- TSA apologizes for nabbing 'terrorist' can of ...
The follies and antics of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are shaping up to be a continual comedy of errors as the agency now finds it necessary to tout its non-accomplishments while the government that formed it has resorted to apologizing for its misdeeds...
- Cannabinoid receptors give cells the tools the ...
Researchers have reported that when healthy cells were placed in a sample dish with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), along with a dose of cannabinoids, the cells, which normally would rather quickly become infected, simply denied entry to the virus, and responded...
- Hawaii wants GMO foods labeled (opinion)
For years Monsanto has infiltrated our islands because of our year round planting and growing cycle. Unfortunately, what they are planting and growing is detrimental to the health of anyone that consumes it. Because of Monsanto's financial power, they succeed in ...
- Heart disease risks lowered by five lifestyle ...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of adults in all Western cultures. Many people believe their fate has been sealed through the inheritance of 'bad' genes, and no degree of healthy living will have any effect on their risk of an untimely and early demise...
- Enjoy the Hunger Games? We're all playing the ...
Ready, set, go! You have just been released into the wild, a survive-by-any-means world, where nearly all food and medicine is toxic, doctors and dentists prescribe cancer causing medication and radiation, you have no rights to speak adversely about your government,...
- Introducing America's Second MBA President
The Republican presidential nominee has an MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School. He made millions in the private sector and earned notoriety for running a high-profile sports enterprise. The GOP's man is promising massive tax cuts which would deliver the lion's share of their bene ...
- Republicans Call Kettle Black
While all eyes in the Beltway were focused on innocent dogs and stay-at-home moms, Republicans have been unveiling their strategy for the 2012 presidential race. President Obama, they claim, is responsible both for failed GOP policies and the unprecedented Republican obstructionism designed to ...
- Even After Bush Scandals, GOP Still Politicizi ...
This was a very bad week indeed for employees of the federal government. The shameful Secret Service prostitution scandal, the GSA's Vegas boondoggle and the grisly pictures from Afghanistan rightly brought bipartisan condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. But you'd never know it r ...
- Romney Steals Thatcher's "Labour Isn't Working ...
In Ohio this week, Mitt Romney stood before a banner reading "Obama Isn't Working" and blamed the President for the shuttered plant he used as a backdrop. As it turns out, there are only two problems with this picture. Sadly for Romney, the drywall firm in question closed in June 2008 when Geo ...
- Romney's Noblesse Non Oblige
There's nothing wrong with being born with a silver spoon in your mouth. It's what you do with that good fortune that matters. And that is at the heart of Mitt Romney's problem with the American people. With his proclamations and policies, the same man who denounces President Obama as "out of ...
- GUEST INFORMANT: Debbie Chachra
Dr Debbie Chachra is a materials scientist: an engineering professor at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Deb’s bio at Olin), and a prolific writer. She also produces one of my favourite tumblrs, Daily Idioms. Basically, I learn something every time Deb writes anythi ...
- Bookmarks for 2012-04-24
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail – The New Inquiry"The suggestion of a ghostly tongue bath was perhaps too much for Foucault to swallow."(tags:writing ) BBC News – Ancient virus DNA thrives in us"Traces of ancient viruses which infected our ancestors millions of years ...
- Exclusive: Mumia Abu-Jamal and Danny Glover Sp ...
For the first time ever, actor and activist Danny Glover speaks to prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Glover has supported Abu-Jamal for more than two decades. "I just want to tell you that -- and I’m really emotional because I didn’t expect to hear your voice this morning -- that we continue to struggle ...
- Exclusive: Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks from Prison ...
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Mumia Abu-Jamal phones in from the SCI Mahanoy prison in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is being held in general population after nearly 30 years on death row. Although he now lives in a bigger cell than what he calls the "small dog cage" of the last three deca ...
- 1T Day: As U.S. Student Debt Hits $1 Trillion, ...
Today marks what activists are calling 1T Day, the day U.S. student debt reaches $1 trillion. A coalition of groups from Occupy Wall Street plan to gather on college campuses and communities around the country to protest record-high college costs and call for an extension of low-interest rates o ...
- Space News: ‘Strange Objects’ Punch Holes in S ...
Half mile-wide objects that NASA and ESA experts are calling “strange” and “mysterious” have punctured holes in Saturn’s “weirdest” ring, known as the F ring…Ok, that’s three words that mean unusual, so you know that something odd is happen ...
- 113° — Hottest US April Temperature on Record ...
Yeah, I don’t think they call it “Death Valley” for nothing, and it certainly isn’t called “global warming” for nothing. The world is getting hotter and hotter, and with that comes thousands upon thousands of heat records. One of the latest is not just ...
- All-White Killer Whale Seen for First Time (Pi ...
An entirely white killer whale has been seen for the first time in the known history of the world. It was spotted in Russia off the coast of Kamchatka. The whale was actually seen for the first time back in 2010, but the researchers waited to release the news until they had [...]
- New Company Will Mine Asteroids
Director James Cameroon, Google executives Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, and other investors have grouped together to back a new space exploration and natural resources venture. The new company, Planetary Resources, plans to mine near-earth asteroids (NEAs) for various resources, such as ...
- BP Engineer Charged with Obstructing Spill Inv ...
A BP engineer has been arrested and charged with trying to destroy evidence that showed how much oil spilled from the company’s broken well during the massive oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010. Kurt Mix, the BP engineer, has been accused of trying [... ...
- Billionaire Pipe Dreams for Asteroid Mining Em ...
Editor's Note: Now that the corporations have penetrated Mother Earth, on every continent, polluting rivers and pristine wilderness and robbing indigenous people of the wealth beneath their homes and villages we have this new for-profit adventure. Of all places for billionaires to put their mone ...
- Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical tru ...
Editor's Introduction Why you should read David North's "In Defense of Leon Trotsky" North's treatise goes much farther than combatting the lies that continue today about the person of Trotsky himself, although that in itself would be a worthy project. His extraordinary defense desc ...
- Libya One Year On (Part 3): The Propaganda and ...
Editor's Introduction: We offered the following introduction to T. J. Coles second installment in this series, Libya: One Year On, Recording NATO's War Crimes, Part II and it applies just as well to his entire 4 Part Series on NATO's destruction of Sovereign Libya: ...
- Interview with Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinso ...
Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS 23 April 2012 Jennifer Robinson spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last Friday in Sydney. The human rights lawyer and Australian citizen, who had assisted Julian Assange in his British legal challenges to being extradited t ...
- New York Times beats drum for war in Syria … a ...
23 April 2012 In a cynical and duplicitous editorial Saturday, the New York Times stepped up its campaign for US political subversion and military action against Syria, while demanding Washington adopt a more aggressive posture against Russia and China. The editorial, headlined “Assad’s Lies ...
- More Troubling Economic News
The double dip is here, the stats just have not caught up yet. First note the news out of the UK, they are already there: First-quarter gross domestic product data showed the size of the UK economy shrank 0.2 per cent, the second successive quarter of contraction, taking it within the generally ...
- Primary Open Thread
Do you miss the pundits endlessly imagining the ways that Rick Santorum could up-end what those pundits considered Mitt Romney’s preemptory claim to the 2012 GOP nomination? Do you bet the pundits yearn for some drama? Any drama? That even the vice presidential “contest” isn ...
- Pennsylvanians Hankerin’ Mo’ Santorum
Which state primary today is most significant for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney? What matters most? Gaining 204 delegates or “reaching out to the GOP conservative base”? … New York is the largest with 92 delegates … followed by Pennsylvania‘ ...
- Ax Trash
These are strangely worrying days for David Axelrod, as he now seeks to explain a candidate whom he left in the White House more than 18 months ago, after the defeat of 2010. What does Axelrod know of the Secret Service scandal, or the stimulus package of 2009, or the irritating small indicators ...
- Fore More Years + open thread
Now this is my kind of fundraising email — good humor and stats: [QUOTING EMAIL] Between his “official” and “nonpolitical” visits to swing states, the President found time to play another 18 holes this weekend. As millions of Americans continue to struggle to find w ...
- Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
- The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
- Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
- The Future Always Wins
Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
- New Economies
Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
- 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 ...
- PNC's loans to coal companies protested by act ...
PNC's loans to coal companies protested by activists Philadelphia Business Journal (blog) PNC Chairman and CEO Jim Rohr said PNC has stopped lending to companies where 8 percent or more of their revenue comes from mountaintop removal. Members of the Earth Quaker Action Team, a Philadelphia-a ...
- Shareholders grill PNC on dividends - Pittsbur ...
Shareholders grill PNC on dividends Pittsburgh Post Gazette Still, shareholders didn't let CEO James Rohr off the hook completely, as he faced criticism over the bank's dividend and links to mountaintop-removal mining companies. "Why has the [quarterly] dividend not been raised to 6 ...
- PNC Urged to Stop Financing Controversial Mini ...
PNC Urged to Stop Financing Controversial Mining American Banker Several attendees of the Pittsburgh bank's annual meeting complained to CEO James Rohr that PNC does business with coal mining companies that engage in the controversial practice of mountaintop removal. To continue, please log ...
- Activists demonstrate, spend the night outside ...
Activists demonstrate, spend the night outside Wells Fargo San Francisco Bay Guardian Amanda Starbuck of Rainforest Action Network decried Wells Fargo's investments in the coal industry, especially mountaintop removal mining- a mining technique in which the top of a mountain is blown up, to ...
- Taking Earth Day Back to its Roots - NextGen J ...
NextGen Journal Taking Earth Day Back to its Roots NextGen Journal Sunday was Earth Day, and that meant the Office of Sustainability (a division of a university that invests in mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia and emits more than 100000 metric tons of CO2 per year) was pulling out a ...
- Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberg ...
intelligence.house.gov: Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger Announce Important Amendments to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act — For Immediate Release Contact: Susan Phalen — Chairman R ...
- Family misses flight after TSA screeners targe ...
Noreen O'Donnell / The Daily: Family misses flight after TSA screeners target disabled 7-year-old — Dina Frank, who is developmentally disabled, wound up on the TSA's radar at John F. Kennedy Airport — Dr. Joshua Frank, a pediatrician, and his 7-year-old daug ...
- Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign ...
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post: Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Republican Party, Barack Obama , Obama's Inauguration, Republican Party, Video, Obama Election, Obama Congressional Republ ...
- Senate passes postal reform bill (Daniel Strau ...
Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Senate passes postal reform bill — The Senate passed a United States Postal Service reform bill on Wednesday. — The chamber voted 62 to 37 on the bill, which aims to restructure the mail service and protect it from bankruptcy. ...
- Republican National Committee Files Complaint ...
BuzzFeed: Republican National Committee Files Complaint Over Obama Travel — Republicans accuse Obama of misusing government funds for his reelection campaign. — The Republican National Committee has filed an official complaint with the Government Accountabili ...
- M 5.1, Nicobar Islands, India region
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- M 5.2, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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- M 5.2, Nicobar Islands, India region
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- Energy summit: what would you say?
For the next two days, 23 energy ministers from around the world will thrash out global strategies for cleaner power. chinadialogue asked a roundtable of experts what should top the agenda.Politicians from 23 of the world’s leading economies – including China – are convening in ...
- Chinese oil: an evolving strategy
Snapping up resources around the world, China’s state-owned oil companies are feared as aggressive agents of government interest. But, increasingly, these players are led by market signals, not Beijing diktats, writes Kevin Jianjun Tu.China’s thirst for oil and gas, fuelled by its br ...
- Rethinking peak oil
Faith-based theories about future oil supplies are easily knocked down, but China should still prepare for the risks of declining reserves, write Lin Shi and Yuhan Zhang.In recent years, Chinese scholars have been embracing “peak oil” theory in increasing numbers. The idea – fi ...
- Britain’s green power
As energy ministers from around the world prepare for a clean-tech summit in London, Caspar Henderson asks what the host country – where the last industrial revolution began – can bring to the table. Energy ministers from 23 leading economies including China will meet in London next ...
- Keeping rats on the run
On the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, scientists aim to restore 100 million seabirds by ridding the territory of rodents, writes Clive Cookson. The effort will be the largest eradication campaign in history.The largest rodent eradication campaign in history is set to poison millions of r ...
- Titanic Tax Shirking by Those in First Class
President Obama’s 2011 income tax documents showed on Friday that he paid a significantly higher rate than the significantly richer Mitt Romney, highlighting the titanic level of tax shirking committed by far too many 1 percenters. President Obama paid 20.5 percent on earnings of $789,674. ...
- Minister sells out Black community for race-ba ...
The National Organization for Marriage has been steadily attempting to blunt the charges that it engaged in attempts to drive a wedge between the black and gay communities on the subject of marriage equality. Ever since confidential documents came out detailing NOM’s strategy to play th ...
- From Hate to Love: Why “40 Days of Praye ...
Written by Carole Joffe for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Below is a an interview with Reverend Rebecca Turner of Faith Aloud, conducted by Carole Joffe. Faith Aloud is a pro-choice religious ...
- Religious right spokesman attacks legitimate s ...
Matt BarberMatt Barber of the anti-gay Liberty Counsel is upset. Apparently a new study has confirmed what many of us knows when it comes to how homophobia hurts gay health: A conservative attorney disagrees with the findings of “Private Lives 2,” a study of Australian homosexuals t ...
- ALEC Annoyed at Losing Sponsors? It Breaks My ...
It is a myth that Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” But that old saying nevertheless carries a lot of truth when it comes to social movements. And it is always a pleasure to see a worthy target of activism move from disre ...
- 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 ...
- Raw Milk, Two E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, and h ...
Part 3 – Long-term side effects of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) Adolescents and young adults with chronic kidney disease face a number of complications from their chronic kidney disease (Andreoli SP, Acute and Chronic Renal Failure in Children, 2009) including alterations in calcium an ...
- Tuna Imported from India as Source of Salmonel ...
Earlier Salmonella tuna outbreaks also appear to be related to imports too. According to the April 20, 2012 Investigation Update by the FDA, frozen, raw yellowfin tuna product from India, labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA (AA and AAA refer to the grade of the tuna) as the likely source of th ...
- Mad Cow found in California
According to Bloomberg, The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years has been found in a dairy cow in central California, John Clifford, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinarian, told reporters today in a briefing in Washington. The cow was found at a rendering facil ...
- Raw Milk, Two E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, and h ...
Part 2 – Long-term consequences of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) Multiple studies have demonstrated that children with HUS who have apparently recovered will develop hypertension, urinary abnormalities and/or renal insufficiency during long-term follow-up. One of the best predictors is ...
- Raw Milk, Two E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, and h ...
With E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks in Missouri and Oregon linked to raw milk consumption, and perhaps as many as five children struggling for life – and hopefully surviving the acute phase of their illnesses – the long-term risk of kidney complications for these kids is a real concern. ...
- Beijing: Toyota Dear Qin hatch, sedan foreshad ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Toyota, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style Details on the pair of Dear Qin concepts that Toyota unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show this week are sparse, but they do hint at something interesting coming to every market where the Japanese autom ...
- Beijing: BMW i8 Spyder takes to the stage bear ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Hybrid, Performance, BMW, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style, Electric BMW has created the BMW i sub-brand for its upcoming production plug-in models, which currently include three concepts: the i3, i8 and the i8 Spyder. After keeping that third model awa ...
