- Understanding Growth Response Modeling
As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
- Understanding Growth Response Modeling
As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
- Sometimes they forget
So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
- Sometimes they forget
So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
- Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading! Very unusual for me. I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
- Facebook adopts new terms of service and data ...
Facebook adopted a new Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities on Friday after a user vote failed to generate enough response to be considered binding, according to a note on the Facebook Site Governance page. In its … Continue reading →
- Facebook tries promoting games with notifications
Facebook appears to be testing a way to drive users to re-engage with games by sending them a new type of notification, we’ve discovered. Some users are seeing notifications about their friends playing games. These notifications, which are different from … Continue reading →
- Facebook hires development team from Pieceable ...
Facebook has hired the three people behind Pieceable Viewer, which is software that allows developers to demo their iOS apps on the web. According to Pieceable’s website, Facebook is not acquiring the company, technology or customer data. This is similar to … Continue reading →
- Headlines from Inside Mobile Apps’ WWDC 2012 c ...
Here’s a convenient spot to find all Inside Mobile Apps’ coverage of Apple’s developer conference in San Francisco this week. This is the first WWDC since the passing of Steve Jobs. Day one kicked off with a keynote featuring current … Continue reading →
- Apple brings Facebook integration to mobile an ...
Apple today announced Facebook integration for iOS 6 and OSX Mountain Lion that allows users to sign in once and easily post back to the social network. Similar to Apple’s Twitter integration, iOS 6 offers the “tap to post” option … Continue reading →
- Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.
- Poisoning public discourse in the USA
Lawrence Davidson argues that the US National Defence Authorization Act will not only curtail civil liberties by allowing the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike, but will also allow the government to direct the same kind of massive propagand ...
- Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. B ...
Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in breach of numerous international conventions, the UN Charter and countless UN Security Council resolutions.
- The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon
Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to learn lessons from what was in fact a political and military disaster not only led to another disaster ...
- Bring Gaza race-car students in from the cold
Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international cowardice and sheer bad luck.
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- A Great Victory for California's Coast and Ocean
Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento At the end of last week, California, once again, did something no other state in the country had done before – our California Fish and Game Commission voted 3 to ...
- Are states really up to the task of regulating ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Two years ago I blogged about a blow-out in Wyoming where drilling mud, natural gas, and natural gas condensate erupted up through the ground up to 150 feet away from the well. Eight million cubic fe ...
- Which is it, New York - clean energy or dirty ...
Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Right now, as this new video from Mark Ruffalo shows, we in New York State are at a crossroads that will determine the course of our energy future. Are we going to embrace clean, renewable energy, or are ...
- Different Approaches to Finding Solutions for ...
Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco The two largest river systems and water sources in the arid West are the Colorado River and the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Both face growing challenges, shaped in significant part ...
- We Need New Action on Renewable Electricity at ...
Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Since 2002 the amount of wind, solar, and geothermal electricity in the energy mix throughout the world has risen from nearly non-existent levels to something that shows up in energ ...
- Euro 2012 Thus Far, and Other Soccer Musings
A convenient overview of the state of play of the European Championships can be found here. My typically ill-conceived predictions can be found here. I watched three of the matches, and listened to a further two on BBC Radio 5. The results from the first set of matches don’t make my pred ...
- Race and the Roberts Court
Greenhouse is, as usual, essential reading.
- Better to be King for a Day Than Schmuck For A ...
Congrats to the Kings for a truly remarkable run through the playoffs. I’m especially happy for Darryl Sutter, a brilliant and now no longer to be underrated coach, although I wish he could have saved one of those six goals for Game 6 or 7 in 2004. One one level, it’s odd that this k ...
- Penguins
Since right-wingers stupidly decided to make the penguin their official animal of morality in the culture war, it’s of great enjoyment to learn more about the actual sexual behavior of penguins. Seriously, this recently found 1915 report is awesome: At the time, Levick was so shocked by wh ...
- Are Unions Necessary?
Such is the the name of Derek Thompson’s forum at The Atlantic today, effectively a space for random people to write about how much unions suck. Though to be fair, union people are arriving to this forum in good numbers as are people less committed to unions but concerned about unchecked m ...
- 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 ...
- A Bold New Strategy to Save the Rainforest of ...
The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for oil palm plantations. But in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a top official is fighting to reverse that trend by bringing sustainable forestry to the beleaguered island. BY RHETT BUTLER
- Renewable Energy Investments Grew by 17 Percen ...
A surge in investment in renewable energy in India, coupled with strong green energy growth in the U.S. and China, led to a 17 percent global surge in alternative energy investments last year, according to reports by the United Nations Environment Program and another organization. Robust investm ...
- An Influential Global Voice Warns of Runaway E ...
Few international figures have been as consistent in warning about the threat posed by global warming as economist Fatih Birol, of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Birol explains why the situation is worsening and what needs to be done to significantly ...
- Interview: An Influential Voice Warns of Runaw ...
Fatih Birol is a man watching a clock — the clock that ticks off the years in which little is done to slow emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. As IEA Fatih Birol chief economist of the authoritative International Energy Agency, Birol has a bully pulpit, and he has used it to con ...
- Parasitic Mite Found to Play Key Role in Colla ...
Extensive research in Hawaii has shown that a major cause of so-called colony-collapse disorder, which has sharply reduced bee populations in many parts of the world, is related to the spread of the parasitic varroa mite. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in England were able to track th ...
- Ancient Bethlehem seal found; first reference ...
Israeli archaeologists digging near the city of Jerusalem have discovered an ancient clay bulla, about 2,700 years old, bearing the name Bethlehem. The artifact is the only known ancient reference to the city of Jesus’ birth found outside the Bible, experts said. The find shows not only that the ...
- Houla Massacre: How Media Manipulates Public O ...
If you are still needing an academic tutorial on exactly how the mainstream media is able to generate a completely phony public consensus to support foreign intervention projects, you need look no further than the dangerous, fictional narrative currently being rolled out regarding Syria. It shou ...
- NATO terrorism defendants kept in ‘observation ...
A spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says three anti-NATO protesters accused of planning terrorist actions have been held around-the-clock since Saturday in white-walled “observation” cells, where they are isolated from each other and the rest of the inmate population and kept from writi ...
- SpaceX capsule docks at space station, opens n ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth on Friday, opening a new chapter in the U.S. space program. The unmanned capsule was the first commercial spaceship to reach the orbital outpost. "Thi ...
- Syria denies it was behind attack that killed 108
The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people dead, blaming the killings on "hundreds of heavily-armed gunmen" who also attacked soldiers in the area. Friday’s assault on Houla, an area northwest of the central city of ...
- Yo soy 132- A look at Mexico’s ‘Oc ...
Just like with the huge student led uprisings in Quebec, that the US media didn’t bother to cover, so too the corporate US media is not covering the rise of a new Mexican Student Movement mobilizing itself right before the Mexican presidential elections this July 1. That’s because th ...
- Another look at the American soldier handing o ...
How many times have we heard the story of the good hearted American soldier handing candy out to the kids in the countries’ the troops occupy? The US troops occupy these counties to defend the control of American based multi-national corporations over the world’s economy. So it’ ...
- Javier Sicilia, to bring his anti- ‘drug ...
‘Hoping against hope, I keep trying to plant a tree’ says the Mexican poet, Javier Sicilia Like Cindy Sheehan in the US, Javier Sicilia knows he’s fighting hard core militarism that wants no peace in his country, Mexico. Still he fights back! And where better to fight the Mexic ...
- Iran: Syrian intervention ‘will be defea ...
‘Mashragh earlier reported that Iran’s armed forces had formed a joint war room with officers from “the resistance” which includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, which controls parts of Lebanon.’ Mashregh is a media outlet run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. See Iran: Syrian interv ...
- Havana Cultura
So what is Havana like today? There is a mega web site that has videos of all sorts available showing different aspects of current life there the US government has prohibited you from going to see yourself. Check it out for a view of what you might be missing… Havana cultura
- Where’s the “Whole” in Whole Foods Market?
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. Something has been “softly” incongruous about Whole Foods since the opening of their first store a thousand years a ...
