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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, October 28, 2011

28 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Reader Supported News

  • Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn't ...
    Paul Kiel reports: "Why has the administration's flagship foreclosure prevention program been so ineffective in helping struggling homeowners get loan modifications and stay in their homes? One reason: The government's supervision of the program has apparently ranged from nonexistent to weak." ...
  • FOCUS: State for Sale
    Mayer writes: "The Pope family foundation - of which Art Pope is the chairman and president, and one of four directors - reportedly has assets of nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars. This wealth has enabled Pope to participate in the public arena on a scale that few individuals can match. ...
  • Activists Worldwide Push for Leaving the Fossi ...
    Jeremy Hance reports: "On six continents, in over 75 percent of the world's countries, people came out en masse yesterday to attend over 2,000 events to demonstrate the power of renewable energy to combat global climate change." Harrison Adamsy prepares to fly his 'YES! Price Pollution' kite ...
  • FOCUS: Saudi Royal Family's Connection to 9/11 ...
    Baker begins: "WhoWhatWhy has found evidence linking the Saudi royal family to Saudis in South Florida who reportedly had direct contact with the 9/11 hijackers before fleeing the United States just prior to the attacks." Bush kissing the king of Saudi Arabia. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Im ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: Why Are Students Flocking ...
    Cassandra Garrison writes: "The Occupy Wall Street movement, now in its sixth day, is largely comprised of college students. Why is this demographic so attracted to this protest? Metro spent a night with protestors in Zuccotti park and spoke to college students about what brings them there." ...

War Resisters League

  • 10 Years of the Global War on Terror
    This Friday, October 7 marks ten years of the U.S. Global War on Terror, which began with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. War Resisters League along with a number of antimiltarist and community groups will commemorate the occasion with … Continue reading →
  • “Stands Against Its Oppressor”: Ir ...
    “I think that whoever talks of pressure has to be precise. I don’t feel any pressure. Even the Syrian regime has stopped talking about conspiracy and foreign intervention. Either they know there is pressure and they don’t dare declare it … Continue reading →
  • “A world party and we are all invited&#8 ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a second book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →
  • Portand: Veteran Organizing and Economic Justice
    This past week, WRL organizers Kimber Heinz and Ali Issa attended the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace 2011 conventions. In addition to attending workshops on the GI resistance movement now, as well as building relationships with … Continue reading →
  • Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
    Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...

Center for a Livable Future

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October ...
    ==== 26,323 Sorties: NATO Continues Strike Missions In Libya NATO Bombed Libyan Oil Fields To Ensure Post-War Control: Expert National Transitional Council Asks NATO To Stay In Libya Pentagon Chief: NATO May Stay In Libya Syria: U.S. Preparing Military Expedient? Afghan Lower House Rejects Milit ...
  • Taras Shevchenko: The civilizing mission&#8230 ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Taras Shevchenko From The Caucasus (1845) Translated by John Weir You love your brother as is writ Within the Golden Rule?! O damned by God, O hypocrites, O sacrilegious ghouls! Not for your brother’s soul you care, But for your b ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October ...
    ==== Castro: NATO Most Perfidious Instrument In History Of Humanity Libya: NATO Bombing Continues, Strike Sorties Approach 10,000 21st Century Colonial Barbarism: Gaddafi Murder Message For Entire World NATO Operation In Libya Dangerous Precedent For Balkans: Yevgeny Primakov James Bissett: NATO ...
  • Yehuda Amichai: Knowledge of peace passes from ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) Translated by the author and Ted Hughes Even my loves are measured by wars: I am saying this happened after the Second World War. We met a day before the Six-Day War. I’ll never say before the peace &#82 ...
  • Hymn to Mother Earth
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Demon Fuzz: Hymn to Mother Earth (1970) Homeric Hymns To Earth, Mother Of All Translated by H.G. Evelyn-White I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all tha ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Madsen: Gaddafi Flying White Flag When Killed
    By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 24, 2011 Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said his sources in Libya provided information revealing Moammar Gaddafi was set-up in an assassination plot. Early on October 19, Twitter messages from Gaddafi’s hometown of ...
  • Japanese Journalist Accuses Israel Of Fukushim ...
    American Free Press By Richard Walker October 24, 2011 A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan ...
  • Whistleblowing Ain’t No ‘Fair Game’
    Boiling Frogs Post By Sibel Edmonds October 24, 2011 Pinpointing “Fairytale Whistleblowers” For the last ten years, in over a hundred interviews, I’ve been asked to talk about whistleblowing and whistleblowers. On more than one occasion I’ve been asked to define the term whistleblower. I have re ...
  • Occupy Orlando: Orlando PD Arrests Peaceful Pr ...
    YouTube October 24, 2011 In the early morning hours of October 22, 2011, 14 Orlando Police patrol cars and an arrest van pulled up to Senator Beth Johnson Park in Downtown Orlando. They did not come to keep the peace or to serve and protect. They came to suppress the free speech and peaceable as ...
  • Chemical Bomb Thrown at Occupy Maine Camp Earl ...
    The Free Press October 24, 2011 An explosive device was thrown at the communal tent in the Occupy Maine encampment in Lincoln Park early Sunday morning. Stephanie Wilburn, 19, said she and about four other people were gathered in the camp kitchen and communal area at about 4 a.m. Sunday when the ...

FRS

  • A Chinese worker-poet writes on displacement
    Waiting for Relocation by Wang Xuezhong The wind of pulling down the houses is blowing hard In directions all Raising a cloud of dust The life ever peaceful Into worries does fall   Rumors prevail The truth no one knows Whatever it is Our old home At any moment Will be sold to a boss [...]
  • Mass Displacement of the poor in China for cap ...
    [When Deng Xiao-Ping, after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, seized power in a capitalist coup which he dubbed "modernization", he led the dismantling of socialism and opened the path for mass impoverishment along with elitist enrichment.  Since that time, hundreds of millions of Chinese peasant ...
  • Indian Army to share “anti-terror” ...
    [India is pressing forward in its assigned role as sub-imperialist and regional hegemonic power.  Militarily, it is taking the lead in military training of surrounding countries.  Of special note is that the countries requesting this training in "counter-insurgency" training include Nepal.  PM B ...
  • India’s military: training with France i ...
    India, France perfect counter-insurgency warfare skills 21 October 2011, India News By N.C. Bipindra, IANS Chaubatia (Uttarakhand) : With terrorism and insurgency becoming a global threat, India and France Friday completed in a mountainous forest terrain setting their first joint army exercise t ...
  • South Africa: “Fighting for Our Right to ...
    Jeanne Hefez, Pambazuka 20 October 2011 Organising the unemployed is a full time job – one the Unemployed People’s Movement in South Africa is making it’s own. Jeanne Hefez talks to UPM organisers about the challenges they face. ‘There is no third force, political party o ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
    UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
    Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken   Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T: +44 7888 699256 or +44 1206 523528 Contact for D ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters Pro ...
    The Irish traveler community of Dale Farm in England are facing a forced eviction, they are also facing a racist system that falsely claims that the residents of Dale Farm are flouting the law. That is a lie, and the truth will be set out in the full documentary set to be released on October 1, ...
  • When Human Rights Become Subordinate to “The L ...
    The prostitutes of propaganda (POPs), otherwise known as the mainstream media, would have you believe that the Irish Traveler residents of Dale Farm are nothing more than miscreants who expect special favours when it comes to the law. For those who know nothing of Dale Farm, here is a very abbr ...
  • Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
    Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • A View of the McDonald's Beating Video from a ...
    I am using my personal experience as a McDonald's worker to discuss the actions of the McDonald's worker who was caught on tape beating two women.Contributor: Marie Brandon Published: Oct 16, 2011
  • Some Dietary Supplements Associated with Highe ...
    Most people believe that dietary supplements improve health and prolong life, but a new study shows this may be an erroneous belief. Recent research published in a medical journal found that certain supplements were linked to earlier death in older women.Contributor: M West Published: Oct 14, 2011
  • Obama Sends US Troops to Central Africa
    President Obama has followed up on months of effort to support Central Africa in their fight against the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army. On Oct. 12, the first of 100 U.S. military were sent to Uganda to "provide information, advice, and assistance."Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Oct 1 ...
  • Missing Handyman Takes Stage in Lisa Irwin Inv ...
    Though statistics suggest it's unlikely the handyman took baby Lisa Irwin from her crib, police are looking to question him in connection with the case.Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Oct 14, 2011
  • Surfer Gets the Ride of His Life on a Great Wh ...
    A surfer in Seaside, Oregon, got the ride - and scare - of his life on a great white shark.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Oct 13, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your ...
    In recent decades, deep sea researchers have upended our notions of what can survive at some of the deepest submerged places on Earth, revealing that a panoply of life thrives around seafloor vents and elsewhere in the depths. So we probably shouldn’t be surprised that researchers from Scripps I ...
  • Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineerin ...
    A majority of people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States support studying ways to reflect sunlight as a method to cool the planet, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard and two Canadian universities say nearly three-quarters of survey respondents approved research into ...
  • Hermit Crabs Need You To 3-D Print New Shells ...
    Or so says Makerbot Even hermit crabs aren’t immune to swings in their own ecological economies. A global shortage of shells is leaving the entire species short on housing, and the DIY design community over at Makerbot isn’t having it. Stepping in to bring shelter to the shell-less, Makerbot ha ...
  • Climate Skeptic Sponsors New Climate Study, Co ...
    Last year, as climate change deniers were up in arms over the so-called “Climategate” controversy involving alleged manipulation of climate data, one skeptical scientist proposed taking a fresh look. Richard Muller, a physicist at the University of California-Berkeley and a self-described climat ...
  • Pig-to-Human Transplants Could Be Closer Than ...
    Two scientists at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh discussed the state of xenotransplantation--the use of cells, organs, or tissue from one animal in another--in a review in The Lancet. In that review, they touch on the history of one particular subj ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • The winter forecast and media hype
    The hype surrounding this year's winter forecast has been remarkable, unparalleled in my 20 years as a meteorologist. Driven largely by sections of the tabloid press and several small private weather companies, the idea that this winter could be the worst ever recorded has already become firmly ...
  • Met Office wakes up to solar influence on climate
    For as long as I have been a meteorologist, the mere suggestion that solar activity could influence climate patterns has been greeted with near derision. Quite why this has been the case is difficult to fathom. But it's been clear for a long time that there must be a link of some kind, ever si ...
  • Latest global satellite temperatures for September
    The latest global temperature anomaly for September has been released and according to the UAH measure is +0.289C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.542C above the 1961-1990 time period used b ...
  • All eyes on new october temperature records
    UPDATE: New records were set on saturday. Bramham now holds the Yorkshire October record, with 28.7C. Finningley recorded 30C, but the Met Office do not regard the airport as an official climate site anymore. A new record was set in Lincolnshire on sunday, with 29.3C recorded at Coningsby. ...
  • 'Indian summer' on its way by middle of next week
    Following another disappointing summer, and an unsettled September, at long last a spell of warm weather will be on its way by the middle of next week. A plume of warm air from the continent looks set to move northwards across the UK reaching many areas by Wednesday; with a good degree of agree ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Peronists in Athens or the Politics of Greek H ...
    A little off the top; a little off the side. Monitoring how things are going in South America's second largest economy nearly a decade after its default and subsequent two-thirds haircut on the face value of its sovereign bonds is interesting for obvious reasons. In particular, how would the Gre ...
  • Precisely: Why the EU Will Make It (But Not th ...
    I am usually pick up neat stuff from the Globalist once in a while. Just today, I came across a new feature from Martin Sieff, who recently penned a much-needed antidote to the current American obsession with China that considers India as well--but not necessarily as a natural US ally. (Think of ...
  • EU Again Ponders Silencing Rating Agencies
    While credit rating agencies may not be the last word on the subject matter, you do have to wonder if the alternative of having such functions suspended altogether would inspire market confidence. Does 'shooting the messenger' help? But don't ask me; European bigwigs including the EU internal ma ...
  • Emiratization & the Middle East Migration Debate
    Migration has obviously been a hot topic as of late in many Middle East energy exporters that have large migrant worker populations. While the stereotypical migrant performs '3-D' dirty, dangerous, or difficult work, the reality is more complex. Expatriates cannot readily be lumped into one cate ...
  • Thai Flooding, a Problem for 'Detroit of the O ...
    You are likely familiar with the chronic flooding which has adversely affected many of our Thai friends since it's been in the headlines for weeks on end. With relatively little chance of subsiding soon, I'm afraid that this situation looks set to run for quite some time to come. One of the ind ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars W ...
    Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.  In Libya, we have actually h ...
  • Underemployed And Hating Life
    Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unem ...
  • The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destr ...
    Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds compl ...
  • The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For ...
    If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities.  Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke.  Yes, New York City and Washington ...
  • In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs
    The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral.  The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand.  Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "delevera ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...
  • 8 Simple Actions to Change Pope From Liar to L ...
    The Catholic hierarchy, from Pope on down, are liars. They pretend, and regularly claim, to be “doing everything possible” to help victims of their widespread and systematic child rape and other abuses, to protect children and to bring offenders to justice. In reality they are doing ...
  • Pope responsible for crimes against humanity
    Last week the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) lodged documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague detailing the widespread and systematic campaign of sexual violence and exploitation of many, many thousands of children worldwide by the Catholic Church. I am on ...
  • Victims of Church Abuse Fight Back
    Australian politicians this week have an ideal opportunity to stand up for the rights of innocent children and vulnerable adults not to be raped by those in positions of power over them. This week’s events were set in motion by the recent appointment of Monsignor David Cappo to head the new fede ...
  • Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
    The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...

WL Central

  • 2011-10-20 Wikileaks: Syrian regime says it ca ...
    Tweet Not speaking often publicly on general issues is a main attribute of the top leadership in the Syrian Baathist regime. They rarely allow themselves to be faced and challenged by the media. The regime tends to convey its messages via different proxies and mouthpieces who are regime-linked. ...
  • 2011-10-16 Ten Thousand March with #OccupyLA
    TweetSaurday was the biggest day yet at Occupy Los Angeles as it began its third week. Around noon, between 10,000 – 15,000 people, according to official LAPD estimates, marched from Pershing Sq. through the financial district and then to the occupation site at city hall. With so many protester ...
  • 2011-10-15 The Economics of Occupy Wall Street ...
    Tweet"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will ...
  • 2011-10-14 Crowd-sourced database for the #15O ...
    TweetSubmitted by Take the Square NEWS DATABASE On the 15th there will be protests in almost 1 thousand cities worldwide. The amount of information that will be generated on the Internet is huge, which is why everyone has to contribute in order to create a crowd-sourced database. This will mak ...
  • 2011-10-14 Bloomberg backs down, occupiers can ...
    TweetThe occupation at Wall Street received good news this morning: after spending the night preparing for eviction, the clean-up order was postponed. A spectacular piece of news reached the Wall Street occupation on Friday morning: the private owner of Zuccotti Park, which has been the homeba ...

