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Luxembourgian-registered NATO E-3 AWACS flying with three American Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft in a NATO exercise (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and other members of NATO Ministers of Defense and of Foreign Affairs meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 14, 2010, to give political guidance for the November meeting of Allied Heads of State and Government at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

• Taliban stronger than before troop surge: US l ...
  The Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of US troops to Afghanistan, two senior US lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration’s assessment of the insurgency.
• Hunting king declared 'persona non grata'
  A north-eastern town has declared the king of Spain an unwelcome person, dealing another blow to the 74-year-old monarch who has faced scalding criticism for going on an elephant hunting trip during a severe financial crisis. The town council of Berga, population 17,160, in Catalonia, approve ...
• Galbraith: The Predator State
  Today, the signature of modern American capitalism is neither benign competition, nor class struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class utopia. Instead, predation has become the dominant feature—a system wherein the rich have come to feast on decaying systems built for the middle class. The predator ...
• Keen: Australian house price bubble is bursting
  The ABS numbers are in, and they show a 1.1% national fall over the March quarter. Sydney house prices fell 1.8% according to the ABS, whereas Australian Property Monitor alleged they rose 1.4% – the latter being the basis for Andrew Wilson’s latest piece “Confidence rises as prices bounce back” ...
• Is Tom Crone Rupert Murdoch’s John Dean?
  Comparisons with Watergate raise worrying prospects for News Corporation ..

Independent - London

• Gambling, drinking Buddhist monks raise hell i ...
  Six leaders from South Korea's biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking.Related Stories'Afghan soldier' kills Nato servicemanTaliban claim responsibility for killing of Nato servi ...
• Gambling, drinking Buddhist monks shown raisin ...
  Six leaders from South Korea's biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking.Related Stories'Afghan soldier' kills Nato servicemanTaliban claim responsibility for killing of Nato servi ...
• Nasa tests next-generation of Mars Rover in pr ...
  The Mojave Desert stood in for the dry earth of the Red Planet yesterday as Nasa scientists tested an engineering model of their next-generation Mars rover.Related StoriesThe $1bn city where human beings are not welcome
• £1.2bn JP Morgan Chase loss investigated
  A team of high-stakes traders, including one dubbed the London Whale, were today at the centre of an investigation over £1.2 billion losses at America's biggest bank. Related StoriesJPMorgan acknowledges $2bn trading loss
• Thousands left homeless in Philippines shanty ...
  Officials say a fire that swept through a sprawling squatters' colony on Manila Bay's rim has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless. Related Stories'Afghan soldier' kills Nato servicemanTaliban claim responsibility for killing of Nato serviceman by 'Afghan soldier'Three years s ...

Rogue Government.com

• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
  For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
• Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
  Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
• Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
  A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

Innovation Canada

• Safety haven
  If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
• Small tools, big impact
  Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
• Innovative, naturally
  For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
• A very gourd idea
  It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
• Johne’s happens
  Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

• Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Arizona Sheriff
  US, Phoenix - As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law. After months of negotiations failed to reach a settlement over the al ...
• Britain's Coldest May in 300 Years
  Central England temperatures so far this month average 8.6C, 1.6C below normal. The last time May was colder was in 1698, at 8.5C over the whole month. And the Met Office has warned that weeks of wet weather ahead could wash out the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations. The Environment Agency ...
• First Images of Comet 67P Close to its Aphelion
  It's not often that amateurs can provide an important support to professional astronomers involved in an international space mission. At a recent comet conference for the forthcoming Rosetta mission, which will orbit comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2014, and place a lander on the surface, F ...
• Non-Stick Cookware Dangers - Why You Should ...
  Yet another item to toss from your home is one that has become regarded as the best method of cooking out there - non-stick cookware. Using non-stick cookware sure makes cooking easier and more convenient, but is the average person aware of the harm revolving around this cookware? Unlike iron ...
• BEST OF THE WEB: The spectacle of terror and i ...
  The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the cases are thrown out. These are stories about "bumbling fantasists", hapless druggies, the aimless, even the virtually homeless and mentally ill, and other marginal ch ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Nasty origins . . .
  HOW MITT ROMNEY BULLIED A GAY STUDENT. An analysis of the story first reported in the Washington Post, done by Amy Davidson, who is a senior editor at The New Yorker. The question is, will this get traction?
• Rush to judge . . .
• Bennie and Stevie . . .
  The Pope and Stephen Harper are on the same stage in the Maple Leaf Gardens in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Mr. Harper and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand, I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, ...
• Modern Conservative reading and research
  In which Conservative higher education blatherer Naomi Schaefer Riley entitles a post: The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations.  Gets fired for it.  Then appears in the Wall Street Journal whining that she was being held to far too high a stan ...
• Another Harper procurement fiasco
  #Cdnpoli -  They keep on coming and now, after totally screwing up the Joint Support Ship project, we have one of Harper's own hobby-horses being stuffed into the quicksand and now it's the navy looking want. (Emphasis mine) The Conservative government's list of troubled multi-billion ...

Media Matters for America

• Right-Wing Media Attempt To Deflect Attention ...
  After President Obama's historic announcement that he is in favor of marriage equality, many in the right-wing media are refusing to debate the substance of same-sex marriage. Instead, they are casting about for ways to attack Obama's position on marriage that ignore the actual debate.Obama Ann ...
• Fox News Misrepresents EPA Climate Rule
  Fox News reporter Doug McKelway falsely reported that EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rule requires coal plants to install carbon capture and storage technology and could shut down up to 25 percent of coal-fired power. In fact, the rule applies only to future coal plants, whic ...
• Right-Wing Media Mock WH Adviser For Accuratel ...
  Right-wing media are attacking Sam Kass, White House assistant chef and senior policy adviser on healthy food initiatives, for calling rising obesity rates a national security threat. But military experts have noted that high obesity rates threaten military enrollment and readiness.WH Senior Po ...
• Americans Disagree With Rush Limbaugh On Marri ...
  Rush Limbaugh attacked President Obama today over his support for marriage equality, accusing Obama of leading a "war on traditional marriage" and the Catholic Church while accusing same-sex marriage supporters of wanting "to corrupt the institution." However, polls show that public support for ...
• Obama For Marriage Equality, Right-Wing Media ...
  In an ABC News interview today, President Obama announced his support for marriage equality, saying, "I think same sex couples should be able to get married." Conservative media figures immediately accused Obama of declaring a "war on marriage" and the Catholic Church.Obama: "I Think Same Sex C ...

Global Research.ca

• Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Un ...
  The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.
• Down but Not Defeated: Why the Truth Must be Told
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
  ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces...
• The Military Impacts in Hawai'i should be a Wa ...
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TPM Cafe

• Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
  You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
• Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
  The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
• Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
  Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
• Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
  The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israeli authorities demolish building in East ...
  Israeli authorities demolished an under-construction house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Forces blocked off the Al-Mou ...
• UN's oldest refugee camps look at sensitive up ...
  Three generations of Palestinians displaced by the founding of Israel in 1948 know only life in UN refugee camps, going to schools beneath the blue-and-white UN flag and drawing their f ...
• The Wall, 10 years on, part 6: What has the st ...
  Commemorating 10 years since construction of the wall also means commemorating almost 10 years of the struggle against it, as described in the previous chapter. Just as we shall later e ...
• Palestinian Children Labour for Little in Isra ...
  "It's tiring," says 15-year-old Ibrahim, deep lines running across his forehead. "But there is no alternative." Only a teenager, Ibrahim has been working full-time for three years alrea ...
• Long-term hunger striker not backing down (Ma ...
  A Palestinian hunger striker who has gone without food for 70 days said Tuesday he had no plans to back down despite suffering severe medical complications. Thaer Halahla, 33, from Hebr ...

Water - AlterNet

• Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping
  State officials in Alabama have taken action, and other states need to take action to keep dangerous seafood from the Gulf off the dinner tables of Americans.
• ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking ...
  In many states, the chemical make-up of fluid pumped into the ground while fracking is shielded from the public, thanks to laws promoted by ALEC and Exxon Mobil.
• Help for a Plastic Planet: New Report Focuses ...
  The report offers real solutions, in addition to an excellent scientific accounting of the threats posed by plastic pollution to the environment, wildlife, humans and economies.
• Billions in Fines Don't Matter -- Here's How B ...
  What is missing is a criminal prosecution that holds responsible the individuals who gambled with the lives of BP's contractors and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.
• One Family's Unconventional Solution to Save Water
  Self-composting toilets make a lot of sense when water is already a cause of national uprisings and covert wars.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Sierra Club – 1 : TCEQ – 0
  Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing ov ...
• NOAA says last 12 months are warmest on record ...
  According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, ...
• Wild Fire Risk in Texas
  The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County.  The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to dimini ...
• The Game of Thrones (or Texas Politics)
  By Michael Tahmoressi, St. Edwards student and Public Citizen intern Texas can be characterized as a pay to play environment.  Politicians bend to their districts business interests and gubernatorial appointees seem to be selected based on the amounts they contribute to the governor. Contributio ...
• The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
  The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Mayan calendar - world doesn't end in 2012
  The oldest ever Mayan calendar has been unearthed by archaeologists at the Xultun ruins in Guatemala. For years the fact that the Mayan calendar appea...
• Secrets of large asteroid revealed
  NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned a wealth of information during its analysis of the asteroid Vesta. The giant asteroid is not dissimilar to a small...
• Lost spacecraft found on the moon
  A spacecraft launched in the 1960s is thought to have been found on the dark side of the moon. Lunar Orbiter 2 was launched by NASA in 1967 for the pu...
• Russia could join US in manned Mars mission
  Co-operation between space agencies could one day make the idea of a manned mission to Mars a reality. Deputy Russian space agency head Sergey Savelie...
• How much will the Earth's seas rise ?
  Scientists admit that they are still unable to predict where in the world sea levels will rise the most. While most experts would agree that the melti...

Grassroots

• Stop the Wall's Ramallah office raided
  stw_computers_damaged.jpg Israeli military forces conducted an early morning raid of the Ramallah office of Stop the Wall, a civil society coalition organizing in opposition to the construction of the Separation Wall that Israel continues t ...
• Healthy food today, healthy earth tomorrow
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is Coordinator of Our Water Commons and a consultant with Grassroots International. Outside Author:  Daniel Moss ...
• Insights Spring 2012 - Healthy food today, hea ...
  Put simply, agroecology recognizes that a crop lives in a complex neighborhood of pests,  aquifers, land and climate patterns, and economic pressures. That doesn't sound like a radical notion, but the truth is that if applied, it might just blow the roof off of current industrial agricultur ...
• Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for G ...
  Subheadline:  Analysis of the pending 2012 Farm Bill Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Kari Hamberschlag is Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst for the Environmental Working ...
• Thousands of Honduran workers occupy land
  alegria-small_pic.jpg By the Via CampesinaThousands of Honduran farm workers have launched a co-ordinated land occupation, squatting on some 12,000 hectares nationwide and fuelling new tensions over land rights, authorities said.read more

Climate

• California and Quebec Near an Agreement for Tr ...
  (New York Times) California and Quebec moved to knit together their fledgling carbon markets on Wednesday as California proposed a new regulation allowing cross-border trading of the permits.
• New Antarctic Ice Shelf Threatened by Warming
  (Reuters) Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels.
• India's Top Court Refuses Entry to Exxon Valdez
  (AP) India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.
• Environment Canada's Scientific Expertise Is a ...
  (Postmedia News) Environment Canada is at risk of losing the scientific expertise it needs to counter ecological threats and protect the country's ecosystems because of federal budget cuts, warns a new report signed by the government's ...
• Green Group Files FOIA Lawsuit Seeking Details ...
  (The Hill) The Environmental Integrity Project filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Tuesday seeking details about dozens of White House meetings with interest groups to discuss EPA regulations.

GreenBiz

• PG&E's new EV proposal lays groundwork for $1- ...
  PG&E's new rate proposal would encourage EV drivers to charge when there's plenty of spare capacity on the electrical grid, at a price that -- in real dollars -- is less than half what gas cost in 1949.  
• Why companies need composting to meet zero was ...
  Organic waste makes up approximately 30 percent of the annual U.S. waste, so cutting it is key to meeting waste-diversion or zero-landfill goals. Here's what you need to know to succeed.
• Forget the paperless office: Here's how to get ...
  The paperless office remains a myth. But in the last five years, offices actually have started using less paper and reaping the savings. Here are some tips for creating an effective "less paper" strategy.
• The resource crisis: Closer to the edge
  Over the past 10 years more corporations have realized that optimizing energy use is not only good for business, it's essential.
• Nike innovates its way to zero toxic discharges
  Nike’s new sustainability report highlights how the sporting goods giant is pushing innovation in both its products and supply chain

Duly Noted

• Greek debt – remember the goats
  Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
• Greeks on the street
  Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
• NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
  Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
• Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
  After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
• Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
  A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Booman Tribune

• Rand Paul Points Gun At Obama
  And I mean pointing a gun at President Obama's head as part of an campaign claiming without any evidence whatsoever that Obama plans to ban One Million Guns. No lie. Here's the image and the letter: Stochastic terrorism anyone? The National Association for Gun Rights, based out of Vi ...
• Memory Loss Defense Makes it Relevant
  Right-wingers have responded to the revelations about Mitt Romney's bullying high school ways in the only way they really can: by denying it has any relevance. Who could be so cruel as to judge a man by his worst behavior in adolescence? Or, as I saw it sarcastically argued today on the Tw ...
• Why "Flip-Flop" Won't Stick to Obama on Gay Ma ...
  Right-wingers instantly settled on "Flip-flopper!" as their principal line of attack after President Obama declared himself in favor of gay marriage -- the word "war" was taken out of that Fox Nation headline, but it went from "Obama Flip Flops, Declares War on Marriage" to "Obama Flip Flops on ...
• An Inadequate Response
  I did a lot of things in high school that I regret, including being mean to kids who were a little weird in my estimation. I'm ashamed of that behavior and there are still a few people I ought to apologize to. I never physically harmed anyone, and I never committed any kind of assault. It was ...
• What's Up With Arizona Sheriffs?
  Is Arizona unique in having such powerful sheriffs? Honestly, I never read about sheriffs from other states, but Arizona sheriffs are constantly in the news. It's weird. It's also weird that the Justice Department is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but they're basically only asking that he be force ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Inside Fremantle: The Horrors of Australia's C ...
  No longer in use, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia is said to be haunted. Yet whether or not ghosts roam its cells and corridors, it's certainly a spooky place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Devastating Impact of the Halifax Explosion
  The story of the largest single man-made explosion in recorded history prior to the 1945 test explosions of the atomic bomb and the devastation it wreaked. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Bloody Spectacle of a Cockfight in Peru
  In a small arena in Lima, roosters battle it out in the bloody spectacle that is cockfighting, which often ends in death for at least one of the fighting birds. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Debate, Diplomacy and Activism Surrounds Nucle ...
  Opinions differ over the best way to supply national energy grids. How can we resolve this dispute that surrounds nuclear power? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• One Holi Mess: India's Incredible Color-Soaked ...
  Vibrant dyes, water-drenched fun and worship are all part of one of India's best-loved celebrations, the festival of colors that is Holi. Incredible photographs follow. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Review: The Islamists Are Coming
  A new book looks at the implications of the rise of political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Bin Laden Put Out to Pasture
  Osama bin Laden may not just have been in hiding, but in forced exile.
• U.S. Veteran Exposes Pentagon's Denials of Age ...
  This article examines the efforts of the U.S. government to deny the storage of Agent Orange on the Okinawa military base during the Vietnam War and the U.S. veterans, and their family members, whose health has been permanently damaged by exposure to the chemicals during the 1960s and 70s.
• WHO Under Siege From Private Sector
  This article examines the greater role that private sector actors are playing in the WHO and its negative impact on the capacity of the organization to fulfill its commitment.
• Epistle to the Ecotopians
  Callenbach's writing reflects upon the direction that America has moved, since he wrote Ecotopia several decades ago, and offers a pessimistic outlook for the capacity of humanity to survive in a self-sustaining and harmonious manner, however, he offers final suggestions about how Americans can ...

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Spain announces bank reforms
  Banks now required to separate property assets from their balance sheets and set aside $39bn financial cushion.
• Algeria waits for election results
  Some see endorsement for government's reforms in near-43 per cent turnout after activists had called for voter boycott.
• Ex-editor testifies before UK press inquiry
  Rebekah Brooks says she got messages of sympathy from prime minister after she quit as CEO of Murdoch's media company.
• Protests in Philippines over China dispute
  Hundreds take to streets in Manila to protest against Beijing's claim to South China Sea islands.
• Pirates 'seize' Greek-owned tanker off Oman
  Attack said to be the first successful assault on an oil vessel off the Horn of Africa in more than a year.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Finding Beauty in Old Things
  Some designers repurpose old things for aesthetic satisfaction as well as environmental reasons.
• On Our Radar: Lugar, the G.O.P. and Climate Change
  The senator says the nation must address greenhouse gas emissions.
• Assessing Whether Solar Panels Make Sense for You
  Many installers will offer to put solar panels on your roof for no money down, but there are several factors to consider when deciding whether the deal makes sense for you.
• Is That Onions You Smell? Or Battery Juice?
  No more crying over electric bills, now that an onion-processing company has a battery to store electricity at off-peak periods.
• Q&A: Toward a Greener Tour, and Guitar
  The guitarist Adam Gardner talks about his campaign to persuade musicians to discourage illegal logging and to support the Lacey Act.

Dot Earth News

• An Online Tool For Gauging the Relative Value ...
  A student team produces a handy online tool allowing car buyers to compare the full costs and benefits of cars.
• A Musical History of Humanity's Fossil Fuel Fi ...
  A three-minute musical history of humanity's relationship with fuel and energy.
• From Bark to Bottle – a Cork Story
  Students chronicle efforts to sustain the age-old use of cork to seal wine bottles and thus sustain the forest source of this versatile material.
• The Short Hot Life of Heartland's Hateful Clim ...
  A group opposed to regulation of pollution plays, and then withdraws, the Unabomber card.
• A Student's Conversation With Michael Mann on ...
  A student journalist explores the career and book of a climate scientist.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program a ...
  Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit dr ...
• #WhileWeWatch Occupy Wall Street documentary t ...
  It was a fun experience out at Zuccotti Park last October/November, and one late morning/early afternoon I gave an interview to Kevin Breslin, a gung ho director who pulled the OWS pieces together a 38-minute documentary called #whilewewatch on very little budget. It's been making the rounds and ...
• Wins in Minneapolis & Choppy seas indeed: Glow ...
  EU bankfail as everyone relishes Spain's 'successful auction' - American bankfail continues as homeless spirals, inflation & money velocity drift On the MN front, well the Occupy movement in Minneapolis really flushed out a lot of authoritarian over-reactions in the last couple weeks, starti ...
• Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns... HSI H ...
  Now with moar National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Security unit targets ‘worst’ in world crime - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, Nov 26 2011 HSI is a new directorate within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. Formed in September, its agents are responsible ...
• BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Oc ...
  We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one spa ...

