- 8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq
ShareThis8 Soldiers Killed and Burned in Anbar, Iraq 07 Sep 2011 According to Iraqi police, a commando of armed men [Blackwater?] killed eight soldiers, among them an officer, in Haditha, in the Province of Anbar, and then burned the corpses. The attack was carried out last night; the commando, ...
- CIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program i ...
ShareThisCIA doctor who ran phony vaccination program is kept from leaving Pakistan 07 Sep 2011 A doctor who helped the CIA find 'Osama bin Laden' has been barred from leaving Pakistan, a commission investigating the killing of the Al Qaeda leader said yesterday. Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a phony va ...
- Assange Lashes Back at Mayawati
ShareThisAssange Lashes Back at Mayawati 07 Sep 2011 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, didn't take kindly to Kumari Mayawati's words that he should be sent to a mental asylum. So Mr. Assange lashed back. Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks called Ms. Mayawati, th ...
- Mayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to ...
ShareThisMayawati: WikiLeaks Founder Should Be Sent to Mental Asylum 06 Sep 2011 Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, launched a scathing attack on Web site WikiLeaks Tuesday, a day after a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claimed she once sent an empty ...
- Plan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline
ShareThisPlan Would Keep Military in Iraq Beyond Deadline 07 Sep 2011 Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year's end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior m ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...
- VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of o ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
- New Britches
07 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan American troops have been losing their britches in combat. Until now, I’ve never seen so many troops exposing their hardware in battle. Many warriors go “commando” into the fighting, meaning that in the name of hygiene, comfort, or pe ...
- The Elusive Kandahar Cougar & Murphy’s Laws of ...
Sergeant TJ Vowell insists he's seen the mysterious big cats of Kandahar many times. Recently, Sergeant Vowell got shot. 06 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan 4-4 Cav, Bravo Troop, 2nd Platoon 2nd Squad There is much talk about “jaguars” or “cougars” among ...
- Censoring Afghanistan
Censorship 04 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A message came today that a certain General has told me to unpublish "Battlefield Forensics." “Battlefield Forensics” was first published on 18 August 2011. This dispatch violates no policies. It has cleared all OPSEC hur ...
- Mosquitoes
Afghan Soldier caught by infrared flash with specially modified camera. 31 August 2011 Afghanistan A Soldier sleeps in a body bag to keep off the bugs. American and Afghan Soldiers share an Afghan family compound overnight in the heart of Taliban country. During the dark nights, the ...
- We Need Better Pants
30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day’s work here. Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill ...
- Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
- Ultraviolent conflicts
Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
- Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
- The politics of economic self-destruction
Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- The Vegan Zombie Cooks Fettuccine Alfredo (Video)
Image credit: The Vegan Zombie Like the meat-loving chef that eats little or not meat most days, I am no vegan—but some of my favorite meals are either vegan or very heavily vegetable-centric. And with the Vegan Black Metal Chef preaching his dark, yet ethical, gospel, I am increasingly ...
- 5 Gorgeous Scarves From Etsy to Smarten Up You ...
Photo: tocamade.etsy.com A lightweight scarf may just be fall's most ideal accessory: Delicate enough to wear on unexpectedly sunny autumn days but a welcome layer when the sun goes down or the wind kicks up, they're also an easy way to perk up simple fall outfits (from tees and blazers pair ...
- Craft and Science are Combined in One New Exhi ...
Photo: B.Alter The Power of Making is the new craft show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a mix of craft and science: a coming-together of the disciplines. With more than 200 objects, the show explores how different materials can be used in imaginative ways. Think edible bab ...
- Retired Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First ...
Screenshot via YouTube The warm, golden glow of sunlight is one of those gifts in life we so often take for granted, though not only does it make life on Earth possible -- it makes it worth living. But for the first time in their lives, a group of chimpanzees in Austria were allowed to see s ...
- Trinity Root is 9/11 Memorial Inspired by Real ...
Image credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid under a Creative Commons license. Despite root systems living all around us, something about their form often grabs me. I'll often find myself doodling trees with roots stretching wide beneath a line of a journal page or notice concert posters or t- ...
- UK to allow cameras in criminal courts
[JURIST] UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke [Guardian profile] announced Tuesday that cameras will be allowed into criminal courts in the UK and Wales to improve transparency in courts. Two acts of Parliament [official website] in place since 1925 have banned filming [BBC report] in both Welsh ...
- Ukraine threatens international arbitration ov ...
[JURIST] Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych [BBC profile] on Tuesday threatened to take Russia to international arbitration over gas disputes. Ukraine relies heavily on Russian oil imports [Reuters report], and its territory provides transit for 80 percent of Russia's oil supplies to Europe. Y ...
- Europe rights commissioner urges probes into s ...
[JURIST] The Council of Europe [official website] Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg [official profile] on Monday urged [press release] Lithuania, Poland and Romania to investigate the roles their governments played in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] prog ...
- Bahrain court hears protester appeals
[JURIST] A special security court in Bahrain [JURIST news archive] heard the appeals of jailed anti-government protesters on Tuesday. According to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights [official website], the National Safety Court of Appeal, a court composed of military prosecutors and civilian an ...
- Myanmar government forms human rights commission
[JURIST] Myanmar's government on Monday formed the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) to promote and safeguard the country's constitutional rights. Members of the commission include former government officials, diplomats, academics, doctors and lawyers, some of whom have made state ...
- Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
- Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
- Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
- Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more. I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
- How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...
- Minneapolis JCRC: Brush Up Your Hasbara
The Minneapolis JCRC is desperately trying to push the horse back in the barn after I reported (with the journalistic legwork of Mordecai Spektor) that its staff relayed negative information about Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American member of Congress, to Israel’s Chicago consula ...
- Israel: Things Going to Hell in Hand Basket
Ethan Bronner wrote a story today with the deeply ironic (for him) title:Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege. Ironic, of course, because one of the major themes of the Israeli Occupation of late has been the siege against Gaza. Now it appears, the siege is staring Israel right back in the ...
- Israeli Consul, StandWithUs Engage in Lawfare ...
The eavesdropping transcripts Shamai Leibowitz leaked in 2009 contained information about covert Israeli penetration of the American political environment. If I had transcripts of current Israeli diplomatic traffic now, I’d be hearing conversations concerning the story I’m about to t ...
- Obama, Clinton Intervene to Protect Israeli Di ...
I don’t know about you, but I find remarkable this passage from Al Jazeera’s report on today’s Cairo riots which swirled around the Israeli embassy and spilled over into attacks on neighboring Egyptian security facilities: US President Barack Obama was first to react, calling o ...