- Senior Coke Exec: We Don’t Believe in Empty Ca ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Katie Bayne is an Atlanta mother of 2 children, and a busy executive. She is the President & General Manager, Sparkling Beverages, Coca-Cola North America. And she has some advice for us on how to fit Cok ...
- Hey, Is That Poop On Your Chicken?
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! About 50% of supermarket bought poultry is contaminated with fecal matter. This, according to a recent report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Poultry was purchased from 15 grocery ...
- Sometimes Fat Free Is not the Better Option
Any sour cream fans here? Whether dolloped with chives onto a baked potato, cooling a hot soup, or sweetened with freshly picked berries, there’s nothing quite like sour cream. Traditional sour cream is a dairy product rich in fats (12-17%). It is made by fermenting cream with certain types of l ...
- Should Nutrition Counseling be Provided Solely ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Several months ago, we came across an interesting article in Forbes, describing what seems like an attempt by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Association) to unfairly limit ...
- 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 ...
- How Bain Capital helped BPblow up the Deepwate ...
Review by Greg Palast, for FireDogLake.com Today, Saturday, from 5pm to 7pm, Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic, will be hosting an electronic salon - an open discussion with Mike Magner, author of Poisoned Legacy: the Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power (St. Martin's Press). Join Mike and I ...
- Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch V ...
Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com
- Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
by Greg Palast Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...
- Vote like an Egyptian?
by Mark Bebawi It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly. Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...
- Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth
What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...
- 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 ...
- A Decade after Murder-Suicides, D-Day for “the ...
By Dan Olmsted 1. On June 11, 2002, a Green Beret named Rigoberto Nieves shot and killed his 28-year-old wife, Teresa, with a single bullet to the head in the bathroom of their home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Then he...
- Mainstream Medicine Investigating "Alternative ...
By Teresa Conrick Mainstream medicine seems to be toying around with the idea of "borrowing" scientifically sound interventions from the DAN (Defeat Autism Now) movement and other alternative doctors who treat autism. This recent article, Antioxidant shows promise as treatment...
- U.S. Pediatricians Endorse Continued Injection ...
U.S. Pediatricians Endorse Continued Injection of Mercury into Children in Developing Countries SafeMinds deplores AAP support of the unlimited use of thimerosal in vaccines. WASHINGTON, DC – In a stunning statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has supported the...
- Oh, Good Grief!
By Cathy Jameson I decided to watch a TV show last week instead of staying up late on the internet like I have been doing. I’ve spent too many days focusing on What Isn’t and What Hasn’t when I would...
- Age of Autism Contest: iKids Fashion Crapisode ...
Yes, you read that correctly. David Cavaliere of iKids Fashion is offering a pair of his unique and useful PJs called the Wonder Jumper that help prevent night time self-service crapisodes. It's not quite Lanz of Salzberg (more Winnie the...
- Thirty Pieces of Silver – The Ron Paul Betrayal
If you want to live in the past, continue to support the Ron Paul Campaign and watch as your monetary donations will absolutely slip down the rabbit hole and end up in Mitt Romney's coffers. Do not contribute to your own demise as we will undoubtedly witness the November election consisting of O ...
- Apple Pectin for Radioprotection
A group of doctors and scientists risked their lives and careers to help children living in the most contaminated areas of the Chernobyl fallout and discovered a simple treatment that clears the radionuclides from their bodies, offering hope for future generations of Chernobyl and Fukushima vict ...
- GMOs and Glyphosate Linked to Infertility, Bot ...
There is also the evolving problem of glyphosate’s killing of beneficial gut microbes that suppress botulinum bacteria resulting in chronic, systemic botulism poisoning and death in cattle with probably findings also in humans. One study on SIDS babies found that 20% of Sudden Infant Death Syndr ...
- Weather Disasters, Crop Loss, Biotech Acreage, ...
Weather control, geoengineering, and genetic modification are man’s attempt to take over the earth’s natural ecosystem and design it according to his own limited concept. But is it wise, prudent, or safe to leave the re-designing of the earth up to some men in little white lab coats who think th ...
- Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!
While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...
- Peter Gleick reinstated after investigation in ...
Peter Gleick, an internationally known Bay Area scientist, has returned to his post as president of the Pacific Institute following a three-month leave of absence prompted by his admission that he had assumed a false identity to obtain documents from a conservative think tank.
- Death Valley road to stay closed to public
Inyo County has lost a six-year legal battle for control of “Last Chance Road,” an alleged public highway that starts in a desert wash and peters out at several spots halfway up a small hill on Death Valley National Park’s northern edge.
- The true cost of IKEA: logging old-growth forests
Those labyrinthine IKEA showrooms full of dirt-cheap shelving units have to come from somewhere. According to a report released May 16 by the Global Forest Coalition, some of them are clear-cut from old-growth forests in Western Russia.
- FARM campaign pays viewers $1 to watch graphic ...
Acknowledging the existence of animal cruelty is unpleasant, and getting people to actually watch footage of it is understandably difficult. The folks at Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) found one way: Pay them.
- Sea Shepherd's Watson arrested, faces extradit ...
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson, who was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 13, has been freed on bail and awaits possible extradition to Costa Rica. He and Sea Shepherd's director of investigations, Scott West, met with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Enrique Castillo on ...
- A Bountiful Garden
Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
- June 2012 Conference Call
Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
- Water for Generations
The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?
- Water crisis impacts Lorry drivers
In many urban places around the world, public and private services deliver water through a patchwork network of trucks - or water lorries as they are known in south Asia. A trucker shares his perspective on the water crisis.
- Toilets Bring Change to Uganda
Prior to the introduction of pour flush toilets to Ndeeba Parish, Uganda, residents were using plastic bags as toilets and disposing of them in the drainage channels. This was causing environmental and health hazards for the people living in this slum. New technology changed all that.
- Roses: new ways with an old classic
In her second part of her focus on roses, Bunny Guinness advises where to plant them and how to keep them looking lovely. 'Comte de Champagne’ Photo: ANDREW LAWSON tag --> By Bunny Guinness 12:56PM BST 11 Jun 2012 Comments The way we use roses in our gardens has altered dramatically since my ...
- >There's no need for speed when biking lo ...
LOPEZ ISLAND -- You can really click through the gears and get your spokes blurring on this charming little island in the San Juan archipelago, about 12 miles north to south through gently rolling hills of farm fields and forests and along sea-breezy shoreline lanes. But you'll want to do as ...
- MP calls for end to hosepipe ban
Tweet The hosepipe ban should be declared over as sodden England is battered by more rain, a Tory MP demanded. Sir Peter Bottomley wants Environment...
- Record number of travelers visit Washingt ...
The District of Columbia welcomed a record 17.9 million visitors in 2011 - a number that tops the District’s previous record of 17.4 million total visitors, set in 2000. Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) show ...
- Emirate eyes massive Chinese tourism mark ...
The number of Chinese travelers to Sharjah has seen a dramatic increase in recent years in tune with the growing phenomenon of Chinese visitors flocking to exotic destinations around the world. The number of Chinese visitors to Sharjah has jumped from 8,231 in 2009 to around 30,000 last year ...
- Contagion Affects Europe
by Stephen Lendman Europe keeps sinking deeper into financial crisis. Eurozone straightjacket rules force 17 dissimilar countries to live by one size fits all diktats. Flawed planning preordained eventual disaster. Monthly more systemic cracks emerge. Money creation alone prevents collap ...
- The war drums are beating again
Joey Ayoub On the 16th of February, The Telegraph reported that Iran is "strengthening ties with al-Qaeda," according to "intelligence chiefs," in yet another report of Iran's secret ambitions. This is all too familiar for us Arabs. Ten years ago, Brian Whitaker wrote in The ...
- Insurgents Named Responsible for Syrian Massacres
by Stephen Lendman A Syrian documentary aired on June 9, and a June 7 report by Germany's leading broadsheet provide more evidence. Both refutes Western and scoundrel media misinformation. More on the latter below. On May 10, suburban Damascus suicide bombings killed 55 and injured hundr ...