- Official: Diesel sales jump, we ask "how high" ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Diesel It may come as a shock, but diesel cars are doing well outside of their traditional European home. The just-released Mazda CX-5 shows that diesels are selling beyond expectations in Japan, but the real story is that we might be seeing the start of a golden era ...
- Followup: GM battery lab explosion cost could ...
Filed under: Safety, Technology, GM, Electric Last week, a fire broke out at the General Motors Technical Center battery research lab in Warren, Michigan. General Motors has since said the fire was caused by a battery that was being tested under "extreme stress." Engineers were trying to get ...
- Report: More layoffs at Fisker; Delaware plant ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Performance, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Last we heard, Fisker Automotive was still "committed" to building the recently revealed Atlantic sedan at the former General Motors plant in Delaware. A few y ...
- Amy Goodman Speaks at NYC Green Festival Main ...
Award-winning investigative journalist Amy Goodman will speak on Sunday, April 22 at 2pm on the Green Festival Main Stage at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, in New York City. The Huffington Post will be streaming events on the main stage all weekend, so tune in ...
- Watch Live, Friday, 7 EST: Amy Goodman Moderat ...
Tune in tonight to see Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman as she moderates a panel that kicks off the Foundry Theatre’s “This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World.” She will speak with activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs , who says, “we have the power within us to c ...
- Part 2: Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Growing ...
In part two of our interview, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West discuss growing up in working-class households. "I saw so much poverty growing up," says Smiley, who lived with 13 family members in a three-bedroom trailer and learned that even when he was not optimistic, he could be hop ...
- Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign launched its first Spanish-language ads this week, just after returning from the Summit of the Americas. He spent three days in Colombia, longer than any president in U.S. history. The trip was marred, however, ...
- VIDEO: "Sex, Race and Class" — Extended Interv ...
Watch Amy Goodman’s complete interview with the pioneering activist, writer and political thinker Selma James. For six decades, Selma James has been on the front lines of working-class movements for women’s liberation and against racism. She launched the International Wages for Hous ...
- Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Student Loans Edit ...
Published on Apr 25, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/studentloantt5vid Romney’s budget plan cuts Pell Grants and locks in higher student loan rates. His advice for students? “The best thing I can do for you is tell you to shop around.” Reality: ...
- Mitt Romney’s Fantasy World
The American Prospect Jamelle Bouie April 25, 2012 In his victory speech last night, the former Massachusetts governor offered a startlingly dishonest take on the last three and a half years of the Obama presidency. In a sane world, Mitt Romney would be laughed out of politics for the speech he ...
- Has Mitt Romney met Mitt Romney?
The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:00 AM EDT As expected, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney cruised to easy wins in five GOP primaries yesterday — his remaining competitors aren’t really trying — and he capped the night with a big speech i ...
- Russell Pearce: I ‘Absolutely’ Bel ...
Huffington Post By- Elise Foley Posted: 04/24/2012 12:57 pm Updated: 04/24/2012 3:50 pm WASHINGTON — Former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican behind the state’s contested immigration law, SB 1070, said on Tuesday he “absolutely” believed Mitt Romney had endo ...
- Romney’s Insult To Women On Equal Pay
CNN Opinion By Lilly Ledbetter, Special to CNN updated 7:35 AM EDT, Tue April 24, 2012 Editor’s note: Lilly Ledbetter is the co-author of “Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond” (Crown Archetype). She has campaigned and raised funds for Pres ...
- New Startup Mining Asteroids for Precious Metals
[CAF Note: Well, I guess these guys think precious metals is in a long-term primary trend!] By Beth Jinks Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt are among the backers of a venture to mine asteroids for trillions of dollars of precious metals, as E ...
- 10 Fastest -growing and Dying Industries
By Chuck Gibson In our continuing effort to mine for investments that will allow our clients to participate in future growth trends, I found the following list of the top 10 fastest and dying industries quite fascinating. The data comes from a just released, special report from IBISworld who a ...
- The Third Industrial Revolution
Source The Economist The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers’ cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The ...
- Mitt Romney, American Parasite
By Pete Kotz It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage ...
- Internet Ad Revenue Hits Record $31 billion in ...
By Associated Press, New York — Revenue from Internet advertising in the U.S. hit a record $31 billion last year, according to a study released Wednesday. That’s up 22 percent from $26 billion in 2010, the previous record. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry group, conducted the qu ...
- 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 »
- Convict labor, part 3 – We cannot plead ...
Summary: The FM website strives to give you hard but lesser-known facts about America. Good or bad (these days, usually bad). It’s a website for those who never accept the blindfold. In that light we present the last in this series about prison labor. At the end are links to previous ...
- Convict labor returns to America, part 2 ̵ ...
Summary: We have spent decades unwinding the progress of generations. Bringing mercenaries back on the world stage, ramping debt levels back up to WWII levels, waging preemptive war based on lies, torture of prisoners, assassination, and large-scale convict labor. All of these produce terribl ...
- Convict labor returns to America, part 2 ̵ ...
Summary: We have spent decades unwinding the progress of generations. Bringing mercenaries back on the world stage, ramping debt levels back up to WWII levels, waging preemptive war based on lies, torture of prisoners, assassination, and large-scale convict labor. All of these produce terribl ...
- Back to the future: convict labor returns to ...
Summary: Another chapter in an ongoing series about this horrific symptom of America’s decay, both operational and moral. Most of us don’t see it. Rot, as in a home, usually remains hidden in the early stages (when it’s easy to treat). Only in the advanced stages does it bec ...
- Back to the future: convict labor returns to ...
Summary: Another chapter in an ongoing series about this horrific symptom of America’s decay, both operational and moral. Most of us don’t see it. Rot, as in a home, usually remains hidden in the early stages (when it’s easy to treat). Only in the advanced stages does it bec ...
- 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. ...
- "Truth to Power": Louise Arbour on Human Right ...
CBC - CP file photo The Canadian International Council recently organized an interesting public event with Louise Arbour on her role in speaking "truth to power." The talk is available on line at Open Canada.org. (starts around 22min mark, after the introductions) and is constructed as a d ...
- What Rodriguez' Book Says About Leadership and ...
The Washington Post's Dana Priest pulled the key insight out of her early reading of former CIA agent Rodriguez's book, arguing that torture post- 9/11 was necessary and productive, destroying tapes of interrogations was "just getting rid of some ugly visuals", and Obama's opposition t ...
- Will Suu Kyi's Assimilation Into Burma's Elect ...
The jury is out on the election of Burma's long-time leading dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) to Burma's parliament. Roland Watson, who runs Dictator Watch, is one of the most trenchant Burma analysts and activists. ...
- Top of the Morning: North Korea Nuclear Fears; ...
Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service—DAWNS Digest. North Korea Could Test Nuclear Weapon Any Moment Now There have been a few press reports over the past 24 hours suggesting that North Korea will test a nuclear weapon in the very near future. If carried out, this wo ...
- The Civil-Military Relations of Footwear
I have never really paid attention to shoes, my own or those of the opposite sex. But the past year has taught me that one form of footwear seems to be most important: boots. Boots on the ground vs no boots on the ground. Politicians making promises about no boots on the gro ...
- The Afterlife of Gabriel Arana's Ex-Gay Life
Like thousands of you, I was absolutely gobsmacked by my editor Gabriel Arana's piece, "My So-Called Ex-Gay Life." If it hadn't run into here first, I would have linked to it. Of course, there was the heartbreaking and finally uplifting personal story that took us through the social history of ...
- Unearned Privilege as the American Way
In the second part of his take on Mitt Romney’s speech last night, Jonathan Chait makes a key observation about Romney’s message for the campaign: Romney has to couch the implications of his argument carefully, but the underlying logic is perfectly clear. He believes that fairness is defined by ...
- Face It: SB 1070 Is about Race
“Before you get into what the case is about,” Chief Justice John Roberts told Solicitor General Donald Verilli at the beginning of the government’s argument in United States v. Arizona, “I’d like to clear up at the outset what it’s not about. No part of your argument has to do with racial or et ...
- Newt Gingrich, Bridge Burner
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton) Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to the media after a campaign event in Cramerton, N.C., Wednesday, April 25, 2012. So much for a last stand. Newt Gingrich, who banked everything left in his shell of a presidenti ...
- The Queer List, Part 1: Del Martin and Phyllis ...
(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Pool) Del Martin, 87, center left, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, center right, are married by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom , center, in a special ceremony at City Hall in San Francisco, Monday, June 16, 2008. Also pictured are the couple's witnesses, Roberta ...
- Will They or Won't They? Romney and the Evange ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A more realistic reading of the recent Christianity Today headline "Will Evangelicals Vote for a Mormon Candidate?" might be, "Do Bears Shit in the Woods?" It's hard to imagine that such a politically savvy Christian magazine thought that it was posing an ...
- Greg Palast for BuzzFlash at Truthout, Arrest ...
GREG PALAST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat. More like a scape-kid, really.Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Justice Department ra ...
- The Middle Class Hasn't Disappeared. It's Just ...
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It used to be that the average American resided halfway between two extremes: --- Steven Schwarzman's home was being partially replicated in a Park Avenue hall for his gala $5 million 60th birthday party. The guest of honor's full-length portrait greeted t ...
- Monsanto Is Bad for the Bees and Bad for Us
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Did you know that the United Sates bee population maybe on the verge of collapse, and this could be an environmental and food supply disaster? What would cause the deaths of so many bees? According to Beeologics, a firm that is attempting to restore a ...
- More Oil Drilling Means More Toxic Food
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Can we eat and drink oil after it poisons our food supply? The other day I received a letter from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) written by senior attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. which asked for contributions to overturn the White Hous ...
- Pharma matters
The latest issue of my Cutting Edge of Chemistry report for TR Pharma Matters is now available. Organic synthesis scheme showcase in this report, we look at a chemoenzymatic approach that shows promise for a more efficient route to synthesize ultra low molecular weight heparins. Scaffolds on the ...
- Google unzipped
Today, Google honours the inventor of the zip fastener, more commonly known in the common vernacular, as the zip (or zipper if you live on the other side of the pond that is The Atlantic. The Google Doodle shows an embroidered Google logo waiting expectantly for its tab to be pulled down…g ...
- St George and the ZX Spectrum
It’s St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum so we’re celebrating with the latest Google Doodle! Why we English still celebrate the killing of a mythical beast by an allegedly Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina who was venerated as a saint by a rel ...
- Discounted on Amazon already
My new book, which I just mentioned not 5 minutes ago, and for which I’ve not actually signed the physical, paper contract nor done much more than the basic table of contents and a single “typeset test” chapter, is already on Amazon and discounted from the list price by 10%. Ma ...
- My first solo book in time for Christmas
I’ve collaborated on a few books over the years with esteemed authors such as John Gribbin, Adam Hart-Davis, Ian Stewart, Robert Slinn, even Richard Dawkins. Admittedly for the most part, by collaboration I simply mean I contributed a chapter or section to a book to which those people also ...
- SEIU's Eliseo Medina: "States Do Not Have the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court must strike down Arizona's racial profiling law, SB 1070, based on Constitutional principles that deny states the right to legalize hate and discrimination, SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina said on Wednesday, as the court weighed the legality of Ari ...
- Rights Groups Issue Statement in Support of St ...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and other Rights Groups issued the following statement in support of student groups promoting awareness in college communities about the Palestinian peoples’ struggle for freedom and human rights. Members of the student group Students for Justice ...
- Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Orchid in Pat ...
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for the agency’s failure to make a listing decision on a petition to protect Coleman’s coralroot, an extremely rare purple orchid found in the footprint of a proposed c ...
- Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare, Mink-like Ca ...
The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to make a listing decision on a petition to protect the Humboldt marten, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. “Fewer than 100 Humboldt martens are th ...
- Report: In Wake of Supreme Court’s AT&T v. Con ...
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, consumers regularly have been blocked from pursuing class-action cases, a report issued today by Public Citizen and the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) reveals.read more
- Crime Boasting for Profit
Glenn Greenwald On December 7, 2007, The New York Times reported that the CIA “in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the m ...
- Draft Report on Food Security and Climate Chan ...
Doreen Stabinsky Climate change will have significant impacts on world food security in our lifetimes. Indeed, we have already begun to feel the impacts from extreme events—droughts, heat waves, torrential rains leading to floods, wit ...
- The SB1070 Anti-Immigrant Law is a Stain on Ar ...
Jim Shee Two years ago this month, I was stopped twice by police officers in Arizona and asked to show my "papers". As an American citizen, these incidents were humiliating as well as terrifying.read more
- Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Sla ...
Glen Ford The nation’s largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America, is on a buying spree. With a war chest of $250 million, the corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, earlier this year ...
- 'Racing to the Top' with the Hare and the Pine ...
The following is an open letter from a group of New York state principals to the New York State Board of Regents about school reform and the standardized testing regime (h/t Valerie Strauss at the Answer Sheet blog).read more
- Iowa GOP Governor Uses Tax Loophole To Cut His ...
President Obama and Senate Democrats have been trying to implement the Buffett ruke, a minimum tax on millionaires, which would remedy the problem of millionaires being able to pay lower tax rates than middle class families. One state lawmaker in Iowa thinks his state needs its own version ̵ ...
- After Romney Joked About Being ‘Unemploy ...
President Obama earned laughs when he appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s show last night to “slow jammed the news” about student loans, but not everyone was amused. The Republican National Committee (RNC) put out a grumpy web ad today called “A Tale Of Two Leaders” that jux ...
- ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,’ and D ...
I’ve been watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a cute little web series that imagines Jane Austen’s best heroine as a graduate student living at home with her parents to save money and avoid taking out further loans: It’s clearly being shot on a low budget, so the show is unfort ...
- Ex-Gay Researcher Apologizes To The Gay Community
Dr. Robert Spitzer — whose influential 2001 study found that some gay people could change their sexual orientation and significantly bolstered the ex-gay movement — has now officially apologized to the gay community for the flawed science. “I believe I owe the gay community an ...
- Ex-Top CIA Official On Destroying Torture Tape ...
In a new book, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) operations wing discussed publicly for the first time his role in destroying videos of interrogations that involved torture — including 92 videos of the waterboarding of suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah. The fo ...
- 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 ...
- TSA Admits $1B Nude Body Scanner Fleet Worthless
April 11, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson “Why isn’t the TSA responding or even trying to defend these allegations with sound proof that this is false? It’s because they know this to be true. The scanners do NOT work.” –KTRN A TSA screener has lifted to lid ...
- Health-Care Law Will Add $340 Billion To Defic ...
April 11, 2012 The Washington Post By Lori Montgomery President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the boar ...
- What Is ObamaCare?
April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Paul Craig Roberts Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threa ...
- Defense Department To Further Militarize U.S. ...
April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The future is here. The robots are coming.” –KTRN Last year I reported on the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, wherein local law enforcement agencies can obtain surplus military hardware through a website, only having to pay to pick up ...
- 19 Things That The Talking Heads On Television ...
