- Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
- Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
- Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
- Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
- Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...
- The Magic Weed
Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
- Blood Coltan
Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
- CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
- Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
- HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
- A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...
- END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
- Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
- Free Paul Watson!
Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
- Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
- Only One Gun in a Survival Situation
Guest post: by ‘Night Owl’ If I could only have one gun in a survival situation (SHTF, TEOTWAWKI, etc.) it would be a .22 long rifle. Specifically a Ruger 10/22 with a folding stock, a decent scope and lots of 10 round factory magazines and 25 round Butler Creek or Ruger factory mags ...
- Safe Plastics For Food and Drink
Plastics that come in contact with your food or drink ‘should’ be safe based on the following general information. Look for the Recycle symbol (often on the bottom of the container) and read the number located inside the symbol. The following list cross-references the recycle number ...
- Huntington Beach UFO or Drone?
Since we’ve been talking about drones lately, I wonder how many of the recent UFO sightings have actually been drones flying over the skies of America? Apparently many people saw a UFO (drone?) in Huntington Beach, California this weekend, and one person also believes he saw the same UFO ( ...
- Home Remedies for Abrasions
Wait a minute…an abrasion is just a scratch on the top layer of skin, let it go, right? Why do I need a remedy for a ‘scratch’? You do need a remedy for any kind of tear in your skin. Why? The answer is called infection, which is something you don’t want, particularly in ...
- Drones Are Crashing, Your Tax Dollars Are Burning
Given the recent ‘close calls’ (Denver rings a bell) and today’s drone crash in Maryland, imagine what it may be like once the FAA has fully implemented their coordinated plan with the military to fill the American skies with drones within the next few years? Today’s dron ...
- Nokia Slashing 10,000 Jobs, Juggling Executives
News updates all day from Fast Company.Embattled mobile phone maker Nokia has revealed some radical restructuring as it tries to secure its future. The firm is ditching up to 10,000 staff by the end of next year as it closes facilities in Germany, Canada and its homeland of Finland in a move to ...
- Twitter Partners With New York Times, WWE, Buz ...
News updates all day from Fast Company.Twitter announced this afternoon that selected content partners could integrate photos, videos, and audio directly into users' Twitter feeds--effectively bypassing the traditional 144-character post limit.A post on Twitter's company blog noted that follower ...
- Can GiveForward's Crowdfundraisers Kick Down T ...
With 200 hospitals signed up already, GiveForward could forever change the way you pay for medical expenses--and help individuals and families in need.GiveForward's biggest ever fundraiser nearly broke the company. Held in honor of Sarah Burke, the X Games champion free skier who died ...
- How Google Is Battling Its Rivals For Tech Ter ...
Last week Google did something strange--it called an a surprise press conference to promote its future mapping tech. Maps aren't a particularly core Google product, you may think, but of course what Google was doing was pre-empting Apple's announcement this week of its all-singing, all-dancing i ...
- Readability Kills Failed Reader Fees Plan To C ...
News updates all day from Fast Company.Readability, the web and mobile app that lets users organize and read stripped-down versions of web stories, today announced in a blog post that it will end its controversial reader fees program, designed to compensate publishers on the platform for their c ...
- Cameron to announce new guidelines following H ...
Guardian: Cameron to announce new guidelines following Hunt fiasco — PM will implicitly accept that the government's handling of the News Corp bid to take control of BSkyB was flawed — David Cameron will implicitly accept that the government's handling of the ...
- Amazon Prime gets MGM videos & new queue--but ...
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Amazon Prime gets MGM videos & new queue—but it's still no Netflix — Amazon signed new licensing agreement with MGM Studios that will bring hundreds of movies and TV shows to its Prime streaming video service, the company announced today.& ...
- Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans ...
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab: Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans might expect when the printing presses slow — DETROIT — It was exactly the kind of story you want a newspaper for: In 2008, Detroit Free Press reporters uncovered a trove of incrimin ...
- Digital Notes: Plans for a New .Music Suffix, ...
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Digital Notes: Plans for a New .Music Suffix, but Who Will Own It? — As part of changes planned by the organization that oversees Web addresses, music fans might soon be typing “JustinBieber.music” or “BruceSpringsteen.music&rdquo ...
- Why your news organization's social media poli ...
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Why your news organization's social media policy may be illegal — If Barrett Tryon does get fired today by Freedom Communications, as he expects, he may find the National Labor Relations Board has his back. — Tryon, a multimedia jour ...
- Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
- 10 Best British Open Performances
Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
- Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- 6/13/12 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
standardizedtests.procon.org – NEW: Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and activists including Michelle Rhee (pro), Diane Ravitch (con), Bill Clinton (pro), Hillary Rodham Clinton (con), Jeb Bush (pro), and Randi W ...
- 6/13/12 - State Felon Voting Laws
felonvoting.procon.org - State Felon Voting Laws - State laws on felon voting differ across the US. In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons can vote from prison. In Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, and Virginia, convicted felons can lose the ability to vote permanently. See our updated chart ...
- 6/7/12 - ACLU Positions on 55 Issues from Abor ...
aclu.procon.org 6/7/2012 - ACLU Positions on 55 Issues from Abortion to the War on Terror – Read the ACLU's pro or con positions on 55 issues including abortion, the death penalty, religion in public schools, and the war on drugs.
- 6/6/12 - Should law enforcement be allowed to ...
2012election.procon.org - Should law enforcement be allowed to use racial profiling? Obama, Paul, Goode, and Johnson are Con.
- 6/6/12 - Should the United States return to th ...
2012election.procon.org - Should the United States return to the gold standard in which coin and currency are backed by gold? Paul and Goode are Pro. Romney and Johnson are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
- Dodos Solitaires
This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
- What’s the big idea?
Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
- Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...
- Life Without Sex
Now that he’s raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives RACHEL HILLS But what all asexual people have in common — and what defines asexuality as an orientation — is that, while they may have a desire ...
- Writers Replying to Reviewers?
Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
- Dual use education in neuroscience
The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
- Human enhancement and the future of work
Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work. It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
- New Trends in Think Tanks in China
Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
- UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
- Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy. Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Video: Romance with a Side of Plastic
How do you like your oysters? Probably not with a side of fishing line or a plastic bag. This video, created by Katrin Peters for SOS Plastic, shows a couple on a seemingly romantic date. It’s less appealing, though, when you see what accompanies their dinner: Part of a global campai ...
- World Oceans Day at the National Aquarium
The divers offer Calypso an afternoon snack. ©National Aquarium/Kate Hendrickson World Oceans Day was this past Friday, and as we mentioned in our last post, Oceana headed up to the National Aquarium in Baltimore to take part in their special celebration of the seas. Divers enter the aquariu ...
- 5 Ways to Celebrate World Oceans Day
Every day is World Oceans Day when you're a humpback whale ©Oceana/Carlos Suarez Happy World Oceans Day! The ocean does a lot for us — it generates much of the oxygen we breathe, provides us with nutritious food to eat and regulates our climate. But if we want to hold onto these valuable res ...
- The Next Wave of Plastic Bag Bans
Sea turtles often confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which makes them sick.©Flickr/Bag Monster In a sweeping 5-0 vote, the Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council took action yesterday evening to ban single-use plastic bags in the quaint and beautiful coastal city of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. ...
- Nominate an Ocean Hero!
2011 Junior Ocean Hero Sophi Bromenshenkel with her snow hammerhead. Is someone in your community doing great things for the oceans? We want to hear about them! Nominations for our fourth annual Ocean Heroes Awards open today and we’re searching for people who work hard to make a difference ...
- War on Women, Military Edition
MILITARY WOMEN haven’t had the same rights as civilian females when it comes to reproductive health care for decades. Unbelievably, only if the life of the woman is at stake is abortion currently covered through Department of Defense policy. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has a bill that will alter t ...
