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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

9 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Britain seeks Iran sanction delay
    Summary: Britain is seeking to persuade fellow European Union members to postpone by up to six months a ban on providing insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil, arguing that it could lead to a damaging spike in oil prices, European diplomats said. source: Reutersread more
  • No, Virginia, Iran isn’t in Bed with Al-Qaeda
    Summary: That the US intelligence and security apparatuses have been infiltrated in recent decades by persons with such axes to grind, whether on behalf of the military industrial complex or on behalf of supposed foreign allies, seems an inescapable conclusion if we consider the record over t ...
  • Washington's war of words against Iran
    Summary: The Obama administration has ramped up its rhetoric to meet hawkish demands that punitive sanctions deliver regime change source: Guardian read more
  • Mideast nuclear conference in jeopardy as Iran ...
    Summary: VIENNA - Hopes dimmed Monday for staging major nuclear talks later this year between Israel and its Muslim rivals, as Iran and Arab countries at a 189-nation conference accused Israel of being the greatest threat to peace in the region and Egypt warned that Arab states might rethink ...
  • Israel deal does not make a strike on Iran les ...
    Summary: The Iranian-born Shaul Mofaz is thought to oppose unilateral military action but the former chief of staff is used to taking orders from Netanyahu and the deal has secured Ehud Barak's position source: Guardian read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Study: Children who grow up on family farms an ...
    Growing up on a family-scale farm and drinking raw cow's milk are two important elements that promote robust childhood immune development. These are the findings of a recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, which found that farm-raised...
  • Vitamin D reduces major medical risks in the e ...
    Most NaturalNews readers know some of the health values of vitamin D3, which go well beyond the accepted bone health quality. But how much is enough and how little is not enough is a controversial subject. Adding to the confusion is some concern of how much would lead...
  • Pineapple's bromelain enzyme provides amazing ...
    You've probably heard of an enzyme found in pineapple called Bromelain. This enzyme is often used by itself as a supplement to aid in various ailments and boost general health. It is also added to natural digestion aids, anti inflammatory remedies, and general health...
  • Resveratrol vindicated for anti-aging benefits ...
    (NaturalNews)Resveratrol has been a popular buzz word around the alternative health community for more than a decade, touted for its anti-aging properties and potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions at the cellular level. Found in high concentrations most commonly in the...
  • The top eight anti-aging foods available right now
    There are certain antioxidant-packed "power foods" that boost, protect, and prime us for a longer, healthier life, both externally and internally. Here are the top 8 foods with powerful anti-aging properties that are built to better our health and appearance while...

Threat Level

  • Search Results Protected by First Amendment, G ...
    Google and other search engines have a First Amendment right to sort or even censor search rankings as they like, according to a legal analysis Google commissioned from a law professor.
  • New York High Court OKs Child-Porn Web Surfing
    Accessing and viewing child pornography over the internet is not necessarily a crime under New York law, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
  • Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘ ...
    In the battle to prevent law enforcement from collecting data about the activities of users online for fishing expeditions, there are few tools available in the arsenal of accountholders. Which makes it all the more important for internet companies like Twitter, Google and others to fight back o ...
  • Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Tw ...
    Hollywood and the federal government have partnered to create updated and even more annoying anti-piracy warnings that will be included in new home-release DVDs and Blu-ray discs beginning this week, the government said Tuesday.
  • FTC Slaps Myspace for Privacy Breaches
    Federal regulators slapped Myspace's wrist Tuesday, finding that the company still exists and that it violated the privacy promises it made to its 25 million registered users. Myspace joins its more prosperous internet cousins, Facebook and Google, in the club of companies that have been slapped ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Claims Paternity for Detroit, Disowns O ...
    Mitt Romney is now claiming paternity for President Obama's auto industry rescue that saved over a million jobs nationwide. But while he most certainly isn't the father of a reborn Detroit, the successful 2006 health care reform law he signed in Boston has become Mitt Romney's bastard love chil ...
  • The Life of Mitt
    Conservatives this week were quick to mock the Obama campaign's "The Life of Julia," an online slideshow highlighting how government investments in education, health care, small business and retirement security help enable the children of working families to climb the ladder of social mobility. ...
  • Infallible Bush Team Accuses Obama of Playing ...
    Desperate to deny President Obama any credit for the daring Bin Laden operation in Pakistan that George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney were on record as having opposed, veterans of Dubya's administration and their right-wing water carriers are trying a new and similarly despicable tactic. ...
  • Mitt Romney is the Deadbeat Dad of Obamacare
    Discussing the Affordable Care Act with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt in March, Mitt Romney declared, "If I'm the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it." But the former Massachusetts governor isn't merely promising to "kill it dead" at the national level. As it turn ...
  • Romney Sleeps Through 3 AM and 3 PM Phone Calls
    When it comes to showing leadership on American national security, the past week has been a very bad one indeed for Mitt Romney. As the nation marked the one year anniversary of the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, voters were reminded that five years ago Romney not only opposed then cand ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Wisconsin Democrats Select Recall Challenger t ...
    Wisconsin Democratic primary voters have picked Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to face controversial Republican Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election. Protests erupted across Wisconsin last year after Walker announced plans to eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for most public worke ...
  • From Coal to Foreclosures, Bank of America Fac ...
    Occupy Wall Street protesters, environmental activists, and struggling homeowners are converging in Charlotte today for a protest outside Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting. The protesters are calling attention to the bank's involvement in the financial crisis, its support for the coal ...
  • Festo’s ExoHand
    The ExoHand from Festo — an active manual orthosis with sensitive fingers The ExoHand from Festo is an exoskeleton that can be worn like a glove. The fingers can be actively moved and their strength amplified; the operator’s hand movements are registered and transmitted to the roboti ...
  • North Carolina Voters Approve Constitutional A ...
    North Carolina voters have turned out in large numbers to pass a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman. While North Carolina law already bans same-sex marriage, the amendment means civil unions and potentially other types of domestic partnerships will ...
  • Want to Appreciate Teachers? Stop Treating The ...
    A teacher offers her perspective on the hypocrisy of Teacher Appreciation week.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Ignorance and Political Blinders Shift America ...
      A new Stanford-led survey has found that American support for governmental action to address global warming has dropped over the past two years, primarily amongst those who identify themselves as Republicans. A significant downward shift According to the report, political rhetoric and t ...
  • Burlap — Green Material for Weddings, Gardenin ...
      Companies are consistently trying to churn out new, green materials to help us save the world (or stop destroying it). However, one material that has been around for ages is already super green — burlap — and it seems to be coming back into fashion a bit. Burlap is [...] ...
  • Fewer Planets in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ Than Pr ...
    When Goldilocks tasted the porridge that was just right she probably had no idea her name and story would one day provide the perfect analogy for where habitable planets can be found, and according to a new study, that number is probably even smaller than we’d hoped. A previously unconside ...
  • ‘Monster’ Sunspot Appears, Powerful Solar Stor ...
      NASA scientists are calling it a “monster sunspot” and its size is calculated to be 60,000 miles (100,000 km) from end to end. The huge sunspot comprises most of Active Region (AR) 1476, which rotated into view this weekend. Images of the region were picked up by NASA’s ...
  • Solar Panel and Bike, New Form of Less is More
    Biking has become a lifestyle, a way of life. Cyclists who hit their favorite bike paths or bike routes every day are like another cut of the zen surfer who never missed a dawn and a wave. Now, we have the bike-path-gilding travelers that make Kerouac’s On the Road look sedentary. Devotees ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • US jobless toll—a failure of capitalism - Work ...
    7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...
  • "We do not want to die in the rubble of neolib ...
    Editor's Comment: We thank Siv O'Neall for translating Pierre Larrouturou's article below. It serves as an example of the theme that dominates the liberal response to the collapsing capitalist system and all that follows in its wake. The author's "solution" to "the situation of the global econom ...
  • Unmasked: Meet The FBI's Bridge Bomb Plot Snit ...
    The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of five anarchists for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federal investigators, The Smoking...
  • Financial markets reeling after France and Gre ...
    Election of anti-austerity François Hollande in France and hung parliament in Greece create uncertainty about eurozone debt crisis Asian stock markets have been pummelled by election results in France and Greece that have heightened uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt cr ...
  • Socialists oust Sarkozy in French election - W ...
    Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France’s presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe and promised to start a pushback against German-led austerity policies. Hollande led conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.3% to 48.7% with 83% o ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Irredeemable
    By @BGinKC As you may have heard, Senator Dick Lugar was denied a seventh term in the Senate after primary voters in Indiana overwhelmingly voted for the astro-turfed tea-bagger Richard Mourdock. And yes, you are absolutely right to shake your head and say "so the folks who voted in Indiana yes ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Belt Line Girl"
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by 78rpmbum on Sep 21, 2010
  • America faces own "clash of civilizations"
    By @TedFrier As Republicans are discovering to their great despair, American bishops make poor political bedfellows. At just the moment Republicans seemed to be making progress putting this whole "War on Women" thing to rest the Catholic bishops, to whom Republicans have affixed themselves at th ...
  • The Corporations Still Supporting ALEC
    By @KYYellowDog Sooner or later, the corporations that publicly rejected shoot-first, voter-suppression promoter ALEC will go quietly sneaking back, because ALEC helps them more than it hurts them. But some corporations are shamelessly refusing to even pretend to reject ALEC, and now we know who ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD Lugar Loses Frankly, the man deserved better than to be drowned in a teapot, but with control of the Senate on the line, we're thrilled at the prospect of a Democratic pick-up in Indiana. Hell yeah we can record them. They work for us. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, citing the Fi ...

Care 2

  • Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Rig ...
    In medicated America, the fix for every problem is just a prescription away. Except that it's not. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Help Prevent More Dolphin D ...
    An investigation launched after the untimely deaths of two dolphins at a Switzerland marine park has determined that the animals died after ingesting Buprenorphine, an opiate taken commonly at raves and with heroin-like qualities. Tell park management to Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
  • GOOD NEWS! Egypt launches op to purge Sinai ...
    Egyptian security forces launched an operation to combat the rising violence in Sinai, with raids resulting in the arrest of Egyptians and Palestinians linked to Hamass armed wing, Al Shorouk reported today. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
  • Fighting the Green Fight with Kids Clothing St ...
    Lets face it. If its not dirty, then the kids most likely didnt have that much fun doing it. While we want them to go outside and play, we are often sorry when we see the state of their clothing. How could so many stains all end up on such a small Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  | ...
  • The State Of Social Security
    If you are disabled and cannot work to support yourself, news from our nations capitol can scare you. The Social Security Disability benefits trust fund is projected to become insolvent. What do we do with this information? Fix it. Why? Submitted by Ryan W. to Health & Wellness  |&nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Is David Axelrod calling us the A word?
    You know. That “A” word that begins with “ASS” and ends with “SINS”? Oh, Axelrod has reasons for using such below-the-belt language. While we dupes (including me) rant and complain about what “bad cop” Axe is saying about us, the chivalrous “ ...
  • If only this inhumanity were atypical … open t ...
    Watch this. If I may, I suggest you pay close attention to see and comprehend the torture of these females and their young ones. It is as bad as the four articles I’ve cited in a pending NQ post about the brutality visited upon by adherents of the Muslim “honor” CODE (?), even ...
  • Unlike Elizabeth Warren, the White Man Killed ...
    I’ve watched with great amusement Elizabeth Warren claim her status as a “Native American.” What a hoot! Unlike Elizabeth, I do have a direct connection. My dad’s grandma and grandpa were named, Cora Adkins and Lon Logan Adkins. Turns out that my family engaged in a bit o ...
  • The Storm Clouds of Europe
    I’m working in Europe for the next several weeks and have a front row seat to the turmoil rocking the continent. Germany is the only country unfazed, so far, by the economic disruption. But recent political events in both France and Greece, along with the turmoil bubbling beneath the surfa ...
  • Abandonment of Public Financing Only Leads to ...
    The New York Times’ Sunday editorial, An Idea Worth Saving, lamented the death of public financing in presidential elections, stating, “It was 36 years old, and was drowned by big money and starved by the disdain of politicians who should have known better”: From 1976 until 200 ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Charlotte protesters: Bank of America is 'wors ...
    msnbc.com Charlotte protesters: Bank of America is 'worst of the worst' msnbc.com "Whether it is workers who have been laid off, homeowners and also tenants who have been evicted from foreclosed homes … or people who live in coal country in the Appalachia whose home in a broader sen ...
  • The guide to the week's concerts - The Indepen ...
    The guide to the week's concerts The Independent Weekly He's also released two solo records, toured the country on a bike (yes, with cello in tow), and been active in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining. He may be classically trained, but Sollee's clearly not your typic ...
  • W.Va. judge hears more arguments on mine permi ...
    W.Va. judge hears more arguments on mine permit Bluefield Daily Telegraph AP HUNTINGTON — Scientists say mountaintop removal mines are causing widespread water pollution across Appalachia, and the US Army Corps of Engineers failed to consider the science when approving a West Virginia operation. ...
  • W.Va. judge hears more arguments on mine permi ...
    W.Va. judge hears more arguments on mine permit Wausau Daily Herald (WTW) — Scientists say mountaintop removal mines are causing widespread water pollution across Appalachia, and the US Army Corps of Engineers failed to consider the science when approving a West Virginia operation. and more&nbs ...
  • Your Column Here - Santa Monica Daily Press
    Your Column Here Santa Monica Daily Press By Bruce Ferguson Anyone who has witnessed the coal extraction process known as mountaintop removal (MTR) has been shocked. The name is perfectly descriptive — tops of mountains are blasted away and bulldozed into valleys to expose underlying coal ... ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney: Obama's policies are 'old' and 'outdat ...
    Holly Bailey / ABCNEWS: Romney: Obama's policies are ‘old’ and ‘outdated’  —  For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney painted President Obama as someone who is leading the country based on “old” and “outdated policies”—argui ...
  • RNC Chair: Obama 'played politics,' GOP 'clear ...
    Justin Sink / The Hill: RNC Chair: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accused President Obama of having “played politics” on the issue of gay marria ...
  • We Could Be (Well) Under 7% But For... ...job ...
    Jared Bernstein / On the Economy: We Could Be (Well) Under 7% But For...  ...job losses in the public sector.  —  Nice blog from the WSJ on where the unemployment rate would be absent all those layoffs in the public sector (h/t: HS).  —  Source: WSJ  &m ...
  • NOW president returns fire on Limbaugh (Dylan ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: NOW president returns fire on Limbaugh  —  Terry O'Neill, the president of the progressive National Organization for Women (NOW), is returning fire on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who yesterday called her organization a “faux feminist grou ...
  • BREAKING: President Obama supports marriage eq ...
    Joe Sudbay / Gay Politics: BREAKING: President Obama supports marriage equality  —  Barack Obama's evolution on marriage equality is complete.  President Obama has told ABC News that “same sex marriage should be legal.... I think same-sex couples should be able to get ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • After Kyoto, a new economics?
    In the results of a survey out today, 800 sustainability experts from around the world have a clear message for governments: make greenhouse gases more expensive. Jeff Erikson explains.At the end of this year, the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will expire. That’s not becaus ...
  • Climate change in US classrooms
    Ideological conflicts over global warming are heating up, drawing in teachers, scientists, politicians, religious groups, corporate lobbyists, judges and ordinary parents. They all want a voice in American children’s green education. Jan McGirk reports.Ever since the menace of greenhouse g ...
  • Pipeline in the crossfire
    For months, the Burmese army and ethnic militias have been engaged in fierce fighting – raising concerns for the project due to carry oil and gas to China from next year. Yin Hongwei reports.Editor's note: since the suspension of the multibillion dollar, China-backed Myitsone dam last autu ...
  • Meat off menu for China’s Olympians
    Athletes are struggling to source safe pork and beef as fears grow over the impact of additives on doping test results. Jiang Xinjie, Zhang Luyan and Wang Jingyi report on China's latest food crisis.You might not expect a meat shortage to top the list of concerns at the Jiangsu Sports Bureau&rsq ...
  • Out of the coop
    Across America, cities are reversing laws against raising chickens, allowing covert hen-keepers to come clean and a new wave of backyard farming to begin. Jill Richardson reports.Adam Hiner is getting his chickens back. So is Philip Dunn. Both had been keeping the animals illegally in San Diego, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Search Results Protected by First Amendment, G ...
    Google and other search engines have a First Amendment right to sort or even censor search rankings as they like, according to a legal analysis Google commissioned from a law professor.
  • New York High Court OKs Child-Porn Web Surfing
    Accessing and viewing child pornography over the internet is not necessarily a crime under New York law, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
  • Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘ ...
    In the battle to prevent law enforcement from collecting data about the activities of users online for fishing expeditions, there are few tools available in the arsenal of accountholders. Which makes it all the more important for internet companies like Twitter, Google and others to fight back o ...
  • Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Tw ...
    Hollywood and the federal government have partnered to create updated and even more annoying anti-piracy warnings that will be included in new home-release DVDs and Blu-ray discs beginning this week, the government said Tuesday.
  • FTC Slaps Myspace for Privacy Breaches
    Federal regulators slapped Myspace's wrist Tuesday, finding that the company still exists and that it violated the privacy promises it made to its 25 million registered users. Myspace joins its more prosperous internet cousins, Facebook and Google, in the club of companies that have been slapped ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • More Pet Food Recalled Due to Salmonella Risk
    Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc., El Cajon, California, announced a voluntary recall of one batch of WolfCub Large Breed Puppy Food and one batch of Solid Gold WolfKing Large Breed Adult Dog Food after being notified by Diamond Pet Foods regarding the presence of Salmonella in Diamond&r ...
  • Taco Bell, a.k.a., Mexican-style fast food res ...
    CDC collaborated with public health officials in multiple states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections which was associated with eating food from a Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, Restaurant Chain A. In ...
  • Please, Think Twice Before You Feed Your Child ...
    According to Oregon Public Radio, A mother, whose two-year-old has been hospitalized for 28 days after drinking raw milk tainted with E. coli O157:H7, recommends not giving children milk that hasn't been pasteurized. In last few weeks as many as 21 cases of food-borne illnesses have been trace ...
  • Smiling Hara Tempeh Salmonella Paratyphi B cas ...
    Buncombe County reports today that the number of Salmonella Paratyphi B cases has risen from 46 to 60.  According the Health Officials, the rare type of Salmonella was traced to Asheville made Smiling Hara Tempeh, a fermented soy bean product. Smiling Hara Tempeh made in Candler was pulled ...
  • Diamond Pet Foods Salmonella Infantis Recall List
    Diamond Pet Foods has been linked to at least 14 cases of human Salmonella Infantis infections in nine states, according to a May 3, 2012 report from CDC.  Confirmed outbreak cases have been reported in Alabama (1), Connecticut (1), Michigan (1), Missouri (3), North Carolina (3), New J ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on P ...
    In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth he examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. "Saudi Arabia simply is not going to tolerate a genuine democracy immediately off its shore, particularly one ...
  • Letter Sent to Eric Holder Seeking Federal Pro ...
    Earlier today the attorneys for Kenneth Chamberlain’s family sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a federal probe into his death. To see our full coverage of Chamberlain case click here Holder Ltr 050412 Via Facsimile–May 4, 2012 The Honorable E ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount of s ...
  • The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind T ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year’s election will undoubtedly be the most expensive in U.S. history, with some projections topping $5 billion. Not only has the amount ...
  • Democracy Now! Interviews the (Tax) Dodgers: G ...
    At the May Day rally in New York City’s Union Square, Amy Goodman bumped into the Tax Dodgers — a baseball team on which all of the players share the same number: 1 percent. ALEC DICKMAN , TAX DODGER : We’re a baseball team, and we go to bat for the 1 percent, not t ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney ‘Still Deciding What His Position ...
    Huff Post Elise Foley  Posted: 05/08/2012 1:06 pm Updated: 05/08/2012 3:17 pm A Latino-vote outreach program on Tuesday plans to stress to voters that the president has failed on immigration reform and deported a record number of people, said the Republican National Committee’s top Hispani ...
  • Romney Image Backed by Bush-Era Policy
    BloombergBusinessweek By  Lisa Lerer on May 07, 2012 Some of the choices are also driven by politics, a person close to the campaign said. Romney limited his proposed elimination of capital gains taxes to incomes up to $200,000. Some of his advisers think the ceiling is too low. In a primary deb ...
  • Obama 2012 Rallies Escalate Election Fight In ...
    By JULIE PACE 05/05/12 09:45 AM ET WASHINGTON — In campaign mode for months, President Barack Obama is making his quest for a second term official with rallies in Ohio and Virginia while casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich. The events Saturday at t ...
  • The Endless Arrogance of Wall Street
    The American Prospect Jamelle Bouie May 2, 2012 The super wealthy apparently believe that they deserve constant deference. Greg Sargent is rightfully stunned by the entitled petulance of Wall Street bankers who are shocked—shocked—that President Obama would do anything other than praise their in ...
  • Obama’s Speech In Afghanistan – May 1, 2 ...
    The New York Times Published: May 1, 2012 Good evening from Bagram Air Base. This outpost is more than seven thousand miles from home, but for over a decade it has been close to our hearts. Because here, in Afghanistan, more than half a million of our sons and daughters have sacrificed to protec ...

