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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.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

6 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “41,654 to 10″
    That great rebel for liberty, Thomas Paine, wrote of his take on the society of his day: “Society is composed of distinct, unconnected individuals who are continually meeting, crossing, uniting, opposing and separating from each other as accident, interest and circumstances shall direct.” That w ...
  • Citizenship – “Paying it Forward&# ...
    One of the most fundamental traits of good citizens is that they know they are building on foundations established at great cost by others who preceded them. They have a heritage to protect and not just a future to build. Much of that framework was built by hard work, innovation, investments, so ...
  • Citizenship – “Blessed Are The Lea ...
    Jodi and Shawn are on something of a journey. Young professionals, they have been community leaders in their own right for the last number of years, but as part of the group of 10 that met a couple of weeks ago, I’ve watched them become more animated in their desire to make citizenship meaningfu ...
  • Citizenship – “Not Leaders, But Le ...
    People are programmed to avoid painful decisions, and these days it appears as though many politicians are as well, for obvious reasons. Basic choices force people to analyze their deepest motives. As long as politics is around, and political representatives say that are willing to make those ch ...
  • Citizenship – “For the Believers&# ...
    So we commence the last week of posts, recognizing that the task before Canadians today is a formidable one.  Citizenship as a useful political concept is in danger of being torn into many parts. By a bitter twist of historical fate, the concept which evolved to provide a sense of identity and c ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taki ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
  • Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
    A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    One thing they don’t warn you about going into academia is the business of making sense of your paycheck. When I started working for the US government in 2000, I was bowled over by the bureaucracy. Compared to the lean, mean government of a UK emerging from the Thatcher years, it was like going ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend a good portion of my “ ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it comes to techno ...

Reader Supported News

  • Meet the Money Behind Rick Perry
    Benjy Sarlin reports: "Texans don't like the government interfering with their business, especially campaign donations, where state laws allow contributors to fork over unlimited cash. No one has benefited more from this arrangement than Rick Perry, who has raised $100 million over the last deca ...
  • Koch Brothers Million-Dollar Club Revealed
    Mackenzie Weinger reports: "The billionaire Koch brothers can count dozens of corporate executives and philanthropists among their million-dollar donor club, according to a new report that revealed the big givers. Charles and David Koch hold retreats twice per year to court donations for their c ...
  • Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech to Fabricate Call for ...
    Matt Gertz reports: "Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event ...
  • Murdoch/Cheney Backed Fracking Company Endange ...
    Excerpt: "Briana Mordick, an Oil & Gas Science Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council told Media Matters that the poor cementing 'could cause water contamination' and said that 'remedial cementing can and should be performed': 'This is only a small-scale demonstration project but they'r ...
  • Murdoch/Cheney Backed Fracking Company Endange ...
    Excerpt: "Briana Mordick, an Oil & Gas Science Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council told Media Matters that the poor cementing 'could cause water contamination' and said that 'remedial cementing can and should be performed': 'This is only a small-scale demonstration project but they'r ...

War Resisters League

  • Portand: Veteran Organizing and Economic Justice
    This past week, WRL organizers Kimber Heinz and Ali Issa attended the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace 2011 conventions. In addition to attending workshops on the GI resistance movement now, as well as building relationships with … Continue reading →
  • Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
    Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...
  • “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
  • Wisconsin Updates!
    Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
  • Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
    At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== NATO Air War In Seventh Month: 21,780 Sorties, 8,180 Strike Sorties Indian Link To NATO ABM System Targets China, Pakistan, Iran, Russia Afghanistan: 1,645 Dead, 13,609 Wounded In America’s Longest War Afghan War: Czech Defense Minister Inspects New Special Forces Base Dutch Defense Ministe ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== NATO Chief: 172-Day Libyan War Impossible Without U.S. Capabilities Time To Disband NATO: A Rogue Alliance Grim Celebration By NATO Powers: Libyan Intervention Evokes Collective Memory Of Colonial Era Africa: Final Conquest For Pentagon’s Global Military Sphere Of Influence New Berlin Confe ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== Libya: NATO Air Combat Missions Exceed 8,000 For First Time In Its History, NATO War Led By European Powers BRICS Nations Fear West Plans Libya-Type Scenario In Syria Gaddafi’s Libya As Demon United Nations Hijacked On Libya Pakistani Minister: NATO Behind Attack That Killed 36 Soldiers === ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
    ==== NATO’s Air War Against Libya: 21,322 Sorties, 7,998 Strike Sorties Azerbaijan To Join NATO As U.S. Targets Iran, Russia NATO’s Strategic Concept: U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar In Turkey U.S. Unwilling To Compromise On Missile Shield: Russian Foreign Minister NATO To Build Joint Interceptor ...
  • Rasul Gamzatov: For women war is never over
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Rasul Gamzatov From Octaves Translated by Peter Tempest So many men were torn away From us in war’s dread sweep… Remembrance of it to this day Makes wives and mothers weep. New grass has grown, and grown are now The sons of those who di ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • 10 Facts That Prove Big Sis Is Wrong, Drudge I ...
    Homeland Security has been caught lying again and again about airport security in a bid to undermine genuine privacy concerns Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Janet Napolitano’s contention that Matt Drudge is “just wrong” about privacy worries surrounding airport screen ...
  • Texas Wildfires and Smoke Alarms
    The Berkey Guy September 6, 2011 The media coverage of the wildfires raging through Texas cannot emphasize enough the importance of being prepared for housefires and blazes. I spoke with a customer on Saturday who called about his proximity to the fires in Texas and the lack of water as a resour ...
  • Increasing Threats to Our Nuclear Power Stations
    The Intel Hub By Dr. Mark Sircus – Contributing Writer September 6, 2011 Japan marks 600th eruption of the Sakurajima volcano this year I find myself faced, today, with the incredibly unpleasant task of delivering some rather frightening news. Perhaps we can forgive humanityâs nuclear planners b ...
  • National Call-In Day to Help Save Your Supplements
    Wellness Resources Byron J. Richards, CCN September 6, 2011 Thursday, September 8, 2011, is the national call in day to members of Congress to protest the draconian FDA NDI regulations for dietary supplements, regulations that will retroactively remove many dietary supplement ingredients from th ...
  • FREE 9/11 Truth Conference In Portland Present ...
    The Intel Hub September 6, 2011 Ground Zero Media var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};

FRS

  • Philippines: Press reports and Wikileaks cast ...
    NDF negotiators meet Norwegian envoy in bid to break impasse 05-Sep-11, 2011 | Agence France-Presse MANILA, Philippines – Communist rebel negotiators met a special Norwegian envoy on Monday in a fresh bid to reopen stalled peace talks to end a four-decade war with the government, aides said. The ...
  • CIA, MI6 under scrutiny after secret files rev ...
    The CIA struck rendition deals with Libya as early as 2002 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15365413,00.html � With the Gadhafi regime in tatters and the Libyan leader on the run, secret files in Tripoli have come to light which detail the depth of cooperation between the US and UK with Liby ...
  • Videotaping Philadelphia Police–legal ri ...
    Even a top cop concedes a right to video arrests – but the street tells a different story September 03, 2011| BY JAN RANSOM, ransomj@phillynews.com TAMERA MEDLEY begged the police officer to stop slamming her head – over and over – into the hood of a police cruiser. Thinking they were helping, p ...
  • Reuters reports September 3rd peaceful protest ...
    Greek TV, however, showed the police violence against the demonstration ——————————————- Reuters: Greek PM rules out snap polls, protesters are back By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS | Sat Sep 3, 2011 9:31pm BST (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday ruled out snap elections an ...
  • Interview: Arundhati Roy
    By Dinyar Godrej, New Internationalist, Issue 445 Arundhati Roy is probably the most `do something’ public intellectual of our time. In her interview with New Internationalist she offers her take on market-friendly democracy, people power and the wealth that is fed by people’s lives. Your writin ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
    Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...
  • Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
    am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...

StillSmallVoice

  • I love this
    A big yellow bunny, dropped into a public space.
  • Generation 9/11: A discussion
    You can watch a live-streaming discussion on the impact of 9/11 on the millennial generation at noon on Thursday�here. The chat and live-feed are brought to you by the Center for American Progress.
  • In Afghanistan, 10 years later:
    Al Jazeera reports. Getty Images
  • You don't have to buy the world a Coke
    The world is getting one for itself -- at least the world is here�in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Americans get -- on average -- 10 percent of their calories from soda pop and other sugary drinks. That cannot be a good thing. The CDC report also says: Males co ...
  • Save New Haven's Free Store
    The Free Store (which is precisely what it says it is) is trying to raise money and find new digs with a fundraiser�fashion show�from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at 756 Chapel St. in New Haven. Fundraiser admission is based on income. And here's a little more about such enterprises. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Despite Poll Numbers, Bachmann Says She Can Wi ...
    The Tea Party Caucus leader has slid to third and fourth places in various polls. But she believes she has the endurance capability to go the distance -- and win.Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Sep 04, 2011
  • WikiLeaks' Carelessness Puts Operatives at Risk
    Julian Assange’s careless handling of sensitive classified material has put the lives of governments operatives, hu ...
  • Why Palin Will Not 'Run, Sarah, Run'
    Despite her appearanes on the campaign trail, Sarah Palin is not likey to run for president in 2012.Contributor: Christine Zibas Published: Sep 04, 2011
  • Sarah Palin Triangulates in Iowa
    In her speech at the tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maybe or maybe not candidate for president of the United States, performed an act of triangulation that must have taken even Bill Clinton's breath awayContributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 03, 2011
  • Oklahoma Hints at Leaving Big 12 Conference
    Oklahoma University may be the latest school to leave the Big-12 Conference.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Sep 03, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Fermilab Sets End-of-Moth Deadline to Establis ...
    Fermilab’s Tevatron collider runs out of money and time at the end of this month, but physicists there say that they are on track to establish whether the Higgs can exist within the most likely predicted mass range before their September 30 deadline. That’s not the same as actually finding the ...
  • DNA Analysis Catches Carcinogens in a Simple S ...
    Researchers presenting at the 242nd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society this week in Denver have demonstrated a new DNA test that can measure the amount of potential carcinogens clinging to a person’s DNA. But unlike previous tests that required white blood cell or ...
  • Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Gu ...
    If you’re one of those people worried that the over-prescription of antibiotics is leading us toward biological calamity, you’re not going to like this. Writing in the journal Nature this week, Martin Blaser of NYU’s Langone Medical Center makes the case that antibiotics aren’t just leading to ...
  • Christchurch is Thinking of Replacing Its Eart ...
    The Bible has at least a little to say about how to construct a building, but mostly in Proverbs and mostly not having anything to do actually building a structure (metaphor!). So without rock solid instructions, officials overseeing the Christchurch Cathedral--the one in Christchurch, New Zeal ...
  • High School Inventors 2011
    Ten students who are improving MRIs, cancer treatments and human-robot interaction--between classes, of course In between pep rallies and history tests, these 10 brainy students are refining cancer treatments, cleaning up car exhaust systems, and improving communication between humans and robot ...