U N News

  • Ban honoured by US college fund as Internation ...
    A prestigious United States college fund tonight awarded its first International Humanitarian of the Year Award to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for "his steadfast commitment to confronting global challenges and his ability to effectively mobilize world leaders to do the same."
  • Paraguay: UN calls for reforms to protect righ ...
    New laws are urgently needed in Paraguay to protect the rights of minorities, in particular women and indigenous people, a top United Nations human rights official has said, calling on the Government to scale up its efforts to stop discrimination and injustice towards these groups.
  • Nearly 470,000 cholera cases reported in Haiti ...
    Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
  • Human rights approach to education policies ne ...
    The Chilean Government must adopt a human rights approach in its policies, particularly those regarding education, indigenous people and freedom of expression, a senior United Nations official has said.
  • Mexico: Angélique Kidjo lauds efforts of UN-ba ...
    Internationally renowned singer Angélique Kidjo has lauded the efforts of a facility in Mexico City supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that provides medical, psychological and legal assistance to children who have suffered violence.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
    (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
    Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
    From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...
  • Review of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife
    Guest blog by Leon Kolankiewicz, wildlife biologist and environmental planner. This book review was originally posted August 9, 2011 on NumbersUSA “How far conservationists and environmentalists have fallen from what now seem to me to be the Golden Years of the 1960s and 1970s.  No wonder I’m su ...
  • Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave – The Popu ...
    Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” mu ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • A L E R T !... Final Implementation Phase of ...
      Today may mark the real beginning of the end of the United States of America.  We-the-People are being forced into the deadliest phase of the Obama Plan, yet—that of his overwhelming implementation of his US Police State.  read more
  • To Avoid Malnutrition... Four Things You Must Eat
      While those of us living comfortably in the United States do not see malnutrition on a regular basis, it can and will pose a problem if an  unprepared population finds itself dealing with a long-term disaster. read more
  • 'Unbelievable How NYPD Treats OWS'... Sgt. Sh ...
      A video featuring Sgt. Shamar Thomas has gone viral on YouTube. In the video, Sgt. Thomas confronts members of the NYPD about how the cops have been treating protesters. He tells the police that if they want to fight, they should go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sgt. Shamar Thomas, Iraq w ...
  • The Marines are Coming!... #OccupyMarines are ...
      Sgt. Shamar Thomas - United States Marine Corps. United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas in a spectacular moment defended the protesters of Occupy Wall Street while staring into the faces of thirty NYPD officers, and now countless other Marines have organized in an amazing ...
  • The Return of Debtors’ Prison?
      H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused, or tried. Chadwick is imprisoned on contempt-of-court charges that sprang from a contentious divorce. His ca ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • How Does Solar Power Work?
    Solar Energy: Keeping it simple The Earth constantly basks in the Sun and is absorbing enough energy to satisfy the world’s power needs many times over. So how do we turn the Sun’s energy into electricity? Well, the light from the sun contains energy. These particles of energy are ca ...
  • BEWARE, 11-9-11, First Time Ever For…
    Soon we will be upon two significant dates, 11/11/11 and 11/9/11. The digit configuration happens once every hundred years. Here’s something to think about… It is well known that terrorists enjoy the prospect of significant dates and places. We all of course remember 9/11. Well, on 1 ...
  • Has Our Government Become Tyrannical?
    Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), the third President of the United States (1801–1809), and and founder of the University of Virginia, once said the following… “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear ar ...
  • My Log Splitter
    My log splitter has been a valuable prep item for me and has split many cords of wood (large diameter wood) without any problem at all. The ability to ‘make heat’ during the winter without electricity could make the difference between misery and comfort, or even life and death, or at ...
  • False Flag Events
    Guest post: By ‘Be informed’ What is a false flag event? False flag events are anything that has been made to look like something that it really isn’t. “Your” government can create chaos to create diversions away from what it is “really” doing. This dece ...

Fast Company

  • Occupy Wall Street: The Book, Chinese Hackers ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Foursquare+Yelp+Oink+Locavores=Loku, Launching Now. A reviews site with a local twist called Loku, one of Dave McClure's 500, launches in beta today. Loku plans to use a big trough of location data to help you find your neare ...
  • A Street View-Style Tour Of National Parks Hik ...
    To create Trail View, granola bar makers Nature Valley and McCann Erickson sent a ragtag team of creatives and developers on a 45-day hike to get couch potatoes interested in the real thing and raise awareness of the national parks' plight. Nearly a century ago, Woodrow Wilson created the Na ...
  • DARPA's Plan To Harvest Space Junk For New Sat ...
    There is a lot of useful material in otherwise dead space junk. Now the military's wing of crazy, cool geniuses is going to build mini-satellites to go get it out. Recycling goes space age. There is--as you may have noticed from recent reports of giant objects falling from the heavens--a lot o ...
  • A GPS-Enabled Shoe To Track Alzheimer's Patients
    This simple and dignified way to always know where someone is has applications beyond the elderly, too: small children and runners should get some, too. There are currently 5.2 million Americans with Alzheimer's, but that number is expected to balloon, with one out of eight baby boomers (10 mil ...
  • Baked In: How UpMo Helps You Hang On To Your B ...
    In the age of LinkedIn, companies are in perpetual competition for their own employees. A new retention tool is giving them an edge in that fight.About the "Baked In" series: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to say that social dynamics are going to work their way into every industry, and the c ...

Jadaliyya

  • Romance, not Romanticized: Three Stories of Lo ...
    Love During Wartime, directed by Gabriella Bier. Sweden, 2010. Paradise Lost, directed by Ibtissam Mara’anah. Israel-Palestine, 2003. 77 Steps, directed by Ibtissam Mara’anah. Israel-Palestine, 2010. All three films are playing at the Boston Palestine Film Festival this week. In t ...
  • Entrevista con dirigentes de la Federacion Gen ...
    [This interview was conducted in Arabic by Bassam Haddad and Ziad Abu-Rish and translated/published from English into Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Entrevista con dirigentes de la Federación General de Sindicatos de Bahréin [Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván] Recient ...
  • United States Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker
    When it comes to Arab-Israeli diplomacy the American monopoly on mediation needs to be terminated. The reason is simple. Washington’s systematic failure over several decades has disqualified it from acting without adult supervision. Rather than the marriage counselor who must be balance ...
  • لن نرد ديون الإستبداد
    «عندما تأخذ ديمقراطية مكان حكم القلة أو الاستبداد، فإن بعض الأشخاص يرفضون الوفاء بالعقود الموجودة بين أيديهم على أساس أن الدولة لم تكن هى التى دخلتها بل المستبد». (أرسطو)  مصر مدينة للخارج بحوالى 35 مليار دولار أو 210 مليار جنيه تضع علينا عبئا سنويا يقدر بما يقرب من 18 مليار جنيه. ...
  • المرأة العربية والتحول الديمقراطي: التحديات وآ ...
    من الصعب التطرق للتحديات التي تواجه المرأة في مرحلة التحول الديمقراطي دون إلقاء بعض الاضاءات على الدور المتميز الذي قامت وتقوم به المرأة في الثورات العربية جنباً إلى جنب مع الرجل من أجل تحقيق الحرية والعدالة الاجتماعية. فقد قامت المرأة بشجاعة وابداع بدور مركزي كان محورياً ...

mediagazer

  • Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief (Russell Adams/W ...
    Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal: Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief  —  Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital operations at the magazine-publishing unit, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that is likely to aff ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: LA Photog Funds New Fashion Magazin ...
    Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA: EXCLUSIVE: LA Photog Funds New Fashion Magazine  —  Last Wednesday, Csaba Fikker officially launched The Los Angeles Fashion Magazine website, with a monthly companion high-gloss print edition to follow in the spring of 2012.  —  Fikk ...
  • Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ...
    Josh Halliday / Guardian: Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ‘UK national security issues’  —  US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police  —  British police authorities ordered the removal ...
  • Police Raid Occupy Oakland, Push Me To The Gro ...
    Kevin Army / Open Salon: Police Raid Occupy Oakland, Push Me To The Ground  —  Today is a sad day in the city I love, Oakland.  This morning at 2:45 AM I received a text message that a raid was imminent at the Occupy Oakland camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza.  I had promised m ...
  • Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs ...
    Robert Andrews / paidContent: Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down  —  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year.  So, after its next launches in ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • QPR & Anton Ferdinand discuss John Terry ...
    QPR have held talks with defender Anton Ferdinand over allegations he was racially abused by Chelsea captain John Terry in Sunday's match at Loftus Road. Ferdinand is currently training with his Rangers team-mates and discussions will resume later on Tuesday. Terry has categorically denied.. ...
  • Svelte Jessica Alba shows off pregnancy w ...
    Actress Jessica Alba flaunted her slim, toned post-baby physique in a body-hugging strapless dress at a cancer benefit in New York Oct. 24, 2011. This is the first time Alba, 30, has been on the red carpet since giving birth to her second child, daughter Haven, in August. Jessica was in NYC ...
  • Dhoni leads the way for India
    Kolkata, India – Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed an unbeaten 75 off 69 balls to power India to 271-8 in the fifth and final one-dayer at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Tuesday. England, hoping to avoid a 5-0 series whitewash after losing the first four games, grabbed wickets at re ...
  • Billy Ray Cyrus Shares Photo Of 'U.F.O. S ...
    Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus has taken to his Twitter.com page to share what he...
  • Aniston denies pregnancy rumour
    Jennifer Aniston has denied speculation she's pregnant by new boyfriend Justin Theroux, insisting she's piled on the pounds since quitting smoking. The former Friends star and actor/director Theroux began dating...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/24/11 - Should the drinking age be lowered ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - UPDATED: Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age? - Read pro and con arguments from the Founder of the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (pro), the US Department of Health and Human Services (con), a coalition of over 100 university ...
  • 10/24/11 - Which candidate should be US presid ...
    2012election.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Which candidate should be US president in 2012? - ProCon.org has researched the US presidential candidates and their views on 25 issues ranging from abortion to global warming to medical marijuana to waterboarding. Our 43rd website also featur ...
  • 10/20/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic ...
    immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con arguments from the Center for Immigration Studies (pro), Alan Greenspan (con), the Founder of The Minuteman Project (pro), The Wall Street Journal (con), and several others.
  • 10/20/11 - Should the term "illegal alien" be ...
    immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Should the term "illegal alien" be used to define persons in violation of immigration law? - Read pro and con arguments from the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (pro), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (con), IllegalAliens.us (pro) ...
  • 10/18/11 - Does the regular smoking of marijua ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: Does the regular smoking of marijuana cause lung cancer or in any way permanently injure the lungs? - Read pro and con arguments from the American College of Physicians (pro), Harvard and Oxford PhDs (con), the British Lung Foundation (pro), NORML (con), an ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Cell phones and cancer
    John Timmer Despite numerous studies indicating that cell phones pose no health risk to their users, a few studies have been released that suggest prolonged use might contribute to brain cancer. For the World Health Organization, that was enough to declare the phones "possibly carcinogenic&# ...
  • Amazon’s new KF8 format
    Peter Bright With its Android-powered, full-color Kindle Fire tablet just around the corner, Amazon has announced a new e-book format to take advantage of its richer features. The new file format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), is based on HTML5, and with it, Amazon aims to bring some of the flexibility ...
  • Camera lets you focus after you take a picture
    Chris Foresman Imaging scientist Ren Ng’s years of research into capturing "light fields" using increasingly high-resolution digital imaging sensors have finally come to fruition. Ng’s company, Lytro, unveiled its first consumer product on Wednesday—a digital camera capable o ...
  • Gandhi and South Africa
    Martha C. Nussbaum At the end of March, the Indian state of Gujarat banned the printing and distribution of Joseph Lelyveld’s Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India. The ban was proposed by the state’s chief minister, Narendra Modi, and it passed unanimously, as leaders of the Co ...
  • Fearless Salman
    He thinks ‘Game of Thrones’ is dumb, bemoans the lack of good modern novels and believes terrorism is dying out; over 20 years after fleeing for his life from an Iranian-issued fatwa, novelist Salman Rushdie is still unafraid to speak his mind. Gidi Weitz New York. One fine evening a ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • UK – world leader. But can it last?
    FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...
  • Costs and Benefits of Open Data – Professor An ...
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...
  • Virtual Observatories and Citizen Science – Dr ...
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...
  • An unconventional openness
    Michael Nielsen,  speaking at our Policylab earlier this month, described two revolutions in open science – two periods of significant change in the way scientists share discoveries. The first revolution in the 17th century went hand in hand with the formalisation of the scientific method and th ...
  • UK-Hong Kong Frontiers of Science
    FROM RUTH COOPER IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE The Royal Society recently co-organised the second UK-Hong Kong Frontiers of Science meeting with the Croucher Foundation. The meeting was held at the Kavli Centre. Download  a list of talks and speakers.   Two of the  young scientists present descri ...

NAU Resistance

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Lizzy Phelan: “The war on Libya is a war ...
    Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya covering NATO war crimes and uncovering mainstream media lies, freelance journalist Lizzie Phelan continues to fight for truth and justice on behalf of the Libyan people. Her testimony below is a gripping example of her commitment. Lizzie ...
  • Interview with Joanne Nova
    Tonight we welcome Joanne Nova to the show. Joanne is one of Australia's most articulate and outspoken climate sceptics. Her website is an international hub for informed discussion on questions of climate, carbon trading and the economy. Joanne's husband, Dr. David Evans, is a mathematician ...
  • Occupy Australia - has this movement been hija ...
    Tonight I am joined by Craig Stanford to reflect on the occupy Reserve Bank protest which we filmed on 15 October 2011. In our discussion we look at some of the techniques being used to create "group consciousness" at the protests here and overseas, such as hand signs and chanting, and we ask ...
  • How to defeat the carbon tax
    Today TNRA welcomes Tempe Harvey to the show. Tempe Harvey, who has a Master of Laws, practised for 11 years as a solicitor and currently works full-time in her role as a mother of four children in Brisbane. Her interest in politics led her to found Kids First Parent Association of Aus ...
  • Round table discussion: do we really need money?
    Tonight's show is a round table discussion conducted at Rudolf Steiner House in Sydney. Do we need money? Is economic competition healthy or unhealthy? How should we organise society? These perennial questions are finally answered in tonight's show! Our guests tonight are: Darrell Wheel ...

