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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

15 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • IAEA refuses Iran cooperation pact
    Summary: WASHINGTON - Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano has signaled that there will be no agreement with Iran in meetings in Vienna on Monday and Tuesday on the terms for Iranian cooperation in clarifying the issue of alleged nuclear weapons work. ...
  • Hawks seek to sabotage Iran negotiations
    Summary: Now, more than ever, public pressure must be brought to bear against the crippling sanctions and relentless military threats against Iran. It is only greater public awareness that can prevent the senseless drive towards war. In particular we call for greatest mobilization in the ral ...
  • Patrick Cockburn: Netanyahu's threats to bomb ...
    Summary: How far is Washington complicit in Mr Netayahu's strategy of issuing horrendous threats, and how far does it believe them? source: Independentread more
  • Critical Threshold in the Iran Crisis
    Summary: As we move closer to the Baghdad meeting between Iran and the world powers, scheduled for May 23, it is vitally important for both sides to maintain the positive environment generated at the Istanbul round in early April. source: New York Times read more
  • War on Iran: America's Next Catastrophe in the ...
    Summary: There is no military solution to the nuclear file. An attack on Iran would unleash a protracted asymmetric war that would be played out globally. This is exactly what all reputable US intelligence and security officials have signalled to the Netanyahu administration. source: Truth ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • 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...
  • Protoplanet Vesta Pummled by a 60-Kilometer Wi ...
    New NASA images of the 4.5 billion year old pock-marked surface of asteroid Vesta, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, show the protoplanet was hit by a 60-kilometer-wide rock not once, but twice, in the past two...
  • The Solar System's Missing Boundary
    Since the 1980's, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun –the heliosphere – moves through space, creating three distinct boundary layers that culminate in an outermost bow shock. This shock...
  • 37,000 Year Old Art Reveals Complex Lives of E ...
    Anthropologists working in southern France have concluded that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research, reported in the most recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...
  • Image of the Day: An Awesome Galaxy (and Its O ...
    This spectacular image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 1232 is based on three exposures in ultra-violet, blue and red light, respectively. The colours of the different regions are well visible : the central areas contain older stars of reddish...

Natural News

  • Robert Scott Bell interviews Tom Woods on null ...
    Tom Woods guest stars on the Robert Scott Bell Show to discuss the possible overturning of the famous individual Obamacare mandate by the Supreme Court. The men also discuss the the Nullify Now event in Philadelphia and important topics varying from the primal diet and...
  • New York Times openly admits domestic terror p ...
    If it seems as though the FBI is making a large number of terror busts these days, maybe it's because the agency itself is at least partly responsible for hatching the plots. That has some political observers wondering if the FBI's strategies are making the best use...
  • Top food choices for avoiding and beating cancer
    The right food choices can greatly increase the odds of beating cancer. Fortunately, nature offers a multitude of foods which have great cancer fighting and immune boosting properties. Here are some of the very best: Cancer fighting and immune boosting superstarsCruciferous...
  • Herbs that help prevent nausea during pregnancy
    Congratulations! You're expecting. Welcome to the roller coaster ride that is pregnancy. For many women, fatigue is the first sign of pregnancy, followed closely by morning sickness. Morning sickness is most common between the fourth and fourteenth weeks of pregnancy...
  • Argentinian mother sticks it to Monsanto, wins ...
    The tragic, but inspiring, story of one woman's quest for justice in her local community has resulted in a significant victory for health freedom. Sofia Gatica, an ordinary, working-class mother from Argentina, successfully mobilized more than a dozen of her neighbors...

Threat Level

  • Popular Surveillance Cameras Open to Hackers, ...
    Several popular brands of security cameras used by banks, retailers, hotels, hospitals and corporations are vulnerable to remote hacking, according to a researcher who says attackers can seize control of the systems to view live footage, archived footage or control the direction and zoom of cameras.
  • Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy
    A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency's decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity. If we removed all the legalese, the appellate court upheld the government's of ...
  • More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Tha ...
    A new study shows that more Americans want presidential candidates to talk about computer security than terrorism.
  • FBI Surreptitiously Returns Seized Server
    Remember that server the FBI seized from a hosting company in New York in an effort to uncover the identity of people who were sending bomb threats about the University of Pittsburgh? Surveillance cameras caught FBI agents returning the hardware, and plugging it in, without telling the owners.
  • Busted Camcording Piracy Group Sought Street Cred
    A 28-year-old California man has pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal copyright infringement for being part of an in-theater camcording group known as IMAGiNE, whose goal was mostly internet cred, not money.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Mother's Day Memory of Lenore Romney
    Just in case you had forgotten, the campaign web sites of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney want to remind you it's Mother's Day. The Obama site includes a card you can sign for the First Lady and a video of the President paying tribute to his mom and grandmother. Meanwhile, Team Romney is offering ...
  • Mitt Romney and the Small Lie
    Like the force of gravity or the sun rising in the east, Mitt Romney's pathological lying is now taken for granted. As Steve Benen among others can attest, documenting Romney's runaway mendacity may now be America's greatest growth industry. Explaining the causes of Mitt's daily dissembling ma ...
  • Republicans Ask Americans to Remember Bush's E ...
    For months, Mitt Romney, John Boehner and other Republican leaders have falsely claimed that "President Obama made the economy worse." The same crowd which for years cried that George W. Bush "inherited a recession" accused Obama of blaming his predecessor for the greatest economic crisis since ...
  • Romney's Strategy? Call the Kettle Black
    Two funny things happened this week on Mitt Romney's way to the White House. First, the man who cried "let Detroit go bankrupt" announced "I'll take a lot of credit" for President Obama's million-job saving rescue of the American auto industry. But just as telling was the Republican's claim th ...
  • Republicans, the Anti-Stimulus
    After this week's election results in France and Greece, press, pundits and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are questioning the future of draconian austerity policies in Europe. As well they should. Euro-region unemployment has reached its highest levels in 15 years. Across the chan ...

Blackspot News Feed

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    Info about Wroclaw. “We stayed in apartment in Wroclaw for a few days and we love the place !! nice centre , great shopingmals (grunwalski and magnolia) , friendly people, great dinning, whe really hade a great time and we will return !! ps this is a good site to find al the information – [...]
  • Coleen Rowley on How Top Secret America Misfires
    Dandelion Salad May 9, 2012 by SocialJusticeNOW Coleen Rowley, one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year for 2002 by Time Magazine, will speak about her experiences in the FBI and broader issues of official surveillance and massive data collection. When Coleen Rowley was an FBI a ...
  • Economic Inequality’s Impact On Political Voice
    Dandelion Salad May 11, 2012 by joefriendly Discussion at Demos think tank about new book, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy about the devastating effects of economic inequality on our political process with moderator Kenneth Prewitt and ...
  • Dr. Michael Brown with Sid Roth – The Real Kos ...
    Dandelion Salad May 14, 2012 by SidRoth Take a trip back 2,000 years in time to capture the debate between Jews who believed in Jesus and Jews who did not. I have selected the best Orthodox rabbi challenging the best Messianic Jewish scholar in the country. Wait till you eavesdrop on this fiery, ...
  • Occupy: The Left or The 99%? by Robert Guard
    by Robert Guard Guest Writer Dandelion Salad previously published at http://occupiedtucsoncitizen.org, May 8, 2012 May 14, 2012 We may not like what sometimes even more than half (or approaching half in other cases) of our fellow citizens believe on some particular issue, and we don’t have to su ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Allergies Increasing from Loss of Biological D ...
      Declining levels of biological diversity may be contributing to the rise in allergies, asthma, and inflammatory diseases among people worldwide, a new study suggests. Newly emerging evidence indicates that microbes living on your skin, in your airways, and in your gut protect against in ...
  • ‘Rogue Planets’ May Invalidate the Dark Matter ...
      Free-floating extrasolar planets, those that are not gravitationally bound to anything, may be present in much larger numbers than originally thought. Thus explaining the ‘missing mass’ of galaxies, and making the dark matter theory unnecessary. These rogue planets orbit the ...
  • Deepstaria Enigmatica, Rare Jellyfish, Caught ...
    Deepstaria Enigmatica, a rarely seen, very large, and strange-looking jellyfish, has been recently caught on film. Judging by the numbers on the video, it appears to have been filmed at a depth of around 5,045 feet. “This bag-like jelly is not that rare, but is large, so rarely seen intact. Thi ...
  • Selective Logging May Provide Third Choice
      A new study has shown that selective logging of tropical forests may be one of the few feasible options for conservation in the face of the huge financial incentives pushing developing nations and tropical landholders to convert forests into cash. The study analysed data from more than a ...
  • Scientists Discover New Site of Potential Inst ...
      A previously unknown sub-glacial basin that is almost the size of New Jersey residing beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet near the Weddell Sea has prompted scientists to reevaluate the ice sheet location most at risk of collapse. “If we were to invent a set of conditions conducive ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Romney rejects gay marriage - well, maybe ... ...
    Editorial comment: The article below, reproduced from BBC News, notes that Willard Mitt Romney opposes gay marriage. [Note to those who want to know: Mitt is his full middle name; it is not short for Mittens.] He does suggest they should have some limited rights, however. And here's wher ...
  • The American Medical Establishment Is On the W ...
    Editorial Comment: As a member of a self-regulating legal society, I can empathize entirely with Dr Levitt's concerns about bad actors in the medical system. While he is in the United States and I'm in Canada, he'll no doubt not be surprised to hear that medical outcomes here are similar...
  • Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth's A ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young people can sue to compel their government to take serious measures to stop global warming.  Judge Robert Wilkins is familiar with disc ...
  • How Our Demented Capitalist System Made Americ ...
    When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses...
  • How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked H ...
    Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking lots on the other side of the train ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • A Passionate Appeal Beats Cold Facts Every Time
    By @KYYellowDog Back before Roe v. Wade, the national pro-abortion group's acronym - NARAL - used to stand for National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. That was clear, simple and in-your-face: Abortion RIGHTS, motherfucker. Right to have an ABORTION. Abortion ON DEMAND and nothin ...
  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) at Truman Days in Kan ...
    By @MBersin Previously: Truman Days in Kansas City - 2012 - photos (May 12 2012) Truman Days in Kansas City - 2012 - photos - part 2 (May 13, 2012) Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) at Truman Days in Kansas City - 2012 (May 13, 2012) "...Somebody needs to stand up for people who are being pushed down. A ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "So Long, It ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by algeva on Apr 10, 2007
  • What Big Government Does Right
    By @KYYellowDog If it weren't for the Land-Grant college system, there would be no public colleges and universities in Kentucky at all. Erik Loomis at Laywers, Guns and Money: Charlie Pierce for today's internet win with his celebration of the Morrill Act, signed by President Lincoln in 1862. Th ...
  • Less Than the Least We Can Do
    By @KYYellowDog If measured on a global scale of genocide, European-Americans' near-extermination of its aboriginal population would stand alone, challenged only by the much smaller near-extermination of Australian natives. If Native Americans demanded in one voice that that all non-aboriginals ...

Care 2

  • Africas Ambitious Experiment To Preserve Threa ...
    Five nations in southern Africa are joining together to create a huge conservation area that will extend across their borders and expand critical territory for elephants. But can these new protections reverse decades of decline for area wildlife while als Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
  • Move The Bombing Range - Don't Bomb the Southe ...
    Currently the Navy has permission to conduct active sonar tests, bombing tests and other military drills in a region that has been established as a National Marine Sanctuary (the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary off Washington State's coast). Submitted by Elizabeth O. to Animals  |& ...
  • Mother's Day Zen Den
    Happy Mothers Day! The mother-child bond is not exclusive to humans. In fact, researchers find that dolphins will stay in groups that span generations. Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Say NO to Opencast Mining in So ...
    Opencast mega mining has a huge impact on the enviroment: starting with the explosion of millions of tons of rock and the consecuent dispersion of toxic dust that can travel many kilometers away, then contamination of the nearby water bodies. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |&nb ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Congress from Erasing Prot ...
    After an extensive and open public process, the National Park Service finalized protections for visitors and nesting birds and turtles from beach driving at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Now Congress is threatening to undo a compromise. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Dueling Steel Mills
    Team Obama attacks Mitt Romney by illustrating how Bain private equity capitalism took over and closed a Kansas City steel mill between 1994 and 2001. Team Romney counter attacks with an ad that illustrates the Romney (Bain) creation of a steel mill in Indiana. Dueling steel mills. This suggests ...
  • Open thread * I am a proud American
    Today I experienced a capitalist venture’s delicate dance between offering top-rate customer service and making a profit. I also experienced government systems’ non-apologetic mistreatment of its customers and its prioritization of bureaucracy’s blind rules over common sense co ...
  • Europe’s Looming Financial Crisis
    Important, watershed events are unfolding in Europe and the United States media is obsessing about whether or not Mitt Romney was an asshole in high school fifty years ago. The combination of economic and political events that are shaking Europe include the rejection of austerity politicians in ...
  • Barack Obama, Operation Hot Mic
    Watching the United States and the political theater from afar is quite instructive. For starters, you quickly realize how much bullshit and fluff dominate the U.S. airwaves. Consider, for example, the bullshit, bogus story that Mitt Romney is a gay bully. The foreign coverage of this is correct ...
  • High School Confidential
    A wag calls this the low point of the campaign (so far); however there may be utility to Romney’s campaign’s eagerness to have the candidate apologize for bad behavior when the candidate was a teenager in Michigan. The positive is that the enterprising political reporters have comple ...

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 ...

Therapy News

  • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
    When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
  • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
    One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
  • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
    Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
  • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
    Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Two W.Va. rivers on endangered list - Beckley ...
    Two W.Va. rivers on endangered list Beckley Register-Herald The report finds that mountaintop removal mining poses a threat to the Coal River and the health of the surrounding communities. According to the report, some of Appalachia's largest strip mines are in the Coal River basin. About 20 ...
  • OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Oil industry to offer wish-l ...
    OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Oil industry to offer wish-list to Dems, GOP The Hill (blog) Justice Dept. to appeal EPA mining permit veto The Obama administration is going to fight for its right to veto a big mountaintop-removal mining project in West Virginia. In March a federal judge knocked down EPA' ...
  • EPA Strongly Defends Its Veto of One of Larges ...
    New York Times (blog) EPA Strongly Defends Its Veto of One of Largest Mountaintop Removal Mines Ever ... eNews Park Forest 1 mine, one of the nation's largest proposed mountaintop removal coal mines. The appeal will be heard by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The green valley to ...
  • Appalachian women testify against coal industr ...
    Appalachian women testify against coal industry State Journal "It's really important that we stop mountaintop removal so we can have healthy future generations in Appalachia to make sure that we are able to live life free of the health problems caused by mountaintop removal," Rauma ...
  • Quaker Environmental Group Targets PNC and Mou ...
    Essential Public Radio Quaker Environmental Group Targets PNC and Mountaintop Removal Mining Essential Public Radio The Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) has been walking from Philadelphia to PNC headquarters in Pittsburgh since April 30th to protest the bank's financing of mountaintop removal ...

Memeorandum

  • George Zimmerman prosecutors file list of witn ...
    Orlando Sentinel: George Zimmerman prosecutors file list of witnesses, evidence in Trayvon Martin shooting  —  SANFORD - As many eagerly awaited the release of never-before-seen evidence in the case against George Zimmerman, members of Special Prosecutor Angela Corey's office pr ...
  • Eli Lilly, BB&T, and Pepsi Confirm They Will N ...
    Forecast the Facts: Eli Lilly, BB&T, and Pepsi Confirm They Will No Longer Fund the Heartland Institute, Bringing the Total Number of Defections to Eleven  —  Forecast the Facts, Sierra Club, 350.org, SumOfUs, the League of Conservation Voters, and Greenpeace have now mobili ...
  • Senior Pastor - Harry R. Jackson, Jr. is senio ...
    thehopeconnection.org: Senior Pastor  —  Harry R. Jackson, Jr. is senior pastor of Hope Christian Church, a 3,000-member congregation in the nation's Capital with his wife Michele.  Having earned an MBA from Harvard, Bishop Jackson approaches ministry from a unique perspect ...
  • Obama Ad Attacks Romney Bain Capital Record (A ...
    ABCNEWS: Obama Ad Attacks Romney Bain Capital Record  —  The Obama campaign has launched a new round of negative TV attack ads against Mitt Romney, casting him as a heartless “job destroyer” during his days at Bain Capital.  —  A two-minute spot, set ...
  • Obama Courts Private Equity Cash at New York F ...
    Associated Press: Obama Courts Private Equity Cash at New York Fundraiser  —  On the same day his campaign launched an attack on Mitt Romney's record in private equity, President Obama is attending a big-dollar fundraiser at the Manhattan home of one of the industry's top figures.

