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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 III

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN rights chief stresses rule of law as Tunisi ...
    [JURIST] Tunisia conducted its first free elections Sunday, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] emphasizing the importance of adherence to the rule of law as the country moves forward. The election for the new constituent assembly was a success with a turnou ...
  • Australia citizen files war crimes charges aga ...
    [JURIST] An Australian citizen has filed two counts of war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website] for abuses that he allegedly witnessed in 2007 and 2008 as the Sri Lankan civil war drew to a close. Jegen Warran claims to have witnessed intentional attac ...
  • HRW urges Libya to investigate bodies found in ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [official website] on Monday urged Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website] to investigate the apparent "mass execution" [press release] of 53 Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] supporters whose bodies were discovered at an ...
  • Italy war crimes expert Cassese dies at 74
    [JURIST] Antonio Cassese [JURIST news archive], a renowned Italian international war crimes expert and key figure in the establishment of two international criminal tribunals, died Saturday in Florence, Italy, at the age of 74. Cassese was the first president of the International Criminal Tribun ...
  • Khmer Rouge leader defense team files suit aga ...
    [JURIST] Defense lawyers for Nuon Chea [case materials, PDF], a former leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] filed a lawsuit Monday against Prime Minister Hun Sen [BBC backgrounder] for interfering with the UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Chea's lawyers a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
    After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information and guarding secrets By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up inter ...
  • Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
    American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter So here was the main protocol problem the United States faced on Sept. 23, 2009: President Barack Obama was set to give his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly, ...
  • Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
    The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again. For two and a half years, President Obama has walked a narrow lane, like one of the bike strips that Mike Bloomberg (more technocratic, but of a like mind) p ...
  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • New Israel Fund Honors ‘New Generation’ of Isr ...
    The New Israel Fund will hold its annual young leaders fundraising event in New York on November 2nd.  Here is how the website describes the goal of the event and NIF in general: A new generation of voices is speaking up for social justice and equality in Israel! Celebrate these pioneering activ ...
  • Israel Censors Details of Eilat Terror Attack ...
    I reported here several days ago that Alex Fishman, Yediot’s military correspondent, was the first journalist to reveal the contents of the secret IDF report on its failings during the Eilat terror attack.  Among the jaw-droppers he exposed, was a claim that the terrorists who attacked Isr ...
  • Anatot Pogrom: State Says Police to Investigat ...
    In the bloody aftermath of the Anatot pogrom, in which women were violently sexually abused, limbs were broken, and one attacker attempted to stab a protester to death with a knife (captured on video), the settler residents have been given a huge gift (Hebrew) by the state attorney general.  He& ...
  • Will U.S. Destroy UNESCO to Stop Palestinian S ...
    Palestine, UNESCO, and the U.S. are on a collision course.  It will be instructive to see which one blinks first.  U.S. law calls for cutting funding for any UN body that supports a Palestinian state.  UNESCO is poised to do so this week.  If it does, the U.S. would be forced to withhold its con ...
  • Caroline Glick Gets Down and Dirty With Gates ...
    When Anders Breivik was getting down in the dumps about the Muslim takeover of Eurabia, he could always turn for succor to the pages of Gates of Vienna, where he would find the sort of reassuring anti-Muslim race hatred that soothed his fevered brow.  It was the type of vile anti-jihadi rhetoric ...

If Americans Knew

  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."

David J. Gregory

  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
      Dear Editor,   The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number".   How can flying ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
    Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
  • Moving Planet Just Moved!
    Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com
  • An Open Letter to Mike Gonzalez, and Everyone ...
    To: Professor Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University Hi Mike I’ve just read your article “Eva Morales Defence of Mother Earth Rings Hollow in Bolivia” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/evo-morales-indigenous-people-protest) and am a little concerned. I assume (hope) you ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: The Futility and the Oppor ...
    There are a couple of quotations which I would like to share with you. Read them carefully; they will possibly make you angry, or perhaps you will be nodding furiously in agreement with one if not both of them. They are important quotations. This is the first: One will find hundreds, sometimes t ...
  • Jordanian Cultural Heritage Enriched by Sustai ...
    There is part of me wanting this to be a spoof, but most of me knows it’s real. I’m talking about the latest hair-brained scheme to tempt the mindless tourist into spending cash, in this case in the state of Jordan. Hi Keith, Building a sustainable, energy efficient luxury resort and ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfid ...
    This post was co-authored by Shannon Dosemagen. In September, members of Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) met with residents of Garfield County, Colo., to discuss the growing hydrogen sulfide problem in their small, rural community. Public Laboratory is an organizatio ...
  • How NextDrop Beat the Indian Bureaucracy to Ge ...
    I knew something was wrong when I got 28 text messages from the NextDrop system at 9:02 a.m. on Sept. 28. All 28 messages were supposed to go out between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. to our residents (giving the different areas advance notice of water arrival as well as real-time water deliver ...
  • No Internet? No Problem. Use SMS, Radio, Softw ...
    In Uganda, where many lack access to the Internet, people can engage with local radio stations to make informed choices and hold their leaders accountable. Using SMS and a new tool, TRAC FM, listeners can respond to poll questions such as: What service delivery should be a priority: health care, ...
  • LocalWiki Builds Out Pilot Communities, Update ...
    Hey friends! It's time for another LocalWiki update! What's happened since our last update? Erg, a lot! Pilots The LocalWiki project is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, living information repositories that will provide much-needed context behind the people, places, and events ...
  • What Would a Nutritional Label for the News Lo ...
    The standard U.S. Food and Drug Administration nutrition label is well-known here in the United States because it is both consistent (for better or worse) and ubiquitous: You'll find it on almost all packaged foods, excluding certain foods like fresh meat (until 2012) and fresh-baked goods (crea ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Rising Cain
    Dr. Bill Bennett, at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters summit recently, said, “if you voted for Obama to prove that you’re not a racist, you should vote against him to prove you’re not an idiot. There’s one candidate for whom you can vote to prove both.”Herman Cain has not played the r ...
  • The Race for Batteries - Bionics Innovation Re ...
    The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physico-chemical effect that also provides for transport in trees.Engineers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have deve ...
  • Greener Grid - LED Street Lighting Project Cut ...
    As of late, the streets in the historic centre of Arraiolos in Portugal have been lit up entirely by energy-efficient lighting diode technology (LED), used in combination with an intelligent lighting management system. The project was realised by Schréder, a manufacturing company for street ligh ...
  • The Animal Edge - A Welcome Scoop For Dog Owners
    Coming to pet shops in 2012: An Israeli pooper-scooper that turns droppings into harmless, odorless ash within seconds.If you have a dog, then you know that no matter how fancy a pooper-scooper you've got, after Rover's walk you are still left with a messy, smelly nuisance that pollutes the envi ...
  • The Saudi Succession Question - The Saudi Suce ...
    Editor’s note: This series was originally written in 2009; we re-publish it now in light of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud’s recent death.The modern state of Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud) in 1932. From a Saudi perspective, however, the kingdom is far older—cer ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Administration Does it Again!: Empowers ...
    By Barry Rubin The leadership of the Syrian revolution, or at least those who are recognized as such abroad, has released the names of 19 of the 29 members of the General Secretariat and five members of the Presidential Council. A lot of research should be one done on the individuals but le ...
  • Slate's Dave Weigel Warns of GOP Mind-Control ...
       WARNING:  According to Dave Weigel, This Image of Hate From Occupy LA May Have Been Placed in Our Minds by GOP Mind Control Operatives Jews across the country who were frightened by those anti-Semites at the Occupy Wall Street protests can all relax now, becau ...
  • OMG! The SCHMOTUS Joe Biden is RIGHT!!
    Note: If you cannot see six videos in this post, please click here. Twice during the past week the SCHMOTUS, Vice President Joe Biden warned the country that if the "American Jobs Act" isn't passed that there will probably be more rapes, burglaries and murders  across the nation.  ...
  • Qadhafi's Death: What it Teaches The Mid East- ...
    By Barry Rubin What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi? First, we should note that he is the second Arab dictator to die in the last decade, the first being the Iraqi Saddam Hussein. Both met their demise due to direct Western intervention. There are three l ...
  • NEW STUPIDITY! Birthers Go After Marco Rubio a ...
    Not Satisfied with becoming a laughing stock because of their refusal to give up on trying to prove that Obama was not born in Hawaii, some in the birther movement are now going after Miami-born Senator Marco Rubio, Their claim is that despite the fact that he was born in Miami he is still not a ...

The Real Agenda

  • Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran
    Ray McGovern Consortium News Tuesday, October 25, 2011 President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is a blow to the neocons who had long dreamt of permanent military bases. But the neocons are now trying to spin the Iraq disaster into another excuse to confront Iran. You might t ...
  • Vaticano Clama por una Autoridad Política Mundial
    Documento emitido también aboga por un “banco central mundial”, mientras hipócritamente repudia la “idolatría de los mercados financieros”. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 25 de octubre 2011 El Vaticano pidió este lunes la creación de una “autoridad pública mund ...
  • New York’s Mandatory Sex Education Curri ...
    NBC October 24, 2011 Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out — and some are concerned the lessons are too racy. The New York Post obtained workbooks that will be used for the new recommended curriculum, which begins in middle schools and high ...
  • Vatican Calls for Global Authority on Economy
    Document also calls for “Central World Bank” while hypocritically repudiating “idolatry of the markets”. By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda October 25, 2011 The Vatican called on Monday for the creation of a “global public authority” and a “global centra ...
  • BPA linked to behavior problems in girls: study
    AFP October 24, 2011 Girls who were exposed to the industrial chemical bisphenol A while in the womb showed more behavioral problems at age three than those whose moms had lower BPA levels, said a study released Monday. Anxiety, depression and hyperactivity were seen more often in toddler girls ...

Wind Watch

  • Backlash for wind farms over health impacts
    The war between farmers and energy companies has moved into a new phase with the emergence of plans for a massive expansion of wind farms in Queensland. Some farmers in the South Burnett have already walked away from lucrative payouts from wind farm companies of $140,000 a year because of feared ...
  • Legislators get an earful at contentious Cape ...
    BREWSTER — The state is late to the party when it comes to setting rules for wind energy development, too late to bother, many Cape Codders told a state’s joint committee on telecommunications, utilities and energy Thursday morning at Barnstable High. But developers are tired of wading through a ...
  • LURC members favor rejection of wind farm
    Critics of Maine’s fast-growing commercial wind power sector were claiming victory on Thursday, one day after state regulators took a first step toward denying an application for a 27-turbine wind farm northwest of Grand Lake Stream. The latest project from Massachusetts-based First Wind, the Bo ...
  • Lee County officials look to protect property ...
    DIXON – No agreement emerged during a meeting Thursday on whether wind turbines affect nearby property values. Wind industry supporters argued that turbines had little or no effect, while opponents said they cause property values to drop. However, many seemed open to a home seller protection pro ...
  • Commission: No economic value in Bourne wind farm
    Bourne — Review of the New Generation Wind turbine plan for Buzzards Bay off Scenic Highway and Route 25 is at an apparent standstill at the Cape Cod Commission, which says the four-turbine complex would provide no economic benefit. Town Planner Coreen Moore said the Commission subcommittee revi ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, a ...
    Why do people hold the views that they do, including and especially their political and ideological views? That question has generated a vast library of what has generally come to be called “psychobabble,” wherein the author attempts to “deconstruct” his biographical subject and demonstrate why ...
  • Let Sleeping Failures Lie: The Reconstruction ...
    The most fallacious argument for an RFC is that it can provide capital when there is a shortage. Obviously, the government has no capital of its own.
  • Bill Would Encourage Foreigners To Buy U.S. Homes
    American consumers and the federal government haven’t been able to bail out the sinking U.S. real estate market. Now wealthy Chinese, Canadians and other foreign buyers could get their chance. Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would allow foreigners who spend at least $500,000 ...
  • California Becomes First State To Adopt Cap-An ...
    “The Air Resources Board has a mechanism to protect consumers from price spikes by capping the auction price and releasing credits onto the market to drive down prices. . . . The independent Legislative Analyst’s Office concluded that jobs probably will be lost because businesses can move ...
  • For Obama, Some Vindication of Approach to War
    “Mr. Obama, his aides say, has long tried to balance a willingness to intervene in cases of mass atrocities with a reluctance to be drawn into large-scale combat. Last week, for example, he ordered 100 armed military advisers to Uganda, where they will help regional forces fight the Lord’s Resis ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Case for U.S. Humanitarian Interventionism
    There is a difference between interventions driven by a U.S. agenda and interventions carried out in order to save innocent lives.
  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It ...
    - Frederick Douglass In our current age the word demand has been debased.  A day does not go by without some person or organization “demanding” an apology or retraction or that someone do something. These are not demands as a prior generation would have understood them. Why? Because ...
  • I see the police are providing an education
    by beating protestors, destroying their medical gear, sending riot cops in to stop “serving food without a permit” and throwing protestors camping gear in garbage trucks. Yes, this is an education.  They are teaching them that the police and elites are their enemies. I am bitterly am ...
  • Revolution Basics #1: Who cares what you think?
    Once upon a time, a man informed George Bush Jr. that he didn’t like the President’s policies.  Bush then said “who cares what you think?” Bloomberg and Wall Street may not like Occupy Wall Street, but they aren’t going to negotiate in any meaningful sense. Why shou ...
  • I see the “progressive” begging class
    is fund-raising off of Occupy Wall Street.  Welcome to co-option, whether you like it or not.  Most big blogs and organizations like MoveOn exist to beg, nothing more, nothing less.
  • Ontario Liberals Win
    They are fundamentally a right wing party, and their leader is a serial liar about important policy issues.  But, at the end of the day, the NDP did not want to win.  If they had wanted to win they would have promised a referendum on repealing the HST.  They refused to do so, they chose [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Polio eradication endpoint of 2012 will not be met
    Cross posted from Nature Medicine's Spoonful of Medicine blog on behalf of Hannah Waters. In 1988, health groups and governments around the world launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public-private partnership aimed at eradicating the poliovirus by 2000. That year has co ...
  • Argument over RNA editing study deepens
    The geneticist whose claimed to find a new mechanism of genetic regulation is defending her work against critics. Vivian Cheung of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that her team stands by a May paper in which it reported that it had found more than ten thousand sites where ...
  • The Iceman genome cometh
    Ötzi, a 5300-year old man found frozen in the Alps, has become the latest long-dead human to have his complete nuclear genome sequenced. Researchers previewed the Tyrolean Iceman’s genome sequence on 21 and 22 October at the Bolzano Mummy Congress in Italy. Discovered 20 years ago near the ...
  • Earthquake severely damages eastern Turkish cites
    Several Turkish cities were devastated on Sunday by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and numerous aftershocks that struck the east of the country. The initial quake struck 16 kilometres north of the city of Van, but nearby city of Ercis was the most heavily damaged according to Turkey’s prime minis ...
  • Marking a joyous occasion, California finalize ...
    Maybe the trick is to get away from pollution and power plants and instead make global warming policy appear youthful and fun and exciting (right). Whatever the reason, at a time when the drive for climate regulation has not only stalled but is running in reverse in Washington, the state of Cal ...