Veterans Today

  • When the Baathists Read their History
    To prepare for the new Syria, people have been digging up their not too distant past, well into the pre-Ba’ath era – not to copy it, but to learn from it.
  • SEPTEMBER 11- Exploitation
    With the 10th Anniversary of September 11th fast approaching. I, for one, am getting tired of (or is it immune to) how every politician regardless of ideology, most every lame stream media outlet, and especially the Pentagon has exploited 9/11 for political, ideological, psychological, and propa ...
  • 9/11: Watch, Explain, I Can’t Even Begi ...
    The scientists had described it, but I could never really believe it possible. I am flabbergasted.
  • Israel Wages Lawfare Against Gaza Flotilla
    Lawfare is bloodless warfare. � by Philip Giraldi  � I have already reported how �lawfare,� which was defined by Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap following 9/11, is becoming the new hot button for defenders of Washington�s and Tel Aviv�s foreign policies. Using th ...
  • Let’s Talk “Turkey,”
    Everything else reported in the US about Turkey is false, dangerously false. The worst lies are the reports that Turkey's democratic government, freely elected, is "Islamist" and "extremist."

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • August global temperature update
    The latest global temperature anomaly for August has been released and according to the UAH measure is +0.325C above the running 30 year mean, similar to July's anomaly, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.578C above the 1961- ...
  • A poor August ends another disappointing summer
    August has once more turned out to be a disappointing month. Overall, the UK has received 126% of the normal August rainfall, and it's been much duller than normal with only 76% of average sunshine. Averaged across the UK maximum temperatures were 0.8C below normal. Provisional figures also s ...
  • July global temperatures show further rise
    The latest global temperature for July, according to the UAH satellite measure, has shown a further rise from June, and now stands at 0.372C above the running 30 year mean. Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now approximately +0.625C ...
  • August warmth to be short lived
    The warm air that has greeted the start of August looks set to a blip in what is certain to be described come September as yet another disappointing, unsettled summer. Highest temperatures will be in the Southeast of the UK, where 30C (86F) is likely in the next 24 hours, but the warmth will be ...
  • Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
    Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Malaysia, Where Iranians Seek Respite from Iran
    There's an interesting article from TIME about how those seeking a respite from "the pananoid style in Iranian politics" are heading for Malaysia. To be sure, Malaysia is not exactly an exemplar of freedom from political suppression--witness the continued persecution of Anwar Ibrahim by the ruli ...
  • Big Pharma v India: The Glivec Case Revisited
    Ooh, this makes me angry. Very early four years ago, I posted about Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis going up against Indian firms manufacturing generic versions of the leukaemia drug Glivec (Gleevec in the US). Perhaps presciently, I parenthetically added "to be continued." Well, it's about ...
  • Arsene Wenger, the 'Warren Buffett of Football'?
    A few years ago, Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane penned the bestseller Moneyball discussing the use of advanced statistics to better assess the performance and hence value of various players. As salaries of baseball players have increased, picking winners--especially affordable ones over ...
  • Luxury, or Where Moammar Meets Smith and Marx
    Blogging is often inspired by odd things. This post, for instance, came to me while reading about how Moammar Gathafi (it is spelled thusly on his passport) was a big fan of the FT's How To Spend It feature. In our interlinked world economy, how can the existence of such a vainglorious character ...
  • A New Merger Gimmick: 'We'll Onshore Jobs'
    Coming from the the world's call centre capital, I found this news interesting since it may mean T-Mobile call centre jobs in the Philippines being repatriated to the US. A few months ago, I wrote about how Kraft vowed--and then reneged--on keeping British jobs when it took over chocolate giant ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 20 Quotes From European Leaders That Prove Tha ...
    The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt.  If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plunge the entire globe into chaos.  The EU has a larger economy and a large ...
  • Is The End Of The Euro In Sight?
    The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment.  The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidl ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

  • Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
    The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...
  • Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
    Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
  • Imagine How It Feels
    How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...

WL Central

  • 2011-09-06 Caracas Cables Pt II: Drug Traffick ...
    TweetAuthored by Nikolas Kozloff For the past year or so, I’ve been writing steadily about WikiLeaks and U.S. diplomatic correspondence between various American embassies in Latin America and the State Department in Washington, D.C. For a full inventory of these pieces, you may head to my web s ...
  • 2011-09-06 Iran threatened Poland with CIA pri ...
    TweetIn early 2006, Polish government officials visited Iran, and subsequently related their impression to US diplomatic staff. A detailed report can be found in the diplomatic cable 06WARSAW203. MFA Director for Security Policy Robert Kupiecki provided the most in depth account: he describes h ...
  • 2011-09-06 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. >> Updates on WikiLeaks news from #wlfind twitter hashtag (as curated by ...
  • US Day of Rage | NYC & Nat Occupation Plan for ...
    TweetThe First Amendment prohibits Congress from making any law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." A redress is a means to set right, to remedy or rectify; or a satisfac ...
  • 2011-09-05 Caracas Cables Pt I: Hugo’s Former ...
    TweetAuthored by Nikolas Kozloff For the past year or so, I’ve been writing steadily about WikiLeaks and U.S. diplomatic correspondence between various American embassies in Latin America and the State Department in Washington, D.C. For a full inventory of these pieces, you may head to my web ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN expert welcomes declarations on rule ...
    The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today welcomed declarations by the new Haitian authorities of measures in the field of the rule of law, adding that he hoped that the declarations will soon be implemented and followed by positive impacts.
  • UN human rights chief lauds conviction of high ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed the decision by Bolivia's top court to convict several high-level officials for their part in the deaths of over 60 people during anti-government protests in 2003, calling it an important step in the fight against impunity.
  • UN chief condemns deadly arson attack in Mexico
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the arson attack that left 53 people dead in Monterrey, Mexico, yesterday and voiced solidarity with the country's people, the families of the victims and the country's Government.
  • Peru: UN human rights expert commends new indi ...
    Peru has taken "an important step forward" by approving a law compelling private companies to consult indigenous communities before going ahead with major projects such as mines, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
  • Hurricane Irene killed two in Haiti and floode ...
    Hurricane Irene killed two people in Haiti, flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed landslides and devastated farm fields during its passage off the coast of the Caribbean country earlier this week, the United Nations reported today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Review of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife
    Guest blog by Leon Kolankiewicz, wildlife biologist and environmental planner. This book review was originally posted August 9, 2011 on NumbersUSA âHow far conservationists and environmentalists have fallen from what now seem to me to be the Golden Years of the 1960s and 1970s.  No wonder Iâm s ...
  • Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave – The Popu ...
    Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” mu ...
  • The Keystone XL Pipeline: buried by bad decisions
    Today’s guest post is from Brian L. Horejsi, one of Canada’s toughest conservationists. As early as fall 2011 President Obama and administration insiders will approve the construction of the massive Keystone XL pipeline. With the stroke of that pen the gates will open to the daily flow of about ...
  • Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
    What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • IRS Is Paying Illegal Immigrants BILLIONS of D ...
    �No Social Security number? No problem... The IRS paid out BILLIONS in refundable tax credits to undocumented immigrant workers last year, according to a new Treasury audit. ~ Michelle Hirsch read more
  • Social Engineers Continue to Sexualize Children
    �It is true that a society which is in clear and steep decline inevitably loses all elements of its moral compass before its ultimate collapse. Both our own culture in the United States, as well as that of the rest of the Western World, are adequate proof of that. (The girl in photo is 10 ye ...
  • Arizonia... 'We Lost Our Own Explosives During ...
    �For the past few days the Department of Homeland Security and other officials have been hunting for live explosives that have �gone missing� from a drill conducted late last week. ~ Shepard Ambellas (Ahhh... I smell a rat in the woodpile. DHS can find a tick on someone's ass but suddenly can' ...
  • Jonathan Briley... The Falling Man of Septembe ...
    �Jonathan Briley was the falling man of 9/11 and one of 200 jumpers who leaped to their deaths on that infamous day in 2001. His image captured by Richard Drew continues to shock and it demands the truth and justice for those who perpetrated or allowed this treasonous false flag operation and ...
  • No Old Jobs... No New Jobs... No Real Jobs... ...
    �Move over, Richard Nixon and Adolf Hitler. Your slave labor jobs programs are being replaced by that of the current British puppet in the White House, Barack Obama.read more

Tarpley

  • Four Years Later: The Kennebunkport Warning of ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net August 31, 2011 This week marks the fourth anniversary of the Kennebunkport Warning, whose text the reader will find elsewhere on this web site, together with related documentation. The Kennebunkport Warning of late August 2007 sought to prevent a false flag ...
  • Stop the NATO-Libyan Rebel Genocide against Si ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
  • Deutsch
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 16 Verunglimpfung light: die Süddeutsche Zeitung über Tarpleys Analyse von den Terror-Anschlä ...
  • Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reig ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 [download video]
  • Will Turkey Accept Role of US-UK Kamikaze Pupp ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. I.N.N. World Report August 25, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • False Flag Events
    Guest post: By ‘Be informed’ What is a false flag event? False flag events are anything that has been made to look like something that it really isn’t. “Your” government can create chaos to create diversions away from what it is “really” doing. This deceit has many other purposes such as excuses ...
  • ‘How-To’ Canning Guides for Garden ...
    It’s garden harvest season, and what to do with all of that bounty? You can only eat so much of it while it’s still fresh, you may give some of it away, but don’t forget about the best of all – preserve it for later! I came across some resources which may help you with [...]
  • How To Escape From A Sinking Car
    Hopefully you will never have to actually escape from a sinking car, but, if you are ever in that unfortunate situation, this is how you do it… Although it may go against your reflex, immediately open your window as soon as you can, after you hit the water. Your best chance to get out of [...]
  • Flood? Flooding, the Most Likely Natural Disaster
    Flash Flooding is a natural disaster that is not limited by geography. Flooding will strike in deserts, rain forests, it hits populated areas, it hits out in the sticks, the mountains, and the valleys. A particular danger of Flash floods is that they can develop very rapidly, often in just a few ...
  • Prepping For Economic Collapse
    So, your main concern and reason for prepping and preparing to ‘make it’ when times get tough, is because of the threatening economic situation (house of cards) in Europe and the United States. From the standpoint of survival preparedness for economic survival, what are the specifics that may be ...

Fast Company

  • Kiva City: Using Microloans To Revitalize Smal ...
    Building off its incredibly success funding entrepreneurs in the developing world, the microloan company has turned its eye toward America, where it's giving loans in cities like New Orleans and Detroit. Microfinance platform Kiva has proven many times over that people are willing to give $25 ...
  • Groupon IPO Delay, Facebook Boosts iPhone App, ...
    This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Gogo Goes Local. Delta Airlines is fitting out its CRJ700 regional jet with Gogo's Wi-Fi service. The aircrafts are in operation already, and when their wifi service is activated, they will be the first regional fl ...
  • Management Maxims From Kim Kardashian, Communi ...
    Kim Kardashian knows how to stay on message, to amplify that message through partners, and to make everything look beautiful. Here are 10 lessons from her communications juggernaut that managers should adopt to make their initiatives succeed.As I was watching snippets of the Kim Kardashian weddi ...
  • The Gates Foundation Uses Genetic Modification ...
    The Gates Foundation is bringing stronger, hardier versions of staple crops to the developing world. Do the good motives outweigh the issues with GM food? It's easy to demonize genetically modified crops. After all, we don't exactly know what their long-term health effects are, and they have th ...
  • 4 Details Amazon Must Nail With New Kindle Tab ...
    The Kindle tablet is coming. (You may have heard a little about this.) Amazon's just redesigned its main website with changes that make it more tablet-friendly, and one writer is even claiming to have used the device. It's believed to cost "hundreds" less than the iPad does, and this alone has e ...