Beacon

  • New Videos and More in Oceana’s Fall Digital Mag
    Hey ocean lovers, the fall issue of our digital magazine is now available! There's lots of fun stuff inside as usual; here are some of the gems this time around: *A gorgeous video from our expedition in the Baltic Sea this summer *A slideshow of photos from this year’s Hamptons Splash party ...
  • Marine Monday: Crown-of-thorns Starfish
    Image via Wikimedia Commons.   The crown-of-thorns starfish is named for the brightly-colored spikes that coat its legs. This starfish can grow up to 16 inches across and has between 12 and 19 legs instead of the usual five -- that’s a lot of spikes! These spikes hold poison that can c ...
  • New Report: Fish Fraud Common in Boston Superm ...
    The next time you’re in the Boston area and craving some fresh Atlantic cod, beware. You might end up purchasing a completely different fish. According to a new report released today, Oceana’s intrepid seafood fraud team found that fish shoppers are getting swindled in Boston-area supermarket ...
  • New Report: Offshore Drilling Still Not Safe
    The Deepwater Horizon site at night. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Michael Craig is an Energy Analyst at Oceana. It’s been just over a year and a half since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but the offshore drilling industry is already back to full steam ahead, with as many rig ...
  • Oceana Expeditions Show 28 Ocean Areas in Need
    Every year, our research vessel, the Oceana Ranger, explores new areas of the ocean and collects scientific data – and incredible photos! -- to help protect vulnerable marine habitats. This week, our colleagues in Europe presented their findings to an environmental rule-making body in the Nor ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • World War II Posters
  • The Treffas Wagen
    The protection that a tank offered crew on the battlefield gave tank designers some of the same ideas. More protection means a better tank. So making a tank progressively bigger became a manufacturing meme from the First World War to the Second. Germany ordered the manufacture of a prototype tan ...
  • The Krupp Kugelpanzer
    From the looks of it, one would think that the Germans did more thinking and research and development for weapon systems than perhaps any nation before. From flying wings to cruise missiles, it comes as little surprise to see a one man reconnaissance platform in the form of a one man tank. Given ...
  • Chariot Art.

  • Ramses II And A Poem He Ordered Written And Po ...
    Wikipedia is of course an immensely deep resource of information at no charge. It was such a find to see a translated poem from Ramses II, the Julius Caesar of Egypt, about his win over the Khita. You get the idea how bloodthirsty Ramses II was. “By order of Rameses, this poem was inscribe ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Trump Meeting with Perry Results in Birther Co ...
    Rick Perry is so desperate to prop up his flagging presidential bid he’s listening to the birther king. That Donald Trump is a powerful guy, because he evidently convinced Perry there’s something to his madness. From the transcript of Parade magazine (h/t Think Progress): You don’t b ...
  • A Word About Iraq
    “No one, most particularly Iran, should miscalculate about our continuing commitment to and with the Iraqis going forward,” she told CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked whether Iran’s relationship with Iraq is a concern. – Clinton warns Iran against mo ...
  • Obama Fans Go ‘Puma’
    The insipid fan politics that has blown up over Pres. Obama’s announcement on U.S. military troop withdrawal from Iraq is unworthy of the subject. Whether it’s in the comments or emails, Obama fans have now morphed into the 2012 version of “puma,” expecting allegiance or ...
  • Progressive Notes: Feingold Backs Baldwin, Env ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Great news! Former Senator Russ Feingold has endorsed Rep. Tammy Baldwin in the Wisconsin senate race. This is a huge deal and makes Baldwin the front runner for the party nomination and perhaps the general election. Feingold is very ...
  • Queer Talk: “I’m always amazed at the sheer am ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Several LGBT and related blog sites I routinely visit had posts up about Rachel Maddow’s appearance on Friday’s “Ellen.” While most of us are unlikely to get the amount of mail and messages either of these women get, ...

Hudson New York

  • Jordan Courts Islamists
    Facing growing protests at home, Jordan's King Abdullah has embarked on a policy aimed at appeasing radical Muslims. King Abdullah's decision to woo Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is seen as a no-confidence vote in the US President Barack Obama's
  • 217 Dead, More Than 700 Wounded in 7.2 Earthqu ...
    Rescue teams on Monday sifted through rubble of flattened multi-story buildings to try to reach dozens of people believed trapped after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey. The Interior Minister said the death toll in the powerful quake has
  • Europe: "You Are Entering a Sharia Controlled ...
    A Muslim group in Denmark has launched a campaign to turn parts of Copenhagen and other Danish cities into "Sharia Law Zones" that would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic law. The Danish Islamist group Kaldet til Islam (Call to Islam) says
  • Who are the Jihadists Afraid of?
    The situation in Pakistan is dire. Legislation is hostage to the whims of Islamic radicals, and the governments' sphere of influence continues to crumble even in the capital, Islamabad. In the most high profile political assassination since that of
  • Saudi Arabia - The Shadow of Prince Nayef
    With the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Ibn Abd Al-Aziz early October 22 in a New York hospital, his brother, Saudi interior minister and second deputy prime minister Prince Nayef Ibn Abd Al-Aziz, now looms large in the world's attention as a

Urban Survival

  • Housing: Up–Ever So Slightly
    Just out is this morning Case Shiller/S&P 20-City Housing report.  This is a big deal because it tends to show a very realistic perspective on housing values and as such is a damn fine barometer of what’s really going on … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Those Curious Radar Rings
    A readette with a blog of her own, sent us (Clif & me) a curious email about odd happenings with her Google Earth program: “I’m a little paranoid about the New Madrid fault zone (gee wonder why), so I have … Continue reading →
  • Waiting on Housing Data
    This morning’s report will be along directly – waiting on the Case/S&P Housing data -
  • Sizing Up Monday
    I suppose we should note the biggest news first:  Robin Handler’s Options Signal Service this week discusses odds of a 20% decline into November.  Considering my portfolio which is entirely bearish is now in the negative column for the year-to-date, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Monday at the WuJo
    OK:  If you ever wanted evidence that the veil between the world we perceive and the world we co-create is wearing a bit thin, this reader report has to be IT: I opened the paint can and it was full … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN MEN vs MEN IN ENGLAND
    You always know when there’s a Nigerian man in the room. He would most likely be the center of attention for a number of reasons; it might be his outfit, his voice, his laugh, “something” is bound to captivate you, even if it’s just for a couple of minutes. Nigerian men a ...
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTY
    If we were to have a serious conversation about beauty, most of us would say that inner beauty matters more than what’s on the outside. Yet if I was to say I just spoke to a beautiful girl, you would immediately assume I was referring to her outward appearance. Its one of those paradoxical ...
  • 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO TODAY
    1. Wake up – You have been asleep for most of your life. Most of the things you have grown up believing or accepting as normality are most likely not the truth. You have been spoon fed with views, stereotypes, false expectations  and unnecessary prejudices. Your eyes have been closed as yo ...
  • EXTRAORDINARY MATHEMATICS
    I received the formula a while ago, but I was reluctant to confront the solution. My time had been divided by two simultaneous thoughts that seemed to multiply when I tried to focus. But now is the right time to put two and two together. I began by examining all the empirical evidence. I needed ...
  • WHAT WE WANT vs WHAT GOD WANTS
    Those who don’t know what they want are few and far between. We have created a world full of numerous attractions that constantly keep us longing for just that little bit more. Satisfaction is a far stretch, even for the those who ‘can’ get what they want with the swipe of a ca ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • At MIT and in Wired, loping toward life on Mars
    The new issue of Wired -- on the newsstand but not yet online -- features a story about research from MIT's Christopher Carr on loping. describe in the story as a "simplified skip." His research found that loping --described in Wired as a "simplified skip" -- is "the most efficient way to locom ...
  • Boston Globe health and science news and the p ...
    Boston Globe health and science news and the pay wall Pssss. Go through Boston.com. Many of the health and science stories find their way there. Like this one on a new effort by Boston hosptials to test cancer tumors for genetic mutations and create a database of the findings. The program, ...
  • Boston science calendar: Food fights, bats and ...
  • WHOI, MaineU get $1.7 to find ways to predict ...
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Maine are among the recipients of a $1.7 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that "will lead to the implementation of seasonal and weekly toxic algal bloom forecasts improving accuracy and providing b ...
  • Worry himself to death?: VA study links stress ...
    BU doc is Avron Spiro co-author of VA study that links stress to mortality in men --least in white, middle-class men. Nonetheless, this study shows that longitudinal assessments of stressful life events significantly predict mortality independent of standard risk factors and that high stressfu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Give a little love to the lizards
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC I’ve said it before – I love lizards. Earlier in my career, I spent lots of time in the Southwest catching lizards for research.  Now I do it just for fun because, without my even havi ...
  • Car Companies Prepare for Global Gridlock
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, General Motors announced it will help millions of GM vehicle owners to rent out their cars. The new peer-to-peer car sharing service—a partnership ...
  • Missing in Action -- Data on Energy Expenses
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC There have been several good news reports on new legislation to correct how mortgage lenders treat homeowner energy expenses -- the Bill is called the Save Act (S. 1737).&nbsp ...
  • Investing in Transportation to Escape the Ener ...
    Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C. America's vast transportation network -- roads, bridges, and railways -- is in dire straits, marked most notably by a huge backlog of repair needs and not enough government funding ...
  • Wanted: Food Lawyers!
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York Today is national food day. But instead of writing about my favorite recipe, I thought instead I would pass along one word of career advice for aspiring lawyers: You ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, October 24, 2011: Elgin ND now-former police chief who is also a former judge has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for molesting a girl from the age of 12 to age 17. [0] [...]
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 10-22 ...
    Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of October 22-23, 2011: Downey CA police have apparently shot an unarmed man to death after mistaking him for robbery suspect. Police claim they shot him while chasing him when he tu ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports and one updated report tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, October 21, 2011: Chicago IL cop under investigation over 3 shooting incidents, 2 of which were fatal, after a video apparently showed that he fatally shot an unarmed person who wa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Before I start with today’s report, I just wanted to thank the people at Occupy Denver for the above shout-out to www.InjusticeEverywhere.com. Thank you very much, I appreciate the support!! Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed fo ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, October 19, 2011: An East St Louis IL police captain and sergeant are being investigated after a video, above, posted on YouTube showed them stand by & watch while an unident ...

Total Collapse

  • Hezbollah, Israel war imminent, both sides wel ...
    October 19, 2011 02:33 PM The Daily Star Hezbollah is well prepared to engage in war with Israel, as the Jewish state plans for a possible third war against Lebanon amid regional unrest, Al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Wednesday. “Hezbollah is in a state of alert and it anticipates an Israeli a ...
  • Jesus says: You all Deserve World War III
    WWIII is imminent. Most of you do not deserve anything better! I have warned hundreds of thousands of people, even millions that this will happen: media, politicians, hundreds of embassies, and officials from the Christian churches, NGOs and personalities around the globe. Since 1988 I have had ...
  • Eurozone facing serious crisis: Germany
    Germany says Europe is facing a grave crisis because its leaders have failed to meet and decide on a strategy to resolve the continent’s current credit problems. “The situation is serious,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stated on Friday, ahead of talks among eurozo ...
  • Putin Says Eurasian Union May be Reality by 2015
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the proposed “Eurasian Union” – an economic bloc comprising former Soviet republics – may become a reality by 2015, according to Russian media. “Only in around 2015 may we approach the realization of the idea of creation of [the] Eurasian Union if ...
  • US Nukes Underground Texas Base After “False F ...
    The Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the battle for control between the various factions vying for power in the United States heated up yesterday after another of their top-secret underground bases was destroyed by the detonatio ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Government failure to plan for solar growth is ...
    Recently, The Australian has claimed the national grid was struggling to cope with  the rooftop solar boom.The newspaper, well known for its climate skepticism, painted a bleak picture of the future of solar PV in Australia.  With a glance at the success stories that champion solar P ...
  • Push for Solar Thermal Plant
    Beyond Zero Emissions Strategic Director Mark Ogge at a potential Concentrating Solar Themal power site near Port Augusta, South Australia. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL reports: An organisation that wants to convert Port Augusta’s power stations to solar thermal plants visited the city again last week t ...
  • Solar plans for coal-fired power stations
    Scientists and engineers have drawn up plans to convert Port Augusta's two coal-fired powered stations to solar thermal plants. Non-government organisation Beyond Zero Emissions will meet South Australia's Energy Minister Michael O'Brien this week to discuss the two stations' potential for co ...
  • The Merit of Wind Energy
    When it comes to wind energy for every setback there has been some good news. Last month, the Victorian government amended state planning rules for wind energy. The changes applied onerous conditions on wind energy projects and arbitrarily set up exclusion zones for vast tracts of the state. Whe ...
  • Open For Inspection
                           CommSec’s recently released report on Australian homes showed that we are still building the biggest new homes on the planet. According to the Sydney Morning Hera ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Authorities capture the biggest crocodile ever ...
    Authorities in the Philippines captured the largest crocodile on record after a series of fatal attacks, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
  • Climate test for Obama: 1,252 people arrested ...
    Two weeks of climate disobedience at the White House ended over the weekend with 1,252 people arrested in total. Activists were protesting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in an effort to pressure US President Barack Obama to turn down the project. If built the pipeline would bring oil fro ...
  • Germany proves the promise of renewable energy ...
    As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources—a 15 percent increase since 2000, reports Der Spiegel. In contrast, the United States generates only 10 ...
  • EcoCommerce 101: adding an ecological dimensio ...
    EcoCommerce 101: Adding an Ecological Dimension to the Economy provides a foundation for an analysis of environmental economics from the perspective of a theorist and a practitioner. The author, a fifth-generation farmer living in the USA with a background in economics, separates his book into t ...
  • Picture of the day: where the Andes meets the ...
    The zone where the Amazon rainforest meets the Andes mountains is the most biodiverse place on Earth. Large amounts of rainfall and altitudinal gradients create a variety of microclimates and niches that are exploited by a wide range of species. The Western Amazon—especially its submontan ...