new geography

  • Major Metropolitan Commuting Trends: 2000-2010
    As we indicated in the last article, solo automobile commuting reached an all time record in the United States in 2010, increasing by 7.8 million commuters. At the same time, huge losses were sustained by carpooling, while the largest gain was in working at home, which includes telecommuting ...
  • America's Demographic Opportunity
    Among the world’s major advanced countries, the United States remains a demographic outlier, with a comparatively youthful and growing population. This provides an unusual opportunity for America’s resurgence over the next several decades, as population growth elsewhere slows dramatically, and e ...
  • Housing Aucklanders - The Reality
    I went to a house auction on Auckland’s North Shore recently. It was weatherboard, over 50 years old. At just 100sq m its valuation was $170,000, probably a fair if high replacement value for a sound but tired, basic, utilitarian bungalow.  It’s in a lower-middle income area, where the ...
  • A Century of Change in the US Black Population ...
    2010 was the 100th anniversary of the start of the “Great Migration” of the “Negro” population to northern cities from the mainly rural South. The midway point occurred in 1960 when black urban population was beginning to peak.    Since then redistribution had taken several forms. First, ...
  • Have i-Phone, Will Travel
    Much in the way that fax machines, Fed Ex, and home computers changed residential living several decades ago, portable technology is now changing how we spend our time when moving from place to place. To better understand traveler behavior in the digital age, our DePaul University team has been ...

GM Watch

  • Environmental and health impacts of GM crops
    Environmental and Health Impacts of GM crops - the science  Greenpeace, September 2011 http://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/en/Publications/2011/impacts-the-science/ This [carefully referenced] briefing gives an overview of the scientific evidence regarding the environmental and health risks of GM ...
  • Techno-utopian "space crops" asking for trouble
    The Sunday Times has published a techno-utopian article hyping "space crops" with mutations induced by firing seeds into space. COMMENT from anonymous scientist: This is not a good idea and is only asking for trouble. Modern genetics tells us that wide-scale gene mutations by irradiation in spa ...
  • Obama bails out GM salmon firm
    1.Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm 2.Alaska's Senators Turn Up the Heat on GM Salmon 3.Islanders Hold the Future of Wild Atlantic Salmon in their Hands 4.Is the company behind GM salmon the next Solyndra? --- --- 1.Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm Suzanne Goldenbe ...
  • Carrasco presents findings to German government
    Roundup and birth defects researcher presents findings to German government EU Reporter, 3 October 2011 http://www.eureporter.co/2011/10/roundup-and-birth-de/ On 28 September 2011, the scientist at the centre of the global row over glyphosate/Roundup herbicide and birth defects met with represe ...
  • Transgenic cotton harbours hidden dangers
    Transgenic Cotton Harbours Hidden Dangers Emilio Godoy IPS, Oct 20 2011 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105542 MEXICO CITY - Wild cotton in Mexico has been contaminated with genetically modified material, posing a risk to biodiversity, experts say. This worrying conclusion was reached by si ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • GEFSEC video on Sustainable Land Management (G ...
    Splendid VIDEO seen at : http://youtu.be/H1cwl1ZWUzE UNCCD Sustainable Land Video
  • 15 commitments that should be undertaken (IPS)
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105567 Reduce Inequalities to Boost Health, WHO Says By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21, 2011 (IPS) – Economic status, education, access to clean water and sanitation, nutrition and the environment determine the level of health … Cont ...
  • Alternatives for industrial agriculture and bi ...
    Read at : http://www.agriterra.org/en/news/57668/new-study-on-innovations-in-asia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agriterranews-en+%28Agriterra+News%29 New study on innovations in Asia With support of Agriterra, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustaina ...
  • The best way to get good quality tree seedling ...
    Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/10/from-little-acorns-and-other-tree-seeds-mighty-oaks-and-other-trees-grow/ From little acorns (and other tree seeds) mighty oaks (and other trees) grow by JEREMY Astute followers of the Commenters to our blog will know that James Nguma, an enterprising Ke ...
  • The “new colonisation”: adverse ef ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/10/are-land-leases-to-foreign-interests.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Are land leases to foreign interests a good thing? by Fred Oluch Africa Rev ...

The Paper Trail

  • Obama housing plan gets faint praise
    The foreclosure crisis met the campaign trail this week in Nevada, with President Barack Obama and Republican candidates for president suggesting sharply different approaches to help address the nation’s continuing housing crisis. Obama’s new housing initiative , announced Monday in Las Vegas, ...
  • Republicans call for probe of Obama’s green ca ...
    Republicans are calling on Congressional investigators to expand their probe of the Obama Administration’s “green energy” loan program to include Fisker, the start-up electric car company that received more than $500 million in federal support but is assembling its high-end sports sedan in Fin ...
  • Obama Administration defends Fisker cars from ...
    On the campaign trail Friday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney also questioned the $529 million loan to Fisker, a company that is being financed in part by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has Al Gore as a board member.
  • Health information technology: Keep it simple
    Making electronic record-keeping systems easier for health providers to use can help prevent dangerous or even fatal mistakes, says the draft of a project by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
  • Energy's risky $1 billion bet on two political ...
    Fisker Automotive and Tesla have received almost $1 billion in federal loans from the Department Energy to build electric cars. Both Fisker and Tesla have deep political connections to the Obama administration.

backofthebook.ca

  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs
    by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...
  • Should the CBC boot Cherry and O’Leary?
    By Frank Moher It's not at all a bad thing that CBC loudmouths Don Cherry and Kevin O'Leary have agitated some viewers lately, Cherry with his rant against former NHL enforcers who have come out against violence in hockey, and O'Leary with his interview of American journalist Chris Hedges, in ...
  • GG gee we need to rethink this
    By Frank Moher The Governor General’s Award finalists were announced on Tuesday and, as usual, I looked at the drama list and sighed. Not because I wasn’t on it -- I didn't have anything eligible -- but because I was reminded once again that we don’t have a proper playwriting award ...

libcom

  • Another March Against Police Brutality in Atla ...
    Follow-up march against the police murder of 19 year old Joetavius Stafford in Atlanta, GA. Roughly 50 people march through the streets to the scene of the murder despite inhospitable weather. http://atlanta.indymedia.org/local/anothe ...
  • Anti-police murder march in Atlanta
    vineshooting[1].jpg Around 200 Atlantans march rowdily through the downtown business district in response to police murder of a 19 year old at the Vine City MARTA station in the city's west end. ...
  • Occupy Rome 15 October 2011
    indignati-a-roma-15-ottobre-2011-e-guerra-civ-L-ThZx4B.jpeg A summary of yesterday’s events would be useless, as I’m pretty sure by now you’ve all read the big headlines about riots and clashes with t ...
  • Moonbat Internationale leaflet on Occupy Walls ...
    occupy-wall-street.jpg Moonbat Internationale is an ultraleft/ "infantile disorder" group based in the Midwest of U.S.A., and western Canada. Website: http://moonbati.wordpress.com/ ...
  • Three thoughts on #Occupy
    1occupy.jpeg At a time when a banner reading Katalipsi! (Occupied!) flies from the Greek Finance ministry, here are three thoughts on the proliferating calls to #Occupy! From Pierce Penniless ...

Free Range International

  • Free Ranging Balochistan
    I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province.  When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night.  The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...
  • Diplomacy 101
    I am in the middle of an interesting few days as we finish up our projects, some of the larger ones with official ceremonies.  Those of you who follow Michael Yon on facebook know where I am and what we have been up to.  What is interesting to watch is Michael, myself and our friend [...]
  • High Noon in the Forgotten Province
    Yesterday morning there was a running gunfight spanning 100 kilometers on the Nimroz Province side of the Dasht-e Margo (Desert of Death.) It started just outside the little hamlet of Qala Fath, which is home to the only reliable source of drinking water near Zaranj and also houses this spectacu ...
  • Stuck in Kabul
    We are finishing up our projects and preparing to call it a war. This year has been our biggest success to date; operating in over 20 Provinces – all of them very kinetic and getting every project we started finished on schedule and on budget.  I now routinely move in Ghost Team mode throughout ...
  • Kabul Goes Kaboom
    A few hours ago, I was notified that the areas around ISAF HQ, the US Embassy, etc. had come under major attack.  Boy, they weren’t kidding.  That was four hours ago, and things are still going off.  This is definitely the worst fighting to hit Kabul since the war began.  It’s tough ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • THE TRUTH ABOUT OCCUPY WALL STREET EXPOSED.
    Red October By A. True Ott, PhD – Oct. 21, 2011 It began as “peaceful protests” on the 17th day of September – the month of the Autumn Equinox (Sept. 21 – Mabron – a very special  ritual day ordained by WICCA, Kaballa, and Pagan practitioners of Lucifer as the day of atonement and th ...
  • Moammar Al Gadhafi – The Untold Story
    Woe Unto Them Who Call Evil Good, and Good, Evil; That Put Darkness for Light, and Light for Darkness; That Put Bitter for Sweet, and Sweet for Bitter!    ——- The Prophet Isaiah – 5:20 Yesterday the “Western” world cheered the news that Moammar Al Gadhafi (aka the & ...
  • Zionist Jewess Shill Hillary Clinton Visits Tr ...
    Maybe you missed this, friends.  STUNNING is the only word for this story. The Associated Press reported on Hillary Clinton’s visit to Tripoli aboard a massive C-17 military cargo jet.   That’s right.   She came bearing gifts – with $11 million more in “aid” for the ...
  • ONE MESSAGE TO “OCCUPY WALL STREET&#8221 ...
    Attention all “Occupy America” Protesters. All of your energy needs to be FOCUSED on the primary problem:  Money Power in Politics. This means Khazar Jewish Money Masters – the root of the problem.   This ‘root’ is like a morning glory weed – it is invasive an ...
  • Iran (Persia) – the Key to World War 3.
    To Isolate Iran, U.S. Presses Inspectors on Nuclear Data Published: October 15, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The pre ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Part 4 in Weatherization Series
    If you have the question: Why is my house so Cold? Why are the walls so cold? Why are the outer rooms of my house so cold? Where are these cold air drafts coming from? Why is it costing me so much to heat my house? Why is my Heating Bill so high? How do [...]
  • How to Prevent Heat Loss 4 Examples-Diagrams-D ...
    How to Prevent Heat Loss with 4 Examples-Diagrams-Drawings for your Building Projects In recent conversations with customers and peers about Reducing Energy Loss in Buildings / Structures and how heat and cold are transferred into a Building via Conduction.  I explained and made r ...
  • Fall Weatherization Services Offer
    If you are interested in Saving Money on your up-coming winter time heating costs Scotts Contracting offers: Weatherization, Insulation, and Building Maintenance Services that will save you money on your Heating Bills. Offer is available for Residential and Commercial Buildings in the Greater St ...
  • Dow Solar Shingles Update
    POWERHOUSE Solar Shingles will be available in targeted U.S. markets later this year. Because our initial quantities will be very limited, the markets we will launch in will also be limited and our team of authorized dealers and installers very small. Details on these markets and dealers will be ...
  • How to Repair Water Damaged Stucco – Int ...
    Water Damage Interior Wall Repair Step 1: Remove Damaged Areas Step 2: Patch with Wall Repair or Concrete Patch Step 3: Trowel Smooth using Steel Trowel Step 4: Sand High Spots to create uniform wall patch Step 5: Finish to Match Existing Wall Step 6: For this project I mixed sugar sand with the ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The #OccupyWallStreet Report Card – Part I
    Assessing Our Accomplishments Capturing the corporate media spotlight, even briefly, with a strong anticapitalist message is a major, unprecedented feat for any grassroots organization. Moreover, despite incessant jibes from the media and political establishment about being disorganized and conf ...
  • Publishers Weekly Trashes My Novel
    *** My friends tell me I should be honored to score a review in the eminently mainstream Publishers Weekly. Apparently it’s extremely rare for any corporate media outlet to review “indie” authors (those of us published by independent, non-corporate publishing houses). My friend ...
  • How Bankers Engineered World War I, Bolshevism ...
    Financing Hitler's Rise to Power Book Review (Part 3 of 3) Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Carroll Quigley (1966 MacMillan) Tragedy and Hope is a free download from http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf *** The most disturbing section of Traged ...
  • Occupy New Plymouth – Day 5
    Occupy New Plymouth #OccupyWallStreet, also known as Occupy Together, has now come to New Zealand following the October 15th International Day of Action. Occupy New Plymouth – like Occupy Auckland, Occupy Wellington, Occupy Christchurch, Occupy Dunedin and Occupy Invarcargill – is ...
  • Naming Names: Exposing the World Banking Frate ...
    Meyer Rothschild 1744-1812 Book Review (Part 2 of 3) Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Carroll Quigley (1966 MacMillan) Tragedy and Hope is a free download http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf *** After providing a basic introduction to the fractional reserve ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Me ...
    Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the cost of ...
  • #OccupyAmerica
    Anchorage, AK (VIDEO) | Birmingham, AL (VIDEO) | Phoenix, AZ | Prescott, AZ (VIDEO) | Tucson, AZ | Berkeley, CA; Protesters target Bank of America | Camarillo, CA | Fresno, CA; 100 rally downtown (VIDEO) | Long Beach, CA | Los Angeles, CA; 10 arrested trying to cash over-sized check made out to ...
  • Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted t ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfe ...
  • Obama to Top Bankers: 'I'm Protecting You ... ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, ...
  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...

