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Thursday, May 17, 2012

17 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Thousands listen to President Barack Obama's r...Thousands listen to President Barack Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Barack Obama, left, flanked by Treas...President Barack Obama, left, flanked by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and Vice President Joseph Biden, right, receive an Economic Briefing, Monday, March 23, 2009, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

  • Hey, Not So Fast on European Austerity
    European policy makers just don’t get it. To hear them talk, you’d think that Europe was on the right path. Troubled countries just need more of the same, they say — more fiscal austerity, more labor market flexibility, more price stability — and the European crisis will be licked. Have they ...
  • How to bankrupt a generation
    The viable pathway for success for many young Americans seems to have gotten very narrow in the last decade. The opportunities for many young workers have become mired with an economy that is largely in a deep recession with limited quality positions. Many are saddled with debt and taking on e ...
  • Murdoch and the Big Lie
    The malign political influence of the Murdochs poses a fundamental challenge to British democracy. This will not be dealt with by selling off the ownership of their papers, welcome though this might be, or the removal of their influence from BSkyB on the grounds (as I argued last year) that the ...
  • UN Mute Over NATO Syrian Death Squads
    Since 2011, reports of arsonists and gunmen amongst Syria's opposition have been included in reports regarding the unrest in Syria, albeit buried under sensational headlines of the Syrian government's "brutality." More recently, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has conceded that indeed the Syrian opposi ...
  • Taliban stronger than before troop surge: US l ...
    The Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of US troops to Afghanistan, two senior US lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration’s assessment of the insurgency.

Independent - London

  • Israel wants Olympic silence for Munich
    Israel urged the international community yesterday to overturn the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) “unacceptable” rejection of its request for a minute’s silence during London 2012 in memory of the 11 athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich games. Related StoriesPalestinian cave dwellers ca ...
  • Special Report: Helmand deaths prompt security ...
    Vetting procedures for Afghan security personnel in Helmand are being tightened after the killing of two members of the British forces by policemen, The Independent has learnt.Related StoriesJapanese fugitive penguin 337 spotted in Tokyo BayUludere massacre raises questions over use of US techn ...
  • Tasering a pregnant woman: excessive police fo ...
    Malaika Brooks, who was seven-and-a-half months pregnant, was driving her 11-year-old son to school when Seattle police flagged her down, on suspicion of speeding. She had been travelling, they claimed, at 32mph. The local speed limit was 20.Related StoriesNew Jersey man surgically attaches iPo ...
  • Prosecution error sees Mladic trial delayed fo ...
    After waiting nearly 20 years for the war crimes and genocide trial of Ratko Mladic, the families of his alleged victims will have to wait some months more after the judge at the special court for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague yesterday suspended proceedings indefinitely after it transpire ...
  • G8 summit: The hunger game
    Leading charities have issued a grim warning to the world's top leaders meeting today for the G8 summit at President Barack Obama's country retreat at Camp David: their failure to keep previous promises is tipping poor countries into famine.Related StoriesThe day the world comes out for tolerance

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Nighttime Eating May Lead to Obesity
    By cramming all of your eating into a smaller number of hours, you might be able to reduce your risk of obesity and related diseases, suggests a new mouse study -- even if you continue to eat exactly the same amount of food that you were eating before. When given the same quantity of high-fat f ...
  • Judgement: Terror law violates 1st Amendment
    A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Am ...
  • Boy gnaws on piece of finger in Arby's sandwich
    A Michigan teen made a gristly discovery after biting into an Arby's junior roast beef sandwich. Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out. Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy p ...
  • Can a Kid Be a Psychopath?
    The groundbreaking HBO documentary Child of Rage years ago showed how horrific abuse and neglect could leave a child unable to bond with other people, turning them into children "without conscience, who can hurt or even kill without remorse." In other words: the child becomes a psychopath. But ...
  • Israeli Tank Fire Hurts Seven in Gaza: Medics
    Palestine - Israeli tanks fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, wounding seven Palestinians and leaving two of them in critical condition, Palestinian medical officials told AFP. The shell hit near the Karni crossing east of Gaza City, according to the medics, who said the injured included thr ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • They really didn't mean it
    Peter MacKay presents his latest bit of bungling. Defence Minister Peter MacKay's recent written response to questions tabled in Parliament reveal that 2006 federal Conservative promises for 5 Wing Goose Bay are no longer part of the military’s plans. Prior to the election that brou ...
  • China and Harper and and and
    Nice one, Harper. The opposition is demanding to know what steps have been taken to address security concerns over foreign companies operating in Canada's telecommunications industry, in the wake of a CBC News report about a Chinese firm's contracts in Canada. On the surface it is r ...
  • Your government doesn't like it when you know ...
    So much for anything resembling freedom, freedom of information or freedom of the press. The Harperites don't like it when you know stuff. The Harper government called in the RCMP to investigate a politically embarrassing story involving the decision to sole-source the purchase of the F- ...
  • Dear Jim,
    EI is not welfare, it is insurance against loss of income due to unemployment and it is paid for by Canadians. It is incredibly valuable in a struggling economy. "That means we are going to have to encourage more persons with disabilities to work, more seniors to work, more aboriginal peo ...
  • Education policy in Canada...
    ...consists of riot cops sicked on unarmed teachers, parents, and students should these cohorts object to the state raising the cost of education.  And today at UQAM, students march in masks against the scabs in their ranks. Maybe this is getting way out of ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity And Luntz Promote "Fact-Based" Ad That ...
    On Sean Hannity's Fox News show, conservative pollster Frank Luntz asserted that an Americans for Prosperity ad attacking President Obama over stimulus spending was successful in part because it is "fact-based, not assertions." In reality, nearly every claim in the ad is false or misleading.Lun ...
  • Fox Champions Discriminatory Bill That Would L ...
    Fox News is decrying the inclusion of needed provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that would protect immigrants, Native Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals from domestic abuse. Critics contend that not extending these protections would render victims more vu ...
  • Fox Revives Deceptive Editing Of Anita Dunn Clip
    More than two years after Glenn Beck used his Fox News show to deceptively edit then-Obama administration official Anita Dunn's comments referencing Mao Zedong, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld echoed Beck's false portrayal of what Dunn said by airing a similarly edited clip.Fox' Gutfeld Plays Decept ...
  • Fox's Flawed Attempt To Deflect Attention From ...
    Fox News is pushing fatally flawed analogies to defend Mitt Romney from criticism over his jobs record at Bain Capital, pointing to the Obama administration's green energy loans and the successful rescue of the U.S. auto industry. These comparisons crumble under scrutiny, as leveraged buyouts a ...
  • Fox Finds The Villain Of JPMorgan Chase's $2 B ...
    In the wake of a $2 billion trading loss sustained by the bank JPMorgan Chase, many economists have advocated for the strengthening of financial reform to prevent against reckless behavior. Not Fox, however, which has argued that the problem is too much regulation of Wall Street banks.JPMorgan ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Interview with Rafael Alegría, Honduran Peasan ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Latin America Bureau Previous Publication Info Previous publication:  Latin America Bureau Outside Link:  ...
  • Khaldeya’s Garden
    khaldeya_soboh_with_onions.jpg Khaldeya Soboh first learned about the urban garden project in Gaza when she saw her neighbor’s garden filled with vegetables.  Although she had a bit of land near her home for years, it sat idle.  T ...
  • Stop the Wall's Ramallah office raided
    stw_computers_damaged.jpg Israeli military forces conducted an early morning raid of the Ramallah office of Stop the Wall, a civil society coalition organizing in opposition to the construction of the Separation Wall that Israel continues t ...
  • Healthy food today, healthy earth tomorrow
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is Coordinator of Our Water Commons and a consultant with Grassroots International. Outside Author:  Daniel Moss ...
  • Insights Spring 2012 - Healthy food today, hea ...
    Put simply, agroecology recognizes that a crop lives in a complex neighborhood of pests,  aquifers, land and climate patterns, and economic pressures. That doesn't sound like a radical notion, but the truth is that if applied, it might just blow the roof off of current industrial agricultur ...

Climate

  • Natural Sinks Still Sopping Up Carbon
    (ScienceNews) Earth's ecosystems keep soaking up more carbon as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, new measurements find.
  • New Statistical Analysis Tries to Pinpoint Tem ...
    (Summit County Citizens Voice) Scientists have fine-tuned a sophisticated climate model that helps narrow the gap between previous predictions. Through online maps, people can see how their own region's temperature will likely change b ...
  • Brazilian Government Sets Guidelines for Succe ...
    (IPS News) As the host of Rio+20, the Brazilian government has defined guidelines for achieving success at the upcoming world summit, whose aim is to assess and strengthen what has been done since the 1992 Earth Summit.
  • Climate Deal Milestones Should Be Set This Yea ...
    (Reuters) Countries which agreed to sign a deal in 2015 to cut greenhouse gas emissions should set milestones this year to ensure the necessary work is done on time, the UN climate chief said on Wednesday.
  • U.S. Shale Boom, Europe Glut Alter Energy Land ...
    (Reuters) The shale energy boom in North America will lead to an industrial revival in the region while Europe could benefit from a conventional gas glut that will help decouple it from surging global oil prices, according to industry ...

GreenBiz

  • Intel slashes emissions, but misses water and ...
    Intel soundly beat its greenhouse-gas emissions goals, but missed several other targets: It consumes more water and creates more chemical waste than previously, instead of less. Are its new goals more realistic?
  • Sustainability through software: Q&A with SAP' ...
    In advance of SAP's largest user conference this week, Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf spoke with GreenBiz about decoupling emissions from revenue growth, employee engagement and what's next.
  • PG&E's new EV proposal lays groundwork for $1- ...
    PG&E's new rate proposal would encourage EV drivers to charge when there's plenty of spare capacity on the electrical grid, at a price that -- in real dollars -- is less than half what gas cost in 1949.  
  • Why companies need composting to meet zero was ...
    Organic waste makes up approximately 30 percent of the annual U.S. waste, so cutting it is key to meeting waste-diversion or zero-landfill goals. Here's what you need to know to succeed.
  • Forget the paperless office: Here's how to get ...
    The paperless office remains a myth. But in the last five years, offices actually have started using less paper and reaping the savings. Here are some tips for creating an effective "less paper" strategy.

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • One Big Difference
    Forgive me the all caps in the title. I think after you review this post, though, you will agree with me it's justified. You see, this post compares the two parties on an issue that many people in America agree they differ radically, and I'm here to show them they are right -- just not the way ...
  • The War on Women Continues Apace
    One of the annoying things about the Clerk of the House of Representatives' webpage is that it is very difficult to identify who voted yes and no on a bill. Unlike the Senate page (example here), which sorts the votes alphabetically and by home state, the House version only identifies the minor ...
  • 40 Acres and a Mule
    The Washington Post reports that last year, for the first time, a very slight majority of the babies born in this country were not white. I understand that articles like this are going to make some white people uncomfortable. I don't have entirely unmixed feelings about it myself, despite the ...
  • Torture Didn't Work
    So, it looks like Diane Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee is going to release a report sometime this summer that concludes that we didn't learn shit from torturing people. We only know about this because the guy in charge of torturing people, Jose Rodriguez, has been going all over the ...
  • Happy Birthday Cabin Girl!
    May you have an especially great day with your kids and the spousal unit, what's his name. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers
    Are nature's patterns as random as we might think? The Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical series known about since at least the 12th century, makes us believe otherwise. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Disaster Response a Major Issue in the Melting ...
    Disaster response in the melting Arctic lags far behind the challenges posed by this rapidly evolving, climate change-created world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How at Risk is Thailand from a Devastating Ear ...
    An earthquake in Thailand focused attention on emergency preparedness. Improvements would reduce the risk of casualties in Bangkok and coastal provinces. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Moo-tal Combat! Fujairah's Bonkers Bullfightin ...
    In the blazing heat and swirling dust of a late afternoon in Fujairah, hulking bulls battle it out to win honor for their owners. This is bullfighting, UAE style! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Alien Landscapes of Human Eyes in Macro
    These astonishing macro photos of eyes will intrigue and delight while you read a few facts about the human eye – one of nature's most remarkable instruments. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A baffling tale: Millions of Kg of Asian gold, ...
    I really don't know what to make of this, but it's still worthwhile to pull a few links together for research purposes. Don't assume anything in this story is true, particularly since very little of the info is coming from people I would consider reliable sources. I suggest doing your own resear ...
  • A moment of police state zen: White House-appr ...
    A bunch of new documents have been FOIA'd out showing the various layers of Occupy crackdown. We certainly watched it all happen pretty rapidly from the ol GlobalRev catbird seat. One week, everything seemed weirdly quiet on the eviction front -- then seemingly overnight the police squads rushed ...
  • Sibel Edmonds narrative released in 'Classifie ...
    After many years of struggling to get her story across to the American public, 9/11 & FBI/national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has released " Classified Woman"". For many years we have tried to track aspects of Sibel's case on this site (older hub page & category) including the ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program a ...
    Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit dr ...
  • #WhileWeWatch Occupy Wall Street documentary t ...
    It was a fun experience out at Zuccotti Park last October/November, and one late morning/early afternoon I gave an interview to Kevin Breslin, a gung ho director who pulled the OWS pieces together a 38-minute documentary called #whilewewatch on very little budget. It's been making the rounds and ...

