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Sunday, May 27, 2012

27 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • The water footprint of milk production in New ...
    About 160 L of water is abstracted in New Zealand to produce each 1 L of milk. Regionally, this ratio varies from 1:1 in Waikato to 250:1 in Canterbury.
  • Closer to deflationary slump as money contract ...
    All key indicators of China's money supply are flashing warning signs. The broader measures have slumped to stagnation levels not seen since the late 1990s. Narrow M1 data for April is the weakest since modern records began. Real M1 deposits – a leading indicator of economic growth six months ...
  • Development camps should show some humility
    The good news is that there has been real progress in development policy, and, beneath the doctrinal differences, is a certain convergence – not on what works, but on how we should think about and do development policy. The best of the recent work in the two traditions shares common predilection ...
  • McCarten: Budget wages war on working class
    They can be called "wedge issues" that seem deliberately targeted at those on modest means. For example, does anyone believe spending a derisory $1 million on contraception for beneficiaries and their daughters is anything more than sending a message that women on the DPB need to stop breeding? ...
  • Greeks' crisis is personal as well as political
    "Every day I see more people sleeping rough on the street," said Spachos, 72. "They can't even wash their clothes or themselves. ... It worries me." Spachos, who has been staying with different friends in recent months, may soon join them. A former doctor, he could not afford to retire and fo ...

Independent - London

  • Pop diva Lady Gaga cancels Indonesia show afte ...
    Pop diva Lady Gaga has cancelled her show in Indonesia amid threats from hardline Muslims.Related StoriesNo more room at the top of EverestBritish businessman dies in suspected crocodile attack in IndiaAcid attack victims fight to stop release of their film in PakistanRevealed: Britain to build ...
  • Eight members of a family killed in Afghan air ...
    An airstrike by the US-led Nato coalition has killed eight members of a family in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities have said. Related StoriesNo more room at the top of EverestBritish businessman dies in suspected crocodile attack in IndiaAcid attack victims fight to stop release of their f ...
  • Happy birthday, Hotel Babylon!
    She has been part of the Hollywood scene for as long as anyone can remember, known and loved by everyone from Howard Hughes and Charlie Chaplin to Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Steven Spielberg. Thanks to the occasional facelift, and in defiance of old age, she still looks as ...
  • Chuka Umunna: 'It is plain, Camerkozy austerit ...
    This Chuka Umunna is cheeky. First, he set the hare running by forcing the controversial Beecroft report out into the open, prompting accusations that Vince Cable is a "socialist and anti-business".
  • Günter Grass attacks Merkel for Athens policy
    The world's leaders and economists, having put in their euro's worth on Greece and currency union – to no great discernible effect, so far – yesterday, one of the planet's most respected literary figures joined in. Germany's Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass criticised the treatment of Gre ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria
    nce the Washington Post's May 16 report on an influx of arms to Syrian opposition forces, the Obama administration's plans for a proxy war against Syria have become clearer still. The Post wrote of "significantly more and better weapons" reaching oppositionists, "paid for by Persian Gulf nation ...
  • Was Columbus secretly a Jew?
    Today marks the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored C ...
  • Mysterious sounds: More videos of unexplained ...
    Earlier this year, dozens of reports were rolling in from all over the world about incredibly loud sounds like airplane engines coming out of the sky with no explanation. Some call them "apocalypse sounds," and others "Earth sounds." Either way, when you hear them, they are downright scary.
  • 'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn ...
    Is the overuse of video games and pervasiveness of online porn causing the demise of guys? Increasingly, researchers say yes, as young men become hooked on arousal, sacrificing their schoolwork and relationships in the pursuit of getting a tech-based buzz. Every compulsive gambler, alcoholic o ...
  • Gunman in Indiana Office Standoff Identified
    Valparaiso, Indiana - A Texas man who took hostages in a northwestern Indiana realty office and held police at bay for several hours suffered three gunshot wounds before dying, likely from two different weapons, a coroner said Saturday. Roy L. Ferguson, 48, of Fulshear, Texas, died at 6:30 p.m. ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dear Leo Bureau-Blouin,
    You are speaking about compromise. Stop. Compromise is losing. Why? At a basic logical level, if you hold that you do not want a tuition rise, and the government does, any position that results in increased tuition means that you lose and the government wins. On a moral level, your adversary ...
  • 25th Anniversary . . .
    HARD TIMES IN THE LAND OF PLENTY.  (C) 1987 to 2012 — that's twenty-five years of hard times, folks, and Omar's message is even more relevant as time passes. Omar's the king of Strat blues-twang, great chops.
  • Inmates for Stevie's prisons . . .
    YOU DON'T WANT to be old and poor and alone, but thanks to the 1%, that's the fate for a lot of North Americans, if the fascists have their way. Our Head Fascist, Stevie, intends to build prisons for lots of new inmates. Well, when life hands you a lemon, the creative make lemonaid. T ...
  • A shattered polity . . .
    THE CHRONICLE HERALD has fine editorial cartoonists, Michael de Adder, and Bruce MacKinnon. Check out the gallery, some great stuff!
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Media Matters for America

  • Fox Mangles Data To Claim "The Poor" Are Getti ...
    Fox's John Stossel claimed that it's a "myth" that "the poor are getting poorer" and that they are actually getting "richer." In fact, incomes for the bottom fifth have shown almost no growth in recent decades, and the numbers Stossel used to support his argument were cherry-picked.Incomes ...
  • Myths & Facts About Wind Power
    Following relentless attacks on the solar industry in the wake of Solyndra's bankruptcy, wind power has become the latest target of the right-wing campaign against renewable energy. But contrary to the myths propagated by the conservative media, wind power is safe, increasingly affordable, and ...
  • Right-Wing Sites Baselessly Accuse WH Of Leaki ...
    Conservative websites are claiming a new release of documents show that the "White House" gave "classified information" to filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal for their upcoming film about the Osama bin Laden raid. However, even the group that released those documents, Judicial ...
  • Fox Serves As Mouthpiece For Mountaintop Minin ...
    In strikingly one-sided reports, Fox News assailed an anticipated regulation protecting streams from mountaintop coal mining waste. Among other misleading claims, Fox accused the Obama administration of punishing a contractor who said the rule would kill jobs, when in fact, extensive evidence i ...
  • Despite Being Warned, Right-Wing Media Buy Int ...
    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters not to buy into the "BS" of GOP-driven tax and spending claims and pointed to a Wall Street Journal MarketWatch column that noted that government spending is rising at its slowest pace since the 1950s. Far from heeding that advice, right-win ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

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

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Climate

  • Global Warming Winner: Once Rare Butterfly Thrives
    (AP) Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case of the small drab British butterfly, it ...
  • Solar Plane Ends First Leg of Intercontinental Bid
    (AFP) An experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight Thursday, aiming to reach North Africa next week. Pilot Andre Borschberg planned to take the jumbo jet-size Solar Impulse plan ...
  • Airlines Say Carbon Law Cutting EU Off from Growth
    (Reuters) Rising tensions with India and China over the European Union's "arrogant" law on carbon emissions could rob the region of the markets that can rescue it from economic malaise, airline leaders said on Thursday. They also said ...
  • United Nations Chief Calls Rio Summit Negotiat ...
    (Guardian) Ban Ki-moon says Rio+20 global development summit negotiations are bogged down on minor details and narrow national interests. Photograph: PETER DEJONG/AP The United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon, held out little hope on Thurs ...
  • China Hits Back at Claims It Is Blocking Clima ...
    (AFP) China hit back Thursday at claims it was holding up global climate talks in Germany, saying the United States, Europe and other rich states were the ones applying the brakes. Developed nations are trying to wriggle out of legal ...

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Brash Hypocrisy Doesn't Begin to Describe It
    I'd go quite a bit further than Jon Lovett was willing to go and say that Lanny Davis is such a horrible human being that his mere existence was more than sufficient reason to work to defeat Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency. Lanny Davis makes Dick Morris look like an exemplar of mo ...
  • Why Pick on Chief Justice Roberts?
    It seems to me that several conservative columnists, including George Will, are essentially taunting Chief Justice John Roberts. They keep saying that Roberts will never be so weak as to uphold ObamaCare. They don't say these things about Justice Kennedy, which is strange because the conservat ...
  • Today in Stupid
    From the Boston Herald I learn that The Donald thinks Mitt Romney should pick The Donald as his running mate. Apparently, The Donald suggested this to NewsMax. How's that for Stupid? But if you think The Stupid can be contained in this election cycle, think again. Recently, songstress Ch ...
  • What Would Mitt Do?
    Imagine Mitt Romney as President, it's not that hard to do. Now imagine these series of terror attacks were happening on his watch: A series of break-ins and arson incidents have workers and patients at womens health clinics in Atlanta on heightened alert, according to the Atlanta Journal-Co ...
  • I Smoked Pot; You Picked on Sissies
    Two things about this. First, these kids had a good time and never pinned down sissies so they could cut off their hair. Second, the president has a responsibility to enforce the law, but he should do whatever he can to relax the laws against smoking pot. Putting people in jail for doing thin ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Incredible Flying Cars of Tomorrow
    New road-legal flying cars may well ease long-distance commutes. Just how high-flying will the worker of tomorrow be? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Has the Northern Snakehead Fish Invaded Britis ...
    Two video reports of a Northern Snakehead fish in Burnaby, British Columbia in May 2012 raised concerns that Canada will be the next victim of this "Frankenfish". This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 15 Stunning Pictures of Starfish Sunbathing
    Starfish, or sea stars, are beautiful creatures, especially when they’re relaxing in the shallows or along the seashore. Thoughts of summer vacations come flooding in! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • What We Can Learn from the Recovery of Mount S ...
    Learn about sustainability following the lesson of nature's recovery from the devastation left by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Majaesty of Dubai's Racing Camels in Training
    Camel racing is a popular and historical sport in Dubai. These gorgeous black and white photos show some of the fascinating competitors away from the camel race itself. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Democracy Now! Debate: Should NATO Exist?
    IPS expert Phyllis Bennis argues we need to prioritize fully diplomatic options before resorting to a military hammer such as NATO.
  • The Nonsense Zone
    IPS is grateful to Bill O'Reilly for this opportunity to showcase our proud history of public scholarship on inequality, peace, justice, and the environment.
  • Scram!
    As it graduates from college, Generation Y has a chance to become the Global Generation.
  • The Lineup: Week of May 21-27, 2012
    Margot McMillen explains why the opposition to a new kind of genetically engineered corn is growing as fast as the hardy superweeds it's supposed to destroy.
  • The Pentagon's Obesity Problem
    Instead of dieting together, the Pentagon is trying to keep our NATO allies fat and unhappy.

IntelNews

  • Comment: US helped Canada nab accused spy Jeff ...
    Back in January of this year, when the Jeffrey Delisle spy affair made headlines around the world, I spoke with several journalists from The Globe & Mail, The Canadian Press, and other Canadian news outlets, who were --rightly-- curious about the role of the United States in the affair. I to ...
  • Car explosion in Port Sudan linked to Israel
    A powerful car explosion, which rocked Sudan’s main port on Tuesday, killing one person, has been linked to Israel by Sudanese government officials.
  • News you may have missed #736
    Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies. Federal appeals panel to hear CIA leak case. New study of British Empire's spies published.
  • How an ambitious Nazi spy operation in the US ...
    A well-researched article in The Chicago Tribune revisits one of the least known covert action episodes of World War II, which involved an ambitious Nazi espionage operation on US soil.
  • News you may have missed #735
    Pakistan imposes new restrictions on CIA operatives. Car bomb strikes near Syrian intelligence agency. China denies US cyberespionage claims.

War is a Crime.org

  • Bahrain: After UPR Geneva session, Alkhalifa l ...
    The week’s highlight has been the almost unanimous international verdict against the ruling Alkhalifa dynasty for its brutal violation of human rights. The regime was condemned by most of the EU countries at the Human Rights Council (HRC) meeting in Geneva on Monday 21st May when Bahrain’s Unive ...
  • Missile-Defense: Is it Working?
    By Bruce Gagnon Securing the Peaceful Use of Space for Future Generations Waterloo, Canada   One of the biggest questions in the space technology world today is will "missile defense" (MD) really work?  Recently we've seen articles making a case that it does not work and never will.&n ...
  • Hunanity Confronts the "Blue Bloc" in Chicago
    What did thousands of people accomplish by protesting in Chicago this week during the NATO Summit? If you have thoughts on that, please write me.   Mine:   "NATO = Peace & Security," as banners across the Loop said?  No, NATO = Protest, in Chicago, from here on out. ...
  • Social Justice on Trial in Canada
      Social Justice on Trial in Canada   by Stephen Lendman   Destructive neoliberal mandates harm US and European societies. Canada's conservative government force-feeds similar policies.   read more
  • Continuing Palestinian Hunger Strikes
      Continuing Palestinian Hunger Strikes   by Stephen Lendman   Israel mocks democratic freedoms. Force-fed occupation injustice reveals its true face. It rivals the world's worst tyrannies. Scoundrel media cover-ups can't change facts.   read more

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • At the Edge of NGC 891: APOD May 26th 2012
    This sharp cosmic portrait features NGC 891. The spiral galaxy spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on from our perspective. In fact, about 30 million light-years distant in the constellation Andromeda, NGC 891 looks a lot like our Milky Way. At first glance, it h ...
  • Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow
    Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cloaks.
  • Heartbreaking Video: Deaf Girl Hears Herself F ...
    Sammie Hicks' video diary documents her cochlear implant surgery.
  • Are You Smarter Than a 2nd Grader?
    A 7 year-old asks Neil deGrasse Tyson what would happen if two black holes collide.
  • New NASA Image of the Pinwheel Galaxy as it Ap ...
    This NASA image obtained May 25, 2012, of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space telescopes. The Pinwheel galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major (also known as the Big Dipper), is about 70 percent larger than our ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Ron Paul’s Ten Principles of a Free Society
    1. Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government. 2. All peaceful, voluntary economic and social associations are permitted; consent is the basis of the social and economic order. 3. Justly acquired property is priva ...
  • Keynesianism & Eugenics
    By Aziz In looking at and assessing the economic paradigm of John Maynard Keynes — a man himself fixated on aggregates — we must look at the aggregate of his thought, and the aggregate of his ideology. Keynes was not just an economist. Between 1937 and 1944 he served as the head of the Eugenics ...
  • Vatican Bank President Fired After String of S ...
    Activist Post Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the president of Vatican’s bank Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), reportedly resigned Thursday after a vote of no confidence by the bank’s board. No details were given other than that Tedeschi “failed to meet some highly important funct ...
  • Undercover US agents brought down our new Supe ...
    By Will Stewart In Moscow Spy sources in Moscow today made the astonishing claim that a US undercover operation may have sabotaged a new Russian Superjet plane that crashed in Indonesia two weeks ago. The aircraft was on a demonstration flight aimed at securing lucrative orders when it slammed i ...
  • Gates, GAVI, and WHO Administered Fake Malaria ...
    Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post A new report released found that the majority pharmaceutical drugs used to combat malaria are bogus or of poor quality . The Fogarty International Center at the US national Institutes of Health (NH) funded a study that found a shocking 20 to 42% of the ma ...