Salon

  • Jon Huntsman: The “Colbert” conser ...
    "The Colbert Report" The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jon Huntsman www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive Continue Reading...
  • Iraq war: Mission failed
    StrategicEconomictoldput this into perspectiveFor starters, $1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment for every American whose diabetes or heart disease is now going unmanaged and a global immunization campaign to save ...
  • Occupying the Rust Belt
    steel, cement and textile industriesAsmaa Mahfouzbuy up businesses next to the encampmentauthorized borrowing up to $175 millionperhaps 10 percent of the costpoverty level in 2009 was 24 percentOccupation with an expiration datetripled its budget43 percent of the land vacanta high of 218,000less ...
  • How low will Rick Perry go?
    Steve Kornacki wroteas Jonathan Capehart put it.One anonymous source told the Texas Tribuneaccording to Real Clear PoliticsRoss Douthat is rightpoll numbers crateringhe went after Cain on Fox News todayContinue Reading...
  • New video shows possible Gadhafi torture
    warning very graphichereWARNING: Extremely graphicDECODING MOAMMAR GADHAFI'S CAPTURE: Continue Reading...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Sell-off makes sense for city
    The greater good must prevail—that’s why it makes sense for Toronto public housing to sell off 706 single-family homes.
  • Libya’s grisly spectacle
    Getting to the bottom of Moammar Gadhafi’s wretched end is an early test of the new government’s commitment to the rule of law.
  • Bad news for Ford: It gets harder
    Facing growing resistance, Rob Ford’s remaining three years in office promise to be a lot more difficult.
  • Your bill, Mr. Mammoliti
    It’s ironic that budget-cutting Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti is so slow in paying what he owes the city.
  • Let the U.S. judge Bush
    Rights activists should look to the U.S. to prosecute George W. Bush, instead of dumping the problem on us.

Energy Collective

  • New Poll Shows Americans Want Clean Energy
    Only 14 percent of country thinks we're going in the right direction on energy
  • US Energy Poll Reveals Contradictions
    Wednesday, I received a press release announcing the results of a new poll on US consumer attitudes towards energy conducted by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin.
  • Tessenderlo Combined Cycle Power Plant – Eco-F ...
    Belgium recently saw its first ever large-scale IPP (Independent Power Production): Tessenderlo. This Siemens-designed high-efficiency gas-fired combined cycle power station is in strict compliance with the latest environmental regulations.
  • The Big Role for Data Analytics in the Smart Grid
    In the movie “The Graduate”, Dustin Hoffman’s character was told that the future was in plastics.  Today, he’d be told that the future is in data analytics.  Just like many other business sectors are discovering, analytics will play an increasingly significant role in the management of ...
  • IEA Chief: Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies
    As academics warn the world could exceed "safe" temperature levels in our lifetimes, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has urged the world to slash hundreds of billions of dollars of fossil fuel subsidies or face catastrophe.

EU 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 ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Captain Israel
    Dear God, forgive us our daily scandals. 1. There are several things that really concern me about the story of the theft and dissemination of the database holding large amounts of personal information of every single Israeli citizen
  • Afghanistan War News Updates -- October 24, 2011
    NATO: 200 Insurgents Killed Or Captured In Eastern Afghanistan -- L.A. Times REPORTING FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN â Pitched battles in eastern Afghanistan over the last week have left about 200 insurgents captured or dead, a NATO official said Monday. The U.S.-led offensive has primarily targeted t ...
  • Star Spotting: Is Jessica Simpson Trying To Te ...
    Credit: Pacific Coast News With pregnancy rumors swirling around her, Jessica Simpson fueled the fire when she stepped out in New York earlier today in a loose-fitting top with her hand over her stomach. While everyone is still waiting for an official pregnancy announcement , isn't the ol' "han ...
  • Another voice: Why Cameron had no choice but t ...
    Fraser performed a valuable service to the MPs currently debating a motion proposing a referendum on membership of the European Union by imagining what he thought David Cameron ought to have said: "Sure, guys, have your vote. It's a backbench motion, so the government won't take part and as you ...
  • Libyans bury Gadhafi in unmarked grave
    MISRATA, Libya (AP) â Moammar Gadhafi was buried early Tuesday morning in an unmarked grave in a modest Islamic ceremony, closing the book on his nearly 42-year rule of Libya and the eight-month civil war to oust him. A Gadhafi nephew read a prayer for the dead before Gadhafi's body â along wit ...

Groklaw

  • Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died
    McCarthy developed Lisp in between 1956 and 1958, when he was trying to build an algebraic list processing language for artificial intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer. He was seeking to compute with symbolic expressions rather than numbers, and use this to build AI systems. "It became clea ...
  • Fellowship interview with Rikard Fröberg
    Chris Woolfrey: You're currently working at The Society for Free Culture and Software (FFKP), and you're involved with a number of grassroots projects, such as Cloudberry. How important do you think it is that Free Software has an active and engaged network of users? Rikard Fröberg: Speaking as ...
  • Purchase my eBook: Mark-Up and Commentary on t ...
    I have received a number of requests for an electronic mark-up of the recently passed patent reform act - the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. In response, I have created a 230 page volume in eBook format that is intended to serve as a helpful tool in understanding the implementation of the new ...
  • Wired Enterprise Welcomes Robert McMillan and ...
    Wired Enterprise - Wired.com's newest news blog - welcomes its newest reporters: Robert McMillan, a nine-year veteran of the IDG News Service who in 2010 was named one of the country's top security journalists by the SANS Institute, and Eric Smalley, a onetime senior editor at Network World and ...
  • Insurance Company's Request to Compel Producti ...
    The court noted that State Farm's requests are more than a fishing expedition. The interrogatory that sought the name, address and telephone number of each of plaintiff's friends was "so far outside the realm of discoverable information" that the court concludes it was intended to "intimidate an ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Oh gosh, that’s reassuring
    New Libya leader pledges to impose Sharia law Our new allies in Afghanistan and Iraq have not only imposed radical Islamic groups but denied women and minorities basic rights. I am not sure we can afford any more successes in our foreign policies. Well, as long as as they hire US companies to do ...
  • Solar Ship. A new kind of aircraft
    Solar Ship is creating craft that can carry heavy loads long distances with a tiny carbon footprint. Filled with helium, they soak up rays from the sun to provide the energy for forward motion and fulfill its original design challenge – carry 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lbs) of payload 1,000 kilomet ...
  • Carter Family. Wildwood Flower
  • Student loans, the new impoverish-for-life bon ...
    Newshoggers bring the startling news that total student loan debt is now over $1 trillion, more than total credit card debt, with a staggering $100 billion added on last year. For the banksters, this is even better than mortgages. A fine educational establishment like Fleece U trolls for the de ...
  • Searching for lost friends at night at the Par ...
    The Parowan Gap. They were lost in the steep, hilly country to the left of the gap. All’s well that ends well but last night we  searched for friends lost in rugged terrain after a dirt bike crash disabled one bike, causing a knee injury. DJ (who blogs here some) texted his wife at [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • The American MSM and the Arab Spring
    This is the very short version of the presentation I made at the Algiers Book Fair Colloquium on Sunday: 1. The elite (editors, commentators, and leading journalists) of the U.S. news media is part of-- indeed, an important pillar of-- the country's continuing political elite and plays a singul ...
  • Amos Gvirtz's bulletin, "#282"
    Over recent years, the tireless Israeli peace activist Amos Gvirtz, from Kibbutz Shefayim, has been issuing regular warnings about the misdeeds of various of his countryman. These simply worded bulletins shine a much-needed light on some of the little-known details of what has been going on in o ...
  • In Algiers: Book Fair and Colloquium
    I'm writing this on a plane, at the end of a four-day visit to Algiers... In Algiers I was participating in a big international Colloquium on the Arab Spring organized in conjunction with the 'Salon Internationale du Livre d'Alger' (SILA-- the Algiers Book Fair.) It was really interesting to re ...
  • Updates, Sept.26
    I have found it really hard to find time and energy to blog recently. Lots has been going on with Just World Books. This very evening, we are launching Manan Ahmed's terrific book Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. I'm in New York to do this. It's being hosted b ...
  • For September 11, ten years on
    ... I want to link, first, to these reflections on 9/11, that I published in Friends Journal in 2007, and to this column, that I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor on 9/11 itself, and which ran in the paper two days later. Tomorrow, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I'll be sp ...