Daily Censored

• “Free Cuba. Torch A Travel Agency!”
  By Saul Landau You can disagree with violent anti-Castro dogma, but such dissent could also get you killed – or your business torched as happened on April 25 to Airline Brokers Co. Some Cuban exiles apparently take free speech so seriously that they punish those who use it in “inappropriate” way ...
• US Supreme Court: any ‘law’ repugnant to the C ...
  A useful place for Americans to stand is with the US Supreme Court in one of its most cited decisions that anything passed as law in obvious violation of the US Constitution is not law, but void. Void as a legal term means the alleged “law” has zero legal force; that “void things are as [...] ...
• Just say NO to illegal debt say Greek leftists ...
  By Michael Collins Wall Streeters, big banks, and their proxies in political office are all reaching for the Xanax tonight. The Greek left, led by Alexis Tsipras, is saying that there’s no obligation to pay back the rotten deal handed down to the Greek people. (Image: Oneiros) “After ...
• America’s New Slavery
  By Elaine Leeder For the last fifteen years, I have been running self-help groups and classes for prisoners in a number of California and New York State prisons. When I first entered, I was struck by the glaring racial and ethnic disparity among inmates, with blacks and Latinos being the... ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

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  New poll shows support for Afghanistan war lower than ever, and for good reason.
• Romney Vs. Obama: The Prizefight Election
  Imagine a heavyweight fight announcer introducing the contenders at the 2012 presidential elections debate.
• Waiting for Copernicus
  Maybe the end of the Washington consensus is finally upon us.
• The One Percent Deports Itself
  While millions await for an opportunity to adjust their legal immigration status, wealthy U.S. expatriates renounce their citizenship to dodge taxes.
• The Lineup: Week of May 7-13, 2012
  Sarah Anderson underscores the dangers posed by Wall Street's lightning-speed computerized trading.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #726
  US government-authorized wiretaps increased in 2011. Australia axes spy agency funding. Canada spy case adjourned until June.
• News you may have missed #726
  Portrait of first female CIA officer to die in line of duty. US Jewish leader says release of Israeli spy Pollard 'inevitable'. Senior reshuffle at South Korean spy agency.
• Would be al-Qaeda bomber was Saudi double agent
  The man tasked by al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch to blow up an airliner bound for the United States last month, was a mole who had been recruited by Saudi intelligence. IntelNews understands that the double agent is a Saudi citizen who volunteered to act as an informant for Saudi authorities.
• News you may have missed #725 (al-Qaeda edition)
  Al-Qaida airline bomb plot thwarted by CIA. CIA kills al-Quaeda man wanted for attack on USS Cole. Al-Qaeda attacks Yemeni base hours after CIA strike.
• Scandinavian phone company helps ex-Soviet rep ...
  A highly profitable cellular telecommunications company, which is jointly owned by a Swedish-Finnish public-private consortium, is enabling some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes to spy on their own citizens, according to a new report.

War is a Crime.org

• STOP THE DRONE WAR WEEKEND AT FORDHAM
  1. Friday, May 18 – 5:15 pm – Gather at the Fordham U. Main Entrance at 2853 Southern Parkway, Bronx, NY.     At 6 pm Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be presenting the Fordham Baccalaureate Mass for the Fordham University Commencement for the Class of 2012. Urge Archbishop Dolan to spea ...
• Protest at Downing Street against inviting Bah ...
  There will be a protest outside the Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street at 4.00 pm Friday 11th May 2012. Supporters of Bahraini people will protest against the invitation forwarded to Bahrain's dictator, Hamad Al Khalifa, to attend the Queen's Diamond Jubilee starting 18th May. It is ou ...
• NATO Heads for Chicago
    NATO Heads for Chicago   by Stephen Lendman   A $100 million NATO invasion is coming. Low intensity conflict may follow. The "City of Broad Shoulders" may get more than it bargained for.    Nelson Algren once called Chicago the "City on the Make." NATO's May 20/21 ...
• Activism for Justice
    Activism for Justice   by Stephen Lendman   Activism has many forms. OWS protesters want long denied social change. Palestinians want to live free. So do Bahrainis.   read more
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Grist - News

• The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
  by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
• Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
  by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
• What environmental policy could we expect from ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
• Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
  by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
• Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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• The 20 Most Diabolical Laboratories on Earth
  Research is the bridge which connects the worlds of reality and science fiction. All over the world, nerdy scientists are hard-at-work in their laboratories or medeivil castles, trying to break new bounds in human understanding. We took a look at the most interesting laboratories and picked out ...
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Invisible Opportunity

• Shithouse Rats on the Armageddon Train
  By Les Visible Anybody think I like talking about this so often? Why is it that I do? Well, I’m surrounded by cowards, whose chief entertainment is being buggered by shithouse rats. I suppose that makes me aunti-this and aunti that but Uncle Tom I’m not, l’dat. Let me quote mys ...
• Frottage Fever and a Date with the Reaver
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• Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?
  By Ed Pilkington The entrance to the Judge Rotenberg Centre, in a suburb of Boston, is a riot of bright colours and surreal designs. The receptionist greets visitors from a deep purple chair in front of yellow and pink neon panels. Corridors are lit by elaborate chandeliers and lined with 6ft mo ...
• One man creates 1,360 acre forest
  by: Jordan and Kyla (NaturalNews) Have you ever heard the saying “you have the power to make a difference”? Well, the following demonstrates how one person has proven this. Over 30 years ago, a young teenager by the name of Jadav “Molai” Payeng had an idea to turn a barre ...
• DHS To Release Potential Superbug Cousin Of An ...
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• The Georgia Guidestones
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  Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned.
• 5 Fascinating New Uses For Psychedelics
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• How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Dr ...
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• Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Te ...
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Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
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• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
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Inhabitat

• Audi’s High Performance e-bike Wörthersee to D ...
  Next week Audi will debut their prototype Wörthersee e-bike, which promises to be a highly advanced, versatile electric bike from the German automakers. The Audi e-bike will be unveiled at Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria where trial biker Julien Dupont and downhill specialist Petra Bernhard wil ...
• Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Unveil Dancing Drag ...
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  Who hasn’t been stuck in traffic and wished that they could simply just hit a button and their car would fly over it? Flying cars have been a fantasy for decades and now they’re finally becoming a reality. Case in point: the PAL-V One is a two-seat hybrid car and gyroplane in one. The &#82 ...
• ‘Bedroom In A Box’ is the Ultimate Compact Fur ...
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Pogue's Posts

• How Compatible Are Rival E-Readers?
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• There Is a Lot of Big Tech News
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Infrared Imaging Helps Save Yellowstone’s Wolves
  Scientists are using thermal imaging to track Yellowstone's wolves, which are facing a vicious new predator: sarcoptic mange.
• Live Chat: The Last Days of Dinos
  Join paleontologists Mark Norell and Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History for a live chat about the Age of Dinosaurs' last days.
• Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead
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• Smarter Grid: Greening the Largest Machine on ...
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PakAlert

• U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ ...
  The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” t ...
• 2012 Secret Revealed: Mass Bio-Terror Pandemic ...
  December 21, 2012 is not the end of the world; it’s the end of America. Based on the storied history of pandemics, approximately 90% of the people currently living in America today will be terminated. A terror “event” to will start the chain reaction of a pandemic which will most likely take pla ...
• Hundreds Of Flight Attendants Fall Ill With Ha ...
  Following wild-life dies offs and polar bears losing their fur hundreds of Alaska airline attendants complain of mysteriously illness with symptoms including itchy rashes and hair falling out.
• Video: Police Torture Man To Death For Fun
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• The S Is Begining To Hit The Fan, (SHFT) Video
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Andy Worthington

• Chaos at Guantánamo as the 9/11 Trial Begins
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• Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
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• How America Became A Torture Nation
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Environment _ National Geographic

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• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
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• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
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SPL Center

• FBI: Washington White Supremacist Plotted to K ...
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• Gun, Ammo Sales Skyrocketing in Anticipation o ...
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• Alaska Militia Trial Opens With Former Defenda ...
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• FBI: Ready was Focus of Terrorism Probe Before ...
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• Racist Skinhead Leaders Arrested in Florida Co ...
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• If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
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• Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
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  Wall Street titan JPMorgan Chase on Thursday admitted that poorly positioned trades cost the bank $2 billion in losses. The news sent stocks of other big banks tumbling and raised the alarm once again over the tenuous nature of the financial system and the role of 'too big to fail' banks ...
• 'Bombs over Bread': GOP-Controlled House Passe ...
  The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed a 'reconciliation budget' that makes sweeping and what many termed 'devastating' cuts to social programs, including food assistance for children, federal retirement benefits for older workers, and medicaid programs fo ...
• Justice Dept. Sues Arizona Sheriff Arpaio for ...
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• US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tacti ...
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• Sen. Sanders, Environmental Groups Call to End ...
  Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Bill McKibben of 350.org, Brent Blackwelder of Friends of the Earth and Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense held a rally and press conference announcing a new piece of legislation aimed at eliminating all subsidies for fo ...

Lifehacker

• Best Online Custom Clothing Store? [Hive Five ...
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• How to Securely Share a Password with Someone ...
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• Remains of the Day: Third-Party Browsers Aren' ...
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• Turn Off the New "Elastic Scrolling" ...
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Water Privatization

• On Health Workers Day, health workers reiterat ...
  By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL “The government is passing its obligation to the private sector to reduce its social spending.” – Health Alliance for Democracy Other Stories: Gov’t temporary employment program for nurses, exploitative Finding fulfillment in serving the poor
• Privatization plan could bring jail to Hinsdale
  HINSDALE, N.H. -- The town is one of three being eyed as the potential site of a prison if the state turns the industry over to any of four national corporations that have submitted bids for private ownership of correctional facilities.
• Editorial: Slowdown on privatization
  CITY Hall consultant Danilo Dayanghirang has a point in opposing the privatization of water utilities. What should be demanded instead is for executives of government-owned corporations who get fat allowances and plenty of room to throw their weight around to be as efficient as their pays requir ...
• University eliminates the sale of bottled water
  Loyola University Chicago is ridding its campus of bottled water. School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013.
• Chicago's Loyola University to ban bottled ...
  School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013. A referendum was passed by students last week to phase outbottled water sales and reduce the university's environmental footprint.

Guardian

• Stephen Lawrence case: Met police call in watc ...
  Met says it will share with IPCC findings of internal review into claims that Macpherson inquiry was not given crucial materialScotland Yard has called in the official police watchdog over claims that police corruption may have shielded the killers of Stephen Lawrence.After media allegations two ...
• Woman arrested after five children killed in h ...
  Children aged between five and 10 die in blaze in Derby and sixth child taken to hospital along with two adultsA major investigation is taking place after five children under 10 died in a house fire early on Friday as a woman in her 20s is being questioned by police on suspicion of murder.The fi ...
• Petrol tanker strike averted as drivers accept ...
  Unite union says 51% of drivers accepted latest offer over safety standards and training, lifting threats of fuel shortagesThe threat of a national fuel strike has been averted after petrol-tanker drivers voted to accept a deal.The Unite trade union said 51% of drivers had backed the proposals i ...
• Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to hand over presiden ...
  Outgoing French president likely to return to law practice, but could be forced to explain himself over series of scandalsHe has spent 30 bruising years in politics, often saying it would have been more pleasant to earn big money in private business, and now plans to return to work as a lawyer w ...
• Mitt Romney faces more questions on gay marria ...
  Mitt Romney visits North Carolina as gay marriage continues to swirl, while Barack Obama was hosted by George Clooney. Follow developments live11.46am: Barack Obama raised a cool $15m from his event at George Clooney's house in California last night. Obama's speech is online here – but here are ...

McClatchey

• China's artist/activist Ai Weiwei works on exh ...
  If your concept of Chinese art is delicately painted screens and fragile porcelain cups, prepare for your world to be upended on a visit to Washington, D.C. This month, Ai…Click to Continue »
• Greece edges closer to default as latest attem ...
  Another attempt to assemble a new coalition government in Greece collapsed Thursday, adding to concerns that the country wont be able to continue with European Union-mandated austerity measures and instead…Click to Continue »
• For first time ever, Egyptians sees competing ...
  Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, 60, a former member of the once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and Amr Moussa, 75, the former secretary-general of the Arab League, dealt with many of the…Click to Continue »
• Grant to boost use of food stamps at farmers m ...
  Many farmers markets accept only cash or checks, a big problem for low-income shoppers on food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to change that.Click to Continue »
• Cuba embargo could threaten oil-drilling safet ...
  The 50-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba is getting in the way of safety when it comes to deepwater drilling in Cuban waters, an expert on the communist countrys offshore drilling…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier
  Kabul, May 11 (Xinhua-ANI): A man dressed in Afghan army uniform opened fire and killed a soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the eastern region of Afghanistan
• Shanghai Group Foreign Ministers Hold Beijing ...
  Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states pose for a group photo before a council meeting of foreign ministers at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May ...
• Afghan Peace Council Charged With Bringing Tal ...
  May 11, 2012 Morning Edition's Renee Montagne continues her reporting from Afghanistan. This morning, she talks with Salahuddin Rabbani. President Hamid Karzai recently appointed him chairman ...
• 'Afghan soldier' in Nato killing
  An attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform has killed a Nato service member.The attack, in the east of Afghanistan, is the latest of several this year in which Afghan soldiers or insurgents ...
• Flash flood in north Afghanistan kills at least 27
  KABUL, Afghanistan — A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 27 people, authorities said. It was the second major flood ...

Futurismic

• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblower Kenneth Jones wins appeal and fo ...
  Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require a jury trial. Dr. Jones claims that Drs. Marilyn Al ...
• Whistleblowers Spur $1.5 Billion Off-Label Mar ...
  Whistleblowers have succeeded in a $1.5 billion off-label marketing case against Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Department of Justice announced today. Combined, the $700 million criminal fines and $800 million civil fines are the second largest government recovery from a drug company in history. ...
• Wal-Mart. Whistleblower. Whitewash. Talk Among ...
  By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) Holy Wal-Mart Whitewash, Batman!  Without a doubt, the unfolding Wal-Mart bribery scan ...
• This Week on Honesty Without Fear
  Tune in Tuesday at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Guest Host Dr. David Lewis interviews fellow EPA whistleblower William Sanjour about his recent article "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work" in Independent Science News. Mr. Sanjour u ...
• DOJ Backs Ink Company Whistleblower
  Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government intervention is a significant victory fo ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...

TechDirt

• Sharing On Social Networks Triggers The Same P ...
  A recent study (pdf) by Diana Tamir and Jason Mitchell at Harvard is getting some press for pointing out that sharing information about yourself is "intrinsically rewarding." In other words, the reason people use Twitter to tell you about what they're eating for lunch, is because it feels good ...
• Indian ISPs Told To Block Access To Vimeo
  A few months ago we wrote about Indian ISPs being told to block (entirely) access to Megaupload (when it still existed) and BTJunkie. It seemed like overkill to block entire sites, but it appears that such censorship is expanding. There are reports in India of ISP-level blocks, ordered by the ...
• DailyDirt: Graduation Advice
  Graduation season is just about here, and lots of students are going to put on some black robes and accept a very expensive piece of paper and a hand shake. And along with those newly-minted degrees, plenty of older and more experienced folks will try to offer some advice. Here are just a few in ...
• Indie Film Maker Is Creating A DRM-Free Open H ...
  In most areas of entertainment, DRM is an option. If you want to publish an ebook, you don't have to use DRM. Same for video games and music. While these others areas of entertainment are moving away from DRM, there is one prominent holdout on the DRM front: movies. Every official distribution a ...
• It's Amazing The Lengths 'Music Supporters' Wi ...
  One thing I often find amazing in debates and discussions about new business models for content creators and artists, is how those of us who are often (falsely) accused of "hating" artists cheer on and celebrate the creative success stories, while those who position themselves as "defenders of a ...

VacTruth

• A Parent’s Guide to Pro-Vaccine Doctors
  We hope to prevent other children and their families from a vaccine injury. This information empowers you.
• Olympic Vaccination Frenzy As Athletes Urged T ...
  Big Pharma is helping to sponsor the Olympic games being held in London. Is it by coincidence athletes and travelers to the games are being encouraged to get their shots?
• Merck Consultants Try to Influence Your Doctor ...
  Doctors paid by Merck Pharmaceuticals offered "suggestions" for refuting three of the most common myths about child vaccine safety. You have to read this to believe it.
• Monkeys Get Autism-like Reactions to MMR & Oth ...
  A bombshell was probably dropped when the results of a completed macaque monkey (primates) study showed what happened to they were vaccinated. Here's why...
• Do Nurses Have It Right About Vaccinations?
  Why would nurses, who vaccinate infants and children, refuse to get vaccinations for themselves even when a directive went out that all nurses must be vaccinated against this disease?

BroadSnark

• Shame Redistribution
  A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
• Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
  In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
• Occupy the DOJ
• And…Not Either/Or
  Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, May 5, 2012
  Transforming Human History with the Strategic Defense of Earth
• The LaRouche Show, April 28, 2012
  Jacques Cheminade: A Future for France, and Europe
• Emergency Resolution: Glass-Steagall, National ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Obama in Flight-Forward: Thermonuclear War Dan ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17
• Costa: Drug Legalization Is New Opium War
  By Antonio Maria Costa Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 27, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 17

War in Context

• Game over for the climate
  James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, writes: warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands res ...
• Obama’s predilection for military force
  Conor Friedersdorf points out that, contrary to the reporting of the New York Times, President Obama does not straddle “the precarious line between hawk and dove” — he’s a hawk. Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, adding tens of thousands of troops at a cost of many b ...
• Why Obama now favors same-sex marriage
  Since President Obama made it known his views on same-sex marriage have “evolved” and he now supports it, not surprisingly he’s won praise. But the idea that this was a courageous act is questionable for many reasons, not the least of which, that on this particular issue Obama ...
• Bored with Occupy — and inequality
  Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth among the richest 1 percent. The movement has chalked up ...
• Video: Two of mass Palestinian prisoner’s hung ...
  UN News Service: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of averting any further deterioration in the condition of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody who are on hunger strike, and urged everyone concerned to reach a solution to their plight without delay. “The Secretary ...

Watts Up With That?

• If Obama is going to kill coal, he has to hide ...
  Guest post by Alec Rawls The graphics were changed in the last two days, but Conn Carroll at the Washington Examiner took a screenshot of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy policy page on Tuesday. “Notice anything missing?” he asks: … Continue reading →
• A Blast From The Past: James Hansen on ‘ ...
  Guest post by Floyd Doughty Some years ago when I was investigating the climate change issue in my spare time, I ran across a short article by James Hansen on the GISS website under “Education Resource Materials”, dated January, 1999. … Continue reading →
• On the climate, the holocaust, denial, billboa ...
  Over at Climate Depot, Marc Morano wonders why Andrew Revkin is calling attention to an article linking Holocaust denial to “climate denial”. He writes: What’s up with NYT’s Revkin? He touts essay: ‘A look at denial, from Holocaust to climate … Continue readin ...
• Palrimentary procedure
  Josh captures The ‘not so great and not so good’ essence highlighted by Steve McIntyre. Bishop Hill writes in Acton and parliamentary privilege: Steve McIntyre notes UEA’s recent submission to an Information Tribunal hearing. McIntyre had pointed out that UEA’s vice-chanc ...
• Hansen’s ‘Game Over for the Climat ...
  This op-ed appeared in the New York Times today, and since it was written by a government employee, using his NASA title at the end of the article, I consider it a public domain work reproducible here. I see what … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Bear Cubs Form an Adorable Conga Line (Video)
  Grooming plays a crucial role in the lives of social animals -- and when done properly, it can be downright heartwarming.
• Tea Party Organizers, Think Tanks Coordinate P ...
  Conservative activists are working with think tanks and local NIMBY groups to coordinate an assault on wind projects.
• Beautiful New Brammo Empulse Electric Motorcyc ...
  Check it out from all angles! It's a beauty, and it runs entirely on electrons, so you can live your mid-life crisis without waking up the neighbors.
• Hanging Plant Balcony Works Like a Drawbridge
  A window planter system lets apartment dwellers create their own hanging balcony for plants.
• Clever Solar Street Lamp Design Straps On To E ...
  A concept for creating extra light without extra electricity would brighten up city sidewalks.