Jadaliyya

  • The UN Palmer Inquiry and Israel’s Attack on t ...
    The UN released its report, �Secretary-General�s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident� on Friday, 2 September 2011. The Report addressed issues relating to Israel�s attack on the Mavi Marmara � which left 9 Turkish civilians dead, and some 55 others wounded � and conclud ...
  • Kamal Salibi (1929-2011)
    Scholars of Lebanon collectively grieved at the news of the passing of Kamal Salibi, eminent historian, professor, and prolific author, on Thursday, 1 September. Salibi spent most of his academic career as a faculty member of the Department of History and Archeology at the American Unive ...
  • Cannes ya ma Cannes Ramallah [Gone to Palestin ...
    We�d been invited to the Franco-German cultural center to see a film by a leftist Israeli filmmaker. The advance notice had said that �this was perhaps the most important film on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ever made.� It was endorsed by a couple well-known intellectuals from abroad ...
  • العلماء والسلطة: سوريا نموذجاً
    ع�ا�ة ع�ماء ا�د�� با�س�طة �� ا�تار�خ ا�إس�ام� ع�ا�ة مع�دة� �إ� �ا�ت تم�� �� أغ�ب ا�أح�ا�� خاصة بعد ا��ر� ا�خامس �جر�/ا�حاد� عشر م��اد�� إ�� ا�ت�اطؤ �ا�استز�ام.� �ا�ع�ماء ا�س�ة بش�� خاص ��د�ا ا����� ا�ذ� تب�� ��م م� ا�است��ا��ة ا�تشر�ع�ة �ا��ظ���ة �ا�ما��ة مع مج�ء ا�س�اج�ة ا�تر� م� س��ب آ ...
  • Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Rev ...
    Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat (AS&AK): The Syrian people have been resisting for months now and keep coming out on the streets despite escalating repression. How would you characterize the uprising in Syria and where do you think it is heading? Fawwaz Trabulsi (FT):�People I�ve talked to ...

mediagazer

  • Adobe Digital Publishing Suite To Support iOS ...
    Adobe: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite To Support iOS 5 Newsstand  —  For immediate release  —  Publishers To Create Newsstand-enabled Applications with Full Support for Subscriptions  —  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that publishers will be able to use Adobe® Digital …
  • A wave of consolidation? Some context on Media ...
    Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab: A wave of consolidation?  Some context on MediaNews, Journal Register, and Alden Global Capital  —  The big newspaper news this morning is that two of the nation's largest remaining chains, Journal Register Co. and MediaNews Group, are executing something ...
  • Wall Street Journal Page One Editor Alix Freed ...
    Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer: Wall Street Journal Page One Editor Alix Freedman Named Reuters Ethics Editor  —  Ms. Freedman is a decorated journalist.  (via Zimbio)  —  Alix M. Freedman has been named Global Editor for Ethics and Standards at Reuters.  She comes from the Wall Street Jo ...
  • Digital First: The Next Step (Jxpaton/Digital ...
    Jxpaton / Digital First: Digital First: The Next Step  —  Today marks another important step for Digital First.  —  As announced earlier this morning, we have formed a new company - Digital First Media Inc. It will manage both the Journal Register Company and Media News Group and its mission wi ...
  • MediaNews and Journal Register Co. brought und ...
    Steve Myers / Poynter: MediaNews and Journal Register Co. brought under one roof with John Paton at helm  —  Journal Register Co. announced Wednesday that it is creating a company called Digital First Media Inc. to manage it and MediaNewsGroup.  John Paton will be CEO of Digital First and will ...

Chemtrail News

  • What is chemtrail spraying for? - Yahoo ...
    What is chemtrail spraying for? I live in Tyler tx. I went outside about 6 am. Perfect blue skies. Jets spraying all morning. It's now 1:00. I can't see any clear sky. ...answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
  • Strange Chemtrail over Sydney - Septemb ...
    Discussion about Strange Chemtrail over Sydney - September 4th... [pic] at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1626277/pg1
  • Clouds Sylphs and Chemtrails
    There are those that believe we can call upon sylphs to clean up the mess chemtrails are making in our sky. While I realize this is a fanciful idea that ...nexus.2012info.ca/forum/showthread.php?5371-Clouds...
  • Why don't chemtrail advocates DO so ...
    Discussion about Why don't chemtrail advocates DO something about the trails? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1622686/pg1
  • Noble Please stop troll clogging the chemtr ...
    Discussion about Noble- Please stop troll clogging the chemtrail threads. at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1623895/pg1

World News - Top Stories

  • Gold falls from record high to Rs 27,820 ...
    NEW DELHI: Gold lost Rs 930 to close at Rs 27,820 per 10 grams in the bullion market today due to profit- booking by stockists at existing high levels amid a weak global trend. Gold had touched an all-time high of...
  • Inflation an offshoot of policies of deve ...
    NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said high inflation in India is caused partly due to the unfavourable policies adopted by the developed countries in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. "Inflation challenge...
  • Sir Alex Ferguson plans to stick around a ...
    Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he has no plans to retire, even though he turns 70 at the end of this year....
  • Caroline Wozniacki sorry for Nadals cra ...
    Danish tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki has said that she was not making fun of Rafael Nadal when she imitated the Spanish...
  • Sir Alex Ferguson defends conduct of 'ent ...
    • Fans understand Real Madrid manager is 'fighting for them' • 'It's Mourinho's nature to be agitated,' says Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson has defended José Mourinho, saying: 'I don't find anything wrong with his enthusiasm'. Photograph: Tom Jenkins...

no frakking consensus

  • Moral Leadership, Climate Change & the UN
    The head of the UN has told the inhabitants of a country still recovering from civil war that the greatest threat to their well-being is climate change.
  • The IAC Report One Year Later
    A year after a damning assessment was released, the IPCC continues to thumb its nose at key recommendations.
  • Comic Book Analysis from the Leader of the IPCC
    History, according to the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reads like a comic book full of stark environmental villains and bizarre motives.
  • Pachauri’s Squishy Timeline
    In 2007 the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world was at a defining moment, that the next 2 to 3 years would determine our future. Without a new emissions treaty by 2012, he said, it would be too late.
  • The Journal of Climate & the IPCC
    We're supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/31/11 - Are the new health care reform laws ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: Are the new health care reform laws constitutional? - On Aug. 12, 2011 a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled (2-1) that the insurance mandate of the PPACA is unconstitutional, while a previous appeals court had ruled that ...
  • 8/30/11 - Forms of Execution in the United Sta ...
    deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: Forms of Execution in the United States, 1977 - 2009. Between 1977 and 2009, 1,188 people were executed in the US. 1,016 (85%) were executed by lethal injection and 156 (13.1%) were electrocuted. 672 (56.6%) of those executed were white and 411 (34.6%) were bla ...
  • 8/26/11 - Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 Pres ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - UPDATED: Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 President Bill Clinton adopted a vegan diet (no meat, eggs, or dairy) after his second heart surgery. In Aug. 2011, President Clinton stated, "my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, ...
  • 8/25/11 - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 st ...
    teachertenure.procon.org - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 state legislatures modified their teacher tenure laws. Many states chose to include teacher performance evaluations into their revised tenure legislation, and the Idaho legislature passed SB 1108 which phased out tenure for new teacher ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    milk.procon.org - The National School Lunch Act requires that schools serve milk. In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that milk from cloned cows was safe for human consumption. The retail sale of raw cow's milk for human consumption is illegal in 42 states. Read about these and ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Why is Average IQ Higher in Some Places?
    A surprising theory about global variations in intelligence Christopher Eppig  Disease puts pressure on the brain Image: iStock/Nathan Watkins Being smart is the most expensive thing we do. Not in terms of money, but in a currency that is vital to all living things: energy. One study found that ...
  • Red Dawn
    Why the United States should embrace, not fear, China’s economic rise. CHARLES KENNY Henry Kissinger’s 2001 book Does America Need a Foreign Policy? opens with the observation that "[a]t the dawn of the new millennium, the United States is enjoying a preeminence unrivaled by even the greatest em ...
  • The Calm Before the Storm
    Cyberwar is already happening — and it’s about to get much, much worse. A veteran intelligence official explains how America can prepare itself. JOEL BRENNER Revelations of wholesale electronic fraud and massive data heists have become weekly, even daily affairs. A multinational electronics corp ...
  • Philosophical counselors rely on eternal wisdo ...
    Emily Wax Patricia Anne Murphy is a philosopher with a real-world mission. Murphy may have a PhD and an intimate knowledge of Aristotle and Descartes, but in her snug Takoma Park bungalow, sheâs helping a broken-hearted patient struggle through a divorce. Instead of offering the wounded wife a p ...
  • The Battle Over Zomia
    Scholars are enchanted by the notion of this anarchic region in Asia. But how real is it? By Ruth Hammond The region of Zomia had not been mapped for very long when people started quarreling over it. Political scientists, historians, geographers, anthropologists, and especially Southeast Asianis ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • A current student’s perspective on higher educ ...
     Martha Henriques is about to start the third year of her Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge. She has recently spent a week as an intern in the Science Policy Centre, which included some time looking over the Government’s recent Higher Education White Paper. As a current scie ...
  • Access to contraceptive services – a woman’s l ...
    FROM CLAIRE CHIVERS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE A joint report from the Centre for Reproductive Rights and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was presented at the UK parliament in July 2011.  Entitled ‘The right to contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents’, the b ...
  • PolicyLab on open science
    On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...

