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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, May 24, 2012

24 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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In an age where ignorance is exulted, only an educated people can halt the spread of stupidity.

IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Hospitals serving up flesh-eating bacteria?
    Increasingly, Americans are being hit with strains of flesh-eating bacteria, and worse yet, hospitals themselves are harboring the nasty bugs. The condition, known as necrotizing fasciitis - a serious infection of the skin and soft tissues - has manifested itself...
  • Medical doctor's life ruined by psychiatric tr ...
    This week's episode of Mental Health Exposed features an interview with Dr. Robin, a medical doctor who received drug treatment and electro-convulsive therapy while an intern in medical school. Dr. Robin claims the treatments she received wiped out her memory, causing...
  • Glutamine: The ultimate healing supplement
    The healing powers of glutamine are vast and understated. This completely safe and natural amino acid supplement has been studied for the past 15 years for its unique and compelling healing properties. It is now clear to researchers that glutamine is key in healing the...
  • How to prevent and reverse cancer
    Heaven forbid you ever hear the words: "You have cancer". But if you did - what would you do? I would hope you find the courage and conviction to embrace life and defeat cancer with all your power. A cancer diagnosis is NOT a death sentence - it's a wake up call - which...
  • Quebec government makes it illegal to protest ...
    America has some warts, no doubt, but it's hard to beat our Bill of Rights, which everyone knows includes the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble peacefully. While Canada has no such document, the country still has a reputation of supporting...

Threat Level

  • The Hack that Wasn’t: Sec. Clinton and Operati ...
    When news stories quoted Hillary Clinton claiming the State Department hacked al Qaeda web sites, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds' Leet skills or appalled at the administration's hypocrisy regarding hacking.
  • Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Int ...
    Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broad ...
  • Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warran ...
    A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that 150 pounds of marijuana collected from a suspect's car is not admissible in court because investigators illegally used a GPS tracker without a warrant to uncover the evidence.
  • Bredolab Bot Herder Gets 4 Years for 30 Millio ...
    Armenia handed down its first computer crime sentence on Tuesday with a four-year punishment for the mastermind behind the Bredolab botnet.
  • U.K. Supreme Court to Rule on Assange Extradit ...
    After months of anticipation, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will finally get a ruling next week on his appeal of an extradition order to Sweden, where he faces an investigation into allegations of rape.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Guilty as Charged: How the GOP Killed Washington
    It's rare that a criminal publicly announces his intent to commit a felony. But when it came to their scorched-earth campaign of obstructionism to destroy the Obama presidency, GOP leaders weren't shy about their plans. While 15 top Republicans schemed in private on the night of Obama's inaugur ...
  • Debate Over Two Visions of Capitalism Has One ...
    When President Obama suggested Monday that private gain does not always equal the public good and maximizing shareholder value is not necessarily a qualification for the White House, Mitt Romney branded those self-evident truths "attacks on the free enterprise system." But if Romney's experienc ...
  • 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, ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Egyptian Voters on the Promise, and Limits, of ...
    Voters are heading to the polls for the second day in Egypt's first competitive presidential election following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak 15 months ago. The first day of voting saw numerous reports of minor violations, but was largely hailed as free of fraud and violence. Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak ...
  • Senate Advances Expanded, "Orwellian" Gov't Su ...
    The Senate is closer to renewing controversial measures that critics say would allow the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens to be monitored without a warrant. The Select Committee on Intelligence has voted to extend controversial amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that ...
  • With Control of Drone Strikes, Is Counterterro ...
    President Obama's counterterrorism chief John Brennan is heading up a new team to determine who should be targeted by armed U.S. drones overseas. The newly revealed procedure for drone attacks means Brennan's staff consults the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies before ultimately ...
  • Oregon's Assault on Teachers
    For all the talk of budget shortfalls, the crisis facing Oregon's schools is political, not financial -- and teachers are the target of choice.
  • Headlines for May 24, 2012
    Egyptians Vote in 2nd Day of Presidential Election, EU Summit Split on Bonds, Shared Debt, Suspect Arrested in Mexico for Murder of U.S. Journalist Brad Will, Pakistan Faces U.S. Warning for Sentencing of Doctor Who Aided CIA, Obama Hails "New Era of American Leadership" in Speech to Air Force G ...

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

  • Solar Power Breakthrough: New Inexpensive, Env ...
      A new solar cell that is cheap, environmentally friendly, and durable has been developed by researchers from Northwestern University. The solar cell is the first to solve the problem of the Grätzel cell, a low-cost, environmentally friendly solar cell that has one significant disadvanta ...
  • Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2011
      Every year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of international scientists compile a list of their picks for the top 10 newly described species. The annual top 10 new species list has just been released for 2011. This year&#82 ...
  • Wind-Driven Mars ‘Tumbleweed’ Rover Being Deve ...
    New research from North Carolina State University has shown the ‘tumbleweed’ Mars rover design to be an effective one. “There is quite a bit of interest within NASA to pursue the tumbleweed rover design, but one of the questions regarding the concept is how it might perform on ...
  • Skin Cells Turned into Healthy Heart Muscle in ...
      For the first time, researchers have successfully taken skin cells from a heart failure patient and reprogrammed them to be new heart muscle cells that can integrate into the existing heart. The research, just published in the European Heart Journal, will make it possible to treat heart ...
  • Baseline Measurements of Carbon in Arctic Ocean
      Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have concluded a study to measure levels of carbon at various levels in the Arctic Ocean, providing a baseline for further understanding. The study was recently published in the journal Biogeosciences. It provides data that ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • This country is too young to die - Canada
    Editorial commentary: The title I've given this piece is a line from a song by American singer Phil Ochs [The War is Over]. Although I have never been enamoured with any of the national governments mes compatriotes have elected over the years, it's hard to think of one more thoroughly...
  • Québec students: ten talking points - The issu ...
    Student strikes in Québec began in February and have lasted for three months, despite draconian police and legislative response. Demonstrations and organizations involving roughly 175,000 students have been conducted mainly in French, a factor that allows English language media to ignore or misc ...
  • Exposure to common agricultural fungicide show ...
    A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that pregnant rats exposed to the common agricultural fungicide vinclozolin pass on the damage to their descendents. While the co-author stated that the purpose of the study was to investigate potential phenomena which ...
  • Tonight! May 23rd. Cuba In Focus 2012 Panel & ...
    Cuba In Focus 2012 Panel & Discussion Tonight, Wednesday, May 23 "Cuba in Focus 2012" Panel of Cuban experts and authors on Cuba themes Watch the live video stream from San Francisco starting at 7 p.m. Pacific / 10 p.m. Eastern A unique opportunity to hear ...
  • A World Without Capitalists Is Necessary - Wor ...
    A world without workers is impossible. A world without capitalists is necessary. -- World Federation of Labor. The unemployment rate in the USA is down to just over 8%. This is evidence that we are in a recovery from a recession. But that rate is actually higher than it was...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Snopes, Too Liberal To Believe?
    By @TomBales1  Thought I'd share this little email exchange between the lady who was my first big high school crush and myself because it points out what just could be the major fallibility in the American people that has allowed Wall Street to get away with what they've gotten away with fo ...
  • The Continuing Betrayal By Blue Dogs
    By @KYYellowDog Did DINO Ben Chandler win the repug primary in Kentucky's Sixth District?  Why not?  He's such a loyal repug vote. Down with Tyranny: For those who keep track of this sort of detail, Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced an amendment (Friday) to end the occupation of Afghanista ...
  • The next big thing
    By @BGinKC Those of you who have been reading for four years or longer probably remember the 2008 campaign, when I spent a lot of time traveling and covering events and conventions and the like. This year is going to be no different. In fact, as you saw Monday, it has already started. That comme ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Commonwealt ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by CanadianFolkBlues on Feb 8, 2011
  • In Which I Test Kentucky's Voter ID Law, and R ...
    By @KYYellowDog So I walked up to the same precinct officers who have been working my polling place for the last 12 years and I handed them my Social Security card. The one with a signature and no picture. The one the Kentucky Secretary of State's office claims the law allows to be used as voter ...

Care 2

  • Please Sign In this letter of protest, and sha ...
    To EEA Agency, FIFA and Eufa people for the silence in stray dogs and cats in Europe such Ukraine and also Azerbaijan. Submitted by Green J. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Wind turbine creates water from thin air
    Wind turbines have long produced renewable energy but a French engineering firm has discovered another eco-purpose for the towering structures. an appliance that can manufacture drinking water from humid air. Submitted by Barbara W. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • Jumpstart a Clean Energy Future in Illinois ! ...
    Increase the use of renewable energy in Illinois by providing targeted financial incentives modeled after a successful German plan. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 Ideas to Help Your Child With Honesty Issues
    One of the greatest challenges that many parents face is helping their children to learn the value and importance of honesty. Submitted by Shennandoah D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • AUSTRALIA: Policy driving Indigenous from la ...
    Amnesty International has issued a scathing assessment of Australia's policies on Indigenous affairs and refugees in its latest report on human rights around the world. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama, Sells Out America for Bin Laden ...
    Leave it to Barack Obama and his security minions to put American lives in jeopardy just to score some political points with a bullshit Hollywood movie. If you thought last year, in the wake of the successful hit on Osama Bin Laden, that Obama and his political operatives would try to garner pol ...
  • Critical Thinking
    No Critical Thinking Required One of the worst aspects of being a rabid partisan is the lack of thinking required before forming an opinion. Blind stupid acceptance of one party over another should be appalling to any “thinking” adult. Blind rabid partisanship skips the thinking part ...
  • A Surprising Who and a Thrilling What
    In my continuing effort to share books authored by No Quarter regulars, I’d like to introduce you to an excellent read — “Passamezzo” co-authored by J. E. Mathieson and her partner A. A. Guest. Who is J. E. Mathieson? If you’re thinking “I’ve never seen ...
  • Birthers, Truthers, and Other Kooks
    We’ve often heard, and just as often seen it misused and misunderstood, the phrase “hoisted on his own petard.”  Perhaps we find this phrase so amusing because we’ve heard that the word “petard” comes from the French word for “fart.”  But in this phrase the word “petard” refers to a primitive ex ...
  • Bubbles Speak (Open Thread)
    Wit does triumph in a shapeless and preliminary political season. Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, with little to do while we wait on more economic metrics, pokes at the White House folly in altering website biographies of the presidents. Trite of Team Obama to start with, and now odd in e ...

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

  • Coal Barge Protest - West Virginia MetroNews
    Coal Barge Protest West Virginia MetroNews The members of Mountain Justice and RAMPS were protesting mountaintop removal mining. The barge was docked at Chelyan in eastern Kanawha County. The group of protesters had a large banner than read "Coal leaves, cancer stays.
  • Presidential Campaign Trail Heats up Early - W ...
    Presidential Campaign Trail Heats up Early WVNS-TV West Virginia women angry over the failure to stop mountaintop removal coal mining are hoping for a big turnout for their Memorial Day protest at the state Capitol. The event is set to start at noon West Virginia women angry over the failure to ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Protest Planned for Memori ...
    Mountaintop Removal Protest Planned for Memorial Day WVNS-TV West Virginia women angry over the failure to stop mountaintop removal coal mining are hoping for a big turnout for their Memorial Day protest at the state Capitol. The event is set to start at noon West Virginia women angry over the f ...
  • Mountain Mourning: Appalachian Women Lead Dram ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net Mountain Mourning: Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop ... Huffington Post Earl Ray Tomblin, often cry that President Obama has carried out a war on coal in central Appalachian states, the truth is that coal mining jobs have actually increased to ra ...
  • Women to Shave Their Hair Due to Governmental ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net Women to Shave Their Hair Due to Governmental Inaction HNN Huntingtonnews.net ... group of outraged West Virginians will gather this Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2012 from noon to 3 pm at the South Plaza of the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston to make a powerful ...

