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Saturday, May 19, 2012

19 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

TITUSVILLE, FL - MAY 18: SpaceX rocket Falcon...TITUSVILLE, FL - MAY 18: SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 sits on Pad 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Titusville, Florida. The launch Saturday morning launch would make SpaceX the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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President Barack Obama tours the commercial ro...President Barack Obama tours the commercial rocket processing facility of Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, along with Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Obama also visited the NASA Kennedy Space Center to deliver remarks on the bold new course the administration is charting to maintain U.S. leadership in human space flight. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • SpaceX private rocket launch aborted in last h ...
    A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground today after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight. Related Stories‘All we want to do is work, to be able to support ourselves. But thanks to the rich being greedy, we can’ ...
  • Europe's economic woes dominate G8 gathering
    US President Barack Obama pledged at a Group of Eight summit today to work with Europe on a package that balances growth with debt reduction as world leaders try to prevent the worsening eurozone crisis from destabilizing the global economy. Related StoriesG8 summit: The hunger gameCapitalism a ...
  • Mafia blamed as bomb blast kills 16-year-old g ...
    A bomb exploded in front of a girls' school in southern Italy today, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding seven others, suspicion quickly falling on the local Mafia. Related StoriesA very modern fleet conquers VeniceGreece: Poll boosts 'austerity' politiciansPortugal: Emigrate to Angola, jobl ...
  • Possible engine problem delays US rocket launch
    The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed today when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines.Related Stories‘All we want to do is work, to be able to support ourselves. But thanks to the rich being greedy, we ...
  • Blind Chinese activist leaves for US
    A plane carrying a blind activist at the centre of a US-China diplomatic tussle has departed from Beijing for the United States. Related Stories'Bandit King' jailed for life in China's biggest bribes scandalCrowded coach plunges into river, killing 34Mamata Bannerjee: Rise of Bengal’s tigressBl ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Protesters Lobby Against the Shrinks: Stop Med ...
    "LABEL jars, not people" and "stop medicalising the normal symptoms of life" read placards, as hundreds of protesters - including former patients, academics and doctors - gathered to lobby the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting. The demonstration aimed to highlight the harm ...
  • Breakthrough Technique Reveals Unseen Informat ...
    Imagine reading an entire book, but then realizing that your glasses did not allow you to distinguish "g" from "q." What details did you miss? Geneticists faced a similar problem with the recent discovery of a "sixth nucleotide" in the DNA alphabet. Two modifications of cytosine, one of the fou ...
  • Wheat the Opiate of the Masses?
    Last week I was aboard a cruise liner in the Caribbean. I had a lot of fun but was primarily there to participate in a kinda conference organised by low-carb advocate Jimmy Moore. I was privileged to share the stage with some very lovely and inspiration speakers, among them the US cardiologist D ...
  • Volcanic Eruptions Trigger Shocking Finding
    Volcanic eruptions can spark squalls of lightning that are as intense as the biggest superstorms over the central United States, according to researchers who have captured the most detailed measurements of electrical discharges during a volcanic blast. The data, they say, could help to illuminat ...
  • Rankin Paynter Buys Everything in Kentucky Kma ...
    Besides having a super-cool name, Rankin Paynter may just be the coolest man in Kentucky. When Paynter heard that the Kmart in his hometown was closing its doors, he got to work. He entered the store, went for his wallet and bought everything in sight. And when we say everything, we mean the e ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Safety glasses are good . . .
    TORONTO LIFE reports a Stevie nude. Really. To see it in all its splendor, click on the link. Have bag close at hand. You have been told.
  • Eidolon rebellion? No glory here.
    There's an interesting discussion taking place here , which harebell takes to task over the apparent support of  violence and intimidation by some groups of the protesting students. But as many people have demonstrated in the recent and distant past, sinking to the methods of those who wil ...
  • Boom!
    CBC. Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre has been declared null and void in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Opitz won the May 2011 election by 26 votes, but Wrzesnewskyj challenged the results over voting irregularitie ...
  • A positive step . . .
    ACCORDING TO GLENN GREENWALD, at SALON, in an article, "Federal court enjoins NDAA", Judge Katherine Forrest struck a blow for American civil rights. This is a strong first step to fight the legal weasels that brought us Gitmo. Judge Katherine Forrest A federal district judge today ...
  • They really didn't mean it
    Peter MacKay presents his latest bit of bungling. Defence Minister Peter MacKay's recent written response to questions tabled in Parliament reveal that 2006 federal Conservative promises for 5 Wing Goose Bay are no longer part of the military’s plans. Prior to the election that brou ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Finds Another Poll To Distort -- Its Own
    Fox News is attempting to downplay and discredit its own poll, which found that if the election were held today, voters would re-elect President Obama by a 7-point margin. This is hardly the first time Fox has tried to distort poll findings to advance a certain narrative.Fox News Poll: If Elect ...
  • "Unhinged," "Deranged": Conservatives React To ...
    Conservatives have seized on Vice President Biden's remarks during an Ohio campaign speech about the issues facing the middle class, characterizing Biden as "unhinged" and "deranged," and claiming the administration is perpetuating "class-warfare." But with tax levels for the wealthy at histori ...
  • Fox Drums Up Misplaced Outrage Over Possible P ...
    Fox's Brian Kilmeade suggested that it was wrong for the Obama administration to have considered apologizing for an accidental deadly military strike against Pakistani troops by U.S-led forces. Fox is reporting that Obama will not apologize, but even if he were to do so, such an apology would h ...
  • REPORT: Who? Media Turns Its Back On Expe ...
    Thomas E. Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, are well-respected centrist congressional experts who are often cited by the media. But their recent conclusion that Republicans ar ...
  • Hannity And Luntz Promote "Fact-Based" Ad That ...
    On Sean Hannity's Fox News show, conservative pollster Frank Luntz asserted that an Americans for Prosperity ad attacking President Obama over stimulus spending was successful in part because it is "fact-based, not assertions." In reality, nearly every claim in the ad is false or misleading.Lun ...

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TPM Cafe

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

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Dinosaurs struggled with arthritis too
    It isn't just humans that suffer from conditions like arthritis, even the dinosaurs suffered from it. Scientists have found evidence of the degenerati...
  • Neanderthals out-competed by dogs
    Early man used dogs to help them compete with the Neanderthals as far back as 32,000 years ago. Is it believed that the domestication of dogs and the ...
  • Man dies in rare case of secondary drowning
    Tommy Mollo narrowly escaped drowning only to succumb to secondary drowing just hours later. After falling off a friend's boat in to Long Island Sound...
  • 'Beast of Bont' returns, 20 sheep killed
    A mystery predator has been blamed for the deaths of livestock near the Cambrain Mountains in Wales. The mutilated remains of several sheep were found...
  • Easter Island heads have full bodies
    New archaological digs on Easter Island have revealed tall bodies buried beneath the stone heads. While most of the statues on the enigmatic island ap...

Grassroots

  • Guatemalan Community Denounces Mine, Police Vi ...
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  • Interview with Rafael Alegría, Honduran Peasan ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Latin America Bureau Previous Publication Info Previous publication:  Latin America Bureau Outside Link:  ...
  • Khaldeya’s Garden
    khaldeya_soboh_with_onions.jpg Khaldeya Soboh first learned about the urban garden project in Gaza when she saw her neighbor’s garden filled with vegetables.  Although she had a bit of land near her home for years, it sat idle.  T ...
  • Stop the Wall's Ramallah office raided
    stw_computers_damaged.jpg Israeli military forces conducted an early morning raid of the Ramallah office of Stop the Wall, a civil society coalition organizing in opposition to the construction of the Separation Wall that Israel continues t ...
  • Healthy food today, healthy earth tomorrow
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is Coordinator of Our Water Commons and a consultant with Grassroots International. Outside Author:  Daniel Moss ...

Climate

  • Apple Commits to Renewable Power for U.S. Data ...
    (Guardian) Apple plans to power its main data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms. ...
  • 1,000 Years of Australasia Climate Studied
    (UPI) Scientists say climate records from Australasia show there are no other warm periods in the last 1,000 years that match the warming experienced since 1950.
  • Palm Oil Industry Adds Lobbying Muscle in EPA ...
    (The Hill) The palm oil industry has hired law and lobbying giant Holland & Knight to help battle the EPA's preliminary finding that palm-based biofuels don't meet the greenhouse gas standards of the federal renewable auto fuels ma ...
  • Federal Regulators May Cut Incentives for Tran ...
    (Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is considering proposals to reduce the rate of return, or profit, that utilities receive from building power lines.
  • First Solar Plans Middle East Office to Help T ...
    (Bloomberg) First Solar, the largest maker of thin-film solar panels, plans to open an office in the United Arab Emirates this year to tap growing demand for power in the Middle East.

GreenBiz

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

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Wanker of the Day: Clive Crook
    Clive Crook wanks: As always Bill Galston and John Cassidy are well worth reading. In interesting new commentaries on the election, both think Obama has the edge, while emphasizing that it might be a close thing and warning Democrats against complacency. I hesitate to put my instincts up agai ...
  • A Clue for Kathleen Parker
    Kathleen Parker needs an education about race and religion. She uses her column today to argue that the president's past association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a legitimate issue because it "shine(s) a light on how Obamas character was formed." That seems fair. But looking at the presid ...
  • Do You Trust Gallup?
    I don't have independent confirmation of these numbers, but I trust Jon Chait to get them right: The white share of the electorate has been falling steadily for two decades, from 87 percent in 1992 to 83 percent in 1996 to 81 percent in 2000, 77 percent in 2004, and 74 percent four years ago. ...
  • Do Me a Solid
    Back on March 28th, I wrote about the Montana Corrupt Practices Act amicus brief. As a reminder, one consequence of the horrid Citizens United Supreme Court ruling is that it invalidated state laws that limit or ban corporate financing of elections. The Montana law, passed in 1912 to deal with ...
  • A Nation of Bedwetters
    We really have the worst Congress, particularly the House of Representatives, in living memory. It's not even close. In two votes Friday morning, the House backed the presidents powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects captured on U.S. soil. Lawmakers rejected an amendment that wou ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Haunting Images of Dead Birds
    Death is an uncomfortable topic for many of us, and decomposing carcasses are generally avoided. The beauty of these images of dead birds is this rather unexpected. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Nazi BV 141: The Most Asymmetrical Aircraf ...
    The Luftwaffe had many different and unique airplane designs during World War Two, but nothing came close to the asymmetrical design of the Blohm & Voss BV 141. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers
    Are nature's patterns as random as we might think? The Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical series known about since at least the 12th century, makes us believe otherwise. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Disaster Response a Major Issue in the Melting ...
    Disaster response in the melting Arctic lags far behind the challenges posed by this rapidly evolving, climate change-created world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How at Risk is Thailand from a Devastating Ear ...
    An earthquake in Thailand focused attention on emergency preparedness. Improvements would reduce the risk of casualties in Bangkok and coastal provinces. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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War is a Crime.org

  • Chicago Militarized for NATO
      Chicago Militarized for NATO   by Stephen Lendman   Ready or not, NATO arrived on May 19 and 20. Chicago's in virtual lockdown. Residents feel occupied. Building occupants got special instructions.   read more
  • Israeli Police State Crimes
      Israeli Police State Crimes   by Stephen Lendman   Multiple times daily they occur in Occupied Palestine. In the week ending May 16, Palestinian West Bank communities experienced 41 lawless incursions.   Numerous arrests followed. Three journalists and three children w ...
  • NDAA Reignites Cold War with Russia, Opens Doo ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 18, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Congress passed H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013. “In addition to language saber-rattling and preparing for war with Iran, th ...
  • Lee Opposes National Defense Reauthorization Bill
    Lee Calls for Cuts to Bloated Pentagon Budget, Swift Withdrawal from Afghanistan WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) was one of 120 Members of Congress to vote against H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  Lee offered amendments to the bill which ...
  • Bring on the Beautiful Trouble
    Now here's a book that's meant to be used: "Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution" edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell.  The subtitle should be "Try this at home -- but innovate!"  Instead it's "From the people who brought you the Yes Men, Billionaires Against Bush, et ...

