next month. News bureau NTB reported that the communists ...
  • Heavy rains take a heavy toll
    Residents of southern Norway were mopping up again on Wednesday after another deluge, with the promise of a few days of respite from the rain that’s fallen with alarming frequency since early June. The bad weather doesn’t just dampen spirits, but also carries a heavy cost. More torrential rain d ...
  • Rain didn’t dampen ‘day out’
    Neither rain, nor wind nor lots of mud managed to stop thousands of Norwegians from heading into the great outdoors over the weekend, and officials at the Norwegian Trekking Association (Den Norske Turistforening, DNT) hope such hearty spirit will last through the autumn storm season as well. On ...
  • School elections cheer Labour Party
    Never before has the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) done so well in the school elections held as a test of young Norwegians’ choices before general elections. Labour’s victory in the elections held at 368 schools around the country on Tuesday was called “historic.” Labour attracted 29.7 perc ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Abrupt Climate Change – and the Geo-Engineerin ...
    Sahel Drought – worst of the 20th Century I thought I’d supplement the previous post by George Monbiot by expanding a little on his mention of the Sahel drought and its cause. Being one of the worst environmental disasters of the last century, it’s certainly worth a little [...]
  • Balloon Debate
    Why is the government spending £1.6m on a geo-engineering experiment whose results can never be used? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It’s atmospheric liposuction: a retrospective fix for planetary over-indulgence. Geo- ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture – Healthy and Active W ...
    Our in-house teachers made a sterling start to the Gold Coast City Council-sponsored Active and Healthy Programme on Saturday 23 July, with two workshops taking place at Gold Coast Permaculture’s (GCP) 270 Ferry Rd Southport headquarters. A total of 36 participants in the workshops arrived, a nu ...
  • Spreading the Seeds of Consciousness
    School children take part in Nendo Dango in Argentina�s Rio Negro Province, Patagonia. As part of a reforestation program around Argentina�s Eco Capital, El Bols�n, 21 schools have transformed their assembly halls into assembly lines for the production of over 25,000 seed clay balls utilizing ...
  • “Organic” Doesn’t Mean GMO-Free
    Do you care about GMOs in your food? Did you know that being “certified organic” does not guarantee the food is not contaminated with GMOs? Contamination has been found in certified organic foods since 2002. That’s not a typo, folks. It’s horrifying to see how long we’ve been a part of the large ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • VAYLA Press Conference: Six Public High School ...
    From the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA): About 18 months ago, students began to examine conditions in six public high schools, embarking on the most extensive, youth-led evaluation of New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina. In total, we have gather ...
  • The Help 2: "I did not apologize!" Starring Ja ...
    Below, excerpts from the Library Chronicles Blog, which posted some excellent commentary today on the Jackie Clarkson Controversy: Even if we were in the mood to be charitable toward Jackie...we still have to point out just how easy it could have been for her to better handle this situation. ...
  • Appeal in Anti-Muslim Conviction Set for Tomor ...
    We urge all supporters of justice to come tomorrow at 9:30am to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to support the defendants in the "Holy Land Five" case. Oral arguments for the defendants' appeal in the Holy Land Five case are tomorrow morning. The largest Muslim charitable organi ...
  • Friends and Family of Henry Glover Announce Ne ...
    From Reverend Raymond Brown: Friends and family of shooting victim Henry Glover will hold a news conference on the site where Mr. Henry Glover was killed 6 years ago by two New Orleans Police Officers. Ms. Rebecca Glover and Mr. William Tanner will be guest speakers at the news conference. ...
  • MARK OUR WORDS: Taking Heed of Hurricane Katr ...
    By Tracie L. Washington, Esq. Director/Counsel, Louisiana Justice Institute There was an odd sense of relief in New Orleans and all along the Gulf Coast as we approached this sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We had survived another year without a major storm. But that joy is alwa ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Running both sides of every conflict is the Jew MO. Look at Libya: the Jew Ghadaffi versus the Jews' NATO. How can you lose if you are on both sides? Believing anything at face value should not be the first reaction of an informed person reading the news. Could this be connected to the Gule ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Something wrong with this. Turkey has been run by Jews since forever. Me thinks the jews are actually doing more in the long run for Turkey, i.e. get Turkey in the "FUTURE" into Europe, i.e. Banking, one of their own.Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:17 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy-Fitzpatrick said Looks like Wood is a Jew shill Please enlighten me Tim-Fitz ! Looks like I need to brush up on my "Jew shill" spotting capabilities ! There is a tenuous connection here. This goes back to 2007 but we can see the enemy at work and you can bet they have pushed their ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUpVeRh2R7Y It's the very least that they should do imo.I wonder what we'll be seeing next.PKK attacks? Here's a knesset members view of the situation. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyx1Sh4bHaI I know i've watched too many movies, but does she ...
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    I wonder how the Jobs family is going to feel when the heebie-jeebies fuck Syria up-the-ass like these creatures have done to virtually the ENTIRE ARAB WORLD in the past 18 months. Maybe a brave reporter should ask him DIRECTLY how he feels about the impending destruction of Syria, very simila ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Scientists Calls for Ban On Industrial Deep-Se ...
    A new report by a team of international scientists calls for a ban on industrial deep-sea fishing, saying that decades of overexploitation have depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other species. The report, published in the journal Marine Policy, says that depletion of global f ...
  • New Global Warming Survey is First to Include ...
    A new survey on U.S. views concerning global warming based on political party affiliation finds agreement across party lines for the need to fund renewable energy research, but wide disparity over whether global warming is even happening. The survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communi ...
  • Debt-Ridden Greece Proposes Huge Solar Power E ...
    Greek officials are calling for an ambitious expansion of solar power generation in their sunny country, hoping that large-scale production of renewable energy will generate significant revenues and green jobs for the country’s troubled economy. Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou says ...
  • Post-Irene Sediment Clouds Hudson River and Ne ...
    This NASA satellite image, taken after Hurricane Irene deluged the New York City area with heavy rains, shows Click to enlarge NASANew York Harbor, post-Irene massive amounts of sediment mixing with the darker waters of New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the pale green, brown, ...
  • Process Uses Plastic Bottles to Remove Arsenic ...
    U.S. researchers say they have developed a simple, inexpensive process that uses common plastic bottles to remove arsenic from drinking water, a problem facing nearly 100 million people in developing nations. In the process, pieces of plastic soda or water bottles are coated with cysteine — an a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Cheney's Love Letter to Himself
    Paul Begala on why Dick Cheney was one of the most incompetent, destructive public officials of our time.
  • Unions Turn on Obama
    Labor unions have lost enthusiasm for the president just as he needs their help for 2012. By Eleanor Clift.
  • GOP Debaters Gun for Perry
    Wednesday night’s debate won’t be about President Obama this time but Rick Perry, says Mark McKinnon.
  • The Anti-Glam Leading Man
    From his fratty start as Ben Affleck’s other half, Matt Damon has quietly evolved into a terrific actor.
  • Bizarre Mansion Death a Suicide?
    A cryptic message, mysterious bruises—new details raise questions over the police ruling on Rebecca Zahau.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • (M)otocompo's theater challenges stale indie ...
    Shuffling onto the stage in a flurry of robotic jerks come three men wearing glazed expressions and identical striped tops. In time with the retro-futurist synthesizer chirps and bleeps, they then lurch into a kind of clockwork dance routine, while a fourth man, wearing a construction helmet and ...
  • Mental care centers planned for kids orphaned ...
    The welfare ministry decided Wednesday to set up mental health care centers for children who lost parents to the March disaster in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, ministry sources said. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has concluded that such facilities are necessary to enlist m ...
  • China turns up the heat
    As Chinese President Hu Jintao greeted his Philippine counterpart Benigno Aquino in Beijing recently at the start of a state visit, the official Xinhua news agency laid out terms for a sustained improvement in relations between the world's second biggest economy and its much smaller and weaker S ...
  • Noda could visit China as early as October
    Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda could visit China as early as October, government sources said Wednesday. If the trip can be arranged, Noda would hold talks with President Hu Jintao or Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing on strengthening the bilateral relationship, the sources said.
  • "Jamaica Rocks"
    A group of Jamaican musicians and dancers led by explosive "singjay" Abijah, as well as Tessanne Chin and rising star I Eye, have set off on a major tour of Japan. The tour is being coordinated by the Min-On Concert Association, in collaboration with the Embassy of Jamaica in Tokyo, and Jamaica' ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Gaza not represented in UN's blockade whitewas ...
    Stuart Littlewood analyses the conclusions of the UN's Palmer inquiry into the fatal Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara: a "bizarre reframing of the situation - that the illegal occupier, Israel, is the victim of the Palestinians' lawful resistance and that Israel's sec ...
  • Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing
    Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey's decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv's refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream ...
  • Israel's settler army and government poised to ...
    Uri Avnery says Israel's settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.
  • America's FBI goes rogue
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
  • From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
    Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.