Solari

  • Tamera Named Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist
    Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design science competition named “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award” by Metropolis Magazine. Continue readin ...
  • Hover Car The Flying Two-seater
    Volkswagen People’s car project. YouTube
  • Japan Nuclear Power Free After Shutdown of Las ...
    By Tsuyoshi Inajima Japan has none of its 50 reactors operating as of today after its sole operating nuclear unit was halted for planned maintenance last week. Hokkaido Electric Power Co. shut the No. 3 unit at its Tomari plant in northern Japan on May 5 as scheduled, leaving the country [...]
  • Krugman Finally Wins the Argument
    By John Rubino Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences: Unless continuously fed with new credit, the global financial system will implode. And when confronted with this possibility, governments will always respond with new credit. This has been true at least since the Long Term Capital ...
  • Buffett on Gold
    “When we took over berkshire, berkshire was selling at $15 a share and gold was selling at $20 an ounce. And gold is now $1600 and berkshire is $120,000. but you take take a broader example. if you buy an ounce of gold today and you hold it for 100 years, you can go [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • To learn more about today’s events in Eu ...
    Summary:  The current political and regime in Europe has erupted from its long slow burn into low flames, with the elections this weekend in France and Greece.  Unless its leaders do the unexpected, taking bold and large-scale actions to further unify Europe, then a raging bonfire seems likely t ...
  • Do we have a shortage of workers, or just chea ...
    Summary:  So much of our consensus thinking results from full-spectrum propaganda from well-paid shills working for our ruling elites, well-funded institutions of disinformation and propaganda. This is one reason why we’re losing, and the Republic dying. Here we examine one issue of import ...
  • Do we have a shortage of workers, or just chea ...
    Summary:  So much of our consensus thinking results from full-spectrum propaganda from well-paid shills working for our ruling elites, well-funded institutions of disinformation and propaganda. This is one reason why we’re losing, and the Republic dying. Here we examine one issue of import ...
  • Darkness slowly descends on the world (two exa ...
    Summary:  Recent events, such as the Greek election and the speeches of GOP congressmen, suggest it was premature to declare the “end of history”.  As the post-WWII era ends, each day brings forth new developments from the basement of humanity’s collective mind and soul.  We mu ...
  • Is a new tech cycle starting that gives barbar ...
    Summary:  We, like people throughout history, assume that our military advantages are God-given and permanent.  History suggests otherwise.  Today we take a brief look at the past, and speculate about ways technology both gives — and takes away — military superiority. Throughout our ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: Aid Groups Sound Alarm on ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Aid Groups Sound Alarm on Yemen Security and counter-terrorism are much higher on the international community’s agenda for Yemen than are humanitarian concerns. And it shows: “Over the last two months, nearly 95,000 people have been forced to leave their homes as ...
  • Mirror, Mirror Upon the Wall -- Who Is the Rea ...
    Despite Adam Elkus's prodding, I avoided participating in the first-round beat down of Paul J. Saunders' supremely stupid essay, "Giving Realists a Bad Name." That's okay, because Daniel Larison, Dan Drezner, and others piled on. read more
  • Kofi Annan: UN Mission is Our Only Remaining C ...
    Kofi Annan briefed the press today on his efforts as the United Nations/Arab League special envoy for Syria. His main message was that the small, fitful observer mission is the last best hope to prevent a full scale civil war in Syria. Annan stressed that the observer mission, which now includes ...
  • Obama and Realist Foreign Policy: A Brief Comm ...
    Recently, Dan Drezner criticized a post by the Center for the National Interest’s Paul Saunders. Saunders asserted that the Obama administration had failed to demonstrate realism because of its mishandling of the Chen Guangcheng case and inconsistencies in its behavior over the Middle East ...
  • Hagel: Enlisted Troops Don't Make Policy but A ...
    The Atlantic Council presented its 2012 Distinguished Military Leadership Award not, as has been the custom, to a famous general or admiral but to the Enlisted Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces. Marine Sergeant Major Bryan B. Battaglia, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Obama Comes Out for Marriage Equality
    Three days after Joe Biden announced his support for same-sex marriage on Meet the Press, President Obama has done the same in an interview with ABC News: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of ...
  • I Am Gobsmacked
    Well, I guess I'm cynical. I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for President Obama NOT to state that he favors equal marriage. My heart is turning such cartwheels that I am not sure I can write anything cogent.  Here's what I was all ready to say before the announcement:  In practice, the ...
  • Doing the Right Thing Was the Right Thing
    Today is obviously a great and historic moment for President Obama, who decided today to follow the Prospect's Jamelle Bouie's advice and openly favor same-sex marriage. The effects are primarily symbolic, but it's still a good thing that he decided to match his excellent policy record on LBGT ...
  • Lies Politicians Tell Children
    Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has released his first ad of the fall campaign, and it's a fairly anodyne message about how Brown is independent, since Republicans aren't too popular in the Bay State. But there is something highly objectionable in the ad (it's at the bottom of this post if yo ...
  • Too Big To Imagine
    Even granting that testifying to congressional committees is not on the list of an oil CEO’s favorite things to do, when ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, known to his employees as “Iron Ass,” arrived at the Dirksen Senate Office building one morning in November 2005, he was in an especially reticent ...

Buzzflash

  • The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and F ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. But for the first time in 42 years, a country at the core of global reactor electricity is pro ...
  • We're Still Creating Jobs Where We Were Once L ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Okay, we know it's political silly season but sorry I still don't see the reason for the outrage! When there is an addition to the number of jobs added and a subtraction to the unemployment number...how is that a bad thing! And by the way for those not clued ...
  • Has Plutocracy in the US Reached the Tipping P ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT William Jennings Bryan (1860 -1925) was a populist contradiction, a compelling defender of working people and farmers against the robber barons of his day, while being a creationist and fiery critic of the gold standard (as revealed most succinctly in ...
  • Blowback from the GOP’s Anti-NLRB Crusade
    JOHN LOGAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Since taking control of the House in January 2011, Hill Republicans have mounted a relentless assault on the National Labor Relations Board. The agency normally has a low public profile -- until, that is, Republicans attempted to transform it into a symbol o ...
  • Norwegian Mass Murderer Anders Breivik Has an ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He was on his school's tennis team and the student-athlete honor roll, but now Kevin Forts, rather than preparing for his college graduation, is banned from campus for the foreseeable future. Forts' banning is due to either or both the fact that he was ar ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Exergy, existentialism and the environment
    Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
  • The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
    Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...
  • You really don’t know how to dry your hands pr ...
    In “rest rooms” everywhere there are millions of people trying to dry their hands, assuming they washed them after using the facilities. Most of them will grab 3, 4, maybe half a dozen squares of paper towel, assuming there isn’t an “hot” air electric dryer (that&#8 ...
  • How to become a medical writer
    I get a lot of emails from people hoping to break into the field of science writing (and medical and technical writing in general), whether as a journalist or in science communication. Often they’re fresh from university, or just writing up, and like me, didn’t fancy staying in the l ...
  • Mimicking mussels
    UV and NMR spectroscopy have been used to characterise a novel adhesive that functions in marine environments by mimicking the notoriously strong, natural glue used by mussels to cling to rocks and ships’ hulls. via Making unstickable adhesives: Mussel power – Ezine – spectrosc ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Lawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Gra ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25,000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon’s north rim. Approved in January, this is the U.S. Forest Service’s fifth attempt to sell old-growth trees and forests in t ...
  • PFAW President Michael Keegan Responds to Pres ...
    In response to President Obama’s public comments in support of marriage equality, People For the American Way President Michael Keegan issued the following statement.read more
  • President Obama Endorses Freedom To Marry
    President Obama said this afternoon in an interview with ABC News that he believes that the freedom to marry should be extended to same sex couples.read more
  • National Consumer Group Identifies Five Human ...
    While the UN officially recognized water as a human right in July 2010, lack of access to clean water and sanitation is not a far-flung problem, according to national consumer group Food & Water Watch, which today released the report Our Right to Water: A People’s Guide to Implementing ...
  • NWC Issues Statement on Passage of Senate Whis ...
    Yesterday, the Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743, by unanimous consent. NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn issued the following statement about S. 743:read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Greediness of Brain Drain
    Ralph Nader The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity in the U.S. and other Western countries. Now “brain drain&r ...
  • Ryan Shrugs: Overlooked GOP Budget Provision W ...
    Roger Bybee GOP House Budget Chair Paul Ryan reigns as the GOP’s resident economic genius, even as the productive base and health of his own southeastern Wisconsin district deteriorates under the impact of the very policies ...
  • Shikshantar: 'Transforming the Way We Live and ...
    Shilpa Jain At Shikshantar, we are trying to support the shift from a money-dominant globalized culture to a more small-scale, relationship-focused culture.read more
  • Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of N ...
    John Feffer It’s happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last ...
  • Profits over Health: A Short History of the Pe ...
    Leeann Brown The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Study Debunks Conservative Claim That Tort Ref ...
    Even before President Obama took office, the Affordable Care Act’s opponents touted tort reform as a central prong of their health care policy. Texas Gov. Rick Perry even claims that Texas added 23,000 new doctors thanks to a tort reform law he signed in 2003. A new academic study shows th ...
  • Defeated By Tea-Party, Sen. Lugar Warns: &#821 ...
    Another day, another mainstream conservative Senator knocked off by the pollutocrat-backed Tea Party. This time it was 6-term Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, crushed in a GOP primary 60% to 40% by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Mourdoch, needless to say, is a hard-core science denier who la ...
  • PHOTOS: Thousands Turn Out To Protest Bank Of ...
    Thousands of protesters gathered outside Bank of America’s Charlotte, North Carolina headquarters throughout the day today, protesting the bank’s involvement in the financial crisis, its shady foreclosure practices, and its financing of destructive environmental projects. At least fo ...
  • Intel. Chief Orders Internal Review After Bomb ...
    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has ordered an internal review of leaks regarding a plot to blow up a U.S. bound airliner by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. The review will determine whether the leak, which revealed that a Saudi intelligence agent infiltrated Al Qaeda and volunte ...
  • Hatch Parrots Anti-Gay NOM’s Self-Victim ...
    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has the back of the National Organization for Marriage. In a letter to IRS Commissioner Doglas H. Shulman this week, he called for an investigation into the leak of NOM’s 2008 Schedule B, which revealed some of the anti-equality group’s top donors, including M ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Sacha Baron Cohen is a Putz
    There is a line in his movie featuring "Borat" that I thought was good comedy. Throughout the film, "Borat" tries to figure out the comedic use of the addendum "Not!" at the end of a sentence. Then, when Pamela Anderson refuses his offer of marriage, "Borat" tells her he doesn't love her anymore ...
  • Shit On The Troops!
    Why? For god's sake WHY do right-wing politicians always display such sickeningly hypocritical, disgusting behaviour? Why do they always express their militarism, their love of war and their devotion to "the troops" and then turn around and shit all over "the troops"  when they get damaged ...
  • CBC Sides With Top 1%?
    It's funny. In response to the people's victories against neo-liberal austerity in Europe, the CBC comes out with headlines such as this: World markets rattled by European uncertaintyAthens exchange dives 8% after electionGreek election impasse heralds lengthy instabilityInvestors jittery about ...
  • Some Crimes are Forever
    I'm always big on the idea of redemption. And you know, even in the case of pedophiles, it's my understanding that a lot of them suffered horrific abuse as children which destroyed their ability to have normal lives. But even this sympathy only goes so far. No matter what, a convicted pedophile, ...
  • harpercon Usurpers Shit on Democracy Again
    I have no intention of accepting this illegitimate regime. This is the summer of discontent. But how long will the opposition MPs validate this garbage with their participation? OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives are curbing debate on their massive budget implementation bill.The Tory majority has ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Retort to user from Canadian PM spokesperson s ...
    All over the Internet, there is a plague known as trolling, which is meant to incite strife on a discussion board. One Twitter user attempted to do that with the Canadian Prime Minister's spokesman, but it backfired.
  • The Sao Paulo Zoological Park, a jungle in the ...
    Spread in an area of over 200 acres of original Atlantic forest, the Sao Paulo Zoo shelters about 3,200 animals from 444 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates and promotes public awareness about wildlife conservation.
  • EcoRun shines the spotlight on fuel-efficient ...
    The latest in fuel-efficient automobiles are parading through various communities in southern Ontario, as part of the EcoRun Fuel Efficiency Demonstration, to show car buyers there is something they can do about the ever-rising gas prices.
  • Passengers sue Air Canada after sleepy pilot p ...
    The class action lawsuit is claiming $20 million in damages after 16 people were injured when a trans-Atlantic flight went into a steep dive. It is also alleged that the airline misled all the passengers as to the cause of the sudden descent.
  • UFO: Toronto-area witness reports flying Pyramids
    UFOs are "Unidentified Flying Objects". What objects or entities do you think was seen by Orangeville, Ontario witnesses?