Memeorandum

  • UK recession deeper than expected (Heather Ste ...
    Heather Stewart / Guardian: UK recession deeper than expected  —  Contraction of 0.3% raises the pressure on George Osborne to explain how the coalition plans to drag the country out of recession  —  Britain's economy contracted by 0.3% in the first three months ...
  • Euro Zone Crisis Boils as Leaders Fail to Sign ...
    New York Times: Euro Zone Crisis Boils as Leaders Fail to Signal New Steps  —  BERLIN — With Greece's membership in the euro zone teetering, fears of bank insolvency rising and Europe's leaders bickering about what to do, the euro crisis is once again intensifying and thre ...
  • Rachel Maddow fails the Carney test (Dylan Bye ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Rachel Maddow fails the Carney test  —  Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow attributed statements to Mitt Romney that he did not make.  —  In a segment pegged, ironically, to White House criticism of the Washington press corps, Maddow attemp ...
  • "Has recall election made Scott Walker a GOP h ...
    Ann Althouse / Althouse: “Has recall election made Scott Walker a GOP hero?”  —  Asks Politico: … The recall has put Walker in the position where he must advertise and promote himself, which might have been awkward before — and it was never his thing.&nb ...
  • First Thoughts: Mr. 48% - Mr. 48%: Obama at or ...
    First Read / msnbc.com: First Thoughts: Mr. 48%  —  Mr. 48%: Obama at or near 48% in all our recent polling... Is that a good thing or bad thing?... The importance of FL, OH, and VA... The importance of cell phones, too... Given the JP Morgan and Facebook news, does any politica ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Power beats tourism
    Rampant hydro development could destroy Nepal’s nature-based tourist trade unless planners let some rivers run free, writes Ramin Sharma.“Naturally Nepal – once is not enough”. That’s the line the Nepalese government hopes will bring tourists flocking to the Himalay ...
  • Eco-isles: from game to reality
    First appearing in a 1991 computer activity to encourage children to save an imaginary land from environmental doom, renewable-energy eco-islands now are being developed in the real world. Pilita Clark reports.When David Green gets up in the morning, the first thing he does is check the sky. If ...
  • Unplugging from China
    Rising coal prices and unfavourable policies have forced foreign power companies – once eager investors – to leave the country. Chen Nan reports.Apparent preparations by US energy giant AES Corporation to withdraw from China have raised eyebrows lately. Earlier this year, it emerged ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • The Hack that Wasn’t: Sec. Clinton and Operati ...
    When news stories quoted Hillary Clinton claiming the State Department hacked al Qaeda web sites, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds' Leet skills or appalled at the administration's hypocrisy regarding hacking.
  • Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Int ...
    Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broad ...
  • Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warran ...
    A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that 150 pounds of marijuana collected from a suspect's car is not admissible in court because investigators illegally used a GPS tracker without a warrant to uncover the evidence.
  • Bredolab Bot Herder Gets 4 Years for 30 Millio ...
    Armenia handed down its first computer crime sentence on Tuesday with a four-year punishment for the mastermind behind the Bredolab botnet.
  • U.K. Supreme Court to Rule on Assange Extradit ...
    After months of anticipation, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will finally get a ruling next week on his appeal of an extradition order to Sweden, where he faces an investigation into allegations of rape.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Linked to 87 Salmonella Cases, Tempeh Starter ...
    www.indonesianfoodmart.com of Rockville, MD, is recalling all packages of "Tempeh Starter Yeast" because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with wea ...
  • Trouble with Imports: Why the Tempeh Salmonell ...
    When Smiling Hara Tempeh Managing Executive Chad Oliphant began buying starter culture used to make the popular bean product tempeh from Maryland-based Tempeh Online, he surely did not expect it to be contaminated with Salmonella (or anything else, for that matter).  And, why should he? Lik ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Allen said the NATO summit in Chicago, which left him feeling “heartened,” “was a powerful signal of interna ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Spending Binge Never Happened
    Market Watch, The Wall Street Journal By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch May 22, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • On Assignment
    On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by his captors while pursuing a story about Islamic militants in Pakistan. The kidnapping—which came only weeks after eight reporters were ...
  • Eurozone Debt Web: Who Owes What to Whom?
    Source: Bank for International Settlements, IMF, World Bank, UN Population Division The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as other big world economies. The arrows show how much money is owed by each country to banks in oth ...
  • My Conversation With Kickstarter Co-founder Pe ...
    By Om Malik We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that. When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the [...]
  • TED Talk on Inequality
    Nick Hanauer YouTube (17 May 12) Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Nick Hanauer From Wikipedia About Nick Nick Hanauer.com
  • The Organic Watergate: Alarming Report
    By Common Dreams staff Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel — the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). The NOSB is supposed to monitor any synthetic ingredient u ...

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

  • America is going broke because we forgot how t ...
    Summary:  To recapture our greatness we must first remember what we did right to become great.  Such as heavy investment in America by the government.  Instead we spent on projects like Apollo (expensive, but no gain) and our mad unprofitable empire.  It’s not too late to get back on the s ...
  • Which nations will make wise decisions under s ...
    Summary:  A mark of successful people and nations is that they function well under stress.  What’s the alternative?  Magic!  Here we look at some examples of the search for magical solutions seen in the US and Europe today. History suggests that the quality of a nation’s decision-mak ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Iran Diplomacy Must Succeed
    As I write, the P5 +1 (That’s the USA, Russia, China, the UK, France plus Germany) are meeting in Baghdad with diplomats from Iran to explore a potential agreement over Iran’s nuclear program. From what we know in press reports, the deal on the table would have Iran stop its uranium enrichmen ...
  • Human Rights Watch Reports on Two Mass Arrest ...
    Even though Iraq is supposed to be a democracy, it lacks many prerequisites of that political system. One is that it does not have due process, and torture and abuse of prisoners is common. That has been documented again in again by human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch. That gro ...
  • The Future of the US Navy Surface Fleet
    SAN DIEGO (May 2, 2012) The first of class littoral combat ships USS Freedom (LCS 1), rear, and USS Independence (LCS 2) maneuver together during an exercise off the coast of Southern California. The littoral combat ship is a fast, agile, networked surface combatant designed to operate in th ...
  • How Egyptians Will Vote
    Predictions that Egyptians will head to the presidential poll in large numbers on May 23 and 24 are firm and consistent, but forecasts of how they will vote diverge significantly.  Opinion polls have been all but useless, with each of the four main candidates (Morsi, Aboul Fotouh, Moussa, S ...
  • Top of the Morning: Big Iran Nuclear Meeting; ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Sign up here to receive the full digest delivered to your inbox every morning. Big, Big Meeting on Iran Nuclear Program Today read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Marco Rubio Is Already Tired of the Senate
    (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Marco Rubio spent much of the past year denying his ambitions to attain higher office. He would shoot down reporters every time they questioned his desire to join the 2012 Republican ticket as vice president, claiming his intent was solely to learn the ins and outs of the ...
  • What Romney Won't Do On Health Care
    Maybe you don't want to know. Despite what the average voter probably thinks, presidential candidates keep the overwhelming majority of the promises they make. And most of the ones they don't keep aren't because they were just lying, but because circumstances changed or they tried to keep the pr ...
  • How Walker Loses in Wisconsin
    (Flickr/WisPolitics.com) The Wisconsin recall effort may look like a lost cause for the Democrats and union activists who hope to see Governor Scott Walker voted out in a couple weeks. Over at the Washington Post, Jenifer Rubin offered a piece titled "Democrats are dreading a Wisconsin wipeout." ...
  • Obama Brings Conservatives Out of the Closet
    (Flickr/dfarber) Call it the Obama effect. Since Obama's pitch-perfect announcement about same-sex marriage, supporting marriage equality is becoming practically chic. A cascade of voices has come out of the closet in favor of it, and hardly anyone has noticed.
  • Mitt Romney Gets Specific
    Mitt Romney is unsettled by your questions. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) I've been on a long crusade, which began before this campaign and will probably continue after it, to get everyone to think more clearly about what it means when a politician says "I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman." It's p ...

Buzzflash

  • Candidates and Whistleblowers Continue to Rece ...
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts. The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but in worlds of information that are driven mostly by what they think wi ...
  • The Racism of the Republican Party May Destroy ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Recently Buzzflash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled, "White Entitlement Americans Face Their Alamo: Minority Births Are Now the Majority." In a recent reflection on the Broadway hit on the farce of American race relations in an allegedly post- ...
  • HeavenUp: Facebook’s Christian Competitor?
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There may not be an IPO in their immediate future, but if Chris Burkhart and Wes McKinsey who both grew up as sons of pastors achieve their goals, then hundreds of thousands of Christians from around the world will be able to meet up with each other at th ...
  • Money, Religion and American Exceptionalism
    Body It has been said that "money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever's in second place." There's just nothing like a healthy stash to carry one's message to an electorate. But insisting that candidates sign on to the concept of American "exceptionalism" defies logic an ...
  • I'm Fed up With Advocates of Charter Schools a ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Perhaps it's a coincidence that the decline of the American empire is occurring as there has been an increasing advocacy for profit-driven charter schools and vouchers for corporate-run private schools. But maybe it's really a symptom of a nation that ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Moog Google Doodle Dr Who
    I posted about today’s fantastic four-track virtual Moog synthesiser doodle on Google first thing this morning, and apparently users have been creating ever since: You did notice that it has four-track recording capabilities, didn’t you? Fab! Groovy! Get Moogy… Related Posts:Go ...
  • Solar eclipse explained badly
    This diagram is an approximation of how BBC children’s news program “Newsround” (formerly John Craven’s Newsround) showed how the recent annular eclipse occurred. Now, there’s simplifying and there’s just getting it totally wrong. I assume that they checked on ...
  • Google Moogle
    The Google doodle for today celebrates the 78th birthday of musical synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog. The doodle itself is neat enough visually, but mouse those buttons and dials and you’ll discover it’s a fully functioning rendition of a Moog synth, with recording and playback. Oh, a ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Report 2012: No Longer Business as Usual for T ...
    The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of leadership that makes the UN Security Council seem tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose, Amnesty International said as it launched its 50th global human rights report with a call for a strong ...
  • Amazonian Tribes Launch Water Project Amidst L ...
    After decades of health issues and legal battles, indigenous communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon have joined with humanitarian and environmental groups to launch ClearWater, a locally led effort to provide clean water to impacted communities. read more
  • Amazonian Tribes Launch Water Project Amidst L ...
    After decades of health issues and legal battles, indigenous communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon have joined with humanitarian and environmental groups to launch ClearWater, a locally led effort to provide clean water to impacted communities. read more
  • Robin Hood Tax Would Boost Growth and Help Poor
    The international agency’s call comes as a fresh assessment by the European Commission of the effect its proposed FTT would have on the European economy adds to a growing body of evidence that it would be positive. Oxfam is part of the international Robin Hood Tax campaign calling for a ...
  • Robin Hood Tax Would Boost Growth and Help Poor
    The international agency’s call comes as a fresh assessment by the European Commission of the effect its proposed FTT would have on the European economy adds to a growing body of evidence that it would be positive. Oxfam is part of the international Robin Hood Tax campaign calling for a ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • GOP and Dems Perform the 'Bain Hustle'
    Robert Scheer Obviously Barack Obama was right in criticizing Mitt Romney’s stewardship of Bain Capital. How else to evaluate the business experience that Romney has made a central tenet of his campaign?Mayor Cory Booker who appeared ...
  • How Obama Helped Authorize Shell's Drilling th ...
    Pratap Chatterjee President Barack Obama personally helped Shell obtain authorization to drill for oil in Alaska, according to a 4,678 word front page article in the New York Times. This is a startling break from decades long U.S.read more
  • Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded ...
    Amy Goodman Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Allen said the NATO summit in Chicago, which left him feeling “heartened,&r ...
  • Cooperative Banking in the Aquarian Age
    Ellen Brown According to both the Mayan and Hindu calendars, 2012 (or something very close) marks the transition from an age of darkness, violence and greed to one of enlightenment, justice, and peace.  It’s hard to see that chan ...
  • Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarc ...
    Carl Gibson I like to compare those using Black Bloc tactics at a nonviolent protest to taking a 6 year-old kid to the symphony. You’ll likely find yourself constantly apologizing to those sitting in your row when the child makes fart ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • ABC insiders spill … Baillieu kills uni jobs … ...
    From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours … Fears for ABC’s ‘churnalism sweatshop’. Yesterday’s story by Andrew Dodd on the ABC’s currently unreleased report on the News Gathering... Read more on the blog...
  • Reservoir caught in 3-state war for water
    CANTON, Ga. (AP) — Hickory Log Creek Reservoir in Canton is filled with water and primed to deliver its first drop after more than a decade of planning and construction and a cost of nearly $100 mi...
  • Reservoir Stuck In Water Wars
    A north Georgia reservoir is filled with water after more than a decade of planning and construction. Hickory Log Creek Reservoir in Canton was developed at a cost of nearly $100 million. But the question of when the reservoir might open -- and how soon it might supply water for metro Atlanta --...
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Oklahoma Lawmaker Loses Push To Allow Lawmaker ...
    Oklahoma state Rep. John Bennett (R-OK) thinks a lot of people are out to get him, so he and his fellow lawmakers should be allowed the right to carry a deadly firearm. Anywhere. Including schools: Oklahoma legislators need to have the ability to carry handguns to defend themselves from angry co ...
  • Iran Nuclear Talks To Resume Next Month In Moscow
    Talks between Iran and the P5+1 ended today at a diplomatic impasse as Western negotiators pushed for a freeze on Iran’s production of 20 percent enriched uranium while Iran sought relief from sanctions, including a European Union (EU) oil embargo set to go into effect on July 1. “Ha ...
  • Nepal Invites LGBTI Community To Identify As & ...
    In Nepal, individuals who do not conform to gender norms because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or intersex identity have often faced harassment and discrimination because they would constantly be challenged as to whether they are men or women. The nation’s Home Ministry ann ...
  • Conservatives Attack Kathryn Bigelow For Doing ...
    Conservatives are apparently very upset that the Obama administration talked to Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal for their upcoming movie about the campaign to hunt down Osama bin Laden—despite the fact that Bigelow and Boal have been clear that the movie will cover the Clinton, Bush, and Obama adm ...
  • Allen West Says Stay-At-Home Mothers Should Be ...
    POMPANO BEACH, Florida — Stay-at-home moms should be considered working moms, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) argued on Tuesday — just so long as they’re not poor. ThinkProgress discussed the issue with the south Florida congressman on Tuesday following a town hall meeting. West argued ...