Physics Today

  • Former US government scientist tried to sell n ...
    BBC: Stewart Nozette, a former planetary scientist who ran a nonprofit technology company, has admitted to charges that he attempted to sell technological secrets to Israel. Nozette was caught when he offered details of the US nuclear missile program to an FBI agent who pretended to work for Isr ...
  • Turkish Academy of Sciences fights government ...
    Science: Turkey's government has decreed that the Turkish Academy of Sciences (known by its Turkish abbreviation T�BA) will no longer choose all its own members. From now on, the government will directly appoint one-third of new academy members. Another one-third will be appointed by the governm ...
  • Editor-in-chief who published flawed article r ...
    Think Progress: In a stunning move, the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Remote Sensing has resigned over the journal’s publication of what he calls a “fundamentally flawed” paper by climate science deniers Roy Spencer and William Braswell of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In ...
  • Tech company to build innovative test town in ...
    Washington Post: A Washington DC–based technology company plans to build in New Mexico a 20-square-mile model of a typical American town. The $200 million “Center,” the first of its kind in the US, will boast highways, houses, and commercial buildings—old and new—all designed to test everything ...
  • Electrified bacterial filaments zap uranium
    Nature: Pili, which are hairlike filaments that sprout from some bacteria, can enable the bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater without becoming poisoned in the process. Geobacter sulfurreducens, for example, obtains energy by reducing, or adding electrons to, metals in the en ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Andrew Napolitano, Fox Business Host, Reveals ...
    by username (Posted Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:57:24 GMT) check ur 6. Big brother is watching.
  • Nothing To Celebrate - Osama Won The War
    by DC (Posted Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:53:52 GMT) ... and now he has 79 virgins he has to support? That's winning?
  • FF News: Celeb Talk
    by footprints (Posted Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:07:47 GMT) Re:FF News: 'Movie-Magic,' News 3 Days, 7 Hours ago Karma: 0 Leonardo DiCaprio is pleading with fans in California to back a bill banning the sale of shark fins in the state. The Hollywood star, a passionate animal rights campaigner, previ ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla talks about Washington
    by footprints (Posted Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:21:14 GMT) ASHINGTON — The Justice Department says George Washington's home at Mount Vernon will undergo improvements to help the disabled, with accessible walkways, closed captioning for films and sign language and audio tours in the mansion and the gro ...
  • FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-Augu ...
    by footprints (Posted Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:00:04 GMT) FF News: Are you Searched in Footprints??-August 2011 5 Minutes ago Karma: 0 Key Searches of Footprints Filmworks from 1 August 2011-31 August 2011... Footprints Filmworks 71293 Omar Abdulla 36543 Zunaid Moti 30212 Fehmeda Ismail 30000 Sham ...

Peakwater

  • Controversial Chinese projects in Cambodia bow ...
    “CSG, a state-owned company established in 2002 to transmit and distribute electrical power in China’s southern provinces, has quit all its potential power projects in Cambodia, said the company’s spokesman Rambo Niu Feng. The power utility had conducted feasibility studies for at least six prop ...
  • Farmers’ Right To Water
    “The recent killing of three innocent farmers by police in Maval of Pune district, Maharashtra led to pandemonium in Parliament and in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Questions were raised on why it happened and who was responsible for the killing. The Government was reportedly planning to div ...
  • Citarum River Brings Fresh Water Along With Di ...
    “The heavily polluted Citarum River has become a vector for disease for the 25 million people in western Java who rely on it for potable water and irrigation. In the first of three articles, The Jakarta Postâs Tifa Asrianti reports on the riverâs deteriorating condition and its public health eff ...
  • Botswana Bushmen Drink From Reopened Borehole
    “Survival International says Botswana’s Bushmen are drinking water from a borehole in the Kalahari desert for the first time in nine years. It is a significant victory against the government that once evicted them from their ancestral lands. The government capped the well at Mothomelo in 2002 to ...
  • Vegas tries to kick its water addiction
    “At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, where water seems ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • BACK TO CRUDE …
    ⦠IF ⦠true why isnât this mandatoryâ¦? This Company Turns Plastic Bottles Back Into Crude Oil   When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But if life gives you plastic? Make crude oil.  Vadxx, an Ohio-based energy company, is taking even plastics that can’t be recycled and reverting them to ...
  • AN EYE OPENER …
    �� ONE HELL OF AN EYE OPENER �� Only three minutes but it will blow you away.� ��������������� Sit down and fasten your safety belt.� You will not believe this. ����������������������� http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk � �������������������������� ...
  • NO ONE WILL DO IT FOR US …
    … You can count on one hand all substantive action Congre$$ will take until the fall election of 2012 … We will sit by and watch as Congre$$ … whether ‘red’ or ‘blue’ … GOP – Tea Party – Republican – Independent – Democrat … engage in senseless squabbles full of sound and fury while [...]
  • … a face you can trust … right &#8 ...
    � �� Hey �� Billy boy always has your best interest in mind with his Microsoft products �� laughs all the way to the bank �� � Microsoft �intentionally designed software for phones to track customers without their consent� Microsoft is being sued for intentionally designing camera software on th ...
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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Sharpest ever moon images snapped
    A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.Images taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles...
  • Big Tobacco's brazen denials and dirty tricks
    Ever since the link between smoking and lung cancer was established more than 50 years ago, the tobacco industry has displayed extraordinary tenacity when it comes to denying the scientific evidence showing that smoking kills.In...
  • Through good works, to global growth
    An innovative Wellington business believes that by doing good, it can do very well indeed.Im-Able specialises in rehabilitating stroke patients and uses an unusual hybrid of public- and private-sector expertise and intellectual...
  • School sitting on buried treasure
    Children at an Auckland school will not have to go far to learn about geology, with the rediscovery of a lava cave running under their playing field.The cave, which is about 40m long and 2m high in places, starts in the lower corner...
  • Enough life to sink the ark
    Noah's Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about 8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them undiscovered, according to what is believed to be the most authoritative estimate carried out of...

Truth Survival + RSS

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Remembering 9/11: Unity Gives Way to Politics, ...
    Throughout this week, we'll be posting old and new Reason material related to the 9/11 attacks. To see a snapshot of what Reason.com (then called Reason Online) looked like in late September 2001, go here. On September 12, 2001, Reason Washington Correspondent Sam MacDonald observ ...
  • New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the Moribund Pr ...
    Last week 9/11 Commission co-chairmen Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton noted that the federal government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been "dormant" since 2008 because neither George W. Bush nor Barack Obama has managed to appoint its five members. Senior Editor Jacob ...
  • New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Asks How Scared o ...
    Ten years ago, Americans were shocked by the horror of watching hijacked planes smash into buildings, killing nearly 3,000 people. Frightened by this atrocity, Americans have spent more than $1 trillion on counterterrorism security measures and allowed federal officials to usurp som ...
  • Property Rights, the Clean Water Act, and the ...
    Business Week reports on a major property rights case brought by the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation that the Supreme Court will be hearing this term: When Mike and Chantell Sackett paid $23,000 for a lot near the banks of Priest Lake in northern Idaho in 2005, they thought th ...
  • New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Big-Governm ...
    If there's one thing Virginia's leading Republicans agree on, observes A. Barton Hinkle, it's government regulation. They're against it. So why do these same conservatives support arbitrary and unnecessary new government regulations on abortion clinics? Evidently their commitment to t ...

Mercury Rising

  • Phone hacking, 9/7/2011
    The interview of Colin Myler (News of the World editor) and Tom Crone (NotW legal affairs head) by the Levenson Select Committee of parliament was a bust. Myler and Crone repeated their allegation that James Murdoch was informed about the memo by reporter Ross Hindley that appeared to be a trans ...
  • And now for something completely different…
    Muppets: 4. In the film, Kermit sings the song and plays the banjo while seated on a log in a swamp. To perform the number, Jim Henson had to work underwater. He squeezed himself into a metal container equipped with an air hose, a rubber sleeve for his hand to manipulate Kermit and a monitor [...]
  • The Grand Casino
    I realize that for a lot of readers, the stock markets are just a surreal casino, and that the many posts I have done on them are widely ignored. You’ll get no argument from me that the stock market does not represent real investment or the real health of an economy. However, I think that [...]
  • Mitch McConnell: Why Isn’t Obama Shippin ...
    Mitch McConnell was given valuable Washington Post column space to argue for the further destruction of America’s industrial base and what’s left of America’s middle and working classes so that their jobs can be done overseas by people in horrific working conditions who risk being murdered if th ...
  • Asian, European selloff
    Markets look ugly for Tuesday. Europe and Asia down about 2-3% The German DAX -5.3%. The French CAC -4.7%. Hong Kong -3%. US futures down 2% or so. One of the most alarming bits of data was what happened to European CDS levels. Italy and Greece dropped by over 10%. An excerpt from Bill McBride [...]

