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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, May 17, 2012

17 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 29: A label on the pa...CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 29: A label on the package of a Primatene Mist refill tells customers the product will soon no longer be available September 29, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Primatene Mist, the only over-the-counter inhalers approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat asthma, will no longer be available after December 31 because the inhaler contains ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which are being phased out. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
SILVER SPRING, MD - MAY 10: The U.S. Food and...SILVER SPRING, MD - MAY 10: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee holds a meeting to vote on whether Gilead Sciences' Truvada should be approved as a preventative treatment for people who are at high risk of contracting HIV through sexual intercourse May 10, 2012 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Already approved to treat people infected with HIV, Truvada would be a milestone in the worldwide AIDS epidemic by offering a tablet capable of preventing infection in high-risk individuals. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
This first light image is a false color infrar...This first light image is a false color infrared image of the sky in the direction of the Carina constellation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Artist's concept of the Wide-field Infrared Su...Artist's concept of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Niels Bohr InstituteThe Niels Bohr Institute (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Whi ...
    As Malawi's poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48 percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost the country's export market.
  • Breaking the Silence on Racism in Cuba
    Gloria Rolando has been revealing hidden chapters of Cuban history since the 2010 premiere of the first part of her documentary series "1912: Breaking the Silence," about the virtually unknown story about the only legal political party to promote racial equality in this country.
  • Activists Brace for Long War Against Nuclear Power
    For the past two decades Masao Ishiji (59), has been fighting tooth and nail to ban the operation of four nuclear reactors that dot the western coastline of Oi in the Fukui prefecture facing the Japan Sea.
  • Protection for Salvadoran Migrants En Route to ...
    A law to protect Salvadoran migrants, who are frequently victims of attacks and abuses on their way to the United States, is nearing entry into force after having been approved over a year ago. All that remains is for a body made up of civil society organisations to be created to implement it.
  • NATO's Twin Crises
    It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran vows never to renounce nuclear ‘rights’
    Summary: Jalili and AshtonJalili: “To those who say that time is running out for dialogue, I reply: What is running out is the policy of pressuring Iran, because this strategy has not yielded the results” expected by world powers. source: DAWNread more
  • Western diplomats are still getting it wrong o ...
    Summary: If the west wants a negotiated agreement over Iran's nuclear activities, it must play straight and offer real reciprocity source: Guardianread more
  • US Envoy: Talks Don’t Mean US Won’t Attack Iran
    Summary: Days Ahead of Baghdad Summit, Threats Return source: antiwar.comread more
  • To Talk Or Not To Talk
    Summary: Since late January, when the White House decided there would be advantage in reverting to a policy of engagement after having acquired political cover in the form of additional sanctions, the possibility of direct talks between the United States and Iran has been in the air. sourc ...
  • Hopes grow of a confidence-building deal on Ir ...
    Summary: Positive signs ahead of Baghdad talks suggest that concessions on both sides could lead to a permanent dialogue source: The Guardianread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Birth of the Largest Galaxy Supercluster in Un ...
    The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest...
  • Microbial Life at Glacier Edges --Points to Po ...
    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...
  • Cosmic HyperEvolution --"Early Galaxies of Uni ...
    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...
  • 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. Potentially haza ...
  • Is the Earth a Sentient Living Organism? New S ...
    Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock heretofore hidden...

Natural News

  • FDA concerned about risks of Pfizer's experime ...
    The current Pfizer attempt to gain FDA approval for marketing appears to be ignoring its own scientists' concerns. That's become business-as-usual with Big Pharma and the FDA. A classic example is the neurotoxin aspartame, which FDA scientists refused authorize as...
  • Five-step emotional cleanse for stress reducti ...
    Every bit as important as physical detoxification, an emotional cleanse will free your mind and body in ways you can't imagine prior to doing it. It isn't always easy, but I have never met anyone who followed the protocol and regretted doing it. Beyond the immediate...
  • Benefits to composting for organic sustainabil ...
    No one knows who discovered the benefits of composting by planting seeds in the refuse of human, animal, mineral and vegetable waste materials. Regardless of its origin, it's clear that life grows from death. Drawing new life from the leavings of the past has been happening...
  • Baking soda, cancer and fungus
    (NaturalNews)The cancer industry is closing in on baking soda and beginning to do research in earnest about sodium bicarbonate and how it is a primary tool in the treatment of fungus. Cancer is a fungus, can be caused by a fungus, or is accompanied by late-stage fungal infections...
  • Film 'Last Call at the Oasis' blasts pharmaceu ...
    While it's true that most of us generally don't want to plunk down $30-$40 at the movies to see something that lectures, preaches or wags a finger at us, every now and then there is a film that takes the high road to providing us with key information and is just too...

Threat Level

  • It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Offic ...
    To jailbreak or not to jailbreak? That was the question on everybody's mind Thursday as copyright regulators, content creators and digital rights groups battled over whether Americans should have the right to tinker with the devices that they buy.
  • Comcast Suspends Data Cap Temporarily, Will Te ...
    Comcast is replacing its strict 250GB monthly data cap for residential users with a higher cap and a way to buy extra data, hoping to stem criticism that the nation's largest cable ISP is throttling the open internet.
  • To Warrant or Not to Warrant? ACLU, Police Cla ...
    A bill that would require law enforcement agents to obtain a probable-cause warrant to collect geolocation data on an individual would be burdensome to criminal investigators and prevent them from gathering the evidence they need to make a case, according to law enforcement witnesses at a hearin ...
  • Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ...
    As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with a strong statement supporting the First Amendment right of individuals to record police officers in the public disc ...
  • ‘Dead Man Walking’ Tricks Airport Into Giving ...
    The TSA may have its eagle sights set on your underwear and water bottle, but it failed to miss the real security threat under its nose it was revealed Monday after a supervisor holding a top security job in a New Jersey airport was arrested for using the stolen identity of a dead man.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Welcome to the United States of Mississippi
    In the wake of her state's vote to ban marriage equality last week, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue caused quite a stir when she declared "We look like Mississippi." In response, Mississippi's Republican chief executive Phil Bryant call Perdue's remark "disappointing" and warned "I think ...
  • A Mother's Day Memory of Lenore Romney
    Just in case you had forgotten, the campaign web sites of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney want to remind you it's Mother's Day. The Obama site includes a card you can sign for the First Lady and a video of the President paying tribute to his mom and grandmother. Meanwhile, Team Romney is offering ...
  • Mitt Romney and the Small Lie
    Like the force of gravity or the sun rising in the east, Mitt Romney's pathological lying is now taken for granted. As Steve Benen among others can attest, documenting Romney's runaway mendacity may now be America's greatest growth industry. Explaining the causes of Mitt's daily dissembling ma ...
  • Republicans Ask Americans to Remember Bush's E ...
    For months, Mitt Romney, John Boehner and other Republican leaders have falsely claimed that "President Obama made the economy worse." The same crowd which for years cried that George W. Bush "inherited a recession" accused Obama of blaming his predecessor for the greatest economic crisis since ...
  • Romney's Strategy? Call the Kettle Black
    Two funny things happened this week on Mitt Romney's way to the White House. First, the man who cried "let Detroit go bankrupt" announced "I'll take a lot of credit" for President Obama's million-job saving rescue of the American auto industry. But just as telling was the Republican's claim th ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Chris Hedges Hails “Monumental” Ruling Blockin ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – In a rare move, a federal judge has struck down part of a controversial law signed by President Obama that gave the government the power to indefinitely detain anyone it considers ...
  • Quote Of The Day
      In other words, the opposite of "complex" is not "simple," the opposite of "complex" is "isolated."   – Jamais Cascio
  • It Still Matters
    22 years after publication, this still lives in my office.
  • How the Auto Industry Completely Lost the Mill ...
    A veteran auto writer looks at how the world’s automakers got this generation so wrong.
  • Occupied Urban Farmland in the Bay Area Highli ...
    The arena of struggle revealed by Occupy the Farm is not just organic farming, food justice, and food sovereignty--it's also about an increasingly privatized university.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Phineas Gage’s Brain Imaged For the First Time
      Phineas Gage, famous for having a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch packing rod blasted through his skull and surviving, is the subject of a new study just published in the journal PLoS ONE. Using brain-imaging data that had been lost to science for a decade, researchers studied the damage that wa ...
  • April Global Temperatures 5th Warmest on Recor ...
      NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center just released preliminary April 2012 temperature and weather statistics this week. As noted in the title, it was the 5th warmest April on record globally and land temperatures were the second warmest on record, according to NOAA. In addition, ...
  • Pollution May Be the Cause of Earth’s Expandin ...
    Manmade pollutants, such as black carbon and tropospheric ozone, are most likely what’s causing the tropical belt expansion northward, a new study says. In the Southern Hemisphere, depletion of stratospheric ozone has previously been shown to be the cause of tropical expansion. But, in th ...
  • Elephant Seals Dive More Than a Mile Deep, New ...
      A new study focused on the annual migrations of elephant seals has just been published in the journal PLoS. More than 300 individuals were tracked, using satellite tags measuring a wide range of different data. “This work is unprecedented in terms of the number of animals tracked. ...
  • Russia Releases Highest Resolution Satellite I ...
      That’s the claim, anyway, and most certainly, the images are astoundingly clear and detailed, if a bit oddly hued. The image, released by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) last week, was taken by the Elecktro-L weather satellite. The satellite is in geostationary orbit ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • UN official sparks debate over Canadian food s ...
    UN special rapporteur for food Olivier De Schutter said he was in Canada to launch a conversation over a national food strategy, and he certainly started a debate. Discussion centred on whether Canadians have trouble affording to feed themselves, with the government arguing De Schutter was ...
  • There is no such thing as Gay Rights: A look i ...
    Editorial commentary: We received this article directly from the author. He lives in the southern United States and, as you might imagine, he has not had a lot of luck in finding a local place to publish his thoughts. If you can read this piece and disagree, then you are...
  • Chávez's economics lesson for Europe - Economy
    Editor's Note: Last night I received a phone text mail message from a friend citing news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch recognized in an investment report that President Chavez will be re-elected and even if he cannot stand for re-election for health reasons, his substitute will win anyway. ...
  • U.S. and Canada Implementing Beyond the Border ...
    Editor's Comment: Please note that The Red River Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) is being billed as a "binational partnership" to “enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border." In reality, this move takes the next step in building a new police state in bot ...
  • Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Mad ...
    When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • What is the Path to Justice in the Trayvon Mar ...
    By @KYYellowDog We Are Respectable Negroes looks at everything and concludes: George Zimmerman will walk free--do not be confused, he is not innocent by any stretch of the imagination. I hold little hope that the jury is capable of thinking through the steps which led a vigilante to kill an inno ...
  • I wonder why the Democrats didn't think of that?
    By @BGinKC The Weeper of the House wants you to know that when the Supreme Court rules on ObamaCares next month, the House republicans "will be ready." If the law is upheld, they will attack it like wild dogs, tearing the living, beating heart out of it by removing the mandate that, as odious a ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: Black, Brown ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by HaloedG on Jan 23, 2009 This little song that I'm singin' about, People, you all know that it's true, If you're black and gotta work for livin', Now, this is what they will say to you, They says: "If you was white, You's alright, If you was brown, Stick around, ...
  • At the Crossroads of Gullibility and Wishful T ...
    By @BGinKC I just heard on the radio that the athletic shoe manufacturer and marketer Skechers is settling for $40 million after being accused of false advertising. Apparently they led some especially "special" people to believe that their rocker-bottom shoes were magic, that the mere act of put ...
  • Conservatives Say Vulture Capitalism Is About ...
    By @TedFrier Well, the Masters of the Universe have screwed up, again. Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan, the so called "good" bank, went out and squandered $2 billion of their depositor's federally-insured money, playing with the same stick of credit default swap dynamite that nearly blew up capitalism ...

