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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

22 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Advertisement from the 1970s by American nucle...Advertisement from the 1970s by American nuclear-energy companies, using Iran's nuclear program as a marketing ploy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is a colour composite image of the centra...This is a colour composite image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy, about 26 000 light years from Earth. Giant clouds of gas and dust are shown in blue, as detected by the LABOCA instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope at submillimetre wavelengths (870 micron). The image also contains near-infrared data from the 2MASS project at K-band (in red), H-band (in green), and J-band (in blue). The image shows a region approximately 100 light-years wide. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Big Hydropower Dams Trump Alternative Energy i ...
    Chile has enormous potential for producing non-conventional renewable energies (NCRE) like solar and geothermal, yet they only contribute three percent of the country's energy mix.
  • Vaccination – Pakistan's Missing Shots
    The deaths of 20 children, in an outbreak of measles in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agency (FATA), are raising concerns over the state of immunisation in the conflict-ridden areas along the Afghanistan border.
  • Awareness of Climate Change Must Go Mainstream
    Addressing a group of journalists during a workshop in Bangkok, Ali Raza Rizvi, Asia head of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s regional climate change and resilience programme, noted that many Asian countries have become ‘disaster friendly'.
  • Thai Criminal Court in Line of Fire
    From its imposing 14-storey building, Thailand's criminal court hands down verdicts that rarely trigger a backlash. Those condemned to long imprisonment include Thais who supposedly violated the draconian lese majeste censorship law that protects this Southeast Asian country's monarchy.
  • Ahead of Elections, Military Well Entrenched
    As Egyptians prepare to elect their country's first president since the uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military junta that has ruled for the last 15 months has shown little sign it is prepared to accept civilian oversight.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Panetta: Military Option For Iran ‘Not Being W ...
    Summary: Just days ahead of the talks between the six world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, reports say Washington is “radiating optimism” with expectations of a peaceful nuclear deal and a “warming of relations” with Tehran. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Congress opens door for US war with Iran
    Summary: The non-binding resolution H.Res.568 that overwhelmingly passed 401-11, effectively calls for a military attack on Iran when it obtains “nuclear weapons capability.” The vague interpretation, critics say, already applies to Iran, not to mention Brazil, Japan, the Netherlands, and act ...
  • Spinning Up For Baghdad
    Summary: In the case of the Iranian nuclear program, one form of inflated expectations involves the prospective terms of an agreement, such as calling for an end to all uranium enrichment by Iran, even though that would be a deal killer from Iran's perspective. Another form concerns timing, s ...
  • Hands off Syria and Iran: Russia
    Summary: RUSSIA has made clear it will not support any Western military intervention in Syria or Iran, warning that such a course could lead to nuclear war. source: The Australianread more
  • US has violated Article 1 of the NPT
    Summary: Newly declassified FBI files are shining an inconvenient light on Israel’s nuclear weaponization research program and how it has been secretly funded from the United States. Iranian negotiations with the UN Security Council resume on May 23 in Baghdad following initial sessions in Is ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Can 5-HTP really curb depression and anxiety?
    Depression and anxiety remain two of the most pervasive mental health issues in American culture today. We currently have more medications than we've ever had to treat these conditions along with more natural, gentler alternatives like 5-HTP, St. John's Wort, and others...
  • Resveratrol may be the missing link to prevent ...
    Incidence of Alzheimer's disease cases continue to explode at an unprecedented rate as processed food diets, overweight and obesity become the norm for middle and senior aged adults in the US and most western societies. By the year 2050, it's projected that 13.2 million...
  • Birth defects - could Epilim be the new Thalid ...
    After the scandal of Thalidomide, it was said that important lessons were learned, and that it should never happen again. Now it comes to light that another set of drugs are causing birth defects, and have been since the seventies. Thalidomide was a "calming" drug...
  • Give your psychiatrist a diagnosis of his own: ...
    Given the controversy over the legitimacy of the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual (DSM) used for psychiatric diagnosis, I thought I'd clear things up by submitting the following revisions. These carefully considered and researched new labels should do the trick, as...
  • Drinking high-fructose corn syrup really does ...
    If you think eating and drinking foods that contain high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) every now and again will not do you that much harm, think again. A new study out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that consuming HFCS can actually destroy...

Threat Level

  • Bomb Threat at NSA’s Massive Top-Secret Data C ...
    A bomb threat against the NSA's massive new top-secret data center under construction in Utah has led authorities to evacuate workers and call in dog-sniffing teams.
  • BitTorrent Inc. Sues Germany’s BitTorrent Co. ...
    BitTorrent Inc. of San Francisco, the developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, claims in a federal lawsuit that a German company is ripping off its intellectual property. BitTorrent file sharing, aka torrenting, is a protocol often used by online pirates to obtain free music, games and ...
  • California Considers Bill to Require Permissio ...
    California is considering a proposed bill that would guard against surreptitious DNA testing by require authorities to obtain written permission from California citizens before collecting, analyzing, storing or sharing their genetic information.
  • High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping C ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The announcement is a win for the Obama administration, which like its predecessor, argues ...
  • Supreme Court Lets Stand $675,000 File-Sharing ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing verdict that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Myth McConnell
    In the wake of the debt ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. ...
  • Eduardo Saverin, Meet Ronald Reagan
    Four years ago, conservatives mocked Joe Biden's suggestion that paying taxes is "patriotic." Now, some on the right are praising Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as "an American hero" for renouncing his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid paying millions in future capital gains taxes. Leavin ...
  • Romney, Ryan Budget Plans Fail to Meet Boehner ...
    "When the president told me yesterday that he wanted a clean increase in the debt limit," House Speaker John Boehner said this week, "It almost took my breath away." It shouldn't have. After all, Congress raised the debt ceiling 17 times under Ronald Reagan and seven more under George W. Bush, ...
  • Mitt Romney's One Degree of Separation
    A new Gallup poll released Monday offered both good news and bad for Mitt Romney. While his favorability jumped 11 points since February to reach a personal best of 50 percent, Romney still badly lags other recent nominees at the same stage in their campaigns. Despite the improvement, Mitt Rom ...
  • Welcome to the United States of Mississippi
    In the wake of her state's vote to ban marriage equality last week, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue caused quite a stir when she declared "We look like Mississippi." In response, Mississippi's Republican chief executive Phil Bryant call Perdue's remark "disappointing" and warned "I think ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Oklahoma City Exploring New Methods of Transpo ...
      Although it has taken more than twenty years, Oklahoma City is making progress in its attempts to offer its citizens a variety of ways to get around town. It has been almost seventy years since the last streetcar was in operation, and automobiles have naturally become the dominant metho ...
  • Empowering Support for Federal Investment in B ...
      Princeton Survey The Streetsblog DC recently published a story on a telephone poll of 1,003 Americans, which was commissioned by the advocacy group America Bikes and conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. The results were “unequivocal: 83 percent said that federal bike- ...
  • Toxic Mercury Is Accumulating in the Arctic
      Researchers at Harvard have found that the accumulation of toxic mercury in the Arctic is being caused both by atmospheric processes and by circumpolar rivers depositing it there. The atmospheric source has been known for some time, but it turns out twice as much mercury is being brough ...
  • Damage from Chemical Exposure Passed Down for ...
      New research has shown that exposure to commonly used chemicals causes changes in rats that are passed down through multiple generations. “We are now in the third human generation since the start of the chemical revolution, since humans have been exposed to these kinds of toxins,& ...
  • Americans More Willing to Pay for National Cle ...
      Over the past few years, U.S. Democrats and Republicans have proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector, and according to a study conducted by Yale and Harvard researchers, the average U.S. citizen is willing to pay 13 percent more for a National Clean Energy Sta ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Arise and Bow Down to All Nations. Central Par ...
    1 you wear the city on your sleeve, a mustard seed in the heart your garden-variety prophecy ready to blossom while the long-arm of the sommelier law keeps the lock-kneed drunk on fake power O, you city of throngs hovering near parks, multitude of Nations a ...
  • Vladamir Putin's Famous Speech in Munich Never ...
    Russian President, Vladamir Putin delivered the following discourse at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy on February 10, 2007. It represents one of the most intelligent and clarifying perspectives of our political and economic world by a head of state. On March 4, 2012, Putin won a l ...
  • Spain faces bank run - Economy
    “I have been working all my life, and if someone takes my money, I will kill someone.” - anonymous woman to Minister of Finance May 21, 2012 The latest available statistics on bank deposits show that €50 billion euros have left Spain since January last year. This was announc ...
  • Chicago police frame antiwar activists on “ter ...
    21 May 2012 A total of five men have been arrested in Chicago and charged with planning to make bombs or Molotov cocktails to use during the NATO summit, Chicago police officials have announced. The bogus character of the charges is demonstrated by the fact that the five men are...
  • Chicago anti-NATO march: Upbeat, massive, cons ...
    Our informal guess was over 10,000. I thought it had quite a radical vibe. There were common themes of opposing empire, war, and the oppressions of capitalism. Anyone watching would have seem many diverse voices and creative expressions — but many common thoughts and values. Including socialism. ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Listen Mr. ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by wulfric82 on Oct 4, 2010 Glenn Beck claims to not be aware of any racists in the Tea Party...Let's help him spot the racists! It's like Where's Waldo, except THEY'RE ALL WALDO! Music: "Listen, Mr. Bilbo" sung by Pete Seeger - song written in 1946 referring to then Sen ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Listen Mr. ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by wulfric82 on Oct 4, 2010 Glenn Beck claims to not be aware of any racists in the Tea Party...Let's help him spot the racists! It's like Where's Waldo, except THEY'RE ALL WALDO! Music: "Listen, Mr. Bilbo" sung by Pete Seeger - song written in 1946 referring to then Sen ...
  • Boy, am I glad I missed **THAT**
    By @BGinKC Oh my...the silliness I miss when I have to go be somebody -- and the Cory Booker fiasco is no exception.  By the time I got to the party, the keg was almost dry and all the munchies were gone, and as I surveyed the wreckage, I was kinda glad I missed it. The propensity of Democr ...
  • Attacks on Veterans at Peaceful Protest
    By @KYYellowDog How cowardly is Chicago Mayor Rahm Fucking Emmanuel? So cowardly he sicced his storm troopers on nonviolent demonstrators from Veterans for Peace. From Truthout: Thousands of protesters marched beside Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans Sunday to accompany the vets as they marc ...
  • Fracking Could Turn Much Of America Into A Was ...
    They've already seen a lot of this in rural areas -- the dumping of industrial waste, the fouling of well water, the loss of bucolic hills and trees. But it's not something that just happens in sparsely populated rural areas anymore. It's come to the city. "Fracking" -- the hydraulic fracturing ...

Care 2

  • Iran Committed to Full Annihilation of Israel.
    Iran is dedicated to annihilating Israel, the Islamic regimes military chief of staff declared Sunday. The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel, Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said. Submitted by stan b. to World  |   Note-it! ...
  • Guatemalan Communities Have No Say in Exploita ...
    In Guatemala, a fierce battle is raging between locals opposed to a hydropower dam and the security forces who back the forces of development supported by multi-naitonal corporations and local government officials.. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!   ...
  • The problems with Thailand's tiger tourism trade
    Questionable zoos and a dwindling population mean getting up close to these majestic beasts is no easy -- or morally acceptable -- feat Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Keep Caves Closed to Save Our Bats ! PLEASE SI ...
    Please -- speak up by using the form below to ask the Service to reaffirm its commitment to western bats and farmers and maintain the only cave-management policies that have a chance of saving these unique animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
  • Open Thread - 5/21/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, including a video, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Right On, Penn Jillette
    I love Penn and Teller. They are amazing performers and true libertarians. Here is Penn laying the wood to Obama (warning, strong language): Penn, like me, despises hypocrisy. I agree totally with Penn. What do you think? (Full disclosure, I paid to see Penn and Teller in Vegas in January. Worth ...
  • Barack Obama’s Historical Whiff
    Leave it to Barack Obama to try to one-up George W. Bush, but not in a good way. Bush the younger pissed away an historical opportunity in the aftermath of 9-11. He had the country united behind him and could have moved decisively to crush the Islamic extremists behind the 9-11 attacks. Instead, ...
  • Best National Anthems?
    In honor of the G-8 Summit, and with the Olympics a few months away, thought you might like a chance to weigh in on your favorite national anthems. Generally speaking, most countries have atrocious, unsingable, uninspiring audio dreck. But there are some out there that deserve praise and serve t ...
  • Anderson Cooper Tells His Masters He Has No Ma ...
    Anderson Cooper has done it again, and if this keeps up, there’s hope Cooper has changed. (Actually, nobody ever changes.*) Oh. What did Cooper do? Again? You’ll recall — your comments at the time sure indicated that you’d remember — this post, “CNN’s Cooper C ...
  • How Our Government Deals with Its Messes: The ...
    So, how am I feeling about our government’s leadership today? Well, I finally found a video clip that portrays it perfectly. We elect people who say they will clean up our problems. And they are huge, stinking problems. But what do they do instead? Well…see for yourself. Your turn …

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA and the Spruce Mine - New York Times
    EPA and the Spruce Mine New York Times The Environmental Protection Agency last year revoked a permit for a planned, 2278-acre West Virginia coal mine that encapsulated everything wrong with a particularly destructive form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal. and more »
  • Capito opponent blasts her pro-coal stance - C ...
    WCHS Capito opponent blasts her pro-coal stance Charleston Gazette The EPA signaled last week that it intends to appeal a federal court ruling overturning its veto of a key water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. US District Judge Amy Berman Jacks ...
  • 20 gather for prayer at well in Vienna - Young ...
    20 gather for prayer at well in Vienna Youngstown Vindicator “We are allowing such things as tar-sands extraction, offshore drilling, mountain-top removal and hydraulic fracturing, which is becoming increasingly popular locally, to destroy both the earth God created and one another,” she said, a ...
  • GOP takes aim at Obama's stance on coal - The ...
    GOP takes aim at Obama's stance on coal The Hill (blog) Interior plans to rework rules issued at the end of the George W. Bush administration that regulate the dumping of debris from mountaintop-removal coal mining into nearby waterways. Republicans argue the Obama administration's plann ...
  • Under attack — The Obama-led EPA strikes back ...
    Under attack — The Obama-led EPA strikes back Bluefield Daily Telegraph The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced its plan to appeal a federal court ruling that overturned its earlier veto of a key water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines ...