Sierra Express

  • ABC evokes new ideology in Makeni
    Community members of the Bombali District Headquarter town of Makeni were on Monday October 24th, 2011 enticed by the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat sensitization program to call for a concrete ideology for national development.  (Photo: Mrs Nanette Thomas, ABC National Coo ...
  • 703 Sierra Leone pilgrims arrive safely & Emba ...
    The first two batches of 234 and 235 Sierra Leone pilgrims respectively arrived safely at the Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport, Medina in the early hours of Saturday, 22nd October, 2011.  (Photo: Ambassador Munu handing over the keys of the ambulance to members of the Hajj mis ...
  • “Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity” – A UNI ...
    Rigorous debate and discussions within the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with renowned international experts have led to the publication of a new book “Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity.” Edited by Kandeh K. Yumkella, Patrick M. Kormawa, Torben M. Roepstorff and A ...
  • Climate of fear in Syria’s hospitals as patien ...
    The Syrian government has turned hospitals into instruments of repression in its efforts to crush opposition, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The 39-page report Health Crisis: Syrian Government Targets the Wounded and Health Workers documents how wounded patients in at least fo ...
  • In south of the Sahara, echoes of the northern ...
    As the “Arab Spring” of mass protests for democracy that is roiling much of North Africa and the Middle East slips past mid-year, activists and power holders across Africa continue to follow the unfolding revolutions — and ponder their impact on other parts of the continent. In a num ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • NZ dairy industry tipped to set records
    New Zealand dairy production will set a record this season, says a US Department of Agriculture report.The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's dairy report forecasts 2012 industry milk production of 19 million tonnes, up nearly...
  • Wang faces arrest over travel
    A bankrupt New Zealand businesswoman facing bribery and money-laundering charges in Hong Kong might be arrested if she returns here.May Wang, frontwoman for a Chinese bid for the Crafar family's dairy farming empire, is facing bribery...
  • Fonterra auction reverses downward trend
    International dairy prices bounced back yesterday, rising for the first time in more than four months in Fonterra's online auction.The average price for a basket of products in the latest online auction rose 1.7 per cent - the first...
  • Bail for Wang on bribery charges
    Laying of bribery and money laundering charges against two former Crafar farms bidders has left the future of multi-million-dollar projects in New Zealand and in the Pacific up in the air.And it has emerged that a company linked...
  • Prices dip again in overnight dairy auction
    Average prices of dairy products fell for the sixth straight sale in Fonterra's latest online auction, reaching the lowest level in 10 months.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 1.4 per cent to US$3,580 a metric tonne, according to results...

The Bovine

  • Growing support for Michael Schmidt’s re ...
    Thanks to Ingrid for passing this on to The Bovine: Ingrid, thanks for the work you are doing. Please pass on a picture that was taken of us at the largest market in ottawa, the Lansdowne farmers’ market. Lots of “thumbs up” … Continue reading →
  • Farmer Michael Schmidt’s message to supp ...
    Raw milk rally today, Tuesday October 25, 1 p.m. at Queen’s Park, Toronto, to encourage Premier McGuinty to talk to Michael Schmidt.  For full details, see this post on The Bovine.
  • David Gumpert on Michael Schmidt’s contr ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “As he enters the fourth week of a hunger strike, Michael Schmidt’s life still hangs in the balance. This from Jon, a Canadian organizer:  ”Spent an awe-inspiring afternoon with Michael & … Continue reading →
  • Readers write their politicians, part 6
    To the best of our knowledge, Premier McGuinty has so far made no move to meet with Michael Schmidt to talk about raw milk, and so it’s no wonder that more and more people feel moved to put pen to … Continue reading →
  • Getting closer… Keep trying people!
    This just in from Facebook discussions — Christine got to talk to a real live person in McGuinty’s office. If she can do it, you can too!

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Greece Pension Plans Insolvent; No Conceivable ...
    I am attempting to figure out just how deep in the hole Greek pension plans are. I have not had any luck finding plans or asset holdings but there are a few things we know and some assumptions we can make. One of the things we do know is that Greek pension plans are one of the largest holders o ...
  • Lines to Withdraw Deposits Queue Up as Run on ...
    With talk of 50% or 60% haircuts on Greek bonds, already mistrustful Greek citizens have queued up to pull deposits. Via Google Translate, The Bild reports Greeks Plunder their Accounts in Fear of Debt Cuts.Monday morning, 7.40 clock in the district of Athens, "Agia Paraskevi". We, the BILD repo ...
  • Apply Enough Pressure, Something Eventually Br ...
    The EU has applied constant pressure on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for more austerity measures, more reforms, and more loss of sovereignty. This prompted a humiliated Berlusconi who has enough problems of his own to launch a verbal attack on EU officials stating "No one in the EU ...
  • German Parliament Expected To Hold Full Vote o ...
    Der Spiegel reports German Parliament Expected To Hold Full Vote on EFSFThe German parliament is expected to hold a full vote on Wednesday on proposals to leverage the euro-zone rescue fund, contrary to earlier plans to confine the vote to its budget committee, SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned from so ...
  • Spain Slips on Deficit, Will "Never Make Defic ...
    While the debate over Greek haircuts still lingers on, Spain Slipping on Deficit Means Chances of Contagion IncreaseSpain will struggle to meet its deficit-reduction target this year as economic growth slows, threatening further debt-crisis contagion as Europe fails to erect a fail-proof firewal ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • “A Question For The Commander-in-Chief” by G. ...
    A Sunday Poem and Picture for You  This powerful poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by G. Karl Marcus: A Question For The Commander-in-Chief When a bunker buster falls in the desert and no one shows you photos of the shadows of little bodies etched on concrete walls, are the screams of i ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post: A Home for the Politically ...
    When it comes to Crooked Puppets We Take No Prisoners By Sibel Edmonds For the past two years Boiling Frogs Post has been the proud home of the irate minority. When I started this website, even before completing the site’s setup, I had already picked the quote which this site’s principle was goi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    Philip Zelikow Appointed to Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the West’s Red Bogeyman in Libya, Obama Extends National Emergency Regarding Iran, America’s Sham War on Terrorism, US House Democrats to European Leaders: Oppose Palestinian Statehood Bid, John Brennan Ex-Board C ...
  • Podcast Show #56
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Thompson-Part III This is Part 3 of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson. For additional background information please visit the complete 9/11 Timeline Investigative Project at HistoryCommons.Org. Paul Thompson joi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    The Real Wives of Wall Street, The Suicide Bomb Capital of the World, Private Contractors Cost more than Government Employees, Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You, Russia: Al Qaeda may Have Gotten Anti-Aircraft Missiles in the Aftermath of Libyan Civil War, Azerbaijani Drone Shot Down in Nagorno Ka ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

  • 'Palestinians entitled to have state'
    The Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah says Palestinians are entitled to having a state recognized by the international community, Press TV reports.
  • Yemenis call for regime's ouster
    Yemenis have once again taken to the streets, calling for the ouster of the regime and the prosecution of its officials, Press TV reported.
  • Bahraini forces attack protesters
    Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have once again attacked anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom, Press TV reported.
  • Israel warned against 'testing' Turkey
    Turkey has censured Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for his remarks that Tel Aviv will "punish" Ankara by supporting its enemies.
  • Kuwaiti youth call for major reforms
    Kuwait’s young activists have urged profound reforms in the emirate in efforts to make it a constitutional monarchy instead of a fiefdom of Al-Sabah family.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • BlackBerry Blunder Transcends International Seas
    A major interruption with communication has caused Black Berry RIM users to scramble.  Why do we rely on technology so much?  Because technology has proven to be a useful, efficient and inexpensive tool that allows intra-company communication and communication with outside clients.  The majority ...
  • Developing Technology: Are You Up To Speed?
    With the somewhat-sudden loss of Steve Jobs, everyone is wondering about the future of Apple. The stagnation of Facebook also has people wondering what Mark Zuckerberg has up his sleeve next. Twitter has taken flight and is continuing to gain speed as it moves towards the horizon. Everyone in Si ...
  • Occupy Wall Street?
    A friend and I decided to go to the Occupy Wall Street protest the first Sunday in October. We made the plans after the infamous pepper spraying incident but before the 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. We didn’t know what to expect. The last time I participated in a group protest was in ...
  • Finding the Perfect Workout
    I’m on my eighth week of the Extreme Home Fitness system P90X and I am so bored.  I started working out in 2007.  At that time I was in a transition period and I wanted to simplify many things in my life. Working out helped me to feel better about myself, while I dealt with [...]
  • Astronomy is a Beautiful Phenomenon
    Astronomy as I had known it consisted only of the Sun, Moon and stars.  But after I took the plunge of enrolling in an astronomy course here at SPS, my perception of what I thought I knew had drastically changed for the better. I tend to be the sort of person that likes to play [...]

Dissident Voice

  • US Troops to Uganda: Another Immoral Adventure
    “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces… On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda. During the next month, additional forces w ...
  • Afghan War Remains Endless While Obama’s ...
    The 10th anniversary of Washington’s invasion, occupation and seemingly endless war in Afghanistan was observed October 7, but despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to terminate the U.S. “combat mission” by the end of 2014, American military involvement will continue ma ...
  • Occupy Santa Rosa’s First Week Contrasts with ...
    The inspiring grand opening of Occupy Santa Rosa in Northern California on October 15 was a great success. I was energized from the moment I saw and felt the surprisingly large crowd, which turned out to be some 3000, around City Hall. Many aspects of that historic occasion were impressive. Peop ...
  • Mind Over Media: The End of Newspapers
    (On the set of WTFN’s new public affairs show Mind over Media, host Romana Clay is seated at a kidney-shaped table around which are large mock-ups of various newspapers and web pages. Over her right shoulder is a wall-mounted TV monitor. The theme music starts up over the opening titles and the ...
  • Hugh Hefner: Visionary or Flesh Peddler?
    Playboy founder Hugh Hefner may be in his golden years but he still makes headlines like celebrities a quarter of his age. After his bride-to-be Crystal Harris left him at the altar, he rallied with a new show on NBC, The Playboy Club, and reduced the October issue of Playboy to its 1961 price o ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul wins Ohio Republican straw poll
    Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul has won the latest Republican presidential straw poll. The Texas Republican, who continues to trail former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in national polls, captured the support of 53 percent of Ohio Republicans. Former businessman Herman Cain won the ...
  • Underemployed And Hating Life
    Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unemployed and anoth ...
  • Federal Records Show Romney Campaign Bought An ...
    A new independent analysis of 2012 presidential candidates’ campaign contributions confirms that Mitt Romney is the banksters’ choice for the GOP nominee, and indeed for President. Records of campaign contributions based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically this past we ...
  • Vegas Debate: Ron Paul rips Herman Cain over O ...
    Ron Paul jumps on Herman Cain at the CNN debate in Las Vegas — this time over Cain’s comments about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
  • Solidarity Event: Move Your Money – Bank ...
    Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will ALWAYS remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking institutions to non-profit credit unions on or by this date, we will send a clear message to the 1% that conscious consumers won't support compani ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Civil Society Groups Call for Action to Curb L ...
    Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity.
  • Q&A: "We Are Facing the Threat of a Social and ...
    For Brazilian pediatrician and public health expert Paulo Buss, the worst enemy of health is unemployment. And if unemployment continues to rise, the result will be a global "catastrophe", he told Tierramérica.
  • Permanent People's Tribunal Sets Up Shop in Mexico
    "We have a duty to show what the reality is, and we will do so with complete independence," said French judge Philippe Texier, a member of the Permanent People's Tribunal, which has opened a chapter in Mexico.
  • SOUTH SUDAN: Protecting Cattle Saves People
    With his bright orange hair, Angelo Waranyang cuts a striking figure as he strides amongst his cattle. His hair colour – dyed with a mixture of cow urine and ash from burnt dung – is symbolic of the close connection that he and the majority of South Sudanese have with their rev ...
  • JAPAN: Forests Provide Cover for Recovery
    In the wake of the massive tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region in March, Japan has witnessed a sharp rise in wood imports for temporary housing units and other recovery projects.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran and Management of New US Scenario
    Summary: The United States has been spearheading Iranophobia project in the region for many long years. Huge arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states, selling advanced equipment to Israel to create a balance, deployment of NATO’s missile shield in Turkey under the pretext of a ...
  • Leaving Iraq, US Warns Iran: 'We're Ready for Ya'
    Summary: Just days after President Obama acceded to Iraq’s wishes and announced that all US troops would be out of Iraq by January 1, Michele Bachmann has already pivoted to slamming the George W. Bush–installed pro-Tehran government in Baghdad. Meanwhile, the Obama administration, too, is te ...
  • Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran
    Summary: In the wake of Obama’s withdrawal announcement on Friday, the Post’s neocon editors are worried that: "Mr. Obama’s decision to carry out a complete withdrawal [of troops from Iraq] sharply increases the risk that … Iran will be handed a crucial strategic advantage in its regional co ...
  • Inconsistencies in FBI account of Iran Plot
    Summary: In the FBI account of the conversation/contacts between this Iranian American named Mansour Arbabsiar and the DEA-“the narc” who was posing as a Mexican drug cartel official, they have, three weeks of meetings, we don’t know how many meetings were held between them, which are not doc ...
  • US May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian ...
    Summary: Skepticism about the US allegation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador has focused on doubts that high-level Iranian officials would have used someone like used car salesman Monssor Arbabsiar to carry out the mission. source: antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Vast Nebular Clouds of Organics --Support Biol ...
    This worldview of the cosmos as a biological universe is a revolutionary perspective as profound a revision in our way of thinking as the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions. It is a worldview that believes that "planetary systems are common, that...
  • Supernovas Illuminate the Mystery of Dark Ener ...
    Supernovas have helped astronomers to discover one of the greatest mysteries of science, acting like a time machine to help us understand why the universe is spreading out at an accelerating rate, according to Kirshner. “We do not understand what...
  • Ancient Galaxy Signals End of Dark Ages of Uni ...
    In 2007, a renowned international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a...
  • Image of the Day: The Eerie Beauty of "The Bla ...
    The pulsar, a.k.a. the "Black Widow," is moving through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million kilometers per hour. A bow shock wave due to this motion is visible to optical telescopes, shown in this image as the...
  • NASA Solves the Mystery of the "Guest Star" of ...
    A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer,...