- The 1967-war revisited (II)
By Khalid Amayreh part II The Occupation As mentioned above, even before 1967, the Israeli army had been carrying out routine incursions into the West Bank, destroying poor people’s homes and killing innocent civilians, very much like what Israel has been doing in the Gaza Strip, the ...
- Palestinian Hunger Strikes Continue
by Stephen Lendman Over 2,000 Palestinian hunger strikers redefined courage. Their willingness to die for justice was unprecedented. On May 14, an Egyptian brokered deal was reached. Strike leaders and Israel Prison Service (IPS) officials agreed on terms. They included: Israel would ...
- New video: Taxes, the gift we give each other
Tired of the Fraser Institute’s worn-out gimmick to fuel tax resentment? We’ve got the cure: A new video that shows the value of contributing taxes. Public health care, garbage pick up, safe food, clean water, public parks, emergency services, higher learning – the chance to live in great commun ...
- 50th Anniversary of Medicare Calendar
The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...
- 50th Anniversary of Medicare Calender
The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...
- Income inequality, by the numbers
This week, The Huffington Post features an infographic breaking down the details on the growth of income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2009. Created by Ryerson University journalism student Jeff Fraser, the infographic draws on data from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ...
- The Three Amigos: How Income Inequality in Mex ...
An examination of income inequality in North America reveals that Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth, according to a new study by internationally respected economist Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and CCPA Research Associate. ...
- JUST GIVE ME 5 MINUTES ALONE WITH THIS POOR EX ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutions By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/09/anthony-sanchez-arrested-_n_1583172.html I couldn’t help but think of the pastor a few weeks ago whose sermon consisted of homophobic crap on how to make your son man ...
- The Soapbox: Islands Newest Saga
John Konopak critically analyzes the recent recrudescence of the Icelandic, economic SAGA! See the World Around You! – Hear the Voices of Activism! – Speak Truth To Power! Media for the People by the People! Citizen Dispatch For reporting from your spot on the globe The Soapbox For ...
- Questions I’d Like to See Put to Mitt Ro ...
By Donald B. Ardell,tpjmagazine.us - In 1898, Robert Green Ingersoll wrote an essay entitled, What Is Superstition? It contained this excerpt: The belief in gods and devils has been substantially universal. Back of the good, man placed a god; back of the evil, a devil; back of health, sunshine a ...
- Ray Bradbury: Green Town, Mars and beyond
By Clay Evans,.dailycamera.com - The air was fine and crisp and clear that October day in Los Angeles. My friend Shanna and I had gone in search of the ghostliest graveyards in the City of Angels. “Hey,” I said as we sat in the sun-dappled grass of Rosedale Cemetery, “I think I ...
- Fukushima forum: Dr. John Apsley says U.S. is ...
By Donna Anderson,Coast to Coast Radio Examiner – Dr. John Apsley appeared on the Fukushima forum on Coast to Coast AM on Saturday, June 9, 2012. For more than 30 years Dr. Apsley, author of “Fukushima Meltdown & Modern Radiation: Protecting Ourselves and Our Future Generations” has sp ...
- Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
- Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
- Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
- Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
- Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
- 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 ...
- Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...
- Why Gas Prices are Higher in the West
I have been traveling for the past week and have not had a chance to do an episode of R-Squared Energy TV. It will return next week. For this week, I thought I would share the video for a recent appearance I made on Insights on PBS Hawaii. The topic was The Price of Gas: As gas prices continue t ...
- How Taxpayers Could Benefit From High Oil Prices
In last week’s post — If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy — I mentioned three specific examples of legislation under consideration that create uncertainties within U.S. energy policy. These uncertainties increase the financial risks for those trying to develop energy projects ...
- The First Commercial Cellulosic Plant is NOT A ...
House Ag Committee Holds Hearings on Energy On May 18, 2012 the House Committee on Agriculture held hearings on retaining Energy Title funding in the 2012 Farm Bill. Written testimonies and the video of the hearing are available at Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill: Energy and Forestry Programs. ...
- Electric Cars & Keystone Impact on Gas Prices ...
In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: What are the chances that electric vehicles will be more than a boutique item, and will make up a noticeable portion of cars on the road by 2020? Do you agree with the recent report from the Natural Resources ...
- Free online mind mapping software | MAPMYself ...
Tags: mindmap, mindmapping, brainstorming, tools, mappingby: Fred Delventhal
- Education « « Swivl - Personal Cameraman for h ...
Comments:Portable lecture capture Record lectures in any classroom cost effectively. Any instructor can set up Swivl quickly without an AV tech, record every move and word. Flipped classroom content Are you flipping your classroom? Use Swivl to record classroom content for student consumption ...
- My reflections after Intel Teach Essentials Co ...
Comments:See also #prgessentials glog http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/prgessentials/ ; and presentation http://slide.ly/view/cedc01bae8087587172744b5913217cd - LUCIAN DUMATags: web, tools, my research, intel, intelTeach, glogstereduby: LUCIAN DUMA
- Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app - Sp ...
Comments:SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online! - Fred DelventhalTags: mindmap, brainstorming, collaboration, web2.0, mapp ...
- BiblioNasium - Kids Share Book Recommendations ...
Comments:Social network for kids 6-12 years built around sharing books/reading. Teachers can easily set up classes, reading lists, etc. - Randy RodgersTags: book, reading, recommendations, web 2.0, social+network, collaboration, literacyby: Randy Rodgers
- Sausage's Unpleasant Side Effect
Grab that next sausage, or peanut butter sandwich, or piece of grilled fish, at your own risk. According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, fatty foods could be exposing you to a toxic chemical in your food called hexabromocyclodecane (HBCD). Researchers ...
- The New Statistic You Can't Afford to Ignore
You don't need to be told we had a warm winter and spring. Sure, it felt nice, but we'll pay the price later. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released new statistics finding that this past spring was the warmest on record, with temperatures a full 5.7ºF warmer than norm ...
- 4 Ways to Stop a Monarch Butterfly Collapse
The majestic monarch butterfly is in desperate need of your help. Once a common sight in backyard gardens, the population of the orange and black butterfly known for its long migration to its overwintering grounds in Mexico is now on the brink of collapse. Chemical farming practices, overdevelo ...
- USDA: Farmers Need to Feed Americans More Sugar
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to ban large sizes of sugary drinks may be catching flack from New York City residents, but, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) logic, it's farmers he's harming most. After all, he's depriving them of vital income they'd receive from growing al ...
- The Diet Secret That Protects against Toxic Po ...
Chemical stressors surround us. From toxic pesticides in food to harmful chemicals in food cans, soaps, and candles, it's basically impossible to get through a day without experiencing a harmful exposure. The good news is that making smarter personal choices can protect us from many everyday ch ...
- The More You Pay to Send your Children to Scho ...
I’d like to get the Freakonomics guys to explain this paradox of K-12 education: The more money you spend for your children’s education, the fewer days they’ll actually be educated. Baltimore City’s public schools, where I more or less happily attended school from kindergarten through 1 ...
- Social Media Are Essential to Business Growth
What's the Latest Development? A new survey of business professionals across Europe shows how important social media have become at innovating within companies. Of the survey's 2,700 professionals across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK, "...a huge propor ...
- What's your Technology Quotient (TQ)?
A new era requires a new vocabulary. Will we still talk about the “mobile” phone when all phones are mobile, or when they are implanted within us? Does “evolution” really capture our deepening entanglement with technology today, or should we instead speak of human-technology coevolution? More .. ...
- State Capitalists Can't Have It Both Ways
With the European Union mired in crisis and the United States struggling to recover, it's easy to conclude that capitalist democracies' engines of economic growth have run out of steam. While their elected politicians make myopic decisions to score political points, state capitalist leaders lik ...
- Do Women Make Better Leaders?
What's the Big Idea? While over 70 percent of women in the United States work outside of the home, compared with 36 percent in Brazil, and while US women marry, on average, a decade older than women in Latin America, the United States has never had a female president. Latin American cou ...
- Liberty, Faith And Reason
Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
- A Democrat You Could Vote For
Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
- Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour
I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →
- Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Di ...
Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →
- Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?
I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →
- Charity Engine
Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Charity Engine is a post from: Sc ...
