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Thursday, June 14, 2012

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Rogue Government.com

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The Galloping Beaver

  • Lowers delivery costs . . .
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  • Perspective of the past . . .
    THE WASHINGTON POST has an article you should read and ponder. It's written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, "40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought". (Sam) Ervin’s answer to his own question hints at the magnitude of Watergate: “To destroy, insofar as the pr ...

Media Matters for America

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    Fox News is downplaying the role Bush policies continue to play in driving debt and deficit spending and attacking President Obama for accurately noting that the high debt and deficit spending was "baked into the cake" when he took office. But independent experts -- including an adviser to Pres ...
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    The Federal Reserve released a study this week showing that Americans' net worth fell dramatically between 2007-10. However, while reporting on the study, Fox News hosts falsely claimed the decline occurred during the "last three years," even though it's clear the decline began two years b ...

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    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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    Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing ov ...
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    According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, ...
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    The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County.  The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to dimini ...

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  • W.H.O. Declares Diesel Fumes Cause Lung Cancer
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Duly Noted

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Environmental Graffiti

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Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

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War is a Crime.org

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  • Protest Shimon Peres at White House Tonight
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      By Dave Lindorff   Reading, watching and listening to the mainstream media in America, it gets harder and harder to tell the difference between journalism and rank propaganda. Consider the coverage of the French parliamentary election currently underway.   Most Americans who rea ...

Grist - News

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

  • The Roach Motel at the End of the Universe
    By Les Visible I’m sure the heinous empires of Rockefeller and Rothschild, along with all those other names, so well known to some of us, would have long ago met their well deserved fates at the hands of the mob; possibly even at the hands of a creative, patient and fiendishly ingenious mo ...
  • Dr. Oz caves to Big Pharma, pimps vaccines on ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Vaccinations have far more benefits than risks, and when children are not vaccinated, their own health and the health of everyone around them is at serious risk. These are some of the outrageously false statements made by the infamous Dr. Mehmet Oz i ...
  • Icelanders Force Accountability for Banks – Wh ...
    George Lakey, Contributor Waking Times Ever since Iceland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the country has been busy reinventing itself. The first step was to restore democracy through a turbulent nonviolent struggle, then to force resignations in the financial sector and secure a criminal convictio ...
  • Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?
    Jeff Clark Casey Research It may feel like I’m out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now for a huge move into gold and silver. There are, however, very valid reasons to reasonably expect a mania in our [...]
  • How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler&#82 ...
    Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington The Guardian, Saturday 25 September 2004 18.59 EDT George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Coodo’s Stylish Modular Units Can be Combined ...
    Read the rest of Coodo’s Stylish Modular Units Can be Combined to Create the Prefab Home of Your Dreams Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", coodo, coodo modular units, eco design, energy efficient, green architecture, Green Building, green ...
  • Italian Firefighter House is Carved Into a Cav ...
    Read the rest of Italian Firefighter House is Carved Into a Cave Like a Superhero Base! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Bergmesitewolf Architekten, Daylighting, earth ambience temperature, eco design, green design, In the Rock, italy, Margreid, pel ...
  • 8 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts for the Procr ...
    Read the rest of 8 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts for the Procrastinator’s Papa Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cheap father’s day gifts, Cook Dad a Meal, DIY Beer for Dad, diy clock, diy father's day gifts, diy record clock, DIY Record Clock for Dad, DIY T ...
  • New Pee-Powered Plasma Thruster Could Allow As ...
    A new type of plasma thruster, currently in development at the Australian National University, could be a game-changer for deep space missions. Researchers at ANU believe that the new plasma thruster will help satellites travel for longer and farther into deep space. And unlike most plasma thrus ...
  • Recycled Guitar Picks Bring Old Vinyl Records ...
    Give your jam sessions some vintage coolness, by plucking your strings with these recycled record guitar picks. Handcut from disused vinyl records, the glossy black picks still bear the banded grooves of the tunes they once played. Each guitar pick is meticulously sanded down to ensure perfect s ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Humanoid Robot Learns Language Like a Baby
    With the help of patient human instructors, a robot has learned to talk like a human infant, learning the names of simple shapes and colors.
  • Black-Hole Hunter Is NASA’s Latest Cheap-but-A ...
    With the launch of NASA's NuSTAR mission, which will explore high-energy x-rays and black holes, we take a look at the agency's successful history with small, low-cost satellites dedicated to a few important scientific goals.
  • Amateur Astronomers Help Scientists Map Over 4 ...
    Amateur and professional astronomers have produced a star catalog that provides detailed information on more than 42 million stars, many of which are accurately mapped for the first time in history.
  • More Big Wildfires May Be Future Norm for US
    An international team of scientists discovered that climate change will disrupt fire patterns across over 80 percent of the globe by the end of the century, possibly making massive wild fires like the one this month in Colorado more frequent in North America.
  • How Aging Is Recorded in Our Genes
    A comparison of newborn baby DNA with that of a centenarian shows that the scope of aging's toll on genes can be dramatic. Such changes may help explain why our risk of cancer and other diseases increases as we get older.

PakAlert

  • ARMAGEDDON A SPACE WAR COMING TO YOU SOON
    The United States and Russia have massive stockpiles of thermonuclear weapons and nuclear missiles that could destroy the world many times over. At some point in the near future, Israel and the U.S. will be involved in some kind of military action against Iran. Syria is a key battlefield and the ...
  • Video: What Mainstream Media Don’t Want You To ...
    You can’t watch the mainstream media propaganda channels for more than ten minutes without a talking head breathlessly announcing that gas prices have dropped for the 24th day in a row and are now back to $3.55 a gallon. Wall Street oil analysts, who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per ...
  • The Apocalypse Has Arrived
    The prophesies are many, the prophets legend. Each Age of Man has presaged the events of the future that shall unfold. Mighty civilizations from the Sumerians to the Romans, and powerful seers from the Greek oracles to Nostradamus predicted the arrival of what's called the Apocalypse in the Bibl ...
  • Why They Killed Gaddafi “A Story You Must Read”
    Gaddafi nationalized his nation’s oil reserves and used the revenue to build schools, universities, hospitals, and infrastructure.
  • Barak Says Hezbollah Will Get Syrian Chemical ...
    Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak added to the propaganda offensive aimed at Syria today when he said arch nemesis Hezbollah will receive chemical weapons after the al-Assad regime falls. “The moment the regime there falls, we’ll be following these things, but at the end of the day it is ve ...

Andy Worthington

  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: $2000 Needed to Su ...
    Please support my work! As my quarterly fundraising drive continues, I’d like to thank the ten friends and supporters who have so far donated $500 towards the $2500 that I am hoping to raise to supplement the money I am paid for running the “Close Guantánamo” campaign and for w ...
  • Video: On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Disc ...
    Yesterday, I made my way to a TV studio opposite the Houses of Parliament to take part in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! — my first since last April, when the classified military files released by WikiLeaks, on which I worked as a media partner, were first published. I was ...
  • Video: On RT, Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
    Yesterday evening in London (and at 4pm Eastern time), I was delighted to be interviewed by Kristine Frazao, via Skype, for the news on RT (Russia Today) from Washington D.C., and specifically for an eight-minute feature entitled, “In Limbo at Gitmo,” which is available below. (Click ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Please Help Me Raise $25 ...
    It’s that time of the year again. Every three months, I ask you, my friends, readers and supporters, to help to support my independent, freelance investigative journalism — as the foremost journalist on Guantánamo, the 169 men still held there, and the lies and distortions that are s ...
  • “Pragmatism Over Ideology”: Obama’s Fail ...
    Last week, a major article in the New York Times painted a grim portrait of how President Obama has taken over from George W. Bush as the “commander in chief” of a “war on terror” that seems to have no end, and that not only appears to be counter-productive, but also, at heart, illegal. Un ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Creator of ‘Liberty Dollars’ Fights Forfeiture ...
    A 68-year-old antigovernment activist who is facing prison for minting his own currency is now seeking a new trial while opposing the federal government’s attempt to seek forfeiture of $7 million in coins and silver bars. Bernard von NotHaus, convicted by a jury 15 months ago of violating federa ...
  • WND Not Happy, Appeals Dismissal of Esquire Suit
    It seems there’s room for WorldNetDaily (WND) to have one more obsession related to President Obama’s birth certificate, though this time it has little to do with Obama himself. This week, WND announced its plans to appeal a federal judge’s decision to dismiss its $250 million lawsuit against Es ...
  • Leader of Black Hebrew Sect Pleads Guilty to K ...
    The head of a polygamous sect who killed a 4-year-old boy because he thought the child was gay has pleaded guilty to murder and will testify against others who were arrested as accessories. Peter Lucas Moses, 27, the leader of a group that reportedly subscribed to Black Hebrew beliefs, pleaded g ...
  • Judge, Investigators in American Front Case Re ...
    The racist right has responded to a crackdown on the white supremacist American Front with vicious threats and demands for the immediate release of more than a dozen members picked up last month in Florida. The threats, all of which have been anonymous, have so far targeted Orange-Osceola State ...
  • Neo-Nazi Bill White, on the Lam, Arrested in M ...
    Well-known Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon Bill White was arrested in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, after nearly a month on the run. He missed a scheduled check-in with his probation officer and disappeared from his home in Lynchburg last month. White, who faces federal charges of violating th ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Whistleblower Bradley Manning Thanks Supporters
    Pfc. Bradley Manning is facing court-martial for leaking government documents to the website WikiLeaks. Manning's case has garnered support from many followers who regard him as a champion for governmental transparency. In a statement released by Manning's lawyer David Coombs, Manning pa ...
  • Obama to Skip Rio Earth Summit
    The U.S. state department has announced that President Obama will not be attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, this month in Brazil. Thousands demanding climate justice at the 2009 UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen (photo: lightsinmotion) ...
  • US Trade Agreement Leak Reveals 'Radical New P ...
    The release today of a confidential document from ongoing US trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations -- known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- reveals that provisions included in the trade agreement would drastically undermine Obama's proposed domestic agenda and give unprecen ...
  • US Drone Program Fuels Global Dismay with Obam ...
    President Obama is still vastly more popular internationally than his predecessor, George W. read more
  • We're Number 88! We're Number 88!; US Ranked ...
    The just released 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI) from the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that the world has become slightly more peaceful over the last two years, with Iceland ranking as the most peaceful country and Somalia ranking as the least peaceful place. The U.S. ranks 88 of 158.C ...