Care 2

  • Stop the Amazon Chainsaw Massacre ACTION
    The Brazilian Congress has just passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. Now only President Dilma can stop it. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Detroit Mother Who Refused To Drug Her Child-- ...
    Maryanne Godboldo is a Detroit Michigan mother who made international press when she faced down a tank and swat team, sent to her house after she refused to administer a powerful and potentially lethal psychiatric drug to her daughter. Submitted by Kenneth L. to Health & Wellness  |  ...
  • Take out the Triclosan ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Triclosan is an endocrine disruptor. It breaks down into chemicals that are toxic to us and our environment. And, scientists fear that its pervasiveness in so many products we use every day is contributing to antibiotic resistance, and a rise in Submitted by Cher C. to Health & Wellness   ...
  • SERBIA: Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
    The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • PETITION! Stop killing sharks!
    In some places in Asia they eat shark fin soup but they don't know how people killed and mistreated those sharks. They capture the sharks, cut the fins of and throw the sharks in the water again and that is a horrible death to die that no one deserves! Submitted by K. J. N. to Animals  |&n ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Race Card vs The Religion Card
    OK, everybody!  Put on your Snark Goggles!  There’s plenty of sarcasm for everybody, so please, no shoving or pushing. Anybody who did not fall in love with the Historic first “black” presidential candidate, who just happens to be half white, has to be a racist.  It’s true!!  If you ...
  • Greece in Flames
    It has started. The panic is full blown in Greece and the contagion will spread to Italy, Spain and Portugal. This is turning ugly and will infect the United States. Initially, for the United States, things will appear swell. Why? We will be the safehaven for those pulling their money out of Gre ...
  • B.B. & Chuck Go FX with a Hip Nip & Tuck
    [Formerly "Update: F--k Congress," appended to "You Think Congress Can't Get Anything Done?"] Even that wispy-waspy left loon, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, talks as if the use of drones for domestic surveillance could be alright with regulations imposed by Congress — oh those’ll ...
  • You think Congress can’t get anything done?
    Imagine that you’re a president who has no executive experience, well any that in any way compares to the heavy-duty decisions that must be made by a U.S. president. Imagine that you’re running as a moderate. Not exactly a politically wise route, particularly after somehow you’ ...
  • Breaking: “Some bad polls …”
    From the top: “Some bad polls stack up, back to back … Welcome to America Live, everybody. I am Megyn Kelly. A live look at the White House where a media briefing is just underway … The FIRST BRIEFING in a week, and the White House is sure to get questions about two big politic ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House GOP sets sights on pla ...
    OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House GOP sets sights on planned coal-mining rules The Hill (blog) The Bush-era rules restrict the dumping of debris from mountaintop-removal coal mining into nearby waterways. Republicans argue the Obama administration's planned rules could cost jobs and burden the coal in ...
  • Michael Spencer's Make It Green: Hiring licens ...
    Michael Spencer's Make It Green: Hiring licensed professionals ensure credibility Naples Daily News Political pressure, for example, has allowed mountain-top removal. On the other hand, the air that we breath is cleaner than it has been in decades, our waters are clearer and wildlife is larg ...
  • New School students study in West Virginia - Y ...
    New School students study in West Virginia York County Coast Star KENNEBUNK — Seven students from The New School in Kennebunk, along with two teachers, recently went to West Virginia for a three-week intensive study of mountain top removal, for coal mining. Aleah Graham of Limerick, Joey Watt, C ...
  • PNC funding of mountaintop mining hit - Pittsb ...
    PNC funding of mountaintop mining hit Pittsburgh Post Gazette The group was protesting PNC's financing of mountaintop removal mining. By Taryn Luna / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A group of mostly elderly Quaker activists swelled to 75 on Wednesday as the final leg of their 200-mile, 17-day foot ...
  • Our Most Endangered River? In the Shadow of th ...
    New York Times Our Most Endangered River? In the Shadow of the Capital Huffington Post On the list, there are rivers under threat from natural gas development, the construction of new dams and reservoirs, mountaintop removal for coal mining, and excessive water withdrawals. Looking over these th ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the prim ...
    Maggie Haberman / Politico: Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary  —  Mitt Romney hasn't yet commented on the Times piece about the Joe Ricketts-funded super PAC considering a Rev. Jeremiah Wright ad blitz in a few months, although his campaign manager Matt Rhoades p ...
  • GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wrig ...
    Greg Sargent / Washington Post: GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright  —  In a statement, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades repudiates the plan being hatched by GOP operatives for an ad campaign tying Obama to Reverend Wright: … And that's good.  The pr ...
  • Biden to eastern Ohio: I'm just like you (Joe ...
    Joe Biden / CNN: Biden to eastern Ohio: I'm just like you  —  (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Ohio's coal country Thursday, slammed rivals for claiming he was engaging in class envy by speaking about the middle class, saying he came from a family that helped build ...
  • Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: 'I ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: ‘I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was’  —  Mitt Romney's campaign is apparently worried about being associated with a Republican proposal, first reported by the New York Times today, to ...
  • State Department restores Foreign Service spou ...
    Lisa Rein / Washington Post: State Department restores Foreign Service spouse's blog to its Web site after censoring  —  Jennifer Dinoia's blog, censored by the State Department after an intimate posting on her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, is back in its prominent ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands
    Thursday, May 17, 2012 19:49:33 UTC Friday, May 18, 2012 06:49:33 AM at epicenterDepth: 57.70 km (35.85 mi)
  • M 5.2, south of Tonga
    Wednesday, May 16, 2012 01:28:21 UTC Wednesday, May 16, 2012 01:28:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 27.30 km (16.96 mi)
  • M 6.0, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
    Wednesday, May 16, 2012 00:59:34 UTC Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:59:34 AM at epicenterDepth: 154.00 km (95.69 mi)
  • M 5.1, south of Tonga
    Tuesday, May 15, 2012 19:22:30 UTC Wednesday, May 16, 2012 07:22:30 AM at epicenterDepth: 40.60 km (25.23 mi)
  • M 5.1, North Indian Ocean
    Tuesday, May 15, 2012 05:19:56 UTC Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:19:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Europe can do better
    The EU-China relationship on climate change should be deeper. But is the obstacle Europe’s inability to “speak with one voice”, or a failure to fully understand Chinese climate change politics? Diarmuid Torney explains.Since 2005, the European Union and China have sought to dev ...
  • Reviving the valley
    Tourism offers an opportunity to rebuild the local economy of Pakistan’s Swat Valley, ravaged by conflicts and floods. But can it also restore its rivers and forests? Rina Saeed Khan reports.For years, Pakistan’s former princely state of Swat, famous for its fruit orchards, snow-clad ...
  • A yam between two rocks
    Beijing and New Delhi are competing for influence in Nepal. Navin Khadka asks how this rivalry will shape the country’s hydropower policies.Editor’s note: in February, Nepal signed a US$1.6 billion agreement with China to develop the 760-megawatt West Seti hydropower project within i ...
  • China’s stunted children
    Despite the unprecedented economic boom, millions of impoverished kids are suffering the irreversible effects of malnutrition. Yuan Ying and Wang Jingyi report from Qinghai province.Ledu county in western China lies 80 kilometres from Xining, the capital of Qinghai province. A yellow-hued river ...
  • Keeping an eye on China’s bankers
    The financial industry remains secretive about the loans it makes, but tireless campaigning by green groups offers hope for change. Wang Haotong reports on the latest civil-society assessment of Chinese banks.Last August, a major pollution story broke in China: 5,000 tonnes of toxic chromium tai ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Offic ...
    To jailbreak or not to jailbreak? That was the question on everybody's mind Thursday as copyright regulators, content creators and digital rights groups battled over whether Americans should have the right to tinker with the devices that they buy.
  • Comcast Suspends Data Cap Temporarily, Will Te ...
    Comcast is replacing its strict 250GB monthly data cap for residential users with a higher cap and a way to buy extra data, hoping to stem criticism that the nation's largest cable ISP is throttling the open internet.
  • To Warrant or Not to Warrant? ACLU, Police Cla ...
    A bill that would require law enforcement agents to obtain a probable-cause warrant to collect geolocation data on an individual would be burdensome to criminal investigators and prevent them from gathering the evidence they need to make a case, according to law enforcement witnesses at a hearin ...
  • Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ...
    As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with a strong statement supporting the First Amendment right of individuals to record police officers in the public disc ...
  • ‘Dead Man Walking’ Tricks Airport Into Giving ...
    The TSA may have its eagle sights set on your underwear and water bottle, but it failed to miss the real security threat under its nose it was revealed Monday after a supervisor holding a top security job in a New Jersey airport was arrested for using the stolen identity of a dead man.

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Tuna Scrape Illnesses Climb Over 300
    CDC finds 316 sick in 26 States the same week that FDA announced multiple manufacturing violations at Moon Marine in India.  Questions remain why Tuna Scrape was served raw to customers. A total of 316 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly or Salmo ...
  • El Mexicano Takes Hit for DHEC E. coli Misstep
    Last week the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) did what public health departments should do – announce to the public that an outbreak – especially an E. coli O157:H7 - is happening. However, the DHEC for whatever reason chose to announce the outbreak and th ...
  • Diamond Pet Food Plant Link to Salmonella Outb ...
    As of May 11, at least 15 people in nine states and one person in Canada had been confirmed infected with Salmonella from contact with the contaminated dry dog food or from contact with a pet that had eaten the tainted product, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).&n ...
  • It is past time for transparency in public health
    Lynne Shackleford and I likely did not make friends in South Carolina public health today. She for even writing an article – “State agency criticized for refusal to name Spartanburg restaurant linked to E. coli.” And, me for criticizing a South Carolina Health Department durin ...
  • So, who did not cook their Salmonella Tuna Scape?
    I know, you thought it was sushi. Hat tip to Dr. Marion Nestle of New York University and Alan Reilly of Food Safety Authority of Ireland for noticing what was right before our eyes: Who would have known that you were supposed to cook Tuna Scape before you ate it?  Perhaps the grocery sto ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Veterans Say No to NATO
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago. This week, NATO , the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confront ...
  • Part 2: "Magic Soap" Maker David Bronner on Or ...
    In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. Click here fo ...
  • Holding Bank of America to Account
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an "extraordinary event". That is what the city of Charlotte, North Carolina called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of Americ ...
  • Part 2: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on P ...
    In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth he examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. "Saudi Arabia simply is not going to tolerate a genuine democracy immediately off its shore, particularly one ...
  • Letter Sent to Eric Holder Seeking Federal Pro ...
    Earlier today the attorneys for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a federal probe into his death. To see our full coverage of Chamberlain case click here Holder Ltr 050412 Via Facsimile–May 4, 2012 The Honorable E ...

Suzie-Q

  • WATCH: Strategist Behind Proposed Reverend Wri ...
    Think Progress By Annie-Rose Strasser  on May 17, 2012 at 11:35 am A group of GOP strategists is planning to pull out all the stops — including racism — in its campaign strategy to defeat President Obama, the New York Times reported today. The Times obtained a proposal, crafted by race-baiting G ...
  • G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on ...
    The New York Times By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG Published: May 17, 2012 WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in way ...
  • A Baseless Bain Comparison
    The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen - Tue May 15, 2012 8:00 AM EDT Mitt Romney’s background at Bain Capital, the only experience the Republican presidential hopeful considers relevant to his campaign, can be pretty ugly. Romney orchestrated leveraged buyouts, flipping companies quickly for larg ...
  • Obama’s Bain Ad: ‘Like Watching An ...
    Politico By ALEXANDER BURNS| 5/14/12 6:18 AM EDT The Obama campaign’s 2-minute ad on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital is record is out, and it is brutal. Targeting Romney’s involvement in the acquistion of GST Steel, the commercial shows workers at a shuttered plant pinning Romn ...
  • Obama’s Evolution, Romney’s Devolution
    The Boston Globe May 11, 2012|Joshua Green Opinion | Joshua Green On Wednesday, after years of claiming that his view was “evolving,” President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. Oddly, the catalyst for that decision was probably his opponent for the presidency, Mitt Ro ...

Solari

  • Italian Court Rules MMR Vaccine Did Trigger Autism
    Source: NYR Natural News An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causation between an MMR vaccine and the resulting autism in a young child “has been established.” The [...]
  • Accidentally Released – Documents Show H ...
    By Matt Taibbi 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 of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the ...
  • FDA-Approved Drugs Kill a Million Americans Pe ...
    By Jon Rappoport The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived. The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is fully aware that: the drugs it certifies as safe have been killing Americans, at the rate of 100,000 per year. The FDA website page is currently available under [...]
  • Quote du Jour
    “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” ~ Picasso Related reading: Pablo Picasso From Wikipedia
  • Sir James Goldsmith in 1993 on Why the Euro Wi ...
    [CAF Note: Reposting this for the second time given ongoing events in Greece and the Eurozone] You are an opponent of the project for single currency. Why? The effects of a single currency go far beyond the economy. They would transform the political structure of Europe as well as the stability ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Are America and China secret twins? The simil ...
    Summary:  An oddity of articles about China’s problems is that changing the names often makes them quite applicable to the US.  It’s a weird parallelism between two such different nations.  Even more interesting, China’s critics in America seem unaware of this parallelism (perh ...
  • Is there a dark swan event ahead for the Ameri ...
    Summary:  Europe is slowing fast.  Asia may be slowing.  Both trends are closely watched.  But despite its fantastic fiscal and monetary stimulus, there are tentative signs that the US is slowing.  Here we look at one expert team’s forecast of a recession.  If they’re right we’ ...
  • A look at the future of the Republic: we will ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we saw that since 1999 Americans have lost confidence in our major institutions — except for the military and police.  today we imagine what the consequences of this might be. He is a man with a gun. He is a killer, a slayer. Patient and gentle as he is, he is a slayer. ...
  • A look at the future of the Republic: we will ...
    Summary:  The key to forecasting the future lies in seeing the trends that produced the present.  For example, Americans have lost trust in almost all of our institutions, both public and private.  During the coming time of troubles, we probably will turn to the two remaining institutions that w ...
  • Seven predictions about our future. Most are ...
    Summary:  What possible futures lie ahead for America and the world.  We can only guess, but good guesses will help us prepare.  Here are the seven big predictions of the FM website.  Our past record is quite good (see the Past Predictions page).  You might find these forecasts deserve your atte ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • How to Grow Terrorists in Yemen
    The Obama administration’s strategy against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as articulated by White House counterterrorism czar John Brennan, is to assure that it is “destroyed and is eliminated.” In January 2010, Brennan warned: “We’ve seen over the past several years in Yemen i ...
  • Does the Law of the Sea Treaty Have a Chance o ...
    Next week, Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Panetta will brief the Senate on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, otherwise known as UNCLOS. The treaty has been around for decades, and was originally signed by President Reagan, but never ratified by the Senate. ...
  • How NATO Can Revitalize Its Role
    White House reporters can be forgiven their collective shrug when they received the readout from President Obama’s meeting last week with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in advance of the alliance’s Chicago summit this weekend. Laced with the usual, mind-numbing NATO- ...
  • This Week in Threat-Mongering: Nuclear Weapons ...
    Those who toil in the bowels of the threat industrial complex™ have several tools at their disposal for hyping threats and spreading fear. There is the look at the "shiny thing in my hand method," there is the exclusive interview/leak with policymaker that suggests serious threats are ...
  • Q&A: Results of Parliamentary Polls Give Regim ...
    Editor’s Note: InsideIran’s Reza Akbari conducted an interview with Ehsan Mehrabi, a prominent Iranian journalist, about the impact of parliamentary elections and the future of the presidency in Iran. Q: Considering that the parliamentary elections on March 2 and the second round on May 3 produ ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Is Mitt Romney Immune to the Extremist Charge?
    Michael Tomasky looks at Mitt Romney’s speech in Des Moines, Iowa, and wonders why the Republican nominee would tie himself so closely to the radical right of the Republican Party: Obama can say to voters: “Look at how far-right congressional Republicans are going lead this guy around by the no ...
  • How the Sausage Gets Unmade
    We've been talking this week about how to stop rape in conflict. As with many massive social changes, I think one of the greatest obstacles to eradicating this atrocity is the common belief that it can't be done. I tried to address that some in Monday's piece, but I thought we could all use a l ...
  • Bipartisan Watermelon Destruction
    Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is out with his first campaign ad today, and it's about as bizarre as you would expect. The ad is reminiscent of Herman Cain's avant-garde commercials (even nabbing the same "any questions" tagline), though thankfully Johnson reserves his destruc ...
  • Romney Gets a Fact Check
    Because I devote a fair amount of time to Romney’s dishonest rhetoric—-and the degree to which its ignored by mainstream reporters–it’s worth noting those times when someone shows that the former governor has no clothes. To wit, here’s Phillip Rucker at the Washington Post, on Romney’s response ...
  • Be Very Afraid
    Jamelle's hot-off-the-presses cover story on how Romney will govern as a hardcore right-winger irrespective of what he "really" thinks is a must-read. And what's even worse is that this lesson applies beyond budget policy. To address one particularly important point, consider the Supreme Court. ...

