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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, November 11, 2011

11 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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EU renewable firms offer hope amid grim outlook
Reuters
By Christoph Steitz and Jose Elías Rodríguez FRANKFURT/MADRID, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Three European renewable energy groups gave a ray of hope amid a dark outlook for green energy in 2012 with upbeat guidance or forecast-beating third-quarter results ...
AG: Energy costs rising under Mass. renewables law
BusinessWeek
By BOB SALSBERG A Massachusetts law requiring utilities to purchase more electricity from renewable energy sources has helped make the state more energy efficient but also threatens to increase the delivery costs of electricity by 7 percent over the ...
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£100m 'new money' for renewables
BBC News
Chancellor George Osborne has announced an extra £103m of funding for renewable energy in Scotland. The money from the Fossil Fuel Levy was additional to the Scottish government's budget, but within the UK's overall spending plans and contingencies. ...
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Boeing partners with Hawai'i BioEnergy on renewable biofuel for aviation
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Nov 11, 2011 (AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) -- Aircraft manufacturer Boeing BA on Thursday announced a collaborative agreement to work with Hawai'i BioEnergy on renewable energy sources for creating aviation fuel. ...
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Human Habitat

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Human ecology, changing climate and hydrology
Daily Star Online
Human ecology inquires into the pattern and process of interaction of human with environment. Human values, health, life-style, consumption, wastage, etc. are influenced by physical and biotic environments. Physical environment includes land, air, ...
DNR, Ecology announce Puget SoundCorps
Access Washington
OLYMPIA—Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark, Department of Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant, Department of Veterans Affairs Director John Lee, and other officials announced the creation of the Puget SoundCorps at the Gog-le-hi-te Wetlands Park ...
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Social Ecology Project <6819.OS>-6mth group
Reuters
Nov 10 (Reuters) - SOCIAL ECOLOGY PROJECT CO LTD CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (in billions of yen unless specified) 6 months ended 6 months ended Full year to Full year ended Sep 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2010 Mar 31, 2012 Mar 31, 2011 LATEST YEAR-AGO ...
Ecological Ethics
The Ecologist
With Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry sets his stall up at the other end of the spectrum, far away from the concerns of human self-interest. 'I start from the belief that, or perception, that nature – which certainly includes humanity – is the ultimate ...
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Water Power

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Resilient Thais celebrate water goddess festival despite catastrophic floods
Washington Post
BANGKOK — Sahattaya Vitayakaseat placed a tiny crown-shaped boat made from curled banana leaves and marigold flowers into the murky brown water and let it drift toward a park bench submerged by Bangkok's surging Chao Phraya river. ...
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Investors thirsty for new markets looking to water
Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent ATLANTA (Reuters) - Oil and water may not mix, but managing water -- moving it, filtering it, recycling it and ultimately exhausting it -- is one of the fastest growing sectors of the oil and gas industry ...
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Modern Water acquires toxicity testing technology division
Environmental Data Interactive
Aim-listed Modern Water Group (MWG) has acquired toxicity testing technology Microtox for $4.5m in a bid to accelerate sales in its water quality testing and monitoring technologies global distribution network. The acquisition of the Microtox division, ...
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Ex-Grand Canyon head: Bottled water ban ended after talks with Coke; Park ...
Washington Post (blog)
A plan to ban the sale of plastic water bottles at the Grand Canyon was scrapped after talks with Coca-Cola, which is a donor to the national parks system and a bottled water distributor, a former park superintendent who worked on the plan said. ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • AU troops in Somalia battle (2)
    The precise number of peacekeepers killed in the fighting remains something of a mystery, with the militants saying they killed nearly 80 and witnesses saying that approximately 60 peacekeepers had been killed Thursday on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. But the African Union said ...
  • Pilger: Obama claims Africa's crown jewels
    On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only "engage" for "self-defence", says Oba ...
  • HRW: Khadaffi killing may be war crime
    Human Rights Watch said on Saturday that evidence related to Gaddafi and his son indicates "that they might have been executed after being detained", a possible war crime under international law. Human Rights Watch interviewed a revolutionary commander who said things "got out of control" aft ...
  • Arab Spring may yet turn to chilly winter
    It is impossible to predict the course of events now that Gaddafi has fallen, and there will be many powerful voices in the new transitional government that indeed reflect the secular, liberal views of Western democracy. But it is perfectly possible that Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the rebel commander w ...
  • AU troops killed in Somalia battle
    As Islamist militants displayed scores of blood-soaked bodies, the African Union on Friday acknowledged that its peacekeeping force in Somalia had sustained heavy casualties in its battle against the Shabab, the deadly insurgent group squaring off against a multipronged assault by troops from Ke ...

Independent - London

  • Ed Vaizey calls for single digital market acro ...
    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has called for new rules to be drawn up, breaking down the barriers to online trade in the European Union. The proposal would mean that nation-specific business deals, such as those governing music copyright, would be thrown out, allowing online companies to launch co ...
  • EU finance ministers' meeting cancelled
    Yet another summit of EU leaders may be needed next weekend to complete plans for a comprehensive economic rescue package, officials in Brussels said today.
  • Grand plan to solve euro crisis in doubt
    A grand plan to resolve Europe's escalating debt crisis is once again in doubt after officials decided today that key parts of the package will not be ready in time for a leaders' summit tomorrow.
  • Baby found alive in Turkey quake building
    Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment block today as they battled to find survivors from a earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 432 people and left thousands homeless.
  • Islamists claim win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote
    Tunisia's moderate Islamist party was preparing to lead a coalition government today after its election win sent a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring".

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
  • Gait crasher
    For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
  • Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
    Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...
  • Micro view; macro applications
    It’s been used for everything from examining bacteria and how rare earth minerals have developed over millions of years to creating vibrant visual images for improvisational musical performances. The versatile environmental scanning electron microscope (SEM), a $1.2 million piece of machinery fu ...
  • The right step FORWARD
    Canada is a country built on its logging and mining resources. Until fairly recently, however, there has been little information available to explain how these activities have affected the health of soils, rivers and streams in Canada’s Boreal Plain, a resource-rich region that blankets the uppe ...

Signs of the times

  • Millions of aborted girls imbalance India
    Gender selective abortions have skewed birthrates, so millions of men will never find wives, potentially causing strife. Dr Neelam Singh is on the front line of India's battle to save its girls. Modern medical technology - specifically ultrasounds for determining the baby's sex - coupled with ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Message From Muammar Gaddafi
    Gaddafi Unplugged and Uncensored Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D. Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Ben ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: The Devil According To NATO - ...
    NATO was right: REVEALED! The daily life of the 'brutal dictator', surrounded by incredible luxury and brutalizing small children.. le diable selon l'otan (kadhafi chez lui) par sebas54dieuce
  • SOTT FOCUS: Naked, Bloody Imperialism or "We C ...
    Among the many comments we have read and received on the alleged death of Gaddafi, the one most often repeated goes something like this: 'Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who deserved what he got'. The widely-held belief (at least in Western nations) that Gaddafi was a 'brutal dictator' is the res ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Can Humans Live Longer? Vitam ...
    Can humans really do anything to prolong life? A recent article by Christopher Wanjek in the Washington Post said "Humans can reap no such benefits from the continuing flood of anti-aging potions and precepts, which are at best naively optimistic and at worst fraudulent and harmful. Wanjeck goes ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Them what has . . .
    THE CORPORATE MATRIX, as reported by BOINGBOING's Cory Doctorow, consolidates wealth and wealth control to a disturbing degree, in an article, "Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world's total wealth": When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it ...
  • F-35 "AN/PRC-77 II"
    The AN/PRC-77 was a 14 lb rectangular metal box wiyh several knobs and dials on the top, two types of antenna, and telephone receiver gadget on the end of a rubber cord. From its first introduction in 1812 to retirement early 2000s, it was given to section and platoon level signallers or radio o ...
  • A first for seconds . . .
    CRISTINA KIRCHNER SEEMS CERTAIN to be re-elected President of Argentina. According to the Guardian, "Cristina Kirchner set to be re-elected as Argentina's president" Exit polls predict landslide victory for current president, making her first woman in Latin America to twice win the presidency. ...
  • Signs that your war is not going well
    Juan Cole informs us of present Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's comments about which side Afghanistan would support in a war between the US and Pakistan. Several things. First, that even mentioning the possibility of a US war with Pakistan is an indication of just how badly relations have deterior ...
  • Chris Hedges on Occupy TVNY . . . .
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Media Matters for America

  • "Bribes" And "Farce": Fox Rushes To ...
    Fox has rushed to attack President Obama's plan to assist homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages as a "re-election ploy," an offer of "bribes," and "purely a political stunt."Obama Announces Mortgage Relief Plan For Underwater Homeowners AP: "Obama Offered Mortgage Relief On Monday To ...
  • Fox Host Bob Beckel Doubles As A Fox Critic
    The Five co-host Bob Beckel, who frequently fills the slot of the show's sole liberal, has repeatedly corrected the false and misleading claims of his fellow co-hosts, as well as exposed Fox News' selective editorial policies.Beckel Corrects His Co-Hosts' Misinformation Beckel Corrects Misinfo ...
  • UPDATED: The Lies Of James O'Keefe
    Convicted criminal James O'Keefe has released a new video -- this time attacking Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein and the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan progressive think tank. Journalists covering the story should be aware of O'Keefe's history of lies and deception.James O'Ke ...
  • Pat Buchanan's History Of Anti-LGBT Bigotry
    In his new book Suicide of a Superpower, MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan attacks the idea of gays serving in the military as an "indoctrination of recruits, soldiers, and officers into an acceptance of the gay life style" and calls same-sex marriage an "absurd notion of equality." Buchanan ...
  • Fox Business Fails In Attempt To Discredit Eco ...
    Fox Business is questioning the credibility of Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi after he estimated that President Obama's jobs plan would create nearly two million jobs, arguing that "every other economist in the world" disagrees. In fact, many economists have said that the American ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Shalit Deal Is Not Really A Victory For Hamas
    We got back to Jerusalem last week, coincidentally, the very hour Gilad Shalit was finally reunited with his family. Our own pulled themselves away from the television to receive us, though greeting him vicariously was, for all the obvious reasons, more preoccupying than greeting us in ...
  • Markets, New Media, the Occupation, and What's ...
    Long before I dabbled in new media I was a timorous dabbler in markets, my investments driven algorithmically by computers at speeds that left me ignorant of what I "owned" from day to day. By comparison, the rapid convergence of online "new media and the motley OWS assemblies that are defying w ...
  • When 'Diversity' at Elite Schools Deepens Ineq ...
    The recent death of New York University law professor Derrick Bell, a black champion of "critical race theory," and a recent report that the Supreme Court may take up a new challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin both mark the decline of racial "identity politics" an ...
  • Aid To Israel: Linkage, Linkage, Linkage
    In a column this week in the Washington Post, Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus suggested that it's time to re-examine U.S. aid to Israel. Israel, with a population of seven million, receives $3 billion a year from the United States while the entire continent of Africa, with a populatio ...
  • Beyond Anger
    In my new book, Outlaw Blues; Adventures in the Counter-culture Wars, I talk about the role of the great protest song in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. Songs like If I had a Hammer, Blowin in the Wind, We Shall Overcome were the basic tool of non-violent protest sit-ins. If you w ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Special Nebraska Legislative Session May Re-Ro ...
    Click here to read a news release from the office of Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska. The Governor has announced a special legislative session to attempt a statutory solution to siting problems associated with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Governor and many prominent elected leaders ...
  • Texas drought could impact families’ pocketboo ...
    This summer, as Hurricane Irene pounded the East Coast of the U.S. and flooded communities far inland, temperatures in Austin soared to 112°F and across the Lone Star State it was bone dry. Caught in the grip of a heat wave that fed on the drought – where sunlight hit the ground, evaporate ...
  • Texas looks at issues around drought and wildf ...
    The following are the Interim Charges focused on the current drought and wildfires as outlined by Lt Governor Dewhurst: Business & Commerce Committee Assess the impact of extreme drought conditions on electric generation capacity. Identify those regions of Texas that will be most affected by ...
  • A New American Dustbowl?
    While the temperatures have come down from the relentless 100 degree heat wave that blanketed much of the state of Texas this summer, and parts of the state have seen some much needed rain, the state climatologist is warning us that conditions are lining up for us to be in a drought pattern for ...
  • Continued Drought Concerns ERCOT for 2012
    The worst drought in more than 50 years in Texas is expected to continue as a weak La Nina weather pattern is predicted to strengthen this winter.  Drought has already reduced cooling water needed by coal-fired power plants and may limit electric output from power plants next summer, an official ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Will China win the ultimate moon race?
    A US space executive is concerned that China will stake a claim on the moon before the US does. In the 60s the US was in a race with the Soviets to pu...
  • Inflating volcano intrigues scientists
    A 20,000-foot-high volcano in Bolivia appears to be inflating like a balloon at breakneck speed. Geologists first discovered that Uturuncu was inflati...
  • Councils reveal odd compensation payouts
    One man received £5,000 compensation when he fell out of bed trying to answer the telephone. In another case a worker received a £6,000 payout for inj...
  • Bigger cars made for bigger drivers
    Car manufacturers are producing bigger cars to accommodate the growingly obese population. Over the last 10 years Honda has widened its seats by 2 inc...
  • Mysterious "star jelly" found
    Mysterious blobs of translucent jelly found in Britain's Lake District have baffled scientists. Reports of the substance go back years, with records s...

Grassroots

  • Janaina Stronzake, from MST, to visit East Coast
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  • Insights - Fall 2011
    A movement is healthy and dynamic when young people are involved and take charge. The energy and imagination of this next  generation of resource rights defenders hold the key to their own survival – and perhaps the planet's as well.  Read on for four stories of inspiring young leaders ...
  • Seed Bank on the West Bank
    seed_bank_west_bank.jpg  Hebron (Al-Khalil in Arabic) is home to more than 165,000 Palestinians—making it the largest city in the Palestinian West Bank. The city is famous for leather shoes, avant-garde blown-glass vases and qidreh, a ...
  • Small farms, big results
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books, most recently ‘‘EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want’’ and co-directs the Small Planet Institute in Cambridge. Nikhil Aziz is execut ...
  • Haitian Movements Branch Out
    movements.jpg  Away from the televised and broken streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti hosts some scenic worlds. Down south, there are remnants of cloud forests that fade into blue skies, and in the north cacti twist out of rust desert soi ...