Biosingularity

• Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
  Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...
• Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
  The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
• Nano-sized ‘factories’ churn out proteins
  Drugs made of protein have shown promise in treating cancer, but they are difficult to deliver because the body usually breaks down proteins before they reach their destination. To get around that obstacle, a team of MIT researchers has developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesize pr ...
• Eating flavonoids protects men against Parkins ...
  Men who eat flavonoid-rich foods such as berries, tea, apples and red wine significantly reduce their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to new research by Harvard University and the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published today in the journal Neurology ®, the findings ad ...
• In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No L ...
  You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel Armas, then just a 21-week-old fetus, reaching his tiny hand out from inside the uterus to clasp onto the doctor’s finger during a surgical procedure to correct the birth defect spina ...

CFACT

• The clear-cutting facts about the rainforest
  Are we really losing one football field every minute?
• New predictions of warming lack scientific basis
  Worst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate
• Cloudy days ahead for global climate models
  Computers still not reliable in predicting climate
• Corn dogs: A New Eco-Villain?
  Controversy is latest in biotech battle
• Examining China's emissions claims
  Evidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions

Ria Novosti Online News

• Superjet Was Fit to Fly Before Crash
• Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Signs ex-NHL Player Kronwall
• Abramovich Holds 25% Stake in Russian Major Re ...
  Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich holds a 25 percent stake in securities registry services player, Rost, the company said on Friday.
• Moscow Slams Estonia over Russian Journalist’s ...
• Siberian Cops Break Man’s Ribs, Dodge Jail
  Three police officers in western Siberia received suspended sentences for detaining an innocent passer-by and delivering a brutal beating that left him with bruises and broken ribs, local investigators said on Friday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket E ...
  Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the makers say.
• U.S. Launches Advanced Military Communications ...
  The United States Air Force has launched an advanced communications satellite, the second in a new satellite network designed to improve U.S. ability to control its military forces around the globe
• Europe’s ATV-3 Resupply Spacecraft to Raise IS ...
  Engines of European Space Agency’s ATV-3 resupply spacecraft will be switched on to readjust the International Space Station (ISS) orbit on Friday
• NASA Says Static Fire Tests of ISS-bound Drago ...
  Static fire tests of Dragon, the first private spacecraft to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS), has been successful
• Russian Progress M-14M Splashes Down in Pacific
  Russia's Progress M-14M cargo spacecraft has been sent on its final journey to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, Mission Control said on Saturday.

Pruning Shears

• Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
  A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
• Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
  The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
• Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
  Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...
• Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...
• How disorganization is damaging Occupy
  This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Plastic in 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Has I ...
  Plastic garbage in the ocean has increased 100-fold in the past 40 years and could have ecosystem-wide impacts, according to a study released Tuesday.Click here to read this article
• Thousands of Protesters Descend on Bank of Ame ...
  Thousands of protesters marched to the door of Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC today. A large coalition of activist groups including environmental groups, labor unions, and Occupy Wall Street are expecting an eventful day of 'non-violent protest, marches, and theatr ...
• 'Why Are We There? Who Are We Helping?' Americ ...
  "What are we really doing there? Who are we helping?" asks Chris Solomon, an independent from Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina referring to the US military presence in Afghanistan in an interview with the Associated Press.Click here to read this article
• Organic and Non-GMO Farmers and Gardeners File ...
  Click here to read this article
• Stop Agribusiness As Usual in the 2012 Farm Bill!
  Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Grocery Store Shrimp Contains Drug Resistant B ...
  Farmed shrimp joins the list of animal proteins - pork, turkey, ground beef, and chicken - that contain drug-resistant bacteria.
• SNAP and the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer
  Programs supported by the Farm Bill vary dramatically in size and scope from the $73 billion budgeted for SNAP to $5 million for Community Food Projects which aim to fight food insecurity through self-sufficiency and strengthening local food systems.
• Ditching Meat One Day a Week: What, Exactly, I ...
  Not only did the Harvard researchers find that eating red meat was associated with an increased risk of death from all causes, but they also found a dose-response relationship with the risk of death increasing as the amount of meat consumed increased. Kind of scary, if you ask me; but the good n ...
• Senators, let’s tie “soil insurance” to crop i ...
  The farm bill version that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday does not attach compliance to crop insurance, as no committee members offered such an amendment. However, with farm bill battles now shifting to the full Senate, there is still hope that an amendment could attach ...
• Sustainable Food Systems for the 1 Percent
  Let me begin by saying I would love a mobile chicken coop in my backyard. In fact, I plan to build one this summer, hopefully for less than 100 dollars. I’m lucky enough that with an afternoon of work and a trip or three to the hardware store, I think I can accomplish this.  But [...]

Investigate - Breaking News

• Time magazine breastfeeding cover – too far?
  Time magazine breastfeeding cover – too far?. Time magazine breastfeeding cover – too far?
• Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new ty ...
  Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new type of superhoney. Forget manuka, kiwi scientist discovers new type of superhoney
• Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestselle ...
  Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestseller lists. Wishart’s new treaty book rockets up bestseller lists
• Reviews of Ian Wishart books
  Reviews of Ian Wishart books. First review of The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
• New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Story ...
  New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Storytellers. New Treaty book blames Maori, Pakeha and Storytellers

My Care2 Picks

• 9 11 : The Big Clue Everyone Missed
  There are essentials in the selling of The Big Lie including speed, repetition and seeming authority. Too bad the story being sold is incompatible with the possibility of actual knowledge of events. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
• Fukushima Is An Extinction Level Event, The Wo ...
  Includes rambling talk by Dr. Helen Coldicott including hazards of uranium and tritium Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebratin ...
  FBI and the Global War of Terror : entrapment and undercover subversion of popular protest movements Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Fukushima Is Falling Apart: Are You Ready … Fo ...
  If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation.. Submitted by Carol Dreeszen to Environment  |  & ...
• The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon
  Political commentary on legislation implementing Statutory Rape via required involuntary intrusive physical examination to establish no medically needed data Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
  Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
  Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
  Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
  Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
  Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Immunization Graphs – The Real Story on Vaccin ...
  Actual statistics prove that vaccines HAVE NOT prevented disease.
• Pig Blood Safer than Fresh Milk?
  Evidently, drinking fresh milk straight from the mom is supposed to be unhealthy for calves because it is unpasteurized, but pig blood is good?
• New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
  The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a penchant for attempting to force other countries under threat of penalty for creating a barrier to free trade, into accepting the unacceptable at their borders, in the form of genetically modified products (GMOs). ...
• Family Farmers – Remember! The USDA OWNS the “ ...
  In order to sell your home grown fruit at the now centrally planned "farmers market" you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule." After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the t ...
• Michigan Mutations from Fukushima Fallout?
  Investigators detailing vegetation mutations possibly from Fukushima.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Vermont first state in nation to ban fracking ...
  ShareThisVermont first state in nation to ban fracking for oil and gas 04 May 2012 With a 103-36 vote in the House of Representatives, Vermont on Friday became the first state to ban hydraulic fracturing to extract oil or natural gas. The bill passed the Senate earlier this week. The House debat ...
• Arizona: Sheriff to Face Civil Rights Suit Ove ...
  ShareThisArizona: Sheriff to Face Civil Rights Suit Over Claims That Include Profiling 10 May 2012 The federal authorities said Wednesday that they planned to sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County and his office over claims of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latino ...
• Rocket attack injures three US soldiers in Afg ...
  ShareThisRocket attack injures three US soldiers in Afghanistan 10 May 2012 At least three US soldiers have been wounded in a rocket attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, Press TV reports. Din Mohammad Darvish, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said on Thursday that the soldi ...
• Obama says he supports same-sex marriage, firs ...
  ShareThisObama says he supports same-sex marriage, first president to take that position 09 May 2012 President Barack Obama told ABC News he supports gay marriage, becoming the first U.S. president to take the position. Obama told ABC reporter Robin Roberts that he had initially opposed the idea ...
• US Bank Hit By 'Embarrassing' 1.2bn Pound Loss
  ShareThisUS Bank Hit By 'Embarrassing' £1.2bn Loss 11 May 2012 JP Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the US, has admitted losing $2bn (£1.2bn) in a trading portfolio designed to protect the company against risks it took with its own money. Chief executive Jamie Dimon blamed "errors, sloppiness an ...

Daily Loaf

• 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
  I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
• Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
  Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
• D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
  Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
• Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
  The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
• Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
  April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
  We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
• VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
  The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
• VRM: The Flu Report
  The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
  Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
  Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

• Helicopter versus RPG
  The enemy weapons causing the most deaths in Afghanistan are simple.  There are the machine guns, and the AK-47s, and many thousands of improvised bombs planted in the earth, and suicide bombs, and the RPG: Rocket Propelled Grenade. There are a few other kinds of weapons, but in a nutshell ...
• MEDEVAC Madness
  10 May 2012 Many people have contacted lawmakers around the country about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Most of the lawmakers blew it off, or seemed intimidated by the Pentagon.  But one serious man over in Missouri has not backed down.  Congressman Todd Akin is demanding ans ...
• Shot in the Dark: Blackhawk Down
  Afghan firing RPG in Urozgan 02 May 2012 On 19 April there was a suicide attack.  Numerous Afghans were killed and others were dying. The night was especially dark.  The weather was bad, and there were no city lights bouncing off of the clouds.  No stars.  No nothing.&nbsp ...
• Little Girl Revisited
  02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...
• Drunken Monkeys, Milkooks, Military, and the Media
  US Army Master Sergeant and milblogger, CJ Grisham: known for spamming Wikipedia and other outlets with false information (This dispatch is intended for investigative journalists who may be interested in military propaganda targeting US citizens.  Much of the account is first person, the ...

The Killing Train

• Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
  First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
• Professionals and Torturers
  The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
• The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
  [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
• An interview for occupy Toronto
  Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
• Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
  I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more

treehugger

• Bear Cubs Form an Adorable Conga Line (Video)
  Grooming plays a crucial role in the lives of social animals -- and when done properly, it can be downright heartwarming.
• Tea Party Organizers, Think Tanks Coordinate P ...
  Conservative activists are working with think tanks and local NIMBY groups to coordinate an assault on wind projects.
• Beautiful New Brammo Empulse Electric Motorcyc ...
  Check it out from all angles! It's a beauty, and it runs entirely on electrons, so you can live your mid-life crisis without waking up the neighbors.
• Hanging Plant Balcony Works Like a Drawbridge
  A window planter system lets apartment dwellers create their own hanging balcony for plants.
• Clever Solar Street Lamp Design Straps On To E ...
  A concept for creating extra light without extra electricity would brighten up city sidewalks.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Thai, Burmese bank open remittance service
  Burma's Asian Green Development Bank and Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank signed an agreement to create a remittance service between the two countries that will begin operations in June
• Heavy fighting continues in Kachin state: rebels
  According to the Kachin Independence army, fighting intensified between rebel troops and the Burmese army this month in the country's far north
• Burmese lawmakers visit EU parliament
  In they're first ever visit to the EU's parliament on Thursday, Burmese legislators met with their European counterparts
• Election body to allow Shan party to register
  After losing official recognition in 2010, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy was given permission to formally re-register by the country's election commission
• Peace team set sights on Kachin conflict
  Experts say President Thein Sein's move to take charge with renewed peace talks with ethnic rebels has revived hope that the conflict in Kachin state may be brought to an end soon

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Patterns from space: beautiful satellite image ...
  A gallery of beautiful satellite images of river deltas around the world.
• How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for ...
  WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species, says Christopher Booker.
• African continent 'sitting on vast reservoir'
  The notoriously dry African continent is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater that will help it overcome the future challenges of climate change and population growth, according to British scientists.
• In the eyes of Nature, warming can't be natural
  , says Christopher Booker.
• Penguins in Antarctica: photographs by David C ...
  David C Schultz photographs the frozen landscape and its inhabitants.

National Geographic | Environment

• Global Nuclear Retreat? Armenia, Others Aim to ...
  Armenia extends the life of its Soviet-style nuclear plant, despite seismic concerns. It's one of a slew of decisions nations face on old reactors.
• Dinosaurs' Gaseous Emissions Warmed Earth?
  Giant plant-eaters known as sauropods may have heated the planet by releasing huge amounts of methane, a new study says.
• British Columbia Rethinks Its Pioneering Carbo ...
  With none of its neighbors following British Columbia's lead in taxing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian province reviews the economic impact.
• Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Freque ...
  The Yellowstone supervolcano may erupt more frequently, though may be a bit weaker, than thought, a new study says.
• Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Ene ...
  Scientists believe that Titan, a massive upgrade in supercomputing power that the U.S. government is set to deploy this year, will help crack the code on energy-efficient engines.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN SG urges Israel to try or release Palestini ...
  [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Wednesday urged [UN News Centre report] the Israeli government to try or release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners without delay to avoid any further risk on their health condition. The prisoners, who have been in Israeli custod ...
• DOJ files discrimination suit against Arizona ...
  [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] filed suit [complaint, PDF; press release] Thursday against Maricopa County, Arizona, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio [official websites] alleging discriminatory conduct. The DOJ claims that Arpaio and hi ...
• Kosovo draft criminal code violates press free ...
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] urged the National Assembly of Kosovo [official website] Wednesday to remove certain provisions in the draft criminal code that they claim violate freedom of the press [press release]. In a letter [text], HRW claims that articles 37 and 38 of ...
• Argentina lawmakers approve gender identity law
  [JURIST] The Argentine Senate [official website, in Spanish] approved a measure on Wednesday that allows people who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy to have these treatments covered under their public or private health plans. The measure, known as the Gender Identity law, also allows a ...
• Netherlands court orders Internet providers to ...
  [JURIST] A Dutch court on Thursday ordered [decision, PDF, in Dutch] Internet service providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands to block the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay [website] or else pay a fine of USD $12,750 per day. Rechtbank-Gravenhage [official website, in Dutch], a Dutch district cour ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
  Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
• 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
  Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
• 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
  Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
• Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
  For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
• Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
  The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• StandWithUs: Destroying Human Rights at UC San ...
  TweetThanks to Audrey Jacobs of StandWithUs, I’ve managed to confirm that the far-right Israel advocacy group is indeed sponsoring Rescuing Human Rights, and that the program will feature four controversial figures in the national anti-jihadi movement. This event is part of Israel Awarenes ...
• Haaretz Publishes Pseudonymous Apologia for To ...
  TweetImagine you’re the op-ed page editor of the NY Times and a CIA torturer comes forward who wants to publish an anonymous op-ed not just defending torture, but arguing that any and all acts in which he engages should be retroactively approved by the State and its judicial bodies.  In ot ...
• StandWithUs, UC San Diego Pro-Israel Group, Ho ...
  TweetNext week, StandWithUs and the UC San Diego pro-Israel student advocacy group, Tritons for Israel, will host a rather mysterious campus event.  According to a speaker contract SWU uploaded to the web in March, it is a conference called, Rescuing Human Rights, featuring the Wall Street Journ ...
• Kadima Joins Israeli Governing Coalition to St ...
  Tweet“Listen carefully: I will not join Bibi’s government. Not today, not tomorrow, and not after I become head of Kadima on March 28th. This is an evil, failing, and pig-headed government and Kadima, under my leadership, will succeed it in the next elections. Clear enough? –Sh ...
• SCOOP: Israeli Border Police Names New Command ...
  TweetIsraeli military censorship prohibits revealing the identity of the new commander (Hebrew) of the Border Police’s elite counter-terror unit, Yamam (this post displays a priceless photo of Shimon Peres mugging with weapons with Yamam personnel).  Not only am I not under the jurisdictio ...

If Americans Knew

• Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
  In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
• Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
  US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
  Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

• BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
  Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
• The Eye On Citrus Show
  http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
• Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
  http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
• What side are you on?
  As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
• Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
  This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...

Unsuitable Blog

• The Unsuitablog Archive
  The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
• The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
  Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
• You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
  On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
• Strikes vs Royal Weddings
  There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
• WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
  It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

• Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
  A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
• Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
  Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
• Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
  Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• ROFLCon Attendees Get a Memes Blast From the Past
  It's 2012. Nerds are in, and Internet memes can actually make you famous IRL. But way back in 2000, things were different. YouTube didn't exist, and a video had to be sent around as an email attachment. (Remember RealPlayer?) Your mom yelled at you for tying up the phone line, and GeoCities plas ...
• How the Indie Audio Community Is Transforming ...
  A version of this post also appeared in the Association of Independent's in Radio monthly AIRBlast. I first started working with independent producer Kara Oehler in 2005. Almost a day didn't pass without her telling me about something that happened on the "AIRDaily" listserve. I'd been on li ...
• Jonathan Zittrain Takes the Stage at ROFLCon
  Today with MIT Civic Media Center's Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I'm live-blogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, the event organizer, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It's an amazingly packed venue. "One o ...
• How We Got Here: The Road to Public Lab's Map ...
  Last week, Public Laboratory announced that public domain maps are now starting to show up on Google Earth and Google Maps. But how did the projects get there? Here's a timeline of a Public Laboratory map project. Making a map Public Laboratory projects take a community-based approach to m ...
• Mobile Security Survival Guide Helps Journalis ...
  The Mobile Security Survival Guide for Journalists from SaferMobile helps reporters better understand the risks inherent in the use of mobile technology. The guide covers both local journalists and those on assignment in another country. As someone working with sensitive information, mobile ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Terrorism - Feds Nab White Suprema ...
  During an FBI-led dragnet in Florida on Tuesday, 10 members of an alleged neo-Nazi group were arrested while training near Orlando and Disney World for what they termed a "race war," a federal law enforcement officer stated last night. The apprehensions resulted from information and evidence gat ...
• The Ancient Edge - Ancient American Ball Game ...
  George Washington University Professor Jeffrey P. Blomster’s latest research explores the importance of a rough and tumble ballgame to ancient Mesoamerican societies. Dr. Blomster’s findings show how the discovery of a ballplayer figurine in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca in Central Mexic ...
• The 2012 Vote - A Second University Touts Cand ...
  Elizabeth Warren was listed as a minority professor by a second law school in a report detailing the school's progress in creating a diverse faculty. In addition to Harvard University, where Warren is on faculty, the University of Pennsylvania Law School also touted Warren as a minority, accordi ...
• The Political Edge - Tea Party Bachmann Recant ...
  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) no longer wants to be a Swiss citizen, releasing a statement on May 10 that emphasized she is “a proud American citizen.� According to Bachmann’s office, the former GOP presidential candidate sent a letter on May 10 to the Swiss Consulate office asking it to ...
• The 2012 Vote - DeMint Claims Obama's a Hypocr ...
  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) hit back at President Obama Thursday for suggesting that Republicans are violating Grover Norquist’s tax pledge by opposing the extension of tax credits for the renewable energy industry. “What the president is doing is wrong, and again, it is hypocritical,� DeMint ...

High Country News

• The Pawnee Buttes oversee a changing landscape
  Eastern Colorado’s Pawnee Buttes have witnessed so many historical changes that they’re likely to survive the current energy-development boom.
• Selling what's priceless is the nuttiest idea ...
  Some Western legislators want to sell off our public lands -- an idea that is not only impractical, but contrary to the desires of most Westerners.
• The teenagers we're not helping
  The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters.
• Micah True, born to run
  Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Blanco,” or the white horse – a gifted athlete who devoted his life to helping the Tarahumara, a remote tribe of long-distance runners in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
• The hoof stops here
  A proposal to reopen slaughterhouses in the U.S. for old, unwanted, abandoned or wild horses is a cruel and foolish idea.