April 11, 2012 The American Dream By Michael Snyder “If you think the mainstream media is telling you the truth, think again.” –KTRN If the talking heads on television don’t tell us about something that happens, does it make that event any less real? Of course the answer ...
- 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 ...
- Bankster demon exorcism: Rev Billy on Keiser R ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Watch the full Keiser Report E280 on Thursday. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that the economy is naked with tainted sinkholes of fraud and ex-Citigroup bo ...
- WSJ: Black Boxes Are Real, But Alex Jones Is “ ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Wall Street Journal admits that mandatory black boxes will be spying on us but then labels Infowars “paranoid” for being concerned about the intrusion. Sam Favate Wall St Journal April 25, 2012 [...] The ...
- Congressman Says He Was Targeted For Grope Dow ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRep says he was assaulted by TSA and then punished for complaining Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com April 25, 2012 A US Congressman has claimed that he was assaulted during a TSA patdown and was then targeted for future pat ...
- Bahrain’s Formula 404: Protests Not Found?
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com In Bahrain, there are no signs of violence dying down – with police firing tear gas at protesters during yet more clashes in the capital Manama. Anti-government demonstrations have been inte ...
- CISPA Amendment Allows DHS to Intercept Tax Re ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPerennial big government advocate Sheila Jackson Lee strikes again Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 25, 2012 An amendment introduced to the controversial CISPA bill by perennial big government advoca ...
- Arrest of BP Scapegoat: Real Killers Walk by G ...
by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com Special for Buzzflash at Truthout April 24, 2012 The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat. More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying e ...
- John Pilger: Obama’s Greatest Achievemen ...
Dandelion Salad with John Pilger Apr 23, 2012 by marxismconference Marxism 2012: Revolution in the air hosted radical journalist, writer and film-maker John Pilger. Back for his fourth year, Pilger says about the Marxism conference: “Marxism in Melbourne is now Australia’s premier fe ...
- Massive Pro-Democracy Rally Defies US-Backed S ...
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia April 24, 2012 One of the biggest pro-democracy rallies took place in Bahrain this week, defying claims that more than a year of US-backed brutal repression has crushed the popular movement against the unelected Al Khalifa monarchy. C ...
- Canada’s Economic Collapse and Social Crisis: ...
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com April 24, 2012 Part 1: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education Part 2: The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control? Part 3: Of Prophets, Power, and the Purpose of Intellectuals Par ...
- America’s Genocide in Africa: Celebs Provide M ...
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia April 23, 2012 It’s a sign of the times: Hollywood heart-throbs, pop divas and TV chat show celebrities are turning on the mood music for America’s never-ending global war. In a world of lawlessness, state terrorism, rank mendacity an ...
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Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
- East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel ...
Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the web
The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- UMASS Boston Student Senate passes resolution ...
The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- ‘Hunger strike a signal to world’s oppressed’
Khader Adnan: I ask God to move the consciences of the free people around the world. I thank them all, especially Ireland, for they have stood by my hunger strike. I ask them to stand in solidarity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Lia Tarachansky: Why Gaza’s Healthcare Fails T ...
In 2011, over 9,000 patients from Gaza received emergency care in Israeli hospitals. Many of the admitted were injured in Israeli attacks on the strip. In August, The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- What Biotech Company Blamed for Bee Collapse J ...
Question: If you’re a huge biotech company whose sole goal is to control the world’s food sources, what do you do if damaging reports on the very product you’re using to advance that goal come out from an independent research company? Answer: Buy the research company and make it your own, ultima ...
- How Psychiatric Drugs Made America Mad
There’s a mental health epidemic going on in America, and it’s an epidemic of enormous proportions. If you were to believe what some health officials claim, tens of millions of Americans are ensnared by mental illness, analyzed for, and diagnosed with, a dictionary full of disorders which are tr ...
- Another Way to Kill Small U.S. Farmers: Seize ...
In its latest move against small farmers who dare to operate outside the umbrella of CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) and Monsanto-dominated crops, the U.S. government has seized $70,000 from a small dairy farmer in Maryland. The feds did this under the “Bank Secrecy Act,” which makes ...
- Seriously Broken U.S. Health Care System—Why A ...
If you were to have an attack of appendicitis, you probably wouldn’t think to “shop” hospitals for the best price on an appendectomy. But what if you knew ahead of time that a hospital on one side of town charges $180,000 for this type of surgery, while ne the other side of town a different h ...
- The Sweetener that Is More Dangerous than Alcohol
While total calories do contribute to increases in diabetes rates around the world, they don’t explain the whole story. When scientists dug deeper to find out what it is that people are eating that’s contributing most to the global crisis in obesity and obesity-related diseases, it turns out tha ...
- New Air Report Gives AZ Mixed Results
New Air Report Gives AZ Mixed Results PHOENIX - Arizona gets mixed grades for ozone and particle pollution in the American Lung Association's State of the Air report for 2012, released today. Overall, however, the report shows some improvements from prior years. Dona Wininsky, the association's ...
- Could Texas Voter ID Case Dismantle Arizona Vo ...
Could Texas Voter ID Case Dismantle Arizona Voting Rights? PHOENIX - U.S. Supreme Court watchers say a Texas case could trigger the dismantling of a decades-old civil rights law affecting Arizona. Arizona and Texas are among nine states, mostly southern, with a history of discrimination that are ...
- Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips
Autism Awareness Month - School Success Tips PHOENIX - Several new studies have been released to mark April's Autism Awareness Month, focusing on prenatal exposures, diet, and prevalence of the disorder. The CDC reports that one of every 64 children in Arizona has some form of autism, and succes ...
- "Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be ...
"Rampant Errors" on Background Checks Could be Costing Arizonans a Job PHOENIX - A quarter-million Arizonans still are out of work, and false information about their backgrounds could be hindering their job searches. According to new research from the National Consumer Law Center, more than 90 ...
- Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rat ...
Report: Better Health Insurance Info Holds Rate Relief Promise for Arizonans PHOENIX - Better-informed consumers could help hold down the cost of health insurance in Arizona. That's the premise of a new report from St. Luke's Health Initiatives and Arizona PIRG. ...(Read More)
- FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals. Ant ...
- USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
- New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...
- BPA is FDA’s Latest Gift to Food Industry
By Michele Simon In a long-awaited decision, last week the Food and Drug Administration disappointed health advocates once again by allowing Bisphenol A or BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, to remain approved as a chemical additive in food containers such as plastic bottles and metal cans.While ...
- Canadian Hog Industry Abandons Genetically Eng ...
Center for Food Safety Calls on the U.S. FDA to Stop Review of GE “EnviroPig” The Center for Food Safety (CFS) welcomed reports that the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that developed the genetically engineered (GE) “Enviropig,” is closing down its research. CFS is now calling on t ...
- .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
- GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
- A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
- The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
- The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...
- Defend our Right to Create and Share!
I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
- Meet the Rollerman
Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
- RSA: The Empathic Civilization
With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
- Hitchiking the Platforms
Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...
- 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 ...
- Be organic, it's great for you and environment
Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
- Be organic, it's great for you and environment
Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
- Walk for yourself
When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
- Walk for yourself
When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
- Drowned flowers in flood
There was a huge flood in western Sydney, Illawarra. Up to 20 people have been rescued from danger.This reminds the effect of global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html). If trees die due to the rising degree of the earth, their ability to store water gets worse and it can cause huge rai ...
- Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
- Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
(this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
- When My Partner Went to Jail
Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...
- Omissions, Half-Truths, Lies: Ambassador Oren ...
Originally posted on the 972Mag Website In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC ...
- Video: Israeli Army Invades and Closes Univers ...
Sent to us by a reader. Click here for the Facebook page of Al Quds educational TV (mostly in Arabic.) Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh Vice President for Jerusalem Affairs Al-Quds University April 2, 2012 For the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities have invaded, searched and prevented the fun ...
- Philadelphia School District closes, students ...
Our educational system continues to disintegrate.Philadelphia will shut 40 schools next year and 6 per years after that until 2017 due to funding shortfalls and mismanagement. Their school district is shutting down. That’s right, shutting down.Their Chief Recovery Officer says “There ...
- IBM developing 500-mile electric vehicle battery
IBM today announced two partners for a project aimed at building a lithium air battery able to propel an electric car 500 miles. Scientists from Asahi Kasei and Central Glass with expertise in membranes and electrolyte chemistries will join IBM researchers on the initiative.A 500 mile electric v ...
- Cleantech subsidy reform
Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subsidy independent cleantech sector in the United States, as moderate Republicans, industry insiders and analysts expressed keen interest in reforms that would drive production of cheaper, more innovative forms ...
- Nuclear power proposal in Utah ignites water war
A humongous 3 GW nuclear plant is planned near Green River, Utah. It would use 53,000 acre feet a year of water for cooling. This would put further strain on the Green River, which is a major tributary of the already overused Colorado River.The developers say it will use 1% of Utah’s water ...
- Does the US have an economy based on war?
Eddie Vedder. Hollywood antiwar rally. 2003The United States seemingly has endless wars, conflicts, and invasions. In 2010 the United States accounted for a staggering 41% of worldwide military spending, dwarfing spending by any other country. We have military bases in dozens of countries and s ...
- 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 ...
- Newt Gingrich To Drop Out of race, Leaving Ron ...
Newt, don’t let the door hit you in your flabby red ass on the way out. Newt is only $4 million in debt, I suppose he can consult with Fannie and Freddie and get some of that money back… (or if he agrees to endorse Mitt, they will pay his bills.
- TSA Goons Give Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral ...
How many more stories do we have to post like this, before the citizenry just says NO! Photo of Dina Frank. (Photo by CBS 2) WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old ...
- 87 Year Old Woman locks No Warrant Cop in base ...
What’s YOUR Excuse? $95,000 … That is not enough – Cops should have to pay this! After he’s FIRED and jailed for assault! WBALTV (Video) BALTIMORE -An elderly woman got the last word after locking a police officer in her basement, and later suing the ...
- Holder, Justice Dept. won’t reopen Kent ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department, citing “insurmountable legal and evidentiary barriers,” won’t reopen its investigation into the deadly 1970 shootings by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest at Kent State University. Assistant Attorney Genera ...
- Pat Tillman, we will NEVER forget you, and how ...
At his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Lt. Gen Stanley McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “mistakes were made” in the military’s handling of the accidental shooting death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman. (June 2) Fluffing the Lies The parents of slain Army Ranger ...
- Contest — Ten Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
Earth day is here again. Twice as many penguins as we thought, polar bear population is up, both Arctic and global sea ice extents are normal, what should we do to celebrate? Here are a few ideas I had: Fly penguins to the north pole to feed the polar bears. Fly polar bears south to [...]
- Gotta Be Kidding
In an article titled, “Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show An inconvenient truth” Lewis Page of the Register writes: The study was carried out by comparing two sets of space data, the first gathered by instruments aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000 and t ...
- What People Don’t Want to Know About Energy
Guest Post by Thomas Fuller I’m well on my way to winning a small wager with a friend about my new blogging venture, 3,000 Quads ( http://3000quads.com/). It’s an unusual bet–I’m betting that I will be religiously ignored by the members of the climate consensus. We’ ...
- History of Sea Ice
This article is offered by Jonathan Drake. It discusses the unusual changes in trend noted in sea ice at various points of the historic record paying particular attention to the satellite data. I think it is worth posting, but I have varied opinions and questions regarding the different sea i ...
- Antarctic Sea Ice Area by Latitude
The following plots depict annual sea ice area for the Antarctic. This is important in that we are attempting to isolate the response of annually melting sea ice to temperature. Despite the attack on this method by the warmanistas, it does have value in that it is a reasonable proxy for how s ...
- 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 summ ...
- 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 . ...
- Facebook updates Locations app, but feature st ...
Facebook recently relaunched its “Locations” app that allows users to search directly from a company’s page to find business locations near them. The feature, which helps organize corporate and local pages, had to be redesigned to fit the new Timeline … Continue reading →
- Facebook partners with anti-virus software mak ...
Facebook today announced the Antivirus Marketplace, a partnership with Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec, to provide the social network’s users with free six-month licenses to anti-virus software. The anti-virus partners will augment Facebook’s URL blacklist system ...
- Yahoo, Metacafe, birthdays, games, Spoitfy, Br ...
Web integrations, music apps, games, horoscopes and a few other applications made our list of the fastest growing apps by daily active users this week. The titles below grew between 200,000 and 1.9 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service … Continue reading →
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Courier Publishing, Nixon Peabody, SponsorPay, Warner Brothers, Ci ...
- Facebook to increase profile picture size for ...
Facebook will increase the size of profile pictures on all business and fan pages on Thursday, according to an email the company sent to page owners. The new profile picture will appear as 160×160 pixels and will sit 23 pixels … Continue reading →
- US liberals and their situational ethics
Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
- Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
- Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
- What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
- Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
- Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
- Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
- European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
- Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
- Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ 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 ...
- Mitt Romney: Professional Liar
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed his dad had been attacked by President Obama, who "likes to attack fellow Americans." Yet, Romney's verbal assault on Obama was itself a multi-layered fabrication that revealed Romney consummate skill as a professional liar.
- Funding Political Parties Is an Excellent Inve ...
If British politics is not reformed, and money is allowed to exercise its power uncontrolled, then the American system will be our destiny to the detriment of the lives of the vast majority of the population.
- Ted in "Stranglehold," Willard suffers "White ...
Will outraged citizens continue to call for a boycott of Ted Nugent's music and his arrest on charges of sedition? Will Willard "Mitt" Romney stand behind his ardent, gun-crazy, draft-dodging supporter?
- The Orthodox Church and the Struggle for Russi ...
The Russian Orthodox Church has recently come under severe attack in Russia by groups who fear that its public voice is eroding the separation between Church and State. Yet it is precisely the Church's claim that its social vision has relevance for a modern Russia that its most arch critics cann ...
- What Bradley Manning Means to Us
Chase Madar's new book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, pulls together the essential facts that we should try to somehow deliver to television viewers and victims of our education system. The subtitle is "The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History."
- Energizing the Solar Market in India: How Gove ...
Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco With nations around the world vying for clean energy leadership, India has taken a bold step toward becoming a leader in solar development. In only two years under India’s ambitious national solar ...
- Polar bears - older past, same future?
Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC A new genetic study suggesting that polar bears have been around longer than previously thought has raised questions regarding the future of the species. Although there have been many estimates as to ...
- Toronto's leadership for green roofs
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC In January of 2010, Toronto became the first city in North America to require the installation of green roofs on new commercial, institutional, and multifamily residential dev ...
- Geese--A Love Story
Janet Barwick, Research Associate, Montana Last fall while walking my dog through our community park, I was startled by a sound that I had never heard before (at least not in person). The sound was similar to screeching chimpanzees that I ha ...
- In through the backdoor: Is Enbridge Inc. try ...
Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. A decision being made by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) about a pipeline in Canada could open the door to bringing tar sands oil to Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire as well a ...
- Supreme Court Looks Poised To Uphold Arizona I ...
Or, at a minimum, the provision requiring state law enforcement officials to determine immigration status, which may be upheld unanimously: Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared inclined to uphold a controversial part of Arizona’s aggressive 2010 immigration law, based on their quest ...