- Adelson, Lauder Compel Israel’s Channel 10 to ...
Israel’s Channel 10 is considered one of the most bold and independent among the nation’s TV channels. It’s the one which airs Tzinor Layla, where I’ve appeared several times. As part of its reporting, it aired an extremely unflattering profile (segment begins at 20:30 ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
- EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
(661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
- " Flip Flopped"
Dear Editor, The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". How can flying ...
- Help to overcome
SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
- USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
- English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules th ...
- The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had ...
- London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
- Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
- Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
- Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
- Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- 'The State Decoded' Squeezes Rich Metadata Out ...
At first blush, state legal codes seem pretty simple. You've got titles, which are composed of chapters, which in turn comprise sections -- or something very much like that. It's a straightforward hierarchy, and you might not think that there's a lot of interesting metadata to be extracted from ...
- Sourcemap Crowdsources Product Supply Chains, ...
This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media. Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from different places. The provenance of a work t ...
- Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand ...
This month's Carnival of Journalism, a site that I've organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same topic, was hosted by Kathy Gill, a social media consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Washington, who seized on the new social network that is Google+. Still in i ...
- ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
- Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...
- Edge of Terrorism - Al-Qaeda and Affiliates St ...
On August 15, terrorist groups affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) struck seven cities with 15 separate car bombings and attacks against security forces, civilian markets, and religious pilgrims. This strike was the first such large-scale coordinated attack in Iraq since August 2010, when AQI ...
- The Digital Edge - German Giant Bosch Invests ...
Robert Bosch Venture Capital has led an investment of 7.1 million euro (about $10 million) in Ident Technology AG (Gilching, Germany), a developer of electric field sensors that can be used for 3-D gesture recognition. Bosch participated with existing investors MIG Funds and Danube Equity and th ...
- Edge of Terrorism - The Post 9/11 Wars were Su ...
It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That causes me to be wary. I prefer being the lonely voice, but the fact is that 9/11 was a defining moment in American history. On Sept. 12, 2001, few would have anticipated the course ...
- Financial Jihad - Australian Newspaper Likens ...
A leading Aussie newspaper, The Australian, has editorialized about the Nazi-style tactics of the anti-Israel boycott movement, patterned after and evolved from the one begun by the Hitler regime. During the 1930's, Hitler's Brownshirts, disrupted concerts featuring Jewish performers, and picket ...
- Pakistan on Edge - Pakistani Non-Muslims Seek ...
Members of minority religions in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim, are prepared to “take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. Tasser is the son of a prominent Muslim businessman and politician who was murdered earlier this year after he had ...
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The ma ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rheto ...
- Obama Administration Does it Again!: Empowers ...
By Barry Rubin The leadership of the Syrian revolution, or at least those who are recognized as such abroad, has released the names of 19 of the 29 members of the General Secretariat and five members of the Presidential Council. A lot of research should be one done on the individuals but le ...
- Slate's Dave Weigel Warns of GOP Mind-Control ...
WARNING: According to Dave Weigel, This Image of Hate From Occupy LA May Have Been Placed in Our Minds by GOP Mind Control Operatives Jews across the country who were frightened by those anti-Semites at the Occupy Wall Street protests can all relax now, becau ...
- OMG! The SCHMOTUS Joe Biden is RIGHT!!
Note: If you cannot see six videos in this post, please click here. Twice during the past week the SCHMOTUS, Vice President Joe Biden warned the country that if the "American Jobs Act" isn't passed that there will probably be more rapes, burglaries and murders across the nation. ...
- Qadhafi's Death: What it Teaches The Mid East- ...
By Barry Rubin What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi? First, we should note that he is the second Arab dictator to die in the last decade, the first being the Iraqi Saddam Hussein. Both met their demise due to direct Western intervention. There are three l ...
- NEW STUPIDITY! Birthers Go After Marco Rubio a ...
Not Satisfied with becoming a laughing stock because of their refusal to give up on trying to prove that Obama was not born in Hawaii, some in the birther movement are now going after Miami-born Senator Marco Rubio, Their claim is that despite the fact that he was born in Miami he is still not a ...
- Decline of the United States of America: The M ...
by Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research September 7, 2011 “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” Montesquieu, (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689-1755) “I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the ...
- 9/11 Responders Screened as Terrorists
by Mike Mculiff HoffPost.com WASHINGTON — A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned. The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, constru ...
- Associated Press: Americans to cause coming Te ...
Just as the Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama and the corporate media have propagandized for the past couple of months, Associated Press is now echoing the talking point that Americans are the next Terrorists that will attack their own land. No proof of this has been shown. Associate ...
- Greeks Going Back to their Farming Roots
by Tania Georgiopoulou ekathimerini.com September 1, 2011 «Here you can go a week without spending a single euro over here,” says a man who moved back to Crete two years ago to live in the village of his birth. “You get fresh food from your farm and if you need something extra, like olive oil [...]
- Iraq: Victim or Beneficiary of September 11 at ...
By Waleed Ibrahim Reuters September 9, 2011 (Reuters) – Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship. While the sectarian slaug ...
- Residents in wind-turbine shadows seek noise, ...
It’s nothing but misery. That’s the assessment of town of Fairfield resident Monique Consolazio, who lives in the shadow of two of the towering wind turbines making up the Hardscrabble Wind Project. Hers is a plight shared by many who have lodged complaints against the global giant Iberdrola Ren ...
- Study looks at wind farm impact on Union
A recently-completed study on possible impacts of the proposed Antelope Ridge Farm on the city of Union says that while the likelihood of serious impacts is mostly low, the city may have trouble paying for them if they do occur. The independent review, looking at possible impacts to the city in ...
- Locals cut off by Griffin windfarm crane accident
The fears of a Perthshire community were realised at the weekend after an accident involving a large crane blocked a road, forcing them to make an 80-mile round trip to their nearest town. The normally short route into Dunkeld was cut off on Saturday following the accident on the A822 near Troch ...
- Bay County wind farm project divides township, ...
“It’s friends, neighbors and even families against each other. It’s just too bad.”
- Health board to analyze turbine complaints
Falmouth Board of Health has received more than 90 complaints about the wind turbines in town since June 7. That total was filed by 11 residents reporting headaches, nausea, concentration problems, anxiety, anger and the inability to sleep. Two-thirds of the complaints concern the Notus Clean Ene ...
- Pass Bill, Save Jobs, Obama Admonishes Congress
“In a run-up to his much-anticipated jobs speech next Thursday, President Obama is banging the drum for legislation that would save thousands – perhaps millions – of jobs around the country right now.” (Christian Science Monitor) He believes in the tooth fairy too. FEE Timely Classic ...