Buzzflash

  • NRA Double Standard: Black Woman Sentenced to ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "Stand Your Ground" law is just a license to murder for white people in Florida. The case of George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin to death in Sanford, Florida, is starting to recede to the back pages of the news. This killing occurred, of cou ...
  • Do Nuclear Reactors that Jump $900 Million in ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The projected price for Georgia's Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months....and that's just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic power in the US hangs in the balance. Construction at V ...
  • The Ongoing Racket of Glenn Beck's Dog-Whistles
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you've been eagerly consuming news stories about the powerful billionaire Koch Brothers, exposés of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the JP Morgan Chase debacle, the critical upcoming recall election in Wisconsin, and the Republican Pa ...
  • Whether Its Sugar Cookies or Religious Freedom ...
    Body You can count on pompous right-wing champions rising to the occasion when it comes to filling in conversational openings with political fodder instead of logic. Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh among others are always on standby to provide talking points in support ...
  • Greek Voters May Put a Dagger Into the Austeri ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In case you missed it, the concept of the Eurozone imposing drastic austerity measures on poorer member nations is coming to a critical juncture in Greece. In the most recent elections, the result was a stalemate at forming a parliamentary government. ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Anti-inflammatory food
    Education regarding lifestyle, diet and exercise might be the key to avoiding chronic inflammation. “A comprehensive food-based strategy for reducing inflammation and thus reducing the incidence and severity of a large array of chronic illnesses and declining health is supported by a large ...
  • Spinning up plutonium
    After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches ...
  • Organ donors on Facebook and Twitter
    UPDATE #EveryLittleBitHelps – hashtag H/T to @JoForrest There is far too much squeamishness regarding organ donation and transplant. Some of it is down to emotional attachment and denial, which is to be expected. Much of it is due to our own death anxiety, again an evolutionarily adaptatio ...
  • Some of our dark matter is missing
    I wrote about the missing dark matter debacle back in April for my Pivot Points column in The Euroscientist. The post is now online. There has been much debate as to whether or not the evidence stacks up against this truly unknown quantity that we cannot touch, see, or measure. I talked to Chris ...
  • The Cambridge Phenomenon
    Just received a copy of The Cambridge Phenomenon by Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton with a foreword by Bill Gates that gives us a timeline of the evolution of Silicon Fen over the last half century. You can see a timeline on the associated website. From the first home computer to the ARM chip in [. ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Study: 90 Percent of Endangered Species Recove ...
    A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis of 110 endangered species finds that 90 percent are on track to meet recovery goals set by federal scientists. The review examined population trends of plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act in all 50 states, including gray wolve ...
  • CREW Asks AG Holder to Clarify DOJ Position on ...
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. asking that the Department of Justice (DOJ) clarify its position as to when DOJ will prosecute criminal campaign finance violations.read more
  • Planned Parenthood Strongly Opposes Bill That ...
    Later today, the House Appropriations Committee will debate a fiscal year 2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that would drastically slash funds for reproductive health care while maintaining support for other areas of global health. The bill proposes $149 million in funding cu ...
  • More than One Million Comments Supporting Carb ...
    Today, a broad coalition of groups supporting clean air safeguards announced that more than one million Americans have shown their support for new standards to curb industrial carbon pollution from power plants by submitting comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). With over a mont ...
  • Lawyers' Committee Applauds Efforts to Protect ...
    The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is pleased that Members of the House of Representatives are moving forward on significant components of long overdue voting legislation that will address the real problems occurring in our election system today.  This bill offers much ne ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?
    George Lakey For the better part of a century, some visionaries have been trying to break out of the dominant belief that there are only two means of forcing change: reform through elections and revolution through violence. The rigidity of ...
  • Citizens Fight Back Against Assault on Women's ...
    Jenny Dodson The vicious attacks on women’s health to which we’ve grown so accustomed on the national and state stages are trickling down to the local level, as municipal and county governments get in on the action. Thankfully, ...
  • Walking Against NATO: Agitators Stride Towards ...
    Buddy Bell On w(Photo: Voices for Creative Non-Violence/vcnv.org)hat is now the 17th day of our walk from Madison to Chicago, the number 165 does not seem to encapsulate all the progress we have made. We are 17 days and 165 miles away from ...
  • How Small Groups Can Power Big Change
    Sarah Byrnes As a general rule, as communities grow, they lose social cohesion. There is a tricky tension between growing a group and a maintaining sense of personal belonging for members.
  • Shame of the Nation: House 'Violence Against W ...
    Michelle Chen Women have been under economic assault in Washington for months. Deficit hawks have taken aim at social programs and civil rights protections that help keep women safe, healthy and able to participate in work and community li ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Ed Klein, Author Of New Anti-Obama Book, Sugge ...
    Ed Klein, the author of a new, thinly-sourced book attacking President Obama and Michelle Obama with gossip and innuendo, went on far-right talk show host Dana Loesch’s radio show today to suggest to listeners that the president is a secret Muslim. The comments came during a discussion about Rev ...
  • While Leading Effort To Prevent Life-Saving EP ...
    The Environment Protection Agency’s landmark mercury and air toxics standards, announced in December, would reduce pollutants from coal power plants, saving 11,000 lives, prevent 130,000 asthma attacks and avoid 4,700 heart attacks. But Sen. James Inhofe has found the required 30 Senators ...
  • Republicans Likely Renege On Their Pledge To & ...
    Congressional Republicans have promised to “repeal and replace” President Obama’s health care reform law, but they still have not agreed on what that should look like. Today, Speaker John Boehner said every part of Obamacare needs to be removed: “We voted to fully repeal the pr ...
  • This Kid Has A First Amendment Right To Shave ...
    Patrick Gonzalez, a student at Woodlake Hills Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, really likes the San Antonio Spurs. Indeed, he likes them so much that he shaved Spurs’ player Matt Bonner’s image into the back of his head. Seriously: Unfortunately for Gonzalez, his school principal ...
  • CHART: How Income Inequality Contributes To A ...
    As ThinkProgress has reported, American income inequality has skyrocketed over the last three decades. The wealthiest Americans have captured a large share of the nation’s economic prosperity, and their incomes continue to rise even as middle class wages remain stagnant. This income inequa ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • OIPRD "Slams" Police Actions at G20 (and is su ...
    Hot on the heels of the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP's exoneration of their own behaviour at the Toronto G20, the Ontario government's Office of the Independent Police Review Director has released its own report stating the obvious: That the police behaved abominably. Toron ...
  • Elections Canada Electoral Fraud Investigation ...
    What's going on is that Elections Canada (which already showed itself more than willing to puke on its supposed principles when it helped organize an election in Haiti) is plodding along, doing an "investigation" that doesn't subpoena witnesses or evidence, and takes years and years, so that whe ...
  • Jim Flaherty, Fry-Cook Trainee (in Prison)
    One of the latest outbursts from Jim ("Low-Functioning") Flaherty is that white-collar professionals should take the first job that comes along rather than stay on EI and look for work more commensurable with their skills and training. That's rich coming from a complete shit-head like Flaherty. ...
  • Unfuckablewith
    Like what's that guy doing? These are gigantic allegations:Subject of Communications:  Fantino directly contacts Finley (PM Harper’s #2 and now a Senator) about using federal party resources to pay for robocalling in 2008 general election and 2010 Vaughan by-election.  Finley explai ...
  • Sacha Baron Cohen is a Putz
    There is a line in his movie featuring "Borat" that I thought was good comedy. Throughout the film, "Borat" tries to figure out the comedic use of the addendum "Not!" at the end of a sentence. Then, when Pamela Anderson refuses his offer of marriage, "Borat" tells her he doesn't love her anymore ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Mayor Ford delivers surprise proclamation at T ...
    "Way to go mayor!" and "Good job, Mayor!" were only some of the accolades that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford received for unexpectedly showing up for a flag-raising event to support the gay community Thursday at city hall.
  • IndyCar: Series set to race in downtown Toront ...
    The sounds of IndyCar racers will fill the air along Toronto’s lake shore for the near future as an agreement has been reached for the Honda Indy Toronto to continue through 2014.
  • Police waiting on Ontario man who swallowed di ...
    Police in Windsor, Ontario are still waiting for a thief to pass a diamond through his body after he allegedly swallowed the precious item last week.
  • Vancovuer Canucks news features local player a ...
    News out of Canuckville includes a player who just had a breakout season who says he'd like to join Vancouver, and one Canuck who some fans might like to see leave. Jason Garrison said he'd like to play for the Canucks, while David Booth killed a bear.
  • American researchers find coffee may add years ...
    Coffee has gotten a bad rap over the years but research published this week may change that. The study was conducted at the National Institute of Health in Rockville, Maryland and it found older people who drink coffee may be lengthening their life.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • CrossTalk: Farewell Israel?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Today youtube.com Norman Finkelstein’s new book on the American Jewish community has been both widely praised and criticized by influential writers. So is the American-Jewish romance with Israel coming to an ...
  • Trayvon Martin post mortem reveals traces of m ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTrayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in his system on the night he was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch leader later charged with the teenager’s murder, a post mortem report has revealed. According to the docum ...
  • CA Gov. Brown lies: monetary, credit reform fu ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCA Gov. Brown lies: monetary, credit reform funds all infrastructure NOW By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com California Governor Jerry Brown claims California has no option but to cut public services to address a state bud ...
  • On the Front Lines: Riverside Superior Court
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.veteranstoday.comBy Janet Phelan by Janet Phelan   Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney. Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust f ...
  • Bombshell: Obama “Born in Kenya”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com May 17, 2012 Who is Barack Obama? The question remains contentious, but a new smoking gun piece of evidence makes certain that so-called “birthers” won’t be going anywhere. It has now ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges Hails “Monumental” Ru ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – In a rare move, a federal judge has struck down part of a controversial law signed by President Obama that gave the government the power to indefinitely detain anyone it considers ...
  • Executive Order-Blocking Property of Persons T ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! by Barack Obama The White House May 16, 2012 The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 16, 2012 Executive Order — Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - ...
  • Three significant and inter-related developmen ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia May 16, 2012 America’s war plans for full spectrum dominance in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asian region shifted up a gear this week with three significant and inter-related developments. Forget about viewing events in countr ...
  • Chris Hedges: All Hope Is In the Street
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 16, 2012 May 16, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT Chris Hedges, Truthdig/Author, “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.” Right now the tip of the spear fighting back against austerity here in the United States is the ...
  • Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders by Michael Hudson
    by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com May 14, 2012 Paul Krugman is widely appreciated for his New York Times columns criticizing Republican demands for fiscal austerity. He rightly argues that cutting back public spending will worsen the economic depression ...

Your New Reality

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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Police Target Activis ...
    On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest tents were set up in dozens... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Walid Khalidi: On Nakba Day 2012
    Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: “My B ...
    “When you grow up you will understand how injustice was brought upon your father and upon thousands of Palestinians whom the occupation has put in prisons and jail cells, shattering their lives and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian priso ...
    The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king o ...
    [The newly-created coalition] gives Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • In Chemical Reactions, Water Adds Speed Withou ...
    An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions--such as hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis--in which hydrogen is one of the reactants, or starting materials.
  • Babies' Susceptibility to Colds Linked to Immu ...
    Innate differences in immunity can be detected at birth, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. And babies with a better innate response to viruses have fewer respiratory illnesses in the first year of life.
  • UTHealth Psychiatry Residency Team Wins Second ...
    A live Jeopardy-style finale ended with a resounding victory for the psychiatric residency team from UTHealth in the 2012 American Psychiatric Association MindGames Competition.
  • Ancient Giant Turtle Fossil Revealed
    Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool.
  • Census Scholars Available
    Three experts at Johns Hopkins can speak about how the birth rate among minority groups now exceeds the birth rate among whites.

Natural Health News

  • Top 5 Dangerous Things Kids Like to Swallow
    It’s a scene that too many emergency rooms are seeing these days: a baby or toddler has swallowed something, and frantic parents want it out, now. Naturally, ER personnel also want to get it out quickly, especially since some objects such as batteries can harm or kill a child in as little as a c ...
  • The Big Lie of Genetic Engineering and Industr ...
    VANDANA SHIVA: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living (via http://www.occupymonsanto360.org) An Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s foremost environmentalist, anti-GM activist and an advocate of ecological farming and sustai ...
  • Why Is a Plague of ‘Super Weeds’ Taking Over U ...
    Weeds. Everywhere. Across America, from sea to shining sea, an insidious army of “super weeds” is taking over our farmlands. It’s a plague that even the most famous herbicide of all―Monsanto’s Roundup―can’t stop, mainly because it’s Roundup that’s caused the problem in the first place. Like the ...
  • New Study Shows Mother’s Gluten Sensitivity Li ...
    New research coming out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center suggests that children of women with high levels of antibodies to gluten have an almost double risk of later developing a psychiatric disorder. As reported by Huffington Post, researchers looked at 764 neonatal blood samples and birth re ...
  • So Inherently Dangerous that Only Two Countrie ...
    Mood swings, weight gain, tummy problems―you name the ailment, there’s a pill for it. And you, the American consumer, are helping Big Pharma sell it. You don’t believe it? Well, it’s true, and believe it or not, the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows this to happen. What ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: P ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein This is the second day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Links to the related posts can be found below. One of the many things I like ab ...
  • Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Pea ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein This is the second day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Links to the related posts can be found below. One of the many things I like ab ...
  • Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Pea ...
    by Laura Dickinson by Laura Dickinson [Laura Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.] This is the second day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving ...
  • Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: T ...
    by Laura Dickinson by Laura Dickinson [Laura Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.] This is the second day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Plenty to report on international criminal law tribunals today: Ratko Mladic’s trial began yesterday at the ICTY, where he said he was proud of his Bosnian “legacy;” Charles Taylor’s sentencing hearing is today at the SCSL, where he w ...

