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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • Lebanon on the brink
    Lebanon is always on the verge of civil war, but this status does not always mean that civil war is necessarily around the corner. It may happen tomorrow, or Lebanese may find a way to postpone its eruption, but civil war is inevitable. Something is in the air in Lebanon and it reminds people ...
  • Whip Rallies Troops for New Rudd Challenge
    Some who favour a switch do not want it to happen until the last day of parliamentary sittings in June, when a new leader would have the long winter break to reorganise government and tweak policies. Ms Gillard will face an angry Labor caucus on Tuesday over her government's deal to let Gina ...
  • Barack has trampled over left, right and centre
    Obama has undermined more individual rights and hoarded more presidential power than Bush ever did. It's not that he has simply failed to roll back Bush's anti-terror excesses. (Although that is true, as well.) It's that Obama has trumped them. More than 10 years after the September 11 attacks, ...
  • A Man on a Gaza Roof
    ”We traveled along the west coast. Had for months been in southern India. Hitchhiked our way along the coast. There was always someone who picked us up. We were always well treated. After Kerala, we came to Goa.” During Daniel’s short story, his father stopped him and exclaimed, ”I remember e ...
  • Chinese chaos - the immediate threat to the dollar
    The slow death began with the dollar’s birth as a global reserve currency. America was creditor and manufacturer to the world, and the capitalist superpower. People around the globe transacted overwhelmingly in dollars. Above all else, people needed dollars to conduct trade, and they were willin ...

Independent - London

  • An astonishingly comprehensive and stealthy be ...
    Ever since word of the Flame virus first got out the superlatives have come in thick and fast.Related StoriesDictators' memoirs: not known for their happy endingsDylan's a hit at the White House
  • US deal to arm Italy's drones opens new front ...
    Washington has agreed in principle to install weapons on Italy’s fleet of unmanned aircraft in spite of concerns about a new arms race among nations to acquire and deploy robot drones capable of deadly force.Related StoriesFrisco looks back at the Golden era as its bridge turns 75Trending: Dear ...
  • Ireland's austerity D-Day: How much pain can i ...
    The opinion of Niall Daly, who runs the Chocolate Shop in Cork's English Market, sums up why Ireland looks set to vote in favour of the new EU fiscal treaty in its referendum tomorrow. "I'm leaning towards voting Yes, but definitely with a heavy heart," he said. "The No campaign haven't convinc ...
  • No charges on 'racist' King's Torah text
    Israel's Attorney General has decided not to prosecute two rabbis who wrote a controversial religious text proposing circumstances in which it is permissible to kill non-Jews even if they pose no direct physical threat of violence.Related StoriesUN envoy Kofi Annan meets Syria's president Assad ...
  • Syria isolated as Western capitals expel diplomats
    Bashar al-Assad's regime was facing increasing isolation yesterday with nearly a dozen Western states expelling Syrian envoys in retaliation for the Houla massacre, and with renewed calls for the United Nations to impose far-reaching sanctions.Related StoriesUN envoy Kofi Annan meets Syria's pr ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Blue Orb lights in the skies over Dulce, New M ...
    A strange UFO video posted to YouTube shows dozen of blue orbs flying (not just floating) over the stormy nighttime skies of Dulce, New Mexico, near the infamous Area 51 secret government facility. The nearly seven minute video tracks the orbs as they dance around the sky during an approaching ...
  • 'UFO' at the bottom of the Baltic Sea to get a ...
    The sunken anomaly discovered last year on sonar in the Baltic Sea is about to be investigated by deep sea divers and remote cameras. What will they find? Here's the video that started it all: While Swedish researchers Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg have avoided labeling the object as a UFO ...
  • Sighting of UFO over University Place, Washington
    A University Place resident reported on the website www.ufostalker.com that a UFO giving off an orang-ish white light flew in the area Monday. Do you believe in UFO's? Well, at least one person from University Place does, and that person claims there was one over the neighborhood Monday. The ...
  • Unidentified flying objects seen in Sydney sky
    Sydney's reputation for being a great place to visit has clearly spread to the stars, with four unidentified flying objects spotted hovering over the city's suburbs on Monday afternoon. A photograph capturing the four UFO's - which witnesses said hovered in the same spot for more than 10 minute ...
  • Climate Change Led to Collapse of Ancient Indu ...
    A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The study also resolves a long-standing debate over ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • State security . . .
    VICKIE'S TRYING TO BUILD ONE OF THESE. Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network: The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants. But Big Vickie loves us, so it'll all work out, right?
  • It slices and dices . . .
    SLAP CHOP THIS AIN'T. It's a piece of malware called "Flame". And what a piece it is: compared to Stuxnet, the malware that gutted the digital controllers for Iranian uranium centrifuges, a smallest-you-can-make-it 500Kb, Flame is Godzilla-size, a whopping 20Mb. According to the article in WIRED ...
  • #ggi
    Yep. Doug Finnson, the union's chief negotiator, says it's only because the government said it would act that CP management isn't at the table. "Collective bargaining in this country is under attack, certainly," he said. "As long as the government intervenes in collective bargaining, a ...
  • The Lord helps those . . .
    WHO HELP THEMSELVES. At least, that's what The Lizard Farmer believes. What a great reason to get a Barrett .50 BMG and a nice variable scope, though for less than 3-400 meters, a nice 7mm magnum or a .25-06 varminter BAR might be quite useful, really flat trajectories, or maybe a ValMet s ...
  • A dry warning . . .
    THE ARAL SEA: trashed by the Soviets in the 1960s, it has yet to recover, if that is even possible with global warming. Now, Canada is environmentally threatened by right-wing extremists, with psychopathic greed as their motivation, who are more dangerous, because they have more money than the S ...

Media Matters for America

  • Government Employment Drops Under Obama, But M ...
    Labor Department statistics say that government employment has decreased by 608,000 since February 2009. Nevertheless, Fox News and Politico both uncritically reported Mitt Romney's false claim that "[w]e have 145,000 more government workers under this president."Fact: Government Employment Has ...
  • Right-Wing Media Hype Discredited Activist's L ...
    Right-wing media are hyping discredited conservative activist Lila Rose's latest Planned Parenthood smear video which purports to implicate the organization in a rampant problem with sex-selective abortion in the United States. But the facts debunk Rose's latest attack on Planned Parenthood, an ...
  • Fox Mangles Data To Claim "The Poor" Are Getti ...
    Fox's John Stossel claimed that it's a "myth" that "the poor are getting poorer" and that they are actually getting "richer." In fact, incomes for the bottom fifth have shown almost no growth in recent decades, and the numbers Stossel used to support his argument were cherry-picked.Incomes ...
  • Myths & Facts About Wind Power
    Following relentless attacks on the solar industry in the wake of Solyndra's bankruptcy, wind power has become the latest target of the right-wing campaign against renewable energy. But contrary to the myths propagated by the conservative media, wind power is safe, increasingly affordable, and ...
  • Right-Wing Sites Baselessly Accuse WH Of Leaki ...
    Conservative websites are claiming a new release of documents show that the "White House" gave "classified information" to filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal for their upcoming film about the Osama bin Laden raid. However, even the group that released those documents, Judicial ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Pittsburgh Gets Propane Cabs
    (Green Car Congress) Yellow Cab of Pittsburgh, a division of the Pittsburgh Transportation Group (PTG), is introducing propane-powered taxi cabs to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl will be on hand at the cab drivers annual ...
  • Cheap Natural Gas Prompts Energy Department to ...
    (New York Times) The Energy Department estimates that 95 percent of the United States' hydrogen is produced from natural gas. The abundance of that contentious fossil fuel has revised the cost equation for fuel-cell vehicles. Even hydr ...
  • For Electric Car Company, Some Recent Challenges
    (New York Times) Four years ago, the BYD Company promoted the electric battery technology it was developing as a way to help China transform the automobile. No less an investor than Warren E. Buffett, one of the world’s richest men, bo ...
  • California Tribes Suing to Halt Construction o ...
    (Indian Country Today) The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountain: "Removal, disturbance, or attempting to remove archaeological materia ...
  • Greenpeace Activists Protest Coal Mining in Be ...
    (Prague Monitor) Twelve Greenpeace activists climbed up the two mining towers of the Frenstat coal mine in the Beskydy Mountains yesterday to alert to the Czech Republic's irresponsible attitude to global warming and fossil fuels minin ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Alexander Hamilton was a Tea-Bagger
    David Brooks offers us another steaming pile of Stupid. This time, he's concerned that some folks on the left are complaining about income inequality and ultra low taxes on the wealthy, so he attempts to invoke Alexander Hamilton as the kind of guy who would have no truck with class warfare. Y ...
  • Evil Republicans
    What motivated me to devote all my time to politics wasn't tax policy or the environment or women's issues or gay marriage or our health care system or voting rights or any particular policy. I'm a progressive on all those issues, but I would have remained on the sidelines if not for one thing: ...
  • Dining With Birtherism
    This birther thing started a long time ago. It's really quite deranged. You should check out this late October 2008 piece from Pam Gellar's place that attempts to prove that Barack Obama's real father was Malcolm X. And if you don't believe that literally, they ask you to at least admit it fi ...
  • Romney is Gonna Get It
    John Helleman: Though the Obamans certainly hit John McCain hard four years agorunning more negative ads than any campaign in historywhat they intend to do to Romney is more savage. They will pummel him for being a vulture-vampire capitalist at Bain Capital. They will pound him for being a m ...
  • The Fever Might Break
    There are a lot of interesting aspects to John Helleman's big piece on the Obama campaign. I want to focus on one of them. Let me throw out a blockquote to get us started. Back in December, [Obama Campaign Manager, Jim] Messina laid out publicly the ways that advantage gives Obama an upper ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 20 Solitary Desert Plants Surviving Against th ...
    Take inspiration from these 20 tough and determined desert plants surviving alone in harsh environments where the earth is parched and water is seldom seen. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Evolution of New Jersey's Barrier Islands
    New Jersey's barrier islands typify environmental change under the forces of nature, but responding to such change may be more feasible than trying to challenge it. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When WWII Bunkers Look Like Ancient Monoliths
    Ten abandoned World War II fortifications captured in evocative and oddly serene photographs such that they look like the surviving ruins of some ancient civilization. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Incredible Flying Cars of Tomorrow
    New road-legal flying cars may well ease long-distance commutes. Just how high-flying will the worker of tomorrow be? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Has the Northern Snakehead Fish Invaded Britis ...
    Two video reports of a Northern Snakehead fish in Burnaby, British Columbia in May 2012 raised concerns that Canada will be the next victim of this "Frankenfish". This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: Ailment Strikes Endangered Bat
    Gray bats' preference for living together in only a few caves in the Southeast may make them particularly vulnerable to white nose syndrome, caused by a fungus.
  • From Z(oos) to A(rks)
    Conservation-minded zoos use what they learn about animals in their care to help species in the wild -- sometimes even relocating them to new habitats.
  • How Will Nuclear Plants Stand Up to Quakes and ...
    Nuclear plant operators and regulators have fallen short on requiring detailed analyses of how vulnerable reactors are to natural disasters and some other risks, government auditors reported.
  • A Red-Knot Celebrity Is Back in Town
    To the excitement of bird conservationists, one of the oldest known and longest-traveled red knots was spotted along Delaware Bay on Monday.
  • Plastic Waste = Cash Cow?
    The public is invited to generate ideas on collecting and reusing plastic waste for profit in advance of the Rio+20 summit.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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  • New Israeli special forces command escalates c ...
    In recent months, intelNews has paid particular attention to senior Israeli security officials, or former officials, who routinely caution against plans for an Israeli military attack on Iran. These include Amos Yadlin, former head of Israel’s Military Intelligence directorate, and former Mossad ...
  • News you may have missed #738
    Pathologist says MI6 spy may have died alone. Turkey may indict Israeli officers Over Gaza flotilla raid. Czech counterintelligence services alarmed by drastic drop in funding.
  • News you may have missed #737
    Turkey suspects bird of being Israeli spy. CIA discloses names of 15 killed officers. Pakistan convicts doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden.
  • Comment: US Cybersecurity Posture is not Purel ...
    In recent years, news coverage of cyberespionage and cybersecurity has increased several times over; both subjects have escaped the narrow confines of technical literature and have entered the broad expanses of popular news media. This blog is no exception; since 2008, we have covered both cyber ...
  • Comment: US helped Canada nab accused spy Jeff ...
    Back in January of this year, when the Jeffrey Delisle spy affair made headlines around the world, I spoke with several journalists from The Globe & Mail, The Canadian Press, and other Canadian news outlets, who were --rightly-- curious about the role of the United States in the affair. I to ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Verbs for Nouns
    cross posted from AcronymTV  A popular refrain that one hears when talking about the troops is that they fight, kill, and get killed, maim and get maimed so that we can enjoy our freedom here at home. The troops make the ultimate sacrifice so that we can be free. Does anyone with even a par ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Marcy Winograd on Leaving t ...
    Marcy Winograd was a leading Democratic Party activist in Los Angeles, nearly elected to Congress as a Democrat herself.  She has renounced that party and become a Green.  Her positions on public policy have not changed.  She is still a leading peace activist in Southern Californi ...
  • Julian Assange loses extradition case
    From The Guardian: • WikiLeaks founder given 14 days to decide whether to ask supreme court to reopen the case • Read a summary of key events • Read more: Julian Assange loses appeal
  • National Week of Action Against Torture - June ...
    The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is joining with a national coalition of religious and human rights groups in a National Week of Action Against Torture, Guantanamo and the NDAA. Co-sponsoring organizations are listed below.  Share this promotional video to encourage o ...
  • Meet the Little Girl Killed by a US Missile: T ...
    Salon / By Jefferson Morley Around midnight on May 21, 2010, a girl named Fatima was killed when a succession of U.S.-made Hellfire missiles, each of them five-feet long and traveling at close to 1,000 miles per hour, smashed a compound of houses in a mountain village of Mohammed Khel in Nor ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Record 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have f ...
    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
  • Smartcard flaw opens door to identity theft
    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...
  • Meet ‘Flame’, The Massive Spy Malw ...
    A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation. The malware, discovered by Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, is an espionage tool ...
  • Media Continues Skin Cancer Scare by Vilifying ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post What is one of the biggest threats to health today according to the mainstream media? It’s not the fact that mercury is present in a wide majority of the processed food supply, or even the fact that excessive amounts of radioactive waste is now admitted to have he ...
  • 78 percent of Pakistani children with polio we ...
    Thursday, June 02, 2011 by: Daniel Erickson (NaturalNews) In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new ca ...

