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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

15 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 02: A passerby takes pic...WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 02: A passerby takes pictures of newspaper headlines reporting the death of Osama Bin Laden, in front of the Newseum, on May 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Last night U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States had killed the most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden in an operation led by U.S. Special Forces in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: A newspaper vendor dis...NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: A newspaper vendor displays papers heralding the death of Osama Bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in New York City. President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a late night address to the nation from the White House in Washington on May 1. The mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks was killed in an American military operation at a compound in Pakistan. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

2012-02-11: Losing My Revolution: A year after the Egyptian Revolution, 10% of the social media documentation is gone.

 Predator Nation ji

We’re talking, in particular, about the use by the Obama administration (and the Bush administration before it) of a growing armada of remotely piloted planes, a.k.a. drones, grimly labeled Predators and Reapers, to fight a nameless, almost planet-wide war (formerly known as the Global War on Terror).  Its purpose: to destroy al-Qaeda-in-wherever and all its wannabes and look-alikes, the Taliban, and anyone affiliated or associated with any of the above, or just about anyone else we believe might imminently endanger our “interests.”
In the service of this war, in the midst of a perpetual state of war and of wartime, every act committed by these leaders is, it turns out, absolutely, totally, and completely legal.  We have their say-so for that, and they have the documents to prove it, largely because the best and most elevated legal minds among them have produced that documentation in secret. (Of course, they dare not show it to the rest of us, lest lives be endangered.)
By their own account, they have, in fact, been covertly exceptional, moral, and legal for more than a decade (minus, of course, the odd black site and torture chamber) -- so covertly exceptional, in fact, that they haven’t quite gotten the credit they deserve.  Now, they would like to make the latest version of their exceptional mission to the world known to the rest of us.  It is finally in our interest, it seems, to be a good deal better informed about America’s covert wars in a year in which the widely announced “covert” killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan is a major selling point in the president’s reelection campaign.

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    A group of American researchershave developed Brainput -- pronounced brain-put, not bra-input -- a system that can detect when your brain is busy, and offload some of your workload to a computer.
  • Did Our Solar System evolve in a Separate, Mor ...
    Based on new data from NASA’s IBEX spacecraft this past January, which is able to sample material flowing into the solar system from interstellar space, scientists "Detected alien matter that came into our solar system from other parts of the galaxy--and, chemically speaking, it’s not exactly li ...
  • Light-powered bionic eye invented
    A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Cardiologist Speaks Out Against Current Choles ...
    (Dr John Briffa) Most medical professionals strongly believe that cholesterol causes heart disease and that treating ‘raised’ cholesterol and bringing it down to a so-called ‘healthy’ level is beneficial for us all. However, I’ve been skeptical about both these ideas for many years now. I’m not ...
  • Lying climate scientists lie again – about dea ...
    By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: May 3rd, 2012 There’s a great scoop in The Australian today about more lying climate scientists making stuff up. CLAIMS that some of Australia’s leading climate change scientists were subjected to death threats as part of a vicious and unrel ...
  • Big Pharma wants you hooked on these six pharm ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It is a known fact that the drug industry makes a whole lot more money on pharmaceuticals that patients must take perpetually for chronic conditions, rather than on those they take occasionally for isolated illnesses. This is why Big Pharma has worke ...
  • FDA admits statin drugs cause diabetes, memory ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) All those doctors and medical experts who have expressed support for handing out statin drugs like candy or adding them to drinking water supplies may want to take a gander at new safety data published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
  • Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With ...
    Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads. But why did Kodak have ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • 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 ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Berlin’s Wagendorf Lohmühle is a Hidden Self-S ...
    Read the rest of Berlin’s Wagendorf Lohmühle is a Hidden Self-Sufficient Caravan Village Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Art, berlin, Botanical, caravan, Caravan Village, clothes recycling, compost, experimental architectural, kreuzberg, Prefab Hous ...
  • Thomas Allen Turns Tired Pulp Fiction Book Cov ...
    Read the rest of Thomas Allen Turns Tired Pulp Fiction Book Covers Into Pop-Up Sculptures Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: American artist, Art, Foley Gallery, Gibson Gallery, mini-dioramas, paper cutting, pop-up books, pulp fiction, Thomas Allen, vintage classics
  • China Building $3.7 bn, 1,373 Mile, High-Capac ...
    China’s economy is growing at unprecedented rates, and the superpower has been doing everything it can to generate enough power to support it. So far the nation has invested in everything from alternative energy to harnessing the country’s natural resources. Today the country took a ...
  • Free City is a Sustainable Ecotopia for the 21 ...
    Free City is a conceptual prototype for a 21st century city, conceived by FREE (Fernando Romero EnterprisE) in response to global issues brought forth by population growth and urban transition in the developing world. It proposes the design of a new urban infrastructure that integrates a sustain ...
  • Berkeley Researchers Create Electricity-Genera ...
    We’ve seen scientists use viruses to generate electricity in car batteries before, however a team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) believes that they can use harmless viruses to convert mechanical or kinetic energy into el ...

Pogue's Posts

  • How Compatible Are Rival E-Readers?
    Can you move one kind of e-reader e-book to another kind of e-reader? Readers respond to David Pogue's recent review of the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and he gives his replies.
  • The Prius V and Its Entune System
    The Prius V is the first Toyota to incorporate a new electronics system, which a new owner found to be a boon.
  • Zipping Through Airport Security
    David Pogue reviews the TSA PreCheck program, a streamlined security system that is being tested with three airlines (American, Delta and Alaska) at 12 airports.
  • Tone-Deaf Lawyers Jeopardize the Draw Somethin ...
    O.K., software industry, you've been put on notice: Nowadays, there's more to it than design, features and marketing. Sometimes, the success of your app can ride on the wording and placement of a single dialog box.
  • There Is a Lot of Big Tech News
    David Pogue expresses his thoughts on the flurry of tech news of the past week.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Money and Happiness: China Surveys Suggest a L ...
    What is the relationship between money and happiness? A study of individual well-being in China suggests it's limited.
  • Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life
    Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of "ghoulish" photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describe the emotion displayed in each phot ...
  • Apollo-Soyuz Shuttle Manipulator Demo (1971-1972)
    In 1971, NASA was looking for cheap missions it could perform with its surplus inventory of Apollo spacecraft. Mercury capsule co-designer Caldwell Johnson proposed that an Apollo spacecraft - perhaps the one scheduled to dock with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in 1975 - be used to test a Shuttle ro ...
  • Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control?
    My latest WSJ column is about a new paper looking at how priming people to think about religion can improve their performance on various measures of self-control, even if they don’t believe in God: I was raised in a kosher household. Though I never fully understood why I couldn’t eat ...
  • Geological Life on Mars
    When Percival Lowell first looked at Mars through his telescope in the 1890s, he saw some remarkable patterns: connecting lines crisscrossing the surface, linking distant ends of the planet in a seemingly non-natural way.  Lowell subscribed to Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s interpret ...

PakAlert

  • War not necessary to ‘destroy’ Israel – Ahmadi ...
    Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that there is no need for war in order to destroy Israel. He stated that if Israel’s neighbors severed ties with the country it would bring the Jewish state to its knees. Ahmadinejad spoke out against his nation’s arch-enemy during a tour of North ...
  • BREAKING: HISTORIC JUDGMENT. Bush & Associates ...
    A solid case for the prosecution of Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney, their legal counsel and others, for war crimes, crimes against the peace, torture, and crimes against humanity has been established at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal with a guilty verdict on day 5 of the third major session ...
  • IRAN ACCUSED OF BEING BEHIND 9/11 ATTACKS.
    The U.S. court judgment issued in December 2011 (Havlish v. Iran) which blames the Iran government for the 9/11 attacks is part of the propaganda ploy, which consists in demonizing the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is part and parcel of America's ongoing war against Iran since the overthrow of it ...
  • Sun exposure lowers cancer risk
    A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people exposed to more sunlight had a significantly lower risk of many types of cancer (Lin, 2012). This study followed more than 450,000 white, non-Hispanic subjects aged 50-71 years from diverse geographic areas in the US ...
  • What If They Held an Olympiad, and Nobody Came?
    How's that for a radical idea? Surely it's rather remarkable that on any mention of Olympic Games, it's simply assumed that throngs of people will attend, from all over the world. Yet, why should that be? Consider that the hurdles involved in attending the games are getting more formidable at ev ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Tories’ Vile Workfare Project, and H ...
    Forcing people into jobs they don’t want, just to claim their benefit, might be defensible if there was pretty swiftly a real job available to those who were capable and wanted it, but as the Tory-led government has pushed its workfare scheme, the alarming truth is that it has created a fo ...
  • Occupy London, May 12: Photos from the Bank of ...
    There was a point, during yesterday’s Occupy protest in the City of London, with hundreds of people flowing down High Viaduct from Holborn Circus, high above Farringdon Street, and heading towards Newgate Street, Cheapside and the Bank of England, when there was a real power to the message ...
  • Occupy London, May 12: Photos from St. Paul&#8 ...
    The weather couldn’t have been better in London yesterday for the day of action organised as part of the “Global Spring,” an initiative by activists from the Occupy movement, representatives from Take the Square, and other groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle Ea ...
  • “Close Guantánamo” Calls on US Com ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us— just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Occupy London Plans a Multitude of Actions on ...
    Today, the Occupy movement and allied groups launch a series of actions and occupations on the first anniversary of the launch of the Indignados movement in Spain, which, along with the revolutionary movements in the Middle East — and Tunisia and Egypt in particular — inspired the Oc ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Court Documents: American Front was Planning V ...
    Members of the American Front – a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group in Florida – were planning acts of violence and preparing for “an inevitable race war” when 11 of them were arrested last week, court documents say. The documents, the outgrowth of a two-year investigation, also ...
  • Anti-Gay Activists Adopt a Dubious Model — the ...
    Conservatives tend to object when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement, often claiming that LGBT activists are trying to “hijack” a unique moment in American history. It had been our impression here at Hatewatch that this objection was underpinned by an antipathy towa ...
  • FBI: Washington White Supremacist Plotted to K ...
    The FBI in 2010 disrupted what its agents now believe was a terrorist plot that involved killing President Obama, according to testimony and court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. The revelation came at the two-day sentencing hearing for white supremacist Wayde Lynn Kurt, ...
  • Gun, Ammo Sales Skyrocketing in Anticipation o ...
    A hard-hitting propaganda campaign unleashed this year by Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, may be convincing Americans that President Obama will crack down on gun ownership if he’s re-elected and becomes a lame duck. Skyrocketing sales of guns and ammunition, ...
  • Alaska Militia Trial Opens With Former Defenda ...
    The Justice Department has cut a deal with a former member of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia to bolster its case against the group’s leader Schaeffer Cox and two others on trial in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. Michael O. Anderson, who was arrested with Cox and co-defendants Lonnie Vernon and ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 'Victory': Palestinians End Hunger Strike Afte ...
    Nearly 1,600 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons have ended a 28-day hunger strike after an Egypt-brokered deal was successful and amid fears that any deaths would result in a violent backlash in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. The prisoners' hunger strike centered on demands f ...
  • Anti-whaling 'Sea Shepard' Captain, Activist A ...
    The environmental activist organization Sea Shepherd said their founder Captain Paul Watson has been detained in Frankfurt, Germany in response to a Costa Rican extradition warrant for "violating ships traffic". In 2002 Watson's ship intercepted a Costa Rican illegal shark-finning ...
  • In Start of Week of Civil Disobedience, Protes ...
    Starting a "Week Without Capitalism" with nonviolent resistance to NATO, members of the Catholic Worker movement went to President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters in Chicago this morning to demand an end to NATO's occupation of Afghanistan and for a world without ...
  • French Environmentalists Want ‘Green’ Without ...
    PARIS - As France’s president-elect Francois Hollande prepares to form a new government, many environmentalists are calling for the appointment of an ecology minister with real power who can deliver on promises to reduce the use of nuclear power as well as cut carbon emissions. "We wa ...
  • Greek Leftist Leader Gains Support for Standin ...
    An opinion poll released on Sunday by Greek newspaper To Vima helps to explain why Greece's ascendant leftist party, Syriza and its 38 year old leader, Alexis Tsipras, have remained steadfast in their refusal to accept a coalition government and suggests that their unwavering commitment to a ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Snyder in Direct Appeal to Bulova, F.C. Counci ...
    The Falls Church City Council voted unanimously, 5-0 (2 absent), to give preliminary approval to the sale of its water system, but not before a small rally of folks opposed to the privatization of public utilities was held on rainy City Hall steps and Vice Mayor David Snyder, chairing the meetin ...
  • 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.