Public News Service

  • Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Tra ...
    Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Transparency PHOENIX - More than 40 percent of the taxpayer-funded corporate subsidies doled out in the first year of the Arizona Commerce Authority have not been disclosed, either by amount or recipient, according to a new report. The study from the A ...
  • Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise ...
    Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise if it Feels Like Play PHOENIX - Women would be more physically active if it were more fun, according to a new survey. Kathi Di Nicola, public relations director for the American Cancer Society Minnesota, says the study found that 40 percent of wome ...
  • NWF: We Really Can Have It All: EPA Regs & New ...
    NWF: We Really Can Have It All: EPA Regs & New Jobs PHOENIX - Mercury, carbon and soot. We in Arizona have heard by now that these toxic pollutants are harming our environment, ecosystems and health. Some say that if we continue working to reduce these pollutants, it will kill jobs that the big ...
  • Arizona Seeks to Review Health Insurance Rate ...
    Arizona Seeks to Review Health Insurance Rate Hikes PHOENIX - Individual health insurance rate hikes would be reviewed by the Arizona Department of Insurance instead of the federal government, under a proposal by state regulators. A series of public hearings on the issue will be held statewide t ...
  • A Mother's Day “Hangup” For Prisoners
    A Mother's Day “Hangup” For Prisoners PHOENIX – This weekend, Arizona prison inmates who call their moms on Mother's Day will pay as much as $2.75 per minute on a collect call. Prison phone rates vary widely from state to state but, in general, they burden families trying to p ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Facebook billionaire’s tax dodge inspires puni ...
    Irate over news that billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is renouncing his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying millions in taxes, two Democratic senators have announced a plan to prevent these kinds of tax dodges in the future, according to ABC News. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Bob ...
  • Israel’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemica ...
      by Stephen Lendman Israel’s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below.   In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long su ...
  • AT&T named vendor for Homeland Security
    BOYCOTT CORPORATE CONTROL! CBS News OAKTON, Va. — AT&T Inc. said Tuesday that it was named a prime vendor for a $3 billion contract with the Department of Homeland Security, giving AT&T the ability to compete for work under the contract. The so-called Tactical Communications Equipment an ...
  • Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight ...
      (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 to similar symptoms in loca ...
  • Missouri National Guard Probes Another Extremi ...
    We have to wonder if this is just a way to expunge “Oath-Keepers” from the Guard. Those who might refuse orders to round up, or shoot Americans can be branded with “Hate Crimes” (thought crimes) …. It is also relevant that Missouri is the Home Base to the MIAC Repor ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook prices shares on the high end of its ...
    Facebook priced its initial public offering at $38 per share, which is at the high end of the range it proposed on Tuesday. The price will raise about $16 billion for the company and the social network a valuation over … Continue reading →
  • Vevo doubles registered user count since switc ...
    Music video service Vevo has doubled its total registered users as a result of switching to Facebook-only login and adding more personalized features in March, Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff tells us. The company is also looking at other ways to … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: SponsorPay, Warner Bros, High 5 Games, Kellen Company, Fiveonenine ...
  • Zynga’s stock recovers as Facebook IPO looms
    After starting off the week at an all-time low, Zynga’s stock is beginning to rise again while Facebook’s initial public offering approaches. The stock closed today at $8.22 a share, down from its opening at $8.75 but still notably higher … Continue reading →
  • Report: standalone mobile app for Facebook pag ...
    Facebook has created a standalone page management app for iOS devices, according to 9to5Mac. The app, called Pages Manager, is available in New Zealand but could roll out more widely soon. Based on screenshots provided to 9to5Mac, the app appears … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...
  • Israel's efforts to erase the memory of the Pa ...
    Neve Gordon argues that Israel's tireless efforts to conceal the truth of the Nakba - the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 - will ultimately prove futile and that, even today, most Israeli youths know what the Nakba is, even if their views of the conflict with the Pales ...
  • Nakba - the Palestinians' never ending catastrophe
    Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing ...
  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
  • Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
    Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Lost Generation? Move out of home, go to school, get a loan, graduate, get a job, pay your taxes, get a mortgage, buy a house, get married, have kids, grow old, and die. My generation, and those that follow, are incapable of meeting the expectations that are held up for us to meet. The [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 24 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.” ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The EyeOpener- Education & “National Sec ...
    Watch the Preview Here: Watch the Full Video Report Here (Subscribers Only): *The Transcript for this video is available at Corbett Report: Click Here This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by SUBSCRIBING, and by ordering our EXCLUSIVE BFP DVD .
  • Updates on ‘Classified Woman’ & BFP
    Calm before a Storm? You got the news on my coming book, and some of you already have a copy. Then, you got the press release from NWC, and after that the video clip of my attorney’s interview with RT. I know many of you are wondering: what’s going on?! What  next?! Trust me, I [...]

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Cases Of Dynasty And Ja'Maya: Fending Off ...
    Kids who are bullied are often told to stand up and defend themselves - but with what - tasers? guns?
  • On Repairing dysfunctional government
    Jefferson's ideas on preventing government from becoming a sow for all the little piglets.
  • The Cosmic Story: Gemini New Moon Solar Eclips ...
    Sunday's Solar Eclipse can be viewed in the western US with a ring of fire around it. The symbolic meaning of this Gemini solar eclipse urges us to let go of old ways of thinking, old patterns of behavior that keep us stuck in our heads and out of our hearts.With the amazing energies headed our ...
  • Spies Like Us?
    The fact that President Obama has failed to make good on his promises to roll back the Bush Crime Family's domestic surveillance programs demonstrates that he is in favor of monitoring US citizens, particularly those who express displeasure with the status quo. That reality is underscored by rec ...
  • Marginal Tax Rates and Economic Performance
    Marginal tax rate cuts are hypothesized to increase economic output. However, there is some evidence that suggest that marginal tax rates and economic performance are positively correlated. If rich and poor people have different propensities to consume, raising taxes on the rich would not reduce ...

Switchboard

  • 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. ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation, May 8th- ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Climate Change to Affect Forest Cover “Climate Change is going to have an adverse impact on India’s forest cover as well as the wheat pr ...
  • New Study Spells More Trouble For Midwest
    Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago Doubled Trouble: More Extreme Storms in the Midwest, a new report from NRDC and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, confirms what those of us living in the Midwest probably already guessed & ...
  • Extreme Rain Storms Double in Midwest: Time to Act
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York NRDC released a report today along with the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization using new analysis that shows rain storms that dump more than three inches in a day have doubled over the last 50 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Humanities Ph.D.
    Kaustuv Basu discusses an effort at Stanford to reduce the time it takes students to receive a Ph.D. in German Studies to 4 years. Spearheaded by former MLA President Russell Berman, a member of the department, the initiative seeks to shorten the time it takes for students to complete a humaniti ...
  • Why Mittens Would Be Horrible, Cont’d.
    I have a follow-up to Jamelle’s piece talking about the various other ways Romney will be horrible. In particular, we’d be looking at a Supreme Court where Antonin Scalia would have to look to his right to see the median vote, with federal appeals courts to match. I also explain why ...
  • There’s a two in five chance that Mitt R ...
    Per Intrade, which is probably the most reliable measure of that question at this point. And of course if Romney is elected president there’s a good chance both houses of Congress will be in GOP hands, since these probabilities are interdependent to a significant extent. Hard as it may be ...
  • Another Execution of An Innocent Man in Texas
    Andrew Cohen points us to this exhaustive study by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review about the execution of Carlos DeLuna. I will have more when I’ve had the chance to read the book next week, but the bottom line is that 1)the evidence against DeLuna is exceptionally weak, for the famil ...
  • Romney Will Not Govern As A Moderate
    Jamelle Bouie is definitive: Romney is running for president as a right-wing Republican with right-wing ideas, and it is absurd to think that he would suddenly revert to the Mitt who governed Massachusetts. Even if he wanted to, he would first have to contend with a conservative movement that se ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Blame poverty, not parents
    Because parents are blamed for lacking resources to adequately care for their children, poverty is the single biggest risk factor for maltreatment.
  • Identifying your social media champions
    No matter when you were born, you may still have the potential to make a great social media champion for your organization.
  • Indiana Tech breaks ground on new law school
    The Fort Wayne, Ind., university planned to break ground on May 18 on the $15 million, 70,000-square-foot building that will house its law school, which is projected to open in the fall of 2013.
  • A win for the FBI in case by journalists alleg ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled for the FBI in a case brought by journalists in Puerto Rico alleging excessive use of force. On May 16, a unanimous panel affirmed a district court ruling that the FBI agents were subject to qualified immunity.
  • Ninth Circuit mostly sides with Coke in pomegr ...
    A federal appeals court has rejected Pom Wonderful LLC's claims that its rival, The Coca-Cola Co., violated federal trademark law in naming and labeling its Pomegranate Blueberry drink, which contained little to no pomegranate juice.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Humanmade Pollutants May Be Expanding Tropical ...
    U.S. scientists say emissions in the Northern Hemisphere of black carbon aerosols and ozone, both of which absorb solar radiation, are likely causing the hemisphere’s tropical regions to expand poleward. After comparing observations of tropic expansion — which suggest that the tropics have wid ...
  • Retreat of Columbia Glacier Vividly Captured i ...
    Two false-color thermal images taken by NASA satellites depict the rapid retreat of the Columbia Glacier in Alaskaover the past 25 years. Since 1986, the Click to enlarge NASA Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, 1986—2011 glacier’s end-point, or terminus, has retreated 12 miles up an inlet in Pr ...
  • The Vital Chain: Connecting The Ecosystems of ...
    A new study from a Pacific atoll reveals the links between native trees, bird guano, and the giant manta rays that live off the coast. In unraveling this intricate web, the researchers point to the often little-understood interconnectedness between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Wildlife in Tropical Regions Has Declined 60 P ...
    Wildlife populations in the world’s tropical regions have fallen by more than 60 percent during the last four decades, according to the latest version of the Living Planet Index. The Index — which tracks populations of 2,688 vertebrate species in tropical and temperate regions worldwide — found ...
  • State Oversight Helps Reduce Effects of Fracki ...
    A new study conducted by the University of Buffalo has found that state regulation helped reduce environmental problems associated with unconventional forms of natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania since 2008. In an analysis of 2,988 violations at nearly 4,000 Pennsylvania hydraulic fracturing dr ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Bahraini police fire tear-gas at peaceful crow ...
    Bahraini security forces have once again used tear-gas on peaceful protesters in the country’s capital, Manama. While the mainstream media remains silent, Bahrain’s government has been suppressing anti-regime... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Cameron demands ‘make-up’ or ‘break-up’ but wi ...
    Britain's prime minister has called for the 17-member eurozone to support deficit cuts or face collapse. But this demand is unlikely to garner much support from France and Germany. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Ring of fire: Rare eclipse sparks craze
    Witnessing a total solar eclipse is considered one of the planet’s most spectacular sights, but many who’ve seen both say that a ring-of-fire eclipse is just as dramatic. Hundreds of millions across the world will get a... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • NASA report: 4,700 asteroids pose impact hazar ...
    About 4,700 asteroids of 100 meters diameter and larger represent significant threat to Earth in case of orbit intersection, a recent NASA report suggests. And only 30 per cent of them have been located so far, while... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 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. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • US military out of Honduras now!
    …The US has spread its drug war killings from its own inner cities into Peru and Colombia and then north into Mexico and now back once again into Central America as well. The US military is not going to stop drug trafficking and should get out of all of Latin America now. Why are Americans ...
  • Hollywood showcases ‘Arab face’ mi ...
    What is the movie ‘The Dictator’ all about? It’s about the ever growing Jewish RACISM against Arabs and Muslims. Hitler’s time is now long over. Today’s international racism centers on the Arabs and their victimizers are not Germans, but rather they are Jewish peopl ...
  • Are Colorado Springs Citizens Being Gagged On ...
    Our colleague Lotus has initiated some fruitful correspondence on the subject of the still-impending fracking of the Pikes Peak region. In light of the City’s abrupt cancellation of the May 17 public hearing, we’ll present excerpts of his emails and telephone notes here. Are Colorado ...
  • Greek Left stands up to the world’s supe ...
    “We resisted in every way,” said Alexis Tsipras, leader of the hard-left SYRIZA party, which surged to second place in last week’s election on an anti-austerity platform and blocked any deal with pro-bailout mainstream parties. “We made the decision to not betray your hop ...
  • The Horrible Things that Empire Offers US
    This is a NMT guest commentary by Fidel Castro… The Empire offers US an inhuman destiny …It’s nothing to smile about.

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • With Food, Simple is Always Good, Right?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Bruce Bradley Food companies are some of the savviest trend spotters around. They literally spend Hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars tracking and following trends. In fact, in some c ...
  • New: Allergy Talk by Fooducate
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We’re proud to announce our latest iPhone app – Allergy Talk by Fooducate. As you can probably guess, this app has been designed to address the needs of people with allergies and intolerances. In ...
  • The Weight of the Nation
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Whether you have HBO or not, you should watch the 4 part miniseries Weight of the Nation. It is available free online. The documentary covers many aspects of the obesity situation in the US, and comes out wit ...
  • Eco-packaged Food is Not Necessarily Healthy Food
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Whole Foods Market is a good place to spot new food trends. A theme that seems to be picking up in recent years and months is eco-packaging. This could mean using recycled paper or plastic as packaging materi ...
  • Make Mom Happy Today: Eat Your Broccoli
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Mother’s Day! Somewhere along our transition from childhood to adulthood, many of us discovered one of the simple things we could do to make our mom happy – be good about food. Whether it&#8 ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Condolences
    Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family of our friend and colleague, Bobby Kennedy, and his children, on the tragic death of his wife and their mother, Mary. Our thoughts tonight are with your family. - Greg, Leni & Zach 
  • Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival Tomorrow
    Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival this Sunday - Invitation Greg wants to thank you for your support with a special gift. He will be the featured speaker this Sunday and would love to meet you in person and say hi. We have arranged for 20 free guest spots for our supporters. If you would like ...
  • Sneak Peak: Why We Occupy Live! DVD
    Greg Palast from the oil soaked heart of America, Houston TX. Greg Palast live DVD - Coming Soon.
  • Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
    by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Letter to CDC's Yeargin-Alsopp "Why isn't SEED ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is a letter sent to Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin- Alsopp, Medical Epidemiologist and Chief of the Developmental Disabilities Branch of the CDC. We'll let you know if Louise Kuo Habakus (in photo), co-editor of Vaccine Epidemic and...
  • Thinking Mom's Letter to The Pediatrician She ...
    Thanks to the Thinking Moms Revolution for allowing us to share this post with you. Dear Dr. Asshat; You probably haven’t even noticed that I pulled my child out of your practice but I wanted to take a minute to...
  • Risperdal and S100B: Prolactin, Tumors and Ta ...
    By Teresa Conrick With Autism numbers climbing, there are those who look to the profit margin of knowing thousands of children, teens and young adults may need medications to "target behavior." It is unfortunate and incorrect that Autism is still...
  • Autism Acceptance and Aging Out
    By Natalie Palumbo As a younger sibling of a 21 year old young man with autism, I was recently asked to give my perspective on a story about services for people with autism beyond high school in Vermont, as shown...
  • Retired 9/11 Firefighter Writes to President O ...
    By Tim Dwyer President Obama I am sending you these boots to symbolize the fact that my son Colin will never be a third generation NYC Firefighter, Colin like 1.5 million other American children and young adults has Autism. Our...

