- Lessons from the Andes on Budgeting to Close t ...
Three countries in South America's Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, have a great deal to teach and share with those meeting in Busan, South Korean this week to discuss, among other things, how to make sure that development aid incorporates a gender focus in order to be effective.
- ‘Nothing at Busan for African Women, Chi ...
Although there has been considerable progress towards reducing maternal and infant mortality, millions of women and children in Africa are still in need of better health services, food and sanitation.
- DR Congo Polls Disrupted by Violence
Five people have been killed in two separate clashes on election day in the southeast of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's interior minister has said.
- SPAIN: Self-Financed Communities "A Tool for B ...
On the first Sunday of every month, Abdoulaye Fall, from Senegal, meets a group of people in Barcelona, to contribute money to a common fund or to take out a loan. This is one of 60 self-financed communities in Spain, an alternative to traditional banking systems that is having a powerful social ...
- ‘Accountability Vital in Improving Aid E ...
Key actors meeting in Busan on Tuesday, the first day of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), lay emphasis on inclusive ownership, mutual accountability and the platform of the groundbreaking 2005 Paris Declaration.
- How cordless phones, wi-fi and other forms of ...
(NaturalNews) Many people are aware that prolonged cell phone use has been associated with brain cancer, but most don't realize how other sources of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (EMR) also radically increase cancer risk. Until recently, EMR has been given scant attention. It's a tox ...
- Global health organization to purchase million ...
(NaturalNews) At its recent board meeting in Bangladesh, the GAVI Alliance, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, announced plans to bring the deadly human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines Gardasil (Merck and Co.) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) into the third world. ...
- Financial red alert: Europe stands on verge of ...
(NaturalNews) After years of working diligently to raise the alarm on the precariousness of the global financial system, it has become clear to me that most people still do not grasp the reality of where our global financial system really stands. We are on the verge of a systemic financial implo ...
- Medical Mafia using financial leverage to enfo ...
(NaturalNews) Australia has a very high percentage of children fully vaccinated by age five. Only 11% are not fully vaccinated by five years of age. The Australian government has created financial incentives to almost force parents into vaccinating. Still, the Australian government isn't happy w ...
- Report: Investors (China?) buying up US farmla ...
(NaturalNews) There are arguably a number of varying factors influencing the mass farmland sell-off currently taking place in the American Midwest. One thing seems certain, though -- America's once-treasured farming tradition is quickly fading into history as the next generation of Americans aba ...
- FTC Slaps Facebook’s Hand Over Privacy Deception
Facebook is settling government charges that it “deceived” its users that their information would be kept private, although it was “repeatedly” shared with the public, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. The deal, which carries no financial penalties, demands ...
- Craigslist in Canada Shut Down Temporarily
Craigslist removed access to all of its Canadian sites on Tuesday morning, providing only a cryptic explanation that cited terms of service violations. Craigslist maintains a number of regional sites for various cities across Canada, but access to all of them appeared to be blocked on Tuesday. I ...
- An Open Letter to Police on the Occasion of Th ...
Dear Police, upon the occasion of the eviction of Occupy Philadelphia and Occupy LA: It is not my place to say whether what you are about to do is right or wrong, and it doesn’t matter what I believe either way. You are going to evict this occupation, and all the resistance this ragtag ban ...
- Feds Withholding Evidence Favorable to Bradley ...
A recent court filing by the civilian lawyer defending Bradley Manning, provides hints of the aggressive defense the attorney is mounting for his client at a hearing next month.
- Feds Seize 150 Domain Names in Counterfeit Cra ...
Federal authorities have seized 150 websites hawking counterfeit and copyright goods, bringing to 350 the number of domains taken as part of a forfeiture program that began a year ago. The announcement of the seizures was on the biggest online shopping day of the year, known as "Cyber Monday."
- Meet Mitt Romney's Running Mate, Benjamin Neta ...
"If I'm president of the United States," Mitt Romney declared during a recent GOP presidential debate, "My first foreign trip will be to Israel to show the world we care about that country and that region." As it turns out, Romney's pledge isn't just his latest transparent ploy to win over Jewi ...
- Right-Wing Furious Over Obama's 'Godless' Than ...
Remember when President Bush forgot to thank God in his 2008 Thanksgiving address? Neither do the conservatives now apoplectic that Barack Obama's 2011 remarks contained no reference to the Almighty. Nevertheless, the usual suspects on the right are frothing at the mouth over the perceived sli ...
- CBO Gives Thanks to the Stimulus
On this the fourth Thanksgiving since the start of the Bush recession, families across America are still struggling with persistently high unemployment, underwater mortgages and stagnant wages. But as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminded us this week, Americans can be than ...
- Republicans Violate Norquist Pledge over Payr ...
The Wall Street Journal greeted the failure of the Congressional debt super committee with an editorial titled, "Thank You, Grover Norquist." That gratitude should have surprised no one. After all, Norquist's anti-tax pledge led handcuffed committee Republicans not just to oppose even modest t ...
- Mitt Romney's Iran Follies
As the GOP presidential field gathers once again for the CNN national security debate, Mitt Romney has already identified Iran as the place to contrast himself with the current commander-in-chief. "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Romney declared at the last Republ ...
- BERG Cloud And The Little Printer
Years ago, I blogged some notes by Matt Webb & Jack Schulze, back when they were Schulze & Webb, on the notion of a “social letterbox.” Later, Schulze & Webb and Matt Jones fused into the creature known as BERG, and became a company that did all kinds of interesting stuff, incl ...
- Bahraini Political Activist Condemns U.S.-Back ...
Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 28, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties say they will not participate in ...
- Egyptians Debate Elections as Protests Continue
Voters torn between boycotting elections until demands are met, and voicing their concerns at the ballot box
- The Right to Occupy, the Right to Assemble?
A report on the debate over the expulsion of the Occupy Movements
- Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington D.C. Nov. 28, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that kille ...
- 2011 Another Active Hurricane Season
Not only was 2011 another active hurricane season – producing a total of 19 tropical storms – but it also broke the ‘hurricane amnesia’ and reminded residents in the Northeast of America that the too should be prepared. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a summary of th ...
- Study Reveals Hundreds of Orangutans Killed An ...
A recently published study has uncovered disturbing information regarding the survival of orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia. In addition to facing habitat loss due to forest exploitation, hundreds of orangutans are intentionally killed every year by people who live within the orangutan’s ...
- Climate Sensitivity Still Huge Concern, Despit ...
Despite what you might have read in just about any major media report on a recent climate sensitivity report, climate sensitivity is still a huge concern. Here’s a full repost of a great piece by Dr. Joe Romm, which also quotes a wonderful piece by Skeptical Science at length. (What do I h ...
- More Activism News: Masked Anti-Nuclear Activi ...
Some top activism news from the past week or so: 1. Masked Activists in Germany Sop Transport of Nuclear Waste As the title indicates, some activists in Germany are fed up with the creating and unsafe transport and storage of nuclear waste (well, no one even knows where to ‘permanentlyR ...
- Hundreds March in Durban, South Africa for Cli ...
Hundreds, or maybe thousands, have been marching in Durban and across Africa to push for strong climate action. As I wrote last week, a climate change caravan made its way from Northern Africa to South Africa for the climate change conference occurring there this week to push for real, strong cl ...
- Canada betrays poor countries - again - World News
Editor's Commentary: As recently as a few hours ago, Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent would neither confirm nor deny that Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto accord. And although we all recognize that no government plan is true until it has been officially denied, this withdrawal shoul ...
- Red Cross steps in to help with Third World ho ...
Canadian Red Cross relief workers are flying to the remote northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat on Tuesday to help with its housing crisis. The Red Cross says it's working closely with public authorities and the community to identify and address urgent, short-term needs. ...
- Mass layoffs in Germany highlight new stage in ...
29 November 2011 Last week, two major German industrial firms announced mass layoffs and a third filed for bankruptcy. Eon, Germany’s largest energy provider, confirmed that it will eliminate 11,000 of its 80,000 positions worldwide, including 6,500 in Germany. The company cited the German g ...
- Less than 1/3 of $16M collected by Wyclef char ...
Editor's Note: As bad as this is, the millions robbed by Wyclef and his friends are dust compared to the billions promised by countries like the US and France when they were grandstanding for Haiti's earthquake victims - but never paid out. However, the earthquake did provide them with a perfect ...
- The New Authoritarianism: From Decaying Democ ...
Editor's Note: This is Petras' grey matter and quill at their best. Nearly every day someone says something like this to me, "What a crazy world we live in." Well yes, insanity rules at the top, with fear, chaos and a sense of impotence trickling down fracture any order that...
- Republicans Expose Themselves as Whores for th ...
By @TedFrier Republicans are rapidly running out of euphemisms to conceal they're nothing more than whores for monied interests. Their undeserved reputations as "deficit hawks" is as cooked as last week's stuffed Thanksgiving Day turkeys once Republicans announced they were ready to drive the n ...
- Fundamental Rights Aren't Your Bargaining Chip ...
By @KYYellowDog While we're all distracted, President Obama is getting ready to toss women's reproductive rights overboard. Again. Digby: So it's not about birth control, huh? Yes, in fact, it is: Women's groups working to save coverage of women's health care under health reform are concerned th ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
By BG&YD @EmmaKate988 got an apology, she didn't give one. "Brownback submitted a statement Monday afternoon to Yahoo! News apologizing to the teen. "My staff over-reacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize. Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms," he said. Jones-Sonta ...
- Only in LA?
By @KYYellowDog It may not last the night, so enjoy it while you can: Occupy LA stares down the police and peacefully defies the eviction. Lisa Derrick of Firedoglake was there: One man built a tree fort in a banana grove next to the Spring Street steps, while others positioned themselves ...
- Sometimes my inner civil libertarian wants to ...
By @BGinKC You may have heard that an eight-year-old child from Ohio has been taken from his mother and placed in foster care because he is morbidly obese, weighing over 200 pounds, a condition that puts him on a course for lifelong health problems. A Cleveland third grader who weighed more tha ...
- Herman Cain, BYE BYE
If this ain’t the nail in the political coffin then any Cain supporter who ever criticized Bill Clinton needs to send $1000 to the Clinton Presidential Library. I’m beginning to think this guy is Jewish? Why? I’ve never seen such a perfectly executed case of CHUTZPAH (or, to qu ...
- Voting Republican, Must I Hold My Nose?
Let me state up front that I cannot in good conscience ever vote for or support the candidacy of Barack Obama. He is a terrible President and stands for nothing of substance. That said, I am not sure who, if anyone, I can support as a Republican candidate. Scratch Michelle Bachman, Ron Paul and ...
- Countdown To Iowa… 5 weeks Until 8 Become 3
The Iowa caucuses will kick off the 2012 race on January 3, only about 5 weeks from now! And before you know it the primaries will be in full swing. This field of eight will soon be down to three, maybe four. Or it could be that Iowa narrows it to two, as it often [...]
- From Recession to Depression
Europe now is the canary in the economic mine and the outlook is dire. Check out today’s headlines: European debt crisis: Risks grow as borrowing rates for Italy, other nations rise and Banks Build Contingency for Breakup of the Euro and OECD figures suggest Britain’s economy will sl ...
- Pakistan, Killing Them Softly?
News today that NATO helicopters killed several, perhaps as many as 24, Pakistani soliders inside Pakistan. This is adding fuel to the inferno that has become the state of relations between Pakistan and the United States: NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northw ...
- Long Term and Long Distance Thinking
Last month, I wrote about the government. I asserted that we need to get business interests out of government or we’ll keep making decisions based on next quarter’s profits instead of the health of the next decade. This month, I want to talk about a whole industry that seems to be falling victim ...
- Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
- The Grand Lie
Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
- 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 ...
- Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
- Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
- GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
- Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
- Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
- Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger - Ch ...
Charleston Gazette (blog) Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger Charleston Gazette (blog) A more cynical person than I might suggest that coal industry supporters want to protect OSMRE because the agency — at least in the eyes of environmentalists and the anti-mountaintop removal movement — ...
- Report outlines EPA permit review delays - Cha ...
Report outlines EPA permit review delays Charleston Gazette The Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal has delayed 138 permit reviews beyond the US Environmental Protection Agency's average processing time, according to a new EPA Inspector General review. IG investigator ...
- Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdow ...
Charleston Gazette (blog) Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdown Charleston Gazette (blog) Last week's release of an EPA Inspector General's report on the agency's mountaintop removal permit crackdown doesn't seem to have gotten a lot of media attention, given the timing ...
- Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves A Commun ...
Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves A Community Scarred Energy Collective West Virginia is home to one of the most destructive coal mining practices in the world--mountaintop removal--a process that blows up pristine mountains to lay bare the bituminous coal below. But a new fossil fuel Gold R ...
- Delaware Geological Survey welcomes new direct ...
Delaware Geological Survey welcomes new director Wunsch The News Journal NEWARK -- When David Wunsch worked at the Kentucky Geological Survey, he studied the groundwater impact of the controversial mining technique known as mountain-top removal. He found that, if done correctly, the stripe minin ...
- Gingrich takes lead in SC poll (Walter C. Jone ...
Walter C. Jones / The Augusta Chronicle: Gingrich takes lead in SC poll — ATLANTA — Newt Gingrich has taken a commanding lead in the South Carolina Republican primary, with more than twice the support of Mitt Romney or Herman Cain, according to a poll conducted Mond ...
- BREAKING: Cain 'Reassessing' Candidacy (Robert ...
Robert Costa / National Review: BREAKING: Cain ‘Reassessing’ Candidacy — In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is “reassessing” whether to remain in the race. He told them he will make his final decision &ldq ...
- Militants Turn to Death Squads in Afghanistan ...
New York Times: Militants Turn to Death Squads in Afghanistan — SABARI, Afghanistan — As targeted killings have risen sharply across Afghanistan, American and Afghan officials believe that many are the work of counterintelligence units of the Haqqani militant network and ...
- Mitt Romney's venture-capital politics (Richar ...
Richard Cohen / Washington Post: Mitt Romney's venture-capital politics — Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist. He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable and moves on. He was pro-choice when ...
- Withdrawal From Afghanistan: 40,000 Troops To ...
The Huffington Post: Withdrawal From Afghanistan: 40,000 Troops To Leave War Zone By End Of 2012 … Afghanistan War , Afghanistan , Video , War In Afghanistan , Afghani Security Forces , Troop Withdrawal , Withdrawal From Afghanistan , Troop Withdrawal Afghanistan , World News
- M 5.0, Philippine Islands region
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 08:29:33 UTC Tuesday, November 29, 2011 04:29:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 45.50 km (28.27 mi)
- M 5.9, north of Ascension Island
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- M 5.1, Myanmar-China border region
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- M 5.3, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
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- M 6.4, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
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- Old deadlock, new stories
Pity the climate journalists trudging from one disappointing summit to the next. But there are plenty of scoops out there, writes Lu Zhenhua, you just need to look in the right place.For climate hacks, the annual United Nations-led global warming negotiations have always been a bit of a shindig. ...
- The real climategate
Another batch of hacked emails from British climate researchers has been released in an apparent bid to sabotage global-warming talks. But the ceaseless attack on science is the true scandal, writes Stephan Lewandowsky.An ambulance pulls up behind you. You know it’s an ambulance because yo ...