- Public Increasingly Pessimistic about Economy
“Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama’s inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.” (Was ...
- President Makes False Claims about Tax Cut
“The president’s Labor Day speech in Detroit featured an assertion that contained a number of warning signs that it might be an errant fact: ‘biggest middle-class tax cut in history.’” (Washington Post) A president fibs? FEE Timely Classic “Paying for Tax Cuts?” by Sheldo ...
- Fed to Push Interest Rates Lower
“The Federal Reserve is moving toward new steps aimed at lowering interest rates on mortgages and other kinds of long-term loans, without making another massive infusion of money into the economy.” (Washington Post) Low interest rates helped get us into this mess. FEE Timely Classic ...
- Obama Will Ask for $300 Billion Jobs Plan
“President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.” (Bloomberg) Where’s the money coming from? FEE Timely Classic ...
- 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
- Getting that first job in journalism
Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
- 5,000 followers on Twitter
Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism. Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
- 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...
- Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gain ...
- Should the poor be allowed to vote?
Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
- Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
- Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
- Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
- Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
- How to fix Europe’s Financial Crisis
It’s not complicated. It’s just unthinkable. 1) Let the banks go under if they’re bankrupt. Make their private owners take the losses. 2) Refloat the banks, this will cost a TON less than having governments pay of private losses. 3) For countries with “unsustainableR ...
- 9/11
is a day which should be a reminder of how fear can make a people give up their liberties and prosperity and, in response to an atrocity, commit worse atrocities.
- Ontario NDP leader promises no income tax raises
Guess, I just gave my last donation to the Ontario NDP while she’s leader. If I want Tory policies, I’ll vote for the real thing. Although I am looking forward to the next fundraising call.
- The Short on the President’s “Job Plan”
The plan is supposedly 447 billion. By my count about 253 billion of that is in tax cuts. Corporations are sitting on a ton of money, tax cuts will not make them hire. Minor tax cuts for households will be used primarily for debt de-leveraging unless there is a general recovery with wage incr ...
- The Golden Laws of Prosperity
Implement policy which is as good for as many people as possible. Keep the rich poor. Punish negative externalities, encourage positive externalities. Tax economic rents punishingly. Do not allow pipeline companies (app stores, telecom companies, railways, etc…) to extract monopoly profits ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
- Fukushima nuclear crisis, six months later
The meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant has led to an ongoing crisis in Japan. Nature Video provides an update on efforts to stabilize the reactors, and the consequences of the emergency for Japan and nuclear power worldwide. Check out our previous video on the ...
- Directly comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl
Zoom out to view Chernobyl's radiation over Fukushima. Rotate to the Ukraine to see Chernobyl in context. Download file (source: UNSCEAR/MEXT)This embedded version of Google Earth may have limited functionality on some browsers.This Sunday (11 September) marks the six-month anniversary of the t ...
- Dutch universities ponder merger
Posted on behalf of Katrin Kohnert What do you do when science budgets stagnate? Three large Dutch universities think the answer is to intensify collaboration. They may even go as far as to merge with each other. Speaking at the opening of the Dutch academic year on 5 September, offic ...
- Balzan Prize winners announced
Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. Two scientists have been awarded the prestigious International Balzan Prize for 2011, announced in Milan last night. American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, Russell Lande, currently a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College, London is ...
- Illegal drug sales threaten vultures in India
Critically endangered vultures in India are still at risk of exposure to the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, through widespread illegal sales of the drug. The Indian government banned use of the drug for veterinary purposes in 2006 after it brought vultures to the brink of extinction. Vul ...
- Obama's Economic Trifecta: How The President H ...
President Barack Obama‘s “pivot” on jobs this week shows that the president has finally — if belatedly — acknowledged the real misery caused by the Great Recession. However, it does not shed his complicity in the ever deepening employment crisis. Unemployment remains high, exceeding 9% — 16% if ...
- Applying Lessons from the UK Riots to Australia
Many commentators correctly attribute the UK rioting to decades of misgoverning and miseducating youth. Contributing to this has been the breakdown of family discipline, the replacement of working fathers as role models and the creation of a culture of entitlement. Tony Blair has talked about ...
- The Golden State Is Crumbling
The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rea ...
- Whatever Happened to 'The Vision Thing'? Part II
More than two years ago (March 2009, to be precise), New Geography published an article I wrote, entitled Whatever Happened to ‘The Vision Thing'?. It began: When I was in elementary school, I remember reading about the remarkable transformations that the future would bring: Flying cars, manned ...
- Millennials Have the Answer to the Country’s F ...
America is about to enter a presidential campaign that promises to be filled with divisive rhetoric and sharp differences over which direction the nominees want to take the country. This will be the fourth time in American history that the country has been sharply divided over the question o ...
- Suit over GM foods labelled "natural" could op ...
NOTE: John F. Banzhaf III is a Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School [http://banzhaf.net/] where he is best known for his work challenging the tobacco industry [http://ash.org/] and his work challenging the food industry over obesity [http://banzhaf.net/obes ...
- Monsanto reaping gold through media manipulation
NOTE: This article brilliantly exposes the gap between the slick PR spin on Bt cotton in India and the harrowing reality. Worth reading in full. --- --- Media ethics: Got a plant, will republish for a fee MANU MOUDGIL The Hoot: Watching the media in the subcontinent 6 September 2011 http://www.t ...
- Hundreds rally against GMOs in Boulder County
TAKE ACTION: Join the GMO Right2Know March from New York City to DC Oct 1-16 2011. Find out more:http://www.right2knowmarch.org/ --- --- Hundreds rally against GMOs on Boulder County open space Laura Snider Daily Camera, 6 September 2011 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18837604 ...
- EU court puts limits on modified honey
1.EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey 2.Court ruling on GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence NOTE: ECJ file available at http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=FR&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-442/09 EXTRACT: "Zero tolerance must mean just that: traces of GMOs, no mat ...
- EU court puts limits on modified honey
1.EU Court Puts Limits on Modified Honey 2.Court ruling on GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence NOTE: ECJ file available at http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=FR&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-442/09 EXTRACT: "Zero tolerance must mean just that: traces of GMOs, no mat ...
- UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
- Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
- Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles ...
- Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no app ...
- Who—and What—Are Behind the “ ...
I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...
- 20 Quotes From European Leaders That Prove Tha ...
The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt. If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plunge the entire globe into chaos. The EU has a larger economy and a larger ...
- Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment. The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidly ...
- 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall. Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008. Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button. Wave after wave ...