Grist - News

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

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    Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be temporarily blind? Of course you have. In fact, there is a way to trick your body into becoming blind, at least for a few minutes. Writing on Mindhacks, Vaugn Bell—perhaps one of the best neuroscience writers around—explains the...
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    An experiment found that adding a colored potato chip in a tube of chips helped subjects eat fewer chips and accurately keep track of what they had eaten.
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    Oh sandwiches. As much as the process of lunching might have progressed and got more sophisticated over the years, we still can't think of a better 1pm meal than two slices of bread and a delicious filling.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Meaningless Lives of Endless Compromise
    By Les Visible A good portion of people live meaningless lives of endless compromise. They cut deals with whatever elements of existence will permit them to acquire whatever shit sandwich they have developed a taste for and… you’d better not refer to it as a shit sandwich. A meaningf ...
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    By voice13 Iceland’s peaceful revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. The following summation has been posted by countless people on Facebook; I’ve reposted it in its entirety: ICELAND (GP) – No news from Iceland? Why? Last we heard, people ...
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    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer 2,192 [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) It is no longer a secret that drug-resistant bacteria are rapidly emerging and spreading all around the world as a result of the continued overuse and abuse of antibiotic drugs in both conventional medicine and industrial ...
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    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out. But based on the timing of the symptoms and their relation ...
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Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat is Reporting LIVE From ICFF 2012!
    Heads up design fans! ICFF 2012 just kicked off in NYC and Inhabitat is reporting live from the Javits Center to bring you the best green designs from this year’s show. We’ll be publishing breaking design coverage throughout the day, so keep checking back – and make sure to fol ...
  • BRC’s Halide Chandelier Transforms 28 Disused ...
    Benjamin Rollins Caldwell’s new LED chandelier fuses the structure of mid-century modern style with modern innovation. The Halide Chandelier recycles disused industrial elements into a dazzling, energy-efficient light. The piece will make an appearance at BRC’s display at the International Conte ...
  • 6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food!
    Read the rest of 6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 6 best, agricultural waste, Alison Knowles, Andrea Trimarchi, Art, arti performance, biodegradable designs, biodegradable materials, boom!, building blocks, cacao, canned food, Can ...
  • WTO Panel Rules Against Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling
    On Wednesday the World Trade Organization ruled against the sale of cans of tuna labeled “dolphin safe,” arguing that the practice discriminates against Mexican fishermen and that the United States’ definition of “dolphin safe” tuna unfairly restricts trade. The WTO ...
  • INTERVIEW: LIKEArchitects on the Challenges an ...
    Read the rest of INTERVIEW: LIKEArchitects on the Challenges and Rewards of Sustainable “Performance Architecture” Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Diogo Aguiar, Frozen Trees, green architecture, Green Building, green design, house in iuanda, ...

Pogue's Posts

  • More Cellphone Data Usage Tips
    David Pogue's readers offer more suggestions on easing the pain of tracking cellphone data usage.
  • How to Track Your Smartphone Data Usage
    Carriers seem to want to make it difficult for us to learn how much data or how many voice minutes we've used. That matters more as they herd us from all-you-can-use plans. The solution are apps that reveal a lot of this information.
  • How Compatible Are Rival E-Readers?
    Can you move one kind of e-reader e-book to another kind of e-reader? Readers respond to David Pogue's recent review of the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and he gives his replies.
  • The Prius V and Its Entune System
    The Prius V is the first Toyota to incorporate a new electronics system, which a new owner found to be a boon.
  • Zipping Through Airport Security
    David Pogue reviews the TSA PreCheck program, a streamlined security system that is being tested with three airlines (American, Delta and Alaska) at 12 airports.

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Army Convoy Heading Towards NATO Summit As Chi ...
    Chicago police and security personal are set for what they seem to believe will be a full scale battle with protesters during this weekends NATO Summit. With numerous protest groups set to launch widespread protests throughout the weekend, the police state is out like never before. ...
  • Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
    In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in ...
  • Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: H ...
    Gideon Rachman’s 2008 article titled ‘And now for a world government’ and, more recently, Scientific American- editor Gary Stix’s piece Effective World Government Will be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe, illustrate a widespread and dangerous misconception. It also demonstrates the cunnin ...
  • 18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has ...
    With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates. European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone. The situation in Europe is rapidly going from bad to worse. I ...
  • Forty million Japanese in ‘extreme danger’ of ...
    Japanese officials are currently engaging in talks with Russian diplomats about where tens of millions of Japanese refugees might relocate in the very-likely event that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility's Reactor 4 completely collapses. According to a recent report by EUTimes.net, Japanese ...

Andy Worthington

  • Why No Trials for Abu Zubaydah and Seven Other ...
    Two weeks ago, when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other “high-value detainees” were arraigned at Guantánamo, in preparation for their forthcoming trial by military commission, they brought to eight the number of “high-value detainees” tried, put forward for trials or ha ...
  • Come to UK Uncut’s Anti-Austerity Street ...
    Fed up with an artificial age of austerity, designed to destroy the welfare state and transfer every remaining function of the state — the NHS, education, land, property, even the police — into private hands? Fed up with being told by wealthy, out-of-touch Tories that “we&#8217 ...
  • Rents Out of Control: How Londoners Are Being ...
    Yesterday, in my article bemoaning the baleful effect on London of hosting the Olympic Games, I touched upon a story that had emerged last week, when the BBC reported that tenants in east London were being evicted as their landlords sought to cash in on the Olympics, charging up to 20 times the ...
  • Our Olympic Hell: A Militarised, Corporate, Ji ...
    Last month, when it was revealed that the MoD was siting surface-to-air missiles on the roofs of residential buildings as part of the bloated security measures for the Olympics — estimated to cost at least £1.4 billion, to be paid for by taxpayers — there was a brief flurry of outrag ...
  • War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Ch ...
    Last November, a war crimes tribunal established in Malaysia “found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack,” as Glenn Greenwald e ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • FBI: Neo-Nazis Planned to Attack Mexican Consulate
    Two members of a new white supremacist group in Minnesota discussed killing former associates in the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and using homemade napalm in a truck bomb attack on the Mexican consulate in St. Paul, newly released court documents say. Joseph Benjamin Thomas, 42, o ...
  • Alleged Swedish Immigrant-Killer Bought Goods ...
    Peter Mangs, who went on trial in Sweden this week for allegedly killing three people and attempting to kill 12 others because he hated immigrants, apparently did business with America’s leading neo-Nazi organization at least once. Mangs is believed to have shot his victims, who included many Mu ...
  • Missouri Nat’l Guard Investigates Claims of Ne ...
    The Missouri National Guard is investigating a new claim that its ranks are infiltrated with neo-Nazis – this time a “patched member” of the violent American Front, whose members stand accused of plotting violence in Florida. The inquiry comes after the Missouri Legislature conducted a hearing i ...
  • Intelligence Report Article Provokes Outrage A ...
    The last issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report presented a scathing portrait of “a hard-line fringe” of the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM): “women haters whose fury goes well beyond criticism of the family court system, domestic violence laws, and false rape accusations,” whose rage is “directed ...
  • Court Documents: American Front was Planning V ...
    Members of the American Front – a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group in Florida – were planning acts of violence and preparing for “an inevitable race war” when 11 of them were arrested last week, court documents say. The documents, the outgrowth of a two-year investigation, also ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • 'An Economy for the 99%': People's G8 Demands ...
    See below for livestream and Twitter updates... Thousands of protesters are in Chicago today for a "People's G8" in a call led by National Nurses United (NNU) to demand an economy for the 99% and heal the "financial traumas faced by real people at the hands of Wall Street.&quo ...
  • The Organic Watergate: Alarming Report Reveals ...
    Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate, revealing widespread corruption in the USDA's organic food monitoring panel -- the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). read more
  • US Congress Endorses 'Indefinite Detention' Policy
    The US House of Representatives this morning endorsed the policy of indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, including US citizens seized on American soil, by failing to pass an amendment that would halt the practice. The final vote to defeat the amendment -- part of the 2012 Na ...
  • India's Poorest Turn Video Journalists to Fill ...
    A network of people from slums and villages in India who have been trained to make video news reports on corruption, human rights, health, sanitation and other issues,  'IndiaUnheard' is making an impact. "The mainstream media just report on the superficial events but they don& ...
  • G8 Protest: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Le ...
    World leaders are convening at the heavily guarded Camp David in Maryland today for the G8 Summit. Leading nonprofits such as Save the Children and Oxfam are urging G8 leaders to live up to a 2009 pledge of $22 billion towards food security in developing nations of which only a quarter has been ...

Lifehacker

  • DIY UberFridge Controls Homebrewing Temperatur ...
    If you love to homebrew but live in an area where summer temperatures get too hot for proper fermentation you can resolve yourself to wait to brew or you can build a badass Arduino Nano-controlled UberFridge which will maintain temperatures s ...
  • Repurpose a Towel Rod Into a Cleaning Spray Ho ...
    When you need to seriously clean your bathroom take the towels out and assemble an arsenal of spray cleaners and wipes and go to town. To keep these supplies close at hand you may want to consider adding a towel rod to your laundry room to ens ...
  • DIY Reusable Dryer Sheets [DIY]
    To save money or avoid a trip to the store you can make your own reusable dryer sheets by dipping white wash cloths or rags into a little liquid fabric softener until they're completely saturated and allow them to dry completely—you'll b ...
  • Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wast ...
    Ever been told that you should fully discharge your battery to prolong its life? Or that jailbreaking your phone is illegal? Or that you should wait for the newest Intel processor because it's going to be "so much faster"? These are tech myths ...
  • Build a Self-Resetting Mouse Trap [DIY]
    We've covered many mouse traps over the years, but they all need to be reset once you've caught a mouse. This means if you have lots of furry intruders you'll need to have several traps or just build this version using a 5-gallon bucket, an al ...

Water Privatization

  • Solages Holds Sewer Privatization Venting Session
    Nassau County still in search for private financier for sewage treatment plants In what can probably be called a venting session, Third District Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages (D-Elmont) held a community meeting at the Elmont Memorial Library on the proposed sewer privatization of Nassa ...
  • Residents fear privatization is near
    Two residents raised concerns about some municipal services being privatized at the Town Council meeting Monday, May 14. It’s not something the town dismissed.
  • Snyder in Direct Appeal to Bulova, F.C. Counci ...
    The Falls Church City Council voted unanimously, 5-0 (2 absent), to give preliminary approval to the sale of its water system, but not before a small rally of folks opposed to the privatization of public utilities was held on rainy City Hall steps and Vice Mayor David Snyder, chairing the meetin ...
  • On Health Workers Day, health workers reiterat ...
    By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL “The government is passing its obligation to the private sector to reduce its social spending.” – Health Alliance for Democracy Other Stories: Gov’t temporary employment program for nurses, exploitative Finding fulfillment in serving the poor
  • Privatization plan could bring jail to Hinsdale
    HINSDALE, N.H. -- The town is one of three being eyed as the potential site of a prison if the state turns the industry over to any of four national corporations that have submitted bids for private ownership of correctional facilities.

Guardian

  • Facebook staff celebrate multi-million dollar ...
    As the social network floated on the stock market, its employees marked the occasion with discretion … and onion ringsThe guests wore jeans and T-shirts. The venue was a sports bar. The menu was buffalo wings, mini-burgers, pizza and beer. The entertainment was a mechanical bull, which bucked in ...
  • Psychiatrist who championed 'gay cure' admits ...
    Dr Robert Spitzer apologises for 'fatally flawed' study, published in 2001, which claimed gay people could be 'cured' if properly motivatedOne of the most influential figures in modern psychiatry has apologised to America's gays for a scientific study which supported attempts to "cure" people of ...
  • Gibraltar's jubilee party sends signal to Madrid
    Political tensions have escalated again between the UK and Spain over a territory eager to prove once more that it is 'more British than the British'In Gibraltar, said chief minister Fabian Picardo, children learn history fast. "They can say 'the treaty of Utrecht' when they are around a year ol ...
  • G8 talks focus in on eurozone crisis as Merkel ...
    Obama and French president Hollande in step over possible growth package but gulf remains between European leadersThe eurozone crisis is set to dominate the Group of Eight (G8) talks Saturday, with President Barack Obama pledging leaders' commitment to a compromise package of growth measures and ...
  • Dorset coastguards call off search for missing ...
    Wreckage discovery dashes hopes that Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22, were able to board liferaft before vessel sankCoastguards have stopped searching for two missing fisherman after their vessel and liferaft were discovered on the seabed.A survey ship, Odyssey Explorer, discovered the wre ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan Police Suicide Bombing Kills 8
    (KABUL, Afghanistan) -; A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing eight people, police said. The bomber walked up to a ...
  • Afghanistans future Europes financial woes key ...
    G8 leaders were set to delve into the future of Afghanistan and Europe’s fiscal woes today at this storied presidential retreat during what’s been dubbed the Camp David summit.U.S. ...
  • Idahoans unlikely journey to life as a Taliban ...
    HAILEY, Idaho >> Off a gravel road in a horse pasture in the crystalline air of the Northern Rockies, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl grew up skiing, fencing and dancing the role of the Nutcracker in the ...
  • Suicide bomber kills eight in Afghanistan
    A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint today in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing eight people, police said.The bomber walked up to a checkpoint in Ali Sher district ...
  • Deadly blast at Afghan checkpoint
    A suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people, a number of them children, at a checkpoint in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, officials say. Police were checking vehicles when a man walked up ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • One Case Overturned. How Many More to Come?
    Dr. Frederic Whitehurst took on the FBI because he knew that defendants had been wrongly convicted on the basis of seriously flawed testimony by the FBI crime lab. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Superior Court overturned the conviction of a man who wrongly served 28 yea ...
  • OSHA announces Whistleblower Protection Adviso ...
    In a notice published in yesterday's Federal Register, Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, announced the formation of the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (WPAC). The notice explains:  WPAC’s duties will be solely advisory a ...
  • IG report says IRS Whistleblower Office falls ...
    The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that criticizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for dragging its feet in processing whistleblower claims. The report follows up on TIGTA's 2009 report and found, "deficiencies in the IRS’s internal contro ...
  • Davis wins appeal and appeals court overturns ...
    Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of whistleblower Michael Davis and overturned the limitation of that Court's decision in United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees’ Club, 105 F.3d 675 (D.C. Cir. 1997 ...
  • Whistleblower Kenneth Jones wins appeal and fo ...
    Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require a jury trial. Dr. Jones claims that Drs. Marilyn Al ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • European Parliament Member Marietje Schaake's ...
    This week's favorites post comes from Marietje Schaake, a Member of the EU Parliament, who has been called "Europe's most wired politician." When Mike asked me to write a post about my favorite Techdirt posts of the past week, I was honored. Techdirt is one of the main blogs I read everyday ...
  • Hollywood Talent Turns To Kickstarter To Escap ...
    In discussions about artists like Amanda Palmer using Kickstarter, plenty of people continue to insist that their success was made possible by their traditional industry backgrounds. We've already gone over lots of reasons why this is silly, most notably the fact that such artists do a lot of wo ...
  • How Does Fair Use Fit Into The Critique Of Cop ...
    Here is Part II of our excerpt from Chapter 1 of Reframing Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, which is our May selection for the Techdirt Book Club. You can read Part I here. We'll have another excerpt soon, and will be scheduling the author chat in the near future. Fair u ...
  • One Area Where China Should Definitely Stop Ri ...
    When it comes to ACTA and TPP, China is the elephant in the room -- or maybe that should be the dragon in the room. For without China's participation, these treaties designed to reduce counterfeiting will have little effect. And despite rather desperate optimism on the part of some that China ...
  • DailyDirt: Hot Dogs!
    The weather is warming up, and backyard barbecues are getting dusted off. What's easier to grill than a good old hot dog? Absolutely nothing. Here are just a few links to get you in the mood for some delicious dogs. The Brits have outdone themselves with a new culinary creation: Pizza Hut ...