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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Win an Eco-Friendly Swimsuit From Eco Swim (Wo ...
    We’re counting down the minutes until we can yell out “Summer!” and dive straight into a pool of bright blue water. Just in time to beat the heat, we’re giving away an Eco Swim by Aqua Green swimsuit of your choice to help you make the most of your sunny days. So whether ...
  • Light&Contrast’s Adorable Ikebana LED Flower L ...
    While making the rounds at NY Design week this week we spotted these cool LED flower lights by California-based design studio Light&Contrast. Inspired by the Japanese art of flower arranging, the Ikebana lamps earned an ICFF award this year. The flower design is adaptable and flexible and ca ...
  • CP Lighting Combines Recycled New Growth Lamp ...
    Lighting designer Christopher Poehlmann is no stranger to Inhabitat or the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. We’ve long been a fan of Poehlman’s gorgeous, sculptural ‘New Growth’ lamps, which are lighting fixtures fashioned from recycled pipes in ...
  • Four Stylish Green Grills for a Sustainable Me ...
    Like many Americans, you may be lighting up the barbecue this holiday weekend — but if you want to set yourself apart from the bands of boring black grills, take a cue from our guide to stylish green grills. From DIY creations to hot spots that also double up as planting pots, whether you’ ...
  • The ‘Altoids Sours’ BBQ Grill Is Curiously Awe ...
    Talk about upcycling — this tiny barbeque grill is made from a single Altoids Sours tin, two salvaged computer fan guards and a handful of nuts and screws, and it’s big enough to handle a wiener or a hamburger patty! Instructables user vmspionage claims that he (or she) got the inspi ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Keep Out: NASA Asks Future Moon Visitors to Re ...
    NASA has released a set of guidelines that encourage future lunar landers to remain a respectful distance from its historic artifacts, such as the Apollo landing sites.
  • Watch Live: SpaceX’s Rendezvous With the Space ...
    Watch a live feed of SpaceX's Dragon capsule as it performs a historic rendezvous with the International Space Station.
  • Exclusive Video: The Link Explores Connections ...
    In this exclusive sneak preview of the new National Geographic Channel show, The Link, we see the history of the humble chain drive, which was invented in ancient Greece, yet didn't find widespread use until the 20th century when the bicycle-repairing Wright Brothers used it to help build the fi ...
  • The Scientific Search for the Essence of a Tas ...
    Scientists are several steps closer to restoring flavor to the supermarket tomato, a once-magnificent fruit turned by commercial pressures into a juicy orb of gustatory cardboard.
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Israel takes back promise to Obama not to atta ...
    Sources from inside Washington, DC are telling the international media that Israeli leadership is upset with US President Barack Obama’s handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear threat and may take military action before the November election.
  • U.S. Army General: The Whole Northern Hemisphe ...
    You may have entertained the idea of an improbable civilization ending events such as a ‘global killer’ asteroid, earth crust displacement or massive solar storms, but what if there existed a situation right now that was so serious that it literally threatened our very existence?
  • Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using onl ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
  • The disturbing, ludicrous legislation which wo ...
    I never cease to be amazed by the fact that our so-called representatives so blatantly work against the American people while actively working for foreign nations that not only support and train terrorists but are also egregious violators of human rights and flouters of international law. ...
  • Cops Taser Pregnant Woman 3 Times Over Driving ...
    When I heard about three police offers who wound up using a taser on a pregnant womanin Seattle, my first thought was that the story was some kind of a joke. Cops tasering a pregnant woman? In some sort of attempt to subdue her? For real?! You gotta be kidding me.

Andy Worthington

  • US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of U ...
    Last week, in New York, a US judge, District Judge Katherine Forrest, took a stand against a contentious provision inserted into the current National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), ruling that it was unconstitutional for lawmakers to demand that, in future, those accused of involvement with te ...
  • Video: “The War on Trevor,” A Four ...
    Regular readers may know that a friend of mine, the singer/songwriter Sarah Gillespie, has long taken an interest in tackling injustice, and regularly regales her audiences with the story of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay. This ...
  • John Yoo: A Fugitive from Justice, With the He ...
    Three weeks ago, Jose Padilla, a US citizen and a notorious victim of torture by representatives of his own government, had a courtroom door shut firmly in his face, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California, reversed a lower court decision (PDF) allowing Padilla — held as an ...
  • The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
  • US Government Turns Down Request for Trial by ...
    Last week, lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, an alleged “high-value detainee” in the “war on terror,” who was held in secret CIA prisons for four and a half years until his transfer to Guantánamo in September 2006, submitted a letter to the Convening Authority for the military co ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • An Open Letter to the Good People of Iowa: Are ...
    Dear Iowa, I used to think you were a pretty straight-ahead place, what with all that flat land and healthy vegetables and honest living. I mean, Iowans rejected slavery 20 years before the Civil War and they approved interracial marriage a century before the Supreme Court. Homosexuality was dec ...
  • Racists Arrested After Chicago Attack Have Lo ...
    One of the two white nationalists arrested after a violent surprise attack by anti-racists in suburban Chicago has a long history of activism on the racist right and was suspected of having ties to several militias in the late 1990s. The other has a lengthy record of arrests on battery and drug ...
  • Neo-Nazi Activist Gets 40 Years for Arizona Ma ...
    Notorious racist Dennis Mahon will spend the next 40 years in prison – and likely die behind bars – for sending a mail bomb that exploded in 2004 and injured the diversity officer for Scottsdale, Ariz. In handing down the sentence Tuesday in Phoenix, U.S. District Judge David Campbell said Mahon ...
  • Federal Marshals Searching for Notorious Neo-N ...
    U.S. marshals are searching for a well-known Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon who recently missed a scheduled check-in with his probation officer, Virginia’s WSLS reports. Bill White, who was released in April 2011 after spending over two years in prison for threatening his enemies through ...
  • Anti-Racists Charged in Attack on White Nation ...
    Five Indiana men were charged today in a violent attack Saturday that injured 10 alleged participants in a meeting to plan white nationalist strategy at a suburban Chicago restaurant. Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a loosely organized group that fights racism, took credit on its website for the attac ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • China says US Human Rights 'Dismal'; Should Ha ...
    "The United States' tarnished human rights record has left it in no state -- whether on a moral, political or legal basis -- to act as the world's 'human rights justice,'" according an annual report  released on Friday by the Chinese government. "The facts con ...
  • Quebec Labor Unions Join Students in Historic ...
    Not lightning, not heavy rain, nor threat of police arrest kept protesters off the streets of Montreal and other Quebec cities on Friday night, as violent rainstorm was met only with another rowdy demonstrations as students and citizens banged on pots and pans to continue their promise to hold n ...
  • Calif. Judge Declares Federal 'Defense of Marr ...
    A federal judge in California this week, ruling in favor of a lawsuit brought by state workers who sued the public-employee pension system for its refusal to cover same-sex couples, declared the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) to be unconstitutional and an assault on the equal protections clau ...
  • UK Uncut: 'Street Parties' Target 'Architects ...
    Hundreds of activists descended on the home of Deputy Prime Minister, in London today, naming him one of the 'architects of austerity' and challenging his role in pushing devastating public sector cuts to education and social services. ...
  • Global Temperatures Rising on a Devastating Tr ...
    UXBRIDGE, Canada - Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week. The main reason for this dangerous increase is that governments are failing to implement policies to prevent catast ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Hipster Habit App Is a Pocketable, Printable Mini-Book Designed to Help You Create or Remove Habits in 30 Days More »
  • Create a Bicycling Jacket with Turn Signals [V ...
    If you like to ride your bike at night you know that visibility to motorists is extremely important. For around $50 of materials and a little electronics experience you can add turn signal LEDs to any jacket or sweatshirt. More &raqu ...
  • Keep Celery Fresh by Wrapping in Aluminum Foil ...
    It's tempting to buy the big bag of celery at Costco but you'll seldom use it all by the time it starts to fade. If you wrap the celery in a plastic bag and then wrap that bag in aluminum foil you can get a much longer refrigerated shelf life. ...
  • Use Baby Powder as Dry Shampoo [Grooming]
    Dry Shampoo is great if you have oily hair and you'll be out late or won't have access to a shower. Commercial dry shampoos work great but most of them are just talc or baby powder combined with a fragrance—you can use regular or unscent ...
  • Assemble an Affordable Standing Desk from Ikea ...
    Standing desks have become enormously popular in the past few years as using them relieves back pain and results in a less sedentary workday. Nice commercial standing desks can be expensive, but when we want to put something together that look ...

Water Privatization

  • Will privatization leave us lost in space?
    As a private company successfully launches a cargo mission to the International Space Station, we wonder whether privatization is or should be the future of space exploration. - READ BLOG
  • In upland villages, ‘commuvatization’ answer t ...
    Although based in the United States, Andrew Bacdayan, a retired economics professor, had closely monitored the intertribal conflict in the villages of Fidelisan and Dalican in his hometown of Sagada, Mt. Province, in the 1990s.
  • Lack of enabling law bars Maynilad’s buyout of ...
    MAYNILAD President Ricky Vargas on Tuesday dismissed as mere rumors the reported plan of the water distribution company to acquire the Dasmariñas Water District (DWD), saying that the absence of an enabling law hobbles the privatization of existing local water districts. While stressing that pri ...
  • Solages Holds Sewer Privatization Venting Session
    Nassau County still in search for private financier for sewage treatment plants In what can probably be called a venting session, Third District Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages (D-Elmont) held a community meeting at the Elmont Memorial Library on the proposed sewer privatization of Nassa ...
  • Residents fear privatization is near
    Two residents raised concerns about some municipal services being privatized at the Town Council meeting Monday, May 14. It’s not something the town dismissed. Read more...