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Keeping an eye on China’s bankers
    The financial industry remains secretive about the loans it makes, but tireless campaigning by green groups offers hope for change. Wang Haotong reports on the latest civil-society assessment of Chinese banks.Last August, a major pollution story broke in China: 5,000 tonnes of toxic chromium tai ...
  • Consumer power for China?
    Partial victories in the campaign to clean up Apple highlight civil society’s potential to constrain the worst polluters. Meng Si and Xu Nan report.A vigorous campaign to clean up pollution in electronics giant Apple’s supply chain, waged through 2011, ended up as one of the year&rsq ...
  • Living with Foxconn
    Residents near the manufacturer’s plant in Taiyuan city are up in arms over a toxic stench. Meng Si went to meet the community that doesn’t much care for Apple’s gadgets.Yang Xiuduan would love to have an iPhone – on one condition. “I’ll buy it just as soon as ...
  • After Kyoto, a new economics?
    In the results of a survey out today, 800 sustainability experts from around the world have a clear message for governments: make greenhouse gases more expensive. Jeff Erikson explains.At the end of this year, the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will expire. That’s not becaus ...
  • Climate change in US classrooms
    Ideological conflicts over global warming are heating up, drawing in teachers, scientists, politicians, religious groups, corporate lobbyists, judges and ordinary parents. They all want a voice in American children’s green education. Jan McGirk reports.Ever since the menace of greenhouse g ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Popular Surveillance Cameras Open to Hackers, ...
    Several popular brands of security cameras used by banks, retailers, hotels, hospitals and corporations are vulnerable to remote hacking, according to a researcher who says attackers can seize control of the systems to view live footage, archived footage or control the direction and zoom of cameras.
  • Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy
    A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency's decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity. If we removed all the legalese, the appellate court upheld the government's of ...
  • More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Tha ...
    A new study shows that more Americans want presidential candidates to talk about computer security than terrorism.
  • FBI Surreptitiously Returns Seized Server
    Remember that server the FBI seized from a hosting company in New York in an effort to uncover the identity of people who were sending bomb threats about the University of Pittsburgh? Surveillance cameras caught FBI agents returning the hardware, and plugging it in, without telling the owners.
  • Busted Camcording Piracy Group Sought Street Cred
    A 28-year-old California man has pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal copyright infringement for being part of an in-theater camcording group known as IMAGiNE, whose goal was mostly internet cred, not money.

Equality Trust

  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • "Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak and Recall: The ...
    I have the honor to speak to the Colorado Department of Heath in Golden Tuesday. Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak and Recall: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly View more PowerPoint from Bill Marler For video for slide 7, see Death Toll Continues to Mount in Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak.  An ...
  • FDA 483 Inspection of Tuna Scrape Plant finds ...
    A total of 258 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly (247 persons) or Salmonella Nchanga (11 persons) have been reported from 24 states and the District of Columbia. 32 ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. Collaborative investigatio ...
  • The ongoing battle against non-O157 E. coli
    Dina ElBoghdady from the Washington Post wrote again on the ongoing process to list pathogens that sicken over 100,000 a year in the U.S. as adulterants – “USDA to test beef for more strains of E. coli.” For those readers of my blog (thanks mom), I have taken up much space &nd ...
  • Spartanburg Mexican Restaurant Related to E. c ...
    The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is requesting heightened surveillance for persons presenting with symptoms consistent with Shiga toxin producing E. coli (i.e., enterohemorrhagic E. coli), including diarrhea that is often bloody, hemolytic uremic syndrome ...
  • 16 Sick by Diamond Dog Food in 9 States and Canada
    A total of 15 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis have been reported from 9 states. Additionally, one ill person has been reported from Canada. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Connecticut (1), Michigan (1), Missouri ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: High-MPG Taylors drive a Volkswagen ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Volkswagen, Diesel Watch out, Wayne Gerdes, there's a new hypermiling crew in town. John and Helen Taylor - Volkswagen calls them "mileage experts" and "the world's most fuel-efficient couple" - recently drove a stock 2012 Passat TDI SE all the way from Houston, Texas to ...
  • Official: Toyota RAV4 EV priced at $49,800
    Filed under: Car Buying, Crossover, Toyota, Electric Announced almost two years ago, Toyota finally gave us some more details about the was the all-electric RAV4 EV will be sold to the general public during the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles today. The important number? The MS ...
  • BMW recalling 24,000 vehicles over emissions p ...
    Filed under: Recalls, BMW, Diesel BMW wants to take another look at over 24,000 vehicles it's sold in the United States. No, this isn't just to check out how they're holding up in the real world, it's to make sure the smoke coming out of the tailpipe is clean enough. BMW is recalling a tot ...
  • Report: New CAFE rules and a stagnant gas tax ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Earnings/Financials Oh, the gas tax, always a contentious issue. We've covered it throughout the years but now the Congressional Budget Office is reminding us that the time has come to move well beyond simple discussion and politics: the Highway Trust Fund is no ...
  • Official: Toyota Prius plug-in sells 1,654 cop ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric The Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid in the world, was also the most popular plug-in vehicle in U.S. last month. Compared to sales of the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, which sold 1,462 and 370 units, respectively, the ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Holding Bank of America to Account
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an "extraordinary event". That is what the city of Charlotte, North Carolina called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of Americ ...
  • Part 2: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on P ...
    In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth he examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. "Saudi Arabia simply is not going to tolerate a genuine democracy immediately off its shore, particularly one ...
  • Letter Sent to Eric Holder Seeking Federal Pro ...
    Earlier today the attorneys for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a federal probe into his death. To see our full coverage of Chamberlain case click here Holder Ltr 050412 Via Facsimile–May 4, 2012 The Honorable E ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount of s ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama’s Bain Ad: ‘Like Watching An ...
    Politico By ALEXANDER BURNS| 5/14/12 6:18 AM EDT The Obama campaign’s 2-minute ad on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital is record is out, and it is brutal. Targeting Romney’s involvement in the acquistion of GST Steel, the commercial shows workers at a shuttered plant pinning Romn ...
  • Obama’s Evolution, Romney’s Devolution
    The Boston Globe May 11, 2012|Joshua Green Opinion | Joshua Green On Wednesday, after years of claiming that his view was “evolving,” President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. Oddly, the catalyst for that decision was probably his opponent for the presidency, Mitt Ro ...
  • Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues
    The Daily Beast Andrew Sullivan 12 May 2012 01:03 PM [Re-posted from last night.] Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates ...
  • Romney’s Adversarial View of Russia Stirs Debate
    The New York Times By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Published: May 11, 2012 WASHINGTON —Mitt Romney’s recent declaration that Russia is America’s top geopolitical adversary drew raised eyebrows and worse from many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves, all of whom suggested that Mr. Rom ...
  • Obama Backs Gay Marriage
    Huff Post Sam Stein Posted: 05/09/2012 2:55 pm Updated: 05/09/2012 7:34 pm WASHINGTON — In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage. In a sit-down interview with ABC’s Robin ...

Solari

  • Prepare For Volatility
    By Cam Hui Last week, I wrote to expect a short-term rally, which was a tactical trading call (see The “Merde” rally?) but I wasn’t convinced that any rally would be the start of an intermediate term move upward for stocks: My inner trader wants to buy risk in anticipation of ...
  • Putin Flexes Muscle in Shunning U.S.-hosted G8 ...
    Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Mark Heinrich MOSCOW (Reuters) – Of all the signals and symbols that shape Russian foreign policy, this one seemed particularly blunt: Vladimir Putin, in one of the first decisions of his new presidency, will shun a Group of Eight summit hosted by [...]
  • The Commodity Megatrend
    Source: Seeking Alpha “The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Catherine with Jon Rappoport, “Let&#8217 ...
    “We think of film as a bullet that ignites consciousness We must serve as the stone that breaks silence, or the bullet that starts the battle.  ~ Raymundo Gleyzer By Catherine Austin Fitts In March, Jon and I did a Special called “Let’s Go to the Movies.” We each chose f ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 5.13.12
    Euro Officials Begin to Weigh Greek Exit as Euro Weakens (Update 1) Bloomberg (14 May 12) CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-California Budget Hole Deepens to $16 bln – Governor Reuters (13 May 12) JPMorgan Used Political Influence With Fed and Treasury to Create London Loss Loophole In Volcker Rule [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • A look at the future of the Republic: we will ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we saw that since 1999 Americans have lost confidence in our major institutions — except for the military and police.  today we imagine what the consequences of this might be. He is a man with a gun. He is a killer, a slayer. Patient and gentle as he is, he is a slayer. ...
  • A look at the future of the Republic: we will ...
    Summary:  The key to forecasting the future lies in seeing the trends that produced the present.  For example, Americans have lost trust in almost all of our institutions, both public and private.  During the coming time of troubles, we probably will turn to the two remaining institutions that w ...
  • Seven predictions about our future. Most are ...
    Summary:  What possible futures lie ahead for America and the world.  We can only guess, but good guesses will help us prepare.  Here are the seven big predictions of the FM website.  Our past record is quite good (see the Past Predictions page).  You might find these forecasts deserve your atte ...
  • Brad DeLong asks Is American Democracy Broken?
    Summary:  Please read this in full.  Although it opens slowly, Brad DeLong (Prof Economics, Berkeley) gains power as he goes.  In summary, it’s brilliant description of the decay of the American political system. Is American Democracy Broken? by Brad DeLong (Professor of Economics, Berkele ...
  • Recommendations for your weekend reading pleas ...
    Summary:   Today we have a potpourri of articles — insights, information, and folly — for your weekend reading pleasure (with the two best below the fold).  Yes, this went up a day early. The comment box is open.  Ask questions and express your views.  Please be polite and brief. (1) ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Electoral Systems Are Like Ecosystems
    Evidence is mounting that efforts to quash election fraud often displace it instead, and this pattern should change the way we think about the problem of promoting democracy and encouraging clean elections. Earlier this month, I blogged about a new journal article showing a statistical link betw ...
  • Let's End Rape in Conflict
    As you'll soon notice, I'm not E.J. Graff. She's been kind enough to give me the keys to this joint for a week, and I'm going to do my best not to put too many dents in it. (I won't bore you with bio, but if you're wondering who I am, here's a good place to start.) You will either be alarmed or ...
  • Escalating America’s Third War in Yemen
    America’s Third War is escalating quickly in the skies over Yemen. Despite previous rebuffs from the White House, last month the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA—which both run parallel drone campaigns in Yemen—were granted broad authority to conduct “signature strikes” agains ...
  • Why the Stakes Are So High for Syria Mission
    Today brings news, once again, that the monitoring mission in Syria is fraying. Over the weekend, several civillians were killed in mortar attacks against the city of Rastan. Rebels in city fought back and killed 23 soldiers. Word today is that the city is once again under siege. Meanwhile, Russ ...
  • Reflections on the Coup in Mali, Part 2
    Anthony Scavone is a recent graduate of Boston University where he studied International Relations focusing specifically on International Development and Sub-Saharan Africa. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from October until they were evacuated in mid-April. You can read more about ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Bombs Away
    There’s no arguing that the Romney campaign’s formula for winning the GOP nomination—attack and destroy, attack and destroy—worked. But it also meant that their man left little or no positive impression with voters. The “pro-Romney” ads were overwhelmingly anti-Gingrich or anti-Santorum. In Flo ...
  • Is Mitt Romney a Job Creator or a Job Destroyer?
    The Obama and Romney campaigns have released competing ads, both concerning Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital. The Obama ad, which Jamelle posted here, attacks Bain Capital for buying, eviscerating, and then selling off a company called GST Steel in Kansas City, leaving the good hard-working p ...
  • Let's End Rape in Conflict
    As you'll soon notice, I'm not E.J. Graff. She's been kind enough to give me the keys to this joint for a week, and I'm going to do my best not to put too many dents in it. (I won't bore you with bio, but if you're wondering who I am, here's a good place to start.) You will either be alarmed or ...
  • The Tea Party Looks to the Senate, Again
    The Tea Party’s power may have waned with the public writ large, but as The New York Times shows, the brand still has plenty of currency with Republican primary voters: In Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas, Republican Senate candidates are vying for the mantle of Tea Party outsider. A numbe ...
  • Romney's "Boring" Choice
    Politico nabbed an incredibly unsurprising scoop this morning: Mitt Romney will probably select an "incredibly boring white guy" as his running mate. That's the description attributed to one unnamed Republican official, stating the obvious. Much of the VP speculation has centered on the excitin ...

Buzzflash

  • Five Facts That Put America To Shame
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record prof ...
  • Actual FOX News Headline: "Dinosaurs May Have ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "[un]fair and [un]balanced" FOX News is now into fart stories, even ones that aren't true. We don't know where this fits in with creationism, but asserting that dinosaurs extinguished themselves with bodily gas emissions puts FOX the level of tab ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Permits Suits Against Pr ...
    The following is a news release from the Center for Constitutional Rights: Lower courts to hear Iraqi civilians' claims of beatings, forced nudity, broken bones, and rape at hands of corporate defendants.read more
  • Mitt Romney: All That Money and No Character
    Body On what basis do we determine the character of our leaders? The fundamentals for judging those who would lead us aren't so much what they choose to publicize as their core values, but rather how they behave when they aren't being choreographed by handlers and are forced to answ ...
  • Twelve Questions for Mitt Romney That Journali ...
    STEVEN JONAS for BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Well, Governor Romney seems well on his way to garnering the GOP nomination for the Presidency. It is hard to see how his quest could be derailed at this point, even by the revelation in the Washington Post that he bullied prep school classmates that he th ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • The Cambridge Phenomenon
    Just received a copy of The Cambridge Phenomenon by Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton with a foreword by Bill Gates that gives us a timeline of the evolution of Silicon Fen over the last half century. You can see a timeline on the associated website. From the first home computer to the ARM chip in [. ...
  • Can Rutaesomn decaf your body? #herbal
    UPDATES: The makers of the product commented below and also emailed me some of their studies. They say: “Regarding the dose, our target was to be safe as well as effective. We did an internal review of all the available studies and combined them with our own studies on human liver cells in ...
  • Wellcome to Brains
    As I was in London earlier this week for the Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist exhibition opening at The Queen’s Gallery it seemed churlish not to take in the Wellcome Collection’s fascinating Brains exhibition too, which dovetailed nicely with the bizarre view that Leonardo and his conte ...
  • Buck House, Queeny, classically speaking brain ...
    So, as I was saying, I was at Buck House earlier this week. I know, you’re thinking the knighthood is well over due, but I’m afraid I was only there for breakfast, not with Liz and Phil, but with Rachel Woollen, Martin Clayton and others from the Royal Collection and fellow blogging ...
  • The rights and lefts of Leonardo da Vinci: Ana ...
    A 5:30 am start is not the usual modus operandi of this freelance journalist but with an invitation to a Bloggers’ Breakfast at Buckingham Palace in London to see the launch of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the BH Gallery scheduled for 8:30 an early train from the outskirts of Cambri ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Chicago Supports Clean Air Act, Joins Urgent C ...
    Chicago has joined more than 20 other U.S. cities in supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to protect air quality and reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change.read more
  • Livestock's Heavy Hooves Impair One-Third of B ...
    A new federal assessment of rangelands in the West finds a disturbingly large portion fails to meet range health standards principally due to commercial livestock operations, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  In the last decade as more land has been ass ...
  • Report: Rolling Back Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives ...
    A new Public Citizen report details how deregulating the financial derivatives market contributed to the financial crash and warns lawmakers – who are considering deregulating the derivatives market again – about the consequences of doing so.read more
  • EPA Strongly Defends Its Veto of One of Larges ...
    On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice that it is appealing the U.S. District Court decision that overturned the agency’s veto under the Clean Water Act of the extremely destructive Spruce No. 1 mine, one of the nation’s largest proposed mo ...
  • Groups Call on White House To Update Outdated ...
    Representatives of various groups advocating nuclear arms reduction, presented a petition with over 50,000 signatures to the White House. The petition urges President Obama to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons as he makes a once-in-a-decade decision on the Presidential nuclear weapon ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • No Country for Rich Men
    Sam Pizzigati Back in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale's The Man without a Country told the tale of a poor treasonous soul sentenced to spend the rest of his life endlessly sailing the w ...
  • Farm Protesters Land Seized by UC Berkeley
    Alison Hope Alkon The newly established farm on UC Berkeley-owned Gill Tract will soon be empty. At the time of this writing, it is surrounded by riot police from at least 8 different UC Campus police forces. Nine have been arrested. This i ...
  • Climate Crisis: The Silence is Deafening
    Brian Moench Those of us who have been waiting impatiently for Obama to shed his apparent cocoon of compromise, caution and cowardice finally got a hint last week that a real leader may yet emerge and spread his wings at the White House.Tar ...
  • The End of Public Education in Philadelphia
    If the School Reform Commission and Chief Recovery Officer Thomas Knudsen have their way, we may witness the end of public education in Philadelphia. A five-year plan proposed by Philadelphia School District officials calls for the overhaul of virtually every element of the system — from f ...
  • Colonized by Corporations
    Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is mispl ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Worst drought in 50 years takes toll in northe ...
    An average of one person a day is being killed in "water wars" in rural areas, while scores of animals are wasting away before perishing. -AFP
  • Worst drought in 50 years takes toll Brazil
    SEVERE drought gripping northeastern Brazil - the worst in a half-century - is taking its toll on more than 1,100 towns, even triggering fighting in rural areas.
  • A time to listen on wastewater
    There are water wars on the Cape. Participants came together in an all-day forum at Dennis Pines Golf Course May 9 to find ways of “rowing in the same direction: coming together to restore Cape Cod’s coastal waters.”
  • In water wars, don't forget consumers and ...
    Re "Legislation would restore water, balance to west-side Valley farmers" (Viewpoints, May
  • Documentary Takes Global View Of Nevada's ...
    Las Vegas and its chief water czar play a prominent role in a new documentary that begins at the Bellagio fountains and spins outward to water flash points around the world. Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy discusses coming conflict