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Damoclean nukes
    Kudos to the National Post for publishing a visually striking depiction of the day-to-day nuclear threat hanging over the Earth.
  • Richler on military mythmaking
    Noah Richler denounces the recent effort to change the self-image of Canadians from peacekeepers to warriors.
  • Cluster’s last stand
    The Harper government has introduced legislation that will have the effect of gutting Canadian support for the 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs.
  • “Small” nuclear war = global famine
    Even a "small" nuclear war involving 100 nuclear weapons could produce climate effects severe enough to threaten global famine, warns a new report by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
  • Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014?
    Prime Minister Harper has refused to rule out keeping Canadian special operations forces in Afghanistan past the scheduled 2014 end of the Canadian mission.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Drug Babies Before Vaccinating Them, Doctors D ...
    April 12, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “When are these doctors going to learn? Adults shouldn’t even be taking acetaminophen – now they want you to give it to your babies. Let’s kill their livers right away. What a crock.” –KTRN A recent study published ...
  • 4 Health Foods With More Sugar Than A Twinkie
    April 12, 2012 Natural Society By Anthony Gucciardi “Not all food you find in health food stores is actually healthy. Read the labels.” –KTRN Is sugar the last ingredient that has not been slammed by health conscious activists? Numerous crusades have been waged against GMOs (ge ...
  • Fight Cancer with this Tropical Fruit
    April 13, 2012 DrAxe.Com By Dr. Josh Axe “As Dr. Coldwell will tell you, there are hundreds of natural cancer cures. It just takes a bit of research.” –KTRN In 2007, researchers published a groundbreaking article in the Planta Medica journal about a certain enzyme being found t ...
  • Obama Speeches ‘Exactly Same’ A Year Apart
    April 13, 2012 WND By Joe Kovacs “This is absolutely incredible. How arrogant of him to think we aren’t going to notice. Talk about a lazy staff of speech writers.” –KTRN When it comes to politicians, they often say the same thing over and over. That statement is taken to ...
  • Budget Prepping for A Buck
    April 13, 2012 Activist Post By Gaye Levy “If you’re into preparedness, here is a cool article on how to do it with a budget.” –KTRN This year tax day appears on April 17. For most of you, your return is now filed and you are waiting for a modest refund. For the not so [...]

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Army Admits Re-Education Camp Manual “Not Inte ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPublic Affairs Director falsely claims document does not apply within U.S. Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Fort Leonard Wood Public Affairs director Tiffany Wood has provided the first official res ...
  • U.S. self-defense guru barred from Britain
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comA US self-defence instructor who teaches pupils to “inflict crippling pain from injury to easily damaged body parts” has been barred from Britain where he was to give seminars in areas hit by 2011 riots. Tim ...
  • UK Bans Self-Defense Expert From Entering Country
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGovernment wants a nation of cowardly defenseless victims Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, May 9, 2012 The UK government has banned self-defense expert and former US Navy Seal Tim Larkin from entering the ...
  • Guardian journalist predicts 2012 will be last ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAna Marie Cox, political columnist for the Guardian, on Tuesday night predicted the 2012 elections would mark the last time that both presidential candidates opposed same sex marriage. Even though North Carolina voted Tu ...
  • North Carolina polling stations report confron ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe North Carolina election to decide on a state constitution amendment to ban same-sex unions has emotions running high at polling stations and is the “craziest in 13 years”, according to a senior official a ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Malaysia puts Bush, Cheney on ‘trial&#82 ...
    Dandelion Salad May 8, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews For the second time, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War is putting a former head of state and their administration before a peoples court to face charges of Torture and War Crimes. Press TV’s Lauren Booth reports from Kuala Lumpu ...
  • Madeleine Albright, Iraq’s “Grim R ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 30 April 2012 “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” (Madeleine Albright, 1937 – ) As the anniversary of probably one of the most infamous responses in broadcasting history approac ...
  • The Mondragon Experiment – Corporate Coo ...
    Dandelion Salad Apr 19, 2012 by 5iF3R The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Euskadi. Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is linked to the activity of a modest technical college and a small workshop producing paraffin heater ...
  • The Québec Student Strike: From ‘Maple Spring’ ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com April 30, 2012 The following is Part 6 of the series, “Class War and the College Crisis.” Part 1: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education Part 2: The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Socia ...
  • The Spanish Revolution (and Occupy Everywhere) ...
    Dandelion Salad May 4, 2012 by asambleasmalaga There will be no social progress if not from and for all. Note: This video shows pics mostly from Spain as it tries to describe the beginning of the “Spanish Revolution” that started on May 15th 2011 (the map shows the tweets sent betwee ...

Your New Reality

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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian priso ...
    The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king o ...
    [The newly-created coalition] gives Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Tel Aviv University okays Nakba Day ceremony, ...
    Safi Kadaan: “We’re talking about a new idea, a new campus framework in which there will be a ceremony not just for Arab students, but for everyone.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website ...
  • Chris Hedges: Welcome to the asylum
    When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians ...
    Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Georgia Tech Receives Grand Challenges Explora ...
    Georgia Tech has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Professor Jonathan Colton will design a net-zero energy warehousing and distribution system for vaccines and drugs in developing countries.
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Les ...
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Lester Gerhardt last month received the prestigious Benjamin Garver Lamme Award and Medal from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
  • Molecule Found That Inhibits Estrogen, Key Ris ...
    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a molecule that inhibits the action of estrogen. This female hormone plays a key role in the growth, maintenance and repair of reproductive tissues and fuels the development of endometrial and breast cancers ...
  • Lugar's Defeat in Many Ways a Defeat for Romne ...
    Richard Bensel, Cornell professor of government, comments on longtime Indiana Senator Dick Lugar's loss to Tea Party-backed Richard Mourdock, saying "while they have put the Indiana Senate seat at risk, the more important implication is that Mourdock's victory indicates that Romney would have gr ...
  • Babies' Brains Benefit From Music Lessons
    After completing the first study of its kind, researchers at McMaster University have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who participate in interactive music classes with their parents smile more ...

Natural Health News

  • Can this Common Beverage Cause Aluminum Poison ...
    Before you start sipping on that next can of soda, you might want to consider some of the studies that show there’s an additional ingredient in your drink that’s not included on the label. Like it or not, beverage manufacturers can’t ignore the fact that aluminum from the cans leaches into their ...
  • How Far Will Companies go to Make Money and Hu ...
    How far will companies go to ensure they continue making money on products that make you sick? The Chicago Tribune found out recently that nothing’s sacred when it comes to telling tales to convince you to keep a questionable product. Interested in learning more about a 7-week-old baby who a bur ...
  • Kid Invents Candy Cure for Historically Incura ...
    Hiccups used to be the challenge of both medicine and old wives’ cures, but now they may very well be history, thanks to a 13-year-old little girl. A couple years ago when she was just 11, Mallory Kievman got a stubborn case of hiccups. Desperate to make them stop, she tried all sorts of home re ...
  • The Skeptical Fight Towards Totalitarian Medicine
    Stepping outside his vaccine box at the University of Pennsylvania, infectious disease specialist Paul Offit has published a rant in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Accusing the National Institutes of Health ...
  • Monsanto Continues to Intimidate and Bully Sta ...
    Dozens of countries around the world care enough about their citizens’ health to either require labeling of genetically modified foods, or to outright ban them. But in America, where the people’s voices should be heard above all others, all it takes to kill the right to know what you’re eating i ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • When is an Arbitral Panel an International Tri ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford When is an arbitral panel an international tribunal for purposes of Section 1782? Section 1782, of course, is the statute that authorizes federal courts to order discovery in aid of proceedings before foreign courts and international tribunals. As discussed in a ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Arab League has joined the ICRC in warning of a civil war within Syria; a UN envoy bolsters this claim with reports that arms are flowing in both directions between neighboring Lebanon and Syria. Citizens of North Carolina have voted to ban same-sex marr ...
  • Surprise, the NTC Amnesties Its Own Crimes
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Mark Kersten in a blockbuster post at Justice in Conflict.  You have to read the whole thing; here is a taste: While haggling between the ICC and Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) over the fate of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah a ...
  • US Reaffirms Defense Commitment to Philippines ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku According to the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. government has recently re-affirmed its obligations to defend the Philippines under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.  This is a particularly sensitive time to re-affirm this commitment, given the ongo ...
  • The “Unauthorised Reproduction” of Treaties?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis As I mentioned a few weeks back, I’ve been collecting treaty clauses for my book, The Oxford Guide to Treaties, on everything from NGO participation in treaties to their denunciation.  In doing so, I tried to cast a wide net, sampling treaties from a wid ...

Public News Service

  • Internet Freedom Worries Pivot to Privacy Concerns
    Internet Freedom Worries Pivot to Privacy Concerns PHOENIX - A bill before Congress aimed at enhancing cyber security could leave an individual's personal information exposed to government and corporate misuse, according to Internet freedom advocates. The bill, called the Cyber Intelligence Shar ...
  • Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Suppl ...
    Report: Proposed Mine May Threaten Water Supply SE of Tucson PHOENIX - A new open-pit copper mine proposed for 30 miles southeast of Tucson could dramatically lower the area's water table, by hundreds of feet. That's the key finding of a new report by Dr. Waite Osterkamp, a retired hydrologist w ...
  • What Makes a Child a Bully? It Usually Starts ...
    What Makes a Child a Bully? It Usually Starts at Home PHOENIX - School bullying continues to dominate the headlines locally and nationally. To prevent it, says clinical psychologist Alden Ramsey, we must first understand where the behavior is coming from. Ramsey says bullying typically is learn ...
  • Expansion Grants Come to AZ Community Health C ...
    Expansion Grants Come to AZ Community Health Centers PHOENIX - More Arizonans will be able to receive services from community health centers as the result of new funding from the Affordable Care Act. Four centers across the state will receive grants for expansion and improvements totaling nearl ...
  • Will Social Security Last for Gen X, Y, Z?
    Will Social Security Last for Gen X, Y, Z? PHOENIX - Social Security is going broke three years earlier than last year's projection, according to the annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees. Some are sounding the alarm bell for major changes, while others say needed fixes are min ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange. On February 22n ...
  • New Scientific Research Strengthens Link Betwe ...
    Center for Food Safety Calls on Congress, EPA to Take Action Three new studies released in the past two weeks, including one today by Harvard University, add to the growing body of evidence that implicate pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids—a class of pesticides used as a seed treatment in c ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Be organic, it's great for you and environment
    Nice colorful food in Spitalfield market, London. Did you know that seasonal food has much more nutrition than the non-seasonal? In addition, it is sustainable because it doesn't have to be stored for a long time. Check out Be organic... and follow the season (food-drink/be-organic-follow-the-se ...
  • Walk for yourself
    When you drive a car, you always have to be careful of traffic signs and jaywalking pedestrians, trapped in your stuffy car. But when you walk, you don't have to! Moreover, you can improve the health and environment together. If you need more information, check out Back to Basics (lifestyle/b ...
  • Drowned flowers in flood
    There was a huge flood in western Sydney, Illawarra. Up to 20 people have been rescued from danger.This reminds the effect of global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html). If trees die due to the rising degree of the earth, their ability to store water gets worse and it can cause huge rai ...
  • Sydney film festival
    Do you know that Sydney Film Festival (http://sff.org.au/public/about/) is held at June? You can see the several great films from all over the world. There is also a green screen section which you can find out the movie related to environmental issues like global warming (climate-change/global-w ...
  • Picnic with your children
    How about going on a picnic with your kids this weekend? It would be so special for the family to get together. Moreover, it would be good for you to go out riding on a bicycle. What a happy and healthy family! Check out Free Your Rusty Bike (lifestyle/free-your-rusty-bike.html) for more informa ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...
  • Omissions, Half-Truths, Lies: Ambassador Oren ...
    Originally posted on the 972Mag Website In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC ...
  • Video: Israeli Army Invades and Closes Univers ...
    Sent to us by a reader. Click here for the Facebook page of Al Quds educational TV (mostly in Arabic.) Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh Vice President for Jerusalem Affairs Al-Quds University April 2, 2012 For the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities have invaded, searched and prevented the fun ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Yemen terror group may have made more underwea ...
    Just days before the news broke about the CIA’s takedown of a plot involving a sophisticated new underwear bomb, al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen publicly boasted that it had vastly expanded and improved its capabilities for making such devices. That boast — contained in a largely overl ...
  • Democrats withdraw Trayvon (Anti Gun) amendment
    Looks like they will try to sneak this into a new spending bill now… We would call this a violation of the 10th Amendment… Withholding “federal funds” (money they get from the States) is EXTORTION plain and simple! Washington (Mooney) Times   Democrats backed off of ...
  • Ron Paul Chairs Hearing On The Future Of The F ...
  • Russian plane disappears in demonstration flig ...
    Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) — Russia’s newest civilian airliner disappeared Wednesday from radar screens during a half-hour demonstration flight in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, state-run RIA Novosti news service reported. There were 44 passengers on board. The plane went missing at ...
  • Total BS! CIA unraveled bomb plot “from ...
    Was this the False Flag we were waiting for? maybe the plot was interrupted and had to be brought in? Or is this just another Orwellian Fable. Join us on the Jack Blood Show today (May 9th 2012) to hear Underwear Bombing #1 eye-witness Kurt Haskell. Kurt found that the first plot was also a [...]