Guardian

  • Syria faces condemnation after dozens of child ...
    • Videos show dead and badly mutilated infants • Syrian chargé d'affaires summoned to UK Foreign Office • Activists report fresh shelling in Hama and RastanSyria's fragile peace process is in shreds after what was claimed to be a regime-backed massacre left 32 children among more than 90 dead an ...
  • Afghan civilians killed in Nato air strike
    Eight members of a family have been killed in eastern Afghanistan, according to officialsAn air strike by the US-led Nato coalition has killed eight members of a family in eastern Afghanistan, according to officials.The coalition said it was aware of the allegation and was investigating the inci ...
  • Patti Smith: how she rocks our world
    Patti Smith is rock royalty and a new album and book from the 'godmother of punk' make 2012 a jubilee year. Now 65, her influence shows no sign of waning. We spoke to musicians she has inspired, from Martha Wainwright to Johnny MarrThe lasting image is also the first: the photograph of Patti Smi ...
  • Cheryl Cole: 'I've dined with Prince Charles, ...
    From teenage wannabe to the nation's favourite Geordie, Cheryl Cole's life has captivated us for a decade. She talks to Barbara Ellen about bringing back Girls Aloud, the importance of loyalty – and why she'll never be part of Simon Cowell's haremCheryl Cole has one of my favourite voices of all ...
  • Alan Milburn: 'Threat to new era of social mob ...
    Major report warns that fewer people outside the middle class have a chance to join professionsThe government's adviser on social mobility will warn in a major report that the country risks squandering the chance to recreate the golden era of the 1950s, when workers from all parts of society had ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Obama administration reneged on it ...
    There were no cameras around to record whether President Obama was winking when, on his first full day in office, he signed an executive order and two presidential memorandums declaring…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: This is hardly disco's 'Last Dance'
    Forget Donna Summer, for a minute. The real disco diva was Sylvester. Yeah, Sylvester was a dude, but he was as glamorous and self-appreciative as any female singer of the…Click to Continue »
  • Egyptians ask why a Mubarak holdover like Shaf ...
    There had long been clues that a rift between revolutionaries and ordinary Egyptians had always existed and had been fermenting since Mubarak left office. State media, the main source of…Click to Continue »
  • Cuban church official tells Ladies in White th ...
    A Cuban Catholic Church official told the Ladies in White on Friday they are no longer a humanitarian group and that the government is unlikely to let them go to…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. strategic partnership agreement ratified ...
    Parliament's lower house on Saturday ratified the U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership agreement that was signed in Kabul on May 1 by President Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pak Govt justifies 5000 dollars fee for shippi ...
    As Pakistan and the United States make some headway in bilateral talks, Islamabad's demand for 5,000 dollars per container for transporting goods to Afghanistan through its territory remains the ...
  • 8 civilians killed in IASF air strike in east ...
    Kabul, May 27 (Xinhua-ANI): Eight civilians were killed Saturday night in an air strike conducted by the NATO-led coalition forces in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, an Afghan provincial ...
  • Eight Afghans killed in NATO attack
    Eight civilians were killed in Afghanistan in a NATO air strike, an official said Sunday. The attack took place Saturday night in Paktia province during an operation against the Taliban, provincial ...
  • India has a key role to play in Afghanistans p ...
    India will have a key role to play in Afghanistan after foreign troops leave that landlocked country at the end of 2014, a human rights expert has said. Heather Barr told Asian News International in ...
  • Brain drain of bright Afghan women taking plac ...
    A brain drain of bright young women is taking place in Afghanistan before the 2014 handover, as most of them fear that Taliban-style rule would return to the country after of NATO forces withdraw. ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Don't Be Ashamed to Be A "Snitch"
    Last night, I walked into my son's room to say goodnight. I found him with a black sharpie and a pack of stencils. He had used them on a white t-shirt, which now read, “Vicky is NOT a Snitch.” Vicky is not his friend's real name but the one I'll use to relate his story. High sch ...
  • One Case Overturned. How Many More to Come?
    Dr. Frederic Whitehurst took on the FBI because he knew that defendants had been wrongly convicted on the basis of seriously flawed testimony by the FBI crime lab. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Superior Court overturned the conviction of a man who wrongly served 28 yea ...
  • OSHA announces Whistleblower Protection Adviso ...
    In a notice published in yesterday's Federal Register, Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, announced the formation of the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (WPAC). The notice explains:  WPAC’s duties will be solely advisory a ...
  • IG report says IRS Whistleblower Office falls ...
    The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that criticizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for dragging its feet in processing whistleblower claims. The report follows up on TIGTA's 2009 report and found, "deficiencies in the IRS’s internal contro ...
  • Davis wins appeal and appeals court overturns ...
    Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of whistleblower Michael Davis and overturned the limitation of that Court's decision in United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees’ Club, 105 F.3d 675 (D.C. Cir. 1997 ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Jesse's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Just as with our discussions on the efficacy of rain dances, I am most fascinated by stories of the baffling choices of copyright maximalists which, albeit unintentionally, most definitely promote content piracy/theft [insert Chris Dodd's buzzword of the week]. With that in mind, my favorite ...
  • Is It A Problem If People Only Discover A Musi ...
    One of the things we've heard for years, whenever we talk about awesome marketing campaigns and business models that musicians and other artists have put together, is that it's somehow a "shame" that the artists are getting attention for the campaign/business model, rather than the art itself. ...
  • Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)
    Summary of Parts One and Two: The essential balance of copyright between incentives for creators and the feeding of a rich and unlicensed public domain has been undone by a long series of misguided efforts to save copyright by making its rules both stronger and less enforceable at the same time. ...
  • Spotify In A Box: Why Sharing Will Never Be St ...
    Most people will be familiar with Moore's Law, usually stated in the form that processing power doubles every two years (or 18 months in some versions.) But just as important are the equivalent compound gains for storage and connectivity speeds, sometimes known as Kryder's Law and Nielsen's Law ...
  • DailyDirt: There's Nothing That Can't Be Deep ...
    We know it's bad for our health, but somehow we just can't get enough of artery-clogging fried foods because they taste so good. If you get tired of dry oven-roasted Thanksgiving turkeys, try deep frying them next time. Deep frying is not only a quicker way to cook a turkey, but it also produces ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week – Myles Allen’s ...
    Steve McIntyre writes at Climate Audit: Bishop Hill links to a presentation by Myles Allen to a 2011 conference on Climategate, which like every other such handwringing introspection by climate “communicators”, notably failed to invite any of the major CRU … Continue reading →
  • Clive Best gives evidence for negative water f ...
    Excerpts from Evidence for Negative Water Feedback by Clive Best Abstract: Positive linear climate feedback for combined water effects is shown to be incompatible with the Faint Sun Paradox. In particular, feedback values of ~2.0 W/m2K-1 favored by current GCM … Continue reading →
  • Facepalm! Gore’s “dirty energy = d ...
    Al Gore, is his usual incompetent persona, is bloviating weapons grade nonsense again. A few prior examples: On TV, Earth’s core is millions of degrees, in AIT, snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro will gone due to global warming, except the snows … Continue reading →
  • Tropical Storm Beryl forms
    BULLETIN SUBTROPICAL STORM BERYL ADVISORY NUMBER  1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL      AL022012 1100 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012 …SUBTROPICAL STORM FORMS IN THE SOUTHEWESTERN ATLANTIC… …TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN … Continue reading ...
  • Paging Suzanne Goldenberg and Guardian editors ...
    Quark Soup writes: Gleick Review Not Finalized, Pacific Institute Says Last week Suzanne Goldenberg of The Guardian reported: “A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents in his expose of the rightwing Heartland Institute’s strategy and … Continue r ...

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Biosingularity

  • Researchers convert skin and umbilical cord ce ...
    Ripe for biomedical applications Until recently, the production of pluripotent “multipurpose” stem cells from skin cells was considered to be the ultimate new development. In the meantime, it has become possible to directly convert cells of the body into one another – without the tim ...
  • Cooperative Neural Networks Suggest How Intell ...
    Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks, the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent of b ...
  • Sensing when the brain is under pressure
    Brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can elevate pressure inside the skull, potentially crushing brain tissue or cutting off the brain’s blood supply. Monitoring pressure in the brains of such patients could help doctors determine the best treatment, but the procedure is so invas ...
  • Study finds link between autism and obesity du ...
    Pregnant women might now have one more good reason to watch their diet and exercise: A new study links autism and developmental delays in young children to metabolic conditions, like obesity and diabetes, in their mothers. The findings, published in Monday’s edition of the journal Pediatri ...
  • Study explains how rapamycin also causes insul ...
    A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin, a drug that extends mouse lifespan, also causes insulin resistance. The researchers showed in an animal model that they could, in principle, separate the effects, which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Demonstration training exercises on eliminatin ...
    Rescue teams from the Emergencies Ministry, police units and medical workers eliminated the consequences of a “devastating earthquake” at the comprehensive exercises in Noginsk, a city near Moscow, on Friday.
  • French Open
    On May 27-June 10 one of the four Grand Slam tournaments will be held in Paris
  • Firefighters Battle Over 20 Wildfires in Siberia
    Firefighters are battling twenty-three forest fires in Siberia on a total area of 625 hectares, the regional emergencies center reported on Sunday.
  • Opposition Party to Protest Controversial Prot ...
    Russian opposition party Yabloko will on Sunday hold a rally in Moscow to protest a controversial new draft law that could see fines for unsanctioned protests rise by two hundred times, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
  • British Foreign Secretary to Head to Moscow
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague is heading to the Russian capital on a working visit on Sunday to discuss the situation around Syria, Hague said.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Shalersville speaks out against fracking
    On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video w ...
  • Statement against fracking presented to townsh ...
    This is a lightly modified copy of the statement I presented on Tuesday’s meeting of township trustees. Several cuts were made right before the meeting to keep it under the three minute time limit, and a local business’ name has been removed because I did not speak to them about inc ...
  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
  • Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
    The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
  • Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
    Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream
    It's time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing the nation. We contend that it is possible not only to talk about this once forbidden subject but to begin to build a serious politics that ...
  • Freedom Watch: Not a Single Democrat Voted in ...
    Here's some news for those who still somehow believe the political left in Washington cares about the People. Click here to read this article
  • Congress votes down Sen. Durbin's anti-supplem ...
    A sneaky, eleventh-hour attempt by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to essentially shut down the supplement industry alongside an amendment pertaining to prescription drug user fees has failed.Click here to read this article
  • Dispute Over Labeling of Genetically Modified ...
    GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - On a recent sunny morning at the Big Y grocery here, Cynthia LaPier parked her cart in the cereal aisle. With a glance over her shoulder and a quick check of the ingredients, she plastered several boxes with hand-designed stickers from a roll in her purse. "Warning," th ...
  • GMO Salmon and Foods Need Labels: California ' ...
    A near majority of U.S. Senators voted today to delay 'Frankenfish', which shows public concern about genetically engineered foods. Click here to read this article

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Uncle Gordys Mid-Week Reality Check, May 23, 2012
    The money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves 30 years. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
    Yesterday I wrote a piece on the real lords of Afghan poppies and heroin operations. I am thankful to all your supportive feedback. Of course not all feedbacks were positive, and I truly understand and accept that. Many of the critics came from mainstream Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...
  • The News at a Furtive Glance: Read Pravda or W ...
    The Chicago Police are making calculated, surgical arrests and literally disappearing activists without even valid warrants.The FBI and Secret Service are jamming cell phone tower signals.Jets from NORAD have been conducting flying exercises over Chicago Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
    Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich :  NDAA Authorizes War A ...
    america is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today and the largest exporter of terrorism and its just getting worse...We have to stop this horror! Submitted by michael hall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!
    While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using onl ...
    ShareThisRevealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you 26 May 2012 The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist o ...
  • List of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monit ...
    ShareThisList of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monitor Social Networking Sites and Online Media for Signs of Terrorism and Threats Posted by Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ (I'm sure, also a keyword.) 27 May 2012
  • General restricts war-zone photography
    ShareThisGeneral restricts war-zone photography 24 May 2012 Marine commanders in Afghanistan have cracked down on war-zone photography in the wake of two international scandals [war crimes] this year in which U.S. troops were depicted posing with dead Taliban fighters. Rank-and-file personnel as ...
  • 70 reports of police misconduct on Sunday at N ...
    ShareThis70 reports of police misconduct on Sunday at NATO protest, says National Lawyers Guild 23 May 2012 What is the legacy of the massive Sunday protest that brought out an estimated 15,000 people? One lasting effect, on both the city and the protesters, is how the Chicago Police Department ...
  • Propaganda firm owner admits attacks on journa ...
    ShareThisPropaganda firm owner admits attacks on journalists 25 May 2012 The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. The onl ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Letter to President Obama in reference to Ali ...
  • Heart of a Ranger
    Jill Stephenson, mother of fallen Ranger, Ben Kopp, is unexpectedly reunited with the casualty assistance officer who was with her when Ben died in Washington D.C. two years earlier. The chance encounter came during the 2011 Wreaths Across America Escort to Arlington, while visiting West Point. ...
  • Statement From Taliban
    The Taliban sent this statement.  There is a great deal of false information here but good to know what they are saying: Statement of Islamic Emirate regarding the NATO summit in Chicago According to news reports, NATO is going to hold a diplomatic summit in the city of Chicago from May 2 ...
  • Smoking Gun Army Documents
    Removing Red Crosses might help troops, but hurt Propaganda Campaign Photo Credit: DVIDS 21 May 2012 We are making tremendous progress on the MEDEVAC issue.  Much of the progress has come from people scattered around America who contacted their Senators and Representatives.  Our “ME ...
  • US Congress and MEDEVAC
    17 May 2012 The US MEDEVAC issue is picking up speed and mass.  There is so much progress that it is difficult to track.  A separate and excellent website dedicated to the issue has popped up at http://medevacmatters.org/ Also, the highly respected writer and war correspondent Yochi ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal appeals court rules on standard for di ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that an employee with a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [text] does not need to show that his or her disability was the sole reason he or she was fired, only that the disab ...
  • Somalia to set up assembly to adopt new consti ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Dr. Augustine Mahiga told the press on Friday that the Elders of Somalia will select delegates for the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) by June 20, which will convene on July 2 to approve Somalia's new constitution [press release, PD ...
  • Kosovo organ trafficking suspect arrested
    [JURIST] Moshe Harel was arrested in connection with the organ trafficking operation in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) [official website] said Friday. A report [text] authored by Council of E ...
  • US resident deported to Bosnia to face war cri ...
    [JURIST] US resident Dejan Radojkovic was deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday in order to face charges related to his actions as a police commander in Srebrenica during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive] in 1995. Radojkovic is accused of rounding up more than 200 Bonian ...
  • Two Bosnian Serbs sentenced to prison for role ...
    [JURIST] The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court [official website] ruled [materials] on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part in the killing of 1,000 Musli ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Supreme Court Rubber Stamps Shin Bet I ...
    TweetShiri Krebs is a PhD student at Stanford University law school. She was an international law advisor to Israeli Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch and a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.  She published a paper (for Hebrew readers, Haaretz offers this story) this month in the ...
  • Israel’s Nukes, Once Defensive, Now Guarantee ...
    Tweet Avner Cohen, one of the world’s leading experts on Israel’s nuclear weapons program, was in town to promote his new book, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain With the Bomb.  I was able to join him for breakfast and had a fascinating conversation.  He was a wealth of i ...
  • Tel Aviv 2012–Berlin 1938
    TweetToday, Israel moved one step closer to Nazi Germany circa 1938.  In Berlin, Nazis walked the streets terrorizing Jews, smashing windows, burning books and synagogues.  Today, in Tel Aviv’s poor Hatikva neighborhood, the cream of Israel’s political Übermenschen, Kahanists Michael ...
  • Israel’s Strategic Analyst: Attack Iran, Propo ...
    Tweet“I’m an elitist. Eighty percent of the critical decisions affecting Israel are shaped by maybe 100 or 200 people, 300. These are my clients. –Prof. Yehezkel Dror Israel’s premier strategic analyst, Yehezkel Dror, has produced a new study for the Begin-Sadat Center wh ...
  • Israel Reserves Right to Attack Iran Regardles ...
    Tweet  Derisive comments from Israel’s leadership about reported progress leading up to the May 23rd second round of nuclear talks with Iran, signal that Israel wants, even needs the talks to fail: …Benjamin Netanyahu…warned the world powers against letting Iran “pus ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • LocalWiki Now Speaks Portuguese, German and Ru ...
    While LocalWiki's roots are in the United States, we've seen increasing interest in starting projects all over the globe. One barrier, however, has been that our interface is entirely in English -- at least it was until now. Thanks to the hard work of Pedro Lima and Nuno Maltez in Portuga ...
  • How the AP's Overview Turns Documents Into Pic ...
    Overview produces intricate visualizations of large document sets -- beautiful, but what do they mean? These visualizations are saying something about the documents, which you can interpret if you know a little about how they're plotted. Same documents, different visualizations There are ...
  • Public Lab's Keys to Developing Low-Cost Scien ...
    This piece was co-written by Mathew Lippincot. The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science community is a massive petri dish for low-cost science tools. Our balloon-mapping tool is in its mature phase having evolved out of the agar during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This ...
  • Top 12 Social Technologies from MIT Media Lab ...
    During my work on Social Mirror, tablet tech for social checkups, I have been inspired by other amazing Media Lab social technologies. Here are 12 of the projects which I have found most inspiring, including one or two from other universities. Did I miss a project you love? Post your favorite ...
  • Knight Lab Aggregates News, Tweets Around NATO ...
    World leaders, diplomats and hundreds of journalists -- as well as protesters with a wide range of grievances -- are coming to Chicago this week because of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. NATOinChicago.com, a new project from the Knight News Innovation Laboratory at Northwe ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Economy on Edge - Long-term Unemployment Hits ...
    Asian-Americans suffer the highest rates of long-term unemployment of any group in the United States, according to a recent study issued by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. While the overall Asian-American unemployment rate sits at 7.1 percent, lower than the national average of ...
  • Latin America and Edge - Latin Left Remains a ...
    When Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently expropriated the Spanish oil company YPF, condemnation quickly blared out from the usual quarters. In a subsequent piece for the Washington Post, Juan Forero declared that the Latin American “radical left� is at a “crossroad ...
  • Oil Addiction - Cuba's Search for Oil could be ...
    The recent discovery of offshore oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico has given Havana new hopes of establishing rich deposits of its own, thereby decreasing Cuba’s present dependence on foreign energy sources.Fidel Castro began to look for new energy suppliers immediately upon coming to power in 1 ...
  • America on Edge - Schools have Nothing to Fear ...
    There has been a huge clamor over the use of Title VI. Let’s clear the air and explain what it really means to educational institutions. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was landmark legislation that prohibited major forms of discrimination: Race, color, religion or national origin. Its Title VI prov ...
  • The Edge on Terrorism - Rockefeller Questions ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) questioned whether gas pipelines are vulnerable to cyberattacks in a letter on May 24th to the president of a gas trade association. Hackers recently attacked computer networks managing several major gas pipelines, although it is unclear how much damage t ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Tomorrow Night: Shavuot- My Favorite Jewish Ho ...
    Tomorrow night begins Shavuot, the most meaningful (to me) and favorite of Jewish holidays.  It commemorates that incredible day when God gave the newly freed Jews the Ten Commandments and the Torah. People living in the US, might think that Chanukah is the major Jewish holiday, ac ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama Suggests US Take G ...
    With Greece threatening to leave the Eurozone which may throw much of the western world into a recession or worse, President Obama has offered regional government a replacement--the United States. Not only that but he apologized on behalf of the country that he did not think of the solution earl ...
  • Brett Kimberlin: The Narcissistic Terrorist-UP ...
    Today is international "Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day,"precipitated by the domestic terrorists campaign of intimidation against conserve bloggers such as  R.S. McCain, Aaron Worthing, Liberty Chick, Patterico,  and others.  The guy even has a website dedicated to tras ...
  • Awww--We Hurt Chris Matthews' Feelings-Should ...
    Oh boy...I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight.  The constant taunts of right-wingers (like yours truly) about his famous "thrill up his leg" comment has hurt Chris Matthews feelings. CSPAN’s Steve Scully, asked Matthews about whether he still feels the that thrill d ...
  • Egyptian Moderates? Yeah Right!
    By Barry Rubin Consider one fact that demolishes the apparatus of nonsense about moderate Islamists and the credibility of those claiming there is nothing to worry about. These are the same people who have been declaring for more than a year that the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate. Yet now ...

