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Sunday, May 27, 2012

27 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • All eyes now on Moscow talks
    Summary: Although it was a net victory for the host nation Iraq, to add to its regional prestige and showcase its ability to provide a safe and secure environment for a major international gathering, the two-day talks in Baghdad between Iran and the world powers produced few tangible results, ...
  • 'Crowing' About Iran Sanctions Should Stop
    Summary: There is a good bit of "crowing" going on at the moment by US officials, particularly about the role of Western financial sanctions in "bringing Iran to the table" for negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the West about its nuclear program. source: J ...
  • Iran Talks Fail
    Summary: Flynt Leverett, former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, discusses the latest negotiations on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the just-concluded P5+1 Baghdad summit; why the US will never agree to lift sanctions on Iran, no matter the conc ...
  • US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel
    Summary: Negotiations between Iran and the United States and other members of the P5+1 group in Baghdad ended in fundamental disagreement Thursday over the position of the P5+1 offering no relief from sanctions against Iran. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Hopes fade for progress at Iran nuclear talks ...
    Summary: Iranian officials say practically no sanctions relief was placed on the table by Western powers in response to Iranian concessions over its nuclear program, dashing hopes for any breakthrough in Baghdad. source: CSMread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Gale Crater 'Curiosity Mission' Landing Site F ...
    Crater counts show that the western portions of the Medusae Fossae formation on Mars—an intensely eroded deposit near the northern edge of the cratered highlands-- are much older than previously thought, originating near the end of the Hesperian geologic epoch...
  • 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...
  • Organic Carbon Found on Mars --From Volcanism ...
    Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules have previously been found in meteorites from Mars, scientists...
  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld).Click here to launch the IDG News video
  • Image of the Day: ISS Robotic Arm Completes 1s ...
    The International Space Station's crew reached out today with a robotic arm to grab SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule and brought it in for the orbital outpost's first-ever hookup with a commercial spaceship.The unmanned capsule is carrying 1,000 pounds of supplies...

Natural News

  • More medical / insurance corruption in Hawaii ...
    We all know that medical doctors are in fantasyland when they wear their white coats always hoping they would somehow sprout a halo or radiate some transcendental effulgence to make the process complete. Unfortunately, we also know that when they come out of medical...
  • Is your couch giving you cancer?
    (NaturalNews)You may not be aware of it, but hidden in your clothing, furniture and even electronics are toxic flame retardant chemicals that are increasingly being linked to neurological damage, endocrine disruption and cancer. And in a fascinating investigative series, Chicago...
  • Cannabis smokers show greater lung capacity an ...
    For many years, the demonizing claims being made against cannabis have been crumbling as research slowly dispels them. Fifty years ago people earnestly believed that the consumption of cannabis was directly linked to the development of an array of mental illnesses, and...
  • Benefits of using green cleaning products and ...
    Synthetic household products contain harmful chemicals that react with ozone from the air, creating toxins like formaldehyde. The inside of homes contain around two to five times as many of common chemical pollutants than areas outside of homes, according to the Environmental...
  • Revitalize mind and body in the shower daily
    Although it has become just part of the routine, showering has the potential to be not only an enjoyable and invigorating treat but also a revitalizing therapy. By simply alternating the faucets, you can boost your immune system, increase metabolism, enliven healthy...

Threat Level

  • Broadcasters Warn of Apocalypse in Dish’s Ad-S ...
    Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network's DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters' latest legal salvos against technological innovati ...
  • Google Says It Removes 1 Million Infringing Li ...
    Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software -- with about half of those requests last month coming from Microsoft. The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday as it released sortable analytics on the m ...
  • The Hack that Wasn’t: Sec. Clinton and Operati ...
    When news stories quoted Hillary Clinton claiming the State Department hacked al Qaeda web sites, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds' Leet skills or appalled at the administration's hypocrisy regarding hacking.
  • Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Int ...
    Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broad ...
  • Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warran ...
    A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that 150 pounds of marijuana collected from a suspect's car is not admissible in court because investigators illegally used a GPS tracker without a warrant to uncover the evidence.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney Doesn't ♥ Massachusetts
    There's an old saying that "you can't go home again." Especially if you're Mitt Romney and home is Massachusetts. After all, Governor Romney ended his tenure with a dismal 34 percent approval rating and now trails President Obama by as much as 20 points in his own state. Worse still, Romney l ...
  • Obama Presided Over a Tax Revenue Drought, Not ...
    This week, Rex Nutting of the MarketWatch caused a stir with his analysis correctly showing that federal spending has hardly budged under President Obama, rising at the slowest pace since the Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House. Predictably, James Pethokoukis of the conservative American E ...
  • Guilty as Charged: How the GOP Killed Washington
    It's rare that a criminal publicly announces his intent to commit a felony. But when it came to their scorched-earth campaign of obstructionism to destroy the Obama presidency, GOP leaders weren't shy about their plans. While 15 top Republicans schemed in private on the night of Obama's inaugur ...
  • Debate Over Two Visions of Capitalism Has One ...
    When President Obama suggested Monday that private gain does not always equal the public good and maximizing shareholder value is not necessarily a qualification for the White House, Mitt Romney branded those self-evident truths "attacks on the free enterprise system." But if Romney's experienc ...
  • Myth McConnell
    In the wake of the debt ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Why Do Fresh Tomatoes Taste So Much Better Tha ...
    Fresh tomatoes are very flavorful, while store-bought ones sometimes don’t taste like much of anything. Why? New research just published in the journal Current Biology answers that question. “We now know exactly what we need to do to fix the broken tomato,” said Harry Klee of ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Death Toll Soars to 220 ...
    There seems to be no end in sight to the continuing slaughter of South Africa’s iconic rhinos, as the Department of Environmental Affairs stated this week that 220 rhinos have been killed so far this year. 146 suspects have been arrested, and the majority (207) of the killings are [...] ...
  • Breakthrough in Volcanic Prediction, Using Mag ...
      A new forensic approach that links changes deep within a volcano to surface observations has just been described by scientists in a new study published in Science. The research may help develop volcanic prediction of great accuracy. Using chemical analysis the researchers directly linke ...
  • Invisibility Cloaks Trap a Rainbow
      A group of American researchers has created an array of 25,000 invisibility cloaks measuring 30 micrometers in diameter. This array is the first of its kind. It was created by researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland. The research has just been published in the ...
  • Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record in 2011
      The global levels of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion reached a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2011, only 1 Gt beneath the necessary levels required to keep global temperatures to a 2°C increase. The figures are part of the preliminary estimates provided by th ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Québec student strike: Government excludes fee ...
    Editorial Commentary: As Mr Jones notes below, the striking student groups have agreed to meet with the government as early as possible. Throughout this whole process, the students have been willing to talk; the government has been unwilling to listen. It is still unwilling to listen. The fee ...
  • Choices facing Greek voters - Greece
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  • Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to bre ...
    After Tuesday’s 150,000-strong demonstration supporting Québec’s striking students and opposing the provincial Liberal government’s draconian Bill 78, the state has intensified its campaign of repression. Police arrested almost 700 protesters in Montréal and Québec City Wednesday evening. ...
  • Tommy from Australia comments ... - Choice Rea ...
    Tommy comments on A World Without Capitalists Is Necessary : "Wonderful article! congratulations for bringing hope by your connectedness of spirit, when none exists, to those of us who understand what is actually occuring around us. I am an unemployed mature Australian, forced to beg for my s ...
  • This country is too young to die - Canada
    Editorial commentary: The title I've given this piece is a line from a song by American singer Phil Ochs [The War is Over]. Although I have never been enamoured with any of the national governments mes compatriotes have elected over the years, it's hard to think of one more thoroughly...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Interest, Consent, Harm, Stigma
    By @KYYellowDog "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." -- Arthur C. Clarke How long would religion last if it could no longer bamboozle people into thinking that religion is the sole source of morality? If everyone had the courage to trus ...
  • Frustration and Disappointment Are No Excuse f ...
    By @KYYellowDog I try to avoid criticizing other bloggers, even superb liberal ones. We've got too many real enemies to waste time sniping at each other, and family fights are just fucking boring. I love Down with Tyranny. But this is suicidal bullshit. In 2008 Tennessee attorney John Wolfe vote ...
  • Progressives Spreading Liberty in Malawi
    By @KYYellowDog In some places, a progressive succeeding a nasty-ass dictator uses the opportunity to strike off the chains of repression and set her people free. Wonkette: Malawi has come a Lilongwe in a short time. Last month, longtime autocrat Bingu wa Mutharika died at the ripe age of 78, le ...
  • Republicans demand Obama do their dirty work f ...
    By @TedFrier Exploiting the Mark Twain Principle that "a lie can travel halfway around world while the truth is putting on its shoes," the Romney campaign has been telling one "Pants on Fire" falsehood after another - 12 by last count according to PolitiFact - the latest being the whopper that " ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "No Irish Ne ...
    By @KYYellowDog A reminder that the history of America is one of despised immigrants assimilating into the majority, then turning on the next immigrant group, forgetting what it was like to be the newly despised minority. Uploaded by apple0708 on Oct 24, 2010 -

Care 2

  • Iran has enough uranium for five bombs: expert
    Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • Dont Allow Major Mountaintop Removal Coal Mini ...
    To stand behind the EPAs decision to appeal a federal judges ruling that would allow a major West Virginia coal mining project to go forward. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell Governor Martinez And EXPO NM : Don't Wel ...
    Ringling shouldnt be able to find a safe harbor at Tingley Coliseum just because of a legal loophole. The state can decide to deny the circus a booking at this venue. Please take action now before the state makes its final decision! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &nbsp ...
  • Stop Coca Cola Company from Using Eco-Harming ...
    To ensure that the palm oil used in Coca Cola products is produced in a non-invasive, eco-friendly manner. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Happy Birthday Maru! (Video)
    Feline Internet sensation Maru turns four years old today -- watch this video to join in the celebration. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • It’s All About Being “Cool”
    We already know the Obots are not normal… Oh, wait!  Almost forgot the disclaimers! THIS POST IS SATIRE.  LARRY JOHNSON DID NOT WRITE THIS POST AND THE ONLY RESPONSIBILITY HE BEARS FOR WHAT IS WRITTEN HEREIN IS THAT HE IS SUCH A TOLERANT PERSON THAT HE ALLOWS ME TO POST ON HIS BLOG.  I AM ...
  • “…made me sick.” (& open thread)
    The attacks on Bain as the New Mordor now turn to testimonials of the WIA, and Loris Huffman is a producer’s perfect scenario: “Mitt Romney made me sick.” Burn down the house and salt the wells and blame Mitt Romney. It will work for the Democrats; it will hold the partisans. T ...
  • Apparently, Politically Inconvenient Women Des ...
    Conservative journalist S.E. Cupp’s treatment by Hustler Magazine in their “article” and fake photo depicting a phallus in her mouth is a disgrace. According to an article in Mediaite, this mag thinks it is quite amusing to demean women by wondering, “What would S.E. Cupp look like w ...
  • Why Obama’s Bin Laden Victory Lap is Disgustin ...
    I will try to remain calm. This really bothers me. I do not begrudge Obama for trying to take “credit” for making the decision to allow the U.S. military special ops unit to kill Bin Laden. I am glad he did it but, as I have noted in previous postings, he was very reluctant to [...]
  • Barack Obama, Sells Out America for Bin Laden ...
    Leave it to Barack Obama and his security minions to put American lives in jeopardy just to score some political points with a bullshit Hollywood movie. If you thought last year, in the wake of the successful hit on Osama Bin Laden, that Obama and his political operatives would try to garner pol ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • 5 arrested in W.Va. mountaintop removal protes ...
    WCHS 5 arrested in W.Va. mountaintop removal protest BusinessWeek Five environmental activists have been arrested after chaining themselves to a coal barge in protest of mountaintop removal mining operations. Sgt. Michael Baylous says the incident happened Thursday on the Kanawha River near Chel ...
  • Ohio fracking legislation goes to governor for ...
    Ohio fracking legislation goes to governor for signature Free Speech Radio News Activists in West Virginia are continuing their push to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. The environmental group Mountain Justice carried out two actions Thursday to block coal shipments from the ...
  • 5 arrested in W.Va. mountaintop removal protes ...
    WCHS 5 arrested in W.Va. mountaintop removal protest Equities.com Five environmental activists have been arrested after chaining themselves to a coal barge in protest of mountaintop removal mining operations. Sgt. Michael Baylous says the incident happened Thursday on the Kanawha River near Chel ...
  • Judge lifts order blocking Boone mine - Charle ...
    Judge lifts order blocking Boone mine Charleston Gazette A federal judge has lifted a court order that had temporarily blocked continued mining operations at a mountaintop removal site in Boone County. US District Judge Robert C. Chambers denied a request from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coali ...
  • Reilly ignores hidden costs of coal - York Dai ...
    Reilly ignores hidden costs of coal York Daily Record Mountaintop removal by coal companies trying to get at coal seams has polluted and/or destroyed thousands of miles of streams in this country. Coal plant smokestacks belch out mercury, arsenic and 60 percent more carbon dioxide than a natural ...