- Jaywalking
And you thought I was going to write about Leno…. Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous killers in the early 20th century. States and municipalities passed a series of laws placing the burden on car-pedes ...
- Fort Ord
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in the Monterey Bay area. It looks super cool and I would love to visit. I don’t however see how using the Antiquities Act is a ...
- On Douthat
Pierce: Too much of the book is simply a culture-war text gussied up in a chasuble. Douthat is extremely bothered by people who claim to seek enlightenment from a “God Within,” and outside the framework of preferred ecclesiastical constructs. (In this, he risibly cites Deepak Chopra ...
- Adios, Pudge
Seems to me that Ivan Rodriguez deserves at least a thread here at LGM: Ivan Rodriguez made one last throw from behind home plate to second base at Rangers Ballpark. The 14-time All-Star catcher announced his retirement Monday, ending a 21-season playing career spent mostly in Texas. The Rangers ...
- Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
- Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
- DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
- DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
- DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
- Baltimore looks to Justice Department for its ...
University officials announced on April 25 that Ronald Weich, an assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, will become dean in July. He will fill a position left vacant when Phillip Closius was forced out in July 2011 amid a dispute about control of law school-generated fees.
- Massachusetts law student is latest to bring d ...
The plaintiff seeks double the standard time to take the June 2012 LSAT and any future LSATs because of his neurological, emotional and learning disabilities. He claims he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, depressive disorder, and anxiety disorder.
- Consumer financial agency starts inquiry into ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has set its sights on mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer financial products. The agency announced April 24 it is launching a public inquiry into how consumers and companies are affected by using arbitration to resolve disputes.
- ABA's law school watchdog steps aside
Hulett "Bucky" Askew, the American Bar Association's top staff overseer of the nation's law schools, will step down in August. He has served as the ABA's consultant on legal education since 2006.
- Legal education critic's tenure ends as Louisv ...
One of the more vocal internal critics of legal education is stepping down as dean of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Jim Chen will end his five-year tenure on June 30, when his contract expires.
- Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
- New State Impact PA App
Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
- OilandGasHelp.com
I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
- The Passage of House Bill 1950…
I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
- Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
- Interview: Standing Up Against a Massive Dam P ...
The Gibe III dam project in Ethiopia — which, if completed, would be the world’s fourth-largest dam — was moving steadily forward when it collided with a 31-year-old Kenyan woman named Ikal Angelei. Since learning of Goldman Environmental Prize Ikal Angelei the project in 2008, she has gal ...
- A Kenyan Woman Stands Up Against Massive Dam P ...
Ikal Angelei is helping lead a campaign to stop construction of a major dam in Ethiopia that threatens the water supply and way of life of tens of thousands of indigenous people. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she explains what she believes is at stake in the fight against the Gibe I ...
- European Satellite Provides Precise Data On Ar ...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat satellite is now providing highly accurate data on the thickness and volume of Arctic Ocean ice. Using a high-resolution
- ‘Glowing’ Fish Provides Insights Into Effects ...
UK researchers say they have genetically engineered a zebrafish to produce a fluorescent green glow under a special microscope in response to exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, a technique that could provide new University of ExeterA microscopic view of the glowing zebrafish insigh ...
- Solar-Powered ATM Machines Expand Banking Opti ...
For many villagers in rural areas of India, personal banking comes at a high cost. In addition to the expense of traveling to the nearest branch, often in distant cities, Click to enlarge Vortex Engineering A “Gramateller” ATM in a Tamil Nadu village. they must often forego a day’s work. ...
- This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women With ...
I sputtered, I nevered, and I denied it, but it was true. I had become obsessed with Girls Around Me, an app that perfectly distills many of the most worrying issues related to social networking, privacy and the rise of the smartphone into a perfect case study that anyone can understand. It is a ...
- Projected onto the Houses of Parliament last n ...
This image was projected onto the Houses of Parliament last night! "LIARS.INC - OWNED BY THE ROTHCHILDS" plus a link to davidicke.com. Brilliant, and good work to whoever did this - MORE LIKE IT PLEASE! This is an excellent example of "Guerrilla warfare" - no-violence - just get active and sprea ...
- Second earthquake of 8.2-magnitude hits Sumatra
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Indonesia has issued a fresh tsunami warning after an aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 shook its western coast. The first 8.6-magnitude quake off Aceh province, hours earlier, spawned a wave around 30 inches (80 centimeters) high but caused no serious damage. ...
- "Necessary Force": The Denver Police Department
"I always thought police were nothing but good and were there to protect people," testifies Elizabeth Polak, a registered nurse from Phoenix. Her view of the State’s enforcement caste changed dramatically as a result of what she witnessed in Denver on the evening of March 25, 2008.
- Murder in Tibet’s High Places
For Buddhists, the Potala is a holy spot, yet during the first half of the 19th century, the palace was the scene of a grim battle for political supremacy. The most prominent victims of this struggle were Dalai Lamas, the ninth through the twelfth, all of whom died in unusual circumstances, befo ...
- TSA - Grope & Pillage
Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child Molesters Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff ...
- Debunker Related Excerpts from and Review of ...
Released 2/26/12, 9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability starts off with a past aticle by author Jon Gold, which serves as a definition of the book's title:So what is a "9/11 Truther”? As I said, it's kind of hard to spin the word "Truth," but the "debunkers" and "media" ha ...
- Two criticisms of the Harrit et al paper that ...
The vast majority of debunker responses to the discovery of active thermitic material over the past three years have been one of the following mantras: "Paint!", "Peer-review!" and "Chain of custody!". Dr James Millette's report on the red/gray chips has apparently given the "Paint!" mantra new ...
- Oystein's Contamination Denial
The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
- Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
- Is this Cheese? Kraft Singles [Cheese Miniseri ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is the third of three posts in our Cheese Miniseries. In part 1, we covered 12 basic cheese facts. In part 2, we explained what processed cheese is. Today we’ll look inside the label of Kraft Sing ...
- 10 Things to Know About Processed Cheese [Chee ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is the second of three posts in our Cheese Miniseries. In part 1, we covered 12 basic cheese facts. In this segment, you’ll learn why not all cheese is created equal, and why many items at the sup ...
- 12 Cheese Facts [Cheese Miniseries, Part 1/3]
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Cow’s milk is an amazing liquid with many compounds that can be processed into endless products such as butter, yogurt, and cheese. But how does milk become cheese? And what are curds, whey, and renn ...
- Four Food Things to Do on Earth Day
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Today is Earth Day. Our battered planet celebrates a day of appreciation. The ravaging pillager known as mankind has designated a day of reflection and hope… While some extremists knock all progress th ...
- Have you ever had a Yogurt Salad?
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Here’s a fun brunch idea for a spring weekend – Yogurt Salad! Yogurt is healthy. Raw veggies are too. Why not mix ‘em together and enjoy a hearty, healthy treat? Yogurt Salad. Ingredients: ...
- 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 ...
- Colin Firth launches campaign to save ‘Earth’s ...
Colin Firth has appealed to save the Awá from extinction © Survival Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth today launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuri ...
- Uncontacted tribe photographed in Colombian Amazon
Previously uncontacted Nukak emerged from the forest in the 1980s after being forced from their land by violent armed groups © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival An uncontacted tribe has been photographed from the air for the first time in the Colombian Amazon. The Indians, thought to be members of ...
- Innu man completes historic 4,000 km walk
Giant (Michel Andrew), who aims to connect young Innu with 'nutshimit'. © Joanna Eede/Survival The Innu of north-eastern Canada are celebrating the completion of an historic 4,000 km walk through Nitassinan, their ancestral territory. The initiative of a young Innu man, Michel An ...
- Brazil investigates death threats to Guarani a ...
Guarani Indians. Tonico Benites is fighting for the Guarani's right to live on their land. © Joaó Ripper/Survival The Brazilian authorities are investigating death threats to Guarani anthropologist and activist Tonico Benites. Benites and his family were stopped by a man armed with tw ...
- Indian tribe stands firm as Vedanta mine appea ...
Hundreds of Dongria Kondh protest against the Vedanta mine appeal. © Bikash Khemka/Survival One of the world’s most controversial mines is back in the spotlight after hundreds protested against renewed efforts to mine India’s Niyamgiri Hills. Dongria Kondh and Niyamgiri supporters held the ...
- Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat. More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
- BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
- BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...
- Billionaire Ballot Bandits - I've caught'em
Karl Rove has you by the ballots. With a $200 million war chest from a coven of billionaires, don't count on getting your vote counted. There's only one thing to stop him: A COMIC BOOK. If we can get just $10,190 in the next 14 days, the nation’s top elections-heist investigators can publish ...
- Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
[New York 1 a.m Sunday] Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
- How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
- She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
- How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
- How can I reuse or recycle medical plastic tubing?
We’ve had an email from Janette asking about medical plastic tubing: I need to know how I might reuse/recycle medical plastic tubing. My husband uses an oxygen tank and the cannula (clear plastic tubing) needs to be changed every two weeks. After the nasal clip is removed, biowaste/garbage ...
- U.S. confirms case of mad cow disease
April 24 – The U.S. Agriculture Department confirms that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in a dairy cow in central California. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Page with Transcript link
- US: Now three people have Won Iowa and Minnesota
PolicyMic – Now three people have won Iowa during this primary season. Last night, Ron Paul’s delegate finagling strategy paid off as he guaranteed himself at least half of the delegates in Iowa and Minnesota. Remember, back in January, Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Iowa caucu ...
- Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...
- Ron Paul gets the last laugh in Iowa, Minnesota
MSNBC – Rachel Maddow shows how Ron Paul’s tactic of paying close attention to the delegate math in the Republican primary is likely to earn him first place spots in Iowa and Minnesota. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- Dutch government falls in budget crisis
BBC – His cabinet was plunged into crisis when Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) quit talks aimed at slicing 16bn euros (£13.1bn) from the budget. Mr Wilders refused to accept austerity demands to bring the budget deficit in line with EU rules. His party was not part of the coalitio ...
- Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...
- Activists sue Obama, others over National Defe ...
A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, sayin ...
- American companies engaging in trade of illega ...
More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according t ...
- Climate change vs. Easter bunnies
Easter is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets, pagan solstice rituals and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.
- Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding
ForecastTheFacts.org has put up an advertisement spoofing the new TV ads created for the Chevy Volt – but this one congratulates GM for ceasing to fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that questions the science behind global warming.
- Houston Set to Join Growing Bike Sharing Program
Houston has announced this week that it is joining a growing number of cities across the nation by having a bike sharing program.(photo: roland) The Houston Chronicle reports that the new program will begin on May 2. read more
- Why Does OSHA Move at a Glacial Pace? Democrat ...
WASHINGTON — Republicans typically accuse Democats of not doing enough to streamline regulations. But at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, Republican senators defended the Obama administration against criticism from labor leaders and workplace safety advocates who say the administration ...
- GE Annual Meeting Interrupted by 99 Percent Pr ...
Detroit Police officers hold the crowd back as protesters carry signs and chant 'GE: Pay Your Fair Share" outside the Renaissance Center where the General Electric Shareholders meeting was being held in Detroit, Michigan April 25, 2012. ...
- 'Mad Cow' Finding Highlights Food Safety Gaps, ...
The announcement on Tuesday that a California dairy cow had mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), highlights shortcomings of the country's food safety system, say critics. read more
- Arizona v. US: Supreme Court Hears 'Show Me Yo ...
Today, the supreme court heard arguments on the controversial Arizona immigration law SB 1070 -- known as the 'show me your papers' law, which allows police to stop individuals on the street and demand proof of citizenship without probable cause or search warrants. ...
- A World Without Oil Price Speculators
The quality of media reporting on energy has improved significantly since I started this blog in 2004. However, one subject on which I think the state of energy reporting still leaves much to be desired concerns the role of market speculation in setting oil prices. It's a comple ...
- Clean Energy Rides Bucking Economy To Growth
Reflecting on clean-energy performance in 2011, research firm Clean Edge released a report of the good, the bad and the not-too-ugly.
- BP Employee Arrested For Destroying Evidence i ...
Deepwater Horizon disaster ruined Florida's shores.
- First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today. At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq.It has been a difficult day for U.S. stocks, but for First Sola ...
- Failing to Communicate the Promise of Transpor ...
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia (full disclosure: my alma mater) rolled out its latest report, fittingly entitled “Are We There Yet? Selling America on Transportation” (pdf here). It’s based on a conversation they convened last fall, which in turn was a session following up on a ...
- Robert Singer
Robert Singer is an Entrepreneur and the author of a forthcoming book on the Federal Reserve. His articles cover politics and the financial and environmental implications of our consumer society and can be found on Opednews, The Market Oracle and The Peoples Voice. Robert Singer is a regular c ...
- TRIBUNAL TO HEAR SECOND WAR CRIME CHARGE AGAIN ...
THE BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal will be hearing the second charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes against former U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Albert ...
- Media Scoundrels Promote War on Syria
by Stephen Lendman Syria's a battle zone. Western generated violence is to blame, not Assad. America's media scoundrels claim otherwise. They want him ousted by any means, including war. An April 9 Wall Street Journal commentary said "Syrian government forces (keep) bombing and killing...." As ...
- Grand Prix State Terror
by Stephen Lendman Perhaps Bahrain April 22 was a first. Imagine a sporting event featuring state-sponsored terror and blood in the streets. Imagine one with race drivers and event organizers mindless of raging crimes against humanity nearby. Hollywood script writers wouldn't touch it. Produ ...
- Another problem with the voter ID law
Mary Shaw Like several other states, Pennsylvania now has a voter ID law, which requires voters to show a photo ID before they will be permitted to vote. While the new Pennsylvania law doesn't take effect until the November elections, voters for the April 24 primary were asked for ID as a "dry ...
- Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' ...
While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before. Working people have the right to bargain collectively and withdraw their labour, or strike, if they feel they are being treated unfairly. Healthcare worke ...
- Can Wildrose remove its thorns?
Is the Wildrose challenge to Tory supremacy in Alberta over? Or is it just beginning? Find out here.
- ILO cites ongoing labour rights violations by ...
In a recent report, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) cited Canada for over 20 ongoing violations of the ILO's international labour standards. Governments across Canada have refused to change labour laws which have been found to be in contravention of Convention No. 87, Freedom of Asso ...
- CFLR hosts book launch for "Constitutional Lab ...
The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) recently launched Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, a new book on labour rights in Canada. The book is a collection of 11 essays related to the Supreme Court of Canada April 2011 decision in Ontario (At ...
- What’s at stake for working seniors?
It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) at age 65 discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working longer to avoid present and future labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so- ...
- Literature in a Locked Down Land
By William T. Hathaway Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is “well” not in the sense of being contented and happy but rather of being vital and impassioned. And it is imprisoned not just in the sense of being locked behind bars but also of being locke ...
- Revolution 99 Updates: Stand, Push, Agitate, S ...
Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested (Reuters) – Police in riot gear arrested two dozen people on Tuesday as protesters with a huge inflated rat sought to disrupt a Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) annual shareholder meeting to express anger over foreclosures, executive compensa ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
UK police: Missing girl Madeleine may be alive LONDON (AP) — Missing girl Madeleine McCann who vanished while on a family vacation in Portugal five years ago may be alive, UK police said Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said they are still investigating the disappearance of the girl ...