- Cynical governments, worried world
The planet is getting warmer, the weather is getting weirder and all the time our emissions keep on rising. But as negotiators gather in Durban, it’s clear no one plans to do much about it, writes Joydeep Gupta.Rarely has a major international conference started amid such cynicism as this ...
- Face to face with Apple
The US technology company finally met with Chinese environmental campaigners, but their argument isn’t over yet, reports Zeng Hang.At 10am on November 15, five Chinese environmental groups visited Apple’s Beijing office to discuss supply-chain pollution with company representatives d ...
- Climate talks: the year that was
Another year has passed, another round of negotiations is about to begin, but what has been achieved and what direction are we heading in? A roundtable of experts helps chinadialogue find its bearings.Editor’s note: this weekend, officials, policymakers and activists will gather in Durban, ...
- Occupy the Tax Code
Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily By Norma Altshuler Tax policy may seem far from the passion of Occupy, but it is essential to this moral movement. We need to leverage this energy and engagement to start a national dialogue about the kind of society we want to live in, and how to get there. By ref ...
- Top 5 Taxpayer Turkeys Fattening War Industry CEOs
Congress departs for the Thanksgiving holiday having left us a gift. With the deficit committee failing to produce a plan to cut the deficit and with across-the-board cuts now the default, there remains a real chance for us to untie the Congressional straightjacket and refocus the national conve ...
- OWS: The Challenge of Whiteness and the 99%
Occupy Wall Street and the hundreds of occupations it has sparked nationwide are among the most inspiring events in the U.S. in the 21st century. The occupations have brought together people to talk, occupy, and organize in new and exciting ways. The convergence of so many people with so many co ...
- Bring Jesus and the GOP to Thanksgiving! A Mus ...
Nothing says fun and festive like the Heritage Foundation, which sponsored Tuesday night’s CNN GOP Obama-bash fest. But despite all the good feeling flowing about bombing Iranians and expelling Mexicans, the event lacked the warm fuzzy feeling that oozed out of last Saturday’s Family ...
- Will Obama’s Thanksgiving Gift to Female ...
Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. See all our coverage of the Birth Control Mandate 2011 here. The first paragraph of this piece was updated at 2:25 p ...
- FTC Slaps Facebook’s Hand Over Privacy Deception
Facebook is settling government charges that it “deceived” its users that their information would be kept private, although it was “repeatedly” shared with the public, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. The deal, which carries no financial penalties, demands ...
- Craigslist in Canada Shut Down Temporarily
Craigslist removed access to all of its Canadian sites on Tuesday morning, providing only a cryptic explanation that cited terms of service violations. Craigslist maintains a number of regional sites for various cities across Canada, but access to all of them appeared to be blocked on Tuesday. I ...
- An Open Letter to Police on the Occasion of Th ...
Dear Police, upon the occasion of the eviction of Occupy Philadelphia and Occupy LA: It is not my place to say whether what you are about to do is right or wrong, and it doesn’t matter what I believe either way. You are going to evict this occupation, and all the resistance this ragtag ban ...
- Feds Withholding Evidence Favorable to Bradley ...
A recent court filing by the civilian lawyer defending Bradley Manning, provides hints of the aggressive defense the attorney is mounting for his client at a hearing next month.
- Feds Seize 150 Domain Names in Counterfeit Cra ...
Federal authorities have seized 150 websites hawking counterfeit and copyright goods, bringing to 350 the number of domains taken as part of a forfeiture program that began a year ago. The announcement of the seizures was on the biggest online shopping day of the year, known as "Cyber Monday."
- 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 ...
- Third Turkish Pine Nut Salmonella Lawsuit File ...
This is the third lawsuit the firms have brought against New Jersey-based Turkish pine nut importer Sunrise Commodities. The complaint (#11CV6581T), filed in New York Federal District Court in Rochester, alleges that on October 18, 2011 Melissa Catalino and her six-year-old daughter consumed pi ...
- Raw Milk and Cheese Outbreaks 1998 to 2011 - 9 ...
With two raw milk E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks in the news (one in Washington and one in California) that have sickened at least eight - five with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, I thought an updated chart of over a decade of raw milk and raw milk cheese outbreaks would be timely. Download: Outbr ...
- Another Raw Milk Dairy E. coli Outbreak in Was ...
Over Thanksgiving week, Cozy Vale Creamery’s raw milk products were recalled because they were linked to three E. coli O157:H7 illnesses and after environmental swabbing at the facility discovered that locations in the milking parlor and processing areas were contaminated with the E. coli ...
- The Opinionator of the New York Times, Mark Bi ...
Here is part (and surprisingly) said he was thankful for: There are days when it seems — both in and out of the food world — that Everything Is Going Wrong. That makes it easy enough to complain, and I’m not alone in doing so routinely. Nothing tastes the way it used to. Even ...
- Raw Milk Myth Buster 1 - Organic Pastures 2006 ...
Myth: Organic Pastures and the Weston A. Price Foundation continue to repeat that the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 Raw Milk Product Outbreak was caused by Spinach. Fact: - 2006 Organic Pastures outbreak, illness onsets ranged from 9/6 to 9/24 - 5 patients had definite exposure to raw milk o ...
- Official: GM will loan free cars to Chevy Volt ...
Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric GM may have designed the Chevrolet Volt to cancel out potential "range anxiety," but the company is responding to a new type of worry today: fear that the Volt's battery will catch fire. The problem? A Volt that had been crash tested in May ca ...
- Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...
- Report: Volkswagen still fighting new CAFE rules
Which automaker still doesn't like the new CAFE rules? Volkswagen, that's who. After claiming the proposed 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were biased back in August, VW is again saying, hey, wait a minute, let's not be so dismissive of diesel engines. When the original 5 ...
- Coda announces "price drop," starts production ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Electric Coda may not have a new model to show off at the 2011 LA Auto Show, but the company can still make news with a price drop. Or with something that is a price drop in all but name. In September 2010, Coda said its all-electric Se ...
- Report: Jay Leno has driven 11,000 miles in hi ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Chevrolet, Celebrities, Electric Here's a fun bit of trivia: Jay Leno has driven his Chevrolet Volt nearly 11,000 miles and doesn't have a single gas station receipt to show for it. According to The New York Times Wheels blog, Leno has had his plug-in for ...
- Arab Spring Under the King: Bahraini Activist ...
Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of today’s release of a report that investigates the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year. The Bahraini monarchy commissioned the supposed independent probe after crushing protests with the help of troops from Saudi Arabia. At lea ...
- "Pulling Accounts From the Unaccountable" by A ...
Less than a month after Occupy Wall Street began, a group was gathered in New York’s historical Washington Square Park, in the heart of Greenwich Village. This was a moment of critical growth for the movement, with increasing participation from the thousands of students attending the cluster of ...
- The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot police had already surrounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city ...
- Amy Goodman Interviews Occupy Oakland Man Befo ...
Before dawn on Monday morning, hundreds of police in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in order to evict peaceful protesters. They arrested more than 30 people who chose to remain as an act of civil disobedience. Later in the day, Mayor Jean Quan’s chief legal adviser resig ...
- 20th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre: Watch ...
On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession in a cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing more than 270 East Timorese. Journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn were beaten while reporting on the massacre. Watch the radio documentary they produced, set to video, ...
- The Economist on the Euro: Is this the End?
Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are assuming that, in the end, European leaders will do whatever it takes to save the single currency. That is because the consequences of the euro’s des ...
- Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B
By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble [...]
- The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order
By Richard K Moore This article is Part 1 of a series. Was first published in New Dawn Magazine When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, in the late 1700s, there was lots of money to be made by investing in factories and mills, by opening up new markets, and by gaining [...]
- Michael Pritchard’s Water Filter Turns F ...
Clean drinking water can be provided to the world for just $20 billion. YouTube (13 Oct 2009)
- Scare Tactics in Greece
By Gretchen Morgenson AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses. Leading the charge is BNP Paribas, the big French bank, which has been hired by the Greek government to help persuade investors to accept a deal that would cut the value ...
- 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 »
- We hit three million hits today!
Today someone gave the FM website it’s three millionth page view since opening almost exactly four years ago, in November 2007. Today we had 3,332 page views, which does not include the syndications (roughly another thousand) and most of the referrals from WordPress. We have posted 1,905 a ...
- This week in 1941 a telegram was sent. Then, ...
Summary: As part of our culture of irresponsibility, many Americans see blame and accountability as repugnant. Our ruling elites find belief this congenial. Banks lose billions, wrecking the economy — but nobody is held accountable. A war in Iraq based on lies, torture– but nobod ...
- Another bill before Congress pushing the USA f ...
Summary: Every month seems to bring yet another assault on the Constitution, another chapter in a slow-mo coup de tat. Here we examine the most current. In a larger sense it does not matter if this bill passes or not. Each assault prepares the way for the next. In general they create legal ...
- Using covert operations to discredit your enemies
Summary: Details emerge suggesting that the career of Strauss-Kahn (head of the IMF, candidate for the Presidency of France) was destroyed by a “honey pot” operation. It’s how conflicts are conducted in our century, as gaining the moral high ground becomes more useful than fi ...
- Attritionist Letter #13: Thinkers need not apply
Summary: Building a unadaptive military from enthusastic and innovative American young people requires work. It does not happen by accident. DoD’s success at that — proven by our similar mistakes in Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan, two generations distant — is a measure of inf ...
- 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 Persistence of the Neocons
In a piece examining the continuing presence of neoconservatives in GOP foreign policy debates, Andrea Stone writes, "f neoconservatism has gone out of style with most Americans, the most controversial and consequential foreign policy philosophy since the end of the Cold War has hardly faded awa ...
- Iran Reduces Diplomatic Relations With Britain
Two days after the United States and Britain imposed economic sanctions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, the Iranian Parliament responded by reducing diplomatic relations with Britain. On November 27, the Iranian Parliament passed a bill reducing the country’s diplomatic relations with Bri ...
- The Afghanistan War’s Costly Refrain
“We can win in Afghanistan, we just need more time and money.” It’s a favorite line of those in favor of prolonging the Afghanistan war. CFR’s Max Boot especially enjoys this refrain recently writing in The Weekly Standard, “I am confident that the troops in Afghanistan can get the job done if ...
- A Russian Influence Squadron to Syria
Exciting: Russia is sending a flotilla of warships to its naval base in Syria in a show of force which suggests Moscow is willing to defend its interests in the strife-torn country as international pressure mounts on President Bashar al-Assad's government. Arab League sanctions and French calls ...
- Arab League Sanctions Syria
In a significant development yesterday, the 22-member Arab League "overwhelmingly approved a series of economic sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including freezing the assets of senior figures, banning high-level Syrian officials from visiting Arab nations an ...
- Mitt Romney's Brand Takes a Hit
I’m not the biggest fan of Richard Cohen, but you should read his attack on Mitt Romney’s character, or lack thereof, in today’s Washington Post. In a few sentences, he gets to the heart of Romney’s persona — a mercenary politician who treats principles as a means to greater power: Mitt Romney ...
- The Difference Between MittFlops and NewtFlops
Now that Newt Gingrich is the Republican front-runner (I know, it still sounds like a joke, but it's true), people are starting to pay attention to the fact that if you go through his public statements, you'll find as many changes of position as you will for any other candidate, including Mitt ...
- Barney Frank Goes Home
The idea that Massachusetts could lose Barney Frank in our congressional delegation never crossed my mind before yesterday, but I'm told that he's been signalling he's ready to go for a couple of years now. The New York Times' Abby Goodnough had a nice item about his departure announcement, whi ...
- Wisconsin Dems On Track To Launch Recall
I was a little skeptical last week when Wisconsin Democrats released the first batch of signatures for their recall campaign against Governor Scott Walker. They'd gathered over 100,000 signatures in four days, an impressive haul no doubt, but the first batch of supporters were always going to b ...
- Romney Takes On Iowa
After a recent visit to and a few robocalls in the state that derailed his 2008 campaign, Mitt Romney is now shifting fully into contesting the Iowa caucuses. "We're going to be in Iowa enough to show that Mitt Romney is the best candidate to take on President Obama … As for a strategy, our str ...
- Kansas High School Student Won't Apologize For ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Anti-gay and pro-evolution, Sam also made it his mission To get rid of his state's long- Standing Arts Commission. Another reason folks back home Are angry & feeling nervous is He decided to gut the agency That provides welfare services. (I'm aware he's ...
- Message to the GOP: You Can't Handle the Truth
ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What is the point exactly of denying the obvious? What are we to make of Romney's insistence that his first name is Mitt not Willard as is obviously the case? And why in the world should a deceptive ad be defended by the Romney campaign? After all, whil ...
- If the Tea Party Reps Believe God Runs the Gov ...
STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday [Nov. 1] passed, 396-9, a concurrent resolution reaffirming 'In God We Trust' as the national motto. The resolution was introduced by Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), co-chairman of the Congressional Praye ...
- Governor of Oregon, Who as a Physician Took an ...
CHESTER KULIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Currently at least 16 states plus the District of Columbia ban capital punishment. Recently Oregon joined that select group due to the personal moral principles of the governor: John A. Kitzhaber is the Democratic governor of Oregon. He serve ...
- The Billionaire Stumbles: Bloomberg Uses "Terr ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite the attempt to create a sense of televised urgency with Michael Bloomberg starring as the savior of the public from an "imminent terrorist attack" by NYC resident Jose Pimental, this past Sunday's NYC news event -- co-starring the NYPD police ...
- PET molecules make sense
My old friend AP de Silva of Queen’s University Belfast has put together a video to explain how molecular logic based on luminescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) is revolutionising smart medical diagnostics and could bring us a future generation of electronic gadgets based on molec ...
- Share your slides using a QR code
Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
- Is renewable energy just a myth?
It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
- Singing the Movember Blues no more
Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
- What’s the best month to be born?
According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...
- World Grain Production Down, But Recovering
World grain production fell, exacerbating a global food situation already plagued by rising prices, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Despite record rice and maize yields around the world, global wheat production dropped subst ...
- Conference of States Parties to Mine Ban Treat ...
The Conference of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Treaty, began Monday with 100 States Parties to the treaty present in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Although Cambodia remains one of the most landmine-polluted countries in the world, the amount of 2010 mine-action funding ...
- Free Press: Is FCC Chairman Repeating Past Mis ...
On Monday, Free Press sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in response to reports that the FCC may be reconsidering harmful and unjustified changes to the longstanding ban on one company owning broadcast stations and a daily newspaper in the same m ...
- To Reverse Climate Change, We Need the Voices ...
Today, as world policymakers gather in Durban, South Africa for a major summit on climate change, MADRE underscores that prioritizing the expertise of grassroots women worldwide is critical to addressing climate change while upholding human rights. Our grassroots partners represent women on the ...
- New Jersey Legislature Moves Bill to Ban Frack ...
Fueled by massive opposition to fracking, demonstrated by last week’s 1,000 person rally outside of the New Jersey State House, the Assembly Environment Committee passed A-4231 [Wagner (D-Bergen), Gusciora (D-Mercer)] a bill that would ban the importation of fracking wastewater into New Je ...