Climate

  • Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
    Source:  The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    Source:  Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Half time at the euro zone cup final
    With EU leaders meeting on Brussels on Sunday and again on Wednesday to try to resolve the region's debt crisis, the emergency back-to-back summits look like a game of soccer and leaders have gone in for half time.
  • She came, she saw, she confounded: Clinton in ...
    Hillary Clinton concludes a visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan promising to fight the militants to the end but also keeps the door open for new talks after preliminary contacts are fruitless.
  • Trusting the masses: US tiptoes into democracy ...
    One of the more interesting, but less obvious, themes of Clinton's visit to Pakistan will be over how she navigates the country's civilian-military imbalance
  • The Taliban in Afghanistan’s once impreg ...
    Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley has long been considered a secure area which the Taliban have been unable to penetrate. On Saturday they claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at an American base.
  • Waiting for Europe’s “appropriate ...
    The Oct. 23 EU leaders summit is being billed as a make-or-break event where Germany and France, the main powers in the euro zone, must come up with radical solutions.

Booman Tribune

  • Please Support Booman Tribune
    Dear Readers: Since I started this blog in early 2005, I have had one overriding focus. The GOP is the problem. The GOP was ruining our country on every level, and things have gotten progressively worse at every point along the way. The Great Awakening of the progressives in this country, ...
  • Remember Camaraderie and Decorum?
    They finally got cloture on the Agriculture appropriations bill. The usual suspects voted against it. No one much cares. The only reason I even mention it is because the cloture vote was preceded by votes on 14 amendments over four days, most of them stupid grandstanding amendments intended t ...
  • On Reporting Committee Votes
    From experience, I know that it is hard to get a record of how congresspeople and senators vote in committee. The House and Senate have web sites that record votes on the floor (excepting voice votes), but there is generally nothing available for recording committee votes. If you weren't there ...
  • Leaving Iraq: A Minority Opinion
    Yesterday, Booman asked why the Obama administration chose to announce the withdrawal of the last US forces from Iraq on a Friday, a slow news day traditionally reserved by both Obama and Bush before him for burying bad news. The answer is fairly simple: for a lot of the People Who Matter that r ...
  • The Protests are Irrational, But So What?
    Strangely, I both agree and disagree with Matt Yglesias at the same time. At the most fundamental level, I think that Occupy Wall Street is an irrational protest. So, I wouldn't call it a rational response. But it is an appropriate response to our current political circumstances. It might s ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 13 Most Bizarrely Shaped Islands on Earth
    Thirteen stunning island formations from around the world, which when viewed from above appear in all sorts of unusual shapes! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Atacama Changing: The Impact We're Having on t ...
    The world's driest and oldest desert has been experiencing some potentially devastating changes – and it could well be our fault. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Beautiful Snapshots of Animals Reflected in ...
    Amazing images of animals preening themselves in 'mirrors'! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 8 Coolest Links of the Week
    A bridge that leads nowhere, an awesome mobile sound system on tracks like a tank's, and a guy who's lived on roadkill for three decades. All this and other cool links! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...
  • 8 Hottest Links of the Week
    From weird stuff you can do with your incinerated ashes to trailblazing retro-futuristic Japanese art... The hottest links from around the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: Nebraska Lawmakers Will Meet on ...
    Nebraska's governor objects to the route of a proposed oil-sands pipeline and has urged the Obama administration to deny a permit for its construction.
  • House Writes a Bill to Excuse U.S. Carriers
    A bill tells American airline carriers that it is illegal for them to participate in the European Union's cap and trade system, which charges companies for producing emissions beyond their allotted limits.
  • From a Farm Stand, New and Old Insights
    A fifth-generation farmer in northern Maine shifts from corn rows, hay fields and dairy cows to growing organic vegetables and lots of garlic.
  • Disposable Chopsticks Strip Asian Forests
    Each year, 3.8 million trees go into the manufacture of 57 billion disposable pairs of chopsticks in China. But awareness is growing, and some restaurants and consumers are switching to reusables.
  • On Our Radar: Quake in Turkey
    The 7.2-magnitude quake had the greatest effect on Ercis, a town of around 75,000, where an estimated 80 multistory buildings collapsed.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...

Daily Censored

  • Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crime ...
    source: Carl Herman Occupy Wall Street (and nationwide) has three emerging objectives: Public recognition of the 1%’s crimes, centering on war and money. End war and money crimes that annually kill millions, injure billions, and loot trillions of our dollars. Build a brighter future for 100% of ...
  • More Memos to Alexandra
    Alex wrote of the fear she had of American Capitalists growing up and they had an underground shelter at her school in case we bombed them.  There was concern about survival and the Middle East. It looks like your leaders cared a bit more than ours.  We had no underground shelters.  We were told ...
  • Tennessee first state to use TSA statewide
    Tennessee has become the first American state to use the TSA statewide, with officers placed in airports, bus stations, weigh stations and on the highways. Using Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR), the TSA is traveling across the state monitoring the highways and weigh stations. & ...
  • Gives New Meaning To “Good Old Days.”
    1950 Buick Roadmaster Have you ever been fired?  It knocks your socks off.  If you are any kind of person, you always try to do your best, and then, often through no fault of your own, it’s, “Adios.”   Pick up your stuff and leave.  Try as you might, the one thing you cannot take with [...]
  • Perrotta’s “The Leftovers”: ...
    Nora Durst finds herself at the intersection of something routinely normal for middle-class Americans living in the comfort of suburbia and distinctly otherworldly at the same time in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers, his newest novel venturing into speculative/ dystopian fiction. Visiting the mall ...

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IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • FREE SPEECH ON TRIAL: Ban on Protests on Supre ...
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or 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.”—First Amendment to th ...
  • The Rule of Law and the Extrajudicial Killing ...
    From Jurist JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says the killing of Muammar Gaddafi appears to be another violation of international law involving the US, sending the da ...
  • Occupy Slovenia
    Our friends over there are on top of it. read more
  • What Next for Libya?
      What Next for Libya? - by Stephen Lendman   Jamahiriya loyalists hope he's alive, not dead. Either way, his bigger than life spirit inspires Libyans and others wanting freedom - not terror bombing, occupation, colonization, pillaging, exploitation, and misery.   NATO's war ...
  • Anti-Democratic Knesset Bills
      Anti-Democratic Knesset Bills - by Stephen Lendman   Knesset summer session bills grievously harm civil and human rights if passed. Basic freedoms are at risk, including speech, assembly, association, and right to dissent.   read more

Grist - News

  • Carbon-eating paint could clean air and streng ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Okay, now this one really sounds fake: Scientists are working on a carbon-eating paint, which would be capable of turning emissions into limestone. In other words, it would let buildings eat carbon and then use that fuel to grow, like a living thing. The secret is synt ...
  • Mark Ruffalo at Occupy Wall Street
    by Jess Zimmerman. Our favorite indie darling/anti-fracking activist was down at Occupy Wall Street last week, looking extremely handsome and encouraging people to join up with Tar Sands Action's planned protest at the White House next month. We like the "mic check" thing, ...
  • Critical List: Climate change officially cause ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Climate change caused the Russian heat wave, according to statistics and science (if you believe that sort of thing). Nebraska could re-route the Keystone XL pipeline. Eugene Robinson smacks down climate deniers. Money quote: “It is the know-nothing politic ...
  • Obama administration hires former TransCanada ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Apparently the Obama administration has given up on even pretending it can make an unbiased decision on Keystone XL. After hiring a TransCanada-affiliated firm to do the environmental assessment for the pipeline -- a move so corrupt that even Congresspeople noticed -- th ...
  • Solar airship is most efficient way to fly, ever
    by Christopher Mims. How can you carry huge amounts of cargo thousands of miles with no fuel and no infrastructure? By combining an airship with an airplane, of course. The resulting wing-shaped blimp requires less helium than a conventional dirigible, but has a shorter takeoff than an ...

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    by Enver Masud, twf.org “Libyans awake from a ludicrous nightmare: Gaddafi achieved nothing in his 42-year rule,” wrote David Gardner yesterday in the Financial Times. Others have expressed similar sentiments. Here are the facts: Gaddafi Seized Power in Bloodless Coup: Muammar Gaddafi, aka Col. ...
  • NATO Countries Set to Steal $30,000 from Each ...
    by Scott Creighton The pro-Western corporatist media outlets are hurriedly trying to help spin every aspect of the murder of Moammar Gadhafi and the ongoing rape and pillage of the Libyan people’s assets. Yesterday Paul Richter of the LA Times wrote an article claiming that Moammar Gadhafi was t ...
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    by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainl ...
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Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

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  • Innovative Ray Solar Charger Juices Up Your iP ...
    Sunlight = free, electricity = not free, so doesn’t it seem like a no-brainer to charge up your gadgets and small electronics using a solar charging device? That’s exactly the thinking behind the Ray, which uses the sun’s rays to juice up iPhones, iPads, iPods, most cameras, an ...
  • World Population to Hit 7 Billion People This ...
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    If ever you ever thought that thermostats were boring, the folks from Nest are about to blow your mind. The Nest Learning Thermostat is a brand new gadget designed by the fathers of the iPod that learns your behavior and creates a heating and cooling schedule that matches your lifestyle. Over ti ...
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  • Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life
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  • Siri Is One Funny Lady
    Siri, the personal assistant software on the new Apple iPhone, is a comedienne.
  • A Look at Apple's iCloud
    The iPhone 4S was only one of Apple's product arrivals this week. The other is a free mobile storage service, a more capable successor to MobileMe.
  • Steve Jobs: Imitated, Never Duplicated
    Why Apple's leader was a singular talent.
  • The Glory of Sweep Panorama
    Sweep Panorama, a feature of many Sony cameras, enables you to take an instant, seamless image of a 220-degree arc.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Poll Finds Public Support for Climate Hacking
    Support among the public for scientists deliberately altering the Earth's climate on a vast scale to counteract global warming is at 72 percent, according to a recent survey that appeared in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something that's been difficult to do with empirical precision. The debut subject: The Russian heat wave of July 2010, which killed 700 people and was unprecede ...
  • Welcome to Copenhagen Suborbitals
    Dear reader… My name is Kristian von Bengtson, and I design and build spacecrafts. I have so much to show you and share with you. A little over three years ago my life changed. Everything I have learned, taught myself, loved and wanted to do was suddenly merged together in a split second ...
  • Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture
    A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these lessons down through generations — evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots.
  • The Evolution of the Spacesuit
    Like all fashion, the spacesuit is subject to change. Early designs grew out of the pressurized suits worn by trailblazing pilots in hot air balloons and airplanes. Since then, spacesuits have grown into machines of impressive complexity, even becoming miniature spacecraft that fly independently ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
  • UN Torture Expert Calls for an End to Solitary ...
    On Tuesday, Professor Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, “called on all countries to ban the solitary confinement of prisoners except in very exceptional circumstances and for as short a time as possible, with an ...
  • Obama vs. Congress: The Struggle to Close Guan ...
    It’s a sign of how skewed America is today that assassinating the world’s most wanted terrorist (Osama bin Laden), assassinating an American citizen working in Yemen as an anti-American propagandist (Anwar al-Awlaki), and being involved in a number of wars — covert or otherwise ...
  • The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
  • Rights Groups Call for the Arrest of George W. ...
    As former US President George W. Bush arrives in Canada today to address a regional economic summit, where attendees will pay $599 a head to hear him and former President Bill Clinton as featured speakers, human right groups opposed to Bush’s visit, having petitioned the government to inte ...

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

SPL Center

  • Oath Keeper Convicted on Weapons Charge, Tried ...
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  • Neo-Nazi Child Porn Enthusiast Reappears Under ...
    Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the now-defunct neo-Nazi hate group National Vanguard, apparently is trying to shuck off his former identity following release from federal prison three years ago on a child pornography conviction. Hatewatch spotted Strom, born again as “Julian Dene,” a squeaky-cl ...
  • ‘Nullification’ Conference Attracts Far-Right ...
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  • Newspaper Publication of Anti-Latino Comments ...
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  • Racist Skinhead Guilty in Savage Murders of Ta ...
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  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
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  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
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  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
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  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
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  • Early Morning Police Raid Ousts Occupy Oakland
    OAKLAND -- Before dawn Tuesday, at least 200 police, many in riot gear, tore down the Occupy Oakland encampment in front of City Hall and arrested dozens of people. A smaller camp near Lake Merritt was also dismantled. Early reports from police say the raids went smoothly, with all protesters cl ...
  • Bodies of 53 'Executed' Gaddafi Loyalists Disc ...
    The dead had been dumped on the "Sea-View Gardens" of an abandoned hotel. Many of the killings had been carried out with shots to the head; some were already injured when the executions took place; some had their hands tied behind their backs. Amid bullet and bomb casings, pools of wat ...
  • It’s True, Bankers Really Do Control the World ...
    WINTERTHUR, Switzerland - Here’s a gift to Occupy Wall Street protesters around the world: you now have scholarly proof that banks control the world. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, also known as ETH, have published a paper that argues just 147 companies ac ...
  • Ruling Military Council Intensifies Media Clam ...
    CAIRO, Egypt - The media clampdown in Egypt is worsening. Over the past six weeks, the ruling military council has censored the press, raided news organizations, shut down broadcasts and intimidated journalists. "The military government has revived Mubarak-era repression," says Moham ...
  • #OWS: Not Just a Protest, But a Little Utopia
    NEW YORK - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has withstood political pressure, bad weather, police violence, and over a thousand arrests, and is continuing to grow in New York City a month in. It has spread to over 100 cities in the U.S. and many more worldwide, and is linking up with popula ...

Lifehacker

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  • Keep Your Loose Zippers Up With a Key Ring [Cl ...
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  • Force iCloud into Backing Up Any Document Type ...
    OS X Lion: One of the problems with iCloud is that it only works if you're using the Apple programs it supports, but Macworld forum poster CHM figured out a way to sync and backup your documents across computers without using iWork. More& ...

Water Privatization

  • Serious concerns over P3 projects
    Contrary to Abbotsford Mayor George Peary's statement quoted in The Province, Oct. 6 that "We like having a private operator . . .," Canadians overwhelmingly oppose privatization of their drinking water systems.
  • Survey calls out efficiencies of water treatme ...
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  • We’re better off without I-1183’s liquor priva ...
    A year ago, the editorial board of The News Tribune endorsed a measure that would have privatized the sale of liquor in Washington. We all make mistakes.
  • Lodi council wades through water plant options
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  • Nigeria: NITEL's Privatization Saga
    Last week I took the reader through how the simple exercise of producing a national identity card for the nation's citizens since 1967 has been cynically converted by a relay of cabals of private/public partners into a long running and highly profitable mega-scam - profitable, that is, for the P ...