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

  • The Hockey Gods seem to like Dustin Brown - fo ...
    For now the Hockey Gods, the capricious givers of hockey success, clearly favor Dustin Brown. Despite a Raffi Torres-like hit in round 1 and channeling Brad 'Cheapshot' Marchant in round 3, Brown has bowled his way through these playoffs unscathed.
  • As the universe ages, expands future cosmologi ...
    As the universe persists in its expansion, cosmologists in the future will continue to understand less. In fact, according to one theory, the best time to learn about the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago.
  • Digital Journal among Top 20 most promising st ...
    Digital Journal is proud to announce it has been hand-picked from hundreds of companies across Canada as one of the 20 most promising startups by the C100, an organization representing accomplished Canadian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
  • The traditional art of Chinese Cloisonné Enamel
    Among the wide variety of artistic expressions of China, Cloisonné Enamel is perhaps the most comprehensive traditional technique, combining high-level of craftsmanship in bronze, drawing, painting and sculpture.
  • OECD warns 'severe recession', urges Canada to ...
    The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published its latest report Tuesday, in which it notes of a "severe recession" due to the Eurozone crisis. It also urged Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to raise interest rates.

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

  • Harper: No Afghan mission extension
    Prime Minister Harper has pledged that no Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan after the end of the current training mission in 2014. But does he mean it?
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Extraterrestrial Life In Martian Lava Tubes?
    April 10, 2012 Open Minds By Jason McClellan “If you think Mars is a dead planet, think again.” –KTRN Photos taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft reveal rows of “pit-chains” lining the sides of volcanoes in the red planet’s Tharsis region. These pi ...
  • Superfoods and Their Health Benefits
    April 11, 2012 Food Matters By Food Matters “Eat superfoods – your body will love it.” –KTRN Superfoods are a special category of foods found in nature. By definition they are calorie sparse and nutrient dense meaning they pack a lot of punch for their weight as far as go ...
  • DHS Hires Hackers To Crack Video Game Consoles
    April 11, 2012 RT By RT “Next time you’re playing Call of Duty, the DHS might be listening.” –KTRN The US Department of Homeland Security might soon take the “joy” out of “joystick.” The country’s top counterterrorism unit has awarded a California company $177,235 to hack ...
  • American Enterprise In Gulf: Second Aircraft C ...
    April 11, 2012 RT By RT “It looks like war with Iran is inevitable. How sad.” –KTRN The USS Enterprise has been sent to the Persian Gulf, the US Navy said Monday as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear program. It will be the fourth time in the last decade the US has had two aircr ...
  • Fast Food Chains In Cafeterias Put Hospitals I ...
    April 11, 2012 NPR By Elana Gordon “Before hospitals signed year long deals with fast food chains, why didn’t they realize then just how bad it would make them look? Or maybe they don’t care since they’re making money on the deal.” –KTRN On one side of a wall ...

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

  • Maddow: Romney on board with the legacy of Dic ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that although presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had distanced himself from George W. Bush, Romney had openly expres ...
  • Obama and Bibi: YES YOU CAN End the Occupation
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.veteranstoday.comBy Eileen Fleming Only a viable and sustainable Palestinian state will equate to security for Israel; and as Palestine has always been in the belly of Israel, politicians who want to maintain power h ...
  • No criminal 1% mass arrests, but more war, loo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNo criminal 1% mass arrests, but more war, looting, lying; so whats next? By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com Testimony from claimed insiders stated mass arrests of the criminal 1% would occur sometime in the preceding 45 ...
  • BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins: Conservative media c ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed suggested Wednesday that conservative media outlets were obsessed with allegedly anti-white crimes. “It is everywhere,” he told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur. “I ...
  • Humor Me, Check These Out
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHumor Me, Check These Out By Tom ValentineWednesday, May 23rd, 2012   Here is a comparison between authentic and established journalism that uncovers a hidden tax on what people are encouraged to believe. The discov ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Gareth Porter: IAEA Near Iran Inspection Deal ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 23, 2012 May 22, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: If US demands Iran give up its right to enrich for peaceful purposes, no real agreement is possible IAEA Near Iran Inspection Deal but will US Insist on End to Enrichment? Gareth Porter is an ...
  • Chris Hedges: Reviving The Left + Q & A
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 23, 2012 May 21, 2012 by joefriendly Action For Justice Sunday Service at The Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist with invited speaker Chris Hedges, May 13, 2012. Quality audio begins at 11:30. Chris Hedges’ talk on the De ...
  • Rocket Kirchner: Ode to Joy
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) May 23, 2012 RocketKirchner on Jun 25, 2010 Written by Beethoven with a Rocket twist. Performed by Rocket Kirchner at Cooper’s Landing 6/11/2010 Ode to Joy – Rocket Kirchner se ...
  • 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 Note: replaced video Mar. 22, 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 ...

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

  • The Urge to Sext Naked Self-Portraits Is Primal
    Wired Opinion: The flood of celebrity sexting has prompted folks to wonder, Why are so many famous people exhibitionists? The source of all this au naturel flaunting lies not in the culture of fame, but in the design of our sexual brains. Computational neuroscientist Ogi Ogas takes a look at our ...
  • Watch Live: SpaceX’s Dragon Performs Space Sta ...
    This is a live feed of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule in low Earth orbit approaching the International Space Station. The tactic is a crucial second step as SpaceX works to become the first private U.S. company to dock with the station.
  • Antibiotic Overuse May Increase Superbug Evolu ...
    By flooding our environment with antibiotics, people may alter a little-appreciated but profound aspect of bacterial evolution: the very pace at which it occurs. Bacteria may evolve more rapidly and more radically than just a few decades ago.
  • Adventures of Apollo Astronauts Now Tracked in 3-D
    Researchers have used new lunar satellite images to pinpoint exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts took their iconic photographs of the moon's surface. That data has in turn allowed planetary scientists to build the most precise 3-D maps yet of the Apollo 17 mission site.
  • Better Fish Forensics Will Flag Illegal Catches
    Up to 25 percent of the planet's catch comes from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. A new DNA-based method to identify contraband fish, however, may curb the expanding problem.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Military Leaders Spea ...
    The rift in Israel between the political leadership’s push for an attack on Iran, and the security establishment’s opposition widened in recent weeks. Three new voices spoke out on the question of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Ukraine Parliament Allows Foreign Military Exe ...
    The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved the participation of foreign troops, including U.S. and Russian, in a series of international drills later this year.
  • Russian Stealth Frigate Tests New Missiles in ...
    Russia’s second Gepard class frigate has successfully test-fired missiles from the new Kalibr-NK missile system during the first stage of sea trials in the Black Sea, a spokesman for Russia’s Southern military district said on Thursday.
  • Russia Refuses to Allocate $10 mln to Afghan Army
    Russia has denied a NATO request to allocate $10 million for the support of the Afghan Army, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Thursday following the alliance’s summit in Chicago.
  • Russia, U.S., Norway to Hold Joint Naval Drill ...
    Russia, the United States, and Norway will hold maritime interdiction operations and search and rescue maneuvers during joint naval drills in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea in August, Russia’s Northern Fleet said.
  • Russia to Produce New Sets of Sniper Gear
    Russia will soon start producing four new sets of sniper equipment, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • VIMS Reports Record Number of Young Scallops i ...
    Recent surveys by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) reveal an unprecedented number of young scallops in two fishery management areas off the mid-Atlantic coast. The results bode well for the continued success of the commercial fishery.
  • Food, Water Safety Provide New Challenges for ...
    Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vande ...
    Many all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trails officially open over Memorial Day weekend. Doctors with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt are urging both adults and children to stay safe this riding season. Already this week in Middle Tennessee there have been multiple ATV accidents ...
  • Facebook IPO Lawsuit: How Much Information Sho ...
    Charles K. Whitehead, professor at the Cornell University School of Law and a former Wall Street attorney, comments on the lawsuit leveled against Facebook, Morgan Stanley and other banks that underwrote Facebook's initial public offering.
  • Environmental Protection Agency Names All Th ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named all three of the colleges located in Wellesley, MA - Babson College, Massachusetts Bay Community College/Wellesley Campus and Wellesley College - Green Power Partners. This makes Wellesley one of the first communities in the nation with all of ...

Natural Health News

  • What’s Behind Illinois Stealing Local Hero’s B ...
    An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees. The state claims the bees were destroyed because th ...
  • Could this Villified Oil Actually Be Healing?
    A much-maligned oil and tree fruit that’s been the subject of ridicule and disdain for many years could actually be good for you, new research shows. Palm oil is typically used as a cheap cooking oil for fried foods. But now scientists are saying they’ve conducted numerous test-tube studies demo ...
  • Veteran Reporter Details How Corporate Media I ...
    It’s not news that some people think news coverage is guided by corporate and political interests and profits. But it is news when someone who’s spent his life reporting the news accuses his own profession of political slant and bias. The slam came from none other than Dan Rather, a former CBS N ...
  • U.S. Experts Say No More Routine PSA Tests for ...
    In a startling reversal of years of pressing healthy men to get routine PSA prostate tests, U.S. health officials now say these tests do more harm than good. What’s more, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said they aren’t recommending the tests for men of any age. The tas ...
  • First Statewide Ban of Plastic Bags
    In a first of its kind in the U.S. the citizens of Hawaii have collectively said NO! to plastic bags. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle penned the crowning achievement when he signed a bill banning the bags beginning July 1, 2015. While Honolulu's new law gives leeway to retailers who feel like clin ...

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

  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, May 24, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Taliban has reportedly circulated poison in girls’ classrooms in northern Afghanistan poisoning girls with toxic powder sent through the air shafts, leaving more than 120 students and teachers unconscious. Amnesty International launched a stinging ...
  • 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 final day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public ...
  • Senate Will Delay UNCLOS Vote Until After Nove ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku So says the WSJ’s account of today’s hearing on US ratification of UNCLOS. I still haven’t found the 193 minutes I would need to watch today’s UNCLOS hearing, but it seems like there is still some Republican opposition (remember it only takes 3 ...
  • Senate Will Delay UNCLOS Vote Until After Nove ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku So says the WSJ’s account of today’s hearing on US ratification of UNCLOS. I still haven’t found the 193 minutes I would need to watch today’s UNCLOS hearing, but it seems like there is still some Republican opposition (remember it only takes 3 ...
  • U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearin ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Here is the website for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee with a (very long) video of the hearings on UNCLOS and the written testimony of Secretary of State Clinton, Defense Secretary Panetta, and Gen. Dempsey. I am in grading hell right now, so I haven&#821 ...

Public News Service

  • Expert: Post-stroke Depression Often Goes Undi ...
    Expert: Post-stroke Depression Often Goes Undiagnosed PHOENIX - Stroke remains Arizona's fifth-highest cause of death - and also is one of the leading causes of long-term disability. Post-stroke depression, which affects up to half of stroke survivors, can derail recovery significantly, accordi ...
  • Report: Kinship Care Families Short on Support
    Report: Kinship Care Families Short on Support PHOENIX - Some 60,000 Arizona children are in what's known as "kinship care" - meaning that a grandparent, other relative or family friend is raising them. A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation says these kinship caregivers aren't getting ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • JPMorgan losses could be $7 billion now
    If you add in the drop in the stock price, then JPMorgan losses are more like $30 billion.Obama is of course mute when it comes to criticizing the banksters, especially when it involves an old pal like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.Dimon, in his comments on Monday, said the bank wasn’t going to ...
  • Tidal turbines installed in Scotland
    Scotland achieved a major milestone this week by successfully installing a 10MW tidal power array in the Sound of Islay, off the coast of Orkney.
  • Mental illness is leading cause of hospitaliza ...
    DoD and the VA have spent over $2 billion on drugs since 2001 to treat mental illness and PTSD, depsite evidence that such drugs can make things worse attempting to treat sharply higher rates of hospitalization. (In this, they are following the current and deplorable medical trend of treating ev ...
  • Colorado River. Selling water to highest bidde ...
    Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River (Wikimedia Commons)The fantasy of market-based economics for water continues to intrude on the Colorado River, the most litigated river on the planet. The Colorado provides crucial water to seven states and Mexico. But the area is in a major drought and there isn&# ...
  • Which would you prefer?
    This?Or this? I propose a wager, like Pascal’s but for Climate Change Deniers: If I am wrong, I don’t lose a damned thing. If you are wrong, we all lose the only planet we know of capable of sustaining the human species, and all of our grand-children die. You want to take that bet, fool?   ...