- Illinois Couples In Civil Unions Can Files Tax ...
The Illinois Department of Revenue has announced that same-sex couples in civil unions will be able to file their taxes jointly starting next year. Unfortunately, because of the state’s flat tax, couples filing jointly won’t actually save any money. Plus, they will still have to file ...
- DOJ Receives 1,000+ Complaints About Alabama&# ...
So far, the Justice Department has received more than 1,000 emails and calls on its hotline where people can report concerns about Alabama’s harmful immigration law. U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez and Assistant Attorney General Tony West were in Alabama on Monday to sift through ...
- Erasing Sexism In Art Is Not An Achievement
My friend Elana Levin forwarded me the results of a writing contest with a noble goal — “bringing women’s and human rights values into mainstream culture” — and a weird way of going about achieving it: How often have you been enjoying a book, movie, play, or TV episode…when all of a ...
- In 2005, Gingrich Called For ‘Transfer O ...
GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich insists that a national health insurance mandate is unconstitutional, claiming that if lawmakers can ask Americans to purchase health insurance coverage, then Congress “could compel you to do anything.” But the former Speaker had in fact sup ...
- Must Read: The Denier Debunking Handbook
The Debunking Handbook, written by John Cook of Skeptical Science and Stephan Lewandowsky of The Conversation, is a must-read summary of the scientific literature on how to extract pernicious myths from people’s minds and restore fact-based knowledge. The Handbook explores “the surpr ...
- Capitalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
It's not easy being a devotee of capitalism these days. What with the tendency of capitalist elites to cry for public bail-outs for their self-inflicted wounds while at the same time they continue to fleece the very same individuals whose tax dollars are needed to bail them out. What capitalism ...
- How do you stop them?
Break windows and get the cops to attack peaceful protesters in response? Hmm. Interesting idea. I can feel international capitalism buckling under the resulting strain just thinking about it. Get a permit and have a rally and a march attended by hundreds or even thousands? And then go home? I ...
- Too Much
I've been meaning to post something along these lines for a while. In his Salon entry entitled "The Fruits of Liberation" Glenn Greenwald writes about the murder of seven Afghans, including six children, by a NATO airstrike in Southern Afghanistan and how he almost didn't mention it because the ...
- Do Really Bad Newspaper Columnists Have Awesom ...
How do these incoherent babbling lunatics, serial plagiarists and constantly wrong fuck-ups continue to find work? Surely there are higher-quality apologists and rationalizers for the system lining-up to provide the same sort of bullshit at a far more reasonable rate? Perhaps we must just imag ...
- Civilization is a Powder-Keg
Super busy. Didn't have a clue what to write. Went and looked at unpublished drafts of entries and decided to put this out, ... whatever it is. The world isn't flat. It's round. But for tens of thousands of years, humanity, if we thought of it at all, believed that the world was flat, because w ...
- Report: Bing publishes most-searched news stor ...
From the acquittal of Casey Anthony to the death of Osama bin Laden to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the year 2011 had quite a year when it came to the news. Bing recently released the top most-searched news stories of 2011.
- Canadian tourism group launches website for tr ...
Canada is a vast country with so many different cultures, terrain, lifestyles, and activity options available. As a traveller, the best way to find out about a hidden gem is by asking a local. Now that opportunity is available online.
- The beat goes on for jazz singer Barlow
Emilie-Claire Barlow channels the spirit of the 60s on her latest album, The Beat Goes On. But that doesn't mean she's leaving the classics behind.
- ON Environmental Commissioner laments lack of ...
Ontario's Environmental Commissioner, Gord Miller, released the ECO's 2010/2011 Annual Report, which outlines the state of environmental affairs in the province. "Now is not a good time to disarm your environmental ministries," he warns.
- Light up the trees! ceremony kicks off Christm ...
Despite unseasonably warm weekend weather, it had started to look a lot like Christmas in Mississauga. The festivities kicked off on Saturday evening, with a big party for the tree lighting ceremony, inside the city's new square.
- 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 ...
- Sun TV attacks Ceasefire.ca!
Sun TV, also known as "Fox News North," has turned its guns on the peace work of Ceasefire.ca and all of its 20,000 supporters – but especially Ceasefire.ca founder Steven Staples.
- ICC may examine NATO’s role in Libya
Ottawa may be celebrating victory in Libya, but NATO and its members could yet face the scrutiny of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their actions during the conflict, the Associated Press reported earlier this month (Slobodan Lekic and Mike Corder, “AP Exclusive: NATO may face ...
- Inside the pro-war lobby’s secret funding deal ...
Please make your donation to stop the pro-war lobby from stealing from Canadians, and to make sure public funds are used for human needs and the environment.
- Staples: Canada overspending on defence
In a recent op-ed article in Embassy magazine, Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, argues that Canada’s military spending needs to be curbed: In 2010-11, Department of National Defence spending is estimated to reach $22.2 billion, its highest level since Canada was in Europe ...
- Panetta: F-35 could be on chopping block
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the U.S. Congress that the Pentagon may be forced to cancel its planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a congressional “super committee” fails to reach a budget deal, thus triggering automatic deep cuts in government spendi ...
- Kelp – Find Health In This Sea Vegetable Power ...
November 7, 2011 Natural News by: Dr. David Jockers Kelp is a group of large sea algae that is commonly referred to as seaweed. This amazing plant species has been used for many years by sea dwelling cultures. It is renowned for its powerful nutritional benefits. Kelp is part of the brown algae ...
- Ventura, Miffed By Court, Says He’s Off To Mexico
November 7, 2011 Yahoo News By BRIAN BAKST Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico — or run for president of what he labeled “the ...
- New Superbug Drugs Cause 500 Percent Increase ...
November 7, 2011 Natural News by: Jonathan Benson Governments around the world have been trying to work with the pharmaceutical industry to come up with (conventional) new ways to tackle the growing “superbug” problem. But an experimental new drug treatment regime touted as a potenti ...
- No Alien Visits or UFO Coverups, White House Says
November 7, 2011 Universe Today By Nancy Atkinson “This is total nonsense. More retired high level government officials have come forward with knowledge about UFOs and ET visitation than ever before. Are you telling us they are all lying? People have been seeing strange things in the skies ...
- Google: Governments Seek More About You Than Ever
November 7, 2011 CNet by Elinor Mills A new report from Google shows a rise in government requests for user account data and content removal, including a request by one unnamed law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality–which the company refused. The latest Google ...
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
- “We’ll Occupy” The 99% is Pissed and We Will N ...
By Veterans TodayTuesday, November 29th, 2011 This Is Not How America Is Suppose to Be… Here are some of the lyrics courtesy of Freaked out Nation: We ll protest on, with catchy phases, We re going global From London to Uc Davis, If you think that your batons are going to get us to ...
- Double Standards: U.S. Condemns Attack on Brit ...
Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com November 29, 2011 The United States has condemned the storming of the British embassy in Iran. Obama’s press secretary issued the following statement: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the storming of the British Embassy in Tehran. Iran has a re ...
- Co-Sponsors of the National Defense Authorizat ...
Co-Sponsors of the National Defense Authorization Act: Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens, and Could Be Used Send Them to Guantanamo Indefinitely By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com As I noted Sunday, the Senate is poised to vote today on the National Defense Authorization Act bill, w ...
- Cain tells staff he’s reconsidering candidacy
On a conference call Tuesday morning, motivational speaker and former businessman Herman Cain told senior campaign staff that he is considering dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to published reports. During the call, he denied a claim that he carried ...
- NWO Puppets: ‘Cold war & crusades never ...
Russia Todayyoutube.com Russia’s assessment of the cause of the Syrian unrest points the finger of blame firmly at an armed opposition. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also says it’s time to stop dealing in ultimatums and get back to peace talks. A UN investigation earlier stated that ...
- Bahraini Political Activist Condemns U.S.-Back ...
Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 28, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties say they will not participate in ...
- Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington D.C. Nov. 28, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that kille ...
- Ralph Nader: Giant Corporate Power is the Cent ...
Dandelion Salad http://a.blip.tv/ Ralph Nader speaks at the Washington D.C. Green Festival on Nov. 22, 2011. Keynote: Ralph Nader at the Washington D.C. Green Festival (2011) see Taming the Giant Corporation Center for Corporate Policy Michael Parenti: Imperialism and the 99% Solution First Step ...
- Rick Rozoff: NATO’s expanding horizons
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 26, 2011 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55918 NATO’s expanding horizons November 21st, 2011 Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff CIUT 89.5 FM The Taylor Report November 25, 2011 Program ...
- The Punk Patriot: Want To Stop The Machine? Ju ...
Dandelion Salad ThePunkPatriot on Nov 22, 2011 DONATE: http://bit.ly/7OwKc2 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1OtiqI BLOG: http://punkpatriot.blogspot.com TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/punkpatriot STORE: http://punkpatriot.etsy.com Thanksgiving Message to the Occupy Movement see Occupy Everywher ...
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Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
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I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
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This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
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US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...
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Libya 2.0 Tony Blair's Libyan dictator mate Gaddafi can rot in a ditch for all I care, but there's something about this video that is chilling. It's hard to nail the exact moment, amongst the laughter : This is what US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was laughing at : Libyans, hired mer ...
- Hassan Jabareen: The right context
The disingenuity of the Israeli government's international comparisons is evident when one compares politicians' rhetoric for audiences within Israel with the diplomatic discourse abroad. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
- Jonathan Cook: Is Britain plotting with Israel ...
The real concern among [UK] government officials is that Fox, Werritty and Gould were conspiring in a “rogue” foreign policy – opposed to the British government’s stated aims – that was authored by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Who Profits: Veolia owns, operates Tovlan land ...
Veolia is not only still involved in the illegal Israeli tram project connecting Israeli's colonies to Jerusalem, it also owns and operates (through its subsidiaries), the infamous Tovlan landfill... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses ...
Jerusalem anti-Arab activist: "A booklet with a list of places that employ Arabs will be published soon. That will be followed by hanging up posters and signs with these lists in the streets - just... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Yitzhak Laor: NGO bill aims to create a democr ...
We must not dismiss the NGO Bill - it truly intends to create a democracy for Jews only; if it were passed, no Arab - whether resident of the territories or Israeli citizen - would have access to the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- American Medical Group Association Launches Ne ...
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced today that it will launch the next phase of its Accountable Care Collaborative: Transforming to a Value-Based System of Care. Medical groups are invited to join this yearlong shared learning program. Phase II of the Collaborative will focu ...
- Trimming Your Student Holiday Budget
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, it's very tempting to open up your wallet and buy expensive gifts for all of your family and friends, especially for students who are on a tight budget. Keeping the following tips in mind will help you trim your holiday spending but still enjoy ...
- World AIDS Day Video with Leading Expert
In this video, Douglas Richman, MD, is professor of pathology and medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research discusses the current status of HIV/AIDS research and what lies ahead.
- Lloyd J. Old, "Father of Modern Tumor Immunolo ...
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming cancer patient care by supporting and coordinating global research in tumor immunology, announced today that CRI founding scientific and medical director Lloyd J. Old, M.D., regarded as the "Father of Mo ...
- Williams Joins UAB as Research Editor
Experienced science editor joins Media Relations to help promote the $460 million research enterprise.
- The Hidden Cause of Infant Anemias
Research is showing that consumption of cow's milk has adverse effects on the iron stores of infants and toddlers. Several mechanisms may be contributing to the problem, including intestinal blood loss associated with cow’s milk consumption during infancy -- a condition that affects about 40% of ...
- Why Are Medical Experts Routinely Paid Off By ...
A new report has revealed that thousands of Texas doctors and medical experts, including more than 100 employed by the state itself, routinely supplement their salaries with money paid by drug companies. Between 2009 and early 2011, more than 25,000 Texas doctors and researchers received a ...
- Will this Foolish Move by the EPA Accelerate G ...
Bee Aware from Greg Stanley on Vimeo.Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade, a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD. Each year commercial beekeepers have reported unprecedented losses. Most fruits, many vegetables, almonds, alfalfa and many other ...
- Is the Term 'Safe Starches' an Oxymoron?
Paul Jaminet, an astrophysicist from Harvard with a strong interest in health and diet, and Dr. Ron Rosedale have recently been having a lively internet debate. Jaminet believes that carbohydrates from starches such as potatoes and cooked rice are healthy “safe starches” that if not consum ...
- 60 Minutes Mercury Segment So Controversial it ...
This 60 Minutes segment originally aired in 1990. It covered mercury-based fillings and the poisonous effects they have on those who have them ... and because of the uproar it created in the dental field, it never aired again.
- International Law in the Age of Austerity
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The imminent collapse of the eurozone (and maybe the global financial markets as well) makes for terrifying reading. It also is one reminder of how the success of regional and international legal institutions has depended on the general health of the global economy ( ...
- Foreign Relations Federalism: The Promise of T ...
by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro I’ve been arguing for some time (here, here, and here, all pre-SSRN) that the globalized economy enables the world to directly discipline US states in the context of foreign relations and human rights, and that this in turn erases the need for a dormant fede ...
- George Kennan, International Lawyer?
by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen Many of you have probably seen the reviews of John Lewis Gaddis’ new biography, George F. Kennan: An American Life. John Gaddis was one of my mentors in college and graduate school, and I have really enjoyed seeing what I know to have been a labor of love review ...
- Dapo Akande on Surrendering Saif — and a Brief ...
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has a typically excellent discussion of the surrender issue today at EJIL: Talk!, in which he agrees with Jens Ohlin and disagrees with me. In his view, Libya is entitled to challenge the admissibility of the case against Saif without having ...
- Dapo Akande on Surrendering Saif — and a ...
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has a typically excellent discussion of the surrender issue today at EJIL: Talk!, in which he agrees with Jens Ohlin and disagrees with me. In his view, Libya is entitled to challenge the admissibility of the case against Saif without having ...
- Report: America – Not as Broke as You'd ...
Report: America – Not as Broke as You'd Think Phoenix, AZ – The “super committee” officially failed to come to an agreement to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit over the next ten years, but a new report challenges the premise that austerity for the average Americ ...
- The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Rem ...
The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Remember Financial Basics Phoenix, AZ – A good way to reduce family stress this time of year is to remember good basic spending habits. Advice from from Kelli Hinkle, interim executive director of the Alliance For Sustainable Families.
- Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks
Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since the Great Recession began four years ago (December, 2007), donations to Arizona’s food banks have fallen off. Yet the demand for emergency food remains at record levels. Comments from Terry Shannon, president ...
- Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech
Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday) is the 36th annual Great American Smokeout, and the American Cancer Society has all sorts of ways to help you kick the habit – including some new features on social media. Comments from Laurie Pagel (PAY-gl), regio ...
- Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic C ...
Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic Chemical Phoenix, AZ - A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund says the toxic chemical bisphenol A (Bis-FEE-null ay) is present in canned foods used to prepare a typical Thanksgiving meal. BPA has been linked in laboratory studies to adverse health e ...
- Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet P ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Center for Food Safety Petition FDA to Eliminate Toxic Arsenic Residues in Meat Photo by: D Sharon Pruitt Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of wh ...
- California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...
Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
- Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...
Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...
- Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Mons ...