VacTruth

  • After a 17 Year Struggle, Baby Disabled From V ...
    After 17 years, the devastating injuries a five month old baby suffered after receiving a five in one vaccination from her doctor were finally acknowledged.
  • Are Vaccines Damaging Your Baby’s Liver?
    There is now overwhelming documentation of significant health damage among the population from vaccines. Could vaccines be implicated?
  • Gardasil May Cause Cancer
    When we see the term “cancer vaccine” in connection with the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil we may naturally assume that it prevents cervical cancer, yet there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
  • Bird Flu Strain Lab-Engineered!
    The cat is out of the bag on bird flu—a strain has been laboratory engineered, and the U.S. government did everything it could to keep the lid on that research!
  • A Parent’s Guide to Pro-Vaccine Doctors
    We hope to prevent other children and their families from a vaccine injury. This information empowers you.

BroadSnark

  • Interview on KDVS
    Still trying to get back on my regular posting schedule, hopefully this coming week. In the meantime, Richard Estes was kind enough to invite me on his show Speaking in Tongues. You can listen here.
  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...
  • Shame Redistribution
    A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
  • Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
    In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
  • Occupy the DOJ

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: ‘It’s a w ...
    The Guardian reports: “I don’t believe in heroes or saviours,” says Alexis Tsipras, “but I do believe in fighting for rights … no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of wretchedness and indignity.” The man who holds the fate of the euro in his ...
  • Video: The One Percent
  • Worse than Keystone
    Alyssa Battistoni writes: Coal is without question our dirtiest fuel source: When burned, it dumps toxins like mercury and nitrogen oxides into the air and packs an outsize punch when it comes to carbon emissions. Since America has a lot of it, though, we’ve tended to use a lot: Historical ...
  • Drone filmmaker denied visa
    Glenn Greenwald writes: Muhammad Danish Qasim is a Pakistani student at Iqra University’s Media Science and is also a filmmaker. This year, Qasim released a short film entitled The Other Side, a 20-minute narrative that “revolves around the idea of assessing social, psychological and econo ...
  • Syria diary
    Layla Al-Zubaidi writes: ‘Welcome to Assad’s Syria,’ the signpost at the Lebanese-Syrian border still says, letting the visitor know who owns the country. The ceasefire had just been announced, but few Syrians I knew held out much hope that three hundred UN observers could keep an eye on the who ...

Watts Up With That?

  • A first hand report on Dr. Michael Mann’ ...
    Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest place on earth”. Roger Sowell  writes on May 18, 2012 … Continue reading →
  • The “well funded” climate business ...
    Flashback, Michael Mann said this on October 5th, 2010: Our efforts to communicate the science are opposed by a well-funded, highly organized disinformation effort that aims to confuse the public about the nature of our scientific understanding. … Scientists are … Continue reading →
  • Annular Solar Eclipse 2012 – data and images
    I’ve been asked to provide some information on the upcoming eclipse Sunday, so here it is. I’ll actually miss the first part of the Heartland conference (Sunday night and Monday) due to the promise to my children we’d see this … Continue reading →
  • Pollution enhanced thunderstorms warm the planet?
    From the DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a new paper in GRL saying something that doesn’t make much sense to me. As shown in the diagram above, thunderstorms transport heat from the lower troposphere upwards. The heat source at the base … Continue reading →
  • The question put to Dr. Mann at Disneyland today
    Steve McIntyre recently published a new graph on his website Climate Audit. Alerted to the fact that Dr. Mann would be speaking at the OC Water Summit, I was asked to submit a question, but I could not make it … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Study explains how rapamycin also causes insul ...
    A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin, a drug that extends mouse lifespan, also causes insulin resistance. The researchers showed in an animal model that they could, in principle, separate the effects, which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. ...
  • Cancer: ‘Book of knowledge’ published
    The first volume of a “book of cancer knowledge” has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs. The “encyclopaedia” details how hundreds of different cancer cells respond to anti-cancer agents. UK, US and European researchers say t ...
  • Advances Suggest Possible Cures for Ebola and ...
    Ebola and its relatives, like Marburg virus, above, are considered among the most fearsome in nature. People infected with these long, wire-shaped filoviruses often bleed to death from every orifice, so the bugs make ideal villains for apocalyptic films like “Outbreak” and “28 Days Later.” The i ...
  • Ability to Learn Is Affected by the Timing of ...
    Sleep has many functions—including facilitating learning.Now a study finds that when we acquire new information, and how soon we sleep after that may affect our retention of the info. That’s according to research in the journal Public Library of Science One.Scientists had more than 200 subjects ...
  • Cytoskeleton Microtubules

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Ex-CSKA Guard Langdon Eyes Basketball Return
    Former Cleveland Cavaliers and CSKA Moscow guard Trajan Langdon, who retired last year after winning a sixth-consecutive Russian title, is considering coming back as a coach, he told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
  • Playoffs Reveal Russia Lacks Star Power - Pundit
    The low attendance of Russian Premier League promotion-relegation playoff matches is a symptom that Russian football is short of top players, former Spartak Moscow forward Valery Reingold told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
  • Russia Calls for Solving Syrian Crisis by "For ...
    Russia will call its partners at the G8 summit for "not to try to cut the Syrian crisis knot by ax" but "use a forceps" to solve the conflict, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia's Federation Council Mikhail Margelov said on Saturday.
  • Finns Pulverized 6-2 by Russia in Hockey Semi
    Russia made the final of the world hockey championships Saturday after Evgeni Malkin's hat-trick helped the team to an emphatic 6-2 win over reigning champion Finland.
  • Euro 2012 Will Be Short for Russia - Soldado
    Russia's national team will not repeat their Euro 2008 success at next month's tournament in Poland and Ukraine, Spain striker Roberto Soldado told RIA Novosti in an exclusive interview.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • First Private Cargo Ship Launch to ISS Aborted
    A U.S. firm aborted on Saturday the lift-off of the first commercial cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) after an engine cut-off, NASA said.
  • Soyuz TMA-04M to Dock with Space Station
    The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with the new crew for the International Space Station (ISS), launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, will dock with the ISS on Thursday morning in an automatic mode, a Russian Mission Control spokesman told RIA Novosti.
  • Space Station Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report
    Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the agency’s image department Vladimir Baranov said on Wednesday.
  • Space Station Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report
    Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the agency’s image department Vladimir Baranov said on Wednesday.
  • New Space Station Crew in Orbit
    Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday have begun a two-day flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Tax on Junk Food Can Help Pay the Costs of Die ...
    America's industrial food and farming system - dominated by fast-food restaurants and processed, chemical-laden food - has precipitated a public health crisis. Although nutritionists recommend that consumers avoid eating unhealthy junk foods, every day 75 million Americans "supersize" themselves ...
  • The Organic Watergate: Advocates Condemn Corru ...
    The nation's leading organic farming watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, is challenging what it calls a "conspiracy" between corporate agribusiness interests and the USDA that has increasingly facilitated the use of questionable synthetic additives and even dangerous chemicals in organic foods.C ...
  • An Occupy Movement with a 'Third Force' Electo ...
    The overall content of the GlobalMay Statement is sound. It puts forward a vision of the future for the world very different than what we are getting from the vast majority of the old established political parties of all ideologies worldwide. Click here to read this article
  • The Future of Agriculture: Triple-Bottom-Line ...
    Several weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend Organic Valley's annual meeting, at which more than 600 of its farmer-owners converged in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.Click here to read this article
  • USDA Helps Industrial Farms Claim Humane and C ...
    The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) today requested a USDA Inspector General audit of the USDA Process Verified Program, which certifies some products as "humanely raised" when in fact they come from animals suffering on conventional, industrial farming operations.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Antibiotic Resistance Problem Gets Some Tr ...
    I’m glad the moms are engaged in this fight against antibiotics overuse in farming. When it comes to managing tantrums, sussing out lies, dealing with terrorists, and doling out justice, they are the closest things we have to experts.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The News at a Furtive Glance: Read Pravda or W ...
    The Chicago Police are making calculated, surgical arrests and literally disappearing activists without even valid warrants.The FBI and Secret Service are jamming cell phone tower signals.Jets from NORAD have been conducting flying exercises over Chicago Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich :  NDAA Authorizes War A ...
    america is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today and the largest exporter of terrorism and its just getting worse...We have to stop this horror! Submitted by michael hall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What a Downer
    New post on Suzuki Elders The Canadian Government is planning an amendment to a long-standing regulation that dead animals cannot be accepted for slaughter, a change that could come into effect in a few months. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • Water Can Challenge 25
    Join our Challenge 2012 Campaign as we strive to reach an additional 25,000 people with clean water for life. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Surfing Notes
    Sometimes things snowball - including another anti AGW tale turning to new science and Facebook adding to the stew. My compensation for slowing my news submissions here Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Undercover GMOs Slip through Labeling Crack
    GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You ...
    People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    And just what will these people say when this universal infant immunization program is proven to NOT lower the overall incidence of Hep B infection after our children have been compromised with a dangerous genetically engineered vaccine that starts our lives out under the thumb of Big Pharma and ...
  • Immunization Graphs – The Real Story on Vaccin ...
    Actual statistics prove that vaccines HAVE NOT prevented disease.
  • Pig Blood Safer than Fresh Milk?
    Evidently, drinking fresh milk straight from the mom is supposed to be unhealthy for calves because it is unpasteurized, but pig blood is good?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Detained NATO protesters accused of Chicago te ...
    ShareThisDetained NATO protesters accused of Chicago terror plot 19 May 2012 Three men arrested when police raided a Chicago apartment had been planning to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets, including police stations and squad cars ...
  • National Guard's $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR ...
    ShareThisNational Guard's $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits --Wasting Taxpayer Money Subsidizing NASCAR Must Stop 18 May 2012 Today, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) expressed her outrage and disbelief at the level of waste in the National Guard's rec ...
  • Congressmen Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban
    ShareThisCongressmen Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban --Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. 18 May 2012 An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defens ...
  • 3 men charged with terror conspiracy ahead of ...
    ShareThis3 men charged with terror conspiracy ahead of NATO summit 19 May 2012 Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit. Their attorne ...
  • MBTA to spread bacteria on Red Line in bioterr ...
    ShareThisMBTA to spread bacteria on Red Line in bioterror test --Homeland Security and the T plan to release 'dead' bacteria at three Red Line stops during off-hours. --Dates for the tests have not been made known. 18 May 2012 The MBTA [Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority] and Homeland Se ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • US Congress and MEDEVAC
    17 May 2012 The US MEDEVAC issue is picking up speed and mass.  There is so much progress that it is difficult to track.  A separate and excellent website dedicated to the issue has popped up at http://medevacmatters.org/ Also, the highly respected writer and war correspondent Yochi ...
  • MEDEVAC Madness
    10 May 2012 Many people have contacted lawmakers around the country about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Most of the lawmakers blew it off, or seemed intimidated by the Pentagon.  But one serious man over in Missouri has not backed down.  Congressman Todd Akin is demanding ans ...
  • Little Girl Revisited
    02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...
  • Drunken Monkeys, Milkooks, Military, and the Media
    US Army Master Sergeant and milblogger, CJ Grisham: known for spamming Wikipedia and other outlets with false information (This dispatch is intended for investigative journalists who may be interested in military propaganda targeting US citizens.  Much of the account is first person, the ...
  • RED CROSS: Symbol of Blood
    Photo Michael Yon 17 April 2012 Army Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale booster for our troops.  That load of bull is too heavy even for a Blackhawk helicopter sling load.  During my about three years with combat troops downrange, I've never heard th ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Malawi president vows to decriminalize homosex ...
    [JURIST] Malawi [BBC backgrounder] President Joyce Banda announced in her first national address [text] on Friday that she will decriminalize homosexual acts. The provisions she intends to repeal are Section 153 and 156 [ILGA backgrounder, PDF] of the Penal Code, which provide 14 years or 5 year ...
  • Federal court upholds key provision of the Vot ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official website] decided [text, PDF] to uphold Section 5 [DOJ backgrounder] of the Voting Rights Act [text] Friday, affirming the ruling of the district court below [JURIST report]. Section 5 requires covered jurisdictions to clear ...
  • Maryland high court grants same-sex divorce
    [JURIST] The Maryland Court of Appeals [official website], the state's highest court, ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that a lesbian couple legally married in California can get a divorce in Maryland. Even though Maryland does not currently allow same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder], the court ru ...
  • Mississippi governor signs voter ID bill
    [JURIST] Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant [official website] on Thursday signed [press release] legislation [HB 921 materials] that would require voters to show photo identification at all elections. The bill enacts a constitutional amendment that was approved by 62 percent of Mississippi voters ...
  • US House panel votes to cut off aid to countri ...
    [JURIST] The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee [official website] approved legislation [press release] Thursday that would suspend foreign aid to countries that host Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] who is wanted by the International Crimi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Report on “Rescuing Human Rights” Conference a ...
    TweetDavey, a long time member of the Tikun Olam reader community, lives in San Diego and attended the Rescuing Human Rights program hosted by StandWithUs at UC San Diego this week.  I wrote about the event before it occurred.  His report is below: Stand With Us and Tritons for Israel presented ...
  • BBC Poll: International Attitudes Toward Israe ...
    TweetThe BBC commissions an annual poll of international attitudes toward the world’s major nations.  The results are in for the 2012 edition (full version) and they aren’t good for Israel: Evaluations of Israel’s influence in the world—already largely unfavourable in 2011—have worse ...
  • Senior Israeli Official: Leadership’s Made Dec ...
    TweetReuters is reporting that several well-placed Israeli sources are confirming both that the senior government leadership has gone into “lockdown” mode regarding Iran indicating that something is afoot; and that the decision to attack Iran has already been made and that the strike ...
  • RAND Calls for U.S., Israel to Prepare for Nuc ...
    TweetThe U.S. national security think-tank, RAND, just published an eye-opening report on the issue of the Iranian nuclear program and how the U.S. should approach the issue.  In a number of ways, it ratifies the Obama administration approach including supporting sanctions against Iran (with a s ...
  • U.S. Muslim and Former Marine Added to No Fly ...
    TweetToday’s To the Point show reported on an ACLU class-action lawsuit by 14 U.S. Muslims against the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security for the arbitrary and capricious manner in which it maintains the No Fly lists of those who may not fly within the U.S.  The program ...

