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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 II

Center for a Livable Future

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

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

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

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

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

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

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

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

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

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

TVNZ

environment 360

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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Illuminating Africa's most obscure cat
    Africa is known as the continent of big cats: cheetahs, leopards, and of course, the king of them all, lions. Even servals and caracals are relatively well-known by the public. Still, few people realize that Africa is home to a number of smaller wild cat species, such as the black-footed cat and ...
  • If camera traps don't prove existence of Bigfo ...
    Let me state for the record that I am skeptical of the existence of Bigfoot or the Yeti, however I do have a fascination for following the latest news on the seemingly never-ending search for these hidden hominids. This week a Yeti conference in Russia announced 'indisputable proof' of the legen ...
  • Should public or private money finance efforts ...
    The 11th Rights and Resources Initiative Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change in London, which will focus on The Status and Role of Public and Private Finance to Reduce Forest Loss and Degradation. The goal of the RRI Dialogue is to examine the current state of public and private ...
  • High gold price triggers rainforest devastatio ...
    As the price of gold inches upward on international markets, a dead zone is spreading across the southern Peruvian rain forest. Tourists flying to Manu or Tambopata, the crown jewels of the country’s Amazonian parks, get a jarring view of a muddy, cratered moonscape ... and then another .. ...
  • Panama canal drives forest conservation, offer ...
    As demonstrated by growing enthusiasm for conserving forests and the rise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program, the public is increasingly aware of the role forests play in delivering ecosystems services — like clean air and water — that benefi ...

Science - NZ Herald

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

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • New at Reason: Friday Funnies
    In the latest edition of Friday Funnies, Chip Bok takes a look at the participants of an Occupy Wall Street protest. View this article.
  • Holder Nixes Rule Telling Agencies to Lie Abou ...
    In response to public criticism, the Justice Department has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have instructed federal agencies to falsely deny the existence of certain documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The rule, which I discussed in my column yes ...
  • Study: Medical Marijuana Doesn't Make the Kids ...
    Rhode Island has legal medical marijuana, Massachusetts does not, and a new study which compares usage of the drug in those states suggest that the kids are not encouraged to further toke just because their cancer, glaucoma, or anxiety-ridden relative are legally and medicinally doing ...
  • Sexual Assault Victim Must Pay Her Attacker Sp ...
    A San Diego judge ordered Crystal Harris to pay $1,000 a month in spousal support to her ex-husband -- just as soon as he finishes up his six year prison sentence for sexually assaulting her. As 10News reports, "The entire assault was caught on tape and what it captured was enough t ...
  • New at Reason: Kurt Loder on Tower Heist
    Tower Heist is that uncommon thing, a big-budget Hollywood holiday movie that really is funny. Oh, the titular heist (carried out during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade) is a shambolic affair, and some promising glimmers of romance never pay off, and the final plot development is a ...

Mercury Rising

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

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

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

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

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

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

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

Natural News

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

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

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

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

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

Care 2

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

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

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

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Is Europe breaking the law? (1)
    Cheng Shuaihua analyses the legal arguments against Europe’s controversial plan to tackle plane emissions, setting out the worst case scenario for China’s airlines.From 2012, Chinese airlines flying to the European Union will either have to make major emission cuts or purchase carbon ...
  • Is Europe breaking the law? (2)
    China’s aviation industry has armoury available in its fight against Europe’s emissions policy, writes Cheng Shuaihua, concluding a two-part article.There are three levels at which China can respond to this challenge from Europe: legal, political and technical. I put the legal proces ...
  • The view from Chinese airspace
    China’s airlines have made their anger over European emissions-trading plans clear, but what do energy experts think? Meng Si asked three observers for their assessment of the escalating row.From 2012, the European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) will set carbon quotas for airl ...
  • Battle of the skies
    As Europe’s leaders wait for one court ruling on plans to tackle emissions from planes, China is gearing up to launch a fresh round of legal action. Christian Carey explains why the EU is fighting on.The European Union is embroiled in a legal battle it can’t afford to lose without we ...
  • Our special relationship
    The urge to connect with other species helped to make us human. But, a US anthropologist told Robin McKie, the age-old ties that taught us empathy and understanding may be weakening – to our detriment.Humans became masters of the planet for a startling reason: our love of animals gave us u ...

AlterNet Top Stories

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

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • The Packer's Tom Karst - Listeria chat with Bi ...
    The Packer I had the chance to chat Nov. 1 with Bill Marler, Seattle, Wash.-based lawyer the food safety law firm Marler Clark. Here is the first part of the conversation. 2:00 p.m. Tom Karst: Looking at the Food Safety Modernization Act, from your perspective as a food safety lawyer, does tha ...
  • Cantaloupe Listeria Death Toll Hits 29 - Now N ...
    As of November 1, 2011, a total of 139 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 28 states.  The number of infected persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), California (2), Col ...
  • Link to St. Louis E. coli Outbreak - More than ...
    According to this evenings press reports, it’s not just Schnuck’s salad bars under consideration as a possible pathway of the E. coli outbreak that has sickened dozens. The St. Louis County Health Department says many of those who got sick at salads at other area salad bars. &ldquo ...
  • New York Hardest Hit by Wegmans Salmonella Pin ...
    Is it because Wegmans has more stores there? Late last week the CDC reported that it and public health and agriculture officials in New York and other states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to T ...
  • Another Cantaloupe Listeria Lawsuit in Texas
    Karen Robinson-Jacobs reports in the morning that the adult children of an 89-year-old Dallas County woman who died after eating cantaloupe allegedly tainted with Listeria, filed suit late last week against the grower and distributor in State District court in Dallas. Russell Jones and Terri Bl ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

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

TAPPED - The American Prospect

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

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pier review and quay metrics
    Earlier, I mentioned hypothes.is and how it was hoping to bring peer review to the internet. Immediately, the idea was greeted with derision by some. But curiously, luisitomavila was concerned that pier review (sic) would never be allowed by the government. Pier review? Lovely typo, put me in mi ...
  • The Movember Blues
    During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. But, what is a b ...
  • Let’s peer review the Internet
    A new site, Hypothes.is, aims to be a peer-review system for the Internet. It will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information and will allow us to parse and critique words across the internet at the sentence-level through community peer-review. Its cre ...
  • Who do the science literati listen to on Twitter?
    Tony Hirst has been playing with altmetric and reveals a graph of the who the science literati are listening to on Twitter. By drilling down, he’s also revealed some of the most trusted accounts in the scientific domain by limiting the graph to those accounts followed by 100 or more of the ...
  • Nanotech drug delivery
      According to a report from Cientifica, healthcare will benefit from nanotechnology sooner than many other areas during the next decade. The organisation’s report, Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery 2011, discusses the potential for targeted drug delivery in treating cancer, for instanc ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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

Common Dreams-Views

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

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

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

The Wonk Room

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

thwap's schoolyard

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

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

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