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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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  • Keen: Australian house price bubble is bursting
    The ABS numbers are in, and they show a 1.1% national fall over the March quarter. Sydney house prices fell 1.8% according to the ABS, whereas Australian Property Monitor alleged they rose 1.4% – the latter being the basis for Andrew Wilson’s latest piece “Confidence rises as prices bounce back” ...
  • Is Tom Crone Rupert Murdoch’s John Dean?
    Comparisons with Watergate raise worrying prospects for News Corporation ..
  • A Closer Look At The Secret Service
    Secret Service agents are one category of law enforcement whose agents typically get the glory treatment. Recent books by members of JFK’s secret service detail, almost devoid of revelations or candor, have nevertheless received lots of positive coverage. Meanwhile, legitimate questions about th ...
  • GFC: Don’t mention the 'A' word
    despite “lax” monetary policy, fairly standard levels of indebtedness and a considerable export shock, Australian demand (and so income) did not collapse. Which meant debt remained manageable. Why? The simple answer is: because our central bank is not mad (unlike other central banks). The RBA ...
  • Krugman and Shiller: We’re In a Depression
    Paul Krugman released a new book yesterday called “End This Depression Now“. In the introduction, Krugman writes: The best way to think about this continued slump, I’d argue, is to accept that we’re in a depression …. It’s nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard K ...

Independent - London

  • Shocking hit-and-run CCTV footage released
    Footage of a car ploughing into pedestrians crossing a street in Buffalo, New York has been released by police.Related StoriesBomb threat halts two Southwest Airlines flightsPunk singer Tom Gabel from Against Me! comes out as transgender and plans to begin living as a womanPlayboy model Julia Or ...
  • Crash fears in Indonesia as Russian demo jet v ...
    A Russian-built airliner is feared to have crashed during a demonstration flight aimed at drumming up sales. Related StoriesThe Taliban are divided and in retreat, insist top US officialsThai grandfather jailed for insulting King dies in prison17 dead in Philippines clothing store fireCatholic r ...
  • US 'vigilante teacher' Tim Larkin barred from ...
    A controversial American self-defence instructor has been banned from Britain by Home Secretary Theresa May.Related StoriesHumberside lifeboat hero killed in Qatar blastHolidaymakers benefit from eurozone uncertainty
  • Cracks appear in new Israeli set-up over ultra ...
    The first rifts in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expanded coalition have emerged just a day after its creation with religious and secular parties exchanging threats over draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Related StoriesBahrain: Activists forced to sign confessions, court to ...
  • Rebel chief 'threatens new Syria attacks'
    Syria's rebel leader has threatened to resume attacks because President Bashar Assad's government has not honoured a ceasefire, a pan-Arab newspaper reported today. Related StoriesBahrain: Activists forced to sign confessions, court toldSyrian conflict 'close to a civil war'Rebel chief Riad al-A ...

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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

  • The Revolving Door of Insanity or From the Fry ...
    "I freed a thousand slaves - I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." - Harriet Tubman Are we hamsters running endlessly on a spinning wheel, oblivious to the fact that we are substantively going nowhere but backwards? Or, are we reasoning, critically thinking hum ...
  • After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide a ...
    For the media, time is of the essence in a news story. The March 11, 2011 disaster attracted thousands of reporters and photographers from around the world. There was a brief deluge of Japanese and international media coverage on the first anniversary, this spring. Now the journalists have packe ...
  • Did Obama Really Kill Osama?
    We just passed the one-year anniversary of the (alleged) execution of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. But, did he really live until 2011? Ten years earlier, in 2001, his kidneys were failing, and he was on dialysis. Do you know what the life expectancy is for dialysis patients in the United States? ...
  • Neurosurgeon Jack Kruse booted from Carnival s ...
    Nashville neurosurgeon Jack Kruse says he's the victim of cyber sabotage. Kruse was scheduled as a guest speaker Monday for Jimmy Moore's 5th Annual Low-Carb Cruise on the Carnival Magic out of Galveston, Texas. But before the ship departed Sunday afternoon, the cruise line learned of a Twitte ...
  • First Rifts Emerge in New Israeli Coalition
    The first rifts in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expanded coalition emerged just a day after the Israeli leader brought the main opposition party into his government, with religious and secular parties exchanging threats Wednesday over draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Israel's Su ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Things which should drive your blood pressure up
    #Cdnpoli #F35 #BCpoli -  Since I have a whole week of trying to make sense of yet another set of federal regulations which were changed by a federal department for the third time in less than a year, (for us poor slobs who don't make gobs of money shipping corrosive goo through a tube), thin ...
  • Baird suggests Canada and Iran are the same on ...
    John Baird won't say, but the title of this post isn't wrong. "When they're enriching uranium to 20 per cent, when they've got the volume of materials. … When you're putting all the ingredients in front of you, it obviously wouldn't take long to make the decision to do it," he said. ...
  • Kush considerations . . .
    INTER-PRESS-SERVICE is a quiet site that is devoted to “giving a voice to the voiceless”.  Since its inception, back in 1964, IPS proclaims that it has believed in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. Well, Carey L. Biron ha ...
  • Robocon Guelph - the technical hypothesis
    #elxnfraud #Cdnpoli -  Zorpheous has done a great job of squeezing out the technical aspects of the Guelph Conservative election fraud scandal. If you haven't read it, go now. If you're in a rush, here's something very important: gnoring the other 199 ridings that are being inve ...
  • Harmonica Players Suck (except when they blow)
    You've always wanted to play the blues, you know you have. Everyone should be able to make a little music, it's good for the soul.  There are a few three-chord wonders among the Inkstained Wretches and several more among our blogging fellow travellers who will testify to benefits of be ...

Media Matters for America

  • Black Helicopters Alert: Morris Warns Obama Is ...
    Fox News contributor Dick Morris told Sean Hannity that "one world government" is "happening." His evidence consists of false statements about a series of treaties, some of which enjoy bipartisan support, are important for U.S. national security, and protect children from exploitation.Morris An ...
  • What Buffett Really Said About The Buffett Rule
    Right-wing media claimed that Warren Buffett "blast[ed]" the Buffett rule and that he "isn't totally in favor" of it, citing a CNBC interview in which Buffett said the rule is a "small improvement" that "doesn't cure all revenue problems." But during that interview, Buffett said that he's "fine ...
  • Fox's Bolling Is Oblivious To Positive Changes ...
    Fox's Eric Bolling said that "there isn't one" economic metric that has improved since President Obama took office. In fact, the economy stopped shrinking and started growing since Obama's inauguration, private-sector jobs and exports have increased, and employment turned from sharp declines to ...
  • Journal Miffed By Bipartisan Support ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial criticizes Republicans who support extending the federal Production Tax Credit, a key tax break supporting the U.S. wind power industry. The Journal suggests that wind energy will not become competitive with fossil fuels, but energy analysts say wind is approachi ...
  • Fox's Flawed Solution To The Economy: What Wou ...
    Fox has attacked the economic recovery under President Obama by claiming that if Obama just adopted the policies of former President Ronald Reagan, there would be a stronger recovery. But as economists have pointed out, the Reagan recession ended not because of Reagan's fiscal policies but beca ...

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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

  • Realistic Star Wars lightsaber goes on sale
    The $400 LaserSaber uses a laser that is so powerful that the device comes with a health warning. Developed by a company called 'Wicked Lasers', the n...
  • Man shot through neck by 20 inch arrow
    Konstantine Myakush was enjoying a family outing when an arrow came flying at him and pierced his neck. The father-of-two couldn't believe what was ha...
  • Tiny mammoths lived on Crete
    Mammoths the size of a baby elephant roamed the Greek island of Crete over 3 million years ago. It was the smallest species of mammoth ever to walk th...
  • Police to re-examine evidence of psychics
    Calls from psychics offering clues about the Madeleine McCann case are to be investigated by police. Leaving no stone unturned, authorities are follow...
  • Did dinosaur wind cause climate change ?
    Dinosaur flatulence may have produced enough gas to change the climate 150 million years ago. The bizarre claim may sound like a joke but is actually ...

Grassroots

  • Insights Spring 2012 - Healthy food today, hea ...
    Put simply, agroecology recognizes that a crop lives in a complex neighborhood of pests,  aquifers, land and climate patterns, and economic pressures. That doesn't sound like a radical notion, but the truth is that if applied, it might just blow the roof off of current industrial agricultur ...
  • Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for G ...
    Subheadline:  Analysis of the pending 2012 Farm Bill Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Kari Hamberschlag is Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst for the Environmental Working ...
  • Thousands of Honduran workers occupy land
    alegria-small_pic.jpg By the Via CampesinaThousands of Honduran farm workers have launched a co-ordinated land occupation, squatting on some 12,000 hectares nationwide and fuelling new tensions over land rights, authorities said.read more
  • Small-Scale Fishing Industry Washed Ashore in Gaza
    gaza_fishers.jpg The tiny motorboat’s engine coughs a couple of miles offshore and whirls to a stop. Gazing out over the aquamarine Mediterranean waters, I feel high from the fumes of cheap Egyptian diesel and the smell of sea salt. “Let’s ...
  • Voices from International Women’s Day
    haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...

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Duly Noted

  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
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  • 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

  • My Thoughts on Dick Lugar's Defeat
    As Philip Klein notes, the most obvious result of Dick Lugar's primary loss last night is that it will produce a state of absolute fear among Republicans in Congress who might cross the aisle to compromise on anything, ever. [Richard] Mourdock's victory not only means that this particular ...
  • Romney's Latino Problem
    It's hard to exaggerate what an unholy mess Mitt Romney has made for himself on the issue of Latino immigration. He really has two big problems. First, he's said what he's said, and his positions on immigration, amnesty, and deportations are all in the public record. To say those positions ar ...
  • Weather Less Predictable. Thx Climate Change
    Remember those "unprecedented" wildfires last year in Texas and across the rest of the Southwestern United States? If you don't let me remind you, or rather watch this video: Well either global warming is real or God really has it in for Texas, big time. Again. Because this year an ...
  • GOP is Screwing Students
    Once more, Congress proves incapable of doing simple things. The Senate failed to overcome another painless filibuster and could not take up a bill to keep student loan interest rates low. All the Democrats voted to proceed, all the Republicans except retiring Olympia Snowe voted to obstruct. ...
  • 20 Year Lightbulbs--New Menace to Freedom
    We all know how Republicans and conservatives in many states and in Congress seem determined to oppose use of energy saving light bulbs because -- I still haven't figured out their rationale. I guess they view saving money and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels as part of Obama's fascist-so ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Debate, Diplomacy and Activism Surrounds Nucle ...
    Opinions differ over the best way to supply national energy grids. How can we resolve this dispute that surrounds nuclear power? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • One Holi Mess: India's Incredible Color-Soaked ...
    Vibrant dyes, water-drenched fun and worship are all part of one of India's best-loved celebrations, the festival of colors that is Holi. Incredible photographs follow. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Truth Behind the Ethnic Conflict in South ...
    The root cause for the ethnic clashes in South Sudan may be genocide, not reciprocal cattle raiding, says an expert on the region. Here's what the media isn't reporting. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Meteorologists Predict the Weather
    Weather forecasts warn people of severe weather, yet predictions get cloudier as they peer farther into the future. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Loneliest Outhouses on Earth
    When nature's calling while you're out in nature, you can only hope to find an outhouse ASAP. We've found 13 that are more than just a bit remote... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • 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 ...
  • Wins in Minneapolis & Choppy seas indeed: Glow ...
    EU bankfail as everyone relishes Spain's 'successful auction' - American bankfail continues as homeless spirals, inflation & money velocity drift On the MN front, well the Occupy movement in Minneapolis really flushed out a lot of authoritarian over-reactions in the last couple weeks, starti ...
  • Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns... HSI H ...
    Now with moar National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Security unit targets ‘worst’ in world crime - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post, Nov 26 2011 HSI is a new directorate within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. Formed in September, its agents are responsible ...
  • BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Oc ...
    We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one spa ...

Daily Censored

  • Just say NO to illegal debt say Greek leftists ...
    By Michael Collins Wall Streeters, big banks, and their proxies in political office are all reaching for the Xanax tonight. The Greek left, led by Alexis Tsipras, is saying that there’s no obligation to pay back the rotten deal handed down to the Greek people. (Image: Oneiros) “After ...
  • America’s New Slavery
    By Elaine Leeder For the last fifteen years, I have been running self-help groups and classes for prisoners in a number of California and New York State prisons. When I first entered, I was struck by the glaring racial and ethnic disparity among inmates, with blacks and Latinos being the... ...
  • Seven months of Dailycensored.com articles dis ...
    On Friday April 27, 2012  the article “Insider trading probe at University of Phoenix: Washington Post Company stock sales also seen as suspect”  was published on Dailycensored.com.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Citizens Must Demand Accountability of Governm ...
    Accountability of all government employees, including judges, for criminal acts and malfeasance. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public ...
      Readers might remember the distasteful case of gun-for-hire, former Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District and New Orleans School District, Paul Vallas and his erstwhile dismantling of New Orleans’ school district after Hurricane Katrina.  Vallas was on hand to help fire the entire ...

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IntelNews

  • Would be al-Qaeda bomber was Saudi double agent
    The man tasked by al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch to blow up an airliner bound for the United States last month, was a mole who had been recruited by Saudi intelligence. IntelNews understands that the double agent is a Saudi citizen who volunteered to act as an informant for Saudi authorities.
  • News you may have missed #725 (al-Qaeda edition)
    Al-Qaida airline bomb plot thwarted by CIA. CIA kills al-Quaeda man wanted for attack on USS Cole. Al-Qaeda attacks Yemeni base hours after CIA strike.
  • Scandinavian phone company helps ex-Soviet rep ...
    A highly profitable cellular telecommunications company, which is jointly owned by a Swedish-Finnish public-private consortium, is enabling some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes to spy on their own citizens, according to a new report.
  • News you may have missed #724
    Aid group denies link to US intelligence in Pakistan. Is MI6 double spy's case linked with Gareth Williams' death? Fears of spying hinder US license for China Mobile.
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    Mossad officer claims compensation for 'breakdown'. US signs intel-sharing agreement with New Zealand. Secret files missing from US National Archives.

