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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, November 6, 2011

6 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

JoNova

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

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

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

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

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

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

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

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

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

TVNZ

environment 360

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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

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

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Hit & Run | Reason

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

Mercury Rising

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

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

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

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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