Lifehacker

  • Reeder for iPhone Updated with More Reader Opt ...
    iOS: Reeder is our pick for the best news reader on iPhone and it received a big update today that includes a bunch of new options and settings, multiple account profiles, gesture support, and plenty more. More » ...
  • Build Your Own Backyard Fire Pit for Serious S ...
    Everyone grills in the warm weather, but if you're looking to do some serious cooking for a group of people, whether it's a huge pot of stew or a whole suckling pig, you'll need something a little bigger. Thankfully, even if you have a small ...
  • The Dreamy Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    Flickr user d_carr is no stranger to our featured desktop posts. He has a knack for picking great-looking wallpapers, and then adorning them with docks and launchers that look like they belong on your desktop, instead of tools that are bolted ...
  • Attach a Cordless Drill to Your Pepper Grinder ...
    If you're hitting the grill this weekend or you just have a recipe that calls for a lot of freshly ground black pepper, you could sit with a pepper grinder and grind it yourself for minutes on end, or you can take a page from the video above, ...
  • Google TV: It's Actually Awesome, and Here's H ...
    Remember Google TV? You know, Google's weird, cumbersome foray into the world of set top boxes? When it was released it seemed like a convoluted mess, but it's actually evolved into a pretty awesome platform. Here's why you should care and ...

Water Privatization

  • Draft urges water system steps
    The city of Tulsa should adopt an aggressive improvement strategy to address its water and waste-water system needs, a draft report presented to the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority on Wednesday recommends.
  • Davao residents protest privatization of power ...
    By Karlos Manlupig, VERA Files Hundreds of environmentalists, activists and residents in Davao City staged a march protest to protest the proposed privatization of power plants in Mindanao and urged the scrapping of the Electric Power Reform Act which marked … Continue reading →
  • Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to hire m ...
    Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority members said Friday that the decision to bring in a management firm will make the agency stronger
  • Davao water firm workers oppose proposed Angar ...
    DAVAO CITY — Workers of the Davao City Water District (DCWD) led by Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa DCWD (NAMADACWAD) on Wednesday registered strong opposition against the proposed Angara Bill (House Bill 2997), saying enactment of the measure would lead to the full privatization of all water districts ...
  • CUPE reminds Grits of privatization pitfalls
    WINDSOR, Ont. -- CUPE Local 543.1 delivered a crate of oranges to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s office Thursday as a “gentle reminder” of what can happen when the provincial government contracts services out to private entities like it did with the troubled Ornge air ambulance service.

Guardian

  • David Cameron at the Leveson inquiry - live
    • 'No overt or covert deal with newspapers' • 'Inquiry is a cathartic moment for press and politicians' • 'Politicans and the press have grown 'too close' • 'I don't think the regulatory system … works'12.00pm: Journalist and author James Robinson has just tweeted:Jay words of day thus far: 'rec ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Spanish borrowing costs ...
    • Italy gets €4.5bn bond sale away but pays high price • Today's agenda Liveblogging now: JuliaKollewe11.39am: Only €60bn to €70bn will be needed to clean up and strengthen Spain's banks, according to an audit of the country's financial sector, Reuters reported, citing two sources. That's almos ...
  • Syria crisis: new evidence of war crimes - liv ...
    • Amnesty documents state-sponsored war crimes in Syria • Damascus hit by another bomb • UN backtracks on 'civil war' claim • Egypt awaits crucial verdict on its political transition11.41am: Egypt: Dozens of protesters have gathered outside the Supreme Constitutional Court in the Cairo neighborh ...
  • Falklands anniversary: David Cameron defiant o ...
    Prime minister marks 30th anniversary of war by paying tribute to those who died and pledging to continue to defend islandsDavid Cameron has marked the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands war by pledging to continue defending the islands from "aggressive threats" by Argentina.Eight th ...
  • Police advised not to pursue prosecution of Gu ...
    Scotland Yard to drop investigation of possible prosecution of David Leigh for hacking voicemail in corrupt arms deals storyThe Crown Prosecution Service has advised Scotland Yard that it is not in the public interest to pursue a prosecution against the Guardian journalist David Leigh for hackin ...

McClatchey

  • In Penn State trial, childhood memories of abu ...
    Jurors in the Jerry Sandusky trial are hearing from witnesses whove struggled at times to recount the sexual abuses they say happened to them as children, a personally painful but…Click to Continue »
  • Mitt Romney to business: Help is on the way
    Mitt Romney told business leaders Wednesday President Barack Obama is largely responsible for the nation?s sluggish economy, but a Romney presidency would mean big changes that would make it easier…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: 'Huge gaps' in military's review of m ...
    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a Senate panel on Wednesday that he is unsatisfied with the Pentagon's current approach to combating military suicides and that the Defense Department will review…Click to Continue »
  • JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon takes responsibili ...
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Congress on Wednesday that he bore ultimate responsibility for a $2 billion trading loss, but that the bank might financially penalize some of the…Click to Continue »
  • Legal voters may or may not have been purged f ...
    Florida Gov. Rick Scott often says that no actual citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in his program to make sure noncitizens don't have the chance to cast…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • China Reaffirms Peace and Development Support ...
    Beijing, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) China reaffirmed today its disposition to work for peace and stability in Afghanistan and confirmed will participate in a regional conference on the future of this ...
  • China to promote Afghanistans stability FM spo ...
    A Chinese vice foreign minister will attend the international talks on Afghanistan's future on Thursday in Kabul, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said Wednesday.Vice Foreign ...
  • PAKISTAN Uncertain future for Afghan refugees ...
    Many refugees have struggled to re-integrate upon return to Afghanistan DUBAI, 13 June 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is calling on the government of Pakistan not to hastily expel Afghan ...
  • Afghanistan Quake Tolls 71 Dead
    Kabul, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) An earthquake shook the Afghan mountainous district of Burka, Baghlan province and at least 71 people were killed in a landslide on Monday, an official source reported ...
  • NATO still hopes Afghanistan supply routes thr ...
    International News: Canberra: Despite securing new transit deals with three Central Asian states, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday, NATO still hopes to reopen transport ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Federal Circuit finally gets due process and " ...
    In this week's Honesty Without Fear radio program, I interviewed Robert "Bob" Whitmore and his lawyer, Paula Dinerstein, about the landmark decision Whitmore won from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week. The Federal Circuit has finally put to rest the unfortunat ...
  • NWC amicus brief urges protection for railroad ...
    Today, attorney Stephen Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I are filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief urges the ARB to affirm a decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in favor of Christophe ...
  • FBI keeps agent who botched Stevens case and h ...
    The Alaska Dispatch published a story yesterday that reveals how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) condones misconduct and punishes those who speak out for the truth. The story by investigative reporters Amanda Coyne and Tony Hopfinger is called, "Why is the lead agent in the botche ...
  • Transparency International hosts international ...
    Transparency International (TI) hosted a conference for whistleblowers last week in Berlin, Germany. Mark Worth is reporting in a blog post that around the world, "Powerful cultural, political and social forces – often dating back centuries – can keep the lid on bribery, extorti ...
  • ARB says SOX covers contractor's employees; re ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a precedent setting decision last week holding that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) does protect the employees of contractors to publicly traded companies.  The decision is particularly noteworthy as the ARB rejected the Fi ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • Red Green Show Thrives Thanks To The Internet ...
    This one is a tad old, but it is certainly worth sharing. A while back, Chuck Norris' Enemy (deceased) sent in this great interview with Steve Smith, the creative mind and star of the Red Green Show. This show, for those who are not familiar with it, is the amalgamation of comedy, handyman, and ...
  • Fair Use/Fair Dealing Doesn't Require Payment ...
    It continues to amaze me just how much people can't get their heads around the rather basic concept of fair use (or, as some countries prefer, fair dealing). Howard Knopf has a blog post, talking about a Canadian university that, for reasons that make no sense, has included in its "copyright gu ...
  • RiP: A Remix Manifesto... Taken Offline Due To ...
    A few years ago, we wrote about the ridiculous hoops filmmaker Brett Gaylor had to jump through in making his film, RiP: A remix manifesto. If you haven't seen it, you should. As you might imagine, it's a movie all about culture and remixing, focusing quite a bit on the artist Girl Talk, but a ...
  • DailyDirt: Cool-Looking Photography
    Digital photography has created a massive amount of incredible images. Although professional photography has and always will require quite a bit of skill, the rise of amateur photographers is unmistakable. We've pointed out some cool photography before, and here are just a few more examples. ...
  • Defensive Patent License: A Solution To Patent ...
    There have been a few unique ideas lately about ways for tech companies to try to "deal" with the explosion of innovation-hindering patent lawsuits against any company that's been marginally successful. For innovators, it's become something of a pandemic, so it's no surprise to see some experim ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Russia sets out tough terms for resolving Syri ...
    Tony Karon writes: The notion that Russia might soon abandon Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime may prove mistakenly optimistic: Moscow is now supplying attack helicopters to Damascus. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Tuesday that the U.S. confronted Russia about the new arms ...
  • This time, Europe really is on the brink
    Niall Ferguson and Nouriel Roubini write: Is it one minute to midnight in Europe? The failure of German public opinion to grasp the dire state of affairs in Europe today is inviting a repeat of precisely the crisis of the mid 20th century that European integration was designed to avoid. With eve ...
  • A few thoughts on Stuxnet, leaks, and cyberwarfare
    After reading posts by Philip Weiss and Marcy Wheeler on the Stuxnet-Sanger story, I want to make a few comments to add some perspective. In David Sanger’s report, this, supposedly, was one of the key revelations: In the summer of 2010, shortly after a new variant of the worm had been sent ...
  • U.S. drones deeply unpopular around the world
    Glenn Greenwald writes: Last night I wrote about how Obama’s drone attacks and other forms of militarism in the Muslim world are making another Terror attack on U.S. soil more likely, while my Salon colleague Jefferson Morley documented the mass political instability those policies are spa ...
  • Why weren’t they grateful?
    Pankaj Mishra reviews Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup by Christopher de Bellaigue: In 1890, an itinerant Muslim activist called Jamal al-din al-Afghani was in Iran when its then ruler, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, granted a tobacco concession to a British businessman ca ...