- George W. Bush’s Severed Head in HBO’s “Game o ...
THE QUOTE from the creators of “Game of Thrones” is one for the books. “The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we ...
- War on Women in the Military Continues
MILITARY WOMEN haven’t had the same rights as civilian females when it comes to abortion for decades. Only if the life of the woman is at stake will the procedure be covered through Department of Defense policy. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has a bill that will alter this injustice, which is backed ...
- ‘A More Guilty Party’ Vs. ‘A Party That Sucks ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The “lesser of two evils” description of how one chooses to vote comes in other versions, like “there is a more guilty party,” “one of these lies more than others,” and “a party that sucks the least.” To the extent we ...
- Obama Drops to 35% Approval Among Independents
Obama’s approval ratings took their biggest dip among independent voters, who could be crucial to the ultimate outcome of the election in November. Approval for Obama among independents fell from 48 percent to 35 percent. – Reuters (via Reuters/Ipsos survey) GOP ANGEL SHELDON ADELSON ...
- Olympic Gold Medal for Lying and Sanctimony Go ...
Europe has temporarily forgotten its financial problems. This is the summer of sports. In June the European football (soccer) championships are being held in Poland and Ukraine. In July, there will be three weeks of the Tour de France, the world's most
- Salafi Sex Scandals
Sheikh Ali Wanis, an Egyptian parliament member and prominent figure in the Nour Party—the Salafi party which preaches a return to Islam's earliest practices based on Muhammad's practices—was recently caught in a "compromising position" with a female
- Palestinians: Salam Fayyad "The Moderate"
The Salam Fayyad government has just punished a school principal for allowing his pupils to dance with Israelis during a trip to the beach in Jaffa. Because of his "crime," Mohammed Abu Samra, principle of the Al-Slama [peace] Secondary School in the
- Pakistan: Fatwas Against Women
Fatwas against women's rights are being issued on an almost daily basis in Pakistan now. One of the most outspoken misogynist clerics, Maulana Abdul Haleem, a former Islamist legislator, recently issued a fatwa against formal education for women and
- Variations on the Theme of The Arab War Agains ...
Amid the Arab upheaval of past 18 months, a question has crept among the speeches, demonstrations, riots, elections, battles and massacres – Is Israel better off, or worse off, for the revolution among its neighbors? Certainly Wael Ghonim of Google, and
- NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
- AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...
I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
- AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
- RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
- FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...
Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
- Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
- Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
- New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
- BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
- Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
- Water Ethics: A Stream of Hope
Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco Yesterday morning I got up, brushed my teeth, showered, dressed, and packed a water bottle before leaving for the office. Like you, I do these things daily, not once considering the amount of water I ...
- Baby steps to a BPA ban.
Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health The Washington Post reported that the FDA is considering a ban on the use of BPA in infant formula packaging as a result of a petition filed by Congressmen Ed Markey. A few months ago, FDA indicated that ...
- NRDC in the News 6/12: Global renewable energy ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a Los Angeles Times piece about NRDC’s report which reveals the United States is lagging far behind Europe and other countries in the percentage of electricity it gets from renewable sources ...
- WEA Uses Junk Science to Attack Proposed BLM Rules
Briana Mordick, Oil & Gas Science Fellow, Washington, D.C. The Western Energy Alliance, a trade association representing more than 400 companies involved in oil and gas production, released a report on the supposed economic impacts of the new pr ...
- Bhaskar Deol Guest Blog: Reducing Delhi's Powe ...
Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Guest Blog by Bhaskar Deol, NRDC India Representative As Delhi scorches at a peak temperature of 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), previous records for the city’s peak power demand are being ...
- National Police Misconduct Daily NewsFeed Reca ...
Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, June 12, 2012: San Diego, California city attorney will brief council members on 12 cases involving former officer Anthony Arevalos, who was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison … Continue reading →National Police M ...
- “Too much public scrutiny and too much free sp ...
The executive director of North Carolina’s Police Benevolent Association says there is a ‘conspiracy’ against the Fayetteville Police Department and is seeking a federal probe of those lodging complaints against that department. Here’s an excerpt from an ...
- NY Officer Faces Manslaughter Charges
From the New York Times: A police officer will be prosecuted on manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Ramarley Graham, an 18-year-old who was killed by a single police bullet in his bathroom after a team of narcotics officers … Continue reading →NY Officer Faces Manslaughter ...
- National Police Misconduct Daily NewsFeed Reca ...
Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Monday, June 11, 2012: Former Arkansas sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to prison in the ‘Operation Delta Blues’ case. This is the third officer to be sentenced in the east … Continue reading →National ...
- Jury Awards $3.1 Million in Police Chase that ...
From St.LouisToday.com: A city jury returned a $3.1 million verdict Thursday against the village of Uplands Park for a police chase that ended in a deadly crash. About half of the award is to compensate for the death of Lashanna … Continue reading →Jury Awards $3.1 Million in Police ...
- Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
- Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
- Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
- Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
- China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...
- Repower Port Augusta; Help us win!
Support the call for Australia's first solar thermal plant Beyond Zero Emissions is leading a campaign to get Australia’s first solar thermal power plants built - and we need your help. Repower Port Augusta is gaining momentum. Next week we are heading to the SA Parliament, the RPA Alliance ha ...
- Short-circuiting an electric price surge
According to energy minister Martin Ferguson, our electricity infrastructure will undergo a $42 billion upgrade over the current five-year regulatory period. At around $6000 per household, these grid upgrades are the biggest contributor to recent and forthcoming electricity price rises. Much of ...
- Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy. I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
- South Australia wind power figures vindicate r ...
Yesterday energy consultants EnergyQuest broke the news that wind power supplied 31% of South Australia’s electricity in the last quarter. Solar panels added another 3.5% to put renewable energy’s share in that state well above coal (26%) ...
- Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...
- Warmer forests expel carbon from soils creatin ...
As the world warms, temperate forests could become a source of carbon dioxide emission rather than a sink according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Scientists found that two forest sites in the U.S. (Wisconsin and North Carolina) emitted long-stored ...
- As Colorado and New Mexico burn, scientists sa ...
A massive wildlife in Colorado still burns after it has killed one person and damaged or destroyed over a hundred structures. The fire, the third largest in Colorado's history, has burned 39,500 acres (16,000 hectares) to date. Meanwhile in central New Mexico, another wildfire has damaged or des ...
- NASA image: New Mexico suffers record megafire
To date, around 250,000 acres (101,000 hectares) of the Gila Forest in New Mexico have burned in the state's largest fire ever recorded. Begun on May 16th due to lightning strikes, the unprecedented fire has likely been made possible by a combination of land-use changes, unflagging drought, and ...
- B95, the great survivor
He is so long-lived that he has surpassed all expectations, touching hearts throughout the American continent, bringing together scientists and schools, inspiring a play and now even his own biography. B95 is the name of a rufus red knot (Calidris canutus rufus), a migratory bird that in his ann ...
- Forgotten Species: the wonder-inducing giant clam
The first time I ever saw a giant clam was at a ride in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. My family and I piled into the Nautilus submersible at the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage and descended into the playtime depths. While we saw sea turtles, sharks, lobsters, mermaids, and e ...
- SLRTA National Road Safety Network in progress
Freetown – Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Roads Transport Authority, Dr. Sarah Finda Bendu (in photo) said in observing the national road safety week that her administration is ready to instill behavioral change in the road transport sector. The Executive Director said the road tra ...
- Court of Public Opinion on the fall of Tokpoi
This was a time when the entire sibling designed their unified unity with one sound slogan: “One people, one mind”. Soon the sloganist intruded: “2012 Sharp 12”. It takes little to realize that the spin had changed the time agenda deciding not to match the result tally by 12. A little assignmen ...