War is a Crime.org

  • Petition seeks injunction for Pakistani Air Fo ...
    Tribune PESHAWAR: A Pakistan-based legal charity has sought court injunctions for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to shoot down American drones flying into the Pakistani airspace in a lawsuit. Foundation for Fundamental Rights has filed two petitions before the Peshawar High Court on behalf of vict ...
  • Another Foiled False Flag
      Another Foiled False Flag   by Stephen Lendman   Wikipedia defines false or black flags as "covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities."    read more
  • First-of-its-kind "Refrain From Political Spen ...
    Resolution would ask the corporation to opt out of the unlimited, often secret spending ability afforded to it by the Supreme Court in Citizens United   *UPDATE:* On Tuesday, May 8, at 3M Corp.’s shareholder meeting, investors urged the board to adopt the resolution to refrain from spending ...
  • The ‘Subsidized’ Loan Charade: The US Governme ...
    By Dave Lindorff The Senate is currently deadlocked on taking action to prevent the interest on new Stafford guaranteed student loans from rising on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8%, with Democrats saying they want to “pay for” keeping the current “lower” 3.4% rate by closing a loophole that allows som ...
  • UK Has Submitted Its Entry in the Stupidest Mo ...
    Yes, the competition will be stiff this year.  But who would swear this entry was out of the running? From Andy Worthington: read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Frottage Fever and a Date with the Reaver
    By Les Visible It becomes increasingly harder to know what to say; to find that there is anything to say. Obviously it has already been said and the same people not paying attention then are not paying attention now. It’s not my alarm clock and it’s not my world, that so many are att ...
  • Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?
    By Ed Pilkington The entrance to the Judge Rotenberg Centre, in a suburb of Boston, is a riot of bright colours and surreal designs. The receptionist greets visitors from a deep purple chair in front of yellow and pink neon panels. Corridors are lit by elaborate chandeliers and lined with 6ft mo ...
  • One man creates 1,360 acre forest
    by: Jordan and Kyla (NaturalNews) Have you ever heard the saying “you have the power to make a difference”? Well, the following demonstrates how one person has proven this. Over 30 years ago, a young teenager by the name of Jadav “Molai” Payeng had an idea to turn a barre ...
  • DHS To Release Potential Superbug Cousin Of An ...
    By Alexander Higgins Of course the naysayers said such powers could only be invoked during a massive riot or if the President authorized such a release in the name of national security which would never happen. NDM-1 Enzyme turns any bacteria into a super bug and is already widespread across the ...
  • US ‘foils new underwear bomb plot’ ...
    US ‘foils new underwear bomb plot’ by al-Qaeda in Yemen Leon Panetta said security services would “do everything necessary to keep America safe” A plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 “underwear bomb” has been disrupted, ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
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    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 ...
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    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

  • Tomasso Guerra Transforms Old Reflex Camera In ...
    It may seem excessive to use a reflex camera to build a lamp, but Tomasso Guerra’s cool design looks so great, he’s forgiven. The Italy-based designer combined a recycled DSLR with a semi-flexible corrugated tube to create this eye-catching and adaptable lighting fixture. For the dig ...
  • Planet Earth Has Less Water Than We Think!
    As a child, you are told a lot of things about this great planet of ours. We are the third of nine planets in the Solar System (now eight and one dwarf planet), Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on the planet, and the Earth’s surface is 70% water. With a figure like that, it’s [...]
  • Vermont Will Become the First State to Outlaw ...
    Wyoming Gas Drill Photo by Shutterstock Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is set to sign into law a bill that will make Vermont the first state to outlaw hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the environmentally destructive method of natural gas extraction which is believed to have causedearthquakes i ...
  • Could Magnetic Bacteria Lead to the Creation o ...
    Image: Bacteria courtesy of Shutterstock Today’s computers are rapidly becoming obsolete as society demands larger storage space and faster connections. However, the future of computing may not lie in technology, but in biology. Following the example of science-fiction, which has long theo ...
  • The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse fo ...
    Predicting food shortages in the 21st century, Zurich-based UrbanFarmers AG and Conceptual Devices have teamed up to produce plans for the Globe (Hedron), a geodesic greenhouse that rests on the top of flat roofs in urban areas. The dome, which is framed with bamboo, is designed a ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Physicists Succeed in Making ‘Impossible’ Gamm ...
    Physicists have created a new gamma-ray lens and they believe it will open up a new field of gamma-ray optics for medical imaging, detecting illicit nuclear material, and getting rid of nuclear waste.
  • Smarter Grid: Greening the Largest Machine on ...
    In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged since the 1930s. Energy experts say meeting our carbon-footprint reduction goals will remain a ...
  • Count Roadkill From Your Bike for Science
    Cyclists can now help scientists by reporting animals flattened by automobiles. An organization that pairs data-collecting outdoor enthusiasts with researchers launched a roadkill-observation project this week. Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation is calling on everyone from commuters to ...
  • The Great Outdoors Is Good for Allergies
    People who grow up in rural environments are less likely to develop allergies. It may because such environments harbor more friendly microbes that colonize our bodies and protect us from inflammatory disorders.
  • 10 Years of Aqua Satellite’s Incredible Images ...
    NASA's Aqua satellite has been producing amazing images of Earth for 10 years, collecting 29 million gigabytes of data and far outliving its life expectancy of three to five years. Here are some of Aqua's most spectacular images, including shots of erupting volcanoes, plankton blooms and forest ...

PakAlert

  • After The Government Microchips Our Soldiers, ...
    What would you do if someday the government made it mandatory for everyone to receive an implantable microchip for identification purposes? Would you take it? Such a scenario may not be as far off as you might think. In the United States today, millions of dogs and cats have been microchipped ...
  • Japanese scientists eye mysterious ‘Planet X’
    Scientists at a Japanese university said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system. The researchers at Kobe University in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it w ...
  • Landmark Lawsuit by US Home Owners Implicates ...
    A new lawsuit, which is bordering on the unbelievable, implicates the Obama administration and some of the world’s largest banks in the largest international money laundering case in history. This global money laundering network was allegedly formed during the Obama administration and helped ...
  • Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) ...
    As long as the Air Force pinky-swears it didn’t mean to, its drone fleet can keep tabs on the movements of Americans, far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Yemen. And it can hold data on them for 90 days — studying it to see if the people it accidentally spied upon are actually l ...
  • This is the way the world ends: Planets turned ...
    The shattered remains of planets that bear a striking resemblance to our own Earth have been found around white dwarf stars - offering a vision of what will one day happen to our planet. University of Warwick astrophysicists found four white dwarves surrounded by the dust of shattered planets ...

Andy Worthington

  • Tories Disobey Court Order, Refuse to Release ...
    Is there no end to the arrogance of this wretched government? In February, while pushing their vile bill to destroy the welfare state, the Tory-led coalition resorted to dismissing important amendments demanded by the House of Lords by invoking “financial privilege,” an arcane set-up ...
  • Austerity Under Attack in Europe: Can Socialis ...
    So what’s happening in Europe? Voters in France and Greece delivered huge swings to Socialists at the weekend, with François Hollande replacing Nicolas Sarkozy as the French President, and an alliance of left-wing parties taking second place in the Parliamentary elections in Greece, and br ...
  • Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
    Law-abiding US citizens have been appalled that Jose Rodriguez, the director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service until his retirement in 2007, was invited onto CBS’s “60 Minutes” program last weekend to promote his book Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions Afte ...
  • How America Became A Torture Nation
    Since I began researching Guantánamo and the “war on terror” on a full-time basis over six years ago, my motive has been to pierce the lies told about the prisoners, falsely tarred as “the worst of the worst,” even though most of them were rounded up for money, or through ...
  • Close Guantánamo: Washington Post Calls for La ...
    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 activit ...

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

  • FBI: Ready was Focus of Terrorism Probe Before ...
    J.T. Ready, the infamous neo-Nazi and border vigilante who killed himself and four others last week in a suburban Phoenix home, was the subject of a federal criminal domestic terrorism investigation into activities on the border, an Arizona television station has reported. James Turgal, the spec ...
  • Racist Skinhead Leaders Arrested in Florida Co ...
    Three Florida leaders of the American Front, a California-based group of racist skinheads known for its predilection for violence, have been arrested on conspiracy and hate crime charges, along with four other members of the gang. Two of the leaders — Marcus Faella and his wife Patricia Faella — ...
  • ‘Ex-Gay’ Group Cancels Conference ...
    One of the most prominent ex-gay organizations in the country, Exodus International, has been experiencing an exodus of a different sort, one it surely isn’t pleased to see. The group canceled its next Love Won Out (LWO) conference, which was scheduled for May 19 at Legacy Church in Albuqu ...
  • Extremists React to Neo-Nazi’s Apparent Mass M ...
    Updated 5.04.12 Nativist extremists and white supremacists wasted little time responding with half-cocked conspiracy theories to the news that J.T. Ready, a neo-Nazi border vigilante, had died in an apparent murder-suicide outside Phoenix. For some, the blame lay with Mexican drug cartels. For o ...
  • Arizona Tragedy: Former Senate President Has S ...
    Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of his state’s draconian anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law, issued a statement last night denouncing “the local media” for attempting to tie him to J.T. Ready, the neo-Nazi who is believed to have murdered four people earlier in the day befor ...

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

  • Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
    Obama on ABC News: read more
  • First Nations Rally in Toronto to Demand No En ...
    Yinka Dene Alliance rallying outside shareholders meeting (photo: Greenpeace Canada) Hundreds of First Nations protesters and supporters descended upon Toronto today to protest Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would transport tar sands crude from Alberta to the British Co ...
  • NOAA: US Experienced Warmest 12-Month Period ...
    The U.S. has experienced the warmest 12-month period since recordkeeping began in 1895, according to the newest monthly "State of the Climate" report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NOAA reports that in the period from May 2011 to April 2012 the na ...
  • Plastic in 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Has I ...
    Plastic garbage in the ocean has increased 100-fold in the past 40 years and could have ecosystem-wide impacts, according to a study released Tuesday. Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography looked at the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), known as the ‘Great Pacific Ga ...
  • Thousands of Protesters Descend on Bank of Ame ...
    Thousands of protesters marched to the door of Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC today. A large coalition of activist groups including environmental groups, labor unions, and Occupy Wall Street are expecting an eventful day of 'non-violent protest, marches, an ...

Lifehacker

  • Build an Arduino-Powered Doorbell Alert System ...
    Ever wonder who rings your doorbell when you're not home? Or do you crank music up too loud most of the day to hear it anyway? If so, Make Projects user Clement Storck built a simple Arduino powered notification system that sends him a text m ...
  • Zero Dollar Books Shows You All the Best Selli ...
    Sorting through the Amazon store for free ebooks can be a bit of a mess. To simplify the process Zero Dollar Books is a simple webapp that aggregates all the best selling free ebooks and shows them off in a nice clean view. More &raqu ...
  • Quit Killing Your Houseplants with the Help of ...
    For those of us without a green thumb, keeping a single houseplant alive is a nearly impossible task. However, with the help of a little technology you can find the right location in your home, remind yourself to water it, or even automate the ...
  • Evernote for iOS and Mac Updates with New Card ...
    iOS/Mac: The iOS and Mac clients for the note taking service Evernote have both received updates with a few interface changes and new features. The Mac version get an entirely new Card View alongside some tweaks while the iOS version gets an u ...
  • Flipboard for Android Is (Unofficially) Availa ...
    Android users eager to get their hands on Flipboard, the beautiful, tile-based digital "magazine" we all know and love were told the app would launch exclusive to the Samsung Galaxy S III when it hits markets later this month. Now, thanks to ...

Water Privatization

  • Editorial: Slowdown on privatization
    CITY Hall consultant Danilo Dayanghirang has a point in opposing the privatization of water utilities. What should be demanded instead is for executives of government-owned corporations who get fat allowances and plenty of room to throw their weight around to be as efficient as their pays requir ...
  • University eliminates the sale of bottled water
    Loyola University Chicago is ridding its campus of bottled water. School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013.
  • Chicago's Loyola University to ban bottled ...
    School officials say bottled water will no longer be sold anywhere on campus starting in 2013. A referendum was passed by students last week to phase outbottled water sales and reduce the university's environmental footprint.
  • Is Midway Airport privatization deal back in t ...
    Chicago aldermen signed off Monday on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to refinance $1.5 billion in Midway Airport debt — and got a strong sign that the $2.5 billion Midway privatization that collapsed for lack of financing may yet be cleared for takeoff. Lois Scott, City Hall’s chief financial officer ...
  • Loyola University taking steps to ban sale of ...
    Loyola University is taking steps to save the environment by banning bottled water on campus.

Guardian

  • Syria: blasts defy Annan's peace plea - live u ...
    • Troops attacked near UN convoy in Dera'a • Free Syrian Army threatens to resume hostilities • Annan warns of descent into civil war in Syria • Read the latest summary3.31pm: Syria: The government claims that "armed terrorists groups" have been responsible for 2,339 violations of the ceasefi ...
  • Queen's Speech: Politics live blog
    • Summary of the bills in the Queen's Speech3.40pm: David Cameron turns to Labour's plans.He says Harriet Harman was asked the cost of Labour's plans. She said she did not know the answer, but that Ed Balls had a figure. But, when Balls was asked at the weekend, he said he had not finished costi ...
  • Spectator magazine to face charge over article ...
    Magazine summoned to appear in court charged with breaching reporting restrictions with article by Rod LiddleThe Spectator magazine is to be charged with breaching reporting restrictions during the trial of two men for the murder of Stephen Lawrence.The publication is being held responsible for ...
  • Rochdale gang jailed for sexually exploiting v ...
    Nine men get sentences of up to 19 years as judge says they were driven by lust and greed and treated victims as 'worthless'Nine men who were found guilty of being part of a child sexual exploitation gang that targeted vulnerable girls, plying them with fast food, alcohol, drugs and gifts so the ...
  • Milly Dowler: truth about deletion of messages ...
    Police inquiry confirms murdered teenager's phone was hacked but says key evidence has been lostThe full truth about the extent of hacking into Milly Dowler's phone may never be known, police have admitted. Their report to the Leveson inquiry followed an investigation lasting five months into ...

McClatchey

  • Sen. Richard Lugar’s defeat bodes badly f ...
    The political world absorbed a chilling message Wednesday from the fall of Washington icon Sen. Richard Lugar: Rabid partisanship is popular, especially in Republican primaries, and cutting deals with political…Click to Continue »
  • New Medicare data show disparities in health c ...
    The government has identified hundreds of hospitals whose Medicare patients are incurring especially high bills, a first step toward using bonuses and penalties to encourage more efficient health care.Click to Continue »
  • Syrian troops say cease-fire hasn’t sto ...
    With a United Nations-sponsored peace plan nearly one month old, Syrian soldiers in the country?s north say rebel forces trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad are continuing to launch…Click to Continue »
  • Judge: Novelist Michael Peterson's rights viol ...
    A North Carolina judge on Wednesday ruled that the murder conviction in 2003 of Durham novelist Michael Peterson was obtained with "materially misleading" and "deliberately false" testimony from a State…Click to Continue »
  • Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for mov ...
    North Carolina voters have spoken. Now its other peoples turn. And, around the country, many of them are so mad at Tuesdays results on Amendment One that theyre calling for…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Plight of Afghan poor may worsen
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; A top U.N. official says Afghanistan's security situation has overshadowed the humanitarian needs of the nation's poorest, and their plight may worsen as ...
  • Syrians' plight touches Turkey's &qu ...
    OVAKENT, Turkey (Reuters) - When Abdul Maraf Yildiz looks at the thousands of Syrian refugees flooding across the border into southern Turkey, he sees himself, 30 years ago.Yildiz was only two in ...
  • Minority of U.S. Citizens Support War in Afgha ...
    Washington, May 9 (Prensa Latina) Only 27 percent of U.S. citizens support the war in Afghanistan, while most of them believe that the ongoing presence of troops there is more a harm than a good, a ...
  • State of the War in Afghanistan—PICTURES
    reports on the state of the war in Afghanistan and the progress American and NATO troops are making ahead of the troop withdrawal. Here are the scens that Hirsh encountered: ...
  • British military under pressure over Afghan pr ...
    The number of people being detained by British forces in Afghanistan has been rising steadily, despite claims that the tempo of operations is easing. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA ...

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

  • Whistleblower Kenneth Jones wins appeal and fo ...
    Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require a jury trial. Dr. Jones claims that Drs. Marilyn Al ...
  • Whistleblowers Spur $1.5 Billion Off-Label Mar ...
    Whistleblowers have succeeded in a $1.5 billion off-label marketing case against Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Department of Justice announced today. Combined, the $700 million criminal fines and $800 million civil fines are the second largest government recovery from a drug company in history. ...
  • Wal-Mart. Whistleblower. Whitewash. Talk Among ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) Holy Wal-Mart Whitewash, Batman!  Without a doubt, the unfolding Wal-Mart bribery scan ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in Tuesday at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Guest Host Dr. David Lewis interviews fellow EPA whistleblower William Sanjour about his recent article "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work" in Independent Science News. Mr. Sanjour u ...
  • DOJ Backs Ink Company Whistleblower
    Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government intervention is a significant victory fo ...