Daily Censored

  • Avenge This: US kills 500 and spends $1 billio ...
    The Avengers has earned over $1 billion in ticket sales; this colossal amount of money communicates that the story inspires the hero in all of us. Americans can direct their heroism here: Because of the tremendous sacrifices of all our families through two world wars, the US authored war law int ...
  • Making the Case for Economic Relocalization
    The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economic relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy ...
  • Obama sues students in default on educational ...
    I was reading the latest May 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, when I noticed on the infamous last page of the magazine under, “Findings”, the following finding: “Rich people are likelier to steal candy from children” (Harpers, May, 2012, Findings, pp.80). I thought about it for awhile and it mad ...
  • Corporate media: anonymous ‘official’ of un-na ...
    Following US and UK “leaders” Obama and Cameron’s threats to war-murder Iranians under ongoing similar non-specific accusations, US corporate media now “reports” that an un-named alleged official from an un-named nation provided a generic drawing alleged to be from an Iran military base consiste ...
  • DRONES OR BOYS AND THEIR TOYS: THE USA’S LATES ...
    The work of the US military is to kill, its pretext – defense of the homeland. It has succeeded in training soldiers, mostly young men, to kill without remorse, that is until they leave the military with flare-ups of psychological trauma or PTSD. But neither the military nor the White House has. ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #731 (Henry Crumpton ...
    Ex-CIA officer says more spies in US than ever before. Introduction to Crumpton's The Art of Intelligence. Can the FBI understand intelligence?
  • News you may have missed #730
    Iran executes man convicted of killing nuclear physicist. Bahrain sentences man accused of spying for Iran. NSA declassifies document after publishing it.
  • News you may have missed #729 (intel blunder e ...
    US drones 'incidentally' spy on Americans. Indian intel blunder sparks anger in Pakistan. Venezuelan spies face criticism over 'crossword puzzle' plot.
  • US resumes controversial weapons sale to Bahrain
    The United States has announced that it will resume a controversial weapons deal with the Kingdom of Bahrain, despite its government’s substandard human rights record, which has been internationally criticized in the context of the Arab Spring.
  • Russia charges engineer with spying for foreig ...
    Russian authorities have charged an engineer working at a top-secret military facility in the Urals with espionage, accusing him of passing classified information about Russian ballistic missiles to agents of a foreign government.

War is a Crime.org

  • Indefinite Detention Struck Down By Judge Who ...
  • War with Iran Devastating to American Interest ...
    Washington D.C. (May 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is urging Members to reject H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act, FY 2013 because it prepares the way for a disastrous war with Iran. Even if the House accepts a proposed amendment by John Conyers (D-MI) to state t ...
  • The Only True Revolution in Syria Is Nonviolent
    By Iara Lee, Activist and filmmaker The present conflict in Syria is a rather ugly mutation of the Arab uprisings that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa over a year ago. As in other countries, the uprising in Syria began with peaceful demonstrations for democratic reform, only to d ...
  • G8/NATO Summit Protests Start Heating Up
    http://fromplatotonato.blogspot.com/2012/05/g8nato-summit-protests-start-heating-up.html   For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you ...
  • Gaza's Ark
    We are thrilled to announce the Gaza's Ark project and the participation of those in the United States who support the people of Gaza and the West Bank.   If you would like to know more about Gaza's Ark and how you can support the project, join us on a conference call,     Tuesda ...

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • Microbial Life at Glacier Edges Points to Poss ...
    Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets were methane is released could help researchers find evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ice sheets similar to thos on Earth exist elsewhere in the solar system, ...
  • New Forensics Tool Can Slurp a Phone's Data vi ...
    The police don't even need to touch your phone anymore to know how you've been using it. A new off-the-shelf forensics tool lets cops retrieve all the data they want from your iPhone by accessing its contents through iCloud.
  • Cosmic HyperEvolution: "Early Galaxies of Univ ...
    The case for highly evoloved advanced technological civilizations billions of years older than Earth-based humans just grew stronger according to new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. All objects in the image are distant galaxies - not stars. Early galaxies from the infancy of the Universe ...
  • Video: Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm W ...
    With the BrainGate interface, a woman who is paralyzed from the neck down, moved a robotic arm toward a coffee cup, grasped it and was able to take a drink. It was the first time in 15 years that she was able to drink her coffee on her own.
  • Earth's 10 Most Likely Hotspots to be Oblitera ...
    Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardousasteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possibledangers they may pose.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Meaningless Lives of Endless Compromise
    By Les Visible A good portion of people live meaningless lives of endless compromise. They cut deals with whatever elements of existence will permit them to acquire whatever shit sandwich they have developed a taste for and… you’d better not refer to it as a shit sandwich. A meaningf ...
  • Iceland’s Amazing Peaceful Revolution – Still ...
    By voice13 Iceland’s peaceful revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. The following summation has been posted by countless people on Facebook; I’ve reposted it in its entirety: ICELAND (GP) – No news from Iceland? Why? Last we heard, people ...
  • Superbugs mutate in India, rendering antibioti ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer 2,192 [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) It is no longer a secret that drug-resistant bacteria are rapidly emerging and spreading all around the world as a result of the continued overuse and abuse of antibiotic drugs in both conventional medicine and industrial ...
  • Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out. But based on the timing of the symptoms and their relation ...
  • Seeking Sustenance on Hungry Wednesday
    By Les Visible What I have found, as a seeker, is that certain guaranteed states of awareness arrive over the course of the search. One of these things is being absolutely convinced of the presence and operation of a supreme being. It’s something different from faith and belief. It’s ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Galveston’s Green Revival House is a LEED Plat ...
    Historic houses can become energy-efficient without losing charm – just look at the Galveston Historical Foundation‘s Green Revival House at 3101 Avenue Q in Galveston, Texas. The project started when GHF moved the house 17 blocks to a new lot after Hurricane Ike destroyed its founda ...
  • US Consumers Willing To Pay Higher Utility Bil ...
    According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Americans are willing to pay for slightly higher electricity bills for clean energy. The survey, led by researchers from Yale and Harvard, asked this question: would consumers be interested in a law requiring utilities to sourc ...
  • WTO Panel Rules Against Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling
    On Wednesday the World Trade Organization ruled against the sale of cans of tuna labeled “dolphin safe,” arguing that the practice discriminates against Mexican fishermen and that the United States’ definition of “dolphin safe” tuna unfairly restricts trade. The WTO ...
  • 6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food!
    Read the rest of 6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 6 best, agricultural waste, Alison Knowles, Andrea Trimarchi, Art, arti performance, biodegradable designs, biodegradable materials, boom!, building blocks, cacao, canned food, Can ...
  • Geoengineering Experiment in UK Canceled Over ...
    A controversial geoengineering experiment that would have simulated the cooling effect of a volcanic eruption was canceled this week over a patent dispute. A team of scientists in the United Kingdom had announced last year their plans to send a gigantic balloon 12 miles above earth to recreate a ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • New Obama Book Shocker: Kennedys and Obamas at ...
    “There had always been tensions at Kennedy family gatherings — fist fights and overturned tables were not unheard of — and this event was no exception,” Klein writes in an advanced copy obtained by The Blaze. That “event” was a meeting in 2009, which featured a who’s who in the Kennedy family, i ...
  • U.S. Ambassador to Israel: Plan to Attack Iran ...
    The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shaprio, told a closed conference in Tel Aviv that the United States has completed preparations for a military strike on Iran. His comments were recorded by a reporter and aired on Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Wednesday night.
  • Report Shows How Radiation Can Destroy DNA
    The threat of radiation is constant and growing; too much radiation from medical testing and other sources is increasingly becoming a concern for many individuals around the world. The average child will receive more than seven radiation emitting scans for medical procedure by age 18, not to men ...
  • Judge Blocks Portion of NDAA
    A federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction against a National Defense Authorization Act provision that grants the military the right to detain anyone it suspects of involvement in terrorism. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of a group of plaintiffs, including Truthdig col ...
  • What’s NATO Ever Done?
    Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of prisoners and unaccountable drone war are a few of NATO’s ou ...

Andy Worthington

  • Rents Out of Control: How Londoners Are Being ...
    Yesterday, in my article bemoaning the baleful effect on London of hosting the Olympic Games, I touched upon a story that had emerged last week, when the BBC reported that tenants in east London were being evicted as their landlords sought to cash in on the Olympics, charging up to 20 times the ...
  • Our Olympic Hell: A Militarised, Corporate, Ji ...
    Last month, when it was revealed that the MoD was siting surface-to-air missiles on the roofs of residential buildings as part of the bloated security measures for the Olympics — estimated to cost at least £1.4 billion, to be paid for by taxpayers — there was a brief flurry of outrag ...
  • War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Ch ...
    Last November, a war crimes tribunal established in Malaysia “found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack,” as Glenn Greenwald e ...
  • The Tories’ Vile Workfare Project, and H ...
    Forcing people into jobs they don’t want, just to claim their benefit, might be defensible if there was pretty swiftly a real job available to those who were capable and wanted it, but as the Tory-led government has pushed its workfare scheme, the alarming truth is that it has created a fo ...
  • Occupy London, May 12: Photos from the Bank of ...
    There was a point, during yesterday’s Occupy protest in the City of London, with hundreds of people flowing down High Viaduct from Holborn Circus, high above Farringdon Street, and heading towards Newgate Street, Cheapside and the Bank of England, when there was a real power to the message ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Missouri Nat’l Guard Investigates Claims of Ne ...
    The Missouri National Guard is investigating a new claim that its ranks are infiltrated with neo-Nazis – this time a “patched member” of the violent American Front, whose members stand accused of plotting violence in Florida. The inquiry comes after the Missouri Legislature conducted a hearing i ...
  • Intelligence Report Article Provokes Outrage A ...
    The last issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report presented a scathing portrait of “a hard-line fringe” of the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM): “women haters whose fury goes well beyond criticism of the family court system, domestic violence laws, and false rape accusations,” whose rage is “directed ...
  • Court Documents: American Front was Planning V ...
    Members of the American Front – a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group in Florida – were planning acts of violence and preparing for “an inevitable race war” when 11 of them were arrested last week, court documents say. The documents, the outgrowth of a two-year investigation, also ...
  • Anti-Gay Activists Adopt a Dubious Model — the ...
    Conservatives tend to object when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement, often claiming that LGBT activists are trying to “hijack” a unique moment in American history. It had been our impression here at Hatewatch that this objection was underpinned by an antipathy towa ...
  • Gun, Ammo Sales Skyrocketing in Anticipation o ...
    A hard-hitting propaganda campaign unleashed this year by Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, may be convincing Americans that President Obama will crack down on gun ownership if he’s re-elected and becomes a lame duck. Skyrocketing sales of guns and ammunition, ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • House Bill Reinstates 'Global Gag Rule,' Cuts ...
    A House panel has approved today a 2013 State Department funding bill that reinstates the Mexico City Policy, also known as the "global gag rule," and eliminates all funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).(photo: Women's eNews) ...
  • Updated: Under Pressure, TED Releases 'Income ...
    UPDATE: After a spirited twenty-four hour online campaign aimed at TED, which urged the group to make available a talk given in March by venture capitalist, Nick Hanauer, on the negative impacts of income inequality on the economy, the non-proft group released a statement addressing what they te ...
  • US Rep. Dennis Kucinich to Retire From Office
    US Rep. read more
  • Massive Student Protest Fills Streets of Montr ...
    Thousands of student protesters flooded the streets in Montreal last night after Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced a proposal for a new 'emergency law' in a bid to end the ongoing 14 week old student uprising and strike. The proposed legislation would halt the spring semester, push u ...
  • Hoax: CBS Reports Predator Drone Spotted Near ...
    UPDATE: New video below shows that the drone video is a hoax. * * * CBS News in Chicago is running the following news item. Many viewers in discussion accompanying the YouTube video think the video is faked. What do you think? * * * CBS News Chicago reports: ...

Lifehacker

  • Best Web Hosting Company? [Hive Five Call For ...
    There are plenty of free online services that promise to host your digital life, but when you're serious about taking control of your own data, it's time to host it yourself. There are dozens of companies willing to take your money in exchang ...
  • Windownaut Beefs Up OS X's Title Bar Buttons, ...
    Mac only: Windownaut overhauls window management on your Mac so you can arrange your windows in a multitude of ways, customize the functions of its title bar buttons, and lots more. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Investigators Can Access Y ...
    Investigators can obtain your iPhone data without touching it, Apple will not approve Mac apps with hotkey functionality after June, and YouTube expands its merchandise store to all of its partners (not solely musicians). New Forensics Tool ...
  • If You Want the Truth Out of Someone, Send The ...
    A new study shows that people are more likely to tell the truth in text messages than they are in phone calls. More »
  • The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hack ...
    Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple. ...

Water Privatization

  • Snyder in Direct Appeal to Bulova, F.C. Counci ...
    The Falls Church City Council voted unanimously, 5-0 (2 absent), to give preliminary approval to the sale of its water system, but not before a small rally of folks opposed to the privatization of public utilities was held on rainy City Hall steps and Vice Mayor David Snyder, chairing the meetin ...
  • On Health Workers Day, health workers reiterat ...
    By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL “The government is passing its obligation to the private sector to reduce its social spending.” – Health Alliance for Democracy Other Stories: Gov’t temporary employment program for nurses, exploitative Finding fulfillment in serving the poor
  • Privatization plan could bring jail to Hinsdale
    HINSDALE, N.H. -- The town is one of three being eyed as the potential site of a prison if the state turns the industry over to any of four national corporations that have submitted bids for private ownership of correctional facilities.
  • Editorial: Slowdown on privatization
    CITY Hall consultant Danilo Dayanghirang has a point in opposing the privatization of water utilities. What should be demanded instead is for executives of government-owned corporations who get fat allowances and plenty of room to throw their weight around to be as efficient as their pays requir ...
  • University eliminates the sale of bottled water
    Loyola University Chicago is ridding its campus of bottled water. School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013.