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

  • This Day In History – May 24
    1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901), was born. 1830 – The fi ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – May 22 2012
    Jack covers breaking news from www.deadlinelive.info – Including info on 911, Pearl Harbor, FaceBook, and The “Federal Reserve”. In Hour Two Liam Scheff (www.Liamscheff.com) joins the show to discuss his new book: “Official Stories Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need& ...
  • The Fracking Dilemma: Where Do You Stand?‏
      May 23, 2012                                              866-762-9238 www.enerfood.com The Fracking Dilemma Where Do You Stand?   Dear Jack,   About a month ago I put out a newsletter talking about the issue of Fracking.  I received many responses supporting both sides and I wanted to re ...
  • China Warns Australia to Choose “Godfath ...
    It is rare in diplomatic circles for governments to speak bluntly, particularly in the Orient, where manners are highly prized. The exceptions to this rule are retired military officers, who are often able to voice sentiments too impolitic for other channels. One of the more startling pronouncem ...
  • The New War in Iraq
    US Occupation Shifts to Proxy Subversion. Via Land Destroyer guest post by Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com May 23, 2012 - Since the withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq, there has been an ongoing campaign of demonization and subversion of Prime Minister Maliki. Though this effort like ...

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

  • Lawsuits and regulatory investigations turn IP ...
    Facebook, its underwriters and the Nasdaq exchange continue to face scrutiny over the company’s $16 billion initial public offering, as a number of investors have filed lawsuits and regulators have called for investigations. Facebook’s stock closed at $32 today, up … Continue reading →
  • Facebook to sell premium ad placement through ...
    Advertisers will be able to buy premium ad inventory — on the home page and within News Feed — through the Ads API and Power Editor tool rather than working directly with a Facebook ad representative, the social network tells … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Spooky Cool … Contin ...
  • Investing in Facebook: Hussein Fazal of AdParlor
    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. For Part 3 of … Continue reading →
  • Oracle buys Vitrue in a deal that could be wor ...
    Marketing hardware and software corporation Oracle today announced an agreement to acquire social media management company Vitrue. According to TechCrunch sources, Oracle will pay $300 million for the platform and its team, including CEO Reggie Bradford. The acquisition could lead other … ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Staying power - the key to victory in the war ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two victories for human rights, one by Palestinian hunger strikers in Israel and the other by opponents of detention without trial in the USA. He argues that, although these are two battles won, the war to protect civil and human rights will need staying power and may ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Classified Woman Interviews: Occupied Territor ...
    Last Thursday I was on Occupied Territory with Mike Feder at Progressive Radio Network. This was my first experience with this show and it left me impressed with Mr. Feder. No boohaha, no sound bites, no boisterous interruptions … A highly informed and articulate host who comes prepared an ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Tina Turner & Tony Joe White Sooner or later we had to have Tina Turner as our BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. She needs no introduction. The only problem with her music is picking out a song from a career of phenomenal songs and performances. I decided that I would segue into her song from last wee ...
  • Objective: The Naked Truth, The People, Minus ...
    A few notes on the decision to bypass the “System” in order to expose the “System” Since the release of my book Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story I’ve been getting the same question in different variations: why did you decide to self-publish your book? What made you opt for self-publishi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 10, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson International Newsworthy Iran Queries Obama&#82 ...
  • Classified Woman on RT- Interview by Abby Martin

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

  • Revisionism
    There's the nasty little problem of accountability. And equal protection under the law and equal application of the law. It's American hegemony disguised as exceptionalism. Patriotism and trump-up terror threats to justify illegal actions done in our name. We execute Japanese soldiers for tortu ...
  • Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is th ...
    Undoubtedly most of the bad debt was due to stupidity, which does not seem to be in short supply on Wall Street despite the high paychecks. The folks running the major banks somehow could not see the largest asset bubble in the history of the world.
  • Limitations
    The libertarians are horribly misinformed if they believe the majority of the Founding Fathers would agree with them, in toto. But they are correct that they would see the runaway Military-Industrial Complex as a monster requiring crushing.
  • Airing Jewish Dirty Linen: A Review of "The Cr ...
    A review of Peter Beinart's book: "The Crisis of Zionism"
  • Why Even Failed Activism Succeeds
    Of course, activism that appears ineffectual at the time can succeed in a great many ways.

Switchboard

  • Refinery Air Pollution: Protections for Some C ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL Yesterday, EPA and a coalition of environmental groups including NRDC announced a precedent-setting settlement with BP over alleged air pollution violations at the company’s massive ...
  • Cut Carbon Pollution from America's Power Plan ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Today I will give this testimony on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council at the Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearing in Washington on its pr ...
  • Americans Make Their Voices Heard at Hearings: ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City As America braces for another hot summer, I am reminded of how alarming last year’s heat waves were. Temperatures soared over one hundred degrees here in New York and city streets seemed to me ...
  • What lies ahead for international action on gl ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC In Durban, South Africa countries agreed to: launch the negotiations on a new legal agreement to be adopted in 2015, move forward implementation of the agreements reached in Cancun, ...
  • Climate ride rolls strong for clean transporta ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Yesterday I had the honor of joining a 200-strong peloton on the last leg of Climate Ride's five-day cycling journey from New York City to Washington, raising money and awaren ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Giving Up
    Well, it looks like Democrats are giving up on recalling Scott Walker. The DNC has still refused to help. Obama has stayed far away in a state that is a toss-up in November and is quite important to his reelection strategy. Poll numbers aren’t moving. Labor is organizing to get people out, ...
  • Quebec
    Like any good American, this is my general understanding of Canada: But it turns out that far to the north, somewhere past the sea monsters, there is a place called Quebec. And in that strange exotic location, there are some pretty amazing protest actions taking place. A student strike over a tu ...
  • SSM and the Bully Pulpit
    A commenter brought up Amanda’s post about the effect of Obama coming out for same-sex marriage. (Digby has similar thoughts.) Both are responding to this Washington Post story about public-opinion and the response to Obama coming out in favor of SSM. Well, let’s consider this. The P ...
  • Repeal And Replace
    The Mittens plan on health care: repeal the PPACA, make it much harder to obtain private insurance without providing public insurance, gutting Medicaid, ending Medicare. And how could I forget TORT REFORM, the solution to all life’s problems. Well, those contradictions won’t heighten ...
  • Revisionist Hack of the Day
    Kevin Williamson. See also Serwer, Bernstein, and Kilgore. Does this National Review article about how conservatives are the real supporters of civil rights even mention the National Review’s contemporaneous position on civil rights? I think you know the answer. Of course, if you define ci ...

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.

  • Oral promise to delay foreclosure means nothin ...
    Minnesota's credit agreement law bars courts from enforcing a lender's oral promise to delay a foreclosure sale, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled.
  • Fitzgerald's retirement as U.S. attorney marks ...
    Patrick Fitzgerald, a tenacious prosecutor whose success in terrorism and public corruption cases played out over a decade, is stepping down as U.S. attorney for Chicago, effective on June 30.
  • Regulators scrutinizing Facebook after IPO mes ...
    In the wake of its botched initial public offering, Facebook is facing uncommonly swift regulatory scrutiny on multiple fronts. Still, securities lawyers say it's unlikely the social media giant and its lead underwriter Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will face serious penalties from the government.
  • Plaintiffs firms circling Facebook following s ...
    At least four securities class action firms have said they were in the process of filing lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Facebook shareholders.
  • There is hope for your legal career
    The closing address at NALP highlighted that, fragile economic climate notwithstanding, it is indeed a great time to be entering the legal profession.

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

  • Top Maoist Leader Remains in NIA Costudy
    An official of NIA said Indranil Chandra was the head of the rebel group in Assam and he visited the north eastern state several times.
  • Southern Indie Band, Ponderosa Set to Release ...
    The result is a moody and mysterious collection of songs, full of unexpected twists and turns that will keep listeners on the edge of their seats. 'Black Hill Smoke' sounds like the Everly Brothers lost in the Twilight Zone.
  • Is Birth of Female Child Not Seen as Occasion ...
    More so in a state like Rajasthan where some of its western districts have the infamous ritual of breaking mud pots when daughter are born. These girls grow up in an environment of discrimination, without proper health care or education.
  • Mercy Announces Conceptual Plans for New Jopli ...
    The former hospital site is expected to become a multi-purpose center of reverence, learning and art. Residents and Mercy co-workers are discussing plans for a cultural complex that Joplin can treasure for decades.
  • Climate Change Threatens African Agricultural ...
    Mr. Nafo further noted that 'Global temperature rise must be limited urgently to avoid serious impacts on African agricultural production.

environment 360

  • Los Angeles Becomes the Largest U.S. City to B ...
    Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to impose a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets and other stores, a significant victory for environmental advocates seeking to keep plastic waste out of the region’s landfills and waterways. In a vote Wednesday, the City Council approved plans to phas ...
  • Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record Levels ...
    Global carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2011, driven largely by a 9.3-percent increase in Chinese emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to preliminary estimates, worldwide carbon emissions climbed to 31.6 gigatonnes in 2011, a 3 ...
  • The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe’s Blood Di ...
    The regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been accused of profiting from the Marange diamond fields, garnering illicit funds that could be used to bolster his oppressive security forces. Now critics are alleging the government is failing to stop mining-waste pollution that is sickeni ...
  • 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

Red Ice Creations

  • White House under fire for adding Obama policy ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama’s accomplishments to the former commanders in chief. The Obama team went into the p ...
  • Life Extension For All: Global Future Congress ...
    Summit speakers participate in a round table discussion World’s Leading Scientists Meet in Moscow to Announce Life Extension Project for Civilians; U.S. Launches Military Version The first Global Future Congress 2045 (GF2045) was held on Feb.17-20 2012 in Moscow, where 56 world leading physicist ...
  • Italian Police Open a Mobster’s Vatican-Owned ...
    Searching for the remains of a teenager missing for three decades, Italian police opened the Vatican-owned tomb of mobster Enrico De Pedis, but the boxes of bones they found interred with his corpse only deepen the mystery. The smell of death wafted through the 7th-century courtyard of Vatican-o ...
  • Rebekah Brooks charged in U.K. phone hacking
    Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others were charged Tuesday over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, prosecutors said. The criminal charges are the first to be filed since police launched a new inquiry into phone h ...
  • Could gene therapy may help us live longer?
    n a pioneering experiment, Spanish scientists claim to have extended the lifespan of aging mice by up to 24%, using a single gene therapy treatment. If this research pays off, then things are looking up for aging humans too, says a team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre which has pu ...