The Real Agenda

  • Vacuna de Merck, hace más probable infección c ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 26 MAYO 2012 Es bastante normal que se dude cada vez que se lee un estudio científico en una revista médica. Si hay una cosa que el público ha aprendido acerca de la ciencia en la última década más o menos, es que cuando se habla de ciencia, aún cua ...
  • Global Bullies, Climate Models and Dishonesty ...
    By Dr. DAVID EVANS | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 25, 2012 The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence,  was once an alarmist, but a ...
  • Students will be tracked via chips in IDs
    By FRANCISCO VARA | MYSA | MAY 25, 2012 Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly ...
  • How do you create a Prison? You Turn the Light ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 25, 2012 As it is often explained, the success of a control grid relies not on the force it utilizes to impose or manage such control, but on the successful application of measures to gain unlimited control. What happens when you put a live frog ...
  • Russia Warns the West… with a Missile
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 24, 2012 Russia has expressed its discontent over and over again and voiced concerns about the US Missile Defense Shield in Europe. But the latest missile test is a firmer warning about the threat it represents to the Kremlin that the United Stat ...

Wind Watch

  • Residents tell how turbines have impaired thei ...
    An overflow crowd of more than 80 people packed the selectmen’s meeting room at Falmouth Town Hall last night to give and hear testimony about the impact to the health of residents who live near the largest wind turbines in Falmouth. A total of 30 residents gave testimony about a range of proble ...
  • Tiverton Council voices wind farm bill concern ...
    TIVERTON — By unanimous vote, the town council sent a message Monday to the General Assembly that it is not happy with legislation creating a nine-member East Bay Energy Consortium (EBEC) that would build a wind farm on vacant land on and near the town’s Industrial Park and along Route 24 toward ...
  • Newark neighbors unite in protest
    NEWARK — Tom Godfray, who owns a home in Newark and lives here part-time, was one of dozens of Newark property owners to turn out for an informational meeting presented by Eolian Renewable Energy on behalf of its partnership with Nordex USA, Inc., a Chicago-based turbine manufacturer, who ...
  • Judge denies temporary restraining order for O ...
    Dashing hopes of tribal members hoping to halt destruction of the desert and desecration of the ancestor’s graves, United States District Judge William Q. Hayes has denied a temporary restraining order sought by the Quechan Indians to halt the Ocotillo Express wind project. During a hearing Frid ...
  • Veterans groups protest plan for wind farms of ...
    Earlier this year, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a plan to build five wind farms off the western coast of France, one of them off the Normandy beaches of Juno and Omaha, stormed by Allied troops on D-Day. Work is to start in 2015. The 525-foot turbines are to be erected about seven ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Fed Official Raises Concerns about Power
    “The debate over how the Federal Reserve can best articulate its policy actions grew on Friday as a top Fed official warned against discretionary decisions, and asked whether a more systematic approach was desirable…. ‘The degree to which policy actions, for better or worse, have become in ...
  • High Schoolers Have Hard Finding Work
    “The American job market is no place for students as the number of employed high schoolers has hit its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to new figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 1990, 32 percent of high school students held jobs, versus just 16 perce ...
  • Government Beneficence and Other Fairy Tales
    Both Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow seem to want to pretend that government payouts are free, as though bestowed by Santa Claus or the tooth fairy.
  • Government Grossly Understates Deficit
    “The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equa ...
  • The Myths of the Interventionists
    When people like Paul Krugman come face to face with the failure of the ideas they’ve been peddling for decades, rather than confront that truth they retreat to the same old myths.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
  • The courses a student wishes he had taken
    As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What’s left of the economy will roll off a cliff
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]
  • Let’s Talk Turkey About Greece
    1) Greece is very likely to exit the Euro. 2) When Greece exits the Euro it will be punished severely by the monetary authorities.  They intend to let Greeks starve.  They will cut off food supplies, and Greeks will not be able to afford food.  Oil is also going to be a problem.  Greeks will [...]
  • Dutch Disease
    It seems a lot of people don’t know what Dutch Disease is.  Here’s the short. Dutch disease is when you sell a lot of resources and that makes your currency increase in value.  So if you discover a lot of oil, or oil becomes a lot more valuable because of a shortage so that you [...]
  • Human Moral Weakness and its’ consequences
    (This is discarded text from the non-fic book I’m working on, and should be treated as such.  I offer it because I think my regulars might find it interesting.) When we say humans are weak, what we mean is that they tend to do what they’re told to do, and tend to follow the roles [...]
  • Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
    I think the US will take longer, but a man-on-horseback can still happen in the US.   Remember that virtually the only trusted institution in America is the military.  The difference in America, as opposed to Europe, that the left isn’t going to get its chance, if at all, for quite some ti ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Midcentury Modern
    Midcentury modern tours now are taking place in cities all over the country. Renewed interest in this era capitalizes on the millennials’ interest in design from a time that seems almost impossibly optimistic compared to today’s zeitgeist. Most cities around the country boast a healthy buildi ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Shenzhen
    No urban area in history has become so large so quickly then Shenzhen (Note 1). A little more than a fishing village in 1979, by the 2010 census Shenzhen registered 10.4 million inhabitants. It is easily the youngest urban area to have become one of the world's 26 megacities (Figure 1). Most ...
  • Seattle Is Leading An American Manufacturing R ...
    In this still tepid recovery, the biggest feel-good story has been the resurgence of American manufacturing. As industrial production has fallen in Europe and growth has slowed in China, U.S. factories have continued an expansion that has stretched on for over 33 months. In April, manufact ...
  • Populate or Perish?
    Many global population projections point to the current world population of roughly seven billion people peaking at around nine to ten billion in 2050, after which numbers will slowly decline. In the midst of this growth, Australia’s current population of 23 million is predicted to rise to a ...
  • How “Public” Is the Public Sector?
    You may have heard the old joke about the convenience store with a neon sign blaring, “Open 24 Hours”. A customer stops in one morning for coffee, and confronts the store’s owner, “Your sign says ‘Open 24 Hours’, but I stopped by last night at midnight for a pack of smokes and you were closed.” ...

GM Watch

  • Mexican farmers block Monsanto law
    Mexican Farmers Block Monsanto Law to Privatize Plants and Seeds Nation of Change, 23 May 2012 http://www.nationofchange.org/mexican-farmers-block-monsanto-law-privatize-plants-and-seeds-1337785224 Progressive small farmer organizations in Mexico scored a victory over transnational corporations ...
  • Mexican farmers block Monsanto law
    Mexican Farmers Block Monsanto Law to Privatize Plants and Seeds Nation of Change, 23 May 2012 http://www.nationofchange.org/mexican-farmers-block-monsanto-law-privatize-plants-and-seeds-1337785224 Progressive small farmer organizations in Mexico scored a victory over transnational corporations ...
  • Kendall forced to defend "Nazi" accusations
    NOTE: For background see http://t.co/VY505nXD --- --- Kendall forced to defend 'Nazi' accusations Farming Online, 25 May 2012 http://www.farming.co.uk/news/article/6603 NFU president Peter Kendall has been forced to defend comments he made earlier in the week comparing a man arrested for interf ...
  • Kendall forced to defend "Nazi" accusations
    NOTE: For background see http://t.co/VY505nXD --- --- Kendall forced to defend 'Nazi' accusations Farming Online, 25 May 2012 http://www.farming.co.uk/news/article/6603 NFU president Peter Kendall has been forced to defend comments he made earlier in the week comparing a man arrested for interf ...
  • Seeds of doubt over GM wheat
    NOTE: This is from a new resource: http://www.gmeducation.org/ --- --- SEEDS OF DOUBT http://www.gmeducation.org/s/farming/p149070/seeds-of-doubt.html With taxpayer funding of nearly £1million, Rothamsted Research have sown the UK’s first ever open field GM cereal trial and have begun to harves ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Arming Police Drones with Rubber Bullets and T ...
    Via: CBS: With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft. Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mex ...
  • New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Onlin ...
    It’s time for some comedy. Via: Wired: Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as ...
  • Depleted Uranium: Kids of ‘The Iraqi Hir ...
    Via: Vice: I had been to Fallujah before, but I didn’t have any access to the hospital then. The last time I went, I did. Fallujah is particularly interesting because it is being called “the Iraqi Hiroshima” – the town was obliterated in 2004, in the Battle of Fallujah.
  • NSA Running College Programs for Cyber Operators
    Via: Reuters: The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to providing the basic education for ...
  • DELL DOWN 17%
    Dell Inc. (DELL) 12.51 Down 2.57(17.04%) 10:49AM EDT Splat. Via: Reuters: Shares of Dell Inc (DELL.O) fell 15 percent on Wednesday after a weak revenue forecast and disappointing quarterly results triggered stock price target cuts by a slew of brokerages on the world’s No. 3 personal compu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...
  • Jim Cramer Is Predicting Bank Runs In Spain An ...
    During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, Jim Cramer of CNBC boldly predicted that "financial anarchy" is coming to Europe and that there will be "bank runs" in Spain and Italy in the next few weeks.  This is very strong language for the most famous personality on the mos ...
  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...

Desertification

  • Farmers and herders competing for water at Lak ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2012/05/25/guest-post-lake-chad-shrinks-conflict-grows/ Guest Post: Lake Chad Shrinks, Conflict Grows by Guest Blogger for John Campbell This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the Cou ...
  • Successful anti-desertification measures (Pape ...
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub N. China anti-desertification efforts successful HOHHOT – Efforts to prevent sand and dust storms in Beijing and its neighbor Tianjin have been more successful since the implement ...
  • Anti-desertification grazing (Paper.li / You Tube)
    VIDEO seen at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub http://youtu.be/5LHoh-OKUfU Holistic Planned Grazing  
  • Sharing China’s anti-desertification exp ...
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub Africa learns from China in anti-desertification CHIFENG, Inner Mongolia – The United Nations Convention to Combat Decertification (UNCCD) will help share China’s experience ...
  • Future drought in Mexico and Central America ( ...
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318158041?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub Severe and Permanent Drought Predicted for Mexico and Parts of Central America According to a 2011 study, if current warming trends continue, Mexico and many sections of the United Stat ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Paul Gross walked the plank on “Battlesh ...
    A BoB short: Paul Gross tells The Calgary Herald he was fired as screenwriter from the Hollywood mega-film Battleship, which opened in North America last weekend to generally lousy reviews and even worse box-office. “Alongside fellow Albertan scribe John Krizanc, Gross took a run at revisi ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Wall Street ...
    An anonymous anarchist infiltrator in the NYPD provides the cops' explanation of their actions in their own words. Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012 read more
  • 150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resista ...
    150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resistance Call to Participate in the 2012 Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals ...
  • Join common days of action for Alexey Sutuga, ...
    In spring of 2012, anti-fascist movement of Russia has been targeted with new repressions. An excuse for the repressions was an incident in Moscow club "Vozdukh", where 17th of December, during a punk-hardcore concert, a conflict between publi ...
  • The voiceless’ last scream: a sucide a day amo ...
    suicidi-250x200.jpg In the last few years many suicides in Italy have been strongly linked to the economic crisis and unemployment. 357 people killed themselves in 2009, compared to the 260 of the pre ...
  • Media manipulation over school bombing in Brindisi
    killer_brindisi_bomba_slider.jpg Last Saturday morning a bomb exploded outside the vocational college for young women “Morvillo-Falcone” in the Southern city of Brindisi, killing a teenage girl, Melis ...