Guardian

  • Amazon's profits fall sharply in third quarter
    Online retailer's profits plunge 73% as company focuses on new generation of tablets and e-readersAmazon's profits fell by 73% in the third-quarter as the firm bet on a digital future and poured money into a new generation of tablet computers and e-readers. The company sharply missed Wall Street ...
  • David Cameron under pressure to reveal coaliti ...
    Tory backbenchers urge openness from prime minister after Nick Clegg dismisses hopes of repatriating powers from the EUDavid Cameron is facing pressure from ministers and Tory backbenchers to be more open about the coalition's European policy, amid complaints the prime minister is promising more ...
  • Euro bailout wrangles spook markets as fears o ...
    Hopes that summits in Brussels would deliver a 'grand bargain' to bring an end to an 18-month sovereign debt crisis fading fastFears intensified of a fresh global slump on Tuesday as it emerged that Europe's leaders were still at loggerheads over a three-pronged plan to save the single currency. ...
  • James Murdoch a 'dead man walking' following s ...
    Although News Corp has been performing well, the drip-drip of the phone-hacking scandal has taken its toll on the boss's sonForty-eight months ago James Murdoch's eventual assumption of the top job at his father's News Corporation seemed only a year or two away. But even his close allies now con ...
  • Defence minister Gerald Howarth met firm fundi ...
    Liam Fox believed to have suggested Howarth meeting with IRG Ltd that may have breached ministerial codeThe minister for international security met one of the backers of the fund set up to support the jet-set lifestyle of Liam Fox's self-styled adviser, the new defence secretary Philip Hammond h ...

McClatchey

  • Defenders want accused Cole bomber¡¯ ...
    In the war on terror detention system the Bush and Obama administrations built, a captive can be executed if he¡¯s convicted of a capital crime and kept forever if he¡¯s acquitted. And defense attorneys for the next alleged terrorist to be tried at Guant¨¢namo want ...
  • Afghanistan-India pact doesn't concern just Pa ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — The wide-ranging "strategic partnership" that Afghanistan signed with India this month would seem only logical: South Asia's economic heavyweight cementing its longstanding political, cultural and trade ties with the region's neediest nation.
  • Perry unveils 20 percent ‘flat’ tax plan
    GRAY COURT — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry offered a new tax plan today that would eliminate many deductions in favor of a flat 20 percent tax rate on income – simplifying the average person’s annual tax return to information that would fit on a post card.
  • Halloween meet the Internet: Angry Birds a cos ...
    WARNER ROBINS -- For Halloween this year, some adults are choosing to make the transformation to a video game bird or a sitcom star gone bad.
  • Halloween brings out the good candy or bad can ...
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Karzai Seeks Stronger Ties With India As Tensi ...
    Afghanistan and India, united by mutual suspicions of neighboring Pakistan, took steps to build closer relations as Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a two-day visit in New Delhi. Indian Prime ...
  • Vehicle Bomb Kills Two In Afghanistan's K ...
    Officials say a motorcycle rickshaw packed with explosives detonated outside the southern city of Kandahar, killing at least two people. Officials were unsure whether the attack, which took place ...
  • Rights Of Women At Risk in Afghanistan
    Oxfam says the rights of women in Afghanistan could be at risk as international troops get set to withdraw and the government looks to secure a peace deal with the Taliban. In a new report, Oxfam ...
  • Afghanistan Urges Pakistan To Take Steps For Peace
    The Afghan government has urged neighboring Pakistan to take concrete steps to help end the Taliban insurgency. Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai said that in particular, Afghanistan wants ...
  • Karzai Downplays Peace Hopes As Afghans Cite P ...
    Supporters of slain former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani shout slogans and hold up his portrait during a protest against the Taliban and Pakistan in Kabul on September ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblowers win the final round of ACLU v. ...
    The deadline for three organizations to file a petition for review with the U.S. Supreme Court has now passed. The Fourth Circuit's March 28, 2011, decision is now the final word in ACLU v. Holder. Today, the ACLU's chief counsel, Christopher Hansen, confirmed to me that they decided against app ...
  • Arbitration Fairness Act (AFA), H.R. 1873 and ...
    Forced arbitration is when employees faced with an issue at work are forced to have an arbitration instead of being able to go to court with a fair judge and jury. Often times, as a condition of employment, employers will not hire a worker, or could possibly fire a worker, unless they “con ...
  • Announcing NWC's New Radio Show "Honesty Witho ...
    Tomorrow, the NWC will air its first episode of a new radio show called "Honesty Without Fear." Hosted by Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn, the show will feature informative and action-oriented content such as whistleblower interviews, live Q&A with callers, and updates on c ...
  • MSPB Approves Stay for FDA Whistleblower
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) recently allowed a stay in the termination of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whistleblower, Paul T. Hardy. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) requested the stay on his behalf due to reasonable belief that Mr. Hardy’s recent termination from ...
  • Senate Committee marks up and approves a weak WPEA
    This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) marked up and approved S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). The WPEA has been pending for years. Its expressed purpose is to strengthen protections for  whistleblowers. As sponsor Sen ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Failed Company, Now Patent Troll, Sues Apple O ...
    Remember the company Personal Audio? This is the complete flop of a company that claimed it tried to develop a personal audio player that never went anywhere, and now is nothing but a pure patent troll. It opened an empty office in East Texas, and actually succeeded in winning $8 million from ...
  • California Politician Discovers That You Can't ...
    Sinan Unur points us to a story about California Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who last year totally and completely overreacted to the news that a teenager died at a rave, by introducing legislation that tried to completely ban raves. After finding fierce opposition to the law (leading another politi ...
  • Court Tells Users They Can't Use RECAP
    We've discussed recently some questions about the federal court's PACER system, and noted that the courts seem to be profiting nicely from PACER, even as it's supposed to be about improving access to public domain court rulings, not about money for the court system. Yet, at the same time they'r ...
  • Interesting Ideas: Can You Peer Review The Ent ...
    One of the concerns many people have with the web is whether or not the content you come across is trustworthy. To be honest, to some extent I've always found this to be a feature, rather than a bug, in that it (hopefully) teaches people to be more skeptical of everything they read and to seek ...
  • Want Revenue From Used Games? Just Have GameSt ...
    We all know that many game companies are really upset about being locked out of the used games revenue stream. Warner happens to be one of those companies. With the release of Batman: Arkham City, Warner is giving a free code to new game buyers that lets the gamer play as Catwoman during the gam ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    As of the 19th, the bfriend and I have been together 15 years. We celebrated by both catching the plague, staying home for four days, and hacking up our lungs. Sexy. It did give me lots of time to catch up on blog reading though. So here we go. How is it that I am [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I haven’t been able to do much more than walk by OccupyDC. Anyone been to one of the teach-ins? Have you seen the Crooks and Liars piece about NYPD being hired out by Wall Street firms to the tune of $11.8 million? The prison hunger strike has been called off because of retaliation. I have ...
  • Thinking Horizontally
    We are so programmed to think hierarchically that, when faced with some kind of conflict, most people automatically look to create a higher authority. The legal system is the perfect example. You have a problem, you go to the higher authority of the court. If that doesn’t work out, you app ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Lots of interesting pieces floating around on the occupy movement.  There is a post by Darien on the Occupations Alienating People and this piece on Rebel Diaz. I’m interested to see how #occupythehood develops. Any of you able to get out this weekend? I was not able to get out. One of the ...
  • Occupation to Conversation
    When I first heard about Occupy Wall Street, I thought it had real potential. Wall Street is a target that a lot of people could get behind. I could see people rallying around a campaign against that Giant Vampire Squid, Goldman Sachs. Of course “one demand” didn’t really mater ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • How the Wealth of Canadians, Americans, Brits ...
    By Lorimer WilsonTuesday, October 25th, 2011 Countries differ greatly in the levels and pattern of wealth holdings…In this article…we highlight those of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. [Take a look at the results of our extensive research.] Words: 1314 To ...
  • Eight New York policemen charged in gun smuggl ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight New York City policemen were charged on Tuesday with helping run a gun-smuggling ring in a city whose mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is leading a national campaign against illegal guns. The men were accused of exploiting their experience and credentials to take part i ...
  • We are 26,421… and growing!
    Global Research readers refuse to be deceived about the state of the world we live in! One week ago, Global Research launched an awareness-raising initiative by challenging our readers to help us grow our mailing list. The response has been excellent – after one week we have increased ...
  • Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Fun ...
    by Pam Martens Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in lower Manhattan where Wall Street firms, serially charged with cor ...
  • Libya: Between Tyranny and an Uncertain Future
    By Veterans TodayTuesday, October 25th, 2011 Libya between tyranny and an uncertain future By Nureddin Sabir Editor, Redress Information & Analysis Editorial Note: How to tell you are reading lies and propaganda? This is from someone with a strong personal stake in Libya and the recent confl ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Let Our Farmers Grow… Hemp by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Oct. 19, 2011 Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1831, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011″ on May 11th of this year. It is a simple bill at just two pages in length, and it would legalize the growing of industrial hemp in the Unit ...
  • For a Kantian public role: Go Project and OWS ...
    by Konstantin Kaminskiy Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Questions of Political Economy in Modernity Oct. 22, 2011 Kant, in his “What is Enlightenment?” will give you two roles. In your private role you are a cog in some machine. In this case I a cog in the Go Project machine. Every Saturday I help ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: Problems of the dialectics ...
    by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad October 21, 2011 A brief note on the origins of the protests Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the related protests have been centered around the rage of the unemployed, poor, those burdened with exorbitant amounts of student loans in the most expen ...
  • Capitalism: what a load of rubbish! By William ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Oct. 18, 2011 Something has to be done about a world rapidly filling up with the (often poisonous) rubbish that capitalism produces in vast abundance. Rubbish that will be with us for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Even t ...
  • Travels of a New Gulliver: Chapter 4 by Joseph ...
    by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Oct. 19, 2011 Chapter IV The Author finds himself in a Dark Wood My dear Reader, I feared traveling during the day when I could be easily seen from above, from that floating Isle which could, I knew, espy, like a hawk, anything below and swoop down u ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
  • No title
    I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
  • No title
    This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
  • No title
    US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...
  • No title
    Libya 2.0 Tony Blair's Libyan dictator mate Gaddafi can rot in a ditch for all I care, but there's something about this video that is chilling. It's hard to nail the exact moment, amongst the laughter : This is what US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was laughing at : Libyans, hired mer ...

Wired - Science

  • Poll Finds Public Support for Climate Hacking
    Support among the public for scientists deliberately altering the Earth's climate on a vast scale to counteract global warming is at 72 percent, according to a recent survey that appeared in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something that's been difficult to do with empirical precision. The debut subject: The Russian heat wave of July 2010, which killed 700 people and was unprecede ...
  • Welcome to Copenhagen Suborbitals
    Dear reader… My name is Kristian von Bengtson, and I design and build spacecrafts. I have so much to show you and share with you. A little over three years ago my life changed. Everything I have learned, taught myself, loved and wanted to do was suddenly merged together in a split second ...
  • Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture
    A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these lessons down through generations — evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots.
  • The Evolution of the Spacesuit
    Like all fashion, the spacesuit is subject to change. Early designs grew out of the pressurized suits worn by trailblazing pilots in hot air balloons and airplanes. Since then, spacesuits have grown into machines of impressive complexity, even becoming miniature spacecraft that fly independently ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli NGO: Elad group has ‘veto’ power over ...
    Ir Amim, a nonprofit that seeks to make life in Jerusalem more equitable for Arab and Jewish residents, claims agreement is illegal and ostensibly privatizes one of Israel's most important tourism... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • APJP: The alternative plan for Al-Bustan (“Kin ...
    Both the City of David Archaeological Park and the proposed King’s Garden project, like all the Israeli settler’s neighbourhoods in annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank, are illegal under... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Mouin Rabbani: United States should step aside ...
    Not all successful mediators are neutral, yet America’s seemingly limitless devotion to the colonizer against the colonized cries out for a counterweight. To the extent Washington succeeds in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Mouin Rabbani: Prisoner exchange levels Hamas, ...
    News that Israel and Hamas had reached agreement on a prisoner exchange instantaneously displaced the PLO bid for full UN membership from the headlines in mid-October. Arguably, Hamas and Israel had... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • John Bunzl: Reading Bibi
    Netanyahu's UN speech includes a strange statement: "The settlements are a result of the conflict". The blurring of cause and effect is a constant feature of dominant Israeli rhetoric... And when... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Cornell Reaches Two Milestones Toward a New Co ...
    Cornell scientists have surpassed two major milestones toward a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source: A record-breaking electron gun emittance and a successfully tested prototype of a superconducting linac cavity.
  • Gene Regulatory Protein Is Reduced in Bipolar ...
    A new study provides evidence that changes in gene regulation may contribute to the development of bipolar disorder. Researchers found low levels of a transcription factor in the brain's prefrontal cortex and cerebellum in postmortem samples from patients with bipolar disorder, suggesting a new ...
  • Debt-Ceiling Battles Have Little Effect on Fin ...
    The recent conflict between Congress and President Barack Obama over raising the federal debt ceiling caused many economists and policymakers to fret that the financial markets would assess a higher risk premium on U.S. Treasury securities. However, a University of Arkansas finance study suggest ...
  • Women Aren't Becoming Engineers Because of Con ...
    Women are less likely than men to stay in engineering majors and to become engineers because they want to have families and are more insecure about their math abilities, right? Not necessarily, suggests a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.
  • New Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Might Help Avoid S ...
    A new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may one day serve as an alternative to steroid medications and possibly help avoid the serious side effects of steroids, based on research findings at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Natural Health News

  • Processed Food Rebates Dominate School Cafeterias
    Have you ever wondered if there was a reason that your child’s school cafeteria offered foods like Apple Jacks, Pop-Tarts, Giant Goldfish Grahams and Otis Spunkmeyer muffins?  It turns out that the manufacturers of those sugar-laden products pay hefty rebates to giant food service c ...
  • Meet Big Soda -- as Bad as Big Tobacco
    Close to 20 states or cities in the U.S. are considering the possibility of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.  Organizations that have called for reductions in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption include the World Health Organization, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Associ ...
  • The Shocking True Story of How Pringles are Made
    To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles company, in an effort to avoid taxes, once even argued that the potato content of their chips was so low that they are technically not even ...
  • Sex and the Soybean: A Cautionary Tale
    Is it possible to use soy as an aid to celibacy?  Traditional wisdom says yes, and a fair amount of science backs it up. Many studies have shown that soy’s estrogenic isoflavones interfere with the production and usage of testosterone in your body.  There’s also some evidence that soy ...
  • Could This Simple Trick Improve Your Insulin R ...
    Vitamin D is known to have effects on insulin sensitivity. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with type 2 diabetes. A new study sought to assess the effects of high-dose vitamin D3 on insulin sensitivity in subjects with vitamin D deficiency and impaired fasting glucose. According to the ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Humanity’s Law: A Few Opening Thoughts
    by Ruti Teitel by Ruti Teitel So thanks for the opportunity to exchange on my new book Humanity’s Law.  I have been following the relationship of law to post conflict and political transition for many years now.  The puzzle that occasioned this book was the apparently expanding role of l ...
  • Book Roundtable: Ruti Teitel’s Humanity’s Law
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro We’re pleased this week to host a discussion of Ruti Teitel’s new book, Humanity’s Law, just out from Oxford University Press.  Ruti is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, where she directs the Institute for Global Law ...
  • Law, Governance, and the Eurozone
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The eurozone is on the verge of meltdown, taking whole economies and banking systems with it, and spreading to the US through the systemic interwiring of the international financial system.  Or not.  European meetings to avert disaster are coming unglued ...
  • Judge Antonio Cassese, Ave Atque Vale
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Opinio Juris learns with sadness of the passing of Judge Antonio Cassese, one of the pioneers of international criminal justice, following a long battle with cancer.  If you like, leave any remembrances or tributes in the comments.  For my part, I rememb ...
  • Assessing the Relationship of Information and ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen On Thursday evening I was on a panel at International Law Weekend on the evolving nature of sovereignty. Sean Murphy gave a presentation on how social networking technology may affect sovereignty, but also how “Twitter revolution” claims have been ov ...