Guardian

  • European leaders and financial markets braced ...
    Return to drachma nears amid political impasse in Athens and open discussion in Brussels of possible end of single currencyFinancial markets are hastily making preparations for a Greek exit from the euro after a day of political and economic turmoil ended with Europe's policy elite admitting for ...
  • JP Morgan boss to face shareholders over $2bn ...
    Jamie Dimon is battling shareholders who want to see his position split and lawmakers who want to regulate his companyThe embattled boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, faces shareholders at the bank's annual general meeting on Tuesday amid a backlash against its campaign to dilute plans for the tigh ...
  • Rebekah Brooks to learn if she will face charg ...
    CPS to announce decision in cases of journalist and six others concerning allegations of perverting the course of justiceRebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, will be told on Tuesday if she is to be among the first people to face criminal charges over the phone-hacking s ...
  • Derby house fire was started deliberately, pol ...
    Six children who died in Allenton blaze were killed unlawfully after Derbyshire police rule fire was not an accidentA house fire last week that led to the deaths of six children in Derby is believed to have been deliberately started, police said on Monday.Five children aged between five and 10 d ...
  • Yemeni troops kill al-Qaida militants
    Military officials say 10 killed in air strike on hideout and six killed in missile attack on vehicle in troubled southern regionYemeni troops have killed at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot al-Qaida, military officials say.In one attack, Yemeni warplan ...

McClatchey

  • American Airlines pilots ask bankruptcy judge ...
    American Airlines pilots union pressed its case Monday before the U.S. bankruptcy court, asking the judge not to abrogate its contract with the carrier and laying out its offers to…Click to Continue »
  • N.C. Republican hopeful Scott Keadle regrets c ...
    As his competition endured criticism for questioning President Barack Obama?s birthplace, congressional candidate Scott Keadle of North Carolina took the high road last week and said he hadn?t spent ?two…Click to Continue »
  • Aboul Fotouh could be Egypt’s next pres ...
    Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, once a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is considered a leading contender in next week?s first round of Egypt?s first-ever contested presidential election, matched against…Click to Continue »
  • Same-sex partners of employees increasingly ge ...
    President Obamas stand last week in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers domestic partners, but some advocates believe…Click to Continue »
  • Gas prices this summer won't be as high as feared
    Gasoline for your summer vacation isnt going to be cheap, but its unlikely to be as expensive as once feared. The recent fall in gas prices has been fueled by…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Roadside bomb kills 5 Afghan soldiers, wounds 2
    Mehterlam (Afghanistan), May 14 (Xinhua-ANI): Five Afghan soldiers were killed and two others sustained injuries in Laghman province 90 east of capital city Kabul on Sunday as a roadside bomb struck a
  • Moderate Taliban speaks of divisions
    One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to ...
  • Assassination of key Afghan official Rahmani a ...
    Mullah Arsala Rahmani, pictured in 2009, was a top member of the Afghan peace council. He died Sunday. IPTC: (FILES) In this picture taken on August 29, 2009, Afghan senator Arsalan Rahmani speaks ...
  • SCO Set To Upgrade Ties With Turkey, Afghanistan
    Foreign Ministers of the SCO member states, in Beijing The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is strengthening its ties with two countries aligned to the West, Turkey and Afghanistan. The foreign ...
  • Taliban Peace Negotiator Killed
    KABUL, Afghanistan- A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday in Kabul, police said. The assassination strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to ...

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

  • What If There Was A Music Collection Society T ...
    In the US we have three main music collection societies for performance rights (ASCAP, BMI and SESAC), and then SoundExchange for satellite/online streaming. However, many other countries just have a single collection society, with somewhat monopolistic tendencies. There have been efforts (mos ...
  • DailyDirt: I'm Free... Free-Falling
    There's been a bit of a resurgence in interest for manned spaceflight because the costs of launching vehicles to the edge of space aren't ludicrous anymore, just outrageously expensive. Despite the advances in rocket launching systems, there's always a chance that something could go wrong -- so ...
  • Harvard And MIT Back Open Education With $60 M ...
    News that Harvard University is the latest to join the growing revolt against the exorbitant pricing of academic journals caused something of a stir recently -- although it has been pointed out that its case would be stronger if it followed its own advice and made the Harvard Business Review ope ...
  • Biggest Kickstarter Project Ever Surpasses $10 ...
    We keep hearing that these new business models and platforms really can't handle "big" projects. While part of the charm and power of these platforms is that they can fund smaller "long tail" projects that might never otherwise see the light of day, there's no reason that they can't do bigger p ...
  • Something Is Wrong When A Judge Needs 350 Page ...
    Nearly a year ago, we wrote about a somewhat "obscure" lawsuit concerning fair use at universities. We've been noting that, up in Canada, the courts and upcoming legislation are potentially clearing the field for universities to declare "fair dealing" on the use of works—but they are biza ...

VacTruth

  • Gardasil May Cause Cancer
    When we see the term “cancer vaccine” in connection with the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil we may naturally assume that it prevents cervical cancer, yet there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
  • Bird Flu Strain Lab-Engineered!
    The cat is out of the bag on bird flu—a strain has been laboratory engineered, and the U.S. government did everything it could to keep the lid on that research!
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama administration ready to legalize Washing ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports: The Obama administration is moving to remove an Iranian opposition group from the State Department’s terrorism list, say officials briefed on the talks, in an action that could further poison Washington’s relations with Tehran at a time of renewed dip ...
  • Barack Obama, the Great Deceiver
    Yves Smith writes: Barack Obama swept into office on a tide of giddy enthusiasm. His “Hope and Change” was a pledge to reverse Bush era policies, including socialism for the rich, adventurism in the Middle East, and attacks on civil liberties. He announced his intention to serve as a transformat ...
  • Why is the NYT enabling a U.S. govt smear camp ...
    John Hanrahan at NiemanWatchdog writes: A human rights lawyer and a group of investigative journalists who have exposed the extensive civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan are being smeared by anonymous U.S. government officials, who have even accused them of being sympathetic t ...
  • Palestinian hunger-striking detainees sign dea ...
    Ma’an News Agency reports: Detainees on Monday signed a deal with the Israeli prison authority to end their mass hunger strike, officials told Ma’an. Prisoner representatives from each of the factions agreed to the deal in Ashkelon jail, prisoners society chief Qaddura Fares said in ...
  • Video: Evgeny Morozov on the pitfalls of cyber ...

Watts Up With That?

  • CO2 police can now be equipped to rat out cities
    From the University of Utah, a way to keep tabs on Kyoto, except there isn’t any new treaties expected to be signed. Measuring CO2 to fight global warming University of Utah and Harvard scientists develop way to enforce future greenhouse … Continue reading →
  • Energy and Economic Crises SOLVED!
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This story is from the “you can’t make this stuff up” file. Some of our British cousins have figured out a way to solve it all. They have set up the One Million Jobs Caravan, … Continue reading →
  • Tragedy of the day: 1 in 10 animals unable to ...
    From the University of Washington, via Eurekalert, sympathy for snails, turtles, sloths, slow moving howler monkeys, shrews and moles and other slow moving critters that will apparently bake in place due to the 0.7C temperature rise of the past century. … Continue reading →
  • More solar linkages to climate variations
    From Pierre Gosselin’s No Tricks Zone: Oases of the Chinese Taklamakan Desert Greened Up In Sync With Solar Millenial Cycles by Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt The Taklamakan Desert is the 2nd world’s largest sand desert after the Rub el-Khali … Continue reading →
  • NWS Chicago demonstrates that climate math is hard
    Chicago NWS demonstrates why climate math is hard in their May 10th summary, which I reproduce in entirety below from http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=LOT&issuedby=ORD&product=CLI&format=CI&version=7&glossary=0 See if you can spot the error, and the answer follows. (h ...

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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 ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • New Space Station Crew in Orbit
    Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday have begun a two-day flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Russia Questions Dutch Vegetable Safety
    Russia’s food safety chief Gennady Onishchenko raised doubts on Monday over the safety of vegetables imported from the Netherlands, which he said had been experimenting with mutations of the avian flu virus.
  • 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

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 ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • The Big, Fat, Hungry Salmon Industry
    Aquaculture seemed like a viable solution to overfishing—we would simply farm the fish, and not mess with the ecosystems. But salmon farmers have to feed the salmon they’re raising, and salmon is a hungry master.
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • What Doesn't the NHTSA Want You to Know About ...
    unofficial defect investigations, needlessly redacting public documents, and delaying the release of important investigatory material in high-profile cases due to constant industry pressure Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • FDA refuses to ban antibiotics in livestock, r ...
    In a desperate attempt to avoid implementing an actual ban on the non-therapeutic use of antibiotic drugs in factory animal feed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has once again made it abundantly clear that it favors corporate interests Submitted by Penny C. to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • 'Publication Bias' Casts Doubt on Value of Ant ...
    When researchers combined the data from published studies and those that never made it into print, the new analysis showed that SSRIs don't help repetitive behaviors much at all. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Destruction of Poppy Fields in Afghanistan
    Photo essay According to some American soldiers, the current U.S. program to combat Afghan drug trafficking which focuses on the destruction of poppy fields is a waste of money. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Se ...
    In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server from one of our cabinets in a colocation facility. Server is owned by our sister organization, Riseup, and is managed by ECN, a progressive technology pr Submitted by O O O O to US Politics &amp ...