Guardian

  • Facebook share price set at $38
    Social network's landmark flotation has investors clamouring to buy, but some analysts issue warnings about IPOFacebook has set the final price of shares in its landmark initial public offering at $38 (£24), the top of the price range it gave this week, as investors clamoured to buy into the soc ...
  • Barack Obama tells EU: boost growth now or fac ...
    Germany to be urged to ease austerity during G8 talks as fears of global recession growBarack Obama is to put pressure on Germany to ease the pain of austerity with policies to boost growth, as he uses two days of talks with the G8 industrial nations to warn Europe that it needs to act swiftly t ...
  • Moody's downgrades Santander UK along with 16 ...
    Shares in Bankia, Spain's fourth largest lender, also tumble as rumours spread of depositors withdrawing fundsThe credit rating agency Moody's has downgraded 16 Spanish banks along with Santander's UK arm, citing the Spanish government's reduced ability to shore up the banks.Santander UK, whose ...
  • Trayvon Martin postmortem reveals traces of dr ...
    Florida teenager, who was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch leader, found to have traces of marijuana in blood and urineTrayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in his system on the night he was killed by a neighbourhood watch leader later charged with the teenager's murder, a postmortem report h ...
  • Parenting lessons: this is not the nanny state ...
    Prime minister launches Can Parent initiative to offer guidance and says he will push for childcare tax breaksParenting classes should be taken as seriously as driving lessons, David Cameron will declare as he announces measures to help the "nation-builders" raising Britain's next generation.Th ...

McClatchey

  • Europe’s economic troubles mount ahead ...
    Europe?s deepening debt crisis is likely to play out on U.S. shores Friday as financial markets digest the downgrade of the creditworthiness of 16 Spanish banks and the arrival of…Click to Continue »
  • Obama will meet with NATO to ponder Afghanista ...
    President Barack Obama will host the NATO alliance Sunday in Chicago to talk of long-term commitments to Afghanistan, tempered by the fact that the countries are tired of the war,Click to Continue »
  • Once-routine tariff bills now troublesome for ...
    For decades, lawmakers helped home-state manufacturers lower the cost of imported materials by crafting tiny bills that reduced or eliminated tariffs on products that range from massive factory equipment to…Click to Continue »
  • As NATO prepares to meet, Taliban attack remin ...
    Three days ahead of a summit meeting in Chicago of NATO leaders to plot their countries? departure from Afghanistan, the Taliban on Thursday provided a stark reminder of the challenges…Click to Continue »
  • Florida hurricane summit recalls monster Andrew
    In this age of smart phones, Twitter and a 24/7 news media, every tropical wave rolling off faraway Africa is almost as closely monitored as a Kardashian sister shopping on…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
    The Department of Defense has identified 1,959 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans ...
  • Taliban attacks rise in areas that were focus ...
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban attacks are jumping in the southern Afghan areas that were the focus of the 2010 US troop surge, posing a renewed challenge to the American-led coalition that ...
  • Allen NATO Summit to Define Vision for Afghanistan
    By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.American Forces Press Service VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 16, 2012 The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago will help determine the long-term commitment to ...
  • Video Major drug bust in Afghanistan
    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and ...
  • US Lawmakers Calling for Faster Withdrawal Fro ...
    CAPITOL HILL, Washington, D.C.- A bipartisan group of 86 members of the U.S. House of Representatives has written a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to bring the war in Afghanistan to an ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IG report says IRS Whistleblower Office falls ...
    The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that criticizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for dragging its feet in processing whistleblower claims. The report follows up on TIGTA's 2009 report and found, "deficiencies in the IRS’s internal contro ...
  • Davis wins appeal and appeals court overturns ...
    Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of whistleblower Michael Davis and overturned the limitation of that Court's decision in United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees’ Club, 105 F.3d 675 (D.C. Cir. 1997 ...
  • Whistleblower Kenneth Jones wins appeal and fo ...
    Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require a jury trial. Dr. Jones claims that Drs. Marilyn Al ...
  • Whistleblowers Spur $1.5 Billion Off-Label Mar ...
    Whistleblowers have succeeded in a $1.5 billion off-label marketing case against Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Department of Justice announced today. Combined, the $700 million criminal fines and $800 million civil fines are the second largest government recovery from a drug company in history. ...
  • Wal-Mart. Whistleblower. Whitewash. Talk Among ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) Holy Wal-Mart Whitewash, Batman!  Without a doubt, the unfolding Wal-Mart bribery scan ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Notable: Harvard Didn't Try To Claim Ownership ...
    With the big Facebook IPO dominating the tech news, the folks over at the Boston Globe have highlighted a point that hasn't received much, if any, attention. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook (with the vestigial "the" as a prefix) while he was a student at Harvard. Many universities these days ...
  • Can You Understand How Technology Works Withou ...
    There's an interesting debate that's broken out in the tech world, kicked off by tech/coding superstar Jeff Atwood arguing that people shouldn't learn to code. He was mostly responding to an announcement by NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg that he wanted to learn how to code: Jeff found this to ...
  • DOJ Argues Forcefully For Your Right To Photog ...
    This is a bit surprising, but also nice to see. We've been covering a bunch of cases involving law enforcement -- mainly local police -- harassing and often arresting people who film them in public. Thankfully, we've recently had some very good appeals court rulings -- one in the First Circuit ...
  • Research Shows Little Relationship Between Str ...
    We've argued for years that intellectual property laws have little, if any, connection to innovation and economic growth. We've seen so much research on this that, at this point, it's hardly even an open question. And yet... politicians and the press (and beneficiaries of stricter IP law) alwa ...
  • Siri Caught Recommending The Nokia Lumia, Prom ...
    The Apple marketing machine has always thrived on organic media buzz. Devices like the iPad launch to such massive anticipation that whole TV news segments turn into commercials for the product, then hand off to on-the-scene reporters covering the line outside the Apple store, without the compan ...

VacTruth

  • Are Vaccines Damaging Your Baby’s Liver?
    There is now overwhelming documentation of significant health damage among the population from vaccines. Could vaccines be implicated?
  • Gardasil May Cause Cancer
    When we see the term “cancer vaccine” in connection with the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil we may naturally assume that it prevents cervical cancer, yet there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
  • Bird Flu Strain Lab-Engineered!
    The cat is out of the bag on bird flu—a strain has been laboratory engineered, and the U.S. government did everything it could to keep the lid on that research!
  • A Parent’s Guide to Pro-Vaccine Doctors
    We hope to prevent other children and their families from a vaccine injury. This information empowers you.
  • Olympic Vaccination Frenzy As Athletes Urged T ...
    Big Pharma is helping to sponsor the Olympic games being held in London. Is it by coincidence athletes and travelers to the games are being encouraged to get their shots?

BroadSnark

  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...
  • Shame Redistribution
    A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
  • Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
    In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
  • Occupy the DOJ
  • And…Not Either/Or
    Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The NDAA’s section 1021 coup d’etat foiled
    Naomi Wolf writes: On Wednesday 16 May, at about 4pm, the republic of the United States of America was drawn back – at least for now – from a precipice that would have plunged our country into moral darkness. One brave and principled newly-appointed judge ruled against a law that would have brou ...
  • A pundit’s rosy view of the Pax Americana
    Andrew Bacevich reviews Robert Kagan’s The World America Made: Call it a hallowed tradition. To invest their views with greater authority, big thinkers—especially those given to pontificating about the course of world history—appropriate bits of wisdom penned by brand-name sages. Nothing a ...
  • Video: Facebook IPO — is your online personal ...
  • We’re all minorities now
    For the hotchpotch of Americans who are preoccupied by the odd concept of “whiteness”, July 2011 will be marked as an ominous but long anticipated turning point in this nation’s history: the Census Bureau now says that that was when non-white births for the “first time&#8 ...
  • Attacks by Taliban rise in surge areas
    The Wall Street Journal reports: Taliban attacks are jumping in the southern Afghan areas that were the focus of the 2010 U.S. troop surge, posing a renewed challenge to the American-led coalition that hoped to pacify the crucial region before withdrawing from the country. Making sure the fledgl ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The 1000 year Australian hockey itch
    From the University of Melbourne, I’m sure Julia and Flannery are thrilled at this paleo-reconstruction, and of course, the blame goes on Mann, er man. I find it interesting though that the lead author, Dr Joelle Gergis, thinks of his … Continue reading →
  • The Global Renewable Energy Index is crashing
    This is interesting, after watching the collapse in the last two years of entities like the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), which ended trading with a bag of charcoal briquettes being worth more than a ton of carbon futures, we have … Continue reading →
  • New paper using RADARSAT data: Antarctic ice s ...
    A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT data to determine the rate at which some well known ice shelves in Antarctica have been moving and changing, and the answer is: … Continue reading →
  • Trenberth’s missing heat still missing: ...
    A new paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters describes how the oceans have warmed only 0.09°C over the last 55 years, from 1955-2010. Don’t let the red line fool you, read on. Key Points A strong positive linear trend … Continue reading →
  • Carbon soot may be driving the expansion of th ...
    From the University of California – Riverside it seems that black carbon soot is driving tropical expansion. How could this be? I thought CO2 was all powerful, so powerful with the strength of 400,000 Hiroshima bombs each day that animals … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Soyuz TMA-04M to Dock with Space Station
    The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with the new crew for the International Space Station (ISS), launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, will dock with the ISS on Thursday morning in an automatic mode, a Russian Mission Control spokesman told RIA Novosti.
  • Space Station Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report
    Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the agency’s image department Vladimir Baranov said on Wednesday.
  • Space Station Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report
    Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the agency’s image department Vladimir Baranov said on Wednesday.
  • New Space Station Crew in Orbit
    Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday have begun a two-day flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Russia Questions Dutch Vegetable Safety
    Russia’s food safety chief Gennady Onishchenko raised doubts on Monday over the safety of vegetables imported from the Netherlands, which he said had been experimenting with mutations of the avian flu virus.

Pruning Shears

  • Statement against fracking presented to townsh ...
    This is a lightly modified copy of the statement I presented on Tuesday’s meeting of township trustees. Several cuts were made right before the meeting to keep it under the three minute time limit, and a local business’ name has been removed because I did not speak to them about inc ...
  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
  • Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
    The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
  • Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
    Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...
  • Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Bytes #329: Dear Organic Consumer
    Click here to read this article
  • A Personal Message From Ronnie Cummins
    Click here to read this article
  • Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Leads U.S. Peace C ...
    One of Mexico's best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son's memory, Sicilia created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug violence - violence that ...
  • Iceland, a Country that wants to Punish the Ba ...
    Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about saying "no" to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to ...
  • 5 Ways to Make America Less Fat
    If Benjamin Franklin was writing his famous letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy today, his famous aphorism might read: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and the obesity crisis."Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • USDA Gets Fresh with SNAP Dollars: Funding for ...
    This $4 million grant demonstrates a commitment to public health on the part of USDA, and the sidestepping maneuver, which will keep the momentum going despite legislative slowdowns (i.e., Farm Bill politics), further shows that USDA understands the importance of making fresh foods available to ...
  • 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 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • Surfing Notes
    Sometimes things snowball - including another anti AGW tale turning to new science and Facebook adding to the stew. My compensation for slowing my news submissions here Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Former-US President George Bush Officially a W ...
    Independent media, rights advocates, and activists hand Bush & associates a well-deserved conviction. Next, we must organize to hand them a well-deserved penalty - economic sanctions. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • 'Publication Bias' Casts Doubt on Value of Ant ...
    When researchers combined the data from published studies and those that never made it into print, the new analysis showed that SSRIs don't help repetitive behaviors much at all. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Destruction of Poppy Fields in Afghanistan
    Photo essay According to some American soldiers, the current U.S. program to combat Afghan drug trafficking which focuses on the destruction of poppy fields is a waste of money. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Se ...
    In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server from one of our cabinets in a colocation facility. Server is owned by our sister organization, Riseup, and is managed by ECN, a progressive technology pr Submitted by O O O O to US Politics &amp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Undercover GMOs Slip through Labeling Crack
    GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...
  • 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • United States Enrichment Corp., bailed out onc ...
    ShareThisUnited States Enrichment Corp., bailed out once, seeks more federal money for new project --USEC's supporters in Congress have inserted language in versions of three different spending bills that would provide as much as $150 million. 16 May 2012 The troubled [corpora-terrorists] United ...
  • U.S. has 55 daily encounters with 'suspected t ...
    ShareThisU.S. has 55 daily encounters with 'suspected terrorists' --TSC operates a 24-hour command center, resembling something from a Hollywood thriller, complete with giant wall-screen projections and signs flashing 'SECRET.' 15 May 2012 Law enforcement and homeland security personnel face an ...
  • Nuclear power regulators call for fewer immedi ...
    ShareThisNuclear power regulators call for fewer immediate evacuations in an accident 17 May 2012 The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the nation's nuclear power regulators quietly overhauled community emergency planning for nuclear accidents for the first time in more than three decades ...
  • AP: Evacuations and drills pared near nuclear ...
    ShareThisAP: Evacuations and drills pared near nuclear plants 16 May 2012 Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer p ...
  • Authorities: Nuclear engineer sought 'thrill' ...
    ShareThisAuthorities: Nuclear engineer sought 'thrill' in DuPage hijacking 11 May 2012 (IL) A man who operates reactors at a nuclear power plant was "thrill seeking" when he put on a mask and hijacked a woman's car at gunpoint, DuPage County authorities said Friday. Michael Buhrman, a senior rea ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Revamped Flight Medic Training
    17 May 2012 Written by MEDEVACmatters.org Good news. Enhanced Flight Medic Training Begins After over a decade of urgent calls for upgraded training of Army flight medics, it has begun. This article provides some details of what is involved. As noted, Army statistics have long shown that wound ...
  • Shot in the Dark: Blackhawk Down
    Afghan firing RPG in Urozgan 02 May 2012 On 19 April there was a suicide attack.  Numerous Afghans were killed and others were dying. The night was especially dark.  The weather was bad, and there were no city lights bouncing off of the clouds.  No stars.  No nothing.&nbsp ...
  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.
  • RED CROSS: Symbol of Blood
    Photo Michael Yon 17 April 2012 Army Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale booster for our troops.  That load of bull is too heavy even for a Blackhawk helicopter sling load.  During my about three years with combat troops downrange, I've never heard th ...