- 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant. Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives. Large numbers o ...
- 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking? Well, you are not imagining things. A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded. Today, most Ame ...
- 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 enthusiastically ...
- 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 ...
- Magical Thinking in the Land Down Under
Like most humans, I’m a creature of routine. Every morning when I get into the office I take the first 20 minutes or so of the workday and dedicate them to browsing the top news headlines. Obviously, I read a lot about Afghanistan. I’ve been reading at least one snort-worthy article per day f ...
- Masters of the Obvious
The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released. It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (bu ...
- These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/da ...
- Attention To Detail
My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share. I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…In ...
- Who’s the Enemy Here?
Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country. This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus. I was insp ...
- Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside ...
- The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
“NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality. The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.
- WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
- “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends. Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released. Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “ ...
- Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
“Come Out Of Her, My People” By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today’s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intende ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile ca ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’ ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the A ...
- More Reasons Solar Panels are a Good Investmen ...
Solar Panels Shade(1) your Roof Thus helps lower your Summertime Cooling Costs because: Study Shows a building’s ceiling was five degrees cooler under solar energy panels than under an exposed roof. Solar Panels Protect your Roof Thus increasing the Lifetime Expectancy of your Roof *Scott’ ...
- creating sustainable energy systems of the future
The climate problems are becoming ever more urgent, but the energy systems of the future present even more issues. Technologically, we have good opportunities for creating sustainable energy systems However, climate change is not the only energy challenge: We need energy services to drive global ...
- Hydrogen Energy Storage
a practical, multi-home storage solution for surplus energy Creative Energy Homes (CEH) project, which aims to stimulate ideas for sustainable design and promote new ways to provide affordable, environmentally sustainable and innovative housing. Under a new phase of the CEH project, the universi ...
- Bay Window Detail Drawing
Custom Bay Window Detail by Scotty Scotts Contracting Dual Pane with Blinds in the Glass Energy Star Rated Windows for St Louis Area Advanced Framing Techniques All Exterior Joints Sealed with Caulk and Dow Window and Door Sealer 2×4 and 2×6 Framing Members 1/2 ” plywood sheeting ...
- Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not s ...
- ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
- Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011 Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today ...
- Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
- Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition t ...
- Rick Perry goes it alone
Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
- Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, wh ...
- Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
"Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe t ...
- This Labor Day, we need protests
Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
- The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Nations condemn Cuba blockade
Towards the twentieth condemnation of U.S. blockade against Cuba. While the United States intensified its economic blockade against Cuban trade and finance, the UN General Assembly advanced a new condemnation almost unanimously, against this siege, the twentieth in 20 consecutive years. The topi ...
- Chinese toddler dies after hit-and-run ordeal
Two-year-old Yueyue, who was run over by two vans in southern China and ignored by several passersby, has died. A severely injured Chinese toddler has died one week after she was run over by two vans. The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yueyue, was ignored by passersby only to grab th ...
- Obama suffers new approval rating blow
US President Barack Obama has dashed the Democrats’ hopes of re-election after his approval rating hit the lowest since he took office in 2009. The results of a new Gallup poll released on Friday found Obama’s job approval rating down at 41 percent, AFP reported. The figure showed a ...
- Gorbachov calls for “global governance” in res ...
Former Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience at Lafayette College on Wednesday night that the United States’ economic problems heralded the need for a new American “perestroika,” defined by a “new world order” and a system of “global governance”. Speaking to a crowd of 3,600 people ...
- Barack Obama: All US troops to leave Iraq in 2011
On numerous occasions during President Obama’s 2008 campaign he promised to withdraw two brigades per month, with all US combat troops out by 2009. Three years have passed since Obama was elected into office and the US troops are still in Iraq. However it is possible that this time Obama w ...
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- How Brian Moynihan Forced Sallie Krawcheck Out ...
Sallie Krawcheck got Sontaged. Krawcheck, the most powerful woman on Wall Street, stepped down Tuesday night from her position running Bank of America 's two wealth management units. She has no immediate plans for the future, said a person familiar with the matter. Krawcheck ran the Merrill Lyn ...
- Jay Carney: Hoffa Speaks for Himself
At the White House press conference today Jake Tapper questioned White House mouthpiece Jay Carney about civil discourse (among other things) and the statements made by Teamsters boss James Hoffa during an opening act for President Obama. Predictably, Carney refused to disavow Hoffa’s remarks, ...
- Bank of America Shakeup: Krawchek, Price Ousted
Bank of America ( BAC ) CEO Brian Moynihan is replacing wealth management head Sallie Krawchek and consumer and small business banking chief Joseph Price, his first major management shakeup, the bank announced late on Tuesday. The bank appointed two COOâs, with David Darnell overseeing consume ...
- Obama focus on policy, not polls – White House
The White House is downplaying several new polls showing President Obama’s job approval ratings plunging to new lows along with rising public concern over high unemployment and the sluggish economy
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Gets Longer Than Expecte ...
Carol Bartz, who still had over one year left on her contract with Yahoo, was fired via a telephone call on Tuesday. She was hired in January of 2009 to grow Yahooâs revenues, manage Yahooâs valuable Asian assets, and combat Googleâs takeover of Yahooâs market share. Since accepting the positio ...
- 9/11, Iraq, and the historical record
The U.S. discourse space is filling up rapidly with "ten years after" pieces related to 9/11. Me, these days I mainly just feel tired, tired. People in the U.S. political elite never listened to those of us who, prior to September 2011, had spent a whole career studying and interacting with the ...
- Libya: The longer view
The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
- I've been on vacation...
... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
- Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
- Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
- The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
- Disintegrating Economic Recovery
The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
- Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
- (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- The Mineral That Helps Fight Fatigue, Stress, ...
Story at-a-glance Sulfur is third most abundant mineral in your body. It is required for proper synthesis and biological activity of proteins and enzymes, and plays an important role in your ...
- Surprise! Guess Who's Viewing Your "Confidenti ...
If you believe that your medical and personal information should be kept in strict privacy, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. Your medical information is not actually private -- you sell it without realizing it. If you look at your office bill or EOB (explanation of benefits), you'll se ...
- Are You Being Tricked Into Having this Neuroto ...
By Dr. Mercola With Consumers for Dental Choice Story at-a-glance Thanks to deceptive, manipulative efforts by the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...
- Ten Best Foods to Eat Frequently for a Terrifi ...
By Dr. Mercola If optimal health is your goal, there's no getting around your diet. Your physical health is a direct reflection of what you put into your body, and how you live your life in general. Pre-packaged processed foods may be convenient, but cooking from scratch using fresh unprocess ...