Reality Sandwich

  • Electric Car Runs Wild
    The Schluckspecht electric car has shattered the world record for total distance traveled on a single charge.  The former record of 623.3 miles, held by the Japan Electric Vehicle Club, gave way to the 1,013.77 mile effort.  Though the vehicle kept a modest pace, the advances made in battery te ...
  • Star Crossed Lovers
    � In my first year as an astrologer the most relentless question I've fielded in over 500 sessions has been "When will I meet my soul mate?" Astrology has always had a lot to say on the subject of love. The answers aren't always what people want to hear but they are almost always what people ...
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    Evolver.net and Bioneers present: Hacking the Future: The Technology Spore Wed, Sept. 21 read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
    � "This Week in Psychedelics" is a Reality Sandwich column that follows the multifaceted media appearances of this class of chemicals and their effects in popular culture. Like the facebook page. � read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • 'Criticism, key to win in culture war'
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says criticizing the dominant intellectual atmosphere in the world is the key to achieving success in the “cultural war.”
  • 'US politicians contemptuous of the poor'
    An opinion poll shows that support for both US President Barack Obama and the republican-dominated Congress has hit new lows.
  • 'US Islamophobia campaign defeated'
    A senior Iranian commander says Islam has prevailed despite the US support for 'multi-billion dollar Islamophobia projects' and the anti-Islam propaganda by the West's media empire.
  • US nurses demand Wall Street action
    American nurses have called on Wall Street to take strong measures to rebuild the fragile US economy, director of the Real Economy Project at the Center for Media and Democracy told Press TV.
  • 'Pakistan drone war, Obama's poll ploy'
    US President Barack Obama is following the drone war in Pakistan as an "election campaign strategy" for next year's presidential race in the United States, an investigative journalist tells Press TV.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: Mighty Maya Cities Succumbed to Environme ...
    The latest archeological findings in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala lend further credence to the theory that the Maya civilisation that once flourished there was brought down by environmental causes such as deforestation.
  • OP-ED-RIGHTS: "We Just Want to Know Where They ...
    The last time Supaya Serrano saw her sisters Erlinda and Ernestina, they were just three and seven years old, respectively.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
    Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal's women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.
  • SOMALIA: Armed Militia Grab the Famine Business
    Armed groups are withholding aid and preventing Somali famine refugees from leaving camps to ensure the continued supply of food by aid agencies that they are presently selling on the open market.
  • U.S.: Tea Party, Fox News Viewers Outliers on ...
    While 10 years after the 9/11 Al- Qaeda attacks, most U.S. citizens say they respect diversity and the freedom of religion, they don't always apply those principles to Islam and immigrants, according to a survey released here Tuesday by two major think tanks.