Memeorandum

  • Depressing eurozone summary du jour (David Keo ...
    David Keohane / FT Alphaville: Depressing eurozone summary du jour  —  Another day... another round of eurozone soul searching.  This time UBS has sent out a Tuesday triptych of eurozone angst.  —  The first note, from Paul Donovan, covers off the flaws in t ...
  • Kelly Ayotte ready to jolt Joe Biden (Joe Batt ...
    Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald: Kelly Ayotte ready to jolt Joe Biden  —  Possible veep pick dreams of debate  —  NASHUA, N.H. — In a sneak peek at a potential fall showdown, New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte said tangling with Vice President Joe Biden on ...
  • Justice for Maverick! Student Wins Right to We ...
    Lambda Legal: Justice for Maverick!  Student Wins Right to Wear Shirt  —  Lambda Legal client Maverick Couch can now this T-shirt (pictured) to school any day he chooses.  The school district and principal agreed today to have a judgment entered against them.  &md ...
  • Teen arrested in Brooklyn blow-dart attacks (N ...
    New York Post: Teen arrested in Brooklyn blow-dart attacks  —  The city's urban jungle got even wilder when two teenage punks became rooftop snipers and targeted a Brooklyn neighborhood over the weekend — with blow darts, authorities said yesterday.  —  Thr ...
  • Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We ...
    Ross Andersen / The Atlantic Online: Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong  —  We've already tacked three decades onto the average lifespan of an American, so what's wrong with adding another few decades?  —  So far as we know, the last ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China’s carbon market challenge
    The decision to set up seven emissions-trading pilots sent media into a tizzy about Chinese climate policy. But Wang Tao has other concerns: from accurate data to a stable carbon price, there are tests ahead.China’s three main carbon markets – the Beijing Environment Exchange, Shangh ...
  • Trading places?
    Europe’s emissions trading scheme is no longer the only game in town. A new report considers the challenge posed by China’s carbon market pilots, writes Rob Elsworth.The European Union (EU) has long seen itself in the vanguard of action on climate change. At the centre of its climate ...
  • Europe can do better
    The EU-China relationship on climate change should be deeper. But is the obstacle Europe’s inability to “speak with one voice”, or a failure to fully understand Chinese climate change politics? Diarmuid Torney explains.Since 2005, the European Union and China have sought to dev ...
  • Reviving the valley
    Tourism offers an opportunity to rebuild the local economy of Pakistan’s Swat Valley, ravaged by conflicts and floods. But can it also restore its rivers and forests? Rina Saeed Khan reports.For years, Pakistan’s former princely state of Swat, famous for its fruit orchards, snow-clad ...
  • A yam between two rocks
    Beijing and New Delhi are competing for influence in Nepal. Navin Khadka asks how this rivalry will shape the country’s hydropower policies.Editor’s note: in February, Nepal signed a US$1.6 billion agreement with China to develop the 760-megawatt West Seti hydropower project within i ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Bomb Threat at NSA’s Massive Top-Secret Data C ...
    A bomb threat against the NSA's massive new top-secret data center under construction in Utah has led authorities to evacuate workers and call in dog-sniffing teams.
  • BitTorrent Inc. Sues Germany’s BitTorrent Co. ...
    BitTorrent Inc. of San Francisco, the developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, claims in a federal lawsuit that a German company is ripping off its intellectual property. BitTorrent file sharing, aka torrenting, is a protocol often used by online pirates to obtain free music, games and ...
  • California Considers Bill to Require Permissio ...
    California is considering a proposed bill that would guard against surreptitious DNA testing by require authorities to obtain written permission from California citizens before collecting, analyzing, storing or sharing their genetic information.
  • High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping C ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The announcement is a win for the Obama administration, which like its predecessor, argues ...
  • Supreme Court Lets Stand $675,000 File-Sharing ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing verdict that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network.

Equality Trust

  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • He Survives the Russian Revolution, World War ...
    The demographics associated with this monumental outbreak, due in significant part to the propensity of Listeriosis to affect the elderly, have given us the opportunity to explore history. As you know, several of our clients were decorated for extraordinary actions in World War II. The story o ...
  • California Cantaloupe Growers Adopt Food Safet ...
    After 146 people were sickened (with 36 dead) by Listeria-tainted cantaloupe grown in Colorado, the California Cantaloupe Growers finally charged/backed into action.  They are now in the process of adopting the "California Cantaloupe Program."  You have to wonder why it took 36 dead an ...
  • Tempeh linked to 83 with Salmonella Paratyphi ...
    Paratyphi B is a rare type of salmonella in part because it has a 30-day incubation period as opposed to one to 10 days found in more common types. The disease causes diarrhea that may be bloody, high fever, headache and abdominal pain. It is rarely fatal but can be dangerous to the young, e ...
  • Public Health - Time to stop hiding the ball
    Public Health’s job is the Public’s Health and that includes telling us the truth. Last week I was perplexed when Director Catherine Templeton of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced that a “Spartanburg-area Mexican restaurant&rdqu ...
  • Organic Pastures Raw Cream, Butter and Cow Man ...
    Raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County have been released from a statewide quarantine that began May 10. CDFA imposed the quarantine in response to the detection of campylobacter bacteria, and notification from the California Department of Public Health of reported campy ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

  • President Obama on Creating an Economy Built t ...
    Published on May 21, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Facebook it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatovid Tweet it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatotwvid Tumblr it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatotbrvid President Obama responds to questions during a press conference at the 2012 Chicago NATO S ...
  • Romney Economics: Job Loss and Bankruptcy at Ampad
    Published on May 21, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http://www.romneyeconomics.com With American Pad & Paper (Ampad), Mitt Romney and his partners took a small but successful paper products business and merged it with other companies in the industry, piling up debt as they went. Ultim ...
  • CNBC Analyst: Bain Capital ‘Fired A Lot Of Peo ...
    Think Progress By Travis Waldron on May 20, 2012 at 12:36 The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press this morning. During a pa ...
  • Obama’s Campaign Vows To Be On Arizona Ballot ...
    TPM LIVEWIRE 8:40 PM EDT, Friday May 18, 2012 Barack Obama’s campaign vowed late Friday that he would be on Arizona’s ballot in November despite threats from the state’s top election official that the president might be blocked over a conspiracy theory about where he was born. The campaign was r ...
  • WATCH: Strategist Behind Proposed Reverend Wri ...
    Think Progress By Annie-Rose Strasser  on May 17, 2012 at 11:35 am A group of GOP strategists is planning to pull out all the stops — including racism — in its campaign strategy to defeat President Obama, the New York Times reported today. The Times obtained a proposal, crafted by race-baiting G ...

Solari

  • FDIC Sues on Mortgage-Backed Securities Sold t ...
    By Bob Van Voris The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued a group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , Citigroup Inc. (C) , Bank of America Securities and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) in two actions over mortgage-backed securities. The FDIC, acting as [...]
  • How Do I Find a Great Local Bank? – The ...
    They make me feel like “I matter” and that’s just good banking “cents.” ~ Ginger Warner Shouse,  winner of the “I Love My Community Bank Because…” Contest By Catherine Austin Fitts You are in for a real treat this Thursday night – the next ...
  • Panic Like It’s March 2009
    By Chris Puplava The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely a result of the chronic market volatility. For example, Bloomberg surveys the top strategists from various investment banks as to their asset c ...
  • Community Banks Say Goodbye to SEC Registration
    By Danielle Douglas John Marshall Bank in Reston has de-registered its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act permitting small banks to opt out of the costly regulatory requirement. The statute was designed to make it easier for small ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The fact is, California has been living beyond its means. The United States of America and its federal government has been living beyond its means. This is a day of reckoning and we have to take the medicine.” ~ Governor Jerry Brown Related reading: Jerry Brown Wikipedia Governor ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The unseen but perhaps decisive grand alignmen ...
    Summary:  Yesterday’s post The end of the post-WWII world is not the end of the world discussed the large-scale processes at work now.  Today we discuss the most astonishing — and seldom seen — aspect of these things. The problems of the many individual nations in crisis have r ...
  • The end of the post-WWII world is not the end ...
    Summary:  Slowly people become aware that the post-WWII economic and geopolitical order dies a little every day.  The transition might be long and difficult.  We can only guess at what lies beyond.  Yet we need not fear these things, as they’re less dangerous than what we survived in the 2 ...
  • After generations of waiting, we see that Amer ...
    Summary:  What happens as a nation of citizens becomes a plutocracy ruling subjects?  The people’s psychology must change to match their new situation.  It happened as Roman Republic fell; it’s happening today in America. A theme of the original Star Trek is that humanity was not mea ...
  • Does exporting democracy fan the flames of hat ...
    Summary:  Here’s an interesting review of an important book about an unpleasant side-effect of the West’s most powerful exports:  democracy and free-market economies.  The theme song for globlization should be “The World Turned Upside Down“. Review of World on Fire: How E ...
  • Please applaud this brave judge. We have too ...
    Summary:  American history can be seen as a series of tests to our judges.  From Dred Scott to Citizens United their responses to these challenges has shaped America.  The expansion of government power far beyond the limits of the constitution provides another test of our judges.  So far most ha ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Romney Blames Obama for Bipartisan Military Sp ...
    In a new op-ed in the Chicago Tribune ahead of the NATO meetings today in the Second City, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama, claiming he hasn’t showed sufficient American leadership in the Atlantic Alliance because of the administration’s cuts in military spending: Last year, Pre ...
  • In Mali, an ECOWAS Mediated Agreement that Bri ...
    In another turn of events since the military coup in Mali in late March, the junta leader – Capt. Amadou Sanogo – has agreed to allow the interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, to remain in office for the next 12 months, until a presidential election can be organized next year. The ag ...
  • GOP Aide: New York Times Claim that Obama Igno ...
    The New York Times published a piece on Sunday charting President Obama’s “journey to a shift on Afghanistan,” as the article’s headline reads, and claimed that the president did not consult the generals when deciding on pulling out the “surge” troops and the ...
  • This Week In Threat-Mongering - The NATO Version
    This weekend as the 28 NATO countries gathered in Chicago the focus has largely been on the future of the alliance's presence in Afghanistan. But there is of course a larger specter haunting the NATO summit, how does the alliance weather a growing era of budget austerity (on both sides of the At ...
  • A Tilt in Egypt’s Presidential Race: Morsy and ...
    There has been a rather stunning reversal of fortunes over the last week in the coming presidential race.  Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the two candidates considered front runners for some time now, seem to have lost ground due partly to their televised debate on May 10.  ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Romney World
    Imagine for a moment: It is two weeks after Election Day and President-elect Mitt Romney holds a press conference to announce his foreign-policy team, the officials who will guide his administration’s relations with the rest of the world. “Team of rivals!” proclaims Romney. He says he has decid ...
  • Brat PAC
    The Excel nerds covering the presidential campaign got their moment this weekend, when the latest batch of Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports went public. There was plenty to chew over. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee raked in $43 million compared with $40 million for ...
  • Message: I Am Amused
    If any comedian ever gets around to producing a good Mitt Romney impression (the lack of which I've lamented before), Romney's laugh is going to have to be a key part of it. The laugh was probably best described by New York Times reporter Ashley Parker, who wrote, "Mr. Romney’s laugh often soun ...
  • Time for a Financial Transaction Tax
    Despite the Camp David G8 summit’s support for a shift from austerity to growth, there is no agreement among major western leaders on what growth requires. Here is an idea whose time has come: a Financial Transactions Tax. The tax would do two things urgently required by the crisis. It would ta ...
  • Hope and More Hope
    I don’t know about you, but Jaclyn Friedman’s series last week filled me with all kindsa hope, or, at least, tamped down my hopelessness. Ending rape in conflict zones? Ending rape at all? My Eeyore side was looking askance at her pieces every day, slowly and cautiously persuaded that perhaps A ...