Natural News

  • Vitamin B-based treatment may permanently cure ...
    (NaturalNews) One of 2,000 people in the U.S. is diagnosed each year with keratoconus, a vision-robbing disease usually first spotted during the teenage years. The cause isn't understood, but it is known to damage the collagen fibers that form the structure of the cornea (the outer surface of th ...
  • North American Union has arrived: First offici ...
    (NaturalNews) Beginning this week, Mexican truckers will officially be allowed to bypass border inspections and drive directly into the US to deliver their goods. The pilot program not only complies with provisions set forth in the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994, but it also ratchet ...
  • The second American revolution has begun
    (NaturalNews) There's a sense of desperation in America today. Their jobs are being exported out of the country, their health insurance is being dropped by employers, their dollars are becoming increasingly worthless with each passing day and their futures don't look very promising. They're angr ...
  • Melatonin plays an important role in healthy d ...
    (NaturalNews) Melatonin is known as the regulator of the sleep wake cycle in the body. It is produced in the pineal gland of the brain and monitors sleep cycles while playing an important role in healing and anti-oxidant protection. New indicators are showing that it may play an even more import ...
  • Police grant Apple security officials unlawful ...
    (NaturalNews) Just weeks before the speculated launch of Apple Inc.'s long-awaited iPhone 5, the technology giant has once again lost a critical prototype of the unreleased smartphone, according to SF Weekly. After supposedly tracing the device back to the home of a San Francisco man, undercover ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Pe ...
    Google reports that U.S. government requests for user data for use in criminal investigations continues to rise, even as a bill to require an officer to get a judge's approval to get at a citizen's online communications stalls.
  • Researchers Release Attack Tool That Cripples ...
    Researchers have released an attack tool that makes it trivial for anyone to take down websites that allow users to connect via secure connections.
  • ‘Torture’ Judge Gets $3.4 Million Legal Defens ...
    Who thought lawyers could be so kind? A federal appeals court judge, who as a Justice Department lawyer signed off on internal memos authorizing waterboarding, has received $3.4 million in free legal services successfully fending off ethics charges.
  • WikiLeaks Halts Publication Over Cash Flow Issues
    For the second time in two years WikiLeaks announced it was suspending publication of secrets due to financial difficulties.
  • Threat Level’s Kim Zetter Writing the Book on ...
    Wired senior staff writer Kim Zetter won a feature writing award from the Society for Professional Journalists of Northern California last week for her riveting story on how researchers discovered and dissected Stuxnet, a worm intricately programmed to wreak havoc on an Iranian nuclear facility. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rick Perry Shows Why He Got a D in Economics
    Back in August, Americans learned that among Rick Perry's miserable grades in college was a "D" in "Principles of Economics." Now we know why. His contribution to the GOP's flat tax one-upsmanship not only fails to simply the U.S. tax code. As it turns out, Governor Perry's "Cut, Balance and ...
  • For GOP Presidential Field, It's Survival of t ...
    As Steve Forbes learned in 1996 and 2000 and Herman Cain is learning now, the flat tax is a bad idea whose time never came. After all, the move to a single income tax rate for all earners inevitably shifts the tax burden from the rich to middle and lower income Americans. And if the rate is to ...
  • Wrong-Way McCain Leads GOP Charge Against Obam ...
    Memo to Republicans: (1) Until President Obama appears on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit and an oversized cod piece, no conservative can ever accuse of him of taking too much credit for any national security success. (2) When it comes to Iraq, no one who has been as ...
  • Senate GOP Blocks Help for States' Jobs, Budge ...
    During the debate over the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in early 2009, stimulus opponent Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all ...
  • Herman Cain Plays Hide and Seek with Voters
    Judging by the headlines, Herman Cain's tenure as the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination may be a brief one. After his supposed "jokes" about lethal electrified borders fences, Politico and the New York Times wondered if candidate Cain is even "serious" about the White ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Bookmarks for 2011-10-25
    Consecration of the Whipstain by Indignant Senility (TYPE096) » Type | A record label"Recorded through amplifiers and microphones to give the music a chance to ‘breathe’, the fuzzy pictures slowly come to life and offer a shocking amount of depth and variety. At times i ...
  • “Women, War and Peace” PBS Series Examines Rol ...
    A new series on PBS examines the impact of conflict on women around the world. “Women, War and Peace” looks at war zones from Bosnia to Colombia to Afghanistan and beyond. The most recent episode to air called, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” focused on the story of Liberian women who took on the ...
  • Goldman Sachs v. Occupy Wall Street: A Greg Pa ...
    A controversy in the banking community has arisen around the Occupy Wall Street movement. Greg Palast investigates the story behind Goldman Sachs' recent decision to pull out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union in New York City after it learned the event was ho ...
  • Dozens Arrested at Occupy Oakland as Police Ra ...
    Oakland police stormed the Occupy Oakland protest encampment outside City Hall just before 5:00 a.m. PDT. Police lobbed flash grenades and reportedly fired tear gas. Initial reports say at least 70 people have been arrested and the police tore apart the protest camp. We get a live report from th ...
  • From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Revolutio ...
    Occupy Wall Street received a surprise visit Monday from several leading Egyptian activists, including 26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz. She is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, which is the group credited with helping to organize the January 25 protests that eventually toppled the reg ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Extreme Ice Sheet Melting Does Not Need Extrem ...
    New research has provided evidence to suggest that massive melting of ice sheets like the Greenland ice sheet does not need corresponding record temperature highs, rather, just persistent warm weather over several years. Such results suggest that glaciers and ice sheets could undergo a self-ampl ...
  • Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon [Book Review]
    Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the bigges ...
  • Rural Depopulation Increases Fire Frequency an ...
    Forest fires are becoming larger and are happening more frequently as a direct result of rural depopulation, rather than being a direct result of climate change. The research – conducted by scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain, and published in the journal Climate Cha ...
  • Breaking News: Javan Rhino Declared Extinct in ...
    EXTINCT: Vietnam’s last rhino was a victim of the illegal rhino horn trade. Photo © WWF-Greater Mekong WWF and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) have confirmed the extinction of the Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) in Vietnam. DNA match On April 29th, 2010, the bo ...
  • Top Occupy Wall Street Cartoons (& Occupy Wall ...
    Jeremy Bloom of sister site Red, Green, and Blue has had some great coverage of Occupy Wall Street news he past few weeks. I think I’m going to start doing a round-up of his top stories (using his handy “repost” button, which we also use), adding in some other top stories I run across as well. ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Jean Ziegler: "The cannibal world order" - Fea ...
    Introduction and translation by Siv O'Neall Introduction The victims are the poor, the former subsistence farmers in Africa who have been dep ...
  • WikiLeaks says "blockade" threatens its existe ...
    Oct 24, 2011 LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks will have to stop publishing secret cables and devote itself to fund-raising if it is unable to end a financial "blockade" by U.S. firms such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the year, founder Julian Assange said on Monday. After rele ...
  • Turkey quake kills at least 279, hundreds miss ...
    Oct 24, 2011 ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Rescuers searched the rubble of collapsed buildings Monday for survivors and victims of a major earthquake that killed at least 279 people and injured more than 1,300 in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. Rescue and relief efforts focused on the city o ...
  • Obama announces US troop withdrawal from Iraq ...
    24 October 2011 US President Barack Obama announced Friday that the remaining US troops in Iraq would be withdrawn from the country before the end of December, following the collapse of talks with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on extending the US presence into 2012. Oba ...
  • 53 Libyans Executed by the Mercenaries - only ...
    Editor's comment: The Axis of Logic reader who sent this BBC report to me for republication wrote, "Even the BBC cannot hide the atrocities in Libya by the 'rebels'." Reporting stories like this one - at this stage of the war - has always been the method of the government-controlled...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Cain Not Just A Koch Brothers Puppet, He's An ...
    I should preface by saying that Herman Cain isn't stupid at all, at least certainly not in the classic sense of the word. Truly stupid people don't get master's degrees in computer science from Purdue University. But there's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom, and Cain exhibits lit ...
  • Conservatives Blind to Own Racism
    By @TedFrier Like most right wing conservatives, Patrick Buchanan laments the nation's division while lauding its dividers. Are we still that "one united people," Buchanan wants to know, making it plain from the way he approvingly quotes from John Jay's Federalist 2 that by "united" he means a ...
  • Letter From Occupy Lexington
    By @KYYellowDog There is more sense and leadership in this one letter from the Occupy Lexington General Assembly than the entire Kentucky General Assembly has managed in the past couple of decades. David M.F. Shankula at Barefoot and Progressive: Leland Conway has a radio show and so, loosely an ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD The attacks against #OWS protesters have started, and as per usual the violence is coming from the right "Occupy Maine protesters say Sunday morning's attack with a chemical explosive has left them with a mixture of anxiety and resolve. ... "We are more motivated to keep doing what we'r ...
  • We'll Have Some of Those
    By @KYYellowDog Via Rumproast:

Care 2

  • Save the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard! TAKE ACTION!
    Fast losing habitat to oil and gas development, the dunes sagebrush lizard is dwindling toward extinction. Because of threats to its survival, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year proposed protecting it under the Endangered Species Act. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals &nbs ...
  • MEXICO: Women Reject Normalisation of Gender ...
    Ninety percent of the non-governmental organisations in Mexico are founded and run by women, says journalist and women's rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, making them primary targets of violence... Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...
  • Rethink, Relearn, Recycle Plastic!: Green Ener ...
    Plastic is one of the easiest things to recycle, but sadly it's not being recycled as much as it should be. Plastic accounts for a huge percentage of waste in landfills, oceans and other areas. Being such common, everyday items make it fairly easy to igno Submitted by Ezra D. to Green Lifestyle ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save the dunes sagebrush l ...
    Fast losing habitat to oil and gas development, the dunes sagebrush lizard is dwindling toward extinction. Because of threats to its survival, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year proposed protecting it under the Endangered Species Act. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • GOOD NEWS! Tribes Join Together to Restore E ...
    Native American Indian tribes from throughout Northern California are banding together with Friends of the Eel River to take spiritual, scientific, and legal action to save the waterway and the fish that swim in it. Since 2009, multi-tribe ceremonies ha Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment ...

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No Quarter

  • King Obama Doesn’t Need No Stinkin’ Constituti ...
    President Obama has done his darndest to go around Congress on a number of issues. His latest attempted end-run is for those who are in over their heads with their mortgages. Not just any mortgages, of course – only those by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You know, the very institutions which ...
  • “A Terror Attack Is Imminent…”
    So warns the United States Embassy in Kenya, as they warn Americans about the danger in traveling there now. While they will not say for sure who they think will be carrying out the threat, there is this to consider: The warning comes after Kenya sent troops across the border into Somalia to pur ...
  • Americans, Killed and Maimed for Naught in Iraq
    ~~Bumped Up~~ Let’s start with the fact that Barack Obama, despite previous promises to the contrary, decided to stick with George W. Bush’s original timetable in pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. Here’s the deal the Bushies and the Iraqis reached back in November of 2008, three ...
  • Conscription Now!
    ~~Bumped Up~~ The Honorable (sic) Charles Rangel (D-NY) has introduced legislation calling for a Universal National Service in four different sessions of Congress.  Each time the bills failed to reach the House floor for a vote.  The most recent bill, in 2010, would conscript men and women (!) b ...
  • Baghdad Falls Again (+ Larry on radio)
    Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show at 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor station WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : ...

Futurismic

  • The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
      Context, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
  • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
    I’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley
    Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley Edge SF&F (Canada), 2011; ~280pp; C$14.95 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1894063548 Budgie is a Vidicon, a member of one of the countless drug-fuelled gangs who fight to the death for territory and prestige in the red levels of the T-Dot ultramall. He sends the last ...
  • Globalisation=liquefaction: stream citizenship
    Venkatesh Rao puts his finger on a pervasive but little-studied harbinger of post-geographical citizenship: the stream. For most of the last decade, Israeli soldiers have been making the transition back to civilian life after their compulsory military service  by going on a drug-dazed recovery t ...
  • The Outrigger Diaspora
    I’ve filed the 100 Year Starship symposium in the steadily swelling folder of “events that make me wish I was located in the States, or that telepresence was a bit more stable and functional”. Athena Andreadis was one of the many speakers, and I’ll look forward to the ful ...

Therapy News

  • Older Adults Prefer Psychotherapy to Pharmacol ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: Symptoms of anxiety can often first appear in the later years of life. “Twelve-month prevalence of anxiety disorders in late life has been estimated at 7%; however, a far greater number experience impairing anxiety symptoms, with estimates ranging from 15– 45%,” ...
  • Right Use of Power: The Effects of Forgiveness
    Forgiveness is often misunderstood. I recall asking a colleague to forgive me for my unskillfulness in handling a situation that affected him. I had made an important decision without consulting him. I was truly sorry.  His response to my request for forgiveness, however, surprised me: “If ...
  • New Study Tests the Effectiveness of Therapeut ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: The Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS) is a tool used to measure how well a client is achieving desired treatment outcomes in short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP). The tool has also been used to validate other treatment methods, including cogni ...
  • How to Avoid the “Fast-track” from Kitchen to ...
    Here’s a story related recently by one of my clients that shows how a couple’s simple conversation escalated into a shouting match that threatened to lead someone straight to a divorce lawyer’s office. See if you can relate to what’s being said. The setting is the couple’s kitchen. Both have com ...
  • Teens that Get Stuck in a Mood May Be at Risk ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline: All teens go through emotional turmoil, experiencing periods of high euphoria and sadness, fear or even anxiety. But a recent study suggests that teens that get stuck in an emotional state and experience emotional inertia are more likely to suffer major depressio ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Richie Farmer, Jerry Abramson, Dea Riley sched ...
    Washington Examiner Richie Farmer, Jerry Abramson, Dea Riley scheduled for public television ... The Republic Some big names in Kentucky politics who want to be Kentucky's next lieutenant governor took sharply differing stands on the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining while agreeing in ...
  • Rev. Billy Cleared of Trespass in Bank Protest ...
    Rev. Billy Cleared of Trespass in Bank Protest Courthouse News Service Billy Taylen, a performance artist who preaches against consumerism, was acquitted of criminal trespass after his angel-dressed choir protested UBS Bank's connection to a type of coal mining known as mountaintop removal. ...
  • Mountaintop Removal: A View From Up Above - un ...
    Charleston Gazette Mountaintop Removal: A View From Up Above unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) The Appalachian Mountains as they should be, against a glimpse of what mountaintop removal mining is doing to them. Recently, thanks to a nonprofit flight operation called Southwings, I had the oppor ...
  • Stranger Than Information - Daily Yonder
    Daily Yonder Stranger Than Information Daily Yonder There's information about the health effects and environmental destruction from mountaintop removal mining, but it takes a novel to show what destroying the land does to people. By Kara Newhouse By Ann Pancake Strange as This Weather Has Be ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Stages Mountaintop Removal ...
    Treehugger Occupy Wall Street Stages Mountaintop Removal Mining 'Die-In' At Bank of ... Treehugger Because they'd be making a quick stop on first, just one block away, at the New York City headquarters of Bank of America -- one of the biggest funders in the nation of mountaintop remo ...