If Americans Knew

  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Knight Lab Aggregates News, Tweets Around NATO ...
    World leaders, diplomats and hundreds of journalists -- as well as protesters with a wide range of grievances -- are coming to Chicago this week because of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. NATOinChicago.com, a new project from the Knight News Innovation Laboratory at Northwe ...
  • ROFLCon Attendees Get a Memes Blast From the Past
    It's 2012. Nerds are in, and Internet memes can actually make you famous IRL. But way back in 2000, things were different. YouTube didn't exist, and a video had to be sent around as an email attachment. (Remember RealPlayer?) Your mom yelled at you for tying up the phone line, and GeoCities plas ...
  • How the Indie Audio Community Is Transforming ...
    A version of this post also appeared in the Association of Independent's in Radio monthly AIRBlast. I first started working with independent producer Kara Oehler in 2005. Almost a day didn't pass without her telling me about something that happened on the "AIRDaily" listserve. I'd been on li ...
  • Jonathan Zittrain Takes the Stage at ROFLCon
    Today with MIT Civic Media Center's Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I'm live-blogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, the event organizer, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It's an amazingly packed venue. "One o ...
  • How We Got Here: The Road to Public Lab's Map ...
    Last week, Public Laboratory announced that public domain maps are now starting to show up on Google Earth and Google Maps. But how did the projects get there? Here's a timeline of a Public Laboratory map project. Making a map Public Laboratory projects take a community-based approach to m ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Health Edge - Rabies Evolves Slower in Hib ...
    The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Their study found that the host ...
  • The Edge of Nature - Scientists Document Fragi ...
    Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented. But that's exactly what they and a team of researchers – all current or former Stanford students and faculty did. Their findings shed light on how human disturbance ...
  • The Economic Edge - Preventing Taxmageddon Is ...
    Conventional wisdom says that Congress and the President will get nothing done in 2012 until after the elections. Conventional wisdom appears to be at least mostly correct, but in one respect Congress should not fall prey to conventional wisdom: preventing Taxmageddon. Too much is at stake for f ...
  • World Economy on Edge - Fiscal Issues Loom as ...
    President Obama and other world leaders opened the Camp David G8 summit Friday evening discussing a “dual track� approach with Iran while also attempting to focus on the political transition in Syria. But the European fiscal crisis hung over the talks. At a two-hour dinner with leaders at th ...
  • Labor on Edge - Dems Wade into Major Airline U ...
    Democratic lawmakers have waded into what's becoming a messy union organizing battle at American Airlines. Both senators and House members have sent letters to American Airlines CEO Tom Horton this week asking the airline to move forward with a union election at the company. The airline, in the ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted: Dems Go After Sheriff Joe For Vote ...
    Come on Democrats, don't you have anything better to do than go after Sheriff Joe?  First you didn't like the pink prison outfits, then you attacked him for enforcing immigration laws, that was followed by the DOJ lawsuit and now, according to an exclusive report by Newsbusted anchor Jodi M ...
  • BREAKING- 2004 AP "Keynan-Born Obama" Phrase N ...
    This morning another "birther" story got the Drudge treatment, it was from the Kenyan Daily Standard in 2004. The story begins: Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Fr ...
  • Calm Down Birthers-The Literary Agent Booklet ...
    A message to Birthers: sorry folks--Breitbart.com's great find, a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, touting the POTUS as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii," is not vindication.  All it really does is len ...
  • Did Mitt Romney Just Fall Into An Obama Trap ?
    For a moment Jeremiah Wright was back. The New York Times reported today that a new “super PAC” supporting Mitt Romney was planning to bring up an issue, never vetted in 2008, Barack Obama's 20+ year relationship with the racist, American-hating, Antisemitic "preacher." But after whining from th ...
  • California Proposition 29: An Invitation For M ...
    One thing being ignored this political season are the propositions many state governments have put on the docket.  Some more abhorrent than others. Even when they are written with good intentions, if they do not include iron-clad controls they become just another way for government to get t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Facebook’s Share Offering Bailed Out by ...
    Stepped In to Support Social Network’s Shares at Offering Price BLOOMBERG | MAY 18, 2012 It was a tepid debut for one of the largest and most closely watched initial public offerings. More than 30 brokerages and banks were involved in the offering, which saw a nearly 571 million share ...
  • Facebook IPO Financing NSA Data Mining Front
    INFOWARS.COM | MAY 18, 2012 Facebook has become a new icon of elite dominance over the web, and increasingly the tech-driven economy as well. Technocrats are busy building stock market credibility via the IPO for their Facebook spy front, while Bilderberg attendees select politicians, steer ...
  • US State Department Arming Mexican Intelligenc ...
    ANTIFASCIST CALLING | MAY 18, 2012 Amid recent reports that the bodies of four Mexican journalists were discovered in a canal in the port city of Veracruz, less than a week after another journalist based in that city was found strangled in her home, the U.S. State Department “plans to ...
  • How Bailouts Pass on the Burden to Taxpayers
    By BOB CHAPMAN | INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER | MAY 17, 2012 Article originally published in April 4, 2012 How do you create your own monsters? Over the past month the US and Europe have been telling us they will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down prices. What are ...
  • European Debt Crisis Continues to Bleed
    The blame game begins as no solution is achieved for Greece, Italy or Spain. By JAMES CHAPMAN | MAIL ONLINE | MAY 16, 2012 David Cameron will today express grave doubts about the survival of the euro amid fears that a collapse could drag Britain into a decade-long depression. He will w ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • G8 Meets to Sort Out Euro Crisis
    “Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to tackle a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could leave the euro zone bloc, threatening the future of the common currency.” (Reuters) Is there a collection of people less equipped to solve ...
  • Obama Wants Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels
    “The Obama administration called Thursday for hefty tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels and cells, arguing China has been illegally ‘dumping’ under-priced products on the U.S. market.” (USA Today) Make trade not trade war. FEE Timely Classic “Tariffs Are Legal Plunder” b ...
  • Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governi ...
    “Under their original form as friendly societies--organizations for rendering mutual aid--[unions] were of course extremely beneficial; and in so far as they subserve this purpose down to the present time, they can scarcely be too much lauded.”
  • Indefinite-Detention Law Stayed by Judge
    “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.” (Courthouse News Service) &#82 ...
  • Florida Makes Passing State Writing Test Easier
    “The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to lower the passing grade for a state writing test after complaints from educators that the state pushed through tests with inadequate time for teachers and students to prepare, the News-Press out of Fort Myers, Fla., reports. The educator ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Dutch Disease
    It seems a lot of people don’t know what Dutch Disease is.  Here’s the short. Dutch disease is when you sell a lot of resources and that makes your currency increase in value.  So if you discover a lot of oil, or oil becomes a lot more valuable because of a shortage so that you [...]
  • Human Moral Weakness and its’ consequences
    (This is discarded text from the non-fic book I’m working on, and should be treated as such.  I offer it because I think my regulars might find it interesting.) When we say humans are weak, what we mean is that they tend to do what they’re told to do, and tend to follow the roles [...]
  • Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
    I think the US will take longer, but a man-on-horseback can still happen in the US.   Remember that virtually the only trusted institution in America is the military.  The difference in America, as opposed to Europe, that the left isn’t going to get its chance, if at all, for quite some ti ...
  • The left will have its chance in Europe
    So, in France Hollande has won, and in Greece, left wing parties have more of the vote than the center or the right (we’ll see if they can form a government, however.)  They will now have their chance.  If they fail, however, the right will sweep back in, and it will be the harder right, [...]
  • The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
    and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • CNU20: Shootout at the New Urbanism Congress
    I knew there was the possibility that this month's Congress of New Urbanism — CNU20 — in West Palm Beach would be an exercise in brainwashing. While I was excited to be meeting some of the thinkers at the forefront of my profession, I certainly was aware that the founders of the movement were ...
  • Facebook’s IPO Testifies to Silicon Valley’s P ...
    The  $104 billion Facebook IPO testifies to the still considerable innovative power of Silicon Valley, but the hoopla over the new wave of billionaires won’t change the basic reality of the state’s secular economic decline. This contradicts the accepted narrative in Sacramento. Over five year ...
  • The Best Cities For Tech Jobs
    With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodigious creator of hot companies and has the highest proportion of tech jobs of any region in ...
  • Toward More Competitive Canadian Metropolitan ...
    The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCN) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) have expressed serious concern about generally longer commute trip times making Canadian metropolitan areas less competitive. Each has called for additional funding for transit at the federal le ...
  • Smart-Growth and Smarter Technology
    If you’re an enviro-regulator with a mission, preventing “sprawl” has been ideologically trendy in recent decades. You have successfully predicated your argument on past-history soils-management technological inadequacy, it must be enormously threatening to look back and realize that technolo ...