With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers In response to Monsanto’s release of the company’s first genetically engineered sweet corn for human consumption, a coalition has collected more th ...
- New Report: A Global Citizens Report on the St ...
Published by Navdanya (India), Navdanya International, the International Commission on the Future of Food, with the participation of the Center for Food Safety. The report consists of contributions from groups around the world. Entire report may be viewed HERE A new report highlights scientific ...
- Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
- Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...
- Blogging While Black launches nationwide
Blogging While Black launches nationwide As we reported earlier last week on this blog, here is more positive information coming out of Dallas Texas regarding a great book, Blogging While Black. Yes, Social media and hyperlocal news pioneer Shawn P. Williams recently released his first book Blo ...
- JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders comm ...
JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders commission to study report on rights violations: [JURIST] Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [official website] has ordered a special commission [BNA report] to look into recommendations made following an independent investigation into the alleged cr ...
- Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press ...
Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press, Assembly Before Poll: "(New York) – The weeks before Egypt’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, have been marked by repeated violations of free expression and free assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the ...
- Siri, AI and TV Collide
Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...
- Bon Voyage, Steve Jobs
There isn’t much I can say about Steve Jobs. I never met him, personally, but his influence was felt from my childhood. Like many reacting to the news of his passing, I am doing so on a device he was involved in designing. He has inspired me greatly, as with countless others. The official ...
- New Media Animation Roasts New Facebook
I love the 1984 and Matrix references in this video. The animators at Taiwan’s New Media Animation, have once again produced a delicious roast of the news of the day. By the process described in detail in the Mashable tech blog, I have already started trying out the timeline. It seems perf ...
- Facebook Timeline: A Google+ Killer?
This app turns Facebook into a virtual scrapbook of your life. The current model for profiles is an image of your current self, not how you have changed throughout your life. By adding the fourth dimension to the profile, Facebook explodes the potential of the profile exponentially. I read Ben P ...
- You Tube Launches New Video Editor
YouTube has had a very basic video editor for some time, and has now updated and relaunched it. To me this was the next logical step for YouTube: to own the customer journey from the beginning. I have a further idea which is my Capstone project for my master’s degree, and since very few if ...
- “Law Enforcement” Destroys Prayer ...
Last Thursday, November 24, employees of the Israeli company “E.T. Legal Services”, hired by the deceptively named “Civil Administration” arm of Israel’s military Occupation regime in the West Bank, demolished a mosque. Among other things. To add insult to injury, ...
- Statement of the Palestinian Freedom Riders
As of now, 6 Palestinian Freedom Riders are about to be arrested just inside Jerusalem. Read why the Palestinian human rights activists boarded segregated buses below. My name is Hurriyeh Ziadah. I am the media spokeswomen for the Palestinian Freedom Rides campaign. Thank you all for being here ...
- New Sheikh Jarrah Video from Just Vision
Just Vision, the folks I interned for last spring, are out with, “Home Front is a new series of four video portraits chronicling the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.” It documents different Israelis and Palestinians involved i ...
- Villages Group: South Hebron Hills Update
Dear friends and supporters, About one month ago we reported to you on the state of the local schoolhouse in Palestinian Susiya as its second school year opened. Visiting the school on Thursday November 2nd, 2011, we witnessed an impressive development in the construction of the school’s p ...
- Video: Democracy Now! footage from Freedom Wav ...
Israel has boarded and detained the latest Freedom Flotilla heading for Gaza. See the last footage they were able to transmit from on board the boat here. If you are in New York City, there will be an emergency action. TODAY, November 4 5 – 6:30pm across the street from the Israeli Consul ...
- The other defense industry
According to Jeffrey A. Winters, author of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), there’s the “income defense industry” which is composed of [L]awyers, accountants, wealth management consultants, revolving-door lobbyists, think-tank debate framers and even key segments ...
- Tucson desert
I love deserts. The Arizona desert is especially beautiful even as it has a festive assortment of plants and critters that stab and bite. Deserts are filled with life, you just have to look for it.
- Judge blocks Citigroup settlement With S.E.C.
Earlier this month, Judge Rakoff indicated that he had problems with the proposed settlement between the SEC and Citigroup arising from the sale of $1 billion of toxic mortgage debt. Today he followed through, rejecting the proposed settlement and ordered a trial. In a written opinion, Manhatta ...
- The Federal Reserve exists to protect the 1%
The banksters and Fed are of course gobsmacked by what happened asying, who could have predicted it? 3 big reasons the Fed got it wrong Misunderstanding of the housing boom A lack of analysis of the rapid growth of new forms of mortgage finance Insufficient weight given to the powerful adverse f ...
- Crooks and Liars becoming Democratic Party mou ...
Their attempt to pretend the Obama Administration and DHS weren’t behind the concerted nationwide crackdown on Occupy is silly at best. Their implied logic apparently is, only Republicans do that sort of thing so to say Democrats would do it too is just wrong. And besides, we must vote for ...
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
- Emails in Order
Buffy Minton who provided the Mime data has produced a spreadsheet of CG1 and CG2 emails in chronological order. This should be an excellent tool to follow conversations through. odered emails – xls odered emails – xlsx I have the emails locally but if you are interested, combine th ...
- The Right Kind of People
UPDATE: Reader Stacey left a bomb in #9 of the thread below. Long time readers here will recognize this theme, new readers can assume it from the URL I’ve been using. The concept of a complete consensus among humans only occurs when a structure bands them together on an opinion. In ...
- Dave Holland on Cliamategate 2.0
Dave Holland, who was widely featured in the CRU emails from his blocked FOIA requests, has a guest post at Andrew Montford’s blog. He doesn’t think much of the Muir Russel review’s either and specifically addresses the false claims that the emails were out of context.
- Provenance of the Decline, a Forensic Analysis
There is much about paleoclimatology we don’t know. Key among the questions is, “What exactly was done to that innocent, unsuspecting data?” The stealthy nature of these statistical oddities has led to the practice of an informal new field of blog science which could accurate ...
- CRU Scientist Excoriated in Open Letter (Clima ...
Willis Eschenbach has an open letter at WUWT which absolutely excoriates Phil Climategate Jones for his lies to the public and to Willis. The letter is quite strongly worded, places the FOI lies in context and is worth a read. The critique is strong enough that it extends not only to Phil, but t ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
- Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...
- Facebook Settles Federal Trade Commission Char ...
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Facebook this morning over charges that the social network deceived users by failing to honor privacy agreements. Under the agreement, Facebook: cannot misrepresent the privacy or security or users personal information; must … Contin ...
- Movies, LMFAO, Target, Macy’s, Poker, Football ...
Movies, music but most interestingly, Black Friday Pages were popular on our list if the fastest growing by the number of Likes this week. There were also a pair of game Pages and football (soccer) Pages on the list, too. … Continue reading →
- Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Tracking the ...
With an up-to-$2 billion IPO that Zynga may file in the coming weeks to fund its continued global expansion, Facebook’s migration to Credits, Google’s launch of Google+, and the continued rapid growth of in-app purchase-based businesses on the iOS and … Continue reading →
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Shoutlet ...
Wildfire hired an engineer and an account manager while Shoutlet, Work4 Labs and AdParlor hired sales and account staff this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) … Continue reading →
- Facebook Buys WhoGlue, But Not Its Talent
Facebook acquired Baltimore-based social networking software firm WhoGlue Inc. early this month for an undisclosed amount, according to a report from the Baltimore Business Journal. WhoGlue’s founder, Jason Hardebeck, appears happy to be bought by the company that sued him … Continue readi ...
- Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...
- Capitalism and the spy market
Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
- The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
- Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...
- World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
- World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
- Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
- Sonic boon
A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
- The secret’s in the sauce
What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
- Clean water, clean energy
In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
- Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
- A winter’s tale
Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
- Future Beyond Oil on Display at LA Auto Show
Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco At last week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, I saw a glimpse of the future. Many of the up to 50 plug-in electric vehicle models scheduled to hit America’s streets over the next sev ...
- India Environmental News Compilation, November ...
Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Himalayan nations agree on climate change adaption plan “Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to collaborat ...
- Actually, the Heartland Institute is as Wrong ...
Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Naomi Klein’s essay “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” which appeared on the cover of the November 28th issue of The Nation, starts with a withering critique of the ...
- What must global warming negotiations in South ...
Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC One year ago, countries rallied around the Cancun Agreements with multiple standing ovations and strong words of support. While these agreements are not sufficient by themselv ...
- How California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Can ...
Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco Top Things You Should Know About California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard This year, California began quietly implementing the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that will result in prod ...
- Blame it on Cain
The news that Herman Cain is “reassessing” his presidential campaign after a woman’s claim that she had a 13-year extramarital affair with him became a news story once again illustrates the unfortunate tendency to confuse legitimate news stories with pure gossip whenever the wo ...
- Debt
Sarah Jaffe has been all over the issue of debt lately, chronicling who is profiting from the massive debt young people have to take on in order to graduate from college and how people are fighting back. Great stuff. See here and here. This debt is one of the most important issues Occupy Wall St ...
- DNA and the Authoritarian Fantasy Life of Pros ...
Andrew Martin has a fascinating article about how things work in a winger-dominated DA’s office in Illinois. First, people are convicted based almost entirely on not-very-plausible confessions extracted from the kind of marathon high-pressure interrogations that will produce many false p ...
- Labor Notes
1. Conditions at Chinese computer manufacturing plants remain horrible. Apple has claimed they will look into these problems, but actual action remains unlikely. The workers themselves are fed up and 1000 employees at a Jingmo Electronics Corporation factory, which makes keyboards for many compu ...
- Obama’s judge problem
I have a piece in the Daily Beast, commenting on the fact that Obama’s judicial nominations are getting rejected by the ABA at four times the rate that Bush II’s and Clinton’s were.
- Shale Gas Drilling Photos
The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening. Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
- Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...
By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...
- Learn the FACTS about Marcellus Shale
Thurs. Nov. 3rd at 7 PM GAS TRUTH OF YORK is sponsoring the YORK MARCELLUS SHALE FORUM so that you can learn what you need to know about Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania. In South Central PA we do not have Marcellus Shale drilling but the Oil & Gas Industry is affecting our water, land, ...
- Gas Truth of Central Pennsylvania Wants to Hea ...
Give Your Testimony to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION GAS TRUTH is giving support to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION that has been formed by 8 organizations that want to get out the truth about the effect of Shale Gas drilling on Pennsylvania. Governor Corbett formed his Gas in ...
- GASLAND and Josh Fox Come to York, PA
Wed. Sept. 21st at 6:30 PM HACC York Campus is sponsoring a special outdoor screening of the Emmy award-winning film, GASLAND. GASLAND’s Director, Josh Fox will answer questions following the film. GASLAND is the story of the effect of Fracking for Natural Gas on families and communities ...
- Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, which was created by Fathom Information Design, uses circles of vari ...
- Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...
- World's Largest Marine Reserve Proposed in Aus ...
Australia has proposed the creation of the world’s largest marine park in the Coral Sea, a 382,000-square-mile area where fishing would be limited and oil and gas exploration would be banned. The so-called Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would begin in waters about 36 miles off Australia’s ...
- Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...
- The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less?
A new study finds that Britons are consuming less than they did a decade ago, with similar patterns being seen across Europe. Could this be the beginning of a trend in developed countries? Might we be reaching “peak stuff”? BY FRED PEARCE
- The Lightbulb Conspiracy - Planned Obsolescence
Once upon a time..... products were made to last. Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: "A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business" (1928). Thus Planned Obsolescence was born. Shortly after, the first worldwide cartel ...
- Rosinenbomber: The Notorious Candy Bomber
In July 1948, 27-year-old Air Force lieutenant Gail Halvorsen was flying food and supplies into West Berlin, which was blockaded by the Soviet Union. One night he encountered a group of hungry children who had gathered near the runway to watch the planes land. "Their clothes were patched...They ...
- The World of Mind Control Through the Eyes of ...
Kim Noble is a rare occurrence: a trauma-based mind control survivor with over 13 alter personas who don’t know each other but who all paint. She has suffered DID and MPD (dissociative identity disorder and multiple personality disorder) for most of her life, as a result of an extremely traumati ...
- Symbols of an Alien Sky - David Talbott
David Talbott’s film ’Symbols of an Alien Sky’ goes far beyond merely identifying "the celestial provocation" of our true history. Symbols resurrects and confirms the genius of Immanuel Velikovsky. With excruciating attention to detail Talbott rivals the intellectual obsession and integrity of t ...
- Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship (Video)
Video from: YouTube.com "In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use a ...
- Gun Fu vs Kung Fu, Martial Arts v Martial Law
And why Kung Fu or any other martial art comes out ahead. If you pick any one thing that’s external to you, something that’s not built into your body and mind as your means of self defense, you set up a cycle of dependence. With knives, staves, swords, and such it’s the same st ...
- KKKansas Guv. BrownbacKKK tries to make exampl ...
BrownbacKKK DiKKKtatorship actually censures people for tweeting naughty things about His Royal Highness He has PUBLICLY-funded researchers keep track of any internet postings with his name on them, and actually used his powers as governor to DEMAND Emma Sullivan, 18, write a letter of apology, ...
- Channel 21 News for DumFOX tips for keeping ch ...
Man these guys are a piss-you-off in large doses several times a day. MY suggestion on Christmas trees? First, I actually read the books and there were no flying reindeer, pine trees, elf changelings, talking snowmen or grinches mentioned. Nor a marathon of different versions of a certain Dicken ...
- Chuck Norris, Non-Warrior Warmonger, Actor, Ra ...
“There are 10 million people in Worlds of Warcraft… But only because Chuck Norris chooses to let them live!” Plays a soldier, a cop. etc.. in the movies, but not in real life. In real life he’s a probation officer for non-violent offenders in Wise Co, TX and even then has ...
- Operation: Love Reunited
Awww, how sweet… A volunteer group of professional photographers taking pictures of the “warriors” and their families as they go off to fight “for our freedom”. Anybody catch the tone yet? A sickly sweet family scene with a father in the Air Force being deployed, le ...
- 9/11 Truth Versus The BBC
My video editing software hasn't been working for months, then all of a sudden it inexplicably came to life about three weeks ago (although it's still really slow), so I decided to finish a video that I started literally over a year ago. I thought it was time to go back to my roots and make ano ...
- 9/11 Truth Movement Trying to Co-opt the Occu ...
Please spread to individual Occupy movement supporters, affiliated groups, websites, and forums. This is a plea for the Occupy movement to drop any preconceived notions about, and take careful consideration of, forming an alliance with the 9/11 truth movement, specifically the OccupyBuilding7.o ...
- Corbett Report Radio 011 – Occupy Building 7 w ...
September 11, 2001 - the day our country was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in our lifetime unless we the 99% stop it. Ten years later the War on Terrorism has diverted trillions of dollars from more important uses and sunken our country into debt. 15 NOV 2011 Pod ...
- Thermite Has Never Been Used in Building Demol ...
"Thermite has never been used in building demolition." - [9/11] Critical Thinking For Dummies - Controlled Demolition by "Juniversal" at the JREF Forum Popular Mechanics Ignores Its Own Historical Records of Thermite Demolition: Destruction of Skyride Towers, Reichstag Dome Set Incendiary Prece ...