Memeorandum

  • Russian arms shipment en route to Syria: repor ...
    Louis Charbonneau / Reuters: Russian arms shipment en route to Syria: report  —  (Reuters) - A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York d ...
  • Report: Officer kills naked attacker chewing m ...
    Associated Press: Report: Officer kills naked attacker chewing man's face  —  MIAMI (AP) - A Miami police officer on Saturday fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown causeway off-ramp, police and witnesses said.  —  Spons ...
  • Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a. ...
    Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland  —  When terrorist Brett Kimberlin was convicted of multiple felonies in 1981,  —  he could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison. ...
  • Barack Obama is facing his Jimmy Carter moment ...
    Tim Stanley / Telegraph: Barack Obama is facing his Jimmy Carter moment  —  As Mitt Romney closes the gap, it is 1980 all over again for the man in the Oval Office.  —  Dark horse: a short while ago, the Republican candidate Mitt Romney was not given a chance in ...
  • Obama's Hypocritical War on Marijuana (Ethan N ...
    Ethan Nadelmann / The Huffington Post: Obama's Hypocritical War on Marijuana  —  Barack Obama , Barack Obama Marijuana , Marijuana , Barack Obama Drug History , Barack Obama Smoking , Barack Obama The Story , Marijuana , War On Drugs , Politics News  —  A forthco ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Cleaning up healthcare
    Hospitals and clinics committed to human health regularly expose patients and workers to hazardous chemicals, writes John Elkington. One entrepreneur is trying to transform the industry.It truly wasn’t my fault. I was enjoying the Skoll World Forum in Oxford and Huffington Post publisher A ...
  • Power beats tourism
    Rampant hydro development could destroy Nepal’s nature-based tourist trade unless planners let some rivers run free, writes Ramin Sharma.“Naturally Nepal – once is not enough”. That’s the line the Nepalese government hopes will bring tourists flocking to the Himalay ...
  • Eco-isles: from game to reality
    First appearing in a 1991 computer activity to encourage children to save an imaginary land from environmental doom, renewable-energy eco-islands now are being developed in the real world. Pilita Clark reports.When David Green gets up in the morning, the first thing he does is check the sky. If ...
  • Unplugging from China
    Rising coal prices and unfavourable policies have forced foreign power companies – once eager investors – to leave the country. Chen Nan reports.Apparent preparations by US energy giant AES Corporation to withdraw from China have raised eyebrows lately. Earlier this year, it emerged ...
  • China’s carbon market challenge
    The decision to set up seven emissions-trading pilots sent media into a tizzy about Chinese climate policy. But Wang Tao has other concerns: from accurate data to a stable carbon price, there are tests ahead.China’s three main carbon markets – the Beijing Environment Exchange, Shangh ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Broadcasters Warn of Apocalypse in Dish’s Ad-S ...
    Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network's DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters' latest legal salvos against technological innovati ...
  • Google Says It Removes 1 Million Infringing Li ...
    Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software -- with about half of those requests last month coming from Microsoft. The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday as it released sortable analytics on the m ...
  • The Hack that Wasn’t: Sec. Clinton and Operati ...
    When news stories quoted Hillary Clinton claiming the State Department hacked al Qaeda web sites, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds' Leet skills or appalled at the administration's hypocrisy regarding hacking.
  • Digital Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Int ...
    Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broad ...
  • Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warran ...
    A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that 150 pounds of marijuana collected from a suspect's car is not admissible in court because investigators illegally used a GPS tracker without a warrant to uncover the evidence.

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Jensen Farms, grower of Listeria Cantaloupe, f ...
    Today, Jensen Farms filed for Bankruptcy in Federal Court in Denver. As I said to the Denver Post: Victims' attorney Bill Marler of Marler Clark in Seattle still hopes to bring Frontera, the auditors and retailers into a pool administered by the courts.... "For me, the bottom line is this is ...
  • June 14th - Food Seminars International - Prod ...
    Bill Marler has been litigating foodborne illness cases for nearly two decades. The key to his success has been to find a quick, reliable method of distinguishing between legitimate food poisoning claims and suspect ones. In his experience, the food industry—from farmer to retailer to rest ...
  • Linked to 87 Salmonella Cases, Tempeh Starter ...
    www.indonesianfoodmart.com of Rockville, MD, is recalling all packages of "Tempeh Starter Yeast" because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with wea ...
  • Trouble with Imports: Why the Tempeh Salmonell ...
    When Smiling Hara Tempeh Managing Executive Chad Oliphant began buying starter culture used to make the popular bean product tempeh from Maryland-based Tempeh Online, he surely did not expect it to be contaminated with Salmonella (or anything else, for that matter).  And, why should he? Lik ...
  • He Survives the Russian Revolution, World War ...
    The demographics associated with this monumental outbreak, due in significant part to the propensity of Listeriosis to affect the elderly, have given us the opportunity to explore history. As you know, several of our clients were decorated for extraordinary actions in World War II. The story o ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's UP w/ Chris Hayes
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s UP w/ Chris Hayes on Saturday, May 26th at 8 am ET.
  • Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Allen said the NATO summit in Chicago, which left him feeling “heartened,” “was a powerful signal of interna ...
  • Veterans Say No to NATO
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago. This week, NATO , the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confront ...
  • Part 2: "Magic Soap" Maker David Bronner on Or ...
    In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. Click here fo ...
  • Holding Bank of America to Account
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an "extraordinary event". That is what the city of Charlotte, North Carolina called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of Americ ...

Suzie-Q

  • Des Moines, Iowa: A Grassroots Event With Pres ...
    Published on May 25, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/iowagrootsvid At a grassroots event on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines yesterday, President Obama spoke to volunteers and supporters about why he’s running for re-election. Thousands of Iowans li ...
  • Obama Spending Binge Never Happened
    Market Watch, The Wall Street Journal By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch May 22, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will ...
  • President Obama on Creating an Economy Built t ...
    Published on May 21, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Facebook it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatovid Tweet it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatotwvid Tumblr it: https://my.barackobama.com/obamanatotbrvid President Obama responds to questions during a press conference at the 2012 Chicago NATO S ...
  • Romney Economics: Job Loss and Bankruptcy at Ampad
    Published on May 21, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http://www.romneyeconomics.com With American Pad & Paper (Ampad), Mitt Romney and his partners took a small but successful paper products business and merged it with other companies in the industry, piling up debt as they went. Ultim ...
  • CNBC Analyst: Bain Capital ‘Fired A Lot Of Peo ...
    Think Progress By Travis Waldron on May 20, 2012 at 12:36 The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press this morning. During a pa ...

Solari

  • Honoring Memorial Day
    Executive Mansion Washington, Nov. 21, 1864 To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. [...]
  • Happy Memorial Day – 2012
    On November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Related reading: Honored Dead Talespinning (30 May 10) The Gettysburg Address britannica.com Abraham Lincoln From Wikipedia
  • Quinta da Faianca -Almocageme Sintra Portugal
    While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across the Atlantic Ocean. It was truly beautiful. It turns out his brother is selling his existing home and building a new one on another part of the property. Fo ...
  • The Natural Gas Massacre Gets Bloodier
    By testosteronepit Wolf Richter The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for the board of directors and CEO Aubrey McClendon. He lost his chairmanship after his conflicted entanglements and an in-house hedge fund seeped to the surface. The company an ...
  • Is the Earth a Sentient Living Organism?
    Source: The Daily Galaxy via University of Maryland New Study May Provide the Proof Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • America is going broke because we forgot how t ...
    Summary:  To recapture our greatness we must first remember what we did right to become great.  Such as heavy investment in America by the government.  Instead we spent on projects like Apollo (expensive, but no gain) and our mad unprofitable empire.  It’s not too late to get back on the s ...
  • Which nations will make wise decisions under s ...
    Summary:  A mark of successful people and nations is that they function well under stress.  What’s the alternative?  Magic!  Here we look at some examples of the search for magical solutions seen in the US and Europe today. History suggests that the quality of a nation’s decision-mak ...
  • The unseen but perhaps decisive grand alignmen ...
    Summary:  Yesterday’s post The end of the post-WWII world is not the end of the world discussed the large-scale processes at work now.  Today we discuss the most astonishing — and seldom seen — aspect of these things. The problems of the many individual nations in crisis have r ...
  • The end of the post-WWII world is not the end ...
    Summary:  Slowly people become aware that the post-WWII economic and geopolitical order dies a little every day.  The transition might be long and difficult.  We can only guess at what lies beyond.  Yet we need not fear these things, as they’re less dangerous than what we survived in the 2 ...
  • After generations of waiting, we see that Amer ...
    Summary:  What happens as a nation of citizens becomes a plutocracy ruling subjects?  The people’s psychology must change to match their new situation.  It happened as Roman Republic fell; it’s happening today in America. A theme of the original Star Trek is that humanity was not mea ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Your China-Economy Reading List for the Evening
    In my first few hours back in Shanghai, I am newly amazed by the scale and pace of the building, of the ambitions, of the problems, and of the range of Chinese dreams realistic and fanciful. More on that after some sleep. For now: 1) From John Berthelsen of Asia Sentinel, this "Chart of the ...
  • Thinking about the Cost of War on Memorial Day
    It’s Memorial Day Weekend here in the USA. Monday is a national holiday, and most people celebrate by kicking off the summer with a trip to the beach or a barbecue. However, the day has a more serious and deeper meaning: it is the day we Americans are  honor soldiers who died while serving ...
  • The Pivot from Asia
    Since the latest US defense strategy was unveiled in January, a persistent headline has been the US pivot to Asia. As President Obama wrote in the document’s foreword, “As we end today’s wars, we will focus on a broader range of challenges and opportunities, including the secur ...
  • Next Steps on Iran After Baghdad and the New I ...
    This week in Baghdad, the P5+1 group (the United States, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the U.K.)–led by EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton–met for two days with the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Saeed Jalili, and his team on Tehran’s di ...
  • There Are Two Kinds of Countries in the World: ...
    A few days ago, Sean Langberg blogged about a subject that’s long been a pet peeve of mine: how we classify countries when we try to talk about the international system, and the labels we apply to the resulting groups. I thought I’d take the cue to air my grievances on the topic and ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Big Easy's Hometown Paper
    (Flickr/Earthhopper) As of this fall, I'll be living in the largest American city without a daily paper. The Newhouse-owned New Orleans Times-Picayune's announcement on Thursday that the print edition will be downsized to three days per week—Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays—was a surrender to the ...
  • Far-Off State Capitals Are More Corrupt
    (Flickr/kmillard92) A new paper shows that state capitals located in less-populated areas are more likely to breed corruption. The paper, authored by Filipe R. Campante of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Quoc-Anh Doh of Singapore Management University, tested what s ...
  • Math is Hard v. I Wanna Be an Engineer!
    We've all been hearing that the U.S. future depends on developing more technological talent, so we can keep up with China, et al. And since half the country's potential talent pool is female, that means making sure girls don't end up as innumerate as I am. Both my parents were math majors. My m ...
  • Actually, it’s Greece’s Election
    ATHENS—To hear the leaders of the European austerity party and a lot of commentators tell it, the upcoming Greek election will be a “referendum” between keeping Greece’s austerity commitments and staying in the Eurozone—or recklessly walking away. A vote for a centrist coalition, supposedly, is ...
  • Friday Music Break
    Going Underground There was a time when rock stars wore skinny suits and skinny black-and-white ties, flat Brit-mullets, and maybe even a flouncy scarf. It was 1980. Can you wear a scarf while you play and still be kind of badass? If you're Paul Weller you can. So today's Friday Music Break is ...

Buzzflash

  • Mitt Romney’s Issues
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In the upcoming Presidential election, Mitt Romney faces a serious problem: there are three major issues that relate directly to him --- and he wants to discuss none of them. First is his record in the one elective office he has held, Governor of ...
  • Candidates and Whistleblowers Continue to Rece ...
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts. The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but in worlds of information that are driven mostly by what they think wi ...
  • The Racism of the Republican Party May Destroy ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Recently Buzzflash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled, "White Entitlement Americans Face Their Alamo: Minority Births Are Now the Majority." In a recent reflection on the Broadway hit on the farce of American race relations in an allegedly post- ...
  • HeavenUp: Facebook’s Christian Competitor?
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There may not be an IPO in their immediate future, but if Chris Burkhart and Wes McKinsey who both grew up as sons of pastors achieve their goals, then hundreds of thousands of Christians from around the world will be able to meet up with each other at th ...
  • Money, Religion and American Exceptionalism
    Body It has been said that "money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever's in second place." There's just nothing like a healthy stash to carry one's message to an electorate. But insisting that candidates sign on to the concept of American "exceptionalism" defies logic an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Forget Fukushima, it’s the smokes that’ll nuke you
    Tobacco firms have failed to act on radioactivity in cigarettes. According to cancer researchers: “Cigarettes deliver dangerously concentrated doses of radioactivity directly into the lungs. When smokers inhale, the radioactive particles damage lung tissue, creating ‘hot spots’ of damage. ...
  • All the water on Earth
    We’ve all seen the graphic, now here comes a video to show all the water on Earth, the drop that is the freshwater and the droplet that is the available fresh water. And to think it could all be evaporated in an instant by a burst of energy from an exploding star or more tangibly [...]All ...
  • 7 features all university websites should have
    Researchers in Turkey have surveyed hundreds of students to ascertain five factors pertaining to the students’ perceptions of the attractiveness, controllability, efficiency, helpfulness and learnability of the University’s website. Ersin Caglar of the European University of Lefke an ...
  • #openaccess There’s a petition for that
    Imagine if all of the research papers you, your friends, family, anyone wanted to read were available, full text, for searching by hand and with computers and for data mining and cross referencing? It is done to a limited extent already by the NIH for preprints, with no demonstrable financial ha ...
  • Moog Google Doodle Dr Who
    I posted about today’s fantastic four-track virtual Moog synthesiser doodle on Google first thing this morning, and apparently users have been creating ever since: You did notice that it has four-track recording capabilities, didn’t you? Fab! Groovy! Get Moogy… Related Posts:Go ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

Common Dreams-Views

  • How Students Are Painting Montreal Red
    Zoltán Glück Manissa McCleave Maharawal On Wednesday night in Montreal, we shared a long dinner with student organizers, discussing everything from police tactics in Montreal and New York to the ne ...
  • How Students Are Painting Montreal Red
    Zoltán Glück Manissa McCleave Maharawal On Wednesday night in Montreal, we shared a long dinner with student organizers, discussing everything from police tactics in Montreal and New York to the ne ...
  • Immigrants and Birth Certificates
    Christopher Brauchli Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.— Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Two bits of bad news to dampen any cheer earlier reports might have warranted. It is accompanied by one bit of goo ...
  • Immigrants and Birth Certificates
    Christopher Brauchli Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.— Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Two bits of bad news to dampen any cheer earlier reports might have warranted. It is accompanied by one bit of goo ...
  • American Rage Over Punishment of Pakistani Doc ...
    Glenn Greenwald Americans of all types — Democrats and Republicans, even some Good Progressives — are just livid that a Pakistani tribal court (reportedly in consultation with Pakistani officials) has imposed a 33-year prison se ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Must-See TEDx Video: If You Want Them To Remem ...
    JR: I’m a big fan of narratives and their rhetorical cousins, extended metaphors, as I discuss in my forthcoming book. This video is a must-see for those who want to be better communicators. by Tom Smerling, via ClimateBites After watching this TEDx clip, you may never want to stand before ...
  • Florida Supervisor of Elections: Gov. Scott&#8 ...
    According to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, eligible voters will be removed from the voting rolls as a result of the massive voter purge ordered by Governor Rick Scott. “It will happen,” Mary Cooney, a spokeswoman for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, told Thin ...
  • Long-Term Fishery Investments Starting To Pay Off
    by Michael Conathan Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual “Status of Stocks” report to Congress outlining the overall health of our nation’s fisheries. To the relatively small cadre of fish geeks (myself included), the release of this documen ...
  • Former GOP Congresswoman Blasts New GOP Women& ...
    Former Rep. Claudine Schneider (R) was the first — and only — woman to represent Rhode Island in Congress. Over five terms in the House (from 1981 to 1991), she helped pass key environmental, health, and gender-equity laws, including the Economic Equity and the Pension Equity Acts. L ...
  • Open Thread Plus Heartland Cartoon Of The Week
    A penny for your cyber-thoughts. NOTE: How about crowd-sourcing some real pennies for cartoonist, Stephanie McMillan, who has given me permission to reprint her cartoons. Here’s the link to Paypal: CLICK HERE (then click where it says DONATE).