Public News Service

  • The American Jobs Act: Round Two
    The American Jobs Act: Round Two Phoenix, AZ - President Barack Obama is in the middle of a three-day American Jobs Act bus tour today (Tuesday), talking about about passing the bill in sections instead of all at once after it failed to come to a Senate vote last week. Comments from John Berry, ...
  • Report: "Future Farming" Practices Work for AZ
    Report: "Future Farming" Practices Work for AZ Phoenix, AZ – Farming is a $2 billion part of Arizona's yearly economy, but its future depends on affordability for both farmer and consumer, and an ability to sustain the environment and keep soil in good condition. A new report studies succe ...
  • How Much is that Doggie on the Internet?
    How Much is that Doggie on the Internet? Phoenix, AZ – Puppy mills are still pumping out dogs at thousands of locations around the U.S. and selling directly to the consumer online without any regulations. One group is asking the Obama Administration to require that all large-scale commerc ...
  • More Parents Than Ever Having “The Talk& ...
    More Parents Than Ever Having “The Talk” With Their Kids Phoenix, AZ – October is “Let’s Talk Month,” a national effort by community agencies and religious institutions to get parents to talk early, often and openly with their children about sex and sexual hea ...
  • A Weight Loss Program That Works For Latinos
    A Weight Loss Program That Works For Latinos Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is 30-percent Latino. Latino children under 18 are among the fastest-growing segments of the population, in more ways than one: their population is increasing, and so is their weight. An innovative weight-loss program that' ...

Center for Food Safety

  • New Report: A Global Citizens Report on the St ...
    Published by Navdanya (India), Navdanya International, the International Commission on the Future of Food,  with the participation of the Center for Food Safety. The report consists of contributions from groups around the world. Entire report may be viewed HERE A new report highlights scientific ...
  • Don’t be in the Dark about GE Foods!
    Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Groups File Legal Petition With FDA Demanding ...
    Coalition of consumer, environmental, farm groups, and food companies demand FDA issue new regulations on GE foods Current guidelines are “misleading” and deny consumers their “right to know” Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) announced its filing of a groundbreaking new legal petition with ...
  • Right2Know March Announces Events During 313 M ...
    Coalition Demands a “Reset” by Obama Administration on GMO Labeling October 1 – 16th, 2011, a diverse coalition of organizations—including the Center for Food Safety—businesses and individuals will begin to march from the Historic Flatbush Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY to the gates of the White Hou ...
  • Keep Monsanto’s Pesticide-Ridden GMO Swe ...
    Surveys over the past decade have consistently shown that Americans don’t want to eat genetically engineered (GE or GMO) food. Despite the overwhelming opposition to this risky new food technology, the biotech giant Monsanto continues to impose its unlabeled GMO’s onto our dinner plates. The lat ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 53 Libyans Executed by the Mercenaries - only ...
    53 Libyans Executed by the Mercenaries - only the tip of the iceberg. | Libya |Axisoflogic.com: First you support the war with lies until you've realized the imperial goal of destruction and domination, then you become critical of the war in an attempt to claim credibility as a media institution ...
  • The ‘Rebel’ Assassination of Muammar Gaddafi: ...
    The ‘Rebel’ Assassination of Muammar Gaddafi: a NATO Operation from A to Z Muammar Gaddafi – revolutionary leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – was assassinated on Thursday 20 October, 2011, in the Libyan city of Sirte. The precise circumstances surrounding his death have been clouded with ...
  • African American Pundit Blog: Alonzo Ashley's ...
    African American Pundit Blog: Alonzo Ashley's Death By Taser Torture: Black people in Denver are pissed over the killing over a black man in a zoo with a taser by police.�As reported by�the Denver Post.�black religious leaders Saturday questioned how the coroner could rule the death of a ma ...
  • Will Seif Gaddafi Survive to Have His Day in C ...
    Will Seif Gaddafi Survive to Have His Day in Court? : Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: by FRANKLIN LAMB During the late evening of 10/20/11 the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC re ...
  • Pan-African News Wire: Africa Mourn Gaddafi's ...
    Pan-African News Wire: Africa Mourn Gaddafi's Assassination: Many in Sub-Saharan Africa Mourn Qaddafi’s Death By JOSH KRON New York Times NAIROBI, Kenya — While Libya’s former rebels and many Western nations welcomed the end of the country’s long and brutal dictatorship, many sub-Saharan A ...

Pensieve

  • Bon Voyage, Steve Jobs
    There isn’t much I can say about Steve Jobs. I never met him, personally, but his influence was felt from my childhood. Like many reacting to the news of his passing, I am doing so on a device he was involved in designing. He has inspired me greatly, as with countless others. The official ...
  • New Media Animation Roasts New Facebook
    I love the 1984 and Matrix references in this video. The animators at Taiwan’s New Media Animation, have once again produced a delicious roast of the news of the day. By the process described in detail in the Mashable tech blog, I have already started trying out the timeline. It seems perf ...
  • Facebook Timeline: A Google+ Killer?
    This app turns Facebook into a virtual scrapbook of your life. The current model for profiles is an image of your current self, not how you have changed throughout your life. By adding the fourth dimension to the profile, Facebook explodes the potential of the profile exponentially. I read Ben P ...
  • You Tube Launches New Video Editor
    YouTube has had a very basic video editor for some time, and has now updated and relaunched it. To me this was the next logical step for YouTube: to own the customer journey from the beginning. I have a further idea which is my Capstone project for my master’s degree, and since very few if ...
  • Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!
    Very interesting premise: that hackers are often victims of Asperger’s syndrome. Instead of jailing them, Glenny suggest the government hire them. Related posts:Top 0×08 Reasons To Hire Aaron Ortiz Retraction Anonymous to “Destroy” Facebook on Nov. 5 Should Christians Hire ...

Green Times

  • Colour rules the world!
    Birds are important to the environment. Their presence shows the biodiversity (glossary/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html)significance of an area, and if all is well. Birds also promote eco-tourism and the fact that birds are a delight to watch, especially with lenses to really see the colo ...
  • Environmental News 25/10/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • What's on 24 October
    Do you ever think about where all the stuff you buy comes from? Or where it goes when you throw it out? The Story of Stuff makes your realise that it is not a coincidence that the stuff you buy is already old or broken after one year. Companies want us to buy more and more to make money. All thi ...
  • Environmental News 24/10/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • No fracking way!
    This cute dog says it all! Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary (80-300 tons of) chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well. ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Shalit Deal – A Teaching Moment [1] DEAT ...
    Israeli POW Gilad Shalit is finally back home after 5+ years in illegal solitary confinement. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were also released, with hundreds more to follow. Many of them will not be able to return home like Shalit, and probably none of them are really free — being, sti ...
  • Please Help Palestinian Community Organizer Fo ...
    From David and Ehud at the Villages Group: Hi friends I am happy to tell you that Ibrahim Nawaja, who has run the Susiya creative and learning center, with great success , for almost a year (see also video below), has been accepted to Dar Al Kalima college (Arabic link) to study Documentary Film ...
  • Israel’s Tahrir[3]: Ripple Effect on Pol ...
    In late August, after first sending proxies to defame Israel’s social-justice protesters as “radical lefties” – a move that backfired spectacularly; then trying the silent treatment, hoping that the Israeli public known for its short attention span will lose interest &#8 ...
  • UPDATED with Video and more Commentary: Israel ...
    I was waiting a few days as the disturbing emails piled my inbox, trying to wrap my head around them and think what angle to bring this story from. To Hell with my angle. These are activists who’ve seen a lot over the years, staring down police brutality in Sheikh Jarrah (East Jerusalem), ...
  • Palestinian Return, Jewish Return, and Insuffe ...
    This text is cross-posted from Daily Kos, where it was part of an ongoing debate. First, we had user “soysauce” in a brilliant rec-list diary, countering the Bibi government’s slogan that it isn’t enough for Palestinians to recognize Israel – they need to recognize ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Why WWII Got Us Out Of The Great Depression, a ...
    A guest post by: Leonard Weinstein, ScD August 16, 2011 The Great Depression, starting about 1929 and running through the 1930’s, had several root causes, including major government actions and the bubble of buying stock on inadequate margin. I will not get into details on the causes, as the iss ...
  • Nature’s Sneak Peek into AR5
    Nature magazine has given us an article by a Jane Qiu interviewing glaciologist Qin Dahe which provides a preview of the upcoming AR5 report.  The article is a piece of triple A rated, (alarmist, advocate,  activist)  – of course – but it confirms our suspicion that the reasonable cr ...
  • More Bad Science Courtesy of Government
    Fox News has an article highlighting an attempt by Republicans to point out the mountains of known-bad science being paid for and misrepresented by people in government. Several Republican lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration’s science czar over what they claim are repeat inc ...
  • Hiding Future Declines
    This is kinda huge — Jeff ———- BREAKING: An IPCC backchannel ‘cloud’ was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA.   CEI has learned of a UN plan recently put in place to hide official  correspondence on non-governmental accounts, which corresponde ...
  • Cycles In Temperature Trends
    Recently, a paper by Craig Loehle and Nicola Scafetta has come to my attention.   The simplicity of the math makes it attainable for the technical reader who doesn’t want to spend a month learning climate jargon.  This isn’t a Mannian stew.  The paper received a strong critique at WU ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
  • Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
    Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at my ...
  • "ALEC: Exposed" Wins September Sidney Award
    The Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine have won this month's Sidney Award for excellence in socially conscious journalism, the Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday. The winning project, "ALEC:Exposed" is a groundbreaking print and multimedia expose of the American ...
  • Jay Smooth on Rick Perry and Superman, a Great ...
    Presidential hopeful Rick Perry told a little kid that if he were a superhero, he'd be Superman, a great American. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine thinks that's a great idea. Watch. [Photo credit: Dunechaser, Creative Commons.] Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Platform Update: Mobile Hack Day, Credits Inte ...
    Facebook has made several developer-focused announcements over the paste few days, including that it has released more free tickets to its Mobile Hack event at Facebook headquarters this Friday. This will give more developers the opportunity to learn about building … Continue reading →
  • Inside Social Apps 2012 Is Coming to San Franc ...
    February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco Inside Social Apps is coming back to San Francisco in 2012! We are proud to announce our third conference on the future of monetization on social and mobile platforms. As of this … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: GroSocia ...
    GroSocial added a few board members and Shoutlet hired some sales staff this week in our Facebook platform hires digest. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook … Continue reading →
  • Football, Modern Warfare 2, Adele, Street King ...
    Football and soccer-related were both popular on our list of Pages growing by the number of Likes this week. In addition to several games, popular musical acts like Adele and LMFAO, 50 Cent’s energy drink Street King, a religious Page, … Continue reading →
  • Bandcamp’s New Facebook Page Tab App Lacks Fea ...
    Musician profile website and publishing platform Bandcamp this week released a tab application that lets artists present their Bandcamp presence on their Facebook Page. While competing services like RootMusic built Page tab apps that now host hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Art of Compromise, Or, the Road to Hell?
    When the Devil Becomes the Advocate By Sibel Edmonds “All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is surrender. For it is all give and no take.” – Mohandas Gandhi This is real life where there are compromises an ...
  • “A Question For The Commander-in-Chief” by G. ...
    A Sunday Poem and Picture for You  This powerful poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by G. Karl Marcus: A Question For The Commander-in-Chief When a bunker buster falls in the desert and no one shows you photos of the shadows of little bodies etched on concrete walls, are the screams of i ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post: A Home for the Politically ...
    When it comes to Crooked Puppets We Take No Prisoners By Sibel Edmonds For the past two years Boiling Frogs Post has been the proud home of the irate minority. When I started this website, even before completing the site’s setup, I had already picked the quote which this site’s principle was goi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    Philip Zelikow Appointed to Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the West’s Red Bogeyman in Libya, Obama Extends National Emergency Regarding Iran, America’s Sham War on Terrorism, US House Democrats to European Leaders: Oppose Palestinian Statehood Bid, John Brennan Ex-Board C ...
  • Podcast Show #56
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Thompson-Part III This is Part 3 of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson. For additional background information please visit the complete 9/11 Timeline Investigative Project at HistoryCommons.Org. Paul Thompson joi ...