- Why Almost All Sinus Infections are Misdiagnos ...
By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance The vast majority of people suffering from chronic respiratory infections are not aware that their problem is related to mold exposure. And unfortunately, their p ...
- 20 unusual uses for honey you never thought of
from moisturizer to apocalypse prepper... from ecosalon: It was brought to my attention last week that September is in fact National Honey Month. Honey gets an entire month all to itself? Why yes, it certainly does. Turns out that Americans consume 1.5 pounds of honey per person annually, and ...
- monsanto's pesticide problems & corporate envi ...
from forbes: Monsanto, the world’s largest agriculture seed producer, is under fire after scientists in the U.S. recently discovered what they believe to be a case of crop-eating bugs developing a resistance to the company’s genetically modified corn plants. Some researchers believe that the dis ...
- 9/1 binge & purge: sugar, slave, blast
Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey's* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
- usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
- ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...
- The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
source: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
- Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
- Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
- The changing face of the church
source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
- Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
- 20 Quotes From European Leaders That Prove Tha ...
The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt. If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plunge the entire globe into chaos. The EU has a larger economy and a larger ...
- Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment. The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidly ...
- 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall. Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008. Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button. Wave after wave ...
- 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant. Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives. Large numbers o ...
- 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking? Well, you are not imagining things. A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded. Today, most Ame ...
- Should the poor be allowed to vote?
Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
- Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
- Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
- Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
- Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
- Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- 15 Must Have Android Games
Android is growing at a stupendous rate and so is Android Market. Number is applications in Android Market is nearing 300,000 now and the rate of growth is only increasing. Trying to pick the very best of Android games from that enormous list is tough. I will try to give it my best shot anyway ...
- 12 Things New in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric[Screensho ...
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is marching ahead. Through our detailed reviews of Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 releases, we followed Ubuntu 11.10 in its each and every developmental phase so far. A lot of things have changed since the third alpha release and as we had promised, here is a preview of latest ...
- Awesome Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet for Beginners
Got a mail recently from freeworld's Raphael where he introduced me to his recent creation - a Linux bash shell cheat sheet meant for beginners. Very useful list of commands and keyboard shortcuts for Terminal with descriptions, more relevant if you are an avid Ubuntu/Debian user. Li ...
- How Open Source is Android After all?
Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world’s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects. How Open ...
- Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Center ...
- ENDGAME FOR EURO: GERMAN LAWMAKERS REVOLT ...
*GERMAN LAWMAKERS FAIL TO SUPPORT NEW EUROZONE BAILOUT FUND IN TRIAL VOTE *90% OF GERMANS OPPOSE NEW BANKSTER BAILOUT FUND *CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING ON LEGALITY OF BAILOUTS AND ROLE OF PARLIAMENT EXPECTED TOMORROW *GREECE SINKS DEEPER INTO DEBT UNDERLINING FAILURE OF BAILOUTS *ITALY ON STRIKE ...
- UK journalist recognises Germany is fighting t ...
German endgame for EMU draws ever nearer By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, The Telegraph 6:03PM BST 04 Sep 2011 It bankrolled French farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy, that disguised tithe for war reparations. It then bankrolled Spanish farmers as well. It f ...
- Recombinant HPV DNA contamination found in Gar ...
By Sane Vax At the request of medical consumers concerned about HPV vaccine safety and efficacy, SANE Vax Inc. has retained a private laboratory to test a number of samples of HPV 4 Gardasil™ (Merck) for possible contamination by human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the vaccine lots distributed to ...
- US SUES MEGA BANKS OVER SUBPRIME FRAUD
Major banks sued over mortgages, Reuters Posted: 12:02 AM, September 3, 2011 A Us regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housi ...
- Italy strikes over austerity
ROME, Business Week Italy’s president is warning the country’s leaders to heed what he calls the “alarming’ signals of worsening financial crisis and urgently enact austerity measures. President Giorgio Napolitano’s appeal to government and parliament was prompted M ...
- When the Baathists Read their History
To prepare for the new Syria, people have been digging up their not too distant past, well into the pre-Ba’ath era – not to copy it, but to learn from it.
- SEPTEMBER 11- Exploitation
With the 10th Anniversary of September 11th fast approaching. I, for one, am getting tired of (or is it immune to) how every politician regardless of ideology, most every lame stream media outlet, and especially the Pentagon has exploited 9/11 for political, ideological, psychological, and propa ...
- 9/11: Watch, Explain, I Can’t Even Begi ...
The scientists had described it, but I could never really believe it possible. I am flabbergasted.
- Israel Wages Lawfare Against Gaza Flotilla
Lawfare is bloodless warfare. by Philip Giraldi I have already reported how “lawfare,” which was defined by Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap following 9/11, is becoming the new hot button for defenders of Washington’s and Tel Aviv’s foreign policies ...
- Let’s Talk “Turkey,”
Everything else reported in the US about Turkey is false, dangerously false. The worst lies are the reports that Turkey's democratic government, freely elected, is "Islamist" and "extremist."
- The Lie
We're lucky to have Dr. John J. Mearsheimer to apply his original powers of observation to the practice of lying in international politics. John develops a theoretical typology, finding five sorts of strategic lies — from lies governments tell their own people to lies governments tell each ...
- Where's the Strategy?
It's disappointing, to say the least, that after ten years in Afghanistan we seem not to have a strategy, or at least a strategy people can easily discern, one that's related to known U.S. national security interests. Whatever U.S. policy is, if it can't be put into a single, simple, declarative ...
- Permanent Aridification Transforms the America ...
It's happening now but we won't be able to say with absolute certainty that it's happened for probably another couple of decades. Thanks to anthropogenic climate change the American Southwest is entering a new, and permanent, condition of increased aridity. It's not a "drought," it's the new nor ...
- Debt Doldrums
Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
- The Art of Courage
A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exagg ...
- Angels Among Us — An Incredible True Story
A Father, a Daughter and a Dog – A True Story by Catherine Moore “Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can’t you do anything right?” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside ...
- The STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT
“NO MAN IS MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED, THAN HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES THAT HE IS FREE” —Goethe— This short 13 minute video pretty much sums up the reality. The “FARMERS” are the Khazarian Money Masters – the Edomite Jews.
- WHO’S WHO IN THE “NEW” LIBYA ...
Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 Abdel Hakim Belhadj aka Abu ...
- “BIRTHERS” TAKE NOTICE — THE ...
birth-certificate-long-form Hello friends. Click on the above link, and you can view Barack Obama’s “Official” “Long Form” Birth Certificate. Consider that Donald Trump was really pushing for this to be released. Consider that after Osama bin Laden’s “ ...
- Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
“Come Out Of Her, My People” By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today’s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intende ...
- New Netflix Restriction: One Stream Per Customer
Netflix continued its recent tightening and price-raising by making it so there can only be one streaming video feed per account. For families that share accounts and want to be able to watch more than one instant stream at the same time, they'll have to sign up for an additional Unlimited St ...
- Morning Deals
ClothingTanga.com: [ESNY Totes Satin Shoes] ESNY Totes Isotoner Satin Ballerina Bridal Shoes w/ Rhinestones for $3.99ShoeMetro: [Shoes] [50% off Ed Hardy Doheny Platform Shoes]Old Navy: [Clothing & Accessories] Save 25% Off Any Order with coupon code ONBDAY25.Kohl's: [Apparel] 20% Off Entire Pu ...
- Former Citi VP Admits To Stealing $22 Million ...
If you think you need Ben Affleck in a creepy nun mask to heist millions from a bank, there's a former VP of Citigroup who can teach you a thing or two about a bloodless robbery. Of course, this guy also got caught and has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $22 million from his former emplo ...
- Walmart Shopper Borrows Electric Shopping Cart ...
You know those electric shopping carts you can use while shopping at Walmart? Then you likely also know that you're supposed to return the cart when you are done shopping. You're certainly not supposed to keep it for 11 days until you get ticketed by police for driving it down a public road. B ...
- Sprint Sues To Block AT&T From Buying T-Mobile
Less than one week after the Justice Dept. filed a lawsuit to block AT&T's pending $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, Sprint has filed a lawsuit of its own (but related to the DOJ suit), seeking to have the deal called off. "Sprint opposes AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile," said Sprint' ...
- Border Patrol Whistleblower Seeks Transfer aft ...
Seattle Weekly: Christian Sanchez, Border Patrol Whistleblower, Requests Transfer from Olympic Peninsula After ‘Retaliation’ Summary: Border Patrol whistleblower and GAP client Christian Sanchez, who has alleged that officials and agents are paid overtime for doing no extra work at Port Angele ...
- Blogger to N.Y. Times: Leibowitz is a Whistleb ...
At the time federal judge Alexander Williams Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Maryland sentenced former FBI translator Shamai Leibowitz for disclosing supposedly classified information to a blogger, even Judge Williams did not know the nature of the information Leibowitz disclosed. The&nbs ...
- Problems at the Border Patrol in Washington St ...
CNN: Border Agent Says There’s Nothing to Do, Says Money is Being Wasted Summary: Border Patrol whistleblower and GAP client Christian Sanchez has alleged that officials and agents are paid overtime for doing no extra work at all at Port Angeles in Washington state. Sanchez described the stati ...
- Connecticut AG Dismisses 513 of 699 Whistleblo ...
Associated Press: Conn. AG Drops Whistleblower Claims Summary: Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who assumed his position earlier this year, has closed 513 of the 699 whistleblower cases he inherited from his predecessor, saying that most of the probes lacked merit. His predecessor l ...
- Bea Edwards Named GAP Executive Director
Today, GAP officially announced that International Reform Director Bea Edwards has been named Executive Director of the organization. For the past three months, she has served as Acting Executive Director. Edwards has been with GAP since 2006, and brings an impressive track record of succe ...
- Inside Govt’s Cuckoo’s Nest: ‘Keep Calm and Ca ...
Textbook definition of insanity is to continue doing things exactly as you have and expect a different result. Well welcome to Herbert Hooverville, global financial chaos edition where the US and UK governments think the way to change the situation is to… carry on and do nothing differently. An ...
- Jobs: A Grand Bargain
America is a nation of Great Generation citizens, a lost generation of workers and a failed generation of self-centered and small-minded operators in business, government and finance who appear incapable of leading the nation. I will suggest below a grand compromise to create jobs that is curren ...
- Farewell Trey: Pity We Couldn’t Help You Mend ...
I live in Wales atop the Glamorgan Heritage Coast’s sand and limestone cliffs. It sits alongside the widest part of the Severn River dividing Southern England and Wales opening into the Irish Sea. Along with the world’s 2nd highest tidal swing it is home to incredible cliff and rocky beach walks ...
- Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers?
by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas—often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy—has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry’s rosy business projections. The Secur ...
- If Al Gore Had Won
A recent poll by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair found that a majority of Americans, and a majority of Democrats, do not believe things would have changed much if Al Gore had been inaugurated president in January 2001. With a jobless scandal gripping the nation, the presiden’ts popularity collapsed f ...
- Carbon Tax going through next week. ALP set to ...
You wouldn’t wish a wounded government on any nation. They’re too dangerous. The timing could hardly be worse. We’re about to force our nation to spend far more on its energy than it has too, while our competitors are decidedly not doing that, and the world faces a economic mel ...
- Newspoll — New record low for Gillard
We all knew a fall was coming after the debacle with the Malaysian swap of asylum seekers for refugees. The Australian: Tony Abbott’s record lead over Julia Gillard: Newspoll After a devastating decision in the High Court last week wiped out the Prime Minister’s Malaysia Solution for ...
- Do Tropical Storms correlate with CO2? In a wo ...
Catastrophic killer storms are coming! ‘The Australian Greens say Tropical Cyclone Yasi is a “tragedy of climate change”.’ “DESTRUCTIVE hurricanes such as Katrina and Rita are likely to be more common … Tim Flannery warns.” “These hurricanes have b ...
- How to go out with a bang — score points for c ...
An editor has resigned after committing the dastardliest of crimes: He helped publish a skeptical paper in a peer-reviewed journal. God-forbid, imagine a paper being reviewed only by people who have some sympathies with your results? It’s unthinkable. We all know that Nature and Science, f ...
- NIPCC report: Rising CO2 is beneficial
For those who want science and not politics, the enormous scientific compendium known as the NIPCC reports has been updated to incorporate new results. There are hundreds of references to peer reviewed research. It is as always, thorough, professional and comprehensive. The authors of the new NI ...
- Book review: 'Hollywood Left and Right'
(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Most Americans who pay attention to politics believe Hollywood's political influence in American life and culture is heavily weighted on the left. Steven J. Ross, a historian who teaches at the University of Southern California, begs to differ. He believes the evidence ...
- America remembers
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- Photo essay: Remembering and understanding 9/11
(Looking at the Left) - September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of that morning in 2001 when a 7th century Arabian warriors' creed attacked the very heart of the modern world at the dawn of the 21st century. Ten years later we find America in a state of confusion and disunity concerning the ...