Buzzflash

  • Criminalizing Dissent Is a Travesty to Democra ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Frankly, one has to be a mental/legal/Constitutional contortionist to criminalize dissent while claiming to spread democracy around the world through wars for natural resources and military hegemony. Since 9/11 in particular, the United States has bee ...
  • How the Ultra-Rich Betray America
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The ultra-rich betray America and it comes in many forms. Here are a few of the more outrageous, and destructive, examples: Evasion: Corporations Suddenly Stopped Meeting Their Tax Responsibilities While corporate profits have doubled to $1.9 trillion in ...
  • White Entitlement Americans Face Their Alamo: ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you want to know why we are still seeing headlines like this one, "Arizona Goes Birther: Secretary Of State Says It's ‘Possible' Obama Won't Be On Ballot," it's because of the reality of headlines like this one, "Census: Minority Babies Are Now Maj ...
  • NRA Double Standard: Black Woman Sentenced to ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "Stand Your Ground" law is just a license to murder for white people in Florida. The case of George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin to death in Sanford, Florida, is starting to recede to the back pages of the news. This killing occurred, of cou ...
  • Do Nuclear Reactors that Jump $900 Million in ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The projected price for Georgia's Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months....and that's just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic power in the US hangs in the balance. Construction at V ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Incredible flower remedies
    Do you think flower remedies work? Apparently, Edward Bach, a bacteriologist trained in homeopathy and created some bacterial homeopathic remedies. He then branched out, says Science-based Medicine. He purportedly used his intuition to access a psychic connection to plants. “He would hold ...
  • Got the guts to be an organ donor? #EveryLittl ...
    It hasn’t been hard graft so far, but should we stem the tide of organ donor slogans on Twitter? I think not. Keep ‘em coming. No donation too small, no organ refused. Help someone liver little longer…wear your heart on your sleeve, even if we don’t see eye to eye, go on ...
  • Anti-inflammatory food
    Education regarding lifestyle, diet and exercise might be the key to avoiding chronic inflammation. “A comprehensive food-based strategy for reducing inflammation and thus reducing the incidence and severity of a large array of chronic illnesses and declining health is supported by a large ...
  • Spinning up plutonium
    After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches ...
  • Organ donors on Facebook and Twitter
    UPDATE #EveryLittleBitHelps – hashtag H/T to @JoForrest There is far too much squeamishness regarding organ donation and transplant. Some of it is down to emotional attachment and denial, which is to be expected. Much of it is due to our own death anxiety, again an evolutionarily adaptatio ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Azerbaijan: Authorities Violently Disperse Pea ...
    Azerbaijan sent an ominous message about the government’s commitment to fundamental freedoms as the police violently dispersed two peaceful protests on May 21, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. Police rounded up dozens of peaceful demonstrators, forcing them onto buses and beating many ...
  • Pickens Dumps Chesapeake, Showing that Natural ...
    Washington, D.C.—“T. Boone Pickens’s recent divestment from Chesapeake Energy shows that natural gas is a house of cards, and that even one of its biggest cheerleaders has grown wise to this fact. “Pickens dropped his holdings in Chesapeake citing low prices, also stating ...
  • Pickens Dumps Chesapeake, Showing that Natural ...
    Washington, D.C.—“T. Boone Pickens’s recent divestment from Chesapeake Energy shows that natural gas is a house of cards, and that even one of its biggest cheerleaders has grown wise to this fact. “Pickens dropped his holdings in Chesapeake citing low prices, also stating ...
  • Kucinich: “NATO Talks a Sham: War in Afghanist ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement as world leaders meet in Chicago for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it’s ...
  • Kucinich: “NATO Talks a Sham: War in Afghanist ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement as world leaders meet in Chicago for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it’s ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Rise of the New Economy Movement
    Gar Alperovitz Just beneath the surface of traditional media attention, something vital has been gathering force and is about to explode into public consciousness. The “New Economy Movement” is a far-ranging coming together of o ...
  • The 'War on Terror' Guarantee: Profit and Dest ...
    Adnan Al-Daini US President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961 warned us about the military-industrial complex with these words:read more
  • How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents
    David A. Love The US criminal justice system is a broken machine that wrongfully convicts innocent people, sentencing thousands of people to prison or to death for the crimes of others, as a new study reveals. The University of Michig ...
  • Protest Is Coming to the London Olympics
    Dave Zirin Jules Boykoff To be in London, two months before the 2012 Summer Olympics, is to feel a bit like a fish in an aquarium, with people constantly poking at the glass. Cameras adorn nearly e ...
  • The Jamaicanization of the Eurozone: Crushing ...
    Mark Weisbrot Jamaica, an English-speaking Caribbean island nation of 2.9 million people, may seem worlds away from Europe. The country's income per person of $9,000 ranks it 88th in the world, as compared to the eurozone countries, whi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Plea to attach Jagan's properties rejected ...
    A local court on Monday rejected the CBI's petition seeking attachment of certain properties of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in disproportionate asset case on technical grounds. Deputy Legal Advisor to the CB... Related Stories Blog: Water wars surface again Fishermen killings: Court rejects Italian ...
  • Man arrested for Kudankulam bomb threat letters
    One person has been arrested on charges of sending letters stating that bombs would go off inside the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear plant on May 21, police said on Monday. The handwriting of 39-yea... Related Stories First Narendra Modi, now BS Yeddyurappa to skip big BJP meet Blog: Water war ...
  • Karnataka official SP Mahantesh dead after assault
    Five days after he was allegedly attacked, a Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officer, who was also reportedly a whistle-blower in a controversial land allotment case, died at a private hospital... Related Stories Fishermen killings: Italy calls back ambassador after charge-sheet filed aga ...
  • Maoist leader operating in south India, arrest ...
    A top Maoist leader Vivek alias Kumar operating mainly in south India has been arrested in Chennai. However the woman accompanying him considered to be his live-in partner, escaped. Related Stories Fishermen killings: Italy calls back ambassador after charge-sheet filed against marines First Nar ...
  • Blog: Water wars surface again
    Chennai: In politically volatile South India, even water can set States on fire. For decades on end, neighbouring states have fought over water sharing - with the Centre struggling to play King Solomon.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Women Fighting For Their Voice In New Egypt
    Women comprise only 2 percent of Egypt’s parliament — down from 12 percent when quotas bolstered their position under the dictator Hosni Mubarak. No women participated in the constitutional council organized by transitional military rulers. And none appear on upcoming presidential ba ...
  • Coalition Prioritizes Religious Expression Ove ...
    A coalition of national groups, led by the American Jewish Committee and Religious Freedom Education Project, have released new “guidelines” for public schools that attempt to walk the line between combating bullying and protecting religious speech.  The guidelines themselves are not ...
  • Iowa’s GOP Platform Endorses Birtherism
    The state’s GOP released its platform on Monday, and the document is full of some of the most far-reaching, Tea Party-inspired policy proposals ever introduced into mainstream politics, including a call to investigate the citizenship of any presidential candidate. Here is a round up of som ...
  • May 22 News: Coal Country Jobs At Two-Decade H ...
    The coal industry and their Republican allies are looking to bury Obama under coal issues, Politico reports. American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity unveiled video attacks on his coal record the past week, as coal donors flock to Romney, who’s taken $187,750 in campaign cash through ...
  • Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine Gets $8 Milli ...
    Jon Corzine, the former chief executive of bankrupt financial firm MF Global, received an $8 million pay package in the year his company plummeted into bankruptcy and faced a shortfall in customer funds totaling $1.6 billion. Corzine resigned from the firm and turned down an $11 million severanc ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • I like Richard Dawkins and P. J. Meyers and "r ...
    This was the subject of disagreement that led to my parting of the ways with the Enmasse Discussion Board. I'm an atheist. I don't know what the source of all reality and all existence is. The source of it all is unknowable. But the "God" or "gods" that human beings have invented to account for ...
  • Thoughts on Blogging ...
  • Thoughts on the news ...
    Rob Ford does the right thing and shows up for the flag-raising for Pride Week. He still needs to resign though. Because he's a glaring incompetent. But for the record, this is what you do. IF you ran for public office and hid the fact that you're a racist or a homophobe or a misogynist and you ...
  • OIPRD "Slams" Police Actions at G20 (and is su ...
    Hot on the heels of the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP's exoneration of their own behaviour at the Toronto G20, the Ontario government's Office of the Independent Police Review Director has released its own report stating the obvious: That the police behaved abominably. Toron ...
  • Elections Canada Electoral Fraud Investigation ...
    What's going on is that Elections Canada (which already showed itself more than willing to puke on its supposed principles when it helped organize an election in Haiti) is plodding along, doing an "investigation" that doesn't subpoena witnesses or evidence, and takes years and years, so that whe ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Justin Bieber's track list for 'Believe' may n ...
    Justin Bieber and manager Scooter Braun likely talked and decided when to release the track list, with duets, for his album 'Believe'. The date came over the weekend as they released the names of 16 songs but it's unclear if all the duets are listed.
  • Five cars I miss in a quarter century covering ...
    OK! So we are two-thirds of the way through spring and I have finally got around to the annual duty popularly known as “spring cleaning.” This year’s ritual took a slightly nostalgic turn when I came across a blast from the past.
  • Justin Bieber performs and wins 'Top Social Ar ...
    At this time in his albeit still young career, Justin Bieber has been the winner of countless awards, in North America and beyond. But the 18-year-old Canadian seems to genuinely care for the awards like the one he won at the MGM Grand on Sunday.
  • Report: 3% of Canadians still accessing Intern ...
    Are you using dial-up Internet to read this article? According to an in-depth report that looks at the demographics of individuals who still utilize it, approximately three percent of Canadians use dial-up.
  • England sends ‘hunter-killer’ nuclear-powered ...
    The UK is sending the powerful nuclear submarine "HMS Talent" to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands as a “a show of strength” to Argentina amid a growing diplomatic wrangle over the future of the South Atlantic islands.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Slash nuclear forces: former commander
    Another former commander of U.S. nuclear forces, retired General James Cartwright, has joined the list of prominent former nuclear warriors calling for sharp cuts in the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
  • Ceasefire.ca’s F-35 campaign enters crit ...
    We are entering a critical phase of our campaign to stop Harper. Thank you so much for your support, and let me tell you how we are using donations from our supporters to Ceasefire.ca.
  • MacKay: It’s the media’s fault!
    Peter MacKay is taking well-deserved flak as he continues his attempt to dodge responsibility for misleading Canadians about the cost of the Libya intervention.
  • Ceasefire challenges Harper and MacKay
    Today we issued another challenge to Harper and his pro-war lobby. Using the government’s own report, we showed that Harper’s Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, dramatically understated the true costs of the war in Libya.
  • MacKay flubbed Libya costs
    Peter MacKay dramatically underestimated the cost of last year's Libya intervention, incremental cost figures released wih the DND 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities show.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Obama hails the spirit and resilience of Jopli ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Obama praises Joplin high school graduates after a ‘long and improbable journey’ as he delivers commencement address It falls to the speaker at any high school graduation to inspire the young ...
  • Chemical exposure influences rat behavior for ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   WASHINGTON — When pregnant rats are exposed to a common crop chemical, their descendants three generations later show more anxiety and stress than the offspring of unexposed peers, US researchers said. T ...
  • Will China Make the Yuan a Gold-Backed Currency?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWill China Make the Yuan a Gold-Backed Currency? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com If China Backs Its Currency with Gold, It Could Have Profound Effects for Investors … and Consumers Larry Edelson – &#821 ...
  • Illuminati Targeting Youth with Sex and Violen ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com May 21, 2012 Alex & Fritz discuss the dark evil surounding the global elite and their lustful desire to indoctrinate our youth with sex and violence.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitrick ...
  • Pomegranate juice claims deceptive, U.S. rules
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   WASHINGTON — Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company’s ad claims deceptive ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges On His New Book: Days of Destruct ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 21, 2012 May 11, 2012 by BookVideosTV Journalist Chris Hedges and graphic artist Joe Sacco traveled to the most depressed pockets of the United States to combine narrative nonfiction with graphic art in their book Days of Destruction, Days of R ...
  • Greg Palast: BP Coverup, Coverup
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com May 21, 2012 May 21, 2012 by TheRealNews Greg Palast: US corporate media ignoring evidence of BP foreknowledge of problems that led to Gulf disaster BP Coverup, Coverup *** Transcript Greg Palast is the author of  Vultures’ Picnic ...
  • The Madeleine Albright Commemoration: Iraq Gen ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 18 May 2012 “Get some new lawyers.” — Then US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on his assertion that the bombing of Balkan States was illegal under international law (1999) * ...
  • Amy Goodman’s Talk After Winning the Gan ...
    Dandelion Salad May 15, 2012 by strugglevideomedia May 2012, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, talks after being presented the Gandhi Peace Award by Promoting Enduring Peace in New Haven. The prestigious award has been given since the early ’50′s. Amy Goodman’s Talk After Wi ...
  • Pompous Prevaricators of Power by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 15, 2012 A friend who works in Congress and actually reads the Congressional Record suggested that a collection of excerpted falsehoods by Republicans on the floor of the House of Representatives and Senate would make compelling evidence for the ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel ranked alongside Iran as one of countri ...
    Israel has been ranked in the top four countries that most negatively influence the word, according to a global public opinion poll conducted by the BBC... Where do the negative evaluations of Israel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Police Target Activis ...
    On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest tents were set up in dozens... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Walid Khalidi: On Nakba Day 2012
    Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: “My B ...
    “When you grow up you will understand how injustice was brought upon your father and upon thousands of Palestinians whom the occupation has put in prisons and jail cells, shattering their lives and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian priso ...
    The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Pancreatic Cancer May Be Detected with Simple ...
    By simply shining a tiny light within the small intestine, close to that organ's junction with the pancreas, physicians at Mayo Clinic in Florida have been able to detect pancreatic cancer 100 percent of the time in a small study. The light, attached to a probe, measures changes in cells and blo ...
  • Healthy Marriage Interventions: A Boon or a Bust?
    Conventional wisdom, backed by years of research, suggests that healthy marriages equals a healthy society. And politicians and government officials have taken note, investing hundreds of millions of dollars each year in education programs designed to promote healthy marriages, focusing specific ...
  • New Musical Pacifier Helps Premature Babies Ge ...
    The innovative PAL device uses musical lullabies to help infants quickly learn the muscle movements needed to suck, and ultimately feed.
  • Johns Hopkins Human Rights Advocate Urges WHO ...
    Johns Hopkins University scholar, lawyer and human rights advocate Leonard Rubenstein is attending the 65th session of the World Health Assembly this week, pushing for a resolution to document attacks on health care workers in conflict zones such as Syria and Bahrain. Recent escalation of such ...
  • Lerner College of Medicine Celebrates 10th Ann ...
    This year marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, an innovative medical school designed to train future physician-researchers.