Free Range International

  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
  • One Year Later
    Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
  • Dalton Thomas Comes Home
    This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
    Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Insider Trading by Facebook and Goldman Sachs: ...
    Learning that Goldman Sachs is being sued for insider trading for their role in misleading investors about Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is raising a lot of red flags here in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs is one of three investment banks New Zealand’s National government ...
  • The Loan Sharks Behind China’s Economic ...
    Wenzhou: birthplace of Chinese capitalism Last week I was surprised to learn that private lending is illegal in China. In view of the country’s economic miracle, I was even more surprised to learn that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 90% of businesses, are ineligib ...
  • The Endangered Family Farmer
    Teena Borek Florida farmer Teena Borek was on Radio New Zealand National last weekend. In the US, Teena seems relatively unknown outside of her own state, where she works tirelessly to support family farmers struggling to compete with factory farms and cheap imports from Latin America. Teena, wh ...
  • Impreach Obama – Demand Hearings on HCR-107
    Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) - sponsor of HCR 107 HCR 107 is a resolution of impeachment against Obama, based on the President’s history of circumventing Congress in launching wars of aggression, as well as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s recent testimony that Obama doesn&#821 ...
  • Chicago Cops Start Preemptive Arrests on Eve o ...
      (If the above video fails to play, view it here:  NBC Chicago) According to the National Lawyers Guild, the Chicago police have begun unlawfully detaining activists in anticipation of the protests planned at the NATO summit on June 22nd.  They have been breaking down door ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • US poverty rate for women and children hits 17 ...
    The US Census Bureau’s annual report reveals that the poverty rate among American woman and children reached a 17-year record high in 2010, standing at 14.5 percent. The new report indicates that, women’s poverty rate in the United States stands at 14.5 percent which means that over 17 million p ...
  • Opportunity captures image of huge Martian crater
    NASA’s Mars exploration rover Opportunity has returned an exceptional view of the large Martian Endeavour Crater, which spans about 22 kilometers in diameter. The image catches a shadow of the rover, located on the western rim of Endeavour, in the foreground and the giant crater in the distance. ...
  • UK braces for immigration boom if euro collapses
    Britain’s Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to restrict the number of economic migrants from Greece and other European Union nations in case the euro collapses. ­EU rules allow citizens to work anywhere in any country in the single market, including the UK, with the exception of new me ...
  • Organ trafficking ring arrested in Israel
    A European Union (EU) prosecutor says an Israeli man suspected of running an organ trafficking network has been arrested in Israel. “We have received information that Moshe Harel has been arrested in Israel on organ trafficking and other related offences,” EU special prosecutor Jonat ...
  • Is this the end?
    As I write this piece, many things are happening around us, some visible and some aren’t. A bit of a blast from the past took place recently when Vladimir Putin refused to attend the G-8 summit at Camp David and instead sent his buddy and right hand man, Dmitry Medvedev, to oversee Russia& ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Obama: ‘There Will Be Great Challenges A ...
    CHICAGO (AP) â As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat
  • Donna Summer Tribute Cut Short, Gibb, Houston ...
    Natasha Bedingfield (photo: Kevin Mazur, Getty Images) The Billboard Music Awards managed to incorporate a tribute to the Queen of Disco Donna Summer who died of cancer just days before Sunday's broadcast. Before launching into Summer's 1978 hit "Last Dance," British pop singer Natasha Bedingfi ...
  • LeBron James Takes Control, Must Keep Control
    LeBron James put on the superhero cape to lead the Miami Heat to a 2-2 tie against the Indiana Pacers. James and Dwyane Wade can't relent if they have any chance of winning the championship. LeBron James generally does not do well when the basketball stops. He does ok when he goes 1-4 high. You ...
  • Dem mayor--Obama attacks on Bain nauseating
    Steve Kornacki: If Cory Booker  went on âMeet the Pressâ  on Sunday with the intent of helping President Obama, then his appearance was an utter failure. But anyone whoâs followed the enormously ambitious Newark mayorâs career closely knows heâs not one to  pull a Joe Biden . Heâs just too smar ...
  • Around The NBA Playoffs: Clips Epic Collapse, ...
    I saw the score of the Spurs game in the first half and I was going to thank the Spurs for reminding the world that all teams have bad days and even San Antonio isn't perfect. Instead, I have to settle for thanking the Clippers for reminding us that they are the Clippers and at least we'll neve ...

Groklaw

  • Where now for Nooks global ambition? Apps and ...
    UK bookseller Waterstones' announcement it will retail Amazon's Kindle e-reader looks like a blow for Barnes & Noble....Putting Nook in to a new business co-owned by Microsoft will allow Barnes & Noble to deliver Nook apps and services on new Windows 8 tablets. A solely apps-and-service ...
  • Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed ...
    Once again, we see that these two large companies are using the patent system not to innovate, but to stop up and coming competitors from innovating. The patent system isn't being used to encourage innovation but to protect incumbents from an open market. Oh, and worst of all, the reason that t ...
  • HP's WebOS Enyo team reportedly heading to Google
    Google seems to be cornering the market on open-source operating systems. The Web giant will soon be welcoming into its fold the Hewlett-Packard team responsible for creating Enyo, the HTLM5-based application framework for WebOS that debuted on the failed TouchPad, according to a report on The ...
  • Is Facebook going to buy Opera, make its own b ...
    The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and ...
  • Man sues to have Google declared a generic word
    Arizona man David Elliott wants a court to declare that "google" is a word that means "search on the internet" and to cancel Google's trademarks for the term. Elliott filed the complaint after Google won a ruling this month that forced him to hand over more than 750 website names such as "googl ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Will Chinese downturn impact U.S. presidential ...
    China’s economy is weakening noticeably.Chinese economic difficulties, coming on top of a renewed recession in Europe, could put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy and bring about the feared double-dip recession. Any unraveling of the economic recovery is likely to have a direct impact ...
  • SEC ends pretend investigation of Lehman
    Bloomberg reports that an internal memo states that the crack squad looking at the Commission is wrapping up their investigation and a stern talking to is the probably the worst it’ll get for Dick Fuld et al.
  • Because we’re so exceptional
  • Eurozone. Germany, Greece play chicken
    It may be a holiday weekend in the US but in Europe, the Eurozone is disintegrating. We are watching history unfold as we barbecue  burgers here.Greek Euro exit may exceed 1 trillion euros and would be “unmanageable”The European Central Bank’s exposure to Greek liabilities is m ...
  • Eurozone is collapsing. Banksters on the run
    Analysts: Europe bank run is under wayBrits plan to keep Greeks out as Euro-crisis nears end gameThe potential scope of disruption following a Greek Euro exit was revealed this evening when British Home Secretary Teresa May told the Daily Telegraph that the UK authorities were exploring emergenc ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...
  • The rhythms of blogging and other work
    I had a great, though short, get-together with Josh Foust today. Josh is a top-notch analyst of the United States' various interventions(!) in Afghanistan and the other 'Stans over the past ten years. His work first came to my notice back in my old 'heavy-blogging' days-- let's say, in around 20 ...
  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
  • Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
    Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...
  • JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
    For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...

frogblog

  • A bad week for Public Services and the Communi ...
    All analysis of the budget announced yesterday shows that there’s little in it to improve the lives of low and middle income workers and in fact they’ll be worse off. Tertiary students, old people, the disability sector and even school kids with regular work are all being shaken for a bit more c ...
  • What will the budget mean for Pacific People h ...
    At home: This budget will increase hardship for many Pacific peoples. Pacific peoples, and Pacific women in particular, tend to participate in the labour force at relatively low levels because Pacific households tend to have more children and include extended family members, which means the adul ...
  • The living wage and the zero budget
    The day before the government’s budget the Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) was joined by around sixty other community and faith-based organisations to launch the Campaign for a Living Wage. It’s a timely campaign – especially since the budget announcements mean a harder time for low and mi ...
  • Planet Economy lives on Planet Earth not in so ...
    For National, Planet Economy is somewhere distant from Planet Earth. Bill English’s Budget speech didn’t even mention the environment or conservation. National demonstrated once again that it doesn’t understand that a healthy economy depends on a healthy environment. Instead of investing in biod ...
  • Mining survey of Northland falls flat
    This week the mining industry, the Ministry of Energy and Resources, and the Far North Mayor came to Waitangi to supposedly launch the results of the aerial survey of Te Tai Tokerau. At the presentation we saw no maps or results from the survey that has cost us all about $2 million and has helpe ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Germier Than Toilet Seats, But You Touch Them ...
    By Dr. Mercola What do restaurant menus, hands-free faucets, ATM machines and your physician's scrubs have in common? They are all among the "germiest" objects on Earth. Yes, really. As much as you might like to give the gold medal to toilet seats when it comes to squeamishly germ-ridden lo ...
  • Why We Eat More than We Are Supposed To
    By Dr. Mercola Here are some questions posed by Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Why do we eat more than we are supposed to? Why are we eating more? What happened to make us eat more? For 50,000 years or more, human ...
  • Opting for This "Cheaper Food" Could Make You ...
    By Dr. Mercola Twenty years ago today, former Monsanto lawyer and present FDA deputy commissioner Michael Taylor declared genetically engineered foods "substantially equivalent" and declared they would not need to be labeled for consumers. Today is also the last ...
  • New Report Shows Drug Companies Lied and Overs ...
    By Dr. Mercola The antidepressant class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are among the most frequently prescribed drugs for autism. Although none are specifically approved for the treatment of autism, it's estimated that up to one-third of autistic children ...
  • 99% of Breast Cancer Tissue Contained This Eve ...
    By Dr. Mercola New research examining parabens found in cancerous human breast tissue points the finger at antiperspirants and other cosmetics for increasing your risk of breast canceri. The research, which is also reviewed in an editorial published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology, loo ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Film footage released to mark 20-year annivers ...
    Yanomami woman. The Yanomami territory has allowed uncontacted Indians to survive. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami Indians in Brazil have released aerial film footage of an uncontacted Indian community, to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the ‘Yanomami Park’. This Yanomami are ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
  • Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
    It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
  • Student protests, pro and con
    "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
  • Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
    A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.

Food World Order

  • Swiss Company Accused of Stiffing U.S. for $75 ...
    from allgov.com: Seven years after it was hired to provide food to troops in Afghanistan, a Swiss company has been accused of overcharging the Department of Defense about three-quarters of a billion dollars. Supreme Foodservice AG of Switzerland has been paid $5.5 billion since 2005 to delive ...
  • Fast food burgers have tripled in size since t ...
    from nydailynews.com: According to a shocking new graphic from the Centers for Disease Control, a typical fast-food burger weighed just 3.9 ounces in the 1950s. Now, it’s 12 ounces — three times larger. An average order of fries has grown from 2.4 ounces to 6.7 ounces. Soft drinks are even w ...
  • #Audio: Episode021 - Humanure and You
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show again and leaves the lid up on biosolids + headlines, the 'binge and purg ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Nano, Polio, POM, Peru and more
    White House Blocking EPA Efforts to Issue Rules on Nanomaterials* Video: Cases of 'Non-Polio' Paralysis Rise After Polio Vaccination Drives Federal Judge Rules General Mills Is Allowed to Mislead Consumers about “Fruit” Products* #FTC Judge Rules Pomegranate Juice Maker Used Deceptive A ...
  • Organic Watergate: Synthetics Found in Organic ...
    from mercola.com: Research by the Cornucopia Institute reveals disturbing evidence showing that large corporate interests have infiltrated the process, and that the rules put in place to maintain organic integrity are severely compromised... One of the first products the Cornucopia Institute loo ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...
  • Jim Cramer Is Predicting Bank Runs In Spain An ...
    During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, Jim Cramer of CNBC boldly predicted that "financial anarchy" is coming to Europe and that there will be "bank runs" in Spain and Italy in the next few weeks.  This is very strong language for the most famous personality on the mos ...
  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 27th May 2012
    They're probably still dancing in the isles of IKEA this morning after Sweden's deserved win at the Eurovsion Song Contest last night. But while they are enjoying their flat-pack furniture and meatballs, there won't be much celebration elsewhere in Europe. There certainly won't be much celebr ...
  • Traitor! Another unanimous verdict from our re ...
    One month after one hundred of our readers passed a unanimous 'guilty' verdict in our 'Court of Public Opinion' on Edward Heath over the charge of 'treason', we have the findings of our latest trial by opinion poll. After the verdict on Edward Heath, we did things democratically and asked our ...
  • Hey, EU Preacher... Leave Those Greeks Alone
    You've seen the name 'John Laughland' on this blog a number of times since we first went online... ...so we were pleased to see him interviewed on the only balanced news source currently broadcasting in Britain, RT. The thoughts being conveyed by Laughland are certainly mirrored in the com ...
  • Quote of the Day: 23rd May 2012
    "Introducing euro bonds is the equivalent of ringing the bell for a happy hour so the inebriated can postpone their hangover indefinitely." - An unnamed 'EU diplomat', cited in a report by Reuters Nice line. Whoever the diplomat is, they clearly have designs on Nigel Farage's crown of word ...
  • Crashed by design... here comes the proposal f ...
    In a perfect example of "problem, reaction, solution", just as expected they'd do, the EU's economics commissioner Olli Rehn has today said that the European Commission "will soon bring forward plans for an economic and political union it says is necessary for the creation of debt-mutualising eu ...