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

  • Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You ...
    People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    And just what will these people say when this universal infant immunization program is proven to NOT lower the overall incidence of Hep B infection after our children have been compromised with a dangerous genetically engineered vaccine that starts our lives out under the thumb of Big Pharma and ...
  • 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). ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Not guilty plea from Chicago man in NYC Anonym ...
    ShareThisNot guilty plea from Chicago man in NYC Anonymous hacking case 14 May 2012 A Chicago man facing computer hacking charges in a federal investigation targeting the worldwide group Anonymous is entertaining himself behind bars the old fashioned way: by reading books. Jeremy Hammond is doin ...
  • Afghan peace negotiator shot dead
    ShareThisAfghan peace negotiator shot dead 13 May 2012 An assassin armed with a silenced pistol shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday at a traffic intersection in the nation's capital, police said. Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban official who reconciled with the governmen ...
  • 8 NATO protesters arrested at Prudential Plaza
    ShareThis8 NATO protesters arrested at Prudential Plaza --Security guards shut down the elevator banks, and approximately 30 Chicago police bike officers responded within minutes. 14 May 2012 Less than one week before the NATO Summit begins, eight protesters were arrested Monday at Prudential Pl ...
  • Naked gunman on Indiana University campus
    ShareThisNaked gunman on Indiana University campus 11 May 2012 An Indiana University spokesman says the school didn't issue an alert about a naked man firing a gun near the Bloomington campus because police caught him so quickly. IU spokesman Mark Land says by the time campus police arrived at t ...
  • Accused Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond to be ...
    ShareThisAccused Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond to be arraigned in NYC Posted by Legitgov 14 May 2012 Jeremy Hammond, accused Anonymous hacker, will be arraigned on Monday, May 14, 2012, at 12:00 PM - U.S. Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan Courtroom 12A --Chief Judge Loretta A. Pr ...

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

  • Word Games
    12 May 2012 Written by MEDEVACmatters.org Just a reminder of the official US Army position on the need to make changes to MEDEVAC policies and procedures. This is the final three paragraphs of the statement issued by the Army Chief of Public Affairs on January 20, 2012 following the CBS Evening ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma prepares to send athletes to Olympics
    A confirmed four athletes are headed to the upcoming London Olympics to represent the country says the government’s Sports and Physical Education Department.
  • Vendors protest taxation policies
    Dried-fish vendors at a market in Arakan state’s capital Sittwe protested municipal authorities policies that promote “high” taxes last Friday
  • South Korean president visits Burma
    Almost three decades after North Korean agents tried to assassinate the former South Korean head of state in Rangoon, President Lee Myung-Bak arrives in Burma
  • Stock exchanges battle for a piece of the ‘fro ...
    While the Tokyo Stock Exchange signed a deal with Burma's central bank to open the country's first stock exchange, South Korea is also hoping to open a bourse in the former pariah state
  • 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Bangladesh war crimes tribunal indicts 89-year ...
    [JURIST] The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) [Facebook page] on Sunday indicted a former opposition leader for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] against Pakistan. Ghulam Azam, 89, is the former hea ...
  • LRA commander captured by Uganda military
    [JURIST] Ugandan military forces Saturday captured one of the highest leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [BBC backgrounder], the rebel militia group headed by alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) ambushed a ...
  • UN human rights chief comments on visit to Sou ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Friday remarked on her visit [press release] to South Sudan, praising the country's development and calling on the new nation to commit to a human rights infrastructure of laws, institutions and practices. Pillay me ...
  • NATO has failed to acknowledge civilian deaths ...
    [JURIST] The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [official website] should acknowledge civilian casualties from air strikes in Libya and investigate possible unlawful attacks [press release], Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] urged Monday. In a 76-page report [text, PDF], "Unackn ...
  • Egypt court rules presidential elections can g ...
    [JURIST] Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday overturned the ruling of a lower court that would have postponed the upcoming presidential elections. Last Wednesday, a provincial court in the town of Benha ruled to suspend the elections following alleged administrative errors. The Sup ...

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 ...

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Tikun Olam

  • California Tea Party “White Christian” Settler ...
    Tweet Among the more bizarre elements of this political season is the Republican race for U.S. senate, which features Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an Orthodox rabbi running with the support of the Tea Party.  Here is a snippet of a stump speech he delivered to the San Mateo GOP (a banner in the backgro ...
  • Palestinian Hunger Strike Ends With Two Steps ...
    Tweet1,500 Palestinian hunger strikers ended their protest against prison conditions after the signing of an intensely negotiated agreement between the Israeli Prison Services and the prisoners themselves, with the mediation of Fatah, Egyptian intelligence sources and Jordanians. As is normal in ...
  • IDF Portrays Palestinian Hunger Strikers at De ...
    TweetAlmost half the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have joined the mass hunger strike protesting against the widespread use of administrative detention.  Two of the strikers have reached Day 77 of their strike and Israel’s Physicians for Human Rights NGO says no previous individua ...
  • Gallup Poll Finds 85% of Israelis Believe Econ ...
    TweetA Gallup poll ranked Israel 18th most corrupt nation in the world (Haaretz coverage here) in the eyes of its own citizens.  85% of Israelis believed that business in their country was corrupt.  Only 9% believed it was not widespread.  This ranks them on a par with Sierra Leone and Greece, a ...
  • Israeli Air Force Seeks to Replace Pilot Judgm ...
    TweetAmong the worst of Israeli journalism there’s a sort of gung-ho, testosterone-infused reporting style about military and security stories that makes my blood curdle.  It’s super-credulous about virtually anything and everything offered by security sources.  Examples of this sort ...

If Americans Knew

  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."

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 Film - Tim Burton Revives the 1960 ...
    A soap opera from the 1960s gets a makeover in director Tim Burton’s new horror-comedy: �Dark Shadows,� which features his favorite lead actor, Johnny Depp.In the 1770s, a curse turned Barnabas into a vampire. In 1972, a construction crew digs up his coffin and the denizen of the dark find ...
  • Iran's Nukes - IAEA Presses Iran Ahead of P5+1 ...
    The U.N. nuclear agency has again urged Iran to give it access to sites, people and documents it seeks as part of its probe into whether Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency delegation in Vienna, Hermann Nackaerts, told reporters Mo ...
  • Battle for Syria - Flunking the Syria Test
    With the Syrian uprising now past its one-year anniversary, it's long past time to take stock of the carnage. More than 7,000 people have been killed to date by the Assad regime, as it has unleashed war on its own people.The spark that lit the fire was an errant one. On March 6, 2011, state secu ...
  • Mexico on Edge - Could Mexico's Elections this ...
    On Sunday, May 6, Mexican voters got a rare chance to compare presidential contenders Enrique Peña Nieto (Institutional Revolutionary Party—PRI), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Democratic Revolutionary Party—PRD), Josefina Vázquez Mota (National Action Party—PAN), and Gabriel Quadri de l ...
  • Africa on Edge - How to Get the Correct Respon ...
    A bleak narrative of 16 million plus people on the brink of starvation in West Africa’s Sahel region has captured headlines. But the brewing food crisis, spanning Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad, has been overstated, and the headlines fail to identify the core ...

High Country News

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

  • Michelle Obama's Hospital Colleague Who Offere ...
    Before she became first Lady Michelle Obama was had a $317,000 job as Vice President of the University of Chicago Medical Center. At her job she helped to create a program where the uninsured get sent to a different hospital. Imagine that, while her husband was pushing universal healthcare Miche ...
  • Axelrod Lies, Former Auto Czar Steve Rattner C ...
    "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air" -The witches at the opening of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Just one week ago the Daily Caller Reported Obama political guru David Axelrod promised a positive campaign (as he went on to bash Romney and his supporters). Pres ...
  • Na, Na, Na-Na Ron Paul Goodbye
    Ron Paul announced that he is suspending active campaigning but will still try and steal delegates he doesn't deserve through state caucuses. Texas Rep. Ron Paul said on Monday he will no longer be actively campaigning in the GOP presidential primaries but won't formally suspend his campaig ...
  • Obama Administration Supports Atrocity-Produci ...
    By Barry Rubin How can one write satire when the Obama Administration has created an Atrocities Prevention Board to prevent mass murder and genocide at the same time as it has been largely supporting the forces most likely to commit mass murder and genocide? We can almost call these regimes ...
  • Do Egyptians Really Want A Democratically Elec ...
    By Barry Rubin Yes, friends, it’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules: Rule 1: Pew does a good job on the poll itself. Rule 2: The Pew analysis ignores or misunderstands the implications of the poll. Rule 3: ...

The Real Agenda

  • Argentina: A Sociedade sem Sexo nem Gênero?
    O governo liderado por Cristina Fernandez oficialmente apoia mudança de sexo e terapia hormonal para transsexuais e éfinanciará o programa com dinheiro arrecadado com impostos. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 14 MAIO 2012 Os adultos que querem uma cirurgia de mudança de sexo ou te ...
  • Argentina: La Sociedad sin Sexo ni Género
    Gobierno liderado por Cristina Fernández apoya oficialmente cambios de sexo y terapia hormonal para las personas transgénero y lo financia con dinero recaudado de los impuestos. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 14 MAYO 2012 Los adultos que quieren una cirugía de cambio de sexo o te ...
  • The Gates are Open to Forced Sterilization
    By SUSANNE POSEL | OCCUPY CORPORATISM | MAY 13, 2012 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created over a decade ago. They have been responsible for vaccine programs across the globe. The Gates Foundation is focusing on controlling population in poor countries with drugs like Depo- ...
  • UK Aid Money Finances Sterilization Campaigns ...
    RUSSIA TODAY | MAY 13, 2012 Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money has been spent forcibly sterilizing Indian women. Many  have died being mistreated, causing outrage from those who suspect Britain simply wants to curb the country’s population for ulterior motives. Filed under: En ...
  • Estamos a Três mutações de uma Pandemia de Inf ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 MAIO 2012 A estrada para o inferno está pavimentado com boas intenções. Este é o mínimo que pode ser dito sobre a criação do vírus da gripe mais virulenta H5N1 em dois laboratórios em os EUA e na Holanda. É um caso em que a droga é pior [...]

Wind Watch

  • Intrigue swirls in AWA Goodhue wind project
    RED WING — The intrigue surrounding the hotly contested AWA Goodhue wind project near Zumbrota continues to swirl on multiple levels. In the last two weeks, Minneola and Belle Creek townships have both tabled negotiations with the wind company on required road-use agreements. Perhaps more import ...
  • Wind farm resentments seep back to surface
    FREEDOM — For the past four years, the wind turbines atop Beaver Ridge have been churning out power. Residents near the wind farm say the spinning blades are disturbingly loud, but in recent years debate about the development has been relatively quiet. Until now. In late April, a series of ...
  • 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 ...

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
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   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  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
    Neither losses from error nor profits from good decisions are grounds in themselves for tighter regulation.
  • Greece’s Future in Euro Zone in Doubt
    “The dollar rose and stocks fell Monday in Europe, and Wall Street appeared to be headed for a weak opening, as politicians fumbled for a way forward in a crisis that has put Greece’s continued euro membership into serious doubt.” (New York Times) Spendthrift welfare states, beware. ...
  • JP Morgan Loss Spurs Regulation Talk
    “J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s stunning after-hours announcement Thursday of a $2 billion loss on a complex bet sent shock waves through the nation’s capital Friday, as lawmakers blamed financial regulators for continuing to allow the same risky activity that nearly sunk the global financi ...
  • Fed Budget in Surplus—in April
    “The U.S. government took in more money than it spent in April, the first monthly surplus in nearly four years. But that black ink won’t last. The federal government is on track to exceed a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth straight year, keeping the contentious issue front and cent ...
  • Administration Eliminates Regulations
    “The Obama administration announced today it has changed or eliminated five regulations, saving the economy an estimated $6 billion. President Obama also signed a new executive order “making it a continuing obligation of our government to scrutinize rules on the books to see if they ...