Natural Health News

  • The Despicable Way Big Pharma Successfully Dru ...
    A new book exposing the secrets drug companies use to sell their wares may have you seething once you know what Big Pharma does to influence the drugging of the most vulnerable human beings of all―your children. According to AlterNet, the once modest specialty of child psychiatry has become a ho ...
  • Can When You Eat Affect Your Health?
    A new study published online in the journal Cell Metabolism suggests that when you eat could affect your health and weight as much―or more―as what you eat. That’s because there are times of the day when our organs work at better efficiency than at other times. Earlier studies support this premis ...
  • When You Heat Natural Plant-Based Foods You Ge ...
    Long-standing studies show that plant-based foods heated at high temperatures produce a substance called acrylamide, which is classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The amount of acrylamide produced varies according to the food, for ex ...
  • 9 Things You need to Know about the Food You Eat
    The only thing new about food scandals these days is what the latest scandal might be. From arsenic in fruit juice and chicken to pink-slime ground beef treated with ammonia, nasty tidbits about the foods you're putting in your bodies are making the news regularly. In fact, there’s so much stuff ...
  • Pick the Wrong Type of Vitamin D and You Will ...
    Just about everyone’s heard about the benefits of vitamin D and what it can do to increase your immune system and stave off infections and disease. But did you know there not only are different types of vitamin D, but that it makes a huge difference in which one you take? It’s vitamin 25-hydrox ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: L ...
    by Laura Dickinson by Laura Dickinson [Laura Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.] This is the sixth day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Iraq is buying US-made drones in order to carry out surveillance over their oil fields. After a suicide bomber kills 90 people in Yemen, al-Qaeda vows more attacks until the US-backed campaign against militants stops. The US is apparently weighing their stan ...
  • Al-Senussi Indicted in Mauritania
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So reports ABC News (and multiple other news outlets): The man who ran Libya’s extensive spy network and was considered one of the closest confidants of ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi was indicted in Mauritania on Monday and transferred to a public jail ...
  • The Special Court for Sierra Leone Jumps Three ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s my basic reaction to the release of the full judgment in the Taylor trial, which checks in at an utterly absurd 2,499 pages.  (The judgment is downloadable, assuming you have a very fancy computer, here.)  2,499 pages is clearly a new record ...
  • Common Law Immunity for Foreign Government Off ...
    by David Sloss by David Sloss [David Sloss is the Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Global Law and Policy at Santa Clara Law School] In Samantar v. Yousuf (2010), the Supreme Court directed lower courts to apply common law rules to resolve immunity defenses raised by individual f ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Job Hunts Longer, Tougher for Those Ov ...
    Report: Job Hunts Longer, Tougher for Those Over 55 PHOENIX - Unemployment has hit older workers as hard as any demographic group in Arizona, even though their unemployment rate is lower. That's because it takes longer for those over 55 to find work. And it's a national trend, according to the G ...
  • American Cancer Society Cautions Grand Canyon ...
    American Cancer Society Cautions Grand Canyon State about Skin Cancer PHOENIX – Temperatures are rising in Arizona - and so are skin cancer rates. May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) wants to make sure people stay safe this summer. Yolanda Wide, ACS h ...
  • Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Tra ...
    Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Transparency PHOENIX - More than 40 percent of the taxpayer-funded corporate subsidies doled out in the first year of the Arizona Commerce Authority have not been disclosed, either by amount or recipient, according to a new report. The study from the A ...
  • Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise ...
    Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise if it Feels Like Play PHOENIX - Women would be more physically active if it were more fun, according to a new survey. Kathi Di Nicola, public relations director for the American Cancer Society Minnesota, says the study found that 40 percent of wome ...
  • Arizona Seeks to Review Health Insurance Rate ...
    Arizona Seeks to Review Health Insurance Rate Hikes PHOENIX - Individual health insurance rate hikes would be reviewed by the Arizona Department of Insurance instead of the federal government, under a proposal by state regulators. A series of public hearings on the issue will be held statewide t ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • The connection between Ocean temperature and e ...
    According to a new report, high ocean temperatures contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11. For example, 25% of rainfall across the state was due to the average sea surface temperatures in december 2010! For further information l ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
  • Famous melt ice cream
    Just to think about global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) with humour!Photo by William Murphy (http://www.flickr.com/people/infomatique/)via Flickr Creative Commons
  • Cycling for sustainable development
    Biking is less impacting environment than cars or other transportations. It doesn't damage the environment with pollutant emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html) for example. Of course, the production of bikes and their infrastructures uses energy (glossary/categories/ ...
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
    The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
  • Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • TSA: Out in left field
    Shadowlight Theater poster, 1963. Milton GlaserThe TSA keeps on keeping on. Between May 4th and 10th, 2012, here’s what they found on the roughly 10 million air passengers* in US airports during that period. Firearms: 30 - 29 loaded; 1 unloaded 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at ...
  • Renewable energy substantially cuts water use
    Power generation accounts for 39% of water usage in the US. Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants use the most amount of water while renewable energy like wind and solar photovoltaic use the least. Increasing competition for water coupled with current droughts make it all the more importan ...
  • Eve of Destruction for the Eurozone
    Andy Carling, writing in New Europe.Our leaders have, on left and right, pushed for an unregulated financial market, not realizing that if you let a bunch of psychopathic coke fiends loose with everybody’s money, it will end in tears.Oh, I think our leaders knew quite well what a unregulated fin ...
  • Americans Elect learns online organizing can’t ...
    Americans Elect thought they could create a moderate third party force in America by using the Internet and learned painfully that politics doesn’t work that way. While AE achieved ballot status in 27 states, a notable achievement indeed, they failed at their major goal of having presidential ca ...
  • Terrrorism-related arrests at NATO protests. D ...
    It is beyond stupid to brag to someone you barely know about planning to commit serious crimes. Yet that’s apparently what happened at the NATO protests in Chicago.Lawyers for the five activists arrested on serious charges say two undercover police agents, “Mo” and “Glove ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Gulf Drug Cartel Forced U.S. Citizen to Smuggl ...
    by Sergio Chapa valleycentral.com   A Rio Grande Valley man is behind bars where he claims he was forced to smuggle more than $52,000 dollars worth of heroin by men he met at a bar in Reynosa. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested 18-year-old Carlos Galaviz on a federal ...
  • DEA Ordered Out of Honduras After 4 Innocent C ...
    ajc.com - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine. Now reverberations from a drug raid that locals say killed four innocent people ar ...
  • Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal S ...
    video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player   A prostitute stands on a street corner in Cartagena, Colombia, April 19, 2012. (Manuel Pedraza/AFP/Getty Images) Auto Start: On | Off - / + A month after the Secret Service was rocked by allegations that agents brought prostit ...
  • 9/11 ‘truther’ leading Egyptian presidential race
    This story could be a ploy to discredit American Truthers using guilt by association. Our bet is that Abolfotoh will not win this “election”..   The Washington Times Monday, May 21, 2012   Egyptian presidential candidate, Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, waves to his supporters in f ...
  • British Espionage (Provocateurs) Behind Pearl ...
    Cui Bono!   The U.S. Navy battleship USS California ablaze at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. (Photo: Reuters) The World Former British servicemen and officials may have passed on to the Japanese intelligence and training to aid in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, according to a new BBC d ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook stock falls to $34 on second day of t ...
    As many expected, Facebook’s stock fell below its offer price today, settling at $34.33 when the market closed. Some pundits have rushed to call the social network’s initial public offering a flop, but it is important to distinguish between what … Continue reading →
  • Investing in Facebook: Clara Shih of Hearsay S ...
    This week, Inside Facebook asks people who have built businesses on the Facebook platform why they believe in the company. These are the people that are truly invested in Facebook, whether or not they bought stock. First up is Clara … Continue reading →
  • Inside Network is looking for a Social Marketi ...
    Inside Network is looking to hire a Social Marketing Specialist to lead content development for the Facebook Marketing Bible, our industry-leading subscription product for marketing and advertising on Facebook. We’re looking for someone passionate about social media marketing to publish &# ...
  • Socialcam, Skype, Viddy, Pinterest, Zynga.com, ...
    Video apps and games were popular on our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 615,600 and … Continue reading →
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between May 14 and 19. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, May 14 Zynga picks up Wild Needle in $3.8 million … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Post-colonial theory, whiteness and Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Palestinian activists - indeed, everyone who strives for liberation, equality and justice - must ditch the circular, sterile post-colonial discourse that permeates leftist thinking and "deconstruct Jewish texts and Jewish cultural discourse with the same vigour that Edwa ...
  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...
  • Israel's efforts to erase the memory of the Pa ...
    Neve Gordon argues that Israel's tireless efforts to conceal the truth of the Nakba - the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 - will ultimately prove futile and that, even today, most Israeli youths know what the Nakba is, even if their views of the conflict with the Pales ...
  • Nakba - the Palestinians' never ending catastrophe
    Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing ...
  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Fahrenheit 2012: Suppressing D ...
    In this episode of our EyeOpener Report James Corbett looks at the book publishing industry controlled by a few media moguls, examines how the ease with which political and governmental bodies have been able to block the publication of books that are uncomfortable to the Washington elite has gre ...
  • China’s Land Bridge to Turkey Creates New Eura ...
    Brzezinski Geopolitical Notion Remains US Foreign Policy Today By William Engdahl The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of little-publicized r ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 30 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.” – Douglas MacArthur International Newsworthy US Strikes a Military Pose for Iran US Amasses Stealth-J ...
  • Classified Woman Review: “Sibel Edmonds Finall ...
    An Independent Review by David Swanson I am truly honored by the following review of Classified Woman by David Swanson at WarisaCrime.Org. Here are a few excerpts from the review: The experiences she recounts resemble K.’s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasa ...
  • The King’s Propaganda
    The Astounding Hypocrisy of King Obama “We must tell our children about how this evil was allowed to happen — because so many people succumbed to their darkest instincts, and because so many others stood silent.”  – Barack Obama When President Obama spoke those words at the Holocaust Memor ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • My Fantasy with Jamie Dimon
    My fantasy: true accountability -- beyond the $3 billion loss -- for Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan. Veterans, parents, retirees, former homeowners, and credit card holders devastated after bank dealings. 'Fess up and pay up in your ever-expanding jail cell, Jamie.
  • Occupy This!
    There is a parallel, much in common between Occupy Wallstreet fighting the government of the billionaires and Maria Gunnoe. Maria is fighting the coal companies and the government of the billionaires; trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
  • 1776 Revolution Much Like Occupy Movement
    An Occupy activists explains the similarities between the Occupy Movement and the 1776 American Revolution.
  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Mormon Can ...
    in the 1850's Abe Lincoln and his political rival Stephen A.Douglas was asked how they would handle the "Mormon problem" if they were elected president. History shows Douglas had it right and Lincoln had it wrong.
  • Organic Watergate: Advocates Condemn Corruptio ...
    In its new white paper, The Organic Watergate, Cornucopia details violations of federal law, ignoring congressional intent, that has created a climate of regulatory abuse and corporate exploitation in the USDA.

Switchboard

  • What lies ahead for international action on gl ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC When countries meet in Rio+20 they have a choice – they can talk about the actions that should be taken to reduce global warming or they can outline new actions that they&rsqu ...
  • Montana, full of contrasts: the northwest is a ...
    Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco This past weekend I was at the Northwest Energy Coalition’s Spring meeting in Kalispell, Montana.  I flew in a day early and did a high-water float down 16 miles of the Madison River outsi ...
  • Searching For Meaning in the PJM Capacity Auction
    Rebecca Stanfield, Senior Energy Advocate, Chicago Last week, the regional organization that operates the electricity grid for a large part of the country from Chicago to New Jersey and Northern Virginia held an auction to procure electric generatin ...
  • You *Can* Do Something About The Weather: Why ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York Here are some facts for the next conversation you find yourself having about the weather extremes we've seen recently. There were 3,251 monthly weather records broken in the U.S. last year. A ...
  • Surprise, Surprise: Pebble Mine Partnership I ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA You may have heard that, after 15 months of study, the US Environmental Protection Agency last week released in dra ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Bow Tie Does Not Make A Man An Intellectual: ...
    As Roy notes, wjts has immediately entered the inner circle of the internet commenter Hall of Fame.  Before we get to that, however, I must note this classic Roger Kimball moment: At the beginning of the Metaphysics, Aristotle observes than human beings are by nature curious animals: they ask qu ...
  • Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?
    Another day, another reference to the 1884 presidential campaign. Grover the Good. If that wasn’t meant as a denigration, it’d be real hard to swallow. Also, campaigns of the 1880s were as nasty as those of the 2010s.
  • Which Daniel Webster
    This fine nation has been blessed with two legendary lawmakers by the name of Daniel Webster. The first was a titan of the Senate and 2-time Secretary of State. He also looked a bit intense. The second is currently a congressman from the great state of Florida. He’s know for opposing the A ...
  • Labor Notes
    1. An underfunded and industry-dominated OSHA can’t properly investigate workers’ death. This fantastic Jim Morris investigation of how OSHA did nothing when a worker at U.S. Steel died on the job, even though the investigator threw himself into the case, shows the agency pressuring ...
  • A Typical Day in the Coal Industry
    I guess every day is more or less the same in coal industry. What does such a day include? First, they kill a worker. Second, they bilk the American taxpayers, making huge profits. Specifically, they buy Wyoming coal for $1.11 per ton, sell it to China for $123 per ton. Third, when conservative ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Court: Children conceived after father's death ...
    In a case at the intersection of law and modern reproductive technology, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state inheritance laws will determine whether children conceived after their fathers' death are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.
  • In interpreter fight, Alito scours the diction ...
    It was the term's battle of the dictionaries, and it ended with a rare flash of humor from a justice on the bench.
  • Campaign limits go down in Montana, North Carolina
    Some six months after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a 100-year-old state law limiting independent expenditures by corporations on behalf of political candidates or committees, a federal judge has barred enforcement of related state campaign restrictions.
  • Law schools must prepare graduates for all the ...
    For the more traditionally-minded students who prefer a good steady paycheck, alternative staffing models may provide a solution when traditional opportunities are not working out.
  • New exoneration registry shows at least 2,000 ...
    According to a new law school project released May 21, exonerations in the United States since 1989 have topped 2,000 – and, as one of the registry's editors put it, those merely represent "the tip of an iceberg."

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Pebble Mine Could Devastate Critical Alaskan S ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that the proposed large-scale Pebble Mine development in the hills above Alaska’s Bristol Bay could cause devastating habitat loss for the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. In a draft report, EPA officials calculate that proposals ...
  • Methane Sources Found Bubbling Up from Melting ...
    U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, said they have discovered 150,000 methane seeps in ...
  • The Clean Water Act at 40: There’s Still Much ...
    The Clean Water Act of 1972, one of the boldest environmental laws ever enacted, turns 40 this year, with an impressive record of cleaning up America's waterways. But from New York Harbor to Alaska’s Bristol Bay, key challenges remain. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Interview: Taking Green Chemistry Out Of the L ...
    Paul Anastas is credited with coining the term “green chemistry,” the movement to make chemicals and industrial processes more environmentally friendly, and during two stints in Washington, D.C., he has worked to Michael Marsland/ Yale University Paul Anastas promote those principles at t ...
  • Taking Green Chemistry Out Of The Lab and into ...
    Paul Anastas pioneered the concept of green chemistry and has led the effort to rethink the way we design and make the products we use. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenges of bringing this approach to policy making and the frustrations of tackling environment ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into sp ...
    On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel rocket, to an altitude of six miles. Were the Germans really testing out a rocket that could carry ...
  • The Case of the Missing Terrorists
    If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” fo ...
  • Pentagon researching ’narrative networks’ as w ...
    If someone - or some government entity - were able to figure out the science behind what makes people violent, what do you suppose they would do with that knowledge? It’s a legitimate question, because the Pentagon is trying to find out. According to a recent report by the BBC, the Defense Depar ...
  • Scientists to build $1 billion city where no o ...
    In what is being billed as the first of its kind, a billion-dollar futuristic town is being built in New Mexico, but humans need not apply. The new 15-square mile city will be built as a testing ground for new, cutting edge technologies. The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation project ...
  • Kodak facility in New York state housed underg ...
    A Kodak industrial facility in Rochester, N.Y., was home to a little-known nuclear reactor containing weapons-grade uranium, the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper reported. The research reactor -- which was the size of a refrigerator -- was housed in a bunker underneath one of the buildings at th ...

Russia Today

  • Euro stability being siphoned off?
    As prices for most necessary commodities, such as fuel, rise and salaries fall, citizens of Europe’s strongest economy resort to desperate measures. In Germany truck drivers are being attacked by fuel-stealing thieves. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UN nuclear chief: Deal reached on Iran probe
    The chief of the UN nuclear agency says he has reached a deal with Iran over probing suspected work on nuclear weapons, and adds that the agreement will be "signed quite soon." Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Deadly blast rocks Syrian capital
    An explosion in a restaurant in the Syrian capital has killed five people, Syrian state media report. The blast struck the Qaboun district of Damascus and has been branded a “terrorist” attack. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Supersized: Politician buys pricey artwork mas ...
    A South African politician bought a painting with state funds by disguising it as a purchase of 256 Big Mac burger meals. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • NATO rebrands “occupation” of Afghanistan?
    On the last day of the NATO summit in Chicago, the bloc’s leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to ending the war in Afghanistan in 2014 and vowed support to the Afghans. But is it going to be the end of the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • ‘Blockupy’ protests in Frankfurt, ...
    As Occupy mobilizes against NATO in Chicago ‘Blockupy’ mobilizes against the banks in Europe, which are trying to force millions of people into cutbacks and austerity as the super rich continue to feast on government tax monies. Thousands March Against Austerity in Frankfurt
  • Many soldiers prefer ‘Life over War&#821 ...
    There is no pro soldier/ pro military political position at all. Many in and out of the US military hate the US military machine that sent them off to combat. And yet other soldiers hate the vets that are now turned antiwar! 'Life over war': US veterans return medals at NATO summit &#8 ...
  • US military continues to back up terrorist Yem ...
    ‘Washington has stepped up drone attacks in Yemen since President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi took office in February. The Pentagon said earlier this month it had resumed sending military trainers to the Arab state. On Saturday, the head of the U.S. Special Operations Forces met Yemen’s c ...
  • US military working with Honduran dictatorship ...
    ‘Lessons from Iraq and the War Against Drugs in Honduras- The New York Times in its May 5th edition published an article that stated in its first paragraph: “The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war being fought in the wilderness of Mi ...
  • Triple Play! Sí Se Puede!
    ….This is a cute video of a 6 yr. old kid pulling off a triple play in a baseball game. Sí Se Puede! …Move over MLB, 6-year-old Little Leaguer turns unassisted triple play

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC 7 Petition to the National Institute for S ...
    Revise the U.S. government final report on the collapse of Building 7 Building 7 of the World Trade Center, a 47 story building, contained offices of the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) several financial institutions and then-Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emer ...
  • James Kust of the University of Wisconsin–Eau ...
    In a recent article published in the student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin–Eau entitled, "New campus organization of 9/11 ‘truthers’ is misinformed," James Kust writes, "To imply that our government would stoop so low, that our leaders are so driven by greed that 2,996 deaths are si ...
  • My Top 10 Insane Conspiracy Theories
    For Infowars Nightly News last night, Paul Joseph Watson counted down his top 10 insane conspiracy theories which distract from exposing real coverups. Many of them were about Alex Jones and himself. His humorous list inspired me to make a slightly more se ...
  • Insightful
    A little while back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted the following: InsaneThat's my vote with regard to this headline: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory–Insane or Insightful? The writer, who apparently worked for CNN at one point, goes on to talk about one of the silliest tropes: I ke ...
  • Manufacturing Terror
    Video posted by Jon Gold, author of "9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability."   One of the many reasons there is no justification for the "War On Terror." http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants http://www.guardian.co.uk/wor ...