CounterCurrents

• Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
  By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
• Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
  By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
• US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
  By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
• And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
  By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
• What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
  By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

• We're Done! WAPO Shows Romney To Be An Immatur ...
  The election is less than six months away but the mainstream media is already in rare form in their push to get Barack Obama a second term in the oval office.  This time they went almost 50 years into the past when Mitt Romney was in High School. What horrible thing did Romney do as a ...
• House GOP Competition Promotes Use of New Media
  My Friend Lorie Byrd is the Director of E-Media at Congresswoman Renee Ellmers ...The Rep From North Carolina is a Conservative...and Lorie is really nice...so lets help them out and have some fun at the same time. Read the post below to learn how. Rep. Renee Ellmers, 05/10/12 Over the p ...
• FRAUD! AP Poll Fudges Party Affiliation To S ...
  The Associated Press headline was a bit jarring; it claimed that President Obama had an eight point (50%-42%) lead over Mitt Romney.  Both Rasmussen (49%-44%) and Gallup (47% to 44%) report things are much closer and have Romney ahead...just what is going on? Well...THIS is what is ...
• New ObamaVolt Video: "#$%@ YOU! And We Really ...
  Yesterday, ObamaVolt campaign released another must watch, hilarious video (if you cannot see videos below click here) If you are not familiar with the ObamaVolt story here is the original video: Please email me at yi ...
• Progressive Mindset Behind MSNBC's Larry O’Don ...
   By Barry Rubin  The following statement from Lawrence O’Donnell is being widely circulated on the Internet. I’m sure that most of those who read it think these are self-evident truths about history proving that Republicans and conservatives are so obviously evil that the issu ...

The Real Agenda

• Meet your Global Tax Collector
  Global Corporate-Financier Mafia Grows New Tentacle: Global Tax Collectors. By TONY CARTALUCCI | LAND DESTROYER | MAY 11, 2012 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 50 year old network constituting what is often known as the “West,” has been t ...
• Banks Get Ready for Greek Currency Come Back
  REUTERS | MAY 11, 2012 Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after Greeceadopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the flick of a switch if its debt problems forced it to bring ...
• The ‘Gender-free’ Society Sets Foo ...
  Cristina Fernandez’s led government has officially endorse government-sponsored, taxpayer-financed sex changes and hormone therapy for transgender people. ASSOCIATED PRESS | MAY 10, 2012 Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part ...
• Ron Paul Still Setting Brush Fires All Over th ...
  By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 10, 2012 For a campaign that has no correspondents assigned to it from the big four or five US corporate media outlets, the Ron Paul campaign is looking pretty good. For a candidate that according to those same media outlets has no chance to make ...
• China Coming to a Bank Near Your
  By VERONICA SMITH | AFP | MAY 10, 2012 The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, ...

Wind Watch

• Eminent domain concerns buffet wind plans
  EAST BAY — The Warren Town Council joined several other area towns Tuesday night in expressing concern over legislation that would create a nine-member East Bay Energy Consortium — and give it the power of eminent domain. Town council members took no action on the legislation, but said they&#821 ...
• Shelburne Planning Board rejects subdivision; ...
  SHELBURNE — The Planning Board Wednesday night rejected a subdivision application for the Mount Massaemet Windfarm — an action that could keep the four-turbine electricity generating facility from going forward, now that the town has a ban on commercial-scale wind turbines. The subdivision plan ...
• Municipalities weigh concerns with windmills; ...
  CANAJOHARIE – The town passed a local law regulating the height, noise levels and setbacks of windmills, and other towns are re-examining where their laws stand. The local law also requires anyone who builds either a commercial or residential wind-energy conversion system to obtain a permi ...
• Rally unites opposition to wind turbines on bo ...
  DERBY LINE — About 70 people gathered outside the historic Haskell Free Library and Opera House on Sunday to voice their opposition to a proposal to erect two wind turbines on farms in Derby. At the core of the dissent was the failure to notify abutting landowners in Stanstead, Quebec. “We ...
• School wind turbines shut down over safety fears
  Wind turbines have been turned off at 16 schools in the Highlands amid fears they may be sited dangerously close to pupils. Barriers could be placed around the installations after a full safety assessment is carried out by experts. The move follows growing public concern about accidents involvin ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• For Equality; Against Privilege
  Champions of liberty have a constant challenge in finding fresh and compelling ways to teach their philosophy to people with different perspectives
• U.S. Is Less Open to Foreign Investment
  “Foreign investment in the United States is ebbing and beefing it up is critical for economic growth as each job at a foreign company’s U.S. unit supports three others, the Organization for International Investment said on Thursday. A complex U.S. tax code and increasing global compe ...
• Hayek’s Tolerant and Pluralistic Liberal Vision
  While much has been said about Hayek’s economics, political theory, and theory of knowledge, not nearly as much has been said about his broader vision of a liberal society.
• Deficits: The Latest Fashion in Paris and Athens
  With the recent elections in France and Greece, austerity has seemingly been rejected. Of late, many European countries have been pushing austerity measures, but now French and Greek voters appear to prefer increased government spending, more government jobs, and more inflation. This is a common ...
• Oil Price Hits Year’s Low
  “The price of oil dropped Monday to its lowest level of the year after elections in Europe created uncertainty over the region’s plan for recovery.” (Christian Science Monitor) Is anything less understood by the public than how the price of oil is set? FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
  I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
• The courses a student wishes he had taken
  As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
• The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
  Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...
• The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
  Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...
• Two online tools I use and recommend
  Just a quick post to pimp two products/tools/sites I use every day — neither of which is nearly as famous as some companies that announced a billion-dollar deal yesterday. Pinboard. This is NOT the famous Pinterest that everyone is talking about. It has a few minor similarities (a “ ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Reflections on the passage of NC's cyn ...
  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, discusses why we can't stop now in the fight for equality.read more
• What happened in North Carolina? Lessons from ...
  Why did blue-trending North Carolina buck the trend towards states accepting marriage equality? A look at the numbers and fight around Amendment One. read more
• Honoring more boots on the ground: All of Us N ...
  Pam Spaulding interviews two of the organizers behind All of Us NC, a grassroots offshoot of the social justice group Southerners on New Ground, about their fight against the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in North Carolina. read more
• NC House leader says anti-gay hate group 'over ...
  N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) says he wanted a more narrowly worded amendment banning same-sex marriage but was "overruled" by the Alliance Defense Fund, a self-described Christian group that likens homosexuality to pedophilia and claims same-sex marriage leads to bestiality ...
• Lawsuit blames BP's Gulf pollution for divers' ...
  A commercial diver who worked in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP disaster has filed a lawsuit blaming his serious health problems -- and the suicide deaths of two of his colleagues -- on the oil and chemical dispersants used to break up the slick. read more

Worldpress - Africa

• Blood Diamonds 2012
  Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
• Blood Diamonds 2012
  Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
• The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
  For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
• The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
  For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
• London Conference on Somalia
  Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Helicopter carrying 14 workers ditches in Nort ...
  RAF video shows the dramatic rescue of the 14 workers and crew on board the aircraft that was forced to ditch in the North Sea.
• Helicopter carrying 14 workers ditches in Nort ...
  The passengers and crew of a helicopter that ditched in the North Sea escaped with "bumps and grazes" yesterday, but the incident has heightened concerns over the safety of oil industry flights.
• European Parliament calls for sanctions agains ...
  The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Argentina's nationalisation of YPF and called for a partial suspension of tariffs that benefit exports from the South American country to the EU.
• Argentina 'to negotiate' on YPF compensation
  Spain's Repsol, whose YPF unit was nationalised by Argentina, agreed in 2008 to buy back the Eskenazi family's shares in that oil company if it lost majority control.
• Repsol required to buy Eskenazi family YPF stake
  Spain's Repsol, whose YPF unit was nationalised by Argentina, agreed in 2008 to buy back the Eskenazi family's shares in that oil company if it lost majority control.

Ian Welsh

• Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
  I think the US will take longer, but a man-on-horseback can still happen in the US.   Remember that virtually the only trusted institution in America is the military.  The difference in America, as opposed to Europe, that the left isn’t going to get its chance, if at all, for quite some ti ...
• The left will have its chance in Europe
  So, in France Hollande has won, and in Greece, left wing parties have more of the vote than the center or the right (we’ll see if they can form a government, however.)  They will now have their chance.  If they fail, however, the right will sweep back in, and it will be the harder right, [...]
• The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
  and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
• The police state of the future
  forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
  An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
• US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
  Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
• NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
  A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
• Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
  More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
• Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
  Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

• The Export Business in California (People and ...
  California Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg countered my Wall Street Journal commentary California Declares War on Suburbia in a letter to the editor (A Bold Plan for Sustainable California Communities) that could be interpreted as suggesting that all is well in the Golden State. T ...
• Small Cities Are Becoming a New Engine Of Econ ...
  The conventional wisdom is that the world’s largest cities are going to be the primary drivers of economic growth and innovation. Even slums, according to a fawning article in National Geographic, represent “examples of urban vitality, not blight.” In America, it is commonly maintained by pu ...
• The OECD Reviews Chicago
  “Although still high in absolute terms, GDP and labor productivity growth rates are sluggish – both by US and international standards. The Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s contribution to national growth has slowed over the past decade and the region does not stand out as a top knowledg ...
• Is Negative Population Growth Upon Us? Deaths ...
  Population change has short run and long run effects. Short run effects include changes in fertility rates that can result from economic fluctuations. For example, during a recession, couples may delay having children until economic conditions improve.  Once job growth has begun and expectati ...
• Australian Elections: A Comeback for Pro-growt ...
  The latest local government elections in Queensland, along with the by election for former Premier Anna Bligh’s state seat of South Brisbane, may point to a fundamental shift in popular mood back in favour of growth and development. After many years of anti-growth policy paranoia, it’s a refresh ...

GM Watch

• Public Research, Private Gain - new report
  NOTE: Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agricultural Research can be downloaded here: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/public-research-private-gain/ --- --- Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agricultural Research Food and ...
• Public Research, Private Gain - new report
  NOTE: Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agricultural Research can be downloaded here: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/public-research-private-gain/ --- --- Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agricultural Research Food and ...
• European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval
  1.European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval over conflicts of interest 2.Chair of Management Board at EFSA quits because of conflict of interests --- --- 1.European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval over conflicts of interest Corporate Europe Observatory, May 10 2012 http://www. ...
• European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval
  1.European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval over conflicts of interest 2.Chair of Management Board at EFSA quits because of conflict of interests --- --- 1.European Parliament postpones EFSA budget approval over conflicts of interest Corporate Europe Observatory, May 10 2012 http://www. ...
• Food watchdog forced out over links to GM firms
  EXTRACT: ...campaigner Jonathan Matthews from GM Watch said: "She should have been removed from her position at EFSA some time ago. It has been known for a very long time that she had connections to the GM industry and the wider food industry through ILSI. It is a clear conflict of interest and ...

spiked

• The petty politics of the anti-inequality brigade
  ESSAY: Don’t be fooled by their egalitarian rhetoric - today’s equality campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
• Thank you, Maurice Sendak
  In picture and word, Where the Wild Things Are remains a sublime testament to the untamed emotions of childhood.
• Homeland: Fear and self-loathing in America
  One of Homeland’s greatest strengths is that it shows how much modern terrorists now ape liberal Westerners.
• It’s time to knock out the Europa League
  Watching Athletic Bilbao and their bonkers coach may make Thursdays fun, but the Europa League is still pointless.
• The Incredible Shrinking Mandate
  The miserable turnout in last week’s British elections confirmed to the isolated political elite that voters are not to be trusted.

Cryptogon

• New Humble Bundle Packed with Goods from Amani ...
  I like Amanita Design. An English dub version of Kooky, the children’s movie, is also part of this one. http://www.humblebundle.com/
• IBM’s Internal Plan to Grow Earnings-Per-Share ...
  Via: Cringely: The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. Reducing employees by more ...
• U.S. Marines: Infantry Now Open to Women
  Anybody’s Son Will Do. Or daughter. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Marine Corps school that produces infantry combat officers will enroll its first-ever female students this year, Marine Corps Times has learned. As part of the service’s extensive research campaign to determine what additiona ...
• Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely H ...
  Via: Forbes: The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars. … But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. ...
• Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
  Via: Natural Society: Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically ...

The Economic Collapse

• 3.6 Million Taxpayer Dollars Being Used To Sup ...
  You are not going to believe how much money is being spent on our former presidents.  At a time when U.S. government spending is wildly out of control, a total of 3.6 million dollars is being used to support the lavish lifestyles of former presidents such as George W. Bush and Bi ...
• Is The Food We Eat Killing Us?
  Are we digging our own graves with our teeth?  Is the food that we eat every day slowly killing us?  When I was growing up, I just assumed that everything in the grocery store was perfectly safe and perfectly healthy.  I just assumed that the government and the big corporations w ...
• 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
  The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...

Desertification

• Heartwarming rose in the house (Willem Van Cot ...
  Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden and house. I like to share … Continue reading →
• Climate change accelerating Southwest desertif ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-climate-change-accelerating-southwest-desertificat.aspx Climate change accelerating Southwest desertification, speaker says ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Jonathan Overpeck, professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geoscience ...
• To reconcile growth-oriented economics with Ea ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2012/0510/Green-accounting-of-economic-growth Green accounting of economic growth A World Bank study offers a new attempt to reconcile growth-oriented economics with Earth-oriented environmentali ...
• Groundwater pumping will cause a global sea le ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508173517.htm Effect of Groundwater Use: Using Water from Wells Leads to Sea Level Rise, Cancels out Effect of Dams ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water &#8 ...
• Selective logging and conserving tropical fore ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510132719.htm Logging of Tropical Forests Needn’t Devastate Environment ScienceDaily (May 10, 2012) — Harvesting tropical forests for timber may not be the arch-enemy of conservation that it was once assumed to be, according to a ne ...

The Paper Trail

• VIDEO: What kind of defense budget would the A ...
  Steven Kull, director of the Program for Public Consultation; Matthew Leatherman, analyst, Stimson's Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense project; and R. Jeffrey Smith, managing editor for national security, Center for Public Integrity discuss the findings of their defense spending poll o ...
• Public overwhelmingly supports large defense s ...
  While politicians, insiders and experts may be divided over how much the government should spend on the nation’s defense, there’s a surprising consensus among the public about what should be done: They want to cut spending far more deeply than either the Obama administration or the Republicans.T ...
• Live chat: The public's agenda for military sp ...
  How would the American public shape the Pentagon's budget? Find out this Thursday, May 10, at 2pm EST as we discuss the findings of our new survey with the Program for Public Consultation and the Stimson Center gauging citizens' priorities for military spending. Joining the live chat: Steven K ...
• Weekly Watchdog 5/3/12
  Investigating PowerGreat investigative reporting is woven into the historical fabric of America. Check out a very cool new website that tells this history and profiles the reporters who made it happen: InvestigatingPower.org. Investigating Power is a tribute to independent journalism and a test ...
• Watchdog 5/10/12
  New International Investigations WebsiteCrime and corruption don't stop at national borders. That's why the Center launched the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 1997. This unique group is comprised of 160 member journalists in 60 countries who investigate bad actors and t ...

backofthebook.ca

• CRTC reaches for volume control
  A BoB short: The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has announced that all broadcasters, cable and satellite providers, and video-on-demand services must silence erratically loud ads by Sept. 1, 2012. The federal regulator had previously told the TV industry that it had ...
• Robocalls: Who was hiding behind the proxy server?
  By Alison@Creekside Despite Wednesday’s somewhat dampening headline, Pierre Poutine robocalls trail goes cold in Saskatchewan, the main story here is not that Elections Canada’s Al Mathews was unable to secure phone records from a proxy server company in Saskatchewan a whole freakin ...
• John Baird plays Iran Got Nukes!
  By Alison@Creekside Baird says Iran could build nuclear bomb within months screams the CBC headline over Evan Solomon interviewing John Baird under a giant picture of visiting Israel PM Shimon Peres. Fans of the Iran got nukes! cry-wolf sweepstakes will recall both Peres and Netanyahu predicted  ...
• The student strike and the savage state
  By Montreal Simon Uh oh. It  looks like my Quebec student’s victory celebration party, from which I’m still recovering, was a little premature. Students in a half dozen colleges and 10 university faculties and departments voted to reject the agreement on Monday after the Charest gove ...
• Skrillex train tour inspired by 70′s Fes ...
  A BoB short: A motley of young electronic musicians led by Grammy-winning dubstep artist Skrillex, who is arguably more known for his half-shaved hairstyle, will be touring Canada via private train this summer. Accompanying Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny Moore, is indie pop maven and former ...

libcom

• EDL In Luton
  The EDL in Luton was the usual drunken mess. The days when the EDL could gather 1,000s of supporters and create a media splash are long gone as yesterdays ‘national’ demo in Luton proved. Even with Tommy Robinson faking another attac ...
• On a Post-Capitalist Economics: communism and ...
  workers-unite-tag1.jpg In the battle for communism, we cannot avoid being radical. In the battle against capitalism, can we afford to be Utopian? read more
• May Day 2012 - discussion and updates
  MayDay.jpg May 1, International Workers Day. Please post your accounts and updates of workers' events today in the comments below. See this article for a short history of ...
• Detroit Highschool students walkout protesting ...
  Detroit students walk out against school budget cuts and in solidarity with a nearby school threatened with closure. Western International High School students talk about defending public education and opposing the charterization and ...
• Bread instead of games!
  10_banner.png In June and July 2012, Poland is going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. Coalition of Polish feminist, anarchist and worker activists is mobilising for a protest on 1 ...

Free Range International

• Calm Before the Storm
  Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
• One Year Later
  Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
• Dalton Thomas Comes Home
  This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]
• Five Machineguns
  The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...
• All Clear
  At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Remembering Rachel Corrie
  She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
• Remembering Rachel Corrie
  She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
• Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
  Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...
• Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
  Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...
• The “Other” Israel – Built O ...
  This is a great older presentation by Ted Pike concerning the “Jews” and “Israel”. It is a good and basic PRIMER course, but is missing a few critical pieces of the overall puzzle: 1.  The infiltration of the Edomite bloodline into Rabbinical circles 200 years before the ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
  Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
• Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
  Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.
• Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
  Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
• Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
  Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
  Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.

Scotts Contracting

• Tell EPA to step in to ensure Keystone XL sout ...
  In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it needs to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast — unless we convince the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.   News ...
• Get ready… National Green Week is only 7 days ...
  Reblogged from Green Education Foundation (GEF): Get ready! National Green Week 2012 is only a week away! For those of you who don’t know, National Green Week is the largest waste reduction campaign in history for K-12 schools nationwide.  This year’s event will be kicking off on February 6, 201 ...
• CAD Kitchen Drawings by Scotty-ScottsContracting
  CADD Kitchen Design 2 Island Cook Top and Exhaust Hood   SCOTTS CONTRACTING LATEST KITCHEN DESIGN CAD DRAWINGS by clicking on this Web Link or Following Photo you will be redirect to Google Picasa Web Albums for Scotts Contracting Existing Kitchen Floor Plan Related articles Kitchen Project Phot ...
• Ameren Meeting-HCR 35 Hearing-3 environmental ...
  The 3 environmental shareholder resolutions include: report on coal combustion waste report on coal-related costs and risks assessment and report on greenhouse gas and other air emissions reductions through customer energy efficiency and renewable energy programs Labadie Environmental Organizati ...
• Kitchen Project Photos
    Scotty Comments:  I am very pleased with the Design-Build Concept utilized in the Kitchen Make-Over.  After the Prior Contractor Dropped the Ball on the project.  Scotts Contracting was hired to finish the project.  We added: Accent Lighting, Insulation, Air Sealing, N ...