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

  • The Ridiculous Hoops Mad Men Had To Jump Throu ...
    This story has been making the rounds about how Lionsgate, the studio behind the hit TV series Mad Men, paid somewhere close to $250,000 to license a Beatles song to use in a recent episode of the show. While the money is the part that everyone focuses on, the article talks about how involved t ...
  • Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censor ...
    We already discussed the RIAA's attempt to downplay its role in helping the feds seize and censor the popular hiphop blog Dajaz1.com. It seems the feds are also trying to brush this off as if it's nothing important. According to a comment they gave Ben Sistario at the NY Times: Ross Feinste ...
  • Chappelle Show Creator Gives Grieving MCA Fans ...
    In Viacom's continuing efforts to make itself look pretty clueless and unsympathetic, it has decided to issue a takedown over a previously unseen clip of the Beastie Boys performing on The Chappelle Show, which was uploaded to YouTube by Chappelle Show co-creator, Neal Brennan. The episode it w ...
  • AFP Back To Claiming That Twitter's Terms Of S ...
    Two years ago, we wrote about one of the most bizarre copyright lawsuits we've ever heard of. News giant AFP (Agence France Presse) -- for reasons that I still cannot begin to comprehend -- decided to proactively sue a photographer, Daniel Morel, after it (AFP) had taken his photos (of the eart ...
  • Did Apple's Claims Over Rectangles And Corners ...
    Android blogger Ron Amadeo has a great post over at Android Police where he tries to explain the design of the new Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, which many people have deemed pretty hideous. In his opinion, it all comes down to legal tiptoeing. As you may recall, last year Apple sued Samsung ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • 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
  • And…Not Either/Or
    Taibbi had an interesting post up a bit ago about the growing consensus about big banks. He talks about a report by the head of the Dallas fed’s research department who is calling for an end of “too big to fail” banks. Moreover, he talks about an inherent perversion of the syst ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Charles Davis is covering for Glenn Greenwald this week and wrote two really great posts. And I’m not just saying that because one of them relates to the campaign the criminal (in)justice committee is working on. Wells Fargo”s Prison Cash Cow The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning I ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Why profiling Muslims is a dumb idea
    The bigotry that has made many Americans afraid of Muslims has been reinforced by people like Sam Harris who, because he seems smart, has led others to believe that profiling Muslims in airport security is just a matter of common sense. To his credit, at least Harris was rational enough to allow ...
  • A web of privilege supports this so-called mer ...
    Gary Younge writes: Shortly after Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination his son Tagg set up a private equity fund with the campaign’s top fundraiser. One of the first donors was his mum, Anne. Next came several of his dad’s financial backers. Tagg had ...
  • Music: Mayra Andrade — ‘Júana’
  • The rise of the Occupy movement makes it clear ...
    Chris Hedges writes: Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City on Tuesday night as he participated in the May 1 Occupy demonstrations. He and 15 other military veterans were taken into custody after they linked arms to hold the plaza ...
  • The corporate media’s attempt to kill the Occu ...
    Michael Corcoran and Stephen Maher write: This May Day brought the explosive global resurgence of Occupy, one of the most significant social movement in decades. In New York City, the heart of global capitalism and center of the movement, the New York Civil Liberties Union estimated that 30,000 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Hump day hilarity – missing in action
    Josh seems to think that Sir Russell Muir went missing during the CRU Climategate email investigation. It was like he was never there…oh, wait.* * For example, Muir Russell didn’t even bother attending the one interview (April 9) in which … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week – bonus &# ...
    This is almost too stupid to comment on, but I’ll do my best. First the headline and story excerpt: GLOBAL WARMING Warming of the Earth’s climate system and related increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses are causing some eye disorders, writes … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week – a warm lesson on eth ...
    I have to laugh at the juxtaposition of rhetoric today. It’s like a gift from the universe. While Joe Romm launches yet another angry and hateful rant over at Climate Progress because of a poor editorial choice I made two … Continue reading →
  • Chronology: CRU’s Yamal Deception
    I’ve already made my case for the Yamal deception by CRU previously on WUWT, and my suspicions were confirmed by the shonky behavior of Dr. Michael Mann, who can’t even bring himself to allow anyone to see the three questions … Continue reading →
  • Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies
    – and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare Guest post by Paul Driessen Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had … Continue ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • 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, ...
  • Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
    The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
  • Nano-sized ‘factories’ churn out proteins
    Drugs made of protein have shown promise in treating cancer, but they are difficult to deliver because the body usually breaks down proteins before they reach their destination. To get around that obstacle, a team of MIT researchers has developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesize pr ...
  • Eating flavonoids protects men against Parkins ...
    Men who eat flavonoid-rich foods such as berries, tea, apples and red wine significantly reduce their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to new research by Harvard University and the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published today in the journal Neurology ®, the findings ad ...
  • In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No L ...
    You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel Armas, then just a 21-week-old fetus, reaching his tiny hand out from inside the uterus to clasp onto the doctor’s finger during a surgical procedure to correct the birth defect spina ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • 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 ...
  • Keeping 1 percent values out of a 99 percent m ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, JuliaWilliams, okanogen, and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.The purge of livestreamers and other transparency advocates at Occupy Oakland has been largely successful, and last weekend produced one of its predictable ...
  • How disorganization is damaging Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.
  • SNAP and the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer
    Programs supported by the Farm Bill vary dramatically in size and scope from the $73 billion budgeted for SNAP to $5 million for Community Food Projects which aim to fight food insecurity through self-sufficiency and strengthening local food systems.
  • Ditching Meat One Day a Week: What, Exactly, I ...
    Not only did the Harvard researchers find that eating red meat was associated with an increased risk of death from all causes, but they also found a dose-response relationship with the risk of death increasing as the amount of meat consumed increased. Kind of scary, if you ask me; but the good n ...
  • Senators, let’s tie “soil insurance” to crop i ...
    The farm bill version that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday does not attach compliance to crop insurance, as no committee members offered such an amendment. However, with farm bill battles now shifting to the full Senate, there is still hope that an amendment could attach ...
  • Sustainable Food Systems for the 1 Percent
    Let me begin by saying I would love a mobile chicken coop in my backyard. In fact, I plan to build one this summer, hopefully for less than 100 dollars. I’m lucky enough that with an afternoon of work and a trip or three to the hardware store, I think I can accomplish this.  But [...]

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • 9 11 : The Big Clue Everyone Missed
    There are essentials in the selling of The Big Lie including speed, repetition and seeming authority. Too bad the story being sold is incompatible with the possibility of actual knowledge of events. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • Fukushima Is An Extinction Level Event, The Wo ...
    Includes rambling talk by Dr. Helen Coldicott including hazards of uranium and tritium Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebratin ...
    FBI and the Global War of Terror : entrapment and undercover subversion of popular protest movements Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon
    Political commentary on legislation implementing Statutory Rape via required involuntary intrusive physical examination to establish no medically needed data Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • If I Was God
    I have come to despise religion. It didnt take long to realize how religion has taken everything good about god, and made it bad. I still very much believe in a just and sensible god. Let me present to you my version of IF I WAS GOD…, Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |&n ...

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

  • Pig Blood Safer than Fresh Milk?
    Evidently, drinking fresh milk straight from the mom is supposed to be unhealthy for calves because it is unpasteurized, but pig blood is good?
  • New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
    The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a penchant for attempting to force other countries under threat of penalty for creating a barrier to free trade, into accepting the unacceptable at their borders, in the form of genetically modified products (GMOs). ...
  • Family Farmers – Remember! The USDA OWNS the “ ...
    In order to sell your home grown fruit at the now centrally planned "farmers market" you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule." After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the t ...
  • Michigan Mutations from Fukushima Fallout?
    Investigators detailing vegetation mutations possibly from Fukushima.
  • Seed Lady Network Goes Live!
    A seed sharing community site where people can share their personal seeds, seed saving tips and stories, as well as anything seed related.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 12.6 Billion-Dollar Bailout for Fukushima Oper ...
    ShareThis12.6 Billion-Dollar Bailout for Fukushima Operator TEPCO 10 May 2012 Japan is set to nationalize Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, under a ¥1 trillion bailout plan approved Wednesday. The $12.6 billion bailout comes at a time when t ...
  • 3 Southwest planes searched in bomb scare
    ShareThis3 Southwest planes searched in bomb scare 09 May 2012 Authorities searched three different Southwest Airlines jets for explosives late Tuesday evening, but nothing suspicious was found. One jet, Flight 811, returned to the gate at Orange County's John Wayne Airport after officials learn ...
  • Twitter fights request for Occupy protester's data
    ShareThisTwitter fights request for Occupy protester's data 08 May 2012 Twitter Inc filed a motion in a New York criminal court on Tuesday seeking to quash a subpoena for Tweets and account records associated with Malcolm Harris, a Twitter user who was arrested last fall on the Brooklyn Bridge d ...
  • Over 1,300 Tubes Damaged at Calif. Nuclear Plant
    ShareThisOver 1,300 Tubes Damaged at Calif. Nuclear Plant 08 May 2012 More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday. The figures rel ...
  • Possible threat grounds Southwest plane at Pho ...
    ShareThisHeads up! Here come the false flags fast and furious, because the Sociopaths in Congress don't want to cut the Fatherland Security or Pentagon budgets: Possible threat grounds Southwest plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor 09 May 2012 Authorities are continuing to investigate possible threats in ...

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: 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 ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...

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

  • A Letter that Speaks for Itself (3 of 4)
    09 May 2012 Someone needs to check Panetta for a pulse.  He is so non-responsive that I wonder if he is breathing. To view the entire PDF please click here.
  • 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 ...
  • Drunken Monkeys, Milkooks, Military, and the Media
    US Army Master Sergeant and milblogger, CJ Grisham: known for spamming Wikipedia and other outlets with false information (This dispatch is intended for investigative journalists who may be interested in military propaganda targeting US citizens.  Much of the account is first person, the ...
  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Bombing suspect given death sentence
    Phyo Wai Aung was sentenced to death for his suspected involvement in the New Year's bombing in 2010, while his attorney and family claim he was tortured and forced to confess
  • Soldiers using forced labour to be prosecuted
    The military's top brass have promised the International Labour Organization that personnel who use forced labour will be prosecuted in accordance with civilan law
  • Government issues Suu Kyi passport
    After receiving a passport issued by the Burmese government, Aung San Suu Kyi is preparing to travel outside of the country for the first time in 24 years
  • Burma’s troublesome census
    As the country plans for its first official census in decades, several hurdles must be overcome if all of Burma's ethnic minority groups are to be included
  • Census risks marginalising Rohingya
    Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude the country's Rohingya minority group, whom have been denied citizenship for nearly 30 years

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Rwanda genocide tribunal transfers fourth case ...
    [JURIST] The Referral Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] on Tuesday transferred [decision, PDF; press release] the case of Ladislas Ntaganzwa [case materials] to the Rwandan national court system. Ntaganzwa, a former mayor of Nyakizu commune in Bu ...
  • Armenia opposition group alleges election fraud
    [JURIST] Armenian opposition group the Armenian National Congress (ANC) [party website, in Armenian] on Wednesday alleged fraud in the country's recent parliamentary elections. The ANC called for the election results to be thrown out because of widespread fraud, including paying for votes, by th ...
  • North Carolina voters approve amendment bannin ...
    [JURIST] Voters in North Carolina on Tuesday passed a constitutional amendment [Amendment 1, PDF] to ban same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder]. The amendment reads that "marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State." Si ...
  • China court agrees to hear dissident artist's case
    [JURIST] A Chinese court agreed on Monday to hear the case brought by dissident artist Ai Weiwei [BBC profile]. Ai challenged the government's imposition of 15 million yuan (USD $2.4 million) tax evasion penalty on Fake Cultural Development Ltd. which helps him to produce and market his works. H ...
  • South Africa court orders probe into Zimbabwe ...
    [JURIST] A South African court on Tuesday ordered an investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed under Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The allegations include torture and other crimes committed in Zimbabwe prior to the 2008 elections ...

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

  • Haaretz Publishes Pseudonymous Apologia for To ...
    TweetImagine you’re the op-ed page editor of the NY Times and a CIA torturer comes forward who wants to publish an anonymous op-ed not just defending torture, but arguing that any and all acts in which he engages should be retroactively approved by the State and its judicial bodies.  In ot ...
  • StandWithUs, UC San Diego Pro-Israel Group, Ho ...
    TweetNext week, StandWithUs and the UC San Diego pro-Israel student advocacy group, Tritons for Israel, will host a rather mysterious campus event.  According to a speaker contract SWU uploaded to the web in March, it is a conference called, Rescuing Human Rights, featuring the Wall Street Journ ...
  • Kadima Joins Israeli Governing Coalition to St ...
    Tweet“Listen carefully: I will not join Bibi’s government. Not today, not tomorrow, and not after I become head of Kadima on March 28th. This is an evil, failing, and pig-headed government and Kadima, under my leadership, will succeed it in the next elections. Clear enough? –Sh ...
  • SCOOP: Israeli Border Police Names New Command ...
    TweetIsraeli military censorship prohibits revealing the identity of the new commander (Hebrew) of the Border Police’s elite counter-terror unit, Yamam (this post displays a priceless photo of Shimon Peres mugging with weapons with Yamam personnel).  Not only am I not under the jurisdictio ...
  • State of Israel Dispossesses Negev Bedouin
    TweetNot content with dispossessing nearly 1 million Israeli Palestinians during the Nakba through exile and theft of their land, Israel is repeating this Original Sin against the Negev Bedouin, who’ve lived in their homes for decades.  The State now intends to expel the Bedouin from these ...

If Americans Knew

  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

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

  • ROFLCon Attendees Get a Memes Blast From the Past
    It's 2012. Nerds are in, and Internet memes can actually make you famous IRL. But way back in 2000, things were different. YouTube didn't exist, and a video had to be sent around as an email attachment. (Remember RealPlayer?) Your mom yelled at you for tying up the phone line, and GeoCities plas ...
  • How the Indie Audio Community Is Transforming ...
    A version of this post also appeared in the Association of Independent's in Radio monthly AIRBlast. I first started working with independent producer Kara Oehler in 2005. Almost a day didn't pass without her telling me about something that happened on the "AIRDaily" listserve. I'd been on li ...
  • Jonathan Zittrain Takes the Stage at ROFLCon
    Today with MIT Civic Media Center's Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I'm live-blogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, the event organizer, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It's an amazingly packed venue. "One o ...
  • How We Got Here: The Road to Public Lab's Map ...
    Last week, Public Laboratory announced that public domain maps are now starting to show up on Google Earth and Google Maps. But how did the projects get there? Here's a timeline of a Public Laboratory map project. Making a map Public Laboratory projects take a community-based approach to m ...
  • Mobile Security Survival Guide Helps Journalis ...
    The Mobile Security Survival Guide for Journalists from SaferMobile helps reporters better understand the risks inherent in the use of mobile technology. The guide covers both local journalists and those on assignment in another country. As someone working with sensitive information, mobile ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Israel on Edge - The New Israeli Coalition and ...
    Rarely do politics in a democratic country wrap up as neatly as they did for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Having scheduled new parliamentary elections that he was assuredly going to win, today he announced that the coalition was expanded and reconstituted, and will last u ...
  • The Edge of Space - VISTA Views a Vast Ball of ...
    Globular clusters are held together in a tight spherical shape by gravity. In Messier 55, the stars certainly keep close company: approximately one hundred thousand stars are packed within a sphere with a diameter of only about 100 light years (about 25 times the distance between the Sun and the ...
  • Europe on Edge - NATO's Ordinary Future
    Whatever one thought of the Libya intervention, the details make for a bad advertisement about NATO. As one U.S. Air Force planner told me, "It was like Snow White and the 27 dwarfs, all standing up to her knees" -- the United States being Snow White and the other NATO member states being the dw ...
  • The Edge of Justice - ICEgate--High Ranking In ...
    What at first appeared to be government officials involved in embezzlement to the tune of more than a half-billion dollars now appears to be also connected to a Palestinian money-laundering operation, according to several Law Enforcement Examiner sources. A top U.S. intelligence chief pleaded gu ...
  • Greece on Edge - Greek Leftists Seek Coalition ...
    The leader of Greek’s leftist Syriza party is beginning talks with other parties on forming a coalition government to reject what he calls "barbaric" austerity measures imposed by the European Union. Voters failed to give any party a majority in Sunday’s election, plunging Greece into more u ...