Fooducate

  • Judge to POM: Your Juice Can’t Cure Cancer, St ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juices and products, has been ordered by a federal judge to stop its misleading marketing campaigns. POM’s health messages lead consumers to believe that pomegranate ...
  • Kraft Belvita. A Healthy Cookie to Start the Day?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Kraft is touting its new Belvita line of breakfast cookies as “Nutritious Sustained Energy.”  It boasts 20 grams of whole grain too. Should you be eating this instead of your favorite cereal / cer ...
  • Why Calories Count
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. Lisa Sutherland, PhD Eat better, move more, get political! That is the message delivered by Dr.’s Marion Nestle and Mal Nesheim in their latest book, Why Calories Count: From ...
  • When Honey means Honey
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! There are many honey flavored products out on the market. But how many of them walk their talk? Take Honey Nut Cheerios for example. Impressionable minds may believe that the product is sweetened exclusively ...
  • Obesity – Why Baby Steps Are NOT Enough
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Earlier this week, I participated in a wonderful mobile health conference at Stanford University run by BJ Fogg of the Persuasive Technology Lab. This year’s theme was about how baby steps can improve h ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The UK’s National Autistic Society at 50: What ...
    By John Stone On Thursday I had a curious telephone call. A voice I recognised as a fund raiser for the National Autistic Society explained that the society was celebrating its 50th birthday and they were ringing people who had...
  • Katie Beckett - For Whom Medicaid Waiver Was N ...
    Our condolences and sincere thanks to Katie's family. By Tony Leys, DesMoines Register Katie Beckett’s family hoped that by catching a president’s attention, they could force bureaucrats to free their 3-year-old girl from a Cedar Rapids hospital. They never dreamed...
  • Bacterial Infection and Autism
    By Teresa Conrick On Friday, May 25, I will be one of hundreds at The Autism One Conference, who will be listening to Nobel Laureate, Luc Montagnier, M.D., describe how bacteria can be involved in Autism: "This correlation, which is...
  • Whisked Away
    By Cathy Jameson One of the parishioners in my Church fell at the end of Mass last weekend. Within seconds she was surrounded by at least five people. Two more were pushing their way from their pews rushing to where...
  • Tell NY Governor Cuomo to CLOSE Barbaric Roten ...
    Managing Editor's Note: By now you are likely familiar with the Abu School known as The Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts. Named for Judge Ernie Rotenberg (who used to play golf at my Dad's club when I was a kid and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fending off fitness fatigue
    Reuters – Runners stumble, yogis yawn, and even the bulkiest body builders get bored. But fitness experts say there are specific tricks to help people get and stay motivated. Read article
  • The need to globalise NATO
    TheAustralian – THIS week, NATO’s 28 members will meet in Chicago for their annual summit. Sixty-two years after the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, binding the United States, Canada, and ten European states to consider an attack on one an attack on all, NATO is transforming itself ...
  • Google Can Track Ships At Sea — Includin ...
    AOL – Google paid several million dollars for the satellite technology to pinpoint ships’ locations. “These things cost three million dollars for the whole program,” Michael Jones, “Chief Technology Advocate” at Google Ventures, said at the annual Joint Warfig ...
  • U.S. trainer shot in Yemen, army advances on m ...
    Reuters – Islamist militants shot and seriously wounded a U.S. military instructor in Yemen on Sunday, while the army closed in on a town controlled by al Qaeda-linked fighters in heavy fighting that killed at least 27 people, local officials said. A U.S. special forces commander toured th ...
  • NY Farmers: Fracking Means Salvation or Ruin
    AP — When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York. “I go over the border and see p ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Federal judge blocks National Defense Authoriz ...
    In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction against use of the ...
  • Clean Mobility Center, focusing on alternative ...
    Jamie Caissie says he's picky about the gas he puts in his GMC Sierra truck. For years, the 35-year-old flooring contractor only filled up at 76 brand stations, but on a recent Monday, he decided to try something new: the Propel Clean Mobility Center in Fullerton, which sells E85 flex fuel and b ...
  • An electrifying freight solution on the 710? S ...
    Los Angeles may be one of the first global cities to adopt a new electric freight trucking system, unveiled by electrical engineering giant Siemens Corp. last week at the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium, or EVS26.
  • Elusive California wolf OR7 is photographed
    The first color photo of California’s celebrity gray wolf, OR7, was taken this week as he loped across a sagebrush-covered hill in Modoc County.
  • Unabomber billboard continues to hurt Heartlan ...
    With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a “realist” position questioning that humans are responsible for climate change.

water.org

  • WaterCredit in Kenya: Beth's Story
    Mrs. Beth Muguru lives near Koimbi town, approximately 25 kilometers north of Muranga town where she engages in small scale farming. She took the steps necessary through her self help group to take out a WaterCredit loan to benefit her business and shared the benefits she's seen after the instal ...
  • Learning to Conserve Water
    People in Kashiram Nagar, India struggle for water every day. However, they were not thinking about conserving the water they did have. They were unintentionally wasting water in their daily lives by not utilizing it well. Then on World Water Day 2012, a program through Water.org's partner, ESAF ...
  • One Mother's Story: Kasan Bai
    Every member of Kasan Bai's family benefited the moment they received the small sanitation loan that enabled them to construct a toilet.
  • Mothers' Stories
    Click play above to watch a playlist of all four women's stories we shared this week. Ranjana, Vandana, Kebebush, and Kasan Bai; all four of these women had their lives transformed by clean water and safe sanitation.
  • Jodie Foster & Matt Damon: It's Personal
    This Mother's Day, Jodie Foster and Matt Damon challenge you to transform the life of another mom.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Rihanna 'dancing away' with Chelsea's Dro ...
    Rihanna "bonded" with Chelsea football player Didier Drogba. The Bajan superstar was in London over the weekend to watch good friends Jay-Z and Kanye West perform at their Watch The Throne concert....
  • Fabregas: Chelsea were lucky but they des ...
    Cesc Fabregas says 'lucky' Chelsea are worthy European champions. The Barcelona and former Arsenal midfielder insisted that all good teams required an element of good fortune to be successful. Victory parade: Chelsea celebrate their Champions League success And Fabregas said Chelsea had enjo ...
  • Abramovich to hand Di Matteo one-year Che ...
    The club's Russian owner remains unconvinced by the Italian's managerial credentials, despite his success in both the FA Cup and Champions League this season More...
  • Swinging at Bain, Obama Ignores What Priv ...
    Bain Capital has been used as a political weapon against Mitt Romney since 1994, but now his opponents might be rethinking ads about attacking him for his time at the private-equity firm as the ads are being criticized by some Democrats as well as Republicans. President Obama planned to set ...
  • Twilight's Anna Kendrick: 'It's a relief ...
    Anna Kendrick has spoken of her "relief" over no longer appearing in the Twilight series of films. The Up in the Air actress has starred as Jessica Stanley in the teen-vampire movie adaptations, but will not appear in the final film, Breaking Dawn - Part 2, when...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Quantum Dots May Be Safe to Use in Patients
    The colorful, glowing crystals could prove to be useful as a surgical aid. Four rhesus monkeys injected with tiny luminescent crystals called quantum dots showed no signs of ill effects over a one-year period, according to a study just published in Nature Nanotechnology. 
  • Study Ties Secondhand Smoke to Bladder Irritat ...
    Children aged 4 to 10 were at particular risk from exposure Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Bladder Diseases, Children's Health, Secondhand Smoke
  • Gary Lineker, Jayne Torvill and Other Celebrit ...
    LONDON, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Public urged to give blood ahead of major events this summer to boost blood stocks for 2012 Eight celebrities, each representing one of the major blood groups, are supporting NHS Blood and Transplant's campaign to increase blood stocks this...
  • New Way Developed To Study How Acid In The Bra ...
    University of Iowa neuroscientist John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D., is interested in the effect of acid in the brain. His studies suggest that increased acidity or low pH, in the brain is linked to panic disorders, anxiety, and depression. But his work also suggests that changes in acidity are important ...
  • Some "Good" Cholesterol May Be Bad For Heart
    It appears that in some cases, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the so-called "good" cholesterol, does not protect against heart disease, and may even be harmful. A new study suggests a subclass of HDL that carries a particular protein is bad for the heart. Previous studies have sho ...

Common Dreams

  • US 'B Corporations' Put Social Values Before B ...
    Tough decisions are often inevitable if a business wants to make money. But in the next few weeks, half a dozen US states are expected to pass legislation that will for the first time protect companies which value their social impact as much as the bottom line. Whether it's buying locally, p ...
  • Green Groups Urge Obama to Attend Rio+20
    WASHINGTON - With a month to go before the United Nations Conference on Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, nearly two dozen NGOs are calling on President Barack Obama to confirm his attendance at the event, known as Rio+20. read more
  • Alexis Tsipras Warns: Greek Crisis Also Europe ...
    The head of Greece's leftist party Syriza traveled to Paris on Monday to consolidate support from political allies for rejecting the radical austerity that is driving Greece to the brink of "collective suicide". Alexis Tsipras, whose strong showing in Greece's May 6 elections s ...
  • Night of Protest in Montreal after 'Emergency Law'
    A massive street protest broke out in Montreal for the second night in a row on Sunday, after Quebec Premier Jean Charest pushed through and passed a new 'emergency law' -- an extreme measure aimed at ending a 14 week old student uprising and strike against steep hikes in tuition. Over 3 ...
  • Organic Farmer Charged for Disturbing Genetica ...
    A fifty year old organic farmer from the town of Instow in England was arrested on Sunday and charged with 'criminal destruction' for entering the Rothamsted Research facility and doing damage to experimental genetically-modified wheat crops being grown there. Hector Christie, the man ar ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Climate Negotiators Open a New Round
    A new round of climate talks opened this week in Bonn, Germany, with the ambitious goal of reaching a comprehensive legal agreement “applicable to all Parties” by 2015.Countries agreed to launch the new round last December in Durban, South Africa, as part of a package deal that also ke ...
  • E15's Problems Are Symptomatic of A Failing Bi ...
  • Drawing the Right Conclusions from the Problem ...
    Last week A123 Systems disclosed in a Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it lost $125.0 million during the quarter ended March 31, 2012, acknowledging that these circumstances raise substantial doubt on its ability to continue as a going concern. What will this mean ...
  • Are Canada's oil sands to blame for rising atm ...
    In a recent New York Times opinion piece, NASA climate scientist James Hansen again puts forward his very compelling argument for strong action on limiting global CO2 emissions. He argues that Canadian oil sands is illustrative of an ongoing global trend to extract or mine increasingly challengi ...
  • With Jaczko out, is Magwood in?

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Life in Occupied Chicago
    by Stephen Lendman Through Monday, downtown residents live in occupied Chicago. Secret Service agents, NORTHCOM and National Guard forces, as well as thousands of state and local police seem everywhere. Getting around feels hazardous. Anyone may be stopped, searched, interrogated, e ...
  • When the Respectable Become Extremists The Ext ...
    By James Petras Introduction: By any historical measure, whether it involves international law, human rights conventions, United Nations protocols, socio economic indicators, the policies and practices of the United States and European Union regimes can be characterized as extremist. By that w ...
  • Chicago Under Siege
    by Stephen Lendman NATO arrives everywhere violently. Chicago was no exception. During summit activities, city cops are enforcers. They specialize in serving wealth, power, and imperial interests. Their guerrilla warfare history is notorious. They're reliable state terror partners. Their t ...
  • NATO / ROGUE ARM OF AMERICA’S WAR MACHIN ...
    Allen L Roland Graphic from Left Turn / Virage a Gauche Let’s get something straight ~ NATO is the rogue arm of America’s war machine whereas it has become a global military alliance and obviously designed to engage in aggressive invasions, preemptive wars as well as collaborate ...
  • 'Our imperative is to promote growth and jobs, ...
    By Michael Collins So, now it's an imperative to "promote growth." The joint statement (full text after the jump) from the G-8 meeting in Chicago documents the utter failure of the very leaders who issued it. Were they capable leaders with the least knowledge of economic downturns, the statem ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The Three Amigos: How Income Inequality in Mex ...
    An examination of income inequality in North America reveals that Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth, according to a new study by internationally respected economist Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and CCPA Research Associate. ...
  • New report lifts fog on government job cuts
    Due to the opaque reporting methods used by the federal government to detail its spending and employment projections, getting a clear picture of core public service job losses is unnecessarily complicated. However, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald has analyzed data from recently released 20 ...
  • Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens ...
    On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain an ...
  • Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
  • CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
    In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Random Rambles
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – It’s 82 here in the burgh at 2 in the afternoon. Last year was the warmest year on record. Climate Change? Pretty much a given unless you still believe the earth is flat. I’ve been checking out Current T.V. since it debuted. So far I like it . one o ...
  • An Indian’s Mind
    Diana May Waldman My 77 year old. Poet, father sent me a few poems this week. My father, hasn’t written anything in years. I had often wonder why he had given up on words, when they used to be so important to him. Most of his older work was about my mother. Unrequited love. Sometimes, [...]
  • Carry Your Own “MoonBeams in a Jar”
    “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is beads (in a lab tempered glass Amulet) containing multiple mic ...
  • At home with the denizens of Slab City – ...
    By HELEN POW,Mailonline - The bizarre lives of the drug addicts, hippies and weirdos who inhabit the lawless society of Slab City in California have been revealed in a confronting video. The 20 minute documentary, made by Vice, follows three residents of the slum-like community, billed by some a ...
  • Large Crack on South Wall of Fukushima Nuclear ...
    AT DBKP REPORT – “We could have a disaster much worse, many times worse than Chernobyl.” Dr. Michio Kaku on the precarious state of the spent fuel rods in the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor Unit Number Four building Recently, TEPCO released a petulant press release they plan to ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy &nb ...
    I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...
  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...
  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...
  • Book Review: A Thousand Barrels a Second  ...
    I am way behind on reading books that have been sent to me for review by various publishers. The pile on my desk is growing, because I have a bad habit of starting new books before I finish the one I am reading. Currently I am nearly finished with Oil’s Endless Bid, am halfway through Oil: ...
  • Book Review: A Thousand Barrels a Second
    I am way behind on reading books that have been sent to me for review by various publishers. The pile on my desk is growing, because I have a bad habit of starting new books before I finish the one I am reading. Currently I am nearly finished with Oil’s Endless Bid, am halfway through Oil: ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • FDA: Don't Buy Seafood From This Country
    The FDA stopped imports of certain South Korean seafood after testing detected high levels of pollution and unsanitary conditions in the country's shellfish growing areas. Federal regulators said people should not eat oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops from Korea, noting that stores and res ...
  • Milk: Superfood or Poison?
    The Tyrolean Iceman, found frozen in the Italian Alps, lived 5,300 years ago. But scientists recently uncovered evidence in his genome of a familiar modern condition: lactose intolerance. No problem for him—his buddies hadn’t yet domesticated animals. Since then, not only have we tamed cows and ...
  • Trying to Get Pregnant? Avoid This Cupboard Staple
    Infertility is a common problem in the United States. In fact, one in 10 women of childbearing age have trouble getting pregnant. Many of these women turn to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, considered the most effective assisted reproductive technology available. Now, a new study suggests that ...
  • The Common Food Ingredient That's Making You S ...
    Foods that appear to be nutritious could actually be destroying your brainpower. The culprit? A common ingredient slipped into many "healthy" foods, including baby food, applesauce, and oatmeal, a breakfast favorite. Researchers at UCLA found that ingesting foods and drinks containing the ingre ...
  • The Best & Worst States for Locally Grown Food
    In many parts of the country, we're entering the heart of the growing season, a time when you're most likely to find a farmer's market teeming with delicious local food. But did you ever wonder how your state ranks in terms of the local food movement? Strolling of the Heifers, an organization d ...

big think

  • Predator Nation Author Says Crime Pays Very We ...
    The first thing that came to mind when I finished Predator Nation , the book by Charles Ferguson that explains how Wall Street’s elite brazenly commit financial crimes out in the open, is that nothing he wrote about is a secret. The Know Nothing movement has succeeded in getting the America ...
  • How Facebook Threatens the Legitimacy of the S ...
    What's the Latest Development? With Facebook's shares trading well below their initial value one day after the company went public, just who is to "blame" for what has gone "wrong"? Some say the company's banker, Morgan Stanley, diluted the potency of the stock by allowing a whopping 421 ...
  • In the Shadow of Hegel: How Does Thought Arise ...
    What's the Big Idea? Before neuroscience and quantum physics, there was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The 19th century German idealist revolutionized Western thought, and every great thinker since has been working in his shadow, says Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural ...
  • Slavoj Žižek on Buddhism and the Self
    Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from Slavoj Žižek's book, "Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism."  [One of the only schools] of thought that fully accepts the inexistence of the big Other is Buddhism. Is the solution then to be found in Bud ...
  • Less Than Nothing: A Masterwork on Philosophy, ...
    Today we're pleased to announce our second Big Think Book of the Month, the dazzlingly ambitious  Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism , out May 22, 2012 from Verso Books.  Slavoj Žižek has been called "the most dangerous philosopher in the West" for his ...