GM Watch

  • Syngenta charged with lying over cattle deaths
  • Farmers challenge GM trials on Newsnight
    1.Farmers speak out on BBC Newsnight GM debate 2.Farmers challenge GM trials on Newsnight NOTE: In last night's GM debate on the BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight's science correspondent Susan Watts took a look at the arguments for and against GM, ahead of a live studio dis ...
  • Farmers challenge GM trials on Newsnight
    1.Farmers speak out on BBC Newsnight GM debate 2.Farmers challenge GM trials on Newsnight NOTE: In last night's GM debate on the BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight's science correspondent Susan Watts took a look at the arguments for and against GM, ahead of a live studio dis ...
  • Corporate onslaught on African agriculture
    This G8 event on Global Agricultural Development taking place today today, May 18th, is being attended by Barack Obama, with G8 and African leaders, in the name of advancing global agricultural development and food and nutrition security in Africa. The event hosted by The Chicago Council on Glo ...
  • Corporate onslaught on African agriculture
    This G8 event on Global Agricultural Development taking place today today, May 18th, is being attended by Barack Obama, with G8 and African leaders, in the name of advancing global agricultural development and food and nutrition security in Africa. The event hosted by The Chicago Council on Glo ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...
  • 18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has ...
    With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The situation in Europe is rapidly going from ...
  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...

Desertification

  • Desertification and Land Degradation in LDC, L ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=1000&nr=18&menu=126 Addressing Desertification and Land Degradation in LDC, LLDCs and SIDs Organizing partners UNCCD Secretariat, FAO, UN-Water, GEF, CARICOM, SPREP Introduction The ...
  • Desertification in the Sahel (Google / MHSGeog ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification   VIDEO http://youtu.be/XlVNWl0wemU   [GCSE] Desertification – The Sahel  
  • Water – A 21st Century Challenge (Google / Tim ...
    Read at : http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120517/letters/Water-a-legacy-for-the-22nd-century.420103 Water – a legacy for the 22nd century The Chamber of Engineers has chosen Water – A 21st Century Challenge as the theme for its conference this year. The issues facing the management o ...
  • The water-glass is half empty (Google / Huffin ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill/water-crisis_b_1514922.html Food Security Means Water Too Bill Corcoran President, ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid) This piece is part of a series of blogs by leading NGOs to call attention to a range … ...
  • UN VOUCHER PROGRAMME ADDS MORE FRESH FOOD TO D ...
    New York, May 15 2012 11:05AM Thousands of people in Somaliland, in northern Somalia, are getting more fresh meat in their diet as a result of an innovative UN initiative that provides parents with vouchers to help them afford nutritious … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Samuel L. Jackson, Canadian movie star
    By Mark Leiren-Young It takes years to make a movie. It takes less than 48 hours to determine its fate. If the box office numbers from Friday and Saturday night aren’t impressive, a movie won’t be in theatres the following week. Samuel L. Jackson’s latest, The Samaritan, opens tonight and if you ...
  • When will Bill Blair do the right thing?
    By Frank Moher How is it that Bill Blair is still Toronto’s Chief of Police this morning? How is it that, in the wake of the damning OIPRD report on the “policing” of the G20 summit in 2010, he hasn’t stepped down? How is it he isn’t waking up in his PJs at home thi ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Portuguese journalist threatened by Deputy Min ...
    Miguel+Relvas.jpg Summary of the events, so far, concerning a Minister's threats to a journalist in an attempt to stop an "inconvenient" article from being published in Portugals daily ...
  • Hondurans burn government buildings, demand th ...
    After US DEA agents shot 4 villagers in northeastern Honduras, angry residents burned government offices and demanded that the DEA leave. "Protesters in Honduras have burned down government offices and demanded that US drug enfor ...
  • University of Sussex plans to privatise over 1 ...
    sussex-uni-sign.jpg Last week university management announced plans to outsource 235 campus jobs. Workers and students are meeting to discuss their response. The jobs facing pri ...
  • French and Greek voters seek a way out of aust ...
    hollande.jpeg Adam Ford discusses the recent elections in Europe. The financial markets went into a petulant sulk today, in response to the election results in France – where in ...
  • Occupy Abai - day 8
    One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655 Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a conce ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Chicago Cops Start Preemptive Arrests on Eve o ...
      (If the above video fails to play, view it here:  NBC Chicago) According to the National Lawyers Guild, the Chicago police have begun unlawfully detaining activists in anticipation of the protests planned at the NATO summit on June 22nd.  They have been breaking down door ...
  • The Chinese Finance Angolan Reconstruction
    Ambassador Zhang Bolun with President dos Santos (This is the second of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.) The Angolan civil war ended in 2002 with one million dead, four million permanently exiled and ...
  • Africa Bails Out the Eurozone
    Portuguese president Passos Coelho with President dos Santos (This is the first of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.) Forget China and India. The World Economic Forum predicts that six of the ten most rapidly growing economies in ...
  • A Film About Economic Relocalization
    Economics of Happiness The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economical relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional eco ...
  • The Case for Negative Interest Money
    Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein 2011  Evolver Editions Book Review – Part II This review is divided into two parts. The second half covers some exciting solutions Eisenstein proposes for our broken economic system in Part II: The Economics of Reunion and Part II ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Will India Stay the Course on its New Nuclear ...
    The nation continues to chart an independent course
  • What hurdles remain for E15 ethanol?
    Corn growers and ethanol producers want to expand their market by selling a new, higher-blend ethanol fuel that’s safe to use in most vehicles.
  • The Biofuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Labyrinth
    As governments roll out public policy directing increased biofuel production for all sectors of the transportation industry, serious questions around environmental sustainability still remain.Although the food versus fuel debate -- should arable land be used to grow energy crops, or food crops b ...
  • The Art of PV War
    The U.S. Department of Commerce today handed down it’s preliminary report on alleged dumping by Chinese solar manufacturers in the US market.
  • Vehicle Emissions Standards: A Regulatory Succ ...
    Recent estimates from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) show that emissions of air pollutants that harm human health in the Houston region are falling dramatically. This excellent development is largely the result of very successful national regulations to reduce tailpipe emis ...

EU Times

  • NASA plans to Land on Asteroid and stay for a ...
    The space agency Nasa is training a team of astronauts to land on asteroids after a three million mile journey – dwarfing the mere 239,000 miles travelled to the moon. The mission, planned for the next decade, would land on an asteroid travelling at more than 50,000 miles an hour. The astr ...
  • Moody’s cuts ratings of 16 Spanish banks
    The European banking industry has suffered another crushing blow after Moody’s ratings agency downgraded the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, citing the weakened government’s ability to support some banks. The agency downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings by one to three notches fo ...
  • Kepler space telescope records the number of s ...
    NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The bigges ...
  • Minority report: White births no longer majori ...
    For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted f ...
  • Russia warns West against hasty wars and risin ...
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Occupiers, NATO, Chicago, & Molotov cocktails.
    Tell me you’re surprised . Three out-of-state men arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid days before the NATO summit were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device, their attorney and police said ea ...
  • Google-Motorolla merger gets the go-ahead from ...
    Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google’s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was announced nine months ago in August 2011, will likely close next week. China was the last regu ...
  • Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock at Cannes Fi ...
    The 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival is underway and Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock lit up the red carpet at the premiere for their new movie, “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” . Jada looks perfect in her orange Atelier Versace gown and Jimmy Choo platform sandals. Madagascar 3 is set to ...
  • SpaceX Launch ABORTED at Last Second (VIDEO)
    The big day was here and it almost happened, but it didn’t. The first foray by a private company to launch a rocket into space was grounded, and the SpaceX rocket never made it off the launch pad. The launch was aborted just 0.5 seconds before liftoff. It was so close, in fact, that even NASA a ...
  • Zuckerberg: ‘Our Mission Isn’t To ...
    NEW YORK (AP) â In the hours before Facebook’s stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company’s 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering. “Right now this all seems like a ...

Groklaw

  • China clears Google purchase of Motorola Mobility
    Google on Saturday said that Chinese regulators approved its $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility, clearing the path for the Internet titan to complete the acquisition early next week. US and European regulators gave approval to the purchase in February. Conditions put on the rubber ...
  • PTO Overrules Federal Circuit [Fresenius v. Ba ...
    Simultaneously with the litigation, the PTO began reexamination proceedings on the '434 patent in 2006. The examiner rejected the claims as obvious based on the same primary prior art reference combined with some secondary references. While the reexamination was pending at the Board of Appeals ...
  • US says it will bar some Motorola Mobility phones
    Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation to the United States, a U.S. trade panel said on Friday. The order by the U.S. International Trade Commission has been sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to consider whether to ove ...
  • Stewarts Law acts for facebook users who have ...
    Facebook users today filed an amended consolidated class action complaint in federal court in San Jose, California in the case In re: Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, No. 5:12-md-02314-EJD. The class action asserts federal statutory and California State causes of action related to the reve ...
  • Apple no longer censoring the word jailbreak i ...
    Yesterday a bit of a hullabaloo was started when it was discovered that Apple was censoring the word 'jailbreak' in the U.S. App Store. Now, that censoring has been corrected, and the word is visible across all categories, including podcasts, songs, iTunes U, iBooks and more. - TheNextWeb

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • ‘NATO 3′ protesters targeted Obama campaign HQ ...
    The NATO Summit protesters charged with plotting terrorist acts in Chicago planned to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home — and firebomb police stations and squad cars to divert attention, according to sources and prosecutors.This could well be ano ...
  • Can California’s new open primaries end partis ...
    Credit: Wikimedia CommonsThe upcoming open primaries on June 5 will alter California’s political landscape considerably. Will open primaries help end political gridlock? Let’s hope so. But they could also lead to serious divisions within parties and might not lead to much change at all.In the fi ...
  • US imposes huge anti-dumping tariffs on Chines ...
    The tariffs are anywhere from 31%-250% which could easily about kill the booming solar installation market here. Renewable energy does not need a trade war between two nations. Let’s hope this is just saber-rattling by the US. China could retaliate by raising tariffs on US polysilicon ente ...
  • What Pierce said about the Facebook IPO
    Plutocratic Greed, Puck magazine, 1908. Udo Keppler, American. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Charles Pierce, as usual, has nailed it. The man is a national treasure.If we cheer for big money simply as big money, we’re simply never going to get right ...
  • Rimshot!