Global BDS Movement

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?

Open Your Eyes News

  • UK Government should start cutting bank stakes ...
    Reuters – Government should sell part of its stakes in state-backed lenders Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland at a loss to kickstart a disposal process that should see investors pay more at later offerings, a senior Rothschild banker told lawmakers. “It is a good strategy to start a ...
  • Arrests at Brisbane aboriginal protest
  • FEATURE PAGE – Nuclear Weapons
    “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.” Nuclear weapons may not be in the news these days as much as they were in the Cold War but they are [...]
  • The most dangerous drug in the world: ‘D ...
    Daily Mail – A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia. The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,’ and is derived from a particular type of tree [The bo ...
  • Have you checked out our Editorials & Op-Ed ar ...
    Over 40 hard hitting articles that examine the world from a different angle. CLICK HERE TO READ

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Clean Mobility Center, focusing on alternative ...
    Jamie Caissie says he's picky about the gas he puts in his GMC Sierra truck. For years, the 35-year-old flooring contractor only filled up at 76 brand stations, but on a recent Monday, he decided to try something new: the Propel Clean Mobility Center in Fullerton, which sells E85 flex fuel and b ...
  • An electrifying freight solution on the 710? S ...
    Los Angeles may be one of the first global cities to adopt a new electric freight trucking system, unveiled by electrical engineering giant Siemens Corp. last week at the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium, or EVS26.
  • Elusive California wolf OR7 is photographed
    The first color photo of California’s celebrity gray wolf, OR7, was taken this week as he loped across a sagebrush-covered hill in Modoc County.
  • Unabomber billboard continues to hurt Heartlan ...
    With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a “realist” position questioning that humans are responsible for climate change.
  • EV confab this weekend is about more than cars
    The electric car might not be enjoying a good moment as the Electric Vehicle Symposium, EVS26, powers up for its run this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GM stopped production for five weeks on the Chevy Volt, and sales of new all-electric cars such as the Volt or the Nissan Leaf a ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Saudi Arabia's $109 Billion Plan Will Make It ...
    Saudi Arabia, the world's oil king, is looking to become the king of another resource:  solar power. read more
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. read more
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. ...
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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: ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Rebekah Brooks, Witness for the Prosecution
    By Michael Collins Criminal charges against Rupert Murdoch insider and favorite Rebekah Brooks may be a prelude to looming charges arising out of Brooaks' testimony before the Leveson Inquiry last week. Crown Prosecution Services charged Brooks, her husband, and four others with conspiracy t ...
  • The prisoners' struggle is far from over
    By Khalid Amayreh The Egyptian-brokered deal between the apartheid terrorist state of Israel and hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners languishing in the Zionist Bastilles is certainly not the best deal one would hope for. But it was probably the best deal the powerless prisoners could reach un ...
  • Peace-making without Mediators
    By Nicola Nasser** A surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, U.S., EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC resolutions, bilateral signed accords and “roadmaps,” in addition to marathon bilateral talks th ...
  • Hunger Strike Aftermath
    by Stephen Lendman As they say, it's not over 'till it's over. Palestinian prisoners have been mass hunger striking since April 17. Others began earlier. Some hadn't eaten for two months or longer. On May 14, a deal was announced. Egypt negotiated one with the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and s ...
  • Google following CIA's path in confronting Iran
    Kourosh Ziabari To Iranians, Persian Gulf is not simply a name referring to a geographical region on the world map. To Iranians, the name of Persian Gulf is interwoven with a sense of national dignity and honor which makes them a united and powerful troupe against the relentless attacks of the ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New report lifts fog on government job cuts
    Due to the opaque reporting methods used by the federal government to detail its spending and employment projections, getting a clear picture of core public service job losses is unnecessarily complicated. However, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald has analyzed data from recently released 20 ...
  • Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens ...
    On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain an ...
  • Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
  • CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
    In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...
  • Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
    Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, CCPA’s latest study, The Big Banks’ Big Secret: Esti ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Dirty Words
    By Sherry Pasquarello, Worldwidehippies – Just a few thoughts about, “dirty” words that came to me last night. I was at a meeting last evening. We hold it once a month in the back room of a pub. So we do get a lot of the noise from the bar filter in when the place [...]
  • The Soap Box: God-damned Government
    John Konopak –  God-damned Government   See the World Around You! – Hear the Voices of Activism! – Speak Truth To Power! Media for the People by the People! Citizen Dispatch For reporting from your spot on the globe The Soapbox For your commentary and opinions Hippie TV Ne ...
  • Our Hippie Tank Tops are 100% Rev. Billy Approved
    http://www.revbilly.com/ Our Hippie Tank Tops are 100% Rev. Billy Approved Show your support for Worldwide Hippies, Today! Just $14.00 + shipping limited time offer. Available in  Medium, Large and X-tra Large. Specify Size (med, large, xl)   ============================================
  • John Oates Joins Talented Kids In Annual Rock& ...
    From nashville.com – uperstar recording artist John Oates (of Hall and Oates) couldn’t keep the smile from his face this morning as he stood in the wings at Nashville’s Two Old Hippies store and watched 18 budding musicians from Mount View Elementary pick out the instantly recognizable cho ...
  • Belo Monte: Brazil’s damned democracy
    By Manuela Picq,aljazeera.com - The Belo Monte dam project shows the government’s failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy. Quito, Ecuador- It’s rather ironic to find commonalities between President Rousseff’s government and past Brazilian military regimes. ...

FourWinds10

  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...
  • Book Review: A Thousand Barrels a Second
    I am way behind on reading books that have been sent to me for review by various publishers. The pile on my desk is growing, because I have a bad habit of starting new books before I finish the one I am reading. Currently I am nearly finished with Oil’s Endless Bid, am halfway through Oil: ...
  • Nuclear Power in Japan, Methane Hydrates, and ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I cover: Japan’s decision to abandon nuclear power (which will contend for the top energy story of the year — regardless of how it plays out) ConocoPhillips’ successful methane hydrates drilling test in the Arctic, and whethe ...
  • Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from ...
    A reader recently called my attention to a new and very interesting presentation from the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program: Biofuels Design Cases The presentation explored the question of whether the U.S. government is spending money on the right technology pathways. Costs were prese ...
  • Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Trying to Get Pregnant? Avoid This Cupboard Staple
    Infertility is a common problem in the United States. In fact, one in 10 women of childbearing age have trouble getting pregnant. Many of these women turn to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, considered the most effective assisted reproductive technology available. Now, a new study suggests that ...
  • The Common Food Ingredient That's Making You S ...
    Foods that appear to be nutritious could actually be destroying your brainpower. The culprit? A common ingredient slipped into many "healthy" foods, including baby food, applesauce, and oatmeal, a breakfast favorite. Researchers at UCLA found that ingesting foods and drinks containing the ingre ...
  • The Best & Worst States for Locally Grown Food
    In many parts of the country, we're entering the heart of the growing season, a time when you're most likely to find a farmer's market teeming with delicious local food. But did you ever wonder how your state ranks in terms of the local food movement? Strolling of the Heifers, an organization d ...
  • 7 New Rules for Sunscreen
    SPF or UVA? Broad-spectrum or waterproof? Sunscreens are probably the most confusing personal care product on the market. On the one hand, you have dermatologists telling you to apply them every time you step outside, but on the other, you hear reports that sunscreens don't prevent cancer and t ...
  • FDA Backtracks On New Sunscreen Rules
    After nearly 30 years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally announced last year that they would be instituting new rules for sunscreen that would clarify for consumers which sunscreens offered what kind of protection. But things came to a screeching halt last Friday, when the ...

big think

  • Scientists Build Electricity Producing Viruses
    What's the Latest Development? Scientists at the Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered a virus known as M13 to emit electricity when pressure is applied to it. "M13 is a natural power source, but researchers enhanced its output by genetically engineering the vir ...
  • You Are Not Your Task List
    Anxiety Creates Extra Tasks - And Problems Have you ever had one of those ‘super-productive’ days where you burn through all of your tasks and then feel... strangely hollow? This feeling arises because, as much as we hate to admit it, many of us define ourselves by our task list. ...
  • Bicycles Are the Next Mobile Technology Platform
    What's the Latest Development? Urban America, in its idiosyncratic way, is warming to the idea of the bicycle. Cities like Washington DC and Portland have embraced bike sharing programs. New York City, which will introduce 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations around the city this summer ...
  • Does Mobile Computing Increase Productivity?
    What's the Latest Development? Being connected 24/7 increases productivity up to a point, says new research, but then it causes stress, disrupts life and actually decreases worker output. Statistics gathered by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow indicate that workers "who ha ...
  • When Justice falls victim to ‘National Security’
    As his ear continues to be bent by assorted British Government officials, spooks and former Ministers determined that he introduce further restrictions over disclosure of information in ‘sensitive’ court cases that affect National Security, perhaps Britain’s Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke mig ...

Information Liberation

  • IP-Address Can't Even Identify a State, BitTor ...
    The mass-BitTorrent lawsuits that are sweeping the United States are in a heap of trouble. After a Florida judge ruled that an IP-address is not a person, a Californian colleague has gone even further in protecting the First Amendment rights of BitTo...
  • Are They Insane? 58 Percent Of Americans Belie ...
    There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but there is something wrong with having blind faith that things are going to get better when all of the evidence is screaming at you that things are going to get worse.* According to a brand new USA TODA...
  • From Rags to Resorts
    When most people think of starting a business, or contemplate others doing so, the common belief is that a person should go into a business they have knowledge in * not just something they know about, but something they know lots about. But is expert...
  • Rogers: "Volume Is Not Going To Come Back. We' ...
    Jim Rogers is hedging his gold (and silver) positions reflecting that this is normal, following such a tremendous run, and that this is good for the precious metal in the long-run. In his discussion with Maria Bartiromo this afternoon, he notes India...
  • Anarchast Ep. 25 with Josh Luther
    Jeff Berwick talks with Josh Luther about how Mexico now has much more freedom than America....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Spinning up plutonium
    After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches ...
  • Organ donors on Facebook and Twitter
    UPDATE #EveryLittleBitHelps – hashtag H/T to @JoForrest There is far too much squeamishness regarding organ donation and transplant. Some of it is down to emotional attachment and denial, which is to be expected. Much of it is due to our own death anxiety, again an evolutionarily adaptatio ...
  • Some of our dark matter is missing
    I wrote about the missing dark matter debacle back in April for my Pivot Points column in The Euroscientist. The post is now online. There has been much debate as to whether or not the evidence stacks up against this truly unknown quantity that we cannot touch, see, or measure. I talked to Chris ...
  • Some of our dark matter is missing
    I wrote about the missing dark matter debacle back in April for my Pivot Points column in The Euroscientist. The post is now online. There has been much debate as to whether or not the evidence stacks up against this truly unknown quantity that we cannot touch, see, or measure. I talked to Chris ...
  • The Cambridge Phenomenon
    Just received a copy of The Cambridge Phenomenon by Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton with a foreword by Bill Gates that gives us a timeline of the evolution of Silicon Fen over the last half century. You can see a timeline on the associated website. From the first home computer to the ARM chip in [. ...

RFF Library

  • Carbon Taxation and Fiscal Consolidation: the ...
    Vivid Economics for the European Climate Foundation and Green Budget Europe http://www.foes.de/pdf/2012-05_CETRiE_Carbon_Pricing_Report_web.pdf [From a blog post in Business Green] Green taxes should play a crucial role in tackling Europe’s spiralling deficits, according to a major new rep ...
  • Study Claiming E15 Damage to Engines
    aka “INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL ETHANOL BLENDS ENGINE DURABILITY STUDY” Coordinating Research Council (CRC) http://bit.ly/Kmi4us [From an InsideEPA.com article, sub. req'd]  An oil and automotive industry study released May 16 concludes that EPA’s approval of a 15-percent ethanol fuel ...
  • Is the ETS Still the Best Option?
    Istituto Bruno Leoni / by Stefano Clò & Emanuele Vendramin http://www.brunoleonimedia.it/public/Papers/IBL-Special_Report-ETS.pdf (summary) [From an article in the European Economic Review]  [The report] provides a harsh critique of the functioning of the ETS. It acknowledges that the ETS re ...
  • China Power: Benefits and Costs of the “Strong ...
    Entri (Energy Transition Research Institute) / by William Chandler, Chen Shiping, Holly Gwin and Wang Yanjia http://bit.ly/JTaNos [From Entri site] Entri’s new study of China Power examines the benefits and the costs of deploying a wide range of technologies to satisfy China’s demand for electri ...
  • Supply Chain and Outage Analysis of MISO Coal ...
    Brattle Group http://www.brattle.com/_documents/UploadLibrary/Upload1039.pdf [From an Climate Wire article by Daniel Cusick, sub., req'd]  Electric utilities will struggle to meet new U.S. EPA regulations governing mercury emissions from coal-fired plants, a new study has found, noting that surg ...