Information Liberation

  • Argentina turns to dogs to hunt disappearing d ...
    In Argentina, the government is using dogs to sniff out US dollars. As part of a crack down on tax evasion, money laundering and cash being sent overseas, restrictions are being imposed on foreign currency. Those restrictions have made the...
  • The Hand-Sanitizer Martini
    You might have the impression that everyone has switched from beer to red wine, or that everyone has switched from Budweiser to microbrews, homebrew, and high-gravity beers. However, do not count out the good old American cocktail. It is true that be...
  • Who Would Jesus Sue? Tim Tebow Threatens Bogu ...
    Intellectual property laws frequently make people do stupid things. Case in point, Tim Tebow apparently threatened a lawsuit against the seller of a "MY Jesus" T-shirt because they claim the site is using his likeness. That the site specifically sa...
  • D.A.R.E To Charge Taxpayers For Your Political ...
    A Missouri Sheriff printed out a bunch of D.A.R.E. t-shirts with an added political message reading *Re-elect Archie Dunn, Jasper County Sheriff.* He then sent the county a bill for his political propaganda. Fortunately, the local governmen...
  • Even Worse Than Democracy
    *Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it*good and hard.* -- H. L.*Mencken Mass democracy and individual liberty do not mix, despite the propaganda. Surely, if a majority can vote against the rights...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour
    I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Di ...
    Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →
  • Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?
    I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →
  • Deferring To Our Betters?
    I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →
  • An Evening With James Delingpole
    Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house. James is clearly … Continue readi ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Got the guts to be an organ donor? #EveryLittl ...
    It hasn’t been hard graft so far, but should we stem the tide of organ donor slogans on Twitter? I think not. Keep ‘em coming. No donation too small, no organ refused. Help someone liver little longer…wear your heart on your sleeve, even if we don’t see eye to eye, go on ...
  • Anti-inflammatory food
    Education regarding lifestyle, diet and exercise might be the key to avoiding chronic inflammation. “A comprehensive food-based strategy for reducing inflammation and thus reducing the incidence and severity of a large array of chronic illnesses and declining health is supported by a large ...
  • Spinning up plutonium
    After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches ...
  • Spinning up plutonium
    After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches ...
  • Organ donors on Facebook and Twitter
    UPDATE #EveryLittleBitHelps – hashtag H/T to @JoForrest There is far too much squeamishness regarding organ donation and transplant. Some of it is down to emotional attachment and denial, which is to be expected. Much of it is due to our own death anxiety, again an evolutionarily adaptatio ...

RFF Library

  • EPA’s Regulation of Coal-Fired Power: Is ...
    US Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41914/ Given the central role of electric power in the nation’s economy, and the importance of coal in power production, concerns have been raised recently about the cost and potential impact of regulations under development at the E ...
  • Common-Law Climate Change Litigation After Ame ...
    US Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41496/ Congressional inaction on climate change has led concerned parties to explore other ways to address climate change—including lawsuits seeking to establish climate change impacts as a common law nuisance… Recently, the ou ...
  • Unconventional Oil and Gas Production: Opportu ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-740T …Fossil fuels are important to both the global and U.S. economies, and “unconventional” oil and gas resources—resources that cannot be produced, transported, or refined using traditional techniques—are expected to pla ...
  • Air Emissions and Electricity Generation at U. ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-545R http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590188.pdf (letter to Chairman Whitehouse)  Older electricity generating units—those that began operating in or before 1978—provided 45 percent of electricity from fossil fuel units in 2010 but ...
  • Factors to Consider in the Design of the Nonbu ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-318 …The nonbusiness energy property credit is one of a number of federal initiatives that seek to address concerns about U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources and the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on the clim ...

Scientific American - News

  • Human Use of Water Found to Contribute to Sea- ...
    By Amanda Mascarelli of Nature magazine [More]
  • Climate Education Graduates to the Next Level
    BALTIMORE--Ninth grade science at the Academy for Career and College Education began the usual way last fall. Victoria Matthew's students learned the difference between biotic and abiotic characteristics, then progressed to the basics of scientific method. By Thanksgiving, they were ready fo ...
  • The Stats on Statins: Should Healthy Adults Ov ...
    Everyone over 50 should take statins to lower their cholesterol, an editorial argued last week in The Lancet . The piece based its recommendation on a meta-analysis of 27 clinical trials published in the same issue that concluded statins significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and ot ...
  • California Considers DNA Privacy Law
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  • Stuxnet-Like Viruses Remain a Top U.S. Securit ...
    Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a matter of time. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • "Somebody Arrest Me"
    Striking student coalition calls for mass disobedience of new protest laws Less than three days after the Quebec provincial government adopted law 78, which imposes strict restrictions on the right to protest throughout the province and sus ...
  • Westray Remembered
    Reflecting on the causes of a disaster On the evening of May 9, 2012 several hundred people gathered under rainy skies at the Westray Memorial Park in New Glasgow to commemorate the explosion that killed 26 miners in 1992. Here are the word ...
  • Behind the Black Mask and Shattered Glass: Pre ...
    Origionally posted on: Profane Existence On May 28, Kelly Pflug-Back will stand in front of a Toronto courtroom to be sentenced. I first met Kelly when she was a 16 yr old traveler kid who had just arrived in Victoria. We hung out on the streets, at drop in centers, and did Food not Bombs togeth ...
  • Occupy Nova Scotia to Create Tribunal for Rest ...
    K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – In a general assembly held yesterday, May 19th, Occupy Nova Scotia determined that it while it would continue to explore all legal avenues available to it in regards to last Remembrance Day's eviction, ...
  • Decarcerate PA & Fight For Philly Take On Scho ...
    Decarcerate PA and Fight for Philly held a rally on May 15th in Philadelphia to protest Governor Corbett's planned $685 million prison expansion at the same time as cu ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 2
    Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
    The Child is  Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...
  • The Crisis: where are we headed?
    David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...
  • Is American individualism a myth?
    David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...
  • Steve Jobs: the metaphor
    David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The American Race War That's Not Happening
    Buzzfeed's McCay Coppins published a story on Sunday about the Obama-inspired race war being waged against whites by legions of uppity Negroes. In paragraph 23, Coppins explains it's all a myth: Indeed, the irony of the race war narrative's latest flare-up is that it comes at a time when ...
  • Our Awesome, Totally Effective, Non-Good Guy K ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in February seeking records pertaining to the legal basis for the Central Intelligence Agency use of its deadly flying robots. On Monday, government lawyers filed a response brief, which says the agency won' ...
  • The NAACP's Evolution On Same-Sex Marriage
    The national board of the NAACP, America's oldest civil rights organization, officially endorsed same-sex marriage rights Saturday after a vote in which only two members dissented. Although it may seem like the NAACP was conveniently following President Barack Obama's lead, the group's decisio ...
  • Unmasking The Bundlers
    The Obama campaign discloses its "bundlers," that is, fundraisers who help the campaign collect large amounts of money from many different donors. The Romney campaign doesn't. As my colleague Andrew Kroll reports, that work is left outside watchdog groups like the Public Campaign Action F ...
  • Cory Booker Thinks Obama's Attacks on Bain Are ...
    In case you're wondering whether it's a slow news Monday, the big news to come out of the Sunday shows last weekend was Newark Mayor Cory Booker saying on Meet The Press that he found the Obama campaign's focus on Mitt Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain Capital particularly "nause ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 322: When Keeping It Gay Goes Wrong
    Topics: Not Understanding the Avengers Possible cross studio movies The titty-less Lara Croft How you know you’re ready for kids 30 kids by 11 different women? Stop having kids with hoodrats and ain’t shit dudes Will Smith uses his pimp hand Dr. Cornell West still ain’t shit Sh ...
  • IC 321: The Avengers Initiative
    Topics: 30 for 30 update Kev’s stories “Miss, is that your lightsaber?” Mass Effect Avengers might do $100 mill second weekend The Avengers Initiative We won’t agree to disagree Breastfeeding toddlers You’re weird and I don’t have to accept that Real marriage ...
  • IC 320: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
    Topics: Obama Supports Gay Marriage…duh Words Matter…But Actions Should Matter more It’s All Fun and Games Until You’re In the Group Judged Bryon Long Explains Why He’s Not Gay T.O on Dr. Phil The Secret Service prostitute scandal chick speaks out Share with your fr ...
  • IC 319: Calorie Counting
    Topics: Tequila is not my friend Avengers does $200 million in a weekend What WB needs to do to in order to make the JLA Captain America > Superman & Cyclops Kids in the theater We gotta stop being lazy Your diet plans probably suck What’s in a serving size Octomom’s Masturbatio ...
  • IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
    Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.
  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.
  • Water’s climate risks show high temperat ...
    Considering salinity changes in climate models suggests the water cycle accelerates 8% per 1°C warming, compared to just 4% when considering rainfall alone, says Susan Wijffels from CSIRO in Australia

e!Science News

  • Cell network security holes revealed, with an ...
    Popular firewall technology designed to boost security on cellular networks can backfire, unwittingly revealing data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study from the University of Michigan shows. read more
  • UCLA researchers develop way to strengthen pro ...
    Proteins are widely used as drugs -- insulin for diabetics is the best known example -- and as reagents in research laboratories, but they react poorly to fluctuations in temperature and are known to degrade in storage. read more
  • New study examines relationship between social ...
    Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon. read more
  • Origami-inspired design method merges engineer ...
    Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. read more
  • Strategy discovered to activate genes that sup ...
    A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue ...

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Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Women Unite to End Mountaintop Removal May 28
    The time is approaching that women of Appalachia will come out of the bellies of the extraction communities to tell the world about the travesty of mountaintop removal. We are grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and SISTERS! Join us in a silent … Continue reading →
  • Summer Action Camps
    This week, activists are gathering in Pipestem, WV, for Mountain Justice’s Summer Activist Training Camp. Gearing up for a summer of action, the week-long program includes education, workshops, entertainment, sustainable living techniques, and action. And they’re not alone! Check out ...
  • Coal Actions at Bank of America Shareholder&#8 ...
    As Bank of America’s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank’s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, on May 9,  thousands of protesters took to the streets and inside the meeting hall to speak out against BofA’s practices that are … Continue reading →
  • Activists Blockade Coal Train
    Activists set up a blockade to stop a coal train en route to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Terrell, North Carolina on May 3, 2012 and branded it with the Apple logo. The train is carrying coal extracted from … Continue reading →
  • May Day actions against UBS’ funding of ...
    Happy May Day, everybody! Today, Appalachians will demand that UBS stop funding and supporting mountaintop removal mining. Come out to our actions in: Asheville, NC 11 am at 138 Charlotte St. Knoxville, TN: 10 am at Market Square Chattanooga, 11 … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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  • IDF on ‘hunt’ for draft dodgers, d ...
    According to Israeli military records, there are a 2,700 deserters and 1,780 draft dodgers in Israel. In the last week alone, the IDF has arrested 474 of them as part of its largest-ever operation to apprehend them. Who are these “deserters”and in whose interest is it to invest so mu ...
  • Activist prevents Israeli officer from arresti ...
    During Sunday’s Jerusalem Day events, a Palestinian boy, perhaps 10 years old, was chased down an East Jerusalem street by a very angry officer of the Border Police. The boy tripped and fell, then picked himself up just as the Border Police officer reached him and tried to grab him. But a ...
  • Revealed: Arab cabbies banned from driving BG ...
    Turns out that the Arab cab driver – any Israeli cab driver who happens to be Arab – is deemed so much a security risk simply by virtue of his excessive Arabness that he can’t be allowed to drive staff to and from Ben Gurion Airport. We learn this from an urgent letter sent tod ...
  • No, criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism
    In fact, it could be the best thing a Jew can do these days. The Jerusalem Post has published an op-ed titled, “Yes, all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic!” As any philosophy student can recognize, it’s one of those arguments that makes the entire debate meaningless – i ...
  • Palestinians asked to close their shops for Je ...
    Jerusalem Day is not a celebration of a unified city, but rather a show of Israeli power, a reminder for the Palestinians that Jerusalem is an occupied city where non-Jewish residents don’t count. Every year, Jerusalem Day brings a depressing shadow over East Jerusalem. While Israelis cele ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Haughty and Hungry
    There was a time, not all that many years ago when Canada was a deeply respected world player, that the …Continue reading »
  • Generations
    “I’m so in love with my little kids. They’ve redefined my life and reminded me of the importance of family.” …Continue reading »
  • Boomer Redux
    In 1998, there were 3.7 million seniors in Canada; by 2031 there will be 9.7 million. That should tell us …Continue reading »
  • Mistaking Truth For Disenchantment
    Unlike other countries, including Canada, President Obama has been searching for ways to empower those under 35 years of age. …Continue reading »
  • The Unlit Torch
    Thanks to economic shifts in priorities by advanced government and international financial institutions the future doesn’t even look as bright …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Meatless Monday in Sweden: Q & A with Köttfri ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign here in the U.S. has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years (the recent blogpost on Sodexo’s success with the campaign is just one example), but did you know that 23 countries now have campaigns that seek to reduce meat consumption one day a week? When I was ...
  • 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.

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Judge Upholds FTC Complaint That POM Shouldn't ...
    If you've been chugging your way through vats of POM pomegranate juice or downing POMx supplements in the hopes that it would cure or prevent heart disease, prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction, the Federal Trade Commission has got some words for you. An administrative law judge upheld an ...
  • Couple Faces $700 Tab For Listing Copy Of Rose ...
    A Washington state couple thought that when they found a copy of the pricey Rosetta Stone language-instruction software in their late nephew's belongings, they could sell it on eBay to help pay for his headstone. Instead, they are now being told they owe hundreds of dollars to the software comp ...
  • Extra Fees For Aisle & Window Seats Means Fami ...
    Flying with kids or in a large group can be tough, which is why it'd be ideal for families to be able to sit together. But now that some airlines are reserving window and aisle seats for customers willing to pay extra for them, or frequent fliers, it could mean some families having to split up ...
  • Popeyes Customer With Service Dog & Popeyes Ma ...
    A 20-year-old diabetic says he was rudely kicked out of a Popeyes eatery in Georgia because of his service dog, and that the local police refused to even discuss the topic. However, the restaurant's manager says something completely different. The customer has Type 1 diabetes and has been usin ...
  • Is $15/Month To Best Buy Worth A New Replaceme ...
    Phone insurance plans are often not worth the money you spend on them; especially since many credit cards already include extended warranty protection at no extra cost. But a Best Buy customer in California feels burned by Best Buy's Mobile Phone Plan after she paid more than $250 in insurance ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Is 'Meat Glue' the new 'Pink Slime'?: Daily Wh ...
    ABC7: Inside Look at Another Type of Meat Glue Summary: This television report looks into the usage of "meat glue" in steak products. "Meat Glue" binds pieces of meat together to create what looks like a whole steak. While the product may pose potential food safety hazards, restaurants are not ...
  • GAP Staff at DC Whistleblower Rights Conferenc ...
    If you’re in the Washington, DC area, here's a reminder that today is the second day of Whistleblower Summit: Civil & Human Rights Conference – and there’s lots happening! Today promises to be a full and exciting day of whistleblower rights issues. One of the big events today is a book sign ...
  • Punishing the Punishers: Air Force Disciplines ...
    The Washington Post reports: The Air Force said Monday that it had fined the former commander of the Dover Air Force Base mortuary $7,000 and suspended his top deputy for 20 days without pay for retaliating against whistleblowers, but it allowed both men to keep their jobs. The punishment ...
  • Whistleblower Rights Conference in DC Starts Today
    As we blogged about on Friday, if you’re thinking of going to the Whistleblower Summit: Civil & Human Rights Conference today, there’s plenty for you to see. Events are happening from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The conference aims to address pressing issues like the Obama administration’s war on inte ...
  • Survey Shows Federal Whistleblowers Are Worse ...
    Federal Times: Now More Than Ever, Stronger Whistleblower Protection Essential Summary: GAP President Louis Clark and Legal Director Tom Devine argue in this op-ed that, in light of the excessive spending scandal of the General Services Administration and a recent survey showing whistleblower ...