frogblog

  • Citizen engagement at Occupy Auckland
    I got a buzz out of visiting the Occupy Auckland camp again this sunny afternoon. Seventy tents have mushroomed on the grass in Aotea Square  right next to the Town Hall. Hopefully the Auckland Council will continue to tolerate the camp as a venue for citizen engagement with politics. It’s not j ...
  • Murder in West Papua
    The events of the past two weeks in West Papua have been a savage reminder that our neighbours just to the north are not free. First there was the attack on striking miners at Freeport McMoran, possibly the world’s most disastrous gold mining area, and the competition for that title is hug ...
  • Nasty surprise in Disability Commissioner bill?
    The Government has introduced legislation to establish the permanent position of Disability Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission - or has it?
  • General debate, October 25, 2011
  • ‘Debating’ Foreign Policy: National and Green
    Yesterday, the NZ Institute of International Affairs held an important one-day seminar on ‘The Major Economic and Foreign Policy Issues facing New Zealand, 2012-17’. The programme is here. Some excellent presentations were made, especially by Rick Boven (NZ Institute) and Duncan Currie (oceans c ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • ALERT: Food Toxins Found in Baby Formula
    By Dr. Mercola There are many reasons why breastfeeding is a superior option to formula feeding for babies, however, a new study provides one of the most compelling to date. Infant formulas are typically processed under high heat, and this leads to the formation of advanced glycation end pr ...
  • Dental Breakthrough - May Save Thousands of Lives
    By Dr. Mercola A great deal of progress has been made this year toward ridding the dental industry of dangerous mercury-containing amalgams. For example, Consumers for Dental Choice recently reported that: "On October 10, the City Council of Malibu, California passed a resolution suppor ...
  • Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids
    By Dr. Mercola Junk food is contributing to skyrocketing rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and even strokes -- and not just among adults. Food and beverage companies spend $2 billion a year promoting unhealthy foods to kids, and while ultimately it's the parents' responsibility to fee ...
  • The Vitamin that is Better than Fluoride in Re ...
    By Dr. Mercola Studies have linked geographical variations in dental health and tooth loss to sun exposure. Dental caries has been shown to be inversely related to mean hours of sunlight per year, with people living in the sunny west having half as many cavities as those in the much less su ...
  • The Cancer Time Bomb Sitting in Your Refrigera ...
    By Dr. Mercola Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. If you're a woman, your chance of getting breast cancer in your lifetime is about one in eight. Researchers at a breast cancer conference stated that up to one-third of breast cancers could be avoided by making different li ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Bolivia cancels controversial road plans
    Fishing in the Isiboro Sécure national park © Survival Bolivia’s president Evo Morales has cancelled plans to build a controversial road through a national park more than two months after protests against it began. The road was to cut across the Isiboro Sécure Park, home to several indigen ...
  • Celebrities back new book on tribal peoples
    Stephen Corry's 'Tribal peoples for tomorrow's world' is now on sale. © Survival A groundbreaking new book which challenges many assumptions about tribal peoples – including how they are viewed and their role in the world – will be published by Freeman Press on November ...
  • ‘Seven dead’ after Indonesian troops storm Pap ...
    Violence comes exactly a year after a shocking video of Papuan men being brutally tortured by Indonesian soldiers © Survival At least seven people are feared dead after Indonesian police opened fire on hundreds of West Papuans at an independence rally close to the province’s capital. Repre ...
  • Survival and tribal people denounce 'ludicrous ...
    The 'ludicrous and offensive' reporting of the story has dismayed tribal people around the world © Survival International Survival International has lodged a formal complaint with authorities in the UK over the ‘highly offensive and ludicrous’ claims in the world’s press that a Ge ...
  • Peru takes action to protect uncontacted tribes
    Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions © Gabriella Galli/Survival Government authorities in Peru have responded to Survival’s call to protect uncontacted Indians who have recently appeared on riverbanks near a popular tourist destination. The India ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • genetically modified shrieking broccoli toned down
    from onion radio news: Today the Onion Radio News, anchored by Doyle Redland, continues to inspire and inform millions of listeners around the world and has become the living embodiment of the power of the spoken news word.
  • 10/20 binge & purge: co-ops, bailouts & the ga ...
    #OccupyWallStreet & the food movement* are co-ops the solution to occupy wall street woes?* obama admin 'bailed out' gm salmon firm aquabounty* seventh generation responds to consumer about gmo's* anthony bourdain 'vegetarian hate speech' with playboy* more 'insects-as-food' p ...
  • state dept says biotech labeling would scare c ...
    council on foreign relations member speaks to biotech giants from des moines register: The Obama administration shows no sign of changing the government’s position on labeling of biotech foods despite a renewed effort by consumer advocacy groups and environmental organizations require manufac ...
  • pepsico wants to 'scare the crap' out of your kids
    from civil eats: PepsiCo has long been my poster child for food corporations whose actions speak louder than words when to comes to responsible marketing. CEO Indra Nooyi loves to tout the company’s “Performance with Purpose” and show off the company’s “good-for-you” foods that it gets to defin ...
  • reasons why buying in bulk is smart, economica ...
    from ecosalon: How much of what we eat is dictated by our parents? Research shows that our food preferences may actually be shaped before we’re even born, but beyond what we eat, our own eating habits and traditions are certainly influenced by our families. This topic was thrown around recently ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Ayes 111 Noes 483
    More tomorrow. Very tired TTC... The morning after update Hey lovely peeps. We'll be a little quieter than you might have expected for a large part of today. Don't worry - we'll have plenty to say on last night's events. We need to update our 'MP Watch' page to add in last night's pa ...
  • England! To Parliament! Midday!
    "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ...in the name of God, go!" With these immortal words, Oliver Cromwell dismissed the Rump Parliament which, the current Parliament website informs us: "...was primarily concerned with legislation ensuring its own survival." Thr ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'Further mainstream accusati ...
    "I think he is an active, militant elite liberal, who despises our country and its people, just as much as any Islington Marxist does. ...his performance on the EU issue has been dishonest and treacherous from the start." - Peter Hitchens for the Daily Mail, mincing no words in his assessm ...
  • How to report the crime of treason
    The clip above has been brought to our attention by one of our friends over on Twitter. While what you are watching took place last year, the content is still valid and the legitimate and valid claims contained in it need to be reported to the police by thousands and millions of people. To ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 23rd October 2011
    On the eve of THAT vote in Parliament which will be scrutinised closely up and down the land, there's plenty of 'Europe' (by which the media mean the EU) in the newspapers sufficient to induce such anger and rage in an agnostic Englishman as to force the need for an extended sit down in the near ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 7 Best GNOME Shell Extensions, Install in Ubun ...
    Being able to install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Oneiric is exciting. And as we experienced in our earlier review of GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10, GNOME Shell has come a long since its first release and now is a very stable, fast and usable shell for GNOME. To further improve the functiona ...
  • How to Enable Full Screen Dash in Ubuntu 11.10 ...
    Dash is one of the most important innovations of Ubuntu's brand new Unity interface. It made the GNOME UI a lot simpler and faster to use. Unity Dash will be in full screen mode on smaller screen devices like netbooks. If you run Unity on a device with a larger screen and if you would like to ...
  • Does the New Ubuntu 11.10 Prevent You From Cha ...
    A big definitive NO should be the answer. But I found this strange new bug with two brand new Ubuntu 11.10 installations of mine. When I tried to change the default application for AVI files from Totem to SMPlayer, an error came up with the warning that says, "Could not set as default. Error w ...
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Review: First Real ...
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot final release happened sometime ago. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 as my default netbook OS ever since Oneiric Alpha 2 was released. So it's not like I am installing Ubuntu 11.10 just for the sake of reviewing it. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been the OS of choi ...
  • Oil Rush Beta Arrives is Ubuntu Software Center
    Oil Rush is a real time naval strategy game with stunning graphics and gameplay. This is one game that kept all of us waiting. We had listed Oil Rush right at the top of 12 best paid games for Linux. Now, Oil Rush is available for installation via Ubuntu Software Center. Note that you can only ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • IS THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT GENUINE?
    * WHY I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT * MY EXPERIENCES DURING THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AND WHY THEY ACT AS A WARNING ABOUT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT *POTENTIAL TRAPS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT FACEBOOK SITES HAVE BEEN LITTLE DISCUSSED * FOCUS ON SOUND MONEY AND RE-ADOPT ...
  • CONCLUSIVE PROOF: SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NEU ...
    *FINLAND’S GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FOR A LIFETIME OF CARE FOR 79 CHILDREN DAMAGED BY VACCINE Conclusive link now admitted: swine flu vaccine causes chronic nervous system disorders Mike Adams Natural News Sunday, October 9, 2011 (NaturalNews) The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: a movement being hijacked?
    Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 7, 2011 Media spokesmen for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations claimed that their operation is totally transparent, with everything subject to democratic discussion in a general assembly of all ...
  • Mainstream media reports on return of Deutschm ...
    Kommt die DM wieder? 10.10.2011 DM II oder NDM (Neue Deutsche Mark)? Das Undenkbare wird nun auch immer häufiger in den Medien diskutiert: Steigt Deutschland aus dem Euro aus und führt die DM wieder ein? Die Politik ignoriert das Thema offiziell – doch diese Maßnahme könnte von den Märkten  scho ...
  • Federal Reserve protests gather momemtum
    The great eruption of feeling in Germany against the euro and EU fiscal scam was the decisive factor this summer, Telegraph journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard said. The way people power in Germany stopped plans to introduce eurobonds and expand the ESFS will surely go down in history as a turnin ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • David Icke Speaks to the “Occupy” ...
  • Five Things You May Not Know About Muammar
    by Enver Masud, twf.org “Libyans awake from a ludicrous nightmare: Gaddafi achieved nothing in his 42-year rule,” wrote David Gardner yesterday in the Financial Times. Others have expressed similar sentiments. Here are the facts: Gaddafi Seized Power in Bloodless Coup: Muammar Gaddafi, aka Col. ...
  • NATO Countries Set to Steal $30,000 from Each ...
    by Scott Creighton The pro-Western corporatist media outlets are hurriedly trying to help spin every aspect of the murder of Moammar Gadhafi and the ongoing rape and pillage of the Libyan people’s assets. Yesterday Paul Richter of the LA Times wrote an article claiming that Moammar Gadhafi was t ...
  • Revealed – the fascist network that runs the world
    by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainl ...
  • Is Stephen Friedman Guilty Of Insider Trading?
    To recap: The information was both material and non-public. Stephen Friedman was in possession of this information (and some would say that his NY Fed’s decision to pay counterparties at PAR actually CREATED the information in the first place). Armed with this material, non-public informat ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • The Art of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
    John Stewart, voted the most influential environmental activist in Britain in 2008, who led the successful movement to block a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, was scheduled to be on a speaking tour around America just about now. U.S. immigration authorities, however, had other plans. ...
  • The Art of Writing
    If you want to understand the Zeitgeist you could do worse than to read a mystery novel. But not all mystery novels are the same. A few being extraordinarily carefully crafted — every word, seemingly, playing its intended role. Every missing word a puzzle. A joy to read! Such are the inter ...
  • Wake Up, Earth!
    It wasn't that long ago that "We may be alone in the universe" was a respectable scientific position to take. Now we know, however, that there are plenty of other earthlike planets, that the probability of intelligent life out there is overwhelming, and that the only question left is how do we g ...
  • Fighting the Lobby
    To be honest, the Lobby probably cannot be defanged until Israel ceases to be an apartheid state. That may take a while. Nevertheless, caring, ethical, smart Americans have a responsibility to try to block the Lobby from using Washington as its enforcer. A difficult job, but who said life was ea ...
  • Money & Politics
    This one is something of a walkabout. Dr. Thomas Ferguson has kept his eye on a critical part of our problem — money buying political power — something that far too many (indeed most) political scientists discount in favor of public opinion, or forget entirely when assessing the hist ...

PR News

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • After Media Exposure, Insurance Firm Reverses ...
    After an AP story ran about it, an insurance company has reversed its decision to deny paying the medical bills of a man who barely survived the Joplin tornado while he tried to safeguard three developmentally disabled adults in the group home where he worked. Each of the three men died, and M ...
  • Report: Disney Blocks Johnny Depp From Talking ...
    Things get weird and ugly when journalism collides with the inelegant demands of outlets' corporate masters. A Houston TV reporter alleges Disney prevented reporters from ABC affiliates from interviewing Johnny Depp at the Austin Film Festival because he was there to promote the upcoming movie ...
  • FedEx Says It's Hiring 20,000 Extra Holiday Wo ...
    In an attempt to not ruin your holiday season with late presents, FedEx is gearing up for the seasonal outpouring of gifts going around the world by adding 20,000 jobs just to deal with the rush. CNN cites FedEx as saying December 12 will be their all-time biggest day ever in company history, ...
  • Burger King To Offer "All The Whoppers You Can ...
    Think you can scarf down a pile of Burger King Whoppers with the best of them? Well then you'll probably wish you were visiting Japan in the next couple weeks, as Burger King is set to launch a promotion that offers customers all the Whoppers they can devour -- in the span of 30 minutes. The p ...
  • Federal Judge Blocks Florida's Plan To Drug Te ...
    Earlier this year, Florida enacted a law that requires welfare recipients to pass drug tests to qualify for benefits. A federal judge stepped in and stopped the law in its track marks over concerns that it violates the Fourth Amendment, which bans illegal searches and seizures. The law would ha ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • WikiLeaks Cash-Strapped from 'Financial Blocka ...
    The New York Times: Founder Says WikiLeaks, Starved of Cash, May Close Summary: WikiLeaks – the website which allows people to make public disclosures anonymously – may shut down by the end of this year due to the "financial blockade" that has deprived it of millions of dollars. According to i ...
  • UN Feeling Heat from 'The Whistleblower': Dail ...
    WeNews: ‘Whistleblower’ Screening Disturbs Peace at UN Summary: At a recent showing at UN headquarters, a discussion of The Whistleblower – the film about a UN peacekeeper who blew the whistle on her colleagues’ participation in the Bosnian sex trade – turned rather contentious. Secr ...
  • Whistleblower Tour Visits Brandeis on Oct. 26!
    Next week, on Wednesday, October 26, GAP is set to host the third stop of our American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Brandeis stop features a panel discussion, Enron: A Case Study in Whistleblowing and American Jour ...
  • 2nd Whistleblower Tour Stop a Hit in Texas: Da ...
    The Daily Texan: Whistleblowers Inform Public of Wrongdoings in Industries Kenneth Kendrick The second stop of GAP's American Whistleblower Tour took place at the University of Texas at Austin this past Wednesday, and was a rousing success. Students listened to an in-depth, two-hour presentati ...
  • Senate Committee Approves WPEA; Educators Need ...
    GAP Praises Senate Committee Vote on Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Summary: Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. This legislation was reintroduced to the Senate in April. This lo ...