Scientific American - News

  • Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produc ...
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  • Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs
    By Sharon Levy of Nature magazine [More]
  • Self-Worth Shattering: A Single Bomb Blast Can ...
    The stress and suffering of combat are known to leave a lasting impact on military veterans, in some cases triggering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) . Researchers have now found an even more serious and debilitating mental condition, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) , in ...
  • Not-So-Quick Fix: ADHD Behavioral Therapy May ...
    Before stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta and Adderall began their rise to popularity in the 1970s, treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focused on behavioral therapy. But as concerns build over the mounting dosages and extended treatment periods that come with st ...
  • How Subway Networks Evolve
    No two subway systems have the same design. New York City’s haphazard rails differ markedly from the highly organized Moscow Metro (above), or the tangled spaghetti of Tokyo ’s subway network. Each system’s design is the result of many factors, including local geography, the ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Quebec Government to "Lock-Out" Striking Students
    If picket lines not removed, Liberals will suspend classes across the province After 14 weeks of student strikes in Quebec, the provincial Liberals announced tonight they will introduce a law that would suspend the semesters at colleges and ...
  • Legislating an end to a social movement?
    As a lawyer mother might say, every law is special in its own way. But the legislation being put forward by the Québec government to force an end to the 14-week student strike really is a “special law” because, unlike most laws ...
  • Des modifications controversées au règlement P ...
    La commission de la sécurité publique de la Ville de Montréal tenait aujourd'hui une séance publique au sujet d'un projet d'amendement au règlement P-6 relatif aux manifestations. Les modifications, recommandées à l'unanimité par les commissaires, visent notamment à interdire les ...
  • Private Power, Public Pain: The For-Profit Own ...
      Nova Scotia Power (NSP) recently applied to the province’s Utilities and Review Board for 3% rate increases over each of the next 2 years.  In bizarrely flagrant fashion, 2 days later the publicly-traded parent company, E ...
  • Musqueam Blockade Remains as Negotiations Continue
    The Musqueam band's blockade of a condo construction site continues in the Marpole district of south Vancouver, as negotiations with the provincial government over a proposed land swap drag on. Established over a week ago, the blockade consists of chairs and a small tent. The construction si ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
    The Child is  Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...
  • The Crisis: where are we headed?
    David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...
  • Is American individualism a myth?
    David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...
  • Steve Jobs: the metaphor
    David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...
  • Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
    David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Would Mitt Romney Be the Most Right-Wing Presi ...
    My former colleague Jamelle Bouie's cover story for the American Prospect suggests that if elected, Mitt Romney would be the most conservative president in recent memory: These aren't idle expectations. If Romney wins the White House, it's a sure bet that Republicans will also win the ...
  • How Toxic Was "The Ricketts Plan" on Jeremiah ...
    On Thursday morning, the New York Times reported that a Republican super-PAC funded by wealthy conservative Joe Ricketts was considering a plan to turn Jeremiah Wright into Obama's running mate in the 2012 election. By early afternoon, the Ending Spending Action Fund was already repudiating "T ...
  • RIP Chuck Brown
    Judging by my college experience, for folks outside of the DC area, Go-go music probably conjures images of mod dancers in high boots. Within DC, though, it refers to the city's predominant musical genre, pioneered by the incomparable Chuck Brown, known as the Godfather of Go-go, who died Wedn ...
  • Judge Blocks Enforcement of National Defense A ...
    Adam Serwer is filling in while Kevin Drum is on vacation. On Wednesday, Obama-appointed(!) Judge Katherine B. Forrest blocked the section of last year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that purported to "reaffirm" the 2001 authorization to use military force against Al Qaeda. A gro ...
  • Jeremiah Wright Is Not a Silver Bullet
    There's a group of Republicans who are convinced that if Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) had simply run Jeremiah Wright ads twenty-four hours a day during the 2008 election, Barack Obama would not be in the White House. This time around, the New York Times reports, (in what sounds suspiciously l ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Ancient giant turtle fossil revealed
    Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen -- the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia. read more
  • Pain relief through distraction -- it's not al ...
    Mental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren't just in your head, according to a report published online on May 17 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. read more
  • 1,000 years of climate data confirms Australia ...
    In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1000 years. read more
  • 3-telescope interferometry allows astrophysici ...
    By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away, a method that has yielded an unprecedented amount of data for such obs ...
  • UCLA researchers map damaged connections in Ph ...
    Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an explosion that drove the rod through his left cheek and out of the top of his head. As reported at the ti ...

unEarthed

  • Born To Be Wild Once More
    Bison are returned to their ancestral plains Bison at Fort Peck, with one of the newest herd members. (Bill Campbell) Home on the range, where the deer and an ...
  • Navy Admits Greater Harm To Sea Mammals
    Coastal training kills, injures more than thought A Navy vessel with research ship and orca pod, in the foreground. (Center for Whale Research) Last week, the ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Living With Lies and Coal Ash
    Rep. McKinley constituents call him out for standing with corporate interests Little Blue Run Dam and reservoir, as viewed from the International Space Station, is the largest coal ash pond ...
  • 1 Million Voices: Protect Our Arctic Ocean
    Polar bears, walrus, sandpiper, 150 activists deliver comments to White House Campaign Director Jared Saylor and Policy & Legislation intern Adriane Underwood carry letters from more than 5 ...
  • Friday Finds: Flame Retardant Flameout
    Beneficial pollution, farmers market boost, plastic oceans Photo courtesy of matthewven (flickr.com) Investigation sets flame to chemical retardant claims ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • IMAGE: News photographer’s wounds
    Oren Ziv is one of the founders of Activestills, the photo agency that +972 has been working with since the site was launched. Activestills’ photographers are present in places that other media organizations often avoid: On their flickr photostream you can see images from the front lines o ...
  • NGO threatened with arson and violence for hel ...
    A human rights organization that assists foreigners received threats of arson and rape within hours of Interior Minister Eli Yishai’s remarks that African asylum seekers are “infiltrators” and most are “criminals” who “damage the Zionist project.” The NG ...
  • A Mideast alternative to Israel: A response to ...
     Yuval Ben-Ami is thinking of leaving Israel for a saner life somewhere in Europe. Though I know the feeling he talks about and sympathize with it deeply – my choice, time and time again, is to stay right here, at home. I can even justify it. Of course, I totally agree with Yuval. It’s a [...]
  • Fantasized homeland: Review of Shlomo Sand&#82 ...
    A review of Shlomo Sand’s “The Invention of the Land of Israel” and other musings on religious Zionism. “After the people was exiled from its land by force of arms, it kept faith with it in all the lands of its diaspora, and never ceased from praying and hoping to return ...
  • ‘Heart-drain’ diary: The option of ...
    It was 2:00 AM when we arrived at St. Pancras station. 2:00 AM London time is 4:00 AM Tel-Aviv time, and we were certainly still on Tel-Aviv time. In a way, we were still in Tel-Aviv altogether, or perhaps somewhere in between the two – in the cold sky over Bulgaria or Slovakia. The soul [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Boomer Redux
    In 1998, there were 3.7 million seniors in Canada; by 2031 there will be 9.7 million. That should tell us …Continue reading »
  • Mistaking Truth For Disenchantment
    Unlike other countries, including Canada, President Obama has been searching for ways to empower those under 35 years of age. …Continue reading »
  • The Unlit Torch
    Thanks to economic shifts in priorities by advanced government and international financial institutions the future doesn’t even look as bright …Continue reading »
  • Ideological Gridlock
    In one profound hour he went from delivering the news to making it. Peter Mansbridge brought his message of civic …Continue reading »
  • We Ruined It
    With all this emphasis being placed upon citizen engagement, someone is going to have to figure out how to bring …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • Spanish Indignados Return to Their Squares
    Garcia writes: "The day of action on May 12 this year exceeded the expectations of many people who thought the 15M movement was dead, who didn't recognize that it had only moved to neighborhood assemblies." Spanish protesters fill up the Puerta del Sol square during a protest marking the one ...
  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...

War Resisters League

  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →

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 ...

k2p blog

  • More evidence that cloud cover – and not ...
    Cloud cover decreased sharply from 1985 to 2010 giving sharply increased sunshine hours possibly due to cleaner air and solar effects.
  • Sapiens + dogs >> Neanderthals
    Though fossil evidence of domesticated dogs is very sparse and the earliest is from around 30,000 years ago, there is no certainty about when domestication actually occurred. Human-canine co-operation – eventually leading to domestication – perhaps started some 50,000 years ago.
  • Snow in Sarajevo in May
    For the first time in 50 years Sarejovo was covered by snow in May.
  • Where to view the annular solar eclipse of May ...
    An "annular" eclipse of the sun on May 20th when the moon is at apogee will be visible from China across the Pacific to North America.
  • Droughts on the Tibetan plateau coincide with ...
    A tree ring based reconstruction of precipitation over the last 1000 years on the Tibetan plateau by Chinese scientists show droughts have occurred at the same times as solar grand minima.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Arby's Is Really Sorry That Piece Of Finger En ...
    Tip to fast food workers: If you lose part of your finger while on the job, let your coworkers know so they don't just pick up making that sandwich where you left off. A 14-year-old boy in Michigan ended up with the "fingerprint portion" of an employee's finger in his sandwich recently after a ...
  • What The Facebook IPO Could Mean To Consumers
    Tomorrow, a very small group of people -- many of them already incredibly wealthy -- will be super incredibly wealthy when shares of Facebook start trading on Nasdaq. But while only a few folks will reap a direct, immediate benefit from the IPO, the decision to take Facebook public with such hu ...
  • Study Links Popular Antibiotic Zithromax To Ra ...
    Many people use the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, to treat bronchitis and other common infections. Some surprising results of a 14-year study might turn some off the antibiotic, as it found the risk of sudden deadly heart problems increased with use of Zithromax. It's a more expensive ...
  • Wendy's Offer Of A Small, Hot Redhead Confuses ...
    The Internet world is in a buzz of confusion. Or at least some of its denizens are, after a Wendy's coupon offered up a "Free Small Hot Original Redhead" with any purchase. Sounds like a good deal -- or it sounds like you could get a small ginger person, if you aren't aware that Redhead Roaster ...
  • U.S. Postal Service Set To Close Or Combine 22 ...
    The U.S. Postal Service has announced its next step in the belt-tightening process of trying to cut down on its costs. It will close or consolidate operations at 140 mail processing sites through February 2013, said a postal official. Reuters cites USPS Chief Operating Officer Megan Brennan wh ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • ACLU Supports State Dept Whistleblower: Daily ...
    ACLU: State Department Violating Whistleblower Peter Van Buren’s Constitutional Rights Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union has come out in support of State Department whistleblower and GAP client Peter Van Buren, telling the agency that firing Van Buren would violate his constitut ...
  • ACLU: State Department Violating Whistleblower ...
    On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a powerful letter supporting my client, whistleblower Peter Van Buren. Van Buren authored a book (We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People), which exposed the massive reconstr ...
  • For-Profit Education Company Under Fire: Daily ...
    Associated Press: Judge – Parts of Pa. Education Firm Lawsuit over Sales Tactics Can Proceed, Others Dismissed Summary: A federal judge is allowing a whistleblower suit accusing a for-profit education company of using improper sales tactics to proceed. According to the suit, which is backed by ...
  • NSA Circles the Wagons: Refuses to Return Whis ...
    National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, Edward Loomis, and Diane Roark have been through enough. They were targeted with a federal criminal investigation and subjected to armed FBI raids in July 2007. Binney had a gun pointed to his head ...
  • Tom Drake on the NSA & 9/11: Daily Whistleblow ...
    Washington Spectator: NSA Analyst – ‘We Could Have Prevented 9/11’ Summary: NSA whistleblower and GAP client Thomas Drake talked to the Washington Spectator about his whistleblowing experiences and the problems plaguing the NSA. Key Quote: Thomas Drake, a brilliant intelli ...

UK Progressive

  • The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JP Morgan
    Breaking Up Big Banks The dog that didn’t bark this week, let alone bite, was the President’s response to JP Morgan Chase’s bombshell admission of losing more than $2 billion in risky derivative trades that should never have been made. “JP Morgan is one of the best-managed banks there is. Jamie ...
  • Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s Conservative Media App ...
    Scott Walker pitched his message to conservatives nationwide — and it paid off By Kate Golden On Nov. 10, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gave the keynote address at the annual dinner of the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank in Phoenix with ties to the powerful, corporate-funded America ...
  • Egypt’s Presidential Election: An Ideological ...
    Egypt’s presidential elections are fast approaching. Egyptians abroad have already started voting. I voted today. This blog post will try to emphasize and clarify the consequences of this election, as many Egyptians seem not to understand what this election is all about. This election is n ...
  • Is This Canada? 5 Banks Now ‘Too Bigger’ – Why ...
    We used to worry in the 1980s that the US would become like Canada with just 9 nationwide banks. Now 35-years later JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs control $8.5 trillion dollars in assets. Welcome to Canada. Business hates President Obama? Why? They’ve h ...
  • American Pain Foundation Shuts Down as Senator ...
    by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, ProPublica A version of this story was published in The Washington Post. As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them, a leading pain advocacy organization said it was ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Glikson tell us to publish a paper – we ...
    Golly, but The Heretic is a play that appears to be genuinely useful art, something that actually challenges the paradigm. Brice Bosnich reviews it ( see below), Andrew Glikson rails against it (see, it must be useful). Glikson says, rightly: “Opinion and “belief” are no substi ...
  • We can’t predict the climate on a local, regio ...
    This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that drills down to the most important points and papers, with proper references, as a definitive resource.The models are wrong: not just “unverified”, not just “uncertain”, but proven to have failed. — Jo Joint ...
  • Flashback: The Great Debate, a rare chance to ...
    Dr Andrew Glikson The litany chants“The Debate is over”, but hey where was that debate? Could the Nova Glikson “Great Debate” be it? Surely not, you think, but debates in “climate science” are high stakes affairs, where branded climate scientists will not publ ...
  • Unthreaded
    I’m travelling interstate at the moment, and with site maintenance being rather larger than usual, apologies for things being thin on the ground here. I have finally got email working again, and have been following the ever entertaining antics of the death threats that werent, the gun lice ...
  • Blogger’s speech to the NY Fed tells it ...
    Robert Wenzel says to Federal Reserve: “Leave the Building to the Four-Legged Rats” Finally a speech with attitude tells it like it is, at the US Federal Reserve. The speech was given by blogger Robert Wenzel in late April to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, because they invited hi ...