Russia Today

  • Police arrest 400 Canada students furious over ...
    Over 400 students have been arrested in Montreal during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes. Tensions have spiraled after the adoption of a bill that limits students’ rights to freedom of speech,... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • US ‘heading for disaster’ by putting empire ov ...
    The US could collapse like the USSR, because it pursues futile military policies at the expense of economy, says Clyde Prestowitz, ex-Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. He thinks this... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iran ‘gives guidance’ to US ship in pirate dis ...
    Iran’s navy was the first to respond to a distress call from an American vessel attacked by pirates – despite the two countries tottering on the brink of war. The US flag vessel Maersk Texas was assailed northeast of... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russians bikers in Iraq jail: We were beaten, ...
    Four Russian bikers arrested in Iraq for alleged visa violations four days ago say they were beaten in jail and threatened with the death penalty. Iraq’s president told the Russian ambassador the men would be released... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Drunk Chinese couple buries car-hit victim ali ...
    A young Chinese couple is suspected of burying alive an elderly woman, whom they thought they had hit and killed while driving drunk after an all-night karaoke session. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Mexico’s PRI-PAN corporate dictatorship& ...
    Twelve years ago the US and PRI one party state in Mexico pretended to end dictatorship by allowing the Vicente Fox and the PAN to enter into Los Pinos (the Mexican White House). What is the legacy for PAN after 12 years in dictatorial office, backed by the worldwide corporate media, US governme ...
  • Dark Shadow of US backed Egyptian military sti ...
    There are no ‘free elections for the first time’ in Egypt! The dark shadow of the US and Western European military dictators still hangs over that country just like it does in Algeria, which just had ‘elections’ that were most certainly totally fraudulent. The real power ...
  • As US Right Wing rabidly foams at the mouth, R ...
    This has got the Right Wingers’s mouths foaming all over the US. ‘How could Obama do this to us?’ they scream! …Castro's Daughter Scorned by Lawmakers, Praised By Gay Rights Groups
  • Chicago Police Infiltrators less for law enfor ...
    CHICAGO- The Chicago Police Department congratulates itself for using undercover officers to monitor activists, even though protester violence was negligible, but don’t admit the active role they played in dampening mood, fouling media images, and disrupting grassroots.
  • Quebec – corporate government there pits ...
    Our US students and the English speaking Canadian ones mainly snore away, as the government and banks force them into debt slavery in order to get what has become an increasingly shoddy product, which is just what exactly educational credentialing has become as it has gotten more and more costly ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Scientism - Why Pseudoskeptics Treat Science A ...
    The following article is new at DebunkingSkeptics.com; a site that stands in solidarity with the 9/11 truth movement, as well they should and visa versa. We are fighting the same people on different fronts and sometimes on both. The larger encompassing battle here is true skepticism vs pseudo-s ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: US Government Needs to Keep the ...
    The Obama administration has the worst track record when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Obama once claimed he'd work hard to have a transparent government, but many have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Sibel Edmonds, who is a whistleblower, waited 3 ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Over Half of Americans: Figuring out Taxes Eas ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The International Food Information Council (IFIC) just released the 2012 Food & Health Survey Report. When it comes to eating healthy, there is a big gap between what we know we need to do and our ability ...
  • Be Realistic, Give Your Kids Cheetos
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Lauren Slayton MS, RD In early May, I read a post on this blog from a fellow nutrition colleague entitled “My Kid Likes Junk Food and That’s OK” that may have had good intensions ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Humiliation as Indian Minister scraps lecture ...
    Naveen Patnaik's state of Odisha is renowned for brutally crushing indigenous protests © Survival The controversial Chief Minister of an Indian state has pulled out of a public lecture after learning that human rights organizations would attend. Naveen Patnaik’s 12-years as Chief Mini ...
  • Paper forced to apologize to Penan after false ...
    A Penan family. The tribe have been the subject of several defamatory stories in Malaysia's press. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival A Malaysian paper has been forced to apologize after publishing a highly controversial report, which accused the Penan tribe of practising incest. It is th ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Vote like an Egyptian?
      by Mark Bebawi   It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly.  Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...
  • Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth
    What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...
  • 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.

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

  • US Government Healthplan Refuses Autism Care f ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Last January we told you about a petition to President Obama demanding treatment for the children of men and women in the armed forces. MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) -- You're in the military serving your country in Afghanistan...
  • Autism Coalition Takes Secretary Sebelius to T ...
    Barry Segal is Founder and Chairman of Focus Autism, a new charity dedicated to finding answers about autism causation. He founded Bradco Supply, one of the nation’s largest distributors of building materials. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Barry’s...
  • Katie Wright: IMFAR Hasn't Come Far for People ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Previous AofA posts on Imfar by Katie Wright include: 5/30/2010: Katie Wright Goes to IMFAR, IMFAR, Where Science Stands Still, By Katie Wright I know how hard it is to meet the needs of our kids. It...
  • 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...

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

  • Governments pose greatest threat to internet, ...
    Guardian – Nations that carry out cybercrimes and wreak online havoc pose the greatest threat to the future of the internet, the chairman of Google has warned. In a speech delivered at London’s Science Museum on Wednesday, Eric Schmidt said the internet would be vulnerable for at lea ...
  • Problem, Reaction, Solution – two bomb & ...
    CBC – A US Airways jet travelling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears of a terror scenario that security officials had warned about. T ...
  • Israel Aerospace Industries fined NIS 1 millio ...
    Haaretz – The Defense Ministry fined Israel Aerospace Industries NIS 1 million in 2011 for conducting negotiations to sell military equipment to an unnamed foreign country without first obtaining ministry approval. Read Article
  • Eco-Fascism Bares Its Teeth: Global Warming Al ...
    BBC – Each week a global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable – that they believe would change the world. This week science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon ...
  • US: Folic acid tied to lower child cancer risks
    Reuters Health – Rates of two rare childhood cancers declined after the U.S. began requiring grain products to be fortified with the B vitamin folic acid, a new study finds. Reported in the journal Pediatrics, the study does not prove that folic acid deserves the credit. But researchers sa ...

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

  • Conference Call: June
    Join our live conference call on June 5, 2012 to learn about current programs in Haiti.
  • 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.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Top Maoist Leader Remains in NIA Costudy
    An official of NIA said Indranil Chandra was the head of the rebel group in Assam and he visited the north eastern state several times.
  • Southern Indie Band, Ponderosa Set to Release ...
    The result is a moody and mysterious collection of songs, full of unexpected twists and turns that will keep listeners on the edge of their seats. 'Black Hill Smoke' sounds like the Everly Brothers lost in the Twilight Zone.
  • Is Birth of Female Child Not Seen as Occasion ...
    More so in a state like Rajasthan where some of its western districts have the infamous ritual of breaking mud pots when daughter are born. These girls grow up in an environment of discrimination, without proper health care or education.
  • Mercy Announces Conceptual Plans for New Jopli ...
    The former hospital site is expected to become a multi-purpose center of reverence, learning and art. Residents and Mercy co-workers are discussing plans for a cultural complex that Joplin can treasure for decades.
  • Climate Change Threatens African Agricultural ...
    Mr. Nafo further noted that 'Global temperature rise must be limited urgently to avoid serious impacts on African agricultural production.

Worldnews

  • Cooking with cast iron
    Heather Little-White, Contributor Jamaica's cuisine has evolved from the barbecue of the Tainos to the very Western-style non-stick skillets. During the evolution, many persons have abandoned cast-iron cooking pots. However, ethnic cuisine is returning to the use of cast-iron pots in cooking ...
  • Fishing report
    Saturday marks the opening day of bass season on the Great Lakes and all inland waters except for Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River and the Detroit River,...
  • Married men only eat healthily at home to ...
    Married men eat healthily at home to keep the peace – but love to gorge on junk food when away from their wives, according to a new study. Scientists found couples talking about new, healthy menu changes together is key to married men adopting a healthier diet Photo: Alamy tag --> By D ...
  • Petrol price hike angers Kashmiris; prote ...
    Tweet SRINAGAR: The unprecedented steep hike in petrol price on Thursday seems to have hit people in Kashmir hard, the angry protestors saying it would cripple markets, services and other sectors in the state. Even Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed his resentment over the petrol price i ...
  • Athletic Bilbao - Barcelona Preview: Cata ...
    The Blaugrana are out to salvage a disappointing end to their season by lifting the Copa del Rey, while the Basques look to rebound from their bitter defeat in the Europa League By Karthick Arvinth More On : Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao vs FC Barcelona Comments...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Los Angeles Largest U.S. City to Ban Single-Us ...
    Los Angeles has become the biggest city in the U.S. to enact a ban on single-use plastic bags. From Ramin Bahrani's (US) short-film "Plastic Bag." (photo credit: Ramin Bahrani via Ars Electronica) read more
  • TEPCO: 2-1/2 Times More Fukushima Radiation Re ...
    The nuclear meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant released at least 2-1/2 times more radiation than Japan’s government had announced last year, the company responsible for the disaster said in a Tokyo news conference today. ...
  • Fire on US Nuclear Submarine Injures Seven at ...
    Firefighters at a shipyard in Maine fought flames Wednesday night into this morning to extinguish a fire on a Los Angeles class nuclear-powered US Navy submarine, the USS Miami. The vessel was docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. The fire burned for more than six hours, but ...
  • US Neo-Conservatives Assail Possible Compromis ...
    WASHINGTON - As at least two days of talks on the future of Iran's nuclear programme got underway in Baghdad Wednesday, neo-conservatives and other hawks escalated their campaign against any compromise agreement, particularly one that would permit Tehran to continue enriching uranium on its ...
  • Yemen Suffering 'Catastrophic' Food Crisis as ...
    As the U.S. continues its covert drone war on Yemen, the country is on the brink of a hunger crisis of catastrophic proportions, aid agencies report today. The aid groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children and CARE, report that 10 million people, 44 percent of the population, don't have eno ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • What is bad and what is good: an interview wit ...
    By Kourosh Ziabari The humankind has always been busy with answering the questions on what is morally good and what is morally unacceptable since he wanted to adhere to what the members of the society admire and appreciate. People have always been after finding the codes of ethics and the beha ...
  • Chicago Militarized for NATO
    by Stephen Lendman Ready or not, NATO arrived on May 19 and 20. Chicago's in virtual lockdown. Residents feel occupied. Building occupants got special instructions. This writer's residence advised "leaving town between May 18 - 22." Otherwise limit city travel. Have essentials on hand, inclu ...
  • Israeli Police State Crimes
    by Stephen Lendman Multiple times daily they occur in Occupied Palestine. In the week ending May 16, Palestinian West Bank communities experienced 41 lawless incursions. Numerous arrests followed. Three journalists and three children were targeted. Dozens of peaceful Nakba Day demonstrator ...
  • Heightening Tensions for War on Iran
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed two House bills. On May 18, HR 4310 passed. It includes two hawkish anti-Iranian provisions: Sections 1221 and 1222. So does HR 568. It expressed the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons "capability." Every n ...
  • Time Profiles a World Class Thug
    by Stephen Lendman Time magazine's May 28 cover features "King Bibi: He's conquered Israel. But will Netanyahu make peace - or war?" Managing editor Richard Stengel titled his profile "Bibi's Choice." Readers got him sanitized, not accurately presented. Omitted was what they most need to ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Pakistan official: US drone strike hits mosque; 10 killed A U.S. drone strike hit a village mosque in northwest Pakistan Thursday morning, killing at least 10 people, a Pakistani official and witnesses told NBC News. Local tribesmen said ten bodies were pulled from the debris and that efforts we ...
  • China: The New America?
    By Phil Polizatto - Worldwidehippies  - Last  I wrote why I would not pledge my allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Not surprisingly, I received a number of emails, some all in caps, yelling at me the familiar phrase so fraught with redneck intelligence and wit (or is that an ...
  • THE FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPRESSING INFORMATION: Pub ...
    by Prof. James F. Tracy,globalresearch.ca - The police state’s framework for suppressing information and opinion arguably threatens all forms of independent thought and appears poised to intensify as the “war on terror” continues. As the recent emergence of US plans for indoctrination in reeduca ...
  • Can You Identify Me?
    Worldwidehippies – “She calls out to the man on the street “Sir, can you help me? It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep, Is there somewhere you can tell me?” He walks on, doesn’t look back He pretends he can’t hear her Starts to whistle as he crosses the s ...
  • Hip Poetry: ‘Sausalito’ Ernest S ...
    WorldWide Hippies– WorldWide Hippies is proud to announce the publication of our very first book:Hip Poetry 2012! The book is a compilation of some of the worlds best poets and writers. Each Week Worldwide Hippies will post excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry. Hip Poetry 2012 dances and moves. It ...

FourWinds10

  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...

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
    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 ...
  • 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: ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Eyes on the Solar System
    Tags: science, solar, system, virtual, eyes, solar systemby: Dennis Grice
  • iRollout of iPads | Mr Lovegrove
    Comments:The "Why", "How" and resources for an iPad initiative.  - Dean MantzTags: ipad, ipads, lovegrove, initiativeby: Dean Mantz
  • Nearpod
    Comments:Synchronized use of the iPads in the classroom. - Fred DelventhalTags: ipad, apps, education, free, ios, mobile, learning, synchronizeby: Fred Delventhal
  • Subtext
    Tags: ipad, reading, subtext, appby: Dean Mantz
  • with iPads - Learning Continuity
    Tags: apps, education, ipads, resources, learning, teachingby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Save a Bat, Save Your Summer
    You probably don't think much about bats. They're kind of creepy, only come out at night, and are infected with rabies (That last bit isn't true, though; fewer than 10 people in the last 50 years have contracted rabies from bats.) But they're also protecting you from mosquito-borne diseases lik ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Unconscious Creativity: Step Back To Step Forward
    It’s easy to see why, for most of human history, a creative insight was thought of as a divine spirit that came from “some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reason,” as Elizabeth Gilbert notes. In an instant, impasse gives way to revelation. And is it not peculiar that .. ...
  • Should Babies Receive a Bar Code at Birth?
    What's the Latest Development? Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that implanting a computer chip beneath everyone's skin at birth would make the world better off. While participating in a discussion over whether future wars will have more or fewer victims, Moon put forward the ...
  • Say Hello to the Bad Guy: Jonathan Pryce on Lo ...
    Jonathan Pryce is the complete actor, able to shape-shift, seemingly without effort, from a charming Mephistopheles (Mr. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes), to a hapless, heartbreaking everyman (Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's Brazil), to a scheming, jabbering, dangerous interloper (Davies, i ...
  • New Device Injects Drug Without Needles
    What's the Latest Development? A new device developed at MIT can inject drugs into the body without using a needle, improving patient compliance and cutting down on the large number of accidental pricks doctors and nurses give themselves every year. The technology uses a jet-injection sy ...
  • Why Facebook Stock is Undervalued: Facebook Cr ...
    First of all, I am not an analyst nor do I own any stock in any public company. The last time I did invest in a promising Internet company ended in a disaster, thanks to Deutsche Telekom.  Nonetheless, I believe the Facebook stock is undervalued. Everyone who believes in the company will ...