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Pandemrix swine flu vaccination linked to Bulb ...
    The governments of Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Finland have already confirmed thousands of cases of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy among people who took the swine flu Pandemrix vaccination in 2009. Now, eight cases of people suffering from Bulbar amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a motor ne ...
  • “Health” – a booklet everyon ...
    Like so many doctors who have spoken out against the “medical mafia”, Canadian doctor Ghislaine Lanctot had her licence removed and was subjected to vilification. However, she used the challenges she faced as a spring board for reflection and evolution and went on to reinvent herself ...
  • Swiss expert compares euro crisis to a war
    A leading Swiss financial expert Felix Zulauf has called the euro currency a “fantasy project” and warned that it is bringing “unending suffering to Europe”. http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/wirtschaft/10116-euro-krise-wirkt-wie-krieg#13379626148141&if_height=80 Zulauf ...
  • Austrian Finance Minister joins major front ag ...
    Austria’s ÖVP Finance Minister Maria Fekter has dismissed as “nonsense” French President Francois Hollande’s call for eurobonds in a refreshing show of honesty. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-eurozone-austria-idUSBRE84L07N20120522 Fekter was rightly criticised for ...
  • Alexis Tsiparas says bankster bailout was a na ...
    With polls predicting Syriza in Greece could win 30% of the vote in the upcoming election on June 17th, and with concrete plans in place for Greece to leave the eurozone within the space of 46 hours, it is worthwhile reading the excellent interview with Syriza leader Alexis Tsiparas in The Guard ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Ron Paul’s Ten Principles of a Free Society
    1. Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government. 2. All peaceful, voluntary economic and social associations are permitted; consent is the basis of the social and economic order. 3. Justly acquired property is priva ...
  • Keynesianism & Eugenics
    By Aziz In looking at and assessing the economic paradigm of John Maynard Keynes — a man himself fixated on aggregates — we must look at the aggregate of his thought, and the aggregate of his ideology. Keynes was not just an economist. Between 1937 and 1944 he served as the head of the Eugenics ...
  • Vatican Bank President Fired After String of S ...
    Activist Post Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the president of Vatican’s bank Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), reportedly resigned Thursday after a vote of no confidence by the bank’s board. No details were given other than that Tedeschi “failed to meet some highly important funct ...
  • Undercover US agents brought down our new Supe ...
    By Will Stewart In Moscow Spy sources in Moscow today made the astonishing claim that a US undercover operation may have sabotaged a new Russian Superjet plane that crashed in Indonesia two weeks ago. The aircraft was on a demonstration flight aimed at securing lucrative orders when it slammed i ...
  • Gates, GAVI, and WHO Administered Fake Malaria ...
    Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post A new report released found that the majority pharmaceutical drugs used to combat malaria are bogus or of poor quality . The Fogarty International Center at the US national Institutes of Health (NH) funded a study that found a shocking 20 to 42% of the ma ...

Veterans Today

  • Is Time Running Out for the VA Temporary Resid ...
    In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37.
  • Indiana Veterans’ Home Remembers Fallen Heroes
    On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.
  • Japan’s Broke – Highest Debt Ratio ...
    While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is n ...
  • Duff on Press TV – Missile Shield and Na ...
    "The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to o ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008.

electric politics

  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Missile Defense: Is It Working?
    Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space May 24, 2012 Missile-Defense: Is it Working? By Bruce Gagnon Securing the Peaceful Use of Space for Future Generations Waterloo, Canada One of the biggest questions in the space technology world today is will “missile defense” (MD) real ...
  • Video: War Medals Of Dishonor, Battle For Peac ...
    RT May 26, 2012 War Medals of Dishonor thrown out VIDEO RT speaks to US veterans who feel betrayed by the system that pushed them into fighting America’s false-pretense wars, as the former soldiers throw out their medals which they deem symbols of lies. Dubbed true patriots, they followed the or ...
  • Video: War Medals Of Dishonor, Battle For Peac ...
    RT May 26, 2012 War Medals of Dishonor thrown out VIDEO RT speaks to US veterans who feel betrayed by the system that pushed them into fighting America’s false-pretense wars, as the former soldiers throw out their medals which they deem symbols of lies. Dubbed true patriots, they followed the or ...
  • Rerun Of Libya: Russia, NATO Disagree Over Syr ...
    Itar-Tass May 26, 2012 Russia, NATO disagree over Syria, Iran TALLINN: The legislators of Russia and NATO member-countries disagree over ways of settling the situation in Syria and resolving the Iranian problem, the chief Russian delegate, State Duma member Vladimir Komoyedov, told the media on ...
  • Rerun Of Libya: Russia, NATO Disagree Over Syr ...
    Itar-Tass May 26, 2012 Russia, NATO disagree over Syria, Iran TALLINN: The legislators of Russia and NATO member-countries disagree over ways of settling the situation in Syria and resolving the Iranian problem, the chief Russian delegate, State Duma member Vladimir Komoyedov, told the media on ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Vietnam Vets throwing medals back at the Capit ...
    During the Vietnam War, GI resistors played a key role in ending the war. This action on May Day, 1971, was organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
  • Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Protest, Thr ...
    May 20, 2012 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly 50 U.S. military veterans at an anti-NATO rally in Chicago threw their service medals into the street on Sunday, an action they said symbolized their rejection of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Oakland police chief confronted and shut down ...
    Published on May 24, 2012 by mrdaveyd After murdering high school senior Alan Blueford, Oakland police have been trying to do damage control. Initially they claimed Blueford was involved in a shoot out and shot the officer.. We now know the officer shot himself after killing Blueford.. The offic ...
  • Did a Private Prison Corporation’s Abuse ...
    Colorlines.com / By Seth Freed Wessler What little information has emerged from inside Adams County Correctional Center suggests that mistreatment and abuse at the hands of guards may have reached a breaking point. May 22, 2012 A Mississippi jail is on lockdown today after a Sunday night riot le ...
  • Canada student protests erupt into political c ...
    More than 500 people were arrested in Montreal on Wednesday night as protestors defied controversial new law Bill 78 Adam Gabbatt, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 May 2012 Protests that began in opposition to tuition fees in Canada have exploded into a political crisis with the mass arrest of hundre ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    Just like a great dish, this week's Images of the Week roundup includes a delicate balance of all things we love: amazing space pics, adorable animals, beautiful design concepts, and a dude free-falling into a giant pile of boxes. Enjoy! Click to see the greatest images we've seen this week.
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, May 21-25 ...
  • 2011's Top 10 New Species: Spongebob Squarepan ...
    It’s time once again to celebrate all the weird and wonderful creatures scientists have found on Earth in the past year. Arizona State University compiles an annual list of the top 10 new species found in the last 12 months, and shares the list on May 23, Carl Linnaeus’ birthday. The father of ...
  • 2011's Top 10 New Species: Spongebob Squarepan ...
    It’s time once again to celebrate all the weird and wonderful creatures scientists have found on Earth in the past year. Arizona State University compiles an annual list of the top 10 new species found in the last 12 months, and shares the list on May 23, Carl Linnaeus’ birthday. The father of c ...
  • Organic Carbon Found on Mars Rocks Is Not Life ...
    Since the Viking landers’ footpads touched down on Mars, scientists have been searching for complex carbon molecules there, which on this planet are the building blocks of all life. They’ve found some examples in meteorites purported to come from the Red Planet, but debate persists about the or ...

Veterans Today

  • Is Time Running Out for the VA Temporary Resid ...
    In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37.
  • Indiana Veterans’ Home Remembers Fallen Heroes
    On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.
  • Japan’s Broke – Highest Debt Ratio ...
    While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is n ...
  • Duff on Press TV – Missile Shield and Na ...
    "The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to o ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Arctic methane sets global warming alarm bells ...
    Research published this week which identifies thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane gas is being released into the atmosphere could have serious ramifications for global warming. Methane is twenty times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it's estimated that there' ...
  • A taste of summer. But for how long?
    At long last warm weather is returning to much of the country for the first time since March, after weeks of cold, wet weather. High pressure will dominate our weather all week, with temperature reaching 23C (73F) across inland parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as early as tomorrow. The char ...
  • Global temperature and Arctic ice update
    The average global temperature for April on the UAH satellite measure jumped to +0.295C above the 30 year running mean. This equates to approximately +0.548C above the standard 1961-1990 average, used by the World Meteorological Organisation. Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close ...
  • Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorksh ...
    Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire's ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 we ...
  • Weakest solar cycle in 100yrs could intensify ...
    News from NASA this week that on-going weak solar activity will continue, leading to the weakest solar cycle in around 100 years, could have important implications for the UK's weather. Research over the last few years has pointed to a link between low solar activity, and incidences of 'blocki ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Obama's Deficits: The Buck Stops Nowhere in US
    The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job - Harry Truman It was not always that American leaders--Democrats or Republicans--were such feckless deficit lovers. A measure of American decline is surely c ...
  • Overfishing Futility, PRC/Scarborough Shoal Ed ...
    To be sure, what China and the Southeast Asian nations contesting various islands and reefs in the South China Sea are most interested in are the gas reserves lying beneath. That said, fishing inspires a strong, evocative reaction among nationals of the countries concerned. After all, the most r ...
  • Article IV, or What's Wrong With China by the IMF
    I am rather tardy on this but it's nonetheless a bit of international political-economic history. It is not exactly a mystery that China's leadership is rather thin-skinned to public criticism. From its...how do I put this...vast censorship apparatus to its tin ear for economic advice, let's jus ...
  • Princelings: PRC's Rise, US Decline & Sociology
    The rich are different from you and me - (mis)attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald I have been absolutely gobsmacked by the amount of Western press coverage the fallout from the Bo Xilai scandal has received. Once more demonstrating this blog's commitment to Highbrow Content, until today I've mad ...
  • Ex-Im Bank Lives and Trade Finance Isn't a Subsidy
    I welcomed the news that the United States' Ex-Im Bank which provides trade finance to buyers of American exports was able to secure not only continued but increased funding. While re-authorization used to be automatic, this year it was subject to some controversy over allegedly providing "corpo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...
  • Jim Cramer Is Predicting Bank Runs In Spain An ...
    During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, Jim Cramer of CNBC boldly predicted that "financial anarchy" is coming to Europe and that there will be "bank runs" in Spain and Italy in the next few weeks.  This is very strong language for the most famous personality on the mos ...
  • The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
    The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous a ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US poverty rate for women and children hits 17 ...
    The US Census Bureau’s annual report reveals that the poverty rate among American woman and children reached a 17-year record high in 2010, standing at 14.5 percent. The new report indicates that, women’s poverty rate in the United States stands at 14.5 percent which means that over 17 million p ...
  • Opportunity captures image of huge Martian crater
    NASA’s Mars exploration rover Opportunity has returned an exceptional view of the large Martian Endeavour Crater, which spans about 22 kilometers in diameter. The image catches a shadow of the rover, located on the western rim of Endeavour, in the foreground and the giant crater in the distance. ...
  • UK braces for immigration boom if euro collapses
    Britain’s Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to restrict the number of economic migrants from Greece and other European Union nations in case the euro collapses. ­EU rules allow citizens to work anywhere in any country in the single market, including the UK, with the exception of new me ...
  • Organ trafficking ring arrested in Israel
    A European Union (EU) prosecutor says an Israeli man suspected of running an organ trafficking network has been arrested in Israel. “We have received information that Moshe Harel has been arrested in Israel on organ trafficking and other related offences,” EU special prosecutor Jonat ...
  • Is this the end?
    As I write this piece, many things are happening around us, some visible and some aren’t. A bit of a blast from the past took place recently when Vladimir Putin refused to attend the G-8 summit at Camp David and instead sent his buddy and right hand man, Dmitry Medvedev, to oversee Russia& ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-05-26 WikiLeaks News Update: Support even ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 539 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 536 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 733 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 619 days. WikiL ...
  • 2012-05-25 Will the European Arrest Warrant sy ...
    On May 30th, the UK Supreme Court will rule on Julian Assange's extradition case to Sweden, after having spent 540 days under house arrest without charge. Following an European Arrest Warrant issued in December 2010 on allegations of sexual misconduct, Assange submitted himself for arrest. Thoug ...
  • 2012-05-25 Stand up for Julian Assange before ...
    On May 23, Julian Assange attended a screening of "Shadows of Liberty" wearing a kevlar Guy Fawkes mask. "This may be my last time in public, so I thought I should start with a situation where you won't be able to see me anymore." The UK Supreme Court will decide whether or not Julian Assange i ...
  • 2012-05-25 Stand up for Julian Assange before ...
    On May 23, Julian Assange attended a screening of "Shadows of Liberty" wearing a kevlar Guy Fawkes mask. "This may be my last time in public, so I thought I should start with a situation where you won't be able to see me anymore." The UK Supreme Court will decide whether or not Julian Assange i ...
  • 2012-05-23 WikiLeaks News Update: Assange verd ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 536 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 533 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 730 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 616 days. WikiL ...

U N News

  • Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
    Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.
  • UN envoy hails workshop related to Guyana-Vene ...
    A UN envoy today hailed a recent workshop related to a long-standing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela as a demonstration of both countries' on-going commitment to a peaceful resolution of the matter.
  • UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strat ...
    Noting that some 800,000 households in Canada are unable to meet their daily food needs, an independent United Nations expert today called on the country to adopt a national right to food strategy.
  • Top UN officials underscore need to combat org ...
    Senior United Nations officials today drew the world's attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said is spreading to other continents.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for an investigation into the killing of Erick Martínez Ávila, a Honduran journalist and gay rights activist.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
    How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...
  • Hungry Dragon
    COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has b ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • WHO Will Use Polio Vaccines to Depopulate Unde ...
      The World Health Organization (WHO) will declare polio a global health emergency this week. Although they claim they lack the sufficient funding to take on this endeavor, Sona Bari, spokeswoman for the polio eradication program at WHO, said the world faced a “now or never” moment. rea ...
  • Chemtrails Are Polluting Thunder Clouds and Tr ...
      A new study claims that pollution trapped in thunder clouds is making climate change worse. Alarmists were shocked that they had not thought of this one before, considering that their computer models “failed” to take this into account when predicting the not so accurate future. ~ ...
  • ALERT!... Chemical Castration... Caused By Pop ...
      Warning to all men who are considering using Propecia to treat their male pattern baldness: it causes sexual dysfunction in nearly all users and this is often PERMANENT! ~ Video read more
  • Comedy Central... Uses Subliminal Messages and ...
      Unfortunately the illuminati have been practicing mind control techniques on the populace dating back hundreds of years. However, in modern times the mind control techniques have become extremely advanced and are used mythically on the general public. ~ Shepard Ambellas ~ Videos read more
  • Preparing for Prison Life... 5 Lessons Learn ...
      It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave. Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do... go home. I soon learned this wasn’t ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Solar Cooking Helpful Hints…It’s Easy!
    Spring is here! That means the nicer weather is also here. Time to start using the solar oven. We have gotten so many nice responses to Ken’s recent solar oven post, I thought I’d elaborate some more and share with you some of my tips. First of all, using a solar oven is very easy. [...]
  • North Pole Earthquake – Impending Doom?
    A highly unusual earthquake has just shook the North Pole. On May 26 at 03:27 UTC, a magnitude 5.0 at a depth of 6.2 miles occurred just 270 miles from the true north pole, the axis from which the earth spins. Just as interesting, 2 minutes prior, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook in the same [...]
  • Ode to Fir
    Guest post: by Giurza I do believe that this simple tree has not been given its due beyond what we think of it in terms of X-mas tree. During all three survival courses in Sweden (two summer time and one winter time) I was given excellent opportunity to fully appreciate the fir tree. What follow ...
  • 5 Reasons Why LOCAL Foods Are Important
    It’s good for you In many cases, the local produce you buy will have been just picked or harvested only hours before it arrived on the shelves. Since fruits and vegetables start losing vitamins and other nutrients from the minute they are picked, that short travel time is important to thei ...
  • Fukushima Building 4 Is Bulging And Leaning
    New results from a report released today by Tokyo Electric Power Company following a recent inspection of the reactor building of Unit 4 (the one with the exposed fuel pool filled with thousands of nuclear rods) reveals that the building is bulging, more specifically the west side wall. The insp ...