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • GOP Colorado House Committee Majority Kills Ci ...
    The Republican-controlled Colorado House of Representatives State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee defeated a civil unions bill this evening, on a 5 to 4 party-line vote. Speaker Frank McNulty (R) sent the bill to this — the fourth committee to consider the bill — so it coul ...
  • Sixteenth Group Drops ALEC
    Earlier today, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers announced that it will “not be renewing our membership in [the American Legislative Exchange Council] when it expires next month,” joining fifteen other organizations which have quit the conservative group responsi ...
  • Right-Wing Lauds Facebook Co-Founder’s D ...
    Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook whose falling out with the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the subject of the 2010 blockbuster The Social Network, renounced his US citizenship last week, and the right has wasted no time labeling him a hero. Saverin, who owns a roughly four pe ...
  • Former Republican Senator Hagel Says Reagan Wo ...
    Last week, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) told ThinkProgress that his party was becoming “increasingly inconsequential” and “intolerant” following the defeat of veteran Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN). Now, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) has also taken aim at his party for its i ...
  • European Union: Israeli West Bank Settlements ...
    The European Union’s foreign ministers harshly denounced Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, writing that settlement expansion is threatening a potential two-state deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The statement comes as some analysts speculate that a broa ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Unfuckablewith
    Like what's that guy doing? These are gigantic allegations:Subject of Communications:  Fantino directly contacts Finley (PM Harper’s #2 and now a Senator) about using federal party resources to pay for robocalling in 2008 general election and 2010 Vaughan by-election.  Finley explai ...
  • Sacha Baron Cohen is a Putz
    There is a line in his movie featuring "Borat" that I thought was good comedy. Throughout the film, "Borat" tries to figure out the comedic use of the addendum "Not!" at the end of a sentence. Then, when Pamela Anderson refuses his offer of marriage, "Borat" tells her he doesn't love her anymore ...
  • Shit On The Troops!
    Why? For god's sake WHY do right-wing politicians always display such sickeningly hypocritical, disgusting behaviour? Why do they always express their militarism, their love of war and their devotion to "the troops" and then turn around and shit all over "the troops"  when they get damaged ...
  • CBC Sides With Top 1%?
    It's funny. In response to the people's victories against neo-liberal austerity in Europe, the CBC comes out with headlines such as this: World markets rattled by European uncertaintyAthens exchange dives 8% after electionGreek election impasse heralds lengthy instabilityInvestors jittery about ...
  • Some Crimes are Forever
    I'm always big on the idea of redemption. And you know, even in the case of pedophiles, it's my understanding that a lot of them suffered horrific abuse as children which destroyed their ability to have normal lives. But even this sympathy only goes so far. No matter what, a convicted pedophile, ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Sagkeeng’s Finest Wins Canada's Got Talent
    It was a perfect ending for the first season of Canada's Got Talent. Amid the cheers from the crowd, and a staggering amount of votes, Sagkeeng’s Finest was crowned the winner.
  • Kentucky Derby winner Mario Gutierrez returns ...
    The Mexican jockey who shocked the horse-racing world with a win in the 2012 Kentucky Derby made a return to his adopted racecourse, Hastings Park in Vancouver, on Sunday. Mario Gutierrez said thanks to all of those who helped him along the way.
  • 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse to dazzle U.S., E ...
    On May 20, millions of people in the western region of the United States and the eastern part of Asia will get to see an extraordinary show. The solar eclipse will block out most of the sun and appear as a ring of fire.
  • Satellite takes awe-inspiring 121-megapixel ph ...
    A spectacular 3D image of our blue marble taken 36,000 kilometres (22,369 miles) away by a Russian weather satellite is proving once and for all how insignificant humans really are. The glorious photo has already eclipsed NASA’s earlier snapshot.
  • 13th Annual International Migratory Bird Day a ...
    Toronto Zoo held its 13th International Migratory Bird Day last Saturday, 12 May 2012. As has become something of a tradition, I joined the party by tagging along on the birding walk in the closed-off sections of the zoo.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ceasefire.ca’s F-35 campaign enters crit ...
    We are entering a critical phase of our campaign to stop Harper. Thank you so much for your support, and let me tell you how we are using donations from our supporters to Ceasefire.ca.
  • MacKay: It’s the media’s fault!
    Peter MacKay is taking well-deserved flak as he continues his attempt to dodge responsibility for misleading Canadians about the cost of the Libya intervention.
  • Ceasefire challenges Harper and MacKay
    Today we issued another challenge to Harper and his pro-war lobby. Using the government’s own report, we showed that Harper’s Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, dramatically understated the true costs of the war in Libya.
  • MacKay flubbed Libya costs
    Peter MacKay dramatically underestimated the cost of last year's Libya intervention, incremental cost figures released wih the DND 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities show.
  • Damoclean nukes
    Kudos to the National Post for publishing a visually striking depiction of the day-to-day nuclear threat hanging over the Earth.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Customer Testimonial – MM Products, Brushing & ...
    Anthony Morrocco morrocco method 4/11/12 Hello Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! Here’s another great customer testimonial on MM products in general, brushing and scalp massaging! “Every day I get more compliments on my hair!!! Even guys I do not really know have commented LOL!! I feel such joy brushi ...
  • Ammonia Found in Many Foods, Not Just “Pink Slime”
    April 11, 2012 News Daily By Martinne Geller New York, Apr. 4, 2012 (Reuters) — Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub “pink slime”. Packs of ground beef are seen in a ...
  • Can Cell Phones and Laptops be Harmful During ...
    April 11, 2012 Natural News By Lloyd Burrell NaturalNews) In today’s society of hustle and bustle, being pregnant rarely gives opportunity for letting up or taking a break. Many women, whether they are working or are stay-at-home moms, engage in the use of cell phones and laptop computers ...
  • Top 10 Herbs And Spices For Strengthening Your ...
    April 12, 2012 Natural News By Aurora Geib “Need to boost your immune system? Try these herbs.” –KTRN Of the many systems working within the human body, the immune system is an excellent example of complex efficiency. A network of participating cells and organs, it synchronizes ...
  • Vitamin C – Effective From Colds to Cancer
    April 12, 2012 Food Matters By Paul Fassa “Next to vitamin D, C is probably the second most powerful vitamin you can take.”  –KTRN Vitamin C from citrus was introduced a couple of centuries ago as a cure for scurvy rampant among British mariners. But just what is scurvy? Scurvy ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Jay-Z: Same sex marriage opposition ‘holding t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHip hop icon Jay-Z on Monday compared same sex marriage bans to discrimination against black people. “I have always thought of it as something that is still holding the country back,” he told CNN’s Popp ...
  • California State Psychology Board Launches Psy ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe 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 ...
  • Ron Paul: We Will Not Stop Until America Is Th ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRon Paul 2012 Monday, May 14, 2012 RON PAUL STATEMENT ON CAMPAIGN GOING FORWARD “WE WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, WIN DELEGATES, AND CARRY A STRONG MESSAGE TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION THAT LIBERTY ...
  • Henry Kissinger Gets TSA Pat-Down
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comEmily Heil Washington Post Monday, May 14, 2012 Seems no one is immune from the tender mercies of the TSA pat-down. First, we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...
  • Chicago’s First False Flag “Barack Attack”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Captain MayMonday, May 14th, 2012   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 re ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Coleen Rowley on How Top Secret America Misfires
    Dandelion Salad May 9, 2012 by SocialJusticeNOW Coleen Rowley, one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year for 2002 by Time Magazine, will speak about her experiences in the FBI and broader issues of official surveillance and massive data collection. When Coleen Rowley was an FBI a ...
  • Economic Inequality’s Impact On Politica ...
    Dandelion Salad May 11, 2012 by joefriendly Discussion at Demos think tank about new book, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy about the devastating effects of economic inequality on our political process with moderator Kenneth Prewitt and ...
  • Dr. Michael Brown with Sid Roth – The Re ...
    Dandelion Salad May 14, 2012 by SidRoth Take a trip back 2,000 years in time to capture the debate between Jews who believed in Jesus and Jews who did not. I have selected the best Orthodox rabbi challenging the best Messianic Jewish scholar in the country. Wait till you eavesdrop on this fiery, ...
  • Occupy: The Left or The 99%? by Robert Guard
    by Robert Guard Guest Writer Dandelion Salad previously published at http://occupiedtucsoncitizen.org, May 8, 2012 May 14, 2012 We may not like what sometimes even more than half (or approaching half in other cases) of our fellow citizens believe on some particular issue, and we don’t have to su ...
  • The Blooming of a Movement – Documentary ...
    Dandelion Salad May 13, 2012 by SocialJusticeNOW On Saturday, (3/20/10) thousands of people converged at the White House for the March on Washington, the largest anti-war demonstration since the announcement of the escalation of the Afghanistan war. By the time the march started at 2 p.m., the c ...

Your New Reality

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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian priso ...
    The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king o ...
    [The newly-created coalition] gives Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Tel Aviv University okays Nakba Day ceremony, ...
    Safi Kadaan: “We’re talking about a new idea, a new campus framework in which there will be a ceremony not just for Arab students, but for everyone.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website ...
  • Chris Hedges: Welcome to the asylum
    When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians ...
    Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Early Biomarker for Pancreatic Cancer Identified
    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified a new biomarker and therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer, an often-fatal disease for which there is currently no reliable method for early detection or therapeutic intervention.
  • Scientists Discover Clues to Muscle Stem Cell ...
    A study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland scientists identifies how skeletal muscle stem cells respond to muscle injury and may be stimulated to improve muscle repair in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a severe inherited disease of muscle that causes weakness, disability an ...
  • IFIC Foundation Resources on Nutrition and Health
    Helping address "Weight of the Nation" concerns has been the mission of the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation for more than 20 years. Our expert staff, which include registered dietitians, along with an established network of 350+ nutrition and food safety academic and he ...
  • Are People with HIV/AIDS More Prone to Sudden ...
    In a comprehensive, 10-year UCSF study, researchers found patients with HIV/AIDS suffered sudden cardiac death at a rate four times higher than the general population.
  • Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Expert Ronald ...
    Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease expert Ronald Petersen, M.D., will participate in the release of an ambitious national plan to address Alzheimer's disease to attendees of the Alzheimer's Research Summit 2012: Path to Treatment and Prevention.

Natural Health News

  • Why Big Pharma Loves Criminals
    In the world of Big Pharma, it seems that crime does pay, especially when it involves bilking the government of billions of dollars―at least until you’re caught. In the past few years the Department of Justice has been busting doctors, nurses, clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and drug companie ...
  • The Biggest Lies Toxic Chemical Companies Tell Us
    How far will companies go to ensure they continue making money on products that make you sick? Answer: No extreme is too extreme, including bald-faced lying if it means keeping the bucks rolling in. One of the biggest lies toxic chemical companies have told so far include the story of a baby dyi ...
  • Have Human Hormones Been Eclipsed by Synthetic ...
    Scientists measuring paraben levels in human breast tissue are asking some disturbing questions about the dangers of common hormone-mimicking preservatives found in thousands of consumer products. Using samples collected from mastectomies of women with primary breast cancer, the report revealed ...
  • Tasty Weight Loss Surgery Alternative
    A new discovery on strategies to reduce visceral fat in the body not only eliminates the need for weight loss surgery, but may be one of the tastiest ways ever found to do it. Researchers looking for an alternative to bariatrical surgery for obese persons say that capsaisin, an ingredient found ...
  • Is China Changing Its Mind about Becoming the ...
    A recent study published by BMC Public Health indicates that China is on the edge of becoming the next GMO superpower, with genetically-modified crops widely accepted and promoted, but it's possible the Chinese government may be changing its mind on GMOs. The study looked at newspaper coverage o ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Facebook Co-Founder, Patron Saint of Tax Renun ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has given up his US citizenship in the run-up to the Facebook IPO.  Not that it didn’t cost him.  High net-worth folks like Saverin have to pay what is in effect an exit tax, under the mis-acronymed HEART Act.  Under this ...
  • Book Discussion: Laura Dickinson’s &#822 ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week Opinio Juris is hosting a discussion on Laura Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Professor Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the Georg ...
  • Human Rights: Political Not Metaphysical
    by Ruti Teitel by Ruti Teitel [Ruti Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and the author of Humanity’s Law (Oxford University Press 2011).] Sam Moyn, writing in this Sunday’s New York Times (“Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore”) claims the current relati ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 14, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey In honor of Mother’s Day yesterday, Foreign Policy offers some insight into the top countries who score the best on Save The Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report. The Dalai Lama told Britain’s The Telegraph he was warned tha ...
  • My Viva at Leiden University
    by Kevin Jon Heller My recent post on PhDs calling themselves "Dr." led one of my e-friends, Martin Holterman, to remind me that I had promised to post about my dissertation defense -- called a "viva" in the Netherlands -- at Leiden University last year.  The viva was one of the greatest acade ...

Public News Service

  • NWF: We Really Can Have It All: EPA Regs & New ...
    NWF: We Really Can Have It All: EPA Regs & New Jobs PHOENIX - Mercury, carbon and soot. We in Arizona have heard by now that these toxic pollutants are harming our environment, ecosystems and health. Some say that if we continue working to reduce these pollutants, it will kill jobs that the big ...
  • AARP ataca la inseguridad alimentaria que vive ...
    AARP ataca la inseguridad alimentaria que viven los residentes mayores de Arizona PHOENIX – Aproximadamente 175,000 personas de edad avanzada encaran inseguridad alimentaria día tras día. El AARP ha lanzado la campaña para recolectar alimentos “Compartir es Vivir&#8221 ...
  • AARP Takes Aim at Arizona Senior Hunger
    AARP Takes Aim at Arizona Senior Hunger PHOENIX - Citing statistics which show that an estimated 175,000 Arizona seniors face hunger every day, AARP has launched the "Drive to End Hunger" campaign to raise awareness of the issue and begin to fix the problem. The tough economy since 2007 has had ...
  • Occupy May Day Arizona: Appreciating the 8-Hou ...
    Occupy May Day Arizona: Appreciating the 8-Hour Workday PHOENIX - In Phoenix, Tucson, and cities around the nation, the "Occupy" movement is calling for a general strike to commemorate this May Day, International Workers Day. While some labor unions have endorsed the idea, it's unclear how many ...
  • Proposed SNAP Cuts Would Affect One in Six Ari ...
    Proposed SNAP Cuts Would Affect One in Six Arizonans PHOENIX, Ariz. - The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has voted to recommend cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $36 billion over 10 years, in line with GOP budget mandates to reduce spending. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

  • More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
    by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...
  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Pensieve

  • Defend our Right to Create and Share!
    I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
  • Meet the Rollerman
    Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
  • RSA: The Empathic Civilization
    With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
  • Hitchiking the Platforms
    Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...
  • Siri, AI and TV Collide
    Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...