NAU Resistance

  • Advancing U.S.-Canada Economic, Energy and Sec ...
    "As part of a continental security perimeter arrangement, Canada could be forced to comply with any new U.S. requirements, regardless of the risks they may pose to privacy and civil liberties." -Dana Gabriel
  • Are Canada’s Online Surveillance Laws Being Dr ...
    "We oppose mandatory Internet surveillance. This scheme is poorly thought out, costly, and will leave our personal information less secure. Unchecked mass surveillance is a breach of our fundamental right to privacy."- StopSpying.ca
  • 1 Million Signatures Against Further Canadian/ ...
    By: Terry Wilson August 30, 2011 After reading a column in the Globe and Mail by: PAOLA LORIGGIO. Titled Nearly half of Canadians oppose greater integration with U.S. law enforcement. The Canadian Awareness Network has decided to start a nation wide online petition to the Canadian government to ...
  • Perimeter Security Deal Full Of Lies And Decep ...
    On Monday August 15, 2011 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Big Sis) took some time out of her busy schedule to meet with her Canadian counterpart, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in what just so happens to be the home province of the "NAFTA Superhighway", Winnipeg Manitoba.
  • Concerned B.C. Residents Say No To HST! No To NAU!
    "Bill Vander Zalm says citizens David beat HST Goliath in mismatched battle"

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • John Bursill Debates 9/11 on 2GB radio
    John Bursill was on one of the biggest radio shows in the country yesterday, debating Mike King from the UK on the the subject of 9/11. Download the audio here.
  • Your Help is Needed at Town Hall to Promote 9/ ...
    Sydney Town Hall Saturday, September 10, 2011, 11:00 AM 483 George St, Sydney (map) We will be outside the Town Hall Hi there!� We need YOUR help to hand out flyers for the upcoming 9/11 Film night at Sydney Town Hall Please RSVP here if you can make it.
  • Convoy of No Consequence - March and Rally
    MARRICKVILLE - 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 AT 12 NOON A march will begin at the corner of Marrickville and Livingstone Roads, Marrickville tomorrow at 12 noon to protest about Mr Albanese's derogatory comments concerning the Convoy of No Confidence in Canberra on 22nd August. The protesters will march ...
  • Debunking Peak Oil with Ian Crane
    Ian Crane is a former oil industry executive with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history and geopolitics of oil. Tonight Ian leads us on a fascinating journey through the many facets of the global power structures which are built on the trade and price fixing of oil. In particular we look at ...
  • New NPR Hit-Piece: Conspiracy Theories And The ...
    This radio broadcast is a text-book example of propaganda masquerading as journalism. The program purports to be an investigation, but in fact there is only one viable point of view presented. NPR has blood on its hands! http://911blogger.com/news/2011-08-24/...kay Audio Archive: Strea ...

Beacon

  • Friday Infographic: What is Trawling?
    This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Bottom trawls, enormous fishing nets that are dragged across the sea floor, clear-cut e ...
  • New Issue of Oceana Magazine: Ocean Heroes and ...
    The new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the press! In this issue, you’ll learn about our latest news and victories, and lots more, including: *Profiles of our 2011 Ocean Heroes, shark-loving Sophi Bromenshenkel and sea lion-rescuing Peter Wallerstein *A thought-provoking Q&A with envir ...
  • US and EU Reach Accord on Pirate Fishing
    Trawl nets containing uprooted gorgonian corals. © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Today, the U.S. and E.U. signed a historic agreement to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. These activities are responsible for most illegal fish on the market, some of the most destructive fishing pract ...
  • Victory! California Senate Passes Shark Fin Tr ...
    Things continue to look up for sharks in the Pacific. Last night the California Senate passed a ban on the sale, trade, possession, and distribution of shark fins in the state.� Oceana was instrumental in the passage of this bill to protect the ocean�s apex predators. If the bill is signed ...
  • Patagonia’s Penguins at Risk from Proposed Coa ...
    Magellanic penguins in Chile. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Last month Chile’s government approved a controversial coal mine project in southern Patagonia’s Riesco Island, despite opposition from local residents and environmental groups, including Oceana. Oceana presented a report to Chile’ ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The MC-1. The Soviet Union’s First Tank.
    � MC-1 Tank MC-1 First Soviet Tank MC-1 Tanks were Russia�s first real entry into the new armored battlefield vehicles. First referred to as the T-18, the finished products were assigned to Red Guard infantry units as the MC-1. It�s first appearance on the battlefield would not be forgotten by R ...
  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Battl ...
    Getting to the battlefield cost Napoleon one of his biggest defeats. La Grande Armee marched into Moscow with 450,000 men and returned across the Brezhina River with 40,000. Much of the death was simply the Russian winter. The serfs the French mistreated on the way in destroyed most of his army ...
  • Dancing With The Troops.
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  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Battl ...
    He often found himself stuffed into the back of some flatbed truck covered in olive green tarp riding along bumpy roads from encampments to ship yards or airports. Ten of thousands of freshly trained recruits were stuffed on troop transport ships that were often as not moribund passenger liners ...
  • Rosie The Riveter Won WWII.
    Rosie The Riveter One of the great misconceptions about World War II one discovers in the United States, is the notion that the United States single handedly won the war. As a member of one of the largest industrialized nations in the world, one of the fields where we lack is history. Six in ten ...

Taylor Marsh

  • The Cost of Fear: Osama Won
    âThe dangerous trend in Pakistan,â he said, âis that there is far more hate for America now than there was ever love of Osama.â – Mission Unfinished, BY JILL ABRAMSON – In the twilight of Americaâs decade-long, multibillion-dollar intervention, Afghanistan remains highly unstable, the Pakistanis ...
  • Sunday Morning Early-Bird News Round-Up
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, September 11, 2001, the U.S. suffered it’s worst terror attack on domestic soil as terrorists hijacked 4 planes and targeted NY and Washington D.C. for attack. The Sunday talk shows will be replete with commemorations, interviews, retro ...
  • 9/11 Commemoration: Three Presidents, Differen ...
    “There has always been a special place in the common memory for people who deliberately, knowingly, certainly lay down their lives for other people to live. …” – Pres. Bill Clinton Every time I hear the word “anniversary” invoked for 9/11 I cringe. There is nothing celebratory about the date, wi ...
  • Progressive Notes: Tammy Baldwin a Go, Perry ‘ ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Rep. Grijalva on MSNBC urging a bolder jobs plan. He says nothing will happen with Boehner, but the debate over a bold plan will be a boon to Dems in 2012. He will and has been ignored tragically: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin announce ...
  • Queer Talk: Millennial generational changes
    Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. If you were born on or after December 21, 1993, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue has always been law – those who are gay, lesbian or bisexual (not transgender) could serve in the U.S. military, but not “openly.” Over 1 ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2011
    This series, developed to collate some—by no means all—of the most extreme instances of Muslim persecution of Christians that surface each month, serves two purposes: 1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: habitual, if not chronic,
  • A Palestinian State, Arafat's Dream
    Having a state is not the end game of Palestinian leadership; it is just a major stepping stone. Former Palestinian Chairman Yassir Arafat and his successor, President Mahmoud Abbas, could already have had a Palestinian state a decade ago, thanks to
  • Iran's problem: Post-revolutionary Syria as an ...
    After the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Iran fears that Damascus might be next. Anti-regime protests have been continuing for the past five months in Syria. The regime has been responding to the spontaneous uprising by killing over 2.000 people.
  • Turkish Prime Minister Faces Hurdles Over Gaza ...
    Ankara is considering a possible visit by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the Gaza Strip as part of his trip to Egypt next week, but the idea is facing tall political and security hurdles. Erdoğan is scheduled to pay an official visit to Egypt
  • Why Palestine Will Not Have Peaceful Relations ...
    Judging from the reactions of many Palestinians this week to Turkey's decision to expel the Israeli ambassador and freeze security contracts with Israel, it does not seem that the future state of Palestine will have peaceful relations with its Jewish

Urban Survival

  • The Eurplosion Ahead
    We’ve been saying for a long time that investors ought to be skeptical of the Euro since the countries that comprise the Union are the problem collectively and just because the Euro was bigger as a currency than the individual … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Yet Another Web Bot Rip
    There’s a news release out of the National Institute for Computational Sciences up in Illinois about a new paper out this week which (oh boy – this is insightful, huh?) figures that future events can be forecast bgy applying what?  … Continue reading →
  • Fire + Wind, II
    Here’s the problem in a nutshell that forest firefighters were up against on Monday afternoon.  It’s the Weather Service METAR for Palestine Texas and it was representative of the main problem with the forest fires through the East Texas area … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Advancing Police State
    Some months (mid-June) back I told you about the Channel 5 i-Team report up in Nashville about how people with out of state license plates were being pulled over with no apparent reason on I-40 and that Elaine and I … Continue reading →
  • Reader Note: Markets
    U.S. stock and bond markets are closed for the Labor Day Holiday.  Asia was down in a serious way overnight with the Hang Seng down almost 3%.  Things are also in collapse mode in Europe where Germany was down almost … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Links for 2011-09-06 [del.icio.us]
    Gold to Hit $2000 an Ounce on the Short Term | GOLD and SILVER MARKET Jay Weidner - Alchemy - Coast To Coast AM - 5.9.2011 | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Jay Weidner - Alchemy - Coast To Coast AM - 5.9.2011 | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Jay Weidner - Alchemy - Coast To Coast AM - 5.9.2 ...
  • Gerald Celente dumps the Swiss Franc and inves ...
    Gerald Celente : I made it clear in the trends... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Jay Weidner - Alchemy - Coast To Coast AM - 5. ...
    Jay Weidner is a renowned author, filmmaker and... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Steve Quayle : China will invade America
    Steve Quayle - Global Turmoil - Coast To Coast AM... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-09-05 [del.icio.us]
    China SGE to raise gold, silver margin requirements starting Sep 9 | Gold and Silver Blog China SGE to raise gold, silver margin requirements starting Sep 9 | Gold and Silver Blog China SGE to raise gold, silver margin requirements starting Sep 9 | Gold and Silver Blog China SGE to rai ...

Radical Chic

  • RESPONSE TO DAVID STARKEY’S “WHITE ...
    Filed under: EXPOSURE Tagged: Black Crime, Crime, Criminality, David Starkey, government, life, London riots, society, UK riots
  • THE CHILDISH LOOK
    There’s something about the way a baby looks at people that’s different. Perhaps its something to do with the fact that for the first year or so they have a fairly limited vocabulary, and their eyes are the window through which they gain their first perceptions of life. When an adult makes eye c ...
  • DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH 2: Primal Religions
    It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of religious beliefs, so it would be much wiser to assume that several religions were at play within different cultures at opposite ends of the world. Continents like Africa, Asia and the America’s traditionally held on to certain beliefs and life ...
  • MAKE US LAUGH
    Welcome once again to “Make Us Laugh!”. The rules are simple – Tell a short funny story using the featured picture as inspiration, in 50 words or less. We’ll kick start with a story of our own. Let’s see who can “Make Us Laugh!”. Feel free to also comment on whose story you think is [...]
  • NIGERIAN GANGSTERS vs GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND
    “Its a beef ting, and man dem wanna come at me like I aint gon do nufink! This aint no joke, what do you fink vis is? Man lookin to lick them if they don quit gassing.” The anger on the English streets is evident in the language, even though the language itself struggles to [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Remembering Dr. Lipscomb and other events this ...
    See the calendar below. Many events of interest to scientists this week. If you would like to add events to the calendar, please contact us. In addition to an ever expanding list of seminars, lectures and gatherings, friends and colleagues of the late William Lipscomb will gather at 2 p.m. Sat ...
  • NYTimes: Massachusetts company promotes trendy ...
    Harvest Technologies Corporation, a Plymouth company, gets a mention in a NY Times story on a new trend in sports medicine: platelet-rich plasma or P.R.P. The company supplies equipment for P.R.P. treatments. While there are no official statistics on P.R.P. treatment, all agree that it has exp ...
  • Getting Iggy in Cambridge: Ig Noble Awards on ...
    A visit to the Improbable Research website bring us news of memorials for two Iggy scientists, as well as a program for the upcoming Ig Nobel awards event. Details below. September 10, 2011, Saturday, 2:00 pm. Memorial event for William Lipscomb, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA -- This ...
  • New restaurants and street life show up in Ken ...
    The Kendall Square section of Cambridge used to be home to underused warehouses and MIT buildings with numbers instead of names. The biotech companies moved in in the 1990s, but it's taken a good decades for a street life to emerge. Now , with a burst of new restaurants, the neighborhood is, ...
  • Avalanche of events arrives with fall's student
    September brings students back to Boston and along with them seminars, lecture, conferences and other scientific events. We're squeezed our updated calendar below or you can link to it here.