High Country News

  • Micah True, born to run
    Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Blanco,” or the white horse – a gifted athlete who devoted his life to helping the Tarahumara, a remote tribe of long-distance runners in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
  • The hoof stops here
    A proposal to reopen slaughterhouses in the U.S. for old, unwanted, abandoned or wild horses is a cruel and foolish idea.
  • How conservation works south of the border
    Maps, photos and text describe some of the federal and private, nonprofit work in Northwest Mexico to preserve imperiled landscapes and a rich diversity of plants and animals.
  • Arizona's clean-election law is pruned, but no ...
    Clean-elections laws have a way of withering away, especially since the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United ruling, but Arizona is still struggling to keep political campaigns fair.
  • A final hats off to rancher Doc Hatfield
    With the help of his wife, Connie, and a bunch of determined fellow ranchers, the late Doc Hatfield helped change the face of public-lands ranching in the West.

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

  • Western Civilization Heal Yourself Or You Will ...
    By Barry Rubin The current political crisis in Europe, and in America as well, is not at all hard to understand. Think of it like this: society is not infinitely malleable. If you pull a rubber band far enough it is either going to snap back or it will break. Western democracies have worked ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Charlie Sheen to Join Se ...
    It was bound to happen! Former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen is so determined to stay on the straight and narrow that he took a second job. The second position is not for the money but to insure that he is not sitting around being idle. Remember folks, the idle brain is the devil's playg ...
  • Israeli Political Shocker May Change Country F ...
    Over the weekend we learned that Israeli elections were scheduled for September 4th because of the collapse of Netanyahu's coalition. Late last night the Israeli Prime Minster and the head of the leading opposition party Kadima, have reached an agreement to bring the opposition par ...
  • We Better Stop Using "Illegal Alien" Because G ...
    Ladies and Gentleman Gerald Riviera is angry.  In an op ed written for Fox News, he demands that his fellow news figures stop using the term "illegal aliens" to describe people who broke the law by sneaking into this country. The story is therefore easy and cheap to illustrate. The fact ...
  • al Qaeda Releases Video of My Political Scienc ...
    I am not sure whether its good news or bad.  Seventy-year-old Warren Weinstein one of the people most responsible for tuning me into a political geek has been held by the al-Qaeda terrorists since mid-August.  Today they released a video, where he asks President Obama to give in to t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Three Mutations Away from a Flu Pandemic
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MAY 9, 2012 The way to hell is paved with good intentions. This is the least that can be said about the creation of the most virulent form of H5N1 flu virus in two labs in the US and Holland. It is one of those cases where the medicine is [...]
  • Supposed Underwear Bomber is CIA Informant
    AP | MAY 8, 2012 NEWS UPDATE: U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. The revelation, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, shows how the CIA was able to get its hands on a sophist ...
  • HSBC Permits Money Laundering for Wealthy Clients
    Documents and E-mails show that the bank not only doesn’t inquire about the origin of funds, but also works hard to conceal the transfer of large amounts of cash from clients of Iranian, Lebanese, Brazilian and Cuban origin. Most suspicious transactions are done through the HSBC’s Ne ...
  • Obesity Nation: America’s Growing Obesit ...
    Food additives in raw and prepared foods and unlabeled GMO ingredients will dramatically increase the number of fat people to almost half of the population. By NANCI HELLMICH | USA TODAY | MAY 8, 2012 A new forecast on America’s obesity crisis has health experts fearing a dramati ...
  • Spain Moves to Save Bank, not to Help the People
    The Spanish government finds it logical to cut expenditures directed to help the ailing economy while spending $13 billion on Bankia. AFP | MAY 8, 2012 Spain will swoop in with public money this week to clean up huge bad loans at the nation’s fourth-biggest listed bank, Bankia, the go ...

Wind Watch

  • Palmyra Township voters reject wind turbine or ...
    PALMYRA TWP., Mich. — Voters in Palmyra Township on Tuesday rejected the wind turbine ordinance that was approved by the township board in October. The vote in Tuesday’s referendum was 259 “no” to 217 “yes.” Township Supervisor Jim Isley said the relative closeness of the vote showed him the tow ...
  • Siting Council proposes new wind regulations
    A year and a half after a West Hartford-based startup made its pitch to build the first commercial wind farms in Connecticut, the state is inching closer to establishing regulations for such projects. The Connecticut Siting Council, which has sole jurisdiction over renewable energy projects that ...
  • Anti-wind rally on the border; Quebec politici ...
    DERBY LINE, Vt./STANSTEAD, Quebec — A member of the Canadian Parliament representing the border town of Stanstead wants to be a party in the Vermont regulatory hearings over the Derby Line Wind Project. MP Jean Rousseau said Sunday, during a rally on the lawn at the international Haskell F ...
  • Kingsville farmer hamstrung by turbine; Appeal ...
    For 35 years, Henry Armstrong and his older brother have farmed 98 acres at Inman Sideroad and North Talbot Road in Kingsville. Now a wind turbine erected on a neighbouring farm across the road has changed the face of their land forever. “I’ve lost my rights, no consultation, no comp ...
  • Prattsburgh, Ecogen may face off again
    The town of Prattsburgh and wind developer Ecogen may be headed back to state Supreme Court Justice John Ark’s courtroom. Town board members voted 3-2 Monday to respond to Ecogen’s latest legal action – a stay — which could force another hearing by Ark on a three-year old dispute between t ...

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
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Deficits: The Latest Fashion in Paris and Athens
    With the recent elections in France and Greece, austerity has seemingly been rejected. Of late, many European countries have been pushing austerity measures, but now French and Greek voters appear to prefer increased government spending, more government jobs, and more inflation. This is a common ...
  • Oil Price Hits Year’s Low
    “The price of oil dropped Monday to its lowest level of the year after elections in Europe created uncertainty over the region’s plan for recovery.” (Christian Science Monitor) Is anything less understood by the public than how the price of oil is set? FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...
  • Effort to Hold Down Student-Loan Rates Hits Wall
    “The battle over President Obama’s plan to keep interest rates low on federal student loans escalated Tuesday as Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to tax higher-income individuals to pay for it.” (Los Angeles Times) Government needs to get out of this entirely. F ...
  • Hayek: Born 113 Years Ago
    F. A. Hayek, the great champion of liberty and expositor of Austrian economics, was born 113 years ago today. His accomplishments could not possibly be covered in a blog post. See this celebration of his life on the occasion of his centenary and these other articles. For much more, search &#8220 ...
  • Feds Launch First Solar-Power Project on Gover ...
    “Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar on Monday cheered on the opening of the first large-scale solar power project on federal property, just three days after his department rolled out new regulations on oil and gas companies doing business on those very same lands.” (Washington Tim ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 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 ...
  • Two online tools I use and recommend
    Just a quick post to pimp two products/tools/sites I use every day — neither of which is nearly as famous as some companies that announced a billion-dollar deal yesterday. Pinboard. This is NOT the famous Pinterest that everyone is talking about. It has a few minor similarities (a “ ...

Facing South

  • Wal-Mart and Watergate
    Wal-Mart has been accused of bribery in Mexico, but its behavior is far from unique: Many major corporations have been charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law passed in response to an oft-forgotten aspect of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. read more
  • Fighting the good fight for immigrant workers ...
    The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor. read more
  • Feds file first criminal charges related to BP ...
    The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that a BP engineer deleted messages he sent to company executives suggesting the amount of oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site was much greater than they were telling the public. read more
  • What does plummeting immigration from Mexico m ...
    Over the last decade, the South's Latino communities have grown faster than anywhere else in the country. But new studies show that immigration from Mexico has plummetted -- and is likely in net decline. read more
  • New survey details BP oil spill's human health ...
    A health survey conducted in Gulf Coast communities by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network finds widespread and frequent illnesses among people exposed to pollution from the disaster. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • London Conference on Somalia
    Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
    I think the US will take longer, but a man-on-horseback can still happen in the US.   Remember that virtually the only trusted institution in America is the military.  The difference in America, as opposed to Europe, that the left isn’t going to get its chance, if at all, for quite some ti ...
  • The left will have its chance in Europe
    So, in France Hollande has won, and in Greece, left wing parties have more of the vote than the center or the right (we’ll see if they can form a government, however.)  They will now have their chance.  If they fail, however, the right will sweep back in, and it will be the harder right, [...]
  • The US does not have justice or even the rule ...
    and whether the public approves or disapproves is irrelevant.  Black letter law, on the books, makes most of what the banks did leading up to the subprime crisis illegal.  It was fraud.  Black letter law makes the war on Iraq a war crime, and no one went to jail for that.  Black letter law does ...
  • The police state of the future
    forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]
  • The police state of the future
    forget the problems of spy agencies, this is the stuff of pure police states.  The Stasi only wished they had it so good. When the revolution comes, if it comes, the first job is going to have to be to destroy all of this stuff, and to inculcate a visceral understanding that this and all [...]

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

  • Small Cities Are Becoming a New Engine Of Econ ...
    The conventional wisdom is that the world’s largest cities are going to be the primary drivers of economic growth and innovation. Even slums, according to a fawning article in National Geographic, represent “examples of urban vitality, not blight.” In America, it is commonly maintained by pu ...
  • The OECD Reviews Chicago
    “Although still high in absolute terms, GDP and labor productivity growth rates are sluggish – both by US and international standards. The Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s contribution to national growth has slowed over the past decade and the region does not stand out as a top knowledg ...
  • Is Negative Population Growth Upon Us? Deaths ...
    Population change has short run and long run effects. Short run effects include changes in fertility rates that can result from economic fluctuations. For example, during a recession, couples may delay having children until economic conditions improve.  Once job growth has begun and expectati ...
  • Australian Elections: A Comeback for Pro-growt ...
    The latest local government elections in Queensland, along with the by election for former Premier Anna Bligh’s state seat of South Brisbane, may point to a fundamental shift in popular mood back in favour of growth and development. After many years of anti-growth policy paranoia, it’s a refresh ...
  • World Urban Areas Population and Density: A 20 ...
    The latest edition of Demographia World Urban Areas has just been released. The publication includes population estimates, urban land area estimates and urban densities for all nearly 850 identified urban areas in the world with a population of 500,000 or more. These urban areas account for a ...

GM Watch

  • How your college is selling out to Big Ag
    How Your College Is Selling Out to Big Ag Tom Philpott Mother Jones, May 9 2012 [extract only] http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/how-agribusiness-dominates-public-ag-research Last week, the University of Illinois' College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) ...
  • EFSA chair moves to food industry lobby group
    1.EFSA chair resigns over conflict of interest 2.EFSA Chair Moves to Food Industry Lobby Group EXTRACTS: "This shows that Bánáti never really left ILSI," he said. "EFSA has had somebody on the management board who had a massive conflict of interest without saying it. This shows that the composi ...
  • Bt cotton, a bitter harvest for farmers
    Bt cotton, a bitter harvest for farmers Kavitha Kuruganti Express, 22 April 2012 http://expressbuzz.com/voices/Bt-Cotton-a-bitter-harvest-for-farmers/383821.html It is clear that the mounting evidence that is coming into the public domain, including the internal advisory from the agriculture mi ...
  • Tragic toll of GMOs in India
    1.'Bitter Seeds' documentary reveals tragic toll of GMOs in India 2.Bt cotton proves 'deadly' for farmers NOTE: See the trailer for 'Bitter Seeds' here http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-videosb/27-gm-in-india --- --- 1.'Bitter Seeds' documentary reveals tragic toll of GMOs in India Claire Thompson Gris ...
  • Anti-GM farmer prepared to be arrested
    1.Anti-GM farmer prepared to be arrested 2.Campaign Underway in UK to Stop GM Wheat Experiments --- --- 1.Anti-GM farmer prepared to be arrested Debbie James Farmers Weekly, 9 May 2012  http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/09/05/2012/132779/Anti-GM-farmer-prepared-to-be-arrested.htm A Welsh farmer say ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • New Humble Bundle Packed with Goods from Amani ...
    I like Amanita Design. An English dub version of Kooky, the children’s movie, is also part of this one. http://www.humblebundle.com/
  • IBM’s Internal Plan to Grow Earnings-Per-Share ...
    Via: Cringely: The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. Reducing employees by more ...
  • U.S. Marines: Infantry Now Open to Women
    Anybody’s Son Will Do. Or daughter. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Marine Corps school that produces infantry combat officers will enroll its first-ever female students this year, Marine Corps Times has learned. As part of the service’s extensive research campaign to determine what additiona ...
  • Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely H ...
    Via: Forbes: The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars. … But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. ...
  • Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading ...
    Via: Natural Society: Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
    The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
  • The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
    The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
  • Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
    69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
  • There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
    The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
  • Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
    In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...

Desertification

  • When you wait until it’s bad, it’s ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/the-suffering-sahel-150274655.html The suffering Sahel City-based agency rushing to feed drought-stricken region in Africa Niamey, Niger — For the second time in as many years, a food-securit ...
  • Underestimation of the long-term effects of re ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507102332.htm European Mountain Plant Population Shows Delayed Response to Climate Change ScienceDaily (May 7, 2012) — A modeling study from the European Alps suggests that population declines to be observed during the upcoming decades wi ...
  • Desertification (Google / Slideshare)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.slideshare.net/al3oufi/desertification-12841527 Desertification Slideshare
  • Global agriculture produces more eroding soil ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.savoryinstitute.com/2012/05/allan-savory/hope-in-new-scientific-insights-to-avoid-global-agricultural-tragedy/ Hope in new scientific insights to avoid global agricultural tragedy This piece was written by Allan Savory and first published ...
  • Tree planting is the primary solution to clima ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://nigerianobservernews.com/08052012/news/Other%20News/othernews11.html Tree Planting Solution To Climate Change – FME ABUJA – Mr. John Auta, the Acting Director, Forestry Department, Federal Ministry of Environment, has said that tr ...

The Paper Trail

  • SLIDESHOW: Looking at 4 years of H.E.A.T.
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  • HHS IG report highlights docs' questionable bi ...
    Thousands of doctors across the country are billing Medicare for routine medical care at rates far above their peers, potentially costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in overcharges, according to a new government report.The audit released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
  • Tell us: Is missile defense essential or a mis ...
    Pro — Actively protecting the United States. from the threat of attack by missiles carrying nuclear warheads would mitigate, or even eliminate, the most catastrophic risk our country faces. This technology is fundamentally peaceful because it is defensive, and we could extend it to our allies as ...
  • Medicare fraud: What you need to know
    Since 2010, our Manipulating Medicare series has taken a hard look at the problems plaguing one of the nation’s most expensive public programs. This year's investigative pieces from iWatch News will look at questionable billing practices and political interference that directs Medicare spending ...
  • Reprisal outcome for whistleblower complaints: ...
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backofthebook.ca

  • John Baird plays Iran Got Nukes!
    By Alison@Creekside Baird says Iran could build nuclear bomb within months screams the CBC headline over Evan Solomon interviewing John Baird under a giant picture of visiting Israel PM Shimon Peres. Fans of the Iran got nukes! cry-wolf sweepstakes will recall both Peres and Netanyahu predicted  ...
  • The student strike and the savage state
    By Montreal Simon Uh oh. It  looks like my Quebec student’s victory celebration party, from which I’m still recovering, was a little premature. Students in a half dozen colleges and 10 university faculties and departments voted to reject the agreement on Monday after the Charest gove ...
  • Skrillex train tour inspired by 70′s Fes ...
    A BoB short: A motley of young electronic musicians led by Grammy-winning dubstep artist Skrillex, who is arguably more known for his half-shaved hairstyle, will be touring Canada via private train this summer. Accompanying Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny Moore, is indie pop maven and former ...
  • A Modest Opinion – You can’t keep a good ...
    By Nathaniel Moher If you were to keep a list of the top three media barons who have gone to jail, it’d look a little something like this: Martha Stewart, John Rigas, and Conrad Black (if you haven’t kept a list of the top three media barons who have gone to jail, then you should [...]
  • Fort McMurray’s Keyano College sends art ...
    By Frank Moher The sacking of four instructors in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Keyano College in Fort McMurray is creating an uproar well beyond the city better known for its resource extraction talents. Artists, of course, are well aware that their masters — whether they b ...

libcom

  • EDL In Luton
    The EDL in Luton was the usual drunken mess. The days when the EDL could gather 1,000s of supporters and create a media splash are long gone as yesterdays ‘national’ demo in Luton proved. Even with Tommy Robinson faking another attac ...
  • On a Post-Capitalist Economics: communism and ...
    workers-unite-tag1.jpg In the battle for communism, we cannot avoid being radical. In the battle against capitalism, can we afford to be Utopian? read more
  • May Day 2012 - discussion and updates
    MayDay.jpg May 1, International Workers Day. Please post your accounts and updates of workers' events today in the comments below. See this article for a short history of ...
  • Detroit Highschool students walkout protesting ...
    Detroit students walk out against school budget cuts and in solidarity with a nearby school threatened with closure. Western International High School students talk about defending public education and opposing the charterization and ...
  • Bread instead of games!
    10_banner.png In June and July 2012, Poland is going to host Euro2012, the European Football Championship. Coalition of Polish feminist, anarchist and worker activists is mobilising for a protest on 1 ...