The Killing Train

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

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge blocks portion of anti-terrorism law
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Wednesday blocked [opinion, PDF] a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) [text, PDF] which allows for the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, finding that it violat ...
  • UK court permits Afghan detainee to challenge ...
    [JURIST] An Afghan detainee who was handed over to authorities in Afghanistan by UK forces won permission on Wednesday to challenge the legality of the transfer. Before the High Court of Justice in London, Serdar Mohammed claimed that he had been transferred by British forces to a prison in Afgh ...
  • Mladic war crimes trial postponed over evidenc ...
    [JURIST] The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic [ICTY case materials; JURIST news archive] began Wednesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] but was postponed indefinitely on Thursday due to allegations of prosecutori ...
  • Charles Taylor seeks sentence based on 'reconc ...
    [JURIST] Former Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] asked Wednesday to be sentenced [press release, PDF] with an eye toward "reconciliation, not retribution." Speaking during a sentencing hearing before the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [offici ...
  • AI: Sudan government must stop harassment of j ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] urged [press release] the Sudanese government on Tuesday to stop its alleged press censorship. AI reports that Sudanese authorities have on several occasions have seized newspapers from the printing press. Additionally, a prominent columnist ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • RAND Calls for U.S., Israel to Prepare for Nuc ...
    TweetThe U.S. national security think-tank, RAND, just published an eye-opening report on the issue of the Iranian nuclear program and how the U.S. should approach the issue.  In a number of ways, it ratifies the Obama administration approach including supporting sanctions against Iran (with a s ...
  • U.S. Muslim and Former Marine Added to No Fly ...
    TweetToday’s To the Point show reported on an ACLU class-action lawsuit by 14 U.S. Muslims against the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security for the arbitrary and capricious manner in which it maintains the No Fly lists of those who may not fly within the U.S.  The program ...
  • Latest Lunacies from the Only Democracy in the ...
    Tweet Today’s news brings two new lunacies from our friends in the Only Democracy in the Middle East™ .  In the first instance, the Israeli tax authorities impounded a shipment of copies of the Arabic language edition of Yehuda HaLevy’s seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy, The ...
  • California Tea Party “White Christian” Settler ...
    Tweet Among the more bizarre elements of this political season is the Republican race for U.S. senate, which features Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an Orthodox rabbi running with the support of the Tea Party.  Here is a snippet of a stump speech he delivered to the San Mateo GOP (a banner in the backgro ...
  • Palestinian Hunger Strike Ends With Two Steps ...
    Tweet1,500 Palestinian hunger strikers ended their protest against prison conditions after the signing of an intensely negotiated agreement between the Israeli Prison Services and the prisoners themselves, with the mediation of Fatah, Egyptian intelligence sources and Jordanians. As is normal in ...

If Americans Knew

  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Environment - Drought-Stricken Southwe ...
    For the second year in a row, residents of New Mexico and neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico, find themselves in the throes of severe drought. On May 15, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez issued an emergency drought declaration, citing in part a forecast from the National Weather Service Climate Pr ...
  • Jewry on Edge - Peter Beinart: A charming Left ...
    During a recent visit to New York, I had an extended breakfast meeting with controversial author Peter Beinart who in recent months receives enormous media exposure as the most prominent far left critic of Israel in the United States. Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a feisty New York conservative Jewish act ...
  • The Edge of Narco-Terrorism - Narco-Submarines ...
    After a two-year manhunt, the United States Drug Enforcement Agency last week arrested Colombian drug kingpin Javier Antonio Calle Serna, a senior leader of Los Rastrojos, one of the country's most formidable drug-trafficking organizations. After being indicted last summer by the Eastern Distric ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - The Role of Exceptiona ...
    There has been a lot of chatter in intelligence and academic circles about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri and his value to AQAP. The disclosure last week of a thwarted AQAP plot to attack U.S. airliners using an improved version of an "underwear bomb" used in ...
  • Golden Dawn, neo-Nazi Party, Emerges in Greece ...
    We are deeply concerned about the emerging role of a neo-Nazi party in Greece, Golden Dawn, whose party leader recently questioned whether the Holocaust actually happened and asked an interviewer: “What Auschwitz?  Were you there?â€� In a televised interview, Nikos Michaloliakos, the head ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Did Mitt Romney Just Fall Into An Obama Trap ?
    For a moment Jeremiah Wright was back. The New York Times reported today that a new “super PAC” supporting Mitt Romney was planning to bring up an issue, never vetted in 2008, Barack Obama's 20+ year relationship with the racist, American-hating, Antisemitic "preacher." But after whining from th ...
  • California Proposition 29: An Invitation For M ...
    One thing being ignored this political season are the propositions many state governments have put on the docket.  Some more abhorrent than others. Even when they are written with good intentions, if they do not include iron-clad controls they become just another way for government to get t ...
  • Turkey’s Middle East Policy: Gobble Up the Mid ...
    “Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization. The decline of the Ottomans began when, proud of their triumphs over the West, they cut their ties with the European nations. This was a mistake which we will not repeat.” ...
  • Interviewing Jonah Goldberg About His New Book ...
    Jonah Goldberg is one of those columnists you just have to follow. Lets face it he destroyed Piers Morgan,  likes Sci Fi and finds the most entertaining,  and informative ways to cut through the muck and get to the truth-no holds barred! My friend John Hawkins had an opportun ...
  • ICE Agents Say Obama's Claim of Fewer Illegals ...
    According to Barack Obama's spin machine the barrage of people sneaking into the U.S. from across the Mexican border has slowed down and illegals are actually leaving the country.  According to some border patrol agents, the tide hasn't slowed its just that their hands have been tied so the ...

The Real Agenda

  • How Bailouts Pass on the Burden to Taxpayers
    By BOB CHAPMAN | INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER | MAY 17, 2012 Article originally published in April 4, 2012 How do you create your own monsters? Over the past month the US and Europe have been telling us they will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down prices. What are ...
  • European Debt Crisis Continues to Bleed
    The blame game begins as no solution is achieved for Greece, Italy or Spain. By JAMES CHAPMAN | MAIL ONLINE | MAY 16, 2012 David Cameron will today express grave doubts about the survival of the euro amid fears that a collapse could drag Britain into a decade-long depression. He will w ...
  • New York Judge Blocks NDAA
    By BOB VAN VORIS | BLOOMBERG | MAY 16, 2012 A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a part of the National Defense Authorization Act that opponents claim could subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism. U.S. ...
  • Inside the Murky World of Arms Smuggling
    By VICTOR THORN | AMERICAN FREE PRESS | MAY 16, 2012 Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman once said, “War is hell.” But to those who profit off the sale of weapons, war is big business that brings in huge profits. That explains why, even in these tough economic times, global weapons sal ...
  • Banks Can No Longer Hide the Collapse
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 16, 2012 It’s been at least four years since the current financial collapse began. Back in 2008, when the crisis was already taking shape, the banks supported by international financial institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, Bank of Euro ...

Wind Watch

  • Suit filed to halt Ocotillo wind as coalition ...
    At a press conference yesterday outside the gleaming corporate towers occupied by Pattern Energy in La Jolla, a coalition of environmental groups, Native American tribes and outraged citizens urged President Barack Obama to stop fast-tracking of massive energy projects on public lands and halt c ...
  • Massachusetts moves to shut turbine over noise ...
    For the first time since the state began promoting wind power, environmental officials have recommended shutting down a wind turbine because of elevated noise levels that they described as unacceptable to local residents. The state Department of Environmental Protection, in a long-awaited respon ...
  • Kings County says no to wind farms; Council ta ...
    KENTVILLE — Large-scale wind farms will be unwelcome in any part of Kings County, at least in the immediate future. Municipal council on Tuesday night gave first reading to a recommendation from its planning advisory committee to prohibit all major wind projects while it reviews issues around th ...
  • Ocotillo windmill project met with opposition; ...
    OCOTILLO, Calif. — A renewable energy wind project may break ground this month on what is believed to be a sacred burial site in Ocotillo. Pattern Energy plans to move forward with plans for a windmill project in Ocotillo. On Tuesday, about 40 people turned out in protest against the proje ...
  • Two big wind farm projects canceled in the state
    Two big wind development projects on Appalachian ridges in Bedford and Clearfield counties have been canceled, and fewer new turbines will be spinning across the nation next year due to the possible end of a federal tax credit program that has driven development. Some environmentalists are appla ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • Indefinite-Detention Law Stayed by Judge
    “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.” (Courthouse News Service) &#82 ...
  • Florida Makes Passing State Writing Test Easier
    “The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to lower the passing grade for a state writing test after complaints from educators that the state pushed through tests with inadequate time for teachers and students to prepare, the News-Press out of Fort Myers, Fla., reports. The educator ...
  • Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
    Too many people spend too much time in college, and more people attend college than should.
  • Export-Import Bank Gets New Lease on Life
    “The Senate approved legislation on Tuesday to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank by three years, sending to President Obama a measure that had been waylaid for months by small-government conservatives seeking to kill off an agency they denounced as a boondoggle.” (New York Ti ...
  • New Debt-Ceiling Fight Shapes Up
    “House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will not allow an increase in the debt ceiling to move through the House unless the amount of the increase includes an equal or greater amount of spending cuts.” (USA Today) The debt will move in only one direction. FEE Timely Classic “Contr ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Best Cities For Tech Jobs
    With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodigious creator of hot companies and has the highest proportion of tech jobs of any region in ...
  • Toward More Competitive Canadian Metropolitan ...
    The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCN) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) have expressed serious concern about generally longer commute trip times making Canadian metropolitan areas less competitive. Each has called for additional funding for transit at the federal le ...
  • Smart-Growth and Smarter Technology
    If you’re an enviro-regulator with a mission, preventing “sprawl” has been ideologically trendy in recent decades. You have successfully predicated your argument on past-history soils-management technological inadequacy, it must be enormously threatening to look back and realize that technolo ...
  • London’s Social Cleansing
    Unscrupulous landlords are forcing poorer tenants out of their London homes, freeing them up to rent out to visitors to the Olympics this summer, according to the housing charity Shelter. At the same time, the government’s cap on rent subsidies (Housing Benefits) for those out of work or on ...
  • Homebuilding Recovery: A Zoning & Planning Ove ...
    Part III of the Recovery Blueprint for homebuilding. Defining good zoning and good planning, and a look at how social engineering plays in. What exactly is ‘planning’? It can be government creation of an Interstate Highway, or a city council vote on a new park. For the purposes of this blu ...

GM Watch

  • Destroy GMO-tainted papaya
    1.Destroy GMO-tainted papaya crops, researcher says 2.Genetically modified papaya found in Kanchanaburi: Chula researcher --- --- 1.Destroy GMO-tainted papaya crops, researcher says PONGPHON SARNSAMAK The Nation, May 18 2012 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Destroy-GMO-tainted-papaya-cro ...
  • GM wheat trial promises fiery TV debate
    GM wheat trial promises fiery TV debate Philip Case Farmers Weekly, 17 May 2012 http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/17/05/2012/132938/GM-wheat-trial-promises-fiery-TV-debate.htm Campaigners are set to lock horns with the scientists behind the GM wheat trial at Rothamsted Research in a live studio tel ...
  • GM wheat trial promises fiery TV debate
    GM wheat trial promises fiery TV debate Philip Case Farmers Weekly, 17 May 2012 http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/17/05/2012/132938/GM-wheat-trial-promises-fiery-TV-debate.htm Campaigners are set to lock horns with the scientists behind the GM wheat trial at Rothamsted Research in a live studio tel ...
  • GM corn and sick honey bees - what's the link?
    GE corn & sick honey bees - what's the link? Ground Truth, 19 April 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/ge-corn-sick-honey-bees-whats-link No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue ...
  • GM corn and sick honey bees - what's the link?
    GE corn & sick honey bees - what's the link? Ground Truth, 19 April 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/ge-corn-sick-honey-bees-whats-link No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...

Desertification

  • Seattle dedicated seven acre area of city land ...
    Read at : http://wakeup-world.com/2012/04/12/seattle-creating-massive-edible-forest-filled-with-free-food/?ref=nf Seattle Creating Massive Edible Forest Filled with Free Food By Jill Ettinger - organicauthority.com Taking the urban garden to the next level, Seattle, Washington has officially bro ...
  • An increasing number of farmers totally lackin ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95452/KENYA-Maize-farmers-have-rain-but-lack-seeds KENYA: Maize farmers have rain but lack seeds MT ELGON, 15 May 2012 (IRIN) – At least 1.3 million farmers in Kenya – more than double the figure for 2010 – do not have any maize … ...
  • 1.200.000 visitors of this blog (Willem Van Co ...
    Today, I am happy to announce that 1.200.000 people already visited this blog. Hopefully, it has been a positive contribution in the combat of desertification. Looking forward to a better future, particularly for the one billion hungry people and their … Continue reading →
  • AZN in Burkina Faso
    You can find at the bottom of our site’s homepage, at  www.azn-guie-burkina.org the 2011 annual reports of AZN’s programs : Education, Health, Early Childhood and Coordination. Good reading. The AZN’s Coordination ———————– Vous trouvere ...
  • The American West has a ‘drinking proble ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510224444.htm Water Usage Far Exceed Sustainability Level in the Desert Southwest, US ScienceDaily (May 10, 2012) — The American West has a ‘drinking problem.’ On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate. ...