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

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

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

  • London’s Social Cleansing
    Unscrupulous landlords are forcing poorer tenants out of their London homes, freeing them up to rent out to visitors to the Olympics this summer, according to the housing charity Shelter. At the same time, the government’s cap on rent subsidies (Housing Benefits) for those out of work or on ...
  • Homebuilding Recovery: A Zoning & Planning Ove ...
    Part III of the Recovery Blueprint for homebuilding. Defining good zoning and good planning, and a look at how social engineering plays in. What exactly is ‘planning’? It can be government creation of an Interstate Highway, or a city council vote on a new park. For the purposes of this blu ...
  • Right in the Middle: The Midwest’s Growth Less ...
    The Midwest’s troubles are well-known. The decline of manufacturing has resulted in job losses and dying industrial towns. The best and brightest have fled the flatlands for more exciting, sunnier, mountainous, or coastal places where the real action is. Even Peyton Manning has left the ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • GM corn and sick honey bees - what's the link?
    GE corn & sick honey bees - what's the link? Ground Truth, 19 April 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/ge-corn-sick-honey-bees-whats-link No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue ...
  • Supreme Court puts GM aubergines on hold
    Environmentalist group lauds Supreme Court move to look into country's GMO approval system Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Gulf News, May 14 2012 http://gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/environmentalist-group-laud-supreme-court-move-to-look-into-country-s-gmo-approval-system-1.1022810 Man ...
  • Europe must learn GM lessons from America
    The dangers of GM - Europe must learn the lessons from America Helen Wallace Public Service Europe, 14 May 2012 http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1920/the-dangers-of-gm-europe-must-learn-the-lessons-from-america American farmers are increasingly expressing regret over the planting of G ...
  • MPs urge Government caution on GM crops
    MPs urge Government caution on GM crops Alistair Driver Farmers Guardian, 14 May 2012 http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/arable/mps-urge-government-caution-on-gm-crops/46916.article An influential committee of MPs has called the Government to refrain from licensing genetically modified (GM) cr ...
  • GM farmer attacks GM wheat trial
    NOTE: What makes the following comments by a UK wheat grower so powerful is that they come from a former GM crop trial farmer. Guy Smith is also a member of the biotech industry funded lobby group CropGen. According to the lobby group, "CropGen makes the case for GM crops". But even a keen GM s ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Violent Criminal on Federal Payroll as Informant
    Via: Seattle Times: Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. … For all of this, the 34-year-old Jackson would b ...
  • California: Large Search for FBI Agent Who Wor ...
    Suicidal. *wink* Between 100 and 200 FBI agents involved with the search… Via: Los Angeles Times: Authorities launched Burbank’s largest manhunt in 20 years in search of a missing FBI agent who was believed to be suicidal and possibly carrying a handgun, officials said Saturday. More ...
  • Navy Commander Halts SPAWAR LENR Research
    I had a total of zero on-the-record submissions on the NANOR presentation and data, but some people who have been involved with U.S. Government research into LENR did communicate with me. One of the issues that came up was that the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has ...
  • Shortfall in California’s Budget Swells to $16 ...
    Via: New York Times: The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months, forcing state officials to assemble a series of new spending cuts that are likely to mean further reductions to schools, health care and other social programs already battered by near ...
  • Italy: Senior Executive of Nuclear Engineering ...
    Via: BBC: An Italian anarchist group has said it carried out an attack last Monday on a senior executive of nuclear engineering group Ansaldo Nucleare. Roberto Adinolfi, 53, was shot in the leg by a gunman on a motorbike in the northern Italian city of Genoa. He has undergone surgery and colleag ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • AZN in Burkina Faso
    You can find at the bottom of our site’s homepage, at  www.azn-guie-burkina.org the 2011 annual reports of AZN’s programs : Education, Health, Early Childhood and Coordination. Good reading. The AZN’s Coordination ———————– Vous trouvere ...
  • The American West has a ‘drinking proble ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510224444.htm Water Usage Far Exceed Sustainability Level in the Desert Southwest, US ScienceDaily (May 10, 2012) — The American West has a ‘drinking problem.’ On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate. ...
  • Population Pressure Impacts World Wetlands (Sc ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120511122101.htm ScienceDaily (May 11, 2012) — The area of the globe covered by wetlands (swamps, marshes, lakes, etc.) has dropped by 6% in fifteen years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in &#823 ...
  • Food insecurity in Angola (AfricaFiles)
    Read at AfricaFiles Title: Angola: ‘Not a Famine, but an Issue of Food Insecurity’ Author: Louise Redvers Category: Angola Date: 5/11/2012 Source: Inter Press Service Source Website: http://www.ipsnews.net Summary & Comment: “There is food ...
  • UN HUMANITARIAN OFFICIAL PRAISES ETHIOPIA’S EF ...
    New York, May 14 2012  3:05PM A United Nations humanitarian official today praised the Ethiopian Government for its innovative and effective efforts to build resilience and food self-sufficiency amid increasingly challenging climatic conditions. “Ethiopia has made quite incredible advances in &# ...

The Paper Trail

  • OPINION: Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare s ...
    We’ll be hearing a lot from politicians this summer and fall about the urgency of dealing with Medicare spending, which will begin to rise sharply in the coming years as increasing numbers of the country’s 75 million baby boomers turn 65.If we’re fortunate, some courageous candidates will call f ...
  • Interactive: Gov. Walker's calendar
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  • Package from Yemen leads to worker illness, go ...
    Paz Oquendo, a worker at the U.S. Postal Service’s Orlando sorting facility, smelled the noxious odor first. It was Feb. 4, 2011, and the foul stench was coming from one of the large mailbags hanging near the package-conveyor belts.She ran over to Jeffrey A. Lill, the 44-year-old shift superviso ...
  • 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 ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Quebec students: If you can’t beat them, ...
    By Montreal Simon Well I suppose it was inevitable eh? Ever since the Quebec students began marching, the Con media has been attacking them like a pack of rabid hyenas. The Con liberal Andrew Coyne called them a violent mob. The windy little teabagger Rex Murphy called their protest a self-indul ...
  • Justin Bieber to the rescue
    A Bob short: London, Ontario’s Bethesda Centre announced on Saturday that Canadian-born pop star Justin Bieber will donate a portion of the sales of his new single to its Save the Bethesda campaign. The Centre is a Salvation Army-run centre for teenage mothers that provides prenatal care a ...
  • Two words: Joss Whedon. Okay, four: Scarlett J ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young A few days before The Avengers debuted I was asked why I was so excited about seeing what’s looking like the most successful comic book movie of all time. This was my answer. I’m a lifelong comic book fan and the idea that it’s even possible to make The Avengers ...
  • Inside Read: The Opening Act
    Our Inside Read feature presents excerpts from new Canadian books we think you might want to dip into further. In The Opening Act, author Susan McNicoll offers a lively history of Canadian theatre post WW II, including the following account of Vancouver’s 1953 Tobacco Road “fiasco.&# ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Occupy Abai - day 8
    One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655 Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a conce ...
  • Turkish police forces arrest 60 anarchists in ...
    Wave of repression hits anarchists in Turkey following May Day demonstrations. Yesterday night turkish state organized a night raid to various houses and anarchist social centres in a night raid in Istanbul. 60 people were arrested. I ...
  • 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 ...

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran, unable to sell oil, stores it on tankers
    Increasingly hard-pressed to find buyers for its petroleum, Iran has been routinely switching off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers for more than a month, in what U.S. officials and industry analysts describe as a cat-and-mouse game with Western governments seeking to enfor ...
  • Iran and the strategic balance in the Gulf - i ...
    By closing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran can throttle oil and gas flows but would also cut its own main trade link with the world
  • Will Israeli Dissent Halt the March towards War?
    For its part, the Barack Obama administration has shown little inclination to reduce pressure—and the threat of military action—on Tehran.
  • برخورد پلیس با تخلفات داخل خودروها +عکس
    خودرو طبق قانون حریم شخصی نیست. . . . . . . . . .
  • در حکومت دینی دنبال دمکراسی نگردید
    ما به نهادهای مستقل، پلیس و دستگاه قضایی سالم و پاک نیاز داریم. ما ابتدا باید علیه خودمان انقلاب کنیم. خیلی‌ها هنوز پخته نشده‌اند - آنهایی را هم عرض می‌کنم  که در جبهه پیشرو قرار دارند. وقتی از دوستانم می‌پرسم: می‌پذیرید که زن‌ها و دخترانتان در یک جامعه دمکرات مستقل باشند؟ می‌گویند،read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Africa Bails Out the Eurozone
    Portuguese president Passos Coelho with President dos Santos (This is the first of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.) Forget China and India. The World Economic Forum predicts that six of the ten most rapidly growing economies in ...
  • A Film About Economic Relocalization
    Economics of Happiness The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economical relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional eco ...
  • 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 ...

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

Energy Collective

  • Clean Tech Headed for Stagnation
  • U.S. Coal Generation Drops 19 Percent In One Year
    Power generation from coal is falling quickly. According to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal made up 36 percent of U.S. electricity in the first quarter of 2012 — down from 44.6 percent in the first quarter of 2011.
  • Conservative Confidential Memo: Wind Power the ...
    Conservative America's fight against the advancement of a new energy economy continues to evolve.  The latest development is a concerted campaign to discredit the wind industry and shift public opinion against the technology.
  • Are solar subsidies unnatural but unavoidable?
    Wind energy has become the favourite whipping boy in the renewable energy world. However, solar energy has its critics as well. Wind energy opponents are usually current or prospective neighbours of turbine installations. Solar energy naysayers are typically actual or would-be economists.
  • Saudi Arabia to Unleash Solar by Investing $10 ...
    Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil plans to install a solar capacity of 41,000 megawatts by 2032. Critics have noted that to achieve this, Saudi Arabia would need to produce and export approximately half of the world’s total annual installed capacity of solar. Can the countr ...

EU Times

  • Ron Paul ends active campaigning but will cont ...
    Congressman Ron Paul has announced that he will no longer be using resources to campaign in primary states, instead focusing all of his efforts on delegate-selection events as he vows to continue to vie for GOP nomination for presidential candidate. Rep. Paul (R-Texas) issued a statement on his ...
  • Italy May Use Army Against Protests
    Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has pointed to the possibility of calling in the army to deal with the violent protests in the country over the government’s economic policies. Monti raised alert levels on Sunday at some sensitive sites across Italy to handle the recent violence that has hit t ...
  • Americans renounce US citizenship to pursue de ...
    Americans in record numbers are doing what was once considered unthinkable – renouncing their US citizenship. In numerical terms, at least 1,788 Americans officially gave up their US citizenship in 2011 – more than the combined totals from 2007, 2008 and 2009 – and 2012 promise ...
  • West has betrayed Christianity, Russia will sa ...
    Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. ­By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukrain ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Life Inside The Jamie Dimon Bubble
    We are apparently reaching the stage in the JPMorgan $2 billion fail-scapade when the patsies are identified and shamed . JPMorgan co-CIO Ina Drew has already cashed out in the wake of the losses, with two underlings, Achilles Macris and Javier Martin-Artajo, expected to follow
  • FIRST LOOK! Britney Spears and Demi Lovato pos ...
    Britney Spears  and  Demi Lovato  will be judges on the second season of  “The X Factor.” They will be joining returning judges  Simon Cowell  and  L.A. Reid  on the four-person judging panel. Simon confirmed the news at the FOX upfront in New York, tweeting the following message and photo abov ...
  • Scott Thompsonâs short stint at Yahoo earned h ...
    Although Scott Thompson joins the jobless after recently resigning from his CEO position at Yahoo, don’t look for him on any unemployment lines. Yahoo stated in a filing today Thompson would be receiving nearly $7 million in make-good cash from Yahoo. That’s a pretty good payout for about five ...
  • Google Multiplayer Gaming Coming Soon?
    Google is reportedly developing an app that is similar to Apple’s Game Center , reports Business Insider . Google is reportedly preparing a native Android app that will feature functionality similar to Apple’s iOS-only Game Center which connects players across the vast sea of games available th ...
  • WOW! Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart both ...
    Look at these amazing pictures! Wow! I’m blown away by the scale of the London world premiere of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’. The three stars of the film, Charlize Theron , Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth were all on hand to celebrate the highly-anticipated film. Charlize wore a gorgeous ...