- The Trapping of Screw Loose Change
November 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Strahl 911truth.org Dear Readers, Please submit your comments on this article at the link at Amazon, here, as provided below by Mr. Strahl. 911Truth.org published this article; the author is not available to be reached through email to this site. We look forward to ...
- The Fooducate App, 10 Million Scans Later…
Today Fooducate is sharing with the public some information about our mobile app (iPhone /Android) usage for the first time. A formal press release can be found here, but the fun part is the infographic we’ve put together below. What we’re most excited about is that Fooducate is actu ...
- Coming Soon? Fast Food Stamps
Should Food Stamp recipients be able to use government funds to buy fast food? Yum Brands, the holding company of KFC and Taco Bell thinks YES! If this seems totally preposterous to you, well, it’s because it is. The aid program, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
- What if There was Black Friday for Fresh Produce?
Friday’s shopping madness included consumer electronics, household items, clothes, toys and just about anything. Except for food. Well, maybe specialty and gourmet online retailers, but not your regular supermarket fare. What if supermarkets also had black friday sales? More specifically, ...
- Unpalatable Farm Bill
This is a guest blog post by Benzi Ronen, founder & CEO of Farmigo Anyone interested in the future of agricultural policy in the U.S. has surely been following the progress of the U.S. Farm Bill that is currently making its ways through the halls of Congress. The bill is set to shape U.S. po ...
- Nutrition That Rocks: Using Media to Solve the ...
This is a guest blog post by Jill Jayne, MS, RD Childhood obesity means more than just fat kids. It means that about one-third of American kids—despite eating too many calories—are not getting the proper nutrition. The repercussions are serious: a poor diet affects emotional health, physical fit ...
- Twitter Step by Step
Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
- SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
- How To Choose Keywords
Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
- Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
- How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
- The world's original scientists' observations ...
The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife © Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. Fro ...
- Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...
- New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yan ...
New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil © Hutukara/Survival Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. Survival International, ...
- Leader's last words: "Take care of this land"
Nísio Gomes's last words were to his son. © Survival The last words of Nísio Gomes, the Guarani leader assassinated yesterday in southern Brazil, were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with courage. This is our land. Nobody will drag you from it. Look a ...
- Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader i ...
Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen, in a photo taken just two days ago. © Survival Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community. Gunmen surrounded Nísio Gomes, ordering his community to ...
- Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...
- Ma Nature, the Happy ToiletBP on Trial at the ...
by Greg Palast for Greenpeace.org Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. [Occupy Wall Street Climate Trial, New York. Sunday, Nov 27.] This is not the first courtroom where I've faced off against BP, British Petroleum ...
- Kick-Ass, Mind-blowing
"Greg Palast's Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed." - Nomi Prins, author Other People's Money We are just a few books short of bumping Bill O'Reilly on the New York Times list. Get it now, this weekend. We don ...
- Goldfinger eats Congo
Goldfinger eats Congo Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!... "Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfi ...
- Etok is One Bad-Ass Eskimo-In September, Obama ...
Alternet.org - From the Arctic Circle, from inside a whale carcass (really), Greg Palast investigates... There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this: In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of t ...
- Center for Autism Opens Virginia School to Max ...
WASHINGTON, DC, VA, WV, MD NOVEMBER 28, 2011 The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), considered one of the world’s largest autism organizations effectively treating children with state-of-the-art therapy, announces the opening of CARD Virginia School, “the right choice...
- AofA Science Summary: Redox regulation of the ...
Antioxid Redox Signal. 2011 Aug 1;15(3):593-606. Epub 2011 May 19. Redox regulation of the influenza hemagglutinin maturation process: a new cell-mediated strategy for anti-influenzatherapy. Sgarbanti R, Nencioni L, Amatore D, Coluccio P, Fraternale A, Sale P, Mammola CL, Carpino G,...
- Anderson Cooper 360 Writer/Producer Fails to D ...
By Jake Crosby The following is a letter I sent to CNN after the January 5th televised abuse of Dr. Andrew Wakefield by the network’s mascot, “Silver Fox” Anderson Cooper, whose pale face regularly haunts the channel. I didn’t receive...
- Autism and PANDAS
By Teresa Conrick My daughter, Megan's recent diagnosis of an autoimmune condition coupled with an abnormal EEG are big, red flags that help illustrate why she is so ill. Finding that out hardly ends my journey for more answers to...
- “You” Turn
By Cathy Jameson I saw four cars make a u-turn at a major intersection one morning. It’s not such a big deal. Everyone retraces their steps every now and then. One by one, car after car, those drivers turned back...
- Britain draws up emergency plans for collapse ...
DailyMail – And in another move, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were revealed to be plotting a new pact on economic union without consulting Britain or other countries outside of the EU. They are determined not to give Britain the chance of insisting o ...
- Suicide car bomb kills 19 at Iraqi prison
BBC – A suicide car bomber has killed 19 people at a prison gate near Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. They say at least 22 people were injured in the attack in the town of Taji, some 25km (15 miles) north of the capital. The casualties reportedly include security guards, prison staff and pol ...
- NATO Giving Afghans More Areas to Control
NY Times – Afghan forces will assume control of their own security in 18 new areas, some of them still troubled by insurgents, bringing half of the country’s population under the government’s nominal authority, Afghan officials said Sunday. Unlike the first stage of transition, which inclu ...
- Occupy Los Angeles Protesters Arrested as Phil ...
Bloomberg – Los Angeles police arrested four people who refused to move as authorities cleared Occupy protesters near City Hall early this morning. Occupy Wall Street supporters in Philadelphia also prepared to be forced out of their encampment as Mayor Michael Nutter’s Sunday deadline to ...
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- 'Entourage’s' Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer ...
When Entourage’s Adrian Grenier was introduced to indie film producer Peter Glatzer a number of years back, their mutual commitment to eco-friendliness and sustainability compelled them to work together. They put together the show, “Alter Eco” for Discovery’s Planet Green channel in 2008, a real ...
- CO2 sensitivity possibly less than most extrem ...
A new study in the journal Science suggests that the global climate may be less sensitive to CO2 fluctuations than predicted by the most extreme projections, and maybe slightly less than the best estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- Doug Brinkley, Rep. Don Young squabble over Ar ...
Famed biographer Doug Brinkley and Alaskan Rep. Don Young clashed bitterly last Friday as Brinkley, a professor at Rice University and the author most recently of “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1979-1960,” testified at a House Natural Resources Committee meeting regarding t ...
- Court ruling keeps Yellowstone grizzlies on 't ...
A ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2007 decision to remove the "threatened" designation for Yellowstone grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act.
- Peter Brown back onboard with Sea Shepherd
Peter Brown, the activist and filmmaker who recently released a warts-and-all portrait of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in his documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” is making a surprising return to the crew for its annual Antarctic anti-whaling campaign after a two-year hi ...
- Caterpillar Foundation partners with Water.org
Caterpillar Foundation Partners with Water.org to Expand WaterCredit in India, Indonesia More than 218,000 people to obtain access water and sanitation facilities PEORIA, Ill.—Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) today announced that the Caterpillar Foundation and Water.org announced a $3 million partner ...
- Christiane Amanpour interviews Damon & White (ABC)
Actor Matt Damon’s Clean Water Mission (ABC This Week with Christiane Amanpour) - Actor Matt Damon is on a mission to improve access to one of the world’s most precious resources: water. “It’s really hard for people like us to relate to it, because it’s just never b ...
- Water.org, innovators using social media (BosI ...
It’s Not Actually About You: How Innovators Are Using the Web For Social Action (Boston Innovation) – Water.org uses technology to help people get access to water. And together, they’re all trying to get people to change their behavior. Too often, people don’t donate to a cause or promote ...
- Matt Damon, Gary White on Huffington Post
Safe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that’s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world’s population is still unable ...
- Dan Bena of PepsiCo interviewed about water
Chrissy Coughlin of Nature of Business interviews Dan Bena Fabulous conversation with Senior Director of Sustainability at the PepsiCo about strategic partnerships, leadership, the future of water, their dedication to the farmer and the future of agriculture and much much more. Listen to the int ...
- A Fusion Reactor Hollywood Could Love
Some latest scuttlebutt from the world of nuclear fusion has all the ingredients of a Hollywood thriller screenplay (and for those who remember Inside Greentech’s Greentech Avenger, you know I know scuttlebutt!) There’ve been all kinds of cinematic ideas, and personalities, on the front lines of ...
- Salvaging Durban with Innovation
Looking past the possibility of any legally-binding global emission target (and U.S. involvement in any treaty), the international climate negotiations opening today in Durban, South Africa are missing the point – the only way the world is going to drastically reduce carbon emissions is th ...
- EPA's Jackson: States Doing 'Good Job' Regulat ...
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, in an interview aired Sunday by energyNOW on hydraulic fracturing regulation:
- The Discussion Continues: Nuclear Power in Japan
This began as an answer to one letter writer in Friends Journal, and grew. The information that surprised me most is the answer to this question: How does the danger from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors compare to other health dangers, such as Tokyo pollution? **************
- How Does Energy Efficiency Create Jobs?
With unemployment hovering at a stubborn 9%, it is no wonder that job creation has become a hot topic. It is nearly impossible to read the news without encountering an article describing how a policy or industry creates a given number of jobs. Often, job creation is used as a justification for p ...
- Canada and Mexico to Join U.S. in NAFTA of the ...
By Dana Gabriel At the recent APEC meetings, Canada and Mexico announced their interest in joining the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations to establish what has been referred to as the NAFTA of the Pacific. The leaders of the nine countries that are part of the Tra ...
- Target Syria
by Stephen Lendman Washington's Greater Middle East project involves waring against the region one country at a time to replace independent regimes with client ones. Softer targets were attacked first. Tougher ones remain, notably Iran and Syria. Subduing them may involve turning the entire re ...
- Medvedev's Nov. 23 Address to the Nation: A St ...
by larouchepac.com Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's November 23 televised address to the nation conveyed the stark reality that the Russian leadership anticipates the outbreak of global nuclear war, and is determined both to defend Russia under those circumstances and, by warning of this, to ...
- Lauren Booth: Three people in this marriage. T ...
By Gilad Atzmon This week, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has revealed itself to be ethically compromised at the highest level. In recent months it has become clear that the central office of the PSC, are increasingly pandering to the whims of Israeli hasbara activists. Joinin ...
- Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions
by Stephen Lendman Congress is now considering legislative language to mandate indefinite military detentions of US citizens suspected of present or past associations with alleged terrorist groups, with or without evidence to prove it. More on that below. The 2006 Military Commissions Act auth ...
- Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
- Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...
- Accounting for changes in unionization
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has published a short research note offering a comparative analysis of the decline in unionization among OECD countries. Using Gosta Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism typology, John Schmitt and Alexandra Mitukiewicz find ...
- Instruments of Social Change
The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal ci ...
- Household carbon footprints increase with income
A new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the lowest-income households. The study, by Marc Lee and Amanda Card, concludes that GHG reduction ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
China prepares for big entry into vaccine market BEIJING (AP) — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines. China’s vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world&# ...
- Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty
By Richard Falk,aljazeera – In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that fou ...
- If the social protest dies out, Israel to see ...
By Merav Michaeli,haaretz.com – The U.S. has a tradition of civil protests that lead to significant changes: women’s suffrage, equal rights for blacks, pulling out of Vietnam. There is reason to fear a social protest that is rapidly catching on. In Israel there has yet to be a social ...
- WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
news24.com- WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley A ...
- The first day of hunting season
By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) - Yeah, that time of the year again. I always have very mixed feelings about hunting. I understand people that come from the hunting tradition. My father and his father and probably his father’s father hunted for food first, sport second. The fol ...
- Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
- Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
- Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
- Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
- Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
- Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...
- R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...
- How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
- Announcing R-Squared Energy TV
Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]
- Take a Stand, Mr. President
Join the forum discussion on this post The Importance of Being Decisive When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets of wisdom were transferred from Graham into my long-term memo ...
- Change the World in 5 Minutes - Everyday at Sc ...
Comments:Can a bunch of school kids really change the world in five minutes a day? This class of primary school kids demonstrate over the course of a week that it only takes five minutes a day to make a positive impact—from recycling to planting fruit and veg and telling jokes. You can find out ...
- Top 10 #pln tools in 2011 used in #edtech20 #s ...
Comments:I invite you also to comment and add your favorite tools in 2011 on our page : on facebook http://goo.gl/eTpsz and google plus http://goo.gl/VGoQO . I invite you to join and collaborate in this free global ...
- iLearn: 100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School
Comments:100 apps for use in/by high school students. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, highschool, edtech, education, elearning, mlearning, technologyby: Dean Mantz
- iPad in Education
Tags: ipad, apps, education, technology, wiki, learning, PalmBeachby: Dean Mantz
- Digital Promise
Tags: education, infographic, mlearning, digitalpromiseby: Dean Mantz
- Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
- Bobby Flay's Tips for a Tex-Mex Thanksgiving
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When you think "Thanksgiving," it's unlikely that chile peppers, avocados, and calabacitas come to mind—unless you live in the American Southwest. Arid and sunny, the region's climate makes Thanksgiving look like a warm summer picnic to the rest of us, with its own uniqu ...
- 6 Healthy Holiday Cleaning Recipes
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Preparing to have a big crowd over for the big Thanksgiving holiday? You could be serving up a dose of cancer-causers, allergens, and hormone disruptors alongside your healthy holiday dinner, according to the health advocacy group Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE). The ...
- 7 Traditional Thanksgiving Staples From Your N ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, so if you're really intent on serving a traditional Thanksgiving menu, it makes sense to stock your meal with traditional staples that America's earliest settlers would approve of. Cranberries, ...
- Thanksgiving Dinner, Southern-Style
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— Southern food may have a bad reputation for being deep fried and heavily processed, but like any traditional cuisine, its roots lie in whole, seasonal, locally grown foods with flavors influenced by the many different cultures that settled the region, from Europeans to ...
- Tool Reveals Degree of Digital Retouching
What's the Latest Development? Computer scientists have developed software measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered. Their research, being published in a scholarly journal, is intended as a technological response to concerns about the many highly id ...
- Social Problems Everywhere and No Attention to ...
--Guest by Audrey Payne, American University graduate student. It seems like there are so many problems discussed in the media every day- public health, the environment, the economy, political protests…. Have you ever stopped to wonder why? Even more importantly, why do some issues ...
- Europe to Facebook: Stop Selling Users' Secret ...
What's the Latest Development? Responding to privacy concerns, the European Commission plans to crackdown on Facebook allowing users' most personal information to be used to create tailored advertising. The Telegraph reports that an EC Directive, to be introduced in January, will ban such ...
- Humans Make Language, Language Makes Us Human
In this excerpt from his linguistics lecture for the Floating University, Steven Pinker illuminates some of the mysteries surrounding children’s hardwired ability to learn language. What’s the Big Idea? Language is so central to everything we are and do from ...
- The Clicks and Mortar of Online Sales
What's the Latest Development? Ecommerce now claiims 5-10% of retail spending and isn't just found on sites like Amazon.com. We may be in a transitional phase like when early cars looked like horse carriages. Many current ecommerce websites are just better versions of cata ...
- Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise ...