NRDC Switchboard

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

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, September 6, 2011: Lancaster NY police are accused of using excessive force in the death of a man who was repeatedly tasered. A witness claims that the man was on the ground and com ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 09-03 ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked so far in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Labor Day weekend of September 3-5, 2011: The US 10th Circuit Court ruled that cops cannot use minor traffic violations as an excuse to break into homes without a warrant in a case in ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, September 2, 2011: Raleigh NC is being sued by a man claiming a cop broke his leg and shattered his knee without cause then a judge jailed him for contempt because he couldn’t stand ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 29 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, September 1, 2011: 3 San Bernardino Co CA deputies sued alleging 5 taser cartridges were used for over 10mins when a man was tasered to death for honking at cop [3] on.msnbc.com/p9 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 38 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this record-breaking* Wednesday, August 31, 2011: Washington Co OR sued by man who was unarmed & only dressed in underwear when he was shot by deputies who burst into the house he was staying in ...

Total Collapse

  • N. Korea warns of war as US-S. Korea exercise ...
    South Korea and the United States launched a massive joint military exercise on Tuesday, prompting the North to condemn the manoeuvres as provocative and warn that “all-out war” could erupt. The two allies have described the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise as defensive and routine but the ...
  • U.S., South Korea start military exercises wit ...
    U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called “defense-oriented” during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North. The annual “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” exercise involves about 530,000 troops from South Kor ...
  • US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft ...
    The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims. “We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment,” Stat ...
  • Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest
    Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain’s colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country. âNo one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people’s wrath ...
  • Syria, Saudi Arabia and the coming regional se ...
    While all the Saudi media pub­lished the speech of the King Abdul­lah (video) defend­ing the human rights of the Syr­ian peo­ple, one Saudi news­pa­per missed the story and pub­lished anarti­cle about poverty in one of the rich­est king­doms in the world. Inter­pret­ing the King’s words, it is n ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Yahoo’s Carol Bartz fired, Facebook’s revenue looking strong for 2011 (or so it’s reported), while Twitter and Bing renew their search deal. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Make sure to hit the subscription butt ...
  • Microsoft drops ban hammer on users who ripped ...
    Oh dear, I wonder how many twelve-year-old kids just lost their collective cool. Microsoft, in a very terse statement, made it known today that it had banned a number of Xbox LIVE users who had ripped off content from the console’s Marketplace. Users who suffered the ban have reported that they ...
  • The Guardian newspaper arrives on Android
    The UK’s Guardian newspaper is now available on Android, and the good news is it’s free of charge. The publication launched its subscription-based iOS app back in January, and whilst the mini iOS app version offers a selection of stories for free, access to the full app in the UK costs £2.99 ( ...
  • A Social Media Strategy for Startups in 11 Steps
    For startups, a killer social media strategy is the key to success. If you’re feeling anti-social and think you can keep quiet — think again. You have to take part in the world you’re helping to create, and there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. Read on and sink your teeth into 11 steps ...
  • Does social media encourage bad table manners?
    I’ve just spent 3 days in Italy. For those of you who haven’t been there it is about as social a country as you will ever see. The people wave their hands around while talking to each other and groups of people both young and old stop on street corners to discuss everything from the price of co ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Open For Inspection
    ���������������������� CommSec�s recently released report on Australian homes showed that we are still building the biggest new homes on the planet. According to the Sydney Morning Herald: �The latest figures show the average new home built in Australia is still 10 per cent bigger than its cou ...
  • Help Take Beyond Zero Global
    With your support, our 100 percent renewable message is making its way into community halls, MPs offices and the national media. Now, we are poised to make a global impact as Zero Carbon Australia researcher Patrick Hearps joins me to present at the International Energy Agency�s 2011 solar thema ...
  • Ballieu Government Anti-Wind Stance Closes the ...
    Changes to the planning rules for wind energy projects introduced by the Ballieu Government will cost Victoria hundreds of jobs billions of dollard in investment. Beyond Zero Emissions� Executive Director Matthew Wright says wind energy developments will reduce the cost of electricity: �Wind pr ...
  • Politicians Question the Role of Gas in Austra ...
    Politicians have raised fresh questions about the role of coal seam gas in Australia's energy future. Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne, along with MP Adam Bandt have all expressed concern about the emissions intensity of coal seam gas in the first week of the autumn session of parl ...
  • Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
    Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...

Monga Bay ( News )

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

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone’s ‘Leone Stars’ defeat Cameroon 2 ...
    LOS ANGELES – 384 semi-professional and amateur soccer players representing 20 African countries were featured in the first ever African Community Soccer Tournament that saw Sierra Leone’s  ‘Leone Stars’  defeat Cameroon’s  ‘L.A. Lions’  team 2-1 to capture the first ACST Cup title.  (Photo: The ...
  • Laughter at its best with Airtel
    Swarming laughter filled the air at the Miatta Conference Hall, Brookfields, as the Nigerian comedians in combination with our own home born comedians cracked the ribs of Sierra Leoneans with hilarious jokes.   (Photo: Airtel Staff with Nigerian comedians on arrival (far right Klint and Bash) Ai ...
  • Can the west avoid repeating Japan’s lost decade?
    Japan’s economic bubble burst twenty years ago. Since then the country suffered weak growth and what became known as, “the lost decade”. In recent weeks, a dominant question has been whether the US and European economies are to suffer the same fate? (Photo: Dr Gerard Lyons) If anything, the imme ...
  • Upcoming African Challenges for Washington
    The Upcoming Election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is just one of the myriad of Challenges that not only the Obama Administration will have to deal with but also its European and African Allies as well. The potential of having some serious danger occurring before the Congo Elections i ...
  • Female football legend Marta ends 2 day visit ...
    UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, Marta Vieira Da Silva, five-time FIFA world female player of the year, ended a two-day visit to Sierra Leone Sunday to promote women’s empowerment with the message “When women succeed, we all win.” During her visit, Marta met with University students, civil society grou ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Prices dip again in overnight dairy auction
    Average prices of dairy products fell for the sixth straight sale in Fonterra's latest online auction, reaching the lowest level in 10 months.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 1.4 per cent to US$3,580 a metric tonne, according to results...
  • NZ still a target for Chinese dairy firm
    The Chinese-owned dairy company behind the failed bid for more than a dozen Crafar farms has told the Hong Kong Stock Exchange it is continuing to pursue business opportunities in New Zealand's dairy industry.Natural Dairy says...
  • Receivers' care after Hubbard's death
    The death of Timaru financier Allan Hubbard makes little difference to the ongoing sale of his businesses - but compassion is being exercised.Kerryn Downey, South Canterbury Finance receiver at McGrathNicol with William Black, said...
  • Fonterra confirms forecast for 2012 payout
    Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, has confirmed the forecast payment for the 2012 season, which is expected to decline from 2011's record payout as global commodity prices ease from their highs.The operating...
  • Cost of tomatoes, broccoli soars
    A spike in the cost of tomatoes and broccoli helped bump up the Food Price Index by 2 per cent during July, Statistics New Zealand said.Tomatoes averaged $13.25 per kg in July, up 34 per cent on the previous month, while the cost...

The Bovine

  • Farmer Michael Schmidt: “Nine days to go ...
    As I was thinking about the countdown and the possible doom and gloom scenario some people anticipate, I am thinking about another 9 significant monuments in the cultural world. Beethoven composed 9 symphonies and documented unintended his own struggle in … Continue reading →
  • “Heads, the regulators win, Tails, raw m ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “”Heads I win, tails you lose.” I couldn’t help but think about that kids’ expression–the kind of everything-going-your-way fantasy all kids dream about at one time or another–as I read through … Continue reading →
  • Santa Cruz farmers stage milk-in today
    From Brad Kava in the Santa Cruz Patch: “Last week Santa Cruz went to the dogs, with its new law giving canines rights to visit the boutique downtown. This week it’s going to the goats, who will be milked near … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt on “Ten ...
    Ten days until the raw milk appeal ruling on September 16th and Ten reasons why we will continue Will we win this appeal??.?? That is the question many are asking. It is not any more the question is Michael winning. … Continue reading →
  • “What if farming for profit really isn&# ...
    From Gene Logsdon at the Land Institute: After 70 years spent in agriculture, doing everything from milking a hundred cows when a hundred cows was a really big herd, to being a staff editor for The Farm Journal when The Farm Journal was a … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Stocks Rally in Yet Another Futile "We are Sav ...
    Equity markets are up across the board, but particularly Europe following a German court decision that everyone pretty much knew would happen anyway. Please consider German court reins in Berlin on euro crisis.The Constitutional Court in the southern city of Karlsruhe rejected, as expected, a s ...
  • Bernanke's Waterloo; Midst of Deflationary Co ...
    The September Contrary Investor It's A Long Hard Road is an exceptional marriage of debt-deflation concepts, long-wave K-Cycles, credit cycles, and Austrian economic thinking. Here is a lengthy snip of several key points with permission.If there has been one consistent theme since day one at CI, ...
  • Italian PM Calls Vote of Confidence; 70,000 Pr ...
    Attention turns to the German courts tomorrow for a ruling on the legality of bailouts. Today, eyes are on Italy. Italian PM Calls Vote of Confidence Bloomberg reports Berlusconi Cabinet Will Call for Confidence Vote on Revised Austerity Plan Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called a C ...
  • Greek 1-Year Bond Yield Hits 88.48%; No Commen ...
    Greek one-year bonds march relentlessly towards a yield of 100%. No Comments from Trichet, ECB, or EU During this massive spike, there has been no comment from outgoing ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet, incoming ECB president Mario Drahgi, or for that matter anyone in the ECB or EU regardin ...
  • Switzerland to "Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimi ...
    In a stunning morning press release, Swiss National Bank sets minimum exchange rate at CHF 1.20 per euroThe current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is therefore ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

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Blogging Canadians

  • The Tunnel of Parenthood
  • $500,000 spending limit per leadership candida ...
    I almost feel like supporting the NDP leadership hopeful that doesn't spend more than a few hundred dollars on the campaign. Given the fact that dozens of federal riding campaigns throughout the country in the 2011 election worked with around $15,000 budgets and thus could only ironically smile ...
  • Manitoba gives immigrants these subsidies that ...
    Bend over Manitoba, its today’s NDP, here to enrich you by giving your money to better Manitobans…. Wouldn’t you like an allowance just for being Manitoban? Well at least you get to pay for one.
  • Herman Cain and Islamophobia
    Did Islamophobia cost Herman Cain�the run for the US presidency? Watch the following video and you be the judge. Bigotry is not the sole domain of White folks, some blacks are equally good at it.
  • Aliens are football fan!!
    They watch the game from the comfort of their UFOs. Read the story here.