UK Progressive

  • Why We Shouldn’t be Selling the Right to Live ...
    America is having a fire sale. Why not sell wealthy foreigners the right to live here, too? That’s the notion behind a bill introduced last week by Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Senator Charles Schumer of New York: Stoke demand for American homes by allowing foreign nationals ...
  • Government Could Hide Existence of Records und ...
    by Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do. Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold i ...
  • The Flat-Tax Fraud and the Necessity of a Trul ...
    Herman Cain’s bizarre 9-9-9 plan would replace much of the current tax code with a 9 percent individual income tax and a 9 percent sales tax. He calls it a “flat tax.” Next week Rick Perry is set to announce his own version of a flat tax. Former House majority leader Dick Armey – now [...]
  • The Monday Line: Iraq Camp Ashraf: Who’s ‘Got ...
    While most in the US and around the globe cheer the imminent departure of US troops from Iraq, there are 3,400 men, women and children, Iranian refugees inside Iraq Camp Ashraf, wondering if they are only 68-days from extinction? While late headlines from CNN Sunday night said US Secretary of St ...
  • Did Citi Get a Sweet Deal? Bank Claims SEC Set ...
    by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica In the run-up to the global financial collapse, Citigroup’s bankers worked feverishly to create complex securities. In just one year, 2007, Citi marketed more than $20 billion worth of deals backed by home mortgages to investors around the world, ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • British energy landscape shifted a month ago, ...
    In the UK, gargantuan (as in wow!#$) amounts of cheap energy were discovered a month ago, yet it seemingly hasn’t changed the political landscape. (Or, then again,  maybe it did? I gather no one in the UK government seems to be admitting it, but from afar, it looks like a lot of clunker UK ...
  • Unthreaded Oct 22, 2011
      I need to do some testing, so odd things may come or go… but hopefully it will all be working properly soon. Thanks for your patience, but do keep commenting! Jo Rating: 8.6/10 (16 votes cast) Rating: 8.6/10 (16 votes cast)
  • There is no saving the ABC — We want 60% ...
    We want evidence, reason, and well informed opinions from all sides on important topics. Instead we’re coerced into paying for propaganda, character assassination, and the personal views of journalists. The ABC has been outdoing itself lately. It doesn’t just ignore skeptics, it&#821 ...
  • Green Agenda unravelling around the world
    Good news: signs are coming in from all over the non-Australian-and-New-Zealand world. Hints of sanity are spreading. Everywhere Green schemes are being slashed,  junked and rethought. I’m heartened. There are reasons to be optimistic, (even if, in the end, the good news was not because p ...
  • Canada – $6b to cut global temps by 0.00 ...
    I thought the Canadians had gotten over this type of insanity. Environment Canada apparently wants to cut the coal industry in half. (At least that’s as much as they’ll admit too. Presumably they’d feel like they’d completed their life’s work if they could only wipe ...

ReNew America

  • Subversion Inc. and the Occupy Wall Street mov ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Former FBI informant Brandon Darby says the Occupy Wall Street movement "is nothing less than a current manifestation of an international revolutionary push in which I myself used to play a significant role." Darby is slated to detail the real story behind the "Occupy" ...
  • Key general: Iraq pullout plan a 'disaster'
    (Washington Times) - President Obama's decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an "absolute disaster" that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian "strangling," said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war...
  • Democrats keeping distance from Obama
    (NewsMax) - In one instance after another in recent weeks, Democratic politicians stayed away from President Barack Obama when he visited their states. The Democrats don't want to be tainted by association with a president whose approval rating stands below 45 percent, Politico reports...
  • Obama and Biden now ruling with fear
    (David Limbaugh) - What are we to think about a president and vice president who blow nearly a trillion dollars in borrowed money, accept no responsibility for it and then traverse the nation trying to convince Americans that if we don't spend half that much again, people will die from dilapidat ...
  • Robin Hood vs. the occupiers
    (Michelle Malkin) - We have entered a new phase of the endless Occupy Wall Street sleepover. Not working is hard work. After a month of tying up the police, generating mounds of trash, railing against Jews while holding up "Nazi Bankers" signs, grappling with pervs, rapists, and thieves in their ...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • Power Grid Down… What Happens to Money?
    I’ll keep saying this until I am blue in the face: the US power grid is old and overloaded. A once-in-100-years solar storm can wreck it, and replacing all the transformers could take six months. ...Power Grid Down… What Happens to Money? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related post ...
  • Survivalist or Futurist?
    I’ve been wondering as to what I should call myself, and I figure many of you might find the commonalities and differences interesting: Survivalist: the policy of trying to ensure one‘s own survival or that of ...Survivalist or Futurist? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Surv ...
  • Real World Promotion Technique for 2012ers
    T-Shirts. Not new, but rather timeless. How better to open a conversation on the 2012 meme with strangers? Many people out there are 2012-curious, and just need an out-of-the-closet 2012er to discuss it with. Yes, some ...Real World Promotion Technique for 2012ers is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Movie Gets Go-Ahead
    As you can see from the video below (which is from Aronofsky’s graphic novel about Noah), this will certainly not be a cutesy story about pairs of animals. It’ll be more akin to The Passion ...Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Movie Gets Go-Ahead is a post from: 2012 Blog Related ...
  • Above-Ground Bunker by DuPont
    The brand most associated with bullet-proof vests is Kevlar, developed by DuPont way back in 1965. One way of describing how well it works is that it is 5x stronger than steel of the same ...Above-Ground Bunker by DuPont is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Fireproof concrete for bunke ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Beyonce feels Kelly Rowland would be fantastic mum
  • News on Rockstar Games
    The next installment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise has been long rumored to be in the pipeline, which most recently has been the center of when the title will be released. Now we can tell you that a GTA… · Read the full article on Product-Reviews.net
  • 'Grand Theft Auto III' not about violence, say ...
    Rockstar's Dan Houser says that Grand Theft Auto III was about freedom.
  • Jessie J - Jessie J Not A 'dummy'
    Jessie J thinks a lot of artists are dummies The Price Tag hitmaker is proud of the fact she writes her own songs and that she got her break penning tracks for other people - including writing Miley Cyrus huge hit Party in the USA - rather tha...
  • Keira Knightley Doesn’t Understand Her Dangero ...
    KEIRA Knightley didn’t understand her character in new movie A Dangerous Method. The 26-year-old actress plays Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein in David Cronenberg‘s latest film, in which her character has an affair with psychoanalyst Carl Jung and in some scenes gets spanked by him. ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • What Does Gadhafi’s Death Mean?
    News about the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has flown around the world. According to eyewitnesses, he fought for his ideals to the end and died like a soldier. Those who knew him firsthand expected nothing less of the revolutionary author, outstanding statesman, irreplaceable leader of ...
  • The Murder of Gadhafi
    Western leaders did their best to exercise restraint while reacting to news about the murder of M. Gadhafi. Jubilant, they withheld smiles and promptly switched to comments on the future of Libya, which revolved around the key idea that having the embattled country revert to normalcy would be a ...
  • Mu’ummar Qaddafi: Post-mortem
    OR Note: For the first time we’ve published this text in April 2011. No one could imagine at that time that Muammar Gaddafi would survive 6 months of violent man-hunt and furious battles for Tripoli, Sirte, Ben Walid and dozens of other heroic Libyan cities. Today, when a dark page of Liby ...
  • Medvedev’s Performance – Accomplished or ...
    After the abdication in favor of the presidential candidacy of Vladimir Putin in 2012, current President Dmitry Medvedev received as reward the first place on United Russia party list in parliamentary elections in two months, which would secure his nomination for prime minister. After the ex-lea ...
  • Middle East: An Arab Spring and Christian Autumn
    Religious wars in Egypt The sectarian clashes on October 9 that killed dozens of people in the heart of Cairo were the bloodiest since the popular uprising in January and February. The conflict was caused by a Coptic Christian demonstration over construction of a church in the village of El-Mari ...

BlogHer

  • Beyond Lifetime: The Pregnancy Pact Is Now a D ...
    Remember the story in the media about the "pregnancy pact" of the girls in Gloucester, Mass.? Well their story is told in a new documentary, The Gloucester 18. I had the pleasure of talking with its producer, Kristen Grieco Elworthy. Give readers a brief summary of the story. In the summer of ...
  • Vegan Tuesday: S'mores: Childhood Classics Rei ...
    I'm a sucker for s'mores. I didn't camp much when I was younger, so I don't know where my penchant for this dessert arose, but whenever I see it on a menu, it's sooooooo hard for me to resist. The combination of marshmallow (roasted over a fire, of course, so you can get that toasty burnt mess) ...
  • What Investment and Diapers Have in Common
    When I first saw this post, all I could think of was Eminem: Food stamps don't buy diapers. And sweet Mary May, diapers cost a zillion dollars. Marci equates choosing between necessities like diapers vs. food with choosing between investing vs. just getting by. Do you agree? She writes: Our dai ...
  • Food Day Celebrated For the First Time in 34 Years
    Here on the West Coast tonight, the first Food Day in 34 years is drawing to a close. This celebration, which was organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), focuses on "healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way." CSPI hope the event will become an ann ...
  • Justice for Caylee: Is That Why So Many Are Po ...
    The news over the weekend that cadaver dogs found a hit in the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin’s parents pushed me over the edge. I felt physically ill for a few moments as I allowed myself to go “there,” a specific place I had been avoiding throughout the duration of this heartbreaking case. I ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Epigenetic Clue To Schizophrenia & Bipolar Dis ...
    Scientists are enthusiastically immersing themselves in the fascinating new field of epigenetics: the study of environmental factors on gene changes. Using twins, epigenetics has led to innovative discoveries in mental disorder studies. If genetics were strictly ...
  • CDC Vaccine Secrets Revealed, Shirks Responsib ...
    The CDC adamantly enforces vaccine use but doesn’t exactly have its own scientific basis for backing its claim. It calls on the use of many third party claims, all pro-vaccine of course. Incidentally, CDC also washes ...
  • Nasty Pathogens Infest Hospital Privacy Curtains
    Hospitals strive to have the most sterile environment around, we would hope. Which is why it would be easy and potentially dangerous for nurses to touch the privacy curtains and then work with a patient. Swabs ...
  • Sausage The Riot Dog Coming To America?
    By contributing writer, Brandon Smith Who would have thought it possible? Greece, a tiny country on the Mediterranean which is, in the grand scheme of things, economically insignificant, has become the centerpiece of the global financial media ...
  • Big Study: Vaccinated Kids 2-5 More Diseases T ...
    New Study: Vaccinated Children Have 2 to 5 Times More Diseases and Disorders Than Unvaccinated Children Preventable Vaccine-induced Diseases A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 UNVACCINATED children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Breaking news: UMWA report urges government to ...
    Cecil Roberts, International President of the United Mine Workers of America, right, listens as Massey Energy Company Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 20, 2010, before the Senate Health and Human Services subcommittee hearing on mine ...
  • Trial starts today for Massey’s UBB secu ...
    In a March 15, 2011 photo, Massey Energy Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover, center, and his wife, left, are swamped by members of the media as they leave the Federal courthouse in Beckley after. (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, F. Brian Ferguson) Updated:  Check out a story on today’s test ...
  • Friday roundup, Oct. 21, 2011
    In this undated photo, changing water levels and sediment deposits leave their mark on mud flats and sand bars on the Conejohela Flats in Manor Township, Pa. The darker material is deposited coal dust. The Conejohela Flats, a string of low-lying floodplain alluvial islands between Columbia and T ...
  • Arch agrees not to mine under Upshur school
    Here’s the latest from the AP’s Vicki Smith: Arch Coal Inc. has agreed not to mine under Buckhannon-Upshur High School and the proposed site of a middle school, an attorney for the Upshur County Board of Education said Friday. Under a deal reached Thursday, Arch agreed to establish n ...
  • Coal writing featured at W.Va. Book Festival
    For folks who are interested in the coal industry or coal history, there’s plenty to love about the West Virginia Book Festival, being held this weekend at the Civic Center here in Charleston. First off, my friend Bonnie Stewart will be giving a talk about her new book, “No. 9: The 1 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Job Creation Idea: Six-hour Shift Maximums
    Here’s an idea for job creation: institute six-hour shift maximums for low to mid-tier work. Here are the advantages: You give more time for each worker with his/her family You have already captured the maximum daily productivity from that person anyway This will require that you hire more ...
  • FBI — 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment
    Key Findings Gangs are expanding, evolving and posing an increasing threat to US communities nationwide. Many gangs are sophisticated criminal networks with members who are violent, distribute wholesale quantities of drugs, and develop and maintain close working relationships with members and as ...
  • iZON Remote Home Monitoring
    Related Posts‪Java TrailerChick-fil-AThe Known Universe‪Du Hast as a Cappella‬‏Bob’s Burgers SkitIS TROPICAL | THE GREEKSAyn Rand Was a Wingnut, and So is Everyone Over 15 Who Thinks She’s Wise
  • 10/1 Ratio of Chinese Coders Looking for Bugs ...
    It is a different world. Forget the 30,000 people in “computer security” that the PLA have in China wearing uniforms. Think of the 150-160k external “consultants”. These are people with Microsoft, Adobe etc. source code. They know zero-days before we do. This is the thing, it is a different worl ...
  • A Comment from Hacker News
    How much do I make? Sometimes, I simply can’t put a price on what I do.Two years ago, I was kidnapped by monkeys, who appeared to be in a trance. They took me to the top of the Swayambhunath Buddhist complex, in Kathmandu. I was told that this was the Monkey Temple. As a monk [...]