- Child Labour and Our Children
Sierra Leone is one of the countries having a huge number of children being used for child labour. According to headcount surveys and statistical indexes available with Street Child Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, Help A Needy Child Sierra Leone (HANCi ...
- Ibrahim Bunduka: “I’m ready for Leone Stars c ...
Ibrahim Bunduka, a Sierra Leonean footballer plying his trade in Cyprus with First Division Club, Alke FC has told Sierra Express Media Sports that he deserves a call up at the national side, Leone Stars. “I think I have something to contribute to the team, especially in Leone Stars’ bid to qual ...
- Coach Mourinho: “Kissy All Stars Will Not Rele ...
Kissy All Stars’ master tactician, Raymond Samuel Lewis popularly known as Coach-Mourinho has revealed to Sierra Express Media sports immediately after their Monday June 11th Premiership 1-1 draw with Mighty Blackpool at the National Stadium, that even though luck is currently not favoring his t ...
- Back Issues of Prometheus Online
The Libertarian Futurist Society, which gives out the annual Prometheus Award for the best libertarian-themed science fiction, is putting the back issues of its newsletter Prometheus online. You can see what they've posted so far here, along with an index of the issues they haven't ...
- Watch "Wheat, Weed, and Obamacare," the Reason ...
Today's New York Times has a front-page story by James B. Stewart called "How Broccoli Landed on the Supreme Court Menu," which discusses the unlikely route that the "broccoli mandate" has taken as a central argument again President Obama's health-care reform, now under ...
- Judge Andrew Napolitano on Why Leaking Is a Le ...
Republicans and Democrats in Congress have blasted the White House for leaking to The New York Times and others the existence of President Obama's secret kill list and his cyber-warfare against Iran. According to those doing the blasting, the leaks were made in order to bolster the pr ...
- Brickbat: Toothless Yokels
When Sabrina Grant read the email from a teacher's aide at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Framingham, Massachusetts, she was furious. The aide said Grant's 10-year-old autistic son kept playing with one of his loose baby teeth. The aide added it was very distracting, so they y ...
- Obama's Secret Weapon: Voters Too Stupid to Re ...
Writing at The Atlantic Wire, Elspeth Reeve suggests that marijuana reform measures on several state ballots this fall could help Barack Obama win re-election by drawing young voters to the polls. If that happens, the headline says, "legalizing weed" could be "Obama's secret weapon ...
- The West Metro 1% Sends Gilmore And Pals To Ba ...
One of these days I’m going to get off my ass and update the Field Guide to Minnesota Republican Factionalism, because there’s a new faction that’s poised to grab all the Republican Party of Minnesota’s marbles, just as its sister factions have in other states. I speak, o ...
- Oh, so that’s why Nixon ordered the Plum ...
He thought that the file which would reveal his treasonous deal to prevent Johnson from attaining an end to the Vietnam War was at Brookings. See? When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
- The flowers that bloomed in the Mexican spring
Mexico is on the threshold of a presidential election which portends a significant change of national direction. Of the three parties (PRI: traditional ruling party, Felipe Calderon PAN: current ruling party, and Lopez Obrador’s left-wing PRD), the PRI under Enrique Peña Nieto is leading i ...
- How Bad Is The Regnerus Study? It Would Count ...
There have already been several takedowns of the bogus Regnerus study mentioned here, but by far the funniest one is John Corvino’s at The New Republic: Question: What do the following all have in common? A heterosexually married female prostitute who on rare occasion services women A long ...
- Chicago Tribune “Too Broke” To Kee ...
The ChiTrib allegedly doesn’t have money to keep its reporters, but God help anyone who touches their top execs’ sacred bonuses — or dares to satirize the ChiTrib, as the Occupied Chicago Tribune does. Kevin Gosztola has the deets: For Nick Burt, a journalist who helped start t ...
- Talking with the Vegetable World
That we should re-open and explore a full palate of diplomatic talks with the vegetable world is not a novel stance to the Reality Sandwich community - it's the mode of communication we debate. As post-post-modern homo sapiens frantically re-integrate with the green from which green cur ...
- Journey to Mystical England
Reality Sandwich is delighted to announce a new mystical pilgrimage organized by our partner, Great Mystery. “Awakening Albion: Journey to Mystical England with Jude Currivan” takes place from July 22 – 28, 2012. The trip is hosted by Jude Currivan PhD, a long time researcher and explorer into ...
- The Open Source Everything Manifesto
The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. read more
- DMT RMX: Transmedia to Transbeing
Join the director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Mitch Schultz, for the live, interactive video course, "DMT RMX: Transmedia to Transbeing." This 3 session Evolver Intensive is a co-creative journey into transformational film-making that will show you how to mix the open-source code fo ...
- Every Voice Matters
Steady pressure from a group of committed activists resulted in 19 corporations pulling over $1 million of funding for the Heartland Institute, that oil-slicked, fossil-fueled think-tank responsible for all the “theory” behind climate change denial. This sent Joe Bast, President of Heartland, in ...
- Rio+20: Transforming Political Platitudes into ...
When world leaders endorse the final plan of action, titled “The Future We Want, at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, a lingering question may remain unanswered: how best can the United Nations transform political platitudes into economic realities? As the 193-member Preparatory Commi ...
- Q&A: “Today’s Food System Is Faili ...
TerraViva interviews KANAYO F. NWANZE, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Will Water Dry Up at Summit on Sustainable Dev ...
The headline in a New York newspaper last March captured the essence of a future potential threat to political stability the world over: “U.S. Report Sees Tensions Over Water.” The study, a collective vision of the U.S. intelligence community, warned that during the next 10 years, ma ...
- How Would You Measure Success at the Rio Summit?
When the heavily hyped three-day U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) comes to a close in Rio de Janeiro Jun. 22, what would be the yardstick to measure its successes and failures? Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has his own criteria for success, including a renewed political commitm ...
- Calls for an African Green Revolution, Only Sm ...
To deal with looming food crises in the coming decades, Africa needs a Green Revolution on par with what took place in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, according to experts in Washington. But such a revolution would need to ensure that the mistakes made in Asia are not repeated in Africa, warned ...
- Akaash Maharaj: Forgiving the Unforgivable
Some things are broken so utterly, that they can never be made fully whole again. Some wounds are so deep, that the scars can only become part of who we are. Some crimes are so grave, that there can never be adequate justice on this side of eternity. Ultimately, our only source of comfort l ...
- Laying the Foundation for a North American Sec ...
Dana Gabriel, BeYourOwnLeader June 11, 2012 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently unveiled a northern border strategy which seeks to address security concerns, while at the same time facilitating the flow of lawful travel and trade. The new plan promotes enhanced shared intelligence ...
- Manitoba Government Seeks to Overturn Laws of ...
"The Manitoba government is looking to cut the price of milk and other essential foods in remote northern communities." Or, in other words, "the Manitoba government can't understand why things don't costlessly appear where they're needed, and think transportation costs are a moral issue to ...
- Blogposts - Past Favourites: Nelson Mandela - ...
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”Mandela It was recently Nelson Mandela’s ninety-third birthday. We live today in an era marked by cynicism about politics, the political process, and the ability to bring about real social change. We are t ...
- Blogposts - Past Favourites: Human Body and H ...
We all know the five miraculous human senses: Sight Hearing Taste Touch Smell Otherwise the human body is just a physical being but those miraculous senses make it a very unusual and special being. Only those who lose one or more senses come to appreciate it more and the rest of us take i ...
- SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council. The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School. Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
- Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
- Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council. The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School. Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
- Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
- Silently Waiting
The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
- The “N” Word from the Champs Elysé ...
The latest Hollywood brouhaha over Gwyneth Paltrow’s decision to tweet the caption “ni**as in Paris for real” to accompany a picture of her with friends Jay-Z and Beyoncé while in Paris doesn’t compare to the new evidence of “fraud upon the Court” that has emerged in a largely unnoti ...