Memeorandum

  • The Fighter Fallacy - The elemental question i ...
    David Brooks / New York Times: The Fighter Fallacy  —  The elemental question in American politics is: Do voters trust their government?  During the middle of the 20th century, more than 70 percent of Americans said that they trusted government to do the right thing most of ...
  • Photo: A mutant strain of NOM misrepresentatio ...
    G-A-Y / Good As You: Photo: A mutant strain of NOM misrepresentation (Part 2)  —  Last night, I showed you how the National Organization For Marriage, staunch pro-DOMA warriors, are using a crowd shot from a rally in support of now-President Obama, staunch anti-DOMA voice, in or ...
  • Dayton, Ohio Welcomes Immigrants (Matthew Ygle ...
    Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress: Dayton, Ohio Welcomes Immigrants  —  There's a very encouraging AP story out from Dan Sewell about how Dayton, Ohio welcomes immigrants as an economic revitalization strategy.  —  Several points to make about this.  One is t ...
  • Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist ...
    Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller: Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign  —  President Barack Obama's new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president's aspirations to appeal to the prot ...
  • Rick Perry: Obama Birth Certificate 'A Good Is ...
    Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post: Rick Perry: Obama Birth Certificate ‘A Good Issue To Keep Alive’ (VIDEO) … Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the birther issue was worth “keeping alive” in a CNBC interview Tuesday morning.  “It's a good issue to keep alive. ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The battering of the Bohai
    From oil leaks to petrochemical pollution, land reclamation to red tides, China’s Bohai Sea – and those who depend on it – are having a rough time. Wu Xiaolei reports.By the early autumn, the Bohai Sea oil spill that began in the Penglai 19-3 oil field in June had polluted 5,50 ...
  • Clearing the haze
    China’s move to start measuring deadly air pollutant PM 2.5 for the first time signals a shift towards greater openness on the state of the environment, writes Angel Hsu.The news late last month from China’s environment ministry that it plans to bring one of the country’s most ...
  • Rethinking climate security
    Efforts to link global warming with violent conflict have helped to raise awareness about the need for action on emissions. But at what cost? Corinne Schoch asks if militarising climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem.Once upon a time, climate change was a strict ...
  • Climate change: who cares anymore?
    Global-warming worries probably peaked in 2007 and – despite scientists’ dire predictions – few societies even pretend to be doing anything today, Simon Kuper writes. With almost everyone giving up, what will happen next? When someone offered me a trip to India, ...
  • A darker side of Chinese clean-tech
    The Zhejiang solar factory hit by a fluoride pollution scandal may be up and running again, but the case has shone a light on wider problems in the industry. Yu Dawei reports.Symbolic of an era of new energy, the solar industry presents a bright and clean image to the world. But the view from so ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Air Force Academy Cadets Decide They Must Pret ...
    A little over a year ago, a cadet at the Air Force Academy emailed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to tell us about an “underground” group of about a hundred Academy cadets who, in order to maintain good standing among their peers and superiors at the Academy, were a ...
  • Occupy Big Coal: Kentuckians to Protest Most C ...
    Wall Street and Big Coal corporations have no better friend than Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the “prince of pork” and powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Hailed as the most “corrupt member of Congress” by the non-profit Citizens for Responsibility and Eth ...
  • Be (Financially) Eccentric
    Eighteen months ago, I began working out in the gym with a functional trainer. His name is Michael and he has changed my life. His training philosophy is rooted in a belief that many pieces of modern exercise equipment designed to push us harder actually result in less effective workouts. How ca ...
  • Bringing the Salt March to Wall Street
    Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. By Miki KashtanIn a few days the Occupy Wall Street movement arrives in my town, Oakland, and I am thinking a lot about what I want to do. As I reflect on what’s been happening in the last number of weeks, I feel quite uplifted and so, so relieved. For month ...
  • Top Ministry Over Rick Perry’s New Apost ...
    “We need to pray that all false accusations and the voice of the accuser of the brethren be silenced in the name of Jesus!” – Spokesperson for Global Havest/Global Spheres, Inc. ministries Leading up to the 2008 election, prominent NAR apostles prayed with and blessed Sarah Pal ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Pe ...
    Google reports that U.S. government requests for user data for use in criminal investigations continues to rise, even as a bill to require an officer to get a judge's approval to get at a citizen's online communications stalls.
  • Researchers Release Attack Tool That Cripples ...
    Researchers have released an attack tool that makes it trivial for anyone to take down websites that allow users to connect via secure connections.
  • ‘Torture’ Judge Gets $3.4 Million Legal Defens ...
    Who thought lawyers could be so kind? A federal appeals court judge, who as a Justice Department lawyer signed off on internal memos authorizing waterboarding, has received $3.4 million in free legal services successfully fending off ethics charges.
  • WikiLeaks Halts Publication Over Cash Flow Issues
    For the second time in two years WikiLeaks announced it was suspending publication of secrets due to financial difficulties.
  • Threat Level’s Kim Zetter Writing the Book on ...
    Wired senior staff writer Kim Zetter won a feature writing award from the Society for Professional Journalists of Northern California last week for her riveting story on how researchers discovered and dissected Stuxnet, a worm intricately programmed to wreak havoc on an Iranian nuclear facility. ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • How did Jensen Farms, Frontera, the Auditor an ...
    I know that sounds a tad harsh. I am sure the owners and employees of Jensen Farms, Frontera, Primus Labs and the various retailers (known and not yet known), are all nice people. Some have families and some even go to church, but the fact is their cantaloupe killed. And, to me it is pretty c ...
  • Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak - So, who was rig ...
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODA just posted a few moments ago “Listeria-linked farm had rated high in third-party audit.” The whole story is worth a read, but here are my favorite parts: Here are the FDA concerns about the Jensen Farms packing house from its inspections done on Sept. 22 a ...
  • Jensen Farms, Inc. cantaloupes were supplied t ...
    The FDA should just subcontract out its investigations to Phyllis Entis at eFoodAlert.  Here is what she has compiled to date: Albertson’s:- Colorado stores. Aldi:- Aldi stores are located  in 31 states, primarily from Kansas to the East Coast. Basila Produce:- A &ldquo ...
  • Listeria Cantaloupe Road Map - Grower, Process ...
    I had a chance to talk with Tim Linden of Produce News Daily about where this Cantaloupe mess is headed: Bill Marler, a prominent Seattle-based attorney known for his involvement in food-safety litigation, has filed seven lawsuits and currently represents at least two dozen individuals or famil ...
  • Will Jensen Farms, Frontera, PrimusLabs or oth ...
    Don’t hold your breath on it. Jensen Farms received an FDA “Warning Letter” yesterday after its and Frontera’s cantaloupe had been linked to 123 illnesses with 25 deaths.  Interesting, despite my post of late last night “It is PAST Time to prosecute those who ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Fisker Karma gets EPA certified: 52 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric Yikes. The EPA has finally released its official fuel economy rating for the Fisker Karma, and it's not high: just 52 MPGe, an all-electric range of 32 miles and 20 miles per gallon on gasoline when the battery runs dry. This is w ...
  • Report: Are you the new Toyota Prius C?
    Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota The upcoming Toyota Prius C has been unveiled in concept form, caught wearing a ton of camouflage and maybe whispered its new name to us (Aqua). But that doesn't mean we're not still interested in what will be the smallest and cheapest model in the Prius ...
  • Report: Great Scot! DMC announces all-electric ...
    Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Technology, Electric Given the car's iconic classic/futuristic status, it's no surprise that the DeLorean DMC-12 is a popular car for DIY electric car conversions. That an honest-to-goodness official DeLorean EV is coming from Humble, Texas' reborn DeLorean Motor ...
  • Official: Chevy announces all-electric Spark E ...
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Looks like there was a good reason that Chevrolet dropped the "More car than electric" tagline for its Chevy Volt. That anti-EV phrase was always short-sighted, and the reason why was announced this morning in Detroit. General Motors has ...
  • First Drive: 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In
    Filed under: Hybrid, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, First DrivesYou Say You Want An Evolution? Here's a game that the first people who buy the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid should play with their other Prius-driving friends: Let them slide behind the wheel and see if they can even tell ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: Watch Journalists Amy Goodman & Chris H ...
    Acclaimed broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America’s best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers. On Monday, he interviewed Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges about Occupy Wall Street. Click he ...
  • New York Times Profiles Democracy Now!
    On the heels of Democracy Now!'s coverage of Troy Davis' execution, and the Occupy Wall Street protests, The New York Times profiles our 15-year-old nonprofit newscast in an article in today’s paper titled, A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles. Hours after Amy ...
  • The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to ...
    The national memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated last Sunday. President Barack Obama said of Dr. King, “If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there.” The dedi ...
  • Showdown at Occupy Wall Street? Protesters Fea ...
    Tension is rising at the Occupy Wall Street encampment after Brookfield Office Properties, the owner of Liberty Park, announced plans to clear sections of the park on Friday for cleaning. In addition Brookfield announced a series of new rules. Organizers have called for a 6 a.m. emergency actio ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Protest Heads to Millionair ...
    Hundreds of protesters participated in a "Millionaires’ March" Tuesday that wended its way through New York City’s wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood. They called for an end to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and sought to pressure Governor Andrew Cuomo ...

Suzie-Q

  • Muammar Gaddafi Killed, Captured In Sirte: (GR ...
    AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 10/20/11 08:00 AM ET Updated: 10/20/11 06:28 PM ET Longtime dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed following the capture of his hometown of Sirte. [CLICK HERE FOR LIVE UPDATES] There were confusing reports of Gaddafi’s capture and death, an ...
  • Cornel West Arrested at Supreme Court
    The Root By: Sheryl Huggins Salomon | Posted: October 16, 2011 Cornel West arrested (NCFTV)Update on Monday, October 17 at 3:25 p.m.: A spokesperson for Dr. Cornel West told The Root that following a court appearance this afternoon he was released from jail. Update: According to a message r ...
  • Occupy Boston Under Attack~ 100′s Arrested
    Occupied Boston Live is currently offline, but there is a message at the bottom. The following is a link from Twitter by Keith Olberman Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested boston.com Oct. 10, 2011 By John M. Guilfoil and Derek J. Anderson, Globe Staff and Globe Corre ...
  • Occupy Wall Street the Media is the Message
    The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street PoliticsUSA October 2, 2011 By Jason Easley The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segments with zero guests to Occupy Wall Street today. To the media inside the Beltway, the 99% do not ...
  • The Beginning Is Near…

Solari

  • Catherine’s Mill Valley Speech – T ...
    We will be closing online ticket sales for Catherine’s October 27, 2011 speech in Mill Valley, California: Tonight, Tuesday – 9pm Mountain Time You will be able to purchase tickets at the door the evening of the event. - Directions to the Community Center |
  • COLA Increase on Social Security
    By Chuck Gibson Good news was announced for retirees this week as the first time since 2009 Social Security benefits will be increased starting next year. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be an increase of 3.6%. It will affect about 55 million Social Security recipients and another 8 ...
  • Holy Roman Empire – Part II
    By: Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises. A major document from the Vatican&# ...
  • Transcript of the Oct 13, 2011 Precious Metals ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: So I want to know what in the world happened in September. Franklin: Somebody pulled the plug, didn’t they? Catherine: Yeah, the ...
  • Transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter Wr ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: I’m going to start tonight with our movie, Longitude. I really hope if you haven’t had a chance to watch it I really encourage you to do it ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • No longer a danger, but a reality: bloodlust ...
    Summary:  The response of America to 9-11, encouraged by our leaders, was fear.  Abject, bed-wetting, hysterical fear.  Fear exacts a many-fold price from those who surrender to it.  Slowly one symptom has emerged, tarnishing our history and corrupting our thinking:  bloodlust.  Exultation at as ...
  • The end of our Expedition to Iraq: war-booste ...
    Summary:  Now that our role has ended we can look back at and score the Iraq War.  The most important lesson is the simplest.  The Iraq War evolved like a dance, predictable to anyone familiar with post-WWII warfare and the basics of 4GW.  So we need write nothing new, just review what was said ...
  • Attritionist Letter #8 – Resist the temp ...
    Summary:   The internal battle in the USMC about the nature of command goes back (at least) to Colonel Carson’s controversal creation of the Marine Raiders, based on insights gained from Mao’s Eighth Route Army — especially a more egalitarian division of responsibility and the ...
  • Question time on the FM website – chapter 8
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it in the comments.   Links to other episodes appear below. Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question! Questions received so far: The topics you raise about the Constitution (e.g., about the f ...
  • Cyberwar: About Attribution (identifying your ...
    Summary:  Identifying the attacker is the key to modern military defense, so one can launch a reprisal or counter-strike.  But attributing cyberattacks is difficult because nothing in cyberspace has to look like anything familiar. How do you attribute a weapon that was created out of thin air an ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Impressions of an Amateur India-Watcher
    Indian Muslims wait for morning Eid prayer at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi (Pawel Kopczynski/Courtesy Reuters). I recently returned from a trip to New Delhi, India, where I was fortunate to have the opportunity to listen firsthand to officials, academics, journalists, and entrepreneurs. I spen ...
  • Executive Authority: Who Needs Bipartisanship ...
    Les Gelb has a not-very-interesting article in the newest issue of The National Interest entitled "We Bow to the God Bipartisanship." In it, he derides what he views as the tendency to overrate the value of bipartisan support to presidents' ability to carry out their foreign policy preferences. ...
  • "Understandings" on Settlements?
    Responding to (unconfirmed) news reports of a new Obama administration proposal to restart talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, one which would allow the Israelis to continue building in existing settlements while halting the construction of new ones, former Bush administration Middle Ea ...
  • Surge Architect Keane: "Preserve" Iraq’s Democ ...
    Keeping with tradition of those invested in the Iraq war criticizing ever withdrawing any troops, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, said to be one of the key architects and advocates for President Bush’s “surge” in 2007, attacked President Obama for announcing he will order all tro ...
  • Q&A: Is Iran's Quds Force Behind the Bomb Plot?
    Editor’s Note: InsideIRAN’s Shayan Ghajar conducted an interview with intelligence expert Mahan Abedin regarding the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, and Iran’s possible involvement. Mahan Abedin is a research journalist and ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Herman Cain's Unlucky Strike
    You must watch Herman Cain's latest campaign ad, via James Fallows. It starts off as a typical dry commercial with Cain's chief of staff hyping his candidate, but gets great right at the 40-second mark:   Fallows questioned if this was an Onion parody, but that is in fact Cain's Chief of Staff, ...
  • Rick Perry Drops a New Tax Plan
    By and large, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “new” tax plan – outlined on the Wall Street Journal editorial page – is a retread of the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” plan favored by House Republicans in the summer’s negotations over the debt ceiling. The difference is that instead of a massive round of t ...
  • Whistleblowers
    Somehow I missed the movie The Whistleblower, an action film about a woman in the UN peacekeeping forces who tries to hold her male colleagues and superiors accountable for sexual coercion and abuse of girls, boys, and adults they are supposed to be protecting. (The movie is on my list now.) Wo ...
  • The Most Inconsequential Debate
    Yesterday I detailed how the leading figures of Iowa's evangelical community have all dilly-dallied about picking a favorite presidential candidate. As if on cue, one of those major players announced that he would be moderating one of the more bizarrely formatted debates of a modern presidentia ...
  • A Tale of Three Profiles
    In the last few days, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have done long articles profiling Mitt Romney. What do they teach us? Well, let me give you what ink-stained wretches call the "nut graf" from each piece. Here's the Times: This time, he has shed much of the operational and p ...