Free Range International

  • 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 [...]
  • Five Machineguns
    The other day The Bot and I were talking about Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea).  Mortenson has been court ordered to fork over a million bucks for managing  donor money like a GSA mandarin.  He is also guilty of  fabricating tales of derring-do in his mission to build schools using ...
  • All Clear
    At 0630 this morning, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the form of the Kabul Critical Response Unit (CRU) finished off a crew of villains who had been fighting for the past 16 hours.  These guys, most likely HIG militants, had barricaded themselves in a building under construction next ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • 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.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Sacred Economics – Life After Capitalism
    Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition Charles Eisenstein 2011,  Evolver Editions (This review is divided into two sections. The first covers Part I: The Economics of Separation, describing the history of money and capitalist economics. The second half covers ...
  • Bank of America Turns Over a New Leaf
    Welcome to Your Bank of America (from http://www.yourbofa.com/) Dear Fellow American, Welcome to your Bank of America. Today, it’s time to acknowledge that our Bank isn’t working anymore—not just for the market, but for people, our real customers. We’ve paid $8.58 bill ...
  • Milwaukee Prepares for National Security Event ...
    Location of US Drone Bases Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained ...
  • The World Tomorrow - Assange as Chat Show Host
            Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating inte ...
  • The World Tomorrow – Assange’s N ...
      Still under house arrest, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the experience of solitary confinement with the new president of Tunisia.  President Marzouki offers him asylum. Fascinating interview on RT: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/324005       &nbs ...

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

  • Obama’s GI Bill fight
    The multiple incarnations of the GI Bill are widely considered some of the most effective pieces of social welfare legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Since World War II, millions of veterans have been able to attend college and graduate school via direct tuition assistance from the fe ...
  • Mitt: The real European
    An odd thing happened during Mitt Romney's victory-lap speech after Tuesday's Republican primaries: He didn't once mention the word "Europe."The absence was jarring, because Romney's claim that President Obama is dragging the United States toward a loathsome European-style "social welfare" futur ...
  • Wal-Mart’s shame grows worse
    Bloomberg is reporting that Eduardo Castro-Wright, the Wal-Mart executive fingered by the New York Times as the man at the heart of a huge international bribery scandal, has stepped down from his position as a member of the board of directors at MetLife.One has to pity poor Bloomberg reporter An ...
  • Will Arizona case help Obama?
    As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Arizona's hard-line immigration law, lawyers will revel in arcane discussions of "preemption" and "severability" and "harmonious regulation." Others will ponder the ever-elusive question of whether the eight sitting just ...
  • What is Marco Rubio running for?
    Marco Rubio insists he isn't running for vice president in 2012, but he is running pretty hard for something. The question is what and when.The junior senator from Florida gave a proverbial "major foreign policy address" in Washington today, after publishing a Los Angeles Times op-ed calling for ...

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

  • The 21st Century Energy Transformation will be ...
    The possibilities to become active participants in the 21st century energy evolution are plentiful. But to succeed in it, one needs to understand the fundamentals of the business and have the strategic focus, resolve, and patience to ride it for the long run.
  • Norway Loves The Nissan Leaf … But Why?
    Nissan recently sent out a release to the automotive press touting the fact that the company had sold 1,000 Nissan Leafs in Norway in just six months. The company went on to claim that the Leaf became the second-best selling Nissan in Norway and the ninth-best selling passenger car overall in Fe ...
  • Renewable Revolution: Don’t Worry, It’s Coming
    California currently has just 524 solar projects over 1 megawatt (MW) — but  an incredible 17,707 such solar projects will be on the grid by 2017 [PDF]. This is a huge change! And California is not the only state with such massive change coming.
  • Where Gas is Already $10 per Gallon
  • Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
    Researchers at technology company Siemens have developed an alternative material to polystyrene-based acrylon

EU Times

  • Greek leftist leader rules out Austerity Measures
    Greece’s left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament. Greece’s leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras, has ruled out budget-cutting austerity measures, opting to meet Pre ...
  • Romney Operatives Caught Handing Out Fake Ball ...
    Attempts to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul delegate slates; Romney sends in lawyer that stole election for Bush in 2000. Two separate incidents captured on video this weekend reveal desperate attempts by Mitt Romney operatives to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul endorsed delegate slate ...
  • Reddit co-founder slams Facebook over CISPA su ...
    Facebook is expected to make billions when the social networking site goes public, but one of the most influential men on the Web says he won’t be buying stock. The founder of Reddit has denounced Facebook over their support of CISPA. In an interview with CNN this week, Reddit.com co-founder Ale ...
  • Interpol issues arrest warrant for fugitive Ir ...
    Interpol has issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi “on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks.” “The Red Notice for al-Hashemi represents a regional and international alert to all of Interpol’s 190 member countries ...
  • Top Obama Aide Warns Russia “End Of World” Near
    A new report prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service circulating in the Kremlin today says that the United States top National Security Advisor to President Obama, Thomas Donilon, was granted a “rushed meeting” with President Putin this past Friday wherein he warned the Russian leader that ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • From CTIA Wireless 2012: The Web Will Connect ...
    Editor’s Note: Gary Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, posted on his blog about his keynote speech at CTIA. This is reposted below: Today I have the honor of delivering the opening keynote at CTIA Wireless 2012 with a presentation titled “The Web Will Connect our Future.” Alongside speakers that range from t ...
  • Al Qaeda Bomber Was A CIA Double Agent
    Rare Double Agent Disrupted Bombing Plot, U.S. Says -- New York Times WASHINGTON â The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volun ...
  • Obama Holds Off Valiant Primary Challenger In ...
    In the West Virginia Democrat primary, Obama was challenged by a prisoner from Texas and managed a significant victory of 20 points. Democratic strategists see these results as proof that Obama is regaining the momentum of 2008. Like the reports on the economy and jobs, news that can be spun wi ...
  • Tea Party Ousts Six Term Senator Dick Lugar
    Republican Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, a 35-year member of the Senate and one of Washingtonâs leading experts on U.S. foreign policy, lost his bid for reelection Tuesday after a conservative backlash inside the GOP denied him his partyâs nomination for a seventh term
  • Kick Out the Jams with These iPad Guitar Apps!
    The iPad is one of the best things to happen to guitarists since the locking tremolo bar. There are some great iPad apps on the market that can help any guitarist play and sound better, with more coming out all the time. Tuners, effects, amps, lessons – everything you need to become a great gui ...

Groklaw

  • Oracle v. Google: Digging Deeper
    Third, based on media accounts, it appeared that there was more testimony about deeper similarities in the code. The copied functions, I argued in my prior post, supported that view. Except that there were no other similarities. I think it is a testament to Oracle's lawyers (and experts) that th ...
  • An Open Letter to Public Officials: Beware of ...
    We, the undersigned economists, write to express concern regarding the government's approach toward antitrust and competition policy, embodied most recently in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) ongoing investigation of Google. We urge public officials to be wary of antitrust activities that ...
  • Twitter passwords bared online
    The evident data breach came as Twitter challenged a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street. The motion filed Monday in a New York state court said the order would require Twitter to violate federal law and denies the user the ownersh ...
  • Judge: Proview Can't Sue Apple in California i ...
    A California judge threw out Proview Electronics Co.'s lawsuit against Apple Inc. over the iPad trademark in China, the latest twist in the legal fight over the rightful owner of the tablet's name. - WSJ
  • Google and Oracle Enter Round Two of Heavyweig ...
    As the two sides battle over patent '104 - which describes a "method and apparatus for resolving data references in generated code" - the arguments will revolve around the term "symbolic reference" and how this applies to software compilation, the process of turning programming code into executa ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Drought: Will there be a call on the Colorado ...
    If water is needed [in the Lower Colorado Basin] a “call” is made to upstream entities, like the headwaters, to demand water downstream. It’s called a Colorado River Compact call.A call may be imminent as the continuing drought is mightily affecting all of the Colorado Basin.   ...
  • Wind power without the blades. Windstalks
    Windstalks create power from piezoelectric energy generated when wind moves the stalks.
  • Lugar and the Washington disease of remoteness
    I have no sympathy for ex-senator Lugar who was so out of touch that he couldn’t even be bothered to live in the state he supposedly represents. He deserved to lose and is the poster child for how D.C. operates. Politicians live there in a bubbles isolated from their constituencies.Had Lug ...
  • Americans still confused & polarized about race
    The misconception that you must only be of one race reached almost ludicrous proportions last week when bloggers said that accused Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman was Black, because his great-grandfather had African blood. Does one drop of African blood make you Black in the United Stat ...
  • Euro house of cards wobbling. Greece a goner
    Anti-bailout party rejects Greek austerity pledge.The Radical Left Coalition is attempting to form a coalition. They probably won’t succeed nor will any other party and new elections are probably forthcomingFitch sets the stage: “Greece leaving the Euro would be bearable”The ba ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
  • Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
    Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...
  • JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
    For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
  • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
    The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...

frogblog

  • Good news: Germany to oppose fracking
    Der Spiegel, is reporting that Germany is ‘putting the breaks’ on fracking in Germany. This is great news and shows the momentum both in New Zealand and around the world is growing against this controversial practise.
  • Digital Earth coming to Wellington
    Last night I enjoyed attending the launch of the 4th Digital Earth Summit 2012, that Wellington City will be co-hosting (along with Land Information New Zealand)  in September this year. It is not the first time that Digital Earth has come to New Zealand – Auckland hosted it in 2006, thank ...
  • The cabbage boat rap
    Guess I’m a bit slow off the mark on this one, but here goes, for those who have not yet heard it: When you pay $50K, I guess you expect something in return. But when you are banged up in prison facing serious charges, I guess the payee don’t wanna know!
  • A pig of a decision
    The High Court last week upheld MAF’s (now MPI’s)  decision-making processes for deciding on new import standards. This means that the import of untreated pig meat from countries infected with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) will be allowed. This is a major issue for N ...
  • General debate, May 6, 2012

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

  • How Bugs Become Instantly Resistant to Insecti ...
    By Dr. Mercola In a time when it's undeniable that super weeds and super bugs are growing resistant to the herbicides and pesticides used to treat genetically modified (GM) seeds and crops, Japanese scientists have discovered that at least one bug's belly knows exactly what to do when it enc ...
  • Six "Grow Younger" Nutrients I Take Every Day
    By Dr. Mercola Nutritionists have long been interested in the dynamics of telomere length in the body, and how telomeres figure in to human health and life expectancy. Telomeres were first discovered in 1973 by Alexey Olovnikov. He found that the tiny units of DNA at the very e ...
  • Eating This Increases Your Risk of Getting a B ...
    By Dr. Mercola Polio, a contagious disease caused by an intestinal virus, can cause difficulty breathing and paralysis as the virus attacks and kills motor nerve cells that control your muscles. It can also cause death in its most severe form. However, what is not often shared is that i ...
  • What Biotech Company Blamed for Bee Collapse J ...
    By Dr. Mercola Bee colonies around the globe are mysteriously disappearing, a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). Since 2006, it's estimated that close to one-third of all honey bee colonies have simply vanished into thin air. Where are the bees going? What's causing their de ...
  • Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over Accidental ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you think debtor's prison went by the wayside with the Dark Ages, think again. It's not only alive and well in the 21st century, it's very much a part of everyday debt collecting in a country where you'd never expect it: the United States. And if you think it'll never happen ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land ...
    Uncontacted Mashco-Piro are believed to live in the path of the road. One band of the tribe were recently spotted further south. © D. Cortijo/www.uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory of at least two uncon ...
  • India: Illegal ‘human safari’ road still open ...
    India's illegal 'human safari' road remains open 10 years after ruling to close it. © G Chamberlain/ Survival A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure. The Andaman ...
  • Amazon Indians’ fishing ritual brought to halt
    Enawene Nawe man. Drastically low fish stocks in the Indians' rivers have left them 'desperate' © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe Indians of the Brazilian Amazon have said they feel ‘desperate’, as their annual fishing ritual has provided them with almost no fish. Th ...
  • Colin Firth campaign for Brazilian tribe break ...
    Colin Firth's appeal has generated more than 10,000 protest emails. © Survival A campaign launched by Colin Firth to save the world’s most threatened tribe has generated more than 10,000 protest emails to the Brazilian government in just three days – a record for protest action for tr ...
  • Colin Firth launches campaign to save ‘Earth’s ...
    Colin Firth has appealed to save the Awá from extinction © Survival Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth today launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuri ...

Montreal Gazette

  • 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.
  • Unsafe streets for Montreal taxi drivers
    Nearly all of Montreal's taxi drivers have been stiffed for a fare.

Food World Order

  • Feds charge more than 100 individuals, includi ...
    from naturalnews.com: The government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid are wrought with fraud, a fact that was once again made apparent in the latest string of busts carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Reuters, 107 individuals -- many of whom are docto ...
  • How the Private Water Industry Is Teaming Up W ...
    from alternet.org: An influential trade association representing companies that provide water services to one in four Americans says it will continue its membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that has worked with the energy industry to create loophole- ...
  • Loblaws to remove artificial colours and flavours
    from theglobeandmail.com: Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocer, is banishing artificial colours and flavours from its signature President’s Choice line of products... Although it’s a challenging task, particularly when it comes to candy and other vibrantly-coloured confectionery items, the decisio ...
  • 5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marij ...
    from alternet.org: Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy. There have been m ...
  • New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
    from farmwars.info: The United States, inc., in collusion with the biotech industry, which is headed by none other than Monsanto et. al., is successfully conducting a food war with the nations around it. The USDA and Monsanto, using international Free Trade agreements as a club, have a pencha ...

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

  • 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
    The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
  • The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
    The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
  • Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
    69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
  • There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
    The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
  • Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
    In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Farage: "I owe no allegience to that flag and ...
    And they sat there, stony faced and silent, as the plucky Englishman pointed out the consequences of the bureaucrats' ambitions...
  • Sensation as Buckingham Palace demands new Dia ...
    A sensational report in U.S. tabloid magazine Globe claims that Buckingham Palace is to demand Scotland Yard reinvestigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The article - in the May 14th 2012 edition of the magazine - claims that Palace officials are to requ ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'Who's the Conspiracy Theori ...
    Even The Guardian's journalists are remarking on this one... "Al-Qaeda would-be bomber actually worked with CIA ­US and Yemeni officials said that a would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaeda plot was working for US intelligence all along, AP reports. He was a double US-Saudi agent who in ...
  • Absolutely Unanimous: 100% Find Edward Heath ' ...
    Despite the best efforts of brilliant individuals such as former special constable Albert Burgess, not one politician in this country has yet been arrested for the high crime of treason - either at statute or common law - for their role in the collaboration with the European Union. Aware that ...
  • Quote of the Day: "Ooh la la, Bilderberg!" Edition
    "Hollande is merely another creature of the establishment and an enthusiastic pro-European superstate globalist. He supported the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, the document which outlined the introduction of the euro single currency and was itself based on a 1955 Bilderberg blueprint. Hollande also su ...