Information Liberation

  • Cop Fired For Driving 143 MPH During Drunken J ...
    A Denver cop with a shady past who pled guilty to drunk and reckless driving for going 88 MPH over the speed limit while intoxicated has been ordered to be reinstated back to the police force by a so-called "civil service commission." Via 9News ...
  • The Rape of Delaware County, Oklahoma
    In Oklahoma*s Delaware County, Sheriff*s deputies were too busy figuratively raping motorists in the village of Bernice to supervise guards who were literally raping inmates in the county jail. As a result, the County Commission has put the scr...
  • The 'Demon'-Haunted Mind of a Law Enforcer
    Chandler, Arizona resident Karl "Jack" Frost, who was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment after attempting a "citizen's arrest" on a jogger for using a bicycle lane, describes himself as haunted by "demons" from his 14 years as a British poli...
  • PETER SCHIFF: The Housing Bust Was Just A Prev ...
    I first came to national attention back in 2008 and 2009 when the housing and credit markets imploded. I became known as the guy that other market "experts" laughed at when I warned of trouble brewing in the seemingly indestructible American economy....
  • Why Is Clarence Aaron Still in Federal Prison?
    Sentenced nearly two decades ago to three life prison sentences for his peripheral role in a crack cocaine deal, Clarence Aaron became a poster child for the inequities and harshness of drug war policing and sentencing policies. His case has garnered...

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

  • 7 features all university websites should have
    Researchers in Turkey have surveyed hundreds of students to ascertain five factors pertaining to the students’ perceptions of the attractiveness, controllability, efficiency, helpfulness and learnability of the University’s website. Ersin Caglar of the European University of Lefke an ...
  • #openaccess There’s a petition for that
    Imagine if all of the research papers you, your friends, family, anyone wanted to read were available, full text, for searching by hand and with computers and for data mining and cross referencing? It is done to a limited extent already by the NIH for preprints, with no demonstrable financial ha ...
  • Moog Google Doodle Dr Who
    I posted about today’s fantastic four-track virtual Moog synthesiser doodle on Google first thing this morning, and apparently users have been creating ever since: You did notice that it has four-track recording capabilities, didn’t you? Fab! Groovy! Get Moogy… Related Posts:Go ...
  • Solar eclipse explained badly
    This diagram is an approximation of how BBC children’s news program “Newsround” (formerly John Craven’s Newsround) showed how the recent annular eclipse occurred. Now, there’s simplifying and there’s just getting it totally wrong. I assume that they checked on ...
  • Google Moogle
    The Google doodle for today celebrates the 78th birthday of musical synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog. The doodle itself is neat enough visually, but mouse those buttons and dials and you’ll discover it’s a fully functioning rendition of a Moog synth, with recording and playback. Oh, a ...

RFF Library

  • Summer on the Road: Going Further on a Gallon ...
    Environment America / by John Cross http://bit.ly/JCJNpb [From Press Release]  …If the cars and trucks on the road today met the proposed 54.5 mpg standard, it would slash the country’s oil dependence by 16.6 billion gallons and cut our global warming pollution by more than 146 million met ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

  • 'Artificial Leaf' Hits Development Hurdle
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Off the Clock: Disrupted Daily Rhythms Hinder ...
    “My biological clock is ticking.” The phrase typically pops up in movies about middle-aged women who want to start a family before menopause makes it impossible. But a new study published May 23 in PLoS ONE indicates that another clock may also be important for females trying to co ...
  • U.S. Government Sets Out Alzheimer's Plan
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the E ...
    Remember how Wile E. Coyote, in his obsessive pursuit of the Road Runner, would fall off a cliff? The hapless predator ran straight out off the edge, stopped in midair as only an animated character could, looked beneath him in an eye-popping moment of truth, and plummeted straight down into a pu ...
  • Can Soil Sensors Save Georgia Waterways from D ...
    By June 15 gasoline-powered augers will have drilled 100 holes in the corn, cotton and peanut fields of the Lower Flint River Basin in southwest Georgia. Into the holes, scientists from the University of Georgia (U.G.A.) will slip half-meter-long PVC pipes filled with sensors for soil moisture a ...

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

  • Russian Spring? Part 4
    More Voices of Russia’s Progressive Opposition Moscow - The following is the final installment in a four part series on the recent demonstrations in Russia.  Albrecht Berg recently spent two months in Moscow, meeting with many radicals ...
  • Russian Spring? Part 4
    More Voices of Russia’s Progressive Opposition Moscow - The following is the final installment in a four part series on the recent demonstrations in Russia.  Albrecht Berg recently spent two months in Moscow, meeting with many radicals ...
  • Getting to the Roots: Submit your Investigativ ...
    Next round of pitching for Media Co-op Investigative Fund open The Media Co-op has broken critical stories and probed issues glossed by the mainstream media.  We've published exposés of Israeli and Canadian military collusion, the ...
  • Getting to the Roots: Submit your Investigativ ...
    Next round of pitching for Media Co-op Investigative Fund open The Media Co-op has broken critical stories and probed issues glossed by the mainstream media.  We've published exposés of Israeli and Canadian military collusion, the ...
  • Manifestation Montreal - 22 Mai 2012

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
    David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...
  • 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(.. ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Did Obama Just Deliver Marriage Equality in Ma ...
    Polls taken since President Obama expressed support for same-sex marriage have shown an astonishing shift in black support on marriage equality. The shift in Maryland is so dramatic that the state may become the first state to actually uphold same-marriage rights in a referendum. Here's the gis ...
  • Mitt Fenced in on Immigration
    When it comes to immigration policy, Mitt Romney has decided that discretion is the better part of valor. In his speech before Latino business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Romney decided to avoid the whole immigration issue altogether, HuffPo's Elise Foley reports: Romney ...
  • Colin Powell Evolves on Same-Sex Marriage
    Former Secretary of State Colin Powell tells CNN he's in favor of same-sex marriage, "either at the state or federal level": "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their relig ...
  • Many "Pro-Life" Americans Don't Want To Outlaw ...
    The big exciting news for Republicans in the latest Gallup poll on abortion is that more Americans identify as "pro-life" and fewer identify as "pro-choice" than ever. Although that's probably not meaningless, Americans' views on whether abortion should be legal haven't actually changed at all ...
  • Conservatives Trying To Rewrite The History Of ...
    I can't recommend enough Jonathan Chait's rebuttal to National Review's attempt to rewrite the history of the civil rights movement to portray conservatives as its most ardent supporters: It is true that most Republicans in 1964 held vastly more liberal positions on civil rights than Goldwa ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 323: Both Sides Do It
    Topics: Geordi Laforge first intergalactic simp Punching kids in the face Liberals going overboard with Cory Booker Liberals pretending that they don’t stretch the truth as well Johnny Depp Goes Native Too Busty for work Dressing appropriately Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

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

  • Researchers find a way to delay aging of stem ...
    Stem cells are essential building blocks for all organisms, from plants to humans. They can divide and renew themselves throughout life, differentiating into the specialized tissues needed during development, as well as cells necessary to repair adult tissue. read more
  • El Niño weather and climate change threaten su ...
    When leatherback turtle hatchlings dig out of their nests buried in the sandy Playa Grande beach in northwest Costa Rica, they enter a world filled with dangers. This critically endangered species faces threats that include egg poaching and human fishing practices. Now, Drexel University researc ...
  • IUDs, implants most effective birth control
    A study to evaluate birth control methods has found dramatic differences in their effectiveness. Women who used birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring were 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who used longer-acting forms such as an intrauterine device (IUD) or ...
  • A non-invasive intracellular 'thermometer' wit ...
    A team from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) has developed a technique to measure internal cell temperatures without altering their metabolism. This finding could be useful when distinguishing healthy cells from cancerous ones, as well as learning more about cellular processes. read more
  • Not a 1-way street: Evolution shapes environme ...
    Environmental change is the selective force that preserves adaptive traits in organisms and is a primary driver of evolution. However, it is less well known that evolutionary change in organisms also trigger fundamental changes in the environment. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Pro-mountain activists board coal barge and bl ...
    Follow coverage at http://action.mountainjustice.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Contact: Robert Livingston 304.731.1740 http://action.mountainjustice.org Note: Photos available within 1 – 2 hours.   KAYFORD, W.Va. –Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transpor ...
  • West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital
    May 23, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital Sacrifice of Locks in Name of Appalachian Mountains COOL RIDGE, W.VA. – Fed up with government inaction, a group of outraged West Virginians will gather this … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Amped Status

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  • Thoughts on an attack by a Jewish mob
    Two days ago, my girlfriend and I were attacked by a mob of proud Jews in south Tel Aviv. Still trying to understand why. I went to a demonstration led by MK Michael Ben-Ari two days ago (Tuesday), and was joined by my girlfriend, Galina. Ben-Ari, a Kahanist, was inciting the crowd against the A ...
  • Mob against migrants: How far can the violence go?
    The rioting last night in south Tel Aviv against African migrants – some of them asylum seekers –  was another one of those moments that paralyzed me with a mixture of disbelief, horror and sorrow. The photos of smashed windows were reflexively associated in many Jewish minds with Kristallnacht, ...
  • How mainstream Israeli politicians sparked the ...
    Israeli governments have neglected the poor neighborhoods of Tel Aviv for decades. Today, Knesset members use the asylum seekers to channel the anger of local residents and score easy political points. For a moment, at around 11 p.m., it seemed that things were really getting out of control: Eac ...
  • Last night in south Tel Aviv, the ‘time ...
    What’s going on between Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) and African refugees, and the prospects for more vigilante violence.  Here’s my suggestion for preventing more vigilante riots like last night’s in South Tel Aviv’s Hatikva Quarter. One, put lots and lots of older ...
  • How I survived a Tel Aviv mob attack
    Last night I had to flee a raging mob not too far from my home in south Tel Aviv. After long speeches of incitement by right-wing parliamentarians, the masses stormed after me and a fellow journalist, and then turned on African asylum seekers, their businesses and their homes. This is how it hap ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • The Call is Ours
    Democracy isn’t always a clear winner.  Traditionally its method of reaching decisions by voting has created the general impression that …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Spanish Indignados Return to Their Squares
    Garcia writes: "The day of action on May 12 this year exceeded the expectations of many people who thought the 15M movement was dead, who didn't recognize that it had only moved to neighborhood assemblies." Spanish protesters fill up the Puerta del Sol square during a protest marking the one ...
  • 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 ...
  • Romney Buys Victory Over Paul, Huntsman
    Intro: "As expected, millionaire Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts Governor (and New Hampshire summer resident) has won the New Hampshire Republican primary tonight with 39% of the vote." Mitt Romney celebrates his New Hampshire primary victory on Tuesday night surrounded by family, 01/10/12. ...
  • Florida Bill Would Make Abortion a Felony
    Excerpt: "... the Florida for Life Act would essentially (and unconstitutionally) make it a felony to perform an abortion except when a physician meets very specific circumstances. ... If physicians fail to meet these stipulations or provide abortion services in any other case including rape or ...
  • Cities, States Pass Resolutions Against Citize ...
    Intro: "Several cities and states are passing resolutions against corporate personhood. The resolutions are the result of Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which gave corporations the same first amendment rights as individuals and thereby opening the floodgat ...