Groklaw

  • Google, Mozilla Complaints About Microsoft Bro ...
    A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is reportedly starting to look into allegations from the Mozilla Foundation and Google that Microsoft is purposely making it difficult for their Web browsers-Firefox and Chrome, respectively-to run on Windows-powered mobile devices. - Robert ...
  • Microsoft-Funded BitTorrent Disruptor Won't Ma ...
    John Pettitt, former VP of engineering at BitTorrent (who we've heard from before in a very different context related to software patents), noted in a mailing to Dave Farber's IP list that what Pirate Pay described didn't sound particularly effective or (more importantly) particularly legal. ...
  • US Appeals Court Issues Mixed Ruling In Apple- ...
    The appeals court sided with Samsung in several other portions of its 34-page ruling. It affirmed the trial judge's decision to deny other Apple requests, based on three different patents, to block U.S. sales of Samsung smartphones. Neither company immediately responded to requests for comment. ...
  • The Recorder's Ginny LaRoe on Apple v. Samsung
    Skimming Apple v. Samsung op now. Apple lost on major points in seeking injunction. But court found J. Koh made error on 1 patent. Remands. - Ginny LaRoe, Twitter
  • Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorre ...
    The Russian based "Pirate Pay" startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaborat ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Deliver Us From Evil. Catholic priest pedophil ...
    Filmmaker Amy Berg recounts a harrowing story of child abuse and how a serial child molester went free for the better part of two decades in this documentary. Oliver O’Grady was a Catholic priest who served in a number of parishes in Southern California during the 1970s and ’80s. O’Grady was als ...
  • Can’t forget the TSA
    Chas. H. Yale's forever Devil's auction, U.S. Printing Co., c1899 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)After a couple of weeks with a higher than average number of firearms being found by TSA agents, the period between April 27th and May 3rd, 2012, was qu ...
  • Your Daily Snark
    The reason why liberals don’t march against Obama is that pavement hurts their kneecaps – Dennis Perrin (on Facebook)
  • Will a pinstripe hoodie mollify whiny Wall Str ...
    A pinstriped hoodie is just the thing to wear when doing a pre-IPO dog-and-pony show to inbred, self-absorbed NY investment bankers who get their panties in a twist if you don’t look and act like them. Lord, what a tiny little world they live in. You can round out your ensemble with Dress ...
  • Did JPMorgan learn of trading disaster from ne ...
    I may have been a pirate but at least I created companies with genuine, lasting value like GE and US Steel. These modern bankers create nothing of value.JPMorgan executives may have learned of the impending disaster with their London Whale trade from articles in the WSJ and Bloomberg. This from ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

  • EEZ Bill makes risky deep-sea drilling E-Z
    Today the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Economic Effects) Bill (EEZ BILL) was reported back from the Local Government and Environment Select Committee. The bill regulates activities like drilling for oil and gas in the EEZ plugging a huge legislative and regulatory gap that the ...
  • Disability, fairness and care issues
    The Court of Appeal have given the Crown a clear message that discriminating against family members who care for a disabled adult child at home is unacceptable. The Ministry of Health has 20 working days to decide whether to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court. The Ministry has now failed ...
  • Ireland to also ban fracking
    More good news. Ireland has announced that no hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for gas would take place in Ireland pending further “detailed scientific analysis and advice”.
  • Congratulations Keith
    Congratulations Keith. It is great to see Keith recognised for his passionate hard work standing up for human rights both at home and around the world. Keith was awarded Amnesty International Aotearoa’s 2012 Human Rights Defender award over the weekend. We could devote pages to the campaigns, is ...
  • General debate, May 13, 2012

Patronus Analytical

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

  • Presence of Radon Gas in Your Home
    By Dr. Mercola Radon is an odorless, colorless gas that is formed from the natural breakdown of uranium in the earth. Though you can't see it or smell it, radon can enter your home through cracks in your foundation, well water, building materials and other sources, where it can contaminate th ...
  • The 6 Types of Pills Big Pharma Wants You Hook ...
    By Dr. Mercola What would you say if you knew someone had killed 60,000 people? Would you call it a felony of the worst kind, times 60,000? If you totaled up the value of all those lives in criminal court, what would you say they're worth? Billions? Trillions? Or—how about a measly $321 m ...
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981, but you’ll find that it’s not only timeless in the way it will delight and inspire you, but informative in the simple ways the scientist behind this film, Richard Feynman, explains hard-to-grasp concepts. Feynman is a Nobel Prize winner, and ...
  • The Toxin So Dangerous It's Causing Catastroph ...
    By Dr. Mercola Roundup Ready soy is now being cultivated on a massive scale across the globe, along with the exponentially increasing use of the herbicide Roundup. Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soy beans are  genetically modified to survive otherwise lethal doses of glyphosate, the activ ...
  • Correction of This Vitamin Deficiency Shown to ...
    By Dr. Mercola Nearly half of people with epilepsy are also vitamin D deficient,i but despite this well-known association, only a single study has been published on the effect of vitamin D for seizure control in the last 40 years. That study revealed that treating epileptic patients with vit ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Paraguay overflight confirms Brazilians’ destr ...
    © Survival A Survival International overflight of the Chaco forest in Paraguay has confirmed fears that cattle ranchers are destroying the last hiding place of uncontacted Ayoreo Indians. Aerial views of the Chaco in northern Paraguay show large tracts of barren land that have been defores ...
  • Indians ‘cry with happiness’ at Brazilian Cour ...
    Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe Indians lobby the Brazilian authorities to uphold their land rights © José Cruz/ABr The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe Indians of Brazil are celebrating a Supreme Court decision to allow them to live undisturbed on their land. The Pataxó, of Bahia state, have been subjected to violent c ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • At Disney World's 'Living with the Land' exhib ...
    from naturalnews.com: Biotechnology has made its way to "the happiest place on earth," with an exhibit at Walt Disney World's EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) theme park now featuring genetically-modified (GM) fruits and vegetables, some of which are shaped like Mickey Mous ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    from farmwars.info: In the United States, the Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine is scheduled to be given to babies at birth. Since babies do not normally go out and indulge themselves in high risk behavior such as tattooing, body piercing, IV drug use, sharing needles with others, having sex with mu ...
  • Is America's Food Safety System At Risk for a ...
    from theatlantic.com: According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States' food supply isn't prepared for a major disaster. Its 2012 Annual Report, Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue, says that the food safety ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Special Report: Greece Crisis... what Crisis?
    We've all seen the many miles and acres of news coverage that has been dedicated to the political and financial aspects of the 'crisis' engulfing Greece so, over the weekend, we flew out to Athens to go and experience what life is like there at the moment, first hand, for ourselves. While Anc ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • Leveson inquiry probes modern corporate media ...
     *Leveson inquiry focuses on “unelected force” of  media executives as part of groundbreaking inquiry *Murdoch media empire executive Rebekah Brooks questioned on close links to politicians *James Murdoch forced to quit board of GlaxoSmithKline — producer of Pandemrix swine flu ...
  • 7 out of 10 Greeks vote against bankster auste ...
    Banks prepare for the return of the drachma LONDON (Reuters) – Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency. Read more at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/11/us-banks-drachma-idUSBRE84A0DC20120511
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Cardiologist Speaks Out Against Current Choles ...
    (Dr John Briffa) Most medical professionals strongly believe that cholesterol causes heart disease and that treating ‘raised’ cholesterol and bringing it down to a so-called ‘healthy’ level is beneficial for us all. However, I’ve been skeptical about both these ideas for many years now. I’m not ...
  • Lying climate scientists lie again – about dea ...
    By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: May 3rd, 2012 There’s a great scoop in The Australian today about more lying climate scientists making stuff up. CLAIMS that some of Australia’s leading climate change scientists were subjected to death threats as part of a vicious and unrel ...
  • Big Pharma wants you hooked on these six pharm ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It is a known fact that the drug industry makes a whole lot more money on pharmaceuticals that patients must take perpetually for chronic conditions, rather than on those they take occasionally for isolated illnesses. This is why Big Pharma has worke ...
  • FDA admits statin drugs cause diabetes, memory ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) All those doctors and medical experts who have expressed support for handing out statin drugs like candy or adding them to drinking water supplies may want to take a gander at new safety data published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
  • Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With ...
    Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads. But why did Kodak have ...

Veterans Today

  • California State Psychology Board Launches Psy ...
    The California State Psychology Board has launched an action against a Northern California psychologist and advocate for the disabled, and has ordered the practitioner into a psychiatric evaluation or face revocation of his license. In an unprecedented deviation from the Board’s mandate to ...
  • Chicago’s First False Flag “Barack ...
    Speculation continues to build that the Obama administration and its Israel Lobby handlers will use the 25th NATO Summit to carry out a false flag attack, and according to a recent Canada Free Press article, the Department of Homeland Security intends to strong-arm Americans soon.
  • Nationwide 2K Event Will Support Homeless Vete ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again hosting a nationwide 2K “Walk and Roll” event at more than 130 VA facilities on May 16 to coincide with National Employee Health and Fitness Day. The event will also encourage employee and local community support of homeless Veterans.
  • Sins of Our Fathers : al-Nakba
    Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reve ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 14 ...
    For Mothers Day, VA honors the sacrifice and commitment of mothers who both wore the uniform and supported those who did. Read how one mother inspired an Iraq Veteran to serve at VAntage Point.

electric politics

  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "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 ...

PR News

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

Stop NATO

  • Chronicling NATO’s Endless Wars
    Newstips May 14, 2012 Rick Rozoff chronicles NATO’s ‘endless wars’ By Curtis Black By hosting a self-proclaimed “nuclear alliance” like NATO, Chicago is violating the spirit if not the letter of the city’s status as a nuclear free zone, passed unanimously by the City Council in 1986 and signed b ...
  • Russia Warns Against Training Syrian Rebels In ...
    Interfax May 14, 2012 Moscow opposes plans to train Syrian militants in Kosovo MOSCOW: The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned by the reports that Syrian militants will be trained in Kosovo, and has urged the international community to prevent that from happening. “Lately there have been ...
  • Interview: OSCE To Monitor Anti-NATO Protests ...
    Voice of Russia May 14, 2012 OSCE to monitor anti-NATO protests at Summit in Chicago John Robles Audio: Download Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to GlobalResearch.ca. He will be debating NATO officials in Chicago on May ...
  • Stop NATO news: May 14, 2012
    ==== Afghan War: NATO Loses Eight Troops In Three Days Over 3,000 U.S., NATO Troops Killed In Greater Afghan War NATO Delegation Arrives In Belarus NATO Chief: Bloc To Acknowledge Georgia’s “Progress” Japan To Buy U.S. F-35 Stealth Fighters Despite Price Hike ==== Afghan War: N ...
  • The Chicago NATO Summit: Preview And Perspective
    Global Research TV May 12, 2012 The Chicago NATO Summit: Preview and Perspective Ever since its inception there have been those who have warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a simple “collective security” pact to ensure the integrity of its member nat ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Occupy and Expose Bilderberg 2012
    theintelhub.com | Bilderberg 2012 is fast approaching and due to the sheer amount of content we will be releasing we have decided to create a full page exclusively for Bilderberg 2012. This page will eventually host dozens of exclusive articles, videos, photos, and a live video stream.
  • Plume-Gate Tales from the Script: Data Mining, ...
    Tony Muga | In a series of emails contained within the NRC FOIA Documents, I have found an excellent example of how the industry monitors what the public knows, in this case in the form of public opinion via local news articles, so they can do their best at damage control. They want to kno ...
  • IED’s Disguised as Flashlights Detonated ...
    Shepard Ambellas | The year is 2012 and the police state is in full force as unconstitutional checkpoints and cameras are on almost every street corner across the country.
  • Seismologist Casts a Shadow: Major Earthquake ...
    Dr. Mark Sircus | Sakai is a prominent Japanese seismologist who is predicting a major earthquake to hit Tokyo soon.
  • Body Count: Agenda 21 and the Control of Food
    Clyde Lewis | First in the agenda is to establish a group consensus of crises and solutions that include separating the people and eventually culling them.