thwap's schoolyard

  • What PLG Said
    In his pogge post: "So how'd that Libya thing work out?"So I'd like to suggest that next time around, or for that matter this time around (Syria) we just keep in mind how, no matter how good the spin for any given military intervention seems to be, it is almost certainly a really horrible, ev ...
  • More Shitty Reporting From the CBC
    Trying desperately, pathetically, to curry the favour of its nauseatingly evil political bosses (that would be the slimy stephen harper and the Criminal Party of Canada), Canada's national broadcaster, the CBC continues to side with the monsters of the richest 1% and their servants. As Quebec st ...
  • I like Richard Dawkins and P. J. Meyers and "r ...
    This was the subject of disagreement that led to my parting of the ways with the Enmasse Discussion Board. I'm an atheist. I don't know what the source of all reality and all existence is. The source of it all is unknowable. But the "God" or "gods" that human beings have invented to account for ...
  • Thoughts on Blogging ...
  • Thoughts on the news ...
    Rob Ford does the right thing and shows up for the flag-raising for Pride Week. He still needs to resign though. Because he's a glaring incompetent. But for the record, this is what you do. IF you ran for public office and hid the fact that you're a racist or a homophobe or a misogynist and you ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Photo story: Long may you run
    It's not a common thing to cross the Queensborough Bridge on foot in New Westminster when walking towards 22nd SkyTrain station. This is a very busy communication artery one wants to drive and leave as fast as possible.
  • Poll finds Canadian hockey fans telling NHL to ...
    A poll by the Environics Institute of Toronto published Friday says more Canadians find hockey to be of import in their country and that an overwhelmingly number of them want to see less violence in the game. The survey polled 1,001 Canadians.
  • Keep Luongo and trade Cory Schneider for...a y ...
    The subject of goaltending and the Vancouver Canucks is proving to be giving scribes enough material to last the off-season. Already there has been more column inches devoted to it than there were suspensions handed out this past year.
  • And the beat goes on: Montreal protest video g ...
    The phenomenon sweeping the streets of Montreal is now sweeping virtual streets across the globe with a moving video showing protesters of all ages banging pots and pans to protest against pending tuition increases and emergency law Bill 78.
  • NHL blaming the victim, investigating Phoenix ...
    The NHL announced today that they're opening an investigation into a team it owns. The league, which took over ownership of the Phoenix Coyotes in 2009, is looking at Coyote players for actions after their elimination from the playoffs.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Harper: No Afghan mission extension
    Prime Minister Harper has pledged that no Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan after the end of the current training mission in 2014. But does he mean it?
  • Slash nuclear forces: former commander
    Another former commander of U.S. nuclear forces, retired General James Cartwright, has joined the list of prominent former nuclear warriors calling for sharp cuts in the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
  • Ceasefire.ca’s F-35 campaign enters crit ...
    We are entering a critical phase of our campaign to stop Harper. Thank you so much for your support, and let me tell you how we are using donations from our supporters to Ceasefire.ca.
  • MacKay: It’s the media’s fault!
    Peter MacKay is taking well-deserved flak as he continues his attempt to dodge responsibility for misleading Canadians about the cost of the Libya intervention.
  • Ceasefire challenges Harper and MacKay
    Today we issued another challenge to Harper and his pro-war lobby. Using the government’s own report, we showed that Harper’s Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, dramatically understated the true costs of the war in Libya.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Israel, US Divided Over Iran Nuclear Issue
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.veteranstoday.comBy Dr. Ismail Salami By Ismail Salami While Iran and the world six powers wrapped up their talks on Thursday in an atmosphere apparently meant to resolve the nuclear issue, US Undersecretary of State ...
  • ‘No reason’ to cede on 20% enriched uranium: Iran
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Tehran has “no reason” to suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent — one of the key demands of world powers engaging Iran in talks — the head of its Atomic Energy Organisat ...
  • Top U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our G ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTop U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our Government Has Repeatedly Protected Drug Smugglers By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Watch the Following Videos, and Decide For Yourself … From a 60 Minutes special ...
  • When the Respectable Become Extremists
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By James Petras By any historical measure, whether it involves international law, human rights conventions, United Nations protocols, or standard socio-economic indicators, the policies and practi ...
  • Law meant to stifle demonstrations buoys Quebe ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A wave of student protests against tuition hikes in Quebec is evolving into a broader campaign against a hastily passed law that aimed to stifle the demonstrations but has so far reinvigorated them. Prot ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Huge Fire at the New Apartments Still Under Co ...
    by Lo Dandelion Salad May 27, 2012 This morning’s fire at the new apartment complex across from the college downtown at Walnut and College Streets. They were still under construction, no one was injured. Photos taken at approximately 5:56 AM to 6:20 AM. Here is the entire set of photos I t ...
  • Goal is Regime Change – The Pretext of W ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia May 22, 2012 NATO’s alleged “concerns” over Syria and its anticipated military intervention in that country seem to multiply and interchange like an alchemist’s brew. From human rights and democratic reforms, to the latest alleged con ...
  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com crossposted at Left Foot Forward May 26, 2012 Palast’s book Vultures’ Picnic will be released in Britain June 26. Catch Palast with Special Guest Warren Ellis, info here. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the w ...
  • Cooperative Banking by Ellen Brown
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com May 23, 2012 According to both the Mayan and Hindu calendars, 2012 (or something very close) marks the transition from an age of darkness, violence and greed to one of enlightenment, justice, and peace.  It’s hard to see that change ju ...
  • U.S. Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP May 25, 2012 WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 (IPS) – Negotiations between Iran and the United States and other members of the P5+1 group in Baghdad ended in fundamental disagreement Thursday over the position of the P5+1 offering ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Military Leaders Spea ...
    The rift in Israel between the political leadership’s push for an attack on Iran, and the security establishment’s opposition widened in recent weeks. Three new voices spoke out on the question of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel ranked alongside Iran as one of countri ...
    Israel has been ranked in the top four countries that most negatively influence the word, according to a global public opinion poll conducted by the BBC... Where do the negative evaluations of Israel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Police Target Activis ...
    On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest tents were set up in dozens... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Walid Khalidi: On Nakba Day 2012
    Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: “My B ...
    “When you grow up you will understand how injustice was brought upon your father and upon thousands of Palestinians whom the occupation has put in prisons and jail cells, shattering their lives and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Reviews Security of Military Facilities
    China has started a new round of security checks on core defense research and production facilities, the General Staff Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) said.
  • Defense Ministry, Shipbuilders Fail to Agree B ...
    Russia’s Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation failed again to agree final contract terms for delivery of the new Borey class (Project 955) strategic nuclear submarine on Friday, despite the intervention of President Vladimir Putin.
  • Ukraine Parliament Allows Foreign Military Exe ...
    The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved the participation of foreign troops, including U.S. and Russian, in a series of international drills later this year.
  • Russian Stealth Frigate Tests New Missiles in ...
    Russia’s second Gepard class frigate has successfully test-fired missiles from the new Kalibr-NK missile system during the first stage of sea trials in the Black Sea, a spokesman for Russia’s Southern military district said on Thursday.
  • Russia Refuses to Allocate $10 mln to Afghan Army
    Russia has denied a NATO request to allocate $10 million for the support of the Afghan Army, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Thursday following the alliance’s summit in Chicago.

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Floors that Make You and Your Children Sick
    A new study conducted by Swedish scientists has found that phthalates in PVC flooring can be taken up by infants’ bodies as they crawl along on the floor. Phthalates have been in the news a lot recently, as suspect causes of allergies, asthma and other chronic conditions. Scientists also believe ...
  • Is This the WORST Place to Store Your Cell Phone?
    When a young women with no other risks for cancer came down with multi-focal breast cancer, her physician concluded there was only one other possibility that could have caused it. “We connected the dots,” the patient said. And the dots―the pattern of the cancer and distribution of the cells―all ...
  • Why Are They Pushing to Vaccinate Newborns wit ...
    Just when you thought vaccine makers couldn’t think of anything else to do to a newborn baby, they’ve come up with the ultimate―an artificial immune system that consists entirely of human components and acts in ways similar to a newborn’s immune system. For the present, researchers plan to use t ...
  • 10 Dangerous Products You Might Have in Your Home
    Product recalls are happening all the time, but even so countless products that have been judged safety hazards still linger in the possession of consumers who either don’t know about the recalls, or don’t care. For example―200,000 furnaces were recalled in February due to fire hazards, but 93 p ...
  • Dangerous Diabetes Drug Still on Market Despit ...
    Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in connection with Actos, a drug that France and Germany pulled from the market a year ago after it was found to cause bladder cancer and tumors in people using it for type 2 diabetes. At the time, the U.S. FDA responded by issuing a mere safety warning on th ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: May 19-25, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we continued last week’s book discussion of Laura Dickinson’s Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs, with Laura’s post on the role of organizational structure and institutional struc ...
  • Weekend Roundup: May 19-25, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we continued last week’s book discussion of Laura Dickinson’s Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs, with Laura’s post on the role of organizational structure and institutional struc ...
  • Reclaiming “Sovereignty” (the Word) and Wrappi ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Supporters of US ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty now have a network home, curiously called “The American Sovereignty Campaign.” It seems to be a serious undertaking, counting the US Chamber of Commerce and the Pew Charitable Trusts among its ...
  • Reclaiming “Sovereignty” (the Word ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Supporters of US ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty now have a network home, curiously called “The American Sovereignty Campaign.” It seems to be a serious undertaking, counting the US Chamber of Commerce and the Pew Charitable Trusts among its ...
  • States Front for Cigarette Makers in the WTO ( ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Ukraine and Honduras have initiated complaints at the World Trade Organization against Australia with respect to the latter’s plain cigarette packaging rules.  Neither country has much trade with Australia.  (Ukrainian cigarettes? Doesn’t sound very ap ...

Public News Service

  • Athletic Trainers using the Wii to Test for Co ...
    Athletic Trainers using the Wii to Test for Concussions PHOENIX – It's not just for playing games anymore; the Wii is providing athletic trainers with a new way of evaluating head injuries. Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have come up with an interactive video game to test for c ...
  • Expert: Post-stroke Depression Often Goes Undi ...
    Expert: Post-stroke Depression Often Goes Undiagnosed PHOENIX - Stroke remains Arizona's fifth-highest cause of death - and also is one of the leading causes of long-term disability. Post-stroke depression, which affects up to half of stroke survivors, can derail recovery significantly, accordi ...
  • Report: Kinship Care Families Short on Support
    Report: Kinship Care Families Short on Support PHOENIX - Some 60,000 Arizona children are in what's known as "kinship care" - meaning that a grandparent, other relative or family friend is raising them. A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation says these kinship caregivers aren't getting ...
  • Report: Job Hunts Longer, Tougher for Those Ov ...
    Report: Job Hunts Longer, Tougher for Those Over 55 PHOENIX - Unemployment has hit older workers as hard as any demographic group in Arizona, even though their unemployment rate is lower. That's because it takes longer for those over 55 to find work. And it's a national trend, according to the G ...
  • American Cancer Society Cautions Grand Canyon ...
    American Cancer Society Cautions Grand Canyon State about Skin Cancer PHOENIX – Temperatures are rising in Arizona - and so are skin cancer rates. May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) wants to make sure people stay safe this summer. Yolanda Wide, ACS h ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
    by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...
  • More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
    by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...
  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Brother of blind Chinese activist goes missing
    BEIJING, CHINA – The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has gone missing, a lawyer said on Saturday, days after he fled his village in northeastern China to seek help for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists. Chen Guangfu, t ...
  • Nigeria: Experts Call for One World Government
    Lagos — Speakers at a public symposium, “Advancing a New World Order for the progress of the Human Race,” organised by the Lagos Zone of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, at Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, have urged world leaders to evolve new ways of pursuing the collective destiny of huma ...
  • 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 intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, &#8216 ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – May 25 2012
    1 hour – Breaking news from Deadlinelive.info, Serial Flashlight bomber in Phoenix? no news? Is Elton John in your Dead Pool? Warren Buffett wants YOU to pay for news, while he just bought 63 newspapers… No refusal weekend in TX (Forced blood draws) Kittens killer PTSD? Rand Paul end ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – May 24 2012
    In hr one Jack hammers the establishment news repeaters, breaks real news, corrects various records; and tells you a story… Hr two, we welcome Ex CIA Asset Susan Lindauer back to the show. Topics include 911, the “patriot act”, NATO Chicago, OWS, and the Lockerbie Bombing hoax. ...