Facing South

  • Wal-Mart and Watergate
    Wal-Mart has been accused of bribery in Mexico, but its behavior is far from unique: Many major corporations have been charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law passed in response to an oft-forgotten aspect of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. read more
  • Fighting the good fight for immigrant workers ...
    The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor. read more
  • Feds file first criminal charges related to BP ...
    The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that a BP engineer deleted messages he sent to company executives suggesting the amount of oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site was much greater than they were telling the public. read more
  • What does plummeting immigration from Mexico m ...
    Over the last decade, the South's Latino communities have grown faster than anywhere else in the country. But new studies show that immigration from Mexico has plummetted -- and is likely in net decline. read more
  • New survey details BP oil spill's human health ...
    A health survey conducted in Gulf Coast communities by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network finds widespread and frequent illnesses among people exposed to pollution from the disaster. 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

  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
  • [OT] I Just Got Married!
    You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
  • Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...
  • Upcoming Elementary OS Luna's New Notification ...
    Next version of Elementary OS codenamed "Luna" will be based on just released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and it is going to bring about a number of really interesting changes, new notification system being one of them. Video Demo of Elementary OS's New Notification S ...
  • 3 Best Launchers for Android 4.0+ ICS
    With ICS becoming available for more and more smartphones and tablets, apps specifically designed for Android 4.0+ ICS is slowly gaining foothold. Story is no different as far as Android Launchers are concerned. Though a good number of highly regarded Android launchers have not been updat ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • 29 cases of narcolepsy due to swine flu vaccin ...
     *Pandemrix swine flu vaccine linked to 29 cases of narcolepsy in Germany *Children and teenagers most affected *Researchers confirm narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease; immune response destroys brain cells which produce neurotransmitters regulating sleep *Genetic risk factor associated with nar ...
  • Israel calls snap elections over Iran policy
    Israeli elections likely to push back any thoughts of an Iran nuclear strike Read more at: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-elections-likely-push-back-any-thoughts-of-iran-nuclear-strike-1.428230
  • Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor ...
    Madeleine McCann could be living with abductor, says Scotland Yard Yard releases image of how Madeleine may look five years on and asks Portuguese police to reopen inquiry Sandra Laville, The Guardian, April 25, 2012 Scotland Yard detectives released a picture of what Madeleine McCann may look l ...
  • Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
     *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...
  • Germans and Austrians pressured to join in Isr ...
     *Israeli Prime Minister  hypes Iran threat in Germany  *Netanjahu attacks Gunter Grass in bid to drum up support for war *Chancellor Angela Merkel says sole purpose of German state is to serve Israeli war interests *Austrian-Israeli society pressures Austrian government to guarantee Israeli sec ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Frottage Fever and a Date with the Reaver
    By Les Visible It becomes increasingly harder to know what to say; to find that there is anything to say. Obviously it has already been said and the same people not paying attention then are not paying attention now. It’s not my alarm clock and it’s not my world, that so many are att ...
  • Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?
    By Ed Pilkington The entrance to the Judge Rotenberg Centre, in a suburb of Boston, is a riot of bright colours and surreal designs. The receptionist greets visitors from a deep purple chair in front of yellow and pink neon panels. Corridors are lit by elaborate chandeliers and lined with 6ft mo ...
  • One man creates 1,360 acre forest
    by: Jordan and Kyla (NaturalNews) Have you ever heard the saying “you have the power to make a difference”? Well, the following demonstrates how one person has proven this. Over 30 years ago, a young teenager by the name of Jadav “Molai” Payeng had an idea to turn a barre ...
  • DHS To Release Potential Superbug Cousin Of An ...
    By Alexander Higgins Of course the naysayers said such powers could only be invoked during a massive riot or if the President authorized such a release in the name of national security which would never happen. NDM-1 Enzyme turns any bacteria into a super bug and is already widespread across the ...
  • US ‘foils new underwear bomb plot’ ...
    US ‘foils new underwear bomb plot’ by al-Qaeda in Yemen Leon Panetta said security services would “do everything necessary to keep America safe” A plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 “underwear bomb” has been disrupted, ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 09 ...
    If you've ever deployed in combat, you may qualify for counseling services at your local Vet Center. Individual, group, and family counseling are available in facilities away from big hospitals, and 70% of the support staff are Veterans themselves.
  • Election Fraud, Media Deception, and the Crisi ...
    The Treatment of Ron Paul and Stephen Harper in Engineering the Political Economy of North America.
  • Jewish human rights advocate visits Iran &#821 ...
    Listen to my interview with Elias Davidsson: http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Truth-Jihad-32k-050712.mp3 Elias Davidsson is the son of German-Jewish holocaust survivors who migrated to Occupied Palestine. (Elias later migrated out of Palestine due to the horrors of Zionist occupation. ...
  • Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests
    The war has ended for 38 years . Although Vietnam has attained miraculous changes in many fields, the country remains blighted by toxin which are not only harmful to environment but also affect seriously health, causing many potential dangerous diseases which heredity factors.
  • World Press Freedom Day
    America's First Amendment affirms it. So does Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

electric politics

  • "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 ...
  • Summa Economica
    According to Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, modern economics emulates the spirit and purpose of medieval scholasticism in upholding — above all else — the status quo. Nowhere is this more apparent, or more required, than in the ridiculous nostrum of "free trade," though if you look closely most ...
  • The Virtue of Protectionism (and Class Warfare)
    It's a vicious circle. Financialization. Profit maximization. Offshoring. Political dysfunction. To start with the offshoring part, the American economy will wither and die without good industrial jobs. The numbers don't add up otherwise and the numbers don't lie. But thanks to money, corporatio ...
  • Ocean Acidification
    Human beings start domesticating crops only 12,000 or so years ago. Written history begins about 5,000 years ago. The modern era dates from — when? — maybe 100-200 years ago. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that we have some difficulty internalizing the idea that our burning carbon h ...

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

  • Environmental groups launch major campaign to ...
    Black Out Speak Out groups will darken websites nationwide in protest against efforts to silence Canadians Black Out Speak Out 7 May 2012 ...
  • Oil and Democracy Speaker Series
    Community Service-Learning Parkland Institute It certainly is an interesting time for democracy in Alberta… Community Service-Learning's (CSL) Spring Immersion Course 'Oil and De ...
  • Sage-Grouse Reintroduction: More Habitat Prote ...
    Alberta Wilderness Association 3 May 2012 Reports in yesterday’s news media reveal details on a program to import sage-grouse from Montana to Alberta. While this reintroduc ...
  • IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training
    The Natural Step Canada 20 Jun 2012 - 09:00 - 21 Jun 2012 - 17:00 Applications due May 14, 2012 The Co-operators and The Natural Step Canada are partnering to offer the IMPACT! Su ...
  • Eco Solar Commercial Tour
    Eco Solar Tour 4 Jun 2012 - 11:00 - 8 Jun 2012 - 15:00 The capital cost of a commercial building is only 8% of the life cycle costs. Come and visit a new breed of commercial buil ...

Stop NATO

  • Afghanistan’s Massacred Innocents Have Names
    National Catholic Reporter May 9, 2012 Afghanistan’s massacred innocents have names By Art Laffin With opinion polls showing high disapproval of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and in the wake of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, President Barack Obama’s trip last week to Afghanistan ...
  • Chicago: Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans To Pro ...
    Channel 5 NBC Chicago May 8, 2012 Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans to Protest NATO Veterans say the intend to return their medals in protest of U.S. and NATO military policy By Phil Rogers Among the thousands of protesters who will march and rally in Chicago later this month during the NATO Summit ...
  • Afghan Tension: U.S. Military, CIA Out Of Control
    RT May 8, 2012 Afghan tension: ‘US military, CIA out of control’ VIDEO Afghan president Hamid Karzai has warned that the strategic pact with the US will be meaningless if the US continues killing Afghan civilians. Political analyst Ahmed Quraishi told RT that Karzai is learning the hard way he c ...
  • Chicago: The Great NATO Debate
    Time Out Chicago May 3, 2012 The great NATO debate Arguments for supporting and opposing NATO during the May 20–21 summit. By Jake Malooley As heads of state and foreign ministers descend on McCormick Place for the May 20–21 North Atlantic Treaty Organization confab, so too comes the great debat ...
  • Turkey To Request NATO Military Intervention I ...
    Press TV May 8, 2012 Turkey ready to ask NATO for military intervention in Syria: Erdogan Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara is ready to ask NATO for a military intervention in Syria, Press TV reports. “I am ready to ask NATO for a military intervention in Syria,” Erdogan wa ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Bankruptcy Trends in the Post Meltdown Era
    James Hall | Economic dislocation is an inherent element in any financial system. One way to deal with balance sheet imbalances is to declare bankruptcy. The most common examples of liquidating default without payment are to petition the court to absolve debt obligations.
  • Resettlement Camps: May Be Performed As DOMEST ...
    Mac Slavo | t turns out that the tin foilers of the world have slowly, but surely, been piecing together a puzzle over the last decade that seems to be near completion.
  • Navy Wants Ultraviolet Cloaking Device for Jet ...
    Wired | The U.S. military is already investing billions of dollars to make its fighters less visible to radar, now the Pentagon wants the defense industry to come up with a system that can cloak fighters.
  • F-22 Fighter Pilots Battle Mysterious ‘R ...
    ABC News May 9, 2012 As the Air Force searches desperately for the source of a mysterious and potentially deadly oxygen system problem in its $79 billion fleet of F-22 Raptor fighter jets, it is also investigating why the jets’ pilots are coughing so often after missions that the pilots ha ...
  • Manufactured False Flag Bomb Plot Exposed, Off ...
    theintelhub.com | The supposed al Qaeda bomb plot to blow up a US bound plane has completely fallen apparent with recent revelations that the terrorist was actually working for the CIA and Saudi Intelligence the entire time. That's right, this huge corporate media manufactured story was li ...

FRS

  • Joint Palestinian-Israeli declaration in suppo ...
    Alternative Information Center (AIC), 8 May 2012 Mobilize all possible efforts in solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners in their struggle for justice! Since 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, thousands of Palestinian political prisoners have commenced a general hunger stri ...
  • Pune, India: Alert news reveals the shocking, ...
    [The orders of repressive government are designed to result in silent, fearful obedience--yet often result in defiance.  The bourgeois media in India produced this nervous report of mysterious, intrusive and illegally defiant Maoist posters in Pune. -- Frontlines ed.] ———&#8212 ...
  • Palestinians voice resistance, PA suppresses d ...
    Dozens of journalists, activists arrested as PA cracks down on dissent Jillian Kestler-D’Amours,The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem, 1 May 2012 JERUSALEM (IPS) – The Palestinian Authority’s arrest of journalists and activists critical of its policies are threatening freedom of expressi ...
  • Palestinians voice resistance, PA suppresses d ...
    Dozens of journalists, activists arrested as PA cracks down on dissent Jillian Kestler-D’Amours,The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem, 1 May 2012 JERUSALEM (IPS) – The Palestinian Authority’s arrest of journalists and activists critical of its policies are threatening freedom of expressi ...
  • “Comrade Bees” swarm India paramil ...
    [An interesting, though sketchy, news report.  Other media reported that the injured troops "were out on 'area domination patrol', clearing mines."  There was no explanation for the swarm of bee's attack----whether it was the result of skilled work by local beekeepers or others knowledgable in f ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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

  • Penn State Scandal Takes New Twist
    The timeline has seemingly shifted leaving everything up in the air because of the statute of limitations.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: May 08, 2012
  • Fox News Contributor Says Letting Women Vote " ...
    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
  • Exxon Mobil Tops the Fortune 500 List
    Exxon Mobil has topped the Fortune 500 List pushing Wal-Mart out of the top spot.Contributor: Philomena Hunt Published: May 08, 2012
  • Political Heavyweights Weighing in on Amendmen ...
    Same-sex marriage, domestic partnership, and religion. Bill Clinton and Joe Biden weigh in from the left. Billy Graham and God weigh in from the right. Tuesday, voters have their say. Will they send a message that will resonate through November?Contributor: Dave Weaver Published: May 07, 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

Popsci - Science

  • Pretty Space Pics: The Dark, Artistic Center o ...
    Today's pretty space pic, of the dark, cloudy center of the Omega Nebula, strikes our fancy due to its ominous scratchiness, like a beautiful cerulean and red painting marred by handfuls of dirt scraped across its surface. The nebula is about 5,000 light-years away, and is a famous star-forming ...
  • Nanocomposite Cavity Filler Reverses Decay, Ki ...
    Dentists may soon be getting a potent new weapons with which to wage the global fight against cavities. The University of Maryland has developed a novel new nanocomposite material that can be used not only as filling for cavities, but that will also kill any remaining bacteria in the tooth and r ...
  • South Korea Targets Smuggled Capsules of Human ...
    South Korea is saying this morning that its customs officials are stepping up their inspections targeting smuggled capsules that contain the powdered flesh of dead human babies. How’s that for something to wash down with your third cup of coffee this morning? The capsules originate in northeaste ...
  • Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Bioco ...
    As computer components grow smaller and smaller it becomes more and more difficult to manufacture them by conventional means, meaning the nano-hard-drives of the future are going to come at a cost. So researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tech ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, A ...
    This week's image roundup has a pink black hole, a monkey drinking from a straw, a catfish that detects earthquakes, and a curious item that washed all the way across the Pacific during the Japanese tsunami. It is a good one! Read it and look at it! Click to launch the gallery.

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 09 ...
    If you've ever deployed in combat, you may qualify for counseling services at your local Vet Center. Individual, group, and family counseling are available in facilities away from big hospitals, and 70% of the support staff are Veterans themselves.
  • Election Fraud, Media Deception, and the Crisi ...
    The Treatment of Ron Paul and Stephen Harper in Engineering the Political Economy of North America.
  • Jewish human rights advocate visits Iran &#821 ...
    Listen to my interview with Elias Davidsson: http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Truth-Jihad-32k-050712.mp3 Elias Davidsson is the son of German-Jewish holocaust survivors who migrated to Occupied Palestine. (Elias later migrated out of Palestine due to the horrors of Zionist occupation. ...
  • Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests
    The war has ended for 38 years . Although Vietnam has attained miraculous changes in many fields, the country remains blighted by toxin which are not only harmful to environment but also affect seriously health, causing many potential dangerous diseases which heredity factors.
  • World Press Freedom Day
    America's First Amendment affirms it. So does Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • 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 ...
  • Wettest April on record - and more rain to come
    Church Fenton in North Yorkshire has become the first station to report record rainfall following last night's heavy rain. So far this month, 122mm (5 inches) has fallen, beating the previous record set in 2000 of 115mm. The station average for April is 49mm (2 inches). Other stations are al ...
  • April could be wettest on record in drought-hi ...
    Low pressure will dominate the UK's weather for the rest of April, and possibly into early May, bringing further showers and longer spells of locally heavy rain. In Lincolnshire, where the drought situation is amongst the worst in the country, some of the highest rainfall totals have been reco ...
  • Global and regional climate update
    Average global temperatures in March rose to +0.108C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.116C in February, based on the UAH satellite measurement shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard 1961-1990 mean, global temperatures were approximately +0.361C above normal. Acro ...
  • Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
    The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Maybe the Renminbi Won't Rule the World After All
    Here's a neat riposte from Eswar Prasad and Lei Ye to the idea that the RMB will surpass the dollar as the world's most important currency over the next decade or two. That point of view has been famously espoused by Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute of International Economics and, fo ...
  • Pricing Luxury: LVMH in 'Old' Europe, 'New' China
    Having several friends and relatives working in the industry--female and male, mind you--I've taken a keen interest in luxury goods as an exemplar of globalization's dynamics. Not only do leading luxury firms have global reach and name recognition, but they also have to deal with variations in c ...
  • Hopeless, Jobless America? Go East, Young Yank
    There are two interesting features in TIME on dealing with the generally jobless state of modern America. The first is a Job-like (biblical) lament about how unpaid internships are common Stateside when they should not be. As you'd expect, the article is accompanied by sob stories about young Am ...
  • Shariah Banking: Islamic Financial Services Board
    The Commonwealth news outlet Global Briefing has an interesting interview with Jaseem Ahmed, secretary-general of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). Although its history is not very long, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in shariah banking, especially given the renewed ...
  • Strange Tales of Delta Air Buying an Oil Refinery
    With airlines being almost universally unprofitable these days--even Thai Airways is reportedly going to have an unprofitable 2012 or only its second unprofitable year in 51 years of operation--saying that costly aviation fuel is having negative effects on the airline industry is an understateme ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial ...
    The recent elections in France and in Greece have thrown the global financial system into an uproar.  Fear and worry are everywhere and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  All of the financial deals that Greece has made over the past few years may be null and void ...
  • The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has ...
    The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, ...
  • Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essen ...
    69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws.  This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is ...
  • There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans Th ...
    The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to th ...
  • Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is P ...
    In recent days, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has been doing a whole bunch of interviews in which he has declared that the solution to our economic problems is very easy.  Krugman says that all we need to do to get the global economy going again is for the governments of ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Greek leftist leader rules out Austerity Measures
    Greece’s left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament. Greece’s leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras, has ruled out budget-cutting austerity measures, opting to meet Pre ...
  • Romney Operatives Caught Handing Out Fake Ball ...
    Attempts to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul delegate slates; Romney sends in lawyer that stole election for Bush in 2000. Two separate incidents captured on video this weekend reveal desperate attempts by Mitt Romney operatives to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul endorsed delegate slate ...
  • Reddit co-founder slams Facebook over CISPA su ...
    Facebook is expected to make billions when the social networking site goes public, but one of the most influential men on the Web says he won’t be buying stock. The founder of Reddit has denounced Facebook over their support of CISPA. In an interview with CNN this week, Reddit.com co-founder Ale ...
  • Interpol issues arrest warrant for fugitive Ir ...
    Interpol has issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi “on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks.” “The Red Notice for al-Hashemi represents a regional and international alert to all of Interpol’s 190 member countries ...
  • Top Obama Aide Warns Russia “End Of World” Near
    A new report prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service circulating in the Kremlin today says that the United States top National Security Advisor to President Obama, Thomas Donilon, was granted a “rushed meeting” with President Putin this past Friday wherein he warned the Russian leader that ...