The Paper Trail

  • OPINION: Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare s ...
    We’ll be hearing a lot from politicians this summer and fall about the urgency of dealing with Medicare spending, which will begin to rise sharply in the coming years as increasing numbers of the country’s 75 million baby boomers turn 65.If we’re fortunate, some courageous candidates will call f ...
  • Interactive: Gov. Walker's calendar
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  • Package from Yemen leads to worker illness, go ...
    Paz Oquendo, a worker at the U.S. Postal Service’s Orlando sorting facility, smelled the noxious odor first. It was Feb. 4, 2011, and the foul stench was coming from one of the large mailbags hanging near the package-conveyor belts.She ran over to Jeffrey A. Lill, the 44-year-old shift superviso ...
  • VIDEO: What kind of defense budget would the A ...
    Steven Kull, director of the Program for Public Consultation; Matthew Leatherman, analyst, Stimson's Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense project; and R. Jeffrey Smith, managing editor for national security, Center for Public Integrity discuss the findings of their defense spending poll o ...
  • Public overwhelmingly supports large defense s ...
    While politicians, insiders and experts may be divided over how much the government should spend on the nation’s defense, there’s a surprising consensus among the public about what should be done: They want to cut spending far more deeply than either the Obama administration or the Republicans.T ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Sex exhibit tells too much for some parents
    A BoB short: A museum sex exhibit designed to educate teenagers has been proven too racy for some Ottawa parents — and it hasn’t even opened yet. “Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition” is due to open at The Canada Science and Technology Museum on Friday. In response to over 50 complaints from parents who ...
  • Robocalls: You’re being denied justice
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy): We’ve had a few days of no new news reported in the robocalls criminal investigation. The story yesterday on the CBC website, while factual, does make one claim that is disputable. With the public paper trail cold for almost two months, there’s still little tha ...
  • Why Mulcair is winning
    By Montreal Simon OK. So I was wrong. When Christy Clark became the latest Con stooge to denounce Thomas Mulcair,  for simply pointing out that the Dutch Disease is killing our manufacturing sector, I said it could only mean one thing. Big Oil and its Con puppets were scraping the bottom of the ...
  • Leonard Cohen repays Canada Council, and then some
    A BoB short: Canadian literature and music legend Leonard Cohen, awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto last night, has chosen to donate the $50,000 that comes with it to the Canada Council for the Arts. The Montreal native is the ninth winner of the honour that has been called “The Nobel Priz ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • University of Sussex plans to privatise over 1 ...
    sussex-uni-sign.jpg Last week university management announced plans to outsource 235 campus jobs. Workers and students are meeting to discuss their response. The jobs facing pri ...
  • French and Greek voters seek a way out of aust ...
    hollande.jpeg Adam Ford discusses the recent elections in Europe. The financial markets went into a petulant sulk today, in response to the election results in France – where in ...
  • Occupy Abai - day 8
    One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655 Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a conce ...
  • Turkish police forces arrest 60 anarchists in ...
    Wave of repression hits anarchists in Turkey following May Day demonstrations. Yesterday night turkish state organized a night raid to various houses and anarchist social centres in a night raid in Istanbul. 60 people were arrested. I ...
  • EDL In Luton
    The EDL in Luton was the usual drunken mess. The days when the EDL could gather 1,000s of supporters and create a media splash are long gone as yesterdays ‘national’ demo in Luton proved. Even with Tommy Robinson faking another attac ...

Free Range International

  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
  • One Year Later
    Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
  • Dalton Thomas Comes Home
    This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]
  • Five Machineguns
    The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Chinese Finance Angolan Reconstruction
    Ambassador Zhang Bolun with President dos Santos (This is the second of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.) The Angolan civil war ended in 2002 with one million dead, four million permanently exiled and ...
  • Africa Bails Out the Eurozone
    Portuguese president Passos Coelho with President dos Santos (This is the first of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.) Forget China and India. The World Economic Forum predicts that six of the ten most rapidly growing economies in ...
  • A Film About Economic Relocalization
    Economics of Happiness The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economical relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional eco ...
  • The Case for Negative Interest Money
    Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein 2011  Evolver Editions Book Review – Part II This review is divided into two parts. The second half covers some exciting solutions Eisenstein proposes for our broken economic system in Part II: The Economics of Reunion and Part II ...
  • Sacred Economics – Life After Capitalism
    Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition Charles Eisenstein 2011,  Evolver Editions (This review is divided into two sections. The first covers Part I: The Economics of Separation, describing the history of money and capitalist economics. The second half covers ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Gamesa Ditches Virginia Offshore Wind Project
    Spanish wind-power company Gamesa is pulling the plug on Virginia. Gamesa’s first offshore wind turbine prototype was planned for installation off Cape Charles, Va., but now the company says it will cite the turbine in Arinaga Quay in the Canary Islands.
  • Obama’s Biggest Climate Decision Of The Year M ...
  • Are Chesapeake's Problems A Red Flag For Shale ...
    Chesapeake Energy has been in the news a lot, lately, concerning both the significant challenges it faces in financing its ambitious development program, and its high-profile CEO, who was recently forced to relinquish his role as Chairman. The company's stock is trading for half its value ...
  • Rethinking the role of government in cleantech
    Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology. It’s time to end government handouts in clean technology, policymakers need to focus on setting mandates and standards and start ratcheting back subsidies and credits.
  • Are Dye-Sensitized Cells The Future Of Solar?
    Researchers in Finland are claiming a form of solar cells that can be applied to surfaces as a coat of paint could herald the future of solar energy.

EU Times

  • Kepler space telescope records the number of s ...
    NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The bigges ...
  • Minority report: White births no longer majori ...
    For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted f ...
  • Russia warns West against hasty wars and risin ...
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Battle plan for Iran ready – US envoy to Israel
    The Pentagon has a ready plan for a military attack on Iran, the American ambassador to Israel warned days before a key meeting over the controversial nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. Western countries and Israel are exerting pressure on Iran to stop uranium enrichment, saying that Tehra ...
  • Transparent TVs to hit the market in the Near ...
    The television of the future could be a see-through panel which ‘vanishes’ when you turn it off – carrying on the current trend for ever-thinner and more unobtrusive sets. The technology – TOLED – actually exists, although it’s still fairly crude, and producin ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Jays Hit 4 Home Runs, Beat Yankees.
    Yankees 1 Blue Jays 8 Now that was more like it. We scored a bunch of runs, got good pitching and didn't make any errors. J.P. Arencibia , Edwin Encarnacion , Jose Bautista and Kelly Johnson all homered. Nice to see Jose clobber one, it left the park in a hurry. We had 11 hits. 3 each for JP an ...
  • Cannes 2012 Red Carpet: Diane Krugerâs Pale Aq ...
    So Cannes 2012 is already at its second day! Its Red Carpet makes for one of the most glamorous Celebrity Fashion reports and, as such, Iâm bringing you the dress that impressed me the most in the Cannes 2012 Opening Night . Diane Kruger âs custom pale aqua Giambattista Valli Haute Couture dres ...
  • Guardian Video: Nakba Day clashes on West Bank ...
    Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces clash in the West Bank on Tuesday as Palestinians mark Nakba Day. The day commemorates the estimated 700,000 people who fled or were driven from their homes after the creation of Israel in 1948. Today as many as 5 million refugees and their descend ...
  • Losses at JPMorgan Grow
    Jamie Dimon said that the trading losses at JPMorgan Chase ( $ JPM ) were $2 billion and there might be another $1 billion to add over the next few quarters. The bank was stuck with a terrible position that it was trying to unwind. The market smelled blood and traders have attacked JPM’s positi ...
  • BATTLESHIP is board game bonanza boffo buffoonery
    Hollywood has recently begun mining venerable board games... not video games mind you but actual tabletop board games as motion picture properties. The first of these films is “Battleship” based off of the popular Hasbro game which made “You sunk my battleship!” an American catch phrase. The st ...

Groklaw

  • HTC shipping custom Android builds on US devic ...
    The HTC One X for AT&T and Evo 4G LTE for Sprint already bear the distinction of being the first Android devices to face an import block at US Customs for potentially infringing an Apple patent, but the ignominy may be fleeting: sources tell us that HTC's US devices use a customized version ...
  • Meat Cutters Discover a New Steak - Patents Pe ...
    Good news for carnivores and not so good news for cattle: People who specialize in such things say they've found a new cut of beef from a cow called the "Vegas strip steak." Business Insider picks up on the weird scoop from the Drovers Cattle Network, which proclaims that the steak "is the lates ...
  • Google Knowledge Graph: How It Changes Search
    Google SVP of engineering Amit Singhal attributed the change to Google's growing understanding of what users deem to be relevant and a better sense of how facts are related. "We've always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly w ...
  • Scientists euphoric over promise of mind-contr ...
    The study, dubbed BrainGate2, seeks to aid the disabled by implanting a small microchip in the motor cortex of their brains that effectively allows them to control a robotic arm with their thoughts....Nature has a very impressive video of the robotic arm in action that we would highly recommend ...
  • The World's Billionaires - Who's Up? Who's Down?
    Oracle's stock has been oscillating for months. It's rebounded since its August low but is still off 15% year on year due to a slowdown in the software and hardware giant's sales, enough to knock $3.5 billion off Ellison's fortune. - Forbes

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in ...
    The latest from Jesse VenturaDemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action committees.Exposing the ineptitude and gang-like mentalities ...
  • Military biofuels: Penny wise?
    T-45C Goshawk landing aboard USS John F Kennedy (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Tommy Gilligan)The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee voted earlier this week to stop the Department of Defense from buying alternative fuels that cost more than fossil-based fuels. This ...
  • Wind power in Maine at risk due to inadequate grid
    Maine wind power projects. (windforme.org)Central Maine Power Co.’s $1.4 billion transmission system upgrade isn’t designed to handle the power that can be made available at times from new and existing alternative energy plants.This story is increasingly common. Renewable energy is w ...
  • Labor history lessons
    1934 Minneapolis Teamster Strike (Source: marxist.org)Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money has been doing an excellent series of illustrated posts that chronicle some of the major events in American labor history (a total of 26 so far). This week the focus is on Minneapolis in 1934:On May 16, ...
  • Greece central bank warns of depositor anxiety ...
    Bank run 1933“Provopoulos told me that of course there’s no panic but there’s great fear which can evolve into panic,” he said.The panic will be coming soon enough.Pimco says 17-nation Euro currency union will not last