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • CURB Agency Blends Advertising with Sustainabl ...
    Read the rest of CURB Agency Blends Advertising with Sustainable Eco-Art To Spread its Message Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: advertising alternatives, CURB advertising, eco design, eco-art, green design, living ads, LoGrow, moss art, moss graffiti, reverse graffiti, ...
  • Guido Daniele Creates Amazing Depictions of An ...
    Italian artist Guido Daniele creates the most wonderful life-like depictions of animals simply by applying body paint to the hands of his models. A hyper-realist illustrator and trompe l’oeil artist, Daniele developed his own technique several a few years of experimentation with airbrush p ...
  • Re:composed by Springtime Turns Recycled Waste ...
    Springtime is turning trash into luxurious materials for their cool new line of Re:composed furniture pieces. Re:composed focuses on using waste destined for the dumpster as a base material for beautiful new decor. By fusing the two unlikely concepts together, Re:composed pushes individuals to c ...
  • Egyptian Teenager Creates Next Generation Quan ...
    An Egyptain teenager has patented a next generation propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems—without using a single drop of fuel. While it is not quite warp drive, young physicist Aisha Mustafa’s system is based on quantum physics and could see mankind boldly go ...
  • The Interior of Ford’s All-New 2013 Fusion is ...
    The all-new 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan is set to arrive in showrooms this fall, and it features some highly unusual recycled materials. While a great amount of time was spent on finding ways to make the Fusion’s powertrains fuel efficient, Ford’s engineers also found unique ways ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Chemists Outrun Laws in War on Synthetic Drugs
    Synthetic mimics of marijuana, dissociative drugs and stimulants -- such as the "bath salts" allegedly consumed by Randy Eugene, the Florida man shot after a horrific face-eating assault -- are growing in popularity and hard to control. Every time a compound is banned, overseas chemists synthesi ...
  • Earth Experiences Back-to-Back Asteroid Close ...
    Two small asteroids buzzed by the Earth, zooming well within the moon’s orbit, over the last couple days. Neither posed any danger but the events were eagerly captured by amateur astronomers, and the second encounter was a record-setter.
  • Occupy the Neolithic: Social Immobility in the ...
    Just how early did the 99 percent feel the dominance of the 1 percent? Skeletal remains from prehistoric farming communities suggest that inequality was an early feature going back more than 7,000 years ago.
  • RoboZoo: Wired’s Menagerie of Robot Animals
    Wired scours the world's laboratories for the coolest and cutest animal robots.
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Radioactive Tuna from Fukushima on US Coast
    Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance. "We were frankly ...
  • U2, Bono? Celeb partners with Monsanto, G8, to ...
    At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for monocultured, genetically modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed at making poor farmers debt s ...
  • Poland beekeepers kick Monsanto out of the hiv ...
    A significant health freedom victory has taken place in the European nation of Poland, where all plantings of Monsanto's MON810, a genetically-modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) that produces its own built-in Bt insecticide in every kernel, have been officially banned.
  • Security backdoor found in China-made US milit ...
    A microchip used by the US military and manufactured in China contains a secret "backdoor" that means it can be shut off or reprogrammed without the user knowing, according to researchers at Cambridge University's Computing Laboratory.
  • US Special Ops commander: We’ve sent troops in ...
    U.S. Special Forces have been parachuting into North Korea to spy on Pyongyang’s extensive network of underground military facilities. That surprising disclosure, by a top U.S. commando officer, is a reminder of America’s continuing involvement in the “cold war” on the Korean peninsula – and of ...

Andy Worthington

  • How A Comment on My Website Led Jason Leopold ...
    On Christmas Day 2008, a comment by someone identifying themselves as Hesham Abu Zubaydah was submitted on an article I had written many months earlier, entitled, The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts. This was the first of many articles I ...
  • How Guantánamo Is the Basis for the Mandatory ...
    Yesterday, I was rung by a journalist from Press TV, asking me to discuss my recent article, US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo? My three and a half minute commentary is available here, and in it I reiterated that, while ...
  • Two Years Since His Arrest, Bradley Manning&#8 ...
    Two years and two days since his arrest in Iraq on May 26, 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning still awaits the start of his court-martial, as his lawyers and other sympathizers try to take the government to task for its secrecy regarding the 24-year old, who faces 22 charges, including “aiding the ...
  • Nabil Habjarab, the “Sweet Kid” in ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • UK Uncut Holds Anti-Austerity Party Outside Ni ...
    So I’m sure you’re all aware that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this year. To mark the occasion, the Whitsun Bank Holiday has been moved from May 28 to June 4, and a Diamond Jubilee Holiday has been added on June 5, making a bumper four-day holiday ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Vicious Cycle: Development Aid Goes to Western ...
    Last year world leaders gathered at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea to discuss the future of international aid. Amongst the negotiations and political wrangling there was one message that governments appeared to agree on: that the most effective and fairest ...
  • Transition to Sustainable Agriculture Key to G ...
    For the millions of hungry and underfed people on the planet, food security is not an issue of insufficient production, but is an issue of inadequate access, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). read more
  • Britian's High Court Denies Assange Extraditio ...
    The British Supreme Court today has rejected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden. The decision paves the way for the Australian born Assange to be transferred to Sweden to face questioning stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct, though the Supreme ...
  • Appeals Decision Paves Way for Shell's Arctic ...
    An appeals court ruling issued late Friday gives Shell the green light to pursue its Arctic drilling plans, despite years-long challenges by environmental and indigenous groups. read more
  • ‘Green Economy’: New Disguise for Global Capit ...
    FLORENCE - Though the current global economic and financial crises are undoubtedly devastating much of the world, they present the perfect opportunity for remodeling our economic system, according to participants at the ninth annual Terra Futura (Future Earth) exhibition of ‘good practices ...