Press TV - Middle East

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

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Run For The Wild: What do Baking and Running H ...
    Wow! The last few weeks have flown by, and I’m happy to say that I’ve kept up my training schedule for the Run for the Wild, despite the fact that it feels like we’ve traded NYC for Seattle. For those keeping track with me, I’m now in my fourth week, and have one more run for this week. So ...
  • 9/11: Ten Years Later
    It was a clear September morning. The first plane struck the World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:46 a.m. The second at 9:03 a.m. Terror came to NYC in the form of evil that most had never known before.  For all of the lives that were impacted on this tragic day in our nation; I  [...]
  • The New Required Back to School Item
    All the time I went to school, from 1st grade through college, I loved school supplies. The best part of late August was buying the new notebooks, loose leaf binders, pens, markers, protractors and everything else that went along with the new school year. Of course, all the new toys needed a nic ...
  • What I Learned From The Job Interview Process
    “It’s a bad economy.” “We’re in a recession.” “You gotta take what you can get.” “Nobody is hiring anymore.” “Those old jobs are not coming back.” We are hearing a lot of negativity about the job market these days. The fact that the unemployment rate is hovering around 9% nationwide is not helpi ...
  • Welcome Letter to Students from Dean John Mogu ...
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming school year. Whether you are a new or returning student, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the fall 2011 term and to thank you for ...

Dissident Voice

  • Denmark Election: All Parties Lack Morality
    It was with joy that I watched television coverage of election day, September 15. According to all the nine political parties running, and the mass media, there were no wars in the world and Denmark no longer was involved in three wars—Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya alongside the USA. In fact, all ...
  • Dare We Question Capitalism?
    Between 1900 and 2011 there have been 24 recessions in the United States (including the Great Depression), about once every 4.6 years â some decades more, some less â largely from inevitable overproduction and greed. Yes, capitalism’s highly productive and has made many Americans rich and facili ...
  • Chavez versus Obama: Facing Presidential Elec ...
    Two incumbent presidents are running for re-election in 2012, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Barack Obama in the United States.  What makes these two electoral contests significant is that they represent contrasting responses to the global economic crises.  Chavez, following his democratic sociali ...
  • Questionnaire for 2012 Candidates
    1. The US has more than 700 military bases in 130 foreign countries. Do you support the closing of all of these bases? YES________ NO________ 2. The Black Budget finances covert operations in an unknown number of foreign countries. It was authorized during the Truman administration. Since then, ...
  • Congress Sees Middle East Through AIPAC-Colore ...
    During August recess this year, 81 members of Congress went on a junket to Israel funded by the Israel lobby group AIPAC (well, funded by the American Israel Education Fund, but they are really one and the same) to “learn first-hand about one of our closest friends and allies.â While the represe ...

Destructionist

  • Fukushima Fallout in California Waters: A Threat?
    The radioactive fallout from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant accident has spread as far as California waters, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley. But although the level of radioactivity in the water was higher than normal, they said, it was still very low and ...
  • Soros & Roubini: US Is Already In Recession: E ...
    Stock markets around the world tumbled in early trading today following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will proceed with a a new $400bn bond-buying plan to ward off a double-dip recession, and yet both George Soros and Nouriel Roubini say the US is already in a recession, and that it ...
  • Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...
    Roughly a year and a half after the BP oil disaster left the Gulf of Mexico saturated with crude oil and toxic Corexit chemicals, new evidence has surfaced showing what appears to be more crude oil spewing into the ocean. Raw Story explains that Dr. Bonny Schumaker, founder of OnWingsOfCare.org, ...
  • Depressed As A Nation? 80 Percent Of Americans ...
    According to a brand new Gallup poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that we are in a recession right now. Of course the government insists that the recession ended quite some time ago, but apparently the message is not sinking in. Not only that, most Americans also do not believe that things ...
  • Soros: Embrace Mass Centralization Of Power In ...
    Billionaire globalist George Soros says that the world will face a second Great Depression unless leaders in Europe come together in a closer political union to push through bold new policies, including the creation of a European Treasury....“There is no alternative but to give birth to the miss ..

    IPS - Inter Press Services

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

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia ready for more nuclear cooperation with ...
    Summary: Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko on Sunday promised further nuclear cooperation with Iran, after building the Islamic republic's first atomic power plant despite US objections. "I say with certainty that in the future, we will have more cooperation in the Bushehr power plant, ...
  • Iran desires to establish brotherly ties with ...
    Summary: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)President Ahmadinejad accused the United States and its allies of plotting to destabilize the Middle East, and expressed readiness to host a meeting for the Muslim nations to help in settling the problems in Syria "without intervention of the foreigners." " ...
  • 9/11, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE ISLAMIC REP ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsEarlier this week, as part of Al Jazeera’s coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Hillary appeared on Al Jazeera English to talk about the war on terror and American foreign policy, see here. She made a series of points that warrant serious discussion by Americans ...
  • Iran ups criticism of Turkey over NATO missile ...
    Summary: TEHRAN — Iran toughened Thursday its criticism of Turkey over its plan to host an early-warning radar as part of NATO's missile defence system, saying it will create tension and lead to "complicated consequences." source: AFPread more
  • 'West bullies Syria to salvage Israel'
    Summary: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insists that the ongoing Western threats waged against Syria are aimed at salvaging the Israeli regime and promoting the West's own interests in the region source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Milky Way Might Harbor Thousands of Ticki ...
    New research shows that some old stars might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as supernovae. Thousands of these "time bombs" could be scattered throughout our Galaxy. Why could this be important?...
  • Galaxies -A Trillion Space Telescopes Unlock M ...
    Astronomers are now using galaxies as lenses to explore the distant universe, providing them with precise tool to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding. The measurement determines a value for the Hubble...
  • The "Earth Strain" --Have NASA Missions Alread ...
    When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. NASA's Mars mission lends living credibility a...
  • Does Dolphin Intelligence Hint at Possible Typ ...
    In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams noted that "On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so...
  • Image of the Day: Earth Aurora from the ISS

Natural News

  • Melatonin plays an important role in healthy d ...
    (NaturalNews) Melatonin is known as the regulator of the sleep wake cycle in the body. It is produced in the pineal gland of the brain and monitors sleep cycles while playing an important role in healing and anti-oxidant protection. New indicators are showing that it may play an even more import ...
  • Police grant Apple security officials unlawful ...
    (NaturalNews) Just weeks before the speculated launch of Apple Inc.'s long-awaited iPhone 5, the technology giant has once again lost a critical prototype of the unreleased smartphone, according to SF Weekly. After supposedly tracing the device back to the home of a San Francisco man, undercover ...
  • While homes burned, feds told Texas volunteer ...
    (NaturalNews) Daniel Miller of the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), a group that advocates Texas become its own sovereign nation rather than a "state" of the USA. Regardless of whether or not you believe in the growing movement toward states' independence from federal control, ...
  • Chocolate and cocoa polyphenols vindicated in ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have finally published solid evidence to demonstrate the consumption of chocolate is associated with improved heart and vascular health. Writing in the prestigious BMJ (British Medical Journal), Dr. Oscar Franco and his team d ...
  • BMJ had secret financial ties to Merck during ...
    (NaturalNews) When a corrupt medical group wants to discourage dissidence from within, it targets a high profile figure to disgrace. This intimidates others from doing the right thing if it disrupts the lies and profits of Big Pharma.Dr. Andrew Wakefield was a high profile scapegoat, smeared wit ...

Threat Level

  • Copyright Troll Righthaven Goes on Life Support
    The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end. Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was ...
  • CIA, Mossad, Also Targeted in Massive DigiNota ...
    The list of fraudulent certificates obtained by hackers who breached a Dutch certificate authority has grown to more than 500 and includes certificates for domains owned by three intelligence agencies: the CIA, Israel's Mossad and the UK's MI6.
  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rick Perry's Texas-Sized Lies on Health Care
    Republicans frontrunner Rick Perry raised some eyebrows during Wednesday's GOP presidential debate by blaming the federal government for his state's staggering number of uninsured. As it turns out, those jaws were dropping with good reason. After all, just months ago Perry advocated opting out ...
  • GOP Explains When a Tax Cut Isn't a Tax Cut
    When is a tax cut not a tax cut? According to Republicans, when those receiving it are working Americans and the President proposing it is a Democrat. Because after they spent 2010 ensuring the extension of the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy by insisting "you should never have to offset ...
  • The Republican Party Wishes You a Happy Labor Day!
    To mark Labor Day 2011, conservative flame-thrower Michelle Malkin offered American workers a look back at the "top 10 union thug moments of the year." As it turns out, Malkin's union-bashing hyperbole differs little from the leading lights of the Republican Party. While Sarah Palin has decrie ...
  • Job One for Debt Panel? Pay for America's 9/1 ...
    Three stories will dominate American politics over the next week. As it turns out, they are very much related. On Thursday, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan which will invariably be opposed by Republicans claiming "America is broke." That same day, Congress' debt "super committee" wi ...
  • GOP Debt Ceiling "Uncertainty" Fueled Grim Job ...
    On Friday, Republicans deployed two talking points - one new, one old - in response to the grim news that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August. The same GOP leaders who in January gave credit to the "newly elected House Republican Majority" for the economy's strong performance in the fo ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Generating Electricity while Walking
    Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have improved their ability to generate considerably more electricity from human footfalls. Related posts:Are We There Yet? Hydrogen Generating Technology Should Going Green Come With Big Monetary Costs? Ontario’s Electricity Hike Wind and S ...
  • Clouds Do Not Cause Climate Change
    Despite recent scientific speculation to the contrary, clouds do not cause climate change, says Texas A&M atmospheric sciences professor Andrew Dessler. Rather, they act almost singularly as a feedback mechanism. Related posts:Global Climate and Warming Affected by Cloud Feedback Did Climate S ...
  • Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Oper ...
    This is a repost of a tremendous article by a true political insider, on just how much the GOP is owned by large corporations and willing to hold the country hostage to accomplish a few societally unhelpful goals (with bolding added by me until the sections on the GOP's principal tenets at the b ...
  • Top Activism Stories
    Some tip green activism news of the past few days for you: Related posts:Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week Daryl Hannah, Greenpeace USA Executive Director, & More Arrested at White House; Tim DeChristopher Sends Letter from Prison (+ Top Activism Stories) Top Activism Stories
  • Wireless Solar-Powered Keyboard for Macs (& To ...
    Here are some top green living stories of the past day or so, following this repost from sister site CleanTechnica on a new solar-powered keyboard for Mac users: Related posts:Solar PV to Double in US in 2011 (+ Top Green Living Stories) Solar-Powered 3-Wheeler — Icare Twike (+ Top Green Livin ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Afghan Resistance Bombs U.S. Base, Wounding 77 ...
    "Each year, 9/11 reminds the Afghans of an event in which they had no role whatsoever. American colonialism has shed the blood of tens of thousands of miserable and innocent Afghans. The Afghans have an endless stamina for a long war. Through a countrywide uprising, the Afghans will send the...
  • NATO Mercenaries infiltrated, disorganized, un ...
    Libya NTC rebel fighters ambushed in Bani Walid by Gaddafi loyalists by Dominique Soguel near Bani Walid, Libya September 12, 2011 FIGHTERS backing the new regime in Libya have met strong resistance in the Libyan oasis town of Bani Walid, where they came under sniper fire from ...
  • White Hats. Americans' remarkable incapacity f ...
    When Lois Griffin gets elected mayor of Quahog, MA by pandering to the stupidest and most meaningless references to 9/11, audiences roar. But when that same scenario is replayed over and over again in a largely successful attempt to separate people from their intellect, their conscience and thei ...
  • The Imperial Media, Libya and the Battle of Ba ...
    The Western Media Examining the facts and finding the truth of what began Friday night as The Battle for Bani Walid has not been easy due to the many conflicting stories published by the pro-invader media. That the western media has organized itself to blantantly lie about the NATO war...
  • Support the Palestinian Initiative in the UN f ...
    Virginia Tilley, writing in the Electronic Intifada, under the title, "Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood" has argued that the Palestinian Authority's move toward a UN resolution declaring statehood is destructive of Palestinian aspiration for statehood.   Unfor ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • How Social Security is Like a Ponzi Scheme
    It's not. From Mother Jones: (Last) Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a group of voters that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" and a "monstrous lie" to younger Americans. It's not the first time the GOP presidential candidate has made such claims. The Texas governor also described Social Se ...
  • Reverse Inequality is the Only Solution
    We have been moving toward a lords-and-serfs economy for so long, and the right-wing noise machine has drilled acceptance of inequality into the national consciousness so deeply that we are no longer able to recognize, much less address, the real cause of our current crisis. Robert Reich at Nati ...
  • Think Your Right to Vote is Secure? Think Again
    By @KYYellowDog We've known since at least November 2000 that repugs are all about stopping Democratic voters from voting. They've always pretended they're fighting "voter fraud," which doesn't exist but which gives them a nice cover for actual election fraud. Now they've dropped the pretense. F ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD @DavidGregory's non-existent insight and phenomenal douchebaggery were in full flower on Sunday. He thinks the Iraq war would have been more popular if it had "gone well." American's you see, don't care whether a war is justified, or that the administration lied us into it and got nea ...
  • The Teamsters celebrate Labor Day in Detroit
    By @MBersin James Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, had a few things to say in Detroit (via Media Matters): James Hoffa, Jr: ...Everybody here's gotta vote. If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong. [che ...