ReNew America

  • Restoring representation - A Strategic Proposal II
    (Alan Keyes) - Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. -- Matthew 18:3 ESV. Periander began his reign in a mild spirit. But his manner changed after he had sent a herald to Thrasybulus, the tyrant of Miletus, asking his advice ho ...
  • The seven-headed Hydra
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - Fighting fallacies one at a time as they spring from a false ideology is like Hercules' battle with the Hydra -- a serpentine creature with seven heads. When he cut off one serpent head, two more heads grew in its place...
  • Mr. Obama rips into marriage
    (James Dobson) - President Barack Obama told reporter Robin Roberts last week that his thinking has "evolved" into support for same-sex marriage. His words conjure up imagery of a brooding, contemplative president, seeking the advice of friends and associates and finally coming to a new conclusi ...
  • Obama's literary agent in 1991 booklet: 'Born ...
    (Breitbart) - Note from Senior Management: Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961...
  • Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate
    (Washington Times) - President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Alaska Could Cause Japan-Style Tsunami
    A particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area – which lies four to five kilometres under water – reveal the pressure is accumulating rapidly. If the Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographi ...
  • Geryl and ETAP Cross-Promote
    I’m not keen on the idea of using a boat to survive 2012. The idea has been promoted by 2012er Patrick Geryl, although he gets “very easily seasick” and will be choosing a bunker instead. Although a boat might be “unsinkable”, there’s also the factor of where ...
  • Solar Pole Imbalance Mystery
    Our Sun operates on a cycle that takes roughly 11 years to complete. While the key indicator for when the cycle is at its peak is the number of sun spots, the root cause is the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic poles. And for some reason that scientists cannot explain, the Sun’s poles a ...
  • Bacteria Release in Boston Subway
    This story has been appearing on conspiracy sites this week: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has announced a series of biological tests that they will be conducting in subway systems near Boston. DHS will be releasing bacteria into the MBTA tunnels, in what they say are tests to ev ...
  • SWAT Team Storms Private Bunker
    The anti-survivalist actions of some authorities in the USA are getting much worse. In recent times we have seen the malicious use of zoning laws to thwart survival plans, and we have seen many of things survivalists do listed as suspicious (in a terrorism way). This most recent news is of speci ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Bengal gets Rs 158 crore for border development
    Officials at Writers’ Buildings are upbeat over the small yet significant gesture since they have been provided with a list of allocations for 17 states by the ministry of home affairs (MHA), which shows that Bengal’s share is the biggest. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • Russia says action on Syria, Iran may go nuclear
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that military action against sovereign states could lead to a regional nuclear war, starkly voicing Moscow's opposition to Western intervention ahead of a G8 summit at which Syria and Iran will be discussed. 'Hasty ... ...
  • 'High-five’ stunt on Mumbai local kills bystander
    Two youths, who had boarded a Borivli-bound local from Santa Cruz, were trying to perform high-fives with commuters on trains coming from the opposite direction. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Jalandhar body builder is brand amabassador of ...
    When it comes to body building, the byword is Arnold Schwarzennegger but the man himself is enamoured of Jalandhar-based body builder Varinder Singh Ghumman. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • Facebook prices at top of range in landmark IPO
    NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, giving the world's No. 1 online social network a $104 billion valuation in the third largest offering in U.S. Reported by Firstpost 4 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Israel Is Anticipating War
    Surprising political developments in Israel and recent reports in the US media suggest that Israel will attack Iran in the near future. After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early parliamentary elections at a conference of the Likud ruling party in early May, Israel decided unexpecte ...
  • US, Israeli and Saudi-funded Terrorists Destab ...
    According to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, “The Redirection,” the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had been assembling a region-wide army of extremist-mercenaries to battle Hezbollah in Lebanon, destabilize and overthrow Syria, and create a united front against Iran. The fo ...
  • Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the ...
    The legal proceedings against Seif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, have developed into an unusual situation, that has had no precedents in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) history. The matter is that the Court itself is exerting efforts to destroy the case so that the accused would ...
  • Upcoming G8 Forum and the Objectives Behind th ...
    THE DYNAMICS UNRAVELING WITHIN THE WORLD SYSTEM AND DRIVING DEEP TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE EXISTING CENTER – SEMI-PERIPHERY – PERIPHERY LAYOUT IS PRONE WITH A PROLIFERATION OF SERIOUS ARMED CONFLICTS. THE WORLD IS ENTERING A TRANSITION EPOCH DURING WHICH A BIG WAR OVER NATURAL RESOURCES AND SPHERES ...
  • The Integration of Eurasia and Berlin
    «Today we’re partners, but not friends» – said Russian ambassador to Germany Vladimir Grinin meeting journalists from different countries in Berlin by the end of April. After many years of assurances that the both countries are strategic partners, the opinion mainly expressed by Russian po ...

BlogHer

  • Did GM Pop the Facebook Bubble?
    Did GM just pop the Facebook bubble? Though the announcement that the auto giant will pull its paid advertising from Facebook is unlikely to seriously undermine the latter’s upcoming IPO, it surely will cast a shadow over the much-hyped event. The company’s short lifespan and quixotic manageme ...
  • If Emily Posted: On TOS and Reading the Fine Print
    A little over a week ago, an Instagram scare went viral. People were talking about new Terms of Service (TOS). People were outraged, others confused, some felt their trust violated.But here's the thing, the TOS hadn't changed.I knew because I had a copy of it from a piece I wrote in the beginnin ...
  • What Would My Kids Do, Dateline? Climb Into th ...
    [Editor's Note: While I love Dateline, I hate their show My Kid Would Never Do That. It made me nervous and anxious that all of the best parenting in the world couldn't possibly keep my kids safe from predators. Tracey at Don't Mess with Mama recently called out the show for their unnecessary, o ...
  • My First Day as a Stay-At-Home-Mom
    I'll admit it, I was nervous. All last week as today got closer and closer, I got more worried. One big, important question circled around in around in my head: What if I don't like being a stay-at-home mom? This was my choice. No one forced me into it. I had the unwavering support of my husba ...
  • White Babies No Longer Majority: Why Are Schoo ...
    This week the Washington Post noted for the first time in American history, white babies are no longer the majority born in the United States. It's no surprise, considering mixed-race marriages are at an all-time high, as well. Credit Image: USDAgov on Flickr According to the Washington Post: ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • W.Va. coal-mining jobs on rise under Obama
    There’s no doubt that next week’s taxpayer-funded coal industry pep rally against President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will feature industry officials and their political supporters arguing that the current administration’s policies are killing the coal ...
  • W.Va. taxpayers fund anti-Obama coal campaign
    Folks in West Virginia may have heard about a series of upcoming events aimed at attacking President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to reduce the coal industry’s impacts on the environment, public health and the global climate system. A group called “Th ...
  • Another blast from the past: Dave Callaghan sa ...
    When last we heard from former West Virginia environmental regulator David C. Callaghan, he had written a pretty hard-hitting op-ed piece critical of mountaintop removal and the state political leadership that supports that practice. This morning, Callaghan has another must-read commentary in th ...
  • Alpha contractor cited in Virginia miner&#8217 ...
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued the report on its investigation of the December 2011 death of a miner at an Alpha Natural Resources contract mine in Virginia, and it’s not very pretty. Here’s the overview: On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, at 7:33 a.m., Richar ...
  • Coal River again makes ‘most endangered& ...
    Photo by Vivian Stockman Here’s the announcement this morning from the group American Rivers: American Rivers named the Coal River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers today, shining a national spotlight on the threat mountaintop removal mining poses to clean water and public health. The ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Diablo III Launch Woes
    I am stunned that Blizzard has had such a poor launch for Diablo III. I couldn’t even get onto the server for two hours on the first night, and I just got killed by Belial because the lag was so bad that I was unable to even move. We’re talking FPM (frames per minute) here. [...]
  • Every issue of New Scientist from its launch i ...
    http://books.google.com/books/about/New_Scientist.html?id=4BfSdk4mJfcC&redir_… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentKindle Books Outselling Hardcover BooksThe Best Books of 2010 | The EconomistGoogle Gets Into the eBook SpaceThe Future of the B ...
  • iOS Getting Native Maps Soon?
    iOS is by no means feature-complete. But it’s getting harder to identify the low-hanging fruit — the things you just know Apple has to be working on, not just the stuff you hope they are. The biggest one left is mapping. Today brings a report from 9to5Mac that Apple is set to switch the back-end ...
  • Be Worthy of a Wikipedia Entry
    I had an idea the other day about life achievement: if you currently have no plans to be worthy of a minor blurb on Wikipedia then you don’t really have any plans. That’s a low bar, and yet it’s miles above what 99% of people I know will ever accomplish. Let’s unpack that ...
  • Atheists More Generous Than Religious When Hel ...
    A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, suggests athiests and agnostics are more willing to help other people than those who identify themselves as religious. The reason for this difference, the study found, is because atheists are driven by emotions, such as compassion, as oppose ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Belo Monte: Brazil’s damned democracy
    By Manuela Picq,aljazeera.com - The Belo Monte dam project shows the government’s failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy. Quito, Ecuador- It’s rather ironic to find commonalities between President Rousseff’s government and past Brazilian military regimes. ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Chicago My Kind of Town
    Busloads of protesters head to Chicago for NATO Summit They’re here, and more are coming — lots more. The first major busload of out-of-town anti-NATO protesters arrived in Chicago Wednesday evening. Sixteen hours after they pulled off from a dark New York street corner at 4 a.m., more than 40 t ...
  • Worldwidw Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from ‘intermediate range,’ autopsy shows Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News. The official report, pr ...
  • Have You Been Scrubbed Lately?
    By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – – When it was suggested I write an article on scrubbing the internet, I replied, “What the fuck is that?” The answer was, “Google it!” So I did. Up came so many sites about “Scrubbing the Internet,” I felt as if I had been held captive in a dark r ...
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reference frame

  • Will Happer: CO2: friend or foe?
    A comprehensive physicist's introduction to CO2 and climate I would say that most of the competent physicists at good universities who have spent enough time to study the climate change issue are climate skeptics. A good example is Will Happer, an atomic physicist of Princeton. Toda ...
  • Seventh Heartland Climate Conference: schedule
    Between next Monday and next Wednesday, the Heartland Institute organizes the ICCC-7, its seventh climate conference. The schedule is available here: Schedule of ICCC-7 The composition of speakers looks interesting enough. Czech President Václav Klaus – who has had some complaints about t ...
  • Czech socialist politician: $350,000 in a shoe box
    It's been a stereotype that Mr David Rath, the current governor of Central Bohemia (a disk around Prague without Prague), a former socialist healthcare minister, and one of the most aggressive social democratic politicians in the Czech Republic is one of the most immoral and corruptible polit ...
  • Does hard work guarantee discoveries and answers?
    The short answer is No. In his newest article, SUSY: A Matter Of Prior Beliefs,Tommaso Dorigo of CMS argues that many people at CERN have worked hard so they deserve to cause a paradigm shift in physics – in his case, he believes that phenomenologists should stop the research of supers ...
  • LQG calculates the correct black hole entropy
    Not really but the stupidity of the LQG proponents has reached levels that are utterly comical Just a week ago, I discussed the incompatibility between the black hole thermodynamics and loop quantum gravity. In a new paper, Ashoke Sen updated the list of black holes whose logarithmic cor ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Our 6th Annual Sunscreen Guide
    When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...
  • Another Delay from FDA
    Late Thursday EWG found out the Food and Drug Administration was going to delay their sunscreen regulations by six months, at the request of the cosmetics industry. EWG replied with a statement that called out the agency's foot-dragging and highlighted... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
    As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...
  • New York Times' Kristof Lays Out the Case Agai ...
    In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled. Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. Nicholas Kristof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Construction begins on new US Embassy
    After years of controversy and delays, construction has finally begun on a new US Embassy in Oslo. The embassy’s prospective neighbours still aren’t happy, but their appeals process has all but run out. Mayor Fabian Stang and US Ambassador Barry White symbolically broke ground this w ...
  • Fire doused at Bergen hotel
    Fire broke out early Thursday morning at the Radisson Hotel in Bergen, which is also referred to as the” SAS Hotel” because of its earlier ties to the airline. Guests were evacuated from their rooms but no one was injured. The first alarms rang around 6am on the 17th of May, a nation ...
  • Norwegian ‘bunader’ made overseas
    The majority of traditional Norwegian folk costumes known as bunader are now being sewn and assembled far from their Norwegian roots. The bunad business is booming, and customers are able to save as much as NOK 10,000 (USD 1,800) if they’re made outside of high-cost Norway. “It&#8217 ...
  • War hero to receive state funeral
    Gunnar Sønsteby, Norway’s most highly decorated hero for his resistance efforts during World War II, is also receiving the highest of state honours after his death last week at the age of 94. His funeral announcement was published in newspaper Aftenposten on Wednesday. Sønsteby will receiv ...
  • Cycling through 17th of May
    In addition to the thousands of Norwegians expected to be hitting the streets on the 17th of May holiday, nearly 200 professional cyclists and all their supporters will also descend on Oslo on Thursday for the “Tour of Norway” race. The race’s second stage, from Oslo to Drammen ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • APC11 Presentation: Permaculture Disaster Resp ...
    At the recent Australasian Permaculture Conference (APC11) held in Turangi, New Zealand, one of the highlights for me was hearing Toru Sakawa’s tale of permaculture aid work in very unusual circumstances. I say unusual, as the triple woes of having an earthquake and tsunami followed by ...
  • The Transition Trail to Resilience
    by Emma Crameri, Gustoso “The Transition Trail to Resilience” illustrates the steps our local communities can take to transition to living with climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy and oil. I was inspired by first developing The Permaculture Path to Sustainability which deals ...
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast, Queensland Style
    Editor’s Note: Besides making a mean Saturday morning breakfast, Tom and Zaia make a formidable team to learn from as well. It’s not too late to jump onto their next PDC, starting in just a few days… (May 20). Saturday is a special day for us: it is our only day off in the wee ...
  • Soil Microbes Help Save Plant-growing Input Co ...
    by Doug Weatherbee Learn how beneficial soil microbes can provide soluble nutrients and plant disease suppression to your farm or garden.
  • Swales: The Permaculture Element That Really “ ...
    by Rob Avis Michelle, Rowen and I were driving home from a vacation in the mountains when we passed by a swale on a farmer’s field in the middle of Alberta cattle country. Naturally, it piqued my curiosity and I had to stop the car to investigate. It was such a great example of how this [...]