Afro Spear

  • Public meeting on black deaths in police custo ...
    A public meeting on the issue of black deaths in custody will be held at the London School of Economics Students Union (LSE SU), from 6.30-9.00pm on Wednesday 26 October 2011. Organised by Black Mental Health UK in association with the LSE SU, this event comes in the wake of a spate of incidents ...
  • Slavery: A 21st Century Evil
    I haven’t been paying too much attention to the Occupy Wall Street fiasco. Like the Tea Party Movement, it’s become a media fueled circus (panem et circenses), a reality tv inspired showcase of privileged White americans who are pissed at being forced to downsize their decadent lifes ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Hollywood’s New Sodom & Gomorrah Persona Herman Cain and Barack Obama; Separated at Birth? An open letter and warning from a former tea party movement adherent to the Occupy Wall Street movement Falling BLACK in Love… On Literature and Awareness
  • I love this photo
  • The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011
    I discovered the competition for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011 quite by accident a little while ago. I am sure many of you can relate to this. I was surfing the web, reading a variety of posts and articles and stumbled upon it. The Prize is awarded to an African writer of a short stor ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Moving Forward with a Balanced Approach to Sol ...
    Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Secretary of Interior Department Ken Salazar this week is expected to announce an important milestone towards adopting a program for managing solar energy development on public lands in the West. The Depa ...
  • Investing in Transportation to Escape the Ener ...
    Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C. America's vast transportation network -- roads, bridges, and railways -- is in dire straits, marked most notably by a huge backlog of repair needs and not enough government funding ...
  • Architecture matters, still
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Exactly four years ago today, I published my first blog post.  Little did I know at the time how much I would enjoy this and how much maintaining a blog would change my l ...
  • Wanted: Food Lawyers!
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York Today is national food day. But instead of writing about my favorite recipe, I thought instead I would pass along one word of career advice for aspiring lawyers: Y ...
  • House to vote on bill that tries to move us cl ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC The House is scheduled to vote today on HR 2594 which would seek to stop the European program to control aviation’s carbon pollution and push the U.S. closer to a trade w ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Ballad of Prick Erry
    Isn’t his clever, elaborate satire of George W. Bush beginning to lack subtlety? See also this instance of him saying the quiet part loudly. Look, most of us understand that birtherism among Republican elites is about 1)demonstrating your asshole bona fides and 2)fleecing rubes, but you&#8 ...
  • Italy’s Northern League
    I know nothing about Italian politics, but this doesn’t look good: (This apparently translates as “Guess who’s last for housing, jobs, and health care?”) The Northern League seems to waffle between advocating strong federalism and actual secession from Italy of the northe ...
  • Dayton!
    Matt Yglesias picks up the story about the ‘Welcome Dayton’ plan that’s been circulating since the AP picked up the story. A few comments: 1. The pictured establishment, Taqueria Mixteca, is an oasis in a vast taco wasteland. The quality of life here is substantially higher for ...
  • Communication Breakdown?
    I’m not sure whether LaRussa’s explanation for why Motte wasn’t brought in is too implausible to be true or so implausible it has to be true. At any rate, even if the bad matchup against Napoli wasn’t his fault TonyLaRussaSuperGenius(TM) had an astoundingly bad game. Good ...
  • Film Review: The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975
    Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power–dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning white people had at the time too. But Instead of something to disapprove of, it was admirable to a generation sic ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Dilworth students participate in Mission Antar ...
    Students at Dilworth STEM Academy join a team of scientists in Antarctica as they study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms. The work has implications for understanding impacts of climate change and the ecology and evolution of organisms in the Southern Ocean.
  • Communicating Science with Animation
    Derek Norpchen calls his work eye candy. “I take the data that the scientists gather in the field and turn it into animations and visualizations so that the projects sponsors and the public can better understand the science behind the issue.”
  • ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
    Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
  • DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
    DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • NLJ LAW SCHOOL REVIEW: The great debate over l ...
    Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training. Law schools have faced plenty of criticism for their role in the struggles of young lawyers today. The National Law Journal has assembled a panel of top legal educators and law graduates to discuss whether law schools ...
  • The big chill: the Computer Fraud and Abuse ac ...
    Anyone who favors enforcement of regulatory laws, as well as the protections that those laws afford whistleblowers, should hope that the 9th Circuit uses this opportunity to correct a decision that could deter would-be whistleblowers from coming forward with evidence of corporate wrongdoing.
  • OPINION: Overhaul civil litigation
    The jury trial has all but vanished, and discovery is used as a tactic to leverage a favorable settlement.
  • OPINION: The need for empathy on the Court
    Two recent arguments, one about strip searches and another about a procedural default in a death penalty case, illustrate why the human dimension matters in judging.
  • THE PRACTICE: Suing employees for computer fra ...
    Four separate circuit court rulings this year enhanced the ability of businesses to use Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Shale Gas Drilling Photos
    The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening.  Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
  • Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...
    By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...
  • Learn the FACTS about Marcellus Shale
    Thurs. Nov. 3rd at 7 PM GAS TRUTH OF YORK is sponsoring  the YORK MARCELLUS SHALE FORUM so that you can learn what you need to know about Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania.  In South Central PA we do not have Marcellus Shale drilling but the Oil & Gas Industry is affecting our water, land, ...
  • Gas Truth of Central Pennsylvania Wants to Hea ...
    Give Your Testimony to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION GAS TRUTH is giving support to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION that has been formed by 8 organizations that want to get out the truth about the effect of Shale Gas drilling on Pennsylvania.  Governor Corbett formed his Gas in ...
  • GASLAND and Josh Fox Come to York, PA
    Wed. Sept. 21st at 6:30 PM HACC York Campus is sponsoring a special outdoor screening of the Emmy award-winning film, GASLAND.  GASLAND’s Director, Josh Fox will answer questions following the film.  GASLAND is the story of the effect of Fracking for Natural Gas on families and communities ...

News Blaze

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

  • New Euro "Empire" Plot by Brussels
    European Union chiefs are drawing up plans for a single "Treasury" to oversee tax and spending across the 17 eurozone nations. The proposal, put forward by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, would be the clearest sign yet of a new "United States of Europe" - with Britain left on ...
  • The Vitamin that is Better than Fluoride in Re ...
    Studies have linked geographical variations in dental health and tooth loss to sun exposure. Dental caries has been shown to be inversely related to mean hours of sunlight per year, with people living in the sunny west having half as many cavities as those in the much less sunny northeast. As re ...
  • Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protester
    David Icke breaks down the banking scam and direct the importance of this message to the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Fractional-reserve banking is a form of banking where banks maintain reserves (of cash and coin or deposits at the central bank) that are only a fraction of the customer’s depo ...
  • Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more ...
    Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source". In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya’s economy integrate further into the western world, ...
  • "Anonymous" Busts Child Porn Ring
    Hacker group Anonymous briefly crashed a large collection of child pornography Web sites, and published the names of its patrons. Last week, the cyber vigilantes, better known for targeting large corporations and oppressive government regimes, used a brute force attack to infiltrate a server cal ...

Russia Today

  • Russia takes the lead in Arctic cold war
    Russia has all but approved an $8 billion plan to build the first-ever city with an artificial climate, as the country steps up to conquer the planet’s frozen wastes with its vast resources, and says the Moon and Mars...
  • Turkey miracle: 2-week-old baby pulled alive f ...
    A two-week-old baby was rescued from underneath the debris of an apartment building in Turkey that was destroyed by the 7.0 magnitude quake, reports Reuters. Azra Karaduman is 14-days-old and had been born one month...
  • West two-faced over rights violations in Syria ...
    The economic sanctions which are having a harsh impact on the Syrian population highlight a clear contradiction in the West’s approach to Syria, insists Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem.
  • Finally at rest: Gaddafi’s rotting corpse buried
    The ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was buried at dawn on Tuesday at a secret location in the desert. This ends the macabre wrangle over the former leader’s rotting corpse, which had been on public display for five...
  • Ukraine becomes Europe’s capital of organ traf ...
    With Ukraine’s medical infrastructure and legislation making vital transplant organs hard to come by, the illegal trade in human organs is thriving as desperate people turn to the black market.

Not My Tribe

  • In the spirit of AIM, entrepreneurship and Our ...
    One of the Idolatrous Statues downtown is of Gen Winfield Scott. The placard reads that he was an entrepreneur, a “self made” millionaire. Bullshit. I was wondering where I had heard the name before. He was the officer in charge of the Cherokee Removal. He got his money and his land ...
  • Oct 24-29 is Mile High Showdown, plus Obama, T ...
    DENVER- Is it a vanguard action? Check it out and decide, but make sure YOUR itinerary includes TUES 25TH protest of Tar Sands pipeline with American Indian Movement at the UC-Denver Auraria Campus, WED 26TH protest of Obama visit, also on Auraria Campus, and SAT 29TH global march to demand Robi ...
  • 1, we are the people! 2, we are united! 3, the ...
    Nighttime arrests continue across the country in local moves to stomp on the sparking Occupy Movement, using park, curfew and anti-homeless ordinances to thwart permanent protest encampments. Participants remind each other that it’s about issues not tents. The authorities however seem indi ...
  • Shock and Awe, Oderint Dum Metuant and the term 1%
    It finally occurred to me why I had so much difficulty with the term “1%” as applied to Banksters. It’s a biker term. Someone in the late 50s, a motorcycle enthusiast magazine, had said “99 percent of all motorcycle riders are decent, honest law abiding citizens” (v ...
  • CSPD acquires urban assault vehicle. What line ...
    COLO. SPRINGS- This image just in from a reconnoiter of the downtown police garage. The CSPD has mobilized an urban assault vehicle, for, I don’t know what, keeping up with the Jones’s? Ever since Springs police decided that the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission held gravita ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Conspiracy Road Trip Reactions
    9/11 Disinfo Road Trip http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-disinfo-road-trip.html “9/11 Conspiracy Roadtrip BBC show” – A Participant’s Perspective http://911truthnews.com/911-conspiracy-roadtrip-a-participants-perspective/ MistrBrit Reviews BBC 9/11 Show & Interviews Participa ...
  • 9/11 Disinfo Road Trip
    In my Charlie Veitch, WTF??? post I wrote: He also said he spoke to a demolition expert, who I assume was probably someone like Brent Blanchard, and I'm guessing they told him it would be impossible to demolish those buildings.I called it! The demolition expert they spoke to on the top floor ...
  • The 9/11 Truth Movement has no credentialed ex ...
    as long as you pretend they don't exist. I've recently read the updated 2011 version of Popular Mechanic's book Debunking 9/11Myths, and I plan on writing a full response to their controlled demolition sections. However, I wanted to discuss one particular statement in their book that I feel des ...
  • DEW Advocates' Form of Debate: Censor Opposition
    Well, today I received this message from one Andrew Johnson regarding my video "Dr. Judy Wood Debunked": To which I replied: Hello. First let me start off by saying that I included at the beginning of the video a screen grab of the original video description saying that copying and sharing ...
  • Q: Has Anyone Ever Found Out Who That "Young M ...
    During testimony given to the 9/11 Commission, then Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta had the following exchange with 9/11 commissioner Lee Hamilton regarding the plane coming into the Pentagon:MR. MINETA: ...There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plan ...

Fooducate

  • Kraft Milk & Granola Bars. Fortified Candy.
    Here’s a note we got from a a long time reader of the Fooducate blog, Alison: Just curious to see if you have looked at the new Kraft Milk and Granola bars? I saw these at my local grocer in with the milk! The packaging claims its a good source of fiber, 7g of whole [...]
  • The Eyes Don’t Lie: We Don’t Really Read Nutri ...
    Note: See below reminder for Today’s Food Day Supermarket Tour Here’s an interesting piece of research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association: People don’t really read nutrition labels as much as they report they do. Researchers used sophisticated compute ...
  • Nutrition Labels – US vs Europe. Who’s Better?
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. At the risk of causing some to choke on their French canned duck leg confit (a great product, despite no Nutrition Facts), I’d like to highlight some little-known or underappreciated facts about US nutriti ...
  • 9 Things to Know About Surimi [Fake Crab]
    A Fooducate community member, Sofia, recently emailed us with this question: What is it about “Surimi” (or crab sticks), I often see women who are on protein diet eating surimis, I see them in my sushis, I see them in every supermaket but I really wonder if they are ok to eat? Are th ...
  • Join Us for a Supermarket Tour on Food Day (Mo ...
    Monday, October 24th is Food Day. The 6 FOOD DAY PRINCIPLES include the reduction of diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods and promoting health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids. Across the nation, hundreds of community events will celebrate and educate people about the joy ...

Traffikd

  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
  • Tips for Getting More Done
    This topic might not be 100% focused on social media or marketing but its important to remember these ideals and incorporate them into your day. These tips will be especially helpful for bloggers, designers, social media managers and people with a lot on their plate each day to get more done. St ...
  • Brand You – How to Brand a Blog
    Brands bring something recognizable to the table that readers or customers can see and immediately identify with to get a picture of what the brand stands for. If you are making yourself into a personal brand your goal can be to make yourself, your image and your name instantly recognizable as a ...

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • The 1% who get the gold mine(we get the shaft)
    by Greg Palast [Wall Street, New York] No one here in Zuccotti Park is protesting "Wall Street." Wall Street is just an address, just a street sign on a post. The 99% Movement is about Them: the 1%. The 1% who own Wall Street and all our streets and have posted a foreclosure notice on the enti ...
  • Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs—and why they need to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash Greg Palast's investigative reports are broadcast by BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book, Vul ...
  • The Theft of 2012
    by Greg Palast That was nuthin': In 2000, the Palast investigations team uncovered the purge of 58,000 legal Florida voters, most of them African-Americans, by Katherine Harris. In 2004, we uncovered the "caging lists" which 're-elected' George Bush. That was nuthin' too ... compared to th ...
  • Hamptons Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina
    by Greg Palast Don't worry:  the bankers are safe.  The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies' personal trainers, the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the warning that in a couple of day ...
  • Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle an hand coffee mill ...
    We’ve had an email from good friend of Recycle This Petra: When cleaning some cupboards, I found an old hand coffee mill. I never use it for coffee beans, but could you think of another purpose for this mill. Something to grind for kitchen use? Or something totally different? All ideas are ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle (or pass on) slippers?
    Rachael left a note on the suggestions page, asking: hi, how can recycle some slippers? do shoe banks take them? thanks Yes, they can be put into shoe banks – but make sure they’re tied together in some way (if they’ve not got laces, tie them together with string or an elastic ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old kids slide?
    Sherri emailed to ask: Any ideas on using an old kids slide in the veggie garden? I like that she added the “in the veggie garden” bit because that’s nearly always where my mind goes first and I worry that I come off as a bit obsessed with growing in random recycled things! ;) ...
  • How can I reduce the amount of NEW books I buy ...
    We’re having a book themed week here on Recycle This – and on my simple living site, The Really Good Life too. Read about how to reuse, recycle or upcycle old books, damaged books and notebooks/jotters – and see inspiring how-tos & ready-to-buy items using books. Or on TRG ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old, used notebooks ...
    We’re having a book themed week here on Recycle This: check out our other posts on reusing & recycling books in general, damaged books in particular, and some of our favourite how-tos & handmade crafts to buy using old books. I’m both a scribbler – both writing & ...