Fast Company

  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you clicked, shared, and spent the most time with. This week we reported on a glass coating developed by MIT that not even ketchup or mayo can resist. And Aisha Mustafa patented a new quantum physics propulsion system that could revolutionize the way we navigate the galaxy. ...
  • This Week In Bots: Saluting The First Presiden ...
    Bot vid: Darpa's RobbieOne of the more interesting robotics programs that DARPA funds is the Autonomous Robotic Manipulation project, designed to produce robots that can perform relatively complex tasks without too much supervision (obvious military implications here). As revealed over at the Au ...
  • SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Makes Historic Rendezv ...
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Following a successful launch on Tuesday--and a series of complex maneuvers demonstrating that it could be controlled both from the ground and by the space crew--SpaceX's Dragon capsule has just arrived at the International Space Sta ...
  • What Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Should've Learne ...
    Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Jerry Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put a Yahoo competitor front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a browser of its own. Last night, Yahoo unveiled Axis, its first foray into the browser wars. The o ...
  • A TV Platform So Disruptive Everyone's Suing It
    We chat with Chet Kanojia of Aereo, the new TV-where-and-when-you-want-it service that has a few legal troubles. Could Aereo finally disrupt the loathed cable bundle--and TV altogether?Chet Kanojia is the CEO of Aereo, a Barry Diller-backed, TV-in-your-browser platform that launched in mid-March ...

Jadaliyya

  • Analyzing Egyptian Presidential Election Vote
    Ahram Online presents a detailed visual breakdown of the results from Egypt's first free presidential elections.         [Developed in partnership with Ahram Online. Ahmed Feteha, Bassem Abo Alabass, Mohamed Nada, Michael Gunn, Mahmoud Elass ...
  • Sabbahi To Seek Election Suspension, Cites Vot ...
    Hamdeen Sabbahi will file a lawsuit calling for the suspension of Egypt's presidential election because of alleged voting irregularities and a pending case over the right of former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq to stand, Sabbahi's lawyer said Saturday. Sabbahi is a leftist presidential candidate ...
  • Masrah al-Share' (Theater of the Street): Perf ...
       هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرا ...
  • Egypt's Presidential Elections and Twitter Talk
    It has been fifteen months since the resignation of Former President Hosni Mubarak in February 2012. Since then there has been a continued sense of leaderlessness and overall instability throughout Egypt. Over the last two days, Egyptians have taken to the ballot box in what has become an histor ...
  • Why Did Sabbahi - 'One of Us' - Do So Well?
    During revolutionary times, remarkable social, cultural and economic changes occur. Each phase potentially carries new surprises as a reflection of these emerging changes. The emergence of Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi in third place, so far, behind the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Moh ...

mediagazer

  • Feel the Pinch! Sans CEO, New York Times Stock ...
    Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer: Feel the Pinch!  Sans CEO, New York Times Stock Slumps, Labor Battle Grinds On  —  While newsroom angst and stockholder discontent fester, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., takes a hike.  —  Last Friday, New York Times executive e ...
  • HTML5 is a newspaper's best friend - even if i ...
    Kevin Fitchard / paidContent: HTML5 is a newspaper's best friend - even if it has a mobile app  —  Updated: Apparently The Boston Globe didn't get the memo that it's an app-only world when it comes to mobile.  According to VP of digital products Jeff Moriarty, the Globe's ...
  • Time Warner Looks to Buy Bleacher Report (John ...
    John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: Time Warner Looks to Buy Bleacher Report  —  Time Warner Inc.'s Turner cable networks division is in talks to acquire sports-news website Bleacher Report, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  “There have be ...
  • Amazon, Publisher Settle Digital Books Dispute ...
    Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: Amazon, Publisher Settle Digital Books Dispute  —  A three month long dispute over the sale of digital books between Amazon.com Inc. and a leading independent book distributor has been resolved, both parties said Friday.  &mdas ...
  • Reparative journalism - Reporter sinks a contr ...
    Curtis Brainard / CJR: Reparative journalism  —  Reporter sinks a controversial paper on “ex-gay” therapy  —  It's not often that a journalist convinces a prominent scientist to recant a controversial study that he has tenaciously defended for 11 year ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • ALMAGRO DEFENDS NICE TITLE
    Nicolas Almagro retained his Nice Open title after defeating world number 216 Ben Baker in straight sets....
  • Hair discoloration from dog licking
    The dog's left front foot shows some pale discoloration from licking.The dog's left front foot shows some pale discoloration from licking.A close up of the discolored area - this is over a joint, so this dog may have some arthritis.More >Just viewed Replay Subscribe ShareYou ...
  • Van der Vaart advises Netherlands team-ma ...
    The Tottenham forward has urged the highly-rated youngster to remain with AZ for the foreseeable future and resist the lure of a move abroad for the time being By Mohammed Ali...
  • MLB revolution: Changing of the guard isn ...
    Although the reports of a possible sale of the New York Yankees were quickly dismissed by the Steinbrenner family this week, even George Steinbrenner himself would have to admit that times have changed. One of the prominent points in the New York Daily News report was that managing general p ...
  • Air India flies out stranded British Airw ...
    Tweet New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Air India may have failed to fly its passengers in recent days due to the ongoing pilots' strike, but the carrier came to the rescue of passengers of a 30-hour delayed British Airways (BA) flight stranded at the Indira...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/25/12 - Barack Obama: Document History from ...
    2012election.procon.org - Barack Obama: Document History from Birth to Harvard (1961-1991) - Our new resource shows Obama’s birth certificates, birth announcements, school registration forms, and interviews with his classmates from elementary school in Indonesia through law school at Harvard.
  • 5/24/12 - Should Palestinian refugees have the ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Should Palestinian refugees have the "right of return”? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (con), Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal (pro), 9th Presiden ...
  • 5/24/12 - New ProCon.org Website
    www.procon.org - – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Is golf a sport? – Our 43rd website explores the pros and cons in the debate over whether golf is a sport. Proponents argue that golf meets the definition of "sport" found in the dictionary, requires physical exertion and coordination, and is recogniz ...
  • 5/21/12 - The Second Militia Act of 1792 & Oba ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - The Second Militia Act of 1792 & Obamacare: Two Federal Government Mandates to Acquire Private Products - Many people say the insurance mandate in Obamacare was the first federal mandate for citizens to acquire a private product. However, others point to the Sec ...
  • 5/17/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate best matches your views on important issues. We've updated our survey with new questions on bailouts for GM and Chrysler, new nuclear plants, oil drilling and gas prices, the Cle ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • The Richest, Fattest Nation
    HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS According to recent studies, roughly half of adults and a third of children in Qatar are obese, and almost 17 percent of the native population suffers from diabetes. By comparison, about a third of Americans are obese, and eight percent are diabetic. Qatar also has very h ...
  • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
    Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
  • Karl Marx
    Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. Capitalism has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-i ...
  • Some Years Before 1963
    Norma Clarke A woman born in 1600 grew up being told she was the most lustful of God’s creatures. Come 1800 and the message was reversed: she was ‘naturally’ delicate and pure. No longer having lusts of her own to manage, her role was to control the ‘natural’ lust o ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    In today's show we come to grips with the psychology behind the power structure. What kind of people become "leaders" in the type of system in which we live? What are the traits that enhance a person's potential to move up the ladder in organisational hierarchies? My guests today are Dan Colli ...
  • Radiographer Anthony Hall slams EU safety repo ...
    In the 2nd hour of  today's show, Anthony Hall returns to critique the newly released report from the European Commission on the health effects of of x-ray body scanners. Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, and holds a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible b ...
  • Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails ...
    Vapour trails left by British bombers on route to attack flying-bomb sites encircle the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1944. All those who passionately believe that "contrails dissipate quickly" whereas "chemtrails linger" and are deeply offended by the sceptical position that TNRA take ...
  • The last desperate gambit of a failing government
    Our Banana Republic is running a desperate gambit in order to defuse the Craig Thomson affair and cling to power. They are putting out the meme that there are "allegations" against Thomson, whereas in fact, Fair Work Australia, "the national workplace relations tribunal" delivered their findin ...
  • Naked body scanners could be soon be in all UK ...
    Trials had been halted over fears of harmful radiation New study reveals risk to passengers is 'close to zero' Controversial 'naked' body scanners could be introduced at all UK airports after top scientists declared them safe. Manchester Airport has been trialling the device - known as ...

Beacon

  • CA Fish & Game Commission Endorses Sea Turtle Bill
    Pacific leatherback sea turtles migrate to California waters to feed on jellyfish. © NOAA Yesterday afternoon the California Fish & Game Commission voted unanimously to support legislation to designate the Pacific leatherback sea turtle as the state’s official marine reptile. The Commiss ...
  • The Ghosts of Cannery Row
    The Monterey harbor. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Editor's Note: This commentary originally appeared in the Monterey Herald. No town knows better what happens in a fishery crash than Monterey. Our infamous Cannery Row, once the heart of a bustling sardine industry, is now occupied by rest ...
  • We Like La Mer, Do You?
    Today beauty company La Mer is launching an exciting initiative to support Oceana, but we need your help to make it happen. For every new 'like' on La Mer's Facebook page between now and World Oceans Day on June 8th, they will donate $5 to Oceana until they reach their goal of $30,000. What's ...
  • It’s a Fact: Domestic Drilling Doesn’t Affect ...
    Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Soledad Esnaola Two newly released reports shed some much-needed light onto a crucial question in Washington: Does domestic oil drilling affect gasoline prices? That question lies at the heart of the debate over what we should do about high and volati ...
  • Photo of the Week: Shallow Dive
    Oceana diver in a shallow seabed in the Baltic. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Members of our Baltic Expedition crew have been diving in the waters around Finland's Åland Islands. Even in the shallow waters pictured here, the poor visibility felt "like diving at night," according to diver and deck co ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Highlights From The Complex And Diverse Falkla ...
      The British invested troops at San Carlos on the west end of East Falkland. They were waiting for heavy lift helicopters to be put into place at Port Stanley, 50 miles away at the east end of east island.  More than a dozen of the helicopters were in the Atlantic Conveyor a vast container ...
  • The Falklands Islands War Was A Distraction Fr ...
    For over a century, Great Britain and Argentina plaid claim to the Falklands Islands, two islands 400 miles East of the southern tip of Argentina. The Argentines call them the Malvinas, and replevined them from Britain in early 1982. It was a simple act one Friday morning on April 2nd, 1982; ove ...
  • The Boer War Was A Replay Of History. Part 2.
      The Boer Army inflicted thousands of casualties on advancing British regiments, and beat back many attempts to take high ground. The Boers of course were fighting in their own backyard and knew the terrain intimately. In many ways the Boer War was just a long controlled retreat of a small ...
  • The Boer War Was A Replay Of History. Part 1.
        Remarkable similarities color the army recruitment from the United States during the Vietnam conflict and British recruitment into the Boer Wars. Prospects themselves often had little few prospects. Vietnam recruited both from suburbia’s and ghettos, but suburban kids often found d ...
  • Dingane Versus Pretorious.
      Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was Boer leader who actually helped form the Transvaal State. He came to power about the same time that Dingane killed Shaka Zulu and rose to power as the heir apparent to the empire. Dingane did not have the charismas that Shaka Zulu did. He lacked the ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Hillary’s No
    “I think that there will be an election that will elect a woman.” – Secretary Clinton GEORGE WASHINGTON didn’t exactly jump at the chance to lead our nation after being asked either. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that women like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as people like ...
  • Pot and the President
    “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ and took an extra hit.” – “Barack Obama: The Story,” by David Marinass MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION is long overdue, with medical marijuana a societal be ...
  • Queer Talk: You Can’t Change Things By Leaving
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. John Aravosis has a post up, “A straight North Carolinian weighs in about Amendment One.” It’s an excerpt from a May 12 piece by Bobby DeMuro at CLT Blog in Charlotte, NC (emphases in original). Last night, North Caro ...
  • Lanny Davis Joins Booker and other Democrats S ...
    The attacks on Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker (D) by the more vitriolic liberal commentators for what he said about Bain Capital on this past Sunday’s “Meet the Press” are just as indefensible as the Republican Party’s cynical and dishonest attempt to exploit and distort what the mayor actually ...
  • Paycheck Fairness Act Squeezes Republicans
    The legislation, spearheaded by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), aims to build on the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by protecting women from retaliation if they sue for equal pay. It would also narrow the criteria under which an employer can defend pay disparities and enlist the Department of Labor t ...