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Claiming “Fascination of Plants Day” from GE p ...
    Tomorrow has been declared “Fascination of Plants Day”. We find plants very fascinating.  New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot; we‘re responsible for one of the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant life on Earth. The native plants we love need protection. This is why we have a Member ...
  • The Ministers respond to the Christchurch hous ...
    Last month, I wrote to the Ministers for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Social Development and Housing asking what they proposed to do about the lack of affordable housing in Christchurch, and giving them a few suggestions. Here is what they had to say…  ————&#8212 ...
  • Beyond Today: a values story, and the Greens&# ...
    Beyond Today: a values story is the Green party’s story. On the Greens’ fortieth birthday, it says Values is a history of which the party should be very proud, and values are the new politics We need the quants, and the poets, both. We need the activists and the Members of Parliament, the indivi ...
  • EEZ Bill makes risky deep-sea drilling E-Z
    Today the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Economic Effects) Bill (EEZ BILL) was reported back from the Local Government and Environment Select Committee. The bill regulates activities like drilling for oil and gas in the EEZ plugging a huge legislative and regulatory gap that the ...
  • Disability, fairness and care issues
    The Court of Appeal have given the Crown a clear message that discriminating against family members who care for a disabled adult child at home is unacceptable. The Ministry of Health has 20 working days to decide whether to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court. The Ministry has now failed ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Nine Ways to Make Yourself Smarter
    By Dr. Mercola Looking for ways to boost your intellect, stave off mental aging, and maybe even live a longer life? You might be surprised to learn that not only do such strategies exist, but many are easily attainable by making simple tweaks here and there to your daily routine. Embracing th ...
  • Nearly 1 in 2 Americans are Now Victims of Thi ...
    By Dr. Mercola As most of you know, the conventional medical system tends to equate "health" with the absence of symptoms of disease. The entire industry is built around treating symptoms with expensive patented drugs, many of which are profoundly toxic and dangerous. Pharmaceutical companie ...
  • The Key Vitamin to use with Vitamin D to Help ...
    By Dr. Mercola You may be aware that vitamin D and calcium are a powerful duo for bone health, including the prevention of osteoporosis. One of the undisputed benefits of vitamin D is that it helps you ABSORB calcium – this link has been known for many decades. But there is also eviden ...
  • Make Mincemeat of Cancer Cells With This Break ...
    By Dr. Mercola The conventional cancer therapies currently available are surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy; aka the "cut, poison, burn" model. Chemotherapy is typically the main regimen for most cancers. However, many tumors develop resistance to these harsh drugs, known as chemoresist ...
  • You'll Probably Accidentally Eat This Toxic Fo ...
    By Dr. Mercola The video above features three distinguished guests: Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now Ronnie Cummins with the Organic Consumers Association, and Pamm Larry, founder of LabelGMOs.org Here, we discuss one of the most important projects we have ev ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Exposed: World’s ‘most threatened tribe’ outnu ...
    Little Butterfly and her people, the Awá, are earth's 'most threatened tribe'. © Survival The extent of the peril facing the world’s ‘most threatened tribe’ was revealed today, as Brazilian authorities admitted that the Awá tribe are now outnumbered 10:1 inside just one of th ...
  • ‘Inside job’ as Peru eyes gas in uncontacted t ...
    A Nanti man. His tribe's land is set to be invaded as Peru furthers its gas exploration into protected areas. © Survival Secret plans reveal Peru is actively pursuing new gas reserves inside protected tribal land, a flagrant violation of laws that prevent such projects. The Nahua-Nan ...
  • Tribal girl raped and murdered in Chittagong H ...
    A family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, where killings, torture and rape against tribal people are common. © Mark McEvoy/Survival An eleven-year old girl from the Chakma tribe in Bangladesh has been raped and murdered by a settler. Sujata Chakma and her younger brother were ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Sun exposure lowers cancer risk
    from naturalnews.com: A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people exposed to more sunlight had a significantly lower risk of many types of cancer (Lin, 2012). This study followed more than 450,000 white, non-Hispanic subjects aged 50-71 years from diverse ge ...
  • GM crops in crisis: Roundup-resistant “superweeds”
    from foodpolitics.com: I wrote about this problem in Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. I added this update to the 2010 edition: "Late in 2004, weeds resistant to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup began appearing in GM plantings in Georgia and soon spread to other Southern states. By 2009, mor ...
  • At Disney World's 'Living with the Land' exhib ...
    from naturalnews.com: Biotechnology has made its way to "the happiest place on earth," with an exhibit at Walt Disney World's EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) theme park now featuring genetically-modified (GM) fruits and vegetables, some of which are shaped like Mickey Mous ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    from farmwars.info: In the United States, the Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine is scheduled to be given to babies at birth. Since babies do not normally go out and indulge themselves in high risk behavior such as tattooing, body piercing, IV drug use, sharing needles with others, having sex with mu ...
  • Is America's Food Safety System At Risk for a ...
    from theatlantic.com: According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States' food supply isn't prepared for a major disaster. Its 2012 Annual Report, Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue, says that the food safety ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Endgame: German declares war on sovereignty of ...
    It just had to be a German to let the can out of the bag, huh? No, we're not talking about dangerous ideologist Martin Schulz - the unelected German who pontificates in Brussels. And we're not talking about the Supreme Empress of Europe, Angela Merkel, either. No, we're talking about ye ...
  • Paul Nuttall: The euro "was never about econom ...
  • Forget the Mayans... the Greek Gods are angry
    A little known fact, on September 17, 1802, one of the ships transporting the Greek marbles to London after they were 'acquired' by Lord Elgin sank off the coast of Avlemonas. The ship - The Mentor - hit rocks and sank amidst a strong storm at sea, sending its cargo of precious Greek antiquit ...
  • Is the 'Heathrow Crisis' all about the Schengen?
    Just caught the tail end of an interview on Sky News with some bloke or another. Couldn't tell you who. Sorry. Yet whoever Mister Chappy was, he suggested that the key to resolving the 'Heathrow Crisis' was for the UK to join Schengen. Ahhh... is that so? Only, we passed through Heathro ...
  • Special Report: Greece Crisis... what Crisis?
    We've all seen the many miles and acres of news coverage that has been dedicated to the political and financial aspects of the 'crisis' engulfing Greece so, over the weekend, we flew out to Athens to go and experience what life is like there at the moment, first hand, for ourselves. While Anc ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Leveson inquiry probes modern corporate media ...
     *Leveson inquiry focuses on “unelected force” of  media executives as part of groundbreaking inquiry *Murdoch media empire executive Rebekah Brooks questioned on close links to politicians *James Murdoch forced to quit board of GlaxoSmithKline — producer of Pandemrix swine flu ...
  • 7 out of 10 Greeks vote against bankster auste ...
    Banks prepare for the return of the drachma LONDON (Reuters) – Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency. Read more at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/11/us-banks-drachma-idUSBRE84A0DC20120511
  • 29 cases of narcolepsy due to swine flu vaccin ...
     *Pandemrix swine flu vaccine linked to 29 cases of narcolepsy in Germany *Children and teenagers most affected *Researchers confirm narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease; immune response destroys brain cells which produce neurotransmitters regulating sleep *Genetic risk factor associated with nar ...
  • Israel calls snap elections over Iran policy
    Israeli elections likely to push back any thoughts of an Iran nuclear strike Read more at: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-elections-likely-push-back-any-thoughts-of-iran-nuclear-strike-1.428230
  • Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor ...
    Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor, says Scotland Yard Yard releases image of how Madeleine may look five years on and asks Portuguese police to reopen inquiry Sandra Laville, The Guardian, April 25, 2012 Scotland Yard detectives released a picture of what Madeleine McCann may look l ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Meaningless Lives of Endless Compromise
    By Les Visible A good portion of people live meaningless lives of endless compromise. They cut deals with whatever elements of existence will permit them to acquire whatever shit sandwich they have developed a taste for and… you’d better not refer to it as a shit sandwich. A meaningf ...
  • Iceland’s Amazing Peaceful Revolution – Still ...
    By voice13 Iceland’s peaceful revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. The following summation has been posted by countless people on Facebook; I’ve reposted it in its entirety: ICELAND (GP) – No news from Iceland? Why? Last we heard, people ...
  • Superbugs mutate in India, rendering antibioti ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer 2,192 [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) It is no longer a secret that drug-resistant bacteria are rapidly emerging and spreading all around the world as a result of the continued overuse and abuse of antibiotic drugs in both conventional medicine and industrial ...
  • Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out. But based on the timing of the symptoms and their relation ...
  • Seeking Sustenance on Hungry Wednesday
    By Les Visible What I have found, as a seeker, is that certain guaranteed states of awareness arrive over the course of the search. One of these things is being absolutely convinced of the presence and operation of a supreme being. It’s something different from faith and belief. It’s ...

Veterans Today

  • Israel as Popular as North Korea According to ...
    By Gilad Atzmon Haaretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, ...
  • The New World Order: Ben Gurion’s &#8220 ...
    Did Joe Vialls explain - back in 2003 - why DHS needs 450 million hollow-point bullets?
  • The Debasement of American Intel–Step By ...
    This opinion piece is the story of how American Intel was debased step by step, and how many great American intel heroes have been ignored, suppressed, abused, harassed and driven out of intel (or worse).
  • RADIATION AT EL TORO HANGAR UNRESOLVED
    California Department of Public Health  holds-up release of old hangar.  Navy requried to do more work.  (IRVNE, CA) – Hangar 296 at former MCAS El Toro remains in a radiological restricted category nearly 10 years after a Navy radiological survey and report by Roy F. Weston, Inc., dated J ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 16 ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs’ task force on women veterans this month offered its plans for making the health and benefits system more female friendly.

electric politics

  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...
  • Summa Economica
    According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...
  • The Virtue of Protectionism (and Class Warfare)
    It's a vicious circle. Financialization. Profit maximization. Offshoring. Political dysfunction. To start with the offshoring part, the American economy will wither and die without good industrial jobs. The numbers don't add up otherwise and the numbers don't lie. But thanks to money, corporatio ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Russia: Military Interference In Others’ ...
    Voice of Russia May 17, 2012 Medvedev warns against interference in other countries’ affairs         Military interference in other countries` domestic affairs could lead to a fully fledged war, in which the use of nuclear weapons cannot be ruled out, Russia`s ...
  • NATO Summit: “Enduring Presence In Afgha ...
    Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2012 NATO summit to define presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 WASHINGTON: The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago will determine its long-term presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014, the top commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told audience in the ...
  • Mongolia: NATO Assists Pentagon’s Shift ...
    China Daily May 17, 2012 Mongolia builds NATO ties as ‘counterbalance’ By Zhao Shengnan Close links between Mongolia and NATO is a step forward for Mongolia to implement its “third neighbor” policy of building ties with partners other than neighboring Russia and China, an ...
  • NATO Strengthens Position In Central Asia Agai ...
    Voice of Russia May 16, 2012 NATO lures in Central Asia Roman Mamonov and Yulia Ashcheulova Edited by RR         NATO is strengthening its positions in Central Asia, for the first time inviting Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to its Chicago summit ...
  • Stop NATO News: May 16, 2012
    ==== Britain: Over 60 Fighter Jets In NATO Air Combat Exercise NATO Moves Into Jordan NATO Open Days To Be Held In Turkish Center In Bosnia Albania: NATO’s Future Land Command Heads East, South Peru: U.S. Navy Leads Multinational Exercise NATO Chief Praises Georgian Outpost ==== Britain: O ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Globalists Plan to Sabotage Greek Election: In ...
    Richard Cottrell | The country of Greece is a small country of about ten million people, who normally mind their own business and don’t give a lunchtime ouzo for what the rest of the world is or is not doing.
  • Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA
    Court House News May 17, 2012 MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting te ...
  • A Special Report On the Fukushima Nuclear Cata ...
    Cosmic Convergence | Just prior to the Supermoon of March 18th, 2011, the world witnessed a natural and manmade disaster of epic proportions. What transpired off the coast of Honshu Island, Japan on March 11 has forever altered the planet and irremediably affected the global environment.
  • Forest Service Demands 80,000 to Turn Over Pub ...
    Goldwater Institute | The U.S. Forest Service wants $78,935.80 before it will share public records the Goldwater Institute has requested under FOIA.
  • LA County Health Enforcers Conduct Door-to-Doo ...
    Mike Adams | the LA County health department has unleashed door-to-door raw milk confiscation teams to threaten and intimidate customers.

FRS

  • India: Govt. forces wage war on the people, d ...
    [The Indian government has long claimed to be the "world's largest democracy"--but democratic rights and democratic accountability have routinely been set aside.  Now, the forces waging "Operation Green Hunt"  want to establish free-fire zones against civilians, and other violations of human and ...
  • Witnesses Fear Police Retribution in Oakland
    Written by Jennifer Inez Ward Wednesday, 16 May 2012 It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Skyline High School senior Alan Blueford was just weeks away from graduating Skyline High School. Instead, his family is preparing for a funeral and searching for answers. Blueford died after being shot ...
  • Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdow ...
    May 14, 2012, Counterpunch Documents Show How White House and Democrats Worked to Protect the Banks Against Protests by DAVE LINDORFF A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request file ...
  • ‘We have nothing to do with Maoists’
    Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh leader says fight for tribal rights to intensify SONIA SARKAR, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India) — May 15, 2012 The quasi-political organisation, Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh, operating in Odisha’s Koraput and Malkangiri districts, has often been described as the fron ...
  • ‘We have nothing to do with Maoists’
    Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh leader says fight for tribal rights to intensify SONIA SARKAR, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India) — May 15, 2012 The quasi-political organisation, Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh, operating in Odisha’s Koraput and Malkangiri districts, has often been described as the fron ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Buried Since the Jurassic Era, Ocean Microbes ...
    With no meal for 86 million years, and barely enough oxygen to sustain metabolism, can a single-celled organism really be considered alive? Yes, but only just, according to a new study. A microbial community buried under the ocean floor since the mid-Jurassic era is still hanging on. Their tenac ...
  • Phineas Gage, Neurology's Most Interesting Cas ...
    Scientists are getting another chance to get inside Phineas Gage’s head. The 25-year-old Gage was a railroad supervisor back in 1848, using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7 iron rod to pack blasting powder into a rock just moments before becoming history’s most interesting neuroscience case. Gage somehow tr ...
  • Gallery: The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Great ...
  • Video: MIT's Latest User Interface Employs Gra ...
    The future of user interfaces seems to be gesture-based, at least if one simply looks at where research dollars are flowing and what products--yes, like the Kinect--are coming to market. But the peripheral is not dead. Jinha Lee at the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab sees a different f ...
  • FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Tes ...
    The test could be approved for sale later this year It’s no cure, but it could mark a significant victory in the fight against HIV. A 17-member advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration has endorsed an over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to test themselves for the AID ...

Veterans Today

  • Israel as Popular as North Korea According to ...
    By Gilad Atzmon Haaretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, ...
  • The New World Order: Ben Gurion’s &#8220 ...
    Did Joe Vialls explain - back in 2003 - why DHS needs 450 million hollow-point bullets?
  • The Debasement of American Intel–Step By ...
    This opinion piece is the story of how American Intel was debased step by step, and how many great American intel heroes have been ignored, suppressed, abused, harassed and driven out of intel (or worse).
  • RADIATION AT EL TORO HANGAR UNRESOLVED
    California Department of Public Health  holds-up release of old hangar.  Navy requried to do more work.  (IRVNE, CA) – Hangar 296 at former MCAS El Toro remains in a radiological restricted category nearly 10 years after a Navy radiological survey and report by Roy F. Weston, Inc., dated J ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 16 ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs’ task force on women veterans this month offered its plans for making the health and benefits system more female friendly.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature and Arctic ice update
    The average global temperature for April on the UAH satellite measure jumped to +0.295C above the 30 year running mean. This equates to approximately +0.548C above the standard 1961-1990 average, used by the World Meteorological Organisation. Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close ...
  • Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorksh ...
    Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire's ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 we ...
  • Weakest solar cycle in 100yrs could intensify ...
    News from NASA this week that on-going weak solar activity will continue, leading to the weakest solar cycle in around 100 years, could have important implications for the UK's weather. Research over the last few years has pointed to a link between low solar activity, and incidences of 'blocki ...
  • Wettest April on record - and more rain to come
    Church Fenton in North Yorkshire has become the first station to report record rainfall following last night's heavy rain. So far this month, 122mm (5 inches) has fallen, beating the previous record set in 2000 of 115mm. The station average for April is 49mm (2 inches). Other stations are al ...
  • April could be wettest on record in drought-hi ...
    Low pressure will dominate the UK's weather for the rest of April, and possibly into early May, bringing further showers and longer spells of locally heavy rain. In Lincolnshire, where the drought situation is amongst the worst in the country, some of the highest rainfall totals have been reco ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Small is Beautiful: Anti-Growth in a 6 Minute ...
    After reading the news that last month was reportedly the fifth warmest April on record and the 326th consecutive month when temperatures were above the 20th century average, I came across the video clip above which neatly encapsulates environmental concerns about unlimited growth. Tacitly under ...
  • Is Being Fat Related to Being Dumb? The US Case
    Being apart from the Anglo-Saxon blogging crowd allows me to probe questions they are generally uncomfortable with but need to be asked. Yesterday we considered the general unresponsiveness of Anglophone academia to reforming higher education despite producing so many unemployed and unemployable ...
  • Higher Ed in Existential Crisis: Jobless in US, UK
    Is is not particularly surprising to me that Anglophone bloggers in academia don't cover the topic much, but make no mistake--higher education is in crisis. Despite a lot of them being especially fond of rational choice theory, I suppose it's slightly discomforting to find themselves being criti ...
  • Proletarianizing F1: Hugo Chavez's Pilot Wins Race
    Face it: there are certain sports which have an uppity image. Golf. Equestrian sports alike polo and dressage. Rugby even. And, of course, there's F1 which tries to build an image of glamour with various Eurotrash and wannabe Eurotrash sporting perma-tans, big Rolexes, big yachts and attractive ...
  • Railroaded: Today's Depressing Greece Factoid
    Wasteful public projects are a staple of rational choice theory: what better way is there to milk the public purse, profit off contractors and milk the public than a nice, big public project? Although you will find no shortage of metaphors for Greek prodigality nowadays, its railroad system is a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...
  • If You Live In California Things Just Got A Wh ...
    Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless?  These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse.  Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be mu ...
  • The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just ...
    When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivati ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Kepler space telescope records the number of s ...
    NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The bigges ...
  • Minority report: White births no longer majori ...
    For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted f ...
  • Russia warns West against hasty wars and risin ...
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Battle plan for Iran ready – US envoy to Israel
    The Pentagon has a ready plan for a military attack on Iran, the American ambassador to Israel warned days before a key meeting over the controversial nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. Western countries and Israel are exerting pressure on Iran to stop uranium enrichment, saying that Tehra ...
  • Transparent TVs to hit the market in the Near ...
    The television of the future could be a see-through panel which ‘vanishes’ when you turn it off – carrying on the current trend for ever-thinner and more unobtrusive sets. The technology – TOLED – actually exists, although it’s still fairly crude, and producin ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-05-15 WikiLeaks News Update: "The World T ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 528 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 525 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 722 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 608 days. ...
  • 2012-05-13 WikiLeaks News Update: Stratfor ops ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 526 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 523 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 720 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 606 days. ...
  • 2012-05-12 Nabeel Rajab's detention extended a ...
    Tweet This is Part Three in WL Central's continued coverage of the arrest of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. He was arrested on May 5 at the Bahraini International Airport, following the announcement of his appearance on Julian Assange's talk show "The World Tomorrow." A representat ...
  • 2012-05-11 Polish agents briefed president, PM ...
    TweetThe Polish Secret Service briefed both president Aleksander Kwaśniewski and PM Leszek Miller about the existence of a CIA black site on the grounds of a Secret Service training camp, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. The agents kept notes on these meetings, and eventually handed them over to the pro ...
  • 2012-05-10 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks #1 ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 523 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 520 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 717 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 603 days. ...