Fitwatch

  • Don’t just walk on by!
    It's getting to that time of year...the students are back, the weather is getting colder (so you won't be removing your "seasonally appropriate" scarf and hood when the cops tell you to!) and the political climate is already starting to get considerably hotter. Since this time last year, we've h ...
  • Solidarity with Copwatch, France
    Fitwatch is giving full solidarity to Copwatch in France who have been threatened with closure by the French authorities for publishing photos of cops known for violence or links to the far right. The Interior Ministry has filed a case against them which has ordered six French internet providers ...
  • Disrupt the FIT at DSEi!
    It's that time again. DSEi, Defence Systems Equipment International, the world's largest arms fair, is returning to ExCeL, and Disarm DSEi, alongside others in the Stop the Arms Fair Coalition will be trying to stop them. 13th September has been announced as the main day of action, with Disarm D ...
  • ‘Intelligence on the cheap’? Only if you don’ ...
    According to an Evening Standard article on Friday, those poor detectives at NPOIU are providing 'intelligence on the cheap', having to buy heaters for their freezing offices and living off Mcdonalds and Burger King. However, like the majority of Evening Standard articles, the facts and figures ...
  • Avon and Somerset police repress local paper
    On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Auton ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Update – Early ...
    By Kristin J. Bender,Oakland Tribune – OAKLAND — Before dawn Tuesday, at least 200 police, many in riot gear, tore down the Occupy Oakland encampment in front of City Hall and arrested dozens of people. Early reports from police say the raid went smoothly, with all protesters cleared ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Switched at Birth Girls Want to Stay With Wrong Moms A pair of 12-year-old girls who discovered they were accidentally switched at birth want to stay with the mothers who have been raising them rather than go to their real parents. The girls have grown up just a few miles away from each other in ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Underwater
    >By Dr. Woody,WWH – A story that got a lot of play on the Blog Monday was this one: “Obama to announce actions on housing, student loans WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional a ...
  • Collapse of Capitalism, Part III: Sustainability
    WWH – I first heard the word “sustainability” in reference to “ecosystems.” A sustainable ecosystem is one where there is no need for any interference from outside that system in order for it to survive. Like the diverse species in a terrarium, they interact productively to satisfy each ot ...
  • The Network of Global Corporate Control
    by: Christine Lepisto, TreeHugger | Report A Few Companies Have Power Over Most of the Real Economy The idea that the few dominate the many will not come as news to those gathered either to occupy wall street or to occupy everywhere. But up until now it has been just an intuition that a few ...

reference frame

  • Aurora in Michigan
    In November 1917, Aurora ignited the October revolution in Russia. Its namesake seen yesterday in most of Michigan has been more spectacular but it didn't lead to any catastrophe. It's actually pretty to watch the stars moving over the sky in the timelapse video, too. ...
  • How to tell the people that there's no Higgs
    In July 2011, we have learned that the boss of CERN forbade his employees to interpret the results of the CLOUD experiment, the most significant excursion of the famed European laboratory to the climate science. He said that the implications of this €10 million climate experiment for the ...
  • Scientific explanation as a compression of inf ...
    Experimental physicists are collecting new information all the time. However, for physics not to degenerate into botany, physicists must do something beyond the mindless memorization of a constantly increasing body of empirical information. They must also work hard to make sense out of i ...
  • Why I don't quite agree with Tom Banks on eter ...
    My former PhD adviser Tom Banks (Rutgers/UCSC) wrote a guest blog for the Cosmic Variance, Guest Post: Tom Banks Contra Eternal Inflationin which he presents arguments against eternal inflation and promotes his holographic theory of everything, "HST". Tom is undoubtedly an out-of-the-box th ...
  • SciAm: CIA trying to keep global warming top-s ...
    How would you re-energize a dying pseudoscientific fad that almost no one wants to consider seriously anymore? Maybe you would want to present it as a "banned fruit" that people will be encouraged to study in their free time. David Biello of the "Scientific" American has invented an ing ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • WALL STREET INSIDER: The Obama White House Wan ...
    by Ulsterman on October 17, 2011 with 72 Comments in News  Our latest interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider reveals details of a troubling Obama White House stance against Wall Street executives voicing concern over the now daily violence permeating the Occupy Wall Street movement – and ...
  • Mac Slavo: Bugging Out of NYC: Something Terri ...
    Bugging Out of NYC: “Something Terrible is Coming… So For Now, I’m Getting Out.” Mac Slavo October 20th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Comments (67) You may remember the Wall Street Insider from a previous interview in which he suggested that elements within the Obama administration were mobilizing to incit ...
  • Greece has flipped its lid – People say only c ...
    The Greek people have had enough and now they feel that, since peaceful protest does not work, that the time has come for bloodshed to take back their country from the political puppets and the occupying financial terrorists. This is a now a full-blown revolution. Doom on for the Greeks. We are ...
  • FRANKIE MACDONALD SEVERE CYCLONE WARNING FOR A ...
    A heads-up to people in Australia. Frankie MacDonald is back and he is saying your ass is going to get slammed by a Cat 5 Cyclone. When Frankie speaks, the world listens. Take heed and take cover. Good luck to you and yours. If you think that this is BS he nailed past hurricanes. Proof [...] ...
  • The US Military and Someone from Parliament Hi ...
    I have proof positive that the US Military and someone from the Canadian Parliament have been sniffing around on this blog. Have I touched a raw nerve exposing the 9/11 insiders? Perhaps I said too much about the evil doings of Obama? Or was it what I said about the Federal Reserve? Stephen Harp ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • Canada, San Francisco blaze forward on cell ph ...
    By Renee Sharp, EWG California Director As the world mourns the passing of iPhone creator Steve Jobs, San Francisco and Canada are blazing new paths to ensure that the public knows how to use cell phones safely. On Oct. 4,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full link ...
  • The Great Food Divide
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations The fortunate among us need never struggle with either hunger or obesity. This morning my healthy 3-year old had yogurt, a banana and scrambled egg whites for breakfast before beginning her day.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • Dear Super Committee: What to Cut, What NOT to Cut
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor Lobbyists for polluting industries and opponents of environmental regulation have been tripping over one another to come up with self-serving lists of targets for the Congressional Super Committee as it labors to... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Your best air freshener isn't an air freshener
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist A quick spritz of air freshener may seem like a simple way to kill funky odors. Unfortunately, that pleasing smell is just more indoor air pollution. Levels of harmful indoor pollutants like... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Chemical ag's flyboys often miss the mark
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations One of my favorite movie scenes of all time features George C. Scott portraying General George Patton in the film Patton. As he's meeting with other Allied field commanders in a base... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Business internships for city students
    This evening, Capital friend and adviser Andrew Rasiej is being honored, along with former city comptroller Bill Thompson and the public advocate’s deputy for special initiatives Reshma Saujani, by Futures and Options, an organization that places students f ...
  • Labor and lawmakers press Cuomo to support the ...
    The union representing New York's transportation workers will not accept a wage freeze if Governor Andrew Cuomo does not renew a surcharge on high-income New Yorkers which is set to expire at the end of this year, the head of the union said Tuesday morning. ...
  • Yassky's hard-to-enforce taxi-honk edict gets ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • The social-promotion era is over, but many New ...
    The Daily News calls it "abysmal" and the Post expresses their disbelieve in the headline, "U. Gotta be kiddin!"The idea that students are moving up through the grades without picking up an college-entry-grade education sounds suspiciously like the sort of ...
  • Major media outlets say they won't pull out of ...
    "When you take America out of the equation, what kind of country does it become?" asked The New York Times' foreign editor Joe Kahn. "We're not going to stop covering the country because the American military has pulled out. We'll continue to watch the stor ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Annual charity drive raised millions
    Norwegians donated more than NOK 208 million (USD 38 million) on Sunday to help rid the world of land mines, and organizers called the result of the annual national fundraiser “fantastic.” The amount looked set to beat the result of last year’s campaign, which aimed to help ref ...
  • Moose warnings go unheeded
    Hardly a week has gone by this autumn without reports of serious collisions between vehicles and moose in Norway. A new study indicates motorists aren’t taking posted warnings about moose on the roads seriously. Several of the accidents in recent weeks have been serious indeed, with one co ...
  • More rapes raise alarm
    Two more rapes were reported in Oslo over the weekend, and a group formed to help prevent them is anxious to get to work. “We can’t wait any longer now,” one of its organizers told newspaper Dagsavisen. Tone Tellevik Dahl of the Labour Party co-leads the city council committee ...
  • City governments finally in place
    Politicians in Oslo could finally announce their new government line-up on Monday, six weeks after municipal elections were held in Norway. It’s also taken politicians in other cities a long time to get their governments in place, because of a need for lengthy political negotiations. The n ...
  • EU may want to tap into oil fund
    EU officials are reportedly turning their wistful glance to Norway’s enormous oil fund, wondering whether there’s a way it can help ease Europe’s debt crisis. Fueled by Norwegian oil revenues and poised to keep growing, the fund is viewed as a possible source of capital at a ti ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sustainable Portable Sawmilling
    by Deborah Willis Editor’s Note: There are still some places available on David Spicer’s 1-day Introduction to Portable Sawmilling course, to be held on November 27, 2011 at Edenfarms Permaculture. Click here to find out more and book.
  • Maarten Stapper: “Biological Agriculture – a T ...
    If you didn’t catch it already, be sure to check out the previous post with Dr. Maarten Stapper’s first IPC10 convergence presentation. And, after several attempts, I finally managed to get his second presentation uploaded — you can click play above to watch this as well. W ...
  • Sucking Out Our Brains Through Our Eyes
    Advertising trashes our happiness and trashes the planet. And my income depends on it. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. We think we know who the enemies are: banks, big business, lobbyists, the politicians who exist to ...
  • Permaculture Lawns
    I hate lawns…. — Bill Mollison (‘Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution – An Interview with Bill Mollison by Scott London’) Lawns, love them or hate them, they are one of those features of modern life that we take for granted, though we’ve long forgotten their origins. We have lawn beca ...
  • Permaculture Pilgrimage – a Few Places Left
    The Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage — teacher training with some of the world’s greatest teachers — has been a collaborative effort between these amazing teachers, Delvin Solkinson and myself. The courses will run back to back in November across NSW, QLD and Victoria. The co ...