The Air Vent

  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Socialdealer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Spooky Cool ...
  • Facebook roundup: Opera, Dubai, friend lists, ...
    Facebook to buy Opera browser? – Facebook is reportedly interested in purchasing Opera Software, which operates a desktop and mobile browser. Pocket-lint.com and The Next Web have sources saying Opera is talking to potential buyers and Facebook could be among … Continue reading →
  • Investing in Facebook: Rob Winkler of 5th Plan ...
    This week, Inside Facebook asks people who have built businesses on the Facebook platform why they believe in the company. These are the people that are truly invested in Facebook, whether or not they bought stock. For the final part … Continue reading →
  • Facebook lets users play game demos directly w ...
    Facebook today announces a new feature that lets users try out games directly within News Feed. Part of the social network’s continued effort to improve game discovery, the new “feed gaming“ feature lets developers create a short demo of their game that users … Continue r ...
  • Smarter Than A 5th Grader, Quora, Amazon, Grou ...
    A variety of websites with Facebook logins, as well as games, dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Bird's eye view of Zionism's and Israel's stra ...
    Uri Avnery argues that the longstanding strategic aim of Zionism and Israel - a Jews-only state in all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and the prevention of an Arab Palestinian state - is a pipe dream and that Israelis has better formulate a new national aim b ...
  • The media's limitations and manipulations
    Ziad El-Hady looks at how government, elite and corporate interests shape media reports of international and domestic events, trivializing and sensationalizing news, corrupting our understanding of the world and reinforcing prejudice and bigotry.
  • Staying power - the key to victory in the war ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two victories for human rights, one by Palestinian hunger strikers in Israel and the other by opponents of detention without trial in the USA. He argues that, although these are two battles won, the war to protect civil and human rights will need staying power and may ...
  • Post-colonial theory, whiteness and Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Palestinian activists - indeed, everyone who strives for liberation, equality and justice - must ditch the circular, sterile post-colonial discourse that permeates leftist thinking and "deconstruct Jewish texts and Jewish cultural discourse with the same vigour that Edwa ...
  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Nina Simone This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is “I Shall Be Released” written by Bob Dylan in 1967. It has been covered many times by a slew of singers across the musical landscape. None did it better than the late American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights act ...
  • Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story
    In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spea ...
  • Classified Woman-Your Questions & My Answers
    Bookstores, Signing Arrangement, Media Coverage & More Since the release of Classified Woman I have been receiving dozens of e-mails each day, and with those e-mails come many questions regarding the status of the book. As always, with my frantic schedule, I’ve been saving the e-mails to res ...
  • Podcast Show #86- The Passion of Bradley Manning
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Chase Madar Chase Madar joins us to discuss his new book The Passion of Bradley Manning, and talk about Manning’s motives, his treatment by the U.S. government and mainstream media, and the political issues brought up by his case. Chase Madar is the author of a new boo ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 24, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin International Newsworthy Iran Invites Assad to Attend Non-Aligned Movement Summit Fearful Iran Hawks Flap Harder Iran ‘Gives Guidance’ to US Ship i ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • How to Fix the Fed: Dismiss Dimon, Boot the Ba ...
    The Fed has changed the playbook for bankers over and over. But whenever someone suggests imaginative programs to stimulate the economy by helping consumers or small businesses the Fed suddenly decides it's a stickler for the rules.
  • Will Elections Penetrate Israel's "Impenetrabl ...
    The security barrier has become Israel's latest Big Lie, replacing the "Green Line" because Israel did not draw the "Green Line." It did draw the "security barrier" by building a concrete wall on and through Palestinian land. This wall is designed to create Israel's latest "facts on the ground," ...
  • Missile-Defense: Is it Working?
    The mere threat of missile defense as a key element in Pentagon first-strike attack planning is a loaded and cocked gun pointed at the heads of Russia and China. Both of these nations have to assume the worst-case scenario and prepare and plan to respond. Perception informs and creates reality.
  • House Members Seek Answers From Scott Walker A ...
    There is new evidence to suggest that Walker's testimony to Congress about when he began preparing his anti-labor legislation--which sparked mass demonstrations and a recall movement that will culminate with a June 5 vote on whether to recall the governor--was not truthful.
  • Cooperative Banking, the Exciting Wave of the ...
    Funding with low-interest loans from cooperatively owned banks leaves greater control of the company in the hands of employees who either own it or have much more say in its operation. Globally, the burgeoning movement for local, cooperatively owned and community-oriented banks is blazing the tr ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • (Actual) Battleship Alert!
    If any of our Bay Area readers have an interest in seeing USS Iowa sail under Golden Gate Bridge, apparently it’s happening right now. Not likely to ever have a chance to see a battleship sail under the Golden Gate again.  Iowa is headed to Los Angeles to become a museum and memorial. Kyle ...
  • Beating Head Against Table
    Can we please recall Debbie Wasserman Schultz for total incompetence? “I think, honestly, there aren’t going to be any repercussions,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a broad-ranging interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.” “It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin. It’s an election ...
  • Another Child Dead
    Yet another reason why Obama needed to stand up to agribusiness and eliminate child labor on farms. Which of course he did not.
  • You Want to Be a Pitchman for Warlords?
    Jon Lovett just completely destroys Lanny Davis in one of the greatest takedowns of 2012. See Lanny got mad because Lovett said this on Twitter after Davis defended Cory Booker: There is too much wrong with Washington to say “So and so represents everything that’s wrong with Washingt ...
  • This Month’s Adam Bellow/Marc Sullivan A ...
    Mr. Luke Russert.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Brazilian President Vetoes Controversial Chang ...
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed critical revisions to the nation’s Forest Code that environmental advocates said would lead to rampant deforestation of the Amazon. Speaking to reporters, government officials said Rousseff had vetoed vetoed 12 of the 84 articles in the controversial ...
  • Los Angeles Becomes the Largest U.S. City to B ...
    Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to impose a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets and other stores, a significant victory for environmental advocates seeking to keep plastic waste out of the region’s landfills and waterways. In a vote Wednesday, the City Council approved plans to phas ...
  • Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record Levels ...
    Global carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2011, driven largely by a 9.3-percent increase in Chinese emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to preliminary estimates, worldwide carbon emissions climbed to 31.6 gigatonnes in 2011, a 3 ...
  • The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe’s Blood Di ...
    The regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been accused of profiting from the Marange diamond fields, garnering illicit funds that could be used to bolster his oppressive security forces. Now critics are alleging the government is failing to stop mining-waste pollution that is sickeni ...
  • Methane Sources Found Bubbling Up from Melting ...
    U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, said they have discovered 150,000 methane seeps in ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • No photo – no problem: NATO to ban its Afghan ...
    NATO forces in southwestern Afghanistan will implement a total ban on soldiers’ taking personal photos during military operations. This comes in the wake of major scandals involving US servicemen being pictured with... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Going nuclear-free: Germany smashes solar powe ...
    Germany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants. The country is already a world-leader in solar power and hopes to be free of nuclear energy... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Protest or block party? 10,000 Canadians take ...
    Demonstrating in Canada does not necessarily mean clashing with riot police. Some 10,000 protesters on the streets of Montreal proved it by turning a Saturday march into a free-spirited festival resembling the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • NATO strike kills Afghan family – local officials
    A coalition air strike has killed at least seven members of an Afghan family in eastern Afghanistan, local officials report. NATO has acknowledged the allegations and is conducting an investigation into the incident. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Peaceful solution is the only way forward – Sy ...
    Damascus is being provoked by armed groups which need chaos in the country, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulfattah Amura told RT. Amura says the authorities have only acted in self defense. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • About Juan Cole on the bloodshed in Houla, Syr ...
    Houla was bombed by the Syrian government and 30 to 40 children were killed among the 90 casualties in this portion of the US attack on Syria as the Syrian government fought back by bombing US backed rebels. Juan Cole though, like many of the liberal-Left humanitarian imperialists, simply refuse ...
  • Vote another idiot Democratic Party liberal in ...
    … Some people never seem to learn, and the barely liberal, Democratic party voter has got to be the dumbest, most stubborn mule in the world, in fact. As current example, the Vote Democratic Party- Norman Solomon Campaign is truly stalled in the head thinking! Please just build a Left of t ...
  • Barack Obama Administration uses hunger as wea ...
    _____ Americans as a mass are so completely outside of the making of any political decisions in their supposed democracy, that they hardly now bat an eye at news about the US/ Pentagon war making in places like Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Yemen. It’s just background noise to most Americans ...
  • Hondurans protest against US backed military d ...
    Hondurans continue to resist the Obama made Honduran military coup leaders… Honduras march in protest at journalist killings
  • Light Blue On Black, police brutality colors f ...
    OCCUPIED CHICAGO- That sea of light blue helmets protecting the NATO summit in Chicago last weekend may be a novel visual to those accustomed to police state armor black, but that’s because most 60s era news images were black & white. Color photos from Life Magazine remind us that lig ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out - ...
    This is the trailer for the much-anticipated Final Edition of the expert-packed 90-minute documentary by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The powerful documentary takes its cross-country World Premiere Tour of 30 cities with AE911Truth founder and the film's director, Richard Gage, AIA ...
  • Scientism - Why Pseudoskeptics Treat Science A ...
    The following article is new at DebunkingSkeptics.com; a site that stands in solidarity with the 9/11 truth movement, as well they should and visa versa. We are fighting the same people on different fronts and sometimes on both. The larger encompassing battle here is true skepticism vs pseudo-s ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: US Government Needs to Keep the ...
    The Obama administration has the worst track record when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Obama once claimed he'd work hard to have a transparent government, but many have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Sibel Edmonds, who is a whistleblower, waited 3 ...
  • WTC 7 Petition to the National Institute for S ...
    Revise the U.S. government final report on the collapse of Building 7 Building 7 of the World Trade Center, a 47 story building, contained offices of the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) several financial institutions and then-Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emer ...
  • James Kust of the University of Wisconsin–Eau ...
    In a recent article published in the student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin–Eau entitled, "New campus organization of 9/11 ‘truthers’ is misinformed," James Kust writes, "To imply that our government would stoop so low, that our leaders are so driven by greed that 2,996 deaths are si ...

Fooducate

  • Kraft Nutritionist Responds to Our Belvita Rev ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! A few days ago we posted a review of Kraft’s new line of breakfast cookies, Belvita. Our bottom line was that as far as cookies go, it was OK. However, for breakfast, there are better options. We are co ...
  • Over Half of Americans: Figuring out Taxes Eas ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The International Food Information Council (IFIC) just released the 2012 Food & Health Survey Report. When it comes to eating healthy, there is a big gap between what we know we need to do and our ability ...
  • Be Realistic, Give Your Kids Cheetos
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Lauren Slayton MS, RD In early May, I read a post on this blog from a fellow nutrition colleague entitled “My Kid Likes Junk Food and That’s OK” that may have had good intensions ...
  • Judge to POM: Your Juice Can’t Cure Cancer, St ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juices and products, has been ordered by a federal judge to stop its misleading marketing campaigns. POM’s health messages lead consumers to believe that pomegranate ...
  • Kraft Belvita. A Healthy Cookie to Start the Day?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Kraft is touting its new Belvita line of breakfast cookies as “Nutritious Sustained Energy.”  It boasts 20 grams of whole grain too. Should you be eating this instead of your favorite cereal / cer ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast  Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...
  • Vote like an Egyptian?
      by Mark Bebawi   It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly.  Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...
  • Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth
    What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...
  • Condolences
    Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family of our friend and colleague, Bobby Kennedy, and his children, on the tragic death of his wife and their mother, Mary. Our thoughts tonight are with your family. - Greg, Leni & Zach 
  • Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival Tomorrow
    Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival this Sunday - Invitation Greg wants to thank you for your support with a special gift. He will be the featured speaker this Sunday and would love to meet you in person and say hi. We have arranged for 20 free guest spots for our supporters. If you would like ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Italian Court Rules Urabe Mumps Strain of MMR ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Our friends at the UK site ChildHealthSafety have published a translation of the decision by an Italian court regarding the Urabe mumps strain MMR known as Morupar: We present here a professional medical translation of the full...
  • Comment on IOM Study Designs for the Safety Ev ...
    The Committee on Assessment of Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule has commissioned a discussion paper from a consultant, Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., titled, Study Designs for the Safety Evaluation of Different Childhood Immunization Schedules. This ...
  • Autism On The Seas Skyeward Bound Ranch: “I Ne ...
    (Texas) Families with Special Needs who Need a Special Vacation have a chance to win a cruise or land resort getaway of a lifetime with Autism on the Seas. Families interested in entering the contest are asked to write a...
  • US Government Healthplan Refuses Autism Care f ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Last January we told you about a petition to President Obama demanding treatment for the children of men and women in the armed forces. MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) -- You're in the military serving your country in Afghanistan...
  • An Interview with The Greater Good's Leslie Ma ...
    By Anne Dachel It is clear that the issue of vaccine side effects and safety is one of the most heated controversies in medicine today. This is a topic that should be a concern for everyone, but most especially for...

Global BDS Movement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

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    Send us links to pertinent mainstream news articles that you spot Follow us via Twitter, become a fan onFacebook, subscribe to our  Podcast channel and encourage your friends to do the same Join our mailing list and receive our comprehensive weekly news review e-mail Post comments on the Open Yo ...
  • Spent Fuel Rods Drive Growing Fear Over Plant ...
    NY Times — What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world’s second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming w ...
  • Fukushima’s Estimated Radiation Leak Doubles
    Bloomberg – Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have released twice as many radioactive particles than Japan’s government estimated, the utility said in a report today. The Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant may have emitted about 900,000 terabecquerels of the iodine equi ...
  • American CEOs hauled in record pay in 2011
    Associated Press – Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm. That was up more than ...
  • Bank of Russia to Buy ‘Considerable&#821 ...
    Resource Investor – Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,560.50, EUR 1,240.66, and GBP 996.04 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix this morning was USD 1,558.50, EUR 1,239.27, and GBP 993.62 per ounce. Silver is trading at $28.30/oz., €22.60/oz. and £18.13/oz. Platinum is trading at ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • FARM campaign pays viewers $1 to watch graphic ...
    Acknowledging the existence of animal cruelty is unpleasant, and getting people to actually watch footage of it is understandably difficult. The folks at Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) found one way: Pay them.
  • Sea Shepherd's Watson arrested, faces extradit ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson, who was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 13, has been freed on bail and awaits possible extradition to Costa Rica. He and Sea Shepherd's director of investigations, Scott West, met with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Enrique Castillo on ...
  • Federal judge blocks National Defense Authoriz ...
    In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction against use of the ...
  • Clean Mobility Center, focusing on alternative ...
    Jamie Caissie says he's picky about the gas he puts in his GMC Sierra truck. For years, the 35-year-old flooring contractor only filled up at 76 brand stations, but on a recent Monday, he decided to try something new: the Propel Clean Mobility Center in Fullerton, which sells E85 flex fuel and b ...
  • An electrifying freight solution on the 710? S ...
    Los Angeles may be one of the first global cities to adopt a new electric freight trucking system, unveiled by electrical engineering giant Siemens Corp. last week at the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium, or EVS26.