Buzzflash

  • The OWS Battle to End Crony Capitalism Was Pre ...
    MICHAEL GALINSKY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Presaging in many ways the context of Occupy Wall Street, Battle for Brooklyn (see trailer here) is a gripping documentary about how the 1% at the top squeeze the bottom 99% by literally evicting them from their homes and businesses.  In this case, Mayo ...
  • Gun-Loving Gov. Perry's College Transcript H ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   More proof that those Fond of the NRA Tend not to have had a Very high GPA.read more
  • Who Is Causing the Most Disruption to Resident ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Who is causing the most disruption to residents in southern Manhattan? The New York City Police Department (NYPD). As BuzzFlash at Truthout has noted, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been developing a PR contingency strategy to shut down Occupy Wall Stre ...
  • Bank Of America Makes Taxpayers Insure 75 Tril ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Consistent with the Wall Street standard operating procedure of privatized profits and socialized risks, the Bank of America has allegedly transferred 75 trillion dollars in potentially toxic derivatives to enable the money to be covered by the Fe ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: If South Americans Can Ref ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT After a couple of weeks trying to find their groove, Occupy Wall Street protesters are now on a high and are set to take their movement to the next level. First came the announcement that New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg would not dismantle the encamp ...

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Sciencebase

  • Your iPhone won’t give you brain cancer…
    …nor will your Blackberry, Android handset and presumably not your iPad either. Despite the hopes and dreams of millions of technophobes and pseudoscientists, the biggest ever study of mobile phone use shows that the devices do not increase the risk of brain tumours. The European study loo ...
  • That’s niiiice Lord Christopher Monckton
    Climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton has engaged in serious debate with scientists and even presented at the United Nations. But, who’d have thought he is actually the latest comedy character of Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen, cousin of famed Cambridge autism researcher Simon ...
  • Active ingredient in aloe vera products?
    The moment I mentioned treating my heartburn with omeprazole, I got a Twitter response from a “holistic” therapy type suggesting that I try a natural alternative in the form of Aloe vera gel. Natural in what sense, I’m not sure, it’s not as if our prehistoric ancestors ex ...
  • Omeprazole eases a burning heart
    I finally gave into my GP’s suggestion (actually a locum) that rather than suffering repeated acid reflux and taking antacids to partially neutralize stomach acid spilling into my esophagus I really ought to give omeprazole a try. He wrote me a scrip, I filled it and have been symptom free ...
  • Nailed it
    A swell trick with a block of wood and an impossible nail…impossible you say? The wonders of hydrated lignin. Related Posts:Reflecting on Feynman funThe Elements Song – Periodic Table of VideosDanny Shechtman discusses quasicrystalsI can haz kwontumzBalloon Party TricksNailed it is a ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Free Speech on Trial, Supreme Court Ban on Pro ...
    National Lawyers Guild attorney Mark Goldstone filed a petition for writ of certiorari at the Supreme Court today challenging a statute barring protests in the Supreme Court Building and on its grounds. Goldstone commented, “We seek to apply to the plaza and steps of the United States Supr ...
  • As Global Population Surpasses 7 Billion, Two ...
    As the global population surpasses 7 billion people sometime around the end of October, addressing the challenges associated with a still-growing world population will require a two-pronged response, according to experts with the Worldwatch Institute. The combined measures of empowering women to ...
  • New Obama Hire, Broderick Johnson, Was Keyston ...
    Campaigners protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline reacted with anger today to the news that the Obama campaign had hired a former lobbyist for the pipeline as a new senior advisor to the president’s 2012 re-election campaign.read more
  • Obama Administration Clears Way for Wave of In ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity and allies today appealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to issue Clean Air Act permits allowing Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic. The corporation’s Discoverer drillship plans to sink exploration wells in the Beaufort and Chukch ...
  • Groups Challenge EPA Approval of Shell Oil Pol ...
    On October 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an air pollution permit for the Kulluk drill ship that Shell Offshore Inc. plans to use in offshore oil drilling efforts that could begin as early as next summer.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • How HR 358, the Let Women Die Act 2011, Violat ...
    Anu Kumar In a hospital in Nicaragua, after a total ban on abortion was passed, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy was allowed to languish, waiting for her fallopian tube to rupture before a doctor agreed to perform the procedure necessary t ...
  • Mic Check: Can You Hear Us, America?
    Randall Amster We find these views to be mutually relevant… that all people, by virtue of their basic humanity, deserve the opportunity to live, work, and associate according to the dictates of their own consciences and capacities;re ...
  • NPR’s Slow Slide to the Right
    Richard Schiffman The timing could not have been worse for the latest in a series of controversies to hit the nation’s scandal-prone public radio network. But the fact that it was pledge week didn’t prevent NPR from caving in to ...
  • Measuring Progress: A Better Alternative to th ...
    Daphne Wysham Tent cities and shacks sprung up on empty lots across the country. Food lines at soup kitchens wrapped around city blocks. Unemployment soared to 25 percent. Farmers watched helplessly as crop prices plummeted, then lost their ...
  • The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
    David Morris Host David Gregory complained about Occupy Wall Street protestors “demonizing banks” and wondered, “Is this not a reverse tea party tactic?”read more

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Electronic Intifada

  • Why was PA's Canada envoy fired over a tweet?
    Dana Olwan The Electronic Intifada Vancouver A Palestinian Authority diplomat came under fire from Canadian officials and was forced to resign because of a tweet; meanwhile Israel’s human rights abuses go unpunished by Ottowa.
  • Israel stopped mother visiting prisoner son fo ...
    Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Maghazi refugee camp Eid Misleh spent 19 years in Israel’s prisons until he was released as part of a prisoner exchange agreed between Hamas and Israel. Back home among family in Gaza, Misleh told The Electronic Intifada about life in prisoner and th ...
  • Harvesting olives as a statement of resistance
    Ben Lorber The Electronic Intifada Nablus Palestinian olive farmers face violence from both the settlers and the Israeli military during the harvest season.
  • Despite attacks, national conference unites St ...
    Alex Kane The Electronic Intifada New York City Hundreds of student activists from dozens of colleges and universities across the US are expanding the grassroots movements for Palestine solidarity activism despite aggressive smear campaigns by pro-Israel groups.
  • More than 160 Palestinian children remain behi ...
    The Electronic Intifada Gaza City No children were released from Israeli jails and detention centers as part of the recent prisoner exchange, while human rights agencies add that many Palestinian children in Israeli prisons are being tortured.

The Wonk Room

  • The Grotesqueness Of Pop Culture Politics
    Considering Boss, and the electoral subplots on Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, and Glee in the Atlantic this week, I was struck by a question: why does pop culture swing between depicting politicians as grotesques or saints when the reality is so vastly more entertaining? Boss swings betwe ...
  • Italian Women: Hardly Working
    Tyler Cowen offers more thoughts on small firms and pathetic Italian per capita GDP growth. Another neglected element of the story is what I’ve decided I’m going to call Feminist Growth Theory. In the richer countries, including both Big Government Sweden and Small Government America ...
  • Uganda’s Parliament Advances ‘Kill ...
    Uganda’s parliament has “voted to reopen a debate on a bill that seeks to outlaw homosexuality that may be expanded to include the death penalty for gay people,” Bloomberg is reporting. “The legislation will be sent to the relevant session committee for consideration, Speaker R ...
  • Surge Architect Keane: ‘Preserve’ ...
    Keeping with tradition of those invested in the Iraq war criticizing ever withdrawing any troops, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, said to be one of the key architects and advocates for President Bush’s “surge” in 2007, attacked President Obama for announcing he will order all tro ...
  • Romney Attacks “Environmentally Friendly ...
    Former Massachusetts Governor and presidential front-runner Mitt Romney — once a candidate who stood up to coal and supported clean energy — is now calling green jobs fake. In an op-ed in the Orange County Register published yesterday, Romney regurgitates GOP talking points on loan guarantees to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Silly Things About Qaddafi's Death
    So, as I said, Qaddafi was a dictator who practised torture (which I oppose more than your average North American) and who was most definitely nutso. All that having been said, he had been (and maybe still was) an authentic Arab nationalist. Even if that Arab nationalism was in his past it was s ...
  • Grip Glutz vs The Sensual Santa
    Today, my contribution to the cause is to clean out the rotting stuff from my fridge; empty my compost bin; learn the skill of punctuation; and do almost a week's worth of dishes. Last night I went to listen to Seth interview Daniel Clowes (whose original comic story "Art-School Confidential" h ...
  • On the death of Mommar Qaddafi
    Some guy came up to me on the street tonight and told me out of nowhere that Qaddafi was dead. I asked him: "Who's next? Obama?" The guy says: "No. Raoul and his brother, what's his name? Castro!" There's a guy trained to hate the official enemies. I was in a hurry to get to the liquor store s ...
  • The world is run by crazy people, so fight back!
    Now, for the record, "The world is run by crazy people" is also something said by the disgusting KKKate Makkkmillan of smalldeadbraincells infamy. But KKKate is the sort of person who would wonder why you spat in her face after she called for the re-opening of the residential schools and who be ...
  • Egg-zack-a-lak-a-lak-a-lee!
    Good ol' pogge lays it down: For going on six years now we've had a federal government that has consistently demonstrated contempt for democratic principles and institutions. The same group is back in power and we'll have no opportunity to unseat them until 2015. It's generally acknowledged t ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Gadhafi killed in Sirte; UN Human Rights Counc ...
    The U.N. Human Right Council is “likely” to investigate the death of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed by Libyan National Transitional Council fighters on October 20th.  While the circumstances around the former dictator’s death are still being verified, wh ...
  • Steve Staples on the Amanda Lang and Kevin O’L ...
    On October 19th, Steve Staples of the Rideau Institute was invited onto the Lang and O’Leary Exchange on CBC to discuss the recently announced $33-billion shipbuilding contracts. The discussion addressed matters such as necessity of the ships and thoughts on the political background of the ...
  • Canada to make $33-billion ship procurement
    On Wednesday, the Canadian Government announced the awarding of two huge shipbuilding contracts worth a total of $33 billion. Most of the money will go to build ships for the Royal Canadian Navy, making this the largest military procurement in Canadian history. According to news reports, the lar ...
  • Spin Watch: Journalists and “war reporting” aw ...
    As I read Mr. Brewster’s war stories I can’t forget the fact that in 2010 he accepted an award from a military advocacy group funded by the Department of National Defence.
  • Rights groups call for torture inquiry
    Two human rights groups are calling for a public inquiry into Canada’s handling of Afghan detainees following a UN report on the torture of prisoners in Afghan government custody (Robert Hiltz, “Rights groups call for Afghan-detainee inquiry after UN report,” Postmedia News, 11 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Stewart: Why Is The Media Ignoring Ron Paul?
    August 16th, 2011 The Raw Story By: Andrew Jones Jon Stewart certainly didn’t gasp for satire straws when displaying his feelings on the Ames Straw Poll and the Republican Presidential candidates. Monday night on the Daily Show, host Stewart analyzed the results from the poll that saw Michelle B ...
  • Proof That The FDA’s Assault On Raw Milk ...
    August 16th, 2011 Natural News By: Mike Adams An astonishing two-thirds of all fresh chicken meat sold in grocery stores today is contaminated with salmonella. Diet soda is laced with aspartame, a chemical sweetener made from the feces of genetically engineered bacteria. “Natural” co ...
  • Major Drug Research Company Faked Thousands of ...
    August 16th, 2011 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff It is truly astounding to witness the utter corruption that takes place — and practically in plain sight — within the pharmaceutical drug industry. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that drug firm Cetero Research, ...
  • Children Who Take Antibiotics More Prone to Co ...
    August 16th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson A group of Canadian researchers has found a link between taking antibiotics and a higher likelihood of harboring deadly “superbugs” like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which kills tens of thousands of people e ...
  • Risperdal Drug Maker Faces $1B in Lawsuits, Ye ...
    August 16th, 2011 Natural News By: Monica G. Young What irony. Detroit mother, Maryanne Godboldo, was just charged with child neglect for refusing to obey a Child Protective Services order to give her daughter Risperdal, a powerful psychoactive drug. Meanwhile federal and multiple state prosecut ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...
  • How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
    It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