The Air Vent

  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...
  • Sea Ice – Because I Promised
    This post is in fairness to the sea ice doom mongers. Some have written that sea ice is the Achilles heel of the non-alarmist. The implication is that the melting is unequivocal and absolutely destructive to the skeptic argument. I’m not an idiot, so why keep posting on sea ice? Because my ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook replaces Apps and Games Dashboard wit ...
    Facebook is replacing the current Apps and Games Dashboard with a new App Center feature that sorts all Facebook apps by category and user ratings. Detailed on Facebook’s developer blog, App Center is viewable from Facebook.com, the mobile web and … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Lowe’s, Townsquare Media, Sociable Labs, Fiveonenine Games,  ...
  • Socialcam passes Yahoo, CityVille to become mo ...
    Video application Socialcam vaulted to the No. 1 position on our AppData charts after gaining 40 million monthly active Facebook-connected users in two weeks. Socialcam overtook the Yahoo Social Bar news integration and Zynga’s game CityVille, both of which have lost MAU over the past … Co ...
  • Socialcam, Zoosk, Pinterest, games, more on th ...
    Socialcam topped our list of growing Facebook applications by daily active users with 4.4 million new DAU. There were a few other video apps, dating app Zoosk, website integrations, Pinterest, and several games, horoscopes and more. The titles below grew … Continue reading →
  • Facebook offers suicide prevention information ...
    Facebook today announced it will offer military-specific suicide prevention information for veterans, active duty service members and their families as part of a partnership with Blue Star Families and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The social network already allows users … Continue r ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • The dysfunctional ideology of Jewishness
    Palestinian academic Mazin Qumsiyeh argues that Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who? provides invaluable insight into the ideology of Jewishness - crucial for understanding Israeli behaviour and the conflict in the Middle East - and urges people to engage with the ideas laid out in the book ra ...
  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Patriots – Convenient & Otherwise
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac was one of the most celebrated bands of all time. Stevie Nicks’ voice, choice of music and persona took the band to unheard of levels. Nicks is still out there singing and performing with various younger artists. This performance, back in 1976, of Rhiannon is pr ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The “Worst Recovery in History?”
    Where to Blame the Crack-up in Jobs Growth? Last week, Edward Lazear wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with the uplifting title “The Worst Economic Recovery in History.”  Lazear noted that many people have referred to our latest recession as the worst recession since the Great Depression ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Washington Targets OWS
    Obama claims he's on their side while DHS, FBI and other agents actively plan to destroy OWS.
  • FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims
    The latest plot involves five subjects allegedly planning to bomb a Cleveland area bridge.
  • Zionist history: A short quiz
    Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted over the years; so much so that, within the current political climate, declarations once uttered by former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who passed away 20 years ago, can now only be reiterated by leftists. Today, citi ...
  • "Licensed to Ill"
    The randomness of cancer is highly overstated. We who suffer it are victims of a toxic environment created by an utterly toxic culture. We continually ignore the environmental causes of cancer, much to our own peril.
  • Public Funeral to be held May 8th in NYC
    Are you invested in the Stock Market? Do you feel your life savings are protected in the event of a broker failure or fraud? THEY ARE NOT.Without Congressional intervention, all investors are at risk of being victimized. Come hear what has happened to thousands of investors as they hold a publ ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fracking's Aftermath: Wastewater Disposal Meth ...
    Rebecca Hammer, Project Attorney, Water Program, Washington, DC A new report released by NRDC today shows that contaminated fracking wastewater is threatening people’s health and the environment, and none of the methods currently used to treat ...
  • 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 ...
  • US obesity rates continue to soar, in part bec ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   The headline in Tuesday’s USA Today was shocking: “Obesity could affect 42% of Americans by 2030.”  That is nearly triple the rate experienced just thre ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Obama Makes History on Same-Sex Marriage
    Obama coming out for marriage equality today was obviously the right thing on the merits.  But will it hurt him politically?   I argue that 1)such claims are extremely implausible, and 2)arguments that same-sex marriage cost the Democrats in 2004 are empirically wrong: But I don’t think th ...
  • This Day in Labor History: May 9, 1934
    On this date in 1934, longshoremen on the West Coast walked off their jobs, beginning of the largest strikes in the history of the region and helping feed the move toward industrial unionism that transformed American labor in the 1930s. Labor relations on the docks of San Francisco were horrible ...
  • Hackthat
    It’s hardly news that Douthat is an irredeemable hack, but this piece about Obama and gay marriage drove me crazy. Indeed, if you accept the framing of the debate that many liberals (and many journalists) embrace, then you have to acknowledge that President Obama has spent the last four ye ...
  • Time Has Come Today
    For reasons I stated earlier this week, the policy and political effects of Obama’s precise stated position on same-sex marriage are relatively trivial.   Still, if he’s going to say something about the issue in the context of the  dismaying North Carolina vote and Biden’s comm ...
  • Since the Beginning of Time, Wingnuts Have Alw ...
    Jonah Goldberg’s resume-padding might be the funniest example of the phenomenon since William Hammesfahr, nominee for the Nobel Prize awarded annually for Excellence and Erroneous, Politically Convenient Long-Distance Diagnoses. You might call it a National Review tradition. (I’m sur ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • L.A. court offers first interpretation of labo ...
    Seyfarth Shaw's Jon Meer talks to NLJ about the decision in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court and what it means for wage-and-hour litigation in California.
  • Co-defendants' pleas prompt delay for FCPA trial
    A federal judge has tentatively delayed trial in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case involving alleged bribes to officials in countries including China, South Korea, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.
  • Cooley's Florida campus more popular than forecast
    Thomas M. Cooley Law School launched its newest location near Tampa, Fla., on May 7 with 104 students — nearly twice as many as administrators initially expected to enroll.
  • Rhode Island must hand prisoner over to feds t ...
    In a 3-2 en banc decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that the federal government is authorized to take custody of a state inmate who could face the death penalty. The dissenting judges called the majority's viewpoint "misguided."
  • State Department comes under criticism at D.C. ...
    A federal appeals court in Washington appears poised to rule against the U.S. State Department in a dispute over the continued designation of a fringe Iranian resistance group as a foreign terorist organization.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Warming Waters Attract New Fish Species to Bri ...
    Warming ocean temperatures have changed the distribution of many critical marine species off the British coast, as warm water fish are increasingly expanding into northern waters and cold-water species are swimming to colder depths, according to a new report. The report of the Marine Climate Cha ...
  • Groundwater Pumping Emerges As a Factor in Sea ...
    The vast amounts of water pumped out of the ground for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses will increasingly contribute to global sea level rise in the coming decades, according to a new study. According to researchers at Utrecht University, humans pumped about 204 cubic kilometers ( ...
  • Standard EV Charging System Adopted by U.S., G ...
    Eight U.S. and German automakers have agreed on a standardized technology system for electric-vehicle charging, a coordinated approach they say will allow drivers to rapidly re-charge their vehicles at most charging stations regardless of power source. The announcement is an important breakthrou ...
  • Highly Endangered Gorillas Are Captured in Rar ...
    A camera trap video in Cameroon has captured nearly two minutes of film of the Cross River gorilla, the rarest of the four sub-species of gorillas and one that is seldom
  • Japanese Tsunami Debris Is Increasingly Washin ...
    Debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan, including some potentially toxic materials, is increasingly being discovered along the Alaska coastline. Since January, millions of pieces of debris have washed ashore along the Alaska coast, from soccer balls and buoys to motorcycles and large drums con ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu old Buddies
    The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both ...
  • Obama Makes Free Speech A Felony
    And yet another ’bill’ signed into law in secret. HR 347. Obama does it again. This time the attack is against the First Amendment and free speech. This new law make ’No Free Speech" Zones wherever the Secret Service says so. Bye bye Protests. Bye bye Free Speech. Bye bye Constitution. Source: y ...
  • In the Shadow of Hermes - The Secrets of Commu ...
    The documentary In the Shadow of Hermes by Jüri Lina shows how freemasons, international bankers, and communists joined forces in an unholy alliance and through the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 established in Russia the most brutal and dehumanizing slave society the world has ever seen. ...
  • How will we build an artificial human brain?
    There’s an ongoing debate among neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and even philosophers as to whether or not we could ever construct or reverse engineer the human brain. Some suggest it’s not possible, others argue about the best way to do it, and still others have already begun working on ...
  • Virus Epidemic Within Our Genome Revealed
    For years scientists have been struggling with the enigma that more than 90 percent of every mammal’s genome has no known function. A part of this ’dark matter’ of genetic material is known to harbour pieces of DNA from ancient viruses that infected our ancestors going back as far as the age of ...

Russia Today

  • ‘Assad has a lot of sunny days ahead of him’
    The real situation in Syria is absolutely different from how the Western media portray it, historian and political analyst Pierre Piccinin told RT. He visited the turbulent state twice and says it was not as bad as he... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Libya and Ukraine haggle over Gaddafi’s $25 ml ...
    Libya and Ukraine are reportedly bargaining over a posh aircraft that Tripoli hopes to get in exchange for the release of 20 Ukrainians being held in Libya. They are facing execution for allegedly serving as technicians... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars i ...
    A Russian jet carrying 50 passengers has disappeared from the radars during a demonstration flight for potential buyers in the Indonesian capital. Hijacking and a high-altitude crash into a mountain have not been ruled... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russia’s might up close: Victory parade arms g ...
    RT takes a closer look at the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. It involved some 14 thousand troops as well as the best hardware the Russian defense ministry has to offer. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Anonymous shuts down Kremlin’s websites
    A hacker group calling itself the Russian branch of Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and the Russian President. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Is the Great American Divide whether to hate G ...
    The Great American Divide is whether to hate or not? Half the country is ready to hate Blacks in all ways and manner and then to call those who protest against that ‘racists’. Half the country wants to close off the borders and just stay stultifyingly WASP in mindset. Half the countr ...
  • Goodbye, Hero Soldier Thomas Borge. You tried ...
    Here was one soldier that was a real hero to me Tomas Borge Martinez, 81, co-founder of Nicaraguan Sandinistas because he wasn’t one of those stupid trailer trash boys and girls who sign up mainly to get the GI benefits and to strut around proclaiming themselves to be some sort of hero whe ...
  • HEROES, or just plain old uniformed PIGS? Th ...
    Sometimes it’s pretty simple just to go to wikipedia… Death of Kelly Thomas and compare the before and after-the-cops-get-there pictures.
  • The Picasso of children’s books has pass ...
    Thank God for Maurice Sendak! Before he came around with his artwork it was all Walt Disney style excess saccharine ‘sweet’, Lassie, and Flipper. He revolutionized the story writing and design of kids books. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dead at age 83.
  • Mankind will fail over my dead body

Debunking the Debunkers

  • My Top 10 Insane Conspiracy Theories
    For Infowars Nightly News last night, Paul Joseph Watson counted down his top 10 insane conspiracy theories which distract from exposing real coverups. Many of them were about Alex Jones and himself. His humorous list inspired me to make a slightly more se ...
  • Insightful
    A little while back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted the following: InsaneThat's my vote with regard to this headline: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory–Insane or Insightful? The writer, who apparently worked for CNN at one point, goes on to talk about one of the silliest tropes: I ke ...
  • Manufacturing Terror
    Video posted by Jon Gold, author of "9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability."   One of the many reasons there is no justification for the "War On Terror." http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants http://www.guardian.co.uk/wor ...
  • TSA - Grope & Pillage
    Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child Molesters Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff ...
  • Debunker Related Excerpts from and Review of ...
    Released 2/26/12, 9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability starts off with a past aticle by author Jon Gold, which serves as a definition of the book's title:So what is a "9/11 Truther”? As I said, it's kind of hard to spin the word "Truth," but the "debunkers" and "media" ha ...

Fooducate

  • The System is Broken: How DC is Mishandling Ob ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) projects a thirty percent increase in obesity rates by 2030 to 41% of the US population. The toll on our economy – a whopping half a trillion dollar ...
  • Luna Fiber Bar: Blurring the line between food ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Luna (by Clif Bar), the brand of bars targeted to the “fit female”, has released a new product, apparently for the Ensure generation. The Luna Fiber bar is soft, sweet and pumped up with fiber, vi ...
  • Enjoying Pink Slime? You’ll Love Meat Glue
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Transglutaminase, also known as Meat Glue, is not something you’d expect to find in your steak. But it turns out that this animal derived additive is used, mostly in the dining industry. It allows chefs ...
  • My Kid Likes Junk Food. And That’s OK.
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD When my son Henry was two years old, we were out with another mom and her child when Henry pointed to a vending machine and squealed, “Pepsi!” I was horrif ...
  • Ten Fun Tequila Facts for Cinco De Mayo
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Cinco de Mayo folks! Tequila is probably the best recognized spirit of Mexico. Here are some interesting facts: 1. Tequila is the name of a city in Mexico where the alcohol was first produced 500 years ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival Tomorrow
    Greg Palast at Chicago GreenFestival this Sunday - Invitation Greg wants to thank you for your support with a special gift. He will be the featured speaker this Sunday and would love to meet you in person and say hi. We have arranged for 20 free guest spots for our supporters. If you would like ...
  • Sneak Peak: Why We Occupy Live! DVD
    Greg Palast from the oil soaked heart of America, Houston TX. Greg Palast live DVD - Coming Soon.
  • Arrest of BP Scapegoat:Real Killers Walk
    by Greg Palast – Special for Buzzflash at Truthout The Justice Department went big game hunting and bagged a teeny-weeny scapegoat.  More like a scape-kid, really. Today, Justice arrested former BP engineer Kurt Mix for destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. I once ran a Jus ...
  • BP Cover-upPart 2: Bribery, George Bush and Wi ...
    by Greg Palast - Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Friday, 20. April, 2012 Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up –– which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission. Yesterday, ...
  • BP Cover-up 'They Knew.'
    by Greg Palast – Exclusive for EcoWatch.org Thursday, 19. April, 2012 Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatc ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • From The Editor
  • Katie Wright on The Congressional Autism Brief ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Dan Olmsted also provided his review of this Autism Speaks/CDC meeting in his post titled: Mush From the Wimps: Autism Speaks and the CDC Take Over Capitol Hill as Rep. Smith Bows Out By Katie Wright You...
  • Antipsychotics and Differences in Body Mass Sc ...
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2012 Apr;22(2):166-73. Differences in Body Mass Index z-Scores and Weight Status in a Dutch Pediatric Psychiatric Population With and Without Use of Second-Generation Antipsychotics. de Hoogd S, Overbeek WA, Heerdink ER, Correll CU, de Graeff ER,...
  • AofA Science Summary: Pharmacologic Treatment ...
    From Pediatrics (Journal of the AAP) Pharmacologic Treatment of Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence of Publication Bias Melisa Carrasco, PhDa, Fred R. Volkmar, MDb, and Michael H. Bloch, MD, MSb + Author Affiliations aNeuroscience Graduate Program, University of...
  • Autism in the News Versus Autism in Real Life
    By Anne Dachel I’m often struck by the stunning contrast between how autism is reported in the news and what’s happening to ordinary people everywhere. I recently had a conversion with a friend of mine whose personal experience is a...

Global BDS Movement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bahrain protest leaders appear in court for re ...
    Reuters – Bahrain began a civilian trial of 13 protest leaders on Tuesday but adjourned the session because hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and another defendant were too ill to attend, lawyers and witnesses said. Last week the Gulf Arab state’s highest appeals court ordered a re ...
  • Al Jazeera English Forced Out of China
    Epoch Times – Chinese officials on Monday forced the shutdown of the English-language bureau of Al Jazeera in Beijing by denying the renewal of press credentials to its journalist in China and refusing to allow a replacement. The decision was reportedly driven by Al Jazeera’s release of a ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – Problem, Reaction, Solution
    How can you sell the seeming unsellable? How can you pursuade the public that Iran has WMD’s when clearly you were caught lying less than a decade ago over Iraq? Welcome to the twisted logic of Problem, Reaction, Solution. To find out more CLICK HERE
  • Study finds psychopaths have distinct brain st ...
    Reuters – Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains. The researchers, based at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, sai ...
  • We are seeking volunteers – Would you li ...
    We are currently looking for 2 new editors, Environment and Finance & Economics. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • EV confab this weekend is about more than cars
    The electric car might not be enjoying a good moment as the Electric Vehicle Symposium, EVS26, powers up for its run this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GM stopped production for five weeks on the Chevy Volt, and sales of new all-electric cars such as the Volt or the Nissan Leaf a ...
  • Settlement may bring EV infrastructure to Cali ...
    In an unforeseen upside to the electric-power market crisis of 2001, a new proposed legal settlement between utility NRG and the California Public Utilities Commission would bring more than $100 million in new electric-vehicle charging infrastructure to the state.
  • 'Whale Wars'' Paul Watson on Faroes killing, ...
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, capitalizing on the tremendous success of their Animal Planet TV show, “ Whale Wars ,” has now taken on a new battle. With the Japanese fleet’s Antarctic hunt finished for the season, the skull-and-crossbones crew have turned their attenti ...
  • Activists urge Discovery to acknowledge climat ...
    Forecast the Facts, the activist group that first confronted GM about its support of climate change doubters the Heartland Institute, now plans to muster a public campaign targeting the Discovery Channel. The purpose: to get Discovery to acknowledge the scientific consensus on man-made climate c ...
  • Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyo ...
    The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. A ...