Green Times

  • Be organic, it's great for you and environment
    Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
  • Walk for yourself
    When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
  • Drowned flowers in flood
    There was a huge flood in western Sydney, Illawarra. Up to 20 people have been rescued from danger.This reminds the effect of global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html). If trees die due to the rising degree of the earth, their ability to store water gets worse and it can cause huge rai ...
  • Sydney film festival
    Do you know that Sydney Film Festival (http://sff.org.au/public/about/) is held at June? You can see the several great films from all over the world. There is also a green screen section which you can find out the movie related to environmental issues like global warming (climate-change/global-w ...
  • Picnic with your children
    How about going on a picnic with your kids this weekend? It would be so special for the family to get together. Moreover, it would be good for you to go out riding on a bicycle. What a happy and healthy family! Check out Free Your Rusty Bike (lifestyle/free-your-rusty-bike.html) for more informa ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...
  • Omissions, Half-Truths, Lies: Ambassador Oren ...
    Originally posted on the 972Mag Website In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC ...

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 ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – May 11 2012
    Jack Blood – Steve Cokely Memorial Show, w/ Matt Kazee 5.11.12
  • Colonized by Corporations
      Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges VIA Op Ed News In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. ...
  • SRM (State Run Media) Declares Ron Paul out of ...
    Just watched Fox and Shep Smith “report” that Ron Paul suspended his Campaign. Drudge has a picture of Paul with a blazing headline that reads “Paul out.” This really isn’t true because Paul is not suspending his campaign. The Paul team simply announced that they ar ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: CIA cocaine supplier behind border ...
      DeadlineLive.info Monday, May 14, 2012 - The alleged leader of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka “El Chapo”, has claimed responsibility for the beheading of fourteen suspected members of Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Shortly after t ...
  • Brave New World: Devil’s Breath Drug (Vi ...
      The most dangerous drug in the world: ‘Devil’s Breath’ chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks Within minutes, victims are like ‘zombies’ – coherent, but with ...

The Air Vent

  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • PageLever adds post tagging and alerts to insi ...
    Facebook analytics platform PageLever has added features that let page owners categorize and compare their posts, as well as receive alerts about any changes in key metrics. With post tagging, PageLever users can indicate which of their posts are related … Continue reading →
  • Facebook redesigns mobile News Feed to look mo ...
    Facebook today announced a new design for its mobile News Feed that displays posts in individual boxes similar to how they appear on Timeline. As part of the redesign, photos now appear three times larger than before, which could make … Continue reading →
  • Facebook proposes changes to Data Use Policy, ...
    Facebook proposed a number of changes to its Data Use Policy on Friday, including an updated disclosure about the potential for Facebook data to be used to serve ads on other sites. The social network also added a number of … Continue reading →
  • Facebook increases size of ‘Page-Like’ Sponsor ...
    Facebook has nearly doubled the size of “Page-Like” Sponsored Stories in News Feed by adding a recent post from the page to the story. It is unclear whether the change will make these ads more effective in helping advertisers get … Continue reading →
  • Socialcam, Zoosk, Viddy, Pinterest, more on th ...
    Our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week was again dominated by Open Graph video apps. In addition, there was dating app Zoosk, several games, and other popular apps such as Skype and Pinterest. Titles on … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
  • Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
    Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...
  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Spotlight Baluchistan: Minerals ...
    To the residents of Baluchistan it must be puzzling that this remote, sparsely populated region in Pakistan’s southwest is increasingly gaining the attention of far-flung corners of the globe, from Beijing to Moscow to Tel Aviv to Washington. A rugged, arid region dominated by the ethnic m ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 23 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”—George Bernard Shaw International Newsworthy Suspected Cyber-Attack Hits Iran’s Oil Sector Iran’s T ...
  • Patriots – Convenient & Otherwise
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Corporate and Governmental Personhood Denies I ...
    All energy in this realm is entropic energy or energy moving relentlessly toward chaos. Scientists in studying the subatomic realm find a place where this is not so. All the holy men tell us "Go Within". To find your own inalienable right to be a person who has the right of self determinatio ...
  • More Reason Not To Put Your Energy Into Electo ...
    If you think things can be changed with electoral politics today, think again. Matt Taibbi's lastest Rolling Stone article has certainly confirmed my attitude towards electoral politics. The system, at this time, is totally broken.
  • Gay Marriage Won't Cost President Obama Black ...
    The vote on the gay marriage ban in North Carolina's Halifax County drew some national ink. The County in Northeast part of the state is mostly rural and majority black. It backed the state's anti-gay marriage initiative by a whopping two to one majority.
  • Death Beyond Reason
    Why are the young dying in increasing numbers with no known cause?
  • The Anarchist Delusion
    Anarchism vs. Democracy. They are not the same thing, and we should be clear about what it is we are fighting for and against.

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 hard- ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Myth That Won’t Die
    Glad to see the Chicago Sun-Times is giving noted moron Jenny McCarthy a forum to spread her anti-vaccination idiocy.
  • NHL Very Quick Picks
    Having improved all the way to .500 in the last round,I’ll try to at least match that last time. In the West, it’s the Kings (a pick I tweeted last night so you won’t think I’m cheating!) I continue to think that LA’s performance in the playoffs is more indicative o ...
  • Abolishing the Air Force, or at Least Give thi ...
    An anonymous Air Force pilot decides to whine: As if twelve years wasn’t enough of boring meaningless holes in the sky while our most demanding combat skills atrophied and we prematurely aged our inventory. Now, after a decade of drinking “green” tea and filling “in-lieu-of the Army doing its jo ...
  • Labor Notes
    1. Chipotle is supposed to be the “good” fast food company. You know, the capitalists that we can look to and say, “Hey, the system can work!” But Chipotle also won’t sign the Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the tomato picker union that ...
  • Reid v. the Filibuster
    While it won’t do much in the short term for the war to get rid of the indefensible, Harry Reid saying that it was wrong not to restrict the use of the filibuster is a good sign. My guess is that it will require a Republican majority to do it, but eventually things might get [...]

Desert Research Institute

  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • George Washington joins ranks of law schools t ...
    Dean Paul Schiff Berman said the school does not plan to cut any specific percentage of J.D. candidates from the incoming class this fall, but hopes to move enrollment below 450 and continue to reduce the number of new students in subsequent years.
  • Photographer challenges finding of no infringe ...
    On May 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered a photographer's case against television companies over alleged infringement of his image of a notorious imposter who called himself Clark Rockefeller.
  • Professor appeals DEA order denying bid to gro ...
    A University of Massachusetts professor is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to overturn a Drug Enforcement Administration ruling denying his bid to grow marijuana to supply medical researchers.
  • Judge finds no reason to call off foreign brib ...
    A federal judge has tentatively rejected assertions by defendants in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case that their due process rights had been violated, warranting dismissal of the charges against them.
  • Congressional hearings on JPMorgan hedge fund ...
    Congress is sure to hold hearings on how and why JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion in hedge fund trading and what safeguards might prevent it from repeating, including testimony from federal banking regulators and the company's chief executive Jamie Dimon, financial regulation lawyers say.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

  • 4 Dead as Storm Lashes Upper Assam
    Guwahati, May 14: At least four people, including a women and a child died and 10 others injured when a devastating storm lashed Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Monday evening, police said.
  • Americans Love Seafood: Florida Supermarkets C ...
    U.S. Supermarkets Drop 'Red List' Fish, Bring Sustainable Seafood to Consumers & Help End Global Industrialized Fishing Practices that are Devastating Our Oceans
  • NATO Conducts Campaign for Libya With Unpreced ...
    NATO conducted the campaign for Libya with unprecedented care and precision and to a standard exceeding that required by international humanitarian law.
  • Gas Prices Jump 13.0 Cents Per Gallon
    Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 8.3 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 14.1 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
  • Six Killed in Assam Road Accident
    The first incident took place at Lekhapani area near Ledo in Tinsukia district on the wee hours of Monday, where four people including a women were killed and three others injured.

environment 360

  • Lack of Profitability Drives U.S. Company Out ...
    A U.S.-based company that used genetic engineering to develop a technology to convert sugar into biofuel has announced that it will stop producing the fuel, at least temporarily, because the process simply isn’t profitable. Amyris, a San Francisco firm that also produces cosmetic products, had e ...
  • Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
    A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
  • Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
    Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
  • Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
    Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
  • Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
    Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Hindenburg Disaster, 75 Years On
    It’s been 75 years since the famous and terrible Hindenburg Disaster. On May 6, 1937 the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames and fell from the sky while docking in New Jersey. It had departed on its fateful trip three days earlier from Frankfurt, Germany. Of the 97 peopl ...
  • The Origin of Mysterious, Dark-Skinned Blonds ...
    Residents of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific have some of the darkest skin seen outside of Africa. They also have the highest occurrence of blond hair seen in any population outside of Europe. Now, researchers have found the single gene that explains these fair tresses.
  • Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto!
    Between May 1 and May 26, a broad coalition of food, farm, health, public interest, and environmental groups all over the country, joined by leading organic food companies, will attempt to raise one million dollars to support the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, a citize ...
  • Dr. Rath’s Call to the people of Germany and E ...
    We are living in a time of change. The status quo fights against this change. If you have any questions, go to wiki-rath.org/ At a Cancer Free World conference in Berlin, Germany, on 13th March 2012, Dr. Rath called on the people of Germany and Europe to take responsibility for building a democr ...
  • Eurocrats’ secret plan to abolish EU sovereign ...
    All EU countries will be run from Brussels if Van Rompuy is replaced by a "super EU president". Senior Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing ­Britain and other nation states, UK media has revealed. A covert group of EU foreig ...

Russia Today

  • Pills may soon rival condoms in HIV prevention
    An antiviral drug Truvada may soon become the next solution to HIV prevention, while scientists continue to dig for a vaccine. The FDA is likely to approve the medicine for ‘pre-exposure prophylaxis’ by June 15. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Soyuz takes new crew to ISS (VIDEO)
    A Soyuz spacecraft has successfully launched from Baikonur Space Center, and is taking a Russian-American crew to the International Space Station. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Back in recession: Moody’s downgrades 26 Itali ...
    The Moody’s rating agency has downgraded the debt rating of 26 Italian banks, including the giant UniCredit, as the country struggles with recession, tough austerity measures and 1.9 trillion euros of outstanding public... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • NATO turns blind eye to Libyan collateral dama ...
    NATO killed 72 civilians “in air attacks on unclear targets” during its 2011 Libyan campaign, Human Rights Watch reports. The group slammed NATO for downplaying the extent of civilian deaths inflicted during its drive... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Deadly clashes in Lebanon raise fears of Syria ...
    At least five people have been killed and over 15 injured in Tripoli, Lebanon during the three days of sectarian violence. Many say the clashes could be a sign of Syrian turmoil spilling over the border. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Obama pushes to return White House to the Repu ...
    At a time when the Republican Party was infighting at every level, Barack Obama and Joe Biden with the 2 Clintons found a unique way to unite the Republican Party behind a weak and universally disliked Mitt Romney. They decided to make the dividing line between the two corporate parties Gay Marr ...
  • The Occupy Movement highlights opposing NATO i ...
    NATO, like the United Nations itself, has become nothing more than a military appendage to the Pentagon and D.C.’s imperialist foreign policies. As such, it is a wide open gullet where our tax monies are fed to promote continuous warfare around the globe. The Occupy Movement is 100% right ...
  • US continues long war against the Somali peopl ...
    Well look at this! See what all the propaganda for more US military interventions is accomplishing? It’s not very nice and ‘humanitarian’ at all, and certainly will prove to promote more starvation and misery throughout all of Africa and not just in Uganda and Somalia alone. US ...
  • David Gilbert took an axe, gave US war effort ...
    If you watched the 2003 documentary about the 1960s radical antiwar anti-imperialist anti- racist activists turned 1970s nonviolent bombers The Weather Underground, you’re going to be thrilled to know David Gilbert, lone Weatherman behind bars yet irrepressible idealist, finally WROTE A BO ...
  • Moms For Pot, damn the kids
    For Mother’s Day I was wondering about… MOMS FOR MARIJUANA. Are you kidding me?! Could cannabis users choosing motherdom as commonality for a niche advocacy group be any more half-baked? Motherhood is more than a special interest, demographic or hobby; it bears maternal responsibilit ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • James Kust of the University of Wisconsin–Eau ...
    In a recent article published in the student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin–Eau entitled, "New campus organization of 9/11 ‘truthers’ is misinformed," James Kust writes, "To imply that our government would stoop so low, that our leaders are so driven by greed that 2,996 deaths are si ...
  • My Top 10 Insane Conspiracy Theories
    For Infowars Nightly News last night, Paul Joseph Watson counted down his top 10 insane conspiracy theories which distract from exposing real coverups. Many of them were about Alex Jones and himself. His humorous list inspired me to make a slightly more se ...
  • Insightful
    A little while back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted the following: InsaneThat's my vote with regard to this headline: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory–Insane or Insightful? The writer, who apparently worked for CNN at one point, goes on to talk about one of the silliest tropes: I ke ...
  • Manufacturing Terror
    Video posted by Jon Gold, author of "9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability."   One of the many reasons there is no justification for the "War On Terror." http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants http://www.guardian.co.uk/wor ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...

Fooducate

  • Eco-packaged Food is Not Necessarily Healthy Food
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Whole Foods Market is a good place to spot new food trends. A theme that seems to be picking up in recent years and months is eco-packaging. This could mean using recycled paper or plastic as packaging materi ...
  • Make Mom Happy Today: Eat Your Broccoli
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Mother’s Day! Somewhere along our transition from childhood to adulthood, many of us discovered one of the simple things we could do to make our mom happy – be good about food. Whether it&#8 ...
  • Food and the Brain: Good Fats, Bad Fats
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. Omega-3 essential fatty acids have an important role in the mammalian nervous system.  They seem to be crucial for healthy neuronal structure and function.  An ...
  • Volumetrics: The “Eat More, Gain Less” Diet
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Here’s a thought. Eating high foods that fill up your tummy will keep you satisfied longer. If these foods are calorie sparse, they will actually help you lose weight. This is the idea behind “vol ...
  • Baby Steps for Better Health?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Hi folks, This is Hemi, founder of Fooducate. I’ve been invited to speak at Stanford University next week at the Mobile Health 2012 Conference.  The theme of this year’s conference is Baby Steps f ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival Tomorrow
    Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival this Sunday - Invitation Greg wants to thank you for your support with a special gift. He will be the featured speaker this Sunday and would love to meet you in person and say hi. We have arranged for 20 free guest spots for our supporters. If you would like ...
  • Sneak Peak: Why We Occupy Live! DVD
    Greg Palast from the oil soaked heart of America, Houston TX. Greg Palast live DVD - Coming Soon.
  • Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
    by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Retired 9/11 Firefighter Writes to President O ...
    By Tim Dwyer President Obama I am sending you these boots to symbolize the fact that my son Colin will never be a third generation NYC Firefighter, Colin like 1.5 million other American children and young adults has Autism. Our...
  • A Mother's Day Look at Autism Featuring Kim St ...
    The Sun Chronicle is my hometown newspaper. (Photo credit to Martin Gavin.) I was raised in a small town called Plainville - in Massachusetts. Growing up, we had a Drive in Theatre (fun as a child, more fun as a...
  • A Mother’s Day Letter - From One Mother to Another
    By Cathy Jameson Dearest One, As you open your eyes this morning, even if your day started at some ridiculous hour because of your child, I had a thought I needed to share with you: no one but you knows...
  • Remembering My Best Mother's Day Gift Ever
    By Lin Wessels Remembering my best Mother's Day gift ever...... Sam was about three and half. He very much struggled with speaking and communication. It was a truly difficult and trying time for all of us. The ASD diagnosis was...
  • Dan Olmsted: The Amish All Over Again
    By Dan Olmsted Back in the early days of USA Today 30 years ago, the paper’s founder, Al Neuharth, roamed the newsroom, micromanaging and demanding impossibly high standards. That was not necessarily a bad thing – the paper was his...