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

  • Investment Firms Warned Off Facebook IPO In Ad ...
    In the days leading up to last Friday's initial public offering for Facebook stock, the company raised the IPO price by several dollars a share, leading many small-level and amateur investors to wonder if maybe there was something more to the company than a place to post photos of you and your ...
  • Papa John's Really, Really Cares That They Gav ...
    The complaint behind this story was not, at its core, a serious consumer problem. Chris ordered a pizza that was missing a few toppings and on the wrong type of crust. What's notable is that the regional management of Papa John's treated it like it was. Well, eventually. After the local store m ...
  • L.A. Bans Plastic Supermarket Shopping Bags
    The movement against plastic shopping bags gained a lot of momentum today after the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-1 to phase out the use of plastic shopping bags at supermarkets. This decision makes L.A. the largest city to issue a ban on the bags. According to the L.A. Times, it will imp ...
  • Safeway Reinstates Employee Who Stopped Man Fr ...
    Last week we told you about the California Safeway employee who had been suspended after intervening in a fight between a man and his pregnant girlfriend. Now there's some good news to report, as the grocery store chain has given the employee his job back, along with pay for the weeks during wh ...
  • HP To Give The Axe To 27,000 Employees
    Earlier today, HP announced its latest quarterly earnings and the results were not good -- like "We are going to have to lay off 27,000 employees" not good. The Wall Street Journal reports that this number represents about 8% of the electronics company's workforce. The layoffs are expected to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • More Coverage of ACLU's Support of State Dept ...
    Washington Post: ACLU Throws Support Behind State Department Whistleblower Summary: More coverage of the ACLU’s support of State Department whistleblower and GAP client Peter Van Buren. Van Buren wrote a book and maintains a blog critical of the department’s reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The ...
  • Grassley Honored as Whistleblower Champion, En ...
    To kickoff the 2012 Whistleblower Summit: Civil and Human Rights Conference, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) delivered words of appreciation to our nation’s unsung heroes, whistleblowers. Addressing whistleblowers who traveled across the country to attend the summit, Senator Grassley remarked, “ ...
  • Congress Expands NSA Power Despite Whistleblow ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user mRioCongress is Deaf: Expands NSA’s Surveillance Power Despite Whistleblower Disclosures Summary: Congress has authorized an expansion of NSA’s surveillance power, despite warnings from whistleblowers (and GAP clients) like Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney ...
  • Congress is Deaf: Expands NSA's Surveillance P ...
    Whistleblowers like former National Security Agency (NSA) officials William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, and Thomas Drake have repeatedly warned us about a burgeoning surveillance state. At great personal risk considering Binney, Wiebe, and Drake were all targeted with a criminal investigati ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Billion Dollar Bait & Switch: States Divert Fo ...
    by Paul Kiel and Cora Currier, ProPublica States have diverted $974 million from this year’s landmark mortgage settlement to pay down budget deficits or fund programs unrelated to the foreclosure crisis, according to a ProPublica analysis. That’s nearly forty percent of the $2.5 billion in penal ...
  • Trust Me: You Believe in Gun Control
    If you ask the typical hyper-political gun owner (and I have … at Thanksgiving dinner), why it’s important to own a gun, they’ll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second Amendment: “The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed!” This of course is the slogan the Nation ...
  • In Race For Better Cell Service – Men Who Clim ...
    Ryan Knutson, PBS Frontline, and Liz Day, ProPublica This story was co-published with PBS Frontline, which aired a film version Tuesday. In the spring of 2008, AT&T was racing to roll out a new cell phone network to deliver music, video and online games at faster speeds. The network, known a ...
  • Why Obama Should Be Attacking Casino Capitalis ...
    I wish President Obama would draw the obvious connection between Bain Capital and JPMorgan Chase. That way his so-called “attack” on private equity is neither a personal attack on Mitt Romney nor a generalized attack on American business. It’s an attack on a particular kind of capitalism that Ro ...
  • GOP Messaging Trips Up Cory – Public Says ‘Meh?’
    Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker was inelegant on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday. The GOP SPIN Machine wasted no time creating a duplicitous and devious “I stand with Cory” fund raiser, collecting e-mails and thinking voters are stupid enough to believe Mayor Booker was abandoning the so-c ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Models get the core assumptions wrong– & ...
    This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that references the most important points and papers, as a definitive resource about the evidence. The missing hotspot is not just another flaw in the theory, it proves the models are wrong: not just “unverified”, not just &#8220 ...
  • Blame the whites for climate change?
    Back when the climate was perfect, and there was no internet, no cars, no electricity lines, and not a single evil coal fired station – ominously, the Australian climate was changing. Back in 1846, the population of Australia was essentially just the size of the city of Canberra (a mere 34 ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Assimilation, now more than ever
    (Rich Lowry) - In the most predictable demographic revolution ever, the Census Bureau reported that nonwhite babies now make up a majority of all births. This shift was inevitable as long as the basic architecture of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act remained in place...
  • A racial revolution?
    (Thomas Sowell) - Now that census data show -- for the first time in American history -- that the number of white babies born is exceeded by the number of babies born to non-white minorities, the question is: What does this mean for the future of American society?...
  • Should black people tolerate this?
    (Walter Williams) - Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Using the 94 percent figure means that 262,621 w ...
  • Jaczko the Jerk: Harry Reid's sexist crony get ...
    (Michelle Malkin) - The embattled chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission resigned this week. It's a victory for Republican oversight on Capitol Hill, women and sound science. But it's also a lesson in the futility of Bush-era bipartisanship. When you cut deals with bullies, it's a timel ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Ten Kings of the AntiChrist
    The Secrets of Fátima are well known. While the Third Secret was supposedly released by the Catholic Church in 2000, many experts have suggested that the true secret has been kept from us. Some believe it to be an end of the world prophecy, or at least the end of the Catholic Church. Less well ...
  • 2012: The Final Pope
    I shared the Malachy Papal Prophecy late last year. Basically, it is an ancient prediction of the Papal lineage, and it has proven to be incredibly accurate. This means that either Malachy had psychic powers to predict events up until almost 1000 years into the future, or the Catholic Church has ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Fighting for home: A discussion with Clarice F ...
    Two years after the BP disaster, the United Houma Nation's outreach coordinator talks about living next to the oil industry and the future she envisions for her tribe and her home. read more
  • Banking on Boeing
    The bipartisan decision to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- which some conservatives have derisively dubbed "Boeing's Bank" -- shows that corporatists retain the upper hand in mainstream U.S. politics. read more
  • VOICES: A new Emancipation Day for Florida's f ...
    May 20 marks the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in 1865 in Florida, marking the end of slavery. Today, a new movement to end slavery in the fields is gaining force among Florida farmworkers. Paul Ortiz read more
  • Latino, black political clout grows in Florida ...
    Voter registration numbers show that Southern electorate in two key battleground states continues to grow more diverse. But will new voting restrictions undermine the power of black and Latino voters? read more
  • Voices: Speaking out against the Tar Sands pip ...
    The push for the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast comes with big promises of jobs and energy independence. But community leaders that will be most affected by the project are speaking out about the toxic consequences. read more

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Is the Whirling Dervish of TAPI Politics Final ...
    It had to eventually happen–Afghan politics have come full circle, and then some.  It was only a matter of time before the TAPI pipe dream would once again be offered as a solution to the Afghan conflict.  The Taliban are once again being handed the keys to the kingdom in exchange for partnering ...
  • NATO: In Search of Raison d’Etre
    NATO held its meeting in Chicago on May 20–21, 2012. Three core objectives defined the agenda. The centerpiece was the announcement of the next phase of transition in Afghanistan turning over control of Afghanistan’s security to its own troops by the middle of 2013 and winding up the operation b ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • I'm Scared My Non-Verbal Child Will Be Abused ...
    I have this fear. It is better when I talk about it. You see… I am two halves of the same coin. I am a teacher. One of my eight years teaching was actually in special education. I am a mother. One of my children has special needs and will be in a special education class for at least part of ...
  • Money Matters: Making a Little House Work With ...
    My dad is the oldest of four kids who grew up in a two-bedroom farmhouse in Iowa. (I think there were more bedrooms back then.) (I have no idea where they put them. This was not a big house.) I'm sure they were positively on top of each other. I was interested in Karla's recent post on their lif ...
  • Conference Corner: Tips for BlogHer First-Time ...
    With two weeks left until BlogHer Food in Seattle and just ten short weeks *gasp* until BlogHer '12 in New York, the pre-conference jitters are starting to set in across the internet. Whether it's your first BlogHer Event this year or your eighth, we are all united by one thing... we all, always ...
  • What to Expect When You're Expecting: Sexism!
    [Editor's note: When you were pregnant, did people make sexist assumptions about you? They sure did with me. For instance, people just assumed that I'd take care of the baby while my husband did very little because a) he was disinterested b) he was adorably inept, or c) he was too busy doing "im ...
  • Gardening with Style - How to Build a Chic Out ...
    [Editor's Note: Author, blogger and new Austinite Georgia Pellegrini is a true Jill or all trades. She hunts, cooks and apparently also dabbles in woodworking and gardening. When Georgia spotted some planters she was smitten on at one of her favorite restaurants she immediately thought to hersel ...

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

  • Telling it like it is on W.Va. energy policies
    If some of the early posts are any indication, The State Journal’s new “Grounded” blog is a welcome addition to the journalism scene regarding energy policy in West Virginia. State Journal reporters Pam Kasey and Taylor Kuykendall were already churning out tons of energy covera ...
  • Arch Coal hit with 2 ‘imminent danger&#8 ...
    Here’s the disclosure Arch Coal made earlier this week to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:  On May 15, 2012, Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Arch Coal, Inc., received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act due to a non-inert atmosphere in a ...
  • EPA, the Spruce Mine and the future of coal
    Today’s New York Times included another editorial about the Spruce Mine, (see previous ones here, here and here) this one praising the Obama administration for appealing a judge’s decision that overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of that permit: The admin ...
  • ‘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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Motivational Speaking in a World Without Free Will
    Two of my friends (Carl and David) and I have been having a long email debate about free will. They believe in it. I don’t. It’s been going on for multiple years now so I won’t attempt to summarize here. But recently there has been a sub-debate spawned from a recent post of min ...
  • HULK DDoS Tool
    “Enforcing Python’s engines, I wrote a script that generates some nicely crafted unique Http requests, one after the other, generating a fair load on a webserver, eventually exhausting it of resources. this can be optimized much much further, but as a proof of concept and generic guidance ...
  • Microsoft Switching to CVRF For Security Bulletins
    The framework has also recently received an update but, most important of all, has also received a very prominent backer: Microsoft. “Even though many vendors have followed Microsoft’s lead in providing comprehensive security updates to customers, the formats vendors use vary. CVRF provide ...
  • Why So Many Climate Scientists Are Becoming Mo ...
    Climate scientists have been consistently downplaying and underestimating the risks for three main reasons. First, their models tended to ignore the  myriad amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks that we now know are kicking in (such as the defrosting tundra). Second, they never imagined that th ...
  • 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 ...

Fitwatch

  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Pakistan official: US drone strike hits mosque; 10 killed A U.S. drone strike hit a village mosque in northwest Pakistan Thursday morning, killing at least 10 people, a Pakistani official and witnesses told NBC News. Local tribesmen said ten bodies were pulled from the debris and that efforts we ...
  • China: The New America?
    By Phil Polizatto - Worldwidehippies  - Last  I wrote why I would not pledge my allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Not surprisingly, I received a number of emails, some all in caps, yelling at me the familiar phrase so fraught with redneck intelligence and wit (or is that an ...
  • THE FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPRESSING INFORMATION: Pub ...
    by Prof. James F. Tracy,globalresearch.ca - The police state’s framework for suppressing information and opinion arguably threatens all forms of independent thought and appears poised to intensify as the “war on terror” continues. As the recent emergence of US plans for indoctrination in reeduca ...
  • Can You Identify Me?
    Worldwidehippies – “She calls out to the man on the street “Sir, can you help me? It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep, Is there somewhere you can tell me?” He walks on, doesn’t look back He pretends he can’t hear her Starts to whistle as he crosses the s ...
  • Hip Poetry: ‘Sausalito’ Ernest S ...
    WorldWide Hippies– WorldWide Hippies is proud to announce the publication of our very first book:Hip Poetry 2012! The book is a compilation of some of the worlds best poets and writers. Each Week Worldwide Hippies will post excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry. Hip Poetry 2012 dances and moves. It ...