water.org

  • Jodie Foster & Matt Damon: It's Personal
    This Mother's Day, Jodie Foster and Matt Damon challenge you to transform the life of another mom.
  • One Mother's Story: Ranjana
    A small sanitation loan helped Ranjana build her family a clean, safe toilet on their property. As a result, they saved enough money on medical bills that Ranjana was able to start her own business.
  • One Daughter's Story: Kebebush
    Thanks to a new handpump in her community, Kebebush has been able to focus herself more fully on her education.
  • One Mother's Story: Vandana
    Vandana's life was changed thanks to a small loan through our WaterCredit program - now she and the other women in her community have access to clean, healthy water right at their doorstep.
  • Water is More Precious than Gold
    For the past eight years Mrs. Yashodha has diligently worked through the process to secure reliable water for her family and their household. After becoming a member of a locally organized self-help group she was able to save enough money to secure a loan for a household water connection.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. read more
  • First Solar Shares Drop to Record Low, Can it ...
    First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest maker of thin-film solar panels has seen its value fall to an all-time low today.  At 4:00 PM EST, the company's shares were down 6.78%, trading at $19.25 on the Nasdaq. ...
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • Solar Power Gets the Might of the U.S. Militar ...
    The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's. read more
  • SolarReserve Receives Final Approval for its 2 ...
    SolarReserve has received its final permit from the Saguache County Board of County Commissioners for its two 100 megawatt solar thermal energy facilities it has proposed to build. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims
    By Stephen Lendman The latest plot involves five subjects allegedly planning to bomb a Cleveland area bridge. More on it below. Entrapment occurs when law enforcement officials or agents induce, influence, or provoke crimes that otherwise wouldn't be committed. It doesn't apply if subj ...
  • Washington Targets OWS
    By Stephen Lendman Last October, Obama told ABC News: "The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing wh ...
  • Predatory Capitalism Failed
    by Stephen Lendman Independent observers knew it long ago. Today's global economic crisis provides added confirmation. In 2008, a staunch champion of the system expressed second thoughts. More on him below. An ideology based on inequality, injustice, exploitation, militarism, and imperi ...
  • Greek left gets mandate to create government - ...
    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 accept ...
  • The Revolving Door of Insanity or From the Fry ...
    Larry Pinkney “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 reasoni ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Proje ...
    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists). His 12-minute speech summarized some of the key lessons to date from our Climate Justice Project. Yo ...
  • CCPA Online Audience Survey: Tell us what you ...
    In an effort to better serve our supporters online and make more effective use of our social media channels and website, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is conducting a short survey. Your feedback is important to us! We want to know what is important to you, so that we can improve y ...
  • Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
    Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, CCPA’s latest study, The Big Banks’ Big Secret: Esti ...
  • Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
    For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $19.14 to escape severe financial stress in Metro Vancouver. This is the Metro Vancouver li ...
  • Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' ...
    While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before.  Working people have the right to bargain collectively and withdraw their labour, or strike, if they feel they are being treated unfairly.  Healthcare worke ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Revolution 99 Updates: “We Need to Make ...
    “We Need to Make a Ruckus”: Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power In his new book, “Beyond Outrage,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: “To the Occupiers, and ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    North Carolina OKs constitutional same-sex marriage ban By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer Updated at 9:38 p.m. ET: North Carolina voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution which limits marriage to traditional one man-one woman marriages ...
  • Letter to the Editor: Shocking Abuses Uncovere ...
    Dear Worldwide Hippies, - The Humane Society of the United States releasedundercover video footage revealing cruel treatment of animals and inhumane conditions at a Wyoming pig breeding facility owned by a supplier to Tyson Foods. The investigation revealed workers kicking piglets like soccer ba ...
  • Technologies developed locally, driven by comm ...
    Efforts to promote sustainable development must tap into technologies developed locally, driven by community needs and priorities. By David Dickson,scidev.net -  The products of modern science and technology (S&T), from chemical pesticides to carbon-emitting combustion engines, are frequentl ...
  • Disinformation On Every Front
    by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,globalresearch.ca – Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, pro ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from ...
    A reader recently called my attention to a new and very interesting presentation from the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program: Biofuels Design Cases The presentation explored the question of whether the U.S. government is spending money on the right technology pathways. Costs were prese ...
  • Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in ...
  • Why High Oil Prices are Here to Stay
    On May 3rd I will be delivering a talk called Moving Beyond Oil Dependence as a part of UC Santa Barbara’s Spring 2012 Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. The talk will roughly follow the outline of my book, and I have used several graphics from the book in the presentation. However, I cr ...
  • Discussing Peak Oil, Speculators, Oil Shale, a ...
    I am traveling some over the next two weeks, and did not have a chance to record my weekly video segment this week. However, last Friday I was a guest on Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News Radio, so I will share that this week instead. I had been a guest on his show last month to discuss whethe ...
  • The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of ...
    Survey Says… If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this artic ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Understoodit - Measure Students' Understanding ...
    Comments:Web app lets students use web-connected mobile devices to indicate whether or not they understand a topic, then provides teachers a real-time graph of student responses. - Randy RodgersTags: education, tools, mobile, mobile learning, cell phone, ipodby: Randy Rodgers
  • The New Hive
    Comments:via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/05/new-hive-build-media-collages.html - Fred DelventhalTags: collage, multimedia, tools, photosby: Fred Delventhal
  • The United States Mint: Parents & Teachers
    Tags: math, economics, coins, lesson plans, social studiesby: Gail Braddock
  • http://www.ccsweb.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/education ...
    Tags: education, intelligences, technology, integration, learningstylesby: Dean Mantz
  • Home
    Tags: brain, learning, neuroscience, education, research, teaching, bradfountainby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • 5 Surprising Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
    If current predictions hold true, 42 percent of the U.S. population will be either obese or "severely obese" (100 pounds or more overweight) by the year 2030. That staggering statistic came out of a study published this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and it also ...
  • The Breast Cancer Causer in Your Cabinet
    The canned-food chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, has been under attack for years, with study after study suggesting it's associated with negative health impacts ranging from cancer and obesity to infertility and heart disease. BPA is a common hormone-disrupting chemical used as a liner in metal f ...
  • Is Your Dog's Food Safe?
    Time, yet again, to reassess your dog's diet. A growing number of dry dog foods are being recalled in the wake of a discovery of Salmonella contamination at a Diamond Pet Food facility in South Carolina. Unlike the melamine-in-pet-food scandal that killed hundreds of dogs and cats in 2007, this ...
  • The Truth About Your Natural Cereal
    When you eat "natural" food, you're probably not betting on biting into controversial genetically engineered ingredients and harmful pesticide residues. But all too often, "natural" cereal is anything but, and is loaded with toxic and untested ingredients that have been linked to a rising rates ...
  • The Best Reason to Eat Lunch Outside
    Stop dropping crumbs all over your keyboard and get outside to eat your lunch. In addition to serving as a serious stress reliever, the extra dose of sunlight will also be protecting your heart, according to a new study in the journal Nature Medicine. In the study, a group of mice was exposed t ...

big think

  • Russia's 'Tank Man' Moment
    What is the Big Idea? A photo of a little boy on a bicycle approaching a row of riot police in Moscow ricocheted around the Internet on Monday after the photographer posted it to Twitter.  Julia Ioffe, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine, snapp ...
  • Micro-Satellites Could Find Next Earth, Help M ...
    What's the Latest Development? A crack team of MIT students and engineers have designed and built sophisticated satellites just inches in size to help astronomers locate Earth-like planets. Called CubeSats, each satellite measures just 4 inches on each side, making them small and light e ...
  • First Light from Super-Earth Detected by Astro ...
    What's the Latest Development? Using ground and space-based telescopes, astronomers have measured infrared light emitted from the planet 55 Cancri e, which revolves around its parent star in the constellation Cancer some 40 light years away. Observing a six-hour window in which the plane ...
  • Today @ 1pm: Webinar on "Framing Climate Chang ...
    My brother Erik Nisbet, a professor of communication at The Ohio State University, will be giving a free webinar today on climate change communication, sponsored by the Changing Climate project at Ohio State.  Details are below and you can sign up for the Webinar here. Up Next: Framing C ...
  • Why We Should Mine the Moon Before Asteroids
    What's the Latest Development? The space start up Planetary Resources made headlines last month when it announced its intention to mine asteroids for water and precious metals. But a closer target--the moon--has been the focus of another space mining company, named MoonEx, for years. The ...

Information Liberation

  • You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop
    There*s been an uptick in protest activity this month around the country*May Day saw a resurgence in the Occupy movement, and further protests are expected around the NATO summit in Chicago, set for May 20th. It*s a safe bet that the vast majority of...
  • Cop in jail after 'sexually assaulting girl, 1 ...
    A Philadelphia police officer is in jail after allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Anthony Dattilo, 36, was arrested on Thursday over claims he abducted the teenager and had sex with her in a Bensalem Township motel room. Police foun...
  • Pokemon Theme Song Creator Creates Parody Re-M ...
    This song is pure brilliance. __ The Pokemon theme is a perfect song for the Ron Paul Revolution, as he racks up the delegates. Almost all the original lyrics fit as is. I Sang the original theme song in 1998 and thought this would be a great upd...
  • The Cult of the State: What The Kent State Mas ...
    (May 4, 2012) - Today is the*anniversary*of the Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard. *The shootings should serve as a reminder to us of what underlies all political processes: violence. *The political process should more aptly be named th...
  • Resembling the Pinochet Regime
    Let*s assume that an American critic of U.S. foreign policy goes abroad and travels around the Middle East delivering a series of lectures, speeches, and articles attacking the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. He refuses to sup...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Deferring To Our Betters?
    I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →
  • An Evening With James Delingpole
    Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house. James is clearly … Continue readi ...
  • Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel
    The full text: If I wanted America to fail… To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream… I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. … Continue reading →
  • Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding
    On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property – A ...
    Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban … Continue read ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Exergy, existentialism and the environment
    Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
  • Exergy, existentialism and the environment
    Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the en ...
  • The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
    Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...
  • The health benefits of giving, joining in and ...
    Helping others, joining in and having some kind of life plan or at least goals, aspirations and ambitions seem to make for enhanced mental health. Certainly, it’s a better strategy than popping supplements and introspection. There is even some scientific evidence that spending money on oth ...
  • You really don’t know how to dry your ha ...
    In “rest rooms” everywhere there are millions of people trying to dry their hands, assuming they washed them after using the facilities. Most of them will grab 3, 4, maybe half a dozen squares of paper towel, assuming there isn’t an “hot” air electric dryer (that&#8 ...

RFF Library

  • US Power Sector Meets 2020 Climate Change Targ ...
    Rhodium Group / by Trevor Houser http://rhgroup.net/notes/us-power-sector-meets-2020-climate-change-target-for-a-month [Washington Post]…a report out Monday from the Rhodium Group (h/t National Journal) demonstrates why America’s natural gas boom, fracking and all, will probably be a net p ...
  • Nutrient Credit Trading for the Chesapeake Bay ...
    Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.chesbay.us/Publications/nutrient-trading-2012.pdf [Seth Jaffee in JDSupra blog]  Yesterday, the Chesapeake Bay Commission released a study showing that implementation of a nutrient trading system would dramatically reduce the cost to achieve nutrient reductio ...
  • Building International Climate Cooperation: Le ...
    World Resources Institute / edited by Ruth Greenspan Bell, Micah Ziegler, Barry Blechman, Brian Finlay and Thomas Cottier http://www.wri.org/publication/building-international-climate-cooperation [From WRI Insights] …Beyond verification, other important lessons include: Progress can be mad ...
  • BLM Draft Rule for Fracking
    Interior Dept. Bureau of Land Management http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=293916  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just released a draft [PDF] of its new rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. These rules require disclosure of the ...
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: New York’s Failure ...
    Environmental Advocates of New York http://www.eany.org/images/Reports/outofsight_finalweb.pdf [From a New York Times article] …Environmental Advocates of New York, a group based in Albany, plans to release a report on Friday asserting that the state does not adequately track where the was ...

Scientific American - News

  • Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappe ...
    Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers reportedly losing up to 90 percent of their stock in recent years. European bee populations are also declining, and so are some species of North Am ...
  • Brain Scans Reveal Dogs' Thoughts
    Fido's expressive face, including those longing puppy-dog eyes, may lead owners to wonder what exactly is going on in that doggy's head. Scientists decided to find out, using brain scans to explore the minds of our canine friends. [More]
  • Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Loo ...
    When the Kentucky Derby winner crosses the finish line in front of 160,000 roaring spectators on May 5, there's a good chance it will have two copies of a gene that makes a horse a sprinter. [More]
  • Stonehenge Had Lecture Hall Acoustics
    The stone slabs of England's Stonehenge may have been more than just a spectacular sight to the ancient people who built the structure; they likely created an acoustic environment unlike anything they normally experienced, new research hints. [More]
  • Giant Flea-Like Pest Put the Bite on Dinosaurs
    Paleo-pests about 10 times bigger than today's fleas may have sneaked up on a huge dinosaur, crawled onto its soft underbelly and taken a bite, likely a painful one, say researchers who have discovered fossils of the flealike organisms. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • All Charges Against Occupiers in Nova Scotia H ...
    Halifax - A victorious legal precedent was set for the Occupy movement in Nova Scotia. Today, May 9, 2012, in courtroom six, the third Crown prosecutor on the case, Mr. R. Woodburn, in less than five minutes reviewed, then withdrew, all charges in regards to the wrongful and violent eviction of ...
  • Victoriaville: les balles de plastique sont id ...
    Ce billet à été écrit par le documentariste Moïse Marcoux-Chabot sure son page Facebook ce matin et fait le tour des éseaux sociaux et l'internet. Vous pouvez lire l'original - et suivre le débats - ici. -Tim   En filmant les ...
  • Fighting at every level: Sakura Saunders on mi ...
    Anti-mining organizer Sakura Saunders speaks to CKUT about events last week in Toronto, where activists occupied a city park overnight before demonstrating at the site of the shareholders meeting for multinational mining giant Barrick Gold. CKUT spoke to Saunders on Monday, just after she had co ...
  • The death of bling: interview with Testament f ...
    The hiphop duo Test their Logik have just released a new track with producer Young Jibwe, entitled "Bling Is Dead." Hiphop artist and organizer Testament from Test Their Logik spoke on CKUT's Ecolibrium show about capitalism, the mining industry, and hiphop bling culture. You can d ...
  • Vancity, Enbridge under pressure from enviros ...
    "Socially-responsible" credit union holds stock in tarsands companies VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island environmental group is giving Vancity credit union a deadline to divest from Enbridge, the energy corporation responsible for plan ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Is American individualism a myth?
    David Seaton's News LinksAmerican icon: the lone cowboyHere’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car.(...) They want to walk everywhere. Surveys show that 13% carpool to work, while 7% walk, (...) A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting(.. ...
  • Steve Jobs: the metaphor
    David Seaton's News Links There is virtually no debate about the best treatment. “It has long been held that surgery can lead to very long-term survival,” says Kim. (...) Despite the expert consensus on the value of surgery, Jobs did not elect it right away. He reportedly spent nine months on “a ...
  • Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists
    David Seaton's News Links There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions. Mao Tse Tung ...
  • There are still important differences between ...
    David Seaton's News LinksA Sample of Tea Party Humor I'd like to reproduce a dialog between myself and a blogger I much respect, Wendy Davis, on a previous post of mine:Seaton: I think that all of those who were so ecstatic about Obama in 2008 (I wasn’t) should “stand by their man” and realiz ...
  • Another good reason to vote for Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksMitt's friend, BibiThe ties between Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu stand out because there is little precedent for two politicians of their stature to have such a history together that predates their entry into government. And that history could well influence decision-mak ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Welcoming Our Computer Overlords to High School
    Dana Goldstein writes today that very shortly computers are going to lose their ability to efficiently score student writing test samples. Why? Because new tests are going to be more fact-based. Instead of asking students to ruminate on "the benefits of laughter," they'll ask students to read a ...
  • Quote of the Day #2: It's Always the Left's Fault
    From right-wing anti-immigrant activist Mark Krikorian, reacting with dismay to the news that fellow right-winger Michele Bachmann has acquired dual Swiss-American citizenship: The fact that even a patriot like Bachmann would do something like this is testament to how thoroughly the moral rela ...
  • Yes, I Pretty Much Think the Euro is Doomed
    Could Europe cut Greece loose with only a moderate amount of pain and chaos? That's steadily becoming the mainstream view, but Ryan Avent begs to differ: Some are speculating that with Greece in the midst of a deepening depression and suffering from full-on capital flight, there is little risk ...
  • Quote of the Day: The Rich Should Favor Stimulus
    From Peter Orszag, after reporting on new evidence that the incomes of the very rich are far more sensitive to economic growth than in the past: If anything, high-earning households should be the ones most in favor of aggressively boosting the economy in the short run — and not just ...
  • Resume Padding Being Taken to a Whole New Level
    Personally, I don't really care if Jonah Goldberg has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and I don't care what he says in his official bio. But this story about pretending to be a Pulitzer nominee is bizarre on so many levels that I can't make sense of it. It doesn't make sense that anyone wou ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 319: Calorie Counting
    Topics: Tequila is not my friend Avengers does $200 million in a weekend What WB needs to do to in order to make the JLA Captain America > Superman & Cyclops Kids in the theater We gotta stop being lazy Your diet plans probably suck What’s in a serving size Octomom’s Masturbatio ...
  • IC 318: I Don’t Need Kids
    Topics: A lot of random topics including: The inevitable disappointment of Washington Sports teams Ronda Rousey, world’s most dangerous sexy woman Married men and bachelor parties Kid’s shoes or Xbox games? Scary Movie 5 Death by testicle crushing World’s Worse Mother Share wit ...
  • IC 317: Brian “Andy” McKnight
    Topics: UFC news Will Avengers be the best Comic Book EVER? An American Remake of The Raid? The shittiest crime spree of all time? Being a woman doesn’t give you the right to assault someone Prison is a consequence Brian McKnight wants to show ladies how to work their pussy Share with your ...
  • IC 316: 30 for 30
    Topics: Dick Clark dies You’re making me be an asshole 30 for 30 Secret Service got caught cause dude didn’t pay Don’t be THAT guy Dinochickens The basic chicks of Hollywood Warm Weather PSA Share with your friends:
  • IC 315: Ignorance is Bliss
    Topics: The Raid How to make an awesome action movie The Cabin in the Woods and almost ruining a movie with a trailer The Secret Service tries to get it in while in Columbia Snitching on your teacher for showing porn Fucking up your week: Kriss asks a question bound to fuck up everyone’s w ...