UK Progressive

  • Class of 2012? You’re F**ked
    The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given Members of the Class of 2012, As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today. You’re f*cked. Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy. First ...
  • A Changing Culture at the LAPD
    by Sharon Kyle and Dick Price Publisher and Editor LA Progressive Magazine Over the years, the Los Angeles Police Department has often had a rocky relationship with some of the communities it has been charged to police — particularly the African American, Latino, and LGBT communities. It’s easy ...
  • Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential ...
    by Kim Barker, ProPublica When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had flagged an earlier purchase as potentially fraudulent. The problem? A $5 donation to Friends of Scott ...
  • The Monday Line: Cardiff Airport Still Under t ...
    With the abrupt departure last week of embattled TBI Albertis’ Manager Patrick Duffy, Cardiff Airport now begins the difficult task of rebuilding airline routes, services, facilities and business traveller confidence. For the last decade it has been both an embarrassment and running joke of an a ...
  • The Magnetar Fallout: Who’s Been Charged, Has ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars’ worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacularly in the financial crisis. Magnetar, meanwhile, had taken positions that allowed the firm to profit when many ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Unthreaded – I’m back (just)
    I’ve returned from two weeks away around some old haunts in Canberra. It’s been fascinating. Thanks to David T for dedicatedly migrating my whole blog to a new more secure and less expensive location (PS David, I have that visual editor again. Ta!). I have 1846 emails (and that&#8217 ...
  • A nation still drawing 18,000MW in it’s ...
    I’m away, so this is a good time for Guest posts. Here Tony explains that we need lots of electricity even while we sleep. I didn’t realize our electricity needs were so high at night. The lowest power use each day is still as much as 60% of the peak. That’s the base load at 3a ...
  • US Government *only* spent $70 billion on clim ...
    Remember the fear of global warming is falling because skeptics are well organized and well funded by vested interests and, after all, the US government is only spending ten thousand times more than Heartland. How could they compete? The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 ...
  • Glikson tell us to publish a paper – we ...
    Golly, but The Heretic is a play that appears to be genuinely useful art, something that actually challenges the paradigm. Brice Bosnich reviews it ( see below), Andrew Glikson rails against it (see, it must be useful). Glikson says, rightly: “Opinion and “belief” are no substi ...
  • We can’t predict the climate on a local, regio ...
    This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that drills down to the most important points and papers, with proper references, as a definitive resource.The models are wrong: not just “unverified”, not just “uncertain”, but proven to have failed. — Jo Joint ...

ReNew America

  • Is Romney Obama's socialist role model?
    (Alan Keyes) - Reportedly, Obama's supposed switch to support for gay marriage drove many evangelical Christian voters into the Romney fold. The story moved me to share this comment with my friends on Twitter: "I guess some evangelicals fled to Romney because he's already done what Obama only wa ...
  • Hillary Clinton will be the 2012 veep candidate
    (Joseph Curl) - Show of hands: Who here still thinks Vice President Joseph R. Biden will be on the 2012 ticket? Really? All of you? So wrong...
  • N.C. teacher tells student he could be arreste ...
    (The Blaze) - Last Monday, a high school student in North Carolina engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the two leading presidential candidates. During the exchange, the teacher (an obvious Obama supporter) got very angry with the student and accused him of di ...
  • Lou Dobbs mystified by Obama-birth 'taboo'
    (WorldNetDaily) - Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs says he's mystified by an apparent "taboo" Republicans and the national media have as they continue to bury any question or news story probing the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president of the United States...
  • Obamacare: A plan of, by and for special interests
    (Timothy P. Carney) - For a law that supposedly sticks it to big business, President Obama's health care overhaul sure has a lot of industries counting on it for profits. In recent weeks, plenty of new evidence suggests Obamacare was a boondoggle for special interests...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Pleiadian Eclipse Alignment Today
    Vice magazine, with 900,000 readers, has a target audience of college students. So it is not surprising that they have published some articles regarding the 2012 meme (I was interviewed for their article about the types of people who hangout at 2012 forum). This week they have an article that sh ...
  • Survivalists in Florida
    Great article in the Miami New Times last week, profiling preppers and survivalists like these folk: Jorge Villa – after a terrifying experience during Hurricane Andrew he devised his own bunkers, and sells them to folk – some of whom are worried about the end of the Mayan calendar ...
  • Alaska Could Cause Japan-Style Tsunami
    A particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area – which lies four to five kilometres under water – reveal the pressure is accumulating rapidly. If the Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographi ...
  • Geryl and ETAP Cross-Promote
    I’m not keen on the idea of using a boat to survive 2012. The idea has been promoted by 2012er Patrick Geryl, although he gets “very easily seasick” and will be choosing a bunker instead. Although a boat might be “unsinkable”, there’s also the factor of where ...
  • Solar Pole Imbalance Mystery
    Our Sun operates on a cycle that takes roughly 11 years to complete. While the key indicator for when the cycle is at its peak is the number of sun spots, the root cause is the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic poles. And for some reason that scientists cannot explain, the Sun’s poles a ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • UPA 2 faced storm inside and outside Parliamen ...
    In her speech, the UPA chairperson sought to pinpoint some of the specific achievements of UPA 2. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Both Houses of Parl adjourned sine die
    22 May 2012 Both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die today.In her valedictory remarks in the Lok Sabha, Speaker Meira Kumar said the House had 34 sittings during the budget session. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
  • Drogba confirms Chelsea departure
    The Ivory Coast striker will leave when his contract expires at the end of June and is now odds-on to follow his former team mate Nicolas Anelka to China. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Manchester City are best value club for fans
    A report compares season ticket costs with performance in the league and entertainment value. It also takes into consideration the number of points for a pound. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • ‘Love, Wrinkle-free’ trailer: Madness unplugged
    Watch the trailer of Sandeep Mohan’s directorial debutSet in Goa, Love, Wrinkle-free, is a story about Savio, a 38 year old senior area sales manager who works in an inner-wear company. Reported by Bollywood Life 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • No, India Cannot Be the US’ Poodle
    The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s warning about the possibility of outbreak of “full-blown wars” with the use of nuclear weapons in the current global security scenario can be seen as a timely interjection on the eve of the G8 and North Atlantic Treaty Organization s ...
  • Osama bin Laden not killed by US, claims forme ...
    Berkan Yashar, a Turkish politician and former US intelligence agent claimed that the American did not kill the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and in fact, he died naturally. The politician was talking to Russia’s Channel One (link in Russian). “In September of 1992 I was in Chechnya, that’s wh ...
  • Israel Is Anticipating War
    Surprising political developments in Israel and recent reports in the US media suggest that Israel will attack Iran in the near future. After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early parliamentary elections at a conference of the Likud ruling party in early May, Israel decided unexpecte ...
  • US, Israeli and Saudi-funded Terrorists Destab ...
    According to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, “The Redirection,” the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had been assembling a region-wide army of extremist-mercenaries to battle Hezbollah in Lebanon, destabilize and overthrow Syria, and create a united front against Iran. The fo ...
  • Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the ...
    The legal proceedings against Seif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, have developed into an unusual situation, that has had no precedents in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) history. The matter is that the Court itself is exerting efforts to destroy the case so that the accused would ...

BlogHer

  • How the Internet and Teen Bloggers Are Shaping ...
    [Editor’s note: Some of us older feminists--ok me--sometimes find this whole social media world foreign and even impersonal. But one of my favorite blogs is the Fbomb founded by teen Julie Zeilinger. Not only has it become a thriving space for young feminist bloggers, but it has also changed how ...
  • Stitch Up a Sweet Sun Plushie
    [Editor's Note: Why not welcome summer by stitching up a sun plushie? This cute craft is not only adorable it is also easy to make. With just one you have an ornament for your rear view window. If you whip up an entire batch and link them together you have a summery garland. I can see myself now ...
  • I'm Not Really a Mommy Blogger Anymore
    [Editor's Note: I've been awash in "they grow up so fast" as my oldest son just "graduated" from Kindergarten last week. I wrote about my thoughts about how he grew and changed this year on my personal blog with the background thought that I won't always be able to share every last little bit ab ...
  • Tips for Making the Internet Easier to Use
    [Editor's Note: Shannon from Shannanigans has some great tips for you. She can tell you where to find great free image editors, beautiful free fonts, and which tools can help you convert files from one format to another. And she includes helpful screenshots of everything! -Virginia] You know wha ...
  • 9 Ways Sign Language Can Benefit Your Toddler ...
    [Editor's Note: My sister-in-law is expecting her first child and has been picking my brain for many of the things I did with the boys when they were infants. She remembered that we taught the boys sign language when they were wee-little and how it was not only cute but helpful in figuring out w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • ‘Banning cars that fly’: Coal fac ...
    West Virginia political leaders and media personalities don’t much like it when some uncomfortable facts get interjected into their “war on coal” narrative about the Obama administration and the efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce coal’s impacts ...
  • Alpha Natural Resources cited in March mine death
    West Virginia regulators this afternoon are releasing the report of their investigation into the March death of  34-year-old Jeremy Sigler at Alpha Natural Resources subsidiary Kingston Resources Inc.’s Kingston No. 2 Mine. Readers may recall that Sigler was killed when he was struck by ma ...
  • Swint: Rep. Capito’s EPA attacks a &#821 ...
    Here’s the latest from Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press: The Democrat looking to unseat Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito attacked her Monday for criticizing the EPA, saying she was polarizing debate and furthering a myth that coal is all West Virginia has. Howard Swint, who is ...
  • Blankenship, Jim Justice pal around at the Derby
    In a sidebar to a larger piece about how contributors to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s political campaign got help getting Kentucky Derby tickets, the Courier-Journal in Louisville had this interesting tidbit today: Don Blankenship, the controversial former chief executive of Massey Energy ...
  • Friday roundup, May 19, 2012
    In this May 2, 2012 photo, Jeff Moline grooms and compacts a coal pile after a rainstorm degraded the pile at  at the Sherco power plant in Becker, Minn.   (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jean Pieri) One of the more interesting pieces this week was a story in Scientific American, relating ...

Daniel Miessler

  • BDD-Security and Resty-Burp
    BDD-Security is a framework written in Java and based on JBehave and Selenium 2 (WebDriver) that uses predefined security tests and an integrated security scanner to perform automated security assessments of web applications. Don’t scanning tools already to that? Partly. Scanning tools are ...
  • Sam Harris Owning Illogical Liberals
    To see how the denial of the obvious has become a new article of faith for secular liberals, consider the response I received from Chris Stedman. In an article published in The Huffington Post, Stedman urged me to visit a mosque with him. This invitation was much celebrated online. Many people a ...
  • Fables Should be Taught as Fables
    Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ~ Hypatia of Alexan ...
  • Concepts vs. Convention
    I realized recently that I value most those who are able to step outside convention when living their lives. The most powerful manifestation of this is being acutely aware of why one does what one does. Examples include questioning why we seek mates, why we have children, why we work 9-5 jobs to ...
  • Student Fail
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerFlowers and StoneCrescent Tree Shadows from EclipseOverlooking SFCouldn’t Care Less

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Random Rambles
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – It’s 82 here in the burgh at 2 in the afternoon. Last year was the warmest year on record. Climate Change? Pretty much a given unless you still believe the earth is flat. I’ve been checking out Current T.V. since it debuted. So far I like it . one o ...
  • An Indian’s Mind
    Diana May Waldman My 77 year old. Poet, father sent me a few poems this week. My father, hasn’t written anything in years. I had often wonder why he had given up on words, when they used to be so important to him. Most of his older work was about my mother. Unrequited love. Sometimes, [...]
  • Carry Your Own “MoonBeams in a Jar”
    “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is beads (in a lab tempered glass Amulet) containing multiple mic ...
  • At home with the denizens of Slab City – ...
    By HELEN POW,Mailonline - The bizarre lives of the drug addicts, hippies and weirdos who inhabit the lawless society of Slab City in California have been revealed in a confronting video. The 20 minute documentary, made by Vice, follows three residents of the slum-like community, billed by some a ...
  • Large Crack on South Wall of Fukushima Nuclear ...
    AT DBKP REPORT – “We could have a disaster much worse, many times worse than Chernobyl.” Dr. Michio Kaku on the precarious state of the spent fuel rods in the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor Unit Number Four building Recently, TEPCO released a petulant press release they plan to ...

reference frame

  • Paul Frampton: three generations from an exten ...
    Paul Frampton, an achieved physicist, former TRF guest blogger, a sex symbol among the Argentine supermodels, and an involuntary importer of a substance is impressing everyone with the physics productivity during his confinement in Argentina where he is affiliated with Centro Universitario De ...
  • Hartle, Hawking, Hertog: how our C.C. could be ...
    A reader has pointed out that I missed a paper by Hartle, Hawking, and Hertog last week: Accelerated Expansion from Negative Λ They claim – and please sit down so that your stability gets improved – that the accelerated expansion of our Universe could result from a theory that has a funda ...
  • Klaus for Heartland on AGW: Eastern Europe is ...
    Czech president Václav Klaus was the keynote speaker during the Monday dinner at the Seventh Heartland Climate Conference, ICCC-7, in Chicago. One could have said that all things have been said but one could have been wrong, too. He said some revealing things and addressed some nov ...
  • Higgs combo viXra java applet
    Phil Gibbs has written a cute and user-friendly java applet (download Java 7v4 instead of your dated Java 6v32 if you don't have the new one yet) that allows you to create thousands of charts relevant for the Higgs boson discovery: viXra combo applet (click) A screenshot of the applet is ...
  • Klaus: Afghans not ready to take security lead
    Czech President Václav Klaus is no military hawk. He had mixed feelings about NATO's interventions in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and probably others if there have been any and many of his attitudes may put him relatively close to folks like Ron Paul. But before the ongoing NATO meeting began in C ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Elderly victims robbed at home
    Police have reported two home break-ins that resulted in robberies of elderly occupants, one of them considered brutal. Both occurred over the weekend, and no suspects are in custody. One of the victims was a 78-year-old man who was robbed at his home in the Holmen district of Oslo. Website ditt ...
  • China sends new ambassador to Oslo
    After 19 months of a diplomatic stalemate between China and Norway, the Chinese government has sent a new ambassador to Oslo. Some observers view the move as a sign that diplomatic relations, frozen since the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident in 2010, may finally be starti ...
  • ‘Brave’ art exhibit opens at Kistefos
    SEE THE VIDEO: Government officials stayed away, but hundreds of others lined up on Sunday for the opening of a landmark exhibit at the Kistefos Museum outside Oslo. The exhibit, featuring works by famed Chinese artist and social critic Ai Weiwei, is a coup for Kistefos but perhaps just a bit to ...
  • Farmers failed to meet Stoltenberg
    Norwegian farmers, still furious over what they consider to be a poor state subsidy offer from the government, picked the wrong date in their efforts on Monday to confront and further ridicule Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. He’s been out traveling since last week, but the farmers warned ...
  • Video: Ai Weiwei exhibit at Kistefos