Lifehacker

  • Make Your Own CD Wallet Toolkit for On the Go ...
    Whether you just like tinkering in your basement, or you want a portable toolkit that can go wherever your projects go, this portable toolkit, made from a few affordable tools and a repurposed CD wallet, definitely does the trick. Cognitive r ...
  • Add Lifehacker and Our Writers to Your Circles ...
    There's been lots of conversation lately about whether or not Google+ is a "ghost town." If you're wondering the same, let us prove it's no such thing: add the Lifehacker Google+ page to your circles to read our top stories as they go up over ...
  • Core a Head of Iceberg Lettuce in Three Second ...
    If you've ever needed to core a head of iceberg lettuce, either because you need to chop it up or you just want it easier to separate, there's an easier way than trying to carve out the core or cut around it—just give it a good firm wha ...
  • Make a Quick and Easy Bike Rack Using Old Bike ...
    There are lots of inexpensive ways to hang up your bike, most of them involving floor-to-ceiling contraptions. This DIY bike hanger is a simple pair of hooks you screw into the wall to get your bike off the floor. Well, it's really just old bi ...
  • Mozilla Thimble Teaches You How to Code with a ...
    We recently told you about Mozilla's new Webmaker projects that teach you how to code, and the first one is ready for a test drive right now. Thimble is an easy to use, in-browser HTML editor that shows you the finished product right alongside ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Syria crisis: Turkey expels diplomats - live u ...
    • 13 countries have now asked Syrian diplomats to leave • Security council to be briefed on Annan's talks with Assad • China and Russia rule out forced regime change11.45am: Bahrain: Prominent activist Zainab al-Khawaja has been has been released after a month in jail, the BBC reports.She was ar ...
  • Leveson inquiry: Vince Cable and Ken Clarke - live
    Full coverage as the business secretary and justice secretary appear at the inquiry into press standards11.46am: Jay turns to a string of emails between Cable's adviser, Wilkes, and News Corp's Fred Michel. Wilkes turned down a meeting in no uncertain terms. Cable says he was acting entirely pro ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Spanish banking woes sen ...
    • EC to release progress reports at noon BST • ECB denies blocking Bankia plan • European markets fall, Bankia down 15% • Spanish bond yields above 6.6%11.32am: Spanish 10-year bond yields have kept rising this morning above the 6.7% mark, edging closer to the 7% point which prompted Greece, Ire ...
  • Julian Assange loses extradition case – live c ...
    WikiLeaks founder given 14 days to decide whether to ask supreme court to reopen the case • Read a summary of key events • Read more: Julian Assange loses appeal11.40am: Here is the Guardian's interactive history of the supreme court.11.29am: A Liberal Democrat peer and MEP has attacked the leng ...
  • Doctors vote to take industrial action against ...
    British Medical Association ballot sets up confrontation with ministers over plans to make doctors contribute moreDoctors have voted to take industrial action for the first time since 1975 to protest against the government's planned shakeup of their pensions.The British Medical Association (BMA) ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Is Photographing A Meal 'Taking Intellectual P ...
    Via Rob Hyndman, we discover that at least one chef believes that taking photos of food he cooks, and then posting them on the internet, is "taking" his "intellectual property." We've discussed in the past how restaurants are yet another area where a lack of copyright protection has actually he ...
  • Woman Texting Boyfriend Not Liable For The Car ...
    A few years ago, we noted the slight trend of people suing mobile operators over car crashes with drivers who were on their phones. Those lawsuits haven't gone very far, but with the rise of "texting while driving" as a big issue these days, someone apparently tried to blame a woman who texted ...
  • Netherlands Pre-Warns EU Parliament That It Wi ...
    With critical votes in the EU Parliament on ACTA quickly approaching, the Dutch House of Representatives decided to take a pre-emptive strike, and unanimously accept a motion that urged the Cabinet to reject ACTA, while also rejecting "any future treaty that may harm a free and open Internet." ...
  • How Much Would It Cost To Pre-Screen YouTube V ...
    Last week we reported that videos were currently being uploaded to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and asked how anybody could expect Google to pre-screen such a deluge. Techdirt Insider xenomancer has gone a little further by working out how much it would cost to screen that mate ...
  • The Idea That Women Need More Patents, Copyrig ...
    Last month, we reported on some silly research that suggested the economy would grow massively if we could just convince women to get more patents. The whole thing was based on some fundamentally silly assumptions related to thinking that patents are a proxy for either innovation or economic gr ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Why Obama finds it easy to kill people
    First the headline. If I propose to explain why President Obama finds it easy to kill people, don’t I first need to substantiate the assertion that he does indeed find it easy to kill people? The New York Times provides the evidence and a direct quote: William M Daley, Obama’s chief ...
  • Europe and the Greeks: Save us from the saviours
    Slavoj Žižek writes: Imagine a scene from a dystopian movie that depicts our society in the near future. Uniformed guards patrol half-empty downtown streets at night, on the prowl for immigrants, criminals and vagrants. Those they find are brutalised. What seems like a fanciful Hollywood image i ...
  • Israel’s apartheid road network
    (Click the image to see a larger version.)
  • Andrew Bacevich: The golden age of special ope ...
    They have a way of slipping under the radar, whether heading into Pakistan looking for Osama bin Laden, Central Africa looking for Joseph Kony, or Yemen assumedly to direct local military action against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  I’m talking, of course, about U.S. special ope ...
  • Most Houla massacre victims executed says U.N. ...
    Al Arabiya reports: Fewer than 20 of the 108 people confirmed as having been killed in the “appalling massacre” in the Syrian town of al-Houla died from artillery and tank fire, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, as each of France and Australia announced expelling the Syrian ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Romney’s Historic Opportunity: Low-Cost ...
    Editorial by Dr. Fred Singer Romney can clinch the election by detailing an energy policy that restores jobs, prosperity, and American economic leadership. “To be credible, a reform agenda must have some reform substance.”——————————&#82 ...
  • Green energy companies off the government teat ...
    Spain Ejects Green Energy Lobby by Alex Morales and Ben Sills, Bloomberg Spanish renewable-energy companies that once got Europe’s biggest subsidies are deserting the nation after the government shut off aid, pushing project developers and equipment-makers to work abroad or … Continue read ...
  • Dr. Bob Carter on Canada’s Sun News
    Michael Coren and guest Bob Carter on why Canada stands above the rest when it comes to being honest about climate change. See the full interview here: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1662151109001 See also Bob Carter’s essay: Policymakers have quietly given up trying to … Continu ...
  • A student in despair over Romm’s 11°F te ...
    This is sad. Joe Romm promotes another overt fabrication, and some poor kid writes in despair, hoping all the “oil/coal people” here die “a horrible death, preferably caused by climate disasters”. If that were sent to somebody at ANU, it … Continue reading →
  • H2O 2012 conference theme: “please send ...
    From Stanford University , this press release with a “who the heck cares?” question as a title. We have far bigger problems in California to worry about. It is another one of these “might result” weasel word press releases in … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved with In ...
    Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high intelligence and worry both cor ...
  • Excellent 3D animation explaining atherosclerosis
  • Plasma Flashlight Zaps Bacteria
    Killing harmful bacteria in hospitals is difficult; out in the field, it can be an even bigger problem. Now, researchers may have a means for remote disinfection in a portable “flashlight” that shines a ray of cold plasma to kill bacteria in minutes. Medical scientists have high hope ...
  • Alzheimer’s Brain Scan Test Gets FDA Approval
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly & Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of patient ...
  • Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
    Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Lukoil Plans Secondary Listing in Hong Kong
    Lukoil, the biggest privately-owned oil company in Russia, said Wednesday it is considering a buyback of $2-$3 billion of its Moscow-listed shares to later sell them as part of a secondary share listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
  • UN Security Council Discusses Syria at Closed- ...
    Members of the United Nations Security Council have convened for a closed-door meeting to discuss the situation in Syria following a massacre of more than 100 civilians in the western township of Houla.
  • Kuznetsova Waiting for Williams or Radwanska
    World No. 26 Svetlana Kuznetsova sealed a straight-sets victory over Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday.
  • City Hall Bans Protest March Near Kremlin
    Moscow city authorities have refused to allow the Russian opposition to hold a proposed protest march in downtown Moscow on June 12, Russia Day, suggesting a different route for the action, the Left Front movement’s leader, Sergei Udaltsov, said on Wednesday.
  • Russia Wanted to Retain Advocaat - Official
    The reason Russia did not offer coach Dick Advocaat a new contract beyond Euro 2012 was that its value was to depend on the team's results at the tournament, an FA official told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • First Super Weeds, Now Super Insects -- Thanks ...
    A new generation of insect larvae is eating the roots of genetically engineered corn intended to be resistant to such pests. The failure of Monsanto's genetically modified Bt corn could be the most serious threat ever to a genetically modified crop in the U.S.Click here to read this article
  • Doctors Office Transforms 4,000 Sq.Ft Lawn int ...
    From a campus lawn that was transformed into a no-dig garden to a Michigan woman threatened with 93 days in jail for planting a veggie garden instead of a lawn, the idea that we could do better with our precious resources than raise acres of monoculture grasses is hardly new here on TreeHugger. ...
  • A Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees?
    Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk.Click here to read this article
  • The Biggest Lies Toxic Chemical Companies Tell Us
    How far will companies go to ensure they continue making money on products that make you sick? Answer: No extreme is too extreme, including bold-faced lying, if it means keeping the bucks rolling in.Click here to read this article
  • GMO Wheat in UK: Feeding a Hungry World - or M ...
    As scientists at Rothamsted's GM trials plead with activists not to sabotage their work, Michael McCarthy visits the battle field Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Bush Page
    "The Bush elites appear more openly and arrogantly dedicated to the aims of U.S. economic, political, and military domination of the world than any previous U.S. administration." Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role ...
    As the Syrian National Council Disintegrates, NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role in Syria Makes an Invasion Necessary Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Evidence for Negative Water Feedback
    The sun is a main sequence star whose output is known to increase slowly with age. The total change in solar radiation over 4 billion years turns out to be huge. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the Earths oceans have stabilized temperatures . Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Uncle Gordys Mid-Week Reality Check, May 23, 2012
    The money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves 30 years. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
    Yesterday I wrote a piece on the real lords of Afghan poppies and heroin operations. I am thankful to all your supportive feedback. Of course not all feedbacks were positive, and I truly understand and accept that. Many of the critics came from mainstream Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!
    While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...
  • Undercover GMOs Slip through Labeling Crack
    GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You ...
    People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    And just what will these people say when this universal infant immunization program is proven to NOT lower the overall incidence of Hep B infection after our children have been compromised with a dangerous genetically engineered vaccine that starts our lives out under the thumb of Big Pharma and ...
  • Immunization Graphs – The Real Story on Vaccin ...
    Actual statistics prove that vaccines HAVE NOT prevented disease.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal
    ShareThisJulian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal 30 May 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face sex crime allegations, the Supreme Court has ruled. Seven Supreme Court judges gave their judgment in a move that ends a marathon battle in the UK courts. Lawyers for ...
  • Julian Assange loses extradition case
    ShareThisJulian Assange loses extradition case --WikiLeaks founder's Dinah Rose QC given 14 days to decide whether to make application to ask supreme court to reopen the case 30 May 2012 9.34am: Here are the supreme court's reasons for its judgment... 9.41am: Here is the judgment in full.
  • Vaccinate all school children against flu: experts
    ShareThisUK lunatics want to force pharma-terrorists' mercury-laden vaccines on all children to fight the pandemics they're creating: Vaccinate all school children against flu: experts --Children already receive 12 jabs 'against' eight diseases by the time they start school. 30 May 2012 All chil ...
  • Ruling due in London on Assange extradition
    ShareThisRuling due in London on Assange extradition 30 May 2012 Britain's Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. The whistleblower has been fighting a lengthy legal battle since being arrested 18 m ...
  • Radioactive fish from Fukushima found near Cal ...
    ShareThisRadioactive fish from Fukushima found near California 29 May 2012 Scientists have found bluefin tuna off the coast of California that have been contaminated by radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. According to findings published in the US journal, Proceedings of the National ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Letter to President Obama in reference to Ali ...
  • Smoking Gun Army Documents
    Removing Red Crosses might help troops, but hurt Propaganda Campaign Photo Credit: DVIDS 21 May 2012 We are making tremendous progress on the MEDEVAC issue.  Much of the progress has come from people scattered around America who contacted their Senators and Representatives.  Our “ME ...
  • US Congress and MEDEVAC
    17 May 2012 The US MEDEVAC issue is picking up speed and mass.  There is so much progress that it is difficult to track.  A separate and excellent website dedicated to the issue has popped up at http://medevacmatters.org/ Also, the highly respected writer and war correspondent Yochi ...
  • MEDEVAC Madness
    10 May 2012 Many people have contacted lawmakers around the country about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Most of the lawmakers blew it off, or seemed intimidated by the Pentagon.  But one serious man over in Missouri has not backed down.  Congressman Todd Akin is demanding ans ...
  • Little Girl Revisited
    02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Washington judge rules for AG in health care suit
    [JURIST] King County Superior Court [official website] Judge Sharon Armstrong on Tuesday denied [opinion, PDF] a motion for preliminary injunction against Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna [official website] over his participation in a health care challenge. The motion brought by female ci ...
  • Louisiana legislature passes bill strengthenin ...
    [JURIST] The Louisiana State Senate [official website] on Monday unanimously passed [roll call] a bill [HB 1086, PDF; materials] strengthening Louisiana's ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide [JURIST news archives]. Both practices were already prohibited under other laws in Louisiana. The new ...
  • Pakistan judges pressured to apply blasphemy l ...
    [JURIST] Pakistani judges are being pressured to apply a controversial blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive], UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers [official website] Gabriela Knaul [official profile] reported [OHCHR report] on Tuesday. In her initial observations o ...
  • France court: Google not liable for copyrighte ...
    [JURIST] A French court ruled Tuesday that Google [corporate website] is not liable for damages to French television company TF1 [media website, in French] for copyrighted sports and movies that were uploaded on YouTube [media website]. TF1 brought the suit against Google claiming 141 million eu ...
  • Supreme Court to consider challenge to attorne ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Tuesday in Marx v. General Revenue Corp. [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether a defendant may be awarded attorney's fees in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) [15 USC § 1692 text, P ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Jews, Apes and African Refugees
    TweetThanks to Sol Salbe for translating the following Haaretz article (to which I made minor editorial and spelling changes), which offers quotations from Vichy era anti-Semitic rants by French collaborators with the Nazis.  It’s important to note the similarities in tone, image and senti ...
  • Does Sheldon Adelson Support Genocide or Popul ...
    TweetI was just reading a 2007 interview Sheldon Adelson gave to the Kahanist Jewish Press.  In it, he rejects the idea of a two-state solution, which is not news.  But the rejection of any rights for the Palestinian people, and his imputation of genocidal intentions to the Palestinians raises t ...
  • Flame: Israel’s New Contribution to Middle Eas ...
    TweetThe country that brought us Iranian nuclear assassinations, explosions at Iran missile bases, and Stuxnet, is at it again.  A computer virus called Flame, is spreading among computers in the Middle East. according to an article by an expert at Kapersky Labs: …We’ve found what might be ...
  • Mysh: Israeli Visual Artist’s Meditation on Je ...
    TweetI was just looking through my Facebook Newsfeed and discovered the Israeli graphic artist, Mysh.  The first work of his I saw was this breathtaking cartoon, A Problem of Self-Image, which speaks so profoundly to elements of the Israeli psyche and explains how historical trauma has led to po ...
  • Israeli Supreme Court Rubber Stamps Shin Bet I ...
    TweetShiri Krebs is a PhD student at Stanford University law school. She was an international law advisor to Israeli Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch and a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.  She published a paper (for Hebrew readers, Haaretz offers this story) this month in the ...

If Americans Knew

  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How J-School Students, Developers Collaborate ...
    Here's a recipe for innovation: Start with an interesting problem in journalism, media or publishing. Catch some journalism students. Mix in some computer science students. Mold into interdisciplinary teams. Stick in the oven for 11 weeks and see what happens. For three years ...
  • Next Knight News Challenge Is All About Data
    As the Knight Foundation gets closer to announcing the winners of its News Challenge on Networks, it's opening up its next round of the contest, which now occurs three times a year instead of annually. Round 2 of the 2012 Knight News Challenge will focus on data. Why data? "The world has ...
  • LocalWiki Now Speaks Portuguese, German and Ru ...
    While LocalWiki's roots are in the United States, we've seen increasing interest in starting projects all over the globe. One barrier, however, has been that our interface is entirely in English -- at least it was until now. Thanks to the hard work of Pedro Lima and Nuno Maltez in Portuga ...
  • How the AP's Overview Turns Documents Into Pic ...
    Overview produces intricate visualizations of large document sets -- beautiful, but what do they mean? These visualizations are saying something about the documents, which you can interpret if you know a little about how they're plotted. Same documents, different visualizations There are ...
  • Public Lab's Keys to Developing Low-Cost Scien ...
    This piece was co-written by Mathew Lippincot. The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science community is a massive petri dish for low-cost science tools. Our balloon-mapping tool is in its mature phase having evolved out of the agar during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Japan after the Quake - Sandia Labs Technology ...
    A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show t ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Dems Face Debt-Limit Dilemma
    Democrats are grappling with how to approach another standoff with Republicans over raising the debt limit after abandoning demands for a “clean� increase last time around. In talks last year, Democrats campaigned vigorously for a debt-ceiling increase that was not paired with spending cuts ...
  • South Africa on Edge - Outcry Forces Removal o ...
    A painting that depicts South African President Jacob Zuma with exposed genitals has been removed from a Johannesburg gallery and two local websites, following an outcry led by the ruling African National Congress party that ended in a protest at the gallery Tuesday. The controversy has sharply ...
  • North Korea on Edge - Disabled N. Korean Defec ...
    For North Korean refugees, the journey to freedom can be physically grueling. Many swim across a river into China and then travel undercover, avoiding authorities before they reach Southeast Asia and head to South Korea. Imagine making the trip with only one foot and one hand. ​​Every week, ...
  • The Medical Edge - Common Genetic Mutation Inc ...
    Nearly 40 percent of the small adrenal tumors that cause big problems with high blood pressure share a genetic mutation that causes patients to retain too much sodium, researchers report. The study of 47 human, benign adrenal gland tumors also showed a mutation of the gene KCNJ5 is twice as like ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Forget Trump--Why Won't Obama Disavow Al Sharpton?
    The spin is running across the internet.  Donald Trump supports Mitt Romney--Donald  Trump is a Birther---why doesn't Mitt Romney disavow Donald Trump?  David Graham asked that very question in a column at the Atlantic today, but Graham isn't the only one. Romney has di ...
  • Must Watch Video #WAR
    A video message from Andrew Breitbart via Ben Howe.  We must rally behind Mitt Romney. If you are on email list and cannot see video--click here Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Wash. DC School Reclassi ...
    In an unusual move, a school in the nation's capital has decided to re-classify all of its Latino students as non-minority Whites.  According to this special report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller the move was made in association with its declaration of Trayvon Martin day so it could conti ...
  • Are American Jews Beginning To Rebel Against P ...
    The 1st Amendment to the Constitution was not written to prevent religion from having an undue influence on the federal government, but to prevent the federal government from having an oppressive influence on religion.  But the influence is happening any way and much of it in a subtle manne ...
  • What Obama and Bush Both Don't Get About the M ...
    By Barry Rubin In one of his first statements since leaving office, former President George W. Bush remarked on Middle East developments in an article, “The Arab Spring and American Ideals,” in the Wall Street Journal, May 18. The former president reflects certain American misconceptions abou ...

The Real Agenda

  • Bone Loss Drugs Linked to Femure Fractures
    UPI | MAY 29, 2012 Treatment with bisphosphonates — drugs that offset bone loss  associated with menopause — may be linked to femur fractures, Swiss researchers  say. Dr. Raphael P. H. Meier and colleagues from University Hospitals of  Geneva and Faculty of Medicine in  Switzerl ...
  • Spain Gets Closer to Requesting European Bailo ...
    CNBC | MAY 29, 2012 Spanish 10-year borrowing costs neared the 7 percent danger level and Bankia shares hit record lows on Monday after the government, struggling to sort out its finances, proposed putting sovereign debt into the struggling lender. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pinned the bl ...
  • Western Governments Likely Behind Newest Cyber ...
    By JIM FINKLE | REUTERS | MAY 29, 2012 Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest ...
  • US Special Forces Invade North Korea says Seni ...
    UK TELEGRAPH | MAY 29, 2012 Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South   Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang   had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported. “The entire tunnel infrastructure i ...
  • Debacle de Facebook poderia prejudicar ainda m ...
    Se parece uma fraude e cheira como uma fraude, é provavelmente uma fraude. Zuckerberg e Thiel venderam milhões de ações POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 23 MAIO 2012 Os investidores não parecem ter tomado nota da bolha technológica que explodiu anos atrás e decidiram confiar na cre ...