U N News

  • UN envoy hails workshop related to Guyana-Vene ...
    A UN envoy today hailed a recent workshop related to a long-standing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela as a demonstration of both countries' on-going commitment to a peaceful resolution of the matter.
  • UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strat ...
    Noting that some 800,000 households in Canada are unable to meet their daily food needs, an independent United Nations expert today called on the country to adopt a national right to food strategy.
  • Top UN officials underscore need to combat org ...
    Senior United Nations officials today drew the world's attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said is spreading to other continents.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for an investigation into the killing of Erick Martínez Ávila, a Honduran journalist and gay rights activist.
  • Mexico: UN and regional experts urge governmen ...
    The Mexican Government should implement a new law to protect journalists and human rights defenders, a group of United Nations and regional experts stressed today, adding that authorities must prioritize breaking the cycle of impunity which has led to repeated killings in recent years.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...
  • Hungry Dragon
    COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has b ...
  • Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessm ...
    Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The workshop will be held on Saturday 5 May, 9am-4pm at Pearson Hall on the Museum of Norther ...
  • An interview with Dave Foreman
    Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March 30,2012 on KGNU Community Radio (Denver/Boulder). Listen: audioarchives-Connections-2012-Connections_2012-03-30 or stream from KGNU.

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Red Alert!... Obama Takes First Major Step in ...
      The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto... This is an email with an excerpt included from the actual article and ...
  • Mainstream Media Finally Catches On About Canc ...
      Fears have been reignited about the safety of energy saving light bulbs after a group of scientists warned that they contain cancer causing chemicals. read more
  • Smoking Fire Safe Cigarettes Create Even More ...
      The real rationale for the creation of fire safe cigarettes wasn't so much for consumer protection, but was meant more for the manufacturers' defense against lawsuits if and when a smoker accidentally burns their house down. ~ S.D. Wells read more
  • Mary Richardson Kennedy Found Dead... Suicide ...
      Robert F. Kennedy’s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, dead at age 52, apparently committing suicide by hanging herself, multiple sources told ABC News. read more
  • Disappearing People in National Parks and the ...
      The summer travel season is nearly here which means millions of people will be heading for national parks and national forests. As it turns out, a few of them won’t be coming back. ~ George Knapp read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Bugging Out – Will You Make It There?
    When disaster happens, will you stay or will you go? How will you decide which to do or when it’s time to do it? If you decide to bug-out, where will you go and how will you get there? There are lots of questions and they require lots of thought, BEFORE ‘it’ happens. Okay, for ...
  • Armed Environmental Police Shut Down Ice-Cream ...
    image source: lowellsun.com You may have run across this news report already today while scouring the news, but in case you haven’t, hear is a re-hash. In Massachusetts, state environmental police shut down an ice-cream stand run by Mark Duffy for 26 years at a dairy farm in Carlisle, a sm ...
  • Top 20 Survival Preparedness Books
    The following list of survival preparedness related books are the top twenty most popular linked through Modern Survival Blog on Amazon.com during 2012, so far. What people are buying, and the rankings may pique your interest for you to know the popularity of the many survival books that are ava ...
  • South Pacific Volcano Growing Astonishingly Fast
    Out of sight, out of mind? Not so fast… An underwater volcano just north of New Zealand is currently undergoing ‘changes’ faster than nearly any other volcano has in recorded history. Researchers believe only Vesuvius and Mount St Helens have recorded larger growth rates, accor ...
  • Your Paycheck In Gold Bullion
    Few people understand the difference between ‘nominal’ and ‘real.’ Regarding the nominal value versus the real value of the  dollar… Nominal: the ‘face’ value printed on a paper fiat note. Real: what you can really buy with that note. The buying power of fiat money (the dollar) has fallen ...

Fast Company

  • Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age
    Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away. Harvard Business School is buzzing. In part, it’s because students are working in “hives,” new ...
  • In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online
    In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now.Is Facebook worth the $100 billion or so its pending IPO suggests it is? Who the good gracious knows. But one thing we can all be certain about is how the social network h ...
  • Derrick Ashong On Going Viral, Again and Again
    Whether in the role of front man for world-music band Soulfege, hosting an award-winning TV show, or creating a better business model for independent artists, Derrick Ashong is just trying to communicate.Derrick Ashong has a knack for being in the right place at the right time—and for seizing th ...
  • J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler ...
    J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar." Steve Jobs didn't just design hit consumer products in the computer and media industries. He reimagined all types of things, from yachts ...
  • 5 Steps To Choosing The Right Challenges
    Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical t ...

Jadaliyya

  • الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيالين اللبن ...
    تنقسم مداخلتي إلى قسمين، يتناول الأوّلُ "الانتفاضاتِ العربيّةَ وفلسطين في المخيال اللبنانيّ"، ويتناول القسمُ الثاني "الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيال السوريّ". ولا حاجة إلى القول إنّ المخيال هنا (أو الوعي) ليس واحدًا في الحالين، على ما ستُظهر هذه المداخلة، بل مخيالاتٌ م ...
  • Beejo and His Daughter Loubna: About the Egypt ...
     هذا هو الشريط الرابع في سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ” العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع ا ...
  • Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Fictional Telev ...
    As antigovernment protests gripped Syria in 2011 and 2012, observers celebrated a new generation of activist artists and their innovative forms of creative dissent. The wall of fear that had long curtailed artistic expression has collapsed, they argue, with youthful satirists moving beyond the d ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (May 17)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Artistic Depictions of Arab Women: An Intervie ...
    The intersection of gender, perception, identity, and space have, for centuries, collided to illustrate a skewed depiction of Arab women. The art of Orientalism brought about imagined scenes of women in harems, hidden in seclusion behind veils and walls. As these images continue to shape Western ...

mediagazer

  • Why Warren Buffett is buying newspapers (Jeff ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: Why Warren Buffett is buying newspapers  —  The Oracle of Omaha acquired his hometown newspaper in January and just snapped up dozens more in a $142 million deal.  This is supposed to be the fastest declining industry in America.  What ...
  • Simon & Schuster settles antitrust-ebook suit ...
    Greg Sandoval / CNET: Simon & Schuster settles antitrust-ebook suit with state AGs  —  Simon & Schuster is the first of the five publishers accused of illegally fixing e-book prices with Apple's help to settle an antitrust suit brought by 29 states.  —  F ...
  • Los Angeles Times receives $1-million grant fr ...
    James Rainey / Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Times receives $1-million grant from Ford Foundation  —  The funds will help The Times expand coverage of key areas, including immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California.  —  The main entrance of the Lo ...
  • After 7 Years, No End in Sight to Phone Hackin ...
    Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: After 7 Years, No End in Sight to Phone Hacking Scandal  —  LONDON — The phone hacking scandal that shook Rupert Murdoch's global media empire and hit the heart of the British government began quietly on a Monday in 2005, when aides to the Br ...
  • Wall Street Journal Fights Back Against Claims ...
    John Cook / Gawker: Wall Street Journal Fights Back Against Claims Rupert Murdoch and Jon Huntsman Fed It a Bulls**t Rumor  —  A Chinese writer is claiming that Rupert Murdoch was behind one of the Wall Street Journal's more embarrassing recent corrections—the paper wron ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Brazil hotels set to cut rates for June's ...
    Rio de Janeiro hotel owners have agreed to cut prices during a major UN summit next month, amid fears that spiralling costs were putting off visitors. The Brazilian government said room rates should now be at least 25% lower. Some 50,000 visitors are expected...
  • IPL 2012: Shah Rukh Khan's behavior matte ...
    Mumbai: May 17, 2012 Bollywood actor and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan Thursday faced a lifetime ban from entering the Wankhede Stadium after allegedly turning up drunk at the ground and misbehaving with security guards and cricket officials. The incident took place ...
  • Greek caretaker government sworn in
    Athens: The Greek caretaker government, which will lead the country to the second round of national polls in June, was sworn in on Thursday morning at a ceremony held at the Presidential mansion in Athens. Headed by Panayiotis Pikrammenos, top judge of the Greek Supreme Administrative Court ...
  • Infants' death sparks protest in Kashmir
    Srinagar, May 17 (ANI): Locals in Jammu and Kashmir protested here on Thursday against increasing crib deaths due to negligence of the hospital authorities. Reportedly, over 300 infants have died in the...
  • Home secretary reviews cross-LOC trade at ...
    Jammu, May 17 (IANS) Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday visited Jammu and Kashmir's frontier Poonch district and discussed with local people issues concerning trade across the Line of Control (LOC) between Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Meeting a delegation of traders in P ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Tell Obama: Turn Shell's Ships Around
    Every day brings Shell a little closer to drilling in Arctic waters, home to seals, whales, and polar bears. With that drilling comes the risk of an oil spill, which could be devastating to the ocean ecosystem and those dependent on it. But it’s not too late—there is still a chance for Presi ...
  • Exciting News for Turtles
    Kemps Ridley sea turtle Editor's Note: This entry was written by Oceana scientist Amanda Keledjian.
  • Video: Aimee Teegarden Swims with Sea Lions
    Drum roll, please: we’re excited to unveil our latest video starring actress and ocean lover, Aimee Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights.” We traveled with Teegarden up the coast of Southern California, from La Jolla to Santa Barbara Island, filming a video about the need to protect the ocean’s th ...
  • Angela Kinsey and Barton Seaver Head to Capito ...
    Next Monday, actress and ocean activist Angela Kinsey will be here in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass legislation to stop seafood fraud. Kinsey is best known for her role as the tightly-wound head of accounting on “The Office,” and she also appeared in a video for Oceana’s sea turtl ...
  • Yves Klein Auction to Benefit Oceana
    Tomorrow Christie’s International Auction House will host a Post War and Contemporary Arts evening sale, featuring Yves Klein’s FC 1, which is being sold on behalf of an anonymous collector. FC 1 is expected to achieve a record-breaking final sale price, a portion of which will be donated to Oce ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Jagdpanzer 38t, Or Hetzer Anti Tank Assaul ...
      The Hetzer was offically known as the Jagdpanzer 38t. It was a tank killer, or anti armor assault gun. The Germans took a high velocity 75mm gun and mounted it on the Czech 38t tank chassis and fielded almost 3000 of thee guns. People might perhaps wonder what role the assault gun actuall ...
  • Switzerland’s Secret Alpine Bunkers.
      The Swiss have an excuse for avoiding the consequences of endless centuries of warfare in Europe. They’re neutral, and have they have managed to maintain a neutrality to all things warfare. The Swiss terrain itself is hostile to standing parade ground armies.  The huge open vistas and ste ...
  • Shaka (kaSenzangakhona) Zulu. The African Ghen ...
      The enigmatic thing about Shaka Zulu is that there seems to be little or no easily recognizable impetus for his new methods of leadership. There was no over reaching geopolitical movement afoot that midwifed his new sense of governance. No one declared that things would improve with a mil ...
  • Shaka (kaSenzangakhona) Zulu. The African Ghen ...
      The enigmatic thing about Shaka Zulu is that there seems to be little or no easily recognizable impetus for his new methods of leadership. There was no over reaching geopolitical movement afoot that midwifed his new sense of governance. No one declared that things would improve with a mil ...
  • The Maresal Romanian Anti Tank Gun
      This thing should have worked. Like so many weapons systems before it, it simply needed the budgets, the time, the political atmosphere to let it happen. The idea itself was quite robust. A self propelled sloped armor anti tank gun, the size of which was planned to be a 120 mm howitzer. I ...