FRS

  • Palestinian prisoners: After 79 days of hunge ...
     May 15, 2012 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies After an ongoing 79 days of hunger-strike, Palestinian detainees Tha’er Halahla and Bilal Thiab, signed an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authorities to end their hunger-strike in exchange for their release as they are being held wit ...
  • Palestinian inmates agree to end hunger strike
    [Update:  Further news  from the Financial Times, citing Addameer (the prisoners rights group), reported on the Egypt-brokered deal and its effect on the longer hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners: ":Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, said the agreement appeared to be favourable for Pale ...
  • Palestinian inmates agree to end hunger strike
    by Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters | May 14, 2012 GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails agreed on Monday to an Egyptian-brokered deal aimed at ending a mass hunger strike that challenged Israel’s policy of detention without trial and raised fears of a bloody P ...
  • On preparing US police and military for &#8216 ...
    Anti-Islam teachings ‘widespread’ in US law enforcement, campaigners warn Activists point to past incidents in the FBI and NYPD after military course urged soldiers to prepare for ‘total war’ with Islam by Ryan Devereaux in New York, guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 May 2012 A c ...
  • On preparing US police and military for &#8216 ...
    Anti-Islam teachings ‘widespread’ in US law enforcement, campaigners warn Activists point to past incidents in the FBI and NYPD after military course urged soldiers to prepare for ‘total war’ with Islam by Ryan Devereaux in New York, guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 May 2012 A c ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Infographic: The New Planetary Habitability Index
    Astronomers often estimate the habitability of extrasolar planets and moons based mostly on their temperatures and distance from the nearest star. A team of astrobiologists has now proposed a rubric that includes four groups of variables, each of which is weighted by its importance to sustaining ...
  • Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields T ...
    And he's answering your questions on Reddit Reddit’s IAmA forums can be a regular source of BS, so when we came across this “Ask Me Anything” session in which a 24-year-old electrical engineer (and grad student) shares his experiences with having magnets implanted in his fingertips, we were ske ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    This week, we have beautiful jewel caterpillars that look like they were sculpted out of slick crystal, a massive architectural concept inspired by Twitter, artist's concepts of super Earths and black holes, but really, it's all about this guy. A mere few days old, this baby elephant still lacks ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
  • Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 K ...
    Teleportation, sci-fi-y as it sounds, is actually not fictional or even new; two years ago, Chinese physicists broke the then-current record for quantum teleportation by teleporting photons over 10 miles. But a new effort from that same team demolishes that record, beaming the photons over 97 ki ...

Veterans Today

  • California State Psychology Board Launches Psy ...
    The California State Psychology Board has launched an action against a Northern California psychologist and advocate for the disabled, and has ordered the practitioner into a psychiatric evaluation or face revocation of his license. In an unprecedented deviation from the Board’s mandate to ...
  • Chicago’s First False Flag “Barack ...
    Speculation continues to build that the Obama administration and its Israel Lobby handlers will use the 25th NATO Summit to carry out a false flag attack, and according to a recent Canada Free Press article, the Department of Homeland Security intends to strong-arm Americans soon.
  • Nationwide 2K Event Will Support Homeless Vete ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again hosting a nationwide 2K “Walk and Roll” event at more than 130 VA facilities on May 16 to coincide with National Employee Health and Fitness Day. The event will also encourage employee and local community support of homeless Veterans.
  • Sins of Our Fathers : al-Nakba
    Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reve ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 14 ...
    For Mothers Day, VA honors the sacrifice and commitment of mothers who both wore the uniform and supported those who did. Read how one mother inspired an Iraq Veteran to serve at VAntage Point.

War is Business

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

  • Proletarianizing F1: Hugo Chavez's Pilot Wins Race
    Face it: there are certain sports which have an uppity image. Golf. Equestrian sports alike polo and dressage. Rugby even. And, of course, there's F1 which tries to build an image of glamour with various Eurotrash and wannabe Eurotrash sporting perma-tans, big Rolexes, big yachts and attractive ...
  • Railroaded: Today's Depressing Greece Factoid
    Wasteful public projects are a staple of rational choice theory: what better way is there to milk the public purse, profit off contractors and milk the public than a nice, big public project? Although you will find no shortage of metaphors for Greek prodigality nowadays, its railroad system is a ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Ron Paul ends active campaigning but will cont ...
    Congressman Ron Paul has announced that he will no longer be using resources to campaign in primary states, instead focusing all of his efforts on delegate-selection events as he vows to continue to vie for GOP nomination for presidential candidate. Rep. Paul (R-Texas) issued a statement on his ...
  • Italy May Use Army Against Protests
    Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has pointed to the possibility of calling in the army to deal with the violent protests in the country over the government’s economic policies. Monti raised alert levels on Sunday at some sensitive sites across Italy to handle the recent violence that has hit t ...
  • Americans renounce US citizenship to pursue de ...
    Americans in record numbers are doing what was once considered unthinkable – renouncing their US citizenship. In numerical terms, at least 1,788 Americans officially gave up their US citizenship in 2011 – more than the combined totals from 2007, 2008 and 2009 – and 2012 promise ...
  • West has betrayed Christianity, Russia will sa ...
    Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. ­By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukrain ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...

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

  • 2012-05-13 WikiLeaks News Update: Stratfor ops ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 526 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 523 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 720 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 606 days. ...
  • 2012-05-12 Nabeel Rajab's detention extended a ...
    Tweet This is Part Three 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 appearance on Julian Assange's talk show "The World Tomorrow." A representat ...
  • 2012-05-11 Polish agents briefed president, PM ...
    TweetThe Polish Secret Service briefed both president Aleksander Kwaśniewski and PM Leszek Miller about the existence of a CIA black site on the grounds of a Secret Service training camp, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. The agents kept notes on these meetings, and eventually handed them over to the pro ...
  • 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. ...

U N News

  • Mexico: UN and regional experts urge governmen ...
    The Mexican Government should implement a new law to protect journalists and human rights defenders, a group of United Nations and regional experts stressed today, adding that authorities must prioritize breaking the cycle of impunity which has led to repeated killings in recent years.
  • 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.

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

  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • 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.

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Something Is Not Right With This... Why Is The ...
      If we are trying to become independent of foreign oil, then why is the Obama administration allowing the Chinese government to buy up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. read more
  • Agenda 21... Obama Signed ANOTHER Executive Or ...
      This latest executive order will allow the soviet socialists in our local communities through their committees to adopt and enact United Nations regulations designed to establish absolute United Nations’ control over our every resource! read more
  • Who Is Alex Jones? Is He On The Assassination ...
      The saying “The bigger they are, the harder they fall” is definitely true in respect to Alex Jones after recent revelations linking him to Israeli STRATFOR. read more
  • The History of Mother's Day...
      HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERY MOTHER AROUND THE WORLD read more
  • Wall Street Drives Up Gas Prices... Ripping Us ...
      Next time you fill up your tank, remember that $10 to $25 is going right from your pocket to the financial sector. Gasoline prices have been falling in recent weeks, but they're still close to their five-year high after climbing steeply for three years. ~ Les Leopold read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Nuclear Radiation Shielding Protection
    Radiation shielding is a mass of absorbing material placed between yourself and the source of radiation to reduce the radiation to a level that is safer for humans. The effectiveness of the material depends on the type of radiation itself, the properties of the material, and the shielding streng ...
  • Lock Picking
    Is lock picking just for criminals? No it is not. Learning about locks and knowing how to pick a lock may expose vulnerabilities in your own home and help you to harden it, it will help you to improve your own security, and will provide you with a practical skill which may prove beneficial from ...
  • Beneficial Companion Plants for Tomatoes
    Companion planting can discourage harmful insects and pests in your garden without harming the beneficial ones. Many plants have natural substances in their roots, flowers, and leaves that can repel or attract insects and can enhance the growth and flavor of other varieties of plants. This combi ...
  • Tactical Flashlight
    A tactical flashlight is one that can be used along with a firearm to assist in low light target identification, allowing aiming and illumination of the target at the same time. Tactical lights can be handheld or mounted to the weapon with the light beam parallel to the bore. Tactical flashlight ...
  • The Solar KillShot
    If you want to challenge yourself to the possibility that our mind is capable of seeing things beyond our reality, then you may be interested to watch the following video documentary which predicts (via ‘remote viewing’) a solar ‘killshot’ that will end it all, for many o ...

Fast Company

  • For Toyota, JPMorgan, And State Farm, Arizona ...
    In the Phoenix metro area, sprawling data centers and fraud-prevention companies bloom like the cacti and agaves of a growing tech ecosphere. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest ideas are changin ...
  • LightSquared Files For Chapter 11
    Wireless Internet provider LightSquared has filed for Chapter 11 protection.LightSquared, the ambitious 4G wireless venture recently poised to bring lightning-fast Internet to the masses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today. Government tests found that LightSquared's signals ...
  • 5 Ways To Smarter Ideas From Atari Founder Nol ...
    At the celebration of Mindshare 50th networking event in Los Angeles, Nolan Bushnell said improving intelligence doesn't require state-of-the-art gadgets or mind-altering medication--just a pair of skis and some yoga pants. Since 2006, the monthly networking event Mindshare has brought together ...
  • A Job-Hopper Settles Down On The Farm, With Tw ...
    Alison Kosakowski, a 33-year-old former New York City brand planner turned dairy farm blogger, now helps farmers use social media to market themselves and share their unglamorous but rewarding reality.In 2009, Alison Kosakowki was living in New York, working as communications manager at the Maer ...
  • $50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers An ...
    A just-released report shows how fake debt collectors, fake state troopers, and fake soulmates are responsible for a new wave of highly complicated online scams.Forget your broken heart and wounded pride. The true cost of Internet romance scams is $50,399,536.16, the amount of losses reported by ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 7-13)
      This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.        ثوار السعودية: مقابلة مع منظمي صفحة ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (May 14)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Shock-and-Awe Nation Building: Iraq's Neo-Libe ...
    The Iraqi government’s contractual delivery of Iraqi oil fields to foreign multinationals is perhaps the most consequential long-term economic consequence of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Contracts have been signed, production rights to massive oil fields sold, and a steady stream of p ...
  • Sanctions Against Iran: A Duplicitous "Alterna ...
    Media reports on Iran oscillate wildly between threats of imminent military action and hopeful reports of diplomatic progress. Amidst this confusing din, there is a constant truth: the United States has not ceased its economic bullying of Iran, nor has the threat of war receded. As Dennis B. Ros ...
  • Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba ...
    On 9 May 2012, Manal al-Sharif was awarded the Havel Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. This came shortly after al-Sharif was honored as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World at a Gala in New York City. Such events have given rise to a pattern: just ...