- Charity Engine
Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Related Posts:The evolving, revol ...
- Are we overdiagnosing the worried well?
NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
- Are we overdiagnosing the worried well
NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
- Take flight
Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...
- A Snapshot of the Impact of Outdoor Recreation
Western Governors’ Association http://www.westgov.org/reports [From Website] WGA and five industry groups — Outdoor Industry Association; Motorcycle Industry Council; Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association; Specialty Vehicle Institute of America; and National Marine Manufactur ...
- Net Loss: Comparing the Cost of Pollution vs. ...
Environmental Integrity Project http://bit.ly/LE9Mi9 [From Press Release] Up to 5,700 deaths a year can be attributed to 51 of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the United States with no announced plans for sulfur dioxide (SO2) clean-up measures, according to a new report from the nonprofi ...
- Reviewing Risk: Critical Metals & National Sec ...
American Resources Policy Network. http://bit.ly/JWruRc [From Mining Engineering] …Focusing on strategic minerals and metals, The report, “Assessing Risk [sic] : Critical Metals and National Security,” notes that China supplies more than one in five of the minerals that are vital to the Am ...
- California’s Transition to Local Renewab ...
UC Berkeley, The Center for Law, Energy and the Environment http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12901.htm [From a Climate Wire story by Debra Kahn, sub. req'd] A wide range of policies, some currently being neglected, will be needed to meet California’s local renewable energy generation goal, acco ...
- What a Waste: a Global Review of Solid Waste M ...
World Bank http://bit.ly/Mf9Rf2 …This report provides consolidated data on MSW generation, collection, composition, and disposal by country and by region. Despite its importance, reliable global MSW [municipal solid waste] information is not typically available. Data is often inconsistent, ...
- 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 ...
- American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
- Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 4
David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...
- Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...
- Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 2
Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...
- Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
The Child is Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...
- Why Obama Caved In on National Security
I just finished reading Daniel Klaidman's Kill or Capture, a book about the evolution of Barack Obama's national security policy during the first three years of his administration. It's a good book to read if you want an answer to the question, "What happened?" That is, what happened to the ide ...
- Why is My Hometown the Safest City in America?
Here's the latest news from my hometown of Irvine: In 2011, for the eighth year in a row, the Orange County city had the lowest violent crime rate of any U.S. city with a population larger than 100,000, the FBI said Monday. Irvine — population 214,872 — reported only 120 violent cr ...
- Fed: Income and Wealth Have Plummeted
The Federal Reserve published its triennial look at family income and wealth today, and it ain't pretty. The chart on the right provides the basics. The poorest families (far left) showed a slight gain in income since 2001 but a 35% loss in wealth. The richest families (far right) showed flat i ...
- The Fight Over Evolution Isn't Actually All Th ...
I'm not especially trying to pick on Andrew Sullivan here, but today he echoed a meme that I now feel like I've heard a million times and that really, really needs some pushback. He's responding to Gallup's latest survey about evolution, in which 46% of Americans say God created humans in their ...
- Breaking: Conservatives Still More Disciplined ...
On May 31, Tod Kelly TIVOed three hours of prime-time Fox News and three hours of prime-time MSNBC. Then he watched them. As a nickel summary, let's just say he was.... unimpressed. It was almost exclusively spittle-flecked ranting for all six hours except for Rachel Maddow. His entire (long) ...
- Small(ish) is beautiful
This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
- BNC Discussion Forum updates
In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
- Roads Not Taken (yet)
Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
- Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...
- The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
- .: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 ...
- 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 [...]
- WATCH: IDF officer throws stones, shoots at Pa ...
The video below was taken by Palestinian photographer Bilal Tamimi in Nabi Saleh on June 1, 2012. I received it from the spokeswoman for the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization for various local unarmed resistance initiatives in the West Bank (like the ones in Bil&# ...
- WATCH: Nakba discourse on the rise, inflaming ...
Israel has gone to great lengths to remove mention of the Nakba – the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948 – from textbooks, public discourse, and the public space. But as state efforts to ban Nakba commemorations increase, so does interest in the issue, with more and more Israelis believ ...
- Sudanese refugees, activists hope for change i ...
Activists believe the deportation of South Sudanese will most probably not lower the number of African migrants in Israel, and it is also a direct violation of Israel’s obligations under international commitments. Israeli authorities have begun arresting dozens of African migrants, as repo ...
- Refusenik sentenced to 20 days in prison on hi ...
Yaniv Mazor was sentenced this morning by his commander to twenty days in prison for refusing to fulfill his reserve service duties. “This is an army whose main purpose is the maintenance of the occupation regime imposed on millions of people on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip – and I ...
- Palestinians in Israel reject Pride Week but o ...
Due to the influx of gay tourists who arrived in Tel Aviv for Pride Week, we can say with some certainty that more Belgians and Danes marched in the Gay Pride Parade than Palestinian citizens of Israel. That’s not just because of the understandable need for the gay Arab population to maintain a ...
- TERRIFYING-YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO! ETHOS
we cannot all ignore this forever ETHOS THE MOVIE Scridb filter
- FANNIE MAE AND PROPERTY PRESERVATION- KICKING ...
We all need to understand that it’s the federal government that is kicking down our doors, “winterizing” homes in Florida in the dead of summer and ignoring or taking property if they choose to. It’s all spelled out in the kind of detail we’ve come to expect from mi ...
- Fannie Mae- The Federal Government- The Wizard ...
WAKE UP AMERIKANS, IT’S NOT THE BANKS FORECLOSING ON YOU IT’S THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! AND IT’S COSTING US ALL BILLIONS! The company’s net worth deficit of $4.6 billion as of December 31, 2011, reflects the recognition of its total comprehensive loss of $1.9 billion and i ...
- A Bank Breaks Into Your Home, Property Goes Mi ...
As I write that headline, I realize it’s a truly terrifying question. THIS SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A QUESTION…THE ANSWER SHOULD BE THAT IN THIS COUNTRY, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE AND SECURE IN OUR HOMES. WE SHOULD NOT LIVE IN FEAR THAT THE BANKS WILL BE SENDING IN THUGS TO BREAK DOWN ...
- Fighting With (legal) Terrorists…Judge O ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…. A woman walks into a bank. She says to the banker, “I want to pay my mortgage off, what’s the total?” The bank says, “We’ll see you in court. But first, we’ll need to depose your pool guy, your lawn guy, y ...
- 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 ...
- Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
- 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 ...
- The Good of WikiLeaks
Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
- Race War in Arizona
Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
- Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
- Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
- Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
- On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
- “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
- كفى دموعا!
كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
- A Story and a Book
by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
- “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
[The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
- The Power of Story: Conversations with Philipp ...
While covering the Gulf oil spill, I was talking to a group of elementary school students in Tennessee.... I asked them, “Who do you think is going to clean up this mess?” These students—they were between four and six years old—turned to me and said, “We will.”
- People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
A single mother of four, she said, “We live it every day,” referring to the lack of sick leave, not being allowed to go to the bathroom, being laughed at for not speaking English, and lifting heavy things even though she is not supposed to.
- The Fast and the De-Feathered: Proposed Proces ...
Every fraction of a second, a robotic arm presented one of the inspectors with the viscera (guts) of a chicken carcass. The inspectors handled the viscera and took a quick glance at each carcass, checking for tumors, fecal contamination and other obvious signs that the carcass might pose a food ...
- Real Men Eat Kale
Memorial Day = summer = grilling = men = meat. Why do I automatically make those associations?
- Farm Bill 2012: The Senate’s Version
Here’s a quick, top-line read of new developments we’re tracking in the Senate version due to their potential impact on health, and how they stack up for improving public health.
- Just How Fake Is HGTV's House Hunters?
Long-running basic cable staple House Hunters (and its various iterations) are the lifeblood of HGTV, which sometimes seems to air nothing but half-hour after half-hour of incredibly picky people looking at three possible places to purchase, one of which seems to always fit the incredibly finic ...
- Lowe's Shopper Injured When Bullet Explodes In ...
You hear of people who handle guns improperly and end up worse for wear, but it's not every day you read about a person injured by a bullet that is nowhere near a gun at the time. And yet, a Lowe's shopper in Pennsylvania ended up having to go to the hospital after a loose bullet in her purse ...