Global BDS Movement

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). ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Saudi and Bahrain expected to seek union: minister
    Reuters – Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are expected to announce closer political union at a meeting of Gulf Arab leaders on Monday, a Bahraini minister said, a move dismissed by the opposition as a ruse to avoid political reform. Read article
  • Suicide bomber strikes in Baghdad
    Reuters – One policeman dies and four are wounded after a man wearing an explosives belt attacks a police checkpoint in the Iraqi capital. Sunita Rappai reports.
  • Euro Fall Would Raise Stakes for China, US
    Financial Times – The situation in the euro zone has become so bleak that it is giving rise to the most improbable rumours. The latest to make the rounds of European hedge fund managers suggests that the euro will be tied to the dollar at close to parity, a dramatic fall from its current l ...
  • Blogger tricks TSA body scanners
  • New York Police Release Data Showing Rise in N ...
    NY Times – Police officers stopped people on New York City’s streets more than 200,000 times during the first three months of 2012, putting the Bloomberg administration on course to shatter a record set last year for the highest annual tally of street stops. Data on the 203,500 street stop ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Elusive California wolf OR7 is photographed
    The first color photo of California’s celebrity gray wolf, OR7, was taken this week as he loped across a sagebrush-covered hill in Modoc County.
  • Unabomber billboard continues to hurt Heartlan ...
    With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a “realist” position questioning that humans are responsible for climate change.
  • EV confab this weekend is about more than cars
    The electric car might not be enjoying a good moment as the Electric Vehicle Symposium, EVS26, powers up for its run this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GM stopped production for five weeks on the Chevy Volt, and sales of new all-electric cars such as the Volt or the Nissan Leaf a ...
  • Settlement may bring EV infrastructure to Cali ...
    In an unforeseen upside to the electric-power market crisis of 2001, a new proposed legal settlement between utility NRG and the California Public Utilities Commission would bring more than $100 million in new electric-vehicle charging infrastructure to the state.
  • 'Whale Wars'' Paul Watson on Faroes killing, ...
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, capitalizing on the tremendous success of their Animal Planet TV show, “ Whale Wars ,” has now taken on a new battle. With the Japanese fleet’s Antarctic hunt finished for the season, the skull-and-crossbones crew have turned their attenti ...

water.org

  • Learning to Conserve Water
    People in Kashiram Nagar, India struggle for water every day. However, they were not thinking about conserving the water they did have. They were unintentionally wasting water in their daily lives by not utilizing it well. Then on World Water Day 2012, a program through Water.org's partner, ESAF ...
  • One Mother's Story: Kasan Bai
    Every member of Kasan Bai's family benefited the moment they received the small sanitation loan that enabled them to construct a toilet.
  • Mothers' Stories
    Click play above to watch a playlist of all four women's stories we shared this week. Ranjana, Vandana, Kebebush, and Kasan Bai; all four of these women had their lives transformed by clean water and safe sanitation.
  • Jodie Foster & Matt Damon: It's Personal
    This Mother's Day, Jodie Foster and Matt Damon challenge you to transform the life of another mom.
  • One Mother's Story: Ranjana
    A small sanitation loan helped Ranjana build her family a clean, safe toilet on their property. As a result, they saved enough money on medical bills that Ranjana was able to start her own business.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. read more
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. ...
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • SolarReserve Receives Final Approval for its 2 ...
    SolarReserve has received its final permit from the Saguache County Board of County Commissioners for its two 100 megawatt solar thermal energy facilities it has proposed to build. read more

News Blaze

  • 4 Dead as Storm Lashes Upper Assam
    Guwahati, May 14: At least four people, including a women and a child died and 10 others injured when a devastating storm lashed Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Monday evening, police said.
  • Americans Love Seafood: Florida Supermarkets C ...
    U.S. Supermarkets Drop 'Red List' Fish, Bring Sustainable Seafood to Consumers & Help End Global Industrialized Fishing Practices that are Devastating Our Oceans
  • NATO Conducts Campaign for Libya With Unpreced ...
    NATO conducted the campaign for Libya with unprecedented care and precision and to a standard exceeding that required by international humanitarian law.
  • Gas Prices Jump 13.0 Cents Per Gallon
    Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 8.3 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 14.1 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
  • Six Killed in Assam Road Accident
    The first incident took place at Lekhapani area near Ledo in Tinsukia district on the wee hours of Monday, where four people including a women were killed and three others injured.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Europe’s Man-Made Disaster
    This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy. Financial leaders, from finance ministers to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the current mantra: T ...
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  • FDA Advisers Back Pill to Help Prevent HIV Inf ...
    Truvada intended for at-risk individuals, including gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples with one HIV-infected person Source: HealthDay
  • Waist To Height Ratio Better Than BMI
    Waist to height ratio is a better predictor of heart disease and diabetes risk than BMI, according to new research presented at a scientific meeting recently. Study leader Dr Margaret Ashwell, an independent consultant and former science director of the British Nutrition Foundation, presented ...
  • Predicting The Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest U ...
    New research from the University at Buffalo suggests that cardiologists may have a new way to identify patients who are at the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, and the most likely to benefit from receiving an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). ICDs are used to prevent sudden cardiac ...

Common Dreams

  • '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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • FBI Wants Greater Surveillance Powers
    by Stephen Lendman FBI Director Robert Mueller wants Congress to enact greater surveillance powers following the false flag underwear bomb plot blamed on Al Qaeda. In May 9 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, he said: "We've seen over the last several days, particularly w ...
  • The absurdity of equating opposition to Israel ...
    By Khalid Amayreh In a shameless effort to criminalize criticisms of Israel, pro-Israeli circles in some western countries have been trying to equate criticisms of Israeli policies and actions with anti-Semitism. The brazen effort is ostensibly intended to intimidate and silence the increasing ...
  • Ten Points Everyone Should Know About the Queb ...
    By: Andrew Gavin Marshall The student strikes in Quebec, which began in February and have lasted for three months, involving roughly 175,000 students in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, have been subjected to a massive provincial and national media propaganda campaign to demonize a ...
  • Brookings: A Reliable Imperial Tool
    By Stephen Lendman Brookings calls itself a Washington-based NGO "conducting high-quality, independent research" to advance three goals: democracy, economic and social welfare for all, and a "more safe, prosperous and cooperative international system." In fact, it's a corporate financed imperi ...
  • Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Secur ...
    By Ellen Brown The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. – President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. [This law] assu ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens ...
    On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain an ...
  • Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
  • CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
    In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...
  • Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
    Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, CCPA’s latest study, The Big Banks’ Big Secret: Esti ...
  • Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
    For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $19.14 to escape severe financial stress in Metro Vancouver. This is the Metro Vancouver li ...

World Wide Hippies

  • IT Smells More Like BULLCRAP To Me!
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – I went to see my little granddaughter in her yearly dance recital. She loves to dance and for just turning 8 years old she is pretty good at tap. The important thing is that she loves doing it. She has fun. Now, I’ve been going to see her recitals s ...
  • Piss off “The Man”, baby!
    We’re selling bumperstickers. These stickers are guaranteed to stick with you through thick and thin. They’re specially designed to piss off The Man, baby. Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies These are really nice stickers. Made of 100% weather-proof, dog-pro ...
  • Permaculture Visionary: “We Don’t ...
    By Brianne Goodspeed, Truthout | Interview - Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our time. The Transition movement – which encourages people in c ...
  • Hippie Pandas All-Girl Team Wins Science Compe ...
     by Dave Banks,Wired jezebel.com – All-Girl Team Wins Science Competition with Ingenious Pasteurization Contraption Question: the Hippie Pandas are: a) a new-wave metal band that prominently features a harpsichordist, b) a team of budding scientists who created a way for Nicaraguan women t ...
  • EARTH MEANDERS Raping Kids and Earth
    What kind of sickos destroy children and ecosystems? Well actually, a surprising number do. Most are against both types of victimization of innocence and purity – as long as you don’t talk or do anything about it when it happens. By Dr. Glen Barry ecologicalinternet.org - Earth is so beaut ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review: A Thousand Barrels a Second
    I am way behind on reading books that have been sent to me for review by various publishers. The pile on my desk is growing, because I have a bad habit of starting new books before I finish the one I am reading. Currently I am nearly finished with Oil’s Endless Bid, am halfway through Oil: ...
  • Nuclear Power in Japan, Methane Hydrates, and ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I cover: Japan’s decision to abandon nuclear power (which will contend for the top energy story of the year — regardless of how it plays out) ConocoPhillips’ successful methane hydrates drilling test in the Arctic, and whethe ...
  • Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from ...
    A reader recently called my attention to a new and very interesting presentation from the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program: Biofuels Design Cases The presentation explored the question of whether the U.S. government is spending money on the right technology pathways. Costs were prese ...
  • Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in ...
  • Why High Oil Prices are Here to Stay
    On May 3rd I will be delivering a talk called Moving Beyond Oil Dependence as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Spring 2012 Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. The talk will roughly follow the outline of my book, and I have used several graphics from the book in the presentation. However, I cr ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • FDA Backtracks On New Sunscreen Rules
    After nearly 30 years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally announced last year that they would be instituting new rules for sunscreen that would clarify for consumers which sunscreens offered what kind of protection. But things came to a screeching halt last Friday, when the ...
  • The 3 Best Earth-friendly Ways to Raise Money
    School fundraisers don't have to promote an all-out assault on your health. While many traditional fundraisers often involve candy loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, toxic candles, or bad-for-your-waistline bake sales, today's progressive fundraisers consider health, environmental, and fair ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Grow Strawberries the Easy ...
    If you've never had homegrown strawberries fresh off the vine, you've never really had strawberries. So much more intensely flavorful than those oversize orbs at the grocery store, a crop of backyard strawberries can remind you why you love this fruit. And the easiest, cheapest way to grow them ...
  • Do You Have a Sun Protection Regimen?
    Spring and summer means spending more time outdoors. That also means more exposure to the sun. We know that not everyone uses the same tactics when it comes to preventing overexposure and sunburn, so we're setting out to learn about your sun protection regimen. Rodale.com and the Skin Cancer Fo ...
  • 5 Surprising Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
    If current predictions hold true, 42 percent of the U.S. population will be either obese or "severely obese" (100 pounds or more overweight) by the year 2030. That staggering statistic came out of a study published this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and it also ...

big think

  • Why Top Innovators Make Time to Waste Time
      What’s the Big Idea?   The average consumer associates 3M with tape – a product so integral to our daily lives that we barely notice it anymore. But in 1925, as an alternative to the unwieldy, glue-covered sheets of paper it made obsolete, the product was a stroke of genius. In ...
  • The Political Attack on Political Science
    Last week the House voted 218-208 to block the National Science Foundation from funding political science research. No other type of research would be blocked by the NSF budget amendment. The NSF could still continue funding research in sociology, anthropology, and economics. The amendment would ...
  • Can We Blame Global Poverty on Pessimism?
    What's the Latest Development? Living in poverty exacts a big mental tole but new research indicates that the positive effects of anti-poverty programs often go beyond their immediate material consequences. When MIT economist Esther Duflo investigated a micro-finance operation in the Ind ...
  • 18 Ways that Social Media and Technology Might ...
    So, I guess Facebook is here to stay.  In honor of its over-subscribed IPO, I’m brainstorming about how social media might be existentially changing our romantic lives and intimacy. Here’s the first installment.   I’ll post part 2 Wednesday.   JEALOUSY LOOMS LAR ...
  • Can Getting Naked Save the World?
    What's the Latest Development? A nude protest held at a major tourist site in Paris is the latest statement made by the outspoken Ukrainian feminist group Femen. One of the group's leaders, Oksana Shachko, had to break travel restrictions placed on her by a Ukrainian court to attend. The ...

Information Liberation

  • Chicago Cops Buy Sound Cannon "To Provide Prot ...
    Chicago cops want to make sure they're communicating clear "public safety messages" with the folks at Occupy Chicago, that's why they've just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an LRAD sound cannon. Via Salon.com: This week, Occupy Chica...
  • Officer Larry Bates: The Face of Highway Robbe ...
    In the State of Tennessee, highway robbery in the name of "asset forfeiture" is commonplace -- and Monterey PD Officer Larry Bates, who stole $22,000 from New Jersey businessman George Raby, is the embodiment of this unfathomably corrupt practice. ...
  • Government's Idle Hands: Underwear Bomber 2.0
    Government has a serious problem. It's got nothing worthwhile to do. All the cool things in life come from the private sector, and this is more obvious than ever. The market is creating whole worlds before our eyes, while the government seems ever mo...
  • The Case of the Missing Terrorists
    If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warl...
  • Talking Surveillance Cameras Coming to U.S. St ...
    Talking surveillance cameras that bark orders at passers-by and can also record conversations are heading for U.S. streets, with manufacturer Illuminating Concepts announcing the progress of its *Intellistreets* system. As we first reported last...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Di ...
    Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →
  • Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?
    I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →
  • Deferring To Our Betters?
    I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →
  • An Evening With James Delingpole
    Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house. James is clearly … Continue readi ...
  • Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel
    The full text: If I wanted America to fail… To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream… I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The Cambridge Phenomenon
    Just received a copy of The Cambridge Phenomenon by Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton with a foreword by Bill Gates that gives us a timeline of the evolution of Silicon Fen over the last half century. You can see a timeline on the associated website. From the first home computer to the ARM chip in [. ...
  • Can Rutaesomn decaf your body? #herbal
    Red Ferret and others have been talking about a “herbal” treatment – Rutaesomn – that is supposed to deactivate any caffeine you have had and so help you sleep. Aside from the fact that the marketing says it’s “drug free”, which if it’s physiologic ...
  • Wellcome to Brains
    As I was in London earlier this week for the Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist exhibition opening at The Queen’s Gallery it seemed churlish not to take in the Wellcome Collection’s fascinating Brains exhibition too, which dovetailed nicely with the bizarre view that Leonardo and his conte ...
  • Buck House, Queeny, classically speaking brain ...
    So, as I was saying, I was at Buck House earlier this week. I know, you’re thinking the knighthood is well over due, but I’m afraid I was only there for breakfast, not with Liz and Phil, but with Rachel Woollen, Martin Clayton and others from the Royal Collection and fellow blogging ...
  • The rights and lefts of Leonardo da Vinci: Ana ...
    A 5:30 am start is not the usual modus operandi of this freelance journalist but with an invitation to a Bloggers’ Breakfast at Buckingham Palace in London to see the launch of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the BH Gallery scheduled for 8:30 an early train from the outskirts of Cambri ...

RFF Library

  • Global Water Security: Intelligence Community ...
    Defense Intelligence Agency or the Dept. of State http://www.dni.gov/nic/ICA_Global%20Water%20Security.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Jane Pyper, sub. req'd] …The report concludes that while it is unlikely there will be wars over water in the next 10 years, water challenges — in ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and the National Environm ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42502.pdf The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider the potential environmental consequences of the actions they propose to take by preparing one of three NEPA documents. Actions that fit wit ...
  • CBO: Energy Security in the United States
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43012 [From CBO blog] …Because of the global nature of the oil market, no policy could eliminate the costs borne by consumers as a result of disruptions, but some policies could reduce those costs. Policies to Address Temporary Dis ...
  • Aviation and the European Union’s Emissi ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R42392/ [From Summary]  …Air carriers from the United States and other countries have vociferously objected to inclusion of international aviation in the EU ETS. The U.S. government and other nations have pressed the EU to exclude foreig ...
  • Europe’s Energy Security: Options and Ch ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R42405/ [From Summary] Europe as a major energy consumer faces a number of challenges when addressing future energy needs. Among these challenges are a rapidly rising global demand and competition for energy resources from emerging econo ...