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Letters from New Zealand: Villages for the Fut ...
    Editor’s Note: After reading this, you may want to quickly jump onto Bob Corker’s upcoming ‘Villages for the Future’ 2-day course (held at PRI Australia’s Zaytuna Farm, May 26-27, 2012). Don’t say I didn’t tell you…. Kotare Village surrounds, w ...
  • APC11 Presentation: Permaculture Disaster Resp ...
    At the recent Australasian Permaculture Conference (APC11) held in Turangi, New Zealand, one of the highlights for me was hearing Toru Sakawa’s tale of permaculture aid work in very unusual circumstances. I say unusual, as the triple woes of having an earthquake and tsunami followed by ...
  • The Transition Trail to Resilience
    by Emma Crameri, Gustoso “The Transition Trail to Resilience” illustrates the steps our local communities can take to transition to living with climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy and oil. I was inspired by first developing The Permaculture Path to Sustainability which deals ...
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast, Queensland Style
    Editor’s Note: Besides making a mean Saturday morning breakfast, Tom and Zaia make a formidable team to learn from as well. It’s not too late to jump onto their next PDC, starting in just a few days… (May 20). Saturday is a special day for us: it is our only day off in the wee ...
  • Soil Microbes Help Save Plant-growing Input Co ...
    by Doug Weatherbee Learn how beneficial soil microbes can provide soluble nutrients and plant disease suppression to your farm or garden.

Pointman's

  • The 100,000 pages landmark.
    Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...
  • Climate Alarmism and The Prat Principle.
    I’d like to introduce you to one of the great discoveries of my life, the Prat Principle. Before doing so, I’ll have to ensure we have a common understanding of what exactly a prat is, prior to sharing it with you, together with some related tricks and tips. Prat is one of the great ...
  • What I’m going to say will upset a few p ...
    This is not going to be a popular article with some people on the skeptical side of the global warming divide but you’re going to get it anyway, because a few things that have needed to be said for some time, now require to be said more urgently, especially in the light of recent events.&# ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Another Day in Court for Angola Three Prisoner
    From our friends at the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: On Tuesday, May 29th, Albert Woodfox will begin a 3 day hearing that may result in his conviction being overturned for a third time. Proceedings will begin at 9am in Courtroom 1 at the US District Court in Baton Rouge and c ...
  • Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal, ...
    US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civilians. Some of those killed were rescuers and mourners. These killings would be cri ...
  • We Belong Together: Women's Delegation to Geor ...
    My name is Williana Washington Tadlock and I am a member of STAND. I became a member by getting involved in the BW Cooper campaign to fight for the rights for jobs in rebuilding our community. I am happy to say that we won that fight! With that, I became intrigued and wanted to do more. I began ...
  • New Orleans Workers’ Center Calls on Janet Nap ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Hundreds at Local Rally Will Call for ICE to Grant Legal Status to Southern 32 for Standing Up to Abusive Employers and Law Enforcement On Tuesday, May 1, hundreds will gather at New Orleans City Hall to join the New Orl ...
  • New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...

Information Underground

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    I can see how this Hoffmeister will be very appealing to young Jews who don't know jack about sh*t. Glancing over his writings, I am amazed at the amount of conflicting messages he has woven together. The Jews were certainly overrepresented in the Soviet government. But this fact is utterly ir ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • K ...
    http://whatdoyoubelieve.blog.fc2.com/bl ... comment775 KIKE "WHITE NATIONALISM" : "CONSTANTIN von HOFFMEISTER" This "National Bolshevik" "German" Kike goes by the name "Constantin von Hoffmeister" and is part of and is promoted by the pathetic ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Hal Turner Case Comes Back To Bite FBI http://us.altermedia.info/news-of-inter ... _9259.html by Jeff Davis, April 18th, 2012 · Post your comment "by Jeff Davis Using informants and fabricating evidence has certain risks for the enterprising FBI agent who uses it to enhance his or her car ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Well Wimpy... I'm sure they are going to LIE about the INTEL, it's almost like a re-release -- Coming soon! "NEOCON SCAM 2 -- False Flags across America" as your favorite J-Triber NeoCons launch more attacks while blaming Israel's enemies. Are you smart enough to see the deception ...
  • Social Engineering • Vampiric Jew Casino Magna ...
    Macau Labor Shortage Seen as Hurdle for Casino Expansion By Vinicy Chan - May 21, 2012 6:02 PM CT Macau’s $34 billion gaming industry has an obstacle. With 28 million visitors and 21 percent economic growth last year, Macau is confronting a severe labor shortage. The Chinese city, one of t ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Pebble Mine Could Devastate Critical Alaskan S ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that the proposed large-scale Pebble Mine development in the hills above Alaska’s Bristol Bay could cause devastating habitat loss for the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. In a draft report, EPA officials calculate that proposals ...
  • Methane Sources Found Bubbling Up from Melting ...
    U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, said they have discovered 150,000 methane seeps in ...
  • The Clean Water Act at 40: There’s Still Much ...
    The Clean Water Act of 1972, one of the boldest environmental laws ever enacted, turns 40 this year, with an impressive record of cleaning up America's waterways. But from New York Harbor to Alaska’s Bristol Bay, key challenges remain. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Interview: Taking Green Chemistry Out Of the L ...
    Paul Anastas is credited with coining the term “green chemistry,” the movement to make chemicals and industrial processes more environmentally friendly, and during two stints in Washington, D.C., he has worked to Michael Marsland/ Yale University Paul Anastas promote those principles at t ...
  • Taking Green Chemistry Out Of The Lab and into ...
    Paul Anastas pioneered the concept of green chemistry and has led the effort to rethink the way we design and make the products we use. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenges of bringing this approach to policy making and the frustrations of tackling environment ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • A Modest Opinion – You’ll be break ...
    By Nathaniel Moher As most of you are aware (and if you’re not aware, you should stop reading now and go back and re-read all 66 of my articles . . . I’ll wait), I’m an expert in everything to do with rioting. Therefore, I know what Conservative MP Blake Richards is talking about in [...]
  • Dreams and death on Everest
    A BoB short: Shriya Shah-Klorfine, 33, of Toronto had dreamed of climbing to the top of Mount Everest since she was nine-years old. On Saturday, after an intense seven-week sojourn to the top, Shah-Klorfine placed a flag on the mountain’s summit, becoming the fourth Canadian woman to scale ...
  • RCMP: Really Carefully Monitoring People
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) How can I write this without sounding, well, paranoid? I believe the RCMP is watching too many people, and abusing its resources. There are plenty of signs this is taking place. And proliferating tech gadgets and social media are only making the matter worse. It worri ...
  • Arcade Fire wear red square on SNL
    A BoB short: Quebec’s striking students received some high-profile musical support last night when Montreal’s Arcade Fire appeared on “Saturday Night Live” wearing the symbol of the student movement, a red square. The Grammy-winners, along with Nick Fraiture of The Stroke ...
  • Harper: The Nudes Collection
    A BoB pictorial: Since a painting of Prime Minister Stephen Harper lounging nude on a chaise longue emerged on Friday (including all his emerging parts), reaction has been swift, and a little green at the gills. The painting by Kingston artist Margaret Sutherland, titled “”Emperor Ha ...

Daily Beast

  • No Draft, And No Sex
    "Your announcement that you will be hosting Avigdor Lieberman in London does nothing to allay our concerns." --Signatories of a petition, including members of Habonim Dror Zionist youth movement and the pro-Israel peace group Yachad, express their concern at JNF's activities in E ...
  • Why Jamie Dimon Apologized
    Admitting something went wrong is the way to learn from a mistake, but Sydney Finkelstein asks, will the JPMorgan CEO take steps to avoid a repeat?
  • The NATO Summit’s Big Loser
    The already frayed U.S.-Pakistan relationship took another hit in Chicago. Bruce Riedel on the stalled border talks—and who gains from Zardari’s snub.
  • William: Corgis drive me nuts!
    William has spoken out about his grandmother - and her dogs
  • The Future Mrs. Alec Baldwin
    Hilaria Thomas, soon-to-be Mrs. Alec Baldwin, teaches yoga and tweets about his kissing skills. Lizzie Crocker gets her to expand.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • A singular event from many angles
    Many people who ignored overcast skies to observe Monday's annular solar eclipse enjoyed the rare event in very special ways. About 110 people took a chartered Japan Airlines flight from Haneda airport that circled at an altitude of 12,000 meters to view the eclipse, in which the moon passes i ...
  • Banks post record net bond sales
    Major Japanese banks in April posted their biggest net sales of public and corporate bonds in the country since records began in 1998, an industry report showed Monday. Net selling by major banks such as city banks totaled ¥5.1028 trillion, excluding short-term government securities, the ...
  • Minae Inahara, part-time lecturer at Rikkyo Un ...
    Minae Inahara, 39, is a part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. With a PhD in philosophy from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, she has been researching disability on three continents: Australia, Asia and Europe. She is an expert in the exploration of the phenomenology of d ...
  • Yokohama: What's the most annoying thing Japan ...
    Anton OlenStudent, 20 (Swedish) I'm fluent in Japanese and am more disturbed when Japanese people speak English to me first. Also, it's annoying when they assume and ask, "Are you American?" Stephen JacksonTeacher, 28 (American) Nothing really annoying, actually — not that I've not ...
  • Riddle of rising sea levels said solved
    Massive extraction of groundwater can resolve the puzzle over rising sea levels seen in past decades, Japanese scientists said Sunday. Global sea levels rose an average of 1.8 mm per year from 1961 to 2003, according to data from tide gauges. But the big question is how much of this can be pin ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Inflation On Target; Exchange Rate Off Target
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 2%, precisely in line with the Bank of Canada’s target. With inflation under control and renewed risks to the global economy, there is little rationale for the central bank to raise interest rates anytime soon. In fact, the Bank of Ca ...
  • Federal jobs cuts: Clarity is always one year away
    I’ve commented on federal job cuts many times before (here, here, here & here) and in the interests of flogging this particular horse (no animals were harmed in the writing of these reports), the CCPA today is releasing my latest update on the matter: Clearing away the fog: Government Estima ...
  • De-growth or growth? Maybe we don’t need to fi ...
    There has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether the ecological crisis means we need to see (or plan for) a stabilization or even a decline in economic growth. This week there is a major conference on degrowth in Montreal. York University’s Peter Victor has made import ...
  • Sask. Manufacturing Hits the Wall
    Premier Brad Wall was Tweeting about today’s Statistics Canada report of an uptick in national manufacturing sales in March. It is an odd report for him to trumpet, given that it found a decline in Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sales that month. Another recent Statistics Canada report, Friday’s L ...
  • If NSCAD were a paper mill
    As students in Quebec continue their 14 week strike, students in Nova Scotia continue to be reminded that post-secondary education is not a priority for the Nova Scotia government. Students and faculty at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), in particular, are bracing for severe fu ...

ReDress

  • Post-colonial theory, whiteness and Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Palestinian activists - indeed, everyone who strives for liberation, equality and justice - must ditch the circular, sterile post-colonial discourse that permeates leftist thinking and "deconstruct Jewish texts and Jewish cultural discourse with the same vigour that Edwa ...
  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...
  • Israel's efforts to erase the memory of the Pa ...
    Neve Gordon argues that Israel's tireless efforts to conceal the truth of the Nakba - the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 - will ultimately prove futile and that, even today, most Israeli youths know what the Nakba is, even if their views of the conflict with the Pales ...
  • Nakba - the Palestinians' never ending catastrophe
    Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing ...
  • What kind of society do Americans want?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Americans face a clear choice: to live in a cohesive and civilized society that cares and supports all its members, or to live in a society governed by selfishness and the philosophy of survival of the fittest.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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  • New debt ceiling deal
    by (Posted Thu, 10 May 2012 19:14:16 GMT) Welcome to come here! The Asics Trainers has become one of the most popular brand nowadays. You will be satisfied when you meet the Asics Shoes. Orders are welcomed! Designed to keep up with discerning athletes, Asics Running Shoes offer advanced tech ...
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  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Mon, 07 May 2012 17:14:59 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...

Peakwater

  • Mysterious GREEN water grosses out locals in N ...
    “The water in the coastal town has actually become green thanks to an overabundance of iron, though water experts insist that despite its hue, it’s safe to drink. The tinted tap is unnoticeable in small amounts, such as a glass of water, but in larger pools and tubs, the disturbing c ...
  • Worst drought in 50 years takes toll in northe ...
    “RIO DE JANEIRO — Severe drought gripping northeastern Brazil — the worst in a half-century — is taking its toll on more than 1,100 towns, even triggering fighting in rural areas, local media reported Sunday. An average of one person a day is being killed in “water wars&# ...
  • Bill seeks to clarify groundwater oversight
    “A proposed law designed to keep water bills from skyrocketing has passed a state Senate committee, but opponents vow to fight the measure they say is a “political power grab.” Senate Bill 1386, authored by Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, would remove barriers to storing gro ...
  • Romney Water Pollution Record: Hundreds of Cor ...
    “As Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney gave industrial wastewater dischargers free rein to discharge chemicals into municipal treatment systems unable to filter them out of the Commonwealth’s waters, according to documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEE ...
  • Afghanistan: Flash Flood Kills At Least 27 In ...
    “KABUL, Afghanistan — A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 17 people, authorities said. It was the second major flood reported this week in the north. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Takhar province, said flood wa ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Responds to NRC Chairman’s Decision t ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led Congressional efforts to advance nuclear safety, today released the following statement after U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his retirement pending the confirmation of a successor. “Chairman Jaczko is committe ...
  • Kucinich: “NATO Talks a Sham: War in Afghanist ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement as world leaders meet in Chicago for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it’s not about ...
  • Kucinich on NDAA: Is this Who We Are as a Nation?
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement detailing why he voted against the National Defense Authorization Act. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 4310, authorizes a total of $642.7 billion.  According to Congressional Quarterly, defense s ...
  • Wars Hot and Cold
    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, the FY013 NDAA includes language that could und ...
  • “If you Want Peace, Prepare for Peace. If you ...
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  • paying the price for our timidity
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
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    Note in the stories below - `the U.S. suspects` has been the watchword phrase for alarmism about Iran`s choice to prove it is not indulging in nuclear WMD while holders of that WMD decry that plan. It seems it is not plausible to call for destruction of nuclear weapons while maintaining nuclear power generation technology....even when facilities, technical support and fuel all come from outside the country from people who showed what they thought of menacing WMD in their back yard during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now Israel is adding its hype to that of the UN Security Council : nuclear weapons makers all.
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