- The World is a Mess – I am part of the p ...
By Marie Gage,Worldwidehippies – I am part of the problem. I could say that all of us are part of the problem, but the only real person I am an expert on, is myself. I can speak on those actions of others that seem to contradict what they say in public or even in private. [...]
- Worldwide Hippies Digest Tuesday: Worms,Moats, ...
Charles Manson still casts a long shadow The surprising life behind bars of the world’s most notorious cult murderer by Charlie Gillis,2.macleans.ca- Even from his corner cell in the collective consciousness, sealed away and stripped of mystique, the man could press our buttons. Those regularly ...
- Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
- Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
- Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
- Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
- Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
- 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 ...
- The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...
- Natural Gas Prices & Canada’s Economy — R-Squa ...
In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact of natural gas in the U.S., and the Canadian economy. Some of the topics discussed this week are: How I think natural gas prices will behave over the next 10 years Which industries will benefit the most from low natural ...
- Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Speculators an ...
Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’ Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural ...
- The Impact of $5 Gas Prices, and Eco-Proppants ...
In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the impact I believe $5 gasoline will have on most people, and whether there are any environmentally friendly proppants that can be used for hydraulic fracturing. Some of the topics discussed this week are: My observations here in ...
- Canada Rises and Saudi Slides: Top 15 Sources ...
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article on 2011 U.S. crude oil imports. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where the U.S. currently obtains its oil, and how that has changed over the past decade. The EIA story is: Nearly 69% of U.S. crude oil im ...
- 5 Suspect Causes of Autism
Autism risk: More than just genetics? When it comes to autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities, genetics is only part of the story. In fact, in trying to figure out the causes of autism, researchers are proving that environmental factors—everything from farm chemicals to soda and shampoo ...
- Don't Worry About Mad Cow…For Now
Federal officials announced today that a case of mad-cow disease (formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was found in a dairy cow in California. John Clifford, the USDA’s chief veterinarian, said that the animal's carcass was destroyed and that none of its meat entered the food su ...
- The Risky Technology Creeping into Your Food & ...
Chemicals, minerals, and other materials 40,000 times smaller than a human hair are being added to an astonishingly high number of consumer products, from peanut butter to socks to sunscreen. And in an unusual departure from its usual innocent-until-proven-guilty approach in regulating consumer ...
- Stop Hunger in America, In Your Backyard
Across the country, the urban agriculture movement is taking root, literally, in vacant lots and on rooftops, and urban farmers are finding ways to supply fresh produce to the poor and eliminate food deserts—neighborhoods with not enough grocery stores and too many convenience stores that sell ...
- New GMOs Poised to Destroy Farmer's Market Fav ...
Your tomatoes are under attack. If approved, two new types of genetically engineered corn and soy crops will threaten some of America's favorite farm foods, including tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, squash, melons, pumpkins, green beans, grapes, and other farmer's market and garden staples. The ne ...
- Why Science Can't Explain Why There's Somethin ...
What's the Latest Development? New revelations in quantum physics suggest that our conception of nothingness—a vaccuum in which no matter exists—does not really correspond to reality. "According to the probabilistic dictates of quantum field theory, even an apparently perfect vacuum seet ...
- Why the Renaissance and its Art Were More Cont ...
It’s commonplace to imagine the people of the period we know now as the High Renaissance, centered in Italy from the 1490s to the 1520s, looking at the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael and thinking, “What a lovely Renaissance we’re having…” But, as Alexander Nagel explains in The ...
- How Asteroid Mining Will Propel Space Colonization
What's the Latest Development? A collection of A-list billionaires have announced their intention to begin exploiting the mineral resources of outer space by mining near-Earth asteroids. Planetary Resources, the company charged with organizing the mission, will be backed by tycoons from ...
- A Marriage Ruined by Monogamy
“For one night of pleasure, I lost everything.” “I tanked my marriage, for lust.” Jeremiads of sexual decline and fall have enthralled us for centuries. Whenever I hear a headline like, “Marriage Ruined by Cheating,” or “An Open Marriage Fails—It Just Never Works,” I’m tempted to poin ...
- Exploding Stars Helped Life Thrive on Earth
What's the Latest Development? A new study out of Denmark suggests that the proximity of supernovae explosions to our solar system has greatly affected the success of life on Earth. Looking at how frequently the sun encountered open star clusters as it moved through a spiral arm in the M ...
- How to Become a "Stalker" in Oregon: Criticize ...
[Behold the man who terrorizes the Sunriver Police Department: Bob Foster and his grandson.] What does it take to be officially designated a "stalker" in the State of Oregon? In a recent decision the State Court of Appeals ruled that ...
- Stigmatizing Resistance to Authority
In 1861 Samuel A. Cartwright, an American physician, described a mental illness he called "drapetomania." As Wikipedia points out, the term derived from drapetes, Greek for "runaway [slave]," and mania for madness or frenzy. Thus Cartwright define...
- Department of Homeland Security buying up enou ...
...How much ammunition is 450 million rounds, exactly? To answer that question, I searched the internet for testimony from U.S. military brass who might give us a glimpse into the number of rounds fired in an active war. This information was remar...
- American police state: officer may be fired fo ...
The United States* descent into a hellish police state continues and appears to only get worse as the years go by. The case of Officer Regina Tasca of the Bogota Police Department in New Jersey is a troubling example of just how far gone some law enf...
- Wal-Mart, Victim of Extortion
To do serious business in America requires vast campaign contributions to several layers of elected politicians, an army of lobbyists in Washington, retired government employees on your board and public devotion to the American civic religion. It goe...
- Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding
On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →
- Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...
- Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
- Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick
Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation. Most … Continue rea ...
- Revenge Of The Banana Benders
That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →
- Pharma matters
The latest issue of my Cutting Edge of Chemistry report for TR Pharma Matters is now available. Organic synthesis scheme showcase in this report, we look at a chemoenzymatic approach that shows promise for a more efficient route to synthesize ultra low molecular weight heparins. Scaffolds on the ...
- Google unzipped
Today, Google honours the inventor of the zip fastener, more commonly known in the common vernacular, as the zip (or zipper if you live on the other side of the pond that is The Atlantic. The Google Doodle shows an embroidered Google logo waiting expectantly for its tab to be pulled down…g ...
- Google unzipped
Today, Google honours the inventor of the zip fastener, more commonly known in the common vernacular, as the zip (or zipper if you live on the other side of the pond that is The Atlantic. The Google Doodle shows an embroidered Google logo waiting expectantly for its tab to be pulled down…g ...
- St George and the ZX Spectrum
It’s St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum so we’re celebrating with the latest Google Doodle! Why we English still celebrate the killing of a mythical beast by an allegedly Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina who was venerated as a saint by a rel ...
- St George and the ZX Spectrum
It’s St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum so we’re celebrating with the latest Google Doodle! Why we English still celebrate the killing of a mythical beast by an allegedly Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina who was venerated as a saint by a rel ...
- NEPAssist: a GIS Tool for Identifying Environm ...
EPA | White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) http://134.67.99.123/nepassist/entry.aspx [Website] NEPAssist is a tool that facilitates the environmental review process and project planning in relation to environmental considerations. The web-based application draws environmental ...
- The Impact of Carbon Pricing on Wholesale Elec ...
Univ. of Queensland, School of Economics/ by Phillip Wild http://www.uq.edu.au/eemg/docs/workingpapers/2012-5.pdf [Gizmo.com] Research out of the University of Queensland suggests that the impact of the Carbon Tax won’t be as bad as imagined — but some states will do markedly better than other ...
- Deploying Renewables: Best and Future Policy P ...
OECD (This book is available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary. If prompted for a password, check the library landing page, left side; for others, it is available through the OECD Bookshop.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264124912-en The global energy system faces urgent challenges. Concerns about ...
- Korea’s Low-Carbon Green Growth Strategy
OECD / by Sang In Kang, Jin-gyu Oh, Hongseok Kim http://bit.ly/Hpay3E [Abstract] This paper examines Korea’s low-carbon green growth strategy with a focus on three pillars: regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industries; incentive mechanisms for businesses to develop green techn ...
- Adaptation and Innovation: An Analysis of Crop ...
OECD / Shardul Agrawala, Cécile Bordier, Victoria Schreitter and Valerie Karplus http://bit.ly/Ilf8Mo [Abstract] Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can decrease the costs of policy measures and provide new opportuni ...
- Genome Run: Andean Shrub Is First New Plant Sp ...
A flowering shrub from the Andean cloud forests made taxonomic history last month. The plant--now dubbed Brunfelsia plowmaniana --had puzzled botanists for decades as they endeavored to determine whether or not it was truly an evolutionary newcomer. When its DNA revealed this to be true, resear ...
- Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on ...
A different kind of truck stop is coming soon to Atlanta. Greg Roche, vice president for infrastructure at Clean Energy Fuels , is presently scouting locations to build one of the California-based company's natural gas fueling stations for long-haul trucks by the end of this year. With fra ...
- Second Wind: Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries P ...
Researchers predict a new type of lithium battery under development could give an electric car enough juice to travel a whopping 800 kilometers before it needs to be plugged in again--about 10 times the energy that today's lithium ion batteries supply. It is a tantalizing prospect --a l ...
- Hot Spring Yields New Hybrid Viral Genome
In the hostile environment of a bubbling volcanic hot spring, a team of researchers at Portland State University in Oregon has discovered a new viral genome that seems to be the product of recombination between a DNA virus and an RNA virus -- a natural chimaera not seen before. Their findings&nb ...
- The Rue Age: Older Adults Disengage from Regre ...
"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret," wrote 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in his political novel, Coningsby . Hyperbole aside, he may have mixed things up a bit. The latest research suggests that young people tend to fixate on their re ...
- The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
- "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 ...
- Rocky Mountaineer Workers Locked Out for Secon ...
VANCOUVER - The Rocky Mountaineer tourist train launched its 2012 season today - complete with bagpipes, private security and a trainload of scabs. Rocky Mountaineer workers have been locked out for 10 months. Talks broke off between management and the onboard attendants last J ...
- Neighbours From Hell
Think you've got it bad? Try living next door to Nova Scotia Power's Trenton Generating Station HILLSIDE, NS – Down Boyles Road, on a spit of land his family has inhabited for three generations, Peter Boyles, of the Trenton- ...
- Breaking News. Banner Drop. #May1TO: A good da ...
Toronto -- As the Austerity budget in Ontario goes to vote, activists from No One Is Illegal - Toronto and Occupy Toronto issued a call for a mass protest and day of action on May Day (May 1), 2012. A 30 x 7 foot banner was dropped off a highway crossing early Tuesday morning, ch ...
- Youth-Organized Earth Day Parade and Rally Dra ...
Hundreds of people participated in the Earth Day Parade organized by Youth for Climate Justice Now yesterday. With a papier mache whale, bagpipes, hula hoops, colourful banners, a carnival band, and shark, tree, and oil spill costumes, elders, adults, youth and children made their way down Comme ...
- ‘Stop Harper’s Gang’ says former Senate Page i ...
Photo and video coming soon. For Immediate Release April 23, 2012 Brigette DePape, the “Rogue Page” who disrupted the federal throne speech with a “Stop Harper” sign challenged Wildrose leader Danielle Smith as she arrived to cast her ballot at a polling station in High ...
- Another good reason to vote for Obama
David Seaton's News LinksMitt's friend, BibiThe ties between Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu stand out because there is little precedent for two politicians of their stature to have such a history together that predates their entry into government. And that history could well influence decision-mak ...
- From Rosa Parks to Barack Obama
David Seaton's News LinksOne of the most significant political images in American history. "It did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime I saw an African American elected to the presidency." Mike HuckabeeI just didn't want to let this photo go by without comment.I was jus ...
- Is progressive change in America possible? A p ...
David Seaton's News Links How is progressive change to be effected within the American political system? First: are citizens asking the correct questions?Does anyone really believe that any topflight, professional, national politician, with what national campaigns cost these days, is ever goin ...
- Mitt Romney, severely stiff?
David Seaton's News Links The coming presidential election is very different from 2008... as then one of the men is a known quantity and the other is an enigma. But yesterday's enigma is today's known quantity and although the other man has been around for years, the more he says and the more h ...
- Thoughts at Easter: Once I built a tower and n ...
David Seaton's News Links "We are so made that we can sustain our existence only in group life. Love is the essence of humanity, love needs something to bestow itself upon; human beings must live together in order to live a life of mutual love." D. T. Suzuki "I sincerely believe that if you ...
- We Are Having an Epidemic of Tonsillectomies
This is strange. Just the other day, for no apparent reason, it occurred to me that no one ever has their tonsils removed anymore. It seems like that used to be a pretty common procedure, and then it just fell off the map. But I was thinking about adults, and that was a big mistake. Sarah Kliff ...
- Time to Put "Only in America" Out of Its Misery
After listening to Mitt Romney's victory speech last night, Paul Waldman channels one of my pet peeves: Can we just put aside the "only in America" schtick?....Let's be honest about this. America does indeed offer enormous opportunities for all kinds of people, despite our huge and growing ine ...
- The Yellow Rose of Southern California
It's spring, so here's a picture of a blooming yellow rose from our garden. I don't really need an excuse to post this, do I? And speaking of yellow roses, did you know that most of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas"? It's true! Go ahead and give it a ...
- Congress Already Has the Power to Make Us Buy ...
We're probably all tired of arguments about whether the individual mandate is constitutional, right? I mean, the arguments have been made and someone on the Supreme Court is already busily at work writing a majority opinion telling us whether it is or isn't. But Andrew Sprung hasn't given up ta ...
- Europe Still on Slow Motion Course to Disaster
Stories about problems in the eurozone often compare the "industrious" north to the "carefree" south. Or maybe the "easy-going" south. Or the "sun-drenched" south. The word lazy is seldom actually used, but it's almost always implied. They're just a bunch of sluggards down in Italy and Spain an ...
- N2O cuts are no laughing matter
Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
- N2O cuts are no laughing matter
Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
- Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
- Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.
- Global view answers ice age CO2 puzzle
Measurements seemingly showing that temperatures have risen before atmospheric concentrations of CO2 over the past 800,000 years only represent Antarctica, say Harvard University's Jeremy Shakun and colleagues. By looking globally they show that CO2 rose before the world warmed at the end of the ...
- NASA research estimates how long Titan's chemi ...
Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cranking out hydrocarbons that rain down on Titan's icy surface, cloaking it in soot and, ...
- Graphene boosts efficiency of next-gen solar cells
The coolest new nanomaterial of the 21st century could boost the efficiency of the next generation of solar panels, a team of Michigan Technological University materials scientists has discovered. read more
- 'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants’ meat an ...
Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what a Spanish study shows and has found percussion and cut marks on elephant remains in the sit ...
- Evolution in an island, the secret for a longe ...
ICP researchers have discovered one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of aging, which predicts that species evolving in low mortality and resource-limited ecosystems tend to be more long-lived. read more
- ORNL, Yale take steps toward fast, low-cost DN ...
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Yale University have developed a new concept for use in a high-speed genomic sequencing device that may have the potential to substantially drive down costs. read more
- IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...
- Off to Russia
Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...