Scoop - NZ

  • Rupert, James Murdoch to Testify Under Oath, Again
    Shortly after James Murdoch and his father Rupert testified before Parliament in July, two former News Corp. employees accused James, the head of the company's European and Asian operations, of misleading the MPs. Whether or not Murdoch lied, deceit will not be an option the second time arou ...
  • UK, France help plan Sirte offensive
    British and French special forces are on the ground in eastern Libya, calling in air strikes and helping rebel units as they prepare to assault Sirte, the last coastal town still in the hands of pro-Gaddafi forces, a rebel officer has told the Guardian. The soldiers have taken a leading role ...
  • Afghanistan's occupational hazards
    [Author, Malalai Joya, is a former Afghan parliamentarian (2005-07).] Supporting Hamid Karzai's mafia regime is like hammering nails in the coffin of freedom, democracy and human rights because his government is full of misogynistic Islamic fundamentalists, warlords, drug-lords and criminals. ...
  • Breivik: Killing the Left
    However nuanced, it is striking how little extant interpretations attend to the fact that Breivik’s most grotesque violence was not directed at Muslims or immigrants as such but at the youth members of the Norwegian Social Democrats. Anders Breivik may be an Islamophobe, but he hates the lef ...
  • Nobel gurus warn Britain on fiscal overkill
    "Britain has jumped on the band-wagon of fiscal tightening in a big way," said Professor Edmund Phelps from New York's Columbia University. "I have some sympathy with that but I'm not sure it is being implemented as deftly as it should be. If you slam on the brakes too hard you risk throwing ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US, California: FBI Arrests Prominent Democrat ...
    A prominent Democratic campaign treasurer who works for federal, state and O.C. lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and state legislators Lou Correa and Jose Solorio has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of mail fraud, The Orange County Register has learned. ...
  • US: Illinois to lay off thousands of state wor ...
    A decision made by Gov. Pat Quinn may leave thousands of state workers without a job by the end of the week. The cuts are coming in the face of a budget deficit that doesn't leave enough money to pay the workers, the governor says. Quinn also plans to close a prison, juvenile detention c ...
  • US Gun Sales 'on Track to Surpass 15 Million' ...
    Rick Perry's emergence as the front runner for the Republican Presidential nomination would seem like a coup for the gun industry. The Texas governor's enthusiasm for firearms rivals Yosemite Sam's. He has an A+ rating from the Texas State Rifle Association and packs a laser-sighted Ruger pist ...
  • New Evidence Links Cisco to Jailing and Tortur ...
    A human rights group suing Cisco for aiding the tracking and torture of people in China claims it has new evidence proving the tech giant tailored its technology to specifically enable these abuses. If accepted by the court, the revelations, including that Cisco trained Chinese officials in h ...
  • US: One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring
    Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family of sorts for modern times. So Ms. Daily searched a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Pictures . . .
    Two American Nazis in uniform stand in the doorway of their New York City office, on April 1, 1932, when the headquarters opened. "NSDAP" stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or, in English, National Socialist German Workers' Party, normally shortened to just "Nazi Party". ...
  • Assholes
    h/t Pale
  • Why we don't torture
    Because it figuratively and literally puts us in bed with the bad-guys. The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the Associated Press, co-operation that could sp ...
  • Sparks . . .
    LOOKS LIKE GOD DOESN'T LIKE ROB FORD. Then again, I might be biased. Check out the rest of the pictures at blogTO.
  • Drones . . .
    Check out the mission symbols.WIRED has an article by Spencer Ackerman, "How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’". It's an account of how the CIA got up to speed with its efforts to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to Spencer, the CIA started from zero.On April 1 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Crowley Is "Complete[ly]" Wrong About Ba ...
    Fox News contributor Monica Crowley said that "under this administration, you have had a complete overturning of the balance where the private sector has been the vast majority of American workers and American economic life." In fact, the private sector still employs "the vast majority of Ameri ...
  • Dishonest Hoffa Reporting Is Just Latest Attem ...
    Fox News dishonestly edited a Labor Day speech by Teamsters President James Hoffa to push the falsehood that Hoffa encouraged violence against Tea Party activists. This is the latest example of Fox's pattern of smearing union leaders, members, and supporters as violent thugs.Fox Dishonestly Edi ...
  • Timeline Of A Right-Wing Media Smear: Hoffa's ...
    After Fox News aired a doctored version of Teamsters president James Hoffa's Labor Day speech, the right-wing media pointed to the clearly edited video to accuse Hoffa of encouraging violence against conservatives. In fact, unaltered video -- video aired by Fox hours after the clearly edited ve ...
  • Wash. Post Continues To Publish Georg ...
    In his syndicated Washington Post column, chronic climate change misinformer George Will falsely suggested that a supposed "global cooling" scare in the 1970's is comparable to the current scientific consensus on global warming.Will Falsely Suggests Scientific Consensus In 1970s Warned Of "Cal ...
  • Fox "Straight News" Reporters Attack Clean Ene ...
    Fox News' supposedly "straight news" reporters recently asserted that federal investments in clean energy are wasteful and that the costs of green jobs outweigh the benefits. These claims are contradicted by several studies showing clean energy investments create more jobs than several other ty ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Turkey Is Trying To Save Israel From Itself
    Roger Cohen has a great column in today's Times. It is about the sheer idiocy of Prime Minister Netanyahu's refusal to apologize for the killings on the Mavi Marmara relief ship. (It also addresses President Obama's complete indifference to the killing of an American citizen on board the ship. ...
  • Great Orations vs. Great Obfuscations
    I often enjoy and benefit from Maureen Dowd's columns, but today she's fallen off the wagon of arch and noble punditry into the smallish world-view, or Beltanschauung, of the Washington Beltway's sophisticated chattering classes. These worthy purveyors of Capitol-corridor realism believe -- or f ...
  • The Capitalist Crack-Up
    Fitzgerald, by then deep into an inglorious relationship with Gin Rickeys, was lucid enough, in 1936, to explain that "all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you rememb ...
  • Why Obama's Beltway Apologists are Letting Us Down
    This essay, which has been linked hundreds of times since it went up two days ago on Huffington Post, is as long (4300 words) as it is damning. I hope that you'll copy it onto a document and print it out in order to read it over the weekend and that you'll agree with me that the subtle horror of ...
  • Palestinian Strategy
    There has been a great deal of anxious speculation about what Palestinians really want, the speculation tied to the questionable mandate of a president who has not stood for election since 2005 (and his prime minister who was never elected at all), the anxiety tied to concern that, if you take t ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA ...
    The wildfires, Obama's cave-in on the EPA's smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question-- Why d ...
  • News Roundup for September 5, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a fine Labor Day weekend as we bring you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff looks at a movement to end pensions for public employees. Amy Price is one of just a few progressives running for Houston City Council in 2011, and PDiddie at Brains and E ...
  • ERCOT calls for energy conservation this weekend
    Its predicted that the entire state will have record temperatures this weekend. Please take all measures to avoid using unnecessary energy. They might have a hurricane on the east coast but we have a heat wave in Texas and there might not be enough electricity to go around. Statement from ERCOT ...
  • Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
    Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Melbourne to Get Australia's First Biochar Plant
    Source:� The Age Australia's first commercial biochar plant, to turn green waste into energy and store carbon dioxide, will be built in Melbourne after a $4.5 million grant was awarded to Pacific Pyrolysis.
  • China Seeks Japan Tech in Rare Earth Deals: Re ...
    Source:� Reuters China told Japanese business leaders that it hoped their companies would bring technology to develop rare-earth products to China, while standing by its controversial decision to limit the metals' exports, Jap ...
  • Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions Falling
    Source:� BBC News Greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland have fallen by 28.9% since 1990, according to the latest official statistics. The government said the figures showed it was on course to achieve its climate change targe ...
  • Kiribati Ponders Floating Island to Fight Sea Rise
    Source:� AP The president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is so worried about climate change wiping out his country that he's considering ideas as strange as building a floating island.
  • Rick Perry’s Al Gore Problem
    Source:� The Washington Post Ron Paul's underdog presidential campaign is out with a new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire that hits Rick Perry for his former life as a Democrat, focusing on the Texas governor�s support for Al Gore ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • The EPA v. "Job Creators "
    Yea! The EPA job killing machine is dead! Long live the job creators in their victory over Obama the Evil Muslim Keyan Marxist Fascist! Obama has reversed course again, by rejecting the unanimous opinion of the EPA's scientists to issue regulations to lower ozone pollution, but he saved Ameri ...
  • Bachmann's Campaign Team Quits
    Ed Rollins is the only Republican operative in the country who I kind of like. It's probably his blue-collar roots and his history as a boxer that makes him seem like a regular dude. He's a mercenary, like almost all the other great American campaign managers. But he also has a tendency to of ...
  • It's Important That We Win Next Year
    The 2010 elections were not only a disaster on the federal level. The Republicans gained supermajorities on the state level in places like Alabama and Texas. Republican-majority governments in states like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Arizona, and Florida have been passing r ...
  • Casual Observation
    I really don't want to ever again have to listen to Republicans talk about respect for the office of the presidency. If they can't even show up for a Joint Session of Congress, then they're too hypocritical to live, let alone be taken seriously. If this speech were about a matter of national s ...
  • Into the Wayback Machine
    It's hard to believe that the website Dowd Report exists, especially when part of their mission statement is to "[g]et featured in a mainstream media report about obsequious fansites that border on or even cross the line dividing genuine fandom and creepy stalkerhood." Back in 2008, the site ac ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Abandoned Cold War Listening Station Built ...
    Incredible images of the abandoned Cold War listening station of Teufelsberg, which towers over West Berlin... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Amazing Photos of Animals Hidden Under the ...
    Incredible images of animals found under the sea ice of the Canadian Basin. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Incredible Hanging Monastery of Mount Heng
    The bizarre temple of Hengshan, which clings to a sheer rock face near Datong in China. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • San Francisco Built Out of 100,000 Toothpicks!
    The incredible "Rolling Through the Bay" kinetic sculpture took 100,000 toothpicks and 34 years to complete. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Momma Alligator Rescues Baby from Heron's Beak
    Watch the amazing rescue of a baby alligator by its mother from the clutches of a heron... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Plight of the Lemur: A Movie
    A documentary maker gathers information about the lemurs' mating and vocalizations as well as illegal logging of the trees on which they depend.
  • Interior Employee Set Off Inquiry on Polar Sci ...
    An inspector general seems to contradict official statements that a scientist's polar bear research is not within her purview.
  • Policing Your Power-Hungry Appliances
    Belkin has a new line of products that measure the electricity consumption of specific bulbs or appliances, calculate the costs and find ways to achieve savings.
  • Wind Industry Lobbies for Tax-Credit Extension
    The so-called production tax credit is due to expire at the end of 2012; the last time it lapsed, at the end of 2003, development of new wind projects tapered off significantly.
  • Getting a Grip on the Grid
    New technology to more accurately gauge the temperature of power lines es expected to improve the overall efficiency of the electricity grid.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Objections and Replies
    (This is a continuation of part two of a four-part series on the ethics and political theory of Ayn Rand, written exclusively for The Daily Censored, by Dr. Robert Abele, professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.) In this series so far, we have made several ...
  • Why privacy matters
    In today’s every connected world, it is of the utmost importance that everyone remain vigilant when safeguarding their privacy and identity. If this does not happen, then invasions of privacy and identify theft are more likely to occur. This happened to me recently at work. If I were a less hone ...
  • THIEF IN THE LIVING ROOM
    By Saul Landau A rogue elephant ravishes the American living room. But instead of stopping the criminal antics, the people and elected officials salute, praise and honor him, and keep him close to our hearts and wallets. The scoundrel’s name? The Defense Department. Thanks to clever PR teams, th ...
  • Libya and the Masculinity of War: Whose Victory?
    Libyan rebels have established their National Transitional Council.  Without women.  No surprise considering the parades of victorious men driven by the blinding macho of their rebellion against Gadhafi who continue to shoot off their guns in celebration. The rebels make their victory indistingu ...
  • National Blogger Censored by his Publisher
    Carlos Miller, whose whose blog Photography is Not A Crime tirelessly covers the intersection of police and cameras, thought he had come  upon as story made of pure gold, it had sex, a lawless cop, and even a kitten. But when his publisher pulled the article without even contacting him, he saw h ...

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IntelNews

  • US spies on Israel (shock, horror)
    Ever since Monday, when The New York Times exposed the reason behind the May 2010 incarceration of FBI linguist Shamai Leibowitz, US and international media have been buzzing with prominent headlines like: “US government spied on Israel's Washington embassy”. Although these headlines are accurat ...
  • White House considering covert operations agai ...
    One of the major strategic objections to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the near-certain prospect that removing the Sunni-dominated Ba’ath Party from power would increase Iranian-Shiite influence in the country. As the US military exit strategy gradually unfolds in Iraq, the administration ...
  • News you may have missed #585
    GCHQ recovers £300m worth of stolen information. Kuwait arrests alleged Iraqi spy. Hackers steal CIA and Mossad SSL certificates.
  • CIA Helped Gaddafi Torture Libyan Dissidents, ...
    Back in February, when Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi blamed the popular revolt against him on al-Qaeda, he was ridiculed in the international media. But documents discovered at an abandoned Libyan government office complex show that the Libyan rebels’ supreme military commander was abducted i ...
  • News you may have missed #584
    Billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA flights. French admit secret service spied on reporter. NZ let Israeli spies go free in return for passports.

War is a Crime.org

  • September 11, 2011 - Memorialize All the Victi ...
    Just what is it we're being told to "never forget" as we remember the events of 10 years ago?� Looking back at what the Bush regime did at the time: CBS News reported that, on the afternoon of 9/11/01, Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military to draw up plans to attack Iraq. �"Go massive. Sweep it ...
  • Take THIS to the Bank
  • After Ike: Can Charlottesville love both peace ...
    By David Swanson | The Hook If I told you I would support women's rights as long as I didn't have to oppose rape, you�d think I needed lessons in both logic and basic human decency. If I said I would favor freedom as long as I didn't have to be against slavery, you might start backing away s ...
  • Top Secret America and the Huge Blank Checks Of
    We are given figures in the multi multi billions spent on the wars of choice and the so called 'homeland security', but there are huge amounts, in the multi billions, not known or labeled top secret and blacked out in government reports on the rapid growth of intelligence within government and t ...
  • Israeli Oppression Continues While Talking Peace
    ��Israeli Oppression Continues While Talking Peace - by Stephen Lendman � No wonder Palestinians want and deserve statehood, as well as full UN membership to be able to seek World Court redress, and be able to sue under Genocide Convention provisions, and why not.� � Israel's lawless hypocrisy i ...