- Best Buy: Hacker Attacks Are Increasing For On ...
Several weeks ago, we told you how several Best Buy customers were complaining that someone out there was attempting to make bogus, phantom purchases through their BestBuy.com accounts. We wondered at the time if the retailer's site had been a possible victim of someone cracking into its custom ...
- People Of Nunavut Tired Of Paying $30 For Coff ...
Almost four years ago, we marveled at the ridiculously high grocery prices in Nunavut, the largest and northernmost Canadian territory. Now, after years of paying $35 for a bottle of V8, $28 for cabbage and a whopping $65/pound for "Best Value" brand chicken, the folks in Nunavut are fighting b ...
- HBO Has Too Much To Lose From Offering Standal ...
Last week, we wrote about how HBO finally came out and hinted that it couldn't yet financially justify offering its HBO Go online service as a standalone item. Of course, this isn't stopping people from trying to make the case for HBO Go to go solo. Over at the NY Times, writer Nick Bilton mak ...
- Whistleblowers ≠ Leakers: Daily Whistleblower News
Salon: Whistleblowers vs. Leakers Summary: Salon’s David Sirota makes the important distinction between “selfless whistleblowers and self-interested leakers” in this column. The Obama administration has come down hard on intelligence whistleblowers, but is also allegedly strategically lea ...
- The Real Dangers of the "Leak" Hysteria
The most dangerous thing that can come out of the latest "leak" hysteria is that Congress will pass some broad anti-leak law, which will undoubtedly be used against whistleblowers. With secrecy experts universally agreeing that rampant overclassification plagues the classification system and mor ...
- Obama’s ‘War on Intelligence Whistleblowers’ A ...
Over the weekend, The Listening Post, an Al Jazeera program, aired an episode entirley focused on exploring the Obama administration's attack on intelligence whistleblowers. In the past few years, the administration has charged six intelligence whistleblowers under the Espionage Act, an archaic ...
- Survey Shows Increase in Whistleblowers Report ...
The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) – a research-oriented nonprofit aimed at promoting high ethical standards in business – released its 2011 National Business Ethics Survey (NBES) report recently. Turns out the past couple years have been a pretty mixed bag for whistleblowers. So... good news or ...
- Foreign Journalists See Obama More Objectively ...
Now that a bi-partisan group of congressional intelligence committee members has brought Obama's hypocrisy on leaks to the forefront for American mainsteam media (MSM), the contrast between coverage from foreign press and American MSM has never been more stark. The U.K.'s Guardia ...
- How Bank of America Execs Hid Losses—In Their ...
by Cora Currier, ProPublica When Bank of America announced it was buying Merrill Lynch in September 2008, bank execs told their shareholders that the merger might hurt earnings a touch. It didn’t turn out that way. Losses at Merrill piled upover the next two months, before the deal even cl ...
- Why the Public’s Growing Disdain for the Supre ...
The public’s growing disdain of the Supreme Court increases the odds that a majority will uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare. The latest New York Times CBS Poll shows just 44 percent of Americans approve the job the Supreme Court is doing. Fully three-quarters say justices’ decisions are ...
- Editorial: IOKIYAPM (It’s OK If You Are Prime ...
Prime Minster David Cameron and wife Samantha are very busy people. Two months ago each thought the other had the care of their 8-year old daughter in a Sunday pub lunch in Cadsden near Chequers. They were there with two other families, it was a hectic leaving time. The little girl wandered off ...
- The Monday Line: Losers Pout-Winners Fight (An ...
“You’ve got to want this game as bad as your next breath, let’s go!” said by Lebron James of the Miami Heat before a dominating Game Seven Win Saturday night over the Boston Celtics. Our sport desk is a few times per year dusted off relic, but last night James rallied his teammates with a [...]
- North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along Wi ...
by Nicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses. But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army ...
- How Green is Your Bankster? Bank of America sp ...
Bank of America Pledges $50 Billion to Combat Climate Change The unholy alliance between bankers and government is on naked display. It’s the black hole in the kitchen: huge, obvious, and silent. And boy does it suck. As Climate Depot points out, Bank of America got a $45 billion bailout ...
- Gone Feudal: Oregon State Uni (OSU) sack and t ...
In an extremely worrying development, we can add Nick Drapela’s name to the list of skeptics fired for the heresy of speaking out. This email from Gordon Faulks came around today, and I want to spread the message. I have written before about the scientist of upstanding integrity and action ...
- Agenda 21: Alabama may have outfoxed it. Why y ...
“Agenda 21″ sounds like a daft-but-harmless-idea you can ignore. I found it hard to get enthused, but I was wrong, and no one sums this up better than James Delingpole in “Watermelons” (aka “Killing the Earth to Save it). To paraphrase James’s brilliant work ( ...
- 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a p ...
The paper might have been scientifically invalid, but it was a box-office success. The headlines were everywhere “1000 years of climate data confirms Australia’s warming” said the press release from University of Melbourne. It was picked up by The Guardian: “Australasia has hot ...
- The Thompsons fight on from the USA: a busines ...
This is one of the star case-studies of the noxious cost of big-government. A pernicious soul-destroying wrecker of livelihoods. This tyranny in action. Matt and Janet are skeptics who ran a Beef Feedlot from Narrogin, Western Australia (2 hours SE of Perth). When they spoke out against climate ...
- Unravelling history's sacred cows
(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Readers were warned at the outset of our our summation of pre-Cold War events that it would require an entire book -- rather than a mere column -- to do full justice to so huge a swath of history. We still are not writing a book, but for those genuinely in search of fu ...
- If less evil is more, where's the choice?
(Alan Keyes) - For some time now I've been sharing (via Twitter, Facebook, etc.) articles I run across that document the fact that Mitt Romney is a crypto-socialist (i.e., a socialist who hides it behind some other label) who has already implemented leftist measures Obama has had trouble impleme ...
- Big Government as the rival and enemy of religion
(Washington Examiner) - The icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe hung behind the podium. One organizer of the rally held a 3-foot-long wooden crucifix. Some in the crowd quietly prayed the rosary. On a few occasions, the crowd, just outside the Capitol, chanted in unison. But the words weren't the sort ...
- Cops stomp on religious freedom rally
(Dave Tombers) - On Friday, June 8, while thousands of people gathered in public squares around the country to observe "Stand Up For Religious Freedom" day, at least one law enforcement agency responded by clamping down on the demonstrators' freedom of speech...
- NY principal pulls patriotic song, wants to av ...
(Newsmax) - Admonishing teachers that she did not want to "offend other cultures," Coney Island principal Greta Hawkins reportedly is refusing to allow students to sing "God Bless the USA" at a school moving-up ceremony later this month...
- 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:
- Lego 2012 Figures
These are not official Lego products, but that does not detract from their coolness. What a great way to introduce your 2012 ideas to your young children! Some are limited edition as packs, but all the individual pieces appear to available from the online store. Made by BrickForge. Your' ...
- Why Isn’t the Great Pyramid Bigger?
Sometimes if you turn a question around, it helps you understand the entirety of the topic at hand. The most common question regarding the Great Pyramid is How did they construct it? Far less often asked are questions like Why did they build it? and Why did they make it so big? I’m awa ...
- British Tsunamis
I’ve only really investigated the tsunamis of places I recommend to be for maximum safety. For everywhere else, I suggest being at least one hour’s drive inland and 500m above sea level. That is for protection from tsunamis generated by the sea impact of an asteroid or comet. Of cou ...
- Rare Australian Earthquakes
Possibly trigger by the recent lunar eclipse, today there were two 4.2 magnitude earthquakes in Australia, in a region that rarely has any seismic activity: The centre’s director Kevin McCue said these were the first earthquakes greater than magnitude 4 to strike inland northern NSW since ...
- Britton LaRoche: Lunar Eclipse Could Cause Tok ...
From studying centuries of earthquake records, Japanese geologists have mapped out segments of the subduction zone that seem to rupture regularly and repeatedly. The part southwest of Tokyo, underlying the coast around Suruga Bay, is called the Tokai segment. The Tokai segment last ruptured in ...