- The Nuclear Energy Solution
Guest Post by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson. Bill is a physicist and a radiologist, and wrote Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami about a month into the Fukushima crisis. Greg is an English professor with specialization in critical theory. Both are based in the U.S. ...
- IFR FaD 12 – lessons learned from fast reactor ...
This is the third of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the IF ...
- Open Thread 22
The Open Thread 21 has passed 500 comments and is getting a little bloated, so time for a new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting [...]
- .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
- GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
- A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
- The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
- The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...
- A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
- Michele Bachman Lying Again
On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
- Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
- Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
- How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]
- 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 ...
- Obama appeals to students, Romney tries to app ...
U.S. President Barack Obama has reappeared as candidate Barack Obama, much as he was four years ago when millions of young Americans came out to support him and effectively put him over-the-top as the favorite choice. But 2012 and 2008 are very different times, and Obama knows that. Then, the ...
- Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event b ...
In response to a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony organized by “Combatants for Peace” in the Tel Aviv Harbor, Naomi Enoch, chair of the state-owned company that operates the harbor, said that the ceremony was an outrage, and condemned its participants. In the last year, 67 ...
- The Round Trip part 18: Details, details
From Aqaba to Eilat via an intolerant electric appliances store, a metaphoric volleyball court, and a strange play of reflections. The first thing I notice in Jordan is a picture. It is hanging over my hotel bed: a representation of Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem in its “before” ...
- WATCH: Raw footage of 60 Minutes interview wit ...
After watching the 60 Minutes interview with Michael Oren, I felt like puking. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. And if you only have a minute, just watch this short segment, where Oren looks Bob Simon straight in the eye with a look that could make your blood curl, and tells him [...]
- Palestinian protest organizer makes bail after ...
The Military Court of Appeals ruled that Bassem Tamimi, central organizer of popular demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, will be released on bail Tuesday night after more than a year in prison. The ruling may be a sign of his coming acquittal as Palestinian detainees almost never make bail. Tamimi is ...
- THE SECURITIZATION/AUDIT DEBATE RAGES ON- MARK ...
I appreciate the feedback and debate on this most important topic. Please understand, I am NOT disregarding the work of everyone….only those that are breaking the law and putting consumers in harm’s way! I recently had very powerful results working with one researcher that translate ...
- Florida Bankers to The Florida Supreme Court, ...
Huh? Come again? All of this comes from an Amicus Brief submitted to the Florida Supreme Court in the Pino case… “Moreover, scrutiny of the validity of an assignment of mortgage may be inappropriate under any circumstances.” Apparently the argument is, when faced with questio ...
- Student Loan Debt- 1 in 2 New Grads Un/UnderEm ...
The Foreclosure Defendants continue to Occupy the lower rungs of humanity, even as more and more of those rungs are Occupied by more and more Americans, making that bottom caste a large and growing portion of the population. This disfavored caste, the Unpaid, cannot count on the protections of t ...
- Florida’s Fantasy Retirement Portfolio- ...
Once you understand “our” government does not serve us at all, but instead serves the banks and Wall Street and the monied vipers that are sucking the life out of all of America. Goldman, The Banks, The corporations, all working together to suck every little penny and nickle from the ...
- Mortgage Securitization Audits….THEY ARE ...
Let me be clear about this one more time. MORTGAGE LOAN SECURITIZATION AUDITS ARE A CRIME! VIOLATIONS.—A person who violates any provision of this section commits an unfair and deceptive trade practice as defined in part II of this chapter. Violators are subject to the penalties and remedies pr ...
- 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 ...
- Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
- 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 ...
- FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
- FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
- NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...
- NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...
- Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
- كفى دموعا!
كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
- A Story and a Book
by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
- “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
[The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
- More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
[This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
- What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
- Hasbro Uses Fan's Love To Get His Address & Se ...
Hasbro really knows how to take intense love and devotion to its products and turn it into a creepy, weird stalkerish situation, and fast. A man named Martyn in Australia was so into Nerf guns that he had a blog devoted to the subject so he and other fans could geek out over the toys. All fine ...
- Turns Out That Forcing Customers Into Arbitrat ...
A year ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion case. It decided that a company could force customers into arbitration -- and effectively pre-empt any class-action lawsuits -- by including a tiny clause in their contracts. At the time, AT ...
- Report: Walmart Lobbied Aggressively Against A ...
As every action Walmart has taken over the last few years is being picked apart in the aftermath of the New York Times story that alleges they used bribes to expand in Mexico and then covered up those bribes, lots of little interesting side stories are popping up. For example, a new report says ...
- Verizon Charges You Extra $700 For Returning A ...
Ron is a longtime, loyal Verizon Wireless customer. Things were going quite well until he returned a new phone recently. This phone was somehow never logged in at the warehouse, and Verizon keeps piling equipment fees on Ron's account. Now his service has been shut off, which is bad news for hi ...
- Etsy: Controversial Shop Isn't A Re-Seller, Bu ...
Earlier this week, a number of Etsy sellers and shoppers were upset at the website -- which is intended to sell only handmade items, vintage goods, or crafting materials -- for featuring a shop that some claim is merely a re-seller of mass-produced furniture made from reclaimed wood. But rather ...
- Whistleblower's Identity Exposed by SEC: Daily ...
Wall Street Journal: SEC Whistleblower’s Identity Exposed Summary: While investigating a company running a 'dark pool' stock trading platform, the SEC inadvertently revealed the identity of an anonymous whistleblower, when the SEC lawyer showed an executive notes from the whistleblower’s noteb ...
- Frank Serpico at NYC Tour Stop Today
Frank Serpico at GAP's Anyone Can Whistle event in February 2010Here's the pitch: A tough, yet honorable Army vet joins the NYPD, where he is suddenly thrust into the underbelly of rampant police corruption, and, in the dramatic climax, is shot – and nearly killed – exposing the truth. Sounds li ...
- Wal-Mart's Failure to Heed a Whistleblower: Da ...
The New York Times: Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle Summary: In 2004, a former executive of Wal-Mart de Mexico, Wal-Mart’s largest foreign subsidiary, revealed to a Wal-Mart lawyer the pervasive bribery campaign Wal-Mart de Mexico was using in an effort ...
- NSA Whistleblower Exposes Growing Surveillance ...
Democracy Now!: Exclusive – National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance Summary: National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower and GAP client William Binney appeared on Democracy Now! for a four-part series on the expanding national security and ...
- Spypocrisy: U.S. to Use Technology in Crackdow ...
Today President Obama will issue an executive order, ostensibly to help crack down on human rights atrocities in other countries – by conducting surveillance, blocking access to the Internet or tracking the movements of opposition figures. If this is the true, and only reason, that would ...
- Tories Bleed Support, UK Back in Recession & L ...
The Tory Party’s ongoing self-inflicted death of a thousand austerity cuts continued to plague the UK Government as statistics released today showed a return to recession in the 1st Quarter of 2012. The nation’s GDP fell 0.2% despite the quarter’s final week ‘great fuel panic’ stoked by the Ener ...
- Student Loan Borrowers Dazed and Confused by S ...
The Department of Education has been transferring large batches of federal student loans to new loan-servicing companies — leaving in the lurch some borrowers who are suddenly encountering problems with their loans, such as payments that are mysteriously adjusted up or down. The switch, which ha ...
- Conservative Super PAC’s Donors are Few and Rich
by Michael Beckel, iWatch News Three Texas tycoons are responsible for more than half the funds that conservative super PAC American Crossroads has raised since it was founded by top GOP strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie in 2010. Harold Simmons, Bob Perry and Robert Rowling have collectivel ...
- US And Israel More Likely to Attack Iran Than ...
Just looking at the facts, it appears far more likely that the U.S. will attack Iran again than Iran would attack the U.S. or Israel, America’s Middle East pawn. I say “again” because the U.S. has already an embarrassing record of aggression against Iran, so, if past is prologue, the U.S./Israel ...
- Fighting Religious Tyranny in the U.S. Military
Mikey Weinstein’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation Every once in a while you come into contact with someone with a special something. Sometimes it’s a unique talent, perhaps in one of the arts. Sometimes its a gift for writing or speaking. Whatever it is, when it is on display, it sets them ...
- The Highest Authority in Science is the Data
Joint Post David Evans and Jo Nova “97 percent of climate experts say man-made global warming is a major threat” The correct response: “So? The satellites, ocean buoys, and weather balloons disagree.” The alarmists may have “experts”, but the skeptics have the data. How do you find the truth ab ...
- Long live free speech
This is what we have free speech for. This excellent video says it all. Ponder as you watch: could you imagine a production like this coming from anywhere else but the Land of The Free? (Think Spain, Sweden or France? Weep, that the land of the Magna Carta was not the obvious source or even a li ...
- Choice magazine (government lap-dog) “li ...
For an example of modern government propaganda, wait til you see this: Your Carbon Price (No really, go spend 30 seconds there to try to guess what this production would have cost.) I’ve never seen a website so slickly designed, so smooth to the point of oozing graphic designer dollars wit ...
- Radio interview and 100,000th comment!
We are just 40 odd comments today from the 100,000th lucky commenter!!! Wait for it, we’ll be sending you on a world tour, a dinner for two, I might just post the Grand Winner both Skeptics Handbook I and II Kerry Lutz And for those who would like some weekend listening I did an intervie ...
- Burn those deniers houses down
A Tennessee Fireman’s Solution to Climate Change Steve Zwick, This propaganda has already set us back two decades, … … there is a very public record of who has been lying to the public and who hasn’t – and it’s time to start using this information to make the liars and shirker ...
- Hatch heading for a fall?
(John Fund) - All the senator's horses and all the senator's men couldn't quite wrap up the Utah Republican nomination for Orrin Hatch on Saturday. At the GOP convention, the seven-term senator narrowly missed winning the 60 percent of delegates he needed to avoid a primary against former state ...
- Conduct unbecoming a senator
(Daily Caller) - "I despise these people," Orrin Hatch told NPR last week, "and I'm not the guy you come in and dump on without getting punched in the mouth." What would make the powerful 36-year incumbent senator from Utah say such a hostile thing? Who does he "despise"? What did they do? Who, ...
- Romney lags in smaller campaign donations
(Washington Times) - More people gave sizeable contributions to the foundering Republican presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul last month than to presumed nominee Mitt Romney, according to new disclosures that highlight the difficulty the former Massachusetts governor has had in motivating wid ...
- Obama team breaks pledge, taps lobbyists for cash
(Washington Examiner) - President Obama's re-election team is raising big money from lobbying firms and other special interest groups that benefit from his policies and appointments. This doesn't make Obama any different from other politicians -- but it sure makes him different from what he prom ...
- No more 'Mr. Obama is a nice guy'
(Michelle Malkin) - There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as "civil" by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the USS Lost Cause...
- 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:
- Deaths and House Prices
The peak-to-trough fall in house prices in the 1930s Depression was 31 per cent – and prices took 19 years to recover after that downturn. The current Global Financial Crisis has surpassed that decline, with a record 33%. But ultimately, whichever way you look at it, humans have collectively b ...
- Another Promising Radiation Cure
The combination of two existing drugs kept 80% of tested mice alive after being exposed to radiation. While many more tests are needed, stockpiling this combo could one day save millions of lives. Mice exposed to radiation were administered a combination of the antibiotic fluoroquinolone and a ...
- Giant Swedish Sinkhole
I’m still not sure if there is any signifiance to all these sinkholes that are making the news these days. And this one, well it’s in a mining area. But you’d think that the mining 600 metres below wouldn’t cause a sinkhole, although perhaps explosions could? Anyway ̵ ...
- Video On Relocating for Survival Purposes
The creator of this video is Fernando “Ferfal” Aguirre who wrote the very interesting survivalist book Surviving The Economic Collapse. While his writing style is unusual, his hardcore attitude makes it a must read – it’ll force you to think about many SHTF aspects that m ...
- Land Rover DC100
Over at USA Today they are telling us that this new Land Rover model should appeal to survivalists: With its rooftop equipment rack, you can stow hundreds of cans of Spam and canned peas topside, leaving the cargo area for your stash of glinting yellow gold bullion. As giant chasms split open ...
- An Open Government Wrapped in the Internet
On April 17-18, 2012 the First Annual High-Level Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be held in Brazil. According to the dedicated page on the US State Department web-site, the OGP is ‘aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civi ...
- Soros’s Virus Sneaking Into the Open Gov ...
The first annual conference of the Open Government Partnership, an international group set up in New York by the US, UK, Canada, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa in September, 2011, will open in Brazil on April 17, 2012. Over the past six months, the partners ...
- Who Are To Stand Up In the International Crimi ...
Not long ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a noteworthy ruling. Formally it was related to two African states – Malawi and Chad visited by president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. Their fault was not so much receiving him but rather not putting him under arrest. The warrant was is ...
- Amnesty International Propaganda Targets Russi ...
The Amnesty International “infographic” titled, “Shocking Facts About Who’s Arming Human Rights Abusers,” portraying Russia’s arming of Syria as “fueling the most bloodshed” is not “shocking” at all when one realizes the disingenuous human ri ...
- What Missiles Are Threatening Europe?
The issue of creating missile defense boundaries in Europe is largely political in nature. The United States is developing the system more for ensuring national security — officially from Iran, but in reality from China and possibly Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand its persistenc ...
- 5 Minutes to a Supercharged Brainstorm
When a runner gets ready for a race, he doesn’t just stroll up to the start line and go. No. He stretches, he jogs a few laps, he gets limber. You can do the mental equivalent for brainstorming–a mental warm-up. By spending just a few minutes getting your brain charged up, you can boost your bra ...
- Wow Inspired YouTube Tips and Tricks
Joyce Valenza's blog is Never Ending Search, a School Library Journal Blog. Joyce recently shared some fantastic tips for working with YouTube. Everything from linking to an exact spot in a video, adding captions, editing, and lots more. She explains, YouTube is the largest video repository kno ...
- Student Loans & Politics: Are You Still Paying ...
When my husband and I got married, we married each other and we married each other's debt. I think we had something like $28k in student loans from my husband when we got together, which we started paying off immediately. Those were the good old days before mortgage and a kid, and we were fortun ...
- OMG! I'm Going to Be a Grandmother! Wait. What ...
My son-in-law was released from the boat and came home to put the crib and dresser changing table combo thingy together. There's been a virtual baby shower and an in-real-life baby shower. Jenn is starting to complain a little bit because 36 weeks feels a whole lot more pregnant than 35 weeks. I ...
- Quick & Easy Appetizer: Honey Prosciutto Flatbread
[Editor's Note: Sweet, salty, soft and crispy, all with a little bit of a bite? The flavor combination in this appetizer recipe sounds like it hits all the notes that would make my mouth happy. It's an easy dish to throw together, but is certain to wow guests at an upcoming gathering. --Genie] ...
- 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 ...
- ‘Responsible people’: WVU professo ...
In this Jan. 27, 2012 photo, a deck hand secures a barge in one of the chambers at the Montgomery Lock and Dam along the Ohio River in Monaca, Pa. Each barge holds an estimated 1,500 tons of coal, according to lock master Rick Greenwood. (AP Photo/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Keith Hodan) When la ...