- Islamic Law: Playing God in the Here and Now
There are 50 Muslim-majority states in the world; 11 of them, including Egypt, have constitutions that acknowledge Islam as a source of national law. In Heaven on Earth, Sadakat Kadri, an English barrister and New York attorney, provides a much-needed and highly readable overview of Islamic lega ...
- The Unresolved Question of Egypt’s Economy
A new Egypt demands a new constitution and president. Many pressing questions also need to be addressed, including the religious-secular divide, the value of Sharia in the making of law, citizenship, minority rights, the rule of civil society, foreign policy, and much more. One issue that requir ...
- The Supreme Court Should Rule with the People
Six years after Massachusetts enacted the state version of Obama’s health law, the people of Massachusetts are not happy. According to a June 11th poll in Massachusetts, 78% of patients say the cost of care in Massachusetts is a serious problem and 63% say it has gotten worse in the last five y ...
- Grappling with One’s Own Straight-jacket ...
Those of us in education and working on “causes” – like not just putting a headlock on corporations, but frog-marching them to their own private dungeons – have this bilely reflux when we have to confront the evil doers, you know, the supremacists and global haters. For me, in a classroom or in ...
- TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more powe ...
Despite the White House’s efforts to keep a proposed free trade agreement concealed from the public — and even Congress — an excerpt from the TPP leaked Wednesday reveals that President Obama is prepared to bow to multinational corporations. The United States has been engaged in discussion wi ...
- Greeks Withdraw $1 Billion a Day Ahead of Vote
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 retailers said some of the ...
- Indiana First State to Allow Citizens to Shoot ...
Police officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers, who unlawfully enter their homes. It was signed by Republican Governor Mitch Daniels in March. The first of its kind in the United States, t ...
- Indiana First State to Allow Citizens to Shoot ...
Police officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers, who unlawfully enter their homes. It was signed by Republican Governor Mitch Daniels in March. The first of its kind in the United States, t ...
- Navy to Test Kamikaze Drone From Submarine: Ti ...
(Newser) – It's small enough to be carried in a soldier's backpack—and now, it's heading underwater. The Switchblade kamikaze drone will be test-launched from a Navy submarine next year. The Army already has used what USA Today calls "essentially a self-propelled, remotely guided missile"; now, ...
- Waking Up to the Price of Corruption
Weeks ahead of a national election in Papua New Guinea, 3000 people gathered in the capital, Port Moresby, for the sixth annual Sir Anthony Siaguru Walk against Corruption organised by Transparency International, PNG, to peacefully protest about an issue that affects every aspect of citize ...
- Honduras Committed to Protecting Marine Treasures
Honduras, in the heart of Central America, normally makes headlines for its political upheavals and violence. But sometimes there is good news, too. It is one of only a few countries with a shark sanctuary off its coasts, and it has just created a protected area around a reef of a coral species ...
- Crisis Sows Community Gardens in Spain
The economic crisis is fuelling the search for less individualistic ways of life in Spain, and a growing interest in urban agriculture has given rise to flourishing community gardens on vacant lots in cities and towns. “I think it is essential for people to have access to spaces for activi ...
- Malawi Businesses Lose Out after AU Summit Can ...
Small and large businesses in Malawi are counting their losses following the cabinet's decision not to host the African Union summit in July.
- Asylum Seekers Protest in Silence
Terrible images are filtering in from the German Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, where one woman and six men have sewn their mouths shut, threading fishing wire through their lips to symbolise a point of no return in their hunger strike. The dissenters are Iranian refugees who, since last March, hav ...
- Lavrov's Crucial Iran Visit
Summary: Geostrategically speaking, for Russia both Iran and Syria represent reliable allies in the Middle East presently aimed for regime change by the West, which will gain clear advantages over Russia if its scripts vis-a-vis Iran and Syria succeed somehow source: Middle East on-linerea ...
- China Is Secondary Target of Sanctions on Iran
Summary: Other importers of Iranian oil have been granted exemptions, but Washington has refused to grant them to China source: Antiwar.comread more
- URGENT PICKET: NO WESTERN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
Summary: URGENT PICKET NO WESTERN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA THURSDAY 14 JUNE, 5.30PM - 7PM DOWNING STREET, LONDON . Every day the calls for increased Western intervention in Syria are growing. source: Stop Warread more
- A Queen for a Queen
Summary: If the West really wants to halt Iran's uranium enrichment, it needs to get serious about scaling back sanctions. source: Foreign Policyread more
- Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
Summary: It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western medi ...
- Human resilience starts with nutrition
When it comes to resilience, many experts are blind to the role of nutrition. In June of 2012, the World Science Festival in New York City hosted a program called "How We Bounce Back: The New Science of Human Resilience." Experts in the fields of psychiatry, clinical...
- How a nervous breakdown can lead to treatment ...
The following is fictitious scenario, yet, believe it or not, shockingly similar events happen in America today. If you don't believe it, listen to the Jim Gottstien interview on Mental Health Exposed. Jim Gottstein is an attorney and founder of PsychRights.org. During...
- Become a super human being - ReWild yourself
Why do so many people suffer with disease? Clearly, "modern" lifestyles and medical "advances" have not improved our quality of life. Chronic stress, depression and the use of prescription drugs are all on the rise - is this our idea of super human strength and happiness...
- B vitamins lower homocysteine levels and provi ...
Stroke remains the third leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of more than 140,000 people each year, and is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Three-quarters of those suffering from a stroke are aged 65 or older, often the result of decades...
- EU breakup imminent: Talk of limiting ATM with ...
It may not be long before it's back to the future for Europe. Once, the continent was a collection of independent nations, not tied by language, culture or religion, even. About the only thing European nations shared was geography; they all belonged to the same continent...
- Retired Judge Joins Fight Against DOJ’s ‘Outra ...
Abraham David Sofaer, a former New York federal judge, was presenting a paper at the National Academy of Sciences in January about deterring cyberattacks when he learned the feds had shut down Megaupload, seizing its domain names, in a criminal copyright infringement case. Troubling him more tha ...
- In Flawed, Epic Anonymous Book, the Abyss Gaze ...
Parmy Olson's book We Are Anonymous delves into the heart of Antisec as a way to tell the tale of the Anonymous collective. But it turns out, that's entirely the wrong way to go about telling the story.
- An Excerpt of We Are Anonymous: Gawker Gets Hacked
An excerpt from Parmy Olson's book We Are Anonymous, chronicling the attack on Gawker, which dared Anonymous to attack it. A self-described 16-year-old hacker named Kayla took the bait.
- FTC Fines Spokeo $800K for Peddling False Empl ...
Spokeo, an online data broker, has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission for peddling inaccurate information about job applicants and violating consumer protection laws.
- Feds Tell Megaupload Users to Forget About The ...
Federal authorities claim they may shutter cloud-storage services without having a duty to assist innocent customers in retrieving data lost in the process. The filing in the Megaupload prosecution comes as more and more cloud-based storage services are popping up nearly every day.
- John Cornyn is the Very Model of a Modern Majo ...
During a highly charged Senate hearing on Tuesday, Texas Republican John Cornyn demanded the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder. That Cornyn would emerge from GOP central casting to lead the right-wing witch hunt against Holder comes as no surprise (and not just because of his staunch ...
- Romney's $25 Billion Voucher Plan Puts Public ...
For Mitt Romney, the love that dare not speak its name is "vouchers." Two weeks after he delivered a major address on education policy in which he never mentioned the V word, the New York Times detailed Romney's proposal to divert $25 billion in taxpayer dollars to religious, private and for-pr ...
- The Hilarious Hypocrisy of the Bush League Leakers
On Friday, President Obama denounced as "offensive" and "wrong" allegations that he was behind the leaks of U.S. cyber attacks on Iran and the terrorist "kill list," Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was assigning two U.S. attorneys to investigate the classified security breach. Neverth ...