Hudson New York

  • What CBS Does Not Want to Hear
    A few weeks ago, veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon reported on the plight of Christians of the Holy Land who have been leaving the region for many years. In large part, Simon blamed the Christian exodus on Israel. But had Simon visited the
  • Counting Palestinians
    Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) has offered an amendment to the FY 2013 funding bill for the State Department that would require the Department to provide two numbers to Congress: 1) the number of Palestinians physically displaced from their homes in what
  • Why Greece Is In a Tailspin
    A previous article explained why the euro crisis goes on and on. Put briefly, the modern Greek state has faced bankruptcy several times in the past because of the style of Greek political life. The leaders of Europe are ignorant of that Greek history, so
  • "Feeding Hate": Islamic Separatism in Britain
    Leicester, one of the most rapidly Islamizing cities in England, has elected its first-ever Muslim mayor. Abdul Razak Osman, an Indian-origin Muslim who was born in Kenya and who immigrated to Britain in 1971, was sworn into office during an elaborate
  • Jordan: Bank Fires Women for Refusing to Wear ...
    Several Arabic news reports appeared yesterday, Tuesday, May 22, exposing the new hijab policy of the Jordanian Dubai Islamic Bank. Under new ownership, bank management recently decreed that all females must wear the hijab, the Islamic veil, or be

Urban Survival

  • Forward?
    President Obama has been campaigning up in Iowa lately and there he’s calling out Mitt Romney on this and that (distortions). Not often I will offer free political advice, but I’m concerned that most of America would be inclined lately … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With that Wiseass, the Answer Man
    I get email – lots of it (several hundred per day) and although I try to read it all, that does take time off tasks at hand.  Yesterday, as I was wrapping up a busy, busy day (long Peoplenomics article … Continue reading →
  • Coward, Running, 666
    We had some conversation in Peoplenomics about the virtues of cowardice and sure enough, I got so twitchery at the lows of yesterday’s session that I blew out of my short position and am now sitting with 58¢ worth of … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
    As part of our task of keeping a half-eye on the odd intersection between the “world that makes sense, is logical, and reduces to easy to digest” with the “this is nuts, how can this happen?” world, we get a … Continue reading →
  • Depressions Save Oil
    Although it has been obvious to anyone driving on big city freeways for some time, there good news about economic depressions (*like the one we’re in, although it’s not yet offishul however obvious it may be) is that traffic improves. … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Op Ed on Walkability confirms the obvious and ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC The New York Times today published a very nicely argued Op-Ed that describes a reality obvious to anyone who has shopped for a house -- houses in more "walkable" locations are more ...
  • Food becomes an official NRDC interest area
    Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco In the latest indicator of NRDC’s growing commitment to sustainable food systems, our communications team posted the first ever NRDC food page last week.  My favorite addition:&nbsp ...
  • Nation's Largest Publicly-Owned Utility Approv ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), the nation’s largest public utility, this week adopted an annual budget directing an unprecedented $12 ...
  • 300 Miles Stronger, Team NRDC Completes Climat ...
    Claire Morgenstern, Online and Social Media Development, NRDC Membership, New York Wednesday afternoon, the 25 members of Team NRDC (including myself) arrived at the Capitol in Washington, DC, part of a group of nearly 200 cyclists participating in ...
  • Cabo Cortés is risky for the environment and i ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC  It’s easy to see why the Spanish developer Hansa Urbana set its eyes on the Cabo Pulmo region of Baja California for a proposed tourism resort project known as Cabo Cortés. U ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Officers Accused of Witness Tampering
    Report about the Pasadena Police Department: Pasadena’s police chief said he’s investigating two officers on accusations that they intimidated suspects and witnesses. One of those officers is a detective investigating the officer-involved shooting of Kendrec McDade. Pasadena police shot and &#82 ...
  • City Settles Lawsuit for False Arrest
    Recent item from the New York Daily News: Michael Warren and wife Evelyn, who is also a lawyer, claimed vindication in their lawsuit, which was scheduled for civil trial Monday. The couple were stopped at a red light on Vanderbilt … Continue reading →City Settles Lawsuit for False Ar ...
  • Police Break Into Man’s Home, Break His Neck
    From the Sacramento Bee: On the evening of June 2, 2007, Officers John Boyd and Jason Wentz entered Mr. Dagdagan’s residence shortly before midnight after responding to a call. They awoke Mr. Dagdagan, who was asleep in his bed, to … Continue reading →Police Break Into Man&#821 ...
  • False Accusations, Innocent People, and Plea B ...
    From time to time, you will find some posts here that concern problems that are not directly related to police misconduct.  This report concerns a young man who was falsely accused of rape.  On the advice of counsel, the young man pled … Continue reading →False Accusations, Innocent ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, May 24, 2012: One of the Fullerton, California police officers charged in the death of homeless man, Kelly Thomas, has been fired.  The officer allegedly punched Thomas in the ribs and … Continue reading →National Poli ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Join Beyond Zero Radio for 3CR Radiothon Live ...
  • CEFC a distraction, not a solution: We need a ...
    Renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has today released its response to the government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) legislation. To download it click here. BZE opposes the CEFC in its current form, as it will not secure any extra renewable energy over the already ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload solar ...
  • Repowering Port Augusta report now available
    To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New Google Earth tool maps deforestation, thre ...
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups known as Eyes on the Forest have released a new Google Earth-based tool that maps forests, land use, carbon stocks, and biodiversity across the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Less than 100 pygmy sloths survive
    The pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) is one of the world's most endangered mammals, according to a detailed survey of the population, which found less than 100 sloths hanging on in their island home. Only described by researchers in 2001, the pygmy sloth lives on a single uninhabited i ...
  • Greenpeace lifts pig iron ship blockade in Brazil
    Greenpeace suspended its blockade of a pig iron shipment in the Brazil after industry representatives and authorities agreed to meet to resolve issues raised in a recent report by the activist group.
  • Cute animal pictures of the day: silvery marmo ...
    The Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo is allowing its seven silvery marmosets (Mico argentatus) to roam the 600 acre facility freely.

Sierra Express

  • CRC 2012 Hits its Strides on the Road to Rural ...
    In the backdrop of an economy in tumultous transition, Connecting Rural Communities, now in its 7th year, is hitting its strides on “The Road to Rural Broadband: Making the Economics Work.” The annual event, organised by Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, is being held und ...
  • African Petroleum in talks to sell 10 percent ...
    New York, May 24 – To boost the funding for the development of African Petroleum’s projects, the West Africa-focused oil and gas explorer is in talks with two Chinese aspirants interested in purchasing up to 10% stake in the company. The deal estimated to be worth ‘several hundreds o ...
  • The 1st International Conference on Geoenginee ...
    If projections for the future of geoengineering are laid, its first international conference can come in, in 2013. Pockets of talks, discussions, presentations and conferences on the subject have been held in Australia, Europe and the United States in recent months. These, later this year, will ...
  • Include the disabled in state-run management
    Members of the disabled community in Sierra Leone have always cried for their inclusion in state run management even though their education requirement threshold is minimal. The situation is that many affected disabled persons were either being discriminated or flattered by society even though f ...
  • As KPMG exposes SLBC’s unhealthy financial man ...
    A swathe of questions has surfaced on the KPMG audit report which established that the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has been practicing unhealthy financial management. The corporation which now operates as a national public broadcaster has got interest groups such as the Civil So ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra shareholders' chairman resigns
    Fonterra's bold plan to gain a second mandate from farmer shareholders for its controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme has taken a body blow with the resignation of the Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman, Simon Couper.Couper's...
  • Website tackles dairy farm employment issues
    A new website is being launched to help dairy farmers improve their knowledge of the legal requirements around employing staff. DairyNZ gave farmers a preview of the PeopleSmart website at its
  • Fonterra moves to tighten rules on fund size
    Fonterra Cooperative Group will tighten the rules for the proposed Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme after feedback from the Shareholders' Council and advisers to control the size of the fund and safeguard 100 per cent ownership...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: TAF tiff raises valuable ques ...
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings delivered the corporate equivalent of a "bitch-slap" to Federated Farmers' Willy Leferink which has not only resounded in farming circles but been heard all the way to the Beehive.In a hard-hitting...
  • Fonterra payout cut surprises - but forecast r ...
    Depressed prices on the global dairy market have forced Fonterra to revise down its forecast payout for the current season by 30c per kg of milksolids.At the same time, the dairy cooperative fired off its first forecast for the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • From Rainbow Parties to Butt-Chugging—Nick Gil ...
    Was it only a month or so ago that news outlets around the country were breathlessly reporting that today's teens were getting whacked-out on hand sanitizer? As we await the next great moral panic over alleged bad behavior of the leaders of tomorrow - and a coming federal ban on "bath ...
  • Sharon Presley on Libertarian Feminism
    "Many libertarian men are fairly ignorant about women's issues. Some of them are outright hostile to feminism because they've never bothered to find out what it is," says Sharon Presley, Ph.D.  Presley is a founding figure in the libertarian movement and author of the ...
  • Sheldon Richman on MSNBC’s Pro-Government Fair ...
    It’s easy to be amused by the unceasing economic and political malarkey that flows from the pundits at MSNBC. Many of these gems come during its promos, which, as viewers of the network know very well, promote not its programs but all-pervasive government. In his latest column, Sheldo ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on t ...
    If there was ever any doubt that the totalitarian temptation identified by economist and Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek in his brilliant tract, “The Road to Serfdom,” is alive and well, even in this sweet land of liberty, two current crusades of the left and the right ought to put it to re ...
  • Watch "Advancing Age," Award-Winning Comic Sho ...
      Showcasing the talents of ReasonTV managing editor Meredith Bragg and his brother Austin Bragg (currently back working at the Cato Institute after a stint with Reason as well), this short film "Advancing Age" won top honors at The 48 Hour Film Festival held recently in ...

Mercury Rising

  • On BookTV: Bayard Rustin
    On BookTV “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters” Michael Long About the Program Michael Long presents a collection of over 150 letters from Civil Rights leader, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., ...
  • The Quebec uprising and Occupy sues NYC
    Elizabeth Leier, truthout: On May 22, [angered by tuition hikes] nearly half a million people marched in the streets of Montreal in defiance of a recently adopted law denying protester’s civil liberties, namely the right to protest, freedom of association and of expression. A crowd made up ...
  • In the toljaso what justain’tso column&# ...
    (Thanks to Norwegianity-in-exile for providing the link to this story) So, we all know the facts. Dan Rather, working with information provided by Lt. Col. Bill Burkett through 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, aired a sensational story that there was definitive proof that George W Bush had at bes ...
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  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

  • Engage: Call for Videos from You!
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  • Saturated with Spirit at Nihue Rao
    Ricardo, Chris, and Marselo   read more
  • Stop the Amazon Chainsaw Massacre
    [Action Alert] • Brazil's Congress just signed the Amazon’s death sentence, giving loggers freedom to clear-cut huge swaths of rainforest. President Dilma can veto it and is deciding what to do right now -- let's tip her over the edge with a global public outcry to stop the Amazon chai ...
  • Electronic Healing: An Interview with Nadis Wa ...
      Jason Hahn, the visionary behind the production company Re:Evolution Media and member of the electronica band Nadis Warriors, is dedicated to uniting members of the spiritual community through the celebrating of our creative capacity. His Manifestation Celebration event brought together ...
  • Sex in the News
      In this week's Sex in the News: Does a vibrator's design lead to more orgasms? Is cheating rational? Kitty Stryker is a sex worker in love. Bedsider reveals an estrogen-free vaginal ring and butt plugs reveal the popularity of Republican candidates for President.  read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Michael Voris Ignites Ottawa
    Last night, two hundred people packed Mac Hall at the Bronson Center to hear Internet sensation, Catholic Evangelist and…uh…Peacemaker, Michael Voris.  Although I was expecting about 140 people based on the registration information that I received over the past month or so, it seems ...
  • Bill Clinton: He did not have sex with these women
    Old Willy is at it again! Bill Clinton's picture with Porn Stars.
  • Anti-coal Mark Jaccard, a Nobel Peace Prize wi ...
    Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas and coal companies. People are left with no choice but to protest. Professor Mark Jaccard was arrested along with other protestors. A ha ...
  • Peter Mansbridge interviews Conrad Black
    Conrad Black may want to sue Thomas Mulcair, NDP leader, for calling Black a British criminal. Being rich and well-connected helps.  The full interview.
  • Conrad Black has many friends in Canada
    A journalist by the name of Peter Worthington opines that “Black is as Canadian as maple syrup”. Worthington says Black’s renunciation of Canadian citizenship was because of Jean Chretien. Mr. Worthington, Canada is composed of Canadians and Jean Chretien is not Canada as Harper is not Canada ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • When the Respectable Become Extremists
    By any historical measure, whether it involves international law, human rights conventions, United Nations protocols, or standard socio-economic indicators, the policies and practices of the United States and European Union regimes can be characterized as extremist. By that we mean that their po ...
  • Arson Attack on Women’s Health Organizat ...
    Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women of color, was the victim of a break-in and arson late Thursday night. A small organization that has won a national reputation for their work, WWAV was founded in ...
  • Anarchists Must Attack What Only Anarchists Ca ...
    It’s May 2012 and we anarchists are occupying a very crucial position in the ongoing struggle against Control. The position of violently attacking and dismembering it! I’d like to throw in here that when I use the term violence I also mean property destruction. While it has been argu ...
  • A Seminar on Palestine’s Prisoners: A Lament o ...
    Israel is a parliamentary democracy represented by a very large number of parties, with universal suffrage for all citizens, regardless of race, religion or sex … — CIA World Fact Book, 2011 This week a sobering and highly informative closed door seminar was held on the plight of Palestinian Pri ...
  • Sam Bishop
    An irreverent look at American freedoms.

Destructionist

  • Flash Mob Steals From Baltimore 7-Eleven; Beat ...
    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Another mob of juveniles causes problems in downtown Baltimore. This time, it happens inside a 7-Eleven where dozens of kids came for free Slurpees but ended up stealing much more. Derek Valcourt explains the entire incident is caught on video. But city police and managers ...
  • BREAKING: Californian cops to be “fired& ...
    More than a year after they beat a disabled homeless man to death, three California police officers are expected to be fired from the force soon over their role in the killing of Kelly Thomas. Cpl. Jay Cicinelli and Officers Manuel Anthony Ramos and Joe Wolfe of the Fullerton Police Departmen ...
  • Legislative Action Alert: Law of the Sea Trea ...
    Reblogged from Caldwell TEA Party: It seems there are U.S. Officials who want to act disloyal with harmful effects to the United States and Americans. With the unfortunate condition of individuals in the U.S. government, who choose to break their oath to the U.S. Constitution and be anti-America ...
  • Democrats revolt against Obama over Trans-Paci ...
    A leading Senate Democrat has called out US President Barack Obama over his alleged unwillingness to keep Congress updated on negotiations over a treaty that might be potentially disastrous for America. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced legislation on Wednesday that specifically targets ...
  • Mass Government Surveillance Dragnet Goes Into ...
    As if the government were not engaging in enough surveillance of law abiding Americans already, two major developments just ensured that the snooping will increase exponentially. Firstly, the FBI is about to launch a huge new surveillance unit that will have the ability to monitor all interne ...
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