Care 2

  • LIBYA: New Chapter Opens After Gaddafi
    Libyan children will go back to school without Muammar Gaddafi�s ubiquitous presence, despite a lack of new books.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Eco Labeling: Do You Know the Difference?
    As the world moves more toward sustainability, our personal life choices follow suit.The amount of labels is so confusing, even the experts are not entirely clear about what they mean. It�s hard to sort through it all. But if everyone did understand eco-lSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Life ...
  • Never-Wrong Pundit Picks Obama to Win in 2012 ...
    �Even if I am being conservative, I don�t see how Obama can lose,� says Lichtman, the brains behind The Keys to the White House.Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: Ban Horse Drawn Carriages! ...
    Horses don't belong to NYC traffic. They suffer from noise disturbances from buses, long hours of work, bad living and health conditions and accidents. Often, horses get de-hydrated from the heat and may cause death. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Happy Feet the penguin begins long swim home
    Happy Feet was released back into the Southern Ocean to begin a long swim home to Antarctica. He has been fitted with a satellite tracker and microchip and his progress can be followed on http://www.nzemperor.com.Submitted by Julie P. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Letter: Clean up or shut down existing fleet o ...
    Letter: Clean up or shut down existing fleet of deadly coal plants, he says Pierce County Herald TO THE EDITOR: Coal mining has always been a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. TO THE EDITOR: Coal mining has always been a dirty, dangerous busin ...
  • A Good Mozzarella Is Hard to Find - TIME
    A Good Mozzarella Is Hard to Find TIME (It's amazing that the government can be so far-sighted and judicious about their policy toward clean air, fracking and mountaintop removal, but so draconian when it comes to policing milk.) My feeling is that if you can't get someone to make you great ... ...
  • STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to ...
    RH Reality Check (blog) STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory ... RH Reality Check (blog) As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southw ...
  • Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can ...
    Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can be stopped River Falls Journal Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. After blowing up more than 500 mountains in Appalachia to uncover coal seams, mining companies have dumped million ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaineer football, coal and symbols Charleston Gazette (blog) When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop rem ...

Memeorandum

  • Eli Lake to Newsweek/The Daily Beast (Keach Ha ...
    Keach Hagey / The Politico: Eli Lake to Newsweek/The Daily Beast  —  Eli Lake, the national security correspondent for the Washington Times, is leaving to join the Washington staff of Newsweek/The Daily Beast as a national security reporter, focusing on intelligence, military and cybersecurity, ...
  • Rep. Allen West Commemorates 9/11 By Screening ...
    Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress: Rep. Allen West Commemorates 9/11 By Screening Muslim-Bashing Film  —  Florida Rep. Allen West's fringe anti-Muslim beliefs are a well-established fact, whether he's doing events with anti-Muslim activists like Pamela Geller, smearing his Muslim Congressiona ...
  • Deadly Explosion Strikes Courthouse in New Del ...
    Jim Yardley / New York Times: Deadly Explosion Strikes Courthouse in New Delhi  —  NEW DELHI — An explosion ripped through the reception gate of an Indian courthouse on Wednesday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring 47 others, according to local police.  The blast was the second ...
  • Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Tea Partiers ...
    Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress: Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Tea Partiers And Fox News Viewers Think Islam Is Incompatible With American Values  —  According to a poll of American attitudes released today by the Brookings Institution (PDF), conservatives, Republicans, and Fox News viewers ar ...
  • Liberals Create Video Game in Which Tea Partie ...
    Aurelius / Pundit Press: Liberals Create Video Game in Which Tea Partiers are Murdered  —  The party of civility is at it again.  —  Refusing to have a legitimate discussion on the merits of each side's economic ideology, the Left has just gone ahead and decided that Tea Partiers are zombies.  ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Copyright Troll Righthaven Goes on Life Support
    The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end. Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was ...
  • CIA, Mossad, Also Targeted in Massive DigiNota ...
    The list of fraudulent certificates obtained by hackers who breached a Dutch certificate authority has grown to more than 500 and includes certificates for domains owned by three intelligence agencies: the CIA, Israel's Mossad and the UK's MI6.
  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

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

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The 9/11 Decade: Voices of Dissent on Democrac ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...
  • Book Excerpt / MP3: "Blowback" - A Look Back a ...
    As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, on 9/11, the families of the 9/11 victims who called for peace, the other September 11ths and more. The chapter is titled "Blowback." Click here to read C ...
  • 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message
    The body bag marked “Victim 0001” on Sept. 11, 2001, contained the corpse of Father Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with the Fire Department of New York. When he heard about the disaster at the World Trade Center, he donned his Catholic collar and firefighter garb and raced downtown. He saw p ...
  • A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria
    Democracy Now! correspondent, Sharif Abdel Kouddous profiles renowned Syrian human rights lawyer, Haitham al-Maleh, for The Nation magazine. Below is an excerpt from A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria. Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his lif ...
  • Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's ...
    On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husbandâs suicide on Saturday ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. In part two of our interview, Joppa-Hagemann calls for a ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A Washington Insider looks at America, but doe ...
    Summary:  A Washington insider clearly sees the dangerous deterioration of our political system, but ventures outside Washington and misunderstands what he sees.  We can learn from his error. From the always interesting James Fallows at The Atlantic:  “‘People Don’t Realize How Fragile Democr ...
  • One of the top questions for our time: how wi ...
    Summary:  Peak oil might hit sometime during the next five years.  How might this affect the world economy.  We we examine important dynamics about oil prices, some misunderstood by many writing about Peak Oil — from doomsters to cornucopians.  The bottom line:  we cannot reliably forec ...
  • A small incident that tells much about America
    Summary:  This is a picture of America today, a snapshot of why we might be a nation in decline.  It’s a small incident, but typical of so much that takes place today — many times per month (week?  day?) around the nation.  Perhaps above all, it is about adults acting as children. (1)  On ...
  • Attritionist Letter #3: Do as you are told ( ...
    Summary:   Here we see the USMC version of The Empire Strikes Back.  After becoming one of the most modern land forces in the world, in a tactical sense, elements of the USMC’s senior leadership attempt a counter-revolution, dragging the Corps back to its WWI (second generation warfare) roots ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it. Free answers, so you cannot overpay. Update: The first question is excellent, timely and important.

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Ten Theses (Mostly Concerning Foreign Policy) ...
    Counterfactual theses: Absent 9/11 or a 9/11-style attack, the US would not have invaded Afghanistan but might very well �have used force against Iraq. Rationale: despite the Bush campaign's repeated condemnation of "nation-building" and calls for a more "humble" foreign policy (remember that?) ...
  • Community in an Age of Hatred
    Osama bin Laden will go down in history as a religious fanatic twisted by virulent anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, and messianic self-righteousness. It is striking that his objective of a global terrorist campaign against all American and allied citizens and interests was so extreme and so ...
  • The End of Twentieth-Century Warfare
    9/11 was the defining event of the new millennium, but not for the reasons we thought for most of the ensuing decade. For most of that period we would have pointed to 9/11 as the beginning of twenty-first century warfare: perpetual vigilance and probing pre-emptive strikes against an ill-defined ...
  • The Politics of Terrorism . . . Ten Years Later
    Over at the Atlantic, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross rather counterintuitively argues that a decade after 9/11 the United States is less safe from terrorism. Considering that America's key jihadist enemy has been forced out of their safe haven, decimated by US military strikes and seen their ideolog ...
  • Diplomacy Can Be Ugly: Turkey, Israel and Gaza
    The friction between Turkey and Israel is a diplomatic problem being expressed in the media as a naval confrontation. This article by Reuters is a great example how the problem is being exaggerated. Raising the stakes in Turkey's row with Israel over its refusal to apologize for the killings, P ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Anti-Government Conservatism, Sort Of
    We'd all agree that our politics would function better if conservatives and progressives could understand each other's point of view better, instead of simply vilifying one another. In that spirit, I'd like to offer a window into the way we on the left think on one particular issue -- and partic ...
  • Gun-Shy Governor
    (Photo: Flickr/Gage Skidmore) By most accounts, Rick Perry has become the Republican front-runner less than a month after he entered the race. He not only leads by wide margins in national polls, besting�former leader Mitt Romney by 15 percent in a survey released yesterday; he appears to ho ...
  • Polls On Obama Looking Surprisingly Good
    Before we get into this post about polling in the presidential race, please understand that I'm not saying that anything we're seeing today predicts what will happen next November. With that out of the way, let me point out something interesting. Yesterday, two new polls came out on President ...
  • Courts Push Back Against Republicans
    A.G. Sulzberger has a good article about about recent federal court decisions preventing various radical anti-abortion and anti-immigration measures passed by Tea Party-dominated legislatures from going into effect. Particularly interesting are the injunctions against measures like South Dako ...
  • Addressing Our Troubling Lack of Reagan
    This morning, Mitt Romney published an op-ed in USA Today laying out his economic plan, which will no doubt be read eagerly by people staying in hotels all across America. It's full of all the expected claptrap and flim-flammery, but there's one part I wanted to point out: Where President Obama ...