- Romney Adviser Attacks President Obama in Germany
"Politics," Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg declared during Harry Truman's presidency decades ago, "stops at the water's edge." Not, it turns out, for Mitt Romney. Three years ago, Romney blasted Obama's "apology tour" even as the President was visiting Cairo, Ankara and other capitals. ...
- Introducing the Romney-McConnell Jobs Plan
In the wake of the disappointing May jobs report, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney comically charged that Barack Obama "hasn't put forth a plan to get us working again." Comically, that is, because the same Senate Republicans who gave the February 2009 stimulus bill only three votes ...
- Western Arctic Threatened By Oil Drilling
Big Oil continues its assault on the Arctic by pushing for increasing oil drilling. This time it’s the Western Arctic that’s particularly at risk. Next week, House Republicans are expected to unveil a legislative package that once again calls for drilling everywhere, regardles ...
- Climate Change to Disrupt Fire Patterns Worldwide
Climate change has long been expected to disrupt future fire patterns across the globe, and a new analysis of 16 climate models has only confirmed what many scientists had long feared. The study, led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and in collaboration with an int ...
- Volcanic Gases Could Deplete Ozone Layer
A new study has found that massive volcanic eruptions that took place over the past 70,000 years in Nicaragua could have injected enough gases into the atmosphere to temporarily thin the ozone layer. The study also concluded that if such an event took pace today, the amount of gases relea ...
- Mammoth Extinction Has Lessons For Modern Clim ...
Until recently, the cause of the woolly mammoth extinction 4,000-10,000 years ago has been unclear. But according to new research, the species fell to a lethal combination of climate warming, encroaching humans, and habitat loss. These are many of the same threats facing most species toda ...
- Surfin’ Dog (& Beach Boys)
I meant to post this video of a surfing and skateboarding and snowboarding dog a long time ago. Unfortunately, I never got to it. But a friend recently shared the video with me on email, so I’m now finally getting around to it! If you haven’t seen this yet, or even if you have ...
- Few Years In Military Would Have Really Straig ...
06.12.12 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Friends, family, and colleagues of 19-year-old U.S. Marine Alex Penzerton were saddened Wednesday upon learning he had been killed by a roadside bomb and was thus deprived of the life-changing opportunity a few years in the military might have afforded him. "Alex ...
- Moody's slashes Spain debt ratings three notch ...
Editor's Comment: Look man, when you read reports like this one ya gotta ask a few questions ... like, Who is "Moody's?" ... Who are Luciana Lopez and Daniel Bases? and who is "Reuters?" What are they really saying here? Do the authors even know what they are talking about?...
- Venezuela Happiest Country in South America - ...
The University of Columbia’s “Earth Institute” has released the results of its first happiness report, which
highlight Venezuela as the happiest country in South America and the second happiest country in the region after Costa Rica. Presented at the United Nation’s “Meeting on Happiness” in ...
- This Is Your Ocean on Acid - Environment/Nature
Editor's Note: We thank E-The Environmental Magazine, available by paid subscription, for giving us permission to republish this exemplary article by Brita Belli, Editor, about the grave threat to our oceans and life within them. - Les Blough, Editor Axis of Logic ...
- The World's Waters Are Becoming Corrosive to C ...
The oceans do a lot of the Earth's dirty work. On a given day, they will absorb 22 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), a third of the global output. In doing so they help to keep climate change in check, but they also pay a heavy toll as a...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
By BG & YD This crazy bitch is undoubtedly descended from the same people who, 150 years ago, perpetrated the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Google it) Fred Karger got a pretty rough welcome in Southern Utah. If you don't know who Fred Karger is, he's a gay republican who is running an honest-to-God ...
- jesusfuckingchocolatecoveredchristonapogostick
By @KYYellowDog Seriously, only Wonkette can do justice to this .... this ..... AAARRRRRGGGHHHHH! Jennie Linn McCormack, a single mom from Pocatello, Idaho, was just around when the sister of her friend and the local police department needed someone to blame for McCormack's abortion, which she i ...
- More Tea Party Emails
By @TomBales1 The Kind of Ignorance That Is Destroying The Country. Another message of enlightenment from the mailbox of the only Independent in his crowd. (My email client puts the most recent message first so start at the bottom and read up.) Would you have thought it was so clever ...
- Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Undefeated"
By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by TheRobbjohnson on Mar 28, 2011 Undefeated by Robb Johnson with pictures of the 26/3/11 Anti Cuts march in London. Video by Robb & Arvin Johnson.
- Plutocrats Turning America Into "Predator Nation"
By @TedFrier Who says bipartisanship is dead? Not Charles H. Ferguson, Oscar-winning director of the documentary Inside Job and author of the recently released Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of America. American politics may be more polarized than at ...
- 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 ...
- Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
- Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
- GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
- Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
- Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
- We Don't Recriminate Like We Used To - Kf Lean ...
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller: We Don't Recriminate Like We Used To — Kf Leans Forward: As Ricochet listeners know, I'm already worrying that if Obama loses, Democrats will be deprived of the highly productive “recriminations” period that followed the party's humi ...
- Lenin's sojourn as curio corpse may be over (H ...
Howard Amos / Guardian: Lenin's sojourn as curio corpse may be over — No political leader has yet dared to put the founding father of Russian communism six feet under. Will Vladimir Putin? — When the writer and former dissident Yuri Khariyakin told the ...
- Obama up 6 in Nevada - Barack Obama continues ...
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling: Obama up 6 in Nevada — Barack Obama continues to be favored to win Nevada again in 2012, but his position there is a good deal weaker than it was in 2008. Obama leads Romney 48-42. That's down a touch from our last poll in late M ...
- Bush decapitated in 'Game of Thrones' (Mackenz ...
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: Bush decapitated in ‘Game of Thrones’ — In the “Game of Thrones,” you win or you die, and George W. Bush did the latter in the HBO series — by decapitation. — That is, a prop head of the former presi ...
- The FDA Chomps Down on Cigars (Betsy Woodruff/ ...
Betsy Woodruff / National Review: The FDA Chomps Down on Cigars — By proposing a ban on large sodas in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg made himself a competitive candidate for Chairman of the Anti-Fun Committee. But the FDA just might have him beat: They've moved to regul ...
- M 5.3, Turkey-Syria-Iraq border region
Thursday, June 14, 2012 05:52:53 UTC Thursday, June 14, 2012 08:52:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.60 km (5.97 mi)
- M 5.3, South Sandwich Islands region
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 07:06:42 UTC Wednesday, June 13, 2012 05:06:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 62.60 km (38.90 mi)
- M 5.1, Kermadec Islands region
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 13:48:34 UTC Wednesday, June 13, 2012 01:48:34 AM at epicenterDepth: 45.20 km (28.09 mi)
- M 5.4, Sunda Strait, Indonesia
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 05:59:39 UTC Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:59:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 172.50 km (107.19 mi)
- M 5.6, Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan
Monday, June 11, 2012 05:29:14 UTC Monday, June 11, 2012 09:59:14 AM at epicenterDepth: 31.30 km (19.45 mi)
- Rio and China's global future
Our abject failures since the last Rio summit are no surprise given the binds of global politics, writes Zheng Yisheng. For real change, we need a new, cooperative world, and China is key to building it.We have a common predicament, and solving it requires humanity to work together. But state ac ...
- "Not humanity’s last chance"
Despair is in the air ahead of next week’s Earth Summit as consensus proves elusive. But even the best of outcomes would only be the start – the real work comes later, argue Yang Fangyi and Nala Songtai.When the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm ...