The View From Abroad

• Chalk Up Another One for Gun Owners
  Last Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah, a gun toting citizen single-handedly ended the stabbing spree of a knife wielding maniac.
• The Pot Calls the Kettle Black
  Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and others is incredible hypocrisy.
• Keynesians Are Clueless
  Paul Krugman didn't see the Great Recession coming and he doesn't see the next crisis coming either.
• Bernanke’s Publicity Stunt
  Fed chairman Ben Bernanke defends corrupt banking cartel by criticizing gold standard.
• Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
  If you look beyond the war propaganda against Iran, it is clear who the real threat to peace is.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Missile Defense: Ever the Fly in the Ointment ...
  Missile defense is a bottomless fund of misinformation between the United States and Russia.
• The Arms Race Was Fed by More Than Just the Ne ...
  Strange as it sounds, the decision to target weapons over cities only added to nuclear risk.
• Will Israeli Dissent Halt the March Towards War?
  War fever has broken -- temporarily anyway.
• Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
  The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
• Question of Iran Pits Israeli Intelligence Aga ...
  Shrill rhetoric on Iran divides Israel.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iranian cartoonist's conviction condemned
  Cartoonists have condemned the conviction of an Iranian colleague given a sentence of 25 lashes for drawing a caricature of a local MP that was deemed insulting. Mahmoud Shokraye was put on trial after an Iranian MP, Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, took offence to a cartoon he drew of the parliamentarian ...
• تک عکس / برخورد بی شرمانه گشت اخلاقی با زنان ( ...
  ک عکس / برخورد بی شرمانه گشت اخلاقی با زنان (نمایشگاه بین المللی کتاب تهران)
• Britain seeks delay to EU's Iran ship insuranc ...
  Britain is seeking to persuade fellow European Union members to postpone by up to six months a ban on providing insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil, arguing that it could lead to a damaging spike in oil prices, European diplomats said. A European Union ban on importing Iranian oil, whic ...
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  اینجا یکجور آرمانشهر است.   چگونه چنین چیزی ممکن است؟ کدخدا با ریش توپی و چفیه فلسطینی روی شانه‌اش مانند ترکیبی از کارل مارکس و فیدل کاسترو جلوه می‌کند. این شباهت‌ها فقط ظاهری نیست؛ چون خوان مانوئل سانچز گوردیلو این read more
• کارتون‌هایی که خلقشان شلاق به ارمغان می‌آورد
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Most Revolutionary Act

• The Case for Negative Interest Money
  Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein 2011  Evolver Editions Book Review – Part II This review is divided into two parts. The second half covers some exciting solutions Eisenstein proposes for our broken economic system in Part II: The Economics of Reunion and Part II ...
• Sacred Economics – Life After Capitalism
  Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition Charles Eisenstein 2011,  Evolver Editions (This review is divided into two sections. The first covers Part I: The Economics of Separation, describing the history of money and capitalist economics. The second half covers ...
• Bank of America Turns Over a New Leaf
  Welcome to Your Bank of America (from http://www.yourbofa.com/) Dear Fellow American, Welcome to your Bank of America. Today, it’s time to acknowledge that our Bank isn’t working anymore—not just for the market, but for people, our real customers. We’ve paid $8.58 bill ...
• Milwaukee Prepares for National Security Event ...
  Location of US Drone Bases Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained ...
• The World Tomorrow - Assange as Chat Show Host
          Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating inte ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
  Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...
• Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
  Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
• New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
  NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
• 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
  PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
• Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
  For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...

Salon

• Obama’s GI Bill fight
  The multiple incarnations of the GI Bill are widely considered some of the most effective pieces of social welfare legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Since World War II, millions of veterans have been able to attend college and graduate school via direct tuition assistance from the fe ...
• Mitt: The real European
  An odd thing happened during Mitt Romney's victory-lap speech after Tuesday's Republican primaries: He didn't once mention the word "Europe."The absence was jarring, because Romney's claim that President Obama is dragging the United States toward a loathsome European-style "social welfare" futur ...
• Wal-Mart’s shame grows worse
  Bloomberg is reporting that Eduardo Castro-Wright, the Wal-Mart executive fingered by the New York Times as the man at the heart of a huge international bribery scandal, has stepped down from his position as a member of the board of directors at MetLife.One has to pity poor Bloomberg reporter An ...
• Will Arizona case help Obama?
  As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Arizona's hard-line immigration law, lawyers will revel in arcane discussions of "preemption" and "severability" and "harmonious regulation." Others will ponder the ever-elusive question of whether the eight sitting just ...
• What is Marco Rubio running for?
  Marco Rubio insists he isn't running for vice president in 2012, but he is running pretty hard for something. The question is what and when.The junior senator from Florida gave a proverbial "major foreign policy address" in Washington today, after publishing a Los Angeles Times op-ed calling for ...

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Ontario’s doctors face tougher times
  Health Minister Deb Matthews is right to reduce doctor fees for procedures that are cheaper and faster to perform.
• Barack Obama has tilted the scales toward comp ...
  Barack Obama has shown moral leadership by endorsing same-sex marriage.
• Conservative MP Blake Richards’ proposed crack ...
  Conservative MP Blake Richards’ proposed law to crack down on the wearing of masks at protests that turn ugly poses a threat to civil rights.
• Memo to Eugene Jones, Toronto housing’s new bo ...
  Turning to the United States, Toronto has hired a new public housing boss who is an expert in turning around troubled agencies. But does Eugene Jones know what he’s walking into?
• Junk food belongs in Ontario schools, accordin ...
  Two crusading Brampton teams have created a compelling video on an issue they care deeply about — pity it concerns getting junk food back into Ontario schools.

Energy Collective

• Emerging signs of health in the global PV indu ...
  Although most pundits agree that 2012 will be a very tough year for the PV majors, some good news has finally started emerging.The first story is about the price of silicon, the raw material that feeds our industry and is the source of so much opportunity and at times, so much pain.
• Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
  Electric vehicles have come a long way since the days for the botched EV-1 experiment of the 1990s.
• Senate bill aims to appraise value of home eff ...
  Say you were getting ready to put your home on the market and wanted to make a quick investment to boost the selling price. Would you be better off buying a granite countertop for your kitchen, or an ultra-efficient furnace that would lower heating bills by hundreds of dollars every year?
• PG&E Proposes New & Improved Rates for Electri ...
• Replacing nuclear with wind power: Could it be ...

EU Times

• Merkel calls for austere Europe, rejects new debt
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel left little ground to hope she would abandon or moderate the austerity program for Europe as she warned that growth on new loans would push the EU into deeper crisis. “Growth through structural reform is sensible, important and necessary,” she said during an ...
• Turkey to continue supporting Iraqi PM after I ...
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will continue to support Iraq’s fugitive vice president even after Interpol issued a worldwide alert for his arrest. Erdogan told a news conference in Italy on Tuesday that his government had always supported Tariq al-Hashemi and woul ...
• Ron Paul fights to end military aid for Israel
  Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has condemned a plan being considered in the United States House of Representatives that would allow for the US to continue aiding in the defense of Israel by equipping the Jewish state’s military with added weaponry. From Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Congressman ...
• Most Europeans oppose Iran oil sanctions
  A new poll conducted in five European countries shows most people are against imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil sector. A total of 2,100 adults in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden and Poland responded to the poll which was conducted by the German Marshall Fund via phone, April 23-26, 2012. ...
• Australia to become first Major Economy since ...
  Australia will become the first major economy in the developed world to record a surplus since the start of the global financial crisis. Julia Gillard, the prime minister, has pinned her political future on a “Robin Hood” budget which includes sweeping handouts worth more than £3 bil ...

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• This Seasons Biggest Blow-out Sale! 74% off Au ...
• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Romney says he's a different person since Cran ...
  Today, it would certainly be bullying -- perhaps even worse. But 45 years ago, nothing happened to Mitt Romney when he used scissors to cut off the long blond hair of a fellow student who was widely thought to be gay while that student was pinned down by other classmates at Cranbrook school in ...
• 10 Best Quotes About Obama's Support Of Gay Ma ...
  "I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, ...
• Could Israel relieve Europe's Russia dependence?
  Is Europe, wishing forenergy security and crispy winters indoors, looking in the right places for itsnatural gas salvation from a supply grip held by Russia? As of now, Europe continuesto cast its gaze 1,700 miles to the east in Baku, and across the CaspianSea fromthere to gas-rich Turkmenistan ...
• Washington Post exposes Mitt Romney âBully Day ...
  Forget about real issues like the economy or jobs. The Washington Post has exposed Mitt Romney as being a bully in high school. Naturally, this should disqualify him to be the next president of the United States
• Michele Bachmann renounces Swiss citizenship
  Reversal. Had to be done. How else would we know who’s side she’s on in the coming Swiss-American war? Bachmann’s spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday that she had recently been granted dual citizenship, for which she had been eligible since her 1978 marriage, but “recently some of their children want ...

Groklaw

• Why Patent Injunctions Are Even Worse For Open ...
  The damage that software patents cause to innovation in the computer world is a constant theme here on Techdirt. But as a fascinating new paper by James Boyle explains, the threat to open source, particularly from patent injunctions, is even greater because of the special characteristics of tha ...
• HB418 (2012): Signed by the Gov. of New Hampshire
  AN ACT relative to the use of open source software and open data formats by state agencies and relative to the adoption of a statewide information policy regarding open government data standards. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:... 5:1 Statemen ...
• State neglected web standards, company now fac ...
  In Slovakia, a law introduced to reduce red tape has led to injustice. The state has mandated electronic means as a only way of fulfilling certain statutory obligations. However the dedicated web solution excludes some citizens from use as it is not interoperable and runs only on the software fr ...
• Job Openings at EFF
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking a mid to senior-level digital civil liberties litigator. Responsibilities will include litigation, advocacy, public speaking, blogging and other social media, media appearances and legislative and regulatory matters related to a variety of high ...
• Google Firestarters 5 Visualised
  It can't have been easy for the guys at Scriberia to visualise Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at last weeks Firestarters event. But chief scribe Dan has done a fantastic job at committing to illustration a talk crammed with great metaphors and delivered at some pace. So, as a follow up to the writ ...

WideShut

• UK Going Ahead With Record Level of Online Sno ...
  Queen reaffirms Government plans to spy on every electronic communication you make!
• CIA Admits New Pants Bomber Was Agent
  Underpants Bomber 2 is a CIA/Saudi agent who infiltrated dubious Yemen Al Qaeda group to obtain a bomb with no target.
• Al Qaeda Underpants Bomb “Upgraded&#8221 ...
  Al Qaeda underpants bomb "upgraded" to beat scanners it could ALREADY beat.
• Dead Spy Inquest: MI6 Failed Missing Employee ...
  MI6 waited a week before reporting "spy found in a bag" Gareth Williams missing, says unnamed Witness F.
• UK Economy Officially In Double-Dip: But Perha ...
  UK falls back in to recession, but ignoring the political Punch & Judy show, didn't we all see this coming?

Politics in the Zeros

• Low temperature geothermal could be a game-changer
  Traditional geothermal technology requires 360+ degrees Fahrenheit sources that are difficult to find, less abundant, and therefore costly to discover and develop. Low-temperature geothermal technology makes it possible to access resources as low as 165°F. According to the SMU Geothermal Laborat ...
• JP Morgan loses $2 billion on risky trade
  JP Morgan stock is crashing as a result and the rest of the financial worlds is nervous too. But fear not, JPM CEO Jamie Dimon is sure to call up his old Chicago pal Barack Obama and tell him to send more bailout money.Oh wait, didn’t JPM already get billions in bailout money? Apparently [...]
• Colorado River is basis of economy in US West
  Lake Mead bathtub ringThe Salt Lake Tribune states the obvious that many overlook. The Colorado River is crucial for the entire economy of the American West, generating $26 billion in recreation income as well as water for millions..The largest employer in the American Southwest isn’t a company, ...
• Obama support for same-sex marriage as deliber ...
  Bet you didn’t hear much about “the howling protests of an angry mob” at the Bank of America protest in Charlotte NC yesterday, yes the same state where the Democratic Convention will be held and which just voted against same-sex marriage.The same sex marriage issue will genera ...
• Same-sex marriage meets the Jim Crow South
  Alan Markow grew up in segregated Virginia in the 1950′s and views the dinosaurs in North Carolina as on the wrong side of history, just like the segregationists were.Even the state House Speaker – who backed the anti-gay marriage position – acknowledged that it is “a generational is ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
  I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
• Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
  Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...
• JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
  For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
• Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
  The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
• Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
  The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...

frogblog

• Education is ACE
  The idea that education is for life is learned from early childhood. The ethos of community based learning; second chance education and community development has informed Adult and Community Education (ACE) programmes for many years. Despite the brutal cuts to ACE the ethos is alive and well in ...
• Is International Development the same as Econo ...
  It would seem this Government thinks so. This week the Government announced the newly appointed International Development Advisory and Selection Panel Chair is a former Rugby World Cup Tournament manager, Therese Walsh. Peter Kiely, the National Party’s lawyer who also chairs the Pacific C ...
• Australian Budget introduces new eco-taxes
  The Australian Budget yesterday was remarkable for a number of reasons, not only for the fact that they’re one of the first Western countries to return their Government’s books to surplus. The 2012 Australian Budget institutes a raft of new measures to raise revenues, especially revenues from ac ...
• Good news: Germany to oppose fracking
  Der Spiegel, is reporting that Germany is ‘putting the breaks’ on fracking in Germany. This is great news and shows the momentum both in New Zealand and around the world is growing against this controversial practise.
• Digital Earth coming to Wellington
  Last night I enjoyed attending the launch of the 4th Digital Earth Summit 2012, that Wellington City will be co-hosting (along with Land Information New Zealand)  in September this year. It is not the first time that Digital Earth has come to New Zealand – Auckland hosted it in 2006, thank ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
  Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
• Treacherous Treaties
  Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
• Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
  Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
• Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
  Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• New Update: Only 4 mg of This May Help You Mai ...
  By Dr. Mercola Even if you've never heard of astaxanthin, a carotenoid derived from the microalgae Haematoccous pluvialis, you've surely seen it. This is the compound that makes salmon, crabs, lobsters, shrimp and flamingos, which eat the algae, red or pink. It also happens to be emerging a ...
• 10 Simple Steps to Help De-Stress
  By Dr. Mercola Nearly one-quarter of Americans report being under extreme stress, rating their stress levels an 8, 9, or 10 out of a 10-point scale for the American Psychological Association’s (APA) 2011 Stress in America survey.i Countless others deal with fluctuating stre ...
• How Bugs Become Instantly Resistant to Insecti ...
  By Dr. Mercola In a time when it's undeniable that super weeds and super bugs are growing resistant to the herbicides and pesticides used to treat genetically modified (GM) seeds and crops, Japanese scientists have discovered that at least one bug's belly knows exactly what to do when it enc ...
• Six "Grow Younger" Nutrients I Take Every Day
  By Dr. Mercola Nutritionists have long been interested in the dynamics of telomere length in the body, and how telomeres figure in to human health and life expectancy. Telomeres were first discovered in 1973 by Alexey Olovnikov. He found that the tiny units of DNA at the very e ...
• Eating This Increases Your Risk of Getting a B ...
  By Dr. Mercola Polio, a contagious disease caused by an intestinal virus, can cause difficulty breathing and paralysis as the virus attacks and kills motor nerve cells that control your muscles. It can also cause death in its most severe form. However, what is not often shared is that i ...

JAMA

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• Names Misspelled in: Moderate to Vigorous Phys ...
• Incorrect Figure Labels in: Association of LDL ...
• Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery [ ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Bushmen’s fear as Botswana’s security forces r ...
  Bushmen are being arrested despite their right to live and hunt in the CKGR. © Survival Botswana’s security forces are arresting and intimidating Bushmen, despite the tribe’s legal right to live and hunt in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Survival has received several reports tha ...
• Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land ...
  Uncontacted Mashco-Piro are believed to live in the path of the road. One band of the tribe were recently spotted further south. © D. Cortijo/www.uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory of at least two uncon ...
• India: Illegal ‘human safari’ road still open ...
  India's illegal 'human safari' road remains open 10 years after ruling to close it. © G Chamberlain/ Survival A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure. The Andaman ...
• Amazon Indians’ fishing ritual brought to halt
  Enawene Nawe man. Drastically low fish stocks in the Indians' rivers have left them 'desperate' © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe Indians of the Brazilian Amazon have said they feel ‘desperate’, as their annual fishing ritual has provided them with almost no fish. Th ...
• Colin Firth campaign for Brazilian tribe break ...
  Colin Firth's appeal has generated more than 10,000 protest emails. © Survival A campaign launched by Colin Firth to save the world’s most threatened tribe has generated more than 10,000 protest emails to the Brazilian government in just three days – a record for protest action for tr ...

Montreal Gazette

• Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
  Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
• Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
  It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
• Student protests, pro and con
  "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
• Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
  A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.
• Unsafe streets for Montreal taxi drivers
  Nearly all of Montreal's taxi drivers have been stiffed for a fare.

Food World Order

• Pfizer and Merck under investigation for collu ...
  from naturalnews.com: Most Americans have no idea what truly went on behind closed doors during the crafting and illegitimate passing of Obamacare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But a congressional investigation currently underway is seeking to unearth the dirty ...
• Feds charge more than 100 individuals, includi ...
  from naturalnews.com: The government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid are wrought with fraud, a fact that was once again made apparent in the latest string of busts carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Reuters, 107 individuals -- many of whom are docto ...
• How the Private Water Industry Is Teaming Up W ...
  from alternet.org: An influential trade association representing companies that provide water services to one in four Americans says it will continue its membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that has worked with the energy industry to create loophole- ...
• Loblaws to remove artificial colours and flavours
  from theglobeandmail.com: Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocer, is banishing artificial colours and flavours from its signature President’s Choice line of products... Although it’s a challenging task, particularly when it comes to candy and other vibrantly-coloured confectionery items, the decisio ...
• 5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marij ...
  from alternet.org: Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy. There have been m ...

CrusadeWatch

• The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
  source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
• Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
  source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
• Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
  source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
• The changing face of the church
  source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
• Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
  source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

• Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
  COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
• The Big Awakening Conference 2011
  Click here for more information …
• Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
  “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
• Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                       SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
• COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
  COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

• 3.6 Million Taxpayer Dollars Being Used To Sup ...
  You are not going to believe how much money is being spent on our former presidents.  At a time when U.S. government spending is wildly out of control, a total of 3.6 million dollars is being used to support the lavish lifestyles of former presidents such as George W. Bush and Bi ...
• Is The Food We Eat Killing Us?
  Are we digging our own graves with our teeth?  Is the food that we eat every day slowly killing us?  When I was growing up, I just assumed that everything in the grocery store was perfectly safe and perfectly healthy.  I just assumed that the government and the big corporations w ...
• 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
  The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...

CASSE

• What Is the Limiting Factor?
  It is not for nothing that our system is called "capitalism" rather than "natural resource-ism."
• Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable C ...
  Eric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won't arise without concerted effort.
• Negative Externalities Are the Norm
  Here's a crazy but true fact: negative externalities are the norm -- not the exception -- in our current economic setup.
• Environmental Heroes Can Inspire Economic Refo ...
  Brent Blackwelder looks to this year's Goldman Environmental Prize winners for inspiration in the fight for a sustainable and fair economy.
• The Titanic Code
  The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.