Wind Watch

  • Growing health concerns pit Queensland against ...
    A “growing body of evidence” that wind farm noise could have health effects has prompted Queensland Health to call for caution when approving wind farm developments. Queensland Health has in effect become the first government health agency to recommend that wind turbines not be built ...
  • Third lawsuit filed over Ocotillo Express wind
    The Protect Our Communities Foundation, Backcountry Against Dumps, and Donna Tisdale of Boulevard are suing the Imperial County Board of Supervisors and Pattern Energy. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Imperial County, seeks to halt construction of the Ocotillo Express wind fac ...
  • Invenergy’s Roanoke Co. plan delayed unt ...
    The sight of wind turbines atop Roanoke County’s highest mountain — a view dreamed of by some and dreaded by others — is at least three years away. Invenergy, a Chicago-based wind energy company with plans to build 15 to 18 giant windmills on Poor Mountain, has pushed its targe ...
  • Residents want a vote on wind project
    PITTSFORD — Residents in Pittsford urged the town and local leaders to use all the power they have to stop the proposed wind farm project from moving forward. They want the town to be proactive in getting their position heard through a townwide vote and a change in the language of the town plan ...
  • Encore Redevelopment sacrifie une éolienne
    [Victory for opponents of Encore Redevelopment's wind project: the developer has announced that it will not install a wind turbine on Smugglers Hill, but the struggle continues...] MAGOG – Victoire en demi-teinte pour les opposants au projet éolien de la compagnie Encore Redevelopment : le ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Workforce Participation by 25-54-Year-Olds Shrinks
    “The proportion of Americans in their prime working years who have jobs is smaller than it has been at any time in the 23 years before the recession, according to federal statistics, reflecting the profound and lasting effects that the downturn has had on the nation’s economic prospects.&# ...
  • Consumer Confidence Takes Tumble
    “The nation’s top indicator of consumer confidence took an unexpected tumble in May, suffering its biggest one-month drop since October and hitting a four-month low.” (Washington Times) Understandably nervous about the future. FEE Timely Classic “And the Slump Goes On” by ...
  • Demand for Government Benefits Falls
    “Three years after the recession officially ended, most of the nation’s safety-net programs finally are serving fewer people, an analysis of government data shows. The downward trend that started with unemployment insurance in 2010 and welfare benefits in 2011 has reached food stamps ...
  • New Worry: Indebted College Dropouts
    “As the nation amasses more than $1 trillion in student loans, education experts say a vexing new problem has emerged: A growing number of young people have a mountain of debt but no degree to show for it.” (Washington Post) Public policy is capable of digging very large holes. FEE T ...
  • Repeal of Prohibition: Bootleggers, Baptists, ...
    An important connection existed between the anti-liquor lobby and passage of the income-tax amendment.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What’s left of the economy will roll off ...
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]
  • What’s left of the economy will roll off a cliff
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]
  • Let’s Talk Turkey About Greece
    1) Greece is very likely to exit the Euro. 2) When Greece exits the Euro it will be punished severely by the monetary authorities.  They intend to let Greeks starve.  They will cut off food supplies, and Greeks will not be able to afford food.  Oil is also going to be a problem.  Greeks will [...]
  • Let’s Talk Turkey About Greece
    1) Greece is very likely to exit the Euro. 2) When Greece exits the Euro it will be punished severely by the monetary authorities.  They intend to let Greeks starve.  They will cut off food supplies, and Greeks will not be able to afford food.  Oil is also going to be a problem.  Greeks will [...]
  • Dutch Disease
    It seems a lot of people don’t know what Dutch Disease is.  Here’s the short. Dutch disease is when you sell a lot of resources and that makes your currency increase in value.  So if you discover a lot of oil, or oil becomes a lot more valuable because of a shortage so that you [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • From Connection to Dispersal: Urbanisation in ...
    Commentators have long studied connections between cities and how these influence their development. The city is the natural focus of trade-based theories of growth. Exporting a surplus, based on local resources and specialisation was – and is – considered the way to city wealth. ...
  • Here Come the Plurals!
    This month America’s destiny as a pluralistic democracy took a new and unprecedented turn. First, early in May, USA Today asked Americans what name they thought would be appropriate for the country’s newest generation now moving into grade school classrooms with its unique behavior and pers ...
  • Top Manufacturing Sectors For 2011
    There has been lots of data indicating that domestic manufacturing is regaining some vigor after years of wasting away. Brookings’ Martin Neil Baily and Bruce Katz, writing in the Washington Post, noted: Manufacturing employment, output and exports are headed in the right direction: In ...
  • Midcentury Modern
    Midcentury modern tours now are taking place in cities all over the country. Renewed interest in this era capitalizes on the millennials’ interest in design from a time that seems almost impossibly optimistic compared to today’s zeitgeist. Most cities around the country boast a healthy buildi ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Shenzhen
    No urban area in history has become so large so quickly then Shenzhen (Note 1). A little more than a fishing village in 1979, by the 2010 census Shenzhen registered 10.4 million inhabitants. It is easily the youngest urban area to have become one of the world's 26 megacities (Figure 1). Most ...

GM Watch

  • New alliance ignores Africa's farmers
    The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers Eric Holt Gimenez Huffington Post, May 23 2012  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/eric-holt-gimenez/africa-food-security_b_1537279.html President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he ...
  • GM lobby still trying to force discredited GMO ...
    NOTE: Some nice pictures with this excellent piece by Joanna Blythman in the Mail. There's also an important article in The Times today about what's happening in India: Debt-ridden farmers driven to suicide in GM cotton revolution  http://t.co/ivGuZ5mm (paywall)  EXTRACTS: The good-humoured cro ...
  • GM lobby still trying to force discredited GMO ...
    NOTE: Some nice pictures with this excellent piece by Joanna Blythman in the Mail. There's also an important article in The Times today about what's happening in India: Debt-ridden farmers driven to suicide in GM cotton revolution  http://t.co/ivGuZ5mm (paywall)  EXTRACTS: The good-humoured cro ...
  • Hundreds back GM crop ban
    NOTE: Check out the great picture with this article. --- --- Hundreds back council crop resolution Matthew Hoekstra Richmond Review, May 28 2012  http://www.richmondreview.com/news/155214875.html [image caption: Supporters of a city council resolution against genetically modified crops pack cou ...
  • Hundreds back GM crop ban
    NOTE: Check out the great picture with this article. --- --- Hundreds back council crop resolution Matthew Hoekstra Richmond Review, May 28 2012  http://www.richmondreview.com/news/155214875.html [image caption: Supporters of a city council resolution against genetically modified crops pack cou ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...
  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...

Desertification

  • Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) : one of the anti ...
    Read at : Google Alert – container gardening http://www.fethiyetimes.com/expat-zone/gardening/6972-plant-of-the-month-portulacaria-afra.html Spekboom or Elephant’s bush (also Porkbush) is one of the best plant species to combat desertification Plant of the Month – Portulacaria ...
  • Combat hunger in the drylands by growing food ...
    My name is Willem VAN COTTHEM.  I am a honorary professor of botany of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and member of the Committee for Science and Technology (CST) of the UNCCD.  I am particularly interested in the desertification problem … Continue reading →
  • Considerations about the significance of an an ...
    Yesterday, I posted a photo of the “PALACE OF NATURAL WONDERS” or “THE GOURD PALACE” at my Facebook page called “Container Gardening Alliance” : http://www.facebook.com/willemvancotthem This photo was first described at : http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/balti ...
  • No title
    Read at : http://2sc.unccd.int/home/news/newsdetail/call-for-abstracts-now-open/b04a7b01a70ffaf5e50838c527bd2bcd/ UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference “Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas” Call for a ...
  • How it is possible in this world : A splendid ...
    Today I re-posted a photo of BacWorm Farmer on my Facebook-page : http://www.facebook.com/willemvancotthem It shows a girl in The Philippines spraying (with fermented seaweeds) her lettuce, Chinese cabbage (pechay), onions and other vegetables grown in bottles and crates on a … Continue re ...

The Paper Trail

  • Tea party spends big in Texas Senate primary s ...
    Outside groups have spent more than $6.4 million in the Texas GOP primary for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, more than any other House or Senate race thus far in the primary season, according to Federal Election Commission filings.The race pits establishment favorite David ...
  • Interactive: Dust Explosion Timeline
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  • Experienced watchdog appointed for U.S. spendi ...
    When you’ve faced down mafia dons, fought with energy companies, and led investigations into nuclear weapons, it can be hard to find a new challenge. But if he was looking for one, John F. Sopko seems to have found it.This week, the Obama administration announced that the veteran investigator is ...
  • Unchecked dust explosions kill, injure hundred ...
    GALLATIN, Tenn. — Small fires were a part of the job at the Hoeganaes Corp. metal powder plant 30 miles northeast of Nashville. By early 2011, some workers later told investigators, they had become practiced in beating down the flames with gloved hands or a fire extinguisher.The company’s o ...
  • OPINION: Could nonprofit health insurance plan ...
    When members of Congress who led the effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system saw the public option slipping away, some of them suggested that a viable alternative would be the fostering of nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (Consumer Oriented and Operated Plans) throughout the country.I wa ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Occupy, the Quebec strike, and Canada’s ...
    By Montreal Simon On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were made, and so many dreamed of a better world, was quiet now. And where there were once tents huddled together in ...
  • The Bard for MBAs
    By Mark Leiren-Young Whether t’is nobler to study the Bard or to learn to balance your chequebook, that is the question posed by the Financial Post business section. Although the article by Fabio Campanella, CA, CFP, CIM is a partner at Campanella McDonald LLP never actually suggests ditch ...
  • She shoots, she scores
  • Quebec: No longer just a student protest
    By Montreal Simon There was another amazing freedom party in Montreal on Saturday night. Thousands and thousands of people marched peacefully through the streets, beating pots and pans. Defying the police to arrest them for taking part in an illegal demonstration. And what struck me the most, ap ...
  • Justin Bieber, criminal batterer? Seriously?
    A BoB short: Okay, seriously . . . Justin Bieber “is a suspect in a criminal battery”? We don’t believe it. And not because we’re Beliebers, but because . . . seriously: Justin Bieber? We believed it when Sean Penn was accused of attacking a photographer in 2009, mostly b ...

libcom

  • Return of the repressed; new days of rage for ...
    Ashulia_clash-fire-May-2012.jpg After a long period of relative quiet, workers are again taking mass action in the Bangladeshi garment industry. Also; some comments on the recent wave of political &#0 ...
  • Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Wall Street ...
    An anonymous anarchist infiltrator in the NYPD provides the cops' explanation of their actions in their own words. Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012 read more
  • 150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resista ...
    150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resistance Call to Participate in the 2012 Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals ...
  • Join common days of action for Alexey Sutuga, ...
    In spring of 2012, anti-fascist movement of Russia has been targeted with new repressions. An excuse for the repressions was an incident in Moscow club "Vozdukh", where 17th of December, during a punk-hardcore concert, a conflict between publi ...
  • The voiceless’ last scream: a sucide a day amo ...
    suicidi-250x200.jpg In the last few years many suicides in Italy have been strongly linked to the economic crisis and unemployment. 357 people killed themselves in 2009, compared to the 260 of the pre ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
    Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...
  • Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
    Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • AMERICA FIRST-BEFORE POLITICS by Scotty
    AMERICA FIRST BEFORE POLITICS While listening to the Interview by FAREED ZAKARIA who was interviewing Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.  I was pleasantly suprised that Simpson had the guts to put America First before Politics. (emphasis added by Scotty) At the start of the Interview he got my ful ...
  • Tell EPA to step in to ensure Keystone XL sout ...
    In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it needs to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast — unless we convince the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.   News ...
  • Get ready… National Green Week is only 7 days ...
    Reblogged from Green Education Foundation (GEF): Get ready! National Green Week 2012 is only a week away! For those of you who don’t know, National Green Week is the largest waste reduction campaign in history for K-12 schools nationwide.  This year’s event will be kicking off on February 6, 201 ...
  • CAD Kitchen Drawings by Scotty-ScottsContracting
    CADD Kitchen Design 2 Island Cook Top and Exhaust Hood   SCOTTS CONTRACTING LATEST KITCHEN DESIGN CAD DRAWINGS by clicking on this Web Link or Following Photo you will be redirect to Google Picasa Web Albums for Scotts Contracting Existing Kitchen Floor Plan Related articles Kitchen Project Phot ...
  • Ameren Meeting-HCR 35 Hearing-3 environmental ...
    The 3 environmental shareholder resolutions include: report on coal combustion waste report on coal-related costs and risks assessment and report on greenhouse gas and other air emissions reductions through customer energy efficiency and renewable energy programs Labadie Environmental Organizati ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Bipartisan Assault on Middle East Peace
    Democrats joined Republicans in passing a new bill that makes peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors all the more difficult
  • When Old Hawks Retract Their Talons
    The annals of national security are replete with retired generals expressing second thoughts about how militarized the United States has become.
  • U.S. Thinks Road to Bahrain's Heart Is Through ...
    This month the United States lifted restrictions on a host of sales to the moderate Crown Prince of Bahrain in hopes of increasing his influence in the government.
  • How to Forget on Memorial Day
    This article, written before Memorial Day weekend, discusses the U.S. government's efforts to hide the realities of the Afghanistan war from the greater American public.
  • Okinawa's Nature Groaning
    This article reflects upon the ecological impact and widespread resentment of the U.S. military base in Okinawa.