- The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
- Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
- Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
- Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...
- Sentenced to Extermination
The clouds gather over the Middle East. Not so long ago the clashes between the Sunni Muslims, who support the Free Syrian Army, and the Alawites, who stand by the government of Syrian president Bashar Assad, took place in Tripoli, the second largest city of Lebanon. Fighting also took place in ...
- Cherie Blair Gives Women Career Advice--and Ge ...
[Cherie Blair recently gave a speech in London that drew a lot of flak. Blair, a high-powered lawyer perhaps better known as the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, said that women shouldn’t depend on men for money. Pretty mild stuff, I’d say. But it was what she said next that caused a ti ...
- Robin Roberts Has Myelodysplastic Syndromes -- ...
This morning, we learned that Robin Roberts, anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, has been diagnosed with MDS, or myelodysplastic syndromes. “Talk about your highs and lows!” she said, after disclosing that she learned of the diagnosis on the same day that she found out that for the first time ...
- What is Your Ideal Work Day?
[Editor's Note: Those "ideal day" exercises used to drive me nuts. Why? Because I can write all I want about my fantasy days, but what about a real, ideal day that I can actually live into? Those exercises seemed to be missing when I was looking for them years ago. Now I find that I use varying ...
- As Moms, We Shape Our Kids' Inner Voices
How many times have you said something along the lines of, "How could I be so stupid?" When your children are in ear shot? How many times have you exclaimed, "OMG! WORST DRIVER EVER! MORON!" With your kids in the car? A post that Sara recently wrote at Moments of Exhilaration points out a Peggy ...
- Make Your Own Mascarpone At Home
[Editor's Note: Mascarpone, a rich and creamy Italian cheese, is a staple for desserts like Tiramisu. It's also awfully expensive when bought at the store. Why not try making it at home, much more affordably, by following this simple recipe? --Genie] Homemade Mascarpone I wish someone had told ...
- ShopSmart Poll: 57 percent of women say cost o ...
Seven easy fixes to help you eat better and achieve your nutrition goals YONKERS, N.Y., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Women find many excuses not to eat healthy and many feel bad about it, but according ...
- Cancer Fighting Foods – 4 Anti-Cancer Foods
Could it be that cancer rates are so rampant because people are simply not eating the right foods. While there are many factors that play into the development of cancer, diet and smoking habits make up nearly ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- EPA’s Lisa Jackson on coal: ‘It ...
A lot of folks have picked up on the interview U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson did with The Guardian and Grist, with most of them focusing on her remarks about the economics of coal vs. natural gas for firing the nation’s power plants: So in my opinion th ...
- Feds: WVDEP wrong to extend Coal River permit
Photo from U.S. Office of Surface Mining Word just in this afternoon about a potentially major decision by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement … OSMRE officials here in Charleston have determined that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection was wr ...
- Feds seek to delay UBB superintendent’s ...
Gary May, left, of Bloomingrose, W.V., former superintendent of Upper Big Branch Mine, where an explosion killed 29 workers, walks with his defense attorney, Tim Carrico, at the Beckley Federal Courthouse in Beckley W. Va., Thursday March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Barbero) Here’s an intere ...
- Water lawsuit update: Blankenship and coal slurry
As jury selection gets underway this week in the big coal slurry case brought against Massey Energy by the residents of the Seth and Prenter communities, we revisited an early slurry case with this story in Sunday’s Gazette-Mail, reporting: In the weeks before last year’s settlement ...
- Energy policy and politics: Which way will W.V ...
Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce It goes without saying that energy policy and politics — and the way these things are covered by West Virginia media — don’t always match reality. And so it was that West Virginia Democrats over the weekend passed a resolution urging all members ...
- What’s Coming in iOS 6
Beautifully designed from the ground up (and the sky down), Maps will change the way you see the world.1 Map elements are vector based, so graphics and text are incredibly detailed — even when you zoom all the way in — and panning is smooth. Tilt and rotate to view an area, and Maps keeps [...]
- Straight White Male is Life on the Easy Setting
Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s c ...
- Apple is About to Gut Google’s Map Revenue | F ...
More to the point, Google charges Apple for having Maps loaded onto that Apple hardware. And as I’ve noted before, this is a substantial sum: rather more than Google currently makes from Android for example. The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such ...
- Did Republicans deliberately crash the US econ ...
In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country’s economic recovery. These charges are now being le ...
- Elizabeth Warren Pwns Romney
No, Mitt, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance, they live and they die. Learn the difference. via freakoutnation.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPat Robertson: C ...
- JUST GIVE ME 5 MINUTES ALONE WITH THIS POOR EX ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutions By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/09/anthony-sanchez-arrested-_n_1583172.html I couldn’t help but think of the pastor a few weeks ago whose sermon consisted of homophobic crap on how to make your son man ...
- The Soapbox: Islands Newest Saga
John Konopak critically analyzes the recent recrudescence of the Icelandic, economic SAGA! See the World Around You! – Hear the Voices of Activism! – Speak Truth To Power! Media for the People by the People! Citizen Dispatch For reporting from your spot on the globe The Soapbox For ...
- Questions I’d Like to See Put to Mitt Ro ...
By Donald B. Ardell,tpjmagazine.us - In 1898, Robert Green Ingersoll wrote an essay entitled, What Is Superstition? It contained this excerpt: The belief in gods and devils has been substantially universal. Back of the good, man placed a god; back of the evil, a devil; back of health, sunshine a ...
- Ray Bradbury: Green Town, Mars and beyond
By Clay Evans,.dailycamera.com - The air was fine and crisp and clear that October day in Los Angeles. My friend Shanna and I had gone in search of the ghostliest graveyards in the City of Angels. “Hey,” I said as we sat in the sun-dappled grass of Rosedale Cemetery, “I think I ...
- Fukushima forum: Dr. John Apsley says U.S. is ...
By Donna Anderson,Coast to Coast Radio Examiner – Dr. John Apsley appeared on the Fukushima forum on Coast to Coast AM on Saturday, June 9, 2012. For more than 30 years Dr. Apsley, author of “Fukushima Meltdown & Modern Radiation: Protecting Ourselves and Our Future Generations” has sp ...
- Bank of America will waste its whole bailout o ...
During the financial crisis, Bank of America – where I still maintain a checking account with a minimum allowed balance – received a $45 billion bailout. You could think that this kind of money is being used to bolster the bank's finances and make their business safer so that the taxpaye ...
- ILC to be launched in Japan around 2026
It's more likely than other places and times... Spanish and Latin American sources just reported that Japan seems to be the most likely place where the International Linear Collider could be built. When it comes to the design, the project is ready, François Richard, the repres ...
- Noncommutative magic of the star-product
This essay is a natural continuation of my article explaining Why Matrix theory contains membranes. The fuzzy sphere and the fuzzy torus – two of the allowed shapes that membranes in Matrix theory may possess – were the simplest examples of "noncommutative geometries". What does it mean? ...
- Global warming has stunted black holes
Anthony Watts has brought my attention to the following incredible preprint and a report about it in Nude Socialist: X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming by Tanaka, Perna, Haiman (arXiv, astro-ph) Cosmi ...
- Lidice burnout: 70th anniversary
A week after Reinhard Heydrich passed away in the wake of the execution of this mass murderer ordered by the Czechoslovak government in London and assisted by the British intelligence agencies, Nazi regime began its intense revenge. On June 10th, 1942, exactly 70 years ago, hundred ...
- End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
- HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
- FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
- Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
- Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot
A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of money in the lottery. Now that the party is over it is time to move forward with the rest of my life. I have hummed and hawed for a few days now on how to spend some of this money and have decided to direct [...] Related posts: Crazy Man Praises Th ...
- Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
- "We need to stop this."
Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- BPA and... Wait for It... Breast Cancer
DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer. What's particularly concerning is the level of BPA in the monkey's blood was equivalent to average levels found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...
- Safe - vs. Safer
The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
- Our 6th Annual Sunscreen Guide
When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...