Grist - News

  • Light pollution is stealing our night sky&#821 ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. This (left) is your sky. And this (right) is your sky on ONE MAJOR LIGHT SOURCE. So it's no surprise that suburban starscapes have been totally desaturated by the lights on buildings, roads, and parking lots. Less than half the U.S. -- and almost none of Europe -- ha ...
  • Mom could be arrested for letting her kid bike ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. There are a few factors that make it tricky for kids to bike or walk alone: Bad drivers who face insufficient consequences, lack of sidewalks and protected bike lanes, too few crosswalks. We COULD improve biking and walking infrastructure, and have cops actually crack d ...
  • Don’t tell Bachmann, but lightbulb stand ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Republicans have been whining about the Obama administration’s liberty-squashing decision to phase out inefficient incandescent bulbs in favor of CFLs, LEDs, and (surprise!) more efficient incandescent bulbs. But (double surprise!) the idea of requiring efficient lightbul ...
  • Las Vegas actually pretty good at conserving water
    by Sarah Laskow.   The Las Vegas strip likes to pretend it’s flush in all manner of luxuries, including water -- even though Lake Mead, which provides the city with water, could disappear within the next decade. Running a giant fountain or indoor canal in the middle of the desert is the ...
  • Nothing says eco-tourism like a 21-foot crocodile
    by Jess Zimmerman. What do you do with a suspected man-eating crocodile the size of a small aircraft? Make it the highlight of an eco-tourism park. At least, that's what wildlife authorities in the Philippines are doing with a 21-foot crocodile they caught this weekend. Lord, if only S ...

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  • 20 Most Marvelous Moon Missions
    Of the dozens of missions, manned and unmanned, that have been sent to the moon, here are some highlights. These include Grail, the Apollo flights, the Soviet Luna missions, and more.
  • 8 Amazing Animal Migrations
    Some humans may be willing to travel far for fine dining, but that's nothing compared to a sooty shearwater: these birds, which are based in New Zealand, fly roughly 40,000 miles each year to reach their seasonal feeding grounds along coastal California, Alaska, and Japan--and some even clock 62 ...
  • Footprints on the Moon
    In new photographs taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see the landing sites of some lunar craft, as well as the tracks left by those who flew in them.
  • Dolphins Talk Like Humans
    Dolphins don't whistle, but instead "talk" to each other using a process very similar to the way that humans communicate.
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    Scientists are beginning to figure out why some regions of the world have a higher average IQ than others, and infectious diseases may explain this gap.

Invisible Opportunity

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat Acquired by LA Media Company Interne ...
    Six and a half years ago, as a broke architecture grad student, I launched the blog Inhabitat.com late one night from my college studio as a vehicle through which to explore my passions: green building, clean technology and sustainable design innovation. At the time that I launched Inhabitat, I ...
  • NASA’s Solar-Powered Twin GRAIL Spacecrafts Sc ...
    Exciting news – tomorrow, NASA is scheduled to launch its newest mission, The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL. Two twin spacecrafts will be launched into orbit to get up close and personal with an old friend we still have much to learn about: the moon. GRAIL A and GRAIL B are ...
  • Dominic Wilcox Upcycles Old Paint Brushes Into ...
    We first fell for artist and designer Dominic Wilcox last year at the Milan Furniture Fair with his living shoe laces exhibition. But more recently, the designer has created an installation of coat hooks, recycled from old paint brushes. The fun and creative installation is part of a group show ...
  • Exhibit of 125 Jewel-Colored Mini-Greenhouses ...
    Read the rest of Exhibit of 125 Jewel-Colored Mini-Greenhouses Opens in Philadelphia This Weekend Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: American Philosophical Society Museum, cornell university, eco design, French Natural History, green design, greenhouse, greenhouse architecture, Nat ...
  • VW+BS’ Periscope Building Gives Birds Eye View ...
    In big, bustling cities, its hard to find new space for commercial buildings. But the VW +BS architectural firm took their search in Singapore above and beyond, literally. Their newly constructed Periscope building is tucked behind a series of storefronts with a spectacular extension that rises ...

Pogue's Posts

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PakAlert

  • As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, T ...
    Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US ...
  • Chaos On The Streets Of America
    Should we just expect mass chaos on the streets of America every time a major holiday rolls around? At least 42 people were hit by gunfire in New York City over the Labor Day weekend. The violence got so bad that even the mayor felt compelled to publicly address it. In Chicago, at least 6 peo ...
  • CIA Is “One Hell Of A Killing Machine,” Offici ...
    The Central Intelligence Agency continues to rapidly expand its global extrajudicial assassination program under the Obama administration, secretly murdering people with drones from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Somalia and Yemen. Even American citizens are fair game, according to the President. ...
  • Photos: The Biggest Environmental Disaster You ...
    Participating in the Tar Sands Action was a decision I made with much ambivalence. I was not sure it would produce any results commensurate with the risk of arrest and expenses for travel; I objected to the organizers' authoritarian remonstrations regarding clothing; I doubted the strategic emp ...
  • Foodie Underground: 20 Uses For Honey You Neve ...
    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 there are more than300 types of honey in the United Stat ...

Andy Worthington

  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day Two: $1900 Still Need ...
    Please support my work! It’s the second day of my quarterly fundraising appeal, and I’d like to thank the six readers and supporters who, to date, have donated $600 to help me continue my research and writing on Guantánamo and torture. I realize that times are tough, and only getting tou ...
  • Save the NHS: Make No Mistake, the Government ...
    I’ve just returned from having my blood tested at Lewisham Hospital, and, as always when I use the NHS (the National Health Service, for readers outside the UK), I marvel that, because the entire system is paid for via taxation, no one asks me for any money upfront, and no one asks me for any [...]
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Help Me Raise $2500 for ...
    Please support my work! On the eve of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that precipitated the “War on Terror” that has consumed my life for the last five and a half years, through my work chronicling the illegality and the human cost of the Bush administration’s cruel and misgui ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, 700,000-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by Wikile ...
  • The UK “Riots” and Why the Vile an ...
    I left the UK for a family holiday in Greece in the middle of what were termed “the riots,” a four-day explosion of violence, looting and arson that didn’t really come as a surprise to me, as it was both a bitter response to an increasingly divided society, and a dreadful demonstration of how we ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • News Roundup for September 7, 2011
    Judge Jeffrey A. Manning added an 85- to 190-year prison sentence to the three death sentences Richard Poplawski received for the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh, Pa., police officers in 2009. The extra term would keep Poplawski behind bars should his death sentences be commuted or overturne ...
  • SPLC and Mississippi Lawyer File Suit in Racia ...
    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined Mississippi attorney Winston J. Thompson III in filing a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the family of a black man who was beaten in a motel parking lot and then run over and killed. The New York Times also detailed the case, in which SPLC accuses seven ...
  • 9/11 Rally to Include Hard Rightists From Arou ...
    The “9/11 Freedom Rally” being hosted this Sunday by Pamela Geller, the notorious Muslim-basher whose blog once suggested that President Obama was the “love child” of Malcolm X, is meant to generate anger at Muslims and their faith on the 10th anniversary of America’s deadliest terrorist attack. ...
  • Neo-Nazi Set to Plead Guilty Today in MLK Terr ...
    The man accused of planting a “weapon of mass destruction” on the parade route of a Martin Luther King Jr. unity parade in Spokane, Wash., last January is expected to plead guilty today in U.S. District Court. Kevin William Harpham, a 36-year-old with past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance ...
  • Racist Prison Gang Member Pleads to Hate Arsons
    A member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood gang who wanted to “prove himself” in order to join chapter in Texas has pleaded guilty to four federal hate crime charges associated with a series of racially motivated arsons. One of the crimes Steven Scott Cantrell confessed to was attemptin ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Going Backwards: Tea Party, Fox News Viewers O ...
    WASHINGTON - While 10 years after the 9/11 Al- Qaeda attacks, most U.S. citizens say they respect diversity and the freedom of religion, they don't always apply those principles to Islam and immigrants, according to a survey released here Tuesday by two major think tanks. ...
  • EU Bans Genetically Modified-Contaminated Hone ...
    The European Union's highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorization before it can be sold as food. In what green groups are calling a "groundbreaking" rulin ...
  • Palestinians Deploy Obama Speech in UN Stateho ...
    RAMALLAH, West Bank -- President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood -- a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel. But as part of an official media campaign begun this week ...
  • Despite Exploding Volcanoes, Iceland World's M ...
    REYKJAVIK -- When Johanna Sigurdardottir was sworn in as Iceland's head of government back in February 2009, she was described as the world's first openly gay prime minister. But in a country with progressive political views and liberal social mores, her sexual orientation was never considered a ...
  • Obama's Job Speech: Democrats Fear It’s Too Late
    President Obama’s new effort to revive the ailing economy may be too little, too late, according to Democrats and liberal policy experts. They contend that Obama missed his chance to turn the economy around by November 2012, but still want him to call on Congress to move an aggressive new jobs p ...