And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good with his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the … Continue reading →
- Agree Or Else
I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day. Basically, … Continue reading →
- Life Imitating Art
While on my recent road trip, I took the opportunity in my spare time to re-read Atlas Shrugged. It’s been quite a while—over thirty years, in fact—since I first picked up Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, and was struck by how accurately … Continue reading →
- A Whisper In The Ear
OK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, … Continue reading →
- Almost But Maybe
Almost certainly, this man will not be the next President of the United States of America. This is despite him consistently winning straw polls, focus group surveys and post-debate polls. Despite him being more consistent in his policies, over forty … Continue reading →
- The changing role of the pharma industry
The role of the drug discovery chemist has changed significantly over the past 50 years – workflows have been reinvented while the same goals remain to find and test novel molecules that can reach and act on disease targets. In this, the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011), Thomson ...
- PET molecules make sense
My old friend AP de Silva of Queen’s University Belfast has put together a video to explain how molecular logic based on luminescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) is revolutionising smart medical diagnostics and could bring us a future generation of electronic gadgets based on molec ...
- Share your slides using a QR code
Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
- Is renewable energy just a myth?
It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
- Singing the Movember Blues no more
Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
- Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boon or Bust?
New York State Bar Journal (Nov/Dec 2011) / by Elisabeth N. Radow http://bit.ly/t9HJM6 [From the Public Citizen Consumer Law and Policy Blog] Homeowners who sign gas leases to permit hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other states may be def ...
- The Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions ...
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development / by Jasper Faber and Linda Brinke http://ictsd.org/downloads/2011/09/faber_web2gp2.pdf [Abstract] The paper scrutinizes the upcoming climate regulation of aviation transport from an environmental and economic perspective. In addition t ...
- Managing the Growing Impacts of Development on ...
United Nations Univ., Institute for Water, Environment and Health / by Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3960397/UNU-INWEH%20Policy%20Report.pdf [From an art ...
- America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters: How ...
Environment America http://bit.ly/t9jFOw [From an E&E Daily article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd] Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania release the most mercury air emissions in the country, and just five companies account for more than one-third of all mercury emissions in the United States, accor ...
- Governing Clean Development: What Have We Learnt?
University of East Anglia | University of Sussex / by Peter Newell and Jon Phillips www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gcd/PolicyBriefing003 [From Press Release] Environmental, economic and development experts will debate whether the commitment to carbon markets is the right approach to tackle climate chang ...
- Last Chance for Kyoto Protocol: Nearly 200 Nat ...
(Reuters) - Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures. [More]
- Atrazine in Water Tied to Hormonal Irregularities
Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed-killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstrual cycles and low estrogen levels, scientists concluded in a new study. [More]
- Scientists Make the 'Perfect' Foam
Physicists working at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have finally made the perfect foam. Whereas most Dubliners might consider that to be the head on a pint of Guinness, Denis Weaire and his co-workers have a more sophisticated answer. [More]
- Scan't Evidence: Do MRIs Relieve Symptoms of D ...
When a researcher asks a volunteer to slide head-first into the open eye of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, the expectation is that the device's magnetic field will penetrate the skull to produce a faithful picture of the brain without changing its behavior. A new study suggests, ...
- Price on Carbon Failing to Reduce Greenhouse-G ...
Alberta’s $57 million carbon-cutting program is failing, according to the latest report from the Canadian province’s auditor-general, Merwan Saher. Like many such programs around the world, it includes an emissions trading scheme , which allows polluters to meet their emissions re ...
- "Crisis of the State"
From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
- "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
- "Integrated Geographies"
From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
- Colbert on Atheists
I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
- Tucker on Anarcho-Communism
For your consideration (and entertainment), the always pugnacious Benjamin Tucker railing against anarchists of the communist sort:Were I now to say, as I think, that the dead revolutionists knew nothing of the principles of scientific Anarchism, freely advocated Archistic and despotic m ...
- Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...
- Thoughts at Thanksgiving 2011
David Seaton's News LinksWe've been through this beforeRead carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending ...
- Globalization: fun and games
David Seaton's News LinksOpen "Google Translate" and set the translation to English to Chinese (traditional), then write in the word "jokes", which will produce the Chinese ideogram 笑話, then paste that into Google-Google and it will produce the following search results (click here). C ...
- Looking on the bright side of life - Part Two
David Seaton's News Links"Melancholia" - Lars Von TrierLooking at the political paralysis of the American political system, the wasted lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceaseless unrest in the Arab world,the increasing possibility of a war with Iran and the sense of imminent finan ...
- How paranoiac should we be?
Critics in Europe are very uneasy about the new Italian ECB chief, the Greek premier and the prime minister-designate of Italy’s past or present relations with the Goldman Sachs bank. Key European crisis figures Mario Draghi, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti all have backgrounds with ‘Government ...
- Healthcare's Unlucky Duckies
Via Stephanie Mencimer, Christopher Conover at the conservative American Enterprise Institute recently highlighted a well-known fact: in any given year, 1% of the population accounts for a fifth of all healthcare spending and 5% accounts for nearly half of all spending: We have become so ac ...
- Tuesday's Headlines
Here are the headlines that have greeted me in my first few minutes of consciousness this morning: American Airlines files for bankruptcy as losses mount States face a crushing economic outlook, fiscal survey says Home Prices Decline Businesses Scramble as Credit Tightens Across Europe ...
- Chart of the Day: Synchronized Cliff Diving
Last week I blogged about a new paper suggesting that the European and the U.S. economies are more interconnected than most people think. The basic story had to do with credit conditions: Starting around 1999, European banks began to supply (or recycle) a lot of America's credit, and this mean ...
- The Peculiar Story of Mitt Romney's Peculiar T ...
A friend points me to a TNR article subtitled "The peculiar anger of Mitt Romney," and it's peculiar all right. There's a lot of theorizing about where Romney's anger comes from, but there's not much evidence of this supposed anger in the first place. Despite his long and public career, the pi ...
- Mitt Romney vs. the DNC
For the last month or so, Team Obama has been pummelling Mitt Romney. The DNC's latest is on the right, and Andrew Sullivan has a shorter version here. He also links to J.P. Green, who says: I gather the strategy behind the ad is that Mitt Romney is the GOP's most formidable opponent for ...
- IC 286: Hippie Hater
Topics: Holiday Shopping is getting out of hand Man masturbates in department store New images of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises Nerds go too far Sandusky victim bullied at school Joe Paterno had a history of getting involved in investigations Occupy Denver explains why they need tents The prob ...
- IC 285: I Wish I Was White
Topics: Twilight and the pattern of average white girls Strawberry Letter, you’re single cause you’re stupid Shaq cheats respectfully Ashton & Demi break up and how will we survive? Man goes broke in Ukraine trying to met his online girlfriend Great Moments in White Privilege: B ...
- IC 284: The White Tyler Perry
Topics: Jack & Jill does horribly at the Box Office Adam Sandler is terrible Woman goes crazy over McDonalds serving breakfast Jerry Sandusky gives the worst interview EVER Herman Cain has a senior moment Share with your friends:
- The New Man Daywalker
It’s been a rough week for men. From the XY Movement, to the cowardly men in the Penn State situation to the release of Drake’s extra soft album. Men can’t catch a break. Even our regular clothes are under attack by this push to make everything “European cut” (i ...
- Herman Cain Pulls a Sarah Palin
Foreign Policy is the great equalizer when it comes to politics. Nobody minds a domestic dummy, but when it comes to dealing with other country, no one wants a politician who embarrasses them. Its like family. When your dad say something stupid at the dinner table, its cute and funny. When h ...
- Controls needed to avoid waste in $100B climat ...
To ensure the money pledged to the Green Climate Fund is used wisely, its spending rules should be regularly reassessed, spending programs should be independently audited, and a scientific approach to spending decisions should be adopted, says geographer Simon Donner, from the University of Brit ...
- Climate benefit from trees depends on location
21 scientists including Xuhui Lee from Yale University find that while planting trees near the equator both cools local temperatures and absorbs CO2, planting in northern regions could be self-defeating.
- Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler water
Some of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.
- Moscow shows warming driving temperature records
There is only a one in five chance that last year's heatwave in Russia would have happened without global warming, an analysis of record temperature probabilities by Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.
- 2020 target offers climate change control hope
If greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are equivalent to 31 to 46 billion tonnes of CO2, the world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, says Joeri Rogelj from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
- Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
- CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
- Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Pa ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The Swiss army nuclear knife —————— During the past few years, all the world’s major science ...
- The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of Emails
With regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...
- Energy Storage Discussion Thread
Debate over large-scale energy storage is a regular theme in the comments on this blog. The post is intended to be a place to centralise this discussion. Some questions that might be considered in the comment thread: 1. What is the cost (per Watt hour, kWh, MWh, GWh — how does this cost sc ...
- Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
- Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...
- Blogging While Black launches nationwide
Blogging While Black launches nationwide As we reported earlier last week on this blog, here is more positive information coming out of Dallas Texas regarding a great book, Blogging While Black. Yes, Social media and hyperlocal news pioneer Shawn P. Williams recently released his first book Blo ...
- JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders comm ...
JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders commission to study report on rights violations: [JURIST] Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [official website] has ordered a special commission [BNA report] to look into recommendations made following an independent investigation into the alleged cr ...
- Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press ...
Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press, Assembly Before Poll: "(New York) – The weeks before Egypt’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, have been marked by repeated violations of free expression and free assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the ...
- The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main problem is simply the fact that most of America’s wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...
- Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...
- Megyn Kelly
Is Megyn Kelly the dumbest blonde in the world? No, I mean really…..
- Chris Wallace Claims Americans Are Fed Up With ...
Folks, you have to understand. Fox Lies tells it’s lemming viewers what they are supposed to think so they can repeat the same Fox lies around water coolers. Anyone who watches Fox is already brainwashed and lives in some alternate universe where giving billionaires all the breaks help ...
- Pssst CNN… Why Ask Condi About Anything ...
Dear CNN. The only question you should be asking Condi is when does she think her treason trial will begin. To ask her opinion about anything else is a disservice to all the brave soldiers who died looking for Saddam’s WMD’s (err… oil). As far as asking her about world affairs, ...
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- The Zionism debate: When colonialism is embedd ...
A response to Larry Derfner’s defense of liberal Zionism By Abir Kopty A piece posted earlier today by Larry Derfner, written in response to Joseph Dana, contains typical Zionist arguments, which normally do not prompt me to respond, except that this time, he called them “liberal Zio ...
- Conviction rate for Palestinians in IsraelR ...
Unlike Jews, Palestinians under Israeli control in the West Bank are tried in military courts, where the rights of defendants rights are minimal, and the prosecution enjoys a low burden of proof and – most importantly – wears the same uniforms as the judges – IDF uniforms. In a milit ...
- Israel reenacts ‘Zionist triumph’ ...
Today, exactly 64 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 to end the British Mandate in Palestine and partition the territory, giving international legitimacy to the establishment of a Jewish nation-state somewhere in Palestine, as well as the notion of two states f ...
- Response to Joseph Dana: A case for liberal Zi ...
Yes, Zionism is at odds with liberal values. But it’s less at odds than the alternative; moreover, it has the capacity to be liberalized almost without limit. I want to take issue with Joseph Dana’s claim that liberal Zionism is a “dishonest system of thought.” I don’t, however, want to take iss ...
- Pregnant NYT photojournalist treated with R ...
News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel from a Gaza crossing. According to IDF radio (Hebrew) and the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning, veteran photographer Lynsey Addario, working for the New ...
- UC Davis Pepper Spray, Administrative Wage Gar ...
Pepper Spray, that’s what I’ve been obsessing about over the weekend. If you have not yet seen the video, you must watch the entire video of University of California, Davis police officers spraying pepper spray on PEACEFUL student protesters like they are cockroaches. (SEE VIDEO HER ...
- OUTRAGE! Paramilitary Forces Pepper Spray Stud ...
College campuses are supposed to be places where young people go to learn and express themselves right? And is there any venue more appropriate for PEACEFUL, NON-VIOLENT protest than a college campus? I mean, I hear all the comments complaining about Occupy and how they’re interrupting bus ...
- Hey I Know, Let’s Throw People Into The ...
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- America Died in 2000…And We’re Dyi ...
I remember, not so many years ago that America was a proud and strong and honest and hard working and free and just nation. Really, we were. Honestly, it’s true. Entire nations and people all around the world looked towards America with envy and longing and hope. In the allegory that w ...
- LISTEN TO 84 YEAR OLD NAZI SURVIOR COMPARE OCC ...
I have been criticized for using the specter of Nazi persecution and totalitarian persecution to describe what is sweeping across this country….I’ve been quoting the poem: First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they c ...
- Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
- The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
- What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...
- Risk Science – A personal perspective
As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?” What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer. Which is why I decided to spend ...
- Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
- Lost in the Maize
As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week. In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
- Small gods and the art of technology innovation
There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything. So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
- US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment. Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal  ...
- FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...
- Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...
- Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...
- The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...
- The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...
- Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →
- Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
[This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →
- Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
[This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.] Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →
- Between Credit, Bullion and Rebellion: Debt by ...
[The WRL blog is excited to feature a third book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →
- 10 Years of the Global War on Terror
This Friday, October 7 marks ten years of the U.S. Global War on Terror, which began with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. War Resisters League along with a number of antimiltarist and community groups will commemorate the occasion with … Continue reading →
- USDA People’s Garden Grant Awarded to Baltimor ...
The $60,000 award will be divided among existing community organizations within Cherry Hill, who will partner to plant community and school gardens, and deliver education programs that promote gardening and healthy eating.
- Voicing Concerns Over Antimicrobial Use in Foo ...
Also contributing to this post is Patrick Baron, CLF Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences. For the first time in 13 years, the Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance* (ITFAR) heard from the public on antimicrobial resistance. We presented a strong argument ...
- Canning the Cans in Food Drives
What concerns me most, as a doctoral student researching environmental contaminants in the food system, is all of the BPA that has leached from those epoxy resin can linings into the food. Is it okay that we are feeding food-insecure people with consumables that we would not put on our own table ...
- EBT at Farmers’ Markets: A Win for Everyone
Providing EBT at farmers’ markets may very well be a victory in the making for local and regional farmers, local economies, and SNAP participants alike.
- Visualizer Shows Farm Bill Spending
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has launched the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an innovative web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since the 2008 Farm Bill.
- Elvis Costello Tells Fans Not To Buy His Price ...
Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello is apparently so bitter at the pricing of his upcoming box set that he's telling fans not to buy it and to spend their money on Louis Armstrong's music instead. A post on his official site calls the price of The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook "eithe ...
- Seattle-Area Theater Will Encourage Texting Du ...
If you're the type of audience member who feels the need to make the performance a sideshow to your nonstop texting and social network updating, you might want to make plans to move to the Seattle area by 2014. A theater there that's slated to open that year will embrace technological obsession ...
- Morning Deals
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- Malls Cancel Plans To Track Shoppers' Movement ...
Remember how two malls annoyed more than a few people by announcing that they would be tracking shoppers' movements via their cellphone signals? Yeah, well that's no longer happening -- at least for now. The malls have suspended their plans after a U.S. senator raised the same privacy issues t ...