- Post offices face major shutdown
The Norwegian postal service (Posten Norge) announced Tuesday that it will shut down 149 post offices by 2014, with only 29 surviving the massive closures in Norway plus one on the Norwegian-controlled Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The move will affect around 1,000 postal employees and it̵ ...
- China denies visa to former premier
Kjell Magne Bondevik, warmly welcomed to Beijing when he was Norway’s prime minister in 2002, has now become the latest Norwegian to be denied a visa to China. Bondevik, an ordained pastor in Norway’s state church, was supposed to have led a meeting at a seminar of the World Council ...
- Doctors testify that Breivik is sane
The mental state of terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik continued to be analyzed and debated in an Oslo courtroom this week. A series of psychiatrists, other medical experts and psychologists testified that they think Breivik is sane and can be held accountable for his attacks last summer th ...
- Struck gold on first attempt
It’s not exactly a gold rush, but results of some test drilling in mountainous areas of northern Norway could let some modern-day prosectors yell what their forerunners did in California 163 years ago: “There’s gold in them there hills!” There’s also platinum and co ...
- New strike threatens oil platforms
As Norway recovered from two weeks of strikes by both public and private sector workers, another group has walked off the job in a labour conflict that ultimately could lead to the shutdown of offshore oil platforms. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the union representing employees of ...
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Do we segregate…? Photos © Craig Mackintosh Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global response to long-brewing trouble has been well short of timely or appropriate. The world as a whole, if I were to be brutally honest, is taking three steps backwards for ev ...
- Foodscaping: Reap What You Sow
I thought you might be interested in this short news segment which recently aired nationally on the ‘America Now’ news network in the USA, featuring yours truly: Check out the lengthy disclaimer given by the TV hosts at the end of the segment (morbidly fascinating), though I esp ...
- Julious Piti from the Hugely Successful Chikuk ...
When: Sunday July 1, 6:30-9pm, 2012 Where: Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College, West Campus Cost: $10-$5 SBCC Students Please join the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability on Sunday, July 1, as we host Julious Piti, founding member of the Chikukwa Ecological Land ...
- Captive Animals
How Natural England became the servant of the landed classes. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Listening to the National Farmers’ Union, the Countryside Alliance and the Country Land and Business Association, you could be ...
- Jordan PDC and Jordan Internship (October, Nov ...
The triangular shaped ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ site, a two-year comparison. The next Jordan PDC course run by the PRI starts on October 27, 2012 and runs for 14 days. The next Jordan Internship starts 10 November, 2012 and runs for 27 days. These courses run concurrently and are ...
- How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...
- The day of days.
I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he … Rea ...
- The real bastards.
I want to tell you the story of a couple of things that happened in the not too distant past, because they obviously need to be told again, if only to serve as a warning from history. They’re forgotten stories nowadays, possibly because they’re not very pleasant ones, but they did ha ...
- The 100,000 pages landmark.
Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...
- Climate Alarmism and The Prat Principle.
I’d like to introduce you to one of the great discoveries of my life, the Prat Principle. Before doing so, I’ll have to ensure we have a common understanding of what exactly a prat is, prior to sharing it with you, together with some related tricks and tips. Prat is one of the great ...
- 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 ...
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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 ...
- Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Spa ...
This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision: Dear friends and family, With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, I wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support. Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your n ...
- Choice Of Weapons: A Commentary on Youth in Ne ...
Sometimes Truth whispers conspiratorially; other times it gets naked in public. This was one of those times. On May 31, Truth painted an undeniably clear picture on the front page of section B of the Times Picayune. The article headlined “Frame by Frame” is a mini-feature on an event the day ...
- Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta ...
On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...
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From our friends at the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice: “The main reason people don’t stand up for themselves and defend their own rights,” says Josue Diaz, “is because they’re afraid of being deported.” Josue should know. He was arrested and put in deportation proceedings – ...
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My friends Richard and Hilda McCline needed a couple of guys to help them move boxes from the American Can to storage. So on Thursday, Jacob picked-up Donald (his friend) and they worked from a little after 11am until 2pm. On the way home, they stopped at the light at Carrollton and Tulan ...
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The release of Jonathan Pollard is a very sensitive issue, to this very day. Israel has made of Pollard its mascotte. The day that Pollard is released will also be the same day that the American Intelligence Community knows for certain that it has lost its own sovereignty, and that American Inte ...
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(I know I posted this elsewhere, but also wanted to make sure it was where guests could see it as well) Deanna Spingola-Audio- British (Yiddish?) Empire Genocide in India http://archive.org/details/DeannaSpingo ... calControl (commercial free audio) Deanna Spingola discusses the Truth about ...
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Forgot to add when I posted the Barnes Review article above the two things that I found most interesting that the jewish controlled media has kept from us: The first was that Mussolini intervened on the side of PEACE, but it was the British who blocked it. And yet today we are told that the Ita ...
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Amanda wrote: And, back on the "nazi conspiracy" subject, Texe Marrs actually addressed that in his latest audio http://www.texemarrs.com/ (secrets 190 next to photo of Nixon). At about 37 minutes, he tells his listeners to stop listening to and supporting people in the so-called tr ...
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The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for oil palm plantations. But in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a top official is fighting to reverse that trend by bringing sustainable forestry to the beleaguered island. BY RHETT BUTLER
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A surge in investment in renewable energy in India, coupled with strong green energy growth in the U.S. and China, led to a 17 percent global surge in alternative energy investments last year, according to reports by the United Nations Environment Program and another organization. Robust investm ...
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Few international figures have been as consistent in warning about the threat posed by global warming as economist Fatih Birol, of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Birol explains why the situation is worsening and what needs to be done to significantly ...
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Fatih Birol is a man watching a clock — the clock that ticks off the years in which little is done to slow emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. As IEA Fatih Birol chief economist of the authoritative International Energy Agency, Birol has a bully pulpit, and he has used it to con ...
- Parasitic Mite Found to Play Key Role in Colla ...
Extensive research in Hawaii has shown that a major cause of so-called colony-collapse disorder, which has sharply reduced bee populations in many parts of the world, is related to the spread of the parasitic varroa mite. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in England were able to track th ...
- Twitter tale: Civil liberties at the Grand Prix
The following account of the new Quebec normalcy appeared today in the twitter stream of Mathieu Perron (@matness), who identifies himself as a “twentysomething playwright, director, producer, photographer, educator, activist, student organiser, lover & feminist from montréal.”
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Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In Bad Mommy, Vancouver author Willow Yamuchi satirically assesses all the ways women can (and will) mess-up child-rearing, while also featuring tales from “22 admitted bad mommies . . . Instead of hiding mommy ...
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By Frank Moher I have been pursuing the story of the Literary Press Group getting its funding yanked by the Department of Canadian Heritage. In concert with that department’s decision to restore funding to the Summerworks theatre festival in Toronto, having pulled it last year, the matter ...
- “Frankenfish” caught; Burnaby resi ...
A BoB short: BC’s monster fish has been caught and killed. Dubbed “Frankenfish,” the two foot long snakehead was first spotted on May 13th in a Burnaby pond. An invasive species native to China, the fish is a so-called “top-level predator” with the hellish potential ...
- Francesca Eastwood: woman up
By Emily Olesen When Francesca Eastwood, 19-year-old daughter of legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood, recently desecrated a $100,000 Birkin Bag on the reality series “Mrs. Eastwood & Company,” she was only trying to please her boyfriend. Thirty-year old celeb photographer Tyler Sh ...
- LDP to back tax hike, balks on other issues
The Liberal Democratic Party officially told the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday it will support the administration's plan to raise the consumption tax to 10 percent in two stages, lawmakers said, but the outlook for cross-party negotiations is uncertain amid lingering differences on overall ...
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More than 30 percent of residents near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant probably won't be able to return home by 2016, the government said. Officials said 32 percent of about 86,000 evacuees from 11 municipalities near the nuclear plant are expected to remain under evacuation orders ...
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Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano and Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, The rise of the Internet has allowed more and more people to turn to nontraditional media, such as blogs, feeds or wiki forums, for information. While there is often a he ...