- NYC, Washington increase security, manhunt for ...
(NewsMax) - The hunt continued on Friday for three men -- one a U.S. citizen -- believed to be planning a massive car-bomb attack to mark Sunday's tenth anniversary of 9/11...
- American civilization wiped off the earth? A t ...
(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - "America's mayor," Rudy Giuliani, told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that there had been about 40 attempted/planned attacks on America in the ten years since 9/11, and he assumed there will be more. He believes future attacks on America could come at us in a f ...
- Fact: You Have Rights Because Government Says ...
Here's a quick follow-up article to the one posted a few days ago about the Rawesome Food Club raid. Feast your eyes on the following statements released by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the raid. Note: Below, 'Plaintiffs' refers to James Stewart, Rawesome's founder, Sharon Palmer, ...
- Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
- Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
- Today's Quote
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
- Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
- Tunguska-type Event in New Zealand?
In the South Island of New Zealand, near the small town of Tapanui, you can find the above crater. Well, some scientists believe it to be a small landslide… According to the great array of evidence ...Tunguska-type Event in New Zealand? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Pravda ...
- Farewell Elenin
Confirmed today by Sky and Telescope, Comet Elenin has either broken in half or disintegrated completely. Astronomers have seen its brightness halving in the last week, and the bright core has become “elongated and diffuse”. ...Farewell Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog Related ...
- Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat
One of my best sources of information is Google Alerts – it lets me know all the new websites and web pages that show up for a particular key phrase. Alerts for keywords like 2012 ...Dark Comet: The Forgotten Threat is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Comet Creates Magnetic Pole ...
- Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC
Many independent researchers believe that something must of occurred in 3114BC to trigger the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar – and therefore any information about events from 5,000 years ago catch my eye – like ...Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
- Dreams About 2012
As a child I had a few recurring dreams. One of them could’ve been a nightmare but wasn’t. I was standing in the front yard of my home in cookie-cutter suburb. My parents and siblings were ...Dreams About 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 Forum – Becomin ...
- Should the poor be allowed to vote?
Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American." Here's how the piece starts:Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know ...
- Mississippi poultry workers vote to unionize
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Workers at Water Valley Poultry in Water Valley, Miss., recently voted overwhelmingly to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529. The vote was 80 for the union and 28 against at the 150-worker plant, said Rose Turner, organizing director for UFCW Local ...
- Florida farmworkers bike for justice in the fields
A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions. On Aug. 27, the members of the Coalition of ...
- Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
- Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
- Homemade Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Making these little cookie ice cream sandwiches made me so happy today! My favorite little twins are coming over and I was going to buy one of their favorite desserts, ice cream sandwiches, but decided instead that I would create healthier and tastier ones. So I baked oatmeal cookies made w ...
- You Can't Cheat Death By Smiling
[Editor's Note: Laurie's post touches on a lot of different aspects of battling cancer -- a positive outlook can only do so much, and in the end sometimes it comes down to "you get cancer and die", it's not about losing a battle and it's not something that can be changed by smiling a little more ...
- Shelf Clearing Controversy Kicks off Season Tw ...
I think I'm the only couponer in the entire world who isn't annoyed by season 2 of TLC's Extreme Couponing, which starts September 28 at 10pm (9pm CT). Not only am I not annoyed by it, I'm actually looking forward to it and I'm hoping that I can live Chatter/Tweet the shows again this year. (I k ...
- Respect Billable Time
Can I pick your brain? Perhaps the worst 5 words you can speak to an entrepreneur. What it means is "Can I ask you to work for me for free?" While there are times when it is absolutely great to give your time and expertise away pro-bono, doing it too often will result in your business folding. ...
- Maybe It's Time You Stopped Blogging...
[Editor's Note: My Life as an Ungraceful, Unhinged, and Unwilling Draftee into the Autism Army has a very amusing post giving the top ten signs that you should stop blogging. I'll give you the middle of the list below, but you'll need to click over to read the whole thing (and laugh!). --Mel] 5 ...
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
- Alpha to take on MSHA over enforcement
Anyone who follows the coal industry is by now familiar with Alpha Natural Resources and its pitch that its operations are “Running Right,” especially compared to Massey Energy. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., is among those who assures us that with new ownership now in Southern West V ...
- MSHA warning device rule would save millions
There’s a lot of talk these days about the costs of burdensome regulations. But I often wonder if those discussions take into account the money our society saves by protecting the environment, consumers and public health. Take the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s proposal ...
- Happy Labor Day
A union coal miner at work at Alpha Natural Resources’ Emerald Mine in Greene County, Pa. Photo by Phil Smith, UMWA Journal. It’s a good day not only to spend time with family and friends, but to remember the workers who do so much for all of us … Here’s hoping everyone has a safe [...]
- Friday roundup, Sept. 2, 2011
In this May 26, 2011 photo, a tailings pond is seen at the Bingham Copper Mine in Magna, Utah (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Mike Terry) Four coal miners died late last week when a mine collapsed in northern Mexican state of Coahuila. As Reuters pointed out, this comes a few months after a May expl ...
- Will Rep. McKinley attend citizen meeting?
Well, according to the Daily Mail, Rep. David McKinley took in $20,000 at a fundraiser over at The Greenbrier, where West Virginia’s leaders of business and industry are holding their annual summit. But so far, his office has declined to say whether he’s planning to accept an invitat ...
- The Truths of America in 2011
There is shockingly little truth in any of the normal outlets in America. Universities, mainstream media, common conversation — they all focus on their own particular vector and spin on truth. And often they’re not even lying: they’re just biased and wrong. So let me give my ve ...
- Bill Moyers on Obama
“Obama seems obsessed with wanting to lead the country in what he sees as a post-partisan era while his opponents are so partisan they have only one goal in mind—to destroy him even if they have to burn down the house to do it. Well, you may want with all your heart to save your [...]
- The Information Ages
Historian Robert Darnton says there have been four great Information Ages in all human history, where a new technology has transformed how we communicate and interact—and he goes back to 4000 BC Mesopotamia for the first of these, the invention of writing. Then comes movable type, then mass stea ...
- Is Rick Perry Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Not ...
Just this past Thursday in New Hampshire, in response to a child’s question, Perry described evolution as “a theory that’s out there” and one that’s “got some gaps in it.” His latest statement is remarkably similar to what his office wrote to a Texas vot ...
- David Korten on America
We in America rely on foreign consumer credit to live ever further beyond our own means, while allowing our physical, social, and productive infrastructure to deteriorate from neglect. It is the classic path of a dying Empire in decline and denial. via yesmagazine.org Posted via email from ...