Age of Autism

  • Surviving Stoplight Stares
    By Donna Laken There we were, my son and I, minding our own business, waiting patiently for the traffic light to turn from red to green. It was a beautiful, sunny fall morning and I was feeling extremely grateful that...
  • Best of Age of Autism: Paul Offit and the Milg ...
    Managing Editor's Note: John Stone wrote this post in 2010. By John Stone Question: "How many vaccines is it safe for a pediatrician to give a two month old infant?" Answer: "It depends how much they are getting paid." An...
  • A Request To Readers
    Hi, friends. We have a unique situation whereby we're asking those readers who are able -- to pay it forward to a family we all know (and love). If you can make a donation of any amount via our PayPal...
  • Best of Age of Autism: Paul Offit’s Message: C ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Dr. Offit has been appointed to the IOM. By Jake Crosby Did Age of Autism move the goalposts? Paul Offit says yes, but statements from the CDC, FDA, NIH, IOM, AAP, WHO and even Merck say otherwise....
  • Age of Autism Science Summary lteration of pla ...
    PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e25340. Epub 2011 Oct 5. Alteration of plasma glutamate and glutamine levels in children with high-functioning autism. Shimmura C, Suda S, Tsuchiya KJ, Hashimoto K, Ohno K, Matsuzaki H, Iwata K, Matsumoto K, Wakuda T, Kameno Y, Suzuki...

Global BDS Movement

  • The first national SJP conference adopts BDS p ...
    Hundreds of activists decided on “points of unity” at their closing session, which mirrored the demands of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement
  • An Open Letter from Palestinian Students to Th ...
    Palestinian students of the Gaza wish to send a message to all European student groups in solidarity with the Palestinians to do all they can to increase BDS of Israel this academic year
  • Don’t Collaborate with Apartheid – a call from ...
    Palestinian academics, students and civil society organisations deplore the extensive research collaboration that takes place between European universities and Israeli military companies, universities and research institutes that are complicit with Israeli violations of international law and hum ...
  • Cambridge students to begin vote on company wi ...
    Students at Cambridge will start voting Friday in a referendum calling on the University to cut ties with a company implicated in Israeli human rights abuses.
  • G4S retreat from settlements drags out
    G4S announced that the company would end several activities in settlements on the West Bank. But this will first happen between 2012 and 2015. And it continues to provide security services in settlements and equipment to prisons.

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • New euro ‘empire’ plot by Brussels
    Telegraph – The proposal, put forward by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, would be the clearest sign yet of a new “United States of Europe” — with Britain left on the sidelines. Read article
  • Philippine military bombs southern Muslim rebels
    BBC – Military forces in the Philippines have carried out their first air strikes for three years on separatist rebels in the south of the country. Two military aircraft launched the attacks in Zamboanga province. The raids follow a recent wave of violence in the region in which 35 people ...
  • US: Median wage lowest since 1999
  • Concentrated radiation found in Tokyo
    ABC – Radiation levels as high as those in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected in a Tokyo suburb.The radiation hotspot was found in a vacant lot in Kashiwa, a commuter suburb on the outskirts of Japan’s capital. Read article
  • German officials: Bailout fund will top $1.4 trln
    Associated Press – The eurozone bailout fund’s firepower is set to be leveraged to more than euro1 trillion ($1.39 trillion), German opposition leaders said Monday following a briefing with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Governments from the 17-nation eurozone hope that the euro440 billio ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Santa Monica considers dog beach; environmenta ...
    Santa Monica officials are weighing a proposal to let dogs to run loose in the sand and surf, but it may run into opposition from the state, which has vowed to oppose relaxing rules to let dogs run free on...
  • Former Keystone pipeline lobbyist hired by Oba ...
    President Obama's re-election campaign has hired a former top lobbyist for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline as a senior adviser.
  • Burning oil from BP spill produced carbon plumes
    Research released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded that weeks of burning off oil from last summer's BP spill released more than 1 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
  • Oil pipeline protesters to greet Obama in San ...
    When President Obama arrives Tuesday at San Francisco's W Hotel for a fundraiser, he may be greeted with a protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring Canadian tar sands oil through the U.S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Newport Beach wants to remove more polluted mu ...
    Newport Beach wants to dump more sediment at the Port of Long Beach. Already, the city has been towing barges of polluted mud from the Rhine Channel to the port, and officials recently secured space for additional contaminated dirt. That...

water.org

  • Water.org™ Partners with CamelBak® This Holida ...
    Limited-edition water bottles with custom design to benefit those without safe water (Business Wire)  PETALUMA, Calif. — CamelBak® and Water.org™ announced today that they are teaming up for a second consecutive year to share a simple and powerful way to help some of the 884 million people ...
  • Gary White’s goal (CSM)
    Gary White’s goal: bring clean water to a billion people who lack it (Christian Science Monitor) – Gary White cofounded Water.org with actor Matt Damon. His success secret: Making sure local people are deeply involved. If Gary White realizes his vision, everyone in the world will hav ...
  • Video – Richard Thorsten on WaterCredit
    Richard Thorsten › Access to Credit, Access to Basic Services – Water.org’s Richard Thorsten interviewed by MicAmericas TV at the FOROMIC conference in Costa Rica about Water.org’s WaterCredit work.
  • Gary White Guest Blog at Climate Conversations
    Gary White Guest Blog: The Global Water Crisis (Global Conversations) – Right now there is plenty of fresh water available to satisfy needs for domestic (household) purposes; it’s a matter of access. Most people who do not have clean water access are living in poverty and don’t have access ...
  • Gary White – An Innovator in Action (Tak ...
    Innovators In Action Video Series (TakePart) Making Dirty Water Clean: Water.org’s Answer to a Big Problem – Cofounder Gary White on getting ‘what we know works’ to people in need. TakePart travelled to the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England, to pick the brains of the world’s biggest thi ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • The new U.S. Zionist: Israel-bashing, made kosher
    "This exchange points to the sentimentalization of strategy," Pipes declared in the National Review online. "Leaders who place the concerns of one individual over the interests of the country betray their mandate and poison its future." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Eric Cantor's Know-Nothing Wealth Disparity Sp ...
    As for jobs, if the new breed follows Cantor's new idol, many of those jobs willbbe created overseas. Why? In part because China,India,Taiwan and other emerging countries are putting major government funds into education & infrastructure. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Bachmann: Iraq Should 'Fear' America, Reimburs ...
    To think that we are so disrespected and they have so little fear of the United States that there would be nothing that we would gain from this -- that's why I called on President Obama to return to the negotiating table." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't  |&nbsp ...
  • Occupy Main Street: Desperately Seeking Democracy
    The small and courageous group of protestors in downtown New York's Zuccotti Park is fighting for something really simple -- something most of us in America have taken for granted: democracy. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...
  • Neocons Blame Obama for Iraq Disaster - settin ...
    "If only Obama had listened to us like George W. Bush did everything would have worked out just wonderfully. However, since he didnt, Obama will have to shoulder the blame for what the world will see as a humiliating U.S. retreat from Iraq." - Joke? Submitted by to US Politics & Gov' ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • First Solar Stocks Blasted After CEO's Abrupt ...
    Stocks were down 22 percent in mid-afternoon trading Tuesday after solar developer First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) said that CEO Rob Gillete was stepping down. read more
  • New Bedford Plans Groundbreaking Solar Project
    The city of New Bedford, Mass., has announced plans to install solar panels at up to 20 city properties—schools, municipal buildings and land parcels—as part of an initiative that will ultimately generate 10 megawatts of e ...
  • Vivint Enters U.S. Residential Solar Market
    Vivint Solar has received a $75 million equity fund from U.S. Bancorp to support the development of its residential solar energy business. read more
  • Update: U.S. Solar Panel Manufacturers File Tr ...
    On Wednesday, two weeks after announcing the preparation of a trade complaint against China, a consortium of seven U.S. crystalline silicon solar panel developers, led by the largest U.S. producer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic ( ...
  • NextEra Energy Resources Opens North America's ...
    NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. (NYSE: NEE) has turned on the largest concentrated (CVP) photovoltaic solar power plant in North America. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

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

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Hip Resurfacing Operation Loses Important Endo ...
    The California Technology Assessment Forum reversed its stance on a technique known as hip resurfacing, citing insufficient evidence regarding the surgery’s safety and efficacy. (Source: NYT Health)
  • [World Report] Qatar sets its sights on global ...
    The tiny Gulf state of Qatar has plans underway to substantially develop its scientific infrastructure and attract some of the world's top scientists to its shores. Priya Shetty reports.
  • Report: Americans eat too much salt
    ATLANTA, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Americans eat too much salt, increasing their risk of high blood pressure and subsequent heart disease and stroke, U.S. health officials say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
  • Summary Information for: ADVIA Centaur HBeAg a ...
    Labeling, Approval Order, and Summary of Safety and Effectiveness for ADVIA Centaur HBeAg assay and ADVIA Centaur HBeAg Quality Control Material (P090024).
  • Savient Announces the Election of William F. O ...
    EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) today announced that William F. Owen, Jr., M.D. and David Y. Norton have been elected to the Company's Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2011. "We believe that Bill and David bring...

Common Dreams

  • Early Morning Police Raid Ousts Occupy Oakland
    OAKLAND -- Before dawn Tuesday, at least 200 police, many in riot gear, tore down the Occupy Oakland encampment in front of City Hall and arrested dozens of people. A smaller camp near Lake Merritt was also dismantled. Early reports from police say the raids went smoothly, with all protesters cl ...
  • Bodies of 53 'Executed' Gaddafi Loyalists Disc ...
    The dead had been dumped on the "Sea-View Gardens" of an abandoned hotel. Many of the killings had been carried out with shots to the head; some were already injured when the executions took place; some had their hands tied behind their backs. Amid bullet and bomb casings, pools of wat ...
  • It’s True, Bankers Really Do Control the World ...
    WINTERTHUR, Switzerland - Here’s a gift to Occupy Wall Street protesters around the world: you now have scholarly proof that banks control the world. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, also known as ETH, have published a paper that argues just 147 companies ac ...
  • Ruling Military Council Intensifies Media Clam ...
    CAIRO, Egypt - The media clampdown in Egypt is worsening. Over the past six weeks, the ruling military council has censored the press, raided news organizations, shut down broadcasts and intimidated journalists. "The military government has revived Mubarak-era repression," says Moham ...
  • #OWS: Not Just a Protest, But a Little Utopia
    NEW YORK - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has withstood political pressure, bad weather, police violence, and over a thousand arrests, and is continuing to grow in New York City a month in. It has spread to over 100 cities in the U.S. and many more worldwide, and is linking up with popula ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • What Next for Libya?
    by Stephen Lendman Jamahiriya loyalists hope he's alive, not dead. Either way, his bigger than life spirit inspires Libyans and others wanting freedom - not terror bombing, occupation, colonization, pillaging, exploitation, and misery. NATO's war on Libya is one of history's great crimes ...
  • Anti-Democratic Knesset Bills
    by Stephen Lendman Knesset summer session bills grievously harm civil and human rights if passed. Basic freedoms are at risk, including speech, assembly, association, and right to dissent. On October 16, a Haaretz editorial addressed one measure affecting press freedom headlined, "Free p ...
  • Will Rick Perry kill another innocent man?
    Mary Shaw Texas governor and Republican presidential contender Rick Perry has faced criticism from the left (and applause from the right) for his heavy-handed use of the death penalty. And Perry has said that he loses no sleep over the possibility that he may have executed an innocent man. Thi ...
  • Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Lib ...
    James Petras Introduction: The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a fundamental incompatibility, citing the grow ...
  • Mixed Messages on Gaddafi
    by Stephen Lendman Nothing from NATO, political capitals, puppet TNC officials, and major media scoundrels is credible. Nonetheless, manipulated public opinion says he's gone. Wikipedia has him born June 7, 1942, died October 20, 2011, saying Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi "was ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Are You the 99%?
    Macleans magazine has created a great simple online calculator to help Canadians see where they belong on the income inequality scale. Click here to plug in your annual income and find out where you belong among in the income spectrum. 
  • Climate change and the Canadian energy sector
    A new CCPA study argues that we need a fundamental rethinking of where Canada is going in its energy policy. Climate Change and the Canadian Energy Sector: Implications for Labour and Trade Unions, by John Calvert and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, makes the case for a comprehensive strategy that wo ...
  • Linda McQuaig in Saskatoon: Now on YouTube!
    The Saskatchewan Office would like to thank all of you who came out to hear Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon last week. For those of you that missed Linda, we have the first part of her Saskatoon talk up on YouTube. Many thanks to Gayle Marteniuk for making this accessible to all of ou ...
  • The CCPA 2012 Calendar: An Agenda for Social C ...
    We're pleased to introduce our 2012 Calendar: An Agenda for Social Change. This is about more than keeping you organized—each month identifies and describes key dates in Canada's social justice history. Each day provides readers with an opportunity to explore how debates about equality, ...
  • Tar Sands and the CETA
     The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the higher green-house-gas intensity of fuel produced from tar sands and oil shale is encouraging. The Canadian government has lobbied furiously agains ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Shield of a `higher cause`
    By M.J. Akbar,dawn.com – WHEN Julian Assange, father of WikiLeaks, makes a viral enemy of a potential friend, he always does so in the name of a Higher Cause. Such mavericks are necessary in an age where information has become a frontline weapon. You can always win power on a battlefield, ...
  • 20 millions tons of tsunami debris headed for ...
    by Tim Wall,discovery.com – Millions of tons of debris washed out to sea by the tsunami that ravaged Japan in March is making its way across the Pacific faster than expected. Computer models originally estimated the first of the debris wouldn’t reach Midway Island until spring 2012, ...
  • Why Companies Aren’t Getting the Employe ...
    By PETER CAPPELLI,wsj.com – The conventional wisdom is that our education system is failing our economy. But our companies deserve a lot of the blame themselves. Everybody’s heard the complaints about recruiting lately. Even with unemployment hovering around 9%, companies are grousin ...
  • The Generation X Report: U-M survey paints a s ...
     ANN ARBOR, Mich.—They’ve been stereotyped as a bunch of insecure, angst-ridden, underachievers. But most members of Generation X are leading active, balanced and happy lives, according to a long-term University of Michigan survey. “They are not bowling alone,” said polit ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Update – Early ...
    By Kristin J. Bender,Oakland Tribune – OAKLAND — Before dawn Tuesday, at least 200 police, many in riot gear, tore down the Occupy Oakland encampment in front of City Hall and arrested dozens of people. Early reports from police say the raid went smoothly, with all protesters cleared ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ...
  • Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
    No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
  • Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
    HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Eve ...
  • Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s th ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Visit and Conversation With Executives at Solazyme
    Join the forum discussion on this post On October 13, 2011 I paid a visit to Solazyme’s headquarters in San Francisco. For those who are unfamiliar with Solazyme, they produce oil from genetically modified algae. The company was founded in 2003 by two college friends, Jonathan Wolfson and ...
  • The 2011 ASPO-USA Conference
    Join the forum discussion on this post The 2011 ASPO-USA Conference will take place in two weeks. The dates are November 2nd-5th, and the venue is the Capitol Hill Hyatt in Washington, D.C. The only other ASPO conference I have attended was the 2008 conference in Sacramento, so I am looking for ...
  • Newsflash: Pipelines Are Everywhere
    Join the forum discussion on this post Like many of you, I have been following the debate over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring crude from the oil sands of Canada to refineries in the U.S. I am on mailing lists covering both sides of the issue, and based on some of the [...]
  • Why I Didn’t Short KiOR
    Join the forum discussion on this post In a recent column on the metric of “success” in Cleantech, I wrote that the measure of success that will matter to most people is whether the company sells energy at an affordable price: I simply don’t think that the fact that one can talk up ...
  • This Week in Energy: Gasification, China, Braz ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This Week in Energy is a weekly round-up of news making headlines in the world of energy. Most of these stories are posted throughout the week to our Energy Ticker page. The purpose is to stimulate discussion on energy issues. Community members should fee ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • 8 Ways to Boost Your Willpower
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We all have some aspect of ourselves we want to change, whether it's something minor like better meeting deadlines at work or something major like not spending the mortgage on a new wardrobe. Yet, as the old adage goes, old habits die hard, and when it comes to change, f ...
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You, on Food Day
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Call it Earth Day for food activists. read more
  • The Truth Behind 5 Food Myths
    Nutrition misinformation fools men and women into being confused and frustrated in their quest to eat a healthier diet, even if they're already achieving great results. read more