water.org

  • Conference Call: June
    Join our live conference call on June 5, 2012 to learn about current programs in Haiti.
  • WaterCredit in Kenya: Beth's Story
    Mrs. Beth Muguru lives near Koimbi town, approximately 25 kilometers north of Muranga town where she engages in small scale farming. She took the steps necessary through her self help group to take out a WaterCredit loan to benefit her business and shared the benefits she's seen after the instal ...
  • Learning to Conserve Water
    People in Kashiram Nagar, India struggle for water every day. However, they were not thinking about conserving the water they did have. They were unintentionally wasting water in their daily lives by not utilizing it well. Then on World Water Day 2012, a program through Water.org's partner, ESAF ...
  • One Mother's Story: Kasan Bai
    Every member of Kasan Bai's family benefited the moment they received the small sanitation loan that enabled them to construct a toilet.
  • Mothers' Stories
    Click play above to watch a playlist of all four women's stories we shared this week. Ranjana, Vandana, Kebebush, and Kasan Bai; all four of these women had their lives transformed by clean water and safe sanitation.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Lung Function Of Patients With Severe Emphysem ...
    A tiny, resilient metal wire designed to gather and compress diseased lung tissue may offer relief to patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema, a subtype of the disease that involves specific, usually isolated areas of the lungs, according to the results of a multicenter international trial ...
  • Bits Blog: Apple Strikes Back at Government E- ...
    The company denies that it conspired with book publishers to raise e-book prices to give Apple’s new iPad a boost, and accuses the government of siding with Amazon.
  • Kenya: Thakker Admits Leaked Tape, Denies Wron ...
    [Capital FM] Nairobi - The Kenya Healthcare Federation Chief Executive Officer Amit Thakker has confirmed he is the one in a leaked telephone conversation with the suspended boss of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) Richard Kerich. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and ...
  • Medical Care Technologies Inc. Announces Appoi ...
    BEIJING, May 25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical Care Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:MDCE), a growing children's healthcare service provider, is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Peter Verner as Senior Communications Advisor. The position was created in order to improve the Company's publ ...
  • HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE AND IBUPROFENtablet, Fi ...
    Updated Date: May 25, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Glass-Steagall Moment is Upon Us
    LaRouche Spanish Collapse Can Bring Down the Trans-Atlantic System this Weekend Abruptly, but lawfully, the Spanish debt crisis has erupted over the past 48 hours into a systemic rupture in the entire trans-Atlantic financial and monetary facade, posing the immediate question: Will the Europea ...
  • CAPITOLISM
    Timothy V. Gatto In the Twenty-first Century there are two distinct economic models. The predominant is Capitalism and the other is Socialism .Communism has fallen by the wayside as a system that is too easily usurped by totalitarianism. Capitalism is a socio-economic system that eventually is ...
  • Police Brutality During Chicago NATO Summit
    by Stephen Lendman NATO arrives everywhere violently. Chicago was no exception. Residents were terrorized for days. Many are still recovering. For some, it's from hospital beds. Others are behind bars. Chicago cops upheld their odious reputation. The city is notorious for being America' ...
  • 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. They include wage and benefit cuts, less social spending, privatization of state resources, mass layoffs, deregulation, tax cuts for corporati ...
  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the military police of Azerbaijan during my investigation of BP for Channel 4′s Dispa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • US has to stop thinking in terms of war – Cong ...
    RT met with US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, Democratic rep. for Ohio State, and talked about his vision of American foreign policy. Kucinich opposes sanctions against Tehran that could lead to war. “We need to be talking with Iran and we need to stop this vainglorious notion that somehow we can ...
  • Chinese Street Vendors Beaten by Officers
     From hrw.org - A woman fights with chengguan police as they dismantle part of her small restaurant and confiscate equipment that she stored on the sidewalk outside of her shop in the Fuzi Miao tourist market in central Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. The chengguan in Nanjing began a crackdown on sidew ...
  • Hippie Tank Tops; Guaranteed To Keep Ted Nugen ...
    Our Hippie Tank Tops are 100% Ted Nugent Repellent! Show your support for Worldwide Hippies, Today! Citizen Journalism: Sane, Rational and never more important. 100% Cotton with the Worldwide Hippies Globe on the front. Just $14.00 + shipping limited time offer. Available in  Medium, Large and X ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Saturday
  • Real Patriotism – Then And Now – P ...
    By Cindi Silva,Worldwidehippies - I was going to write this week about the decade 1980-1989 but I decided it was more important to acknowledge our first summer three day weekend the Memorial Day holiday.  I’ll cover 1980-1989 next week. Woot! Woot! Memorial Day weekend has finally arrived! ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Electric Cars & Keystone Impact on Gas Prices ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: What are the chances that electric vehicles will be more than a boutique item, and will make up a noticeable portion of cars on the road by 2020? Do you agree with the recent report from the Natural Resources ...
  • If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy
    I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...
  • If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy &nb ...
    I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...
  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...
  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 3 Tasty Summer Drinks You've Never Tried
    Here's the fastest way to impress your friends: Whip up a drink with international flare that will show them how sophisticated you are, but will take you less than 20 minutes! We've found three incredibly simple summer drink recipes that trace their roots to Latin America and the Middle East, l ...
  • Another Reason to Love LA: No More Plastic Bags
    If you're heading out to the City of Angels anytime soon, remember to pack your reusable bags. The city of Los Angeles just became the largest municipality in the country to ban disposable plastic shopping bags. According to the LA Times, the city council approved a ban by 13 to 1, forcing reta ...
  • Avoid These 5 Summer Sun Mistakes
    Spring and summertime mean spending lots of quality time outdoors, getting healthy doses of vitamin D, lots of fresh air, and hopefully, plenty of exercise. Between the warm breezes, picnics, and vacations of summer, though, we sometimes forget to take reasonable sun-protection strategies into ...
  • The Unbelievable Reason You're Gaining Weight
    A common chemical that most people never heard of could be a profound contributor to the obesity epidemic. Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether, otherwise known as BADGE, is found in canned food liners, as is bisphenol A, or BPA, another controversial chemical linked to heart attacks, infertility, and ...
  • The Worst Pizza in America?
    In an age when food companies seem to be listening to consumers' demands for a more humane food supply, it's always good to know that there are a few dinosaurs holding everyone back. In this case, the dinosaur is Domino's Pizza. Just weeks after the three largest fast-food chains in America—McD ...

big think

  • Barack Obama and Roger Boesche (Another Lesson ...
    I agree with the sagacious Carl Scott that the conservative bloggers have gone to far in their attacks on our president’s Occidental professor Roger Boesche. Obama called Boesche his favorite professor at Occidental, and he invited him to the White House to catch up.  Because Boesche alm ...
  • America 2.0: The Threat of Neotribalism
    What's the Big Idea?  The gridlock in Washington last year that brought the nation to the brink of a credit default was only the latest symptom of a widespread – though not irreversible – cultural trend toward fragmentation and tribalism, and away from civil discourse. We've all ...
  • The Ancestor Allure: Exploring Why We Look Back
    What's the Big Idea? On Thanksgiving Day in 1896, while families across the forty-five states basted turkeys and mashed potatoes, Jerry Holly’s great-great-grandfather lay on the shore of Lake Michigan. He had drowned the day before.  This tale is just one of many that Holly has ...
  • “Breast” Behavior: A Q&A with Katie Hinde
    Katie Hinde is the Director of the Comparative Lactation Laboratory at Harvard University. Her research examines mother's milk and how it contributes to infant development in humans and primates--including behavior, cognition and the brain.  Here, she discusses the effects of breast milk on ... ...
  • Americans Are Driving Less
    Americans don’t drive as much as they used to. The Department of Transportation estimates that Americans drove 2.9 trillion miles in the year from April 2011 to March 2012. That’s still a lot of vehicle miles—more than 9,300 miles per person. But that number is down about 3% from its peak at the ...

Information Liberation

  • Is Mexico the new Land of the Free?
    Is illegal immigration on the southern border about to turn the opposite way? It's already come to a standstill thanks to the U.S. government collapsing the economy, if people find themselves agreeing with Jeff Berwick of The Dollar Vigilante, we ...
  • Random Idiot Solves the Drug Problem
    As calls for legalizing marijuana and ending the drug war become increasingly commonplace in the press, so too do the inevitable shocked responses from frightened individuals who aren't always up to speed on the subject. At their best, these peopl...
  • Are You the Next Prisoner?
    The United States is home to a gigantic socialist sector, larger and with a greater reach than any in the world, and it is fed by tax dollars and managed entirely by the government. Strangely, the opponents of socialized medicine and socialized indus...
  • Peter Schiff: The Worst Has Yet To Come
    While we experienced a devastating crash in 2009, it was just a preview for the catastrophe that's coming next, says perma-bear Peter Schiff. The real crash will come from the "government's phony cure" for the economic troubles that have swept o...
  • Governments pose greatest threat to internet, ...
    Nations that carry out cybercrimes and wreak online havoc pose the greatest threat to the future of the internet, the chairman of Google has warned. In a speech delivered at London's Science Museum on Wednesday, Eric Schmidt said the internet woul...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
  • Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour
    I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Di ...
    Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →
  • Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?
    I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →
  • Deferring To Our Betters?
    I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Forget Fukushima, it’s the smokes that’ll nuke you
    Tobacco firms have failed to act on radioactivity in cigarettes. According to cancer researchers: “Cigarettes deliver dangerously concentrated doses of radioactivity directly into the lungs. When smokers inhale, the radioactive particles damage lung tissue, creating ‘hot spots’ of damage. ...
  • All the water on Earth
    We’ve all seen the graphic, now here comes a video to show all the water on Earth, the drop that is the freshwater and the droplet that is the available fresh water. And to think it could all be evaporated in an instant by a burst of energy from an exploding star or more tangibly [...]All ...
  • 7 features all university websites should have
    Researchers in Turkey have surveyed hundreds of students to ascertain five factors pertaining to the students’ perceptions of the attractiveness, controllability, efficiency, helpfulness and learnability of the University’s website. Ersin Caglar of the European University of Lefke an ...
  • #openaccess There’s a petition for that
    Imagine if all of the research papers you, your friends, family, anyone wanted to read were available, full text, for searching by hand and with computers and for data mining and cross referencing? It is done to a limited extent already by the NIH for preprints, with no demonstrable financial ha ...
  • Moog Google Doodle Dr Who
    I posted about today’s fantastic four-track virtual Moog synthesiser doodle on Google first thing this morning, and apparently users have been creating ever since: You did notice that it has four-track recording capabilities, didn’t you? Fab! Groovy! Get Moogy… Related Posts:Go ...

RFF Library

  • Effect of Bark Beetle Infestation on Secondary ...
    Environmental Science and Technology (dx.doi.org/10.1021/es204205m) / by Hardik Amin, P. Tyson Atkins, Rachel S. Russo, Aaron W. Brown, Barkley Sive, A. Gannet Hallar,‡and Kara E. Huff Hartz http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es204205m [From a Greenwire article by April Reese, sub. req'd] &#823 ...
  • The UB Shale Play: Distorting the Facts about ...
    Public Accountability Initiative http://public-accountability.org/2012/05/ub-shale-play/ The University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) released a report last week that concluded that the practice of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is becoming less risky ...
  • Worker Exposure to Crystalline Silica During H ...
    NIOSH Science Blog / by Eric Esswein, MSPH; Max Kiefer, MS; John Snawder, PhD; and Michael Breitenstein, BS http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2012/05/silica-fracking/ [From Occupational Safety and Health]  Crystalline silica exposure among workers should be evaluated at all U.S. hydraulic ...
  • Summer on the Road: Going Further on a Gallon ...
    Environment America / by John Cross http://bit.ly/JCJNpb [From Press Release]  …If the cars and trucks on the road today met the proposed 54.5 mpg standard, it would slash the country’s oil dependence by 16.6 billion gallons and cut our global warming pollution by more than 146 million met ...
  • EPA’s Regulation of Coal-Fired Power: Is ...
    US Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41914/ Given the central role of electric power in the nation’s economy, and the importance of coal in power production, concerns have been raised recently about the cost and potential impact of regulations under development at the E ...

Scientific American - News

  • Are Eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman Trial Reliable?
    Newly released court documents in the second-degree-murder case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman reveal that, in the month following his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, four key witnesses significantly changed their accounts of what they saw and heard that night ...
  • Questions Surround Biosecurity Oversight of Mu ...
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Frac ...
    The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the n ...
  • Why America's Love Affair with Cars Is No Accident
    Drivers may feel spooked by seeing the first self-driving cars appear in coming years. But the new era could prove far less disruptive and bloody than the automobile's 20th-century battle to push pedestrians off U.S. streets. [More]
  • Dollars and Scents: The Chemistry of a Delicio ...
    The typical supermarket tomato: ripe red, firm to the touch, free of blemishes--and of flavor. Since at least the 1970s, U.S. consumers have lamented the beautiful but bland fruits that farmers breed not for taste, but rather for high yield and durability during shipping. Recently, organic farme ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Got a story to tell? Submit a pitch by June 1!
    Call for news pitches for The Dominion As we do every month, in June we will pay two contributors for news features to be published in The Dominion.  We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, includi ...
  • Stories from the Frontline
    A personal account from the student protests in Montréal   As most of you may know, for a couple of months, students in Québec rose up against the government|s plan to triple their current tuition fees. Last Saturday the government adm ...
  • Denounce & Destroy! ...understanding and respe ...
    The ongoing Student Movement in Quebec, at a glance, is an excellent example of healthy social movements at work; withstanding internal tensions and avoiding typical manoeuvring by state adversaries to divide and conquer their movement. Ac ...
  • We Are the Media Co-op! Some of the members wh ...
    Our members are what make us strong! Over 500 people are members of the Media Co-op, across Canada and around the world. From readers, to contributors to editors, it is the people of the co-op who power our work and make the co-op what it is: a fresh, in-depth, community-driven source of news an ...
  • Canada fails to release human rights report on ...
    The Canadian government's failure to report on Colombian human rights, as promised as part of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA), drew criticism from the country's opposition Thursday. The FTA, which went into effect in August 2011, received the backing of Canadian opposition parties wh ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
    David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 2
    Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
    The Child is  Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...
  • The Crisis: where are we headed?
    David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...
  • Is American individualism a myth?
    David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging — 25 May 2012
    Last week, when I mentioned that I lived with four orange cats, some folks were disappointed I didn't post pictures of all four. If you were one of those people, today is your lucky day. Here's Pumpkin, who says it's time to get off the computer: And here are Butters and James, hanging out ...
  • Obama and Marijuana
    Turns out young Barack Obama was a fairly frequent weed smoker, according to a forthcoming biography by David Maraniss: A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana." [...] ...
  • Liberals' Targeted Killing Problem
    The Associated Press recently reported that White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan is America's new death czar—the individual most responsible for overseeing the Obama administration's targeted killing of suspected terrorists.  There's long been a right-wing meme compari ...
  • Explaining Black Voters' Shift on Same-Sex Mar ...
    Black voters in Maryland have flipped on same-sex marriage, going from majority opposed to majority in favor in the space of two months. As I noted on Thursday, that means that Maryland could become the first state to approve of marriage equality by referendum. So what does this say about the ...
  • Feminists Defend Conservative Writer against S ...
    Conservative writer S.E. Cupp was recently the target of a sexist "parody" in Hustler magazine that I won't describe here because it's a family blog. Feminists, in response, have denounced Hustler for essentially telling Cupp that her proper role is as the object of sexual exploitation rather ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 323: Both Sides Do It
    Topics: Geordi Laforge first intergalactic simp Punching kids in the face Liberals going overboard with Cory Booker Liberals pretending that they don’t stretch the truth as well Johnny Depp Goes Native Too Busty for work Dressing appropriately Share with your friends:
  • IC 322: When Keeping It Gay Goes Wrong
    Topics: Not Understanding the Avengers Possible cross studio movies The titty-less Lara Croft How you know you’re ready for kids 30 kids by 11 different women? Stop having kids with hoodrats and ain’t shit dudes Will Smith uses his pimp hand Dr. Cornell West still ain’t shit Sh ...
  • IC 321: The Avengers Initiative
    Topics: 30 for 30 update Kev’s stories “Miss, is that your lightsaber?” Mass Effect Avengers might do $100 mill second weekend The Avengers Initiative We won’t agree to disagree Breastfeeding toddlers You’re weird and I don’t have to accept that Real marriage ...
  • IC 320: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
    Topics: Obama Supports Gay Marriage…duh Words Matter…But Actions Should Matter more It’s All Fun and Games Until You’re In the Group Judged Bryon Long Explains Why He’s Not Gay T.O on Dr. Phil The Secret Service prostitute scandal chick speaks out Share with your fr ...
  • IC 319: Calorie Counting
    Topics: Tequila is not my friend Avengers does $200 million in a weekend What WB needs to do to in order to make the JLA Captain America > Superman & Cyclops Kids in the theater We gotta stop being lazy Your diet plans probably suck What’s in a serving size Octomom’s Masturbatio ...