Lifehacker

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  • Phone hacking: police make further arrest
    Detectives to question 35-year-old man on conspiracy to intercept voicemail messagesDetectives investigating phone hacking by the News of the World have arrested a man at his home.The 35 year old was arrested at 5.55am on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.Unlike ma ...
  • Delhi court bombing leaves many dead
    At least 10 people killed and 65 injured after device hidden inside briefcase explodes at main entrance to high courtAt least 10 people have been killed and 65 injured in a bombing at the main entrance to the Delhi high court.Police said that an improvised explosive device (IED) hidden in a brie ...
  • Pakistan suicide bombers target top security o ...
    Deputy chief's wife and two children among those killed in twin attacks in western city of QuettaSuicide bombers have attacked a senior military officer in Quetta in western Pakistan, killing 23 people including eight soldiers and the officer's wife.Police said they suspected Taliban militants w ...
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    MONTERREY, Mexico — Out of the desert scrub, the tycoons of Monterrey have erected an industrial powerhouse that is a beacon across Latin America.
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    CHICAGO — Continued U.S. aid to Pakistan is both "naive" and "counterproductive" given that nation's backing for a terrorist network targeting American forces and working to destabilize Afghanistan, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk said Tuesday.
  • No end in sight to drug shortages
    MILWAUKEE — Martha Sorensen was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last summer.
  • Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as fa ...
    WASHINGTON — Caught in thick smoke in a burning suburban Cincinnati home, veteran firefighter Robin Broxterman and her novice mate, Brian Schira, tried to summon help on their Motorola digital radios. She called four times, he another half dozen, according to radio logs from the 2008 incident.
  • Japanese company finds the right mix in Los Ba ...
    A 112-year-old Japanese company's plant is run by a Portuguese manager born in Angola with a work force of Mercedians that ships 15 percent of its tomato products overseas, especially to China.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban bomb kills Afghan governor, 3 guards
    KABUL (AFP) - An Afghan district governor and three of his guards were killed Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a Taliban roadside bomb in the east of the country, an official said.Asil ...
  • Scott Brown yards away from mortar attack on A ...
    A fghan insurgents last month launched a mortar attack just yards away from where U.S. Sen. Scott Brown was watching a street hockey game with his fellow soldiers at a base near Kandahar. ...
  • U.S. civilian is kidnapped, killed in Afghanistan
    The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- An American civilian working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was kidnapped from his Afghanistan power plant and strangled, officials and ...
  • Soldiers wounded in Afghan IED strikes
    DEFENCE has revised Afghanistan casualty figures after three soldiers reported delayed symptoms from roadside bomb blasts, including two whose armoured vehicle was hit by four bombs in just over a ...
  • Hundreds March For Losing Afghan Candidates
    Hundreds of people have marched in Afghanistan in support of losing candidates who are disputing the results of last year's parliamentary ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Congress Moves Forward With Useless Patent Ref ...
    With Congress and the President pretending that a bad patent reform bill is all about "creating jobs" even as there's little evidence that the reforms will actually do anything, Congress appears to be poised to approve the bill. Of course, the bill does almost nothing to address the real proble ...
  • Needed: Bright Line Rule On Mass Infringement ...
    The news that US Copyright Group has dropped yet another of its lawsuits isn't all that noteworthy at this point. This time, it was a lawsuit against people associated with 1,951 IP addresses, which USCG suggests were involved in unauthorized file sharing of the movie I Spit On Your Grave. Thi ...
  • Paxfire Sues The Lawyers And Individual Who Fi ...
    Well, well. Following a research paper that claimed that a company named Paxfire was teaming up with some ISPs to hijack search terms and take people directly to certain websites, a class action lawsuit was quickly filed. Paxfire wasted little time in responding angrily that the basis of the l ...
  • How Sweden Dismantled Many Of Its Online Civil ...
    People who talk about copyright policy and some of the things going on around the globe, often talk about how various governments' decisions appear to be direct-on-order from Hollywood and the legacy US entertainment industry. And, to some extent, that sounds crazy conspiratorial to think that ...
  • DailyDirt: Gee, Brain, What Do You Want To Do ...
    Maybe animals are getting smarter. We've covered how some monkeys have figured out how to take pictures of themselves, and we're learning more interesting things about animal behavior all the time. Here are a few more interesting discoveries that could bring us some damn dirty apes.. and fish an ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Covering the Leaking Reactors At Fukushima Wit ...
    Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Will Be Spread By Use of Tents When I first heard that Tepco will place large tents over its leaking Fukushima reactors, I reacted with derision, as did Tyler Durden: Artist’s impression of this latest Japanese venture: My reaction a couple of weeks later – after seei ...
  • Obama to propose $300 billion jobs package: report
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, plans to lay out a $300 billion job-creation package on Thursday, CNN reported, citing Democratic sources. The proposed new spending, to be announced by Obama in a nationally tele ...
  • ‘Gaddafi sniper’ Russian cooks loc ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com In Libya, rebels are detaining oil engineers and cooks from former Soviet countries – suspecting them of being pro-Gaddafi snipers. Two Russians were later released, along with a Ukrainian couple, after they managed to contact the Russian embassy. But more than a dozen Uk ...
  • New video shows a missile hitting the Pentagon
    By Dark Politricks A new video has been released that shows the missile / plane hitting the Pentagon on 9.11. The video is shot at a higher angle and I don’t know why it has taken this long to be released or if it has why I have not come across it before seeing it [...]
  • Novel Approach to HIV-AIDS Scam
    By Tom ValentineTuesday, September 6th, 2011 by Tom Valentine � Investment greed and monopoly has fueled the sickest medical scam since vaccine promotion. It gives credence to the Club of Rome conspiracy to lower world populations. David Rasnick, an American biologist with impressive credentials ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Parenti: Free Speech (2011)
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org Sept. 4, 2011 48South7th on Aug 31, 2011 Author Michael Parenti challenges his audience to learn about and advocate free speech in the face of oppression. From the origins of the Bill of Rights up to today’s challenges b ...
  • A Personal Manifesto, and Reflections on the S ...
    by Konstantin Kaminskiy Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Questions of Political Economy in Modernity, August 26, 2011 Sept. 2, 2011 Note: This was really meant for my personal blog, but there is some political economy in here, so I can put it up here too. I will be finishing the thing about China, n ...
  • The Triumvirate by William Blum
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org Sept. 1, 2011 Libya and the world we live in “Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?” â Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011 A few ho ...
  • Ch. 4: Peace Chaplain By William T. Hathaway
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 29, 2011 Peace Chaplain RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she prefe ...
  • After 9/11, Was War the Only Option? by Noam C ...
    Dandelion Salad by Noam Chomsky In These Times Sept. 5, 2011 This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. The impact of the attacks is not in doubt. Just keeping to western and central Asia: Afghanistan is ba ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: Hamas regime needs the Gaza blockade
    Hamas needs a blockade to regulate from within so that the subjects of "independent Gaza" will be exposed as little as possible to different realities and will not question its policies. Hamas needs... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Israel’s role in planned US laws ...
    A group of pro-Israel activists, backed by StandWithUs, a national US pro-Israel US organization, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israeli Arab couple wins legal battle to build ...
    Palestinian residents of Sahknin, an Arab Galilee town, petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice five years ago over rejection by Rakefet's admissions committee. IOA Editor: The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Was there an alternative?
    We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • “Return” plan for al-Bared: displacing the dis ...
    WikiLeaks documents now reveal that one of the options secretly discussed was to relocate the residents of Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, possibly to the newly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Food Safety Benefits of Irradiated Food
    Christine Bruhn, PhD, director of the Center for Consumer Research at University of California-Davis, and a professor in the UC-Davis Department of Food Science and Safety, explains why foods are irradiated in this video from IFT.
  • Food Safety Tips for Packing Lunches
    Back-to-school time is here and while many parents are concerned with packing healthy lunches for their kids, it's also important to make sure the food they're eating is safe to eat as well. This IFT audio news release provides helpful food safety lunch packing tips.
  • Pesticides and Produce: Myth vs. Science
    Many consumers want to buy organic produce because they're concerned about pesticides. This audio interview with Dr. Carl Winter, a food toxicologist at the University of California-Davis and member of the Institute of Food Technologists, discusses myth vs. science when it comes to pesticides an ...
  • What are Antioxidants and Why Do You Need Them?
    Antioxidants--what are they and why do you need them? IFT Member Claudia Fajardo-Lira, PhD, Professor of Food Science and Nutrition at California State University-Northridge, explains the facts about antioxidants in this video.
  • Institute of Food Technologists Welcomes 2011- ...
    Roger Clemens, DrPH, Chief Scientific Officer of the E.T. Horn Company, is the new President of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific society for professionals engaged in food science, food technology, and related areas in industry, academia, and government.