Watts Up With That?

  • DALLAS: from “who shot JR?” to &#8 ...
    Ugh. Sigh, they can’t even just fight over Texas oil, cattle, and greed anymore, now they fight over  “alternate energy”. I just caught a few minutes of the Turner Network Television (TNT) reboot of the 70′s TV primetime drama “DALLAS”, … Continue readin ...
  • SMOS Satellite imagery suggests NE passage to ...
    From the Alfred Wegener Institute:   North-East Passage soon free from ice again? Winter measurements show thin sea ice in the Laptev Sea, pointing to early and large scale summer melt Bremerhaven, 8 June 2012, The North-East Passage, the sea … Continue reading →
  • A refreshing change on sea level policy &#8211 ...
    From HamptonRoads.com, and update to what we reported here yesterday  – Science vs AGW Advocacy in North Carolina The North Carolina Senate has approved a bill that ignores scientists’ warnings of rising sea levels. Senators approved the bill on a … Continue reading →
  • FOI reveals nasty hateful emails sent to Phil ...
    Bishop Hill is reporting that some ugly emails have been published due to FOI requests. He writes: In the wake of the death threats that weren’t at ANU, several people sent FOI requests to the University of East Anglia asking … Continue reading →
  • Hump Day Hilarity: Bringing in the sieves
    Science by Lucia, cartoon by Josh. Josh writes: Yesterday Lucia sent me an email about the recent Gergis et al ‘on hold’ paper with the subject title “Do you understand the math enough to do a cartoon?”. My response was, … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Alzheimer’s Brain Scan Test Gets FDA Approval
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly & Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of patient ...
  • Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
    Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...
  • Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
    The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
  • Virtual dissection table
  • Targeted nanoparticles show success in clinica ...
    Targeted therapeutic nanoparticles that accumulate in tumors while bypassing healthy cells have shown promising results in an ongoing clinical trial, according to a new paper. The nanoparticles feature a homing molecule that allows them to specifically attack cancer cells, and are the first such ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Madison's Statement of Solidarity with Quebec
    This was read last night at a People’s Assembly in Madison, WI - one day after Scott Walker won the recall election.  Immediately afterwards we marched from the Capitol to the UW Madison campus banging pots and pans and wearing red squares, the symbol of the Quebec student strike and ...
  • Policy vs. personality in politics
    The New York Times report on president Obama’s kill list put into stark relief something that has been easy to overlook at times over the past few years: the differences between those who prefer a personality-based political environment and those who emphasize policy.1 Those tensions real ...
  • Shalersville speaks out against fracking
    On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video w ...
  • Statement against fracking presented to townsh ...
    This is a lightly modified copy of the statement I presented on Tuesday’s meeting of township trustees. Several cuts were made right before the meeting to keep it under the three minute time limit, and a local business’ name has been removed because I did not speak to them about inc ...
  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Mom-Turned-Activist Launches National Movement ...
    Diana Reeves was furious when her state legislators caved into threats by Monsanto to sue the state of Connecticut if it passed a GMO labeling law. Lawmakers effectively told Connecticut's voters, who had clearly expressed overwhelming support for GMO labeling, "oh well." Unlike her gutless stat ...
  • How California's GM Food Referendum May Change ...
    Last month, nearly 1m signatures were delivered to county registrars throughout California calling for a referendum on the labeling of genetically engineered foods. If the measure, "The Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act", which will be on the ballot in November, passes, California wi ...
  • Food Stamp Subsidies for Junk Food Makers, Big ...
    Are food stamps lining the pockets of the nation's wealthiest corporations instead of closing the hunger gap in the United States? Why does Walmart benefit from more than $200 million in annual food stamp purchases in Oklahoma alone?Click here to read this article
  • How Veggie Co-ops and Ice Cream Collaboratives ...
    Every year, Americans spend almost $1.2 trillion on food, equal to nearly a tenth of total US GDP. In most communities, the great bulk of that goes to fast-food chains and retail giants like Walmart-and doesn't do much for locals. As Minnesota-based economist Ken Meter puts it, "Our food system ...
  • Five Million Brazilian Farmers take on Biotech ...
    Five million Brazilian farmers have taken on US based biotech company Monsanto through a lawsuit demanding return of about 6.2 billion euros taken as royalties from them. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Court to FDA: The Science Actually Matters
    The FDA certainly has been confronted with scientific evidence of the human health risks, but the agency has routinely set aside the science when making decisions.
  • 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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Swimming in Circles
    An unflattering exposé on salt water aquaculture and the mindset that promotes it. Maines seafood industry was driven into the ground by perpetual overfishing.In the nick of time, the Technology Fairy appeared and filled the coast with salmon farms Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle & ...
  • The Human Cost of the "War on Terror" Body Counts
    In the early days of the War on Terror, US General Tommy Franks declared, We dont do body counts. He was referring, of course, to the dead of Afghanistan. Submitted by Jason S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Bush Page
    "The Bush elites appear more openly and arrogantly dedicated to the aims of U.S. economic, political, and military domination of the world than any previous U.S. administration." Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role ...
    As the Syrian National Council Disintegrates, NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role in Syria Makes an Invasion Necessary Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
    Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Dea ...
    Institute of Science in Society Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn ki ...
  • Poisoning Hawaii – Genetic Engineering Chemica ...
    For over 20 years, Hawai'i has been the global center for the open-field testing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray chemicals on an almost dail ...
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel considering military attack on Syria
    ShareThisAnother comment from the peaNUT gallery: Israel considering military attack on Syria 12 Jun 2012 Israel is apparently laying the groundwork for a possible military attack on Syria by alleging that Damascus could be using chemical weapons against the Syrian people. Tel Aviv has recently ...
  • Accused British hacker charged in U.S. over Lu ...
    ShareThisAccused British hacker charged in U.S. over LulzSec attacks 13 Jun 2012 A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio, authori ...
  • Doctor failed to spot 93 separate injuries on ...
    ShareThisDoctor failed to spot 93 separate injuries on Iraqi beaten to death 11 Jun 2012 An Army doctor has been accused of a cover-up following the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa at the hands of British soldiers. Mr Mousa suffered 93 separate injuries - including fractured ribs and a broken ...
  • Michigan lawmakers approve key parts of hardli ...
    ShareThisMichigan lawmakers approve key parts of hardline anti-abortion law package 13 Jun 2012 Michigan lawmakers have voted in favour of key parts of anti-abortion laws that pro-choice campaigners claim could shut down most abortion clinics in the state. The state's House of Representatives vo ...
  • Mich. House approves bills to tighten voting laws
    ShareThisMich. House approves bills to tighten voting laws 12 Jun 2012 The Republican-led Michigan House [of sociopaths] passed several measures Tuesday aimed at tightening state election laws that backers say would protect against voter fraud and critics counter would create obstacles to voting ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Another Smoking Gun: The Pentagon Caught Again ...
    12 June 2012 The Pentagon has repeatedly deceived Senators, Representatives and the Public on the MEDEVAC issue.  This fact pattern has been systematically revealed and irrevocably proven. For instance, top Generals have said that if ground commanders requested changes to MEDEVAC procedure ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.
  • RED CROSS: Symbol of Blood
    Photo Michael Yon 17 April 2012 Army Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale booster for our troops.  That load of bull is too heavy even for a Blackhawk helicopter sling load.  During my about three years with combat troops downrange, I've never heard th ...
  • Is the Red Cross a Neutral Symbol to Afghans?
    16 April 2012 Wrtten by: MEDEVACmatters.org [Writer] Michael Yon has written about the cultural importance of our MEDEVAC helicopters showing Red Cross symbols on them in a Muslim society. Here is a photo of a poster displaying banned symbols Mark of the Beast Photo courtesy of Michael Yon Fr ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Authorities try to restore order in restive state
    After riots tore apart Arakan state over the weekend, the government placed the area under emergency rule as residents fled across the border and the UN pulled out their foreign workers
  • Hackers target DVB website
    On Saturday a denial of service attack was launched against DVB’s English and Burmese websites
  • Unrest in Arakan state
    Northwestern Burma was tense on Monday, 11 June, after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds. The unrest might force Burma’s reformist Presid ...
  • Emergency rule declared in Arakan state
    Burma's western Arakan state began a period of emergency rule Monday as authorities struggle to contain explosive sectarian tensions following deadly clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in the region
  • Riots erupt in Arakan state
    Fresh riots have flared in Northern Arakan state with a group of Muslim residents destroying local restaurants and schools this afternoon as sectarian tensions erupted in the wake of anti-Muslim violence