big think

  • How Google+ beats Facebook & Twitter
    What's the Latest Development? Robert Scoble explains why it's more interesting on Google+ than Twitter or Facebook yet why they'll never compete. "Google+ is for finding, and talking with, the people who are interested in the same thing you are." Facebook and Twitter are not good pla ...
  • Jihadis talking in Yemen
    Earlier today Aaron Zelin over at Jihadology pointed me to a new release on the forums.  Ansar al-Shariah, the group we first heard about earlier this spring in a talk by Adil al-'Abab, AQAP's chief cleric, has released its first publication. The 3-page newsletter, which is dated from ...
  • Obama Needs Social Media More than Ever
    What's the Latest Development? Obama’s 2008 campaign success was due in large part to the overwhelming support of voters age 29 and younger and he'll need their continued support to win again. But this is a historically unpredictable demographic. He needs a social media str ...
  • Amazon, Algorithms and the Art of Book Publishing
    What's the Latest Development? The news that Amazon would aggressively expand its publishing efforts by signing up authors has ruffled the feathers of many agents and publishers. In Room for Debate, the NYT asks if publishers are still needed. Dennis Johnson says they ...
  • Targeted Web Ads Tied to Your Credit Card Buys
    What's the Latest Development? Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are investigating using what they know about people's credit-card purchases to target online ads for them. One holy grail would be, for example, to show a weight-loss ad to a person who just swiped their card at a fast-food c ...

Information Liberation

  • ICE deports record number of immigrants in year
    MIAMI (AP) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said Tuesday his agency deported nearly 400,000 individuals during the fiscal year that ended in September, the largest number of removals in the agency's history. Morton ...
  • Federal judge tells police not to ticket Occup ...
    A federal judge on Tuesday told police temporarily to stop issuing tickets to Occupy Cincinnati demonstrators camping out in a city park, while the protesters* lawyers and city leaders try to hammer out an agreement on issues in the protesters* feder...
  • Ron Paul Highlights - CNN Las Vegas Debate 10/ ...
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  • Occupy Denver: Denver Police Pick A Fight With ...
    [The following is a report from Occupy Denver sent to us by Colorado attorney Gary D. Fielder detailing police abuse at the protest. - InfoLib] Disgraceful. That*s the only way to describe the provocative conduct of the Denver Police Department, ...
  • Occupy Time Square: 1 Marine vs. 30 Cops (Mari ...
    United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been pla...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Woody Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman And A Big Mac
    Capitalism is evil! Down with the system! Peace and Love! Yeah, right. The Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City’s Zucotti Park have now dragged into their fifth week, as well as spreading to other cities throughout the Western … Continue reading →
  • A Game Of Chicken
    The Gillard Government’s Carbon Tax legislation passed the Lower House yesterday, by the slenderest of majorities. Next month it will pass the Senate, in which the Australian Greens hold the balance of power. The eighteen bills of which this legislation … Continue reading →
  • Double Or Nothing
    I’d like to introduce you to yet another Australian politician you’re unlikely to have heard of in the Northern hemisphere. This one, however, has a gun pressed against the head of the Gillard government. And he has openly announced the … Continue reading →
  • Freedom Of Suppress
    As of today in Australia, the right not to be offended trumps the right to free speech. Newspaper columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt was today found guilty in the Federal Court of breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act. Justice Mordecai … Continue reading →
  • Chutzpah In The House
    How can you not be cynical? As the Labor government this week introduces into the House of Representatives the bills legislating the Carbon Tax she swore before the election she’d never countenance, La Gillardine’s courtiers have clearly advised her that her … Continue reading ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Does time exist or not?
    It’s just gone 5:30 on an autumn evening here in sunny England, but where you are it might be later in the day and already dark, or in the opposite hemisphere you may have only just woken up after a good night’s sleep. So, time exists, but for the Earthbound it’s not the same f ...
  • Your iPhone won’t give you brain cancer…
    …nor will your Blackberry, Android handset and presumably not your iPad either. Despite the hopes and dreams of millions of technophobes and pseudoscientists, the biggest ever study of mobile phone use shows that the devices do not increase the risk of brain tumours. The European study loo ...
  • That’s niiiice Lord Christopher Monckton
    Climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton has engaged in serious debate with scientists and even presented at the United Nations. But, who’d have thought he is actually the latest comedy character of Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen, cousin of famed Cambridge autism researcher Simon ...
  • Active ingredient in aloe vera products?
    The moment I mentioned treating my heartburn with omeprazole, I got a Twitter response from a “holistic” therapy type suggesting that I try a natural alternative in the form of Aloe vera gel. Natural in what sense, I’m not sure, it’s not as if our prehistoric ancestors ex ...
  • Omeprazole eases a burning heart
    I finally gave into my GP’s suggestion (actually a locum) that rather than suffering repeated acid reflux and taking antacids to partially neutralize stomach acid spilling into my esophagus I really ought to give omeprazole a try. He wrote me a scrip, I filled it and have been symptom free ...

RFF Library

  • Analysis of Impacts of a Clean Energy Standard ...
    US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/ces_hall/ [Introduction] This report responds to a request from Chairman Ralph M. Hall for an analysis of  the impacts of a Clean Energy Standard (CES). The request, as outlined in the letter included in Appendix A, sets out ...
  • Harvesting Clean Energy: How California Can De ...
    UCLA and University of California, Berkeley Schools of Law http://cdn.law.ucla.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Media%20Press/Harvesting%20Clean%20Energy.pdf [From Press Release]  California’s ambitious goal of 33 percent renewable energy by 2020 could receive a significant boost if the state built l ...
  • Has the Magnitude of Floods Across the USA Cha ...
    Hydrological Sciences Journal (Published online October 24, 2011; DOI:10.1080/02626667.2011.621895) / by R. M. Hirsch and K. R. Ryberg http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02626667.2011.621895 [From an E&E News PM article by Paul Quinlan, sub. req'd]   A new study by U.S. Geological Su ...
  • Marcellus Shale: A Citizens View
    Citizens Marcellus Shale Commission http://pennbpc.org/sites/pennbpc.org/files/CMSC-Final-Report.pdf [From an article in the Sewickley Patch By Amanda Gillooly]   The Citizens Marcellus Shale Commission on Monday released a 95-page final report on its findings regarding the state of drilling in ...
  • The SAVE Act: Sensible Accounting to Value Ene ...
    US Senate http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-1737 [From GovTrack.us] The SAVE Act is proposed legislation to improve the accuracy of mortgage underwriting used by Federal mortgage agencies by ensuring that energy costs are included in the underwriting process to reduce the amount ...

Scientific American - News

  • Prolonged Sitting Linked to Breast and Colon C ...
    WASHINGTON -- Our culture of sitting may be responsible for 173,000 cases of cancer each year, according to new estimates.Physical inactivity is linked to as many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer a year in the United States, said Christine Friedenreich, an ep ...
  • More Efficient Dyed Cells Offer Hope for Cheap ...
    Plants have been using a green pigment for billions of years to capture sunlight, turning it into a flow of electrons and storing its energy in the chemical bonds of big organic molecules (also known as food). Given that successful history, chemist Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institu ...
  • Your Brain on Facebook : Bigger Social Networ ...
    A recent study showed that certain brain areas expand in people who have greater numbers of friends on Facebook . This was welcome news for online social network addicts, particularly teenagers : "Mom, I'm not just on Facebook ; I'm doing my temporal lobe calisthenics."There was a ...
  • Wet Down: Warm, Wet Conditions on Ancient Mars ...
    When Mars orbiters decades ago spotted valleys and other fluvial landforms on the surface of the Red Planet, a tantalizing idea came to the fore. Perhaps, planetary scientists ventured, ancient Mars was blanketed by a thick atmosphere that kept the planet much warmer and wetter than it is now, ...
  • Why Pioneers Breed Like Rabbits
    In the classic book series, Little House on the Prairie , Pa's wanderlust repeatedly drives the Ingalls family westward past the edges of civilization. That craving for open space is probably what drove Homo sapiens to leave Africa in the first place and spread across the globe . According t ...

First Truths

  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
  • Tucker on Anarcho-Communism
    For your consideration (and entertainment), the always pugnacious Benjamin Tucker railing against anarchists of the communist sort:Were I now to say, as I think, that the dead revolutionists knew nothing of the principles of scientific Anarchism, freely advocated Archistic and despotic m ...
  • "Competitive Laborism"
    Might this come to pass in a real free market? From Michael Yaziji's Time to Rethink Capitalism?, in the Harvard Business Review's magazine back in 2008: The leaders of publicly traded companies are beholden to the capital markets. Just consider the relentless pressure to meet the quarterly numb ...
  • Osgood on "Scientific Anarchism"
    From Volume IV., Number I. of Political Science Quarterly (March, 1889): In anarchism we have the extreme antithesis of socialism and communism. The socialist desires so to extend the sphere of the state that it shall embrace all the more important concerns of life. The communist, at least ...

Media Co-Op

  • Occupy London, Ontario - Day 1
    Saturday, October 22nd Occupy
  • Fuck "Unity", we need SOLIDARITY
    The international "Occupy"/decolonization movement has prompted many and diverse responses to its tactics and structures. On already-occupied unceded traditional Coast Salish Territories, many of us have felt that the replication ...
  • Foreign Workers Abused in Nova Scotia
    This article was originally published by OpenFile, with files from Justin Ling and the Halifax Media Co-op. In 2004, Nenette moved to Nova Scotia from the Philippines. She paid a placement agency back home about USD $4,500 to find her a job at a nursing home. When she arrived, a room was waiting ...
  • The Media Co-op is Hiring: Halifax Editor
    The Media Co-op is hiring! We're looking for a local editor to co-ordinate coverage and work with contributors and Media Co-op members in Halifax. The Halifax Local Editor will bottom-line development of content from Halifax and will contribute to developing national content along with the o ...
  • Talking Back to the "Big 5"
    Vancouver's October 22 Run-on-the-Banks Protest For two to three hours on the Saturday afternoon of 22 October 2011, a lively and diverse crowd departed from the Occupy Vancouver site to follow the lead of the Direct Action Committee a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Qaddafi dead... Where are your friends when yo ...
    David Seaton's News LinksKing:  Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade            To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,            Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy   &n ...
  • Raising Cain (Herman)
    David Seaton's News LinksHerman Cain"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself. It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed," the ex-Godfather's Pizza CEO declared. New York Daily News One ...
  • The Iranian assasination affair
    David Seaton's News LinksMy name is bum, James bum I just want to add my small voice to the chorus of commentators who find the idea of Iran running the risk of a full scale war with the US in order to kill a Saudi ambassador in Washington absurd... it just doesn't make any sense. And even i ...
  • American rebellion: Hey you get offah mah cloud...
    I first posted this way back in February of 2010, it still works for me, so I'll run it past you again. DS Not the American way Alas and alack, the peasants will never really revolt in this country. We shall have our terrorists in Texas and Utah and such; armed groups who go nuts once in awhi ...
  • The meaning of Liberty Plaza
    David Seaton's News Links Ten years ago we had:Steve JobsBob HopeandJohnny CashNow we've got:No jobsNo hopeandNo cash Many "mainstream media" commentators try to minimize the importance of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement because it has no "leaders" and no list of "concrete proposals". These co ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • A Look Inside the Mind of Mitt Romney
    I'm a huge fan of Benjamin Wallace-Wells, and this month he has a terrific profile of Mitt Romney in New York magazine. But it probably isn't really right to call it a profile of Romney per se. It's more a profile of the Romney method, the way that Bain Capital, the private equity firm he ran d ...
  • Small Businesses Still Mostly Concerned About ...
    In a Gallup poll released yesterday, 22% of small business owners said their most important problem was "complying with government regulations." That's not really surprising. What's surprising, frankly, is that it's taken so long for the number to rise even that high. Given the 24/7 blitzkrieg ...
  • Quote of the Day: "I Don't Care About That"
    From Rick Perry, after John Harwood of the New York Times notes that his tax plan will mean huge tax cuts for the rich in an era of already skyrocketing income inequality: But I don’t care about that. I suppose there's something oddly refreshing about that response. There's also this: ...
  • Herman Cain Officially Declares Himself a Joke
    I dunno. Maybe your sense of humor isn't quite the same as mine. So no guarantees. But I swear I almost had a heart attack laughing at this ad from Herman Cain. I just couldn't stop. But you have to watch to the end. It's the cigarette and the smile that really make it. (Via Weigel.) Brendan Ny ...
  • Rick Perry's Miraculous Tax Plan
    Huzzah! Rick Perry's new tax plan is out: The plan starts with giving Americans a choice between a new, flat tax rate of 20% or their current income tax rate. The new flat tax preserves mortgage interest, charitable and state and local tax exemptions for families earning less than $500,000 ann ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Michael “I Don’t Know W ...
    I’ve never been a fan of Michael Moore. Never. “But he made Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and other great documentaries” Yeah I don’t care.  First off, I’ve never sat through a whole Moore documentary because to be honest I  view them more as propaganda for his agendas than real informa ...
  • IC 280: Hustlin’ Backwards
    Topics: GTA V Three dumb comedies Resident Evil 5 Kris Humphries and simping Humphries hustled backwards Michael Moore talks out of his ass Herman Cain’s still cooking White conservatives defend Cain Share with your friends:
  • “Our Blacks Are Better Than Their Blacks”
    “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks,” she said, speaking of Democrats. “To become a black Republican, you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow…and that’s why we have very impressive blacks in the Republican party.” & ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: PETA’s at it Again
    I say it at least 10 times a  year but PETA has horrendous PR people.  They seem to think that any publicity is good publicity and to be honest, when you’re activist and trying to get people to support your cause, coming off as giant douches is never a good look.  PETA doesn’t seem t ...
  • IC 279: Grilling With Herman Cain
    Topics: Battlefield 3 vs Modern Warfare 3 Movie News Man Claims prostitute turned into donkey PETA claims Seaworld is treating Killer Whales like slaves Herman Cain leads in polls Don’t be a douche to the cops Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Fossil fuel exporting countries should adopt g ...
    The revenues that countries exporting fossil fuels would raise if they taxed extraction to control global CO2 emissions would give them an incentive to fight climate change, say Steven Davis and colleagues from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.
  • Climate change threatens slow-moving species
    Kind conditions have preserved species diversity in the Amazon basin and central Africa since the peak of the last ice age, Brody Sandel from Aarhus University and colleagues find, but future warming now threatens “endemic” species occupying only these regions.
  • Food links climate change and social unrest
    By gathering vast volumes of data on climate, agricultural, and social factors between 1500 and 1800 AD and testing them, David Zhang from the University of Hong Kong and his colleagues say they've shown that climate causes human social crises.
  • Climate dead-ends set to obstruct amphibian exodus
    Short-term climate variations are likely to block newts, frogs and salamanders found only in the western US from shifting range, endangering four out of fifteen species modelled by Regan Early at Brown University, despite them being far from endangered today.
  • Scientists move closer to resolving missing he ...
    Simulations performed by Gerald Meehl and colleagues at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research provide more evidence that heat stored in deep seas is behind flat warming trend in the 2000s that prompted outburst that became a focus of “Climategate”