The Talking Clock

• Farage: "I owe no allegience to that flag and ...
  And they sat there, stony faced and silent, as the plucky Englishman pointed out the consequences of the bureaucrats' ambitions...
• Sensation as Buckingham Palace demands new Dia ...
  A sensational report in U.S. tabloid magazine Globe claims that Buckingham Palace is to demand Scotland Yard reinvestigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The article - in the May 14th 2012 edition of the magazine - claims that Palace officials are to requ ...
• Quote of the Day: 'Who's the Conspiracy Theori ...
  Even The Guardian's journalists are remarking on this one... "Al-Qaeda would-be bomber actually worked with CIA ­US and Yemeni officials said that a would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaeda plot was working for US intelligence all along, AP reports. He was a double US-Saudi agent who in ...
• Absolutely Unanimous: 100% Find Edward Heath ' ...
  Despite the best efforts of brilliant individuals such as former special constable Albert Burgess, not one politician in this country has yet been arrested for the high crime of treason - either at statute or common law - for their role in the collaboration with the European Union. Aware that ...
• Quote of the Day: "Ooh la la, Bilderberg!" Edition
  "Hollande is merely another creature of the establishment and an enthusiastic pro-European superstate globalist. He supported the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, the document which outlined the introduction of the euro single currency and was itself based on a 1955 Bilderberg blueprint. Hollande also su ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Reflections on the passage of NC's cyn ...
  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, discusses why we can't stop now in the fight for equality.read more
• What happened in North Carolina? Lessons from ...
  Why did blue-trending North Carolina buck the trend towards states accepting marriage equality? A look at the numbers and fight around Amendment One. read more
• Honoring more boots on the ground: All of Us N ...
  Pam Spaulding interviews two of the organizers behind All of Us NC, a grassroots offshoot of the social justice group Southerners on New Ground, about their fight against the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in North Carolina. read more
• NC House leader says anti-gay hate group 'over ...
  N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) says he wanted a more narrowly worded amendment banning same-sex marriage but was "overruled" by the Alliance Defense Fund, a self-described Christian group that likens homosexuality to pedophilia and claims same-sex marriage leads to bestiality ...
• Lawsuit blames BP's Gulf pollution for divers' ...
  A commercial diver who worked in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP disaster has filed a lawsuit blaming his serious health problems -- and the suicide deaths of two of his colleagues -- on the oil and chemical dispersants used to break up the slick. read more

CenterLine

• Search for new executive director of Center on ...
  Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Scarecrow Mars rover takes spin in California ...
  NASA's Curiosity rover, still en route for Mars, has an Earthly double with no computer brains. This week, scientists took it out for a trial run
• Unknown language found stamped in ancient clay ...
  Women's names listed on a 2700-year-old clay tablet are in a language never seen before – perhaps a sign that they were forced from their homeland
• Today on New Scientist: 10 May 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the biochemistry of love, the improbable ape, incurable TB and missing supernovae
• Peek inside a next-generation SpaceX taxi
  A cosy scene provides a glimpse of how NASA astronauts may soon make their way to the International Space Station
• Today on New Scientist: 9 May 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Belle de Jour on sexuality, the gene switch that made our brains, the new commercial space age, and more

Tech Drive In

• What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
• EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
  EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
• [OT] I Just Got Married!
  You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
• Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...
• Upcoming Elementary OS Luna's New Notification ...
  Next version of Elementary OS codenamed "Luna" will be based on just released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and it is going to bring about a number of really interesting changes, new notification system being one of them. Video Demo of Elementary OS's New Notification S ...

Case About Bird Flu

• 29 cases of narcolepsy due to swine flu vaccin ...
   *Pandemrix swine flu vaccine linked to 29 cases of narcolepsy in Germany *Children and teenagers most affected *Researchers confirm narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease; immune response destroys brain cells which produce neurotransmitters regulating sleep *Genetic risk factor associated with nar ...
• Israel calls snap elections over Iran policy
  Israeli elections likely to push back any thoughts of an Iran nuclear strike Read more at: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-elections-likely-push-back-any-thoughts-of-iran-nuclear-strike-1.428230
• Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor ...
  Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor, says Scotland Yard Yard releases image of how Madeleine may look five years on and asks Portuguese police to reopen inquiry Sandra Laville, The Guardian, April 25, 2012 Scotland Yard detectives released a picture of what Madeleine McCann may look l ...
• Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
   *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...
• Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
   *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Shithouse Rats on the Armageddon Train
  By Les Visible Anybody think I like talking about this so often? Why is it that I do? Well, I’m surrounded by cowards, whose chief entertainment is being buggered by shithouse rats. I suppose that makes me aunti-this and aunti that but Uncle Tom I’m not, l’dat. Let me quote mys ...
• Frottage Fever and a Date with the Reaver
  By Les Visible It becomes increasingly harder to know what to say; to find that there is anything to say. Obviously it has already been said and the same people not paying attention then are not paying attention now. It’s not my alarm clock and it’s not my world, that so many are att ...
• Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?
  By Ed Pilkington The entrance to the Judge Rotenberg Centre, in a suburb of Boston, is a riot of bright colours and surreal designs. The receptionist greets visitors from a deep purple chair in front of yellow and pink neon panels. Corridors are lit by elaborate chandeliers and lined with 6ft mo ...
• One man creates 1,360 acre forest
  by: Jordan and Kyla (NaturalNews) Have you ever heard the saying “you have the power to make a difference”? Well, the following demonstrates how one person has proven this. Over 30 years ago, a young teenager by the name of Jadav “Molai” Payeng had an idea to turn a barre ...
• DHS To Release Potential Superbug Cousin Of An ...
  By Alexander Higgins Of course the naysayers said such powers could only be invoked during a massive riot or if the President authorized such a release in the name of national security which would never happen. NDM-1 Enzyme turns any bacteria into a super bug and is already widespread across the ...

Veterans Today

• Israel: Profile of a Police State
  Police states are defined by lawlessness, injustice, and contempt for democratic values.
• Al-Nakba Then and Now
  "Everywhere except in America, the Palestinian narrative is well known."
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $313,843,757 combination fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price letter contract for low-rate initial production of fiscal 2012 Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Block I all-up rounds, special tooling and test equipment, sp ...
• Congress Proposes Giving Israel an Extra $1 Bi ...
  As news about Israeli political parties merging dominates headlines, this one is being overlooked.
• America’s Phony Election, the Polling Fiasco
  Darkest Ohio - (VT) President Obama was elected to end the Bush wars, disband Homeland Security, find our friendly TSA workers something more useful to do and to sell the billions of dollars of unused airport scanners back to Michael Chertoff and Israel.

electric politics

• "Age of Ignorance"
  By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
• Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
  Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...
• Summa Economica
  According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...
• The Virtue of Protectionism (and Class Warfare)
  It's a vicious circle. Financialization. Profit maximization. Offshoring. Political dysfunction. To start with the offshoring part, the American economy will wither and die without good industrial jobs. The numbers don't add up otherwise and the numbers don't lie. But thanks to money, corporatio ...
• Ocean Acidification
  Human beings start domesticating crops only 12,000 or so years ago. Written history begins about 5,000 years ago. The modern era dates from — when? — maybe 100-200 years ago. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that we have some difficulty internalizing the idea that our burning carbon h ...

PR News

• Zappos starts PR agency search, hires VaynerMe ...
  HENDERSON, NV: Online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos has issued an RFP for a PR AOR. The company also selected VaynerMedia as its first social media agency.
• California looks for firm for explain diesel r ...
  SACRAMENTO, CA: California's Air Resources Board is hiring an agency as it plans a campaign targeting both in-state and national audiences to explain regulations.
• H+K debuts Washington-based crisis practice
  WASHINGTON: Hill+Knowlton Strategies has launched a crisis practice in its Washington office.
• Under-fire advocacy group ALEC works with Edelman
  WASHINGTON: The American Legislative Exchange Council has brought on Edelman to help it deal with recent corporate fallout and opposition to its legislative positions, numerous sources familiar with the relationship said.
• Edelman launches Periscope market entry offering
  WASHINGTON: Edelman launched the Periscope offering on Thursday. The service will provide research, communications, and stakeholder engagement counsel and execution to companies entering foreign markets.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Environmental groups launch major campaign to ...
  Black Out Speak Out groups will darken websites nationwide in protest against efforts to silence Canadians Black Out Speak Out 7 May 2012 ...
• Oil and Democracy Speaker Series
  Community Service-Learning Parkland Institute It certainly is an interesting time for democracy in Alberta… Community Service-Learning's (CSL) Spring Immersion Course 'Oil and De ...
• Sage-Grouse Reintroduction: More Habitat Prote ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 3 May 2012 Reports in yesterday’s news media reveal details on a program to import sage-grouse from Montana to Alberta. While this reintroduc ...
• IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training
  The Natural Step Canada 20 Jun 2012 - 09:00 - 21 Jun 2012 - 17:00 Applications due May 14, 2012 The Co-operators and The Natural Step Canada are partnering to offer the IMPACT! Su ...
• Eco Solar Commercial Tour
  Eco Solar Tour 4 Jun 2012 - 11:00 - 8 Jun 2012 - 15:00 The capital cost of a commercial building is only 8% of the life cycle costs. Come and visit a new breed of commercial buil ...

Stop NATO

• White House Touts War-Tested Global NATO Force
  Stop NATO May 10, 2012 White House Touts War-Tested Global NATO Force Rick Rozoff President Barack Obama and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met at the White House on May 9 to discuss the military bloc’s summit in Obama’s political home base ...
• Don’t Believe NATO Hype: Alternatives To ...
  Huffington Post May 10, 2012 Don’t Believe the NATO Hype: Alternatives Exist to War, Economic Crises Joseph Gerson As the NATO summit in Chicago approaches, misplaced paranoia is striking deep. A near-police-state regime is being imposed, not only to “protect” heads of state fr ...
• Veterans Plan To Return Medals During NATO Sum ...
  WBBM News Radio CBS News Chicago May 10, 2012 Veterans Plan To Return Medals During NATO Summit Protest CHICAGO: Several veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plan to hold a ceremony during a protest of the NATO summit on Sunday, and return their service medals to the NATO generals. WBBM ...
• U.S.-China: One Warship Enough To Win A Global ...
  Voice of Russia May 10, 2010 One warship – enough to win a global war? Boris Volkhonsky Edited by RR ==== Imagine that the current standoff between China and any of its neighbors turns into open warfare. In that case, one warship would be basically sufficient to completely block the bottleneck o ...
• U.S. Tests New-Generation Missile For NATO Int ...
  Interfax May 10, 2012 US successfully tests new Aegis missile interceptor         The US Navy has successfully tested a new ship-based missile interceptor, which is to play an important role in the European anti-missile shield, the Pentagon announced today. &#1 ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domai ...
  Torrent Freak May 10, 2012 Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this ‘vulnerability’ in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to ...
• CNN: Entire Outfit of Al-Qaeda Terrorists Are ...
  By Alexander Higgins theintelhub.com May 10, 2012 CNN has “warned” that an entire outfit of Al-Qaeda terrorist are planning to conduct attacks on US soil using sophisticated high-tech bombs undetectable by security systems. Recently Wikileaks released an entire drove of embarrassing ...
• Military Job Video: Internment Specialist, Con ...
  By Alexander Higgins theintelhub.com May 10, 2012 An Army Job Ad For Concentration Camps Officers: Military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility, similar to civilian Corrections Officers. For a complete background see: Leaked Army Manual Reveals US Based War On Terr ...
• The Al Qaeda Underwear Bomber: Another Foiled ...
  By Stephen Lendman theintelhub.com May 10, 2012 Wikipedia defines false or black flags as “covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.”  “The name is derived from the military concept of flying ...
• Bilderberg 2012: Secret Conclave Site Found
  By James P. Tucker Jr. American Free Press May 10, 2012 • Bilderberg group will meet in Chantilly, Va. in late May • Tucker heads to Memphis to attend two patriot rallies MEMPHIS—Hundreds of patriots were on hand for two consecutive rallies held in Memphis on April 27, one at noon and one in the ...

FRS

• Police Brutality in Latehar (Jharkhand)
  On 2nd May, 2012, it was 5 O’clock in the evening. We entered into the general ward of Orthopedics Department of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi. After a long search, we found 40 year-old Sylvester Minj, lying on the bed. His son Roshan was sitting on the other side of ...
• Police Brutality in Latehar (Jharkhand)
  On 2nd May, 2012, it was 5 O’clock in the evening. We entered into the general ward of Orthopedics Department of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi. After a long search, we found 40 year-old Sylvester Minj, lying on the bed. His son Roshan was sitting on the other side of ...
• US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, ...
  By Chris McGreal, Guardian, May 5, 2012 A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. James Anaya, the U ...
• US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, ...
  By Chris McGreal, Guardian, May 5, 2012 A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. James Anaya, the U ...
• India: Displacement and repression disguised ...
  Communist Party of India (Maoist) — Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee:   Press Release (4 May 212) “Observe ‘Bharat Bandh’ on 16 May against the proposed fascist NCTC, against continued assaults on the people by the government armed forces under Operation Green Hunt and against th ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
  'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
  We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
• Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
  Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...

StillSmallVoice

• Life is change and change is life
  And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
• Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
  "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
• De-pinkifying breast cancer
  There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
• Why the occupation?
  You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
• Cleansing after Yom Kippur
  Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• Fox News Guest Says Letting Women Vote "One of ...
  Fox News contributor and fundamentalist clergyman Jesse Lee Peterson delivered a sermon in which he said that allowing women to vote was one of the greatest mistakes America has made; despite this, he was invited on Sean Hannity's program.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 08, 2012
• 9/11 Trial Proves America Still Hasn’t Gotten ...
  Five defendants of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are facing hearings in Cuba.Contributor: William Browning Published: May 06, 2012
• Canada Kills the Penny; Should the U.S. Follow ...
  May 4 marked the final date of production of the Canadian penny. Should the U.S. end production of its own 1-cent coin?Contributor: Alex Wibholm Published: May 05, 2012
• The Music Industry Grieves the Loss of Beastie ...
  Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has died at the age of 47. The music industry took to Twitter to share their thoughts and memories of Yauch and the Beastie Boys. Here is a look at some of the messages.Contributor: Whitney Levon Published: May 04, 2012
• Federal Judge Issues Ultimatum in 'Occupy' Pro ...
  Federal District Judge Thelton Henderson has issued an ultimatum to the city of Oakland, threatening sanctions if it does not deal with the many complaints against it regarding the harsh police treatment of 'Occupy' protesters.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 03, 2012

Popsci - Science

• The 10 Best Quotes From the Study That Proves ...
  But how does it taste with other fluids? Grapefruit juice? Motor oil? Liquid nitrogen? At Pontificia University Católica in Santiago, Chile, important work is being done. Sick of people repeatedly insisting that corn flakes are delicious when swimming in a bowl of tap water (I guess?), a team o ...
• Making Preserved Food Actually Taste Good
  Preserving food isn't hard--the challenge is in the flavor (or lack thereof, or disgustingness thereof) Barb Stuckey hands me a plastic tray of mashed potatoes sealed with an opaque layer of film. “We packaged these up over a year ago,” she says. The United States Potato Board has asked Stuckey ...
• Making Preserved Food Actually Taste Good
  Preserving food isn't hard--the challenge is in the flavor (or lack thereof, or disgustingness thereof) Barb Stuckey hands me a plastic tray of mashed potatoes sealed with an opaque layer of film. “We packaged these up over a year ago,” she says. The United States Potato Board has asked Stuckey ...
• Wristband Sensors Can Detect, and Possibly Pre ...
  Some seizures briefly incapacitate, while other seizures can be deadly. Knowing the difference is obviously of grave importance, but figuring out which is which is difficult. So a team of MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wristband that can tell the difference between the more benign br ...
• Pretty Space Pics: The Dark, Artistic Center o ...
  Today's pretty space pic, of the dark, cloudy center of the Omega Nebula, strikes our fancy due to its ominous scratchiness, like a beautiful cerulean and red painting marred by handfuls of dirt scraped across its surface. The nebula is about 5,000 light-years away, and is a famous star-forming ...

Veterans Today

• Israel: Profile of a Police State
  Police states are defined by lawlessness, injustice, and contempt for democratic values.
• Al-Nakba Then and Now
  "Everywhere except in America, the Palestinian narrative is well known."
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $313,843,757 combination fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price letter contract for low-rate initial production of fiscal 2012 Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Block I all-up rounds, special tooling and test equipment, sp ...
• Congress Proposes Giving Israel an Extra $1 Bi ...
  As news about Israeli political parties merging dominates headlines, this one is being overlooked.
• America’s Phony Election, the Polling Fiasco
  Darkest Ohio - (VT) President Obama was elected to end the Bush wars, disband Homeland Security, find our friendly TSA workers something more useful to do and to sell the billions of dollars of unused airport scanners back to Michael Chertoff and Israel.

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorksh ...
  Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire's ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 we ...
• Weakest solar cycle in 100yrs could intensify ...
  News from NASA this week that on-going weak solar activity will continue, leading to the weakest solar cycle in around 100 years, could have important implications for the UK's weather. Research over the last few years has pointed to a link between low solar activity, and incidences of 'blocki ...
• Wettest April on record - and more rain to come
  Church Fenton in North Yorkshire has become the first station to report record rainfall following last night's heavy rain. So far this month, 122mm (5 inches) has fallen, beating the previous record set in 2000 of 115mm. The station average for April is 49mm (2 inches). Other stations are al ...
• April could be wettest on record in drought-hi ...
  Low pressure will dominate the UK's weather for the rest of April, and possibly into early May, bringing further showers and longer spells of locally heavy rain. In Lincolnshire, where the drought situation is amongst the worst in the country, some of the highest rainfall totals have been reco ...
• Global and regional climate update
  Average global temperatures in March rose to +0.108C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.116C in February, based on the UAH satellite measurement shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard 1961-1990 mean, global temperatures were approximately +0.361C above normal. Acro ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Catholic Melinda Gates vs Church on Contraception
  For reasons you are doubtlessly aware of, the emphasis on population control of most in the development mainstream has long attracted criticism from the Roman Catholic Church. What we have here is a new twist on an old story: as cash-strapped Western nations have become warier about providing de ...
• Maybe the Renminbi Won't Rule the World After All
  Here's a neat riposte from Eswar Prasad and Lei Ye to the idea that the RMB will surpass the dollar as the world's most important currency over the next decade or two. That point of view has been famously espoused by Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute of International Economics and, fo ...
• Pricing Luxury: LVMH in 'Old' Europe, 'New' China
  Having several friends and relatives working in the industry--female and male, mind you--I've taken a keen interest in luxury goods as an exemplar of globalization's dynamics. Not only do leading luxury firms have global reach and name recognition, but they also have to deal with variations in c ...
• Hopeless, Jobless America? Go East, Young Yank
  There are two interesting features in TIME on dealing with the generally jobless state of modern America. The first is a Job-like (biblical) lament about how unpaid internships are common Stateside when they should not be. As you'd expect, the article is accompanied by sob stories about young Am ...
• Shariah Banking: Islamic Financial Services Board
  The Commonwealth news outlet Global Briefing has an interesting interview with Jaseem Ahmed, secretary-general of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). Although its history is not very long, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in shariah banking, especially given the renewed ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 3.6 Million Taxpayer Dollars Being Used To Sup ...
  You are not going to believe how much money is being spent on our former presidents.  At a time when U.S. government spending is wildly out of control, a total of 3.6 million dollars is being used to support the lavish lifestyles of former presidents such as George W. Bush and Bi ...
• Is The Food We Eat Killing Us?
  Are we digging our own graves with our teeth?  Is the food that we eat every day slowly killing us?  When I was growing up, I just assumed that everything in the grocery store was perfectly safe and perfectly healthy.  I just assumed that the government and the big corporations w ...
• 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
  The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
• The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
  The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• New Film: Roses on My Table
  ...
• CrimethInc. Presents VORTEXT and TERROR INCOGNITA
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• A Las Barricadas: A Boardgame of Social War
  A Las Barricadas is a boardgame about conflict between two opposing social forces, namely that of the state and of anti-authori...
• Left Bank Books again publishes pamphlets and ...
  After several years of publishing silence, Left Bank Books Collective is pleased to announce the restart of its publishing project. We will be p...
• American Section of the Situationist Internati ...
  The French publishing house Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition (CMDE) has just published, under the rubric “Les reveil...

E U Times

• Merkel calls for austere Europe, rejects new debt
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel left little ground to hope she would abandon or moderate the austerity program for Europe as she warned that growth on new loans would push the EU into deeper crisis. “Growth through structural reform is sensible, important and necessary,” she said during an ...
• Turkey to continue supporting Iraqi PM after I ...
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will continue to support Iraq’s fugitive vice president even after Interpol issued a worldwide alert for his arrest. Erdogan told a news conference in Italy on Tuesday that his government had always supported Tariq al-Hashemi and woul ...
• Ron Paul fights to end military aid for Israel
  Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has condemned a plan being considered in the United States House of Representatives that would allow for the US to continue aiding in the defense of Israel by equipping the Jewish state’s military with added weaponry. From Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Congressman ...
• Most Europeans oppose Iran oil sanctions
  A new poll conducted in five European countries shows most people are against imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil sector. A total of 2,100 adults in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden and Poland responded to the poll which was conducted by the German Marshall Fund via phone, April 23-26, 2012. ...
• Australia to become first Major Economy since ...
  Australia will become the first major economy in the developed world to record a surplus since the start of the global financial crisis. Julia Gillard, the prime minister, has pinned her political future on a “Robin Hood” budget which includes sweeping handouts worth more than £3 bil ...