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ontario amends anti-discrimination code to inc ...
    [JURIST] Ontario lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved an amendment to the province's Human Rights Code [text] to prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. All three parties of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario [official website] approved Toby's Act [Bill 3 ...
  • Apple to defend against California consumer pr ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] ruled on Tuesday that Apple [corporate website] must defend against lawsuits filed by the company's customers under two California consumer protection laws. Judge Lucy Koh dismissed the other de ...
  • US senators file brief supporting Defense of M ...
    [JURIST] Ten US senators on Monday filed an amicus brief urging the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to uphold section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text], which denies federal recognition of state-sanctioned same-sex marriages. The brief argues that the fe ...
  • UN official: Israel must lift blockade of Gaza ...
    [JURIST] The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on Wednesday said [statement, PDF; press release] that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] must be lifted to prevent further human rights violations. Israel maintains a fence along its border with the Gaza Strip, ...
  • UN Lebanon tribunal hears challenge to jurisdi ...
    [JURIST] The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday held the first hearing on its jurisdiction and the legality of its creation. The defense lawyer for Mustafa Badreddine [STL profile], one of the four men wanted by the court for the assassination ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
    By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Flame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Coll ...
    TweetI reported here about the Flame computer cyberweapon developed by Israel, which has infected individual computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern nations, including Israel and Palestine.  A number of pro-Israel readers dismissed these findings.  Now Kaspersky Labs, which was one of the fir ...
  • James Rubin Advocates Syrian Regime Change, U. ...
    TweetJamie Rubin, a one-time foreign policy spokesperson in Bill Clinton’s administration has put forward a truly diabolical argument in Foreign Policy Magazine on behalf of Syrian regime change as a way of defanging the Iranian mullahs.  The odd thing about Rubin’s essay is that whi ...
  • Pro-Israel Lobby Uses Sexual Humiliation, Gay ...
    TweetBen Doherty published an illuminating report at Electronic Intifada about a new initiative by the American Jewish pro-Israel lobby to smear Iran. There are so many that it wouldn’t be newsworthy but for the fact that this new group, Iran180, created under the auspices of the New York ...
  • Memorial Protests for Ziad Jilani, Murdered by ...
    TweetToday, June 11th marks the second anniversary of the murder of East Jerusalem Palestinian, Ziad Jilani.  He was killed execution-style by Maxim Vinogradov of the Israeli Border Police on June 11, 2010 as he was driving home from Friday prayers to treat his American-born wife, Moira and his ...
  • Israel’s Orthodox Rabbis Worship God of Mammon ...
    TweetBelieve it or not, during my late teen years when my life revolved around Hebrew school, Camp Ramah and college studies at Jewish Theological Seminary, I considered becoming a rabbi. While I knew most rabbis, especially congregational rabbis, earned a comfortable living, I never considered ...

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How Upworthy Makes Important Content Sharable
    A talk by Upworthy's Sara Critchfield and Adam Mordecai at Netroots Nation (#nnupFTW) was less-than-standing-room only, so I've combined the parts we were able to catch with a similar talk by their colleague Peter Koechley at the Conversational Marketing Summit. Thanks to Deepa Kunapuli for her ...
  • For Poderopedia, It's All About Semantics
    One of the first technological decisions we made in Poderopedia, a project by Poderomedia Foundation that aims to promote greater transparency in Chile by mapping and visualizing the relationships among the country's elite, was to adopt semantic technologies to store and query data.These technol ...
  • Human-Assisted Reporting Made Easier With PAND ...
    Wouldn't it be sweet if you just got an email when something newsworthy happens? Wouldn't that make your job easier? Well, have we got news for you. Today's release, PANDA beta 2, has an awesome new feature: search notifications. Think of it like a Google News search: Go to PANDA and search f ...
  • Study Results Show Truth Goggles Helps Combat ...
    Last month, I ran a user study to test the effectiveness of Truth Goggles (a credibility layer/B.S. detector for the Internet). The tool attempts to remind users when it's important to think more carefully. If you're curious, you can check out the demo page. Now that the study has officia ...
  • Building a LocalWiki Is About Community and Ha ...
    LocalWiki is all about community, and we believe that starts with people coming together and having fun. Here are a couple of recent examples of ordinary people hanging out, having fun, and building out LocalWiki projects! San Francisco parklet ride A couple of weeks ago, we were slat ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The War Next Door - 'Dark Angel' and Mexican M ...
    In a U.S. operation dubbed "Dark Angel," local and federal law enforcement officers on May 30 arrested 20 individuals involved in methamphetamine trafficking across five states. Authorities confirmed that the leader of the trafficking network, Armando Mendoza-Haro, has links to Mexico, where the ...
  • The Edge of Health - Obesity, Depression Found ...
    Wake up, America, and lose some weight–it's keeping you tired and prone to accidents. Three studies being presented today at sleep 2012 conclude that obesity and depression are the two main culprits making us excessively sleepy while awake.Researchers at Penn State examined a random population ...
  • The Edge of Nature - Cougars Are Re-Populating ...
    American mountain lions, or cougars, are re-emerging in areas of the United States, reversing 100 years of decline. The evidence, published in The Journal of Wildlife Management, raises new conservation questions, such as how humans can live alongside the returning predators. "The cougar populat ...
  • Israel on Edge - Israeli Police Crackdown on I ...
    While the problem of illegal aliens and border security in the United States continues to be a divisive issue, Israel's immigration authorities have taken the proverbial "bull by the horns" and continued an arrest campaign for a second day against the illegal aliens living in the Jewish state, a ...
  • The Digital Edge - Search Engine Aims to Quiz ...
    A new type of search engine is being developed that can interrogate networks of sensors to give real time answers to questions about the physical world. The European-funded project, known as SMART, for ‘Search engine for MultimediA Environment geneRated content’, aims to develop and implemen ...

High Country News

  • On the hunt for abalone poachers in Northern C ...
    Don Powers, of the California Department of Fish and Game, spends his days relentlessly pursuing abalone poachers who can't seem to resist the chance to bring in some illegal shellfish cash.
  • Surveying the oft-snubbed (and very cool) spid ...
    The volunteers at the Denver Museum's Colorado Spider Survey help scientists collect important data by roaming local parks and neighborhoods, finding and cataloguing an amazing variety of arachnids.
  • Life among the Bluffoons
    There may be only 200 people living in Bluff, Utah, today, but they cherish a history that goes back for centuries, along with the dramatic red-rock
  • The Black Hills await justice
    The U.N. Human Rights Council believes that South Dakota's Black Hills belong to their native Sioux inhabitants -- but do most Americans even understand the issue?
  • Talking vegetarianism to a hunter
    An airplane chat between a vegetarian and a hunter yields unexpected common ground, largely over a mutual love and respect for wildlife.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Kimberlin UPDATE: Acting Like the Palestinian ...
    The friends of convicted domestic terrorist Brett Kimberlin have decided to act like the Palestinians. Terrorist leaders such as Arafat and Abbas always talk peace when they speak English to the foreign press, while inciting violence in Arabic to their own people. Tuesday on their website Brie ...
  • AFL-CIO Cutting Their Obama Campaign Donations
    The AFL-CIO has told USA News and World Report  that it's moving money from political candidates even though its right in the middle of election season. This represents another blow to the Obama campaign which is already way behind its fundraising goals. The labor union says this ...
  • Obama's National Security Weakness(es)
    By Barry Rubin  Let me explain to you why the Obama administration’s propaganda leak effort to prove the president is tough on national security is nonsense. Almost every example, with two exceptions — a computer virus against Iran and regime change in Libya — revolves around th ...
  • Voters to Obama: It's Not YOUR Economy Stupid!
    James Carville was only half-right.  In this 2012 election it's still "the economy stupid," but two new pieces of research are report that it it may not be Obama's economic plan that voters want to hear about. One of the reports is from Carville's own firm which states that Obama needs to c ...
  • Kimberlin Update: They Begin To Feel The Pressure
    The supporters of convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin are showing signs of desperation, perhaps because the walls are closing in on them.  They will be found out and exposed and unlike their methodology, our methods are above-board and legal. Here's the latest: It started with an excl ...

The Real Agenda

  • Revista Scientific American defiende uso de vi ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 JUNIO 2012 Una de las formas más eficaces de violencia es la que no se detecta o se siente, y en ese sentido, el gobierno tiene todos los elogios por el manejo de técnicas que hacen la violencia imperceptible. A menudo, la existencia de un gobier ...
  • US Government: Humans are National Security Th ...
    SUSANNE POSEL | OCCUPY CORPORATISM | JUNE 13, 2012 A new study published in Nature Climate Change, asserts that the warming of the world’s oceans have everything to do with the effects of man. This scientific research has climate change alarmists excited over a new way to direct man-ma ...
  • Secret Space Program Shows Its Hand
    By ZEN GARDNER | JUST WONDERING | JUNE 13, 2012 Who dumps technology more advanced than NASA on to NASA and thinks nothing of it? This admission of at least this segment of a secretive space program is quite revealing. It will probably slip by mainstream media, but sit up and take noti ...
  • Greeks Withdraw $1 Billion a Day as they Await ...
    REUTERS | JUNE 13, 2012 Greeks pulled their cash out of the banks and stocked up with food ahead of a cliffhanger election on Sunday that many fear will result in the country being forced out of the euro. Bankers said up to 800 million euros ($1 billion) were leaving major banks daily and r ...
  • Latin America Infiltrated by Statists, Sociali ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 13, 2012 The numbers and types of Statist, Socialist and Corporate Capitalists in power around Latin America have grown exponentially in the last two decades, and with them so have the masses of well-meaning people who believe their lies about s ...