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • درخواست غرامت گروگان‌های آمریکایی از ایران رد شد
    دیوان عالی آمریکا درخواست گروگان های آمریکایی را برای احیاء پرونده شکایتشان جهت دریافت غرامت از ایران، رد کرد. read more
  • دلیل چیست؟
    یک‌سال از حمله ماموران امنیتی به خانه‌های کارکنان و استادان موسسه آموزشی بهاییان "پی‌اچ‌آی‌ای" می‌گذرد. جوانان بهایی با بسته شدن این دانشگاه و بازداشت دست‌اندرکاران آن، آخرین تکیه‌‌گاه تحصیلی خود را از دست داده‌‌اند. read more
  • تشديد برخورد با فروشندگان كراوات
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  • Israel, US Divided Over Iran Nuclear Issue
    Despite all evidence pointing with full force to the peaceful nature of Iran nuclear program, there are desperate efforts by the Zionists to reflect the reality in a distorting mirror, depict Iran as a nuclear threat, and make its lapdog Washington to slap more sanctions on the country.
  • کوچک شدن سفره مردم ايران و کاهش مواد غذايی مصرفی
    نشريه صنعت و توسعه در گزارشی با اشاره به اقلام مصرفی خانوارهای ايرانی از کوچک شدن سفره مردم ايران و کاهش مواد غذايی مصرفی توسط مردم خبر داده است. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • CIA Whistleblower Talks of 12 Month Incarcerat ...
          Ex-CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Embed feature still not working today. Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LUHa_-OlA&feature=related Former CIA asset Susan Lindauer describes how the Department of Homeland Security locked her up on a military base for 12 ...
  • 97% Owned: Democratizing the Money Supply
    Film Review (The embed feature isn't working today - for a free link go to http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/97-owned/) 97% Owned is a documentary by a British group called Positive Money. It’s an ideal film for people who have difficulty comprehending that the government doesn’t iss ...
  • Insider Trading by Facebook and Goldman Sachs: ...
    Learning that Goldman Sachs is being sued for insider trading for their role in misleading investors about Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is raising a lot of red flags here in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs is one of three investment banks New Zealand’s National government ...
  • The Loan Sharks Behind China’s Economic ...
    Wenzhou: birthplace of Chinese capitalism Last week I was surprised to learn that private lending is illegal in China. In view of the country’s economic miracle, I was even more surprised to learn that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 90% of businesses, are ineligib ...
  • The Endangered Family Farmer
    Teena Borek Florida farmer Teena Borek was on Radio New Zealand National last weekend. In the US, Teena seems relatively unknown outside of her own state, where she works tirelessly to support family farmers struggling to compete with factory farms and cheap imports from Latin America. Teena, wh ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Lady Gaga forced to cancel Indonesia concert a ...
    Lady Gaga cancelled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth. The controversy was a blow to the predominantly Muslim country’s reputation for combining free speech and democr ...
  • Scientists capture beams of light using 25000 ...
    While the idea of an invisibility cloak may seem more science fiction than actual science, a group of American researchers are well on their way. Researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland used 25,000 individual cloaks 30 micrometres in diameter to slow down light to the p ...
  • Biden vows to confront rising power of China
    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. Joe Biden on Saturday addressing cadets of the US Military Academy during a graduation ceremony in West Point, New York, spoke about the United States’ shift in p ...
  • Half of the US live in households that receive ...
    Almost half of all Americans live in a household where at least one member received government benefits in the first quarter of 2011, according to a new report. Data from the Census Bureau revealed that 49.1 per cent of the population live in a household which gets at least one kind of governmen ...
  • Thousands rally in Montreal against law restri ...
    Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in the city of Montreal in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec to protest against a controversial law that seeks to restrict protests. Banging pots and pans during the rally on Saturday night, the defiant protesters challenged the recently-pas ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Bob Dylan Honored By President Obama
    Bob Dylan was honored by U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday. The folk music icon was among the recipients of this year’s Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian honor handed out by the U.S. leader. Wearing dark glasses and sporting a pencil-thin mustache, Dylan sat stoica ...
  • Doc Watson Dead At 89, Facebook Stock Falls To ...
    Doc Watson Dead At 89, Facebook Stock Falls To New Low | Source: Rickey
  • Russia will veto military intervention in Syri ...
    Russia is firmly dedicated not to let pass an initiative of foreign military intervention into Syria in the UN Security Council. ­“We always said we’re strongly against any kind of external interference into the Syrian conflict, because it would only worsen the situation and bring unpredictable ...
  • U.S., Allies Expel Syrian Diplomats Following ...
    Syrian  diplomats have been expelled from the United States, as well as many of their allies, following a deadly massacre in Houla , which killed 108 civilians, including 49 children. Along with The U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and the Netherlands  ...
  • Chris Hayes, Social Distance, and the Tyranny ...
    I don't have a whole lot to add to what's been said by Conor Friedersdorf , Peter Beinert , and Michael Tomasky about the Chris Hayes flap. My instinct is to say nothing in the hopes that it fades quickly, but since it's still being debated, I guess I might as well weigh in. I would guess that ...

Groklaw

  • F2C2012: Vint Cerf keynote
    Vint Cerf keynote at F2C:Freedom to Connect 2012, Washington DC on May 21 2012. [Challenges to the Internet.] - YouTube
  • Require free Internet access to scientific jou ...
    We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregivers, students and their teachers, researc ...
  • Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and ...
    InfoQ: Before Novell was bought out, there were some people working on getting Moonlight to run on Android tablets. Is that effort still underway? Miguel: We have abandoned Moonlight.... InfoQ: Are you concerned that, if APIs are found to be copyrightable, that Microsoft may threaten the Mono p ...
  • Patent Wars Are Pain in the Ass, Says Tim Cook ...
    "The vast majority of people suing us are suing on standards-essential patents," Cook said. "And that's where the patent system is broken. ... No one should be able to get an injunction off a standards patent, because the owner is obligated to license it in a fair and reasonable manner. "Apple ...
  • With Motorola in Googles Hands, Microsoft Eyes ...
    Google is believed to also be open to a deal, but the two sides appear very far apart in the kind of deal they envision. Sources close to Microsoft say the company is interested only in the kind of deal that would see the balance of licensing revenue headed in its direction....For its part, Goog ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • 3000 ft tower to generate power using cool wat ...
    This is novel technology to be sure. But putting this in the Arizona desert near Mexico seems counter-productive as it will use large amounts of water in an area where water is scarce.
  • Street light with wi-fi, cell repeaters, EV ch ...
    The V-pole is coming to Vancouver, and it does it all.New technology allows all the electronics to be put in a tiny space, eliminating the growing problem in big cities of “telecommunication clutter.”
  • Inadvertent comedy from conservatives. Obama i ...
    Conservative groups paint President Obama as Wall Street stooge “Public Equity President Obama played Wall Street games with our money,” the attack ad squeals, conveniently forgetting that the real estate bubble and bust was backed by the government under Bush as well as by Alan ...
  • Government funding reductions threaten US clea ...
    Credit: wikimedia.commons.orgMisguided policy changes in Washington are threatening US dominance in cleantech. Government subsidies and R&D grants in the US have been slashed while other countries are greatly increasing their investments. While some of that foreign money will be invested her ...
  • Eurozone crisis will hurt US economy, Obama bi ...
    A serious Eurozone crisis is imminent. It will have serious,nasty ramifications for the U.S. economy and for Obama’s bid for reelection. Incumbent presidents generally get reelected when the economy is doing well. But a weak or faltering economy is bad news for incumbents because, rightly or not ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...
  • The rhythms of blogging and other work
    I had a great, though short, get-together with Josh Foust today. Josh is a top-notch analyst of the United States' various interventions(!) in Afghanistan and the other 'Stans over the past ten years. His work first came to my notice back in my old 'heavy-blogging' days-- let's say, in around 20 ...
  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
  • Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
    Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...

frogblog

  • The high cost of bad policy.
    Today I spoke in the budget debate, and pointed to the craziness of continuing to spend over $1.1 billion dollars a year to keep more people in prison for longer.  In a pre-budget release, we learned that  $65 million of operating expenditure from Vote Corrections would be ‘reprioritised’ over f ...
  • Feminists of the Year acknowledged in Parliament
    Yesterday Maurice Williamson used Parliament to boost his male ego and in the process turned parliament back into a boys club,  announcing how fortunate he’d been to spend the last hour in his office with the Miss Universe NZ contestants. Note the extended male laughter. I was told there was als ...
  • These shoes are made for walking…” ...
    So the shoes adorn my office.  They still carry the dust of Syria, yet they managed to please the NZ Customs people at Auckland airport sufficiently to slip through, as the saying goes.  Clearly not a threat to kiwifruit. The shoes, which are now Kiwi-Syrian, have taken up position on my cabinet ...
  • Solar has a brighter future
    Solar could make a bigger contribution to New Zealand electricity supply with its price plummeting and a new international report out optimistic about the transformation of the industry.
  • Gambling Harm Reduction Bill good news for com ...
    It’s no wonder a lot of community organisations rely on money from pokie machines to fund their activities.  Savage cuts to the public sector combined with a tighter contracting environment  usually means a shortfall in money and in a recession there’s not a lot of other money floating around to ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Beware: Most Green Cleaning Products Contain This
    By Dr. Mercola Commercial cleaning products, even "green" ones like Simple Green, clean faster than soap and water can. But this is because they contain small amounts of the most powerful grease-cutting class of chemicals known -- glycol ethers. Overexposure to glycol ethers can cause anemi ...
  • Have Human Hormones Been Eclipsed by Synthetic ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you wake up in the morning, there's a good chance you start your day by showering, shaving, washing your hair, and putting on deodorant and any number of other lotions, cosmetics and personal care products. It's a mundane routine virtually everyone reading this is familia ...
  • The Propaganda Supporting Fluoride and Why The ...
    By Dr. Mercola The debate over the dangers of fluoride has been ongoing for more than six decades. Study after study shows that fluoride is a dangerous, toxic poison that is ineffective at preventing dental decay. Yet, even while it's being dumped every day into U.S. municipal water systems ...
  • Eating This Could Turn Your Gut into a Living ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new generation of insect larvae is eating the roots of genetically engineered corn intended to be resistant to such pests.  The failure of Monsanto's genetically modified Bt corn could be the most serious threat ever to a genetically modified crop in the U.S. And the ec ...
  • Tasty Weight Loss Surgery Alternative
    By Dr. Mercola About one-third of Americans are considered obese, but the latest data shows that when other methods of measuring obesity, such as body fat percentage, are factored in with body-mass index (BMI), that number may be closer to 60 percent.i As rates of overweight and obesity con ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Tribes urge UK to sign law to ‘guarantee’ thei ...
    Kenya's Samburu tribe has urged the UK to ratify ILO 169. © Survival Tribes from four continents have urged Britain to ratify a law that will ‘guarantee’ their survival. It is the first time a group of tribal representatives have made such a direct appeal, reflecting the urgent need f ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Food Safety Squad Preps for London Olympics
    from foodsafetynews.com: At undisclosed locations across London, there are sites ready to store seized foods and even food trucks. Liaisons with the courts have distributed emergency applications for food seizures and establishment closures. All that is necessary is for local health authoritie ...
  • #DrugWar: Opium Wonderland Afghan Style
    from brasschecktv.com: I've said in the past that governments are the biggest drug dealers in the world. More opium/heroin comes out of Afghanistan now than ever has before. Since the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, heroin use has skyrocketed here at home and worldwide. ...
  • Covering Up The Cover-Up: The BP Oil Spill
    from brasschecktv.com: Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatch.org located an eyewitness with devastating new i ...
  • How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like ...
    from alternet.org: Will Obama's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition help farmers...? The New Alliance was announced in conjunction with the G8 meeting last Friday. Under the scheme, some 45 corporations, including Monsanto, Syngenta, Yara International, Cargill, DuPont, and PepsiCo, h ...
  • Swiss Company Accused of Stiffing U.S. for $75 ...
    from allgov.com: Seven years after it was hired to provide food to troops in Afghanistan, a Swiss company has been accused of overcharging the Department of Defense about three-quarters of a billion dollars. Supreme Foodservice AG of Switzerland has been paid $5.5 billion since 2005 to delive ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...
  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Days: Diana's Boys Edition
    "I think she had the best seat in the house probably." - Diana's son, Prince Harry, talking about his mum being at William & Kate's wedding in spiritual terms of which we're certainly she would have been proud. Unlike the McCrocodiles who spent days after Diana's death in her Kensington ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 27th May 2012
    They're probably still dancing in the isles of IKEA this morning after Sweden's deserved win at the Eurovsion Song Contest last night. But while they are enjoying their flat-pack furniture and meatballs, there won't be much celebration elsewhere in Europe. There certainly won't be much celebr ...
  • Traitor! Another unanimous verdict from our re ...
    One month after one hundred of our readers passed a unanimous 'guilty' verdict in our 'Court of Public Opinion' on Edward Heath over the charge of 'treason', we have the findings of our latest trial by opinion poll. After the verdict on Edward Heath, we did things democratically and asked our ...
  • Hey, EU Preacher... Leave Those Greeks Alone
    You've seen the name 'John Laughland' on this blog a number of times since we first went online... ...so we were pleased to see him interviewed on the only balanced news source currently broadcasting in Britain, RT. The thoughts being conveyed by Laughland are certainly mirrored in the com ...
  • Quote of the Day: 23rd May 2012
    "Introducing euro bonds is the equivalent of ringing the bell for a happy hour so the inebriated can postpone their hangover indefinitely." - An unnamed 'EU diplomat', cited in a report by Reuters Nice line. Whoever the diplomat is, they clearly have designs on Nigel Farage's crown of word ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
  • [OT] I Just Got Married!
    You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
  • Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Record 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have f ...
    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
  • Smartcard flaw opens door to identity theft
    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...
  • Meet ‘Flame’, The Massive Spy Malw ...
    A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation. The malware, discovered by Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, is an espionage tool ...
  • Media Continues Skin Cancer Scare by Vilifying ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post What is one of the biggest threats to health today according to the mainstream media? It’s not the fact that mercury is present in a wide majority of the processed food supply, or even the fact that excessive amounts of radioactive waste is now admitted to have he ...
  • 78 percent of Pakistani children with polio we ...
    Thursday, June 02, 2011 by: Daniel Erickson (NaturalNews) In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new ca ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans
    Stop NATO May 30, 2012 Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans Rick Rozoff Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest ...
  • Chicago: NATO Protests Bring Back Memories Of 1968
    The DePaulia May 29, 2012 NATO protests bring back memories of Chicago ’68 By Matt Harder ==== Many protesters were there to actually oppose the so-called global military arm, NATO, whom my dad says, “just spreads the U.S. agenda by giving us an excuse to ship out troops for the implementa ...
  • Video: Occupy Wall Street on NATO summit and p ...
    Occupy Wall Street May 24, 2012 ***** VIDEO *****
  • Madeleine Albright And The Iraqi Genocide
    Al Ahram May 24-30 Madeleine Albright and the Iraqi genocide The first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day was held earlier this month in memory of those who died as a result of sanctions and the US-led invasion, writes Felicity Arbuthnot “Get some new lawyers”, then US secretary of state Mad ...
  • Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths Continue Unchecked
    Voice of Russia May 29, 2012 Civilian deaths in Afghanistan continue unchecked John Robles In Eastern Afghanistan on Saturday night NATO was involved in another “incident”, as NATO calls them, involving the deaths of large numbers of civilians. This time NATO forces killed a family of eight peop ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The Intel Hub Gear for Bilderberg 2012 – ...
    theintelhub.com May 30, 2012 Visit our official Bilderberg 2012 Page! – http://theintelhub.com/bilderberg-2012/ This is a short video testing one of our phones for recording purposes and showing you guys all the gear we have to expose Bilderberg 2012. http://theintelhub.com
  • Confirmed: Westfield Marriott Kicks Out ALL Gu ...
    Previous reservations no longer honored as Bilderberg hotel vacated in alarm over mounting protests. Infowars.com May 30, 2012 RELATED: Alex Jones Banned From Bilderberg Hotel, Calls For Press Mob Hours after the Westfields Marriott called Alex Jones to cancel his reservation and inform him that ...
  • Alberta; Meet the Bilderberg Group
    By Justin Gilfoil – Counterplot.org theintelhub.com May 30, 2012 It appears it may be time for the citizens of Alberta to discover the elusive Bilderberg Group. The Edmonton Journal reported today that Alberta Premier Alison Redford will be attending the Bilderberg “financial conference” which W ...
  • Real ID Act Could Make One Feel Like a Prisone ...
    By Brent Daggett theintelhub.com May 30, 2012 Contributing writer for End the Lie “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the [...]
  • U.S. Military Will Continue Surveillance in Af ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com May 30, 2012 While I have repeatedly made it clear that the American military will not be leaving Afghanistan by the alleged 2014 deadline, as evidenced by last year’s Loya Jirga which was surrounded by a complete media blackout, there is more than meets the ey ...