e!Science News

  • In developing rats, antidepressant exposure li ...
    A study by researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) shows that rats given a popularly prescribed antidepressant during development exhibit brain abnormalities and behaviors characteristic of autism spectrum disorder ...
  • Geoscientists find key to why some patients ge ...
    New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices. read more
  • Study: Obesity limits effectiveness of flu vac ...
    People carrying extra pounds may need extra protection from influenza. read more
  • Quality-of-life for women an issue: in some ma ...
    A Heart and Stroke Foundation study has found that women under age 55 fare worse than their male counterparts following a heart attack -- and their health status declines more than that of their male counterparts after one month. read more
  • Double duty for blood pressure drugs: how they ...
    A type of medication known as angiotensin-receptor blockers could reduce risk of mortality in people with a heart disease called calcific aortic stenosis (AS) by 30 per cent over an eight-year period, Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher Dr. Philippe Pibarot told delegates at the Canadian Card ...

unEarthed

  • Major Victory -- Court Reinstates Roadless Rule
    Decision climaxes 13-year legal struggle by Earthjustice Meadows and ponds abound in a roadless area in Wyoming’s Beartooth Plateau. (© Nelson Guda, 2009 / nelsonguda.com) ...
  • Mountaintop Removal: A View From Up Above
    A picture is worth a thousand words The Appalachian Mountains as they should be, against a glimpse of what mountaintop removal mining is doing to them. Recently, thanks to a nonprofit flight operation called SouthWings, ...
  • A House United Against Clean Water Protections
    Pals of polluters vote to let coal ash poison our water supplies Coal ash On Friday, in a 267-144 vote, a majority of House members voted to keep allowing coa ...
  • House Tees Up Toxic Agenda For America
    Sick citizens and ravaged environment equal healthy economy? Rep. Eric Cantor (VA-7) This week, President Obama has conducted a bus tour through my home state ...
  • Crybabies of the West
    Give Oil/Gas Industry 90% of Public Lands And They Want More Vermillion Basin, Colorado. One of the few places off-limits to drilling. Photo © Mark Pearson ...

Brave New Climate

  • TCASE 15: Comparison of four ‘clean ener ...
    How can we compare the cost, performance and value-for-money of alternative large-scale clean energy projects? Actually, it’s pretty tough to try and avoid apples-and-oranges comparisons. Still, some adjustments can be made, such as for capacity factor, to partially levelise comparisons. B ...
  • Geeks, Freaks and Eggheads
    In early September 2011, I attended the Brisbane Writer’s Festival and participated in a number of events. One was an excellent discussion with Ian Lowe, my co-author on the book “Why vs Why: Nuclear Power“, which unfortunately wasn’t recorded, but was a terrific exchange ...
  • Open Thread 19
    The previous Open Thread has gone past 650 comments, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of ...
  • Cutting Australia’s carbon abatement costs wit ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • Low intensity geoengineering – microbubb ...
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. A 9-page printable PDF version of this post can be downloaded here. & ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 53 Libyans Executed by the Mercenaries - only ...
    53 Libyans Executed by the Mercenaries - only the tip of the iceberg. | Libya |Axisoflogic.com: First you support the war with lies until you've realized the imperial goal of destruction and domination, then you become critical of the war in an attempt to claim credibility as a media institution ...
  • The ‘Rebel’ Assassination of Muammar Gaddafi: ...
    The ‘Rebel’ Assassination of Muammar Gaddafi: a NATO Operation from A to Z Muammar Gaddafi – revolutionary leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – was assassinated on Thursday 20 October, 2011, in the Libyan city of Sirte. The precise circumstances surrounding his death have been clouded with ...
  • African American Pundit Blog: Alonzo Ashley's ...
    African American Pundit Blog: Alonzo Ashley's Death By Taser Torture: Black people in Denver are pissed over the killing over a black man in a zoo with a taser by police.�As reported by�the Denver Post.�black religious leaders Saturday questioned how the coroner could rule the death of a ma ...
  • Will Seif Gaddafi Survive to Have His Day in C ...
    Will Seif Gaddafi Survive to Have His Day in Court? : Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: by FRANKLIN LAMB During the late evening of 10/20/11 the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC re ...
  • Pan-African News Wire: Africa Mourn Gaddafi's ...
    Pan-African News Wire: Africa Mourn Gaddafi's Assassination: Many in Sub-Saharan Africa Mourn Qaddafi’s Death By JOSH KRON New York Times NAIROBI, Kenya — While Libya’s former rebels and many Western nations welcomed the end of the country’s long and brutal dictatorship, many sub-Saharan A ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Rick Perry’s Tax Plan
    So Rick. The last time we gave corporations a tax break for bringing profits back from overseas did the money help create jobs here? (Answer no) Why would you think it would create jobs this time? The last time they got a break, they just outsourced even more jobs, knowing they will get a &#8220 ...
  • Boston’s Mayor Menino Threatens Occupy B ...
    The mayor of Boston is only interested in one thing. Making sure the filthy rich slime buckets he hangs around with can continue to get every opportunity to overfill their bank accounts. This fantastic blog post from Occupy Boston is very informative. The mayor threatened folks who perform &#8 ...
  • Please Media Please…. Start Treating Rep ...
    Can you believe the media is letting these nut case freaks spout their crazy talk, without ever calling their rantings crazy talk? These “candidates” who are trying to impress the “Republican Base” a bunch of bat shit insane retarded greedy traitors. My god. I want to puk ...
  • Bloomberg
    WTF is wrong with you Bloomberg? Any blood will be on your hands….. “We” are protesting, when “we” could be doing far worse. The protesters violate the law and park rules? Wall Street Traitor Scum violated far more important rules, and laws, and no one did a damn th ...
  • Republicans Vote Down Jobs Bill in Senate
    There is not a word foul enough to describe today’s Republican Party. Treason, and traitor doesn’t even scratch the surface. If there is any justice in this world, every single person that calls themselves a Republican these days would be forced to eat from dumpsters for a year…..

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

  • Banks ‘Livid’ at #OccupyWallStreet ...
    Go Cenk! Financial Industry lobbyists are furious with Democrats supporting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. They aren't scared of watered down regulations and financial 'reform' by Obama, but they feel threatened by OWS. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down from the OWS protest ...
  • How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors o ...
    By Bruce E. Levine For those of us who have demonstrated and marched in the Occupy movement, it is obvious that the police and the corporate press serve as guards—buffers between the vast majority of the American people and the ruling “corporatocracy” (the partnership of giant corporations, the ...
  • Top Fraud Prosecutor: Banking Criminals Can Be ...
    By Washington's Blog I asked Bill Black whether or not bonuses given out based on fraudulent Ponzi schemes and manipulation of a company’s accounting books could be disgorged. And I asked hims to estimate how much could – hypothetically, if prosecutors and judges did their job – collectively be ...
  • Senator Sanders Gathers Economists for Planned ...
    Editor's Note: Well, we guess you have to walk before you can run. It's a start... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unveiled a dozen economists he has tapped to help draft a plan to overhaul the Federal Reserve he says is "riddled" with conflicts of interest, among other problems.
  • Police Brutality at #OccupyMelbourne, Australia
    "The authorities should have negotiated with the protestors before resorting to heavy handed pressure. By their actions, the Premier and Lord Mayor have moved the situation from negotiation to conflict and have hardened peoples' positions." Lachlan Gifford, an Occupy Melbourne spokesman, said th ...

+972

  • No, a woman’s voice is NOT “pubic& ...
    A recent protest from within the IDF against the sound of women singing made it all the way to the High Court. But the event is only one in a string of state-sanctioned assaults against women’s rights, led by Israel’s religious establishment, which likens women to their genitalia By ...
  • Omar’s beautiful, dark, twisted—political fantasy
    Last night a bizarre answer to a reasonable question popped into my head. And all glory be to the blog, I am able to compose this little articulation-of-no-consequence knowing clear well that it will be published, even if it is just by me. It all began after an intense evening of ‘trivia-night’ ...
  • Notes from Tunisia: Islamist Party Claims Vict ...
    For the first time since Hamas won elections in 2006, an Arab Islamist party has successfully contested a national election. Its success may serve as an inspiration for other movement, like Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, to do well in their vote. And though the party is trying to distance itself ...
  • WATCH: Aziz Abu Sarah, ‘From Revenge to ...
    The murder of Aziz Abu Sarah’s brother had an enormous impact on him, and set him on a long political and personal journey from revenge to reconciliation. Watch him tell his story at a National Geographic Symposium. I was ten years old when my brother Tayseer was tortured to death in an Is ...
  • Art and Culture goes Underground in East Jerusalem
    Israeli restrictions on cultural performances in East Jerusalem have pushed Palestinian artists underground. It is no secret that East Jerusalem has suffered from some of the worst crimes of Israeli occupation and that life for its Palestinian residents is an everyday struggle. Colonization, h ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for Mu ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of t ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million for ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Robo Signing And Desecration of Our Courts- Th ...
    You would have thought the banksters would have gotten the message…they were after all given a total pass.  Not even a slap on the wrist, it was just a collective dodge….they were permitted to moonwalk away from the crime scenes. Did they learn any lesson?  You bet, the lesson is we ...
  • Fraudclosure in Florida, A Survey and The Cris ...
    Florida was well into the acute phase of the foreclosure crisis during the dark days of fall 2008 when Bush and Paulson wrote the blank checks that bailed out the banks, Wall Street institutions and the criminals that brought our country to the brink of economic Armageddon.  Bush wrote the check ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Listen to This Rally on The Steps o ...
    The First Annual Rally in Tally! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • LYTTLE v. BANKUNITED- Another Headscratcher of ...
    Here goes another spellbinding appeal written by that masterful author George Gingo. You really must sit down and study the attached appellate brief which reads more like a nail biting crime novel than some dry academic appeal. I mean, seriously. Put yourself in the moment, picture the courtroom ...
  • Brand New, Hot Off The Presses MERS Policy Bul ...
    After years of claiming that assignments don’t matter and the date of assignment certainly doesn’t matter, the MERS Monster has finally changed its tune, effective July 21, 2011: The Certifying Officer must execute the assignment of the Security Instrument from MERS before initiating ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Real Economy Is Inclusive
    I want to talk about “talk.” On Monday I spent an invigorating three hours with Jim Zaccharo’s Canadian Politics class at King’s University College. The students listened respectfully, but you could tell that what they really wanted to dialogue about was the Occupy Wall Street protest. They are ...
  • The Real Economy Chooses Reform Over Resentment
    In America, things perhaps reached the boiling point in March 2009. That was when the Obama administration bailed out AIG with over $150 billion and the company then proceeded to award its top executives with $165 million in retention bonuses and treated them to a $440,000 spa retreat at the pre ...
  • The Real Economy Responds To Its Citizens
    Respect for Parliament has declined to such a state that few can speak about it with any kind of esteem. But that’s not the worst part. Within the House itself, and now by extension to the Senate, many politicians are in danger of losing their own self-respect because they exist in a party syste ...
  • Questions
    As stated in yesterday’s post, I feel no need to question the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement as to their reasons for taking their concerns over financial injustice to the streets. They have effectively shown that some citizens are taking notice and are reacting by speaking out. Wh ...
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters
    It’s been fascinating to watch the reaction from the media, corporate elite and politicians to the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon. Let’s be frank: they were all caught unprepared. Just as Wall Street felt it was back to hitting its stride, squeezing even more concessions from Republicans and Demo ...

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-taking ...
  • 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 man ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize – Poster Day at the UM Schoo ...
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Today was my first Poster Day at the School of Public Health.  For those readers not intimately attuned to the School’s calendar (i.e. most of you), it’s a chance for second year Masters students to present and talk about their Summer field exp ...
  • Beyond the obvious – lessons from the Deepwate ...
    The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up!  But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled?  The Fall 2010 issue of Findings – the Un ...
  • What happens when you cross a spider with a go ...
    Complete the following: Setting: A well known and sometimes off-beat technology commentator explores new breakthroughs on a popular TV science and tech show. Story: Spiders’ silk is incredibly strong, but in short supply (ever tried harvesting silk from a spider?). So why not take the gene ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Most of this last week was spent in San Francisco, at the NISE Net (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) network-wide meeting – possibly my favorite meeting of the year (I might have mentioned that before).  This year I had the additional pl ...
  • Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the comp ...
    Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found mys ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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