Wind Watch

  • Opposition to wind project mounts
    The Castleton Select Board’s decision to stand against the proposed wind project on Grandpa’s Knob is finding support in other towns affected by the plan. The project’s developer, Reunion Power, would not comment on Castleton’s action but other town and state officials weighed in on what the opp ...
  • Gamesa halts Shaffer Mountain wind plans
    Most of the signs, scattered in lawns and on porches from Reels Corner to Windber, read: “Stop Gamesa From Destroying This Mountain.” “This Mountain” refers to Shaffer Mountain. And though “destroy” is a word that project supporters will contest, one thing is certain: Gamesa’s six-year fight for ...
  • Turbines ‘clearly’ heard 2km away: ...
    A report into wind farm noise has recommended that turbines on existing wind farms less than 2km from housing be removed. The Victorian Government last year introduced policy that states a wind farm cannot be located within 2km of an existing dwelling but turbines built near homes before the leg ...
  • Commercial wind turbines in northeastern B.C. ...
    Two species of bats considered federally endangered are being killed by commercial wind turbines in north-eastern B.C. B.C. Environmental Assessment Office documents related to Alta-Gas’s Bear Mountain wind turbines at Dawson Creek show the operation killed an estimated 156 bats and 82 bir ...
  • Gamesa scraps wind farm project
    WINDBER — Developers have pulled the plug on the 60-megawatt Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm project. “Because of a combination of factors, including uncertainty surrounding federal policies, Gamesa has decided to halt development plans for its proposed Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm in Somerset County,” ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Monetary Calculation: Looking Forward and Backward
    Monetary calculation allows entrepreneurs both to peer into an uncertain future and determine their past successes and failures.
  • FEE’s Take on Mayor Bloomberg’s Su ...
    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg explaining his intention to outlaw sodas larger than 16 ounces in restaurants, sports venues, and street carts:  Everybody’s wringing their hands saying we’ve got to do something about [obesity]. Well, here is a concrete thing…. We’re not taking ...
  • Despite Higher Revenues, Budget Deficit Heads ...
    “The federal budget deficit is approaching $1 trillion for a fourth straight year even though the government is collecting more tax revenue than last year.” (USA Today) Party on. FEE Timely Classic “Debt Can’t Burden Future Generations? It Just Ain’t So” by Robert P ...
  • Health Care Cost Expected to Rise Significantly
    “Health care spending in the United States from 2011 to 2013 is expected to grow 4 percent, which is slightly more than the historic low of 3.8 percent in 2009, government officials said Tuesday…. But in 2014, when all the facets of the Affordable Care Act go into effect, health care spend ...
  • Elinor Ostrom, 1933-2012
    With sadness that I note the passing of Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2009. She died today at age 78. To appreciate the importance of her work, read Peter Boettke’s Freeman article “Why Those Who Value Liberty Should Rejoice: Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize.&#822 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

  • Guestworkers at Gulf Coast Walmart seafood su ...
    Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors. read more
  • VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the ...
    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South. read more
  • Florida groups relaunch voter registration dri ...
    After a federal judge rules Florida's laws on voter registration are too restrictive, groups like the League of Women Voters are back in action. But the state is digging in on a plan to flag and possibly purge thousands of voters, even though the data questioning their citizenship is riddled wit ...
  • Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'n ...
    Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...
  • The Scott Walker recall fails
    Ordinary people hate other ordinary people who are doing better than them.  The politics of envy isn’t about the rich, whom ordinary people almost never see, but about their neighbours.  And Americans want a mean economy, one where everyone has to suffer like they do.  As long  as the unio ...
  • Oil Prices and the economy for the next year t ...
    Quick note, given I think that the economy is going to roll off a cliff in the new year, and soften between now and then, that means I think that oil prices are going to drop further.  I won’t be surprised to see them go under $50/barrel, unless something stupid like war with Iran happens. ...
  • Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease
    Or at least, the Bank of Canada thinks so, though they’ll never call it by that name: Nonetheless, Canada’s current account was in surplus for many years before the crisis, and is now expected to remain in deficit indefinitely. The main reason? A currency at parity with the U.S. dollar mea ...
  • My sympathy is about out
    If the Irish vote in a referendum for austerity, then they deserve what they get.  Current polls are showing Greeks will probably vote for pro-austerity parties as well, if so, again, my sympathy will be out.  Democracy is about getting what you vote for, if countries vote for austerity, then th ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Enterprising States 2012: Beating the New Norm ...
    The following is an exerpt form a new report, Enterprising States, released this week by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Chamber Foundation and written by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. Visit this site to download the full pdf version of the report, or check the interactive map ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Cairo
    Cairo, Egypt's capital, has long had some of the highest neighborhood population densities in the world. In the 1960s it was reported that one neighborhood had a density of 353,000 people per square mile (136,000 per square kilometer). The most recent data from the Egypt's statistical author ...
  • Is Perestroika Coming In California?
    When Jerry Brown was elected governor for a third time in 2010, there was widespread hope that he would repair the state’s crumbling and dysfunctional political edifice. But instead of becoming a Californian Mikhail Gorbachev, he has turned out to be something more resembling Konst ...
  • From California to Canberra, the Real Class War
    Just under a year before she crawled over Kevin Rudd to claim the Prime Minister’s office, Julia Gillard visited the United States in her then capacity as Australia’s Education Minister. Her stay in Los Angeles took in the Technical and Trades College, where she brushed up ...
  • America's Two Economies
    Surely you’ve seen it in your own neck of the woods: great contrasts between prosperity and wealth on the one hand, and hardship and despair on the other. I have certainly seen it in every place I have been over the last four years. FDR described the Great Depression as “one-third ...

GM Watch

  • Bt cotton and pests in Chinese fields
    1.'Spillover' problems rather than 'spillover' benefits 2.Widespread adoption of Bt cotton and insecticide decrease promotes biocontrol services NOTE: A piece of research that's just been published in the journal Nature (item 2) is being heavily promoted as showing that Bt cotton helps pest-kil ...
  • Germany will fight to keep total GM trace ban
    Germany to oppose easing of genetically modified trace rule Reuters, 11 June 2012 http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/38484 HAMBURG - Germany will oppose any European Union move to allow traces of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) organisms in food, a step the EU has already taken ...
  • Germany will fight to keep total GM trace ban
    Germany to oppose easing of genetically modified trace rule Reuters, 11 June 2012 http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/38484 HAMBURG - Germany will oppose any European Union move to allow traces of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) organisms in food, a step the EU has already taken ...
  • National conference on Bt cotton questions the ...
    Reviewing 10 years of Bt cotton: 1.NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Bt COTTON QUESTIONS THE SUCCESS CLAIMS  2.BT COTTON FAILED THE MAJORITY OF COTTON FARMERS IN INDIA NOTE from Kavitha Kuruganti: The following [item 1] is a Press Release from Centre for Environment Education, Centre for Sustainable Agric ...
  • National conference on Bt cotton questions the ...
    Reviewing 10 years of Bt cotton: 1.NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Bt COTTON QUESTIONS THE SUCCESS CLAIMS  2.BT COTTON FAILED THE MAJORITY OF COTTON FARMERS IN INDIA NOTE from Kavitha Kuruganti: The following [item 1] is a Press Release from Centre for Environment Education, Centre for Sustainable Agric ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
  • 21 Signs That This Could Be A Long, Hot, Crazy ...
    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...

Desertification

  • The Algerian green dam experience (Google / APS)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.aps.dz/Fight-against-desertification,51576.html Fight against desertification: Africa inspired by Algerian green dam experience ALGIERS- The initiators of the Great Green Wall of Africa will have to inspire from the Algerian experience in ...
  • Sowing Seeds in the Desert (Chelsea Green)
    Read at : http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/sowing_seeds_in_the_desert/ Sowing Seeds in the Desert Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security by Masanobu Fukuoka Edited By Larry Korn From the author of the international bestseller The One-Straw Revolution The earth ...
  • Vanishing forests (Dawn.com)
    Read at : http://dawn.com/2012/06/10/environment-the-vanishing-forests/ Environment: The vanishing forests by A.B. Arisar | From InpaperMagzine | Forests keep the planet alive and play a key role in the battle against climate change. Forests feed rivers and are essential in replenishin ...
  • Regional cooperation to combat desertification ...
    Read at : http://stellasmusings.blogspot.in/2012/06/fighting-dldd-how-about-some-regional.html Fighting desertification: how about some regional cooperation? Posted by Stella Paul There we were – journalists and experts from different countries, discussing, exploring a common problem: Desertific ...
  • Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (Google ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://socialgoodguide.com/2012/06/10/international-conference-on-drylands-deserts-and-desertification-conference/ International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification Conference The International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Des ...