Simple Climate

  • Water’s climate risks show high temperat ...
    Considering salinity changes in climate models suggests the water cycle accelerates 8% per 1°C warming, compared to just 4% when considering rainfall alone, says Susan Wijffels from CSIRO in Australia
  • Warming world could send corn price popping
    Climate plays the largest role in how much US corn prices swing, say economist Tom Hertel from Purdue University and colleagues, though forcing ethanol from corn to be used in fuel makes matters worse.
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • N2O cuts are no laughing matter
    Drastic reductions in meat consumption unappetising to many must be paired with tough farming, industry and transport action to meet the most ambitious targets to control emissions of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which you might know as laughing gas, according to Eric Davidson from the Woods Ho ...
  • Climate change threatens the carnival of the a ...
    From chipmunks to calves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on creatures pressured by global warming. This week I bring together their pictures as a reminder of which creatures are at risk, in the hope of providing more motivation to act to help them.

e!Science News

  • Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
    A detailed description of development of the first practical artificial leaf -- a milestone in the drive for sustainable energy that mimics the process, photosynthesis, that green plants use to convert water and sunlight into energy -- appears in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research. Th ...
  • Improved waiting area design increases custome ...
    Many diners cringe at the thought of waiting for a table in a crowded restaurant, while restaurant managers hope they do not lose customers due to long waits. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has studied restaurant design and has recommendations for how restaurateurs can design waiting a ...
  • Antarctic octopus sheds light on ice-sheet col ...
    Scientists at the University have found that genetic information on the Antarctic octopus supports studies indicating that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have collapsed during its history, possibly as recently as 200,000 years ago. read more
  • Agricultural bacteria: Blowing in the wind
    It was all too evident during the Dust Bowl what a disastrous impact wind can have on dry, unprotected topsoil. Now a new study has uncovered a less obvious, but still troubling, effect of wind: Not only can it carry away soil particles, but also the beneficial microbes that help build soil, det ...
  • Mystery of the missing breast cancer genes
    Researchers from the University of Adelaide are hoping to better understand why the mutated genes for breast and ovarian cancer are not passed on more frequently from one generation of women to the next. read more

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Clean Up Your Coal Ash!
    EPA and North Carolina need to step up coal ash regulation, enforcement As evidenced in North Carolina and other states burdened by coal ash ponds, waiting for states to effectively regulat ...
  • Protest Against Northwest Coal Export
    Battle heats up in region targeted by Big Coal A 129-car BNSF coal train going through White Rock, B.C. (Michael Chu) Warren Buffett is a famous gazillionaire ...
  • Looking Forward To The Long Summer Daze
    As asthma awareness month begins, ozone season looms Smog makes some kids sing the blues when "School's Out For Summer" (the memorable Alice Cooper tune) &ldq ...
  • When Paint Chips are Not the Only Danger
    Communities living in toxic legacy of lead-emitting facilities A lead smelter in Missouri. (Kbh3rd / Wikimedia) We all know the danger that resides in lead-la ...
  • Judge: Salmon-killing Dams Should Go
    Says dam removal an easy fix with big rewards The four lower Snake River dams keep salmon from prime habitat in the snowmelt waters of Idaho. In a recent vide ...

Brave New Climate

  • Carbon offsetting of uranium mines?
    Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...
  • What volume of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an ...
  • The future of Brave New Climate
    Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  ― Lao Tzu The Brave New Climate (BNC) blog has seen many changes in its almost 4 years of existence. I&#82 ...
  • IFR FaD 13 – cost comparison of IFR and therma ...
    This is the fourth and final part of the series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the makin ...
  • Off to Russia
    Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see here for details). Whilst in the heart of the former Soviet Union, I’ll hook u ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Activists Blockade Coal Train
    Activists set up a blockade to stop a coal train en route to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Terrell, North Carolina on May 3, 2012 and branded it with the Apple logo. The train is carrying coal extracted from … Continue reading →
  • May Day actions against UBS’ funding of ...
    Happy May Day, everybody! Today, Appalachians will demand that UBS stop funding and supporting mountaintop removal mining. Come out to our actions in: Asheville, NC 11 am at 138 Charlotte St. Knoxville, TN: 10 am at Market Square Chattanooga, 11 … Continue reading →
  • Welcome to Appalachia Rising!
    Welcome, friends and allies! Here is your home base for updates on this spring’s lineup of region-wide actions aimed at bringing an end to mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia. We hope you’ll stay tuned for stories and photos from … Continue reading →
  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...

Amped Status

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  • The Wall,10 years on / part 6: What has the st ...
    Commemorating 10 years since construction of the wall also means commemorating almost 10 years of the struggle against it, as described in the previous chapter. Just as we shall later examine what the wall has accomplished, one should also ask what exactly the struggle against it succeeded to do ...
  • War trauma, kid? Not if you’re Asian
    The weekend supplement of Ma’ariv ran an exhaustive investigation of the effect the Palestinian rocket threat has on Israeli children living within their range. On the left is the “illustration” by one Ophir Bagon, which opened the story. On the right is the original photo. See ...
  • Court prevents eviction of Palestinian family ...
    After two decades of legal struggle, the Ruweidi family from Silwan has been granted recognition by the courts that they are indeed the rightful owners of their home. The decision rejects the Jewish National Fund’s claim that the home was property of the State of Israel. Moriel Rothman con ...
  • WATCH: Journalists among arrestees in demo aga ...
    Close to 1,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv Tuesday night to protest the coalition deal between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Kadima head Shaul Mofaz, under the slogan: “The entire nation is the opposition.” The protest was reportedly put together by organizers of last summer’s J ...
  • Netanyahu, strongest prime minister since Davi ...
    The new coalition demonstrates the absurdity of “the only democracy in the Middle East” slogan. Ninety percent of the Jewish public is now represented by the government, while most Palestinians under Israeli control have no political representation at all. With 94 Knesset Members beh ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • The Language of Movement
    Peter Mansbridge came to town and for a few hours it was all people were talking about. Accustomed to presenting …Continue reading »
  • Democracy in Reverse
    The challenges were immense, but I took it on as a task of goodwill. We had been asked to assist …Continue reading »
  • “False Options”
    Responding to a recent newspaper article I wrote on citizen engagement, one Londoner said in her email: “I’m just growing …Continue reading »
  • A Hill to Die On
    It all ended so badly – the tone perhaps worse than the ultimate decision. Following 10 years of diligent effort …Continue reading »
  • “Idiots”
    All of this is becoming a little passé and perhaps irrelevant these days, but to read the ideals of democracy …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabiliz ...
    Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together o ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • FOCUS: Sneak Attacks
    Jane Mayer reports: "A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states - but for now at least, the funders are staying hidden in the shadows." President Barack Obama is facing attack ads paid f ...
  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...

War Resisters League

  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...

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 [...]

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Scalpers Use ADA Loophole To Snatch Up, Resell ...
    At some sporting and concert venues, seating spaces reserved for people with disabilities can sometimes be prime spots. So it's sadly not surprising that unscrupulous scalpers are taking advantage of a loophole in the Americans with Disabilities Act that makes it legal for them to buy up blocks ...
  • Man Tells TSA He Has No Idea How Gun Parts Got ...
    It's unfortunate when gun parts show up when you least expect them. Say, in your son's stuffed toy while going through security at an airport. A man traveling with his four-year-old told officials at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island that he didn't know how handgun parts ...
  • Postal Service Maybe Not Closing As Many Post ...
    It was last July that the US Postal Service announced it was considering closing around 3,700 of its approximately 32,000 outlets around the country, many of them in rural areas. But earlier today the Postmaster General unveiled yet another plan that could keep hundreds of these offices from cl ...
  • Woman Tries To Report Credit Card Fraud, Almos ...
    Imagine how fun it must be to have your credit card stolen and then be accused of being a thief yourself. Oh, you're right, that doesn't sound very fun at all. A woman in Salt Lake City tells the story of a woman who had to go to great lengths, first to prove fraud, and then to defend herself a ...
  • There Are More Job Openings Now Than There Hav ...
    Get your resume spiffed up and your best interview outfit ironed -- there are more job openings in the U.S. than there have been in almost four years. In March, employers were looking for people to fill positions at a rate that hasn't been seen since July 2008. Bloomberg News says the increase ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Murky Management of the Spanish Trust Fund at ...
    The Palace of Moncloa is the residence for the Spanish Prime MinisterAs the new Spanish government contemplates austerity measures in the face of an 8.5 percent of GDP budget deficit, cost-cutting officials might look to one of their Trust Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to sa ...
  • GAP Hails Senate Passage of Federal Whistleblo ...
    Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act passed by Unanimous Consent (Washington, DC) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) hailed last night's 'Unanimous Consent' approval by the US Senate of S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). The legislation provides millions ...
  • OSC Urges Increased Oversight of FAA: Daily Wh ...
    Associated Press: Gov’t Watchdog Urges Stronger Air Safety Oversight in Response to Whistleblower Complaints Summary: Yesterday, the Office of Special Counsel sent a letter to President Obama urging increased oversight of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has failed to respond to a nu ...
  • Special Counsel Spotlights FAA Whistleblower W ...
    Today, Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner, head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct better internal safety oversight, and act upon many whistleblower safety disclosures coming from the agency. The OSC cites several "troubling saf ...
  • Another Day, Another Bank Whistleblower Fired: ...
    JPMorgan Chase headquarters in ManhattanHuffington Post: JPMorgan Chase Whistleblower – ‘Essentially Suicide’ to Stand Up to Bank Summary: A whistleblower who tried to report fraud internally at JPMorgan Chase was fired and ostracized, after word got out. She called her decision to report frau ...

UK Progressive

  • A Question of Timing: What America Can Learn f ...
    Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders. Referring to his own electoral woes, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote Monday in an article in the conservative Daily Telegraph: “When people think about the economy they don’t see it through the ...
  • Cameron? Non. Sarkozy? Non. Austerity? Non.
    Forget liberté, égalité, fraternité… the cry in France and across the UK this past week was Non, Non, Non as the week long Europe-wide election hangover continues. It was a stunning rebuke of David Cameron and Europe’s draconian and ideological austerity measures (never mess with the crown jewel ...
  • The Answer Isn’t Socialism; It’s Capitalism th ...
    Francois Hollande’s victory doesn’t and shouldn’t mean a movement toward socialism in Europe or elsewhere. Socialism isn’t the answer to the basic problem haunting all rich nations. The answer is to reform capitalism. The world’s productivity revolution is outpacing the political will of rich so ...
  • Why Hillary Would Clobber Sarah or Nikki in 2016
    The moral of the story is that polls show Hillary Clinton would win in an epic landslide against any Republican in 2012, and I believe an even more epic landslide against Sarah Palin or Nikki Haley in 2016, because Clinton has qualifications and experience far out of their league, and because: H ...
  • Spain’s Capitalista Virus
    The Capitalista Virus is rampant in Southern Europe; it is especially virulent in Spain. The virus occurs when capitalists, i.e. bankers, who receive fees and interests payments for/on issuance of country debt, mess up, a crisis hits, and average working people (taxpayers) end up carrying the br ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Unthreaded – Site maintenance coming
    Apologies for the inconvenience. Unfortunately sometime this week the site will be offline for some hours (up to one day). This move is in an effort to reduce costs. Thanks to a generous offer from a reader (thank you David) for the suggestion. I hadn’t been paying attention, and bandwidth ...
  • Want climate resistant oysters, or climate &#8 ...
    File this under “Monopolistic Science” Australian Taxpayer funds in 2012 are supporting around 50 projects about “climate change” or “greenhouse gases”. One David McKnight has got $95k to study how Australian governments “spin” the news. So which c ...
  • Has CO2 warmed the planet at all in the last 5 ...
    Joint Post: Jo Nova and Tony Cox Even most skeptics agree that the world has been warming during the last 50 years, but there is apparently no significant underlying warming trend in 46 out of 47 years of data. Something decidedly unusual happened to the world in 1977 and we don’t know for ...
  • Tim Flannery in Parramatta will be happy to an ...
    Tim Flannery is paid to help you understand why Australia is getting a Carbon Tax in eight weeks time. If you can’t fathom why the nation which emits just 1.3% of all man-made CO2 is going to pay three times the current market rate to reduce world temperatures by 0.00 degrees C, I’m ...
  • Pathological exaggerators caught on death thre ...
    Here’s a character test on climate scientists and some of the media. It tells us much how concerned they are about truth, and how willing they are to be gullible fools, to have manners, decency, to milk even the most vaporous wisp of evidence into a national headline. Credit to Simon Turni ...

ReNew America

  • Republicans have bad brains?
    (Jonah Goldberg ) - 'They do that because they were born that way." If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless you're black yourself). If you say it about women, you may or may not be sexist, depending on who is manning ( ...
  • GOP foiled as funds flow to Planned Parenthood
    (Paige Winfield Cunningham) - Newly empowered Republicans in states across the country are pushing to kill public contracts with Planned Parenthood, only to find their efforts blocked by the Obama administration and federal courts....
  • More phony job numbers
    (Washington Times) - The White House crowed on Friday about the unemployment rate dropping a 10th of a percent. At the same time, the number of people out of the labor force reached a record high. The Obama administration can report all the funny numbers it wants, but the American people know in ...
  • Now a witness to Breitbart's death vanishes
    (Jerome R. Corsi) - A private investigator has been unable to find the only eyewitness to the sudden death of media innovator and conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. The apparent disappearance of Christopher Lasseter, who says he saw Breitbart drop to the sidewalk in front of a restaurant, a ...
  • Book Review: 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable V ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - It has been 64 years since President Harry S. Truman pulled the upset victory of the 20th Century, and historians still can't get enough of it. Now comes a new volume brimming with fresh and detailed information...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Take Shelter: Movie Review
    This review is written by a reader of this blog, Isaac. It might not have the explosions of 2012, but this is one of the very finest movies to address prepping, and is in many ways a modern day Noah’s Ark story, with a much smaller cast. Take Shelter (2011) Take an apocalyptic theme and ...
  • The Bunker of Dead Survivalist Peter Keller
    Peter Keller had been preparing for “the end of the world” since 2004, when he began constructing his North Bend, WA bunker. It is located deep in steep, wooded terrain. And he was very cautious and careful so that it would not be found: - he used so many different paths to reach hi ...
  • Dec 21, 2012: The Darkest Day
    What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally? The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate? The second q ...
  • 2012 Solar Predictions from Patrick Geryl
    Patrick Geryl has shared with me his predictions for the remainder of 2012. They revolve around planetary alignments with the Sun. For example: October 13, 2012: Conjunction Mercury – Mars and the Sun Opposition Venus – Pluto across the Sun (weak) October 13 -14, 2012: Triple Line Up: P ...
  • Chiacgo Evacuation Plans: False Flag?
    Later this month (May 18-21), Chicago will be hosting a NATO Summit. Often such high-profile political meetings inspire riots and protests (like the 2004 NATO Summit in Turkey), yet strangely they keep choosing to have them in major cities (instead of somewhere less accessible). It’s almos ...