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

  • 2012-05-08 WikiLeaks News Update: "World Tomor ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 521 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 518 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 715 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 601 days. ...
  • 2012-05-07 Bahraini human rights activist Nabe ...
    Tweet This is Part Two in WL Central's continued coverage of the arrest of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. He was arrested on May 5 at the Bahraini International Airport, following the announcement of his upcoming appearance on Julian Assange's talk show "The World Tomorrow." A repr ...
  • 2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Nabeel Rajab ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 519 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 516 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 713 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 599 days. ...
  • 2012-05-05 [UPDATED] Bahraini human rights act ...
    Tweet Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested today by the order of the Bahraini public prosecution. This comes the day after WikiLeaks' press release that he, along with Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, will be the guests on next week's episode of Julian Assange's talk sho ...
  • 2012-05-04 WikiLeaks News Update: Press Freedo ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 517 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 514 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 711 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 597 days. ...

U N News

  • Senior UN official alarmed at recent murders o ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced alarm and anger over the murders of three Mexican journalists in the state of Veracruz in less than a week.
  • UN concerned over Venezuela's possible withdra ...
    The United Nations today voiced concern over Venezuela's announcement that it is establishing a committee to evaluate the possibility of withdrawing from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
  • UN expert urges US to take more robust measure ...
    The United States needs to adopt more robust measures to address the issues affecting its indigenous peoples, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing that such policies must be developed in partnership with Native American, Alaskan Native and Hawaiian peoples in the country.
  • Haiti: UN envoy welcomes parliament's confirma ...
    The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today welcomed the confirmation by parliament of the appointment of the country's Prime Minister designate, Laurent Lamothe, a move that paves the way for him to assume office.
  • Noting disturbing trend' in Mexico, UN rights ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced alarm over the killing of a journalist in Mexico this past weekend, and condemned what it said is a "disturbing trend" of media professionals being murdered in the country, where more than 70 have been killed over the past 12 years.

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

  • Grand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessm ...
    Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The workshop will be held on Saturday 5 May, 9am-4pm at Pearson Hall on the Museum of Norther ...
  • An interview with Dave Foreman
    Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March 30,2012 on KGNU Community Radio (Denver/Boulder). Listen: audioarchives-Connections-2012-Connections_2012-03-30 or stream from KGNU.
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
    Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
  • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
    The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Michigan... Small City of Milan May Become ' ...
      The southeastern Michigan city of Milan, a 40-minute or so commute to Toledo or Detroit industrial centers, might become the new home for a 200-acre or larger “China City” that would house Chinese business people.read more
  • Pink Slime Is Just the Beginning!
      The recent brouhaha over pink slime (and other lovely meat production processes) is only the beginning. Here’s our roundup of some standout reporting about the food on your plate. read more
  • ‘Reconditioned’ Food?!?... FDA Approved Repack ...
      In order to save money, some corporations will repackage older food into new packaging and resell it! One public school lunch supplier tried this with moldy apple sauce re-canned and was reprimanded to never try that “stunt” again! read more
  • Chinese Insanity!... Thousands of Capsules Fil ...
      Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. read more
  • 'Bypassing Doctors - Selling Prescription Drug ...
      When it comes to freedom of food choice, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers Americans to be too stupid to make their own dietary choices. When pharmaceuticals are involved, the FDA apparently thinks individuals should be able to completely self-medicate themselves ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Are Preppers Crazy?
    In all walks of life, there is an element of ‘crazy’, although perhaps not the crazy as defined by the 1st definition in the dictionary, ” Affected with madness; insane”. However a few of the informal definitions may apply, ” Departing from proportion or moderation, ...
  • Will The Cash Ban Spread?
    First reported just a few weeks ago, there is now a cash ban on ALL transactions above €2,500 in Spain, and is a tax collectors dream come true. The new government push: Cash has gotta go – it’s evil. Those who violate the ban will face fines of 25% of the payment made in cash. [...]
  • Fully Stocked North Idaho Retreat
    msb-note This may interest some of you who may be looking for a safe, self-sufficient, retreat location… FULLY STOCKED survival property for sale in N. Central Idaho. This property is located in the mild microclimate region 5 hours north of Boise, ID. The winters are very mild, and there a ...
  • Simple Antenna For Better Shortwave Radio Rece ...
    For those of you who have purchased a portable shortwave radio for either your own interests or for the sake of survival preparedness (gaining information about the disaster, after the disaster), you may be interested in getting the longest range reception as possible. The best way to achieve th ...
  • Yard Carts And Wagons For Survival Preparedness
    As a followup to Tammy’s post, Don’t Forget To Stock Mobility Aids, I agree that some preppers may be overlooking the need for equipment that will assist in carting around ‘stuff’… equipment that is NOT motorized, but instead intended to be pedaled or pushed. Many f ...

Fast Company

  • The Discovery Economy: The Tech's The Least In ...
    Do you know what augmented reality apps are really good at? Directing you to new things they don't directly point at. It's a whole new world of discovery.Nokia's just unleashed its City Lens app for Lumia smartphones. And while the new augmented reality app could easily be mistaken for a bloatwa ...
  • "I Either Get Headhunted Or Fired": How A Real ...
    A chat with Kash Sree, the most restless creative director in advertising.Kash Sree’s career on the creative side of advertising spans over two decades, and includes iconic spots you’re sure to have seen, including that one where Tiger Woods plays hacky sack with a golf ball. Fast Company caught ...
  • FBI: Hotel Internet Connections Unsafe
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The government agency known as the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) just went public with the news that the FBI is investigating multiple cases of malware installed via hotel Internet connections.According to the IC3, travelers' laptops ha ...
  • Foursquare Plans To Join Local Coupons Game
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley has revealed that his company has serious monetization plans that center on personalized local offers--a transformation for the company from its usual "check-in" game model. Merchants will be able to ...
  • How Your Company's Past Should Factor Into A Pivot
    Alex Yoder, CEO of Webtrends, talks with Fast Company about taking your past into account when it's time to change strategic direction--a lot to say in 30 seconds. [twistage 2eb56b43f1233]   Watch More 30 Second MBA For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategie ...

Jadaliyya

  • War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, ...
    The recent issue of Foreign Policy on sex has instigated critical feedback from many who have rightly challenged racist and Orientalist representations of gender and sexuality in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Several critics have rightly pointed out that essentialist approaches to culture that rel ...
  • Egyptian Parliamentary Protests in Pictures
    Thousands marched on the Egyptian parliament Monday, denouncing the army's crackdown on revolutionaries in front of the Ministry of Defense in Abbassiya. A week long sit-in conducted largely by Salafis and leftists was subject to repeated attacks by armed thugs, and was finally suspended by forc ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Amy Motlagh, Burying the Be ...
    Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amy Motlagh (AM): Part of the study of literature is obsessive re-reading. In this case, I became preoccupied with what I fe ...
  • عن الوضع الحالي في سوريا: مقابلة مع هيثم مناع ...
     (الجزء الثالث) في السابع والعشرين من نيسان وضمن أعمال المؤتمر الذي نظمته جدلية بالتعاون مع جامعة لوند، أجرى محرر جدلية بسام حداد مقابلة مطولة مع هيثم منّاع، أحد أبرز رموز المعارضة السورية المستقلة ومؤسس الهيئة التنسيقية للتغيير الديمقراطي. كانت المقابلة طويلة وصريحة وتطرقت إلى موضوعات عدة ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 8)
    [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 ...

mediagazer

  • Sun-Times parent to buy Chicago Reader for $3 ...
    Lynne Marek / Chicago Business: Sun-Times parent to buy Chicago Reader for $3 million  —  (Crain's) — Wrapports LLC, the parent of the Chicago Sun-Times, is poised to purchase the Chicago Reader as soon as next week for about $3 million, according to sources familiar with ...
  • Why Doesn't AOL Just Sell the Huffington Post? ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Why Doesn't AOL Just Sell the Huffington Post?  —  (Image credit: Getty Images for AOL via @daylife)  —  There's not much of AOL that's not in play these days, one way or another.  In response to a report that the company is loo ...
  • Britain to Seek Curbs to 'Libel Tourism' (Eric ...
    Eric Pfanner / New York Times: Britain to Seek Curbs to ‘Libel Tourism’  —  PARIS — Even as the British government delves into evidence of excesses at its notorious tabloids, it appears ready to offer new legal protection for serious journalism.  —&n ...
  • Status Update (TechCrunch)
    TechCrunch: Status Update  —  So first thing's first: We're not being sold!  Instead, we've just hired a bunch of brilliant writers and a new COO.  Also, we've seen a resurgence of community support (with over a thousand people attending our NYC meetup last night, for ...
  • New update: Ustream now says its up and runnin ...
    Janko Roettgers / @jank0: New update: Ustream now says its up and running again http://gigaom.com/...

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

  • Study: Kids in positive sports climate be ...
    Mary Fry, associate professor of health, sport and exercise science, co-authored a study that surveyed nearly 400 kids who took part in a National Youth Sports Program athletic camp. The findings were published in the journal Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology. They measured whether ...
  • Mancini, Pardew and the nominees for Goal ...
    The man behind Newcastle's unlikely push for a top four place and Manchester City's Italian tactician are among those in the running to win our end of season award More On : Manchester City FC,...
  • AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigg ...
    Photo: Trevor Samson/World BankThe IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and ...
  • Swine flu vaccine may fight other viruses
    University of B.C. researchers led a team of scientists that have found the swine flu vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many flu viruses including the lethal bird-flu strain. The results support the idea there is a way to develop universal flu vaccines that would eliminate the ...
  • British Columbians to help choose holiday
    British Columbians will get a chance to help choose the best day for the province's newest statutory holiday. Premier Christy Clark has long promised a new holiday called Family Day. She had...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
    healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
  • 4/27/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
    healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - See our new resource about the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Read a summary, a timeline of how the case made it to t ...
  • 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
  • 4/26/12 - Is nuclear power safe for humans and ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Is nuclear power safe for humans and the environment? – Read statements, including post-Fukushima quotes, from experts such as John Hutton, Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association (pro), Helen Caldicott, President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute ( ...
  • 4/25/12 - Candidate Finances
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances - According to the Federal Election Commission, the three remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, and Romney) have raised $148,098,413 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $196,610,770. See how much money each cand ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...
  • 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 ...
  • Recharging your Immune system
    Some people seem to catch everything that is doing the rounds, from coughs and colds to stomach bugs. Other people never seem to get ill. What’s their secret? A lot is down to dumb luck. There are some things affecting the performance of your immune system that you cannot change: your age, ...
  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Professor Bob Carter on climate change - Part 1
    My guest today for the second hour is Prof. Bob Carter: Professor Bob Carter is an adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University (Queensland). He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 40 years professional experience, and holds d ...
  • Join our mailing list and get our latest podca ...
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  • Thomson quits, Slipper stands down
    Breaking News Embattled Thomson quits Labor party PM moves on Thomson and Slipper, saying a 'line has been crossed' Whether or not you believe in our representative democracy, I hope you can see that we need an election now, and that, if this occurs (as it should from the numbers against th ...
  • What would a world without government look lik ...
    Throughout the last century, it has been estimated that governments around the world have been responsible for approximately 250 million murders. On the contrary, it is estimated that only nine million non-governmental, or domestic cases of homicide, have been perpetrated within the same time fr ...

Beacon

  • Video: Aimee Teegarden Swims with Sea Lions
    Drum roll, please: we’re excited to unveil our latest video starring actress and ocean lover, Aimee Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights.” We traveled with Teegarden up the coast of Southern California, from La Jolla to Santa Barbara Island, filming a video about the need to protect the ocean’s th ...
  • Angela Kinsey and Barton Seaver Head to Capito ...
    Next Monday, actress and ocean activist Angela Kinsey will be here in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass legislation to stop seafood fraud. Kinsey is best known for her role as the tightly-wound head of accounting on “The Office,” and she also appeared in a video for Oceana’s sea turtl ...
  • Yves Klein Auction to Benefit Oceana
    Tomorrow Christie’s International Auction House will host a Post War and Contemporary Arts evening sale, featuring Yves Klein’s FC 1, which is being sold on behalf of an anonymous collector. FC 1 is expected to achieve a record-breaking final sale price, a portion of which will be donated to Oce ...
  • Searching for a More Responsible Way to Farm Fish
    A salmon farm in Chile. © Oceana/ Eduardo Sorensen Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can cause significant environmental harm if not responsibly managed. Because many fish are confined to a small area, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution an ...
  • Oceana's Mike Hirshfield on Fish and the Law
    Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and At­mospheric Administration set catch limits under the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act amendments for all covered species, a major triumph for fisheries management. The Environmental Forum asked the leading voices in fi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Animated Video For Patriot’s Point Museum.
      I led a team that created this video for Patriot’s Point, a museum in Charleston South Carolina that consists mostly of the USS Yorktown and the USS Laffey. This video is viewed by Boyscouts camping overnight on the carrier. The production company was Likely Story out of Austin &#16 ...
  • Creepy Imagined Atomic Bomb Attack On Atlanta ...
    The following is word for word, the article that appeared in the March 1956 edition of Modern Mechanix that imagines an atomic bomb dropped on my home town, Atlanta, Georgia       WE A-BOMBED ATLANTA “Out of the sky drops a tiny black speck, there is a blinding white flash, the city li ...
  • Sergeant George Linsdsey, USAF, Played “ ...
    George Lindsey, 12/7/1935 to 5/6/2012 played Goober Beasley on Andy Griffith, and spent twenty years on Hee Haw. He also starred in comedies like Cannonball Run. Herbie the Love Bug, C.H.I.P.S., and did numerous voice overs as well.   Lindsey was born and raised in Alabama and lived in Nash ...
  • George Vujnovich Dies At 96. This OSS Agent Sa ...
      This last week this Serbian born Pittsburgh native George Vujovich died at the age of 96. Whilst working in the CIA precursor organization the OSS, Vujnovich liberated 500 American airmen who were shot down over Yugoslavia and Romania targeting German oil facilities and held as POWs. &#16 ...
  • Bobble Head Doll Of John Wilkes Booth Pulled F ...
      “Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore. The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed from shelves on Saturday, a day after a reporter f ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Will Sen. Joe Manchin Join the Jailbird?
    My message is simple: WTFU. Translated — wake the you-know-what up, there is an earthquake. … I ask: What are you smoking? What are you drinking? What are you snorting or just what in the hell are you thinking? Look around the world — do you see any governments or incumbents wi ...
  • Missouri’s Disgrace
    SENATOR CLAIRE MCCASKILL is receiving extra Secret Service protection at public events, because of an extremist Republican, Tea Party branch, who made rhetorical threats that can’t be taken lightly. These are the same people who come to rallies with guns at their side, not even concealed. ...
  • Richard Lugar Deserved to Lose and Does
    Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar, 80, first elected to the Senate in 1976, was defeated in the Indiana primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who was backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists to the ...
  • Netanyahu’s ‘Atomic Bomb’ Unity Deal Met with ...
    “Sometimes a big shock is needed to cause people to take to the streets… The people cannot take it anymore.” – Tzipi Livni, former Kadima head (via Times of Israel) ISRAELI POLITICS just exploded with the “atomic bomb” announcement by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who has ...
  • Chipping Away at the Wall of Money
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. This is probably one of the busiest months in a long while, for advocacy / activist groups, Occupy and others. It’s extremely difficult to break through the Wall of Money, and the incessant electoral politics “news” i ...