mediagazer

  • Journalist expelled from China reflects on exp ...
    Rosanna Xia / Los Angeles Times: Journalist expelled from China reflects on experience  —  Melissa Chan of Walnut is the first accredited foreign correspondent to be barred from China in 14 years.  She is not sure what prompted her expulsion.  —  Melissa Cha ...
  • How the TV Industry Blew Its Best Chance to Ki ...
    Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: How the TV Industry Blew Its Best Chance to Kill Dish's Ad-Skipping Technology  —  Dish Network recently introduced a new DVR that will automatically delete commercials.  A potential lawsuit will be even more bloody than what happened year ...
  • Yahoo Chairman Wants Interim CEO to Be Permane ...
    Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Chairman Wants Interim CEO to Be Permanent CEO  —  Yahoo Inc.'s interim chief executive, Ross Levinsohn, addressed the company's employees Monday afternoon, a day after the company parted ways with Scott Thompson, who was CEO for less tha ...
  • At the 'Times,' a letter to Sulzberger asks hi ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: At the ‘Times,’ a letter to Sulzberger asks him to ‘reconsider’ firing beloved media lawyer George Freeman  —  A week after the beloved New York Times assistant general counsel George Freeman lost his job in a round of layof ...
  • Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media company?  —  Now that Yahoo has managed to make its way through yet another CEO shuffle — its sixth in just five years — the former portal has to get back to the main task at hand: namely, figuring ...

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

  • Fighting kills 32 as Syria peace plan fal ...
    Fighting in Syria has killed at least 32 people, activists said, and Saudi Arabia said stubborn violence was shredding the credibility of a U.N.-Arab League peace plan stipulating a truce and dialogue between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes. Away from the battlegrounds, efforts to fin ...
  • US-Pak have made considerable progress on ...
    The US on Monday said it had made "considerable progress" with Pakistan in negotiations on the re-opening of the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, on the eve of crucial meetings in Pakistan to discuss the issue. "My...
  • BMW Motor Show
    Dates May 11 - 13 (Fri - Sun) //--> Friday, May 11, 2012 Dates May 11 - 13 (Fri - Sun)...
  • Merkel tells Greece to back cuts or face ...
    Greece may be forced to leave the euro if the country refuses to implement spending cuts agreed with the European Union, Angela Merkel warned. "I believe it’s better for the Greeks to stay in the euro area, but that also requires that we set out a path on which Greece gets back on its feet s ...
  • A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
    Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday problems of real life. As an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he tries to figure out why 1 in 3 Americans are overweight. RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times » Facebook ...

no frakking consensus

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

  • 5/11/12 - Obama Endorses Gay Marriages the Day ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Obama Endorses Gay Marriages the Day After North Carolina Bans Them - North Carolina voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution by 61% to 39% that bans same-sex marriages and civil unions across the state on May 8, 2012. The following day, President Barack ...
  • 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 ( ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...
  • The Richest, Fattest Nation
    HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS According to recent studies, roughly half of adults and a third of children in Qatar are obese, and almost 17 percent of the native population suffers from diabetes. By comparison, about a third of Americans are obese, and eight percent are diabetic. Qatar also has very h ...
  • Recharging your Immune system
    Some people seem to catch everything that is doing the rounds, from coughs and colds to stomach bugs. Other people never seem to get ill. What’s their secret? A lot is down to dumb luck. There are some things affecting the performance of your immune system that you cannot change: your age, ...
  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...

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

  • Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails ...
    Vapour trails left by British bombers on route to attack flying-bomb sites encircle the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1944. All those who passionately believe that "contrails dissipate quickly" whereas "chemtrails linger" and are deeply offended by the sceptical position that TNRA take ...
  • The last desperate gambit of a failing government
    Our Banana Republic is running a desperate gambit in order to defuse the Craig Thomson affair and cling to power. They are putting out the meme that there are "allegations" against Thomson, whereas in fact, Fair Work Australia, "the national workplace relations tribunal" delivered their findin ...
  • Naked body scanners could be soon be in all UK ...
    Trials had been halted over fears of harmful radiation New study reveals risk to passengers is 'close to zero' Controversial 'naked' body scanners could be introduced at all UK airports after top scientists declared them safe. Manchester Airport has been trialling the device - known as ...
  • Professor Bob Carter on climate change - Part 2
    Part 2 of Professor Bob Carter on climate change
  • Professor Bob Carter on climate change - Part 1
    My guest today for the second hour is Prof. Bob Carter: Professor Bob Carter is an adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University (Queensland). He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 40 years professional experience, and holds 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 Maresal Romanian Anti Tank Gun
      This thing should have worked. Like so many weapons systems before it, it simply needed the budgets, the time, the political atmosphere to let it happen. The idea itself was quite robust. A self propelled sloped armor anti tank gun, the size of which was planned to be a 120 mm howitzer. I ...
  • The Caproni-Stipa Ducted Fan.
      It looked kind of cool actually, like a barrel and when you consider that Italians built it in 1932, it’s really really cool. The Caproni- Stipa was basically a hollow tube ducted fan engine. It’s performance was mediocre so the Italian Air Force demurred further advancement on the ducted ...
  • Samnite Body Armor.
    Samnites lived in south central Italy region of south or south and central Italy in Roman times, in a territory around the Appenines. The Samnites were the first robust competition for the early Roman Republic. They wore armored body plates, carried round eliptical shields and wielded a spear an ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Michelle Obama’s Workout Playlist
    FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA shared her workout playlist with Women’s Health magazine. One of Beyonce’s songs, it’s a great one, especially with head phones and your own life track. We had the pleasure of seeing Destiny’s Child at a “Rockin’ the Corp” benef ...
  • Huffington Post’s ‘Unseen’ Women in Military
    AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE on trailblazing women in the military worthy of your time. Any time a woman is held back in the work place, which includes the U.S. military, we are hurting our strongest economic booster.
  • Ron Paul Now Focusing on Yada-Yada-Yada
    DROPPING OUT? Jesse Benton, Ron Paul’s campaign spokesman replies: “Absolutely not! We are focusing our efforts squarely on winning delegates and party leadership positions at state conventions.” Paul’s statement, via Buzzfeed: As I reflect on our 2012 Presidential campai ...
  • Occupy Arrests Over 7200, But The Banks Are ‘T ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. A comparison is one way to get some perspective. There’s certainly something of an “apples to oranges” dynamic going on here. But that there is a different treatment for “white collar” and “street” crimes is surely no ...
  • German Voters Reject Conservative Austerity, B ...
    Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany’s most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition to step up its criticism of her European austerity policies. – Reuters WILL AMERICANS embrace austeri ...

Hudson New York

  • Who Will Suffer As A Result of Euro Policies? ...
    The European Union, and especially its common currency, the euro, is on the brink of collapse. The Greeks, unable to form a government after the May 6 elections, will have to go to the polls again next month. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is
  • Our Intelligence Community: What Are We Gettin ...
    Americans are justifiably concerned that our national leaders do not seem to anticipate looming threats. They quite correctly ask, "What are we getting for the $80 billion a year we pay to gather intelligence?" "Don't worry" says the former deputy
  • 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

Urban Survival

  • America’s Next Civil War
      As I mentioned to Peoplenomics subscribers a week or so back, one of the thoughts that crossed my mind while sitting under an old oak tree at the US Civil War Memorial in Vicksburg, MS was that it takes … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Canadians and Movie-goers
    Got this pretty good email from a reader on the Far Side (or the border with Canada) which you might enjoy. You’re not going to like this. The reason you won’t like it is that you are on the inside … Continue reading →
  • Testing
    We’ll see if this works now… Yep – seems to so we should be able to get back to having pictures and graphics make sense…see you tomorrow if you read Peoplenomics or Monday if not – have a great weekend … Continue reading →
  • Opportunity in JPMoran’s Mess?
    Word is coming out this morning (and it may impact markets going into the weekend) that mega-bank JPMorgan was hit for $2-billion in trading losses over the last six-weeks or so. The studious news-watcher will start by looking at some … Continue reading →
  • No title
    The first topic of thinkversation this morning has to do with how people select what to worry about.  Worries are ugly little f***ers that beset and besiege everyone, big. rich, and powerful or small, broke, and weak.  What separates people’s … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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

  • Uranium Mining Environmental Consequences to B ...
    Geoffrey Fettus, Senior Project Attorney, Washington, D.C. For decades, uranium has been mined in ways that damage our waters and land, put our communities at risk, and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in clean-up costs. Now, for the ...
  • Reflections on the Race to Rio: Crowdsourcing ...
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC It is easy to feel depressed about the state of the Rio+20 preparations after the recent two weeks of “informal informal” negotiations at the United Nations in New York. ...
  • Recent fracking-related news from around the n ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Anyone who is following the current boom in domestic oil and gas production knows that the e-mails, articles, and reports never stop. I think the information flow will continue to grow as the in ...
  • Inaugural Ivy League Women's Rowing Championsh ...
    Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York Yesterday was a historic day for the Ivy League, in more ways than one. The League launched the inaugural Ivy League Women's Rowing Championship with a very successful regatta full of intense racing. The har ...
  • A False Connection: New START and nuclear weap ...
    Jonathan McLaughlin, Program Assistant, Washington, DC Last week the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) marked up the FY13 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill is scheduled to be debated on the House floor this week. HASC’s v ...

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

  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Dose

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 )

  • U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destru ...
    According to a new report by Greenpeace, top U.S. car companies such as Ford, General Motors, and Nissan are sourcing pig iron that has resulted in the destruction of Amazon rainforests, slave labor, and land conflict with indigenous tribes. Spending two years documenting the pig iron trade betw ...
  • Emissions from deforestation depend on fate o ...
    Carbon emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
  • Global wetlands shrink 6% in 15 years
    Global wetlands declined by six percent between 1993 and 2007 due to conversion for agriculture, drainage, and water diversion, reports a new satellite-based assessment published by European researchers in Geophysical Research Letters.
  • We should help solve illegal logging, not be p ...
    It's tempting to think of illegal logging as an environmental crisis but it takes a serious human toll too. Just ask the wife and children of Chut Wutty, an environmental activist who was murdered last week for investigating rampant illegal logging in Cambodia. Wutty was far from alone. Criminal ...
  • 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 ...