Natural Health News

  • This Antioxidant is So Powerful it Protects Sm ...
    Free radicals induced by cigarette smoking have been strongly linked to oxidative stress, which contributes to the pathobiology of various diseases. A recent study was performed to investigate the effects of astaxanthin, which is known to be a potent antioxidant, on oxidative stress in smokers. ...
  • Can Eating This Sweet Treat Decrease Risk of t ...
    A recent analysis sought to evaluate the association between chocolate consumption and the risk of developing cardiometabolic disorders.� Researchers pooled the results of seven studies that collectively included more than 114,000 participants. Five of the seven studies reported a beneficial as ...
  • Good News Dentistry for Reversing Dental Decay
    A newly developed tooth-regenerating paste could reverse bacterial-induced tooth decay. The amino acid toothpaste that contains a compound that assembles into fibers. When applied to a decayed tooth, it forms a gelatinous scaffold that attracts calcium. The paste has already been tested on a s ...
  • Why the Breakfast Most Americans Will Eat Toda ...
    Nearly every breakfast �staple� -- including cereal, donuts, yogurt, bagels, and orange juice -- is considered to be a staple only because someone is making money off of it.� In the nineteenth century, breakfast was neither cold nor sweet; it was hot, hearty, and full of lard. Then, in 1894, Jo ...
  • 9 Natural Fertility Boosters
    MSN has collected a list of nine ways that you can increase your chances of getting pregnant without turning to drugs.� Here are a few methods that they found: Limit caffeine consumption: Studies have shown reduced fertility for women who consume more than 300 mg of caffeine each day. Lose wei ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Can Iran Sue Russia in the ICJ?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Since neither state has accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ, I am curious how this report could possible be accurate: A senior Iranian diplomat said that Tehran has filed a lawsuit against Russia after the latter backed out of delivering anti-aircraft S-30 ...
  • Congress’s Constitutional Power to Establish N ...
    by John Dehn by John Dehn Please forgive the recent interruption to my guest blogging tenure.  I currently live in New Jersey.  We sought refuge from Hurricane Irene in a cabin in the Adirondacks – sans internet access.  Interesting times. Earlier this summer, Opinio Juris hosted an excellent ...
  • Congress’s Constitutional Power to Establish N ...
    by John Dehn Please forgive the recent interruption to my guest blogging tenure.  I currently live in New Jersey.  We sought refuge from Hurricane Irene in a cabin in the Adirondacks � sans internet access.  Interesting times. Earlier this summer, Opinio Juris hosted an excellent discussion of ...
  • Kevin Costner, 11th Circuit Judge (Mamani v. B ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. Berzain, the Bolivian ATS case.  I say against my better judgment because reading American judges on international law is kind of like listening to Kevin Costner play Robin Hood ...
  • Kevin Costner, 11th Circuit Judge (Mamani v. B ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. Berzain, the Bolivian ATS case.  I say against my better judgment because reading American judges on international law is kind of like listening to Kevin Costner play Robin Hood ...

Public News Service

  • New School Year = New Chance for Better Nutrit ...
    New School Year = New Chance for Better Nutrition for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – The vast majority of American children have a poor Healthy Diet Score according to the American Heart Association, and ever-increasing childhood obesity causes a broad range of health problems. A new school year gives fa ...
  • Muslim Woman Seeks Understanding through Theater
    Muslim Woman Seeks Understanding through Theater Phoenix, AZ - As communities around the nation find ways to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11, one Muslim woman uses theater to promote understanding. Rohina Malik (Roh-HEE-nah MAH-lik) wrote a one-woman play about the profound impact the ...
  • Endangered Gray Wolves to be “Hunted&#82 ...
    Endangered Gray Wolves to be “Hunted” in Tucson Tucson, AZ – The world’s 50 remaining Mexican gray wolves will be the subject of a combination street art/scavenger hunt event starting tomorrow (Saturday) in Tucson. Spotting the wolf silhouettes can win you prizes, but organizers also hope to bri ...
  • Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief ...
    Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief Event Tucson, AZ - One year ago, the Four Mile Canyon Fire west of Boulder became the most devastating fire in Colorado history. On September 7 (the fire anniversary), Tucson chef and area cabin owner Janos Wilder is hosting a fundraiser for the ongo ...
  • AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfe ...
    AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfermos Valen casi $10 Billones para Arizona Phoenix, AZ –Un reciente estudio por parte del AARP demuestra que uno de cada cuatro norteamericanos cuida de algún miembro mayor de su familia, de la familia de su pareja o algún amigo; y este cuidado vale $ ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • The Plight of the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve
    Ever since I was in high school I’ve heard stories about the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in eastern Honduras. The Plátano river flows through the remote Mosquitia region, the largest rainforest in Honduras, and home to countless species of birds, mammals and insects. It is ...
  • Google Celebrates Freddie Mercury
    Although as of this moment, 339 news sources have already reported it, and “me too” articles can be annoying, this Google doodle is one of the best I’ve seen in a while. Google doodles evolved from simple variations of the Google logo on their front page, to videos, games, and playable musical i ...
  • El Salto, Nuevo Leon
    El Salto, in Nuevo Le�n, is a waterfall in the Sierra Madre Oriental that cut through a hairpin bend in a canyon wall. It is a favorite Sunday haunt of Neoleonenses. In those few months of the year when it has water, you will find the pool at its base filled with ATVs, Jeeps, Land [...] Relate ...
  • Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
    What do you get when you mash up the most popular video games of the 1980′s and the 2010s? Many of you probably have fond memories of playing Super Mario Bro’s (S.M.B. hereafter) in the 1980′s. The absurdly popular Super NES was a staple of the living room in the days before the internet took [. ...
  • Web Designers vs. Web Developers
    Web Designers vs Web Developers is brought to you by Wix.com Use creative design to make a Free Website You are most welcome to share this infographic with your audience. Related posts:Your Web Alphabet Free Burma! Inductee to the Creative Class One Hundred Thousand People March Against Zelaya W ...

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Operation Grenade Walker – Obama’s ...
    Mexico has arrested an American man for selling grenades and other explosives material to the CIA’s and DEA’s favorite criminal organization: The Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The man by the name of Jean Batiste Kingery was arrested and immediately released last year by the U.S. Attorney General’s office ...
  • EU bans GM-contaminated honey from general sale
    The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorisation before it can be sold as food. In what green groups are calling a “groundbreaking” ruling ...
  • BREAKING: FEMA Lets Texas Burn by Turning Away ...
    http://RTR.org | In this report Gary Franchi delivers the breaking story about FEMA doing a Katrina repeat by blocking volunteers and letting towns burn. He also looks at the new Ron Paul Campaign ad, tracks down some explosives that DHS lost and looks at a sterilized grade school curriculum for ...
  • THIS, is why Rick Perry wants to skip all the ...
    Yep, just like Bush Jr… Perry was a male cheerleader. Not there’s anything wrong with that … ahem.. I was in attendance when Perry debated KBH and Debra Medina, during the TX Primaries in 2010. He so thoroughly had his clock cleaned that people in the audience were openly mocking him. You cant b ...
  • Are walnuts the answer to reduce your risk for ...
    Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Michigan women, and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for women in our state. In spite of these numbers, there is good news. Early detection is the key to survival. With regular screening, breast cancer is more likely to be det ...

The Air Vent

  • Climate Rapid Response Team
    Desslers explanation for his paper has been added to YouTube.
  • Life in tha fast lane
    The title with two meanings, I’ve got no time but apparently the rebuttal to Spencer’s paper was so important that it got through peer review in two weeks, acceptance to publication. Thanks to HaroldW and WUWT, we have a copy here, I also received an advance copy of the pdf thanks to another ale ...
  • Naughty Step
    At Judith Curry’s blog, Jonathan Jones put together a rather concise statement: Jonathan Jones | September 5, 2011 at 10:32 am | Reply With a tiny handful of exceptions (Judy, Richard Betts, Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, surely there must be a few more?) the whole of âmainstreamâ climate scie ...
  • Can we now agree that the climate peer review ...
    Think anyone feels the heat? UPDATE #3: At the end of the Guardian article, it says Andy Dessler has a paper coming out in GRL next week, supposedly refuting our recent paper. This has GOT to be a record turnaround for writing a paper and getting it peer reviewed. And, as usual, we NEVER get [...]
  • Redefining Peer Review — Editor Resigns
    UPDATE:  Roger Pielke Sr.  has his own take on the issue here.   An excerpt from his take is quite similar to my own.  A single paper referenced with no specifics regarding the critique, my red bold below. My Comment:  Wagner is not an expert on the subject of the Spencer and Braswell paper, so ...