FRS

  • Nepal: Plans to continue the Nepal revolution ...
    Baidya gears up to form new party Kathmandu Post, KATHMANDU, MAY 28 – The hard-line faction of the Maoist party led by Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya has decided to begin the process of forming a separate party “to preserve the core ideology of the Maoist party.” The faction has also demanded ...
  • Don’t Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger ...
    by Common Dreams     May 22, 2012 Written by Yifat Susskind This past weekend, President Obama hid out from protesters at Camp David. He was hosting the leaders of the world’s eight wealthiest economies, known as the G8. As they readied to meet, on Friday, Obama put forward his New Alliance for ...
  • Obama has a Monsanto plan for Africa: (Beware ...
    AlterNet / By Jill Richardson How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality. May 23, 2012 [Photo ...
  • Nepal: Post-revolutionary (former Maoist&#8217 ...
    Allies quit government as Nepal crisis deepens (NAVESH CHITRAKAR, REUTERS ) May 28, 2012|Gopal Sharma | Reuters KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Three parties quit Nepal’s Maoist-led government on Monday as the Himalayan republic slipped deeper into crisis after the prime minister cal ...
  • Israel: Racist attacks on African migrants in ...
    African migrants meet angry backlash in Israel By EDMUND SANDERS Los Angeles Times Published: Monday, May. 28, 2012 TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood plan ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Physicists Store 'Atomic Movie' in a Cloud of ...
    As Moore's Law continues its march, there's the ever-present threat of stuff getting too small to get any smaller. It might be time to tally another one against Moore: Scientists are taking the next logical step and storing images in atomic vapor. Not one image, actually, but two, making the s ...
  • Scientists Create the Smallest Possible Five-R ...
    While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was doodling when he thought making "a molecular structure with three hexagonal rings above two others would make for an interesting synthetic challenge." In an attempt to ...
  • The Cosmic Alignment Known As 'Manhattanhenge' ...
    New Yorkers will be given an astronomical treat tonight as the sunset perfectly lines up across the borough of Manhattan, giving a luminescent flare to the south and north sides of every street in town. Manhattanhenge, or the Manhattan Solstice, comes twice yearly, in the summer, with two days ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    Just like a great dish, this week's Images of the Week roundup includes a delicate balance of all things we love: amazing space pics, adorable animals, beautiful design concepts, and a dude free-falling into a giant pile of boxes. Enjoy! Click to see the greatest images we've seen this week.
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, May 21-25 ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Goes Neoliberal, Attends WEF
    For her very first trip out of Myanmar (Burma) in 24 years, Aung San Suu Kyi has made the interesting choice of attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Thailand to be held on 30 May to June 1. While she has been in touch with the WEF organizers in the past, it was only through remote broadca ...
  • It's (Sorta) Official: Poland, European Darling
    I add the qualifier in the title for the reason that I wish not to jinx this country. Lest we forget, it was not so long ago that the darling of European integration was Ireland (believe it or not nowadays). I remember my time in Europe when near-accession country officials would dutifully troop ...
  • Curt Schilling's 38 Games & Video Game Subsidies
    [NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part American subsidies series. Forgive me in advance for another reference to what's obviously my favourite Eagles tune.] They came to Providence, the one in Rhode Island, where tech enclave dreams hang heavy in the air. It was supposed to be an All-Star l ...
  • Obama's Deficits: The Buck Stops Nowhere in US
    The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job - Harry Truman It was not always that American leaders--Democrats or Republicans--were such feckless deficit lovers. A measure of American decline is surely c ...
  • Overfishing Futility, PRC/Scarborough Shoal Ed ...
    To be sure, what China and the Southeast Asian nations contesting various islands and reefs in the South China Sea are most interested in are the gas reserves lying beneath. That said, fishing inspires a strong, evocative reaction among nationals of the countries concerned. After all, the most r ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...
  • Turn Out The Lights – The Largest U.S. C ...
    Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rott ...
  • Eurobonds: The Issue That Could Shatter Europe
    Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits?  Of course you wouldn't.  But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do.  Increasingly, "eurobonds" are being touted as the best long-term solution to the ...
  • Obama’s Five Trillion Dollar Lie
    Why isn't the U.S. economy in a depression right now?  The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of liv ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Lady Gaga forced to cancel Indonesia concert a ...
    Lady Gaga cancelled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth. The controversy was a blow to the predominantly Muslim country’s reputation for combining free speech and democr ...
  • Scientists capture beams of light using 25000 ...
    While the idea of an invisibility cloak may seem more science fiction than actual science, a group of American researchers are well on their way. Researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland used 25,000 individual cloaks 30 micrometres in diameter to slow down light to the p ...
  • Biden vows to confront rising power of China
    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. Joe Biden on Saturday addressing cadets of the US Military Academy during a graduation ceremony in West Point, New York, spoke about the United States’ shift in p ...
  • Half of the US live in households that receive ...
    Almost half of all Americans live in a household where at least one member received government benefits in the first quarter of 2011, according to a new report. Data from the Census Bureau revealed that 49.1 per cent of the population live in a household which gets at least one kind of governmen ...
  • Thousands rally in Montreal against law restri ...
    Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in the city of Montreal in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec to protest against a controversial law that seeks to restrict protests. Banging pots and pans during the rally on Saturday night, the defiant protesters challenged the recently-pas ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-05-30 Facts without truth: How Julian Ass ...
    A BBC radio reporter in Stockholm this morning reporting on the Assange case said that Assange left the country not knowing there was an arrest warrant issued for him but managed to avoid bringing up the 5 weeks he waited in Sweden beyond his planned visit to be questioned, only leaving when the ...
  • 2012-05-30 UKSC rule against appeal
    Today at approximately 09:20AM the UK Supreme Court ruled against Julian Assange, upholding the European Arrest Warrant which orders his extradition to Sweden. Mr Assange's battle against extradition has so far spanned 540 days, 530 of which he spent electronically tagged under house arrest, the ...
  • 2012-05-29 Four days after Julian Assange verd ...
         It is the first bilateral visit to Sweden by a US Secretary of State in a long time, Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt writes, as he wishes a warm welcome to US Secretary Hillary Clinton who will arrive in the country just 4 days after Britain's Supreme Court a ...
  • 2012-05-29 Press Release: Brisbane Rallies For ...
    On Wednesday May 30th at approximately 6:15 pm Brisbane time, the UK Supreme Court in London will deliver a long-awaited verdict in the extradition case of Australian WikiLeaks founder and Editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Protests in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been organised aro ...
  • 2012-05-28 The fire this time: The martyring o ...
    "We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was 'legal.'" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Did you read Bonfire of the Vanities?" George asked me. I nodded, and he continued: "Do you remember that scene where he's getting out of the car, and there are all these people screaming his ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Farm Bill and Ethanol Fuels Mandates DEMANDS C ...
      The Farm Bill and Ethanol Mandates are two fingers on the same hand. Both have the effect of radically elevating food prices by different paths. Both programs are now being quietly debated in Congress. Only the lobbyists are being heard. You are not! ~ Charles E Carlson read more
  • Concrete Evidence... US Government Nuked New Y ...
      What really happened on 9/11? The story of the century isn't about the hijackings of US commercial airlines, it is about the US government using thermal nuclear bombs against another civilian city, for the third and fourth time. This time the 2 nuclear bombings were treasonous – against ...
  • USA Prepares Open Intervention of Mexican Elec ...
      The closer the presidential elections in Mexico, the more brazen is the campaign on television and in the media, designed to convince voters that the polls by a wide margin are led by the new protégé of the U.S. State Department, Enrique Peña Nieto. read more
  • Was the Strange Death of Obama's Grandmother ' ...
      Did Obama murder his grandmother, Toot, who held a deep dark secret that would have crushed his candidacy--the fact that both she and his grandfather were Communists that had been investigated by the House UnAmerican Committee. ~ Videos - photos read more
  • The Inventor of the Ouija Board...
      Elijah Jefferson Bond was a lawyer and an inventor (aren't those two always associated?) He invented many things, but was best known for the patent of the Ouija Board May 28, 1890. ~ Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Solar Oven Bread
    Lauren made solar oven bread today, so I snapped a few pictures and was able to wrestle today’s recipe from her fingers. Here it is… 1 cup milk 1 egg 1 Tablespoon butter 3 cups freshly milled wheat flour 2 Tablespoons sugar ¾ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoon yeast 2 Tablespoons wheat gluten ...
  • Raised Garden Beds – Tutorial
    Guest post: by Tammy MATERIALS & SUPPLIES for making your own raised garden beds Makes (2) 4′ x 8′ x 12″ Raised Beds (6) 2″ x 12″ X 8′ Boards (1) 4′ x 25′ Hardware Cloth, there will be some left over (1) Box 3″-4″ Deck Screws (16) s ...
  • Buy your Canned Tuna, Now?
    Radioactive Tuna recently caught off the California coast has been absolutely determined to be contaminated as a result of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. The results “are unequivocal. Fukushima was the source,” said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. &# ...
  • The Words that DHS Patrols For On Websites
    In case you are curious about which words in particular that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cross-references when monitoring your online communications at social networking sites, online media and other websites for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S., here is the lis ...
  • Practical Food Storage
    Guest post: by ‘TripodXL’ One of the things that I notice that comes up is the cost associated with survival and in particular, food storage. I have been at it for 13 years or more and some would say that I’m a bit neurotic about it. So what? I grew up poor and while never [...]