Taylor Marsh

  • TED Censors Nick Hanauer Talk on Income Inequality
    THE MIDDLE CLASS AS JOB creators is too controversial an idea to broadcast widely, at least that’s the verdict of TED. From the National Journal: There’s one idea, though, that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is ...
  • G8 & NATO Powers Meet in U.S.: Who’s Paying At ...
    Guest post by Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. For the Occupy and related movements, the next few days are very important. The G8 Summit will take place May 18 -19, at Camp David. The NATO Summit in Chicago follows, May 20 -21. Everyone involved – Su ...
  • Edward Klein’s Jeremiah Wright Interview Goes ...
    “The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is in ...
  • Trayvon Martin Knuckle Injury: Small Abrasion, ...
    DEFENSE HACKS led by “Just One Minute” made a lot of noise on Wednesday, writing Trayvon Martin “showed bloody knuckles,” while burying the lede offered by NBC’s report that this wasn’t the case after their review of the actual autopsy. This reveals the proble ...
  • Romney & RNC Close on Obama & DNC
    MONEY WAR 2012 moved close to a draw, at least for the month of April. Mr. Romney and the R.N.C. raised $40.1 million in April, just shy of the $43.6 million that Mr. Obama and the Democratic National Committee raised for the month. – New York Times

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Voters Change Europe
    An analysis of the voting patterns that barrelled François Hollande to victory on May 6 as the first Socialist president of France since 1995 shows that this overthrow was due in large measure to Muslims, who voted for him in overwhelming numbers. The
  • The Main Goal of the Palestinian Government
    At a time when many Western governments, the World Bank and various international organizations are continuing to heap praise on the Palestinian Authority for implementing reforms, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Hasan Khreishah,
  • U.S. Leads Effort to Criminalize Free Speech
    The Human Rights Council concluded its nineteenth session on March 23, 2012 and adopted, without a vote, yet another resolution aimed at restricting freedom of speech throughout the world. While its title[1], as usual, suggests it is about combating
  • Islam Arrives in the Basque Country
    The Basque regional government in northern Spain is drafting a controversial new Law on Religious Institutions, which states that mosques and prayer rooms with a capacity of fewer than 300 people will no longer require prior local government approval.
  • Who Will Suffer As A Result of Euro Policies? ...
    The European Union, and especially its common currency, the euro, is on the brink of collapse. The Greeks, unable to form a government after the May 6 elections, will have to go to the polls again next month. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is

Urban Survival

  • Tough Times for News Mongers
    Is it possible the world is heading for “media burn-out?” We’ve speculated recently that something along this line might be coming because when you think about it, the world is swimming in a sea of inconclusive news stories that just … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo: Who’s Henry?
    Somehow, I don’t think I mentioned this one which I stumbled upon when I was cleaning out my inbox this week. Somehow, when it came in back in February when we were talking about electronic voice phenomena back when. But … Continue reading →
  • Big Rally Day
     Reader note: Still working on pesky graphics issues! About here, Peoplenomics readers will be saying “Oh…got’cha…” on my latest move of both nickels in markets yesterday morning.  The S&P, NASDAQ, and other indices were up smartly in the preopen due … Con ...
  • Coping: Tuesday at the WuJo – Materium M ...
     Had an interesting email come in while we were on the road detailing a fine encounter with the WuJo – and since I am now digging through most of the pile of undone stuff around here, pleased to share it… … Continue reading →
  • America’s Next Civil War
      As I mentioned to Peoplenomics subscribers a week or so back, one of the thoughts that crossed my mind while sitting under an old oak tree at the US Civil War Memorial in Vicksburg, MS was that it takes … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Another loophole for the oil and gas industry ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The New York Times published a very alarming story this week. Loopholes in highway safety rules allow truck drivers in the oil and gas industry to work longer hours than drivers in most oth ...
  • Support for Cutting Carbon Pollution Breaks Re ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Congress may be paralyzed, but ordinary people are taking matters into our own hands. We are writing our leaders by the million, and we are delivering a clear and simple message: it's time to clean ...
  • On clean energy, Senate Bill 315 much-improved ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago On Tuesday the Ohio Senate voted to approve Substitute Senate Bill 315 (SB 315), the Governor’s energy bill. Thanks to the work of clean energy businesses and environmental advocates in Ohio, and Senato ...
  • Enbridge announcement to increase tar sands im ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. Enbridge Inc. yesterday announced major expansion plans to its pipeline system that will increase the volume of risky and dirty tar sands flowing to the United States, Central Canada, and ...
  • New housing forecast mostly good for walkable ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   The housing price recovery has begun, says a new report from The Demand Institute, a think tank recently launched by Nielson and The Conference Board to track consumer demand. ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Farewell
    Until recently I was somewhat undecided about whether or not to post a final message to everyone given the strong emotions so many of our readers had to my decision to hand over this project to someone else and how that went askew. However, I do feel the need to talk about a few [...]
  • Suspended until further notice
    Due to the voting fiasco I am suspending the project until further notice while I take some time to figure out what to do.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misonduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Jonesville MI police chief accused of hitting cuffed autistic 8yr-old who left school with a baton in the back of a police car after he left school while it was in ...
  • Candidates for Ownership of the NPMSRP
    As discussed this weekend, I’ve decided that the best way to hand this project over to some other person or group would be to let the readers, who have supported this project so much through the years, make the decision on who they feel most comfortable with running it from now on. Accordi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Washington DC police sued by mom of teen fataly shot in back, cops say he had BB gun, witnesses contradict [3] http://bit.ly/Ipxihs Chicago IL & 4 cops lose $1.15 ...

Total Collapse

  • Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
  • Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
    The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
  • Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
    Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
  • China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
    China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Samsung pushes the button to ship more chips faster following Apple loss speculation. Facebook’s Saverin may not be allowed back in the US. Iran is going to sue the Googles....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook amends its S-1. Yes, again. No, this is not a repeat of yesterday. DISH Network could find itself on the wrong side of CBS’s programming decisions. Flipboard now has...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook amends its S-1. Yes, again. Twitter reaches 10 million active users in the UK. New MacBook Pro models look to be set for launch at WWDC. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
    Shutterstock files for an IPO, Facebook’s own IPO date looms large, and Steve Wozniak praises Mark Zuckerberg. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Isis is getting support for American Express cards. Mobile data roaming in the EU is about to get cheaper. Liked Casey’s Contraptions? Here’s hoping you like Rovio’s new version. You...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New 'bony-tongue' fish discovered in Myanmar
    A new species of arowana, a highly valued aquarium fish, has been described from southern Madagascar. The description is published in last month's issue of the journal Aqua.
  • Picture: Shaq poses with tiny lemur
    One of the world's most recognizable professional basketball players has used his stature to highlight one of the world's smallest primates: the mouse lemur from Madagascar. Shaquille O’Neal, a NBA legend who retired last year and earned a doctorate degree in education from Barry Universit ...
  • Wildlife in the tropics plummets by over 60 pe ...
    In 48 years wildlife populations in the tropics, the region that holds the bulk of the world's biodiversity, have fallen by an alarming 61 percent, according to the most recent update to the Living Planet Index. Produced by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of Londo ...
  • Susan Cosier: Good environmental writing takes ...
    Susan Cosier is a senior editor for Audubon, as well as running the magazine’s Green Guru column where she answers readers’ questions about how to live life in ways which are environmentally responsible. Susan studied environmental science as an undergrad at Wesleyan University, then ...
  • Consumption, population, and declining Earth: ...
    Currently, human society is consuming natural resources as if there were one-and-a-half Earths, and not just a single blue planet, according to the most recent Living Planet Report released today. If governments and societies continue with 'business-as-usual' practices, we could be consuming thr ...

Sierra Express

  • The country is at yoke of security risks
    The country’s porous nature is cause for alarm.  Security, with all due respect to the forces, is volatile as we continue to see a rise in crime. The proliferation of armed banditry, cultism, and fraternity groups are a thing for major concerns as we are fast approaching the November polls.   Fo ...
  • PDP surfaces after a lull
    The Late Honorable Thaimu Bangura was the founding leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP-Sorbeh). Sorbeh was one of the strongest opposition parties that were vibrant enough during the reign of the APC’s One Party rule. News of the PDP’s waking from its long slumber is being greeted with ...
  • Empowering the Media, the people’s mouthpiece ...
    The Freedom of Information Act (FOI)  is one that is designed to allow journalists to  access information from any state functionaries for publication without being criminalized. This is an Act that is in dire need for adoption into law as the capacity of the media is in serious jeopardy due to ...
  • SEM News Brief
    NCD Launches Conflict Resolution Project -The National Commission for Democracy (NCD) on May 15th launched its conflict resolution project at the regional consultation office for conflict identification in the western Area. The Chairman Alhaji Dr. Abubakarr Kargbo said the project focuses on ide ...
  • Eastern Police Station and policing the city
    The Eastern Police Division is strategically placed within the Sierra Leone Police Jurisdiction in Sierra Leone. It is sometimes referred to as the “city gate” of security. This police jurisdiction is also situated in the Central Business District of Freetown.  Here, human congestion and influx ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Lower prices for NZ producers in first quarter
    New Zealand producers were squeezed in the first quarter, receiving lower prices for their products as global commodity prices fell and the kiwi dollar remained strong, while their input prices rose.The Producers Price Index's output...
  • Willy Leferink: Fonterra farmers' tough decisi ...
    The Rubicon River Julius Caesar crossed 2000 years ago has come to represent a point of no return. To some dairy farmers that expression sums up Fonterra's proposed shareholders fund.The shareholders fund, if we strip things to...
  • Dairy prices drop to new 3-year low in ove ...
    Prices of dairy products fell for the third straight sale in Fonterra's overnight auction, reaching a new three-year low as China's slowdown and euro-zone uncertainty weighed on commodities.
  • Canterbury creams dairying honours
    Quake-affected Canterbury became the first region to scoop all three top awards at the annual Dairy Industry Awards on Saturday night.Enda and Sarah Hawe won the Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Mick O'Connor was top farm...
  • Dairy herds boom, sheep numbers keep falling
    Around 250,000 more dairy cattle are grazing New Zealand paddocks than in mid-2010, but sheep numbers have dropped by over a million, figures show. Partly driven by higher milk solid payouts, the country now has more than six million...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Prison Study: Equal Sexual Misconduct from Inm ...
    A new U.S. Department of Justice survey shows prison inmates are just as likely to face sexual misconduct by facility staff as from their bunkmates. A study released this month, based on surveys gathered in 2008 from former state prisoners, reports nearly 10 percent of inmates have ...
  • Catch Nick Gillespie on Fox News Red Eye With ...
    I'll be on Fox News Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld tonight at 3AM ET. Along with regulars Bill Schulz and Andy Levy, other guests will include Gavin McInnes and Dana Perino. Among the topics: Elizabeth Warren's fake claims of native-American heritage, celebrity tax rebels, GOP super Pac ...
  • Should Gay Marriage Advocates Be Wary of the S ...
    Back in February Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered a speech at Columbia University where she criticized the Court’s abortion rights-affirming 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade because “it moved too far too fast” and provoked decades of bitter political fighting. “It’s not ...
  • Attn. New York City Reasonoids! TONIGHT!! Come ...
    I'll be talking about my just-released book Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired in New York City, Willamsburg sector in Brooklyn, in an interesting setting. Details from the blog of my host Todd Seavey:   Thursday, May 17 (at 8pm), the Dionysium (sist ...
  • Money Flees From Eurozone, Gary Johnson Pollin ...
    Capital flight isn't just a Greek phenomenon — billions of euros are pouring from Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, with much landing in the UK, as depositors go hunting for safe havens for their money. Saying, "I do not believe a republic can exist if you permit the military ...

Mercury Rising

  • Spy v. spy, General v. general, Clown v. clown ...
    Reuters, via Grauniad: Investigators are questioning Mexico’s former deputy defence minister and a top army general for suspected links to organised crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war. Mexican soldiers on Tuesday detained retired general T ...
  • The new growth industry: Abaddon (destruction)
    Via Barry Rithholtz, an article from Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some o ...
  • ALEC is not the only “corporate bill mil ...
    Sara Blaskey and Steve Horn, Truthout: ALEC, though, is not the only “corporate bill mill” playing this game. “Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists” have upped the ante and skillfully advanced their agendas through bipartisan “trade associations” for state go ...
  • Homophobia: A Weapon Of Sexism
    I’ve long ago found that whenever I have a really good idea, chances are good somebody else had it long before I did. So it is with my linking homophobia to sexism. I’ve always held that homophobic societies are by their very nature sexist and misogynist societies, since if women wer ...
  • The man without a country
    (Image from LATimes) Eduardo Saverin, who fled to the United States from Brazil to escape death at the hands of gangs, has now abandoned his American citizenship to save a couple of hundred million in taxes due from capital gains on the Facebook IPO. Bruce Ackerman points out that he can continu ...

Reality Sandwich

  • FUTURE NOW
    Presented by ✰ ⒷⓄⒹⓎ ◌ ⒶⒸⓉⓊⒶⓁⒾⓏⒺⒹ ✰ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ THE PAST DOES NOT EXIST ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ALL WE HAVE IS NOW ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ read more
  • Electric Jesus Hits the West
      Celebrate an evening of aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations at the East Coast readings of my debut book The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic in Boise, ID & Salt Lake City, UT. (May 17 &18)  The Electric Jesus Reading & Chakra Activation ...
  • Out of the Galactic Closet: A Talk with Jonath ...
      This interview first appeared in the Catalyst. 

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  • Evolver at Desert Rocks
    Evolver is a proud media sponsor of the 8th annual Desert Rocks Music Festival, June 7-10, 2012, 4-day camping in beautiful desert landscape near the town of Green River, Utah along the majestic red-rock cliff-surrounded beaches of the Green River. The festival also has a new partnership dedic ...
  • The Messenger's Birthday Gift
      Two mammoth cosmic events take place this week, both of which highlight the mercurial messenger in all of us: the Solar Eclipse and Venus retrograde. Solar Eclipse in First Degree of Gemini read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

  • ‘Angry outburst pending in Bahrain’
    A senior Iranian official says rash decisions and wrong approaches to the months-long crisis in Bahrain have pushed the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom to the brink of an "angry outburst."
  • Three killed in US drone attack in Yemen
    At least three people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in eastern Yemen.
  • ‘Syria must be given time on Annan plan’
    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Syrian government must be given enough time to implement the peace plan proposed by the joint UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan.
  • 'US, Israel aim to gobble up Arab states'
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