Sierra Express

  • Nasser Ayoub appeals to President Koroma
    Activist and philanthropist Nasser Ayoub is appealing to President Ernest Bai Koroma to look into a new immigration law which states that naturalized citizens who want to acquire a Sierra Leonean passport must be able to pay the sum of $3,000 for the document. Ayoub says Sierra Leone will now go ...
  • CARL-SL welcomes new legal aid law, urges coor ...
    Freetown, May 15 2012 – The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) yesterday congratulated the Sierra Leone Parliament for passing one of the most progressive legal aid laws on the continent. The bill, which was unanimously passed on May 10, represents a significant step forward ...
  • Kanga schools now have Internet access
    At a meeting on April 14 in Sydney, Australia, Kanga Schools announced the distribution of further resources to benefit schools in Sierra Leone.  Internet subscriptions and modems were made available in March to six schools to enable the teachers and students to access information on the Interne ...
  • New ERSG visits Sierra Leone’s Permanent Missi ...
    The new Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Sierra Leone, Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, last week paid a courtesy call on the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the UN, Ambassador Shekou M. Touray, at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone in New York. ...
  • Sierra Leone league suspended at halfway stage
    The Sierra Leone Premier League has been suspended indefinitely because of a lack of sponsorship. The news comes as the country’s national team makes gains in the Fifa rankings, moving above the likes of Nigeria, Cameroon, and South Africa. The first round of the league ended two weeks ago ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Canterbury creams dairying honours
    Quake-affected Canterbury became the first region to scoop all three top awards at the annual Dairy Industry Awards on Saturday night.Enda and Sarah Hawe won the Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Mick O'Connor was top farm...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • "I kissed her breasts and nipples, as there wa ...
    Salt Lake City’s Police Department has disbanded its vice unit after a Civilian Complaint Review Board (sometimes they work!) report questioned the department’s tactics in combating prostitution and illegal massage parlors, citing violations of the Fourth Amendment and inadequate s ...
  • California High-Speed Rail: Highest Burn Rate Ever
    Taxpayers in California and around the nation have a new reason to pull the plug on the Golden State’s high-speed rail project. In order to meet its virtually impossible timeline, the project will have to spend $3.5 million per day, seven days a week, over the next five years, a spend ...
  • The First Amendment vs. the War on Cameras
    As Jacob Sullum reported last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois’ controversial eavesdropping law, which made it a felony to record on-duty police officers in public. Judge Richard Posner, an influential federal judg ...
  • Disappointed Democrat Will Still Vote for Obam ...
    Say, Democrats who are bitterly disappointed in President Obama's immigration record, isn't a shame that you have to vote for him anyway in 2012? What's that, you don't have to? As the Huffington Post notes, don't tell the family of  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of Presiden ...
  • Texting While Walking Will Earn You an $85 Tic ...
    Fort Lee, New Jersey, former motion picture capital of America, will start issuing tickets to people who are caught texting and walking. There have been "three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year," ABC News reports. And walking around in a state of complete obliviousness ...

Mercury Rising

  • Getting gaslighted on gas
    The American people are being propagandized that high gas prices are due to Obama Administration drilling policies. If we had a functioning press, people would know that the price of gasoline is determined by (a) the current cost of oil production, (b) the cost of refining, (c) expectations abou ...
  • Rachel Unbound and some reality about the Amer ...
    Rachel Maddow had a pretty interesting talk at Mt. Holyoke College, which one can see on Sunday at 10PM Eastern on C-Span’s BookTV, and eventually on their website, probably here. As usual, Rachel is witty and worth listening to. Another worthwhile talk was by Kevin Gutzman on James Madiso ...
  • Bush Convicted Of War Crimes. Unfortunately, O ...
    Here are the details: Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at ...
  • The Shallowness Of The Conservative Mind: Nice ...
    A few weeks ago, there was a rather nice article about the Nice Ride program, the Twin Cities version of Montreal’s Bixi bike-share program, and how well it’s been doing. The comments left by right-wing intellectuals were not as nice, and often not even coherent: minn12 Apr. 29, 1210 ...
  • The Red Queen, in check. Rebekah Brooks answer ...
    Michael Wolf: the support of Cameron, the tactical placement of Andy Coulson by Cameron’s side, and her cheek-by-jowl closeness to James Murdoch was part of a masterful design of reinventing herself as something dramatically larger, more significant and better compensated than a mere newsp ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Eye Wide Open
    Check out the visually stunning music video for "Eye Wide Open," the new lead single by electro-rock duo Dynasty Electric. Their self-titled LP comes out June 26.   http://www.dynastyelectric.net
  • The Symbiosis Eclipse Festival: Neo-Tribal Dan ...
      The coming Symbiosis Gathering – Pyramid Eclipse festival at Pyramid Lake, Nevada is a unique event in many ways, not the least in that it is held on the tribal grounds of the Paiute people. The Northern Paiute of this area also refer to themselves as Numa (“the people”) or Paviotso. Th ...
  • Edgewalker: An Interview with Jeffrey J. Kripal
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  • Eros Unredeemed
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  • 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 ...

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

  • Former Center for a Stateless Society Social M ...
    C4SS and Stacy Litz by James Tuttle As originally posted: Center for a Stateless Society May 10, 2012 Although this was a hard decision with considerable internal disagreement over the proper approach to take, Stacy Litz is no longer a member of the staff of, or otherwise involved with, the ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Accomplishments
    Mitt Romney said in 2008 that "let Detroit go bankrupt” and that there should not be any bail-out. However, Obama went for the bail-out which was very successful. Now Romney is taking full credit for this success and he says that he was actually for the bail-out. Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC has a ...
  • Does Michele Bachman have Swiss citizenship or ...
    Ed Shultz of MSNBC clarifies the confusion. He does a good job of it. Watch the video below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Libya Mission cost Canadians 7 times more than ...
    “Last October, MacKay told CBC Radio's The House the Libyan mission had cost taxpayers less than $50 million.” The actual cost was $347 million. First it was F-35 and now this. Harper government continues to mislead Canadians on many fronts. These warriors are costing Canadians tax payers t ...
  • An 18-month-old girl on no-fly list
    Paranoia in the U.S has hit the new high. Who is winning the so-called war on terror? Read The Toronto Star story.

Press TV - Middle East

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

  • A Drop in the Progressivist Bucket
    Whoop dee doo! Barack Obama has acknowledged that gay people should have the right — as other human beings do — to marry. It is long overdue step in supporting every human’s right to form a love partnership regardless of sexual orientation. Obama wasn’t even a leader in h ...
  • An Anarchist Theory of Criminal Justice
    This paper is a critique of how the state, the legal system, and the criminal justice system function in American society, and calls for an anarchist approach to how society should be organized that will remove the oppressive frameworks we currently live under. To support my arguments, I will fi ...
  • Idiocy as WMD
    Borges writes, “dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” As a preeminent mind, Borges rightly considers the mind to be a man’s greatest asset, for without mind, a man is nothing. The more ...
  • Occupying the Farm Below Albany Hill
    Just south of Albany Hill there’s a sizable piece of pristine farm land, grown up in wild mustard grass, surrounded by urban housing, known as the “Gill Tract” — what’s left of it anyway — the 104 acre Gill Farm, which has been carved up and developed piece by ...
  • Why Is the State Department “Arming&#822 ...
    Amid recent reports that the bodies of four Mexican journalists were discovered in a canal in the port city of Veracruz, less than a week after another journalist based in that city was found strangled in her home, the U.S. State Department “plans to award a contract to provide a Mexican g ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul ends active campaigning but will cont ...
    Congressman Ron Paul has announced that he will no longer be using resources to campaign in primary states, instead focusing all of his efforts on delegate-selection events as he vows to continue to vie for GOP nomination for presidential candidate. Rep. Paul (R-Texas) issued a statement on h ...
  • Establishment Dirty Tricks At Conventions Targ ...
    GOP state conventions in Arizona and Oklahoma ended in chaos this past weekend as establishment insiders did everything within and beyond their power to prevent Ron Paul walking away with more delegates to the national convention. With Paul picking up recent victories at state conventions in ...
  • Establishment Dirty Tricks At Conventions Targ ...
    GOP state conventions in Arizona and Oklahoma ended in chaos this past weekend as establishment insiders did everything within and beyond their power to prevent Ron Paul walking away with more delegates to the national convention. With Paul picking up recent victories at state conventions in ...
  • Oklahoma GOP Cheating Ron Paul In Delegate Process
    In what is an unorthodox turn of events, the Oklahoma Republican Convention has reconvened in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites in Norman, Okla. The state convention was held today inside the Embassy Suites with party officials calling for an adjournment at or around 5 p.m. From early in ...
  • Oklahoma GOP Cheating Ron Paul In Delegate Process
    In what is an unorthodox turn of events, the Oklahoma Republican Convention has reconvened in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites in Norman, Okla. The state convention was held today inside the Embassy Suites with party officials calling for an adjournment at or around 5 p.m. From early in ...

 

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Neste Oil produces premium-quality NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat ...
Reuters
Neste Oil Corporation Press release 15 May 2012 at 9:30 am (EET) Neste Oil produces premium-quality NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry Neste Oil has again expanded the range of renewable raw materials it ...
Renewable energy fuels Wilmette debate
Chicago Tribune
But the average Wilmette homeowner would pay about $1 to $2 per month extra as part of a contract with a company that requires 100 percent renewable energy, as opposed to the state minimum of 7 percent, said Wilmette Village Manager Tim Frenzer.
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HyperSolar's Breakthrough Technology Can Use Any Source of Water and Sunlight ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OBB:HYSR) , the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using water and sunlight, today announced that recent development breakthroughs will allow its ...
Truth Needle: Inslee's claims about renewable energy half true
The Seattle Times
It's impossible to quantify how much the state's Initiative 937 — which set the renewable-energy quota for large utilities — was responsible for attracting new investments in wind, solar and biomass technologies. By Susan Kelleher Inslee is proud of ...
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Ecology awards $68 million for projects to provide jobs, protect clean water ...
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is awarding $68 million in grants for 117 stormwater construction projects across the state. Ecology estimates that the projects will provide up to 400 jobs across the state while protecting ...
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“4th Block” makes ecology into a modern art format
The Day Weekly Digest
Next came air pollution, anti-nuclear themes, and the lack of ecological culture. “First and foremost, the jury evaluated the solution of the posters and the execution techniques. It is hard to give an objective comment on the level of the works, ...
Ecology Hosts Meetings Around Northwest On Its New Hanford Plan
Northwest Public Radio
By Anna King Washington state Ecology is rolling out a new draft permit for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington. The document is 16476 pages long. Public meetings are scheduled across the Northwest including one in Seattle Tuesday ...
GEC Organics Delivers First Large Sale of Proprietary Compost Soil Amendment
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTCLAIR, NJ, May 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Global Ecology Corporation (GEC) (otcqb:GLEC) (pinksheets:GLEC) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GEC Organics, has delivered the first truck loads of its proprietary compost soil ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
'pool (no water),' by Mark Ravenhill at the 9th Space¶
New York Times
That swimming pool, in Mark Ravenhill's macabre, knife-sharp play “pool (no water)” runs red with human blood at one point. An accident leaves the owner of house, pool and palm trees fighting for her life in the hospital.
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California Drinking Water: Rural Towns Devise Unique Plan To Solve Problems
Huffington Post
By Bernice Yeung For a good part of its rich history, residents of unincorporated Allensworth, the first African American colony west of the Mississippi, have gone without a reliable supply of safe drinking water. This is still the case today, ...
Africa Water Week Marked with Cairo Meeting
Voice of America
This is Africa Water Week. Government and development agency representatives and others are meeting in Cairo to mark the occasion. One of the main topics is improving water and sanitation services on the continent. The International development ...
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HyperSolar's Breakthrough Technology Can Use Any Source of Water and Sunlight ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OBB:HYSR) , the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using water and sunlight, today announced that recent development breakthroughs will allow its ...
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