- You Could Score $1.50 As Part Of Class Action ...
Start greasing up your piggy bank, Ticketmaster users! If you bought tickets from the online behemoth between October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you could be entitled to anywhere from $1.50 to $25.50 as part of a settlement in a class action suit. Consumerist reader Scott H. alerted us to ...
- Milk-Hormone Whistleblowers Given Integrity Aw ...
Courtesy of Flickr user quinn.anyaGo Canada! Integrity Award Given to Milk Hormone (rBGH) Whistleblowers Summary: Three Canadian scientists who were fired after blowing the whistle on a controversial hormone used to boost milk production in dairy cows were honored last week for their truth-tel ...
- States' False Claims Acts Fought by Industry: ...
Reuters: Whistleblower-Law Passage Stalls in Some States Summary: More than 20 states have passed laws similar to the federal False Claims Act, which allows for citizens to sue contractors that defraud the government. However, several other states are struggling to pass similar statutes, with ...
- December Hearing Set for Bradley Manning: Dail ...
Baltimore Sun: WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning to Have Hearing at Maryland's Fort Meade Next Month Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – the whistleblower accused of sending WikiLeaks a trove of classified information detailing American military conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan, and State Department c ...
- Retaliation Against Gayl Shows Need for WPEA: ...
Huffington Post: Let’s Ensure Whistleblowers’ Good Deeds Go Unpunished Summary: Because the retaliation that MRAP whistleblower and GAP client Franz Gayl endured is all too common for government whistleblowers, this article supports the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, which has passe ...
- Gas Company Whistleblower Reveals Reckless Pra ...
Courtesy of Flickr user US Army AfricaTimes-Tribune (PA): Gas Company Whistleblower Details Spills, Errors Summary: A former gas company employee and several other residents of a Pennsylvania town are suing the company because of negligence leading to high levels of methane gas in the public w ...
- Restore the Basic Bargain
For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling. That basic bargain created a virtuous cycle of higher living standards, more jobs, and better wages. Back in 1914, Henry ...
- Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain ...
by Joaquin Sapien and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR In 2007, with roadside bombs exploding across Iraq, Congress moved to improve care for soldiers who had suffered one of the war’s signature wounds, traumatic brain injury. Lawmakers passed a measure requiring ...
- The Outrage Override
by Carl Cohen Whom do you hate? Perhaps you hate Nazis, or the Taliban, or people who discriminate against homosexuals. Maybe you hate homosexuals. Homosexuality, we are told in Deuteronomy, and in many hateful sermons, is an abomination. Ought such hateful talk be forbidden? In Canada, just a f ...
- The Monday Line: I’m Too Damned Tired!
There was a four day Thanksgiving holiday break but nonetheless it was a tough week. The US Congress Super Committee started the week by declaring failure, demonstrating that Washington is broken beyond repair. The Egyptian SCAF and army practised Mubarak style target practice on pro-democracy d ...
- 25 Million US Unemployed And Underemployed Mak ...
Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes. “Activism has given way to acquiescence,” writes Louis Uchitelle, even though “unemployment is once ...
- Bret Stephens: The Great Global Warming Fizzle ...
Another sign of the times. Mark this one in your history books for studies on the Rise and Fall of the Great Warming Delusion. Yes, it’s another well written piece on the religious nature of the faith some have in our ability to change the weather. But this time there are sounds of the dea ...
- ClimateGate II: Handy Guide to spot whitewash ...
Sorting real journalists from sock puppets is not too tricky: real investigators tell you what the story is about; PR writers tell you what to think. Do they “discuss” ClimateGate emails … without quoting the emails? Who digs for details, and who hides the evidence? The P ...
- Did I say the ship was sinking? Canada, Europe ...
Things are not going too well at Durban, or anywhere in the Land Where People Want to Change the Weather. Richard Black (BBC) admits there’s a “seismic shift” going on. (Could it be a tipping point I say?) “The politics of the UN climate process are undergoing something o ...
- Pointman — A dead mans hand detonator on ...
In the high powered risky game of whistleblowing there are ways to make the the leaker a less attractive target. Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-800 ...
- Australia picks last possible moment to leap O ...
Gillard — the Australian Prime Minister — got the timing perfectly wrong. Within two weeks of the Carbon Tax finally becoming Law, it’s becoming hard not to notice that the whole Global Scam is fragmenting. This Carbon ship is on fire, the lifeboats are leaving, the rats are ...
- This is no time for the GOP to compromise
(Jedediah Bila) - Pundits and politicos love the word "compromise." There seems to be no better way for a politician and/or media figure to instantly be well-liked, appear perfectly "reasonable," and go back to their inner circles having offended absolutely no one...
- New Jersey nurses sue over abortion orders
(NewsMax) - A dozen New Jersey nurses filed a federal lawsuit protesting orders that they must care for abortion patients before and after the procedure. The suit against the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey contends that the rule violates their religious and moral convictions an ...
- Richmond City audits local tea party after sta ...
(Big Government) - Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party...
- Obama campaign set to abandon white working class
(New York Times) - For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class...
- BOOK REVIEW: 'Red Army'
(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But the invasion is here and advancing. The soldiers of the attacking "Red Army" are part of a "radical network" that "excels at lying in wait and perfecting its assault so that when the right vehi ...
- 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:
- Alien-Human Hybrids Possible?
I’ve read a lot of books about the Nephilim, ancient astronauts, and the possibility of aliens mating with humans, as described by the Bible. I’ve rejected the alien aspect, because I think the same logic ...Alien-Human Hybrids Possible? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts ...
- Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved
Many scientists have been attempting to find an underlying cause for the demise of large mammals at the end of the last Ice Age. And they will still keep trying, because they aren’t thinking outside ...Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
- Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference
Mayan experts keen to debunk 2012 doomsday theories used to point out how strange it was that the Mayans never mentioned the specific date of (their equivalent to) Dec 21, 2012, not anywhere. The only ...Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Geoff St ...
- A Humorous Nibiru Video
So as to focus on the clear and present (potential) dangers of 2012, I’ve spent a lot of time debunking various scenarios. Planet X / Nibiru is NOT heading our way in 2012. There is ...A Humorous Nibiru Video is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excel ...
- Another Alien Skull?
Probably a child with a deformity, potentially an alien and possibly an example of a different human species… More pics at guanabee.com At RPP (in Spanish) experts are claiming that it is an alien: Riquelme Davila explained that ...Another Alien Skull? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
- Conference Corner: Submit Questions to Help De ...
Let’s be honest: Attending a blogging conference can be exhilarating, overwhelming, exciting… and maybe a little scary. That’s why BlogHer has created this Conference Corner series: to help demystify our events, to help you get the most out of them, and to help set your heart at rest before you ...
- When Pregnancy Blows, You're Not a Bad Mom (or ...
A lovely client of mine recently made an important observation about the tone of many natural, holistic books on pregnancy and birth. She said, "The statement 'You're pregnant! Congratulations! You are now a sacred vessel of life.' makes me angry. Why is it that the act of carrying a baby is wha ...
- Do Mean People Make More Money?
Do nice girls really finish last? Money experts Jean Chatzky and Maggie McGrath pull together the research to answer that question. She doesn't necessarily agree you're screwed in the workplace if you're nice -- but maybe you can be too nice. She writes: Etiquette offenses can be fireable: Senni ...
- BlogHer Network Member News: Parenting Magazin ...
Melissa Arca, M.D. from Confessions Of a Dr.Mom was selected as Editor's choice for Best Kids Health Blog by Parents Magazine for their 2011 Best Blog Awards. She recently became a columnist for The Sacramento Bee, where she writes a weekly Dr. Mom column. She also appears weekly on her local TV ...
- Simple Moments are the Priceless Ones
Sometimes I get caught up in the rush of day to day survival and forget to enjoy the simple moments. It always gets worse at Christmas. I want my kids to be happy every day, but this time of year, my brain confuses "happy" with "things I can buy." Luckily, t ...
- 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 ...
- Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger
As we reported in this morning’s Gazette, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appears to have taken action that would delay any merger of the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement with the Bureau of Land Management: In a related move on Monday, Interior Secretary Ken Sal ...
- IG Report: MSHA not going after coal industry& ...
A recent audit by the Labor Department Inspector General has again targeted systematic problems with one of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s key tools: Collection of monetary fines for safety and health violations by the nation’s coal industry. The audit, available ...
- Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdown
Last week’s release of an EPA Inspector General’s report on the agency’s mountaintop removal permit crackdown doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of media attention, given the timing on the day before Thanksgiving. But Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. and requester of the IG stud ...
- Happy Thanksgiving everybody …
Hey folks, Coal Tattoo is going to be shut down for a couple of days. I hope everyone enjoys some time with family and friends. Be safe, be kind to each other, and be thankful.
- Gov. Tomblin replaces appeals board members in ...
Well, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has made it pretty plain that one of his absolute top priorities is to defend the state’s coal industry and to perpetuate the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that on Friday — less ...
- How Most Real Hacking Happens | Determination ...
The screen goes black. The characters, despite their obvious talents, have been dwarfed by the formidable force on the other end of the connection. It makes for exciting television, but the truth is even scarier. In the real world, the majority of hackers don’t brilliantly blast through the defe ...
- Mechanical Turk vs. CAPTCHA: An InfoSec Lesson
I’ve always hated the “THING is dead. Long live the THING” cliché, but I’m going to use it here for CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA raises the cost of attacking something, which improves its security. It’s that simple. The question is simply how much you raised the cost vs. the de ...
- In-depth Analysis of Predator vs. Hogwartz | R ...
Okay, first we have to assume a few stated facts from both franchises, but namely Hogwarts. Technology isn’t supposed to work well (if at all) on the grounds With this limitation there is no drop in, Predator must approach on foot. Wizards are not inherantly stupid, they will notice classm ...
- A Hiring Primer
Few topics are discussed as much in the tech industry as how to hire great people. There are myriad approaches, from how to look for qualities you want, to how to filter people you don’t want, to how to ignore standard metrics and go with some sort of instinct. Everyone has their favorite ...
- Handling Redirects with Varnish and Nginx
I run Varnish here on the site, with Nginx as the backend. I’ve written before about my overall setup, and how to improve site performance, so I won’t go into it here. Here I want to cover a subtlety of putting varnish in front of nginx (or any other web server, really) with respect ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
China prepares for big entry into vaccine market BEIJING (AP) — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines. China’s vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world&# ...
- Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty
By Richard Falk,aljazeera – In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that fou ...
- If the social protest dies out, Israel to see ...
By Merav Michaeli,haaretz.com – The U.S. has a tradition of civil protests that lead to significant changes: women’s suffrage, equal rights for blacks, pulling out of Vietnam. There is reason to fear a social protest that is rapidly catching on. In Israel there has yet to be a social ...
- WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
news24.com- WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley A ...
- The first day of hunting season
By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) - Yeah, that time of the year again. I always have very mixed feelings about hunting. I understand people that come from the hunting tradition. My father and his father and probably his father’s father hunted for food first, sport second. The fol ...
- Celebrating Grassmann numbers
Off-topic rumor: the LHC will probably only restart at 13 TeV, not 14 TeV, in 2015, after the 2013-2014 break (upgrade). Hermann Graßmann was born in 1809 as the 3rd child to a math teacher (his father) in Stettin, currently in the Northwestern corner of Poland (Czech: Štětín; much of the c ...
- The Fabric of the Cosmos IV
Here is the link to the final, fourth episode of Brian Greene's new PBS/NOVA documentary: Universe or Multiverse? I would say that it is inspired both by Greene's second popular book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, as well as the third major popular book, The Hidden Reality. A few more comment ...
- Feynman on QM in 1964
Whenever I want to mention Richard Feynman's attitude to the foundations of quantum mechanics, I typically point to this four-minute interview with an older Feynman. He says that physics at the fundamental quantum level is so fantastically different from anything we have seen before. The ...
- The \(c\)-theorem probably proved in 4 dimensions
In 1986, Alexander Zamolodchikov of the Soviet Landau Institute – whom I know well from my Rutgers PhD student years more than a decade later – proved the so-called "Zamolodčikov \(c\)-theorem": Wikipedia. You may read the whole paper: "Irreversibility" of the flux of the renormalization gr ...
- Recent setbacks of the AGW movement
Durban, South Africa will be hosting another annual two-week gathering of the global warming activists and lobbyists. The proceedings will begin tomorrow. Fortunately, the nations of the world will only pay some extra vacations to these misguided or fraudulent redundant individuals but n ...
- Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
- I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...
- Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...
- 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 ...
- Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Save the Delaware River
Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Pla ...
By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
- Don't get slimed: Skip the fabric softener
By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist Fabric softeners contain toxic ingredients that are bad for your health and the environment. EWG recommends that laundry doers just say no. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets are relative newcomers to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- New storm rolling in from Iceland
Norwegians were being warned to prepare for more rough weather, especially along the west coast, as another storm moved in from Iceland on Tuesday. Heavy rain was predicted in the counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. It’s the latest storm to batter Norway in less than a week, and wa ...
- Breivik declared criminally insane
Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was declared criminally insane (straffesrettslig utilregnelig) on Tuesday by the two psychiatrists appointed by the court to evaluate his mental health. The psychiatrists’ conclusion means Breivik will now likely be committed to a psychiatric inst ...
- More oil sands’ static for Statoil
Another demonstration against oil company Statoil was held outside the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo on Monday, with a broad alliance calling Statoil’s oil sands project in Canada a “shame” for Norway and Statoil itself. Meanwhile, in Turkmenistan, Statoil reportedly held a smal ...
- Poignant appeal from a targeted teen
NEWS ANALYSIS: As reaction poured in to news that confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has been declared insane, come the published thoughts of one of his young targets. Her feelings, and utter lack of any need for revenge, offer insight into how Norway is reacting to Breivik’s attac ...
- Pressure builds on intelligence chief
Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway’s police intelligence unit PST, seems to be facing a lack of confidence over her explanations for PST’s failure to follow up a tip about confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. A majority on the parliamentary committee studying his July 22nd atta ...
- How a Single Women Transformed Her Urban Garde ...
You don’t have to know her street number to find Rosina Buckman’s place. All you need is the street name. Winner of the Edible Landscape Award from Australia’s Sunshine Coast Council in 2009, her garden spills out into the nature strip, bursting with plants. Her driveway, once ...
- Update from Finlaysons After Intern-Blitz
Editor’s Note: Remember the cool little time-lapse video of the PRI’s recent Intern-Blitz of an urban property a few week’s back? Well, below is an update from the lucky and excited recipients of the perma-garden install, written to the designers/installers themselves. I thoug ...
- Get Ready for the 11th Australasian Permacultu ...
Permaculture Aotearoa welcomes you to: Resilience by Design — 11th Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC11) When: Wed 11th to Sun 15th April 2012 Where: Turangi, Central North Island, New Zealand Website: apc11.co.nz Confirmed Speakers - keep an eye out for more to come: Bi ...
- Urine: Closing the NPK Loop
The Stockholm Environment Institute conducted experiments and collected data that shows the usefulness of a resource every one of us has access to — urine. When utilized as a fertilizer, urine can provide an alternative to chemical fertilizers. The impacts ripple far beyond the nutrient va ...