Focal Point

  • Dealbreakers
    Labor Day is about two things: freedom and respect. So, in that spirit, I thought I'd weigh into the discussion of romantic dealbreakers. Here are mine: 1. Picky eaters and the food-indifferent. I'm a good cook. You've got to eat what's put in front of you and like it. 2. Beards. Unless yo ...
  • NYT Misses the Mark on Bloomberg, Goldsmith, a ...
    Now here's a backhanded way to normalize a mayor covering up his deputy's arrest for domestic violence: "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s management style has its hallmarks: unwavering loyalty to aides and a deep distaste for exposing private lives to public scrutiny." That's Michael Bar ...
  • Guilty Pleasures
    Amanda Marcotte, Matt Yglesias, and Atrios are debating the concept of "guilty pleasures" in pop culture. Here's my theory of what guilty pleasures are. For people my age, taste is a personal aesthetic code. Good taste can be idiosyncratic, in fact, it's expected to be. You're supposed to like ...
  • Obama's Pick to Head Council of Economic Advis ...
    Interesting fact about Alan Krueger, Obama's pick to head the Council of Economic Advisers, Alan B. Krueger. His research showed that raising the minimum wage doesn't destroy minimum wage jobs, it helps fill job vacancies: Mr. Krueger is best known for his studies testing widely held econom ...
  • Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island W ...
    Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Friend Quizzes, Page Tabs, Photos, Phrases, Ho ...
    Although there were six friend quiz apps and a pair of Page tab apps on our list of those growing most by daily active users this week, the rest of the list was pretty much a mixed bag. Phrases, Twitter, luck, horoscopes, beauty and mobile apps made up the rest of the list. The titles [...]
  • Study: Auto-Posting to Facebook Decreases Like ...
    Facebook Pages that automatically publish content to the news feed through third-party apps such as HootSuite, TweetDeck, and NetworkedBlogs receive an average of 70% less Likes and comments on their posts per fan, according to a new study by Applum, developer of Page tool EdgeRank Checker. The ...
  • Facebook Becomes a Competitor and Complement t ...
    iTunes and Amazon take note: musicians are now selling MP3s directly from their Facebook Pages. Electronic music producer and DJ David Guetta this week added a tab application to his Facebook Page that allows him to sell MP3s for Facebook Credits. The Nothing But The Beat app, developed by Frenc ...
  • Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: The Future of ...
    2011 will be remembered as the year that Zynga filed for its IPO, Google launched Google+, and Facebook executed the Credits transition. With the first potential social gaming IPO, Zynga plans to raise up to $2 billion to fund its continued global expansion. Meanwhile, Google is putting its weig ...
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Kontagen ...
    Kontagent looks to have hired a Director of EMEA Business Development as Wildfire hired a few more account managers, Vitrue and AdParlo hired some technical staff and a few other companies hired other employees. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us kn ...

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ReDress News

  • Gaza not represented in UN's blockade whitewas ...
    Stuart Littlewood analyses the conclusions of the UN's Palmer inquiry into the fatal Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara: a "bizarre reframing of the situation - that the illegal occupier, Israel, is the victim of the Palestinians' lawful resistance and that Israel's sec ...
  • Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing
    Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey's decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv's refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream ...
  • Israel's settler army and government poised to ...
    Uri Avnery says Israel's settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.
  • America's FBI goes rogue
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
  • From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
    Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Independent Perspective: Social Security M ...
    The Unanswered Question of “Social Security Surplus” By Linda Lewis As some politicians describe it, the Social Security program is an economic disaster forced upon younger generations by the demands of greedy baby boomers. News media obediently parrot the scare stories, seldom questioning the m ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Oh George! You got some ‘splainin‘ to do!
    Who at Alex Station knew what in August-September 2001? By Kevin Fenton Recent allegations made by former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke against former CIA Director George Tenet and two other former CIA managers, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, have thrown one of the key unanswered questio ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 12 ...
    Escobar: Syria- Why the Regime Won’t Fall, Lebanon Intercepts Covert Arms Shipment Bound for Syria, DHS Trying to Make New Terrorist “Watchlist Service” Exempt from Privacy Act, Bank of America’s Backdoor Bailout, Begging for Change, Russia & Azerbaijan: An Obstacle to the U.S. in the Caucasus & ...
  • Answers in Absolute for ‘Why 9/11?’
    Why ‘some’ Still Question, Seek Answer(s) & Accountability For ‘some’ reason I have been receiving more than a few ‘eye-rolling’ responses when I mention our theme for the month leading up to September 11- the tenth year. You and I know where the conscious but mostly subconscious eye-rolling and ...

Afro Spear

  • Jasmine Revolution: An African Revolution Not ...
    One of the illusions that Europeans and Arabs alike have successfully perpetrated for over a century, is that the northern part of Africa is not apart of the African continent. I have had discussions and arguments with so-called “highly educated people”… those with more than one grouping of let ...
  • “Don’t even ask” by Mr. Fish
    Seen over at Truthdig
  • Father and Son: A painful moment
  • “Gadaffi, Dictators and faint memory if ...
    On 30thDecember 2006, the world witnessed humiliating hanging of Saddam Hussein, former Iraq’s tyrant, after being arrested bolted in a spider hole. Many thought other dictators would make a note of the sudden and unceremoniously demise and downfall of Saddam. Go figure. They didn’t because of a ...
  • “Go Gaddafi Go!” by Nkwazi Mhango
    Go Gadaffi go ye Muamar Go without turning thy head back ever The game is up and over sir Go son of hell, a coward in your own light Go Muamar go down standing like a dolt In flames go down like that In a shame go even faster Go go Abuminyal go go and [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Dumb is In -- Redneck Perry Re-sets Slickness ...
    Palin-style dumb is out -- and slicker, smoother more ideological versions of hustling walk the landscape. Reversals makes once slow students into stars, aligning them with common folks. Watch out as Ponzi-schemer Perry redefines slickness, with skills beyond W.
  • Libya: Here We Go Again
    History is replete with conquering forces being cheered when they arrive, and then rapidly mutating from liberator to despised enemy. And once our seizure of Libyan oil becomes clear it will only ramp up the jihadist hatred for America that has spread like wildfire across the Middle East. We are ...
  • Obama Readies Tepid Jobs Plan While The Right ...
    What no one is talking about is why the jobs are gone -- and a good part of the reason has to do with the attacks on unions that fought to protect American workers. With Obama is posturing for political reasons, and the Republicans are playing at trench warfare in the interest of big business, w ...
  • Labor Day and the Obama Delusion Mantra
    This is a sad Labor day. But perhaps, if we face the betrayal of those we thought were on our side we can make some progress. The people still do have the power, if they wake up and choose to use it. There are no political parties out there that unflinchingly support social and ecological j ...
  • We Learned Nothing From 9/11
    Maybe if it stopped spending so much time and money killing foreigners the American government could protect Americans. A lot changed on 9/11, but not everything. We're still governed by corrupt idiots. And we're still putting up with them. What does that say about us?

Switchboard

  • Huge Victory for Sharks: California Legislatur ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco I’m not sure how sharks celebrate, but if these endangered creatures knew that California’s State Senate just voted to pass Assembly Bill 376, no doubt they’d break out a toothy grin or b ...
  • If you don't like the facts, make up your own
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco That seems to be the principle that motivates Joseph Bottum’s article, “It’s green and blue, but not bright”, recently published in the Weekly Standard. Because from beginning to end, Mr. ...
  • NRDC in the News 9/6: Ozone standard delay, fr ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke’s statement on President Obama’s troubling decision to postpone new federal ozone standards was quoted in The Wall Street Journal… USA Today’s White House Blog, The Oval also picke ...
  • Maryland gives smart growth another push
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I’m of the opinion that the package of (bold, at the time) smart growth policies introduced in Maryland in the 1990s by then-governor Parris Glendening has done a great deal of g ...
  • Killing the Ozone Rule: President Obama's Bad ...
    Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. To say that President Obama had a “bad air day” Friday is putting it mildly. In reversing his Administration’s previously strong support for ozone regulations to protect the health of Ameri ...
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