Simple Climate

  • Baking sands worsen leatherback turtle surviva ...
    Global warming will reduce the hatchling survival rate by at least half for the already endangered leatherback turtle, studying nests has told James Spotila from Drexel University and collagues.
  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.
  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.

e!Science News

  • It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plan ...
    Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. read more
  • High-speed method to aid search for solar ener ...
    Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis. read more
  • CSHL researchers solve structure of human prot ...
    In a study published in the journal Cell on May 24, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists describe the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein bound to a piece of RNA that "guides" the protein's ability to silence genes. The protein, Argonaute-2, is a key player ...
  • Math predicts size of clot-forming cells
    UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other conditions, a better understanding of how they form and behave could ha ...
  • Gene study could pave way for non-hormonal mal ...
    A new type of male contraceptive could be created thanks to the discovery of a key gene essential for sperm development. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...
  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • Carbon offsetting of uranium mines?
    Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...
  • What volume of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Pro-mountain activists board coal barge and bl ...
    Follow coverage at http://action.mountainjustice.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Contact: Robert Livingston 304.731.1740 http://action.mountainjustice.org Note: Photos available within 1 – 2 hours.   KAYFORD, W.Va. –Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transpor ...
  • West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital
    May 23, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital Sacrifice of Locks in Name of Appalachian Mountains COOL RIDGE, W.VA. – Fed up with government inaction, a group of outraged West Virginians will gather this … Continue reading →
  • Women Unite to End Mountaintop Removal May 28
    The time is approaching that women of Appalachia will come out of the bellies of the extraction communities to tell the world about the travesty of mountaintop removal. We are grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and SISTERS! Join us in a silent … Continue reading →
  • Summer Action Camps
    This week, activists are gathering in Pipestem, WV, for Mountain Justice’s Summer Activist Training Camp. Gearing up for a summer of action, the week-long program includes education, workshops, entertainment, sustainable living techniques, and action. And they’re not alone! Check out ...
  • Coal Actions at Bank of America Shareholder&#8 ...
    As Bank of America’s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank’s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, on May 9,  thousands of protesters took to the streets and inside the meeting hall to speak out against BofA’s practices that are … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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  • WATCH: Settlers set fire to Palestinian olive ...
    Eyewitness report that a Palestinian who tried to put out a fire started by settlers in Urif was shot and injured.  Throughout the day, there were reports of settlers from Yitzhar trying to set fire to Palestinian olive groves near the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the West Bank. The entir ...
  • WATCH: Refusing to enlist in the IDF
    “Only after the first time I went to the occupied territories did I realize that I could never be a part of the army.”  -Alon Gurman, 19, from Tel Aviv.  In March 2012, Alon Gurman and three other Israelis announced their decision to refuse to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, forming th ...
  • L is for Love: A contemporary reading of the B ...
    On the holiday of Shavout, the Book of Ruth is traditionally read in synagogues. I took an afternoon to ponder this tiny yet meaningfull tome, and realized just how significant it is these days. Agriculture The Book of Ruth is a beautiful pastoral, set in fields of barley, in which the sheaths t ...
  • Why IDF soldiers stand idly by when settlers a ...
    By Dana Golan Last Saturday, a B’Tselem video camera captured an incident of settler violence that began with rocks being thrown at Palestinians near the village of Asira al-Qibliya in the outskirts of Nablus, and ended with live shots fired by the settlers and a wounded Palestinian youth. ...
  • Marching in pain: Images from Tel Aviv’s ...
    A reflection on last night’s protests against racism, with photos by Sasha Y. Kimel The demonstration following Wednesday night’s race riots was the mellowest I’ve seen here in years. Several hundred of concerned Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and marched to symbo ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Some Reflections on Citizen Engagement
    Last evening I was part of a panel that included journalist and filmmaker Phil McLeod, former civic politician Gina Barber, …Continue reading »
  • The Call is Ours
    Democracy isn’t always a clear winner.  Traditionally its method of reaching decisions by voting has created the general impression that …Continue reading »
  • Haughty and Hungry
    There was a time, not all that many years ago when Canada was a deeply respected world player, that the …Continue reading »
  • Generations
    “I’m so in love with my little kids. They’ve redefined my life and reminded me of the importance of family.” …Continue reading »
  • Boomer Redux
    In 1998, there were 3.7 million seniors in Canada; by 2031 there will be 9.7 million. That should tell us …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Meatless Monday in Sweden: Q & A with Köttfri ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign here in the U.S. has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years (the recent blogpost on Sodexo’s success with the campaign is just one example), but did you know that 23 countries now have campaigns that seek to reduce meat consumption one day a week? When I was ...
  • The Antibiotic Resistance Problem Gets Some Tr ...
    I’m glad the moms are engaged in this fight against antibiotics overuse in farming. When it comes to managing tantrums, sussing out lies, dealing with terrorists, and doling out justice, they are the closest things we have to experts.
  • USDA Gets Fresh with SNAP Dollars: Funding for ...
    This $4 million grant demonstrates a commitment to public health on the part of USDA, and the sidestepping maneuver, which will keep the momentum going despite legislative slowdowns (i.e., Farm Bill politics), further shows that USDA understands the importance of making fresh foods available to ...
  • The Big, Fat, Hungry Salmon Industry
    Aquaculture seemed like a viable solution to overfishing—we would simply farm the fish, and not mess with the ecosystems. But salmon farmers have to feed the salmon they’re raising, and salmon is a hungry master.
  • Grocery Store Shrimp Contains Drug Resistant B ...
    Farmed shrimp joins the list of animal proteins - pork, turkey, ground beef, and chicken - that contain drug-resistant bacteria.

k2p blog

  • The Dragon docks
    The Dragon spacecraft has successfully attached to the International Space Station.
  • More evidence that cloud cover – and not ...
    Cloud cover decreased sharply from 1985 to 2010 giving sharply increased sunshine hours possibly due to cleaner air and solar effects.
  • Sapiens + dogs >> Neanderthals
    Though fossil evidence of domesticated dogs is very sparse and the earliest is from around 30,000 years ago, there is no certainty about when domestication actually occurred. Human-canine co-operation – eventually leading to domestication – perhaps started some 50,000 years ago.
  • Snow in Sarajevo in May
    For the first time in 50 years Sarejovo was covered by snow in May.
  • Where to view the annular solar eclipse of May ...
    An "annular" eclipse of the sun on May 20th when the moon is at apogee will be visible from China across the Pacific to North America.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • New Tide Pods Box Will Aim To Keep Kids From F ...
    It looks like 2012 is the year of Tide. First, it was revealed that the detergent is being heisted for use as currency by unseemly folks. Now the makers of Tide are having to change thei packaging for Tide Pods because kids want to put the colorful, shiny detergent packs in their mouth. Proct ...
  • Boston Mayor To FCC: Please Don't Listen To Co ...
    In April, cable subscribers in Boston were offered a glimmer of hope after the FCC ruled that the city would once again, after a decade of price increases from Comcast (the only cable company in town), be allowed to regulate cable pricing. But the war isn't over, as Comcast has asked the FCC to ...
  • The Legal Battle Begins Over Dish's Ad-Skippin ...
    As was predicted when Dish Network announced its Hopper DVR would allow users to skip commercials on recorded prime-time network TV shows, the so-called "holy grail for TV viewers" has ended up in court, with both sides racing to sue each other. There are actually four separate lawsuits going ...
  • UPS Drivers Are Not Supposed To Come Back To Y ...
    Anyone who has just missed a UPS delivery (or has had a driver leave a "we missed you" note without actually attempting a delivery) knows it's impossible to get that driver to make a return visit. But one UPS driver in California allegedly had no problem returning to a customer's house... with ...
  • United Ends Preboarding Policy For Families Wi ...
    While airlines love to put out press releases for even the smallest improvements in service, they tend to be pretty quiet when they do something that might tick off customers. Thus, many people are just learning now that back in April, United Airlines ended its policy of allowing families with ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Former FEMS General Counsel/Whistleblower Head ...
    First Whistleblower Trial of Several to Come Involving DC Fire Dep't Brass This coming Tuesday, May 29, former DC Fire & Emergency Medical Services (FEMS) department General Counsel and whistleblower Theresa Cusick will finally get her day in court. Cusick served as FEMS General Counsel un ...
  • Coverage of Obama's War on Intelligence Whistl ...
    Drake and Radack at the 2011 Ridenhour Prizes.Majority Report: Thomas Drake & Jesselyn Radack, Whistleblowing in America Summary: Yesterday, NSA whistleblower/GAP client Thomas Drake and GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack were on the Majority Report&nbsp ...
  • More Coverage of ACLU's Support of State Dept ...
    Washington Post: ACLU Throws Support Behind State Department Whistleblower Summary: More coverage of the ACLU’s support of State Department whistleblower and GAP client Peter Van Buren. Van Buren wrote a book and maintains a blog critical of the department’s reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The ...
  • Grassley Honored as Whistleblower Champion, En ...
    To kickoff the 2012 Whistleblower Summit: Civil and Human Rights Conference, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) delivered words of appreciation to our nation’s unsung heroes, whistleblowers. Addressing whistleblowers who traveled across the country to attend the summit, Senator Grassley remarked, “ ...
  • Congress Expands NSA Power Despite Whistleblow ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user mRioCongress is Deaf: Expands NSA’s Surveillance Power Despite Whistleblower Disclosures Summary: Congress has authorized an expansion of NSA’s surveillance power, despite warnings from whistleblowers (and GAP clients) like Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney ...

UK Progressive

  • The Poverty of Nations
    There is plenty of wealth to go around in the world, but it’s tied up in too few hands for democratic capitalism to operate efficiently for society at large. Thus, in order to maintain civil order, totalitarianism increasingly becomes a byproduct of this conundrum. According to Forbes 2011 surve ...
  • U.S. Today Displays Typical Fascist Characteri ...
    Political Journalist Alexander Cockburn Comments “If there’s any nation in the world that is well on the way to meriting the admittedly vague label of ‘fascist,’ surely it is the United States,” political journalist Alexander Cockburn asserts. In the May 21st issue ...
  • 100 Funniest Things We’ve Read on a CV – Part 1
    by Nathan Lloyd Response Online Recruitment  As you can imagine, here at Response we have seen thousands upon thousands of CVs over the years.  On the whole, most CVs are well laid out and give us enough information to decide whether that person is suitable for a role or not. However, you can al ...
  • Republican Extremism: The Campaign from Hell
    Now here comes Grover Norquist, who compares the senior senator from New York to members of the political party of Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) believes that when the land of the free and the home of the brave gives an American the gift of being able to use ...
  • History Unfolding: Proud To Be An Egyptian
    History is unfolding in Egypt. People are voting in their first democratic presidential election. Our grandparents and parents never thought they would live to see this moment, casting their voice into a ballot box to determine Egypt’s future and choose the next President. I have been in E ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Man-made sea-level rises are due to global adj ...
    Frank Lansner’s first graph surprised me. It’s well known and often quoted that sea levels have been rising by 2-3mm a year every year for the last 20 years. But it’s not well known that the original raw satellite data doesn’t show that at all. What astonished me was the ...
  • Models get the core assumptions wrong– & ...
    This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that references the most important points and papers, as a definitive resource about the evidence. The missing hotspot is not just another flaw in the theory, it proves the models are wrong: not just “unverified”, not just &#8220 ...
  • Blame the whites for climate change?
    Back when the climate was perfect, and there was no internet, no cars, no electricity lines, and not a single evil coal fired station – ominously, the Australian climate was changing. Back in 1846, the population of Australia was essentially just the size of the city of Canberra (a mere 34 ...
  • Unthreaded – I’m back (just)
    I’ve returned from two weeks away around some old haunts in Canberra. It’s been fascinating. Thanks to David T for dedicatedly migrating my whole blog to a new more secure and less expensive location (PS David, I have that visual editor again. Ta!). I have 1846 emails (and that&#8217 ...
  • A nation still drawing 18,000MW in it’s ...
    I’m away, so this is a good time for Guest posts. Here Tony explains that we need lots of electricity even while we sleep. I didn’t realize our electricity needs were so high at night. The lowest power use each day is still as much as 60% of the peak. That’s the base load at 3a ...