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • DisengAGEd Chch and youth participation
    I spent today at DisengAGEd Chch, an awesome one-day symposium on youth political engagement organised by politics students from the University of Canterbury with support from the Ministry of Youth Development. Young people from local high schools interacted with university students, MPs from th ...
  • Round(ing)Up Auckland’s weeds? Who decides?
    A couple of recent articles in the Aucklander  reveal that we might once again have to fight a battle that we thought was  ’won’ more than a decade ago.   The old Auckland City and North Shore City councils had a largely chemical-free regime in place to manage roadside weeds, followi ...
  • Claiming “Fascination of Plants Day” from GE p ...
    Tomorrow has been declared “Fascination of Plants Day”. We find plants very fascinating.  New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot; we‘re responsible for one of the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant life on Earth. The native plants we love need protection. This is why we have a Member ...
  • The Ministers respond to the Christchurch hous ...
    Last month, I wrote to the Ministers for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Social Development and Housing asking what they proposed to do about the lack of affordable housing in Christchurch, and giving them a few suggestions. Here is what they had to say…  ————&#8212 ...
  • Beyond Today: a values story, and the Greens&# ...
    Beyond Today: a values story is the Green party’s story. On the Greens’ fortieth birthday, it says Values is a history of which the party should be very proud, and values are the new politics We need the quants, and the poets, both. We need the activists and the Members of Parliament, the indivi ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Secret Weapon U.S. Lobbyists Use to Ruin Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you're a corporation or a lobbyist and you want to "buy" a member of Congress, one common and effective way to do so is by secretly promising them a high-paying job once they leave office. Since such deals are not made public, legislators can pass laws or create special tax ...
  • Kashi Cereal Stirs Anger - Exposed by Small Rh ...
    By Dr. Mercola A simple sign on a grocery store shelf has gone viral, causing a storm of outrage among consumers who feel they've been misled by cereal maker Kellogg's claims about its Kashi cereals. A Rhode Island grocer posted a note on the shelf where Kashi was supposed to be, saying he'd ...
  • Nine Ways to Make Yourself Smarter
    By Dr. Mercola Looking for ways to boost your intellect, stave off mental aging, and maybe even live a longer life? You might be surprised to learn that not only do such strategies exist, but many are easily attainable by making simple tweaks here and there to your daily routine. Embracing th ...
  • Nearly 1 in 2 Americans are Now Victims of Thi ...
    By Dr. Mercola As most of you know, the conventional medical system tends to equate "health" with the absence of symptoms of disease. The entire industry is built around treating symptoms with expensive patented drugs, many of which are profoundly toxic and dangerous. Pharmaceutical companie ...
  • The Key Vitamin to use with Vitamin D to Help ...
    By Dr. Mercola You may be aware that vitamin D and calcium are a powerful duo for bone health, including the prevention of osteoporosis. One of the undisputed benefits of vitamin D is that it helps you ABSORB calcium – this link has been known for many decades. But there is also eviden ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Exposed: World’s ‘most threatened tribe’ outnu ...
    Little Butterfly and her people, the Awá, are earth's 'most threatened tribe'. © Survival The extent of the peril facing the world’s ‘most threatened tribe’ was revealed today, as Brazilian authorities admitted that the Awá tribe are now outnumbered 10:1 inside just one of th ...
  • ‘Inside job’ as Peru eyes gas in uncontacted t ...
    A Nanti man. His tribe's land is set to be invaded as Peru furthers its gas exploration into protected areas. © Survival Secret plans reveal Peru is actively pursuing new gas reserves inside protected tribal land, a flagrant violation of laws that prevent such projects. The Nahua-Nan ...
  • Tribal girl raped and murdered in Chittagong H ...
    A family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, where killings, torture and rape against tribal people are common. © Mark McEvoy/Survival An eleven-year old girl from the Chakma tribe in Bangladesh has been raped and murdered by a settler. Sujata Chakma and her younger brother were ...
  • Paraguay overflight confirms Brazilians’ destr ...
    © Survival A Survival International overflight of the Chaco forest in Paraguay has confirmed fears that cattle ranchers are destroying the last hiding place of uncontacted Ayoreo Indians. Aerial views of the Chaco in northern Paraguay show large tracts of barren land that have been defores ...
  • Indians ‘cry with happiness’ at Brazilian Cour ...
    Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe Indians lobby the Brazilian authorities to uphold their land rights © José Cruz/ABr The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe Indians of Brazil are celebrating a Supreme Court decision to allow them to live undisturbed on their land. The Pataxó, of Bahia state, have been subjected to violent c ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Oregon Prepares to Just Say NO! to GMO
    from source: Health conscious Oregonians are mounting a campaign to demand that GMO foods be labeled as such. The group behind this effort has a web site http://oregonrighttoknow.org. They have one month to gather enough signatures to place this issue on the state-side ballot in November. The ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Weight, Loss, Whooping Cough a ...
    HBO's 'Weight of the Nation' Pounds Away at Obesity* Why I Am Not Attending or Watching 'Weight of the Nation'* TV Show 'Girls' Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing* South Dakota: More Job Losses for Producer of 'Pink Slime'* Rocker Rocked by Salmonella* Asian-American Fishermen ...
  • Sun exposure lowers cancer risk
    from naturalnews.com: A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people exposed to more sunlight had a significantly lower risk of many types of cancer (Lin, 2012). This study followed more than 450,000 white, non-Hispanic subjects aged 50-71 years from diverse ge ...
  • GM crops in crisis: Roundup-resistant “superweeds”
    from foodpolitics.com: I wrote about this problem in Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. I added this update to the 2010 edition: "Late in 2004, weeds resistant to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup began appearing in GM plantings in Georgia and soon spread to other Southern states. By 2009, mor ...
  • At Disney World's 'Living with the Land' exhib ...
    from naturalnews.com: Biotechnology has made its way to "the happiest place on earth," with an exhibit at Walt Disney World's EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) theme park now featuring genetically-modified (GM) fruits and vegetables, some of which are shaped like Mickey Mous ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...
  • 18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has ...
    With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The situation in Europe is rapidly going from ...
  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Ich bin ein disgusting hypocrite: Merkel shame ...
    If you thought Gordon Brown was bad and an absolute insult to everything democratic, spare a thought for our poor friends in Greece. Back in November last year, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou proposed that the Greek people have a referendum on the bailout and austerity packages that b ...
  • Dear Europe, hate to say we told you so, but...
    For many years, throughout much general anti-European Union sentiment from these shores, we have been berated on mainland Europe as miserable and isolationist. Even on our own shores, insane europhiles who wanted to trash our sovereignty and our currency have hit out at those who defend our d ...
  • Obama: "Born in Kenya"
    So, if after watching that, you're dismissing it as a 'oh, it's Alex Jones'... ...then give a round of applause for bravery to the Daily Mail who report: "'Obama was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii': President's OWN literary agency promotional booklet from 1991 claims he WAS ...
  • Endgame: German declares war on sovereignty of ...
    It just had to be a German to let the can out of the bag, huh? No, we're not talking about dangerous ideologist Martin Schulz - the unelected German who pontificates in Brussels. And we're not talking about the Supreme Empress of Europe, Angela Merkel, either. No, we're talking about ye ...
  • Paul Nuttall: The euro "was never about econom ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Nature publishes method for creating transmiss ...
    *Nature’s  publication of method for creating transmissible bird flu throws spotlight on UK’s role in 2009 fake pandemic and mass poisoning of UK and European people by pandemic vaccines *Largest UK drugs manufacturer GSK gave Pandemrix jab to 30 million people in UK, Ireland and Eur ...
  • Eurozone crisis spreads from Greece to Spain; ...
    *Emergency plan for Greece to leave the euro, admits European Commission *Reintroduction of Drachma could be a golden opportunity for wealth creation *Drachma has to be introduced as free public service supplied by the government to facilitate trade; stealth privatisation of the money supply nee ...
  • Stephanie zu Guttenberg makes appeal for more ...
    Stephanie zu Guttenberg has given a powerful interview highlighting the wide-ranging failures of justice officials in Germany in protecting children from paedophiles and the lack of effective measures by the government. Hat’s off to her for publicising this important topic – this tim ...
  • British defence secretary urges Germans to fig ...
    British defence secretary Philip Hammond has told the Germans they should forget the legacy of the Second World War – and join in war mongering for the profit of weapons companies like BAE and the City of London. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138840/Philip-Hammond-Germany-aside- ...
  • Irish may have to vote a second time on fiscal ...
    Irish Examiner The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has raised the prospect of a second referendum if we reject the Fiscal Treaty on May 31. Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/bruton-raises-prospect-of-second-treaty-referendum-551913.html#ixzz1vExSQRxG

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

  • Mindless Masses
    The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth."
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 19 ...
    It is the solemn 24-note military bugle call that launched a thousand handkerchiefs and became an American musical icon.
  • DOD to Host Vietnam War Commemoration Ceremony ...
    Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta will host a ceremony on Monday, May 28, 2012, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to thank and honor America's Vietnam Veterans on behalf of a grateful nation.
  • An Armed Forces Day Message from Veterans For ...
    The following message is a collaboration between the Greater Seattle and Central Florida chapters of Veterans For Peace. Armed Forces Day was created in 1949 to honor Americans serving in the 5 branches of the U.S. military.  Then in 1962 President Kennedy designated the 3rd Saturday of May to r ...
  • Badshah khan famous afghan businessman
    Badshah khan famous afghan businessman I was born 36 years ago, in the beautiful city of Ningarhar, i completed my first 2 years of School in Ningarhar, afther 2 years i moved to Kabul for education, again afther 2 years i moved to pakistan peshawar, and 6 years later i went Back to Kabul and [...]

electric politics

  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...
  • Summa Economica
    According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Day Ahead Of Chicago Summit: Real News On NATO
    Newstips May 19, 2012 Real News on NATO By Curtis Black For a larger perspective and real global context regarding the NATO summit itself — beyond official press briefings — there’s no source like the Stop NATO website, profiled here last week.  Recent entries include: May 19 Video: Nurses lead ...
  • Video: Nurses Lead Thousands In Chicago Anti-N ...
    RT May 19, 2012 Nurses lead thousands in Chicago anti-NATO march Anastasia Churkina VIDEO Thousands of protesters took to Chicago’s streets ahead of the NATO summit due to kick off there on Sunday. National Nurses United teamed up with trade unions and the Occupy movement to form a mass rally in ...
  • Can SCO Emerge As Counterweight To NATO?
    Russia & India Report May 16, 2012 SCO as a counter to NATO? Andrei Ilyashenko ==== It’s impossible not to notice that the SCO has gone beyond the scope of regional problems. At the meeting in Beijing, the draft final declaration of the SCO member states was adopted. According to RIA Novosti ...
  • Chicago Summit: NATO To Eliminate Russian, Chi ...
    Trend News Agency May 18, 2012 Key issue of Chicago NATO summit Arzu Naghiyev, Trend expert Edited by RR Azerbaijan, Baku: A new stage is beginning in the development of NATO, and it is known that the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) of the Commonwealth of Independent States and th ...
  • Russia: International Criminal Court Must Exam ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti May 18, 2012 Russia Wants ICC to Examine All NATO Bombings in Libya MOSCOW: Russia hopes that the International Criminal Court will consider all cases of NATO airstrikes in Libya that caused civilian casualties, Foreign Ministry human rights spokesman Konstanti ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Solidarity and the Student Movements in Chile ...
    Andrew Gavin Marshall | The protests of May 16, 2012 turned violent with clashes between students and riot police, leading to the arrest of 70 students in Santiago. This was the second major student demonstration of this year, following roughly 40 demonstrations across the country in 2011
  • Army Convoy Heading Towards NATO Summit As Chi ...
    Alex Thomas | Chicago police and security personal are set for what they seem to believe will be a full scale battle with protesters during this weekends NATO Summit. With numerous protest groups set to launch widespread protests throughout the weekend, the police state is out like never b ...
  • Chicago in a Jam: Security Services to Block C ...
    RT | Reports suggest local law enforcement agencies are considering shutting down cell phone services in the city of Chicago.
  • Corporate Media Criminal Cover Up: Literary Ag ...
    Alex Thomas | The biography on a promotional booklet, first produced in 1991 and used since 2007, produced by the literary agency Acton & Dystel listed President Obama as born in Kenya. The story, first reported by Breitbart.com, has now gone viral with millions of Americans wondering ...
  • Lawrence, Kansas, Fights to End Water Fluoridation
    Natural News May 18, 2012 A health freedom advocate in Lawrence, Kansas, the sixth largest city in the state, is pushing to have artificial fluoride chemicals removed from his city’s municipal water supply. Lawrence-area resident Richard Simms recently created a petition at Change.org that ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

Veterans Today

  • Mindless Masses
    The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth."
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 19 ...
    It is the solemn 24-note military bugle call that launched a thousand handkerchiefs and became an American musical icon.
  • DOD to Host Vietnam War Commemoration Ceremony ...
    Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta will host a ceremony on Monday, May 28, 2012, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to thank and honor America's Vietnam Veterans on behalf of a grateful nation.
  • An Armed Forces Day Message from Veterans For ...
    The following message is a collaboration between the Greater Seattle and Central Florida chapters of Veterans For Peace. Armed Forces Day was created in 1949 to honor Americans serving in the 5 branches of the U.S. military.  Then in 1962 President Kennedy designated the 3rd Saturday of May to r ...
  • Badshah khan famous afghan businessman
    Badshah khan famous afghan businessman I was born 36 years ago, in the beautiful city of Ningarhar, i completed my first 2 years of School in Ningarhar, afther 2 years i moved to Kabul for education, again afther 2 years i moved to pakistan peshawar, and 6 years later i went Back to Kabul and [...]