  • Glenn Greenwald: How the rich subverted the le ...
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com What if, last Friday, President Obama had stepped to the podium at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and begun his remarks this way: “Good afternoon, everybody.  As a candidate for President, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a ...
  • Why Egypt’s elections won’t be like Tunisia’s
    Wendell Steavenson describes the complex rules that will operate in Egypt’s upcoming elections: Overall, this system seems to me to do its utmost to disconnect the voter from the consequence of his checked ballot paper. All the way along, there will be Egypt’s traditional electoral mayhem ...
  • The class war has begun
    Frank Rich writes: During the death throes of Herbert Hoover’s presidency in June 1932, desperate bands of men traveled to Washington and set up camp within view of the Capitol. The first contingent journeyed all the way from Portland, Oregon, but others soon converged from all over—alone, ...
  • Wall Street firms spy on protesters in tax-fun ...
    Pam Martens writes: Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in lower Manhattan where Wall Street firms, serially charged with cor ...
  • Michael Moore and Cornel West on Occupy Wall S ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Largest nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, the B5 ...
    According to Wikipedia, this warhead (9.1 megatons) was apparently never tested, although an experimental TX-46 predecessor design was detonated 28 June 1958 as Hardtack Oak, which detonated at a yield of 8.9 Megatons. From The National Nuclear Security Administration WASHINGTON, … Continu ...
  • It’s libel – except when Mike does it
    This Mann-made global warming lawsuit could backfire on the Penn State alarmist Guest post by Paul Driessen Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control … Continue reading →
  • Aurora in Michigan last night – great ti ...
    As I mentioned on my post yesterday, low latitude aurora could be possible thanks to the CME that impacted Earth yesterday. Here’s a wonderful time lapse video from Michigan last night showing the Aurora Borealis in stunning color and clarity. … Continue reading →
  • Another Climate FAIL: New Research Casts Doubt ...
    Barry Woods writes via email: Previously: (at Copenhagen) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “In 25 years the glaciers that provide water for 3/4 of a billion people will disapear entirely” Now: Himalayan Glaciers (and others) New Research Casts Doubt on … Continue reading →
  • The IPCC “Delinquent teenager” get ...
    Donna Laframboise is interviewed on SunTV about her new book. 7:40, but well worth your time. Click image for the video. Tom Harris at ICSC writes: Toronto-based researcher Donna Laframboise deconstruct the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • How Organic Farmers and Ethical Consumers are ...
    UK In Italy/CC BY-ND 2.0 A few years ago, a friend of mine attended a Slow Food event in Italy. She recounted how one farmer had stood up and desperately pleaded for the artisan food movement to take on organized criminals. Without loosening their grip on farm supply and produce distribution, ...
  • Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Archite ...
    image credit Kayla Jonas A year ago I wrote If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo, about its incredible infrastructure. What I didn't know at the time was that its architecture is absolutely extraordinary, and that the city is going through and exciting rebirth and revitalization ...
  • Mini Lemon Cheesecakes with Jalapeño-Raspberry ...
    © Jerry James Stone via Flickr I just can't get enough of the jalapeño-raspberry jam from Ann's Raspberry. The Good Food Award winner has mastered a perfect balance between sweet and spicy that leaves you wanting more and more. So I couldn't help myself, I had to create one last recipe ...
  • By 2031, Could Solar Be Main Source of Energy ...
    The concept of backcasting, or imagining ourselves in a future we want to see and then identifying tte path that got us there, may sound like a wishy-washy motivational workshop activity. But it is a powerful way to identify not just what we want to achieve, but a strategic, step-by-step path ...
  • How Conservation Photography Is A Political Act
    Mike Baird/CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understa ...

Biosingularity

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

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.In case you didn’t know (I didn’t until I checked the Press TV site), we have begun bombing the hell out of Somalia. This week ...
  • 'No On Issue 2': Election season update
    The effort to get a citizen veto of John Kasich’s union-busting attack on the middle class is still a very big deal in Ohio, even as the Occupy movement picks up steam here (and everywhere!) If it has gone somewhat off your radar here’s an update. First, the latest polling shows ov ...
  • Wisconsin Goes to DC
    Wisconsin Wave organized two van-loads of people to drive to Washington DC and spend a few days occupying Freedom Plaza starting October 6.  Twenty of us made the 18-hour trip and met up with a number of other folks from Wisconsin when we got there.   We slept under the stars for thr ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims that I have to fucking pad my fucking sentences to make room for all of the fucking links.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Staff S ...
  • We are the media - Corrente edition
    We are the media: That has been one of my refrains this year. It isn’t enough to complain about the big bad MSM and it’s a waste of time trying to storm the ramparts. They are (largely profitable) line items on corporate balance sheets, not crusading muckrakers of yore or lusty pamph ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Food System Pays Dearly as Wall Street Occupie ...
    The 1 percent recently racked up two more big victories. President Barack Obama signed three new free-trade agreements and regulators watered down rules that govern commodity markets, which ultimately have a big impact on both farmers and consumers. Both developments make the protestors' point: ...
  • The 147 Banks and Super-Companies that Run The ...
    The 1% indeed: a new study of the global economy and wealth concentration has identified a complex system of only 147 banks and corporations around the world which share in the largest chunk of the change.Click here to read this article
  • Only When Meat Is Stigmatized Will Factory Far ...
    Humans have never before shown greater intolerance for violence against animals. As Steven Pinker reiterates in his (heroic) new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, rates of hunting have declined; bullfighting is going the way of bearbaiting; more consumers than ever seek "cruelty-free" produ ...
  • "What Did We Actually Do Right?" On the Unexpe ...
    "All these years," she said, "we've been organizing marches, rallies And if only 45 people show up, you're depressed, if you get 300, you're happy. Then one day, 200,000 people show up. And you're incredulous: on some level, even though you didn't realize it, you'd given up thinking that you co ...
  • CDC: Autism Diagnoses Growing by 10 to 17 Perc ...
    The figure is so astounding it appears to be a misprint at first glance. One in 110. That's the number of American children living with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based on the most recently published estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Click here to read ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • You’ve Got Mail: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal ...
    Given their close contact with animals and animal waste in the workplace, employees of IFAP facilities are the ones at greatest risk for becoming infected with drug-resistant pathogens. Also, IFAP sites degrade the communities in which they’re sited by contaminating air, water and soils with an ...
  • Peak Oil, Food Systems, Irene, Debt and Deadlines
    What if we could force peak oil into the spotlight with our own grand deadline and list of actions?
  • The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
    This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
  • Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
    Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • The Science on Soil Carbon is NOT in
    mix and match a combination of land management practices to enrich soils carbon farmers report higher rates of carbon sequestration in their soils than government research agencies that only ever study the effect of a single practice at a time Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech &n ...
  • The Cult Of The New Thing
    How can a young boy sell organs and a young girl prostitute herself, both in order to get a phone that was out of date when it was released? Need to believe combines with need to belong inherent in humans to create a cult mentality about certain brands Submitted by John Farnham to Science & ...
  • Columbus and the Great American Delusion
    Cultures have myths about themselves that they pass on to succeeding generations. Thomas Jefferson personally sanctioned the removal of the Creek and Cherokee peoples from the state of Georgia Removal was just a whitewashed term for genocide. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...
  • Mostovoj: Wilderness lands under threat as nev ...
    Congressman McCarthy's bill, H.R. 1581, the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011, would be the beginning of the end for America's public lands. If this legislation passes they will be gone forever. Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • Truth for Gllobal Warming
    Website for sale - to be shut down Merchandises light bulbs claimed better than mercury filled ; notes on old nuclear reactors...and websites which promote a mechanism of water controlled planetary temperature Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

  • Zimbabwe Prime Minister has reversed postion o ...
    Zimbabwe Prime Minister has reversed postion on gay rights - Networking Portal for All Africa - AfricanSeer.com: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reversed his position on gay rights,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Bolivia: A new triumph of ordinary people
    Bolivia: Un nuevo triunfo de la gente común - Anarkismo by Raul Zibechi - A long march of lowland Indians against the construction of a road through and divides into two national park is itself legal... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Egyptian Military Court Orders Imprisoned Blog ...
    Egyptian Military Court Orders Imprisoned Blogger to Mental Hospital: (AINA) -- The Egyptian Military Court ordered imprisoned Christian activist and blogger Michael Nabil Sanad, who has been on a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • I CARE - ATTACKS ON BULGARIAN MOSQUES: 'THIS H ...
    I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: ATTACKS ON BULGARIAN MOSQUES: 'THIS HATRED IS NEW TO US' - 21/10/2011- Violent ethnic riots swept Bulgaria weeks before this Sunday's presidential... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Venezuelan doctors deny claims Chavez to die s ...
    Venezuelan doctors deny claims Chavez to die soon | World | RIA Novosti: Doctors on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s medical team have disputed a gloomy prognosis about his health made by his... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • G. Edward Griffin: Individualism & Capitalism ...
    Individualism vs Collectivism - G. Edward Griffin
  • Going Organic on a Shoestring Budget
    I realize that eating healthy and organic is difficult if both parents work full time, and you are on a limited budget. Don't despair, it can be done. Eating healthy is not only for the rich!
  • Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter D ...
    Dr. David Carpenter talks about the dangers of Smart Meters. Please go to KauaiTruth for instructions on how to revoke implied consent for these meters to be installed.
  • Guard Us All Against Gardasil: The Evil 1%
    Perhaps what we need to do in order to best protect our children is to begin an “Occupy Big Pharma” movement. Until that day arrives, and in the meantime, what will you do when the Gardasil fraud debuts in your community? I can unequivocally state that organizations like TeenScreen and the Big P ...
  • Patent on Broccoli will not be revoked – Monsa ...
    "In times when nearly a billion people are starving, it is simply immoral to artificially increase prices of foods through patent monopolies. Effectively, companies such as Monsanto are abusing patent laws to turn food resources into financial ventures. Should healthy food only be available for ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford Hired By Fox News ...
    ShareThisFormer SC Gov. Mark Sanford Hired By Fox News As Political Commentator Through 2012 Elections 23 Oct 2011 Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is joining Fox News as a political commentator through the 2012 presidential elections, a Fox Channel spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. The net ...
  • Possible study of anthrax vaccine's effectiven ...
    ShareThisPossible study of anthrax vaccine's effectiveness on children stirs debate --Federal simulation of an anthrax attack on San Francisco, Dark Zephyr, raised quesions about how to handle children 24 Oct 2011 The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientis ...
  • Occupy Maine camp attacked with chemical bomb
    ShareThisOccupy Maine camp attacked with chemical bomb --After roughly 45 seconds had passed, the bomb exploded. 24 Oct 2011 Occupy Maine protesters camped out in Portland's Lincoln Park were attacked early Sunday morning when someone lobbed a chemical bomb at them. No one was seriously injured ...
  • Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law
    ShareThisJudge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law --Controversial law requires those applying for assistance to pass a drug test 24 Oct 2011 A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida's new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving the benefits on Monday, ...
  • Manhattan District Attorney Won't Drop Charges ...
    ShareThisManhattan District Attorney Won't Drop Charges Against Protesters 24 Oct 2011 The Manhattan district attorney's office will not summarily dismiss the charges against some 300 Occupy Wall Street protesters who were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct during rallies on the Brookl ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • Kids, Emails, and Dustoffs
    Sergeant Larson, 4-4 Cav, stands night guard in Zhari District, Afghanistan. Sergeant Larson got shot a day or two before. The bullet only ripped his gear. 25 October 2011 Two types of emails stop me cold to read.  Those from downrange troops, and kids.  Gobs of emails come in from b ...
  • Golden Seconds
    Golden Seconds Open Letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and President Barack Obama US Air Force "Pedro" helicopter 24 October 2011 Gentlemen, For the last seven years I have written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  I have covered the US Army, Marines, Air Force and Navy ...
  • Executive Summary: Crash of CH-47D Aircraft in ...
    Published: 22 October 2011 Please click here to view the entire Summary.
  • Cutting Women in the Forgotten Province
    20 October 2011 Travels to Nimruz Province, Afghanistan Nimruz has been called the forgotten province, and it’s true.  During each of my two journeys to Nimruz, I talked with the governor and many others.  The welcome has been hearty though our presence is scant. Enemy activity is ma ...
  • Red Air: America’s Medevac Failure
    4-4 Cav waiting to board helicopters for an air assault. 12 October 2011 Afghanistan Most of our troops in Afghanistan never see combat.  The closest they get might be the occasional rocket attacks on bases.  A relatively small number will be in so many fights that the war becomes a ...

The Killing Train

  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
  • The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
    The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
  • The Housing Crisis in Haiti
    There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...
  • Six Questions for Leftists
    Hi everyone. I got sick yesterday and am still recovering. Still managed to get some work done (thanks to Ansel) but most of the interviews were of the background variety. read more
  • To pass on our experience: an interview with P ...
    Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October 5, 2011. Justin Podur (JP): Can we start with your analysis of the Preval administration of 2006-2011? What could he have accomplished under the circumstances? What ...

treehugger

  • How Organic Farmers and Ethical Consumers are ...
    UK In Italy/CC BY-ND 2.0 A few years ago, a friend of mine attended a Slow Food event in Italy. She recounted how one farmer had stood up and desperately pleaded for the artisan food movement to take on organized criminals. Without loosening their grip on farm supply and produce distribution, ...
  • Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Archite ...
    image credit Kayla Jonas A year ago I wrote If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo, about its incredible infrastructure. What I didn't know at the time was that its architecture is absolutely extraordinary, and that the city is going through and exciting rebirth and revitalization ...
  • Mini Lemon Cheesecakes with Jalapeño-Raspberry ...
    © Jerry James Stone via Flickr I just can't get enough of the jalapeño-raspberry jam from Ann's Raspberry. The Good Food Award winner has mastered a perfect balance between sweet and spicy that leaves you wanting more and more. So I couldn't help myself, I had to create one last recipe ...
  • By 2031, Could Solar Be Main Source of Energy ...
    The concept of backcasting, or imagining ourselves in a future we want to see and then identifying tte path that got us there, may sound like a wishy-washy motivational workshop activity. But it is a powerful way to identify not just what we want to achieve, but a strategic, step-by-step path ...
  • How Conservation Photography Is A Political Act
    Mike Baird/CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understa ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Himalayan glaciers show sharp retreat
    Glaciers in Tibetan plateau feeding many of Asia major rivers in retreat as warning sounded about the costly effects of regional carbon emissions
  • Forced displacement soars in Burma
    Border aid group says levels of displacement of people in eastern Burma higher than any year since data collection began in 2002
  • Thousands of flood victims lacking aid
    Local relief teams filling the void left by government inaction as fears grow that the death toll from floods in central Burma could climb
  • Freed activist tells of prison abuse
    National League for Democracy member to file complaint to human rights body alleging physical abuse at the hands of prison officials
  • Rising tides
    As Thailand experiences its worst flooding in more than half a century, swathes of land in Burma are also underwater. Flash floods struck Magwe division on 20 October, wiping out bridges and villages and taking more than 200 lives. The clean-up cost for both countries is expected to be huge, as ...

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