Buzzflash

  • The Latest WikiLeaks Revelations About Hugo Chavez
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For the past year or so, I've been writing steadily about WikiLeaks and U.S. diplomatic correspondence between various American embassies in Latin America and the State Department in Washington, D.C.  For a full inventory of these pieces, you may head to ...
  • And God Said Banish Those Who Would Harm the E ...
    STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT From the Huffington Post, August 26, 2011: "Televangelist Pat Robertson suggested Wednesday that cracks in the Washington Monument caused by the August 23 (Virginia) earthquake could be a sign from God, and the natural disaster 'means that we're closer to ...
  • It's Long Past Time to Get Over 9-11
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We've wallowed too long in our victimhood 9-11 was indeed a devastating loss of personal life.  Those who died were mostly US citizens, but included people of all nations, such as the wait staff and bus boys at the sky high restaurant in the Twin Towe ...
  • If 9-11 Had Happened When a Democrat Was Presi ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT With the 10-year anniversary of September 11 approaching, I have been listening to the increased discussions about how the people of America came together and were so unified in the aftermath of this horrific tragedy and how so many people now wish that our co ...
  • The Green Movement, Labor, and the Unemployed ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When there are zero jobs available, any job will do. This fact has been exploited by corporations now re-labeling themselves "job creators," since being a job creator in a time of depression brings a religious status similar to a rain god during a drough ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Most Medical Schools Offer Students Poor Cover ...
    Most U.S. medical schools offer their students poor health insurance coverage for the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders, a practice that imperils the well-being of our nation’s future doctors and their patients, a group of Boston-area researchers report in JAMA, the Journa ...
  • Ben & Jerry Join Local and National Groups Cal ...
    As a major Pacific Rim trade summit begins in downtown Chicago aimed at concluding a massive new international trade pact, iconic ice cream makers Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield joined fair trade advocates from the labor, environmental, family farm, public health and consumer movements today to ...
  • Left-Right Coalition Urges $380 Billion in Cut ...
    McClatchy reports that “the bipartisan ‘super-committee’ of six Democrats and six Republicans has a goal of finding at least $1.5 trillion more in deficit reduction by Thanksgiving … will hold its first meeting on Sept. 8 [Thursday].”read more
  • Consumers Union Urges Senate to Confirm Richar ...
    Consumers Union is urging the Senate to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to oppose efforts to undermine the new watchdog. Cordray is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Banking Committee, which is holding a hearing on his nom ...
  • Friends of the Earth Opposes NAFTA-Style Inves ...
    As representatives from the United States and eight other Pacific countries gathered behind closed doors in a Chicago hotel to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, environmental, public health, family farm, labor and consumer organizations gathered today to demand a fair deal ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Did 9/11 Make Peace Passé?
    John Feffer Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all the think tanks and congressional lapdogs that lie in the k ...
  • It’s Time for a New—and Real—Populist Uprising
    Imagine this: Americans are frustrated by taxation policies that they consider to be unfair. They scoff at politicians who are either corrupted or uncaring. They demand a drastic fiscal policy change to address serious shortcomings in the economy.Photo of People's Party convention at Columbus, N ...
  • The 9/11 Story I Choose to Tell: We All Belong ...
    Rinku Sen September 11 has become a national day of reflection and resolution. Collective reflection creates a story of the event, sometimes more than one. One version of the event’s aftermath is that the country came together while grief ...
  • Headlines or Not, the Iraq War is Not Over
    Phyllis Bennis It might seem like cause for celebration after reading the New York Times headline, "Iraq War Marks First Month with No U.S.read more
  • The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhoo ...
    David Sirota "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday�New York Times.(Monkey Busi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Israel chokes Palestinian trade, says UN study
    The Electronic Intifada Ramallah West Bank trade remains largely isolated from global markets due to restrictions imposed on the movement of goods, according to a July 2011 study by the UN Conference on Trade and�Development.
  • Uncovered: Israel's role in planned US lawsuit ...
    Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boyc ...
  • How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Isra ...
    Mike Coogan The Electronic Intifada In spite of US government statements about its displeasure with the expansion of Israeli settlements, US based organizations are abusing the 501(C)3 section of US tax codes to provide billions in subsidies to do exactly�that.
  • Israeli harassment campaign masquerades as mur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theater over recent weeks, in their investigation into the murder of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis.
  • Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish ch ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

The Wonk Room

  • Perry Accused Of Distorting Redistricting Map ...
    At a trial that began in federal court this week in San Antonio, GOP presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) faces allegations of intentionally distorting a congressional redistricting map to dilute the power of the state’s burgeoning Latino vote. The state legislature’s Mexican Ame ...
  • The Parking Lot Cycle
    Lydia DePillis has a story about development in Dupont Circle that reminds us that you don’t need formal regulatory parking minimums for the dysfunctional land use regulatory process to end up generating an above-market share of parking spaces: There are no balconies on the O Street side of the ...
  • At 9/11 Event, Rep. Allen West Slams ‘Th ...
    Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is commemorating 9/11 by screening a virulently anti-Muslim documentary about the Park51 community center project in the Capitol building today. In the press conference kicking off the event, West blamed multiculturalism for making America vulnerable. “My fear is that mayb ...
  • State Department Advocates Against Uganda&#821 ...
    Johnnie Carson, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has confirmed the State Department is condemning Uganda’s proposed “Kill The Gays” bill, saying, “I have spoken to the most senior officials in the Ugandan government about this issue, and stand ready to add my voice as requir ...
  • War Hawks Attack Obama After Report That He&#8 ...
    Yesterday Fox News reported that the Obama administration had decided that the United States will keep only 3,000 troops in Iraq past 2011. Fox said that “senior commanders are said to be livid at the decision, which has already been signed off by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.” However Panetta ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Raising Taxes in Ontario and Jeffrey Simpson
    On September 1st I was reading a print version of the Globe and Mail (I won't buy the paper because of their stupid columnists AND because of their endorsement of stephen harper in the last federal election. The latter crime revealed the paper's utter contempt for Canadian democracy and is unfor ...
  • Ontario Election: NDP Should Win By Default
    I'm still dealing with the culture shock of moving from one of the country's poorest postal codes to one of the wealthiest. Back in Hamilton, the political contest was always between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP usually being the incumbent. Here in Forest Hill, it appears that a "conse ...
  • Wrong About Everything: Toronto Sun on Jack Layton
    "No cuts. GUARANTEED!" Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Because I'm going to be writing about the Toronto Sun's attempt to set the record straight about the economics of Jack Layton's politics, and the first thing we should remember is that this is the same piece-of-shit newspaper th ...
  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Rogers Communications taps into finance sector ...
    Rogers Communications is known in Canada for its various services, such as digital cable, Internet and wireless phones, but they may now also become Rogers Bank. A company spokesperson confirmed that Rogers filed an application to become a bank.
  • McDonald's to spend $1 billion on brand transf ...
    The international fast-food giant McDonald's recently announced that it plans to invest $1 billion on a brand transformation for its franchises in Canada. The company is hoping to reinvigorate its image in the country.
  • Ontario Green Party launches election campaign ...
    Official campaigning for this year's Ontario election is underway, and the Green Party of Ontario launched its largest campaign in front of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto. Mike Schreiner, GPO Leader, said they plan to focus on jobs, energy and health.
  • 9/11 — How one event changed my view of the world
    The day the world changed. I've heard it many times over since September 11, 2001. Being from a small Canadian town, I never thought there could be much of an affect on me from the events of that day.
  • Ontario Liberal Premier makes 45 new promises ...
    With less than one month until Ontario voters head to the polls, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled the party's platform during a rally in Toronto Monday. What is McGuinty promising this year? Do the numbers add up?

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Improper Use Of Popular Painkillers On The Rise
    May 3, 2011 CBS News Only 41 percent of the people questioned in a new study said they read the labels of medications they take. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers — and ignorance, in particular, of acetaminophen being in more than 600 over-the-counter and prescription medicines ...
  • The Collapse Of Our Modern World Has Already Begun
    May 3, 2011 Natural News By Mike Adams A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end [...]
  • USDA To Allow Monsanto To Perform Own GMO Studies
    May 3, 2011 Natural News By Neev M. Arnell Last August, a federal judge admonished the USDA for approving genetically modified seeds without first doing the required environmental impact study. Now, the USDA has a solution–allow the biotech industry to conduct the studies itself. This means that ...
  • Researchers Find Genes Linked To Most Common F ...
    May 3, 2011 The Telegraph By Stephen Adams The genes could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating hormonal breast cancer, also known as oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer, which is responsible for four out of five cases, or 36,000 a year in Britain. In particular, they found one gene ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-3-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the facts about the food industry that they don’t want you to know about! Plus, find out which cleanses Kevin uses to stay healthy! Self Help: Give Your Immune System A Boost! Cleanse For Vitality My Favorite First Time Cleanse Remove The Viruses Which Cleanse Is Right For Y ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

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

Watts Up With That?

  • 24 hours of Gorepocrisy
    Just a note to let readers know that there’s a plan in the works for some fun on the 14th related to Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality aka Gorefest11. Josh will be leading the charge chortles. Here’s the … Continue reading →
  • Frozen Global Warming Research
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of nations conduct research in Antarctica. To do research in Antarctica, you need to have an icebreaker. As the old saying goes, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few icebergs … … Continue reading →
  • Uranium munching microbes
    From Michigan State University Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste EAST LANSING, Mich. â Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals. Details … Continue r ...
  • Mann hires attorneys to halt FOIA document pro ...
    From the there’s “nothing to see here and my lawyer says so too” department, we have news that Dr. Michael Mann really doesn’t want those UVA emails to get sunlight. From ATI: âHockey Stickâ Creator Michael Mann Seeks Courtâs Help … Continue reading →
  • Dessler’s GRL paper video
    Perhaps fearing that his fast tracked no hurdles rebuttal to Spencer and Braswell wouldn’t be enough to have it the buzz of the blogosphere, highlighted in Real Climate, and blasted all over the web via compliant MSM via the press … Continue reading →
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