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal, ...
    US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civilians. Some of those killed were rescuers and mourners. These killings would be cri ...
  • We Belong Together: Women's Delegation to Geor ...
    My name is Williana Washington Tadlock and I am a member of STAND. I became a member by getting involved in the BW Cooper campaign to fight for the rights for jobs in rebuilding our community. I am happy to say that we won that fight! With that, I became intrigued and wanted to do more. I began ...
  • New Orleans Workers’ Center Calls on Janet Nap ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Hundreds at Local Rally Will Call for ICE to Grant Legal Status to Southern 32 for Standing Up to Abusive Employers and Law Enforcement On Tuesday, May 1, hundreds will gather at New Orleans City Hall to join the New Orl ...
  • New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...
  • Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by US Cou ...
    In a 2-1 ruling today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of former Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, and vacated his sentence. The case had attracted the attention of civil rights activists around the US, as well as Color of Change, a national racial justice activism ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Arrests over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook 16 May 2012 Last updated at 13:21 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-18087379 Five men and a 15-year-old youth have been arrested in East Renfrewshire and Glasgow after anti-Semitic remarks were posted on social network site Facebook. ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Illuminati = kabbalistic jews.. end of the story. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEWnWeAc-T8Statistics: Posted by ada — Thu May 17, 2012 5:45 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    LordLindsey wrote: Who is spreading dis-information and/or are shills? If you say that ZionCrimeFactory is just because he used information and/or images, that just doesn't cut it. If you are referring to Charles Giuliani, he has already been shown to be genuine. My point is that we are runni ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Who is spreading dis-information and/or are shills? If you say that ZionCrimeFactory is just because he used information and/or images, that just doesn't cut it. If you are referring to Charles Giuliani, he has already been shown to be genuine. My point is that we are running-out-of-time, and ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    LordLindsey wrote: It is SICKENING how almost everyone of-consequence in the "movement" CONTINUES to fall for the demons walking-on-two-legs' tricks-and-traps strategy of divide-and-conquer. UNLESS AND UNTIL THIS IS STOPPED, WE HAVE ALMOST NO CHANCE. LINDSEY So when our supposed tr ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Humanmade Pollutants May Be Expanding Tropical ...
    U.S. scientists say emissions in the Northern Hemisphere of black carbon aerosols and ozone, both of which absorb solar radiation, are likely causing the hemisphere’s tropical regions to expand poleward. After comparing observations of tropic expansion — which suggest that the tropics have wid ...
  • Retreat of Columbia Glacier Vividly Captured i ...
    Two false-color thermal images taken by NASA satellites depict the rapid retreat of the Columbia Glacier in Alaskaover the past 25 years. Since 1986, the Click to enlarge NASA Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, 1986—2011 glacier’s end-point, or terminus, has retreated 12 miles up an inlet in Pr ...
  • The Vital Chain: Connecting The Ecosystems of ...
    A new study from a Pacific atoll reveals the links between native trees, bird guano, and the giant manta rays that live off the coast. In unraveling this intricate web, the researchers point to the often little-understood interconnectedness between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Wildlife in Tropical Regions Has Declined 60 P ...
    Wildlife populations in the world’s tropical regions have fallen by more than 60 percent during the last four decades, according to the latest version of the Living Planet Index. The Index — which tracks populations of 2,688 vertebrate species in tropical and temperate regions worldwide — found ...
  • State Oversight Helps Reduce Effects of Fracki ...
    A new study conducted by the University of Buffalo has found that state regulation helped reduce environmental problems associated with unconventional forms of natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania since 2008. In an analysis of 2,988 violations at nearly 4,000 Pennsylvania hydraulic fracturing dr ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Is Amr Moussa Egypt’s Inevitable New President?
    With Egypt’s presidential elections just around the corner, the former foreign minister is leading in the polls, and many across the country seem tired of revolutionary politics. Author: Alastair Beach
  • Beware "Creative Alternatives"
    It's easy to understand why so many people are giving up on negotiations and a two-state solution, and instead are looking for “creative alternatives.” Israeli-Palestinian talks are at an impasse. The two sides haven't seemed this far apart since the second intifada. The number of sett ...
  • How Crazy Is Wall Street?
    The Times cited a study calling 10 percent of finance workers ‘clinical psychopaths’—and then issued a correction.
  • Sir Harold Fights Back
    Evans, the former editor of The Times, testified against Rupert Murdoch in London today.
  • The Taste of Freedom
    To understand why the mass Palestinian hunger strike is so important, it helps to remember the first moments of the Arab Spring.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Ryukyu star Newton set for seventh straight Fi ...
    This is arguably the most remarkable statistic in the bj-league's seven-year history: Center Jeff Newton's teams have advanced to the Final Four every season. He's the only player in league history with four championship rings and five championship game appearances — three with the Osaka ...
  • Dalglish out as Liverpool manager
    The adulation of Liverpool fans wasn't enough to save "King Kenny." Kenny Dalglish's lackluster second stint in charge of the fallen English power was halted by the club's American owners Wednesday after less than 500 days in charge.
  • Owner OK with metro bid to buy disputed Senkak ...
    Ever since Hiroyuki Kurihara and his family took title to the Senkaku Islands in the 1970s, they have firmly kept to the will of the previous owner: The islets are not to be sold to anyone but the Japanese government or a public organization. And so for decades the Kurihara family has continue ...
  • Kiso cormorant fishermen add woman to fold
    For the first time in its history dating back some 1,300 years, a woman has become an apprentice of traditional "ukai" fishers along the Kiso River in central Japan. Ukai fishermen use tamed cormorants. The city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday appointed Kotomi Inayama, 23, as an appre ...
  • BTMU calls halt to settling Iran deals
    Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has suspended settlement of Iran-related transactions in response to a U.S. court order, sources said Thursday. The federal district court in New York ordered the core unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. to disclose assets it holds on behalf of Iran's gover ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Federal jobs cuts: Clarity is always one year away
    I’ve commented on federal job cuts many times before (here, here, here & here) and in the interests of flogging this particular horse (no animals were harmed in the writing of these reports), the CCPA today is releasing my latest update on the matter: Clearing away the fog: Government Estima ...
  • De-growth or growth? Maybe we don’t need to fi ...
    There has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether the ecological crisis means we need to see (or plan for) a stabilization or even a decline in economic growth. This week there is a major conference on degrowth in Montreal. York University’s Peter Victor has made import ...
  • Sask. Manufacturing Hits the Wall
    Premier Brad Wall was Tweeting about today’s Statistics Canada report of an uptick in national manufacturing sales in March. It is an odd report for him to trumpet, given that it found a decline in Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sales that month. Another recent Statistics Canada report, Friday’s L ...
  • If NSCAD were a paper mill
    As students in Quebec continue their 14 week strike, students in Nova Scotia continue to be reminded that post-secondary education is not a priority for the Nova Scotia government. Students and faculty at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), in particular, are bracing for severe fu ...
  • Memo to Ministers: The Issue Is Unemployment N ...
    The federal government is basing labour market policy on the belief that,  as Jason Kenney pithily puts it in today’s Globe, there are “large and growing labour shortages.”  Hence moves to bring in even more temporary foreign workers at lower than average wages, and to push EI ...

ReDress

  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...
  • Israel's efforts to erase the memory of the Pa ...
    Neve Gordon argues that Israel's tireless efforts to conceal the truth of the Nakba - the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 - will ultimately prove futile and that, even today, most Israeli youths know what the Nakba is, even if their views of the conflict with the Pales ...
  • Nakba - the Palestinians' never ending catastrophe
    Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing ...
  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
  • Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
    Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism - weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts - and allow him to further undermine rival ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Mon, 07 May 2012 17:14:59 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by Sung (Posted Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:04:44 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...

Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

  • War with Iran Devastating to American Interest ...
    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 that the authorization is not a spe ...
  • NDAA and War with Iran: The Golden Rule does N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House Floor again warning Members of Congress that H.R. 4310, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 contains authorization for a war of choice against Iran.  See video here. “The NDAA authorizes war against Iran. [Sectio ...
  • Kucinich: NDAA Authorizes War Against Iran
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) prepared speech to Congress follows. See video here. Congressman Kucinich is also distributing this flyer to Congressional colleagues. Additionally he recently spoke about Iran on the House Floor. See that video here and here. Kucinich will be back on the Hou ...
  • Kucinich Announces Children’s Health Victory
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement upon learning that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will formally adopt the recommendations of its Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention issued on January 4, 2012, to protect more children ...
  • Kucinich on Sequester Replacement Act: The Rea ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the United States House of Representatives in opposition of H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012: “It is called a reconciliation act, but how do we reconcile more money ...

Authentically Wired

  • performing precisely as she promi$ed
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • this is precisely what “corporate” ...
    … Why is this considered a nightmare as this is precisely what “corporate” interests have been lobbying for years and it matters not the political persuasion of our “acting” President in the moment … As all 3 branches of our government are slopping up at the same hog-trough … The Nightmare ...
  • PAPER-WATER vs. real “wet-water”
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • this scares the bejesus out
    …And this scares the bejesus out of folks like Russell Peace “father” of Arizona’s SB 1070 … our Governor Jan Brewer … and most members of our T-Publican state legislature … Student Activism Is Alive and Well Among Arizona’s Minority Population     Students are making an impact i ...
  • is our goal “we” need to add
    …If that truly is our goal “we” need to add the Rockefellers … the Walburgs … the Morgans … the Rothschild’s … and every member of the privately owned Federal Re$erve $y$tem …   Let’s Put Jamie Dimon on Trial And Ask Him What the Hell JP Morgan Does for America       JP ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...
  • For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how ...
    Seventeen top scientists and four acclaimed conservation organizations have called for radical action to create a better world for this and future generations. Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing ...
  • 100 pictures for Earth Day
    One of the things that makes my job enjoyable despite the hours are the opportunities for getting out in the field. Reporting on tropical forests and other environmental issues frequently takes me to some places of amazing natural beauty. Along the way, I take pictures when I can.
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Woman uses thoughts to control robotic arm
    A brain implant has allowed a paralysed American woman to take a sip of a coffee unaided for the first time in almost 15 years, by using her thoughts to control a robotic arm.The 58-year-old, who lost the ability to speak or move...
  • Oyster industry given funding boost
    Kiwi oyster farmers are hoping a boost in funding from the Government will help the industry fight back from a two-year fight with a herpes virus. The newly formed Ministry for Primary Industries has awarded $407,000 for the
  • Japan to shut down last nuclear reactors
    Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.On Saturday,...
  • NZ schools lacking effective science programme ...
    Less than a third of schools have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students, according to the Education Review Office.An ERO report,
  • Scientists call for urgency on cancer-phone link
    The jury is still out on mobile phone health risks. Picture / AP Allegations of bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering, lobbying and lawsuits: the debate about the safety of mobile...

The Bovine

  • LA County food police attempt to confiscate ra ...
    From Mike Adams on Natural News.com (NaturalNews) In a bombshell revelation of the depth of the food police state that now exists in LA County, California, NaturalNews has learned that the LA County health department has unleashed door-to-door raw milk … Continue reading →
  • MDA threats against raw milk moms
    Health Ranger Mike Adams of Natural News, on Infowars.com:
  • Food police in MN and CA — more opportun ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “”We will not comply!” That was the rallying cry from Raw Milk Freedom Riders leader Liz Reitzig and 200 participants at the Minneapolis demonstration Monday in support of Alvin Schlangen. That was also … Continue readi ...
  • Michael Schmidt reports from the road to justi ...
    From raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt: I am honored to have been part in all three Freedom Riders events, in Maryland at the FDA headquarters, in Wisconsin at Vernon Hershberger’s trial and in Minneapolis at the jury trial of Alvin Schlangen (which … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt, on the latest round of raw mi ...
    From raw milk farmer and food freedom advocate, Michael Schmidt: As I am reflecting on the latest Food Freedom Riders event in Minneapolis I have come to the conclusion that the North American raw milk movement has not reached the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Spanish Bank Debt With ECB Up 15.7% in April; ...
    Courtesy of Google translate, please consider the following bleak reports from Spain. Spanish Bank Debt With ECB Up 15.7% in April El Confidencial reports The Spanish bank debt with the ECB increased by 15.7% in April The debt of Spanish banks with the ECB shot up to 263.535 billio ...
  • German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble Toss ...
    In the truth is stranger than fiction category, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is calling for a political union "now" with a directly elected EU president (and of course he is the unstated logical candidate). Translation: Schäuble is running for "Grand Keiser of All Europe". ...
  • Euro area official sector exposures to Greece ...
    Via email I received an interesting set of facts from Barclays regarding banking exposures to Greece. Greece: Euro area official sector exposures in excess of EUR290bn Euro area official sector exposure According to the French Finance Minister, F. Baroin, Greece's exit from the euro ...
  • Brian Drain: Businesses and Brightest Minds Fl ...
    Brian Drain Courtesy of Google Translate, this time from Italy, please consider From the North-East and abroad, fleeing already 720 companies Farewell, ungrateful Italy. In addition to brain drain, we'll get used to the migration of entrepreneurs. The news coming from the North-East la ...
  • Real Estate Crash in China Underway: Foreign F ...
    Inquiring minds are reading an excellent report China Real Estate Unravels by Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China. The report confirms many of the things I said would happen in regards to the Chinese real estate bubble ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Egypt human chains support MB hopeful
    Egyptians have formed human chains across Cairo to show their support for Muslim Brotherhood (MB)’s presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi.
  • Moody's downgrades 16 Spanish banks
    Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, citing country's ongoing recession and the reduced creditworthiness of the Spanish government.
  • US to pump more cash into Iron Dome
    US Secretary of Defense has announced that Washington will allocate an extra USD 70 million to Israel’s Iron Dome missile system, while further funding is likely in the future.
  • Fitch lowers Greek credit rating to CCC
    Fitch Ratings has downgraded Greece’s sovereign debt from B- to CCC, the lowest possible grade for a country that is not in default.
  • Congolese forces shell rebel positions
    The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) have shelled positions of rebels, who have been fighting the forces in the east of the country.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • The National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer C ...
    The National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center was formed in 1974 under the name Controlled Thermonuclear Research Center to meet the significant computational demands national magnetic fusion research being done at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1983 the center’s role was expa ...
  • A coalition of activists join Occupy Wall Stre ...
    A coalition of activists join Occupy Wall Street in a May Day march from Bryant Park on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge again ...
  • May Day moved beyond its roots as an internati ...
    May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures.Thousands of workers protested in the Philippines, In ...
  • A protester is arrested during a May Day march ...
    A protester is arrested during a May Day march and protest in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with po ...
  • A demonstrator, who wished not to give her nam ...
    A demonstrator, who wished not to give her name, stands in front of the Georgia Capitol for a May Day immigration rally Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Atlanta. The May Day rally at the Capitol Tuesday that organizers called a “historic coming together” of immigrants and working people was significant ...
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