The Paper Trail

  • L.A. school police, district agree to rethink ...
    In the wake of critical news reports, Los Angeles school police and administrators have agreed to rethink enforcement tactics that have led to thousands of court citations yearly for young students in low-income, mostly minority neighborhoods.The Center for Public Integrity and the Los Angeles-b ...
  • Army's mishandling of Afghanistan police contr ...
    As the U.S. military heads for the door in Afghanistan, one of its most important tasks is to train Afghan police to take control of the nation’s security. But a billion-dollar Afghan police training contract, now being administered by the Army, has encountered some troubles, according to a new ...
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    Watch Dollars and Dentists Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
  • The Center for Public Integrity and FRONTLINE ...
    Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can't afford a visit to the dentist.An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and FRONTLINE reveals the shocking consequences of a broken safety net. Corporate dental chains are filling the gaps in care. But in so ...
  • Ethics champion Mike Rose loses big in South C ...
    A Republican state senator in South Carolina known for championing ethics reform legislation has gone down in an upset primary election here.Mike Rose, a close follower of the State Integrity Investigation — which gave South Carolina an F — had planned to introduce a series of reform measures ba ...

backofthebook.ca

  • More civil liberties at the Grand Prix
    By Marilyne Veilleix This Sunday, June 10, 2012, I attempted to take part in a protest-action: over the course of a few hours, I would take the metro back and forth from Berri to Jean-Drapeau station to peacefully protest my disagreement with the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which in my opinion promote ...
  • LPG cut, Summerworks restored: Is this any way ...
    By Frank Moher Let us now consider the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the confusion that is its Minister, James Moore. As we reported on the weekend, the Literary Press Group of Canada, a 37-year old organization whose job is to sell the books of Canadian authors, unexpectedly lost its fun ...
  • Long live Jean Charest, says Amir Khadir
    A BoB short: Amir Khadir says he has no desire to see Jean Charest dead. “Mr. Charest is quite alive and I wish he stays that way for a long time,” the Quebec MNA told reporters on Tuesday. The remarks came after artwork depicting a partially nude, fully deceased Jean Charest, lying ...
  • 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.”
  • Inside Read: Bad Mommy
    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 ...

libcom

  • Write letters to anarchist and anti-fascist pr ...
    Kharchenko Igor Olegovich FKU SIZO-2 UFSIN Rossii po g. Moskve ul. Novoslobodskaya d. 45 127055 Moskva Russia Igor was arrested in September 2011. He is accused of having participated in a fight on the 4th of July 2010, during ...
  • Oakland parents and teachers announce plans to ...
    oakland sch.jpg As 5 elementary schools are set for closure at the end of this school year, displacing around 900 children to schools 10 miles away with no transport provided, parents and teachers ann ...
  • Recall in Wisconsin – the Alternative Was Worse
    120604_scott_walker_rally_ap_605.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by fire: The votes are in: republican Governor Scott Walker has survived his much publicized recall e ...
  • Squatting against austerity: Occupy Pisa grows ...
    14.jpg Squatting is on the rise again in these times of austerity (see for example the recent occupations of flats in Southern Spain, mostly carried out by housewives and families). An Italian project ...
  • After mass protests against election fraud, Mo ...
    This far five of the persons charged for rioting after events of "March of the millions" 6th of May in Moscow, two are known anarchist activists. Of them, Alexandra Dukhanina is in home arrest, and Stepan Zimin was remanded today until 8th of A ...

Free Range International

  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...
  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
  • One Year Later
    Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...
  • The Harbinger – A Book Review (i.e. Refl ...
    The “New York Times Bestseller” book The Harbinger was written by a Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn.   Its subtitle is: “The ANCIENT MYSTERY That Holds the SECRET of America’s Future.”   Rabbi Cahn claims to be a “Messianic Jew” – i.e. a practicing Rabbi ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • AMERICA FIRST-BEFORE POLITICS by Scotty
    AMERICA FIRST BEFORE POLITICS While listening to the Interview by FAREED ZAKARIA who was interviewing Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.  I was pleasantly suprised that Simpson had the guts to put America First before Politics. (emphasis added by Scotty) At the start of the Interview he got my ful ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How the Sustainability Movement Defies Conserv ...
    The late Barry Goldwater My decision to focus my activism in the sustainability movement has nothing to do with the horror stories climate change and Peak Oil aficionados tell about the horrible future my children and grandchildren face. I have never found terrifying or guilt-tripping people an ...
  • The Greek Town that Already Opted Out of the Euro
    An interesting  BBC feature about a flourishing Greek town. They have plenty of money because they have their own local currency – the TEMS. If video fails to play go to free link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y9R0v96K48&feature=youtu.be A Video About Greek Time Banks A second ...
  • Federal Judge Reaffirms Injunction Against NDAA
    Judge Katherine Forrest On Friday June 8 Friday federal judge Katherine Forrest reaffirmed her order blocking indefinite detention of any American by the Obama administration. Judge Forrest handed down her original injunction against the NDAA on May 16th. In a Motion for Reconsideration, Obama a ...
  • Syria’s New Prime Minister
    Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab Riad Farid Hijab is the former agriculture minister President Assad recently appointed as Syria’s new prime minister. Syrians went to the polls to elect a new parliament last month, and Assad has asked Hijab to form a new government. In Syria, as in Russia, ...
  • Will the Germans Allow the Greek Grid to Collapse?
    German chancellor Angela Merkel A total collapse of the electricity and telecommunications grid is the way I always visualize TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). It seems about to happen in Greece, where the government is out of money and depositors are withdrawing their money from G ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Twenty Names
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore "Moore, YOUR SHIRTTAIL is out!" It was the voice of Mr. Ryan, the assistant principal for discipline at my high school, and he was right on my back. Not figuratively. He was literally on it. "Turn around!" I did as I w ...
  • 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
    Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...
  • Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
    Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
  • New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
    NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • EU eyes emergency Schengen border closures
    EU countries have agreed that border control in the Schengen zone can be restored temporarily under “exceptional circumstances.” The measure is moved by the uncontrolled flow of migrants into the EU in the wake of the economic crisis. Under the proposal, which was approved at a meeti ...
  • Microbes discovered in Mars-like environment o ...
    A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has found a type of organism that can survive the most inhospitable conditions on Earth. “We haven’t formally identified or characterized the species. But these are very different than anything else that has been cultured. G ...
  • Globalist Plan: European Union Police State Lo ...
    European Union apparatchiks are preparing to lockdown Europe following Greece’s exit. From the Associated Press today: Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, legally, limits could be imposed on movement of people and money across national borders within the EU if it’s necessary to protect public orde ...
  • Rectangular galaxy discovered 70 million light ...
    Astronomers have found a rectangular galaxy in a wide field-of-view image taken with the Japanese Subaru Telescope for Swinburne astrophysicist Dr. Lee Spitler. The unusual cosmic phenomenon was discovered 70 million light years away within a group of 250 galaxies. “In the Universe around us, mo ...
  • SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights
    Two leading opponents of SOPA are taking their fight for Internet freedoms to a whole new level. This time a team of bi-partisan lawmakers are offering a Digital Bill of Rights to help ensure that Americans continue to have an open Internet. “I believe that individuals possess certain fundamenta ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Bristol Palin Sued By Bar Heckler For Defamation
    The man who told Bristol Palin that her mother, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, is a “whore” and “evil” in a Hollywood bar last year is now suing Lil’ Palin for defamation. You read that correctly. Do you remember the infamous encounter at the Saddle Ranch on the Sunset Strip last Septembe ...
  • Lil Wayne Watches Game 1 Of The NBA Finals x A ...
    Lil Wayne attended the Miami Heat vs. Oklahoma City Thunder NBA game yesterday (June 12th) at the Chesapeake Energy Arena with Mack Maine . You can check out some photos of them sitting court-side after the jump below. Weezy also went on Twitter during the game to tweet about his frustrations w ...
  • Lance Armstrong may lose his medals
    I can't wait for Chris to weigh in (who is a cyclist himself, and no friend to Armstrong).From USA Today:Lance Armstrong faces new doping charges brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.Armstrong, who retired from competitive cycling in 2011, confirmed on Twitter on Wednesday that he ...
  • BREAKING: USADA Files Formal Doping Charges Ag ...
    Bad news for Lance Armstrong . The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has just brought formal doping charges against the champion cyclist. The action that could cost him his seven Tour de France titles. As a result of the new charges, Armstrong has been banned from competition in triathlons, a sport in wh ...
  • ‘.Apple’ among proposed Internet suffixes
    Top-level domains, the part of an Internet address after the “dot”, are in for a big change. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN — is allowing companies to use their brand name for as a suffix if they pay a hefty premium. AP is reporting that Apple is one of the