Scientific American - News

  • In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A wi ...
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA–E) works on a three-year cycle: Funded projects have three years to prove worthy--or not. Program directors who help fund projects such as Plants Engineered to Replace Petroleum ( PETRO ) or Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in ...
  • Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Cale ...
    An excavation of an archaeological site in Guatemala has uncovered Mayan astronomical records dating to the ninth century A.D. The tabulated numbers, which predate existing Mayan astronomical documents by several hundred years, chart the motion of the moon and also seem to relate to the orbits o ...
  • Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds
    By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine [More]
  • Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappe ...
    Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers reportedly losing up to 90 percent of their stock in recent years. European bee populations are also declining, and so are some species of North Am ...
  • Brain Scans Reveal Dogs' Thoughts
    Fido's expressive face, including those longing puppy-dog eyes, may lead owners to wonder what exactly is going on in that doggy's head. Scientists decided to find out, using brain scans to explore the minds of our canine friends. [More]

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Conflict, Repression and Canadian Mining & Oil ...
    I’ve barely been able to keep up with all of the resource conflicts going on in Guatemala over the past little while. A recent wave of protest/repression linked to mining and hydroelectric projects has escalated to the point where bo ...
  • April in Review
    Better late than never! Congratulations, Local 42…but… Halifax journalist Stephen Kimber’s commented on the near-strike at Capital Health: “…the settlement calls for an across-the-board wage increase, meanin ...
  • An Occupier in Nova Scotia's Response to Marga ...
    Editor's Note: John Thibeau wrote this piece in response to Margaret Wente's original Globe and Mail article, which can be found here. Thibeau sent this letter to Margaret Wente and the Globe and Mail on Friday, May 11th. By: John Thibeau Firstly, I’d like to begin by stating some ...
  • RCMP reacts to exposure of its surveillance of ...
    In response to our Toronto Star article exposing a police unit that monitored Indigenous protest in BC, the  RCMP issued a letter -- see below -- to "First Nations Leaders and Communities". They call the article "irresponsible," "sensationalist" and "not c ...
  • Occupied Ottawa plans for park squat despite t ...
    Occupied Ottawa (formerly Occupy Ottawa) is set to re-take public space as the spring season heats up in the nation’s capital. “On Saturday, May 12, Occupied Ottawa will be back in the streets and the parks, asserting that we have the right to protest, organize and resist in public s ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Crisis: where are we headed?
    David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...
  • Is American individualism a myth?
    David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...
  • Steve Jobs: the metaphor
    David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...
  • Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
    David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...
  • There are still important differences between ...
    David Seaton's News LinksA Sample of Tea Party Humor I'd like to reproduce a dialog between myself and a blogger I much respect, Wendy Davis, on a previous post of mine:Seaton: I think that all of those who were so ecstatic about Obama in 2008 (I wasn’t) should “stand by their man” and realiz ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Disappearing Man, a Follow-Up
    Greg Sargent digs a little deeper into Bob Somerby's observation that the Sunday chat shows seem to be suddenly shy about booking uber-quotemeister Norm Ornstein now that he's written a book blaming Republicans for our nation's political ills: I ran this thesis by Ornstein himself, and he c ...
  • Health Insurers Required to Credit Obama When ...
    It's rebate time! One of the geekier aspects of Obamacare is that it allows insurance companies to spend no more than a maximum of 20% on overhead costs (15% for large group plans). The rest of your premium dollars have to be spent on actual healthcare. This part of the law went into effect on ...
  • Washington DC's Missing Men
    Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann are the most quoted men in Washington. They have been for years. A couple of weeks ago they released a new book, and normally this would mean plenty of Sunday chat show bookings. But this book wasn't the usual pox-on-both-your-houses tome. Instead, they came right ...
  • Obama's Support of Gay Marriage Probably a Wash
    A couple of days ago Gallup surveyed the U.S. citizenry about President Obama's decision to come out in favor of same-sex marriage. In their poll, a larger number said it would make them less likely to vote for Obama than more likely. Robert Wright is skeptical, largely because he doesn't bel ...
  • Playing Chicken in the Eurozone
    Will Greece leave the eurozone? Will Germany squawk loudly but bail them out in the end? Matt Yglesias answers with this headline today: On Greece, Everyone's Bluffing—Including the Greeks The headline is sort of spoiled by writing a post to go with it, because in a way it says all ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 321: The Avengers Initiative
    Topics: 30 for 30 update Kev’s stories “Miss, is that your lightsaber?” Mass Effect Avengers might do $100 mill second weekend The Avengers Initiative We won’t agree to disagree Breastfeeding toddlers You’re weird and I don’t have to accept that Real marriage ...
  • IC 320: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
    Topics: Obama Supports Gay Marriage…duh Words Matter…But Actions Should Matter more It’s All Fun and Games Until You’re In the Group Judged Bryon Long Explains Why He’s Not Gay T.O on Dr. Phil The Secret Service prostitute scandal chick speaks out Share with your fr ...
  • IC 319: Calorie Counting
    Topics: Tequila is not my friend Avengers does $200 million in a weekend What WB needs to do to in order to make the JLA Captain America > Superman & Cyclops Kids in the theater We gotta stop being lazy Your diet plans probably suck What’s in a serving size Octomom’s Masturbatio ...
  • IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
    Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...
  • IC 317: Brian “Andy” McKnight
    Topics: UFC news Will Avengers be the best Comic Book EVER? An American Remake of The Raid? The shittiest crime spree of all time? Being a woman doesn’t give you the right to assault someone Prison is a consequence Brian McKnight wants to show ladies how to work their pussy Share with your ...

Simple Climate

  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.
  • Water’s climate risks show high temperat ...
    Considering salinity changes in climate models suggests the water cycle accelerates 8% per 1°C warming, compared to just 4% when considering rainfall alone, says Susan Wijffels from CSIRO in Australia
  • Warming world could send corn price popping
    Climate plays the largest role in how much US corn prices swing, say economist Tom Hertel from Purdue University and colleagues, though forcing ethanol from corn to be used in fuel makes matters worse.
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...

e!Science News

  • Measuring CO2 to fight global warming
    If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of Utah and Harvard. read more
  • Wasted milk is a real drain on our resources, ...
    Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. read more
  • Relative reference: Foxtail millet offers clue ...
    Arranging DNA fragments into a genome sequence that scientists can interpret is a challenge often compared to assembling a puzzle, except there is no box to provide an idea of what the picture is even supposed to be. Sometimes there's guidance in the form of other publicly-available DNA sequence ...
  • New type of retinal prosthesis could better r ...
    Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types of degenerative eye diseases. read more
  • Berkeley Lab scientists generate electricity f ...
    Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to ge ...

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Flame Retardant Flameout
    Beneficial pollution, farmers market boost, plastic oceans Photo courtesy of matthewven (flickr.com) Investigation sets flame to chemical retardant claims ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Clean Up Your Coal Ash!
    EPA and North Carolina need to step up coal ash regulation, enforcement As evidenced in North Carolina and other states burdened by coal ash ponds, waiting for states to effectively regulat ...
  • Protest Against Northwest Coal Export
    Battle heats up in region targeted by Big Coal A 129-car BNSF coal train going through White Rock, B.C. (Michael Chu) Warren Buffett is a famous gazillionaire ...
  • Looking Forward To The Long Summer Daze
    As asthma awareness month begins, ozone season looms Smog makes some kids sing the blues when "School's Out For Summer" (the memorable Alice Cooper tune) &ldq ...
  • When Paint Chips are Not the Only Danger
    Communities living in toxic legacy of lead-emitting facilities A lead smelter in Missouri. (Kbh3rd / Wikimedia) We all know the danger that resides in lead-la ...

Brave New Climate

  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • Carbon offsetting of uranium mines?
    Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...
  • What volume of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an ...
  • The future of Brave New Climate
    Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  ― Lao Tzu The Brave New Climate (BNC) blog has seen many changes in its almost 4 years of existence. I&#82 ...
  • IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
    This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

  • Activists Blockade Coal Train
    Activists set up a blockade to stop a coal train en route to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Terrell, North Carolina on May 3, 2012 and branded it with the Apple logo. The train is carrying coal extracted from … Continue reading →
  • May Day actions against UBS’ funding of ...
    Happy May Day, everybody! Today, Appalachians will demand that UBS stop funding and supporting mountaintop removal mining. Come out to our actions in: Asheville, NC 11 am at 138 Charlotte St. Knoxville, TN: 10 am at Market Square Chattanooga, 11 … Continue reading →
  • Welcome to Appalachia Rising!
    Welcome, friends and allies! Here is your home base for updates on this spring’s lineup of region-wide actions aimed at bringing an end to mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia. We hope you’ll stay tuned for stories and photos from … Continue reading →
  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...

Amped Status

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  • Israel’s n**** word: efforts to teach it ...
    My thoughts about Nakba, Nakba Day, and the so-called Nakba law are simple. Silencing another’s narrative does not make that narrative go away. And in a similar vein, giving a voice to another’s narrative does not invalidate one’s own. I commissioned the image above to convey v ...
  • Why the inconvenient truths of the Nakba must ...
    By Tom Pessah Limor Livnat was furious. The minister of culture was speaking at a Knesset discussion about the Independence Day arrests in Tel Aviv, following an attempt by a small non-profit called Zochrot to commemorate the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The Israeli police surroun ...
  • Confusion over reports of end to prisoner hung ...
    Contradictory rumors began to circulate Monday evening regarding an agreement purportedly reached between the representatives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and Israel. The deal was reportedly brokered by the Egyptian government, which played a pivotal role in the prisoner release dea ...
  • Rightists disrupt Nakba ceremony at Tel Aviv U ...
    Hundreds of people attended a ceremony Monday afternoon to mark Nakba Day in front of the main entrance to Tel Aviv University. The ceremony was organized by students – both Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel - and billed as a joint memorial ceremony aimed at giving voice to the Pal ...
  • Visualizing Occupation: Freedom of movement
    Whereas West Bank settlers can travel freely between Israel and the West Bank, Palestinian movement is governed by the Israeli security establishment. This illustration is the fourth in a series of infographics on the effect of the occupation on the Palestinian civilian population. By Michal Vex ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE SECURITIZATION/AUDIT DEBATE RAGES ON- MARK ...
    I appreciate the feedback and debate on this most important topic.  Please understand, I am NOT disregarding the work of everyone….only those that are breaking the law and putting consumers in harm’s way! I recently had very powerful results working with one researcher that translate ...
  • Florida Bankers to The Florida Supreme Court, ...
    Huh?  Come again?  All of this comes from an Amicus Brief submitted to the Florida Supreme Court in the Pino case… “Moreover, scrutiny of the validity of an assignment of mortgage may be inappropriate under any circumstances.” Apparently the argument is, when faced with questio ...
  • Student Loan Debt- 1 in 2 New Grads Un/UnderEm ...
    The Foreclosure Defendants continue to Occupy the lower rungs of humanity, even as more and more of those rungs are Occupied by more and more Americans, making that bottom caste a large and growing portion of the population. This disfavored caste, the Unpaid, cannot count on the protections of t ...
  • Florida’s Fantasy Retirement Portfolio- ...
    Once you understand “our” government does not serve us at all, but instead serves the banks and Wall Street and the monied vipers that are sucking the life out of all of America. Goldman, The Banks, The corporations, all working together to suck every little penny and nickle from the ...
  • Mortgage Securitization Audits….THEY ARE ...
    Let me be clear about  this one more time. MORTGAGE LOAN SECURITIZATION AUDITS ARE A CRIME! VIOLATIONS.—A person who violates any provision of this section commits an unfair and deceptive trade practice as defined in part II of this chapter. Violators are subject to the penalties and remedies pr ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Unlit Torch
    Thanks to economic shifts in priorities by advanced government and international financial institutions the future doesn’t even look as bright …Continue reading »
  • Ideological Gridlock
    In one profound hour he went from delivering the news to making it. Peter Mansbridge brought his message of civic …Continue reading »
  • We Ruined It
    With all this emphasis being placed upon citizen engagement, someone is going to have to figure out how to bring …Continue reading »
  • Striving for the One Voice
    The next phase has begun. When the Citizens’ Panel presented its initial report to City Hall on income disparity, it …Continue reading »
  • The Language of Movement
    Peter Mansbridge came to town and for a few hours it was all people were talking about. Accustomed to presenting …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...

War Resisters League

  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...

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 ...

k2p blog

  • Where to view the annular solar eclipse of May ...
    An "annular" eclipse of the sun on May 20th when the moon is at apogee will be visible from China across the Pacific to North America.
  • Droughts on the Tibetan plateau coincide with ...
    A tree ring based reconstruction of precipitation over the last 1000 years on the Tibetan plateau by Chinese scientists show droughts have occurred at the same times as solar grand minima.
  • “Boom and bust” for solar power in ...
    The prices that power companies pay for solar power in New Jersey have all but collapsed. But further artificial legislative support is planned.
  • Renewable Energy Law has weakened the German e ...
    The Renewable Energy Law was introduced 12 years ago in Germany. It prioritises the use of “green energy”. What was thought to be a way of helping the introduction of new technology and fulfilling a political agenda has backfired and has led to a severe weakness of the electricity gr ...
  • A slight shift of focus
    My opinions on aspects of energy and power generation and climate and environment will take centre stage here.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Verizon Wants Me To Pay $300 ETF Because Of It ...
    When Consumerist reader Timothy bought his wife a new smartphone for her birthday last December, he thought he was just doing something nice for his special someone. Little did he know he was hopping aboard the grotesque merry-go-round that is Verizon Wireless customer service. After only a fe ...
  • McDonald's Soda Thief Can't Catch A Break, Is ...
    The man who became a bit infamous for swiping a $1 soda refill from a McDonald's last month is in hot fast food water (sorry for that imagery, eww) again -- this time after an incident at Pizza Hut in Naples, Fla. United Press International says the man, who is known to be homeless, was arrest ...
  • It Makes Perfect Sense That Kodak Had A Nuclea ...
    We've all got old stuff kicking around in basements and attics that we've forgotten about. But hey, what's this in Kodak's basement? Oh, it's just a nuclear reactor and 3.5 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Makes sense for a photography company to have such a thing. Democrat and Chronicle say ...
  • Amazon Reportedly Set To Introduce Front-Lit K ...
    Since the introduction of the iPad, e-book fans have generally fallen into two camps -- those who prefer the E Ink technology in Kindles and Nooks because it causes less eye strain and uses relatively low battery power; and those who prefer the backlit screens of tablet computers, which allow t ...
  • FedEx Punishing Me For Delivering Package Addr ...
    Consumerist reader Kenneth is a pretty good neighbor. After all, he dropped off a misdelivered package FedEx left on his stoop to a house around the corner where it was actually supposed to be going. But that simple act of consideration has resulted in FedEx refusing to deliver what he was supp ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Problematic Partnership Between Telecoms, Inte ...
    Unholy Partnerships Between Telecoms & Government Spy Agencies: Have We Learned Nothing? Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack is skeptical of the new partnership between telecom companies and federal agencies, especially remembering the warra ...
  • Unholy Partnerships Between Telecoms & Governm ...
    Have we learned nothing from the Bush-era warrantless wiretapping scandal that once threatened the near collapse of the Executive Branch? WaPo reports on the latest merger of telecom and private industry in sharing customers' information with government agencies: ...
  • F-22 Pilot Whistleblowers Face Reprimands: Dai ...
    Wired: Poisoned Fighter Pilot Faces New Nightmare – Air Force Bureaucracy Summary: More coverage of the two Air Force pilots who blew the whistle on 60 Minutes about oxygen deprivation in F-22 fighter jets and were officially declared whistleblowers by the Air Force. However,&nb ...
  • Senate Passes WPEA by Unanimous Consent: Daily ...
    Washington Post: Senate Passes Whistleblower Protections – Again Summary: Yesterday, the US Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, legislation that would improve the federal protections for employees who speak out about corruption, waste, and wrongdoing. The bill was passe ...
  • Gestión turbia de los Fondos Fiduciarios de Es ...
    Traducción al español del artículo "Murky Management of Spanish Trust Fund at IDB", publicado el 9 de mayo de 2012 en la web de Government Accountability Project (GAP), http://www.whistleblower.org Nota: ¡El texto del artículo ofrece hipervínculos a todos los documentos citados, para su visión ...

UK Progressive

  • N.Y. Congressman Will Reimburse Costs for $22, ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., said he will personally reimburse a Taiwan university for the $22,132 trip he took to the island with his wife in December. The announcement comes after ProPublica co-published a story Thursday evening with Politico detailing how lobbyists f ...
  • Pardon Attorney Torpedoes Plea for Presidentia ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica A version of this story was co-published with The Washington Post. Clarence Aaron seemed to be especially deserving of a federal commutation, an immediate release from prison granted by the president of the United States. At 24, he was sentenced to three life terms fo ...
  • The Monday Line: Without Them We Would Not See ...
    This past week I was honoured to be a visiting member of the White House and Congressional press corps. We often see events on newscasts, few though ever see how hard these dedicated men and women work to bring the news to the world. Security is very tight and there are multiple steps to getting ...
  • At Last! After 15 Years, Govt Tells Phone Comp ...
    by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica After 15 years of neglect, federal regulators are finally planning to tell phone companies selling services to schools and libraries how to comply with a rule requiring them to charge bargain prices. Last week ProPublica revealed that the Federal Communications Commissi ...
  • The Great Populist Wave
    Across the nation and around the world there is a great populist wave that is challenging the injustice of the elites and the inequities of politics and finance, and at this moment, in our land, it is time for the true champions of the 99 percent to launch the largest voter-registration, -mobili ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Unthreaded
    I’m travelling interstate at the moment, and with site maintenance being rather larger than usual, apologies for things being thin on the ground here. I have finally got email working again, and have been following the ever entertaining antics of the death threats that werent, the gun lice ...
  • Blogger’s speech to the NY Fed tells it ...
    Robert Wenzel says to Federal Reserve: “Leave the Building to the Four-Legged Rats” Finally a speech with attitude tells it like it is, at the US Federal Reserve. The speech was given by blogger Robert Wenzel in late April to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, because they invited hi ...
  • Unthreaded – Site maintenance coming
    Apologies for the inconvenience. Unfortunately sometime this week the site will be offline for some hours (up to one day). This move is in an effort to reduce costs. Thanks to a generous offer from a reader (thank you David) for the suggestion. I hadn’t been paying attention, and bandwidth ...
  • Want climate resistant oysters, or climate &#8 ...
    File this under “Monopolistic Science” Australian Taxpayer funds in 2012 are supporting around 50 projects about “climate change” or “greenhouse gases”. One David McKnight has got $95k to study how Australian governments “spin” the news. So which c ...
  • Has CO2 warmed the planet at all in the last 5 ...
    Joint Post: Jo Nova and Tony Cox Even most skeptics agree that the world has been warming during the last 50 years, but there is apparently no significant underlying warming trend in 46 out of 47 years of data. Something decidedly unusual happened to the world in 1977 and we don’t know for ...