- Learn Grow: Edible Plant Information Resources
I thought I’d share this excellent, growing resource on edible plants for specific regions. At time of writing the Learn Grow project has created comprehensive plant list info for the following regions: Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea Timor Leste Nigeria In addition, the site has t ...
- Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been ...
You’re appalled, you’re outraged, you’re stunned and you’re angry about the whole climategate emails thing. And now you’re most likely out here in the blogosphere because the mainstream media in the country you live in is either not mentioning them at all or have relegated it to a small-print fo ...
- Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...
- Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...
- The Durban debacle awaits …
Here we go again, another climate clambake attracting attendees from all over the world. They’ll be the usual assortment of politicians, government civil servants, Media, NGOs, activists and fruit loops determined to save the earth from global warming. Nothing changes. In terms of the basic poli ...
- Happy birthday Climategate.
It’s around the time of the second anniversary of the Climategate leak so it’s fitting to take stock of where we are now. Before doing that, it’s worth taking a walk down memory lane to recall how things were before it occurred. They were really different. If you were in the fight at the time,&# ...
- 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 ...
- The Fault Lines of US Policy
Recently, Louisiana Justice Institute staffer Jordan Flaherty has been working with Al Jazeera English as one of the producers on their flagship documentary program Fault Lines. For several years, Fault Lines has offered in-depth explorations of the issues ignored by much of the media. Below is ...
- The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
- Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...
- New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle' By Lind ...
An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an important perspective on New Orleans' schools: As a recent graduate of a New Orleans public high school, I find it very troubling that the national conversation about post-Katrina education amounts to little more than talking ...
- “There’s Too Much Misinformation About Us Out ...
Parnell Herbert sat with Norris Henderson, Co-Director of V.O.T.E. NOLA to discuss the fact and fiction about Black-on-Black crime in New Orleans. While sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but marvel at his calm, composed demeanor. Here is a man who served m ...
- History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
oh, i'm reporting this to the ADL great work MSMD !Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:35 pm
- Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
MSMD's original post has been copied WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION. perhaps you already knew that. http://800pg.co.cc/geeklog//staticpages ... p?page=911 i don't have a problem with people copying it, but they should give credit where credit is due.Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Tue Nov 29, 2011 1 ...
- Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
when i worked at Northrop Grumman, a Jew-run military contractor, in about 2000 the word came down from the Jew executive ranks - we will buy all Dell (Jew) computer hardware. i pointed out to a few people that we could get comparable hardware from local vendors for half the price. not one man ...
- Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Fres ...
Zionist Juice, check out these video's from forum member ''checkitb4uwreckit'' (well known for his work: ''israel did 911'') and especially the one called ''The only conspiracy that makes sense'', this one goes into the machinations of groups like the CFR, Bilderbergers etc. http://zioncrimefac ...
- Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
The J-Tribe re-invents a "corporation" to "Scam"...--CSR --------- Some Failed Institutions Always Foreclose; The Reason: FDIC Sponsored Fraud; Who Benefits: George Soros, Michael Dell; John Paulson; Boycott Dell A couple of readers asked me to comment on the Sun Sentin ...
- Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, which was created by Fathom Information Design, uses circles of vari ...
- Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...
- World's Largest Marine Reserve Proposed in Aus ...
Australia has proposed the creation of the world’s largest marine park in the Coral Sea, a 382,000-square-mile area where fishing would be limited and oil and gas exploration would be banned. The so-called Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would begin in waters about 36 miles off Australia’s ...
- Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...
- The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less?
A new study finds that Britons are consuming less than they did a decade ago, with similar patterns being seen across Europe. Could this be the beginning of a trend in developed countries? Might we be reaching “peak stuff”? BY FRED PEARCE
- G20: The morons who came in from the cold
By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up. An RCMP "joint intelligence group" -- comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police -- infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of the largest domestic intelligence o ...
- Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
- 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 ...
- Agent Orange buried at beach strip?
Dozens of barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried in the late 1960s beneath what is now a busy neighborhood in the central Okinawa Island town of Chatan, near Araha Beach, according to a former U.S. soldier who has recently pinpointed the location thanks to a 1970 map of a U.S. b ...
- No new binding Kyoto Protocol targets: Japan
Japan will refuse to accept fresh binding targets for reducing developed countries' greenhouse gas emissions under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally binding framework for reining in heat-trapping gases, government officials said Tuesday. Japan will continue to seek a new framew ...
- Capitals dismiss Boudreau, bring in Hunter as ...
For all of Bruce Boudreau's success with Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals — no coach in the modern NHL reached 200 victories as quickly — he failed to take them far in the playoffs. And now, suddenly, the regular season was becoming problematic, too. Players were tuning ou ...
- Jackson relishing return to Japan for UFC bout ...
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson could only smile as a translator struggled to convert something he'd said into Japanese. He tried to explain it twice before giving up, shaking his head and laughing. "Man, I got to get fluent in Japanese so I can translate my jokes," he said.
- Motor show opens with car firms facing triple ...
The Tokyo Motor Show kicks off Saturday amid a variety of challenges facing the automobile industry, including intensifying global competition, the yen's historic surge and supply disruptions caused by natural disasters. For Japanese automakers, emerging rivals in South Korea and other Asian c ...
- Children and Families Living in Poverty in Nov ...
Today, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia releases its 2011 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia written by CCPA-NS Research Associate, Lesley Frank. It evaluates Nova Scotia’s progress toward Canada’s 1989 goal of eradicating child poverty by 2000. Accor ...
- Naomi Klein on Capitalism vs. the Climate
With all the hoopla about climate change and global warming, it’s hard to be a capitalist these days. At least, that was the theme of the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (and judging from some of the opinions voiced at this event, I can only imagine the “fa ...
- A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda
The Harper government is set to cut spending on public services and social programs in the name of deficit reduction, but implemented mainly to increase reliance on the market, to create new sources of profit for the private sector, and to finance future tax cuts. This ideological agenda will ta ...
- Challenging capitalism: a 12-step program
Over a year ago, I posted “What are the Game Changers?“, an attempt at sparking some strategic thinking for the broader left. Now that we’ve had a month of Occupation, building on the original Occupy Wall Street action, I’ve been wanting to put these ideas back on the tab ...
- The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most important income security program for working age adults and families. The Task Force has commissioned and publis ...
- Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...
- Capitalism and the spy market
Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
- The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
- Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...
- The science behind swirling wine
Science: Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have been studying the hydrodynamics of wine swirling, done by connoisseurs to release red wine’s bouquet through mixing and oxygenation. They found that three factors determine whether the wine arcs smoothly or ...
- Radiologist uses CT scans to replicate antique ...
BBC: A radiologist at the University of Minnesota is using computed tomography (CT) to replicate antique musical instruments. Steven Sirr first got the idea to take a CT scan of a violin in 1988. Such scans, he discovered, can reveal characteristics of the wood, worm holes and cracks, and previo ...
- Astronomers make progress in understanding bla ...
Space.com: Researchers studying the black hole Cygnus X-1, which is part of a binary-star system, have reported the most detailed look yet at one of the strongest x-ray sources seen from Earth. Using data collected by the Very Large Baseline Array and other instruments, the team has calculated t ...
- Graphene electronics produced on ink-jet printer
Daily Mail: Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK have created a graphene-based ink and used a modified Epson printer to produce thin-film circuits, writes Ted Thornhill for the Daily Mail. To create the ink, they dissolved microscopic flakes of graphite in N-methylpyrrolidone. Al ...
- International climate-change meeting opens in ...
New York Times: Delegates from 194 nations gathered today in Durban, South Africa, for the opening of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Topics to be discussed include the differing obligations of industrialized and developing nations, the question of who will pay to help ...
- FF News: President Abdulla on Julius Caesar
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- FF News: October 2011 Keysearches...
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- FF News: President Abdulla 'dines,' Aishwarya ...
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- FF News: President Abdulla 'dines,' Aishwarya ...
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- FF News: President Abdulla on SA News
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- The Power Politics of Water Struggles
“When you’re driving through a war zone, your instinct may be to roll up the car windows. Wrong move. A bullet is less likely to hit you than to strike the glass, which will shatter and probably cause injuries. It takes firsthand experience to learn these tricks of the trade, and for years ...
- Abnormal Levels of Caffeine in Water Indicate ...
“Our study has determined that there is a strong correlation between the levels of caffeine in water and the level of bacteria, and that chemists can therefore use caffeine levels as an indicator of pollution due to sewerage systems.” The researchers took water samples from streams, ...
- Bottled water companies target minorities
“New York, New York - Water is the lifeblood of this planet, whose inhabitants are watching its accelerated spiral into crisis mode even as they struggle to address the issues and lifestyles that are stretching the earth’s resources thin. Outwardly, the global water crisis appears st ...
- The best wastewater treatment plants can’ ...
“The implications are unclear — researchers did not look for whole living bacteria, just for dead fragments of their genetic material — but experts are concerned. Superbugs have developed resistance to almost every kind of antibiotic. They are building resistance faster than sc ...
- Queensland Approves Toxic Waste Discharge
“The Queensland Government ignored environmental safety guidelines when it granted Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips permission to release toxic water from its coal seam gas operations into the headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin. “In June last year the government granted an enviro ...
- Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
Washington D.C. (November 28, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that killed 24 innocent Pakistani soldi ...
- Kucinich Raises Questions of Structural Integr ...
Calls for Public Hearings in Region Prior to Restart Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time watchdog of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that raises serious technical questions about the structural viabi ...
- Kucinich to Introduce Statute of Limitations o ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today announced plans to introduce an amendment that would reinstate a statute of limitations for states to reclaim overpayments made to the poorest of the poor who are food stamp recipients. The State of Ohio, for example, recently sent out notices to mor ...
- Kucinich Calls for Open, Free and Fair Electio ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a proponent of diplomacy and peaceful resolution to conflict, wrote to the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, calling for an end to the violent crackdown in Syria and for open, free and fair elections. The full text of the letter follows: Dear President ...
- Kucinich: Decision to Send Marines to Australi ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to deploy 2,500 marines to Australia. “The Obama Administration’s decision to send marines to Australia is worrisome because it again demonstrates this Administration’s incli ...
- Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
- 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 ...
- Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
- War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets
- Sowing the seeds to save the Patagonian Sea
With wild waters and shores, the Patagonia Sea is home to a great menagerie of marine animals: from penguins to elephants seals, albatrosses to squid, and sea lions to southern right whales. The sea lies at crossroads between more northern latitudes and the cold bitter water of the Southern Ocea ...
- Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film docum ...
In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts as he runs a chainsaw into a massive tropical tree. Prior to this we have already heard from an official how employees operating chainsaws must have a bevy of protective equipment as well as traini ...
- Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwa ...
- Big changes needed to feed the world: UN
The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's...
- Gloom over new bid for carbon gas deal
The biggest climate change talks of the year begin next week, but New Zealand officials admit that the chance of an international agreement on emissions is bleaker than ever.On Monday, delegates from more than 190 countries will...
- Hacked emails reignite 'Climategate' controversy
The "Climategate" dispute over global warming science was reignited yesterday, when thousands more hacked emails from climate researchers, some of them potentially damaging, were released online on the eve of a vital United Nations...
- 'Dream machine' Curiosity to explore Mars
As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, Nasa's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 7-foot (2-meter) arm tipped with...
- Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Our oceans ca ...
Control of global stocks is the only answer, say Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line & Blinkers: Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know About Fishing . The election is looming, but it's a sad state of affairs...
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- AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
- WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
- DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
Report written by Roma AKA A2B The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
- New at Reason: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist V ...
Beginning at Purdue University, and then at the University of Arizona and George Mason University, economist Vernon Smith founded and developed the pioneering field of experimental economics, which studies actual human behavior—a major breakthrough in a discipline obsessed with abstra ...
- LAPD Stands Down on Occupy LA
For days, OccupyLA had been told to evacuate its camp outside Los Angeles City Hall by 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 28. Throughout Thanksgiving weekend, the deadline approached and tension increased. When the police-led evacuation didn't happen, the movement moved int ...
- Occupy L.A. Gets a Reprieve, Poet Laureate Get ...
This morning’s 12:01 deadline for the Los Angeles Police Department to clear Occupy L.A. out of the City Hall area came and went, and the Occupiers are still camped out. Reason’s Paul Detrick was with the campers throughout the non-ordeal and will have a video up soon. In recent we ...
- It Seems Like Cops Should Be Aware of the Exis ...
A deaf couple are suing after the man was jailed for 25 days in May 2010 over later dismissed domestic assault charges. During that time, the lawsuit claims, the man wasn't given access to an interpreter, nor was the woman given access to one so that she could testify that her partner ...
- Greg Gutfeld: "The people who whine about Fox ...
Greg Gutfeld, host on two Fox News Channel shows (Red Eye and The Five), talks to the LA Times about his days as a men's mag editor, using midgets to generate buzz at an industry confab dedicated to generating buzz, blogging at the Huffington Post 1.0, and his ongoing feud with the po ...
- Inventor of pepper spray denounces its use by ...
One of the people who developed pepper spray in its weaponized uses for the FBI, Kamran Loghman, was so shocked by what he saw at UC Davis and in Seattle that he denounced the manner in which police are using it. He is the recipient of three patents, but has done everything from film making [...]
- In which Senator Carl Levin loses his mind
I long ago accepted that most of the people in Washington had lost their minds and the rest were a bit wobbly on reality. I did not think that Carl Levin would be one of them. But read this and see if you don’t think that he has lost all sense of proportion. Also note [...]
- No $ For Franken Or Klobuchar Until They Stop ...
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. It’s really sad to see people who should know better — especially someone who pretends to favor Net Neutrality — on the wrong side of an issue: Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the ...
- Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Secretly Passing Around ...
Yikes — just what we all needed. NOT: Like all communities, the Orthodox Jewish one is comprised of many layers. In July 2010, Modern Orthodox rabbis around the country signed a groundbreaking Statement of Principles in “regard to the place of Jews with a homosexual orientation” ...
- Murdoch computer hacking demonstrates that wir ...
While most of the recent phone-hacking news has been of the sort of celebrity-driven, moral posturing that so diminish the value of inquiries by Parliament and Congress, one recent guest had some interesting testimony. Jason Deans, The Guardian: A former British army intelligence officer whose c ...
- Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
- An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
- CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...
- Federal Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year 2011: $ ...
Last month, the Treasury Department reported that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit declined slightly—from 9 ...
- CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers
CBO has a panel of economic advisers consisting of widely recognized experts on a range of issues. Members of the panel have a variety of backgrounds, areas of knowledge, and experience. We host periodic meetings of the advisers at our office and solicit their views between meetings via e-mail e ...
- A Diode for light
For many years engineers have wanted to use light instead of electricity to build circuits with. It moves slightly faster, but more importantly signals can pass one another without interfering. This l...
- The coldest point water can remain a liquid ha ...
If you ask any group of school children what temperature does pure water freeze at and you will normally get the answer 0 degrees celsius, which is the standard answer and it is the temperature below ...
- Powering up radiotherapy
A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...
- Bringing Together Brain Scientists
Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...
- Chemical liposuction: fat-reducing injection s ...
A fat-reducing drug, Adipotide, that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists. The agent, which was injected daily over afour week study period into a group...
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