Pointman's

  • Global warming and pathological science.
    There are many aspects to the style of science underpinning the theory of global warming that remind me of something the American scientist Irving Langmuir christened pathological science. Wiki for once is accurate and defines it as - “Pathological science is a psychological process in which a s ...
  • Teachers
    I was very lucky really; I went to a crap school. There was no money and therefore no resources and therefore nothing much of anything. We, the kids, knew this and the teachers did too. That being the case, the school could only attract teachers who couldn’t get a job anywhere else, or had alrea ...
  • Old friends and a questioned end.
    He knew he’d screwed up and should by all rights be dead now but he’d been saved by some sort of miracle he couldn’t understand and it spooked him. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he got about a nagging suspicion that he simply couldn’t shake; there was something about some aspects ...
  • William Johnson; echoes of an unimportant life.
    There used to be a big debate about whether he was born in 1902 or 1904. Looking over his bio again in this age of the internet, it seems that someone has actually done the legwork and found a piece of paper that says he was born on January 22, 1897. It’s from Wikipedia and since … Re ...
  • Green Myths : Polar bears going extinct, yawn ...
    Ask any young person about Polar bears and you’ll find out they know all about them. Polar bears are cuddly and harmless but they’re an endangered species. Why are they endangered then? It’s because of global warming, which is melting all the ice at the North pole and the poor ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • No One Listens to Poor People, By Derwyn Bunton
    No one listens to poor people. They listen to attorneys. As a child, I believed those two statements because I watched how people treated my family and others in our situation. It is why I became a public defender. The place of the public defender is to protect justice and fairness for those who ...
  • Reflections on Organizing Towards Collective L ...
    Over the past few weeks, I have been invigorated and moved by the energy surrounding Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots across the nation. Yet, at the same time I've been faced with the tensions being articulated by so many folks on the Left: how can this energy be connected to and furth ...
  • New Organization Trains Community Members to A ...
    From Our Friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: SUFEO! Trains Legal Advocates: New Orleans Recovery School District Out of School Suspension Rates Surpass National Averages On Friday, September 16, 2011, Stand Up for Each Other! (SUFEO!) trained 40 students from Tulane University L ...
  • Poverty Skyrockets in New Orleans: 65% of Blac ...
    On September 22 the Census Bureau released information from their 2010 annual American Community Survey based on a poll of 2,500 people in New Orleans. Not surprisingly, the report was ignored by the local mainstream media since it speaks volumes about the inequality of the Katrina recovery ...
  • Port-Au-Prince, Haiti: Students Praise Educati ...
    By Wadner Pierre Part I Jean-Juste died two years ago from Leukemia because he was jailed for his political views and was not allowed by the 2004-2006 U.S deposed Gerard Latortue to travel to US to receive early treatment. Jean-Juste's legacy endures amongst the young and old in Haiti. He wa ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    [youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnIqE1_ZGU[/youtube]Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:36 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: Maybe they watched Ben Chertoff's Popular Mechanics piece, or saw videos by the Bush Supporter/pro-war apologist/RKOwens, and were "swayed"... or watched the Shill Bermas Setup-Shoot down on this Shill Amy Goodman show. If they're dumb enough to buy the cr ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Remember that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Such as praying to god?Statistics: Posted by checkitb4uwreckit — Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:16 am
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Wimpy wrote: I maintain that this is an example of the unknowable. Until scientists can "Create" an electron and understand the entire process from start to finish it will forever remain unknowable. I sense that you believe god to be one of these "unknowable" things, yet w ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Jewish Control o ...
    http://www.forums.skadi.net/archive/ind ... 49552.html Eurosiberia vs Eurasia Tuesday, February 28th, 2006, 04:47 PM For those who may call themselves pan-europeans as I do, there are nowadaya an opposing views in how should be established the limits of our beloved Europe. In other words, in ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Offshore Wind Projects Moving Forward Along U. ...
    Two U.S. energy companies attempting to build the nation’s first offshore wind farms reported progress on their plans at an industry conference this week, providing hope for an industry still trying to assert itself in the U.S. energy market. Speaking at the American Wind Energy Association’s an ...
  • Five-point Plan Proposed To Feed World in a Su ...
    An international team of scientists has unveiled a plan that they say would double food production by 2050 while reducing the global environmental impact of agriculture. Reporting in the journal Nature, scientists from the U.S., Canada, Sweden, and Germany said that the only way the world commun ...
  • Revisiting Population Growth: The Impact of Ec ...
    Demographers are predicting that world population will climb to 10 billion later this century. But with the planet heating up and growing numbers of people putting increasing pressure on water and food supplies and on life-sustaining ecosystems, will this projected population boom turn into a bu ...
  • Global Meat Production Increased 20 Percent Si ...
    Global meat production has grown by 20 percent in the last decade and tripled since 1970, increases that have far exceeded the rate of population growth during the same periods and pose significant threats to the environment, the economy, and public health, a new report says. According to the Wo ...
  • Australia Edges Closer to Carbon Tax After Key ...
    The Australian government has taken a critical step toward adopting a tax on carbon emissions, with the lower house of Parliament approving the controversial plan by a narrow margin. The bill, which survived a late push by opponents to delay a vote, would require the nation’s 500 biggest carbon ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs
    by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...
  • Should the CBC boot Cherry and O’Leary?
    By Frank Moher It's not at all a bad thing that CBC loudmouths Don Cherry and Kevin O'Leary have agitated some viewers lately, Cherry with his rant against former NHL enforcers who have come out against violence in hockey, and O'Leary with his interview of American journalist Chris Hedges, in ...
  • GG gee we need to rethink this
    By Frank Moher The Governor General’s Award finalists were announced on Tuesday and, as usual, I looked at the drama list and sighed. Not because I wasn’t on it -- I didn't have anything eligible -- but because I was reminded once again that we don’t have a proper playwriting award ...

Daily Beast

  • Oprah Honors Ralph Lauren
    Stars filled New York’s Lincoln Center for a black-tie affair celebrating Ralph Lauren. Lizzie Crocker reports.
  • Of Love and War
    In her new memoir, 'Ghosts by Daylight,' war correspondent Janine di Giovanni recalls covering the world’s worst conflicts while in love.
  • CIA's Covert Iraq Mission
    The troops are leaving, but the future of secret intelligence programs in Iraq is still being hashed out.
  • Kelly Clarkson Talks Heartbreak
    The singer talks about her new album, ‘Stronger,’ ‘X Factor’—and why she was drinking till 4 a.m. By Ramin Setoodeh.
  • The Paris Hilton of Tech
    Despite Yahoo’s rocky history, many still want to hook up with it—Google’s just the latest rumored suitor.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Rookie astronaut can't wait to visit ISS
    Rookie astronaut Takuya Onishi, who is currently training in Florida, on Tuesday expressed his eagerness to take part in a mission to the International Space Station. "I want to make the most of this training and hopefully participate in missions to the space station" as soon as possible, 35-y ...
  • Daio execs to take rap for loan fiasco
    Daio Paper Corp. plans to punish around 10 officials, including its president and senior executives in charge of financial affairs, over the lending of more than ¥10 billion by its subsidiaries to its former chairman, sources said Tuesday. The company's special investigation committee, wh ...
  • Reckless cyclists face crackdown
    Bicyclists are on the increase, but so are accidents involving them as well as reckless, illegal riding, prompting Tokyo police to launch a crackdown. The Metropolitan Police Department campaign, which includes designating more marked bikeways, comes amid an increase in accidents and violation ...
  • Taxi falls onto tracks; driver killed
    A taxi driver died early Tuesday after his cab fell onto a railway track from an overpass and was clipped by a train Monday evening in downtown Tokyo, but none of the roughly 1,500 train passengers were injured, according to police, firefighters and East Japan Railway Co. The driver, Katsushi ...
  • Flood-hit firms in Thailand to receive emergen ...
    The government and Bank of Japan announced Tuesday a set of emergency measures to support Japanese firms hit hard by the massive floods in Thailand, including help for them to raise funds and acceptance of Thai workers in Japan. The BOJ said it is preparing to collaborate with the Bank of Thai ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Financial Wealth of Canada’s Top 1%
    Eric Pineault wrote to add some data on financial wealth distribution for Canada. He had a research assistant comb through microdata from Statcan’s Survey of Financial Security from 2005, and notes: “the 1% richest (all households are classed according to net worth rather then income ...
  • Omnibus Crime Bill Won’t Reduce Victimization ...
    Harper, Nicholson and Toews are selling their snake-oil crime bill by presuming to speak on behalf of victims. When told that the crime rate has been declining for 20 years, they reply that one victim is one too many. When advised that statistics do not support their approach, they say most crim ...
  • Occupy Canada Resources from the CCPA Vault
    With increased attention on the 99% emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s time to open the CCPA vault on the issue. www.growinggap.ca is our dedicated website on income inequality, and it’s a treasure trove of facts and arguments documenting worsening income inequality in Canada an ...
  • Occupy Canada: This week’s news
    Occupy Wall Street has opened up public discussion about a problem that keeps getting worse: the gap between the rich and the rest of us – encapsulated in the Occupy movement’s slogan We are the 99%. Here’s a roundup of some of the stories emerging on the issue of income inequality this week. Ca ...
  • Are the Top 1% Just Lucky?
    I expect some folks who oppose the Occupy movement will weigh in on merit – that the top 1% are deserving of their riches because they include people who pay a lot of wages and salaries for ordinary folk. That is, the story of hard-working, risk-taking entrepreneurs who should not be punished fo ...

ReDress

  • Israel's Gilad Shalit got off lightly
    Stuart Littlewood views the hypocrisy of Western civic leaders who are falling over one another honouring Gilad Shalit for "sitting behind his armour plate picking out soft targets among the women and children packed into the Gaza Strip" while ignoring the vilest crimes committed by Israel again ...
  • Still under wraps: crimes and cover-ups waitin ...
    Paul J. Balles reviews the crimes and cover-ups still awaiting the international spotlight, from Israel's murder of US sailors aboard the USS Liberty, to Israel's nuclear programme and Bush administration war crimes.
  • Spare a thought for the 8,000 Palestinian pris ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the hypocrisy of Britain's Israeli stooges, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Defence Select Committe Chairman James Arbuthnot who, while rejoicing over the release of Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit, are happy to ignore the fate of 8,000 Palestinian prisoners ...
  • America's FBI goes rogue on Iran
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the questionable behaviour of the FBI, which has used the illegal practice of entrapment to concoct the Iranian plot story, and the environment of hypocrisy, political lobbies, self-serving interest groups and public indifference that permits such behaviour to take place.
  • Disgraced former UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox ...
    Gilad Atzmon argues that recently-resigned UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox and his friend, the spiv Adam Werrity, are not Israel's useful idiots but "knew exactly what they were doing and who were their donors ... fully understood their role and willingly did what was required" of them by Israel", ...

Physics Today

  • Nano memory device is laser activated
    IEEE Spectrum: Engineers at Yale University have developed a nanomechanical resonator, a new type of mechanical memory device that uses lasers to record and read information. A tiny piece of silicon is bent up or down by the light propagating inside a photonic circuit, writes Neil Savage for IEE ...
  • Applying language translation to code breaking
    New York Times: Since the mid 20th century, experts have been exploring the overlap between code breaking and language translation. Recently, one of the world’s most stubborn codes, dating from the 1700s—the Copiale Cipher—was cracked by a team of Swedish and American linguists ...
  • China clarifies carbon dioxide emission limits
    BBC: As more evidence arises in support of rapid climate change, Xie Zhenhua, who is in charge of China's climate-change policy, has clarified his country's position regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Like the US, China considers CO2 emissions per person, instead of a country-wide cap, to be th ...
  • OPERA neutrino experiment papers hit the Web
    New Scientist: Although considerable doubt remains within the physics community over last month's surprising result in which neutrinos from CERN reportedly arrived at the OPERA detector in Italy faster than the speed of light, the first paper from the OPERA experiment has been accepted for publi ...
  • Using 3D printers to save the hermit crab
    Shareable: Here is a novel use for three-dimensional printers: producing shells for hermit crabs. Because they don’t make their own shells (they scavenge shells made by other creatures) and because the worldwide shell supply is diminishing, the crabs have been forced to use other objects i ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack ...
    by furi12786 (Posted Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:04:17 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack Obama 3 Days ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says without a doubt, the US president has already begun to do so with his rather self-congratulatory statement on Thursday at t ...
  • FF News: The Presidential Box-2025
    by footprints222 (Posted Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:13:36 GMT) edit Welcome to Footprints Filmworks http://www.footprintsfilmworks.com/component/kunena - TO VIEW POSTS of Footprints Filmworks Tel: 0123703469/0847867865/0723783848/0123747865-- email: presidentabdulla@gmail.com ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Pfizer
    by footprints786 (Posted Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:29:19 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla on Pfizer 1 Week, 3 Days ago Karma: 0 Re:FF News: The Presidential Box-2025 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says Pfizer Inc., facing the November loss of its U.S. monopoly for its ...
  • America: A republic no more - A finanial elite ...
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:03:35 GMT) The Great American Stick-up. http://tiny.cc/9qja3 How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street; Following Ronald Reagan' s obsession with the radical deregulation of financial markets through its a ...
  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Water use rising faster than world population
    “Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn. “Human beings have depended on access to water since the earliest days of civilization, but with 7 billion people on the planet as of October 31, exponentially expanding ur ...
  • Tennessee Waters Get Drug Test
    “Traces of chemicals that may disrupt hormonal and immune systems, including several personal care products, have shown up in the drinking water of six of 11 utilities tested across the state, according to a new report. Testing of the lake, river and ground water at scores of utility intak ...
  • Bangkok Becomes Medieval-Style Fortress Agains ...
    “Floods have smothered much of Thailand, killing at least 317 people and prompting Bangkok to surround itself with makeshift walls, leaving those outside the perimeter to suffer from diverted water, reminiscent of medieval times when people dug moats and sealed off their fortress cities ag ...
  • Emanuel Ends Cheap Water’s Drain on Chic ...
    “Kenneth Coleman lives 2 1/2 blocks from Lake Michigan, one of the world’s largest, and struggles to understand why his water bill would more than double in the next four years. “Chicago’s proposed rate increase, the centerpiece of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to creat ...
  • Wash. rules to spell out strategies to curb runoff
    “SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Puyallup has installed dozens of neighborhood rain gardens to prevent rain from washing pollutants into nearby waterways. Mount Vernon used a type of asphalt that allows rainwater to seep into the ground when it built a new walkway. And Seattle has used roofs pl ...