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

One News Page

  • Two California policemen ordered to trial over ...
    SANTA ANA (Reuters) - A judge ordered two Southern California policemen on Tuesday to stand trial on homicide charges in the death of a schizophrenic homeless man who was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by officers last July. The fatal confrontation between police in Fullerton, ... ...
  • Close shave for Jharkhand CM as chopper crash- ...
    Sources in the CM secretariat said the chopper took off from the Ranchi airport around 11am for Kuchai in Saraikella-Kharsawan district where the CM was to inaugurate a power substation. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
  • Delhi Police shows women it cares through pic ...
    Posters outside select police stations in city aim to create awareness about measures taken to protect women and children Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
  • News Corp profit beats estimates on cable, movies
    REUTERS - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, aided by its cable networks and movie studio business, and its shares rose more than 4 percent in post-market trade. The company's fiscal third-quarter net income rose to $937 million, or 38 ... ...
  • Yemen’s fractured state ideal laboratory for b ...
    SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's fractured state and dysfunctional security apparatus provide al Qaeda's franchise there with a perfect breeding ground for bomb plots like the one the United States says it thwarted. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • An Open Government Wrapped in the Internet
    On April 17-18, 2012 the First Annual High-Level Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be held in Brazil. According to the dedicated page on the US State Department web-site, the OGP is ‘aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civi ...
  • Soros’s Virus Sneaking Into the Open Gov ...
    The first annual conference of the Open Government Partnership, an international group set up in New York by the US, UK,  Canada, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa in September, 2011, will open in Brazil on April 17, 2012. Over the past six months, the partners ...
  • Who Are To Stand Up In the International Crimi ...
    Not long ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a noteworthy ruling. Formally it was related to two African states – Malawi and Chad visited by president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. Their fault was not so much receiving him but rather not putting him under arrest. The warrant was is ...
  • Amnesty International Propaganda Targets Russi ...
    The Amnesty International “infographic” titled, “Shocking Facts About Who’s Arming Human Rights Abusers,” portraying Russia’s arming of Syria as “fueling the most bloodshed” is not “shocking” at all when one realizes the disingenuous human ri ...
  • What Missiles Are Threatening Europe?
    The issue of creating missile defense boundaries in Europe is largely political in nature. The United States is developing the system more for ensuring national security — officially from Iran, but in reality from China and possibly Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand its persistenc ...

BlogHer

  • Working Mother Solves the "Find a Babysitter" ...
    Finding a reliable babysitter is an ongoing challenge for working parents. Referrals are great, but unless you have one at your disposal, it can be a search in the dark for someone to care for your most precious cargo. Luckily one woman chose to do something about it and created a multi-million ...
  • Tissue Paper Tassel Banner Tutorial
    A couple of months ago I tried my hand at making some tissue paper tassel garlands. I read a bunch of different tutorials, tried a couple different techniques and came up with a way that I think works nicely and isn't too hard, so I put together this little tutorial for you all so you can make y ...
  • No Mothers Day: Skip the Presents This Year to ...
    Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from a pregnancy-related complication. This isn't just a "third world" problem. The United States currently ranks 50th in the world for maternal health. It is safer to give birth in Bosnia or Kuwait than in California. But what we do here ul ...
  • OMG I Can't Wait to Be a GrandMother: How Can ...
    I made it to Hawaii and Johnny Mac Pippin's mom looks like she is very ready to bring him into the world -- but Johnny Mac Pippin is not showing any sign of moving. Well he's showing a lot of signs of moving, elbows and knees and feet banging around inside there -- but he's looking altogether to ...
  • Simple Buttermilk Yogurt with Mango-Pistachio ...
    [Editor's Note: Like A Sweet Spoonful's Megan Gordon, I was quite taken with Tamar Adler's recent book, An Everlasting Meal. Though this simple breakfast dish is not inspired by the book itself, it's certainly inspired by its philosophy of economy and simplicity when it comes to food. It doesn't ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Coal politics: What W.Va. doesn’t want t ...
    President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, as he arrives from a day trip to from Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) As you can see from today’s Gazette story, Mining causing widespread water damage, judge told, I spent Wes ...
  • OSMRE threatens takeover of Ky. bonding program
    Here’s an important story out today from Greenwire (subscription required) about problems with Kentucky’s strip-mining reclamation program: The Office of Surface Mining, the federal government’s top coal mining regulator, is threatening a partial takeover of Kentucky’s re ...
  • McAteer to retire from Wheeling Jesuit post
    Here’s the latest from Vicki Smith over at the AP: An international expert on mine safety will retire from his current post as a vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University amid an investigation into how he and the school handled federal dollars. Wheeling Jesuit President Rick Beyer sent ...
  • Post-Gazette whiffs with puff piece on CSE Corp.
    CSE Corp. president Scott Shearer, talks about the demand for the emergency air packs CSE pioneered for coal mining while in the corporate offices in Monroeville, Pa.,Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) While many U.S. coal miners might be waiting until the end of 2013 for replac ...
  • Friday roundup, May 4, 2012
    Pakistani Ghull Mohammed, 69, breaks coal as part of his daily work in a brick factory, during May Day, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. May Day is being marked across the world Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) The last word I had from China was: Five workers r ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Atheists More Generous Than Religious When Hel ...
    A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, suggests athiests and agnostics are more willing to help other people than those who identify themselves as religious. The reason for this difference, the study found, is because atheists are driven by emotions, such as compassion, as oppose ...
  • Religious Websites Riskier Than Porn Sites
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/01/religious-websites-riskier-than-porn-fo… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentOnline Porn and the Bible BeltU.S. Religious Knowledge Survey – Pe ...
  • Google as DoS/Bandwidth Weapon | Security Affairs
    The steps to conduct similar attacks are: Collect a large number of URLs from the targeted website. Preferably big media files (jpg, pdf, mpeg and similar) Put these URLs in a Google feed, or just put them in a Google Spreadsheet Put the feed into a Google service, or use the image(url) command ...
  • DDoS Attacks Move to Server Scripts | Network ...
    Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned. America’s 10 most wanted botnets ‘Booter shells’ or plain ‘boote ...
  • DDoS Attacks Move to Server Scripts | Network ...
    Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned. America’s 10 most wanted botnets ‘Booter shells’ or plain ‘boote ...

Fitwatch

  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • “five imperatives for collective global action ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN  – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for global leadership dedicated to the common good, which brings nations together to find solutions for a world which is witnessing growing injustice, insecurity and social inequality. “This is the leadership that created the United ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: “We Need to Make ...
    “We Need to Make a Ruckus”: Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power In his new book, “Beyond Outrage,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: “To the Occupiers, and ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    North Carolina OKs constitutional same-sex marriage ban By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer Updated at 9:38 p.m. ET: North Carolina voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution which limits marriage to traditional one man-one woman marriages ...
  • Letter to the Editor: Shocking Abuses Uncovere ...
    Dear Worldwide Hippies, - The Humane Society of the United States releasedundercover video footage revealing cruel treatment of animals and inhumane conditions at a Wyoming pig breeding facility owned by a supplier to Tyson Foods. The investigation revealed workers kicking piglets like soccer ba ...
  • Technologies developed locally, driven by comm ...
    Efforts to promote sustainable development must tap into technologies developed locally, driven by community needs and priorities. By David Dickson,scidev.net -  The products of modern science and technology (S&T), from chemical pesticides to carbon-emitting combustion engines, are frequentl ...

reference frame

  • Is everything entangled?
    Roman Buniy and Steve Hsu published a preprint named Everything Is Entangledwhich claims that... everything is entangled. Because of the cosmological evolution, everything evolves into an entangled state and the entanglement easily transgresses the cosmic horizon. However, you can't observe ...
  • Naomi Riley: another victim of PC fascism
    Jason has informed me about a very disturbing, new story about the disappearing freedom of speech in America; the story has made it to the Drudge Report. This cute madam became another victim of the organized reverse racism in the U.S. She was fired (see the poor excuse) for having done exact ...
  • Brontosauruses' flatulence: as much methane as ...
    An estimate of warming caused by their digestion Brontosaurus was a herbivore dinosaur with a very small brain and a large body which arguably made it the largest animal that was ever walking on the Earth. The newest official name is Apatosaurus. In socialist Czechoslovakia, t ...
  • French adventures may hardly lead to a happy end
    This is a translation of a comment at idnes.cz by Dr Pavel Kohout, the chief analyst of Partners and a government economics adviser. The translation does mean that I endorse every word of it. The so-called advanced European countries are no longer our role models. The French public ...
  • A confirmation of the 130 GeV dark matter-like ...
    Three weeks ago, I discussed Christoph Weniger's finding that the Fermi satellite seems to show an excess of photons whose energy is close to 130 GeV in several regions of the sky. A photograph of our galaxy using 120-140 GeV photons is on the left (with the location of the bubbles ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Putting Students at the Center of a Maelstrom. ...
    Editors Note: Today’s posting is from Jane of the Jungle, a person with firsthand knowledge of the ineffectiveness of the David Alward Government when it comes to Education in New Brunswick. Between Premier David Alward and Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Jody Carr, t ...
  • FPS Russia – THE MINIGUN
    I have one of these on order. Can’t wait to try it out at Harvey Lake and on the Green!   We’re looking for a female model 18+ to model some of out products, you’d be featured wearing them in the outro of a video. If you’re interested send your resume and photos to F ...
  • Keiser Report 283: Mafia vs OWS feturing Geral ...
    In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss Treasury Secretary Secretary Timothy Geithner is like a monkey who sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil while Wall Street ‘elks’ are protected by the police from protestor ‘wolves.’ In the second half o ...
  • André Faust exposes Fat Cats Occupying the Fre ...
    The Fat Cats of Fredericton have their own Occupy Movement: It appears that some citizens have occupied the Planning Advisory Committee so they can vote for development projects that they will own and will profit from. Yeah that is how the greasy wheels of Fat Fred City turn. Where is the Mayor ...
  • Ground Zero for Fascism in the USA: The Utah D ...
    The Utah Data Center is another sign we are heading towards a full blown dictatorship in America. Think Romney will make a difference, wait and see who he has brought on board as “advisors” Reporter PKG for Infowars reporter contest on the Utah Data Center, a 1-million square foot NS ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • "Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."
    As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a story on preserving the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li ...
  • New York Times' Kristof Lays Out the Case Agai ...
    In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled. Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. Nicholas Kristof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Baby, Meet Frog; Frog, Meet Baby
    Renowned researcher and professor Tyrone Hayes has been studying the effects of the common herbicide atrazine for more than a decade. His findings contributed to the European Union's decision to ban this toxic endocrine disrupter. Much of his research... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Ryan Gosling and Dirty Cleaners
    The "Hall of Shame" of the dirtiest cleaners from our upcoming EWG Cleaners Database was released Monday evening to our email list and selective media outlets. EWG supporter feedback was impressive - the two posts to our Facebook fans received... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • War criminal won early release
    Norwegian authorities, working in cooperation with the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, have released a convicted Serbian war criminal from a Norwegian prison after serving just nine years of a 17-year sentence. Dragan Obrenovic was convicted of ...
  • ‘Scream’ seller can avoid tax
    Norwegian shipping heir Petter Olsen probably won’t have to pay any income or capital gains tax on last week’s sale of the famed Edvard Munch painting he inherited, Skriket (The Scream). That means he likely can keep or re-invest most of the NOK 600 million (around USD 105 million) h ...
  • Pilots call off strike threat
    Turbulence between pilots and management at Norwegian Air literally settled down late Tuesday, after the pilots won a guarantee that new jobs created outside Scandinavia wouldn’t be offered at the expense of established pilot positions in Scandinavia. The Norwegian pilots had threatened to ...
  • Questions rise over big oil deal
    Statoil’s huge oil exploration deal with Russian firm Rosneft in the Arctic may not be as promising as initially thought, suggests a Norwegian researcher who’s closely studied energy prospects in the Barents Sea. He thinks Italian oil firm Eni and Exxon of the US were granted more fa ...
  • More threats logged since July 22
    Norwegian politicians and other high-profile persons in Norway have been receiving more threats since the terror attacks of July 22, and the nature of the threats is more serious. The trial of confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, meanwhile, continued this week with some of the most distur ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • International Permaculture (May)Day
    Terania Creek, next to PRI Australia’s Zaytuna Farm Photos © Craig Mackintosh The inaugural International Permaculture Day — today — appropriately falls on the first Sunday of May, often known as ‘Mayday’. Permaculture, and its appropriate and holistic design s ...
  • Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
    Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of the “bush bandit” removed most of the topsoil from the land hereabouts and sold it off to householders in Melbourne for their gardens and lawns. Whether this story is true or not, I can only ...
  • APC11 Presentation: Albert Bates on Biochar (V ...
    Albert Bates talks about biochar at APC11 (Turangi, New Zealand) Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’m personally unsure about biochar. This is not because I have anything significant to say against it (at the small, localised scale, at least), but rather just because I find it hard to promo ...
  • International Permaculture Day, Sunday the 6th ...
    Celebrates all things permaculture around the world. Get involved with International Permaculture Day! Permaculture in Ecuador The Permaculture Day concept is one that celebrates all things permaculture around the world on the same day or weekend, if possible. The events are hosted and funde ...
  • Meat Consumption in China Now Double that in t ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. ...