ReNew America

  • Obama and his pot-smoking 'Choom Gang'
    (ABC News) - Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn't inhale. In his 1995 memoir "Dreams of My Father," Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke "in a white classmate's spar ...
  • Obama's land of the LOST
    (Michelle Malkin) - What's green and blue and grabby all over? President Obama's new pressure campaign for Congress to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The fight over LOST goes back three decades, when it was first rejected by President Ronald Reagan. He warned that "no national interest ...
  • Kansas governor signs bill effectively banning ...
    (Newsmax) - Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill aimed at keeping state courts and agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws when making decisions, his office said on Friday...
  • Sheriff Joe's posse: 'Hawaii duped Arizona'
    (WorldNetDaily) - "Hawaii duped Arizona" in its response to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett's request to verify Barack Obama's eligibility for the 2012 election, charges the lead investigator of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse...
  • Latest Obamacare defense is offensive
    (David Limbaugh) - Has President Obama's disrespectful attitude toward the United States Supreme Court caused a trickledown effect among the Democratic leadership in Congress, or was Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy's recent invective against Chief Justice John Roberts self-gene ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
    Until recently the NASA mantra regarding an asteroid impact in 2012 went like this: We already know there is no asteroid large enough to produce a mass extinction that is in an Earth-crossing orbit today. We have found at least 90% of those large enough to threaten civilization. NASA is referr ...
  • 2012 and the Zohar
    Here’s another rare religious prophecy I found in the new book Petrus Romanus. It fits in well with the Papal Prophecy and also Nostradamus (see my last two posts). The Zohar is a piece of Jewish mystical literature that is approximately 2000 years old. One section covers the return of ...
  • The Ten Kings of the AntiChrist
    The Secrets of Fátima are well known. While the Third Secret was supposedly released by the Catholic Church in 2000, many experts have suggested that the true secret has been kept from us. Some believe it to be an end of the world prophecy, or at least the end of the Catholic Church. Less well ...
  • 2012: The Final Pope
    I shared the Malachy Papal Prophecy late last year. Basically, it is an ancient prediction of the Papal lineage, and it has proven to be incredibly accurate. This means that either Malachy had psychic powers to predict events up until almost 1000 years into the future, or the Catholic Church has ...
  • Pleiadian Eclipse Alignment Today
    Vice magazine, with 900,000 readers, has a target audience of college students. So it is not surprising that they have published some articles regarding the 2012 meme (I was interviewed for their article about the types of people who hangout at 2012 forum). This week they have an article that sh ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Arab League plans emergency meet on Syria mass ...
    27 May 2012 Arab League has planned an emergency meeting in Kuwait city to discuss the situation in Syria after the massacre of over 92 people in Houla on Friday .A Kuwaiti foreign Ministry statement said, Kuwait is reaching out to the members of Arab League to hold an emergency ... Report ...
  • Centre fixes target of Rs 5 lakh 70 thousand c ...
    27 May 2012 The Centre has fixed a target of five lakh 70 thousand crore rupees direct tax collection this year. Inaugurating an Aaaykar Sewa Kendra in Kolkata this morning the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that besides this target government desires that the direct tax collection .. ...
  • Players who can spring surprises at French Open
    While its a given that Nadal, Djokovic and Federer are favourites to clinch the title and Sharapova and Serena lead the pack in the womens, we take a look at the players who can spring surprises. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
  • Egypts leftist candidate Hamdeen to file appea ...
    27 May 2012 In Egypt, the leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy has decided to file an appeal to suspend the Presidential elections in the country because of alleged irregularities in voting and a pending case over former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiqs right to contest.Sabahys lawyer Essam ... Re ...
  • Kerala preventing TN from closing holes in Mul ...
    Jayalalithaa sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to facilitate the work and demanded deployment of CISF at the site. Reported by DNA 4 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Chicago NATO Summit: Obama Showcases American ...
    President Obama wanted to showcase his adopted hometown of Chicago to the leaders of 60 NATO members and partnership countries. Instead, with his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel holding the political reins as mayor of Chicago, Obama showed the foreign heads of state and the international medi ...
  • Is the Whirling Dervish of TAPI Politics Final ...
    It had to eventually happen–Afghan politics have come full circle, and then some.  It was only a matter of time before the TAPI pipe dream would once again be offered as a solution to the Afghan conflict.  The Taliban are once again being handed the keys to the kingdom in exchange for partnering ...
  • NATO: In Search of Raison d’Etre
    NATO held its meeting in Chicago on May 20–21, 2012. Three core objectives defined the agenda. The centerpiece was the announcement of the next phase of transition in Afghanistan turning over control of Afghanistan’s security to its own troops by the middle of 2013 and winding up the operation b ...
  • No, India Cannot Be the US’ Poodle
    The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s warning about the possibility of outbreak of “full-blown wars” with the use of nuclear weapons in the current global security scenario can be seen as a timely interjection on the eve of the G8 and North Atlantic Treaty Organization s ...
  • Osama bin Laden not killed by US, claims forme ...
    Berkan Yashar, a Turkish politician and former US intelligence agent claimed that the American did not kill the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and in fact, he died naturally. The politician was talking to Russia’s Channel One (link in Russian). “In September of 1992 I was in Chechnya, that’s wh ...

BlogHer

  • Female Racers Revving up for Indy 500 Memorial ...
    The Indianapolis 500 may be in Danica Patrick's rear view mirror, but the race will still take place this Sunday,  just as it has every Memorial Day weekend for nearly 100 years.  Once the green flag drops, a 33- car field will accelerate to more than 200 mph and continue at a blisteri ...
  • Toys 'R Us Finds a Great Use for QR Codes
    Most QR codes are rather pointless, but once in a while someone comes up with a really helpful idea for QR codes. One such company is Toys 'R Us. Cool Mom Tech has the details for you. 'Tis the season to purchase baby pools, slides, and sandboxes-- oh my--but it can be hard knowing exactly which ...
  • More New Sponsor Announcements for BlogHer '12!
    Announcing another round of New Sponsors for BlogHer '12! We are thrilled to have these sponsors joining us for our annual conference. Have you missed some of our updates about our great sponsors? Check out our full BlogHer '12 sponsor page!. Read on to learn a little bit about each of these awe ...
  • How to Make Roasted Vegetable Egg-less Rolls
    [Editor's Note: I love it when I stumble across a recipe that takes a quite-unhealthy-but-quite-delicious food item and lightens it up. Phyllo and plenty of vegetables are what make these eggless egg rolls a much healthier option than the kind from your local take-out Chinese joint. --Genie] 80 ...
  • Joyce Carol Oates On Launching a Writing Caree ...
    I have a huge fond place in my heart for author Joyce Carol Oates. She is one of the most successful authors of our time. That is one reason why I love this post about what advice Oates would give if she were launching a writing career today. Her answers might surprise you. A friend of mine ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, May 25, 2012
    A miner gestures next to a burning barricade in Montico, Spain, Thursday, May, 24, 2012.  Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector. General Workers Union mining spokesman Victor ...
  • Gazette editorials: ‘What’s next&# ...
    The newspaper where I work published two editorial this week that folks who are interested in coal issues don’t want to miss. The first was headlined, Extremes: Climate change, and explained: Last year, America suffered historic weather calamities: disastrous tornadoes, severe floods, exte ...
  • Alpha hit with another ‘imminent danger& ...
    Here’s the latest Alpha Natural Resources disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: On May 18, 2012, Spartan Mining Company, a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act alleging that smoke was encoun ...
  • Activists board coal barge, block haul road
    Here’s what citizen activists say is happening this morning here in West Virginia: Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transport in two locations Thursday morning. Five boarded a barge on the Kanawha River near Chelyan, with a large banner that read “Coal leaves, cancer stays ...
  • Another take on Appalachian Power and coal
    If you’re interested in West Virginia energy issues and you aren’t reading Bill Howley’s blog, The Power Line, you should be. It’s about a lot more than power lines. With two posts this morning, Bill offers some interesting thoughts on stories today in the Gazette and the ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Sam Harris and Bruce Schneier Debate Airport P ...
    It is still not clear to me what you actually recommend—nor is it clear why your views about profiling, if true, wouldn’t extend to all intelligence work, or even to immigration. Should we issue visas to people at random, or should we pay more attention to those applying from Yemen, Pakistan, an ...
  • Motivational Speaking in a World Without Free Will
    Two of my friends (Carl and David) and I have been having a long email debate about free will. They believe in it. I don’t. It’s been going on for multiple years now so I won’t attempt to summarize here. But recently there has been a sub-debate spawned from a recent post of min ...
  • HULK DDoS Tool
    “Enforcing Python’s engines, I wrote a script that generates some nicely crafted unique Http requests, one after the other, generating a fair load on a webserver, eventually exhausting it of resources. this can be optimized much much further, but as a proof of concept and generic guidance ...
  • Microsoft Switching to CVRF For Security Bulletins
    The framework has also recently received an update but, most important of all, has also received a very prominent backer: Microsoft. “Even though many vendors have followed Microsoft’s lead in providing comprehensive security updates to customers, the formats vendors use vary. CVRF provide ...
  • Why So Many Climate Scientists Are Becoming Mo ...
    Climate scientists have been consistently downplaying and underestimating the risks for three main reasons. First, their models tended to ignore the  myriad amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks that we now know are kicking in (such as the defrosting tundra). Second, they never imagined that th ...

Fitwatch

  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]
  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope’s butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See b ...
  • US has to stop thinking in terms of war – Cong ...
    RT met with US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, Democratic rep. for Ohio State, and talked about his vision of American foreign policy. Kucinich opposes sanctions against Tehran that could lead to war. “We need to be talking with Iran and we need to stop this vainglorious notion that somehow we can ...
  • Chinese Street Vendors Beaten by Officers
     From hrw.org - A woman fights with chengguan police as they dismantle part of her small restaurant and confiscate equipment that she stored on the sidewalk outside of her shop in the Fuzi Miao tourist market in central Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. The chengguan in Nanjing began a crackdown on sidew ...
  • Hippie Tank Tops; Guaranteed To Keep Ted Nugen ...
    Our Hippie Tank Tops are 100% Ted Nugent Repellent! Show your support for Worldwide Hippies, Today! Citizen Journalism: Sane, Rational and never more important. 100% Cotton with the Worldwide Hippies Globe on the front. Just $14.00 + shipping limited time offer. Available in  Medium, Large and X ...
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reference frame

  • Assassination of Heydrich 70 years ago: detail ...
    Exactly 70 years ago, on May 27th, 1942, Operation Anthropoid took place. The Czechoslovak government located in our temporary capital called London – due to some bureaucratic chaos in Prague of that time – sentenced a political crackpot, a key father of the Holocaust, and one of t ...
  • Krugman: scientists should falsely predict ali ...
    ...in order to increase the government spending... Apparently, global warming hasn't worked as a tool to promote Krugman's left-wing agenda (and some agendas that are much worse than his). So similar types are looking for a more "serious proposal" than the global warming and one of ...
  • Is the "follow the money" argument correct?
    In the climate science, the answer is Yes. Why? I count arstechnica.com among the most thoughtful sources of science news for the most well-informed non-expert readers. However, what John Timmer wrote on Thursday (and what was mindlessly endorsed by Hank Campbell) simply looks unbelievab ...
  • Iran, AGW: useless summits in Baghdad, Bonn
    ...and African migrants in Israel... In recent days, two major cities starting with a "B" witnessed futile negotiations about important topics. In Bonn, the ex-capital of West Germany, some bureaucrats were trying to prepare a post-Kyoto agreement to regulate the greenhouse gases th ...
  • BaBar: 3.4-sigma excess in tau-nu decays of B
    This is just a simple link with a comment. The BaBar collaboration located at SLAC just published a preprint Evidence for an excess of \(B \to D({}^*) \tau \nu\) decays in which it announced the measurement of the ratio of branching ratios of decays of mesons\[ {\mathcal R}(D({}^*)) ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Safe - vs. Safer
    The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • Our 6th Annual Sunscreen Guide
    When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...
  • Another Delay from FDA
    Late Thursday EWG found out the Food and Drug Administration was going to delay their sunscreen regulations by six months, at the request of the cosmetics industry. EWG replied with a statement that called out the agency's foot-dragging and highlighted... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
    As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Norway dominated but fell to England
    The Norwegian national football team (landslaget) was narrowly outclassed in a 1-0 loss to England after a friendly international match in Oslo on Saturday. England’s first and only goal came after just nine minutes of action. In front of a sold-out Ullevaal Stadium, a moment of quality fr ...
  • Beaten in Baku, threatened too
    Norway not only wound up last in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest but also landed in a serious diplomatic dispute with authorities in the contest’s host country of Azerbaijan. It didn’t turn out to be a very happy birthday for Norway’s contestant, singer Touraj “ ...
  • Hillary Clinton traveling to Oslo
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will land in Oslo late this week and stay into the weekend with a trip up to northern Norway, escorted by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The foreign ministry announced Friday that Clinton will arrive on Thursday evening, May 31 and stay ...
  • Solheim faces rejection, again
    Erik Solheim, the veteran politician and diplomat who lost his ministerial post earlier this spring, now seems to have also lost his bid to become Norway’s new ambassador to the United Nations (UN). He’s taking it in stride, suggesting other opportunities will loom for him. Newspaper ...
  • Women won for bravely speaking up
    Two women have been honoured in Norway recently for their outspokenness across cultural lines. Both have immigrant backgrounds, from Algeria and Syria, and they’ve often angered some local Muslim men who in turn shocked Norwegians with their chauvinistic reaction. Louiza Louhibi, an atheis ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Food Forests and Earth Stewardship
    In Nature, all things are interconnected to each other, and in permaculture we strive to understand the relationships that comprise the ecological web of life. Through understanding the relationships in an ecological system, we can model these to  build similarly sustainable systems. Of all ...
  • Help Get The Idiot Cycle into the Public Domain
    The Idiot Cycle – trailer I am Emmanuelle Schick Garcia, the director of the award-winning documentary The Idiot Cycle that investigates the connections between the chemical, cancer and GMO industries (the film focuses on Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Bayer, Dupont, BASF and Astrazeneca ...
  • Plant Families – Patterns in Nature
    Climbing bean flowers have only one axis of symmetry A practical thing botany teaches is too look at similarities and differences or patterns in plants. When growing vegetables you start to see resemblances between the plants and it can be useful to develop some general knowledge about how pl ...
  • Timber – We All Use It, So How Do We Get It?
    Timber we all use it, so how do we get it? All but gone are our localized sawmills with which we could access sawn timber for construction with a reasonably low footprint. So it’s time we started to look at our timber/lumber security. Darren Doherty, and great courses like the master tree ...
  • John Liu’s Green Gold Documentary – How the We ...
    As most of our readers will know, John Liu caught a vision years ago, and, thankfully, he ran with it. We’ve shared John’s excellent media work before (see here and here), and today have the pleasure of doing so again…. This new video, Green Gold, was first aired last mont ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Official Statement From Women With A Vision Af ...
    This letter and video is reposted from the website of Women With A Vision. You can donate on their site: http://wwav-no.org. Dear friends, colleagues and family, Today we reach out to express our gratitude for your support and to let you know that everyone in the Women With A Vision family is ...
  • Break-in and Arson at Offices of Women With a ...
    Shockwaves went out across social justice communities across the US at the word that Women With a Vision, a local organization that advocates for poor women of color, was the victim of a break-in and arson at their offices in MidCity. Women With A Vision (WWAV) was cofounded by a collective of ...
  • Another Day in Court for Angola Three Prisoner
    From our friends at the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: On Tuesday, May 29th, Albert Woodfox will begin a 3 day hearing that may result in his conviction being overturned for a third time. Proceedings will begin at 9am in Courtroom 1 at the US District Court in Baton Rouge and c ...
  • Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal, ...
    US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civilians. Some of those killed were rescuers and mourners. These killings would be cri ...
  • We Belong Together: Women's Delegation to Geor ...
    My name is Williana Washington Tadlock and I am a member of STAND. I became a member by getting involved in the BW Cooper campaign to fight for the rights for jobs in rebuilding our community. I am happy to say that we won that fight! With that, I became intrigued and wanted to do more. I began ...