- The diplomacy of air pollution
Chinese censure of US embassy Twitter data on air quality may be techically sound, but it's not the way to regain public confidence, writes Zhou Rong.On June 5, World Environment Day, China’s environment ministry published its annual “state of the environment” report as no ...
- Battle for the seas
Having taken Earth’s oceans to the brink, can humans now save them? Callum Roberts sets out a path to redemption in his new book. Here, he talks to Caspar Henderson.Callum Roberts is professor of marine conservation at the University of York in the United Kingdom. For a decade, he has camp ...
- In Ecuador, home truths for China
Hostility to an open-pit mining project points to the strife facing Chinese companies abroad. Huang Hongxiang headed for South America to investigate the clash between investors, NGOs and locals.“We need to make contact with the Chinese media as urgently as possible.” I was on my uni ...
- Retired Judge Joins Fight Against DOJ’s ‘Outra ...
Abraham David Sofaer, a former New York federal judge, was presenting a paper at the National Academy of Sciences in January about deterring cyberattacks when he learned the feds had shut down Megaupload, seizing its domain names, in a criminal copyright infringement case. Troubling him more tha ...
- In Flawed, Epic Anonymous Book, the Abyss Gaze ...
Parmy Olson's book We Are Anonymous delves into the heart of Antisec as a way to tell the tale of the Anonymous collective. But it turns out, that's entirely the wrong way to go about telling the story.
- An Excerpt of We Are Anonymous: Gawker Gets Hacked
An excerpt from Parmy Olson's book We Are Anonymous, chronicling the attack on Gawker, which dared Anonymous to attack it. A self-described 16-year-old hacker named Kayla took the bait.
- FTC Fines Spokeo $800K for Peddling False Empl ...
Spokeo, an online data broker, has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission for peddling inaccurate information about job applicants and violating consumer protection laws.
- Feds Tell Megaupload Users to Forget About The ...
Federal authorities claim they may shutter cloud-storage services without having a duty to assist innocent customers in retrieving data lost in the process. The filing in the Megaupload prosecution comes as more and more cloud-based storage services are popping up nearly every day.
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- 22 Sickened by Salmonella-Tainted Pet Food
A total of 22 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis have been reported. Twenty ill persons have been reported from 13 states and two ill persons have been reported from Canada. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Californi ...
- June 14, 2 PM EDT Food Safety Webinar - Produc ...
All presenter fees donated to University of California at Davis Western Center for Food Safety Register Now - http://www.foodseminarsinternational.com/Other-Discount-Marler.html Overview: Bill Marler has been litigating foodborne illness cases for nearly two decades. The key t ...
- Bad News - Good News: Listeria Recall - E. co ...
First the bad news: Listeria Recall: Golden Glen Creamery of Bow, WA, in cooperation with the WSDA is voluntarily recalling Red Pepper with Onion & Garlic Cheddar produced on August 30, 2011 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The Creamery agreed to ...
- Salmonella Outbreaks Linked to Chicks and Duck ...
“Single mail-order hatchery in Ohio” In 2011 that is how the CDC described a hatchery linked to 68 sickened with Salmonella Altona and 28 sickened with Salmonella Johannesburg. “Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Ohio” In 2012 that is how the CDC described the “single mail ...
- CDC weighs in on E. coli O145 Outbreak in Alab ...
14 sick with 3 hospitalized and 1 death in six states. California is over 1,600 miles from Louisiana. I wonder if the California patient was visiting the South in the days before they began to get sick? Or, is there a common food or drink item that has that range of distribution? According t ...
- How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...
- Official: 2013 Chevy Volt increases range to 3 ...
And thus the mid-cycle product refresh - so common to computers and cellphones - comes around again to GM's plug-in hybrid. The new EPA sticker for the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has been released, and with it comes a fresh set of numbers. The highlights are an improved all-electric range and mil ...
- Video: First Tesla Model S delivered to board ...
We noted yesterday that some 2012 Tesla Model S buyers have already received their cars even though deliveries won't officially begin until June 22. Now we've got video proof. The very first Model S, decked-out with license plate TSLA S1, left the Fremont, CA factory this past weekend, Gre ...
- Official: Honda Fit EV rated at 118 MPGe with ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Honda, Electric It might only be available to lease in limited numbers in only a few areas, but the Honda Fit EV certainly has one thing that's tremendously good about it: an official EPA rating of 118 MPGe and a range of 82 miles. Specifi ...
- Video: Star Wars Prius commercial uses ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Help us, plug-in cars, you're our only hope. In his original deal with Fox for the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas famously kept the licensing rights for himself. That deal - unusual at the time - ha ...
- It’s One Person, One Vote, Not 1 Percent, One Vote
The failed effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely seen as a crisis for the labor movement, and a pivotal moment in the 2012 U.S. presidential-election season. Walker launched a controversial effort to roll back the power of Wisconsin’s public employee unions, and the unions push ...
- Part 3: Joseph Stiglitz on Ways to Lessen Ineq ...
In an extended interview about his new book, The Price of Inequality, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers several recommendations for a reform agenda. "Traditional economics said we could only get more equality if we pay a price. We have to weaken our economy in one w ...
- Part 3: Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says ...
After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance from the Indian struggle for independence to Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. He says Gandhi found "nothing more despicabl ...
- Syrian Filmmaker Who Appeared on Democracy Now ...
Democracy Now! is saddened to report that one of our past guests, Bassel Shahade, was killed last Monday while he worked on a documentary and trained media activists in Homs, Syria. Our producers first met Shahade at Syracuse University, where he was a Fulbright scholar studying filmmaking. ...
- WikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s protracted effort to fight extradition to Sweden suffered a body blow this week. Britain’s Supreme Court upheld the arrest warrant, issued in December 2010. After the court announced its split 5-2 decision, the justices su ...
- NOTE TO ROMNEY: The Federal Government Does Fu ...
Think Progress By Josh Israel on Jun 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm Mitt Romney dismissed criticisms that he does not want to hire more teachers, firefighters, and police officers as “absurd” on Tuesday morning, telling Fox News Channel that if elected president, he would not have the ability to control t ...
- Romney: Strike Down Of Health Care Law Would B ...
CNN Politics Political Ticker June 11th, 2012 08:55 PM ET Posted by CNN’s Ashley Killough (CNN) – Mitt Romney on Monday said he hopes the Supreme Court does the “right thing” and overturns President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care reform. “Gosh I hope they do t ...
- Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts Plan: It Did ...
Published on Jun 11, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Facebook it: https://my.barackobama.com/mittromneyplanvid Tweet it: https://my.barackobama.com/mittromneyplantwvid Tumblr: https://my.barackobama.com/mittromneyplantbrvid Mitt Romney’s Economic Plan? He wants to cut jobs for firefighters, ...
- Obama Campaign Calls For Romney To Put Assets ...
MSNBC.com By NBC’s Ali Weinberg 6/8/12 Swiss bank accounts. Money hidden in the Cayman Islands. Bain capital income. The Obama campaign warned Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will have full access to those three pots of money and more unless he puts his investme ...
- Wisconsin Recall Election Results 2012: Live U ...
HuffPost Posted: 06/05/2012 8:09 pm The Wisconsin recall election results have all eyes on the Badger State. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) challenged Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Tuesday’s gubernatorial contest. HuffPost’s Mark Blumenthal reports: The final round of polls o ...
- Dr. Jim MacKimmie: 1928 – 2012
By Anais Starr My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight, and talking about it with my family and friends who knew him, I am remembering the parts of his ...
- Interested in Lunch With Catherine?
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and have lunch with Catherine at one of the many places she will be traveling to. This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with other Solari Report subscribers in your area. ...
- Estate Planning About to Change
Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s when key income tax breaks for transferring wealth are scheduled to expire. “We’re in a unique period in the history of estate taxes and transfer ...
- North Dakota Considers Eliminating Property Tax
BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them. In an election here on Tuesday, resid ...