Fast Company

  • Death To The Pixels
    Pixels are disappearing at an amazingly fast rate. Extinction could make a lot of money for a lot of people.Mommy and Daddy: What was a pixel?You may want to prepare an answer now because the pixel is going the way of the Dodo (and the iPod, for that matter?). In addition to being a milestone in ...
  • Facebook Share Price Slides Still Further, Bet ...
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Trading in stock options for Facebook began yesterday, but instead of being a positive move for the social network it created a very negative moment in Facebook's timeline because the share price continued its downward spiral from last week and ...
  • Salesforce To Acquire Facebook Marketing Behem ...
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.All Things D is reporting that Salesforce and Buddy Media are close to a deal that would have the former acquire the latter for $800 million. Buddy Media (one of Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Advertising for 2012) manages campa ...
  • Groupon Acquires Breadcrumb's Slice Of The Poi ...
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Groupon has just acquired Breadcrumb, a small startup that builds point-of-sale systems for iOS devices, the company announced on its blog today. Groupon says Breadcrumb will continue to service existing customers, but the company's team, inclu ...
  • Flame: The Skype-Sniffing, Bluetooth-Enabled S ...
    Flame can listen in on Skype conversations, record keystrokes, steal files, and hack a smartphone's call records. Here's how it works--and how Flame evaded detection for years.The news from cybersecurity researchers this Memorial Day sounded like a plot device from a science fiction movie. A hyp ...

Jadaliyya

  • العبودية وجدل إحراق كتب الفقه المالكي في موريتانيا
      لقد تابع الكثيرون باهتمام كبير إقدام السيد بيرام ولد اعبيدي— لاحظوا حتى الاسم يحمل رواسب زمن العبودية التي يناضل ضدها بيرام—على إحراق مختارات من كتب الفقه المالكي المسؤولة، حسب زعمه، عن استمرار الرق في بلده لما تمده به من غطاء شرعي. لقد نفذ رفقة كوكبة من أعضاء جمعية "مبادرة ...
  • الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة والمصالحة الفلسط ...
    إن نتائج الجولة الأولى من الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة كانت مفاجئة في عدة مسائل، أبرزها تأهل أحمد شفيق لانتخابات الرئاسة وليس عمرو موسى، وتأهل محمد مرسي وليس عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح، وصعود نجم حمدين صباحي؛ وهذا يعني أن حدة المنافسة والاستقطاب ستبلغ الذروة في يومي 16 و17 حزيران لاختيار رئيس مصر. ه ...
  • "We Are the Eight Percent": Inside Egypt's Und ...
    In the heated den of the Greek Club on Emad el-Din Street in downtown Cairo, sweating bodies heave and move to the infectious beats of reggaeton fused with the beat of a tabla, as Amr Haha, DJ Figo and Sadat swing their mics back and forth, bantering, ad-libbing and cheering. One takes a swig ou ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 29)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • حوار شامل مع المفكر المغربي عبد الله العروي
    في هذا الحوار الذي أجراه الأساتذة مصطفى بوعزيز، المعطي منجب، وسليمان بنشيخ، لمجلة «زمان»، يتحدث المفكر والمؤرخ عبد الله العروي عن قضايا راهنةٍ: عن الملكية والإسلام السياسي وحركة 20 فبراير والمغرب الكبير. كتابك «L’Histoire du Maghreb»، هل كان رد فعلٍ على تسمية شمال إفريقيا، التي أطلقها المؤ ...

mediagazer

  • Apple digs in on e-book lawsuit, says Jobs' qu ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: Apple digs in on e-book lawsuit, says Jobs' quotes will ‘speak for themselves’  —  In a new pushback over its role in an ongoing e-book controversy, Apple said that Steve Jobs' widely reported quotes on Amazon and book publishers &ldq ...
  • Journalists, police working out ground rules f ...
    Tampa Bay Times: Journalists, police working out ground rules for GOP convention in Tampa  —  TAMPA — Protesters might not be the only people filling Hillsborough's jails during the Republican National Convention.  Journalists could face detentions — even arrest ...
  • Prospect raises $200k, needs plenty more (Dyla ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Prospect raises $200k, needs plenty more  —  The good news: The American Prospect, which has sought financial donations to keep it afloat, has met its $200,000 goal.  —  The other news: It is now asking readers for another $350,000.  ...
  • Arnaud de Borchgrave: 'I feel vindicated' (Pat ...
    Patrick Gavin / Politico: Arnaud de Borchgrave: ‘I feel vindicated’  —  Despite ongoing investigations into his work in the face of plagiarism charges, longtime journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave has his mind made up: “I feel vindicated,” he says in an email ...
  • Amazon-Owned LOVEFiLM, The Netflix Of Europe, ...
    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon-Owned LOVEFiLM, The Netflix Of Europe, Signs Streaming Deal With NBCUniversal  —  In the midst of Amazon's recent moves to rapidly grow its content collection on Amazon Prime Instant Video, the company has also been brokering deals for another on ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • S.African president withdraws case
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Jacob Zuma has withdrawn his legal case against a gallery that displayed a portrait depicting his genitals. The agreement, in which the Goodman Gallery said it "regrets the pain that the display of the painting has caused," was announced Wednesday ...
  • Spring blooming shrubs, vines need prunin ...
    The show is over: Spring-blooming shrubs and vines have strutted their stuff. With blossoms past, they are melding into other landscape greenery. Don't turn your back on these plants, though, because pruning may be needed now to encourage repeat performances next year and in years to come. M ...
  • 3 Eco-Friendly Weed Killers While We Wait ...
    Recently, Christine Lepisto blogged about the weed-killing lasers being developed by researchers in Germany, but while we wait for them: here are three ways you can kill weeds in your garden without reaching for toxic herbicides.1. Boiling Water I learned about the boiling water trick to kil ...
  • Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Di ...
    /CC BY 2.0. The need for direct sunlight is a thing of the past. There are lamps that use LEDs, and there are mirrors that can amplify the effect of direct sunlight coming in through a window. Then there's "Daylight," the lamp that won the Red Dot Design award. It features LEDs, but those ar ...
  • CPI-M questions Mamata's felicitation of ...
    Tweet Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) The CPI-M Wednesday asked why the West Bengal government gave a rousing reception to a private corporate team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after it won the IPL. The party also criticised the alleged financial discrepancies that has marred the Indian Premier League ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/29/12 - Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? - Read pro and con arguments from the Congressional Research Service (pro), Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace Franklin Lamb (con), the Parliament of the European Union (pro), British Member of Parliament G ...
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah's position on Israel?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah’s position on Israel?
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah?
  • 5/25/12 - Barack Obama: Document History from ...
    2012election.procon.org - Barack Obama: Document History from Birth to Harvard (1961-1991) - Our new resource shows Obama’s birth certificates, birth announcements, school registration forms, and interviews with his classmates from elementary school in Indonesia through law school at Harvard.
  • 5/24/12 - Should Palestinian refugees have the ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Should Palestinian refugees have the "right of return”? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (con), Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal (pro), 9th Presiden ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Eerie Haunting Black & White Photos Of Atomic ...
        During the 1950s the United States detonated 739 nuclear weapons around the world in remote and unpopulated places. Often the scientists and civil engineers built entire village wholly unoccupied save for mannequins positioned as if in a moment frozen in time. This was done to help ...
  • Remember.
        Happy Memorial Day     Source: Google Images  
  • In A Battle You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, Ge ...
        The Battle of the Kasserine Pass was the worst battlefield loss for the US in WWII. American commanders wanted to see green GIs get a taste of the Wehrmacht. Major General Lloyd Frendenhall was the US commander; mostly known as a trainer of troops he had seen little combat. He spre ...
  • Highlights From The Complex And Diverse Falkla ...
      The British invested troops at San Carlos on the west end of East Falkland. They were waiting for heavy lift helicopters to be put into place at Port Stanley, 50 miles away at the east end of east island.  More than a dozen of the helicopters were in the Atlantic Conveyor a vast container ...
  • The Falklands Islands War Was A Distraction Fr ...
    For over a century, Great Britain and Argentina plaid claim to the Falklands Islands, two islands 400 miles East of the southern tip of Argentina. The Argentines call them the Malvinas, and replevined them from Britain in early 1982. It was a simple act one Friday morning on April 2nd, 1982; ove ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Sanctioned by Rush and The Donald, Romney Welc ...
    “@BarackObama is practically begging @MittRomney to disavow the place of birth movement, he is afraid of it and for good reason,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday. “He keeps using @SenJohnMcCain as an example, however, @SenJohnMcCain lost the election. Don’t let it happen again.” [The Hill] RUSH LIMBAUG ...
  • The ‘Red Square’ in Canada and What We Can Learn
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Maybe if we focus outside the U.S., we can gain some insight, some perspective, about what’s happening here. It’s certainly all connected. And it certainly helps understand the frustrating familiarity of the latest ro ...
  • Afghanistan Women Scatter
    WOMEN TUNNELING OUT of Afghanistan to escape the Taliban hasn’t happened yet, but Afghan women’s plight was predicted by the Washington Post‘s Dana Priest back in 2009. “… (Dana Priest) is increasingly of the view that we’re going to probably have to come to terms with the Tali ...
  • Romney Embraces Trump
    “I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.” – Mitt Romney TRUMP’S BIRTHERISM is back and Mitt Romney is happy to have it. Peggy Noonan, on CBS “This Morning” today, laughed openly at Mitt Romney when Charlie Rose bro ...
  • Review of “The Hillary Effect,” by Joe Gandelman
    Today, she calls herself a “recovering partisan.” What has not changed is her take-no-prisoners style of blunt writing; her interest isn’t in making media or political best buds to advance her career (she certainly won’t with the honestly in this book), but to give readers her best take. And “Th ...

Hudson New York

  • The Cause of Europeans' Attitude Towards Israel
    Last April, Belgium's Justice Minister, Annemie Turtelboom, and its Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, went on an official visit to Morocco, where they had an appointment with Morocco's Prime Minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, the leader of the Islamist
  • Muslim Brotherhood Plotting To Take Over Jordan?
    Jordanian government officials say there are growing signs that the kingdom's powerful Muslim Brotherhood organization has plans to overthrow the regime. The organization, according to the officials, has succeeded in hijacking the anti-corruption and
  • Christians Should "Convert, Pay Tribute, or Le ...
    According to the popular Egyptian website, El Bashayer, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will "achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam,
  • Finland's Iranian Mega-Mosque
    A new mega-mosque has been inaugurated in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Unlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Helsinki ministers to Shia Islam. The Helsinki mosque has been paid for by the Islamic Republic of Iran;
  • Saudis Demand Punishment for McDonald's Toy Th ...
    Saudi Arabians are angry at a McDonald's toy which they say mocks their prophet Muhammad. According to a report appearing today (5/27/12) on the Arabic news website, Kermalkom.com, the McDonald's fast food restaurant "abused the Prophet Muhammad by

Urban Survival

  • RealityJack Alert
    Several readers (including Oilman2) have noticed that one of the body pictures out of (supposedly Syria) was really out of Iraq in 2003, or so goes recall on this.  Reminder:  Guard your gates of awareness.  We’re in spin to win … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Best WuJo Story EVER
    Oh sure, we get a lot of oddities around here in our chasing after WuJo reports – those slips of time and things that people report every now and then, but this morning we have a most amazing report – … Continue reading →
  • Perspective: Holiday for Who(m)
    Although this is nominally a three day weekend, there are plenty of people who deserve a nod of thanks this morning for keeping the world operating as it is…details aren’t their fault:  Police, fire, emergency medical, restaurant staff, telephone company … Continue reading ...
  • Coping: Monday at the WuJo
    Not too many emails with reports of WuJo events – unusual occurrences of things that just shouldn’t happen in a rational world, but we know we’re not in one of those anymore, so what the hay…. This one is great, … Continue reading →
  • Forward?
    President Obama has been campaigning up in Iowa lately and there he’s calling out Mitt Romney on this and that (distortions). Not often I will offer free political advice, but I’m concerned that most of America would be inclined lately … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC in the News 5/29: Growing Green Awards, a ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The San Francisco Chronicle covered NRDC’s 2012 Growing Green Awards, which celebrated the nation’s food vanguards, and quoted Peter Lehner on the need to use life-saving antibiotics to p ...
  • St. Louis Cardinals Working Towards a "Triple ...
    Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York The 2011 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals are accustomed to winning. With a total of 11 World Series titles under their belt—second only to the Yankees—it’s no surprise that they set the bar ...
  • Fostering an Enabling Environment for Solar to ...
    Meredith Connolly, Energy Law and Policy Fellow, San Francisco Clean energy received a big boost last week in India when the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) announced an ambitious new target for the next Five Year Plan. India plans ...
  • Waste violations in LA hurt workers and the en ...
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Last week, more than 30 citations were issued by the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) to a waste recycling company called American Re ...
  • Detroit's prospects may be better than we think
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   As almost everyone knows, Detroit is a city with some serious problems.  But, as I have written before, it's more complicated than some pundits allow:  while it ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Culpeper Police Officer Indicted for Fatal Sho ...
    The Washington Post  notes that this prosecution is “highly unusual”  — “There have been few cases in the United States in which an officer has faced so serious a charge in connection with actions taken while on duty.” Why is … Continue reading →Culpeper ...
  • Officer Goes to Wrong Address, then Shoots Dog
    Officer Goes to Wrong Address, then Shoots Dog is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Our First Week — Reader Feedback
    So our new website has been up for about a week now and I just wanted to express my thanks for the enthusiastic support we have received so far.  Thanks also for the news tips — keep’em coming! Here’s a … Continue reading →Our First Week — Reader Feedback is ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, May 25, 2012: A Denver, Colorado police officer allegedly sexually assaulted a woman during a traffic stop.  The officer was charged with rape and kidnapping charges http://bit.ly/KSgal8 A lieutenant with … Continue reading &# ...
  • The police officer was to blame, not the man h ...
    From the Arizona Republic: Four months after a road-rage incident in northeast Mesa, police have concluded that a veteran officer was to blame, not the man he arrested. Aggravated-assault charges against Randy Smyers were dropped after an investigation found inconsistencies … Continue read ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
    Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...
  • Join Beyond Zero Radio for 3CR Radiothon Live ...
  • CEFC a distraction, not a solution: We need a ...
    Renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has today released its response to the government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) legislation. To download it click here. BZE opposes the CEFC in its current form, as it will not secure any extra renewable energy over the already ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
  • Repowering Port Augusta report now available
    To download the report click here. This ground breaking report makes the environmental, social and economic case for the replacement of Port Augusta’s existing brown coal-fired power stations with baseload solar thermal and wind power. As with all our work, this blueprint is technically det ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Another red herring from Asia Pulp & Paper on ...
    In a press release issued last Thursday, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) asserted that the presence of mixed tropical hardwood fiber (MTH) in its products 'does not come from the felling of virgin tropical rainforest trees in Indonesia'. The embattled paper giant goes on to say that 'the presence of MTH ...
  • Palm oil giant making good on forest commitmen ...
    Palm oil giant PT SMART appears to be honoring its commitment to avoid conversion of high carbon forests in Indonesian Borneo, reports a new assessment published by Greenomics, an Indonesian environmental activist group. The report was issued 15 months after PT SMART — a subsidiary of Sing ...
  • Massive economic growth does little for happin ...
    Economic growth alone may not raise happiness, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy Science (PNAS). Despite a stunning economic growth rate of around 10 percent per year over the last two decades, China's people have not seem a big boost in their overall life sa ...
  • Tropical dams are a false solution to climate ...
    Tropical dams emit considerably more greenhouse gas emissions than their temperate counterparts yet are being treated as a solution to climate change, warns a report published in Nature Climate Change.
  • Brazil's Rousseff vetoes part of controversial ...
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today rejected 12 of 84 articles in a controversial bill that aims to relax restrictions on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian government will announce the full details of the cuts on Monday.