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Ex-Im Bank Lives and Trade Finance Isn't a Subsidy
    I welcomed the news that the United States' Ex-Im Bank which provides trade finance to buyers of American exports was able to secure not only continued but increased funding. While re-authorization used to be automatic, this year it was subject to some controversy over allegedly providing "corpo ...
  • Small is Beautiful: Anti-Growth in a 6 Minute ...
    After reading the news that last month was reportedly the fifth warmest April on record and the 326th consecutive month when temperatures were above the 20th century average, I came across the video clip above which neatly encapsulates environmental concerns about unlimited growth. Tacitly under ...
  • Is Being Fat Related to Being Dumb? The US Case
    Being apart from the Anglo-Saxon blogging crowd allows me to probe questions they are generally uncomfortable with but need to be asked. Yesterday we considered the general unresponsiveness of Anglophone academia to reforming higher education despite producing so many unemployed and unemployable ...
  • Higher Ed in Existential Crisis: Jobless in US, UK
    Is is not particularly surprising to me that Anglophone bloggers in academia don't cover the topic much, but make no mistake--higher education is in crisis. Despite a lot of them being especially fond of rational choice theory, I suppose it's slightly discomforting to find themselves being criti ...
  • Proletarianizing F1: Hugo Chavez's Pilot Wins Race
    Face it: there are certain sports which have an uppity image. Golf. Equestrian sports alike polo and dressage. Rugby even. And, of course, there's F1 which tries to build an image of glamour with various Eurotrash and wannabe Eurotrash sporting perma-tans, big Rolexes, big yachts and attractive ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...
  • 18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has ...
    With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The situation in Europe is rapidly going from ...
  • We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die R ...
    Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and conve ...
  • The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed ...
    The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number.  At this point, t ...
  • Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The ...
    What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable.  For example ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • NASA plans to Land on Asteroid and stay for a ...
    The space agency Nasa is training a team of astronauts to land on asteroids after a three million mile journey – dwarfing the mere 239,000 miles travelled to the moon. The mission, planned for the next decade, would land on an asteroid travelling at more than 50,000 miles an hour. The astr ...
  • Moody’s cuts ratings of 16 Spanish banks
    The European banking industry has suffered another crushing blow after Moody’s ratings agency downgraded the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, citing the weakened government’s ability to support some banks. The agency downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings by one to three notches fo ...
  • Kepler space telescope records the number of s ...
    NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The bigges ...
  • Minority report: White births no longer majori ...
    For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted f ...
  • Russia warns West against hasty wars and risin ...
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Growing bipartisan opposition to NDAA indefini ...
    TweetOn May 16th, a New York state federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to block provisions of the NDAA that allow indefinite detention, claiming they are unconstitutional. The decision is part of growing bipartisan opposition to the NDAA that includes prominent members of the US milit ...
  • 2012-05-18 WikiLeaks News Update: Assange like ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 532 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 529 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 726 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 612 days. ...
  • WikiLeaks cable completely unrelated to Iran e ...
    TweetOn 16 May 2012 The Times published a piece claiming that information found in an embassy cable released by WikiLeaks directly led to the execution of Majid Jamli Fashi, an Iranian kickboxer. Within hours, media outlets around the world picked up the article and the story went viral. Nothing ...
  • 2012-05-15 WikiLeaks News Update: "The World T ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 528 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 525 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 722 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 608 days. ...
  • 2012-05-13 WikiLeaks News Update: Stratfor ops ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 526 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 523 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 720 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 606 days. ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...
  • Hungry Dragon
    COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has b ...
  • Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessm ...
    Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The workshop will be held on Saturday 5 May, 9am-4pm at Pearson Hall on the Museum of Norther ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • H.CON.RES.107 .... Obama Impeachment Bill Goes ...
      Alex speaks with Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr. about H.CON.RES.107 -- a bill that deems the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Const ...
  • ALERT!... Obama Declares 'State Of Emergency' ...
      Premier Barack Obama AKA Barry Soetoro AKA Barry the Rat signed Executive Order Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen, declaring a State of Emergency in the United States and activating his new dictatorial powers, including the Internatio ...
  • Leuren Moret Interview... Fukushima Depopulati ...
      In this exclusive wide-ranging May 15, 2012 interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD (ABD), updates the viewing audiences on the status of the ongoing Fukushima radiation-depopulation rollout, stating that "Fukushima radiation has taken ove ...
  • The Dark Side of 'Smart' Meters
      Consulting engineer Rob States explains how PG&E's so-called 'smart' meters work and why they endanger health and privacy. ~ Mini Documentary read more
  • Medusa Meter... The Most Powerful Smart Meter
      The Medusa Meter is powerful and dangerous. It is slightly larger than the common smart meter. The Medusa Meter collects information from its nearby surrounding meters and relays the information to a central collection site. ~ Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • List Of French Marigold Flowers
    Permalink French Marigold flowers are a popular and ‘beneficial’ garden companion that will help your garden plants thrive because of their potent pesticide-producing root system and strong aroma to ward off pests. Are all Marigold’s ‘French’ Marigolds? I believe th ...
  • Container Garden On Your Porch
    Just because you may live in an apartment or rent or live in a home with little or no garden availability (or permission to dig up part of the yard), don’t let that stop you from trying your hand at growing some vegetables this summer! There are lots and lots of things that you can [...]
  • Is Your Families Next Disaster Going To Be Apo ...
    Solar Flares, EMP, Hyperinflation due to a global collapse of the economy or Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, although these I believe are all very real possibilities in our world as it exists today, are there other equally devastating emergencies that can literally cripple your families live ...
  • Bugging Out – Will You Make It There?
    When disaster happens, will you stay or will you go? How will you decide which to do or when it’s time to do it? If you decide to bug-out, where will you go and how will you get there? There are lots of questions and they require lots of thought, BEFORE ‘it’ happens. Okay, for ...
  • Armed Environmental Police Shut Down Ice-Cream ...
    image source: lowellsun.com You may have run across this news report already today while scouring the news, but in case you haven’t, hear is a re-hash. In Massachusetts, state environmental police shut down an ice-cream stand run by Mark Duffy for 26 years at a dairy farm in Carlisle, a sm ...

Fast Company

  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.We released our annual Most Creative People list this week. As usual, it was wildly popular. Though we have decided not to include its content in this week's top 10, you can read about it here (in case you missed it). We have s ...
  • Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage ...
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Twitter and NASCAR announced a digital partnership Friday that will bring NASCAR enthusiasts the tweet-by-tweet of the All Star race on the weekend of June 10. Twitter will curate #NASCAR tweets from drivers and commentators, as well as celebri ...
  • Facebook Acquires Karma
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Because simply having the largest IPO in U.S. history isn't enough for Facebook, the social network also went shopping. The social gifting mobile app called Karma is announcing that it has been acquired by Facebook. The company's cofounders, in ...
  • Tracking Facebook's IPO Day On Social Media
    Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors. [View the story "Tracking Social Media Reaction to the Facebook IPO" on Storify]
  • This Week In Bots: Are You Ready To Be More Ma ...
    All the recent advances in robots that grip onto asteroids, walk like dogs, and replace damaged human limbs. Enjoy! Bot Vid: JPL's Asteroid GripperThere's all sorts of crazy-wonderful plans about mining asteroids in the news, but we also need to remember plans to defend Earth against rogue aster ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt's Presidential Election: Meet the Contenders
    Egypt’s first presidential election after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to take place on 23 and 24 May 2012, with a possible run-off race on 16 and 17 June 2012. The following guide to the presidential candidates is based on a series of articles published by Egypt Independent. For mor ...
  • . . . مرايا تبحث عن محررين
      تبحث شركة لافانت لابوراتوريز{مختبرات المشرق}، الناشرة لمجلة شهرية فكرية جديدة مستلهمة من الربيع العربي، عن محررين في مجالات الاقتصاد والأخبار وشبكة الإنترنت لمكاتبها في بيروت ولندن. على المتقدمين أن يكونوا متمكنين من اللغة العربية، ويفضل المتخرجين حديثاً من الجامعة. وأن يكونوا مهتمين ...
  • Iran Will Require Assurances: An Interview wit ...
    Hossein Mousavian has served as visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security from 2009 to the present. Prior to this position, he held numerous positions in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including director-general of its West Europe depart ...
  • الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيالين اللبن ...
    تنقسم مداخلتي إلى قسمين، يتناول الأوّلُ "الانتفاضاتِ العربيّةَ وفلسطين في المخيال اللبنانيّ"، ويتناول القسمُ الثاني "الانتفاضات العربيّة وفلسطين في المخيال السوريّ". ولا حاجة إلى القول إنّ المخيال هنا (أو الوعي) ليس واحدًا في الحالين، على ما ستُظهر هذه المداخلة، بل مخيالاتٌ م ...
  • Beating the Drums of Orientalism
    The US occupation of Iraq, coupled with its attendant deployment of sectarianism as a political technology, has foreclosed the possibility of non-sectarian modes of seeing, or critiquing political life in Iraq. In "Shiites and Sunnis in post-US Iraq: separate and unequal; some predict disso ...

mediagazer

  • Rupert Murdoch denies claims that News Corp ma ...
    Guardian: Rupert Murdoch denies claims that News Corp may sell UK newspapers  —  Mogul says News Corporation is ‘firmly committed’ to its papers including the Sun, Times and Sunday Times  —  Rupert Murdoch has denied reports that News Corp is consider ...
  • Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magaz ...
    Erik Maza / WWD: Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines  —  NO UPTURN: Sally Singer opened the most recent issue of T The New York Times Magazine with a tribute to leisurely evolutions.  “You realize that even when taste is a given, patience is a virtue,&r ...
  • The National Review's fake plagiarism scoop (A ...
    Alex Pareene / Salon: The National Review's fake plagiarism scoop  —  Updated: After falsely accusing Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the conservative magazine apologizes  —  The National Review says Elizabeth Warren is guilty of the gravest crime a writer can co ...
  • Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off (Fin ...
    Financial Times: Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off  —  By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles  —  Rupert Murdoch has moved to quash discussions within his own company about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, s ...
  • So Warren Buffett likes newspapers again? (Jac ...
    Jack Shafer: So Warren Buffett likes newspapers again?  —  Just because Warren Buffett blew $142 million in cash on 63 daily and weekly Media General newspaper titles yesterday doesn't mean that newspapers are back.  All it means is that an old cow that's still a milker has ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Luxury Liner’s Removal to Begin Off Itali ...
    ROME — One of the most expensive and challenging salvage operations ever planned, the removal of the luxury liner Costa Concordia from granite rocks off the Tuscan coast, where it ran aground in January, will begin next week, the companies in charge announced Friday. Enlarge This Image ...
  • Soccer: Lampard - Chelsea happy to be und ...
    Chelsea is just fine with being labeled the underdog against favored Bayern Munich in the Champions League final, stand-in captain Frank Lampard said today. Lampard acknowledged that Bayern has an advantage playing in the "amazing" atmosphere of its home Allianz Arena stadium on Saturday (Su ...
  • Messi, Aguero, Zabaleta named in Argentin ...
    Barcelona's Lionel Messi, plus Sergio Aguero and Pablo Zabaleta from English champion Manchester City, were named Friday in Argentina's team for a June 2 World Cup qualifier against...
  • Largest protests yet in Syria's biggest c ...
    ZEINA KARAM Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian forces on Friday fired on protesters holding the largest opposition marches yet in Aleppo, a sign of rising anti-regime sentiment in the country's biggest city, which has largely remained supportive of President Bashar Assad throughout the 1 ...
  • Virginia's jobless rate remains the same ...
    Virginia's unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent in April as job growth slowed during the month, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Friday. The jobless rate was unchanged from March, when it hit a three-year low. It was down from the year-ago April rate of 6.2 percent. The st ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/17/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate best matches your views on important issues. We've updated our survey with new questions on bailouts for GM and Chrysler, new nuclear plants, oil drilling and gas prices, the Cle ...
  • 5/17/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart – Read the positions of Virgil Goode (Constitution), Gary Johnson (Libertarian), Barack Obama (Democrat), Ron Paul (Republican), Buddy Roemer (Independent), and Mitt Romney’s (Republican) positions on 55 different issues in our ...
  • 5/17/12 - Should the US federal government hav ...
    2012election.procon.org - Should the US federal government have bailed out General Motors and Chrysler? Obama is Pro. Paul, Romney, Goode, and Johnson are Con.
  • 5/17/12 - Should the United States build addit ...
    2012election.procon.org - Should the United States build additional nuclear plants? Obama, Paul, and Romney are Pro.  Goode, Johnson, and Roemer are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
  • 5/17/12 - Will increased domestic oil drilling ...
    2012election.procon.org - Will increased domestic oil drilling lower gas prices? Obama is Con.  Paul and Romney are Pro.  Goode and Roemer are Not Clearly Pro or Con.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • US stocks drop on China interest rates, earnin ...
    NEW YORK - US stocks fell sharply Tuesday amid mixed corporate earnings and as China raised interest rates for the first time since 2007. China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, announced a rise in its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points. It said its one-ye ...
  • Yahoo?s earnings rise in third quarter
    SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo posted a 113-percent rise in third quarter earnings Tuesday, but investors were still disappointed by the struggling web pioneer’s failure to meet its sales forecast. The web portal, which again has been subject to speculation about a sale in recent days, said its i ...
  • Russia puts six US satellites into orbit
    Moscow, Oct 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft put six US communications satellites into orbit Tuesday, an official said. The spacecraft blasted off at 17.11 GMT from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. The Globalstar-2 s ...
  • Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand Secretly Married?
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com) — If rumors are assumed to be true, funnyman Russell Brand has secretly married his fiancee Katy Perry. The entire rumor sparked off when Russel was seen wearing what appears to be a wedding band in London. The couple got engaged last December and w ...
  • A Radiccally Revamped Xbox.com by Wednesday Mo ...
    more images NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com) — Microsoft is adding several features with a new design for the gamers at Xbox.com. Social Network integration has been taken a step forward with the option to create an avatar for yourself. It does not end here. The latest and hottest Windows Phone 7 ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Illinois Senate Passes Shark Fin Ban
    When you think of Illinois, “shark fins” may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But this inland state does have a shark fin trade, and it may soon be history. After Oceana collected over a thousand signatures from concerned Illinois citizens this week, the Illinois Senate voted to pas ...
  • Baltic Team Finds Dead Seals
    A grey seal in the Baltic. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Our Baltic expedition came upon a sad sight this week: a dozen baby seals lying dead on the seafloor. The team found the bodies while diving in Bogskär islet off of Finland, home to a small grey seal colony. The dead seals were about six mont ...
  • BP Spill Residue Found in Minnesota Pelican Eggs
    An American white pelican sits on her nest in Minnesota. [Image via Minnesota Public Radio] The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon are being felt in -- you guessed it -- Minnesota. White pelicans that winter in the Gulf of Mexico and have lived in an oiled Gulf have migrated to far away p ...
  • Tell Obama: Turn Shell's Ships Around
    Every day brings Shell a little closer to drilling in Arctic waters, home to seals, whales, and polar bears. With that drilling comes the risk of an oil spill, which could be devastating to the ocean ecosystem and those dependent on it. But it’s not too late—there is still a chance for Presi ...
  • Exciting News for Turtles
    Kemps Ridley sea turtle Editor's Note: This entry was written by Oceana scientist Amanda Keledjian.