D. Kucinich

  • Changes to Home Refinancing Program Finally Br ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a leading advocate for homeowners in Ohio, today issued the following statement after the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced new rules to help struggling homeowners refinance at lower interest rates. “I am pleased that the Administration has finally dir ...
  • Kucinich Works to Save Cleveland Antitrust Fie ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (October 24, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder strongly urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) not to close the Cleveland antitrust field office. The Cleveland Field Office serves the citizens of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, ...
  • Kucinich Statement on the Announcement to Brin ...
    Washington D.C. (October 21, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the President announced that the United States will bring home our troops stationed in Iraq. “As one of the first Members of Congress to oppose the war in Iraq, I welcome the Pre ...
  • New Report on Structurally Deficient Bridges H ...
    Washington D.C. (October 21, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after data from the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory revealed that nearly 70,000 bridges nationwide are rated “structurally deficient” and are in need of subst ...
  • Kucinich, Jones Update on Legal Challenge to W ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC) today released the following statement after a Federal Judge dismissed a bipartisan case brought by ten Members of Congress challenging the President’s authority to commit our nation to war absent constitutionally required Congressional ...

Authentically Wired

  • another PR clown representing Arizona …
    … Yeah, just what we need a Joe Arpaio wantabe representing us in Congre$$ … another PR clown representing Arizona … GOP Sheriff Babeu eyes congressional run By Dennis Welch The Arizona Guardian Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced early Monday that he is taking his first ...
  • At least they are raising the issue
    … At least they are raising the issue and asking for disclosure … thank you … Is Flag’s drinking water at risk?   About two years ago, very small traces of an antibiotic, an anti-seizure medication and a possible cancer-causing agent appeared in four groundwater well ...
  • Fact Check: ‘The GOP’s ludicrous c ...
    … What don’t you understand GOP – Republicans – Tea Party – don’t care about facts or truth … and they damn sure don’t care about YOU … Fact Check: ‘The GOP’s ludicrous claim about their jobs bill’   Posted: 20 Oct 2011 02:14 PM PDT  … Posted by AzBl ...
  • …Slash Your Breast Cancer Risk: Remove t ...
    …Slash Your Breast Cancer Risk: Remove the Real Cause…   Watch videos here … http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tPNCxFyU3mc http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SPRbj2EjU38   October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness ...
  • … Remember this is only one person&#8217 ...
    … Remember this is only one person’s opinion … John Matthews Interviews Pat Mulroy: ‘Adapting the Invisible Utility, Part 1: Connections and Threats’ Here’s the blurb:  … Pat Mulroy manages water over a vast piece of real estate in the southwestern United ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
  • 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
    WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
  • Who is Deep Climate?
    A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • US research shows link between soft drink and ...
    Researchers in the United States say there's a 'shocking' association - if only a statistical one - between violence by teenagers and the amount of fizzy soft drink they drink.High-school students in inner-city Boston who consumed...
  • Changespotting: Wireless bicycle brakes
    Computer scientists in Germany have attempted to demonstrate the plausibility of having a completely fail-safe wireless system in the future. To illustrate their point, they have created a
  • Study links teens' night shift work with multi ...
    Working night shifts as a teenager is not only exhausting; it also significantly increases the chance of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, a Swedish study published on Tuesday showed."Our analysis revealed a significant...
  • What the platypus' sexual evolution can tell u ...
    Our most distant relative, the platypus, has a lot to teach us about sex and evolution.University of Adelaide's Associate Professor Frank Grutzner says it's played a key role in giving new insight into how the regulation of the...
  • Japanese rescue diabetes therapy
    The revolutionary pig-cell transplants that have shown promise internationally in treating diabetics are expected to be commercially available in New Zealand within three years after a $32.3 million Japanese rescue package.The type...

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    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Solyndra Dead Enders: Our Talking Poi ...
    “Republican talking points are delivered as first-order news,” writes Grist’s David Roberts. “Liberal talking points are wrapped in meta-news about liberals and their talking points. It makes liberals sound defensive and manipulative, and it’s condescending as sh*t.” Roberts isn’ ...
  • New at Reason: Mike Riggs on the Iran Assassin ...
    A thwarted assassination plot involving the Saudia Arabian ambassador to the U.S., an Iranian used car salesman living in Texas, and a Mexican cartel member who is also a confidential informant for the DEA is not just good material for a spy novel, it's also fueling a push by House ...
  • New at Reason: Kurt Loder on Martha Marcy ...
    As a demonstration of the sinister nature of hippie commune-cults, Martha Marcy May Marlene conveys a lesson that was already learned-to-death, literally, in the 1960s. And yet as Kurt Loder notes, the movie still gets under your skin. The writer-director, Sean Durkin, crafting his fi ...
  • “The Occupiers have the wrong address. The sub ...
    The Cato Institute’s Tom Palmer reviews some of the complaints made by the Occupy Wall Street protesters and helps identify the culprit: What caused the crisis, the indebtedness, the unemployment, the stagnation? The culprits are state agencies and enterprises, including our Fede ...
  • New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Democratic ...
    Patrick Forrest is running against incumbent Janet Howell in Virginia’s 32nd Senate District. Forrest is a Republican, which everyone knows. He is also gay. Not everyone knows that, but as A. Barton Hinkle notes, some Democrats in Northern Virginia—including Howell, Forrest says—are t ...

Mercury Rising

  • Mandelbrot trading: the fractal looting of ret ...
    Benoit Mandelbrot is probably best known for fractals, self-similar structures. Here are charts of the S&P 500 over the last three months and over the last 13 years. They both represent range-bound trading, in which the index goes up and down, but never establishes a trend. But the scale the ...
  • Veal Pen Preachers
    I wanted to share with you this gem of a post by FDL’s resident preacher man, Peterr: This week, a friend forwarded me a CNN piece that shows the Veal Pen mentality hard at work in a place near and dear to me: the church. What’s particularly troubling is the selectivity of the Veal Pen [...]
  • Murdoch phone hacking befogged
    Parliamentary questioning of Les Hinton demonstrated that he’s one of the most competent corporate executives out there: The culture committee questioned Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of Rupert Murdoch’s lot. He appeared from New York by video link. Thanks to modern techn ...
  • Kirchner wins re-election in a landslide. US m ...
    Via Dean Baker, we learn about NYT carping about Mrs. Kirchner of Argentina. As Baker says, there were no positive sources in Alex Barrionuevo‘s piece, but instead this sort of vague complaining that she shouldn’t have won 53% of the vote (and the socialist FAP won 17%, so the right ...
  • Occupy Mordor
    The thing speaks for itself. Here’s the Facebook page.

Reality Sandwich

  • The Brain in the Cave
      The following is excerpted from Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, Evolution, published by Bloomsbury Press.   read more
  • The Magic of Co-creation
    From Cairo to Wall Street, all over the world people are coming together to create change, organizing without top-down leadership or hierarchies.  In thousands of voluntary groups everywhere, people work together to create everything from community gardens to media to new ways of living.  Such c ...
  • Not So Fast
    Experiments recently conducted in Switzerland appear to show ‘muon neturino’ subatomic particles travelling faster-than-light. Confirmation of the results would challenge Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity, and would turn physics on it’s head.  Fantastically, it could also indicate the possibility ...
  • Homeopathy: Modern Medicine's First Target
      The following is excerpted from Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health -- And What to Do About It, published by North Atlantic Books.   read more
  • Crystal Skull Convergence
    Sponsored by Unify Earth, an unprecedented gathering of 13 members of the Grand Council of the Maya Itza Priest and Elders from Yucatan, Mexico along with archaeologists and historians will be in Los Angeles at the “11.11.11 Crystal Skulls World Mysteries Gateway Conference” to unleash the secre ...

Desertification

  • 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.
  • AFRICA: Gov'ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest, Po ...
    For millennia, people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa, comprised mainly of drylands. Yet today, more than 13 million people there are starving because of political instability, poor government policies and failure to invest in the world's poorest people, say experts here in C ...
  • Q&A: 'Soil is Key to Global Warming, Food Secu ...
    Luc Gnacadja, in his second three-year term as executive secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is widely seen as delivering on his commitment to manage the world's drylands.
  • AFRICA: "The Man Who Stopped the Desert"
    Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting the trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest, people in his village thought he was mad.
  • SOUTH KOREA: Drylands Meet Deserts Gender
    Delegates to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's (UNCCD) meeting underway in this South Korean city are convinced that women, though affected most by desertification, hold the key to addressing hunger through land regeneration.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Israeli drones violate Lebanese airspace
    Two Israeli reconnaissance planes have violated Lebanon's airspace and flown over the country in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution, Press TV reports.
  • Canadian army spying on natives: Report
    According to recently released documents, the Canadian Forces' National Counter-Intelligence Unit has been gathering intelligence on the country's indigenous groups.
  • 'US crimes awakened Muslim nations'
    Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati says the wave of Islamic Awakening in the Arab world has its origins in the people's awareness of US atrocities.
  • 'Pakistan must increase border safety'
    Iranian Minister of Interior Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says Pakistan should make its border safe by preventing terrorists from using Pakistani soil to launch attacks against Iran.
  • Canadian court blocks Bush prosecution
    A criminal court in Canada has blocked an attempt by a human rights group to prosecute former US president George W. Bush for war crimes.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Trends in the Distribution of Income
    From 1979 to 2007, real (inflation-adjusted) average household income, measured after government transfers and federal taxes, grew by 62 percent. That growth was not equal across the income distribution: Income after government transfers and federal taxes (denoted as after-tax income) for househ ...
  • Patterns of Charitable Giving
    The deductibility of charitable donations has been a feature of the U.S. individual income tax almost as long as the modern income tax has been in existence. Although the deduction encourages charitable giving, like other forms of preferential tax treatment, it results in a loss of revenue to th ...
  • The CLASS Long-Term Care Insurance Program
    On Friday, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the department does not plan to implement the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) long-term care insurance program under current law. A number of people have inquired about whether and how CBO will r ...
  • How Do People Save for Retirement?
    Just over half (52 percent) of all workers who filed tax returns in 2006 participated in some form of tax-favored retirement plan, CBO reports—in a study released today. The highest rates of participation were among workers between the ages of 45 and 59; those whose income was $40,000 or m ...
  • Estimated Budgetary Impact of Two Versions of ...
    This afternoon CBO released a cost estimate for S. 1549, the American Jobs Act of 2011, as introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on September 13, 2011. That legislation corresponds to the plan put forth by President Obama. We also released a cost estimate for S. 1660, the American Jobs ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Antiviral for Alzheimer's
    Drugs targeting herpes simplex virus (HSV), the agent that causes cold sores, might also abate Alzheimer's, new research has shown. Previous research has tied HSV to dementing diseases like Alzheime...
  • Seaweed makes coral sea-sick
    Seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, can unleash a chemical arsenal toxic to corals, scientists have found. Writing in PNAS, Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Douglas Rasher and his colleagu...
  • Cause of chronic fatigue?
    A patient receiving treatment for lymphoma simultaenously recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, revealing a novel way to combat the conditions, researchers have revealed. Chronic fatigue syndrome...
  • Beetle Antimicrobial peptides
    Sitophilus, a type of beetle, have an intimate relationship with bacteria. They produce an antimicrobial peptide to control the bacteria but when it is missing, the bacteria are able to invade through...
  • The Importance of Sitting on Genes
    Changes to DNA can occur by genetic spelling mistakes, altering the sequence of the code, or epigenetic changes. Epigenetic changes, from the Greek 'to stand on a gene', occur by sticking extra info...

PakAlert Press

  • Beating the Drums of a Broader US-NATO Middle ...
    The Levant could be the starting point of a major international conflict with global ramifications and which could quickly spin out of control. Such a conflict could even involve the use of Israeli or American nuclear weapons against Iran and Syria. Syria has additionally declared that it is pre ...
  • 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 helped al-Qaeda f ...
  • Israeli Intelligence Sources: NATO Killed Qaddafi
    An article released by the Israeli intelligence news service DEBKAfile reveals NATO allies are competing “over who will take credit for his termination and therefore for ending the alliance's military role in Libya”. (DEBKAfile, US and NATO allies vie over "kudos" for Qaddafi's termination, Octo ...
  • The Demise Of The Dollar
    In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified curr ...
  • The Crash Is Coming: 8 Warnings For Washington ...
    Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution. When? A string of European bank collapses is dead ahead. And like the Arab Spring ..
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