Hudson New York

  • How Journalists Allowed the Palestinian Author ...
    The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all around the world were invited to Jenin, once notorious for dispatching suicide bombers to
  • German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles and Stones
    In an explosion of violence that reflects the growing assertiveness of Salafists in Germany, on May 5th more than 500 radical Muslims attacked German police with bottles clubs, stones and other weapons in the city of Bonn, to protest cartoons they said
  • Tunisian Universities Under Islamist Siege
    Tunisian Universities are being threatened by Salafist activists. Since late November 2011, the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Manouba, north of Tunis, has been attacked by a group of Salafist students, demanding the
  • Antisemitism on the Rise in Europe
    The virus of antisemitism persists in haunting Europe. In recent months, antisemitism has been exhibited all too often in European countries, not just in theory but in practice. France has been the scene for the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in
  • What the Palestinians Want
    No matter how much the US tries to help the Palestinians, it will always be viewed by many of them as an enemy. Last week, President Barack Obama gave $147 million to the Palestinians. A few days later, Palestinians demonstrated in Ramallah against the

Urban Survival

  • Are French Dips Contagious?
    (Vicksburg, MS)  It’s a tragedy of the human condition that our “tribe” of peeps on the rock is around 7-billion because it has reduced us all to numbers, and this in turn has caused an infatuation with that which “counts.”  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Life on the Buggassippi
      (Vicksburg, MS)  Rather than engage my brain, which – like the airplane’s gyro system – takes a good while to spin down, while we sit it out a nasty string of thunderstorms here, I thought we could go through … Continue reading →
  • Deteriorating Quickly?
      (Vicksburg, MS)  A week or so back, when the market was in the throes of shaking off an intermediate decline and was poking its head up over the Dow 13,200 area – and looking for a time like it … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Left Behind by the Information Age?
      Apparently I’m not the only one who is eyeing the QR Code frenzy (disease) with some suspicion.  A reader sends this:   “In the bay area your QR disease is beyond rampant because little code squares are  showing up … Continue reading →
  • Job Numbers Out – Yuck
    (Macon, GA)  This morning’s column will be very short since the whole top half of the report was eaten by my computer with only 25 minutes till press time.  The only portion saved was a first draft of the “Coping” … 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

  • New NRDC report out today: contaminated fracki ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Today NRDC's clean water experts released an important new report on fracking waste, which concludes that contaminated fracking wastewater is threatening people’s health and the ...
  • Solar Done Wrong - AB 1073 is Not the Right Pa ...
    Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento Solar energy development is booming in California and across the Southwest. On public lands alone seven utility-scale solar projects totaling a little more than 23,000 ...
  • New report shows that NY is not prepared to de ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City We have been saying for some time that New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has not adequately considered how to manage the potentially billions of gallons of highly contaminated wast ...
  • No One Knows What Goes On Behind Closed Doors: ...
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC In my experience, corporations that pollute the environment and endanger public health rarely yield power, or agree to have their products and activities regulated.  In fact, a massive infrastruc ...
  • The World is Watching: Will G20 Countries Lead ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Three years ago, the Group of 20 countries pledged to phase out environmentally-harmful and ineffective subsidies. The leaders of these twenty influential countries have since made ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Suspended until further notice
    Due to the voting fiasco I am suspending the project until further notice while I take some time to figure out what to do.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misonduct News Feed for this Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Jonesville MI police chief accused of hitting cuffed autistic 8yr-old who left school with a baton in the back of a police car after he left school while it was in ...
  • Candidates for Ownership of the NPMSRP
    As discussed this weekend, I’ve decided that the best way to hand this project over to some other person or group would be to let the readers, who have supported this project so much through the years, make the decision on who they feel most comfortable with running it from now on. Accordi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Washington DC police sued by mom of teen fataly shot in back, cops say he had BB gun, witnesses contradict [3] http://bit.ly/Ipxihs Chicago IL & 4 cops lose $1.15 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, April 9, 2012: Beloit WI settles suit for $265k to teen injured by cop when thrown against cop car then strip searched in public [0] http://bit.ly/HvCFg7 Minneapolis Park MN cop sent ...

Total Collapse

  • 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 ...
  • Obama Outlaws All Protests In US Ahead Of Hist ...
    A chilling Ministry of Finance report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama Regime has begun instituting what can only be described as one of the most brutal assaults of human rights and freedoms after it effectively banned all protests against the US government under penalty of ...
  • U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran
    2012 Raytheon Award Video from Jersey on Vimeo. The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, i ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • 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 ...
  • AGL's war on solar
    It is deeply troubling that AGL continues to suggest low income households, such as pensioners, are now paying more for their electricity to enable Australians to get solar. This is simply not true. If we rewind, to a bit over two years ago, before AGL tried to deflate the solar PV industry, ...
  • Clean fossils of the future? How about ready r ...
    There’s a lot of discussion and political jostling around energy options, decarbonisation, low-carbon or zero-carbon transition. Looking at the options, let’s begin with today’s dominant player, conventional coal. It’s fate is easy to summarise, we burn it now in old, outdated power stations, ...
  • The minister for tourism signs tourism industr ...
    Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Resources Energy and Tourism and previous head of the ACTU, today signalled that the mining industry will take precedence over tourism and manufacturing, despite the enormous damage it is doing to these industries. In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr ...
  • The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
    The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 'The real Hunger Games': a million children at ...
    The UN warns that a million children in Africa's Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010. In some countries the situation is ...
  • Exploring Asia's lost world
    Abandoned by NGOs and the World Bank, carved out for rubber plantations and mining by the Cambodian government, spiraling into a chaos of poaching and illegal logging, and full of endangered species and never-explored places, Virachey National Park may be the world's greatest park that has been ...
  • App designed to fight wildlife crime in Cambodia
    Conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance has launched a new iPhone app that not only teaches users about Cambodian wildlife but also gives them information on how to help the group fight pervasive wildlife crime in the country. The app includes photos and information regarding species imperiled by the ...
  • First camera trap video of world's rarest gori ...
    Ever wonder what it would be like to be charged by a male gorilla? A new video (below) released by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), gives one a first hand look. Shot in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, the video is the first camera trap footage of the incredibly rare Cross River gor ...
  • Fallout for Heartland Institute after it liken ...
    According to the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, those who accept the science of climate change are 'on the radical fringe' with the movements most 'prominent advocates' being 'murderers, tyrants, and madmen.' The Heartland Institute's statements came as it launched a billboard c ...

Sierra Express

  • Amb. Multi-Kamara pursues cable television inv ...
    Newly appointed Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Abubakarr Multi-Kamara has demonstrated his true belief and trust in President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Agenda for Change and in his blueprint of the Agenda for Prosperity by constantly pursing an investment ...
  • The night when Biomania hit London
    It was a night when even the UK Government Adviser and Deputy Leader, Rt Hon Simon Hughes (MP), of one of the two governing parties of the UK Coalition Government had to stay till after 1:00 a.m. just to welcome the Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio to the United Kingdom.  In fact, one of the [...]
  • NYC takes non-violence campaign to Bonthe
    The National Youth Coalition of Sierra Leone (NYC-SL) have taken the venture to be on the forefront to kick hell against violence and the so-called political stronghold syndrome, which are identified as the main causes bringing young to involve in immoral activities.  (Photo: NYC President Ishma ...
  • ACC enlists Karina community in the fight agai ...
    In a bid to demonstrate its resolve and undaunted strides to combating graft in Sierra Leone, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Northern Regional office, has on Friday 4th May 2012 held community outreach meeting with the people of Karina village in the Biriwa-Limba Chiefdom Bombali District. ...
  • “SLPP sold Yenga to Guinea”
    It has been revealed that the disputed border town of Yenga, which is occupied by Guinean troops was sold to late President Lansana Conte at the peak of the civil war by the then past government. An independent councillor representing Constituency 03, Kailahun District Council, Fanta Alpha (in p ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • New Fonterra management team named
    Fonterra has announced its new senior management team as it moves ahead with reshaping the organisation.Eleven of the 12 new Fonterra Management Team roles have now been filled, all by internal appointments. Fonterra chief executive...
  • Export commodities tumble in worst fall for tw ...
    Export commodity prices lurched lower last month, ANZ's commodity price index recording its steepest drop for more than two years.In world price terms the ANZ index fell 4.5 per cent to an 18-month low.The exchange rate provided...
  • Cheaper dairy prices in store as auction falls
    Shoppers could see the cost of dairy products fall as strong supplies and concerns about global growth cut into international prices.The average price for a basket of products in dairy company Fonterra's latest online auction yesterday...
  • NZ commodity prices fall to 18-month low i ...
    New Zealand commodity prices fell to an 18 month low in April, led by a decline in the price of sheep meat.The ANZ Commodity Price Index slipped 4.5 per cent to 267.5 in April, to the lowest since December 2009, in what was the...
  • Dairy prices slide 2.4pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products extended their slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, reaching the lowest since August 2009.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 2.4 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks ago. The average winning...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Sheldon Richman on the Pointless Partisan Squa ...
    The partisan squabbling over the killing of Osama bin Laden is a typical election-year distraction, writes Sheldon Richman, effectively squelching discussion of more important matters one year after the execution of the al-Qaeda chief executive. Aided by cable-TV talking heads, Americ ...
  • Licensing Requirements: The Level Grinding of ...
    David Henderson points out an interesting finding from a new Kauffman Foundation survey of 6,000 small businesses nationwide: Small businesses said licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining their state or city government's overall business- ...
  • City of Austin Ruins Man's Home, Gives Him the ...
    Details from the Austin-American Statesman: Two years ago today, Joe Del Rio was awakened to find city officials at the door of his lifelong home in East Austin, demanding entry. Before it was over, the Police Department's SWAT team and the Fire Department had been deployed, and ...
  • Sympathy for the President
    Press release of the day: A physicians' nonprofit wants President Barack Obama to stop chowing down on hot dogs in front of news cameras. In a petition being filed on May 10, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine asks the White House to issue an executive order bannin ...
  • Blueseed Finds 181 Startups Interested in Taki ...
    Blueseed is a burgeoning venture that promises to house high-tech companies on the high seas, outside the reach of dry land governments--"Silicon Valley's visa-free offshore startup community," it bills itself. They have now identified 181 startups who have expressed interest, and ...

Mercury Rising

  • YES HE DID!
    President Obama said publicly that “same sex couples should be able to get married”.
  • Best Friends Fauxrever : Murdoch phone hacking ...
    Patrick Wintour, The Guardian: David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks in the week she quit as News International’s chief executive over the phone-hacking scandal to tell her to keep her head up, it has been claimed in an updated biography of the prime minister. In a sign of his closeness to s ...
  • First Joe Biden, Now Arne Duncan Backs Marriag ...
    Looks like Joe Biden forced a few hands this weekend — because I don’t think this would be coming out today if not for him: Just one day after Vice President Biden spoke in favor of the freedom to marry on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secret ...
  • Wise Words on John Edwards
    Scott Horton: The Edwards prosecutors may well win their case, but not because any crime was involved. Rather, they’re likely to win because John Edwards is one of the most reviled politicians in the United States, and so a choice target. No doubt his affair, undertaken while his heroic wife was ...
  • Look out below, Asia edition?
    Hong Kong and Japan down 2.5% (Shanghai amazingly not so bad0. US futures look like maybe -1.5%. Financial press seems to ascribe it to gridlock in Europe thanks to the collapse of the center/center right in Greece/France plus the US jobs data. So it could just be the normal correlation move aft ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Psychedelics
      A judge upholds a government plan to ban foreign tourists from Amsterdam coffee shops, authorities in New Jersey promise to increase their synthetic marijuana raids, and the Burning Man Organization visits Washington lawmakers in this week's psychedelic news. read more
  • What Can Entheogens Teach Us?
    read more
  • Entangled: Fantasy Adventure for a Dollar
    I’m best known for my big non-fiction investigations of historical mysteries but I’m trying a new path as a novelist to celebrate my 60’s and I’m grateful for any support my readers are willing to give me. My first novel, Entangled, explores big, cutting edge ideas about time-travel, out-of-body ...
  • Shift Higher
    “How We Change Our World with Perception”, by Alberto Villoldo, PhD, presented by our friends at GreatMystery takes place TODAY, Tuesday, May 8th utilizing the same interactive online video technology used by Evolver Intensives. read more
  • 2012: End of the World or Consciousness Revol ...
    With few exceptions, the Mayan prophecy about the end of the cosmic cycle has been misinterpreted as predicting the actual physical destruction of humanity and the material world. 

This is similar to the misinterpretation of the term "apocalypse" by Christian fundamentalists, part ...

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

  • The Return of the Very Cruel Economic System
    This chapter is divided into three sections.  The first section examines the origins of the neoliberal policy consensus at the OECD.  The fist major rupture in the hegemony of the Keynesianism (neoclassical synthesis MKI) at the OECD came with the … Continue reading →
  • Saturday Night Live Spoofs Fox News
    I could not get full version of the SNL spoof as SNL videos are not available in Canada yet.
  • Brad Wall: Oil Sands is a great stuff
    Thomas Mulcair of NDP calls oil sands Dutch disease. Premier of Saskatchewan Brad Wall is very upset. His interview with Evan Solomon of CBC:
  • Complete Original '07 Zeitgeist With 2010 Upda ...
    I just watched the above video. It is a long video but it is amazing. It suggests that 10 Jesus like figures existed before him. Starting with Horus who was born December 25, 3000 B.C. Some of the similarities are that they all were: Born to a virgin Started preaching at age 30 Had 12 apostl ...
  • Vladimir Putin sworn in for the third term as ...
    The awesome swearing in ceremony: Is he the new Stalin of Russia? Read the CBC story.

Press TV - Middle East

  • More military men arrested in Turkey
    Turkey has arrested 18 more military officers as part of a long-running probe into the toppling of the country's first Islamic led government.
  • Turkey to continue supporting Hashemi
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will continue to support Iraq's fugitive vice president even after Interpol issued a worldwide alert for his arrest.
  • Syria blast hurts six soldiers
    An explosion has wounded at least six Syrian soldiers escorting the United Nations monitors in the town of Daraa.
  • Saudi protesters stage anti-regime rally
    Saudi Arabia's Eastern province has been hit by yet another anti-government protest rally in which demonstrators have condemned the long-time rule of Al Saud for its suppression of protests.
  • Turkish party urges Hashemi’s arrest
    Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party has called on Ankara to extradite fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who is on the Interpol Watch List on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks in Iraq.

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
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    ( Emulating Arrakis  on a water world :  Arrakis: Environment and the spice: The Dune Encyclopedia
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