Sierra Express

  • “Usu Boie is big gem”- says APC big wigs
    Presidential Adviser, Kemoh Sesay has told a pool of crowd in Port Loko town during the occasion marking the switch of allegiance of Alhaji Yahya Deen Kamara, to the ruling All People’s Congress  (APC), that the coming into the APC of Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is an added boost to their party. Al ...
  • Major Moody reacts to peace troop reports
    Major S Moody has told Sierra Express Media Media that the First Battalion troop comprising of 850 personnel are currently preparing for the peace keeping mission in Somalia. He spoke yesterday in response to local media claims that the said peace keeping troops have left already for the mission ...
  • Africell celebrates 50th anniversary with Red ...
    Africell has joined the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society on Sunday May 27 in celebrating their 50th anniversary at the Aberdeen beach west of the capital Freetown. President of the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, Edward T Gandi said during the occasion that the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society is hu ...
  • UN Peacekeepers Observe International Peacekee ...
    The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is being observed today, Tuesday, 29 May.  This marks the fourth year in a row the United Nations will honour more than 100 Blue Helmets who lost their lives the previous year while serving the cause of peace. This sombre milestone is a stark ...
  • Exclusive interview with Dalphin Alexandra Sie ...
    Princetta Williams of Sierra Express Media  and Universal Radio had this revealing interview with Dalphin Alexandra who represented Sierra Leone in the Big Brother Africa competition currently hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa. She explains why she was evicted and a couple of other issues sur ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • 'Cold, hard facts' needed in dairy share trading
    Debate over Fonterra's controversial trading among farmers proposal continues to rage with Federated Farmers dairy chairman Willy Leferink saying the lobbying from all sides is "frankly unbelievable".What were desperately needed...
  • Fonterra shareholders' chairman resigns
    Fonterra's bold plan to gain a second mandate from farmer shareholders for its controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme has taken a body blow with the resignation of the Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman, Simon Couper.Couper's...
  • Website tackles dairy farm employment issues
    A new website is being launched to help dairy farmers improve their knowledge of the legal requirements around employing staff. DairyNZ gave farmers a preview of the PeopleSmart website at its
  • Fonterra moves to tighten rules on fund size
    Fonterra Cooperative Group will tighten the rules for the proposed Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme after feedback from the Shareholders' Council and advisers to control the size of the fund and safeguard 100 per cent ownership...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: TAF tiff raises valuable ques ...
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings delivered the corporate equivalent of a "bitch-slap" to Federated Farmers' Willy Leferink which has not only resounded in farming circles but been heard all the way to the Beehive.In a hard-hitting...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Jacob Sullum on Obama's Anti-Capitalist Critiq ...
    President Obama accuses Mitt Romney of putting profits above people by striving to create wealth rather than jobs during his 15 years at Bain Capital. Senior Editor Jacob Sullum says this critique of Romney's work at the private equity firm, which Obama says will be central to his re- ...
  • Brickbat: Respect My Authority
    Dozens of students at Michigan's Kenowa Hills High School decided to ride their bicycles to school as a senior prank. They talked to the local police department and managed to get an official escort to the parade, and they even convinced the mayor to ride with them. When they got t ...
  • Doc Watson, RIP
    The great guitarist Doc Watson, who started his career in a rockabilly band then found an appreciative audience playing at folk festivals, has died at age 89. Listen, relish, mourn: If you don't have any of his recordings, a good place to start is 1972's Elementary Docto ...
  • New Video of Five Year Old Vancouver Police Sh ...
    Paul Boyd, a 39-year-old bipolar animator, was shot to death by Vancouver police in 2007 after creating a public disturbance and allegedly wielding a bicycle chain at cops. Two years later the British Columbia Criminal Justice Branch ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove ex ...
  • White House "Explains" the Difference Between ...
    Courtesy of The Daily Caller, here's White House Spokesman Jay Carney answering a reporter's question about Solyndra's bankruptcy: "How is that different from Romney’s argument on Bain Capital, which is that many succeeded and a few failed?" Oh, of course. Gov. Mit ...

Mercury Rising

  • US Taxpayers, Not UK Grannies, Paid For BP Cleanup
    Remember how British Petroleum and their Tory, Republican and other corporatist allies whined and whined and whined that Poor Widdle British Petroleum just couldn’t pay to clean up its own big-ass Gulf of Mexico oil spill because they’d have to starve all the grannies in the UK to do ...
  • But Hindrocket Said Conservatives Are Good At ...
    Remember this? We are in the early stages of the 2012 campaign season, with a lot of battlespace preparation going on. In the skirmishing so far, one perhaps surprising media advantage has become clear: the right is clobbering the left on Twitter. Here’s more proof that it’s not exac ...
  • Truthleak: Japanese ex-PM says nuclear industr ...
    The former Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, has given striking testimony to Parliament, in which he accepted blame for his own poor response during the Fukushima meltdown, but also attempted to obtain some degree of absolution because of the degree of corruption of the nuclear industry. He al ...
  • In Case You Weren’t Totally Sure That AL ...
    Sally Jo Sorensen once again does the establishment press one better in a story that will be found nowhere else — especially now, as I’ve made a point of making sure that her name is indelibly linked to it — by deeply tracing the ALEC connections of a prominent MNGOP officer an ...
  • Violence Higher In Unequal Rich Countries (Lik ...
    This chart kinda says it all: See here for more information.

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Stephen Harper’s Portrait
    Ms. Margaret Sutherland got it all wrong. This portrait of Stephen Harper would have been more appropriate.
  • Michael Voris Ignites Ottawa
    Last night, two hundred people packed Mac Hall at the Bronson Center to hear Internet sensation, Catholic Evangelist and…uh…Peacemaker, Michael Voris.  Although I was expecting about 140 people based on the registration information that I received over the past month or so, it seems ...
  • Bill Clinton: He did not have sex with these women
    Old Willy is at it again! Bill Clinton's picture with Porn Stars.
  • Anti-coal Mark Jaccard, a Nobel Peace Prize wi ...
    Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas and coal companies. People are left with no choice but to protest. Professor Mark Jaccard was arrested along with other protestors. A ha ...
  • Peter Mansbridge interviews Conrad Black
    Conrad Black may want to sue Thomas Mulcair, NDP leader, for calling Black a British criminal. Being rich and well-connected helps.  The full interview.

Press TV - Middle East

  • Russia rejects hasty UNSC act on Syria
    Russia says it is 'premature' for the United Nations Security Council to take any new action on Syria after more than 100 people were killed in violence in Syria’s western town of Houla.
  • ‘US drone war in Yemen has backfired’
    The US policy on the deployment of assassination drones in Yemen has backfired and evoked sympathy for militants as the surge of militancy in the country has more than doubled over the past three years, according to The Washington Post.
  • Libya militia training bid angers Turkey
    Libya has angered Turkey by including Libyan militiamen among the forces expected to be trained by Ankara on a bilateral agreement.
  • Turkey arrests 6 generals
    Turkey has detained six more generals as part of a long-running investigation into the coup of 1997 that toppled former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.
  • 'Most Houla massacre victims executed'
    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said that most of the civilian victims of last week’s massacre in the Syrian town of Houla were executed.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Slaughter Slant: Houla Massacre Sparks Media B ...
    RT: The most gruesome episode in Syria’s uprising is quickly turning into a PR battle, as each side, and their allies, portion blame for the slaughter in Houla. Just four days after the murders of over a hundred men, women and children — the media has been flooded with images further ...
  • US Government Attack on Wikileaks
    WikiLeaks is under serious threat. The US, UK, Swedish and Australian governments are engaging in a coordinated effort to extradite its editor-in-chief Julian Assange to the United States, to face espionage charges for journalistic activities. GRAND JURY For twenty-one months a Grand Jury sittin ...
  • America Exceptionalism
    A recent article covered Mitt Romney’s speech at a Memorial Day event at a veterans museum in San Diego.1 Romney sees the upcoming presidential election as a choice in an unsafe world between a nation that is weakened militarily versus “a strong America.” I want to ask Romney: ...
  • The Failed Effort: Tony Blair Before Leveson
    The Leveson inquiry on media ethics chaired by Lord Justice Leveson and spearheaded by the Arctic cool Robert Jay QC keeps humming along, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is the latest star in its procession to be questioned.  There was anticipation – this, the man Rupert Murdoch fav ...
  • I Don’t Remember
    I Don’t Remember: Voting to wage war against every Muslim nation that is not a pawn of U.S. capital. Voting to support the use of unmanned drones as murder weapons against civilian populations. Voting to characterize corporations as “people” for purposes of buying elections, and destroying whate ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul festival pitched before GOP convention
    TAMPA — Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are negotiating to hold a three-day festival of music, entertainment and activism at the Florida State Fairgrounds immediately before the Republican National Convention. Paul Festival 2012 would run from Aug. 24-26, ending the day before t ...
  • “Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefi ...
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Renewable energy offset increase in green house gas emissions
Examiner.com
A new study released today shows that renewable energy has off set an increase in green house emissions in 2010. Were it not for renewable energy, green house gas would have increased towards the 1990 level. Although that was a European study, ...
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Grid operators say Germany must invest $25 billion
BusinessWeek
By JUERGEN BAETZ The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about (EURO)20 billion ($25 billion) in new transmission networks over the next decade as the nation abandons nuclear power and uses more renewable ...
Snyder questions renewable energy ballot plan
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Rick Snyder said Tuesday he has serious doubts about requiring Michigan utilities to produce 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025, saying it's too early to set such an ambitious goal. Snyder told The Associated Press he hasn't ...
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Australia Renewable Energy Fund Set to Invest in Solar, Biofuels
BusinessWeek
By James Paton on May 29, 2012 Australia's A$200 million ($196 million) renewable energy venture capital fund is set to unveil its first two investments in the solar and biofuels industries by the end of September. Southern Cross Venture Partners, ...
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New Teaching Garden Instructs On Food, Ecology
Duke University
The Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden, dedicated this month, will instruct visitors about healthy eating and ecological practices. Photo by Jared Lazarus / Duke Photography Durham, NC - Visitors will get a better taste of where our food comes from and ...
Arctic Ecology Provides Clues to Life on Jupiter's Moon, Europa
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
In a Canadian fjord scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa, consisting of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer clues for the upcoming missions in the search ...
State Department of Ecology scrutinizes proposed shoreline rules
Issaquah Press
By Warren Kagarise The state Department of Ecology requested input from citizens as officials evaluate the city-developed plans for land along Issaquah Creek and Lake Sammamish. The updated Shoreline Master Program is designed to guide construction and ...
Video Captures Oil Spill As Divers Prepare To Lift Derelict Vessel
EarthFix
From this vessel, divers with The Washington Department of Ecology's contractor are making underwater preparations to raise the sunken craft. credit: Washington Department of Ecology An aerial view of Penn Cove where the derelict fishing vessel, ...
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Summer Olympics Water Polo: Ten Terms to Know
Yahoo! Sports
They will happen in a city that has been an enormous part of the history of water polo. The first set of water polo rules were developed by the London Swimming Club, the city's Crystal Palace Plunge was the site of the first organized match using these ...
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Sneaky water tax a mean green sting
Herald Sun
EXCLUSIVE: A SNEAKY water tax will take $56 off every Victorian household for environmental projects that don't exist. The Baillieu Government is budgeting to gouge $117 million next year for an environmental contribution levy - a 67 per cent jump.
Bottled Water Production in the UK Industry Market Research Report now updated ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Bottled Water Production industry went into decline in 2006-07 due to unfavourable climatic conditions, a mounting community backlash against the environmental impact of bottled water and the most savage recession in the United Kingdom for half a ...
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Tim Cook pours cold water on iPhone 5 with 4-inch screen
ZDNet (blog)
By Zack Whittaker | May 30, 2012, 8:31am PDT Summary: Apple's chief executive Tim Cook appears to have poured cold water over suggestions the next iPhone will have a larger screen. Strangely, he outright said it. On air. Live.
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