- Big firms gloomier in second quarter
The mood of large firms deteriorated in the three months through June, affected by the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, which has slowed exports from Japan, while carmakers suffered slower production growth, the government said Monday. The business sentiment index covering firms capitalized at ...
- Noda hints at dissolution of Lower House if ta ...
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda hinted Monday he may dissolve the Lower House and call an election if legislation for social security and tax reforms, centering on his plan to double the sales levy, is not passed in the current Diet session. Political observers believe Noda, who heads the ruling ...
- Complete Details of 2008-09 Bank Support
Readers of this blog will have hopefully read my report “The Big Banks’ Big Secret”, which examines the $114 billion that Canada’s banks received during the 2008-09 financial crisis. The report’s major finding was that at some point during the crisis, three of Canad ...
- Complete details of 2008-09 Bank Support
Readers of this blog will have hopefully read my report “The big banks big secret” which examines the $114 billion that Canada’s banks received during the 2008-09 financial crisis. Its major finding was that at some point three of Canada’s five big banks had received sup ...
- The Student Strike in Québec
Québec is in the midst of a social crisis of rare intensity, both in terms of the duration of the confrontation between the student movement and the Québec government and the extent to which citizens have rallied behind students in the last weeks. After more than four months, a total of 161 stud ...
- The student strike in Québec
Québec is in the midst of a social crisis of rare intensity, both in terms of the duration of the confrontation between the student movement and the Québec government and the extent to which citizens have rallied behind students in the last weeks. After more than four months, a total of 161 stud ...
- How To Fix Income Inequality
Trish Hennessy is Director of Strategic Issues with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Several polls released this spring reveal the extent of concern among Canadians about worsening income inequality. Most Canadians say that deep income inequality undermines Canadian values. The major ...
- Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.
- Poisoning public discourse in the USA
Lawrence Davidson argues that the US National Defence Authorization Act will not only curtail civil liberties by allowing the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike, but will also allow the government to direct the same kind of massive propagand ...
- Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. B ...
Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in breach of numerous international conventions, the UN Charter and countless UN Security Council resolutions.
- The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon
Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to learn lessons from what was in fact a political and military disaster not only led to another disaster ...
- Bring Gaza race-car students in from the cold
Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international cowardice and sheer bad luck.
- 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 ...
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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 ...
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- Water crisis to continue in Delhi after Haryan ...
“The severe water crisis in the capital is likely to continue as Delhi government’s efforts to get additional water from neighbouring Haryana to ease the worsening situation did not yield any result. “Several areas of Delhi have been facing severe water shortage for the last fe ...
- LAFCO vote on controversial UCSC expansion del ...
“The proposal touches on long-standing local issues, including university expansion, allocation of scarce water resources, student housing and environmental preservation. But it also has top city officials and the university on the same side, with the city arguing that added campus housing ...
- Water Knows No Border Between Angola and Namibia
“The Kunene Transboundary Water Supply Project — is a good model of trans-boundary cooperation in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). The KTWSP will improve the water supply for around 700,000 residents of southern Angola and northern Namibia, providing for domestic con ...
- Water Conflict: Water Hostages in Egypt
“Farmers near Abu Simbel, Egypt this week finally released more than 200 tourists that they had taken hostage to protest a water shortage, the Egypt Independent reported. The farmers claimed that they had been denied water to irrigate their crops, and they expect dry conditions to damage t ...
- Amazon Forum to Focus on Human Cost of Green E ...
“In Brazil and worldwide, large hydroelectric dams are being falsely deemed a source of “clean energy” critical to powering a “green economy.” Despite calls for “sustainable development” in the preparations for Rio+20, discussions have ignored the social and environmental impli ...
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… We chose not to listen then, what makes anyone think we will listen now…? ? Four Decades Ago, a Senator Warned About the Revolving Door of the Military-Industrial Complex Saturday, 09 June 2012 12:34By Zaid Jilani, Republic Report | News Analysi …s http://tr ...
- The Truth about Richard Muller
"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
- The Truth about Judith Curry
Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
- The Truth about Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
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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 ...
- Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
- The rarest rhino's last stand
Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
- Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
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Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
- Can loggers be conservationists?
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
- Probe strikes trouble around the red planet
A Nasa spacecraft orbiting Mars is in safe mode after it detected a problem.The Mars Odyssey, which has been circling the red planet since 2001, noticed something odd with one of its gyroscope-like devices that helps control its...
- Whooping cough epidemic rapidly escalating
The epidemic of whooping cough, a potentially fatal infection, is rapidly escalating, the latest figures published by health authorities show.The disease, spread by coughing and sneezing, is particularly dangerous for babies and...
- Kiwi scientists developing 'groundbreaking' drug
Kiwi scientists are part of a team developing a groundbreaking drug to stop the body from rejecting bone marrow transplants in cancer patients.Auckland University's Professor Bill Denny and Dr Julie Spicer are part of a group working...
- Sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91
Ray Bradbury anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits - and not necessarily as good things.The science fiction-fantasy master spent...
- Cloud prevents many from spotting Transit of Venus
Some New Zealanders were lucky enough to catch a once in a lifetime glimpse of Venus passing over the sun today but cloud over much of the country prevented many others from spotting the Transit of Venus.The weather stayed clear...
- Gap-and-Crap Comparison: Spain Ibex vs. S&P 500
Inquiring minds just may be interested in a gap-and-crap comparison of the the S&P 500 index, the Spain Ibex index, and the Euro. Spain Ibex Stock Market Index S&P 500 Cash Index Above Charts From Yahoo! Finance Major World Indices Annotations by Mis ...
- An "Emperor Has No Clothes" Moment: ESM Has Fa ...
In what may become a historic "Emperor Has No Clothes" moment, the euro, stocks, oil, and European government bonds all quickly reversed course following initial euphoria of a Spanish bank bailout that is sure to do more harm than good. For details of the bailout please see Rajoy Proclaims ...
- Modern Day Economic Fairy Tale (Except It's True)
Once upon a time (today), in a land not so far away (USA), there lived a trio of economic wizards (economists), whose names shall remain anonymous (Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw, Ben Bernanke). A fourth wizard, Murry Rothbard, is no longer among the living but resides in the netherworld. T ...
- Socialists Score Well in First Round of French ...
Be prepared for the Socialists to wreck France. The Guardian reports French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament and President François Hollande is about to get a free hand in his response to country's economic crisis. The left has scored well in the first round of F ...
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S&P Futures Opened up 15 points and Nasdaq futures up about 20 points but soared to +32 points in seconds as if something was solved by this bailout in Spain. It wasn't. Nonetheless, shorts appear for the moment scrambling to cover. When reality sets in is anyone's guess. On a delayed f ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 14, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington International Newsworthy IAEA Refuses Iran Cooperation Act War with Iran Propaganda: New Murky ‘Evidence’ of Iran’s N ...
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“What you need to succeed is sincerity, and if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made” William Blum “A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me [...]
- Podcast Show #85: US-Israel War on Iran & the ...
The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr James Petras Professor James Petras returns to our show to discuss the mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran and the two-track US war propaganda- one directed at Iran, the other targeting the ‘liberal public’ to confuse and undermine the major ...
- Is Shale Gas a Real Energy Solution?
The Serious Consequences of New Technologies to Explode Gas out of Shale Rock William Engdahl There is a global rush to embrace a new technique to extract hydrocarbons from the Earth. From Germany to Poland and France, from China and above all in the USA where the technique of hydraulic fractur ...
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- 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 →
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- 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 →
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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 →
- 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
- Pint sized rocket
A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
- Seeing Around the Corner
Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
- Drugs in sewage
Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
- Messages from Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...
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English: Marcus Bachmann with his wife Michele Bachmann at the 2011 Time 100 gala. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 07: A boat passes in front of Alcatraz Island on April 7, 2011 in San Francisco, United States. If the federal budget impasse cannot be resolved by the Friday deadline, many national parks and monument visitor centers will face closure including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Muir Woods, Independence Hall, Alcatraz Island, and the Washington Monument. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
CANDID WHIRL..April 1953..Jeanne Ferguson .....item 2..Inside Amazon's warehouse -- dizzying pace at online retailer (September 17, 2011) ... (Photo credit: marsmet523)
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