Groklaw

  • Spokeo Settles FTC Charges Over Sale of Social ...
    Data broker Spokeo Inc. on June 12 agreed to pay $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it sold employers profiles of prospective hires as a way to screen job applicants. "Explore beyond the resume," Spokeo allegedly urged hum ...
  • Phil Zimmermann's post-PGP project: privacy fo ...
    Zimmermann's new company, Silent Circle, plans to release a beta version of an iPhone and Android app in late July that encrypts phone calls and other communications. A final version is scheduled to follow in late September. ...Yet even after a decade of startups that have tried to capitalize on ...
  • PGP founder creates secure voice mobile app, b ...
    PGP creator Phil Zimmerman has launched Silent Circle, an encrypted phone-call app for Android and iOS. The service will likely cost $20/month, for which Zimmerman does not apologize: "This is not Facebook. Our customers are customers. They're not products. They're not part of the inventory. ...
  • Comcast Protests Shake Down of Alleged BitTorr ...
    Instead of handing over subscriber info, Comcast asked the court to quash the subpoenas. Among other things, the ISP argued that the court doesn't have jurisdiction over all defendants, because many don't live in the district in which they are being sued. The company also argues that the copyrig ...
  • The Gift that Keeps on Giving Distribution an ...
    Abstract: Copyleft obligations in licenses like GPL version 2 are triggered by "distribution," but what exactly does that mean? This article examines the question of what constitutes distribution under U.S. copyright law, and how that question plays out in complex business settings where free s ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Pocket Casts. Easy podcast listening on iPhone ...
    Pocket Casts greatly simplifies listening to podcasts on an iPhone or Android. The interface is intuitive, way better than clumsy iTunes. Podcasts can be streamed or downloaded. Most of the podcast processing is done on their servers, so it’s quick. They get podcasts from iTunes, BlogTalkR ...
  • Jim Cramer on Jamie Dimon’s Senate testimony. ...
    Ok, this is funny, and on target too, delivered in Cramer’s classic hypermanic style.[JPM CEO Jamie Dimon] didn’t win. He’s a loser. How? You lose when you go in front of Congress and you lose when you go out. Anyone that declares him a winner is wrong…He walked in a loser. Testified. Walk ...
  • “The euro is the problem not the solution” to ...
    Daniel Hannan, English MEP, speaks the truth about the debt crisis.“The only impact” of the Spanish bailout “has been to indebt every Spanish household with a further 15,000 euro debt they didn’t have before.” That money of course goes right to the banksters, as the ...
  • Democrat Ron Barber Retains Gabrielle Giffords ...
    A likeable moderate, Ron Barber, beat a Tea Party Republican by seven points in the special election for Gabby Giffords’ House seat in Arizona last night.Giffords resigned to focus on recovering from being shot in the face. Barber was next to her when it happened. He won by rightfully port ...
  • Medium scale wave power sucessfully installed
    Eco Wave Power has successfully tested wave power devices in stormy conditions in the Black Sea. Two of their rather small devices can power 6-10 houses steadily. Imagine, they say, what 100 commercial-scale devices could do. Let’s hope it happens. [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Let’s catch up with Australia on marine conser ...
    Today the Australian Government announced the creation of the world’s largest network of marine reserves, covering 3.1 million square kilometres of ocean including the entire Coral Sea! The marine reserves will protect a third of Australia’s territorial waters. It’s amazing news for the oceans, ...
  • The Eternal Cognitive Dissonance of the Nation ...
    Tomorrow I leave these shores for Rio de Janeiro.  My destination is the UN conference to review the original Earth Summit of 1992 which I also attended. Yesterday I delivered a short speech in the House during General Debate on the need for a global approach to the global problems of population ...
  • Jobs and economic development blowing in the wind.
    New Zealand has been described as the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’ and I’m optimistic it will play a bigger role in our electricity generating mix.
  • Wellington Regional Council considers fracking
    Today Greater Wellington Regional Council joined the growing list of councils who passed a motion regarding the controversial hydraulic fracturing, or fracking process. Good on, Green Councillor Paul Bruce for putting it on the agenda, arguing his case, and getting it through.
  • National Three Strikes against women – in just ...
    One – getting women on boards Today the Prime Minister and Minister of Women’s Affairs launched the 25 Percent Group to get a target of 25% of women onto boardsby 2015. The board who will be directing this project is headed by a man. Two – maternal suicide Today we  also found out the leading [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This Hidden Food Poisons Your Family - Ignore ...
    By Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins What do a former mouthpiece for tobacco and big oil, a corporate-interest PR flack, and the regional director of a Monsanto-funded tort reform group have in common? They're all part of the anti-labeling PR team that will soon unleash a massive advert ...
  • Dangerous Diabetes Drug Still on Market Despit ...
    By Dr. Mercola Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in connection with the diabetes drug Actos, a drug that France and Germany pulled from the market a year ago after it was found to cause bladder cancer and tumors in people using it for type 2 diabetes. At the time, the U.S. FDA responded ...
  • The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for Rheuma ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you're looking for a way to help fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without drugs, then you need look no further than the spice shelf at your local market. New research published in the spring of 2012 showed that curcumin, the active ingredient in the curry spice turmeric ...
  • This Popular Procedure Tripled the Cancer Risk ...
    By Dr. Mercola The evidence is really stacking up against the routine use of many commonly used medical screening methods such as mammograms and CT scans—two ionizing radiation screening methods that I've been warning about since the creation of this web site. On the heels of recent reports re ...
  • Used in Gardens Everywhere, This "Biodegradabl ...
    By Ronnie Cummins It has been a year since the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) joined with Mercola.com, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Fluoride Action Network (FAN), Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), and Consumers for Dental Choice to form a new non-profit coalition ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Shell scraps controversial biofuels plan after ...
    Raizen signs landmark agreement with FUNAI. The company vows to stop sourcing sugar cane from Guarani land by November 25. © Raízen A biofuels company set up by Shell in Brazil has scrapped controversial plans to source sugar cane from land stolen from an indigenous tribe after a vociferous ...
  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands action a ...
    The Awá's forest is being illegally cut down at an alarming rate. © Fiona Watson/Survival Earth’s ‘most threatened tribe’ has made a desperate appeal for the Brazilian government to halt the illegal logging that is ravaging its territory, as the Amazon’s logging season starts in earnes ...
  • Mick Jagger drawn into row over ‘illegal gas g ...
    Mick Jagger was named Peru's honorary Environmental Ambassador last year. © Survival Music legend Mick Jagger has been drawn into a bitter row over an ‘illegal gas grab’ in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru’s government has provoked fury from indigenous groups after it was discovered that it ...
  • Tribes urge UK to sign law to ‘guarantee’ thei ...
    Kenya's Samburu tribe has urged the UK to ratify ILO 169. © Survival Tribes from four continents have urged Britain to ratify a law that will ‘guarantee’ their survival. It is the first time a group of tribal representatives have made such a direct appeal, reflecting the urgent need f ...
  • Film footage released to mark 20-year annivers ...
    Yanomami woman. The Yanomami territory has allowed uncontacted Indians to survive. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami Indians in Brazil have released aerial film footage of an uncontacted Indian community, to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the ‘Yanomami Park’. This Yanomami are ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Cor ...
    from opednews.com: A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior ...
  • Farm Bill Jackpot: How Much Do Corporations Be ...
    from treehugger.com: As Congress proposes cuts to hungry families, my new report raises questions about how much food makers, retailers, and big banks profit from food stamps. With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media’s attention has been focused ...
  • The CBS Eye Looks Inside #PlumIsland's Secret Labs
    Video: Plumbing the mysteries of Plum Island from inquisitr.com: For the first time in many years, members of the press got inside the U.S. Government’s secret labs at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. CBS News reported that the island, which is controlled by the Department of Homel ...
  • A Radioactive Nightmare: Fukushima's Buckyballs
    from enviroreporter.com: The Ventura County Reporter alternative weekly newspaper is the first print media in the United States that tackles the real threats that Fukushima triple meltdowns radiation poses to the Pacific ocean and the west coast. "Millions of Southern Californians and tourists s ...
  • What Happens When Schools Care About Healthy L ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: I've posted on some of the many problems with the school system in America, from treating and training children to behave like prisoners, to school lunch programs willing to feed children the cheapest processed garbage available from the lowest bidder. The Real Food ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
  • 21 Signs That This Could Be A Long, Hot, Crazy ...
    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Nigel Farage: "The euro has failed and there i ...
    A simple lesson in maths and numbers for the lunatics of the European Union. We love the faces of devestation that you see at the end...
  • Quote of the Day: 'We found a Tory we could qu ...
    "The political elite of Europe are completely barking and out of touch with ordinary citizens. The sooner the euro collapses and the European Union breaks up, the better." - Peter Bone MP, cited in the Daily Express. Yes, Peter. Eighty percent of the British public will applaud that sentim ...
  • Hasta luego, Spanish Sovereignty
    In the 1930's, Spain endured a brutal civil war - sparked over the state of national affairs with politicians across the spectrum being more than useless - with Franco and his troops taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by incompetence to set up a decades long dictatorship. Eventually ...
  • A Cast-Iron Threat of a Referendum From a Roth ...
    You've got to laugh - you really have. Otherwise, you might make with pitchforks and go a-marching. The Independent - and they're not alone in this - carry a story which suggests that: "George Osborne threatens referendum over place in the EU". This is one of a number of recent stories in ...
  • Roll up children, get your eurozone bailouts h ...
    Going bankrupt? Come get your ECB/IMF bailouts. All free! Economy knackered? We've got EU banking unions! Tasty treats! Come on, children of the European Union. Yum, yum! (with due credit to the 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' filmmakers)