Voiceless Victim

• Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
  For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
• Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
  I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
• Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
  Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
• Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
  The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
• Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
  It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...

WL Central

• 2012-05-10 Military Intelligence and the 35Fox ...
  TweetThe United States Army and Marine Corps call their enlisted job specialties, "MOS's," or Military Occupation Specialties. Bradley Manning was a 35F or 35Fox, Military Intelligence Analyst, assigned to Company B, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division Light ...
• 2012-05-10 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks #1 ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 523 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 520 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 717 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 603 days. ...
• 2012-05-08 WikiLeaks News Update: "World Tomor ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 521 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 518 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 715 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 601 days. ...
• 2012-05-07 Bahraini human rights activist Nabe ...
  Tweet This is Part Two in WL Central's continued coverage of the arrest of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. He was arrested on May 5 at the Bahraini International Airport, following the announcement of his upcoming appearance on Julian Assange's talk show "The World Tomorrow." A repr ...
• 2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Nabeel Rajab ...
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 519 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 516 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 713 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 599 days. ...

U N News

• Senior UN official alarmed at recent murders o ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced alarm and anger over the murders of three Mexican journalists in the state of Veracruz in less than a week.
• UN concerned over Venezuela's possible withdra ...
  The United Nations today voiced concern over Venezuela's announcement that it is establishing a committee to evaluate the possibility of withdrawing from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
• UN expert urges US to take more robust measure ...
  The United States needs to adopt more robust measures to address the issues affecting its indigenous peoples, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing that such policies must be developed in partnership with Native American, Alaskan Native and Hawaiian peoples in the country.
• Haiti: UN envoy welcomes parliament's confirma ...
  The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today welcomed the confirmation by parliament of the appointment of the country's Prime Minister designate, Laurent Lamothe, a move that paves the way for him to assume office.
• Noting disturbing trend' in Mexico, UN rights ...
  The United Nations human rights office today voiced alarm over the killing of a journalist in Mexico this past weekend, and condemned what it said is a "disturbing trend" of media professionals being murdered in the country, where more than 70 have been killed over the past 12 years.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• The Magic Weed
  Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
• Blood Coltan
  Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
• CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
  Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
• Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
  Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
• HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
  You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

• Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
  We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...
• Hungry Dragon
  COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has b ...
• Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessm ...
  Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The workshop will be held on Saturday 5 May, 9am-4pm at Pearson Hall on the Museum of Norther ...
• An interview with Dave Foreman
  Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March 30,2012 on KGNU Community Radio (Denver/Boulder). Listen: audioarchives-Connections-2012-Connections_2012-03-30 or stream from KGNU.
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
  Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia's Woeful Air Safety Record
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Russian Superjet's crash once again raises questions
• Indonesian Socialite Jailed in Massive Bribe Case
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Witness eluded authorities in several different countries while pleading memory loss
• Japan's Aliens: No Longer so Alien
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A new identity card is a step in the right direction
• Timor Leste & Aceh: Indonesia's Step-children
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Change comes to both
• A Crucial Political Test for Aquino in the Phi ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Chief Justice Corona's impeachment trial resumes, perhaps not a sure thing after all

We Know the Lies

• The Storm Is Coming... FEMA Camps And Gun Grab ...
    A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how "political activists," including American citizens, are to be indoctrinated in re-education camps also includes rules on forced labor and separating political prisoners by confining them in isolation. ~ Related article - Videos read more
• 'FEMA Coffins' Being Moved Northbound On Georg ...
    When the driver of this truck noticed the photographer taking pictures, he immediately pulled off of the highway...read more
• Romney to Ron Paul... 'Get Out Of The Race OR ...
    Is Romney getting desparate wanting Ron Paul to drop out of the race? ~ Video read more
• CNN... 'Entire Outfit of Al-Qaeda Terrorists A ...
    CNN warns an entire outfit of Al-Qaeda terrorist are planning to conduct attacks on US soil using sophisticated high-tech bombs undetectable by security systems. ~ Video read more
• Plan on Voting for Mitt Romney Instead of Ron ...
    These 99 facts about Mitt Romney may very well change your vote... read more

Tarpley

• Kofi Annan Spouts NATO “Civil War in Syr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 9, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• France, Greece, UK, Italy, Germany Vote No on ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio I.N.N. World Report May 8, 2012 [download audio]
• Romney Allied to Netanyahu, Ron Paul Allied to ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com May 3, 2012 [download audio]
• Tarpley on Coast to Coast AM Tonight 2am to 5a ...
  Coast to Coast AM May 2, 2012 Coast to Coast AM Tonight 2am to 5am Eastern Time Webster Tarpley on the Fraud of the Arab Spring and Wall Street’s War on Franklin D. Roosevelt
• NATO’s Assault on Syria Cloned Off Hitle ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 30, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has conducted an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, an author and historian from Washington, to further explore the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription if the interview. Press TV: Ma ...

Modern Survivalism

• Take Action BEFORE Liberties Are Stripped
  Don’t wait to go on defense, because it’s nearly impossible to get things undone rather than stopping them from being done in the first place. Act offensively or proactively and fight for your right to liberty (which is not granted to you by the government, but is yours naturally). Y ...
• Mammoth Sunspot Threatens Earth
  Base image: NASA SDO This is one of those things that always raises an eyebrow for me… a mammoth sunspot capable of producing X-class flares, one of which could potentially knock us back to the stone age. It’s like watching someone wielding a gun, and the gun is being brought around ...
• Are Preppers Crazy?
  In all walks of life, there is an element of ‘crazy’, although perhaps not the crazy as defined by the 1st definition in the dictionary, ” Affected with madness; insane”. However a few of the informal definitions may apply, ” Departing from proportion or moderation, ...
• Will The Cash Ban Spread?
  First reported just a few weeks ago, there is now a cash ban on ALL transactions above €2,500 in Spain, and is a tax collectors dream come true. The new government push: Cash has gotta go – it’s evil. Those who violate the ban will face fines of 25% of the payment made in cash. [...]
• Fully Stocked North Idaho Retreat
  msb-note This may interest some of you who may be looking for a safe, self-sufficient, retreat location… FULLY STOCKED survival property for sale in N. Central Idaho. This property is located in the mild microclimate region 5 hours north of Boise, ID. The winters are very mild, and there a ...

Fast Company

• Pucker Up--The Wisdom Of Small Bets Means Kiss ...
  Each day thousands of small and midsize companies make big, one-shot bets--and fail. We don’t hear about most of them, just as we don’t hear about people who lose the lottery; they aren’t front-page news. News isn’t interested in these “dog bites man,” or common, everyday stories, because they d ...
• Trunk Club Would Like You To Dress Better, Inc ...
  The Bonobos cofounder Brian Spaly has a new business that will manage your wardrobe for you. And he's serious about that sex thing, too. Brian Spaly is the CEO of Trunk Club, which recently celebrated its first million-dollar month (in revenue, not profit), as well as its 10,000th customer. The ...
• FTC Talks With Twitter, Google About Facebook' ...
  News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The Federal Trade Commission has approached both Google and Twitter concerning Facebook's $1 billion deal to purchase social photo-sharer company Instagram. According to a source speaking to Reuters, it's not known exactly what details the FTC ...
• Can Groupon Rewards Transform Local Commerce?
  That's the plan, says CEO Andrew Mason. A new national loyalty program is one way it's trying. Here's how the deals company plans to go beyond discounts and to "help merchants grow."Yesterday's nationwide launch of the Groupon Rewards customer loyalty program was the latest step in the Chicago c ...
• Can Groupon Rewards Transform Local Commerce?
  That's the plan, says CEO Andrew Mason. A new national loyalty program is one way it's trying. Here's how the deals company plans to go beyond discounts and to "help merchants grow."Yesterday's nationwide launch of the Groupon Rewards customer loyalty program was the latest step in the Chicago c ...

Jadaliyya

• Bringing the Revolution to Campus: An Intervie ...
  Laila Soueif, assistant professor of mathematics, Cairo University, is one of the founding members of the March 9 Movement for the Independence of Universities. The movement was founded in 2004 and became a part of the growing terrain of dissent that preceded the January 25 revolution (alon ...
• Syria Media Roundup (May 10)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
• Iranian Cyber-Struggles
  From the Green Movement in Iran in 2009 through the Arab revolts that began in 2011, social media have held center stage in coverage of popular protest in the Middle East. Though the first flush of overwrought enthusiasm is long past, there is consensus that Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 a ...
• The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Sho ...
  In September 2011, a group of young Arab women, myself included, conspired to organize a DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DC-PFAF). Inspired by the gigantic models established in Toronto, Chicago, London, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Boston, we decided to  emulate this model in Washin ...
• War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, ...
  The recent issue of Foreign Policy on sex has instigated critical feedback from many who have rightly challenged racist and Orientalist representations of gender and sexuality in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Several critics have rightly pointed out that essentialist approaches to culture that rel ...

mediagazer

• Daily Foodie Newsletter Tasting Table is Gobbl ...
  Jessica Roy / Betabeat: Daily Foodie Newsletter Tasting Table is Gobbling Up Revenue  —  Tasting Table, the daily epicurean email publication in the same vein as Thrillist, doesn't fancy itself just another “To the trash bin with you!” newsletter.  With stringen ...
• Amendment puts spotlight on Pentagon propagand ...
  Gregory Korte / USA Today: Amendment puts spotlight on Pentagon propaganda  —  WASHINGTON - A member of the House Armed Services Committee threatened an amendment to block funding for Pentagon propaganda efforts Wednesday, citing USA TODAY reports questioning their efficacy and ...
• Rebekah Brooks at the Leveson inquiry - live c ...
  Guardian: Rebekah Brooks at the Leveson inquiry - live coverage  —  Full coverage as the former News International chief executive appears at the inquiry into press standards  —  9.43am: Good morning and welcome to the Leveson inquiry live blog.  —&nbs ...
• Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch? (Tim Karr/Save ...
  Tim Karr / Save the News: Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?  —  The answer: the Federal Communications Commission and Congress.  —  While the media mogul was called before Parliament and hammered by regulators in the United Kingdom, few in the halls of U.S. power a ...
• Pub Backs Blogger in Emails Before Canning Her ...
  Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: Pub Backs Blogger in Emails Before Canning Her  —  In the latest backlash over the firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley from the Chronicle of Higher Education, internal emails show that management supported Riley before abruptly canning her.  — ...

Chemtrail News

• CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
  I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
• Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
  Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
• 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
  probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
• ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
  Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
• Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
  Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

• 'Save the planet', science leaders urge G ...
  Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders meeting at the G8 summit later this month in the US. National science academies from 15 countries have called on the leading industrialised economies to pay greater heed to science and technology. The acade ...
• Wenger `very confident` that Van Persie w ...
  London: Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood says he is optimistic that captain Robin van Persie will sign a new deal at the Gunners, despite speculation he could leave the club. The Dutchman has refused to comment on his future or discuss extending his current deal that is due to run out in 201 ...
• Ganguly to serve as mentor only from IPL ...
  Sourav Ganguly will no longer be the captain of Pune Warriors in Indian Premier League and will serve only as the team's mentor, putting an end to intense speculation over the struggling batsman's fate following a string of poor...
• After six losses in a row, Ganguly faces ...
  Pune Warriors skipper Sourav Ganguly said on the eve of the game against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday that he would continue to lead the second-last placed side for the rest of the season. But then, his position has been undermined following the team's poor show, it is reliably le ...
• HC adjourns bail plea hearing of AMRI dir ...
  The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the anticipatory bail petition of Preeti Surekha, one of the...

no frakking consensus

• The World Wakes Up to the World Wildlife Fund
  Companies that cozy up to the WWF in order to enhance their public image may find that the plan backfires.
• Why I Won’t Be Speaking at the Heartland ...
  My reputation has been harmed by an odious ad campaign that equates climate concern with terrorists.
• Keeping the ‘No Pressure’ Video Alive
  It's no longer easy to locate the splattergate video on YouTube.
• The Environmental Defense Fund & the CIA
  Any group that's wining and dining the Secretary of Defense - who just happens to be the former director of the CIA - is no grassroots operation.
• The UN’s Environmental ‘Holocausts ...
  Since the 1970s UN officials have tried to frighten us. Repeatedly, their predictions have failed. Repeatedly, their time frames have been preposterously inaccurate.

Anna's News

• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
• Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
  For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• News of the World staff shocked at closure
  Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 5/9/12 - Connecticut Repeals the Death Penalty
  deathpenalty.procon.org - Connecticut Repeals the Death Penalty - Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed a law on Apr. 25, 2012 repealing the death penalty. The repeal only applies to future sentences, leaving 11 men on death row. Connecticut now joins 16 other states and DC in abandoning cap ...
• 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
  healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
• 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
  healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
• 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
• 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Origins of the Arts
  Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
• Grass’s Poem
  Jeffrey Goldberg “What Must Be Said” is interesting for what it says about the mind of Guenter Grass, but it is more interesting for what it says about the manner in which some intellectuals think about Israel and Iran. By extracting the self-pity, self-aggrandizement and guilt-expiation from “W ...
• What’s the big idea?
  Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
• Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
  Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...
• Writers Replying to Reviewers?
  Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Dual use education in neuroscience
  The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
• Human enhancement and the future of work
   Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
• New Trends in Think Tanks in China
  Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
• UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
    For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
• Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
   The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

NAU Resistance

• End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
  Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
• Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
  "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
• The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
  "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
• Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
  We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
• Paving The Way For A North American Union
  By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• Invasion of the body scanners - Part 1
  In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into A ...
• Pure psychopathic evil is the prerogative of t ...
  WARNING: The following video graphically depicts psychopathic torture and murder which makes the crimes of infamous serial killers pale into insignificance by comparison. This atrocity was perpetrated by agents of a modern democratic state, with full authority and backup support. It all happen ...
• Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanne ...
  Federal investigators “identified vulnerabilities in the screening process” at domestic airports using so-called “full body scanners,” according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report. DHS has spent nearly $90 million replacing traditional magne ...
• Australian government on the brink - Part 1
  Tonight we look at the crisis in the Australian government, more media disinformation on climate change and more disturbing information regarding the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Earlier today I wrote this: Thomson's resignation from the ALP is purely for show, and has no b ...
• DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Te ...
  A scientific study on the effects of terahertz radiation (used in some body scanner imaging systems). ABSTRACT We consider the influence of a terahertz field on the breathing dynamics of double-stranded DNA. We model the spontaneous formation of spatially localized openings of a damped and d ...

Beacon

• Exciting News for Turtles
  Kemps Ridley sea turtle Editor's Note: This entry was written by Oceana scientist Amanda Keledjian.
• Video: Aimee Teegarden Swims with Sea Lions
  Drum roll, please: we’re excited to unveil our latest video starring actress and ocean lover, Aimee Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights.” We traveled with Teegarden up the coast of Southern California, from La Jolla to Santa Barbara Island, filming a video about the need to protect the ocean’s th ...
• Angela Kinsey and Barton Seaver Head to Capito ...
  Next Monday, actress and ocean activist Angela Kinsey will be here in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass legislation to stop seafood fraud. Kinsey is best known for her role as the tightly-wound head of accounting on “The Office,” and she also appeared in a video for Oceana’s sea turtl ...
• Yves Klein Auction to Benefit Oceana
  Tomorrow Christie’s International Auction House will host a Post War and Contemporary Arts evening sale, featuring Yves Klein’s FC 1, which is being sold on behalf of an anonymous collector. FC 1 is expected to achieve a record-breaking final sale price, a portion of which will be donated to Oce ...
• Searching for a More Responsible Way to Farm Fish
  A salmon farm in Chile. © Oceana/ Eduardo Sorensen Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can cause significant environmental harm if not responsibly managed. Because many fish are confined to a small area, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution an ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Day Ulysses S. Grant Expelled Jews from Pa ...
      Jonathan D. Sarna’s book, “When General Grant Expelled the Jews,” is about General Orders No. 11. Argument endures about what Grant meant, how much damage his order inflicted and how significant this act of explicit anti-Semitism really was. He uses the words use the words “profite ...
• UFO Seen On April 9th, 1843, In Greenville, Te ...
      Witnesses, according to the Greenville Miscellany said “About eight o’clock, there was seen in the south western sky a luminous ball, to appearance two feet in circumference, constantly emitting small meteor from one or the other side of it. It appeared in brightness to outrival th ...
• Animated Video For Patriot’s Point Museum.
    I led a team that created this video for Patriot’s Point, a museum in Charleston South Carolina that consists mostly of the USS Yorktown and the USS Laffey. This video is viewed by Boyscouts camping overnight on the carrier. The production company was Likely Story out of Austin &#16 ...
• Creepy Imagined Atomic Bomb Attack On Atlanta ...
  The following is word for word, the article that appeared in the March 1956 edition of Modern Mechanix that imagines an atomic bomb dropped on my home town, Atlanta, Georgia       WE A-BOMBED ATLANTA “Out of the sky drops a tiny black speck, there is a blinding white flash, the city li ...
• Sergeant George Linsdsey, USAF, Played “ ...
  George Lindsey, 12/7/1935 to 5/6/2012 played Goober Beasley on Andy Griffith, and spent twenty years on Hee Haw. He also starred in comedies like Cannonball Run. Herbie the Love Bug, C.H.I.P.S., and did numerous voice overs as well.   Lindsey was born and raised in Alabama and lived in Nash ...

Taylor Marsh

• The Bain Bully
  WITH EVERY EXCRUCIATING day that passes in this interminably long march to November, it’s clear that Mitt Romney really is as bad as his Republican opponents said he was during the primaries. It doesn’t take a Washington Post “hit piece” on a decades-old event to prove Mi ...
• Queer Talk: Obama & Marriage Equality – The “ ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Since Obama’s announcement that “at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” I’ve been as f ...
• Hillary’s Vogue
  “I feel so relieved to be at the stage I’m at in my life right now. Because you know if I want to wear my glasses I’m wearing my glasses. If I want to wear my hair back I’m pulling my hair back. You know at some point it’s just not something that deserves a [...]
• Time Channels Tina Brown, Gets Attention
  THE TIME COVER produced a whine from Mika Brzezisnki and Gillian Tett on “Morning Joe.” “I’ll tell you why it bothers me. It bothers me because it’s a profile of Bill Sears,” Brzezinski said, suggesting, as Tett did, that the cover was a cheap shot. [Politico] ...
• Why Occupy Should / Shouldn’t Be the Left’s Te ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. It’s surely no surprise that my response to whether Occupy should or shouldn’t “be the left’s tea party” is the latter. That’s my Two Party Front for the Oligarchy perspective. The status quo-ed corporate Duopoly syst ...