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Bristol 188 “Flaming Pencil”
          This stainless steel juggernaut was a test bed aircraft and the hope was that the research would give the British aeronautical engineers a way to build better materials and structure for sustained Mach flight. The idea was to create plane that could climb to over 50,000 feet ...
  • The Jagdpanzer 38t, Or Hetzer Anti Tank Assaul ...
      The Hetzer was offically known as the Jagdpanzer 38t. It was a tank killer, or anti armor assault gun. The Germans took a high velocity 75mm gun and mounted it on the Czech 38t tank chassis and fielded almost 3000 of thee guns. People might perhaps wonder what role the assault gun actuall ...
  • Switzerland’s Secret Alpine Bunkers.
      The Swiss have an excuse for avoiding the consequences of endless centuries of warfare in Europe. They’re neutral, and have they have managed to maintain a neutrality to all things warfare. The Swiss terrain itself is hostile to standing parade ground armies.  The huge open vistas and ste ...
  • Shaka (kaSenzangakhona) Zulu. The African Ghen ...
      The enigmatic thing about Shaka Zulu is that there seems to be little or no easily recognizable impetus for his new methods of leadership. There was no over reaching geopolitical movement afoot that midwifed his new sense of governance. No one declared that things would improve with a mil ...
  • Shaka (kaSenzangakhona) Zulu. The African Ghen ...
      The enigmatic thing about Shaka Zulu is that there seems to be little or no easily recognizable impetus for his new methods of leadership. There was no over reaching geopolitical movement afoot that midwifed his new sense of governance. No one declared that things would improve with a mil ...

Taylor Marsh

  • George Zimmerman Accused of “Bullying” Middle ...
    THE PROSECUTION DOCUMENT DUMP on Thursday released a lot of information. The audio clip via Think Progress, which is above, is an interview with a witness and reveals something that shows up in the Sanford Police Report and surfaces in multiple depictions of George Zimmerman. It goes back to his ...
  • Queer Talk: GOP Inching Toward Support of LGBT ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. We’ve heard a lot about Obama’s expression of his personal support for marriage equality, and a good bit about the growing number of Dems calling for a marriage equality plank. But what have Mitt and the Republicans b ...
  • Oh Donna, How We Danced
    DONNA SUMMER was writing “Love to Love You Baby”; I was Miss Missouri. “Last Dance” came out in 1978, the year after the BeeGees and John Travolta blasted on the scene and shook American culture. I was Broadway bound and once I got there one thing I’ll never forget ...
  • No Amount of Millions Could Save Americans Elect
    SPENDING MILLIONS and getting nowhere. What could more perfectly represent the American political landscape today? Turns out, instead of offering a new path, the insider, back room millionaires blew through tens of millions only to go the way of Pres. Obama’s much ballyhooed Simpson-Bowles ...
  • Sanford Police Report: Encounter ‘Ultimately A ...
    The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman, if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited arrival of law enforcement, or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialog in an effort to dispe ...

Hudson New York

  • New Forensic Evidence is Consistent with Georg ...
    A medical report by George Zimmerman's doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting. Moreover, the New York Times has reported that
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: April 2012
    As Easter, one of the highest Christian holidays, comes in April, Christian persecution in Muslim nations—from sheer violence to oppressive laws—was rampant: In Nigeria, where jihadis have expressed their desire to expunge all traces of Christianity, a
  • How Much Is Mahmoud Abbas Worth?
    The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has just discovered what every Palestinian child knows -- that hundreds of millions of dollars had been embezzled during the era of Yasser Arafat. The "discovery", however, was not the result of a thorough and
  • Muslim Voters Change Europe
    An analysis of the voting patterns that barrelled François Hollande to victory on May 6 as the first Socialist president of France since 1995 shows that this overthrow was due in large measure to Muslims, who voted for him in overwhelming numbers. The
  • The Main Goal of the Palestinian Government
    At a time when many Western governments, the World Bank and various international organizations are continuing to heap praise on the Palestinian Authority for implementing reforms, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Hasan Khreishah,

Urban Survival

  • Where’s my Damn Rally?
    There’s not much different between idiots and economists, because although the economist may be more schooled in math, the old saying is that “God looks out for drunks and idiots.”  There was no mention of economists. Although I went short … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Odd Intersection of UFOs and Gay R ...
    A novel thought takes form.  But before we get there, let’s me explain a bit about how it arises and what some of the important (read: possible) motivations for all the froo-haa about UFO’s may be.  Let me begin with … Continue reading →
  • Tough Times for News Mongers
    Is it possible the world is heading for “media burn-out?” We’ve speculated recently that something along this line might be coming because when you think about it, the world is swimming in a sea of inconclusive news stories that just … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo: Who’s Henry?
    Somehow, I don’t think I mentioned this one which I stumbled upon when I was cleaning out my inbox this week. Somehow, when it came in back in February when we were talking about electronic voice phenomena back when. But … Continue reading →
  • Big Rally Day
     Reader note: Still working on pesky graphics issues! About here, Peoplenomics readers will be saying “Oh…got’cha…” on my latest move of both nickels in markets yesterday morning.  The S&P, NASDAQ, and other indices were up smartly in the preopen due … Con ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Ohio fracking bill does not go far enough to p ...
    Thom Cmar, Attorney, Chicago A modern-day gold rush is on in Ohio.  Oil and natural gas locked up in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations has attracted billions in investment from oil and gas companies ready to use new horizontal drilling a ...
  • Next 10: Funding Energy Efficiency and Renewab ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Are the millions of dollars in anticipated revenue from charging California’s largest polluters for their carbon emissions under the state’s cap-and-trad ...
  • Science In Defense of a National Treasure: EPA ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a major step forward today in its review of petitions to intervene in ...
  • A Positive Discussion of Clean Energy Standard ...
    Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City Yesterday, Senator Bingaman led a committee hearing on the Clean Energy Standard (S.1426), legislation that would increase production of renewable energy like wind and solar power, ...
  • Otero Mesa; Fight Over Rare Earths Threatens a ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics from cell phones to smart bombs could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by envi ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Samsung’s Galaxy S III pre-orders are looking incredibly strong. Facebook takes a big boost, then a fall, then a boost on its first trading day. Apple’s new iPhone might indeed...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Samsung pushes the button to ship more chips faster following Apple loss speculation. Facebook’s Saverin may not be allowed back in the US. Iran is going to sue the Googles....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook amends its S-1. Yes, again. No, this is not a repeat of yesterday. DISH Network could find itself on the wrong side of CBS’s programming decisions. Flipboard now has...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook amends its S-1. Yes, again. Twitter reaches 10 million active users in the UK. New MacBook Pro models look to be set for launch at WWDC. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
    Shutterstock files for an IPO, Facebook’s own IPO date looms large, and Steve Wozniak praises Mark Zuckerberg. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Pictures: mama and baby orangutan saved from p ...
    A mother orangutan and its baby were rescued from an area of forest that was being bulldozed for an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, reports the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC), which participated in the translocation of the red apes.
  • Brazilian deforestation lower in 2012 to date
    Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is lower in 2012 relative to the same period last year according to satellite-based data released by Imazon, an NGO.
  • Palm oil industry hires lobbying powerhouse to ...
    The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that palm oil-based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.
  • Giant prehistoric freshwater turtle discovered
    Researchers working in Colombia has discovered the fossilized remains of a giant freshwater turtle that lived some 60 million years ago.
  • New 'bony-tongue' fish discovered in Myanmar
    A new species of arowana, a highly valued aquarium fish, has been described from southern Madagascar. The description is published in last month's issue of the journal Aqua.

Sierra Express

  • Bo Njala students say – SLPP projects in the p ...
    No one knows better than the students of the Njala campus in Bo town, how the SLPP party can coin words such as “Projects are in the pipeline” to evade suspicion over their ineptitude and inability to deliver upon their promises. I was fortunate to listen and get this first hand information from ...
  • Patriotic Sierra Leoneans organization launchi ...
    Fellow Sierra Leoneans and friends of Sierra Leone, you are cordially invited to the Patriotic Sierra Leoneans-PSL organization launching and party.  Date:   Saturday, May 26th, 2012 Location: The Mirage Hall, 1401 University Bld E, Ste # G111, Hyatsville, MD 20783.  Time: 9:00 p.m. – 4:00 a.m.  ...
  • First Lady commissions Allen Town bus stop
    The First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma (in photo) on Saturday 12th May, 2012 commissioned the Allen Town bus stop, constructed by one of the APC aspirants in Constituency 96 for the November elections, Alhassan Kamara. Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma reaffirmed her commitmen ...
  • SLRTA to crackdown on reckless drivers
    The Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) and stakeholders in the transport sector on Thursday 17th May, 2012 distributed to among others the police, traffic wardens, drivers and the Passenger Welfare Association, the 2011 Road Traffic Regulation Act being an Act approved by Parliament a ...
  • Ambassador Bangali represents Minister of Just ...
    Sierra Leone’s Envoy to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, His Excellency Ambassador Andrew Gbebay Bangali (in photo) satisfactorily represented the country’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Hon. Franklyn Kargbo at the just concluded meeting of Ministers of Justice/Attorneys ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • "Fireworks On Melissa Harris Perry As Ezra Kle ...
    I appeared earlier today on MSNBC's excellent though decidedly left-of-left-of-center Melissa Harris Perry, talking about a range of topics including the Euro-crisis. We'll have a full tape of the show eventually up at Reason, but in the meantime, here's a writeup of the show, which ...
  • Chester Arthur and the Original Birther Conspiracy
    Given the brouhaha over the “born in Kenya” claim in a lit agency’s bio of Barack Obama and the Arizona Secretary of State looking for more proof Obama was born in Hawaii, here’s a reminder that President Obama wasn’t the first president dogged by rumors of foreign birth, a 2005 ( ...
  • The Swing Vote: Why Independents Will Decide t ...
    "In the past four years, two and a half million people have left the Democratic and Republican parties," explains Linda Killian, author of the new book The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents. Not only are these voters sick of the two dominant parties, Killi ...
  • Morning SpaceX Launch Aborted Due to Engine Pr ...
    Last-second pressure issues in a combustion chamber prompted SpaceX to abort its rocket launch this morning. Via the Associated Press: A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a las ...
  • Capitalism, Creative Destruction, and the 2012 ...
    In his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, the Austrian-born economist Joseph Schumpeter famously likened the capitalist system to a “perennial gale of creative destruction.” Capitalism, Schumpeter wrote, “is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only nev ...

Mercury Rising

  • Mary Kiffmeyer: Lies And Fuzzy Handcuffs Good, ...
    When last we saw Mary Kiffmeyer, the fastidious moral scold of voter suppression and “Jesus at the Closing Table” infamy, she and her fellow voter suppressors over at Minnesota Majority were embracing the rather sleazy figure of James O’Keefe. Not content with showing her true ...
  • Go sit in The Corner
    Go sit in The Corner
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Bradlee Dean Gets A Taste Of His Own YouTube M ...
    Rabidly homophobic nutbar preacher Bradley Dean Smith, aka “Bradlee Dean” to his followers, is known for filing bogus copyright-infringement claims against anyone who reposts all or part of his YouTubes and other recordings. Well, now he’s just got a taste of his own medicine, ...
  • Spy v. spy, General v. general, Clown v. clown ...
    Reuters, via Grauniad: Investigators are questioning Mexico’s former deputy defence minister and a top army general for suspected links to organised crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war. Mexican soldiers on Tuesday detained retired general T ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Lightning in a Bottle Festival
    On May 24-28, The Lightning in a Bottle festival will be celebrating life through art, music, and performance at the Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, CA. This green festival is committed to sustainability, as well as providing a well-rounded experience for all walks of life. Among them are music ...
  • Humongous Fungus Among Us
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  • Mars, Neptune and Orgasm Addiction: Holding an ...
      This article is being republished with permission from Sasstrology.com (May 9th, 2012). read more
  • FUTURE NOW
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  • Electric Jesus Hits the West
      Celebrate an evening of aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations at the East Coast readings of my debut book The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic in Boise, ID & Salt Lake City, UT. (May 17 &18)  The Electric Jesus Reading & Chakra Activation ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Inside a Dot.com Sweat shop
    Nichole Gracely has the inside scoop on demerits, humiliation, and the work ethic Amazon warehouses demand (think: Columbus’ marauders taking their pound of flesh from the Taino). Overview (5 w’s): I worked in their Lehigh Valley Fulfillment Center for a year altogether and I served ...
  • Sacha Cohen and Arab Minstrelsy
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