Facing South

  • Guestworkers at Gulf Coast Walmart seafood su ...
    Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors. read more
  • VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the ...
    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South. read more
  • Florida groups relaunch voter registration dri ...
    After a federal judge rules Florida's laws on voter registration are too restrictive, groups like the League of Women Voters are back in action. But the state is digging in on a plan to flag and possibly purge thousands of voters, even though the data questioning their citizenship is riddled wit ...
  • Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'n ...
    Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
  • [OT] I Just Got Married!
    You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Bilderberger Jürgen Trittin confirms Globalist ...
    Jürgen Trittin, the German Green Party leader, who attended the Bilderberg meeting of the Global elite last week confirmed in a tweet that the Globalists are furious with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to join in their debt slavery scam and introduce eurobonds. http://www.mmnews.de ...
  • US congress blocks new bioterrorism and forced ...
    Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/bioterrorism-bill-congress_n_1510571.html
  • Austrian finance minister battles to regain co ...
    One of the most important steps to avert the financial and economic collapse of Austria is to wrest back control of  the Austrian national bank (OeNB) from the international bankers, and right now in Austria a fight over the OeNB seems to be escalating. Austrian ÖVP Finance Minister Maria Fekter ...
  • Why the monarchy present a real danger to the ...
    *Prince Charles has close links to GlaxoSmithKline, producer of Pandemrix *GSK chief executive awarded knighthood by Charles in May *UK health authorities refuse to recognize link between Pandemrix and narcolepsy *Is the new school vaccine programme part of the eugenics programme of the UK elite ...
  • A poem about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
    A free England   Dragged along by sails of red and gold The wild, grey river surges forward Sensing the horizon Lost behind the mist and rain, The shadows of so many bridges.   A fleet of a thousand ships Trapped between granite banks The leaden weight of history Has thrown out an angle to ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Roach Motel at the End of the Universe
    By Les Visible I’m sure the heinous empires of Rockefeller and Rothschild, along with all those other names, so well known to some of us, would have long ago met their well deserved fates at the hands of the mob; possibly even at the hands of a creative, patient and fiendishly ingenious mo ...
  • Dr. Oz caves to Big Pharma, pimps vaccines on ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Vaccinations have far more benefits than risks, and when children are not vaccinated, their own health and the health of everyone around them is at serious risk. These are some of the outrageously false statements made by the infamous Dr. Mehmet Oz i ...
  • Icelanders Force Accountability for Banks – Wh ...
    George Lakey, Contributor Waking Times Ever since Iceland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the country has been busy reinventing itself. The first step was to restore democracy through a turbulent nonviolent struggle, then to force resignations in the financial sector and secure a criminal convictio ...
  • Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?
    Jeff Clark Casey Research It may feel like I’m out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now for a huge move into gold and silver. There are, however, very valid reasons to reasonably expect a mania in our [...]
  • How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler&#82 ...
    Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington The Guardian, Saturday 25 September 2004 18.59 EDT George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO Digest: June 9-13, 2012
    Stop NATO Digest: June 9-13, 2012 Syria Targeted By U.S. Advocates Of Unipolar Global Order Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troops Headed To Africa India Eschews Linchpin Role in U.S. Strategy to ‘Rebalance’ Asia The Beginning of the End of NATO Welcome to the Balkan Propaganda Machine ...
  • Russia Rejects U.S. Charges, Accuses U.S. Of A ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti June 13, 2012 Russia Rejects U.S. Allegations on Arms Deliveries to Syria Tehran/Moscow: Russia dismissed on Wednesday claims by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was selling attack helicopters to Syria and accused the United States of arming rebe ...
  • Syria Targeted By U.S. Advocates Of Unipolar G ...
    Global Times June 13, 2012 Syria targeted by US advocates of unipolar global order By Clifford A. Kiracofe* Washington’s regime change policy in Syria is about the world order. While human rights and democracy are featured in the propaganda mix, the real issue turns on the future of the in ...
  • Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardene ...
    Stop NATO June 12, 2012 Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troops Headed To Africa Rick Rozoff As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, ...
  • India Eschews Linchpin Role in U.S. Strategy t ...
    Global Times June 12, 2012 India eschews linchpin role in US strategy to ‘rebalance’ Asia By Shastri Ramachandaran The India-US Strategic Dialogue begins in Washington today, but the road to the meeting hasn’t been easy. In January, when the Obama administration came out with its ambition ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Obama Plans to Grant International Tribunals P ...
    Shepard Ambellas | Have you ever heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact? Obama proposed a deal to 8 Pacific Nations pertaining to free trade — however, there is more to it then that.
  • Micro-Nukes and the World Trade Center – ...
    Shepard Ambellas | When it comes to the World Trade Center towers, and Building 7's collapse on that dreadful day in September of 2001 — one thing is for sure, the actual impact from the planes did not cause the collapse of the massive steel structures that stood proud above the New York sk ...
  • Unemployment as a Lifestyle
    James Hall | All one hears is that the lack of jobs is the number one economic problem. Well documented are endless examples of systemic destruction in employment opportunities.
  • Body Scanner Deception Continues
    By Justin Gilfoil – Counterplot.org theintelhub.com June 12, 2012 Yesterday, the Edmonton Journal published an article originating from the Los Angeles Times, headlined “Airport full-body scanners pose little risk, study says” claiming; “A study, believed to be the first independent review of fu ...
  • The Compromised Camp of Political Futility
    By Zen Gardner theintelhub.com June 13, 2012 Talk about getting taken for a ride. I warned about this Ron Paul bus to nowhere specifically in Project Blueballs and the false hope energy heist. As soon as we give our energy and aspirations over to others to execute, it’s over. We’re back at squar ...

FRS

  • India: Times when people protest, and times t ...
    Times of India: “Districts suffer Bharat bandh blues” TNN | Jun 1, 2012 JAMSHEDPUR: The steel city and its neighbouring industrial town, Adityapur, witnessed a near-total bandh on Thursday. Barring stray incidents of brawl between bandh supporters, shopkeepers and police, the da ...
  • Eastern Mindanao, Philippines: New People&#82 ...
    NPAs claim raid on ComVal mining netted bigger weapons TUESDAY, 12 JUNE 2012 MANUEL T. CAYON / REPORTER, BusinessMirror.com.ph DAVAO CITY—New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas claimed responsibility for the damaging raid on three mining operations in mineral-rich Compostela Valley province in Easte ...
  • Nepal: New Maoist party to be announced June 15
    [This news article carries the long-awaited announcement that the revolutionary forces in the UCPN(M)--the Nepalese Maoist party--will finally break relations with the revisionist leaders (Party Chairman Dahal aka Prachanda, and Prime Minister Bhattarai) who planned and carried out the abandonme ...
  • Nepal: New Maoist party to be announced June 15
    [This news article carries the long-awaited announcement that the revolutionary forces in the UCPN(M)--the Nepalese Maoist party--will finally break relations with the revisionist leaders (Party Chairman Dahal aka Prachanda, and Prime Minister Bhattarai) who planned and carried out the abandonme ...
  • Why Obama Will Free Jonathan Pollard
    [Israelis are making a full-court press on Obama this week, to get him to release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from US prison.  The Yeshiva World Operation reported it in this way:  "Operation Jonathan: Peres In US Will Press Obama For Pollard’s Release -- (Monday, June 11th, 2012)[By Itamar Eic ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Gallery: How Science Measures Food
  • Myhrvold Shows off His Pantry: "All Food Is Ma ...
    Nathan Myhrvold knows that the work he and his Modernist Cuisine team do can be a little intimidating or frightening, but he's not going to stand for misconceived reactions--like, "why does your food have so many chemicals in it?" Cheese, wine, bread, and vinegar, he notes, among many more, are ...
  • NASA's Black-Hole-Hunting NuSTAR Telescope Has ...
    At noon today, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) was released from a companion aircraft and sent off into Earth's orbit. That's big news for black hole and space enthusiasts: The technology strapped to it will make the hunt for celestial objects significantly easier, both in ...
  • The Laboratory That Infects Salad With Deadly ...
    Troubleshooting the contamination of greens Deep in the Illinois Institute of Technology is a Biosafety Level 3 certified containment unit: one of the only places in the country that intentionally infects spinach with live, potentially deadly E. coli pathogens. Lab workers don moon suits, step ...
  • How The Human Nose Helps Chemists Analyze Flavor
    Flavor scientist Arielle Johnson discusses the creative side of culinary chemistry Think you know the fresh, lemony taste of lemongrass, or the lush herbal taste of basil? Most of what we experience as "taste" actually comes from our sense of smell, not from our tastebuds. Volatile compounds -- ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
    The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...
  • All eyes on June after an 'average' May
    The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...
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    Research published this week which identifies thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane gas is being released into the atmosphere could have serious ramifications for global warming. Methane is twenty times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it's estimated that there' ...
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    At long last warm weather is returning to much of the country for the first time since March, after weeks of cold, wet weather. High pressure will dominate our weather all week, with temperature reaching 23C (73F) across inland parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as early as tomorrow. The char ...
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    The average global temperature for April on the UAH satellite measure jumped to +0.295C above the 30 year running mean. This equates to approximately +0.548C above the standard 1961-1990 average, used by the World Meteorological Organisation. Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • It's All Greek to Me: Cyprus, Next on the EU Dole
    Erm, on second thought, let's not call it a "bailout" but a "bank recapitalization programme" to use the sort of euphemisms Spanish officials prefer as they too succumbed to the inevitable when you have overextended banks. To be sure, there are differences among a balance-of-payments crisis (in ...
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    Preponderance can be interpreted in any number of ways, but here's a thought for you: What if the globalization game was biased to produce results favouring certain nations time and again? That would indeed be a form of (malign) influence insofar as someone sets the rules of the game a certain w ...
  • Stiglitz Recycles Marx (But Fails to Quote Beardy)
    While Joe Stiglitz is pretty hirsute himself, he's certainly no match for Karl Marx when it comes to luxuriant facial hair. Esquire considers Herr Marx's to be one of the best beards in history, and who am I to disagree. However, it seems Stiglitz is not only aping Marx's grooming habits but als ...
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    To be honest, IPE is usually not quite on the leading edge of social science in many respects. Prior to the breakout of the subprime crisis, there were next to no scholars focusing on real estate for instance save for a few exceptions like Herman Schwartz and Len Seabrooke. It thus bothers me th ...
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    I've long supported the claim that London, not New York, is the financial capital of the world [1, 2]. I guess it's a backhanded compliment to London's claim to be the world's financial capital that earthshaking events for US financial concerns more often than not emanate from there instead of N ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
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    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...

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E U Times

  • EU eyes emergency Schengen border closures
    EU countries have agreed that border control in the Schengen zone can be restored temporarily under “exceptional circumstances.” The measure is moved by the uncontrolled flow of migrants into the EU in the wake of the economic crisis. Under the proposal, which was approved at a meeti ...
  • Microbes discovered in Mars-like environment o ...
    A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has found a type of organism that can survive the most inhospitable conditions on Earth. “We haven’t formally identified or characterized the species. But these are very different than anything else that has been cultured. G ...
  • Globalist Plan: European Union Police State Lo ...
    European Union apparatchiks are preparing to lockdown Europe following Greece’s exit. From the Associated Press today: Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, legally, limits could be imposed on movement of people and money across national borders within the EU if it’s necessary to protect public orde ...
  • Rectangular galaxy discovered 70 million light ...
    Astronomers have found a rectangular galaxy in a wide field-of-view image taken with the Japanese Subaru Telescope for Swinburne astrophysicist Dr. Lee Spitler. The unusual cosmic phenomenon was discovered 70 million light years away within a group of 250 galaxies. “In the Universe around us, mo ...
  • SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights
    Two leading opponents of SOPA are taking their fight for Internet freedoms to a whole new level. This time a team of bi-partisan lawmakers are offering a Digital Bill of Rights to help ensure that Americans continue to have an open Internet. “I believe that individuals possess certain fundamenta ...

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