Hudson New York

• Palestinian Journalists Union Fights Palestini ...
  As journalists worldwide celebrated World Free Press Day on May 3, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate in the West Bank chose to wage a campaign of intimidation against Palestinian reporters who commit the "crime" of meeting with Israeli counterparts.
• Mexican Jihad
  As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it might do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in
• Amnesty International and Muslim Discriminatio ...
  A new report from Amnesty International lashes out at "widespread discrimination" against Muslims in Europe. The report directs particular ire at laws banning Muslim veils in public spaces, and excoriates European politicians for helping to "foster a
• How Journalists Allowed the Palestinian Author ...
  The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all around the world were invited to Jenin, once notorious for dispatching suicide bombers to
• German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles and Stones
  In an explosion of violence that reflects the growing assertiveness of Salafists in Germany, on May 5th more than 500 radical Muslims attacked German police with bottles clubs, stones and other weapons in the city of Bonn, to protest cartoons they said

Urban Survival

• Dawn of Mysterious Thursday
    (Vicksburg, MS)  By the time you open your coffee and pour your computer, we should be heading back from our travels on what is turning into something of a “mysterious Tuesday” not so much because of what has happened … Continue reading →
• Coping: The Wujo of Chiang Mai, Thailand
    This is dandy!  I discovered it this morning in my email, since I haven’t really used this computer since our last trip (Thanksgiving’ish) last year.  for some reason it popped up today when I was going through the I-Ching … Continue reading →
• Are French Dips Contagious?
  (Vicksburg, MS)  It’s a tragedy of the human condition that our “tribe” of peeps on the rock is around 7-billion because it has reduced us all to numbers, and this in turn has caused an infatuation with that which “counts.”  … Continue reading →
• Coping: Life on the Buggassippi
    (Vicksburg, MS)  Rather than engage my brain, which – like the airplane’s gyro system – takes a good while to spin down, while we sit it out a nasty string of thunderstorms here, I thought we could go through … Continue reading →
• Deteriorating Quickly?
    (Vicksburg, MS)  A week or so back, when the market was in the throes of shaking off an intermediate decline and was poking its head up over the Dow 13,200 area – and looking for a time like it … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• The American Empire Is Crumbling |Gerald Cel ...
• The American Empire Is Crumbling |Gerald Cel ...
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Radical Chic

• NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
  Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
• AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
  I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
• AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
  This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
• RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
  It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
• FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
  Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
  Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
• Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
  Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
• New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
  When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
• BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
  Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
• Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
  Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

• House Votes to Undo Part of Settlement to Rest ...
  Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Denham’s amendment to undo part of the court approved settlement to restore the San Joaquin River and its historic salm ...
• Shipping container "cities" bring creative, fu ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   This started out as an article on prefabricated modular housing, which can bring the construction price of new homes down considerably and lends itself well to use of green ma ...
• New Redford Colorado River Film in Online Film ...
  Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Robert Redford’s new film about the Colorado River, called Watershed, can now be viewed online as part of the Whole Earth “Do Something Reel Film Festival” (for a mo ...
• Arunabha Ghosh Guest Blog: Finance Remains Sol ...
  Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Guest Blog by Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of Council on Energy, Environment, and Water In New Delhi, we recently launched our latest report, an evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission ...
• Join us for New York Solar Jobs Days
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Summer is nearly here, and we’re urging Albany to put more of that New York sunshine to work already! It’s time to show lawmakers that solar power is a priority for New Yorkers. W ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Suspended until further notice
  Due to the voting fiasco I am suspending the project until further notice while I take some time to figure out what to do.
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misonduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Jonesville MI police chief accused of hitting cuffed autistic 8yr-old who left school with a baton in the back of a police car after he left school while it was in ...
• Candidates for Ownership of the NPMSRP
  As discussed this weekend, I’ve decided that the best way to hand this project over to some other person or group would be to let the readers, who have supported this project so much through the years, make the decision on who they feel most comfortable with running it from now on. Accordi ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Washington DC police sued by mom of teen fataly shot in back, cops say he had BB gun, witnesses contradict [3] http://bit.ly/Ipxihs Chicago IL & 4 cops lose $1.15 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, April 9, 2012: Beloit WI settles suit for $265k to teen injured by cop when thrown against cop car then strip searched in public [0] http://bit.ly/HvCFg7 Minneapolis Park MN cop sent ...

Total Collapse

• Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
  The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
• Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
  Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
• China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
  China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...
• Obama Outlaws All Protests In US Ahead Of Hist ...
  A chilling Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama Regime has begun instituting what can only be described as one of the most brutal assaults of human rights and freedoms after it effectively banned all protests against the US government under penalty of ...
• U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran
  2012 Raytheon Award Video from Jersey on Vimeo. The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, i ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Isis is getting support for American Express cards. Mobile data roaming in the EU is about to get cheaper. Liked Casey’s Contraptions? Here’s hoping you like Rovio’s new version. You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
  Angry Birds games have been downloaded a total of 1 billion times, Flipboard for Android leaks out, and Samsung’s Galaxy S III prepares to be used by cashless Olympic athletes....
• When Harvard and Stanford teach networking, th ...
  Networking. The word itself says it all: limp handshakes, sweaty palms, pretentious finger food. Work. I am exhausted just thinking about it. And can someone tell me how I’m supposed...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
  Apple updates iOS, Twitter refreshes its mobile website to target emerging markets, and Microsoft goes green. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  LinkedIn acquires SlideShare for $119 million. Microsoft cuts Windows Media Center out of Windows 8. The EU is in no hurry to decide of Google is violating antitrust provisions. You...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Repowering Port Augusta report now available
  To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...
• AGL's war on solar
  It is deeply troubling that AGL continues to suggest low income households, such as pensioners, are now paying more for their electricity to enable Australians to get solar. This is simply not true. If we rewind, to a bit over two years ago, before AGL tried to deflate the solar PV industry, ...
• Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
  There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
• The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
  Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
• The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
  The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Can loggers be conservationists?
  Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
• Featured video: the oceans and Rio+20
  A new video by Pew Environment Group and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) hopes to convince policy-makers attending the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development this summer that urgent action is needed to save the ocean's from an environmental crisis.
• U.S. undergoes warmest 12 months yet
  Americans would not be remiss in asking, "is it getting hot in here?" According to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Climatic Data Center, the last twelve months (from May 2011 through April 2012) were the warmest on record for the lower 48 U.S. ...
• 'The real Hunger Games': a million children at ...
  The UN warns that a million children in Africa's Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010. In some countries the situation is ...
• Exploring Asia's lost world
  Abandoned by NGOs and the World Bank, carved out for rubber plantations and mining by the Cambodian government, spiraling into a chaos of poaching and illegal logging, and full of endangered species and never-explored places, Virachey National Park may be the world's greatest park that has been ...

Sierra Express

• Laying out of the late Justice S A Ademosu
  The Freetown City are preparing a civic laying out at the Miatta Conference Hall on Monday 14th, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in honour of the remains of late Rtd. Hon. Justice Samuel Ademosu (in photo), who until his death was Chairman of the Political Parties Registration Commission. The Commission ther ...
• Is the SLPP listening?
  The belief that the South-East is the stronghold of the SLPP was ostensibly debunked last weekend when thousands of Easterners came out to welcome President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma first in Kono, and later in Kailahun.  I was totally surprised that such mammoth crowds could come out with smiles on ...
• This week in: English Football – The Final Day ...
  It was status quo in the title race last weekend, as Manchester City won 2-0 at Newcastle, while United recorded the same scoreline in their home victory over Swansea.  Mancini’s side had to work hard for their win, with their opponents still in the hunt for a top four finish, and it was not unt ...
• Justiciability of the right to water and sanit ...
  The old African adage, “water is of life”, epitomizes the essence and value attached to safe drinking water and sanitation.  Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is undoubtedly and unarguably quintessential for healthy life styles. In 2002, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural ...
• Kenema District Council holds monthly council ...
  The Kenema District Council held their normal monthly Council meeting at the new Council Conference Hall, Nyandeyama Road, Kenema. Addressing the meeting, the chairman of the Kenema District Council who doubles as chairman for the meeting welcomed all and congratulated all for taking an active p ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy herds boom, sheep numbers keep falling
  Around 250,000 more dairy cattle are grazing New Zealand paddocks than in mid-2010, but sheep numbers have dropped by over a million, figures show. Partly driven by higher milk solid payouts, the country now has more than six million...
• Landcorp wants milk gains from Crafar farms
  Landcorp wants to squeeze more than 5 million kg of milk solids a year from the Crafar farms, if and when its Chinese partner, Shanghai Pengxin, takes ownership of the land.Chief executive Chris Kelly told the primary production...
• Fonterra execs come out swinging on competitor ...
  Fonterra Cooperative Group executives have rubbished a Deloitte report for local dairy industry competitors that claims it charges up to 50 cents a kilogram too much to supply them milk, accusing them of trying to bog down the cooperative...
• New Fonterra management team named
  Fonterra has announced its new senior management team as it moves ahead with reshaping the organisation.Eleven of the 12 new Fonterra Management Team roles have now been filled, all by internal appointments. Fonterra chief executive...
• Export commodities tumble in worst fall for tw ...
  Export commodity prices lurched lower last month, ANZ's commodity price index recording its steepest drop for more than two years.In world price terms the ANZ index fell 4.5 per cent to an 18-month low.The exchange rate provided...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Feds to California: Spend That Money You Don't ...
  The L.A. Times reports that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came to Sacramento today to convince California leaders to include funding for the $68 billion high-speed rail plan in the upcoming budget: "What I have said to them is, 'We need a strong signal that you ar ...
• Thank the Influence of Money in Politics for P ...
  To much fanfare yesterday, Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to endorse the idea of gay marriage. While the President described his view as “evolving,” it’s actually a view he’s held before. “I favor legalizing same-sex marriage,” Barack Obama said in 1996, long b ...
• She Stole His Heroin, So She Was the Victim
  A 20-year-old from Troy, Illinois, goes to St. Louis with his 17-year-old girlfriend to buy heroin, on which he promptly overdoses. While he is unconscious, she swipes the remaining heroin capsules from his lap. After he gets out of the hospital, he asks what happened to his heroin. S ...
• Andrew Napolitano on the Trial of the Alleged ...
  The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano, will address some of the most profound issues of our era. Are natural rights truly inalienable, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, or can the government take them away from those i ...
• Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV Talking Romney, Unemploy ...
  If Ron Paul sets America back 150 years, and Paul Krugman sets it back 1,000 years, could we borrow enough sesterces to pay off the debt?  Does anybody believe unemployment is getting better?  Should we trust Mitt Romney's flipflop on the individual mandate?  Reason.com managin ...

Mercury Rising

• Friday Cat Blogging
• How The Charter-School Scamsters Bought Off Th ...
  Bruce A. Dixon asks the question “Why Isn’t Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?”, then proceeds to answer it as follows: Ominously, the shredding of Philadelphia’s public schools isn’t even news outside Philly. This correspondent would never have k ...
• It’s all just a misunderstanding!
  Nick Wing, HuffPo: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is lending his name and political clout to a gun group’s email campaign that features an image of a rifle pointed at the head of President Barack Obama. And if Rand Paul weren’t such a lying, flaming idiot the the other 364 days, we’d b ...
• Occupy Wall Street? Maybe We Should Desert It ...
  All the Kool Kidz are doing so: I think the big problem is that those in the top decile of wealth aren’t investing. Their mean net worth was $1,569,000 in 2009, and if they let their money ride in the market, they are even richer. Even without additional savings, portfolios with low exposure to ...
• Uncaptioned
  (image from CrowdedComics.com) Ilya Gerner: Congratulations, Switzerland! After 500 years of democracy and peace, elaborate clocks are no longer the only kind of cuckoos your scenic confederacy will be known for…

Reality Sandwich

• Is Data Consciousness?
    "What makes you think that the brain created awareness?" the old man asks. "If anything, it is consciousness, what we call espiritu, that creates the brain." – Alberto Villoldo, Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment A stone does not obey a diffe ...
• The Great Re-skilling
    Evolver NYC Spore: The Great Re-skilling at “The Hort” Thursday, May 17. Come on out for this interactive party and learn new skills! A Re-skilling revolution is underway across the US.  The Great Re-skilling has been described as an interactive party where you can learn new skills, meet ...
• A Conversation with the Creators of Lucidity
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• This Week in Psychedelics
    A judge upholds a government plan to ban foreign tourists from Amsterdam coffee shops, authorities in New Jersey promise to increase their synthetic marijuana raids, and the Burning Man Organization visits Washington lawmakers in this week's psychedelic news. read more
• What Can Entheogens Teach Us?
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Desertification

• Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
  With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
• Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
  With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
• Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
  The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
• ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
  How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
• MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
  Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

Blogging Canadians

• Has Harper Government declared war on environm ...
  Ross McMillan of Tides Canada is interviewed by Evan Solomon. Tides Canada is one of the organizations targeted by the Harper government. It looks Harper is determined that nothing stands between him and the Tar Sands oil.
• Harper government and environment
  It is nothing new that the Harper government has put environmental issues on the backburner. Instead of making progress it is going for regression. It is a very depressing situation. Evan Solomon of CBC interviews Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughn who illustrates Harper government’s failur ...
• Rob Ford can be a moneymaking machine for Toronto
  Torontonians should put this baboon in a cage and put him in the Toronto Zoo. Surely people will come from all over the world to see this baboon. Children will love to feed him bananas and peanuts. His latest antic was that he gave a speech on Freedom of the Press Day and stated that it was ...
• The Return of the Very Cruel Economic System
  This chapter is divided into three sections.  The first section examines the origins of the neoliberal policy consensus at the OECD.  The fist major rupture in the hegemony of the Keynesianism (neoclassical synthesis MKI) at the OECD came with the … Continue reading →
• Saturday Night Live Spoofs Fox News
  I could not get full version of the SNL spoof as SNL videos are not available in Canada yet.

Press TV - Middle East

• Russia slams twin bombings in Syria
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned the recent twin bombings in Syria, accusing certain foreign powers of encouraging the ongoing violence, Press TV reports.
• UNSC condemns deadly Syrian attacks
  The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has condemned the latest terrorist attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus which left more than 50 people dead.
• Syria gives UN foreign terrorists’ names
  The Syrian government has handed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) the names of 26 foreign terrorists involved in recent violence in the country.
• Analyst details Israel nuclear arsenal
  A political analyst has detailed the Israeli regime’s nuclear capability, saying that with over 300-400 atomic bombs, Tel Aviv has turned into a “nuclear nightmare” and a depiction of “apocalyptic horror.”
• Maliki slams Erdogan over Hashemi
  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has criticized the recent remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said Turkey will continue to shelter fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
  We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
• Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
  Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
• Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
  We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
• Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
  What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
• Silently Waiting
  The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...

Dissident Voice

• The Greek Elections and Political Prospects in ...
  The Greek elections of May 6th have produced a shocking, sensational result which definitely opens a new chapter in the political history of Greece and will have important repercussions on the European situation as well. The result shows a clear polarization between left and right and a breakup ...
• The Red and White Bird in Gaza
  The young girl from Gaza tells me how she yearns for the red and white bird. It used to come every morning to the little veranda where her mother served a breakfast of bread, tea, water and fruit when the weather was good. Each morning her father left to look for work in Gaza City, [...]
• Starving the Syrians for Human Rights
  The wing of the U.S. human rights movement which targets foreign countries can wind up as a cruel business, aiding the ruthless and violent actions of the U.S. Empire, wittingly or not. For the U.S. all too often uses human rights as a cover for taking action against countries that defy the Empi ...
• Learn from Bogota, Santiago, Cape Town, &#8230 ...
  The film Urbanized tackles the complexities of cities, with just a few of the rough edges and little of the persnickety organic flow of how cities do, should and will evolve. Sometimes, a movie “review” is a catharsis, or just both barrels aimed at the aimless prognostication of filmmakers co-op ...
• Tumultuous Israeli Politics Will Not Usher Peace
  Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election. However, there is little reason to believe that any major transformations in the Israeli political landscape could be of benefit to Palestinians. Former po ...

Destructionist

• After losing presidential bid, Michelle Bachma ...
  How do you convince Americans that you are the best fit to represent them in the US Congress? There might be a lot of ways to answer that, but, whatever you do, don’t ask Michele Bachmann. The three-term congresswoman from Minnesota and former GOP presidential contender has been campaigning a ...
• After losing presidential bid, Michelle Bachma ...
  How do you convince Americans that you are the best fit to represent them in the US Congress? There might be a lot of ways to answer that, but, whatever you do, don’t ask Michele Bachmann. The three-term congresswoman from Minnesota and former GOP presidential contender has been campaigning a ...
• Media Characterizes Military Invasion of South ...
  A joint drill between military and police in South Florida involving troops storming a building in the middle of the night was characterized by local media coverage not as a frightening example of how Americans are being acclimatized to accept a state of martial law but as a ‘cool tourist story’ ...
• Media Characterizes Military Invasion of South ...
  A joint drill between military and police in South Florida involving troops storming a building in the middle of the night was characterized by local media coverage not as a frightening example of how Americans are being acclimatized to accept a state of martial law but as a ‘cool tourist story’ ...
• Occupy Bilderberg Gathers Steam – Massiv ...
  It is now confirmed that the Bilderberg Group will hold their 2012 conference at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in Chantilly, Virginia from May 31st to June 3rd. The Bilderbergers hate the spotlight. It’s only in recent years that the media has even acknowledged their existen ...

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Scottish Renewables Draw Asian Interest Before Independence Vote

Bloomberg

Scotland's expanding renewable energy industry is attracting attention from Asian investors who are unfazed about the country's prospects for gaining independence from the rest of the UK “We're currently fielding between five and six visits from ...

Renewable Energy Solution Systems Creates Investor Relations Packet

MarketWatch (press release)

PORT WASHINGTON, NY, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Renewable Energy Solution Systems, Inc., (RES Systems) a publicly traded Nevada corporation, (pinksheets:RESS) has made available an Investor Relations information packet in response to the ...

High Capital Costs Limit Renewable Energy Projects In Chile -IEA

Fox Business

SANTIAGO – Despite the Chilean government's plans to boost renewable energy sources, high capital costs remain a significant entry barrier for renewables, the International Energy Agency's Deputy Executive Director Richard Jones said on the sidelines ...

Research and Markets: Asia Pacific Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2012

SunHerald.com

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/n37w45/asia_pacific_renew) has announced the addition of GlobalData 's new report "Asia Pacific Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2012" to their offering.

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Ecology Coatings Presents GRAS Technology Discovery at the Second Annual Food ...

MarketWatch (press release)

WARREN, Mich., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ecology Coatings, Inc. (otcqb:ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of high performance, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, announced that Sally Ramsey, Vice President of New Product ...

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Ecology clears way for county to get $7M loan for Birch Bay work

TheNewsTribune.com

Whatcom County's waterfront project would "provide a large-scale restoration of the substantially degraded Birch Bay shoreline habitat," and it'll improve recreational use and stormwater, the state Department of Ecology determined.

A student's passion for ecology earns him 20000 bees

Main Line

His plans are to attend graduate school and earn a master's degree in ecology. Last summer Martin, whose passion for the environment stems from childhood, worked as a professional apiary (honeybee hive) inspector for the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Plastic Seas Altering Marine Ecology

Inter Press Service

By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 10, 2012 (IPS) - Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world's oceans. Insects called "sea skaters", a relative of pond water striders, are now laying their eggs on the abundant fingernail-sized pieces ...

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EPA: Well Water in Pa. Gas Drilling Town Is Safe

ABC News

Federal environmental regulators say testing of scores of drinking-water wells in a northeastern Pennsylvania village has failed to show unsafe levels of contamination, a blow to residents who assert a gas driller tainted their water supply with ...

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UK Says 19 Counties Exit Drought as London Water Limits Stay

Bloomberg

The UK said that record April rainfall helped take 19 counties out of drought, while water restrictions remain in London, east and southeast England. Drought status was lifted from Yorkshire to Cornwall, meaning those counties are unlikely to face ...

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Connecticut Water Service, Inc. Elects Directors and Declares Dividends

MarketWatch (press release)

CLINTON, Conn., May 11, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Shareholders of Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTWS) overwhelmingly reelected two directors and ratified the Audit Committee's selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent ...

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American Water Increases Quarterly Dividend by 8.7 Percent

MarketWatch (press release)

VOORHEES, NJ, May 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE:AWK) announced today that its Board of Directors increased its quarterly cash dividend payment from $0.23 to $0.25 per share, an 8.7 percent increase.

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