ReNew America

  • God: just too embarrassing to keep around
    (Alan Keyes) - Most individuals have experiences that pose a fundamental question about who they are. They go through life professing to believe in God or love or something; or else professing to believe in nothing much at all...
  • Obama's wicked marriage proposal
    (Robert Knight) - After having done everything in his power to undermine marriage, President Obama has come out of the closet, so to speak, with his announcement that he's now for brideless or groomless "marriage." But he didn't come out alone. He brought Jesus with him, citing Christ as his ins ...
  • Jesus doesn't change His mind
    (Joseph Farah) - How do I put this politely? Barack Obama has added blasphemy to his many egregious offenses by suggesting he has changed his mind for the third time in his life on the completely sinful concept of same-sex marriage after studying the teachings of Jesus...
  • It's official: Obama '1st gay president'
    (WorldNetDaily) - Despite the fact Barack Obama is married with two children, Newsweek magazine is dubbing him "The First Gay President" on its latest cover, crowning him with a rainbow-colored halo. The cover comes in the wake of Obama's newly declared support for homosexual marriage in America...
  • Sen. Rand Paul: Didn't think Obama's view 'cou ...
    (Los Angeles Times) - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul remarked on President Obama's decision to publicly support same-sex marriage by saying, "Call me cynical, but I wasn't sure his views on marriage could get any gayer."...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Geryl and ETAP Cross-Promote
    I’m not keen on the idea of using a boat to survive 2012. The idea has been promoted by 2012er Patrick Geryl, although he gets “very easily seasick” and will be choosing a bunker instead. Although a boat might be “unsinkable”, there’s also the factor of where ...
  • Solar Pole Imbalance Mystery
    Our Sun operates on a cycle that takes roughly 11 years to complete. While the key indicator for when the cycle is at its peak is the number of sun spots, the root cause is the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic poles. And for some reason that scientists cannot explain, the Sun’s poles a ...
  • Bacteria Release in Boston Subway
    This story has been appearing on conspiracy sites this week: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has announced a series of biological tests that they will be conducting in subway systems near Boston. DHS will be releasing bacteria into the MBTA tunnels, in what they say are tests to ev ...
  • SWAT Team Storms Private Bunker
    The anti-survivalist actions of some authorities in the USA are getting much worse. In recent times we have seen the malicious use of zoning laws to thwart survival plans, and we have seen many of things survivalists do listed as suspicious (in a terrorism way). This most recent news is of speci ...
  • Take Shelter: Movie Review
    This review is written by a reader of this blog, Isaac. It might not have the explosions of 2012, but this is one of the very finest movies to address prepping, and is in many ways a modern day Noah’s Ark story, with a much smaller cast. Take Shelter (2011) Take an apocalyptic theme and ...

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

One News Page

  • Raja’s day out: will the 2G scam ‘mastermind’ ...
    A big day out in court for former Telecom Minister A Raja, the prime accused in the 2G scam. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Facebook raises IPO range, targets $12.1 bln: ...
    NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has raised the price range on its initial public offering to $34 to $38 a share in response to strong demand, a source familiar with the situation said, giving the No.1 social network a valuation exceeding $100 billion. Reported by Firstpost 1 hou ...
  • As China opens to basmati imports, exporters s ...
    Rice exporters in Karnal, the hub of basmati rice exporters in Haryana, are looking for Chinese language interpreters to explore possibilities of starting exports to China. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
  • China may use dissident sect against Dalai Lam ...
    The Tibetan government-in-exile on Monday pointed its finger towards a splinter community among Tibetans — the around 5000-strong Dorje Shugden community — after the Dalai Lama had raised an alarm on Sunday over threat to his life. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • Facebook friend ‘rapes’ Oz girl in Himachal
    A 22-year-old Australian woman was allegedly raped in Kasol village of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh by a man she knew as her Facebook friend. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the ...
    The legal proceedings against Seif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, have developed into an unusual situation, that has had no precedents in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) history. The matter is that the Court itself is exerting efforts to destroy the case so that the accused would ...
  • Upcoming G8 Forum and the Objectives Behind th ...
    THE DYNAMICS UNRAVELING WITHIN THE WORLD SYSTEM AND DRIVING DEEP TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE EXISTING CENTER – SEMI-PERIPHERY – PERIPHERY LAYOUT IS PRONE WITH A PROLIFERATION OF SERIOUS ARMED CONFLICTS. THE WORLD IS ENTERING A TRANSITION EPOCH DURING WHICH A BIG WAR OVER NATURAL RESOURCES AND SPHERES ...
  • The Integration of Eurasia and Berlin
    «Today we’re partners, but not friends» – said Russian ambassador to Germany Vladimir Grinin meeting journalists from different countries in Berlin by the end of April. After many years of assurances that the both countries are strategic partners, the opinion mainly expressed by Russian po ...
  • Fight Over Arctic Region and the Russian Path ...
    The US Council on Foreign Relations authoritatively projects that in the XXI century the rivalry over Arctic mineral riches will escalate into a new type of a Cold War, which promises to be a conflict profoundly different from the one that marked the XX century’s bipolarity epoch. Indeed, ...
  • Germany: “Young Veterans”
    A discussion on veterans’ policy change has been going on for some time in Germany upon the initiative of Minister of Defense Thomas de Meiziere (Christian Democratic Union). In April he submitted the “Bundesver veterans’ policy” report to the Bundestag Defense Committee. As the German tradition ...

BlogHer

  • Making a New Piece of Furniture Look Vintage
    [Editor's Note: How do you give a piece of cheap looking department store furniture instant character? With an intentionally scuffed up paint job of course. Laura from House of Joyful Noise gave her modern day armoire a rustic vintage feel instantly with a fresh coat of paint and and a few scrat ...
  • Holding On to These Moments Because I Missed O ...
    I found myself nodding at a post that Mom at Treading Water at the Kiddie Pool wrote recently. She worked outside the home when her oldest was small and is now home as her youngest son is growing up. In her post, she marvels at the things she missed, the things she didn't even know she was missi ...
  • How To Organize Your Life
    [Editor's Note: Getting organized. I can't tell you a single person who doesn't want to feel more organized in their life or business. That is why I really loved this post. It's short, practical, a little techy (but only where it makes sense), and usable. However you might adapt her system, it ...
  • Gluten-Free Isn't For Me
    I used to think I was "lucky" that I had a child who, nearly three years in, hasn't exhibited any food allergies. I really felt for fellow new mothers who were painstakingly and scientifically cutting food groups out of their own diets as they struggled to figure out what in their breast milk wa ...
  • Honoring Military Children During Military App ...
    [Editor's Note: May is Military Appreciation Month. I encourage you to take some time and thank members of our military -- and their families -- sometime this month. In doing so, take some time to read this post by Brittany at Living in the Moment. As a military wife, she tackles the topic of ho ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Suzanne Somers’ ‘Bombshell’ ...
    Hollywood superstar Suzanne Somers has played many roles in her long career: television actress, fitness-product pitchwoman, and best-selling author. But with her new book, Somers has become something else entirely: a medical pioneer. In “Bombshell: Explosive ...
  • Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhe ...
    Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...
  • Avocados Naturally Overcome Aging and Disease
    Contrary to many anti-aging pills and creams, avocados are extremely inexpensive and also quite a delicious addition to any seasonal meal. The best part, however, is that they are actually effective in fighting both again ...
  • Lime & Sunlight Naturally Purify Water
    Natural sunlight and a slice of lime could potentially be the answer to the global water crisis, affecting millions of individuals worldwide who do not have access to water filtration services. Found to effectively remove ...
  • Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhe ...
    Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Coal River again makes ‘most endangered& ...
    Photo by Vivian Stockman Here’s the announcement this morning from the group American Rivers: American Rivers named the Coal River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers today, shining a national spotlight on the threat mountaintop removal mining poses to clean water and public health. The ...
  • Goodwin announces Alpha deal safety panel
    United States District Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II, left, and top Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Ruby announces a $210 million agreement with Alpha Natural Resources Inc., in Charleston W.V.,  Tuesday Dec. 6, 2011,  in connection with the criminal investigation of events surrounding the April 5, ...
  • UBB update: Family lawsuits appear far from over
    There’s some pretty interesting stuff buried in the latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure filed today by Alpha Natural Resources. First, there’s this: The Company had reached agreements in principle to settle with all twenty-nine families of the deceased miners as ...
  • CCS update: Funding still stalled for coal&#82 ...
    The good folks at the Worldwatch Institute have this important report out this week: Global funding for carbon capture and storage technology, a tool for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, remained unchanged at US$23.5 billion in 2011 in comparison to the previous year, according to a ne ...
  • Appalachian women put coal on trial
    Strong Appalachian women have long been a major force in our region — from Mother Jones to the women who helped lead the Harlan County coal strike, to Kentucky mining widows who fought for tougher safety regulations to folks like Judy Bonds and Maria Gunnoe in the anti-mountaintop removal ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Every issue of New Scientist from its launch i ...
    http://books.google.com/books/about/New_Scientist.html?id=4BfSdk4mJfcC&redir_… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentKindle Books Outselling Hardcover BooksThe Best Books of 2010 | The EconomistGoogle Gets Into the eBook SpaceThe Future of the B ...
  • iOS Getting Native Maps Soon?
    iOS is by no means feature-complete. But it’s getting harder to identify the low-hanging fruit — the things you just know Apple has to be working on, not just the stuff you hope they are. The biggest one left is mapping. Today brings a report from 9to5Mac that Apple is set to switch the back-end ...
  • Be Worthy of a Wikipedia Entry
    I had an idea the other day about life achievement: if you currently have no plans to be worthy of a minor blurb on Wikipedia then you don’t really have any plans. That’s a low bar, and yet it’s miles above what 99% of people I know will ever accomplish. Let’s unpack that ...
  • Atheists More Generous Than Religious When Hel ...
    A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, suggests athiests and agnostics are more willing to help other people than those who identify themselves as religious. The reason for this difference, the study found, is because atheists are driven by emotions, such as compassion, as oppose ...
  • Religious Websites Riskier Than Porn Sites
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/01/religious-websites-riskier-than-porn-fo… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentOnline Porn and the Bible BeltU.S. Religious Knowledge Survey – Pe ...

Fitwatch

  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]
  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • IT Smells More Like BULLCRAP To Me!
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – I went to see my little granddaughter in her yearly dance recital. She loves to dance and for just turning 8 years old she is pretty good at tap. The important thing is that she loves doing it. She has fun. Now, I’ve been going to see her recitals s ...
  • Piss off “The Man”, baby!
    We’re selling bumperstickers. These stickers are guaranteed to stick with you through thick and thin. They’re specially designed to piss off The Man, baby. Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies These are really nice stickers. Made of 100% weather-proof, dog-pro ...
  • Permaculture Visionary: “We Don’t ...
    By Brianne Goodspeed, Truthout | Interview - Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our time. The Transition movement – which encourages people in c ...
  • Hippie Pandas All-Girl Team Wins Science Compe ...
     by Dave Banks,Wired jezebel.com – All-Girl Team Wins Science Competition with Ingenious Pasteurization Contraption Question: the Hippie Pandas are: a) a new-wave metal band that prominently features a harpsichordist, b) a team of budding scientists who created a way for Nicaraguan women t ...
  • EARTH MEANDERS Raping Kids and Earth
    What kind of sickos destroy children and ecosystems? Well actually, a surprising number do. Most are against both types of victimization of innocence and purity – as long as you don’t talk or do anything about it when it happens. By Dr. Glen Barry ecologicalinternet.org - Earth is so beaut ...

reference frame

  • LQG calculates the correct black hole entropy
    Not really but the stupidity of the LQG proponents has reached levels that are utterly comical Just a week ago, I discussed the incompatibility between the black hole thermodynamics and loop quantum gravity. In a new paper, Ashoke Sen updated the list of black holes whose logarithmic cor ...
  • Focus point supersymmetry
    The mass of the soon-to-be-discovered Higgs boson, \(125\,\GeV\) or so, is below the threshold of \(135\,\GeV\) which means that it is compatible with the MSSM, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, where the observed Higgs boson could be the lightest one among five faces of the God part ...
  • Quantum gravity: replies to "top ten"
    Backreaction highlights what Sabine Hossenfelder considers ten "most interesting and pressing open problems" in theoretical physics related to quantum gravity. The amount of ignorance – a type of ignorance that is unfortunately widespread – and the depth of the misunderstandings that are visi ...
  • Wrong log corrections to BH entropy exclude LQ ...
    Ashoke Sen's new research is much more interesting when it comes to positive claims The correct value of the black hole entropy is an important litmus test for assessing the consistency of candidate theories of quantum gravity. A translation of this text to Japanese is available (click ...
  • David Suzuki: humans are 2D maggots
    The leader of the Canadian global warming movement has studied fruit flies (much like Alexander Ač whose PhD thesis is about the carbon-enhanced copulation of fruit flies on blue-flowered meadows). But during his research, he had discovered something that has had huge implications for th ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
  • Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot
    A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of money in the lottery. Now that the party is over it is time to move forward with the rest of my life. I have hummed and hawed for a few days now on how to spend some of this money and have decided to direct [...] Related posts: Crazy Man Praises Th ...
  • Crazy Man Praises The Mad Ape
    http://tatumba.com – This sickly and mentally deranged dude is the net result of a lifetime of bio-weapon attacks. He wishes to do a bit of show and tell and provide a testimonial of how he became a walking corpse. I have told you guys repeatedly about the cumulative health hazards of cons ...
  • HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise
    HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise, so says former Vice President and Relationship Manager John Cruz. Mr. Cruz has gone public and turned over to more than 1,000 pages of documents to World News Daily. In an exclusive interview with Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. Mr. Cruz had explained in grea ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Another Delay from FDA
    Late Thursday EWG found out the Food and Drug Administration was going to delay their sunscreen regulations by six months, at the request of the cosmetics industry. EWG replied with a statement that called out the agency's foot-dragging and highlighted... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
    As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...
  • New York Times' Kristof Lays Out the Case Agai ...
    In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled. Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. Nicholas Kristof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Baby, Meet Frog; Frog, Meet Baby
    Renowned researcher and professor Tyrone Hayes has been studying the effects of the common herbicide atrazine for more than a decade. His findings contributed to the European Union's decision to ban this toxic endocrine disrupter. Much of his research... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Critics blast ending to moose drama
    The latest urban misadventure of a Norwegian moose over the weekend ended not only with shots inside a busy train tunnel, but with criticism from animal rights group NOAH. No thought was given, the group claims, to how frightened the moose must have been, while a deer suffered the same sad fate. ...
  • Blaze breaks out near new museum
    UPDATED: Smoke blew in strong winds from Oslo’s new waterfront complex at Tjuvholmen on Monday, after fire broke out in the office portion of a new landmark complex meant to house the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. The complex has been under construction with the museum due to open ...
  • Design school scores high marks
    After years of complaints that Norwegian schools don’t rank high enough on international listings comes some vindication: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design has landed in the Top Ten of design and architecture schools worldwide. Scandinavian design has been fairly hot for many year ...
  • Duty-free tobacco comes under fire
    Duty free sales of tobacco products at Norwegian airports will go up in smoke, if the country’s cancer association (Kreftforeningen) and medical association (Den norske legeforeningen) get their way. They’re calling for a halt to sales of relatively cheap cigarettes, for example, whe ...
  • Relay race set new record
    Nearly 40,000 people took part in this year’s Holmenkollstafetten, an annual relay race in Oslo that’s been run since 1923. With 2,727 teams at the starting line, organizers could claim a new record for participation. The race covers 18.4 kilometers over 15 laps from the center of Os ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Social Factor in Sustainable Architecture
    Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy. Photo: Edgar Barany/Flickr I was recently struck by photographs of energy-efficient houses that were described as ’sustainable’ — built mostly with natural or recycled materials and even finished with environmentally friendly paint — h ...
  • Arab Grain Imports Rising Rapidly
    by Sara Rasmussen, Earth Policy Institute The Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa make up only 5 percent of the world’s population, yet they take in more than 20 percent of the world’s grain exports. Imports to the region have jumped from 30 million tons of grain in 19 ...
  • Tyre Tank Stands
    A finished tyre tank stand You may remember reading about the work of FoodWaterShelter to develop a sustainable home for vulnerable women and children in Tanzania. And you may recall their innovative approach to water storage. Well here’s another innovative use for old tyres — an ...
  • APC11 Presentation: Regenerative Agriculture, ...
    Dan Palmer, of VeryEdibleGardens (VEG), gives an interesting look at the basis of Regenerative Agriculture, and how it applies in practice — sharing his experiences consulting for a 10-acre property about 2.5 hours northeast of Melbourne, Victoria.
  • Following McDonalds’ Example Towards a Healthy ...
    Images copyright Cam Wilson 2012 Who would have thought we could follow McDonalds’ business model to get our kids to eat healthy food? “Where do you see McDonalds situated?” Rick Coleman asks his PDC class. Wherever they will be in your face, that’s where. You don&#821 ...