- What does Alpha have against scientists?
Well, first Alpha Natural Resources didn’t want any discussion about the growing body of science linking mountaintop removal to human illness discussed in the court case over the Reylas Surface Mine proposed by Alpha subsidiary Highland Mining Co. In the process, Alpha’s lawyers con ...
- Friday roundup, April 20, 2012
In this photo taken Sunday, April 15, 2012, rescuers search for victims of a landslide from a strip coal mine in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam. An official said the landslide from the coal mine’s dump killed one person and left five others missing and presumed dead in northern Vietnam. (A ...
- Bumper stickers: Cecil Roberts demands apology ...
It seemed like it was going to be a slow Friday afternoon … then into my email inbox popped this release from our friends at the United Mine Workers of America: “The comments from WWVA-AM on-air personality David Bloomquist about coal miners, their wives and the nature of coal miners ...
- Update: Coal ash and Congressman McKinley
Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives added to a major transportation funding bill an amendment from West Virginia’s very own, Rep. David McKinley, to block the federal Environmental Protection Agency from regulating toxic coal ash from the nation’s power plants. As Pa ...
- FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
- Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
- ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
- HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
- Student Centre Branded Terrorist
London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
- Fear of Cowboy Boots
By Diana May-Waldman,Worldwidehippies – My daughter and I are shopping. She is matching coupons with diapers and I am smelling shampoo. I toss of a bottle of some really great smelling green stuff into my cart. My daughter tosses diapers and nursing pads on top of the shampoo. I check thin ...
- Literature in a Locked Down Land
By William T. Hathaway Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is “well” not in the sense of being contented and happy but rather of being vital and impassioned. And it is imprisoned not just in the sense of being locked behind bars but also of being locke ...
- Revolution 99 Updates: Stand, Push, Agitate, S ...
Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested (Reuters) – Police in riot gear arrested two dozen people on Tuesday as protesters with a huge inflated rat sought to disrupt a Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) annual shareholder meeting to express anger over foreclosures, executive compensa ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
UK police: Missing girl Madeleine may be alive LONDON (AP) — Missing girl Madeleine McCann who vanished while on a family vacation in Portugal five years ago may be alive, UK police said Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said they are still investigating the disappearance of the girl ...
- The World is a Mess – I am part of the p ...
By Marie Gage,Worldwidehippies – I am part of the problem. I could say that all of us are part of the problem, but the only real person I am an expert on, is myself. I can speak on those actions of others that seem to contradict what they say in public or even in private. [...]
- Czechia from 2014: no subsidies for renewable ...
The Czech government is now pretty likely to survive a medium crisis ignited by the least reliable coalition party, the Public Affairs (VV). Its former minister, Ms Kateřina Peake, was ousted from the party but she managed to establish a new version of the Public Affairs, the so-called T ...
- Exceptional Lie groups
Twenty years ago, when I started to read various articles on particle physics, I often encountered exceptional Lie groups in various articles on grand unified theories and related topics. And I couldn't understand why they exist and what they really are. Even when I got to the college, it too ...
- Svensmark: only supernova explosions and sea l ...
I tried to summarize all the findings of a very intriguing paper into the extended title. Nigel Calder's blog Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on Earth (PDF, Svensmark's actual paper in Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.) Press release of the Royal Astronomical Society in London A ...
- Retractions, decreasing funding, and other cri ...
In recent days, many people wrote about various crises in science. Some of these complaints may sound similar to what I have been saying for many years but there are substantial differences, too. In The New York Review of Books, Steven Weinberg wrote about The Crisis of Big Science My hat ...
- Skydrive, Dropbox improved to fight Google Drive
Free markets and competition can do impressive things, things that left-wing or planned societies cannot. Tomorrow or so, we will be offered 5 GB of free cloud space by Google Drive. This new product will be a challenge for other major cloud services. Apple has its own iCloud that ...
- If I wanted America to fail – Earth Day is Min ...
With all of the Yuppies and Trendies running around shouting “save the planet from ourselves” the social engineers of the planet and global dictators must have huge shit-eating grins on their face at the little mindless Eco-Fascists that they have created. An entire generation of you ...
- MAD APE PRESS RELEASE: Council on Foreign Rela ...
MAD APE PRESS RELEASE We, the free people of the Planet Earth, who have broken through the false reality that you have helped create, know who you are and what you represent. Our duty, our life mission, is to expose your deceit, your global financial dictatorship, your theft of the human spirit, ...
- God bless America. Without you we would not ha ...
After decades of fluoridation, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, GMO, growth hormones, antibiotics in the food, the US Education System, and mass media zombie programming, you end up with cross-dressing, feminized, obese rednecks. God bless America. Without you we would not have this: The pho ...
- Planet X Arrives in Antarctica
I tried to tell you guys that Planet X aka Nibiru was here (http://tatumba.com/blog/archives/7116). I photographed it and uploaded back in January 2012, when it was just coming into our visible frequency range. I was ridiculed, told it was Photoshopped, lens flare, etc. Well I just got back from ...
- 12 year old girl explains how to destroy corru ...
This little girl is a genius, a result of great parenting that has resulted in a young patriot that tears apart the Canadian Banking System exposing how it is corrupt and has become a plague on society. After she tears them out a new one, she offers a solution of how to rid us of [...] Related ...
- We've Been Slimed
A guest post from Laura MacCleery Mom, attorney and blogger Last month, the New York Times published a story about my efforts when I was pregnant to rid my home of toxic chemicals. The story featured a photo of my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
- Skin Deep and Healthy Home Tips Across the Web
News coverage of EWG topics including cosmetics and household toxins appeared across the web from sites including the Los Angeles Times, Shine by Yahoo!, and Prevention. EWG released a statement on a finding from an independent science panel finding... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- News Wrapup: Earthquakes, Nail Polish and Diabetes
A summary of a U.S. Geological Survey finding associating earthquakes with the oil and gas drilling process was mentioned by The Atlantic, and re-printed in Yahoo! Finance and SFist. Bill Allayaud was interviewed twice by different Fox News programs,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Are Pesticide Sprayers "Health Experts?" Serio ...
By Alex Formuzis, Vice President of Media Relations New online videos from a chemical agribusiness front group show conventional growers straining to convince consumers that it's just fine to eat bug killers and weed killers. The Alliance for Food and... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
- Help Us Create Our New Facebook Timeline Banner!
As you've likely noticed, Facebook recently released its Timeline feature for fan and brand pages. It's a great new way to tell stories and share and highlight memorable posts. Everyone is getting creative with the new format, so we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Norwegians sing out against Breivik
In late July Norwegians gathered spontaneously with flowers and song, after terrorist attacks left 77 persons dead. On Thursday, many were planning to sing out once again, after the home-grown terrorist who killed and maimed hundreds of their fellow Norwegians further provoked them with derogato ...
- First survivor tells his story in court
Eivind Dahl Thoresen, a law student at the University of Bergen, was walking home from his summer job on the afternoon of July 22 when the bomb went off that could have killed him. On Wednesday, he was in court in Oslo on crutches, the first survivor to testify in the trial of confessed terroris ...
- Breivik defends his mental health
Anders Behring Breivik claims he slept well, ate breakfast and even prepared a lunch bag for himself (a baguette with ham and cheese) before he embarked on his terrorist attacks that killed 77 persons last summer. Breivik was back on the witness stand Wednesday, bashing a psychiatrists’ re ...
- Former broker sentenced for massive tax evasion
One of Norway’s most high-profile stock brokers of the past decade, Bjørn Arne Fredrik Sellæg, has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after what the court called the largest personal tax evasion case in the country’s history. The Oslo City Court noted in its ruling th ...
- Krekar deportation talks resume
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in Norway this week for talks with Norwegian officials that included a pending deportation of Mullah Krekar, the Islamic cleric who’s been deemed a threat to Norway’s national security. Norwegian officials were once again unable, howev ...
- More Good Excuses
PRI Australia Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) graduates, April 2012 Click here for larger view, or here for even larger! All photos © Craig Mackintosh I recently briefed you on the fact that I was visiting New Zealand. Today I put up a little more evidence of this (don’t worry ...
- APC11 Presentation: Susan Krumdieck – Sustaina ...
Susan Krumdieck, speaking at the Australasian Permaculture Conference (APC11) in Turangi, New Zealand, April 2012 Photo © Craig Mackintosh Susan Krumdieck is an Associate Professor working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zeal ...
- Edible Forest Gardens Course, Woodbine Ecology ...
Course Date: June 1 — 7, 2012 About Edible Forest Gardens: Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis on low-maintenance perennial crops. These gardens (and larger-scale operations) can provide cr ...
- Indigenous Land Management Practices in the US ...
I’ve been interested in indigenous land management for many years, but since the publication of M. Kat Anderson’s phenomenal Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources I’ve been engaged in active research. This has inc ...
- Personal Responsibility and Causes for Consumerism
Editor’s Note: This article is courtesy of the new PRI Sunshine Coast (formally Kin Kin SOULS), led by highly experienced permaculturists, Tom and Zaia Kendall. Please note that Tom and Zaia will be hosting a 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course from May 20, 2012, and a ful ...
- There’s a killer in your house.
This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2 emissions, and more energy-ef ...
- The sun is setting on solar power, the money&# ...
If you keep an eye on the financial world, which I do, and especially the green sectors, which I also do, it’s been an interesting time of late. Within the last few weeks, Solar Trust of America (STA), owner of the world’s largest solar plant, filed for bankruptcy protection under Ch ...
- About writing.
I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
- About writing.
I do the thinking thing very well. For so much of my life and for so many things in it, I think very carefully before I leap and I’m good at it. Over the years, people have learnt to trust and depend on that and because I love them, that’s something special I can do … Read more
- Political fracture points and power vacuums.
A political fracture point is a sudden and radical change in the political landscape. In classical times, it would be the collapse of an empire, such as the Roman Empire. In the last century, World War I resulted in the outright destruction of several, such as the German Empire, and ultimately f ...
- 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 ...
- Statement in Response to the First Criminal In ...
From a statement by our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Today a former BP employee has been indicted. We believe that there are more criminal indictments of oil companies possible, if only the Department of Justice would look. The Department should look into ongoing actions by man ...
- Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...
- Another Victory Against Louisiana's Crime Agai ...
A judge's order yesterday took another step towards ending the harsh legacy of Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Law. Below is a press release on the issue from Center for Constitutional Rights. Louisiana must “cease and desist” from placing any individuals convicted of Crime Against Nature by ...
- Isabella's Story: A Transgender Person's Story ...
The letter below came to us from our friends at BreakOUT!. This Thursday night at 9:00pm, the Allways Lounge will host a benefit for BreakOUT! featuring a range of performances; circus, burlesque, drag, bounce, and more. "This is a short story of my life. Please type it and print it and send it ...
- Danziger Sentences Bring Closure, With Controv ...
This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website. On Wednesday, five officers were sentenced for firing on unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, and conspiring to cover-up their crime. The sentences bring some degree of closure to a case th ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
I read 'dialogue in hell between montesquie and machievelli' and the second half of the first chapter does read word for word with the beginning of the protocols, however thats it. The truth of this plagarism is beyond my knowledge but it is a lie to say the entire protocols is a rip off of dial ...
- Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
LordLindsey wrote: When people hear that program, AND THE FACT THAT HE CALLED IMMEIATELY AFTER THE ADL-SHILL, they can make-up their own minds. LINDSEY I downloaded the show and listened to it again, indeed Tuskin called in immediately after the shill, who tries to play the race card by askin ...
- Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
When people hear that program, AND THE FACT THAT HE CALLED IMMEIATELY AFTER THE ADL-SHILL, they can make-up their own minds. LINDSEYStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:55 pm
- Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
Another thought about the quarrel between Bob Tuskin and the Fetch this morning, it seems to me that Tuskin is playing the same role on Oracle as Jonestein is playing at GCN. Alex Jones got many ousted at GCN like Jeff Rense, Mike Rivero, and just recently David Whitehurst Berry who hosted Cra ...
- Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
LordLindsey wrote: :lol: Oh, GOD!!!! That was great, wasn't it!? The Fetch just simply exposed Tuskin, and now Tuskin KNOWS that his symapthies have been exposed; do you people want to know the most disturbing part of all of this? Tuskin called IMMEDIATELY after that ADL-Troll ...
- Interview: Standing Up Against a Massive Dam P ...
The Gibe III dam project in Ethiopia — which, if completed, would be the world’s fourth-largest dam — was moving steadily forward when it collided with a 31-year-old Kenyan woman named Ikal Angelei. Since learning of Goldman Environmental Prize Ikal Angelei the project in 2008, she has gal ...
- A Kenyan Woman Stands Up Against Massive Dam P ...
Ikal Angelei is helping lead a campaign to stop construction of a major dam in Ethiopia that threatens the water supply and way of life of tens of thousands of indigenous people. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she explains what she believes is at stake in the fight against the Gibe I ...
- European Satellite Provides Precise Data On Ar ...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat satellite is now providing highly accurate data on the thickness and volume of Arctic Ocean ice. Using a high-resolution
- ‘Glowing’ Fish Provides Insights Into Effects ...
UK researchers say they have genetically engineered a zebrafish to produce a fluorescent green glow under a special microscope in response to exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, a technique that could provide new University of ExeterA microscopic view of the glowing zebrafish insigh ...
- Solar-Powered ATM Machines Expand Banking Opti ...
For many villagers in rural areas of India, personal banking comes at a high cost. In addition to the expense of traveling to the nearest branch, often in distant cities, Click to enlarge Vortex Engineering A “Gramateller” ATM in a Tamil Nadu village. they must often forego a day’s work. ...
- Alberta election’s biggest loser: Stephe ...
By Frank Moher I’ll leave it to others to dissect why the PC’s ended up trouncing Wildrose in Alberta, despite all the polls and predictions. What interests me is what this portends for Stephen Harper and company. Danielle Smith is, whether by happenstance or design, a near-clone of ...
- A Modest Opinion – Where’s the Can ...
By Nathaniel Moher You know what Canada lacks? The American Dream. We don’t even have some lesser Canadian version of the American Dream (like how we have whatever our version of American Idol is called, or whatever our version of America’s Got Talent is called). And it’s our lack of the A ...
- Wildrose Party’s Byfield: The Collected ...
By Frank Moher Alheli Picazo at CalgaryPolitics.com has dug up some of the writings of Wildrose Party candidate and one-time Alberta Report Publisher/Editor Link Byfield, just in case Danielle Smith would like to defend someone other than Allan Hunsperger and Ron Leech for a change. Of course, t ...
- Wildrose’s Ron Leech and the “ethi ...
By Frank Moher Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith says she takes it personally when “accusations of racism and bigotry are aimed at me and at my party.” Okay, well how about if we accuse some of your candidates of being bone dumb? We knew, of course, that Wildrose candidate Ron Lee ...
- Danielle Smith: standing up for bigots’ ...
Editor’s note: Since Montreal Simon posted on Tuesday about about Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and her defense of candidate/bigot Allan Hunsperger (see below), another runaway pastor has emerged. Ron Leech, Wildrose candidate in the multicultural riding of Calgary-Greenway, cleverl ...