- Quote du Jour
“Always keep enough GOLD to bribe the Border Guards!” ~ Old adage
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
- Threats to attack Iran are smoke. Sanctions on ...
Summary: A follow-up post providing more evidence that neither the US nor Israel plans to attack Iran soon, based not just on the evidence and logic of the situation, but also on statements of senior Israeli officials. This has been the standing forecast on the FM website since 2007. See the ...
- The bailout of Spain’s banks shows the h ...
Summary: The US and Europe have not recovered from the 2008-09 crash in part because we applied first aid, but squandered the time those measures bought for us (at great cost). An essential aspect of post-crash reforms is fixing our financial systems. The bailout of Spain’s banks — ...
- The hidden objective of the alliance against Iran
Summary: This is post #80 about our long conflict with Iran. At last we discuss the mystery about Iran: why so many years of bold threats by US and Israel against Iran, saber-rattling never followed by military action? Usually this weakens the aggressors, making them look like paper tigers &# ...
- The Rough Math of Surrogate Warfare, today as ...
Summary: Today we review a book that held special appeal to the Marine Special Operations Command’s (MarSoc’s) Foreign Military Training Unit (FMTU) because the it tells of a covert expedition — what today we’d call unconventional warfare. Nothing is truly new in war, as ...
- The Rough Math of Surrogate Warfare, today as ...
Summary: Today we review a book that held special appeal to the Marine Special Operations Command’s (MarSoc’s) Foreign Military Training Unit (FMTU) because the it tells of a covert expedition — what today we’d call unconventional warfare. Nothing is truly new in war, as ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
- The World (and Women) Hates U.S. Drone Strikes
Today, the Pew Research Center released its latest Pew Global Attitudes Project public opinion survey, conducted in twenty-one countries in March and April of this year through phone or in-person interviews. The results lead with the headline (which shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone following ...
- Understanding China’s Angle on Syria
To say that things aren’t moving in a positive direction in Syria would be an understatement. Observers under the mandate of the UN Supervisory Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) have been barred from viewing the site of a potential new massacre, both by government and civilians. Syria’s armed forces hav ...
- Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Larijani: West H ...
One week prior to the upcoming nuclear summit in Moscow, Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani took a tough stance, saying Iran, not the West, will decide the rate of uranium enrichment in its nuclear program. Larijani’s remarks are consistent with the increasingly pessimistic Iranian rheto ...
- US Exclusion of Iran on Syria Threatens Syria, ...
The Barack Obama administration’s apparent decision to cut Iran out of a multilateral group trying to resolve the Syria crisis may backfire, encouraging Tehran to sabotage any post-Assad government and also undermining nuclear talks with Iran. The US gave its most explicit rejection of Ira ...
- Q&A: Shias Express Reservations about Potentia ...
Editor’s Note: Dr. Jasim Husain Ali is a former member of the Bahraini Parliament and a member of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the country’s largest Shia political party. Dr. Husain is a columnist on the political and economic affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Gulf News. He ...
- People Who Wish They Were Working On Obama Cam ...
Let's say you're a Democratic political consultant who has never worked for Barack Obama. How do you feel about him and his team? Well, chances are that although you respect their skill, you also think they're too insular and too unwilling to listen to outside advice. Like yours! Because after ...
- How Should Voter Purges Work?
The mess that is Florida's voter-purge effort keeps growing by the day. Both the ACLU and the Department of Justice are suing the state, which in turn is suing the federal government. After the state's Division of Elections declared it had found around 182,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, the st ...
- Facts? We Don't Need No Stinking Facts.
People like me often complain about "he said/she said" reporting, which treats all claims by competing political actors as having equal validity, and doesn't bother to determine whether one side or the other might not be telling the truth. There are lots of reasons why that kind of reporting is ...
- What Hurts Children More: Having Lesbian and G ...
When is a new study “research,” and when is it propaganda? That’s the question to ask when looking at Mark Regnerus’s “study,” released this past weekend, on children who had a parent who had an affair with someone of the same sex. Regnerus compares children who grew up in an intact household f ...
- Eye on the Long View
Obama hasn’t had the sunniest of weeks on the policy or campaign front. Jobs numbers are falling and he said some poorly chosen words at a campaign event last week. But while Obama’s economic legacy is being crafted at a mile a minute, his foreign-policy legacy is being chiseled into the marble ...
- Thanks to Citizens United, Political Consultan ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Just prior to the Wisconsin recall election I posted this terse and understated observation on Facebook: "WISCONSIN WINDFALL - With all the money that has been poured into the Wisconsin Recall Campaign, the only clear beneficiaries are the political consu ...
- Leaked Memo Indicates Obama to Give Transnatio ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT At one time when anyone talked about how the attendees at Bilberberg conferences were creating a new world financial order, I thought that they were wearing a tin hat and getting transmissions from Mars. And I still think Lyndon LaRouche is some sor ...
- Grassroots, Democrats and Austerity: What We L ...
MARK VORPAHL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker not only defeated the recall, he did so easily taking 54 percent of the vote. This is a big defeat for the union leadership who threw as many resources as they could afford behind this effort. How is it possible that this cou ...
- Splitting Hairs in a Multi-Cultural School
WALTER BRASCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Sasha Rivera is a 15-year-old sophomore at the Multi-Cultural Academy Charter School (MACS) in Philadelphia. She's an honors student who never got into trouble at school, and volunteers at Motivos, a national magazine for Hispanic youth. She also has blue ...
- If the Occupy Movement Can Win Over the 10 Poo ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Did you know that in the recall election, Scott Walker won the 10 poorest counties in Wisconsin? According to the director of the Wisconsin Campaign (as quoted in a Truthout analysis), these voters "used to be reliably Democratic." And Walker carri ...
- Charity Engine
Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Related Posts:The evolving, revol ...
- Are we overdiagnosing the worried well?
NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
- Take flight
Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...
- Pluto is not a planet
Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...
- The matter of the lost dark matter
Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...
- Deadly Bat Fungus Spreads to Iowa
Iowa wildlife officials announced today that the fungus known to cause devastating illness and death in North American bats has been detected for the first time within the state’s borders. The bat disease, known as white-nose syndrome, has spread over much of the eastern United States and ...
- Amnesty International Implores China to Invest ...
Amnesty International today submitted an urgent letter to the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, appealing to the government to promptly initiate a thorough and independent investigation into the cause and circumstances surrounding the death of former prisoner of conscience, Li Wangyang. On ...
- Same-Sex Couples Seek To Strengthen Families B ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit today on behalf of six same-sex couples and their children seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions. A second parent adoption occurs when one partner in an unmarried couple adopts the ot ...
- Same-Sex Couples Seek To Strengthen Families B ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit today on behalf of six same-sex couples and their children seeking the right to obtain second parent adoptions. A second parent adoption occurs when one partner in an unmarried couple adopts the ot ...
- Controversial Trade Pact Text Leaked, Shows U. ...
A leak today of one of the most controversial chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) reveals that extreme provisions have been agreed to by U.S. officials, providing a stark warning about the dangers of “trade” negotiations occurring under conditions of extreme secrecy ...
- Exposing Obama's Not-So-Secret War
Ari Melber Washington has many “secrets,” but few secrets. The Obama administration will face a test on the difference this month, in a case probing a major national security program.The Obama administration will face a case pro ...
- How California's GM Food Referendum May Change ...
Richard Schiffman Last month, nearly 1 million signatures were delivered to county registrars throughout California calling for a referendum on the labeling of genetically engineered foods.read more
- Why The Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear: T ...
Robert Reich Rarely in history has the cause of a major economic problem been so clear yet have so few been willing to see it.Wealthy inequality and a generation of stagnant wages has left a tattered middle class unable to save the US econo ...
- New York to Repeat Chicago’s Parking Privatiza ...