Pointman's

  • What I’m going to say will upset a few p ...
    This is not going to be a popular article with some people on the skeptical side of the global warming divide but you’re going to get it anyway, because a few things that have needed to be said for some time, now require to be said more urgently, especially in the light of recent events.&# ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • New Orleans Workers’ Center Calls on Janet Nap ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Hundreds at Local Rally Will Call for ICE to Grant Legal Status to Southern 32 for Standing Up to Abusive Employers and Law Enforcement On Tuesday, May 1, hundreds will gather at New Orleans City Hall to join the New Orl ...
  • New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...
  • Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by US Cou ...
    In a 2-1 ruling today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of former Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, and vacated his sentence. The case had attracted the attention of civil rights activists around the US, as well as Color of Change, a national racial justice activism ...
  • Statement in Response to the First Criminal In ...
    From a statement by our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Today a former BP employee has been indicted. We believe that there are more criminal indictments of oil companies possible, if only the Department of Justice would look. The Department should look into ongoing actions by man ...
  • Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
    A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...

Information Underground

  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Christopher Marlowe wrote: I know what you're thinking: "I wasn't planning on vaccinating my baby monkey!" I know. Neither was I. But when I thought about this, I began to see that human babies could be developing autism as a result of vaccines. I don't have any kids, but if I di ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Thanks for posting this one SPECTEC.... I think Psychology has only had a full bloom in the "Allied-Neutral" nations post WWII (England, USA, Canada). It seems wherever a lot of Jewish professors are found, well funded "Schools" of Psychology follow. Sometimes people need pr ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Here's probably what happened. Obama gets elected President, and one of the first things he does is get Hal Turner kicked from the FBI. Hal Turner reports at 21:20 (this was on Aug 1, 2009) : "From that point I had to reveal to my attorney something that had been a secret for 15 years. That ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    They trot him out after the NDAA got passed. Figures... ---------- On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into law for the first time in American history. The NDAA’s dangerous ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Letters without a return address never get to me; the prison discards them. No biggie. There are millions of fake names and addresses your correspondents could put on the envelope. They only need to pick one. My mailing address is: Thanks, Turder, but I don't think I'll be writing. I figure ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Lack of Profitability Drives U.S. Company Out ...
    A U.S.-based company that used genetic engineering to develop a technology to convert sugar into biofuel has announced that it will stop producing the fuel, at least temporarily, because the process simply isn’t profitable. Amyris, a San Francisco firm that also produces cosmetic products, had e ...
  • Greenland Glaciers Moving More Slowly Than Pr ...
    A new U.S. study says that Greenland’s glaciers are sliding into the sea more slowly than previously estimated, a finding that may indicate future sea level rise will not be as high as some projected worst-case scenarios. Using satellite data to track changes to 200 outlet glaciers from 2000 to ...
  • Japan Goes Nuclear-Free For the First Time in ...
    Japan will shut down its last working nuclear power station this weekend, culminating — at least for now — a national shift away from nuclear energy in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. The shutdown of the No. 3 Tomari reactor in Hokkaido will leave the country w ...
  • Earth Observation Satellites Threatened by Bud ...
    Budget shortfalls, launch failures, and mission changes have caused a decline in U.S. earth observation satellites over the last five years, a trend that could undermine the nation’s ability to forecast weather and monitor natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report. The repo ...
  • Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to G ...
    Studies designed to predict how plants and trees will react to rising temperatures have consistently underestimated those responses, with the actual flowering and leafing of plants advancing far more rapidly than most experiments forecast. That is the conclusion of new research by Canadian and U ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Name on deeds shouldn't affect divorce asset split
    Mr. A writes: "I'm a foreigner who has been married to a Japanese for more than 20 years. We bought a house in her name a few years ago, with a loan that's due after 30 years. Every month I pay half of the monthly installment. "My question is, as our house is actually in her name, what if one ...
  • Fujitsu to offer canine health-monitoring service
    Fujitsu Ltd. will launch a new service later this year that allows dog owners to monitor their pets' health via card-shaped devices attached to their collars, the company said Monday. The computer maker plans to team up with pet firms to provide the new service as dogs live longer and "increas ...
  • Japan to grant multiple-entry visas to individ ...
    Individual Chinese tourists specifically planning to visit the three northeastern prefectures hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami can now get three-year multiple-entry visas, government sources said. The aim is to attract Chinese with high purchasing power to help fund reconstru ...
  • 40 years after return, Okinawa still strugglin ...
    When people turn 40, they have reached a milestone age and one that often entails various responsibilities beyond caring just for oneself. Okinawa marks its 40th year Tuesday since the United States returned the prefecture to Japan. But for Jun Miyagi, Okinawa still has a lot of growing up to ...
  • Kepco area faces 20% power-saving request
    The government plans to ask residents and businesses served by Kansai Electric Power Co. to voluntarily reduce power usage by as much as 20 percent this summer to prevent blackouts, sources said Monday. The move follows a threatening report from a government panel on Saturday projecting that K ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Defending Green Jobs at the WTO
    As a partner in Blue Green Canada, the United Steelworkers have issued the following news release. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union and a CCPA research associate. WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy Canadian NGOs and labo ...
  • Resource Royalties: A Cure for Dutch Disease
    I have the following op-ed in today’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for expressing concern that Canada’s overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating manufacturing jobs. In reality, Wall is ...
  • Jobs: Ontario Left Behind
    Statistics Canada reported today that April was another good month for the labour market. The Canadian economy added 58,200 jobs, most of which were full-time and all of which were paid positions rather than reported self-employment. Paradoxically, official unemployment increased as more Canadia ...
  • Don’t Kid Yourself: We all pay for the defundi ...
    I went to McGill in the late 80s and early 90s when tuition fees were less than $1,200 a year, so with summer jobs and some parental help I graduated from my first degree debt-free. For my MA, which I took in Ontario, I worked part-time and graduated after one year with a debt of [...]
  • Corak in Context
    Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada ...

ReDress

  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
  • Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
    Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...
  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:35 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...
  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:37:51 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:30:23 GMT)

Peakwater

  • Worst drought in 50 years takes toll in northe ...
    “RIO DE JANEIRO — Severe drought gripping northeastern Brazil — the worst in a half-century — is taking its toll on more than 1,100 towns, even triggering fighting in rural areas, local media reported Sunday. An average of one person a day is being killed in “water wars&# ...
  • Bill seeks to clarify groundwater oversight
    “A proposed law designed to keep water bills from skyrocketing has passed a state Senate committee, but opponents vow to fight the measure they say is a “political power grab.” Senate Bill 1386, authored by Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, would remove barriers to storing gro ...
  • Romney Water Pollution Record: Hundreds of Cor ...
    “As Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney gave industrial wastewater dischargers free rein to discharge chemicals into municipal treatment systems unable to filter them out of the Commonwealth’s waters, according to documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEE ...
  • Afghanistan: Flash Flood Kills At Least 27 In ...
    “KABUL, Afghanistan — A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 17 people, authorities said. It was the second major flood reported this week in the north. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Takhar province, said flood wa ...
  • Africa: U.S. Response to Future Water Crisis T ...
    “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton requested the report and she named Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero to lead the U.S. response to the challenges outlined in the study. Otero told the Washington audience that the first priority she and Clinton ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich on Sequester Replacement Act: The Rea ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the United States House of Representatives in opposition of H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012: “It is called a reconciliation act, but how do we reconcile more money ...
  • Kucinich on AP Afghanistan Poll:
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after a poll conducted by the Associated Press showed that less than 30% of Americans support the war in Afghanistan: “A recent poll by the Associated Press demonstrates that support for the U.S. war in Afghanistan has r ...
  • Bombs or Bread; Congress Must Decide
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video in advance of today’s expected vote on the Sequestration Replacement Reconciliation Act which raids, among other domestic programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to fund the military budget. ...
  • Kucinich Inspires at American University in Du ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the keynote address at the American University in Dubai’s Fifteenth Commencement. Kucinich spoke to an attentive audience of about 5,000. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...
  • The Key to Economic Recovery; Kucinich Explain ...
    In advance of a Financial Services Subcommittee hearing today to look at legislative proposals for “reforming or abolishing the Federal Reserve,” Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following video detailing how his legislation would reassert Congressional authority over American mon ...

Authentically Wired

  • sounds an awful like sour grapes
    …Sorry Colin Powell … too little, too late … sounds an awful like sour grapes … You had an opportunity to be a “stand-up” man and you blew it …   Colin Powell: Bush Didn’t Consult National Security Council on Iraq War Read the Article at The Huffington Post   Filed under: B ...
  • just as phony and illusionary
    …What a joke … what is feared is that you and I just might actually catch on the $$$ we now use courtesy of the privately owned Federal Reserve is just as phony and illusionary as Bitcoin…   FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals 05-10-2012  •  www.wired.com  The FBI s ...
  • POPE can continue to “wink-wink” ...
    … Perfect example of Catholic hypocrisy … POPE and priests can continue to “wink-wink” sanction continuing pedophilia but NO way will they allow Catholic boys to play baseball against a boy’s team with a female on it …                       ...
  • Corporatist$ now have direct acc$$ to purcha$e ...
          … Corporatist$ now have direct acc$$ to purcha$e our Congre$$ and we will never know as corporate owned ma$$ media will never tell … Filed under: Blogroll
  • just conspiracy theory stuff
    …Any truth to this or is this what corporate mass media wants you and I to believe is just conspiracy theory stuff…?   Top Secret Places Governments Don’t Want You To Know About   govt9126 | May 10, 2012  …  http://govtslaves.info/top-secret-places-governments- ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...
  • Our success in transforming commodity markets ...
    The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate of the world's remaining wild places, said a group of experts speaking at a panel during the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepr ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Japan to shut down last nuclear reactors
    Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.On Saturday,...
  • NZ schools lacking effective science programme ...
    Less than a third of schools have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students, according to the Education Review Office.An ERO report,
  • Scientists call for urgency on cancer-phone link
    The jury is still out on mobile phone health risks. Picture / AP Allegations of bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering, lobbying and lawsuits: the debate about the safety of mobile...
  • Minivan sized meteor packed explosive power
    Scientists say a giant fireball that exploded in daylight over California's Central Valley over the weekend was a rare phenomenon and much larger than most meteors.Bill Cooke, a specialist in meteors at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight...
  • US company to mine asteroids for water
    A US company, backed by film director James Cameron and Google's top executives, has unveiled bold plans to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water.Heralding a new frontier in space exploitation, Planetary Resources announced...

The Bovine

  • Growing support for raw milk access
    From David Hamilton, in the Chicago Sun Times: “When mom is the source, milk —the universal first meal — requires no further processing. With cow’s milk, it’s a different story. Before Louis Pasteur concluded that heat kills disease-related bacteria, everyone … Continue reading →
  • How to lose weight and keep it off
    In honour of Mother’s day, we’re looking at a theme that will be of more than passing interest to many mothers out there: From Barry Estabrook, on his Politics of the Plate blog: “In the mid-1990s, Peter Kaminsky, a self-proclaimed … Continue reading →
  • How vegetable oil came to replace animal fats ...
    An excerpt from the book “The Happiness Diet”, via The Atlantic: “Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, canals, and lakes. In the 1800s, Cincinnati was the heart of … Continue reading →
  • Fluoride debate at London city council reminis ...
    From George Clark, QMI Agency, in the London Free Press: “I was reminded last week of the social critic and stand-up comedian George Carlin. He was quoted as saying about causes that “Just because the monkey got off your back, … Continue reading →
  • New study on Amish shows how raw milk promotes ...
    From Rady Ananda, on Food Freedom News “An international team of researchers recently confirmed that children who drink fresh milk – unprocessed and unpasteurized – have a better immune response to allergens and are far less likely to develop asthma. Researchers … Continue reading &# ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • ALS Update; I Still Need Your Help; Money Cont ...
    In case you missed it, back on April 2, 2012 I reported My Wife Joanne Has ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. In that post, I announced I was running a raffle for the benefit of the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Please read the post if you have not yet seen it. Many people have asked for an updat ...
  • Mr. "Lie When It's Serious" Juncker Tells Anot ...
    Those looking for a bit of humor in the European debacle can find it in statements from Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone finance ministers. Juncker says "I don’t envisage, not even for one second, Greece leaving the euro area. This is nonsense. This is propaganda. We have to respec ...
  • 200,000 Lose Unemployment Benefits This Week, ...
    The grim situation in California is about to get grimmer as Unemployment Benefits Go Bye-Bye More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program. Nearly half of them live in California ...
  • No Deal: Greek Moderate Left Party says "No Go ...
    The talks still continue but good news is on the horizon as yet another political party, the Democratic Left, has backed out of the Unity coalition. Please consider Greece's moderate left says no government possible The moderate Democratic Left party in Greece says it will not join pro- ...
  • Five European Central Bankers Discuss Greek Eu ...
    A small dose of reality has set in for a group of European central bankers: Euro Officials Begin to Weigh Greek Exit as Euro Weakens. Greece’s possible exit from the euro moved to the center of Europe’s financial-crisis debate, rattling markets as authorities in Athens struggled to form a go ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 24 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.” ...
  • The EyeOpener- Spotlight Baluchistan: Minerals ...
    To the residents of Baluchistan it must be puzzling that this remote, sparsely populated region in Pakistan’s southwest is increasingly gaining the attention of far-flung corners of the globe, from Beijing to Moscow to Tel Aviv to Washington. A rugged, arid region dominated by the ethnic m ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 23 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”—George Bernard Shaw International Newsworthy Suspected Cyber-Attack Hits Iran’s Oil Sector Iran’s T ...
  • Patriots – Convenient & Otherwise
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Mexican reporter found dead in his car
    The body of Mexican reporter René Orta Salgado has been found by police in the trunk of his car in central Mexico.
  • 11 blue helmets wounded in Congo chaos
    Villagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attacked UN peacekeepers in the east of the country, wounding at least 11 Pakistani troops.
  • Two released Iranians arrive in Turkey
    Two more Iranians who were abducted in Syria have been released and have arrived in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hatay, an Iranian diplomat in Ankara told Press TV.
  • ‘Foreign states behind Syria terror acts’
    Russia says powerful foreign military and financial backing is emboldening the Syrian opposition to continue terrorist activities.
  • NATO in damage control for Libya deaths
    NATO has defended its military onslaught on Libya following the release of a report by Human Rights Watch that says scores of civilians were killed in just eight of the many airstrikes carried out during NATO’s seven-month campaign last year.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

Nick Turse

  • Protesters march through the streets, Tuesday, ...
    Protesters march through the streets, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions. (Mary Altaffer)
  • (via Tom Toles)
    (via Tom Toles)
  • "In truth, our leaders should be in mourning f ...
    “In truth, our leaders should be in mourning for whatever peaceful dreams we ever had. But...
  • Protesters clash with police, Tuesday, May 1, ...
    Protesters clash with police, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 during May Day protests in downtown Seattle. Activists across the U.S. joined in worldwide May Day protests Tuesday, with anti-Wall Street demonstrators leading the way in some cities as they tried to recapture the enthusiasm that propelled the ...
  • Holding U.S. and Mexican flage, Angelica Alvar ...
    Holding U.S. and Mexican flags, Angelica Alvarez joins others prtoesting U.A. immigration policy at one of several May Day protests in Los Angeles, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in se ...
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