Information Underground

  • Social Engineering • Re: Jew Bankers Seigmund ...
    Niall Ferguson... totally clueless to J-Triber control of the Eurobond...--CSR ----------- Are The Europeans About To Start The Second Half Of Our Great Depression? Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/26/2012 19:58 "Just when we think the worst is over - and let's face ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    What a bunch of racists, made in Israel, only in Israel and what's funny is that 92% of Jewry comes from Mongolia http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world ... index.html Jerusalem (CNN) -- A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=489236 PRISTINA (Reuters) -- A suspect in a human organ trafficking scandal that came to light in Kosovo in 2008 has been arrested in Israel, the European Union's police and justice mission in the Balkan country said on Friday. Moshe Harel was ar ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: Jew Bankers Seigmund ...
    Keep an eye open... 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, "e ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Kirwan adds details on how NORAD was under AIPAC/J-Team control on 9/11: ===== The Broken Bloodtrail Of 911 Posted on May 25, 2012 by Kirwan Dick Cheney indicted for alleged abuse “On June first 2001, just three months before 911 Dick Cheney ordered Donald Rumsfeld to take command of NORAD ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Brazilian President Vetoes Controversial Chang ...
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed critical revisions to the nation’s Forest Code that environmental advocates said would lead to rampant deforestation of the Amazon. Speaking to reporters, government officials said Rousseff had vetoed vetoed 12 of the 84 articles in the controversial ...
  • Los Angeles Becomes the Largest U.S. City to B ...
    Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to impose a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets and other stores, a significant victory for environmental advocates seeking to keep plastic waste out of the region’s landfills and waterways. In a vote Wednesday, the City Council approved plans to phas ...
  • Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record Levels ...
    Global carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2011, driven largely by a 9.3-percent increase in Chinese emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to preliminary estimates, worldwide carbon emissions climbed to 31.6 gigatonnes in 2011, a 3 ...
  • The Pollution Fallout From Zimbabwe’s Blood Di ...
    The regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been accused of profiting from the Marange diamond fields, garnering illicit funds that could be used to bolster his oppressive security forces. Now critics are alleging the government is failing to stop mining-waste pollution that is sickeni ...
  • Methane Sources Found Bubbling Up from Melting ...
    U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, said they have discovered 150,000 methane seeps in ...

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backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Know Your Enemy
    For Memorial Day why not turn to a biting, thoughtful, and absolutely spot-on new novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” about American Iraq War vets back home on a publicity tour, writes Matt Gallagher.
  • Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
    Michael Posner is the president’s point man on democracy: No wonder he looks exhausted.
  • The Edwards Waiting Game
    Six days into deliberations, curious signs from the jury and the defendant are raising eyebrows.
  • Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
    The recent furor over PSA testing highlights a larger debate about over-prescribing care. Casey Schwartz and Clark Merrefield report.
  • The Pagan Cult of Reagan
    Lee Siegel on what the ferocious idolatry of the former president says about today’s right-wing insurgents.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Vessel drills deep in 3/11 quake area
    A deep-sea drilling vessel has collected rock samples from 820 meters below the seabed near the epicenter of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology said. The maritime research agency said Friday the samples could be from an area forming part o ...
  • Toshiba supplies LEDs to Louvre
    Toshiba Corp. is providing the Louvre with LED lights to illuminate some of its most renowned works of art, including Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." Work to replace the French museum's lights is scheduled to be completed next May. The LED lights will be used until the end of 2024, Toshiba sa ...
  • Knicks give Woodson multiyear deal
    The New York Knicks have signed Mike Woodson as head coach, deciding that making the playoffs this season was good enough to remove his "interim" tag, even with Phil Jackson lurking as a potential candidate. Woodson knows more will be asked of him now.
  • Hosono inspects No. 4 reactor's fuel-laden poo ...
    Nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono on Saturday visited the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and inspected work to reinforce the reactor 4 spent-fuel pool, which contains a large number of fuel rods, and protect it against major temblors. Hosono told reporters afterward that he felt the buttre ...
  • Naruse hands Giants first loss in three weeks
    Yoshihisa Naruse put the brakes on the speeding Yomiuri Giants on Saturday. The Giants, who had 10 wins and three ties since May 5, were held to five hits in a 5-2 loss at QVC Marine Field.

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Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Economics of EI “Reform.”
    Changes to the EI rules announced by the government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale. But Minister Finley and and the media release spoke to the need to “strengthen work incentives.” This conjures up images of  unemployed workers sitting around and spurning job of ...
  • Inequality undermines collective action on cli ...
    Much has been written of late about the costs of inequality — the social and health costs, the costs to democracy and social cohesion, and the costs to the economy and productivity. But here’s another cost to rising inequality that has received less consideration — the costs to ...
  • Reframing the Health Care Debate
    By Trish Hennessy Discussions about how to frame social issues in Canada are often left to communications professionals, but so many times it’s the people on the front lines of public service who have a lot to contribute to this endeavour. Take Saskatoon physician Ryan Meili. He has cleverly wov ...
  • Duel of the Saskatchewan Expatriates
    Last week, I had the following letter in The Globe and Mail: Oil sands royalties The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ most recent Statistical Handbook indicates that, in 2010, this industry sold $101-billion of oil and gas but paid only $12-billion in resource royalties. Even Senator ...
  • Inflation On Target; Exchange Rate Off Target
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 2%, precisely in line with the Bank of Canada’s target. With inflation under control and renewed risks to the global economy, there is little rationale for the central bank to raise interest rates anytime soon. In fact, the Bank of Ca ...

ReDress

  • Bird's eye view of Zionism's and Israel's stra ...
    Uri Avnery argues that the longstanding strategic aim of Zionism and Israel - a Jews-only state in all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and the prevention of an Arab Palestinian state - is a pipe dream and that Israelis has better formulate a new national aim b ...
  • The media's limitations and manipulations
    Ziad El-Hady looks at how government, elite and corporate interests shape media reports of international and domestic events, trivializing and sensationalizing news, corrupting our understanding of the world and reinforcing prejudice and bigotry.
  • Staying power - the key to victory in the war ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two victories for human rights, one by Palestinian hunger strikers in Israel and the other by opponents of detention without trial in the USA. He argues that, although these are two battles won, the war to protect civil and human rights will need staying power and may ...
  • Post-colonial theory, whiteness and Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Palestinian activists - indeed, everyone who strives for liberation, equality and justice - must ditch the circular, sterile post-colonial discourse that permeates leftist thinking and "deconstruct Jewish texts and Jewish cultural discourse with the same vigour that Edwa ...
  • The Zionist scenario - now and in the future
    Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory - possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for th ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • In Chile, A Conflict Between Clean Energy And ...
    “Five dams have been proposed in the isolated region of Aysén in southern Chile: three on the wild, uninhabited Pascua River, and two on the Baker. The most voluminous river in Chile, the Baker (BAH-ker) is the thundering, silvery blue heart of Aysén, and the core of the region’s history a ...
  • Tapping Into Safer Water Access
    “New standards will improve quality but concerns still remain, report Wu Wencong and Zheng Jinran. New standards for drinking water will come into force in China on July 1, with the number of quality indicators rising to 106 from 35. While that’s almost on par with standards used in ...
  • Reservoir caught in 3-state war for water
    “The Mobile District is in the middle of the tri-state water wars litigation between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. When an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter asked the corps whether the reservoir is open, a day and a half later U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District public affa ...
  • Ancient River Valley Reclaimed: Saudi’s ...
    “For hundreds of years, Saudi’s Wadi Hanifah River carved out a scenic valley extending from sand dunes and agricultural land pocked with date plantations into the heart of Riyadh before it seeped underground. But the city’s expansion into a thumping metropolis of 7 million people brought ...
  • Fracking’s Methane Trail: A Detective Story
    “Petron saw high levels of methane in readings from a NOAA observation tower north of Denver. And through painstaking, on-the-ground detective work, she tied that pollution to the sprawling oil and gas fields in northeastern Colorado. The story she stumbled into suggests that government ma ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Austerity is Counterproductive. We N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report indicating that policies designed to reduce the deficit beginning in 2013 will result in a recession. “Today’s CBO report backs up what economists have been te ...
  • New Study Confirms (Again): Keystone XL Would ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after a study by the National Resources Defense Council showed once again that the Keystone XL pipeline would raise gas prices for American consumers. Kucinich has frequently argued this point on the House floor, in a ...
  • Kucinich Responds to NRC Chairman’s Decision t ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led Congressional efforts to advance nuclear safety, today released the following statement after U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his retirement pending the confirmation of a successor. “Chairman Jaczko is committe ...
  • Kucinich: “NATO Talks a Sham: War in Afghanist ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement as world leaders meet in Chicago for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it’s not about ...
  • Kucinich on NDAA: Is this Who We Are as a Nation?
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement detailing why he voted against the National Defense Authorization Act. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 4310, authorizes a total of $642.7 billion.  According to Congressional Quarterly, defense s ...

Authentically Wired

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Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how ...
    Seventeen top scientists and four acclaimed conservation organizations have called for radical action to create a better world for this and future generations. Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing ...
  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Our eyes on the edge of the universe
    A mega-telescope to be partially built in New Zealand will provide our best chance yet to detect extra-terrestrial life as it maps the farthest reaches of the observable universe.New Zealand, Australia and South Africa will co-host...
  • New Zealand wins radio telescope bid
    New Zealand is one of three countries to have won a bid to host the world's largest radio telescope, despite a panel in March recommending the $2.5 billion project be awarded to a rival consortium led by South Africa.New Zealand...
  • DNA used to prove Bigfoot's existence
    European researchers plan to use new techniques to analyse DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists this week appealed to museums, scientists and...
  • Space rocket's Kiwi link
    A small team of Kiwi scientists has landed a stellar role in the world's first private flight to the International Space Station.As SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space craft blasted off from Cape Canaveral last night - making...
  • Millions view spectacular 'Ring of Fire' eclipse
    Millions in Asia and the western United States watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies.The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible...

The Bovine

  • U.S. Senator Rand Paul seeks a legal amendment ...
    From Rand Paul’s blog: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today on the U.S. Senate floor, Sen. Rand Paul introduced an amendment to the Food and Drug Administration User Fee Reauthorization bill, which would curb the Food and Drug Associations overreach and abuse of … Continue reading →
  • Proposed B.C. law to forbid disclosure of farm ...
    From Doug Powell, via Jim Romahn, on Agri 007: “When someone asks, What’s wrong with Kansas, I reply with, What’s wrong with Canada? My journalism friends have long complained that the flow of information about public health – public anything … Continue reading →
  • CFIA’s May 2-4 lettuce warning
    Lettuce pray… That no one notices the warning? That no one gets sick? Agri007 has the scoop: “May 2-4 warning The Canadian Food Inspection Agency picked 3 a.m. Saturday morning of the May 2-4 weekend to warn the public of … Continue reading →
  • June 4th webinar debate on raw milk
    From SustainOntario.com, a promising debate about raw milk from a panel featuring raw milk advocates AND public health experts: “Join us on-line for a free webinar.  Register online before June 4th at 11am. June 4th, 12-2pm As the debate around the … Continue reading →
  • GMO crops and their “superweeds”
    From The Atlantic: “After a decade of intensive genetically modified plant cultivation, weeds have emerged that are resistant to the most popular herbicide. I was a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee when the agency approved production of genetically … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Gaffe? What Gaffe? Greek Polls? All Over the Place
    I am amused by the Financial Times headline Tsipras shrugs off gaffe about Hollande. When Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek socialist leader, boarded a 7.30am flight to Paris on Tuesday, only his closest aides knew he was on the way to a hastily arranged meeting with the French president. ...
  • Harsh Language from Lagarde: "IMF Has No Inten ...
    Strong messages from the head or the IMF, the head of Deutsche Bank, and the president of the Bundesbank are highly likely to drive Greek voters away from New Democracy and Pasok in the June 17 elections. The Guardian writes It's payback time: don't expect sympathy – Lagarde to Greeks. ...
  • "ECB Will be Insolvent and Costs May Exceed 1 ...
    According to IIF director Charles Dallara in a Bloomberg interview, "ECB will be insolvent if Greece were to exit the euro. Europe would have to first and foremost recapitalize its central bank." Excuse me for asking but how would they attempt to do that? Print Euros? Please consider D ...
  • Spain's Bankrupt Catalonia Region "Running Out ...
    The crisis in Spain is rapidly coming to a head. This crisis has nothing to do with Greek "contagion" as is widely believed. Spain dug this hole by itself. Spain's immediate unsolvable problems are a bankrupt banking system coupled with bankrupt regions that have no way to pay bills. Spa ...
  • Merkel's 6-Point Plan to Save Europe; Merkel B ...
    It would be quite ironic and rather fitting if Germany and France fail to ratify the Merkozy treaty. 25 Nations have ratified the treaty but France and Germany still have not. French president Francois Hollande has already threatened non-ratification unless the treaty is revised. The L ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...
  • The EyeOpener- Education & “National Sec ...
    Watch the Preview Here: Watch the Full Video Report Here (Subscribers Only): *The Transcript for this video is available at Corbett Report: Click Here This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by SUBSCRIBING, and by ordering our EXCLUSIVE BFP DVD .
  • Updates on ‘Classified Woman’ & BFP
    Calm before a Storm? You got the news on my coming book, and some of you already have a copy. Then, you got the press release from NWC, and after that the video clip of my attorney’s interview with RT. I know many of you are wondering: what’s going on?! What  next?! Trust me, I [...]

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • UK campaigners target deputy PM’s house
    Britain’s anti-austerity campaigners have staged an alternative street party outside the house of the deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to voice their anger at the government's cuts program.
  • Forecasters predict outcome of US vote
    Nearly 1500 forecasters from more than 30 countries have gathered in the United States’ New Orleans to tell the outcome of the US November presidential election.
  • Disarm Israel for Mideast to be nuke free
    Israeli regime must be disarmed as the first goal behind declaring the Middle East region a nuclear weapons free zone, says a British author and anti-war activist.
  • China's rise poses challenge to US: Biden
    The US Vice President Joe Biden says Washington has devised a new policy in a bid to counter the rising power and influence of China.
  • US-led airstrike kills 8 Afghan civilians
    At least eight members of a family, including six children, have been killed in a US-led airstrike in Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

  • A protestor shouts slogans during a rally orga ...
    A protestor shouts slogans during a rally organized by Communist Party of India (Marxist) and various trade unions in Jammu, India, Saturday, March 24, 2012. The protest was against inflation and alleged anti-labor policies in the country. (Channi Anand)
  • nickturse:Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, in hand ...
    nickturse: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, in handcuffs, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade in Maryland February 23, 2012. Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred pleading guilty or not guilty in a military c ...
  • (via Tony Auth)
    (via Tony Auth)
  • thepeoplesrecord:Victory to the Quebec Stude ...
    thepeoplesrecord: Victory to the Quebec Student Strike!
  • sunfoundation:John Moore: It’s the older gen ...
    sunfoundation: John Moore: It’s the older generation that’s entitled, not students Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to Socrates, let us ask: Who exactly is making the charge? Quebec has had low tuition rates for a half century. That means almost every li ...
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