Pointman's

  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • For Nicholas, a birth poem.
      Against the odds, you were a boy, Confounding sages of such things, From bump to boy, with Marie’s help, We loved your baby screams.   Your limbs they are so smooth and straight, Your bones so hard and pointy, Your chubby cheeks and cupid lips, Your back so warm and downy.   In sleep&#16 ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • Lies, damn lies and polls.
    Some time ago and in the context of climategate, I put forward the opinion that it would eventually produce two big losers and one big winner. The two losers were going to be climate science and the mainstream media (MSM), while the big winner was going to be the blogosphere. Climategate, import ...
  • There’s a killer in your house.
    This year marks the final phase out of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, and their total replacement by what’s termed compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The reasons given for this move are that CFLs are more environmentally friendly, because they reduce CO2  emissions, and more energy-ef ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • New Orleans Workers’ Center Calls on Janet Nap ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Hundreds at Local Rally Will Call for ICE to Grant Legal Status to Southern 32 for Standing Up to Abusive Employers and Law Enforcement On Tuesday, May 1, hundreds will gather at New Orleans City Hall to join the New Orl ...
  • New Orleans Communities Come Together in Youth ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Saturday, March 24th 2012, youth from around the city of New Orleans came together for the first ever Power of a Million Minds (POMM) Youth Summit at Dillard University. POMM is a youth led, youth organized, and youth run collabo ...
  • Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by US Cou ...
    In a 2-1 ruling today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of former Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, and vacated his sentence. The case had attracted the attention of civil rights activists around the US, as well as Color of Change, a national racial justice activism ...
  • Statement in Response to the First Criminal In ...
    From a statement by our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Today a former BP employee has been indicted. We believe that there are more criminal indictments of oil companies possible, if only the Department of Justice would look. The Department should look into ongoing actions by man ...
  • Two years on, anger and frustration on the Gul ...
    A shorter version of this article appeared today in newspapers around the world through Agence France Presse, the newswire service. Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    And you sit back and do nothing pretending he uses the name of our Lord in vain.. How do you know? May be you are just too lazy and do not want to be disturbed? Can not stand those ignorant, smug assertions!Statistics: Posted by ada — Wed May 09, 2012 5:47 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    LordLindsey wrote: Folks, I REALLY want to see some TIU comments here and/or on the video itself about this. I know that this may be "old-news" to many of you, but this is a very serious revelation that is never discussed. Jesus Christ, people, THE LOGO IS A STAR-OF-DAVID WITH THE BL ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    My Facebook account has been closed for a few months now. I meant to do it last year, but I wanted to do more research and figure out a way to import my contact's data (you can't). I just copied and pasted as much data as I had time to do, closed my account and never looked back. It's so fuckin ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Folks, I REALLY want to see some TIU comments here and/or on the video itself about this. I know that this may be "old-news" to many of you, but this is a very serious revelation that is never discussed. Jesus Christ, people, THE LOGO IS A STAR-OF-DAVID WITH THE BLUE AND WHITE COLORS ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Who are the f*ckwits that still believe this sh*t? Are all of the people who work for the FBI and CIA retards? -- CM --------------- May 8, 2012 Bomber in Plot on U.S. Airliner Is Said to Be a Double Agent By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC SCHMITT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/world ... ml?_r=2&am ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Warming Waters Attract New Fish Species to Bri ...
    Warming ocean temperatures have changed the distribution of many critical marine species off the British coast, as warm water fish are increasingly expanding into northern waters and cold-water species are swimming to colder depths, according to a new report. The report of the Marine Climate Cha ...
  • Groundwater Pumping Emerges As a Factor in Sea ...
    The vast amounts of water pumped out of the ground for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses will increasingly contribute to global sea level rise in the coming decades, according to a new study. According to researchers at Utrecht University, humans pumped about 204 cubic kilometers ( ...
  • Standard EV Charging System Adopted by U.S., G ...
    Eight U.S. and German automakers have agreed on a standardized technology system for electric-vehicle charging, a coordinated approach they say will allow drivers to rapidly re-charge their vehicles at most charging stations regardless of power source. The announcement is an important breakthrou ...
  • Highly Endangered Gorillas Are Captured in Rar ...
    A camera trap video in Cameroon has captured nearly two minutes of film of the Cross River gorilla, the rarest of the four sub-species of gorillas and one that is seldom
  • Japanese Tsunami Debris Is Increasingly Washin ...
    Debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan, including some potentially toxic materials, is increasingly being discovered along the Alaska coastline. Since January, millions of pieces of debris have washed ashore along the Alaska coast, from soccer balls and buoys to motorcycles and large drums con ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Change in Laws of Succession To Go Ahead
    Queen also announces reform of House of Lords
  • How to Revive The Peace Process: A Modest Proposal
    The advent of a new unity government in Israel provides a fresh opportunity to revive the peace process.  Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz is on record favoring immediate recognition of a Palestinian state with provisional borders that would give them sixty percent of the West Bank, (to be follow ...
  • My Friend Maurice Sendak
    The late author was the best kind of curmudgeon—the fake kind, says his friend William Joyce.
  • David Mamet's Conversion Experience
    I was moved to read Mamet's self-account by a reader of Patriots who suggested that I was undergoing a similar transformation, only in the opposite direction.
  • Why Is Eli Yishai Smiling?
    Why is Eli Yishai smiling? By all accounts, the leader of Israel’s Shas party should be having a bad week: everyone seems to agree that the puzzling Mofaz-Netanyahu merger, while it won’t affect dealings with Iran or the Palestinians, is a death knell for draft exemptions and massive subsidies f ...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Family of nuke crisis suicide victim to sue Te ...
    The family of a woman who committed suicide amid the Fukushima No. 1 plant nuclear disaster intends to demand around ¥72.5 million in damages from Tokyo Electric Power Co., sources said Wednesday. The family claims Hamako Watanabe, 58, set herself on fire last July due to her depressed st ...
  • Green energy's future murky as summer looms
    Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming just after the nation's last operating nuclear power reactor was shut down, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution. On Saturday, the last of the country's 50 usable reactors was switched off, ...
  • Ozawa faces appeal over his acquittal
    Prosecutors on Wednesday appealed a lower court ruling acquitting former Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa of conspiring with his former aides to falsify financial reports for his political funds management body, Rikuzankai, in 2004 and 2005. "The lower court ruling contains fac ...
  • Fourth eludes Chelsea
    Liverpool took advantage of Chelsea's erratic defending to earn an emphatic 4-1 win on Tuesday, gaining a small measure of revenge for Saturday's F.A. Cup final loss and putting the Blues out of contention for fourth place in the Premier League. Three days after Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-1 at W ...
  • Politically correct 'straw men'
    I was delighted to read Nick Wood's May 3 criticism, "Dogma gets in the way of joke") because he proved something about so much of modern political discourse. I never wrote that Western males were perfect with regard to their treatment of women. Wood's inference is a perfect example of the falla ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Don’t Kid Yourself: We all pay for the defundi ...
    I went to McGill in the late 80s and early 90s when tuition fees were less than $1,200 a year, so with summer jobs and some parental help I graduated from my first degree debt-free. For my MA, which I took in Ontario, I worked part-time and graduated after one year with a debt of [...]
  • Corak in Context
    Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada ...
  • Opting Out of Union Dues
    Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a cla ...
  • While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It ...
     A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even cheaper workers? If you’re looking over your shoulder, you’re not paranoid; you’re paying attention. T ...
  • Meilinomics II: Income from Within
    The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of r ...

ReDress

  • Zionist history: a short quiz
    Neve Gordon highlights the slide in Israeli political thought over the past 20 years with a quiz the answers to which "expose just how far right Israeli politics, as well as the public discourse informing it, have shifted".
  • Israel's hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
    Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel's military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government's plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and De ...
  • Intimidated, detained and tortured: false impr ...
    Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
  • The dysfunctional ideology of Jewishness
    Palestinian academic Mazin Qumsiyeh argues that Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who? provides invaluable insight into the ideology of Jewishness - crucial for understanding Israeli behaviour and the conflict in the Middle East - and urges people to engage with the ideas laid out in the book ra ...
  • American Methodists must be fearless about div ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on US Methodists to be courageous and ignore pressure from Christian Zionists by supporting divestment from companies that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, arguing that British Methodists had "blazed a trail through this minefield" nearly two yea ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:54:46 GMT) 686. Camp Utoya and Camp Casey (9/15/2011) The tyrant of the NWO hate peace loving people that much that they put them as hitting target in their plot. We saw it in Norway killing (7/22/2011) and Hurricane Katrina event. (9/24/2005, a failed plot) ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:50:35 GMT) 693. Eric Holder and Operation “Fast and Furious” (11/14/2011) In last article, I said, “The nuclear disaster hadn’t developed further because their main case failed to go through.” The main plot is to kill Kat Hak Sung in a framed case. In recent ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:45:15 GMT) href="#">href="#">href="#">href="#">Ron Paul says U.S. is turning into a 'fascist system' dominated by government and businesses By Associated Press Last updated at 7:02 AM on 19th February 2012 'We've slipped away from a true Republic,' Paul said. ...
  • News media won't report
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:37:51 GMT) In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite diff ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by Sung (Posted Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:30:23 GMT)

Peakwater

  • Karuma dam in new saga
    “Construction of the 660MW Karuma dam has once again courted controversy, with anonymous experts not only questioning the bidding process, but also the design of the project and the qualifications of the project manager. According to two separate whistleblowers, these issues are likely to ...
  • Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt ...
    “In many developing countries, the only source of water is contaminated with viruses and bacteria. In fact, the United Nations estimates that 1 in 6 people don’t have access to enough fresh drinking water. Pouring water into clear plastic bottles and placing them in the sun can kill ...
  • South Africa: Country Tap Water Remains World ...
    “Cape Town — South Africa’s drinking water is among the best in the world, and the country remains among a few in the world where water can still be consumed from the tap, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa said on Monday. Releasing the 2012 Blue Drop report ...
  • Amid Brazil’s Rush to Develop, Workers Resist
    “JACI PARANÁ, Brazil — The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to ...
  • MENA Changing Drastically & NASA Has The Pictu ...
    “Lake shrinkage in Iran Left: August 1985. Right: August 2010. Iran’s Lake Oroumeih (also spelled Urmia) is the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest saltwater lake on Earth. But dams on feeder streams, expanded use of ground water, and a decades-long drought have reduced i ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Inspires at American University in Du ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the keynote address at the American University in Dubai’s Fifteenth Commencement. Kucinich spoke to an attentive audience of about 5,000. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...
  • The Key to Economic Recovery; Kucinich Explain ...
    In advance of a Financial Services Subcommittee hearing today to look at legislative proposals for “reforming or abolishing the Federal Reserve,” Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following video detailing how his legislation would reassert Congressional authority over American mon ...
  • Kucinich: NATO Missile Defense Program Provoke ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime opponent of the proposed European missile “defense” system, today made the following statement after Russia announced it would be prepared to use “destructive force preemptively” if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (at the behest of the United ...
  • Congressman Kucinich Announces Winners of 2012 ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced the winners of the 2012 10th Congressional District Art Contest. The Congressional Art Contest is sponsored by Members of Congress throughout the country annually for public and private high school students.  The winning entry will be sent ...
  • Kucinich: Latest Drop in “Official” Unemployme ...
    “How Long Can We Stand Idly By? There is a Path to Full Employment.” Washington, May 4, 2012 -Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Department of Labor issued new employment data showing that 115,000 private-sector jobs were added in the month of April ...

Authentically Wired

  • no one is going to jail
    …It’s OK to laugh because when the 1% investigates one of its own you know that no one is going to jail …   Romney & Son Investigated for 8 Billion Ponzi Scheme     Read more: http://www.politicolnews.com/romney-son-investigated-for-8-billion-ponzi-scheme/#ixzz1uDAQpaRY & ...
  • What is truly pathetic is the fact “we&# ...
    … What is truly pathetic is the fact “we” elected him to any public office in the first place … And then “we “compounded that error by electing his female counterpart Jan Brewer as Governor … and to add insult to injury we elected his cronies to represent us in the state legislature … now [...]
  • “we” ought to be contemplating its ...
    Though America may not like it … it’s a reality that “we” ought to be contemplating its potentially broader implications … American Denial: The United States Is Becoming The World’s #2 Power   By Dean Baker, Nation of Change…Posted on May 1, 2012, Printed on May 2, 2012 http://www.alt ...
  • “we” ought to be contemplating its ...
    …Though America may not like it … it’s a reality that “we” ought to be contemplating its potentially broader implications… American Denial: The United States Is Becoming The World’s #2 Power   By Dean Baker, Nation of Change…Posted on May 1, 2012, Printed on May 2, 2012 http://www.alt ...
  • is highly successful as it is filling our private
    …Depending upon how one defines failure the “war on drug$” is highly successful as it is filling our private corporate prisons with young prisoner with long productive lives as employees for the new world order…   Rise in Teen Marijuana Use Demonstrates Continued Failure of War on Drugs &#1 ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...
  • For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how ...
    Seventeen top scientists and four acclaimed conservation organizations have called for radical action to create a better world for this and future generations. Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing ...
  • 100 pictures for Earth Day
    One of the things that makes my job enjoyable despite the hours are the opportunities for getting out in the field. Reporting on tropical forests and other environmental issues frequently takes me to some places of amazing natural beauty. Along the way, I take pictures when I can.

Science - NZ Herald

  • Japan to shut down last nuclear reactors
    Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.On Saturday,...
  • NZ schools lacking effective science programme ...
    Less than a third of schools have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students, according to the Education Review Office.An ERO report,
  • Scientists call for urgency on cancer-phone link
    The jury is still out on mobile phone health risks. Picture / AP Allegations of bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering, lobbying and lawsuits: the debate about the safety of mobile...
  • Minivan sized meteor packed explosive power
    Scientists say a giant fireball that exploded in daylight over California's Central Valley over the weekend was a rare phenomenon and much larger than most meteors.Bill Cooke, a specialist in meteors at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight...
  • US company to mine asteroids for water
    A US company, backed by film director James Cameron and Google's top executives, has unveiled bold plans to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water.Heralding a new frontier in space exploitation, Planetary Resources announced...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt raw milk story inspires award- ...
    From the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Sun Times photographer James Masters won an Ontario Newspaper Award on the weekend. Masters won his award in feature photography (under 25,000 circulation). The photo he submitted was of raw milk producer Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • Minnesota takes milk war to the people
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “The Minnesota  Department of Agriculture’s campaign against consumers is significantly more widespread than I first reported. And it is stirring up a hornet’s nest of outrage, and promises of defiance. It turns … Continue reading ...
  • Mothers plan to openly defy authorities in Min ...
    In a new level of intrusion into private contracts between farmers and local customers, mothers who host “drop sites” for their farm buying club are being threatened with criminal charges in Minnesota. Fed up, some consumers are willing to risk … Continue reading →
  • Mothers threatened with criminal charges plan ...
    From Liz Reitzig at Raw Milk Freedom Riders: Farmer Charged Criminally for Providing Fresh Food to Mothers Minneapolis, MN—Several Minnesota mothers who organize community access to local fresh farm foods plan to risk criminal charges by openly and publicly defying … Continue reading →
  • Biotech 2, Vermont 0
    Vermont has long been regarded as one of the most progressive States in the Union when it comes to things like alternative medicine and access to healthy food choices. If this is what’s going down in Vermont, what’s happening in … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Audit Shows Spain's Bankia Short 3.5 Billion E ...
    Courtesy of Google Translate here are a pair of articles on Bankia, Spain's third largest bank. Audit Shows Spain's Bankia Short 3.5 Billion Euros Inquiring minds looking for a reason for the jump in Spanish bond yields to 6.08% note Bankia audit confirms that the accounts of 2011 are ...
  • Tsipras Plans to Nationalize Banks, put Morato ...
    Spanish Bond Yields Back Above 6% Yield on the 10-year Spanish bond is up 22 basis points to 6.06%, having hit a high of 6.08%. It's Not Contagion Expect to hear talk of "contagion" blaming problems in Greece as a spillover into Spain. However, the fact of the matter is S ...
  • Tea Party Ousts 6-Term Republican Senator in I ...
    On Tuesday, six-term Republican senator Richard Lugar was ousted  in shocking defeat in the Indiana primary to Tea Party activist Richard Mourdock, Indiana state’s treasurer. Mourdock sent Lugar down in flames as he questioned Lugar's policies on immigration, Supreme Court nominees, th ...
  • Chinese Architect Comments on "Dark Apartments ...
    From the China anecdotes file, reader Gary writes ... "Hi Mish, I have a friend that is an architect in Shanghai. I sent him an article that talked about counting dark apartments at night to determine vacancy rates. He confirms everything I've been reading on your blog." My architec ...
  • "Head Start" an Abysmal Failure for Kids, a Sp ...
    Head Start, a preschool program for low-income kids has been a spectacular success, not for kids, but for teachers and teachers' unions. Please consider Miami-Dade County seeks to unload Head Start program, salaries For more than four decades, Miami-Dade County officials have managed He ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Revolution What is a Revolution? Is it desirable? How do we get there? Far from the idea of usurping power – whether violently or peacefully – or promoting a single politician to a position of power with the hope of “revolutionizing” society, a true revolution ...
  • The “Worst Recovery in History?”
    Where to Blame the Crack-up in Jobs Growth? Last week, Edward Lazear wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with the uplifting title “The Worst Economic Recovery in History.”  Lazear noted that many people have referred to our latest recession as the worst recession since the Great Depression ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Black Power: From Harlem to Haiti and Hanoi What is Black Power? When, where, how, and why did it emerge? Taking a look at the Civil Rights movement in the broader context of a Black Liberation Movement, we must examine the concept of Black Power, and look to the revolutionary philosophers of ac ...
  • The EyeOpener- A Brief History of Israeli Spyi ...
    The knowledge that Israeli-connected companies and intelligence agents have been involved in detailed and elaborate spying operations in the US is of course nothing new. The phenomenon has been painstakingly documented over the years by numerous journalists and sources. Indeed, the documented ca ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 10 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” – Heinrich Heine International Newsworthy US: Warship in Waters Near Iran Only ‘Routine’ Iran Busts Israeli Terror Group Iran Offers Possible Nuclear Compromise Iran Cuts Oil Ex ...

bloody crossroads

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

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...
  • Iceman's DNA decoded
    tzi, the Tyrolean iceman frozen in a glacier for 5300 years until his 1991 discovery, was brown-eyed, prone to heart disease, lactose intolerant, blood group O and infected with lyme disease, a new a...

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