- Ozawa day of trial reckoning nears
The Tokyo District Court will issue its verdict Thursday in the trial of former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, who stands accused of violating the Political Funds Control Law. Ozawa heads the ruling DPJ's largest faction and adamantly opposes the sales tax hike being pursued by ...
- Warming may open key Arctic sea route to Europe
The Arctic could emerge as a key commercial shipping route between Japan and Europe because of a sharp decline in the ice cap caused by global warming, government officials and researchers say. If a new shipping route opens, vessels could cut the distance between Japan and Europe to two-thirds ...
- Inaba moves closer to 2,000-hit milestone in win
Atsunori Inaba went 4-for-4 to move within two hits of a career 2,000 as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-1 Wednesday. The 39-year-old Inaba had four singles, giving himself a chance to become the 39th player in Japanese baseball history to reach the mark on Thur ...
- Lights out as last nuke reactor in operation p ...
Japan's sole operating nuclear reactor, the No. 3 unit at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari plant, will be shut down at around 11 p.m. May 5 for a regular inspection, the utility said Wednesday. The suspension of operations at Tomari will probably result in all 50 of the nation's commercial ...
- No holiday for phone chips
Major domestic chip-makers plan to operate many of their plants during the Golden Week holiday period that runs from this weekend until May 6, pumping out semiconductors for smartphones at full capacity. Meanwhile, semiconductors for use in digital consumer electronics such as liquid crystal d ...
- Beetles, forests, and climate change: Exchangi ...
Many sectors of Canadian society are still in shock, reeling from the recent budget cutbacks announced by the Harper Conservatives. The CBC, the National Film Board, Elections Canada, Canadian Border Services, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Veterans Affairs, and Fisheries and Oceans have ...
- Can Wildrose remove its thorns?
With the Alberta Tories proving so many pollsters and pundits wrong after their convincing win last night, one might be forgiven for writing off the ultra-conservative Wildrose Party as an otherwise historic footnote in the annals of Alberta’s Tory dynasty. That, I argue, would be a mistak ...
- McGuinty Budget Would Cut Over 100,000 Jobs
Last week, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union released an interesting report by the Centre for Spatial Economics on the economic impact of proposed provincial budget cuts. It provides a timely reminder that the public sector is a crucial component of the economy, with public spending als ...
- Neil Reynolds’ Fuzzy Tax Math
If you need help with your tax return, don’t ask Neil Reynolds. His latest attack on the New Democrat proposal to collect modestly more tax from Ontario’s super-rich stated that “the province’s highest marginal rate on personal income would rise, federal and provincial rates combined, from 46.4 ...
- Meilinomics I: The Little Boats
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes frequently to the West Side Clinic; we’ll call them Lucas and Annie. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t see them in for a medical visit ...
- US liberals and their situational ethics
Lawrence Davidson argues that the ethical standards of American liberals are more malleable than they would admit: In practice they "do not oppose the violation of civil or human rights, be they those of Americans, Iraqis or anybody else. What they do consider unacceptable are violations carried ...
- Disempowerment and suppression of freedoms in ...
Graham Peebles looks at how the increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is systematically tightening its monopoly over information, suppressing free speech and suffocating media freedom. "Disempowerment is the aim, and the means are well known, crude and unimaginati ...
- Israel's settler-officers in the glare of publ ...
Uri Avnery examines the incident in which an Israeli skullcap-wearing officer, Lt-Col Shalom Eisner, launched an unprovoked and brutal attack on a young Danish peace activist, and argues that Eisner, a deputy brigade commander, is not just the quintessential army officer but the quintessential I ...
- What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?
Alan Hart argues that among the things that unite Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin is "mania of victimhood": for Breivik insane fears about the consequences for Norway of immigration and multiculturalism, and for Netanyahu an obsession with Iran which, i ...
- Intolerance in the USA's "sunshine state" of F ...
Lawrence Davidson analysis the chronic intolerance inherent in the US State of Florida, at the core of which lie the Cuban American and Jewish communities, which "form around repugnant ideological cores that then come to characterize their very identity".
- Graphene offers clear window on liquids
BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
- Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
- Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
- Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
- Norway massacre is a false flag
by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
- CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:35 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
- Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...
- News media won't report
by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:37:51 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
- Media suppress Ron Paul
by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:30:23 GMT)
- The Water Fight That Inspired ‘Chinatown’
“When 95 percent of the water rights along the river were in the hands of Mulholland’s department, an aqueduct some 233 miles long was built to take the water to the city. But because the amount that was flowing to Los Angeles was more than it could use, Owens Valley water soon made the Sa ...
- Help for a Plastic Planet: New Report Focuses ...
Photo retrieved from: www.alternet.org “Man-made debris in the oceans is now found from the poles to the equator and from shorelines, estuaries and the sea surface to ocean floor. While the types and absolute quantities vary, it is clear that plastic materials represent the major constitue ...
- Protestors Condemn Ch. Karnchang over Xayaburi ...
“Coinciding with Ch. Karnchang’s Annual Shareholders Meeting, dozens of protestors rallied in front of the company’s headquarters in Bangkok on Tuesday, demanding a halt to all construction activities occurring on the Xayaburi Dam. Civil society groups and community representat ...
- Gas ‘fracking’ gets green light
“Ministers have been advised to allow the controversial practice of fracking for shale gas to be extended in Britain, despite it causing two earthquakes and the emergence of serious doubts over the safety of the wells that have already been drilled. “The experts say hydraulic fractur ...
- Restrict shale gas fracking to 600m from water ...
“Controversial “fracking” for shale gas should only take place at least 600 metres down from aquifers used for water supplies, scientists said on Wednesday. A new study revealed the process, which uses high-pressure liquid pumped deep underground to split shale rock and release ...
- CFTC, SEC Gave Bonanza to Energy Companies One ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today wrote the Chairs of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (C.F.T.C.) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) demanding the analysis that justifies the adoption of a new rule which wo ...
- Kucinich Defends Efforts to Fight Medicaid Fraud
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today defended the role of the Affordable Care Act, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in their efforts to combat Medicaid fraud. Kucinich also sta ...
- Analysis of Audio Record of Kent State Shootin ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a Department of Justice (DOJ) analysis of an audio recording of the moments leading up to the Ohio National Guard opening fire on student protestors at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Kucinich requested the Department of Justice exami ...
- Social Security Strong, Trustees’ Report Shows ...
Washington D.C. (April 23, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today welcomed the 2012 Social Security Trustees Report (PDF)which shows that Social Security is strong. “The Trustees’ report shows that Social Security is strong. It demonstrates that Social Security is 100% fully fund ...
- Kucinich: Medicare Trustees’ Annual Report Hig ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), coauthor of H.R. 676, Medicare for All, today made the following statement as the Medicare Trustees released their annual report, which finds that “As in past years, the Trustees have determined that the fund is not adequately financed over the next 10 years… ...
- …THEY ALL DRANK CORPORATE’S KOOL-A ...
…THEY ALL DRANK CORPORATE’S KOOL-AIDE… Shock Doctrine at the Post Office: How the GOP Manufactured a Crisis and Too Many Dems Went Along Hold one thought in your mind every time you read about the "crisis" the U.S. Postal Service is in: There is a crisis, but it’s a ma ...
- “magically” produce balanced budgets
… Every day we watch as the members of our US Congre$$ as well as the members of our State Legislatures engage in ENRON type finance and budgeting which “magically” produce balanced budgets…. … It’s only later we learn how they bamboozled us with an update version of the old ...
- decline is self-inflicted
… It is reported that part of this decline is self-inflicted…. This just can’t be … America always has someone to BLAME … and that can’t be us … Noam Chomsky on America’s Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … By Joshua Holland, AlterNe ...
- …YES … the environment can be used ...
…YES … the environment can be used as a weapon as well wielded as a scepter of power and domination… Say Hello to Your New Master: Environmental Dictatorship 04-24-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com The United Nations plans to use its upcoming UN Conference on “Sus ...
- … Are U really asking if I find this sur ...
… Are U really asking if I find this surprising …? BP Covered Up Blowout Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill Greg Palast, EcoWatch: "This week, EcoWatch.org located an eyewitness with devastating new information about the Caspian Sea oil-rig blow-out which BP had c ...
- The Truth about Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
- 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 ...
- Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
- How a crippled rhino may save a species
On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...
- Our success in transforming commodity markets ...
The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate of the world's remaining wild places, said a group of experts speaking at a panel during the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepr ...
- Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
- Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
- US company to mine asteroids for water
A US company, backed by film director James Cameron and Google's top executives, has unveiled bold plans to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water.Heralding a new frontier in space exploitation, Planetary Resources announced...
- Big Bang Theory - surgeon claims to have found ...
The bottom line is men and women have erogenous zones all over their body. Sex therapist Robyn Salisbury An American surgeon claims to have confirmed the existence of the so-called "G-spot", an elusive female pleasure zone.Academic...
- Euthanasia campaigner: 'I have no regrets'
Convicted criminal Sean Davison became a free man yesterday.The first thing he did was walk in the surf at Dunedin's St Clair Beach."I didn't sleep a wink all night, I was so excited. I was like a kid waiting for a Christmas stocking....
- Russian scientists quest to find elusive white ...
A team of Russian scientists say they will embark on a quest next week to observe the only all-white, adult killer whale ever spotted - a majestic and elusive bull they have named Iceberg.The researchers from the universities of...
- Universe from 'nothing' rattles faith
The idea has shifted from a philosophical concept to a fragile piece of real estate, says cosmologist. Ultimately, we must understand the universe and use science and reality as policy guides or "we're screwed", says cosmologist...
- “What does it profit a man?” ̵ ...
By Michael Schmidt, special to The Bovine: Health Canada, CFIA and the local health departments across Canada are on the loose to chase the wrong goose. First of all please read the following excerpt based on official data from the … Continue reading →
- Shepherd still seeking lost sheep — Mont ...
From the Canadian Constitution Foundation: HASTINGS, ON: The owner of a rare heritage Shropshire sheep flock that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered destroyed has filed a federal court application for judicial review of the order. Shepherd Montana … Continue reading →
- Shepherd seeking lost sheep
From the Canadian Constitution Foundation: HASTINGS, ON: The owner of a rare heritage Shropshire sheep flock that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered destroyed has filed a federal court application for judicial review of the order. Shepherd Montana … Continue reading →
- Raw milk in “The New Yorker”
From Dana Goodyear, at the Culture Desk at The New Yorker: “…In Barber’s experience, though, whether or not milk is pasteurized is secondary to what the cow—in his view, a “vector for the grass”—eats: not only are pasture-fed ruminants eating … Continue reading →
- Raw milk in “The New Yorker”
From Dana Goodyear, at the Culture Desk at The New Yorker: “…In Barber’s experience, though, whether or not milk is pasteurized is secondary to what the cow—in his view, a “vector for the grass”—eats: not only are pasture-fed ruminants eating … Continue reading →
- Irish Support for Merkozy Treaty Drops to 30% ...
Ireland was one of few countries to give its voters a say on passing the Merkozy referendum. A couple months ago, support for the treaty was close to 50%. Now, in spite of pro-treaty (and illegal) propaganda from the Irish government, support has fallen to a mere 30%. The Financial times re ...
- UK Back in Recession, Did it Really Ever Leave ...
It is amusing to watch economists toss around ridiculous terms like "technical recession" to justify their poor forecasts. The entire eurozone is now in recession and the UK was sure to follow because so much of its trade is with the eurozone. This was easy to predict, yet few did. The Mail ...
- 53% of New Graduates are Jobless or Underemplo ...
The USA Today reports graduating class of 2012 is in for a rude awakening as Half of new graduates are jobless or underemployed. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge. ...
- U.S. Creates New Spy Service (Because 16 Intel ...
The US currently has sixteen intelligence agencies. The Secretary of Defense now wants yet another agency, and the only logical conclusion is the sixteen existing agencies simply cannot get the job done. Collectively US intelligence agencies missed 911, Egypt, Libya, events in Iran, and the ...
- Marc Faber Discusses Imminent Market Crash, a ...
Inquiring minds are listening to Marc Faber on the global economy. Link if video does not play: Marc Faber speaks of Imminent Market Crash Faber says China faces a recession defined as a slowdown to 3%. Interestingly, 3% is the same long-term target that Michael Pettis ...
- Is Obama a Fraud?
The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
- Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
- Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
- Presentation to the National Economists Club
Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
- Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
- Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
- Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
- Pint sized rocket
A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
- Seeing Around the Corner
Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
- Drugs in sewage
Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
- How can it be that more than 40 years after th ...
How can it be that more than 40 years after the Vietnam War’s Tet offensive and after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military still doesn’t get guerrilla warfare? I tried to puzzle it out in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times today and in a longer version of the piece at Tom ...
- Bahraini anti-government demonstrators shout t ...
Bahraini anti-government demonstrators shout toward riot police Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Sitra, Bahrain. Clashes erupted during a protest in the village against the April 22 Formula 1 Grand Prix, which some opposition activists urge be boycotted. Alongside fliers urging the cancellation of ...
- A protestor shouts slogans during a rally orga ...
A protestor shouts slogans during a rally organized by Communist Party of India (Marxist) and various trade unions in Jammu, India, Saturday, March 24, 2012. The protest was against inflation and alleged anti-labor policies in the country. (Channi Anand)
- How can it be that more than 40 years after th ...
How can it be that more than 40 years after the Vietnam War’s Tet offensive and after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military still doesn’t get guerrilla warfare? I tried to puzzle it out in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times today and in a longer version of the piece at Tom ...
- occupyallstreets:Bradley Manning Lawyer Says ...
occupyallstreets: Bradley Manning Lawyer Says Military ‘Mishandled’ Case As Hearings Continue Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret state documents to WikiLeaks, will face his military detractors again this morning at the start of up to three more d ...
BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 15: Protesters demonstrate against the influence of bankers and financiers march on October 15, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people took to the streets today in cities across Germany in demonstrations inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States. Activists are demanding an end to the free-wheeling ways of global financial players whom they see as responsible for the current European and American economic woes. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 02: Members of the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as 'Veterans of the 99%' pause in front of the New York Stock Exchange while marching from Vietnam Veterans Plaza to Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street movement is centered on November 2, 2011 in New York City. The veterans groups, which feature current and former members of the United States military, marched in support of Occupy Wall Street and to pay homage to Scott Olsen, a former Marine and Iraq War vet who sustained a skull fracture after he was injured by police at an Occupy Oakland protest. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Carter at a book signing in Phoenix, Arizona (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 05: Rules for demonstrators with Occupy Chicago to follow are posted on a cart at the protest site in the financial district October 5, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The protest is one of many around the country being held in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests currently taking place in New York City. The demonstrators are protesting what they believe is greed and corruption among banking and business leaders, claiming the majority of wealth in the United States is controlled by 1 percent of the population. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 05: S&P floor Trader Danny Riley passes protestors Michael Sonnenberg (L) and Rachel Kryzak (R) with Occupy Chicago outside the Chicago Board of Trade building October 5, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The protest is one of many around the country being held in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests currently taking place in New York City. The demonstrators are protesting what they believe is greed and corruption among banking and business leaders, claiming the majority of wealth in the United States is controlled by 1 percent of the population. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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