- ‘Intelligence on the cheap’? Only if you don’ ...
According to an Evening Standard article on Friday, those poor detectives at NPOIU are providing 'intelligence on the cheap', having to buy heaters for their freezing offices and living off Mcdonalds and Burger King. However, like the majority of Evening Standard articles, the facts and figures ...
- Avon and Somerset police repress local paper
On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Auton ...
- Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
- The reason why the youth hate the police
This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
- This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?
- WWH News Briefs Wednesday
3 Guard members killed in Nevada IHOP rampage CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The burst of bullets came suddenly in Nevada’s capital. Just before 9 a.m., the gunman stepped onto an IHOP parking lot from his blue minivan with a yellow “Support Our Troops” sticker on it. He opened fire, ...
- Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
By Deena Stryker – An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reas ...
- Dis- Order in the courts
Back-Up Plans For The Individual Mandate? kaiserhealthnews.org – What happens if the health law’s individual mandate — the provision that requires almost all Americans to obtain health insurance or face a penalty — is overturned by the Supreme Court? Though more legal act ...
- Study: Sexist men and women made for each other
usatoday.com – When it comes to aggressive courtship strategies, sexist men and women seem to be perfect for each other, new research suggests. U.S. researchers conducted two surveys: One included 363 college students at a large Midwestern university, and the other was a national Internet ...
- We’re Checking Out
By Diana May-Waldman, WWH-I used to live in the suburbs and recently moved back to the city, We chose a smaller house closer to the beach. My former home had four bedrooms and three bathrooms and as my nest grew smaller, I felt the overwhelming urge to downsize. Not only did I want a smaller [...]
- WSJ on politics of cosmoclimatology
Willie sent me a pretty insightful article in the Wall Street Journal. Anne Jolis (see the picture) wrote about The Other Climate Theory,namely cosmoclimatology. It remarkably seems to go beneath the surface. The modern theory began with a 1975 paper by Robert Dickinson (even though Si ...
- TRF prediction came true: John Cook won the Eu ...
On Wednesday, August 24th, I wrote the following blog entry: John Cook will receive lots of money for climate propagandaIn that text, I claimed that a hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous redundant tiny stalking appendices of your humble correspondent (and of a few others) will win the ...
- CRESST-II joins dark matter's war on existence
In May 2011, TRF readers were reminded about the ongoing full-fledged war of existence of the dark matter: CoGeNT sees seasons (and maybe dark matter)Recall that there are two opposing camps of experimenters, namely DMIS (dark matter is seen) and DMINS (dark matter is not seen). At the end ...
- Andrew Dessler: clouds don't reflect light
The consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of the journal to resign. By the way, Mr Alexander Ač of Czech Globe, an ex-student o ...
- NASA 3D app: Eyes on the Solar System
If you want to see how any object in the Solar System looks like from the viewpoint of any probe NASA sent, is sending, or will send in the space, see this 3-minute introduction to a new NASA app. Attractive American Astronomer Amy (AAAA) on the video above will instruct you to go ...
- Are you a Fiatard? Gold is not in a bubble.
Only a retard says that Gold is in a bubble. If you hear anyone make that claim or claim that gold and silver are nothing but commodities, you are either talking to a shill or a retard. In either case tune them out. Speaking of out, get out of dollars before your wealth is toast. [...] Rela ...
- NATO Libyan War Crimes
This video is not for the faint of heart but you need to see what your tax dollars are financing. NATO is no different than the Nazis. This is a sick and sad testament to the evil that controls us. Refuse to partake in this system. A contrived and unprovoked war – NATO’s terrorism kn ...
- British Bullshit Corporation BBC Lies to the S ...
I will let the kid do the talking. He has it pegged. Tell me why you haven’t figured it out yet? Are ya a moran? Technorati Tags: BBC, Libya, Media, Lies, British Bullshit Corporation Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Truth About the Lies FULL DOCUMENTARY The Tr ...
- Silver! Final Warning!
Last call. Get in or kiss your ass goodbye. Heretic Productions present : Silver Shield’s Final Warning. dont-tread-on.me Video Rating: 4 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Silver Shield – ...
- Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… ...
- Salad bars surge in D.C. schools
By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Local bok choy and baby spinach, a mesclun mix with mandarin oranges and broccoli florets topped with Asian chicken strips. No, it's not the lunch menu at Chez Panisse, the influential organic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
- Keeping You in the Dark on Tap Water Contaminants
By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior V-P for Research More than 300 pollutants contaminate the water Americans drink, an EWG analysis of almost 20 million public records found. Truly pure tap water is a rare commodity in the U.S., but until... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Support a Climate Rider for EWG
By Lauren Heumann, EWG intern and climate rider Growing up, I was a huge fan of the Environmental Working Group. It had me hooked with its first Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. I always rely on EWG's Sunscreen Safety... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 speci ...
- 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 issue ...
- 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 Indi ...
- 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 ...
- 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 commu ...
- 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 torre ...
- 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.” La ...
- Two New School Permaculture Projects for Ethiopia
by Geraldine Quinlan, from Ireland, a new intern at the Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in Ethiopia 1. Gocha In the morning we visited Gocha Primary School. Before starting work together Tichafa gathered everyone in the classroom. He spoke about the importance of growing food for independence fro ...
- Sustainable World Radio Interviews Margie Bush ...
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe on Amazon boat tour, IPC8 Brazil Here’s a great opportunity to get a bit of background and foreground on the International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC10), which is now imminent! Listen to the podcast below to hear Margie and Wes talk to Sus ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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. That’s what you do because you’re helpless. There’s only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, you’ve called them but you’re just another one&# ...
- I’m not a scientist but …
For a number of reasons, having “made my bones” 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 that’s not just my subjective opinion, it’s a fac ...
- 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 vid ...
- 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 vers ...
- 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 ca ...
- 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 organiza ...
- 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 ...
- 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 Gulen ...
- 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 push ...
- 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 similar ...
- 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 ...
- 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 enthusiastically ...
- 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 ...
- (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' ...
- 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 nee ...
- 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 ...
- 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 TÜBA) 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 go ...
- 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 ...
- 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—al ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 Post’s Tifa Asrianti reports on the river’s deteriorating condition and its public heal ...
- 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 Mothomel ...
- 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 volca ...
- 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 ...
- 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 secti ...
- 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 ...
- The Truth about SourceWatch
SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
- 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 ...
- 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 'greenwa ...
- 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’ ...
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 sub ...
- 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 ...
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- AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
- 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
Report written by Roma AKA A2B The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
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