reference frame

  • Science on anti-GOP bias of the NAS
    Science Insider has printed a courageous article about the left-wing bias of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences yesterday: A Partisan Look at U.S. Science Policy The academy invited the former and current science advisers to the U.S. presidents to a symposium. All of the attendants tur ...
  • Psychology of dark matter denial
    Sean Carroll mentioned some developments concerning dark matter that have been discussed on this blog, too. His short text is another example of the fact that his comments are sometimes right, however rare these events may be. A month ago, the media overhyped a paper by Chilean ast ...
  • South Dakota's LUX will join the dark matter wars
    Many articles on this blog were dedicated to the war on the existence of dark matter. Some research teams claim that they have already detected a proof of a dark matter particle, a WIMP, whose mass is of order 10 GeV. Other teams disagree equally vehemently. The Homestake Min ...
  • Sheldon Cooper's revenge to Stephen Hawking: H ...
    Yesterday, we discussed an interesting new paper by Hartle, Hawking, and Hertog. It claimed that because of some mysterious maths of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, a theory with a negative cosmological constant may accelerate the cosmic expansion just like as if it were a positive cosmological ...
  • Euro, geuro, and Greece before grexit
    The outcome of the recent elections in Greece was an unbelievable proof that Greece is a dying democracy, something I've been predicting for years. The single largest party turned out to be New Democracy which, despite its attempts to right-wing image, one could recognize as a remote cou ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Safe - vs. Safer
    The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Summer suddenly arrives in southern Norway
    Summer arrived with a vengeance this week, especially in Oslo where temperatures soared from chilly last week to as high as 27C (nearly 80F) on Thursday. The unusually warm weather was expected to continue into next week. It was actually warmer in Oslo on Wednesday than it was in southern Europe ...
  • Confusion over Breivik’s state of mind
    The Oslo City Court has demanded clarity from a state commission charged with certifying court-ordered psychiatric evaluations. Its review of a second evaluation of terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik is so vague that no one seems able to determine whether the commission has actually approve ...
  • Tooji ready for action at Eurovision
    Norway’s entry at the annual Eurovision Song Contest was hoping to make both the finals and a difference during the annual, much-hyped event that’s playing out in Azerbaijan this week. In addition to rehearsing, the young man known as “Tooji” has visited an asylum center ...
  • ‘Historic’ strike hits nationwide
    Thousands of public sector workers walked off the job in townships all over Norway early Thursday, after talks broke down between their unions and their employers. Schools and day care centers are among the hardest hit, but the strike also will affect public services within health care, administ ...
  • Happy ending to Solskjær drama
    Laughter and claims of family values and friendship characterized a highly unusual press conference on Wednesday starring Norwegian football icon Ole Gunnar Solskjær and his “rich uncles” at Molde Football Club. He and club benefactor Kjell Inge Røkke made it clear that they and all ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Timber – We All Use It, So How Do We Get It?
    Timber we all use it, so how do we get it? All but gone are our localized sawmills with which we could access sawn timber for construction with a reasonably low footprint. So it’s time we started to look at our timber/lumber security. Darren Doherty, and great courses like the master tree ...
  • John Liu’s Green Gold Documentary – How the We ...
    As most of our readers will know, John Liu caught a vision years ago, and, thankfully, he ran with it. We’ve shared John’s excellent media work before (see here and here), and today have the pleasure of doing so again…. This new video, Green Gold, was first aired last mont ...
  • The Need for Data and Documentation to Move Pe ...
    Bec Helouin, France. Photos and article by Richard Perkins A month into our epic family global film trip and we arrive at the beautiful and incredible La Ferme biologique du Bec Hellouin, an experimental organic farm being adapted according to permaculture principles. Bec Hellouin is home to C ...
  • Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear ...
    by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, marking the first time in over 40 years that the country had not a single nuclear power plant generating electricity. The March 2011 earthqu ...
  • Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part IV: Creativi ...
    Inspiring our children to develop an enthusiasm for gardening is a wonderful gift we, as parents or caregivers, can give them. This theme revolves around using the garden and its produce as an outlet for creativity. The following ideas will hopefully help give you some starting points for help ...

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

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CME-mbxzCiUStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Wed May 23, 2012 11:16 pm
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    A very interesting message from Roy Tov concerning Pharisaic Israel. -------------------------- New Babylon "And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth."— Revelations 17:5 Despite the important role of ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Welcome welcome welcome to Timothy Fitzpatrick's Christian Theology Discussion Board, formally known as TIU. Here, we will discuss the nuances of Christian Theology, and proclaim any non believers to be Nihilist saboteurs, shills, or agents. Statistics: Posted by scorpio — Wed May 23, 20 ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: I'm ...
    Welcome! Great introduction, I'm sure folks here can relate to you, I know I can .I used to live outside the city too but my deprogramming came too late as I too was ''looking for action'' and found rural live lame and boring.I regret it now and it will take a lot of luck and effort (read; Eur ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Guess we know who controls india http://www.countercurrents.org/bba190512.htm Mumbai Police Confiscate Nakba Day Banners By Bharat Bachao Andolan 19 May, 2012 Countercurrents.org To, The Chief Minister, Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India. Sub: We conde ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Los Angeles Becomes the Largest U.S. City to B ...
    Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to impose a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets and other stores, a significant victory for environmental advocates seeking to keep plastic waste out of the region’s landfills and waterways. In a vote Wednesday, the City Council approved plans to phas ...
  • Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record Levels ...
    Global carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2011, driven largely by a 9.3-percent increase in Chinese emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to preliminary estimates, worldwide carbon emissions climbed to 31.6 gigatonnes in 2011, a 3 ...
  • The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe’s Blood Di ...
    The regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been accused of profiting from the Marange diamond fields, garnering illicit funds that could be used to bolster his oppressive security forces. Now critics are alleging the government is failing to stop mining-waste pollution that is sickeni ...
  • 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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Law 78: Built to fail
    By John Klein (aka SaskBoy) Who defends the rights and freedoms of Canadians? A) soldiers B) police C) citizens D) lawyers E) press F) politicians If you came to your own conclusion, and answered “G) All of the above”, then you understand a functioning democracy. Daniel explains: “The gove ...
  • Quebec: The Casserole Symphony
    By Montreal Simon In many Montreal neighbourhoods last night people were banging pots and pans in another casserole symphony of protest. The latest tactic in this awesome struggle. “It’s a nightly ritual known as les manifs aux casseroles, that sees hundreds of people step out of the ...
  • Vancouver’s chalk-it list
    A BoB short: What would you say if someone asked you to complete the phrase, “Before I die . . .”? And who would you tell? Friends? Family? Or . . . a giant blackboard? Vancouverites are being invited to publicly share their bucket lists on a blackboard the length of a city block. Th ...
  • Love branches out for Kamloops woman
    A BoB short: Val Theroux, 64, a retired nurse from Kamloops, B.C. has been in a long distance relationship since 2008. Although Theroux has been married to another partner for 40 years, she feels compelled to visit her sturdy “soul mate” every year for a well deserved hug.  The love affair is so ...
  • Quebec strike: Je désobéis
    By Montreal Simon It’s just after 8pm in Montreal, and the reporter from CUTV is talking to a young mother who is taking her two kids to the 28th nightly demonstration in a row. Even though she knows she could be arrested, for defying the Charest government’s totalitarian Bill 78, li ...

Daily Beast

  • Why Won’t Justice Ginsburg Retire?
    Chris Geidner looks into the tricky world of politicking and the court.
  • Shame on You, Booker
    Leaders are important; so are followers. That’s a lesson Cory Booker and Richard Grenell need to learn.
  • Obama’s Positive Pivot
    Team Obama's new ads tout the president’s record on Medicare and veterans, in a temporary break from negative campaigning. By Daniel Stone.
  • Give Facebook a Break
    Don’t be too quick to blame Facebook for its IPO debacle, writes Zachary Karabell, when the banks deserve most of the blame.
  • The Case of the Missing Movie Exec
    His marriage was in turmoil. His son had stopped speaking to him. His house was underwater. And then he disappeared.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Flat-screen TV shipments plunged 71% in April
    Domestic shipments of flat-screen televisions plummeted 70.8 percent in April from a year earlier to 502,000 units, an industry group said Wednesday. But while demand fell for the ninth consecutive month, the scale of the year-on-year plunge was due to the consumer surge for replacement TV set ...
  • Two Japanese slain, in Dubai, eastern Siberia
    Overseas media on Wednesday reported that two Japanese nationals have been murdered overseas — a female cabin attendant strangled in Dubai and a Tokyoite who was stabbed more than 30 times in eastern Siberia. In Dubai, the 28-year-old victim, who worked for a local airline, was found sla ...
  • "The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Fukuda ...
    During the Taisho Era (1912-26), Japan grew economically and diplomatically as it opened up further to the West. Its bourgeois culture also blossomed and the liberal movement known as the Taisho Democracy ensued. Encouraged by such major changes in society, the art of nihonga (Japanese painting) ...
  • Mazda tying up with Fiat, plans new roadster
    Mazda Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will form a business tieup with Italy's Fiat, a step that could help it climb out of the red ink it has been mired in since 2008 amid harsh global competition. The automaker has been seeking a new partner as it reduces its ties with troubled Ford Motor Co., ...
  • Judge who gave Aum guru death to oversee Ozawa ...
    One of the judges who sentenced Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara to death in 2004 over the deadly crimes he and his cult committed will preside over the appeal against Ichiro Ozawa's acquittal up before the Tokyo High Court, according to judicial sources. A three-judge panel led by Shoji Og ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Inequality undermines collective action on cli ...
    Much has been written of late about the costs of inequality — the social and health costs, the costs to democracy and social cohesion, and the costs to the economy and productivity. But here’s another cost to rising inequality that has received less consideration — the costs to ...
  • Reframing the Health Care Debate
    By Trish Hennessy Discussions about how to frame social issues in Canada are often left to communications professionals, but so many times it’s the people on the front lines of public service who have a lot to contribute to this endeavour. Take Saskatoon physician Ryan Meili. He has cleverly wov ...
  • Duel of the Saskatchewan Expatriates
    Last week, I had the following letter in The Globe and Mail: Oil sands royalties The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ most recent Statistical Handbook indicates that, in 2010, this industry sold $101-billion of oil and gas but paid only $12-billion in resource royalties. Even Senator ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Staying power - the key to victory in the war ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two victories for human rights, one by Palestinian hunger strikers in Israel and the other by opponents of detention without trial in the USA. He argues that, although these are two battles won, the war to protect civil and human rights will need staying power and may ...
  • 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 ...

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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Peakwater

  • Reservoir caught in 3-state war for water
    “The Mobile District is in the middle of the tri-state water wars litigation between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. When an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter asked the corps whether the reservoir is open, a day and a half later U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District public affa ...
  • Ancient River Valley Reclaimed: Saudi’s ...
    “For hundreds of years, Saudi’s Wadi Hanifah River carved out a scenic valley extending from sand dunes and agricultural land pocked with date plantations into the heart of Riyadh before it seeped underground. But the city’s expansion into a thumping metropolis of 7 million people brought ...
  • Fracking’s Methane Trail: A Detective Story
    “Petron saw high levels of methane in readings from a NOAA observation tower north of Denver. And through painstaking, on-the-ground detective work, she tied that pollution to the sprawling oil and gas fields in northeastern Colorado. The story she stumbled into suggests that government ma ...
  • Native title granted over Australia’s La ...
      “An indigenous group has been granted native title over Lake Eyre, Australia’s largest lake when full, ending a 14-year legal battle. The Arabana people will have unconditional access to the 69,000 sq km land for hunting, fishing, camping and traditional ceremonies. In return, ...
  • U.S. Bottled Water Sales Are Booming (Again) D ...
    “Despite organized anti-bottled-water campaigns across the country and a noisy debate about bottled water’s environmental impact, Americans are buying more bottled water than ever. In 2011, total bottled water sales in the U.S. hit 9.1 billion gallons — 29.2 gallons of bottled water per pe ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Austerity is Counterproductive. We N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report indicating that policies designed to reduce the deficit beginning in 2013 will result in a recession. “Today’s CBO report backs up what economists have been te ...
  • New Study Confirms (Again): Keystone XL Would ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after a study by the National Resources Defense Council showed once again that the Keystone XL pipeline would raise gas prices for American consumers. Kucinich has frequently argued this point on the House floor, in a ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • A most worthwhile goal
    … A most worthwhile goal one that requires diligent and vigilant education …  doubtful corporate and/or Congre$$ will support …   Let’s End Polluter Welfare   Sen. Bernie Sanders …Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont …Posted: 05/20/2012 11:05 pm ….http://www.huffingtonpost. ...
  • Actually Arizona’s share is being put into
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    03/04/2010 · Fake Passports, Fake Al Qaeda, and Fake planes what else does Israel create that is fake? Was it Israel that created all the fake Bin Laden tapes and videos.
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    Obama ran on Change. Was that the name of the actor ?
     
    • *( :)   That's o.k. I'm sure Iran is extremely dubious that interfering nations will adhere to the Third Pillar of the NPT of which the IAEA - and USA - is supposedly a supporter as an instrument of disarmament. Not that signs are good for even recognizing the validity of the treaty as it was negotiated in the first place. Oh. Peace Prize holder involved.
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