Matt Taibbi Readers of my last book, Griftopia, might recall a chapter about the city of Chicago leasing 75 years of its parking meter revenue to a coterie of private investors, some of them from the Middle East. The end result was and is a ...
- Washington’s War for Global Sovereignty
Tom Engelhardt Last week, touching down in India on his way to Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described reality as you seldom hear it in the confines of Washington and, while he was at it, put his stamp of approval on a new ...
- West Virginia Acts on GOP Front Group’s ...
Election officials in West Virginia may be stepping up efforts to purge voter rolls because a GOP front group threatened to sue the state. In an effort to limit voter turnout this election season, Judicial Watch, in conjunction with True the Vote, has sent letters to a number of states threateni ...
- Fischer: “Allowing Gay Adoption Is A For ...
Bryan Fischer’s anti-gay rants have become all too commonplace. But today he was in rare form when he declared that allowing gay parents to adopt is “a form of sexual abuse.” Fischer made his bigoted comments in regards to a recent study funded by two conservatives groups tied ...
- Maine Official Who Sent Threatening Letters To ...
Maine’s Secretary of State, who gained national attention last year for sending a threatening letter to hundreds of student voters encouraging them to re-register in another state, won the Republican Senate nomination last night. As Maine’s election chief, Charlie Summers sent a lett ...
- Five Reasons Why Michigan’s Anti-Abortio ...
The Michigan House has passed HB 5711, the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion bill that combines some of the worst attacks on women’s access to abortion care into one bill. The massive 45-page, Republican-backed legislation limits when a woman could have an abortion and puts a g ...
- Romney Endorses Massive Corporate Tax Giveaway ...
2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, speaking at a Business Roundtable event in Washington DC today, called for the repeal of the tax on corporate profits that is levied when those profits are returned (repatriated) to America. Repealing the tax, Romney said, would drive investment in the ...
- SCUM
The headline says it all: "Quebec protester arrested on way to sister's funeral." Go to the link. Read it. There are no mitigating circumstances. This is fascist intimidation and both its enablers and its enforcers deserve whatever happens to them.
- Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya
And it's One, Two, Three, Four, ... what are we fighting for? Ten years in Afghanistan and what do we have to show for it?Ten years after Taliban rule, Afghanistan’s rights situation remains extremely poor. Armed groups routinely engage in extortion and violence against communities, while the ...
- Let Borys Wrzesnewskyj be the Candidate in Eto ...
As I've said over and over and over again, I believe the mushy middle in Canadian is disintegrating. The nice comfortable zone of easy answers is vanishing. The opportunist Liberal Party of Canada is finding itself becoming increasingly irrelevant. The Liberal Party of Canada has long allowed Ca ...
- A Debased Culture
Yesterday, on a crowded subway, there was a tall athletic man standing next to me. I'm short so my eye level was at his tie. I thought his tie was quite stylish and then noticed the fine material and colour of his suit and the powder-blue shirt. Then I noticed the dude was reading what looked li ...
- harper and Mansbridge Discuss European Economi ...
Can you imagine a greater waste of your time than watching such a thing as that?? It's one of the top stories on the CBC News website, and there's an image of Mansbridge looking serious as harper gesticulates and blathers about something. Even if harper wasn't an illegitimate prime minister, a s ...
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- Customer Testimonial – MM Products, Brushing & ...
Anthony Morrocco morrocco method 4/11/12 Hello Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! Here’s another great customer testimonial on MM products in general, brushing and scalp massaging! “Every day I get more compliments on my hair!!! Even guys I do not really know have commented LOL!! I feel such joy brushi ...
- Ammonia Found in Many Foods, Not Just “Pink Slime”
April 11, 2012 News Daily By Martinne Geller New York, Apr. 4, 2012 (Reuters) — Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub “pink slime”. Packs of ground beef are seen in a ...
- Can Cell Phones and Laptops be Harmful During ...
April 11, 2012 Natural News By Lloyd Burrell NaturalNews) In today’s society of hustle and bustle, being pregnant rarely gives opportunity for letting up or taking a break. Many women, whether they are working or are stay-at-home moms, engage in the use of cell phones and laptop computers ...
- Top 10 Herbs And Spices For Strengthening Your ...
April 12, 2012 Natural News By Aurora Geib “Need to boost your immune system? Try these herbs.” –KTRN Of the many systems working within the human body, the immune system is an excellent example of complex efficiency. A network of participating cells and organs, it synchronizes ...
- Vitamin C – Effective From Colds to Cancer
April 12, 2012 Food Matters By Paul Fassa “Next to vitamin D, C is probably the second most powerful vitamin you can take.” –KTRN Vitamin C from citrus was introduced a couple of centuries ago as a cure for scurvy rampant among British mariners. But just what is scurvy? Scurvy ...
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
- The “N” Word from the Champs Elysée to Avenue ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Cynthia McKinney The latest Hollywood brouhaha over Gwyneth Paltrows decision to tweet the caption ni**as in Paris for real to accompany a picture of her with friends Jay-Z an ...
- The Unresolved Question of Egypt’s Economy
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ramzy Baroud A new Egypt demands a new constitution and president. Many pressing questions also need to be addressed, including the religious-secular divide, the value of Shar ...
- Members of Congress call on Obama to justify d ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Twenty-six members of Congress have called on President Barack Obama to provide a legal justification for so-called “signature” drone strikes against suspected terrorists. The Washington Post ...
- CAFR $8 trillion update: Senator Liu, Assembly ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCAFR $8 trillion update: Senator Liu, Assemblyperson Portantino so far silent By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com This is my latest’e-mail to Wendy Gordon, Communications Deputy to California Assemblymember Anthony P ...
- Raw Milk Freedom In France
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com June 13, 2012 While Americans are being raided, arrested, and harassed for selling or in some cases merely drinking raw milk, in France raw milk is freely available in vending machines outside shopping ...
- Rocket Kirchner: Soups Up (songs from his late ...
by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) June 13, 2012 The entire CD plus an extra 3 songs. Rocket Kirchner: Soups Up (widget) see Rocket Kirchner: Ode to Joy We need more leaders like Ernest Shackleton by Rocket Kirchner + Kirch ...
- Roundtable: Kucinich, Nader, Rocky Anderson an ...
Dandelion Salad Jun 11, 2012 by abetterworldtvshow This evening’s show will be an Enlightened, Evolutionary Politics Roundtable, dedicated to ideas about transforming the current political zeitgeist in the U.S. To help bring forth first an understanding of what it’s really like to serve in Congr ...
- The Loss of American Democracy By Timothy V. Gatto
By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com June 10, 2012 We can evaluate Obama’s track record using statistics and apply them to unemployment, GNP, military spending and inflation (or deflation). This is probably how the GOP will try to portray his presiden ...
- Don’t 30 Million Workers Deserve 1968 Wages? b ...
Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 7, 2012 Thirty million American workers arise, you have nothing to lose but some of your debt! Wednesday morning, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) introduced the “Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2012” (H.R. 5901) – legislation to raise the federal mi ...
- Michael Hudson: Obama scapegoats Euro for mise ...
by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 by RTAmerica Republicans have given President Obama a lot of heat for the gloomy US economy. The recent jobs numbers released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics have fallen short of what was pr ...
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This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
- Israeli MK, AIPAC behind Senate bid to cut tot ...
Every year the US allocates $250 million to UNRWA, which provides food as well as health, education and employment services to millions of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Head of Arab political party harassed, detaine ...
The National Democratic Party has accused Israel’s security services of repeatedly harassing one of its leaders each time he leaves and enters Israel. The NDP, which represents Israel’s large... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- Lia Tarachansky: Incitement against refugees l ...
In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Israel airport security demands access to tour ...
Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts; Israel's Shin Bet security service says it acted within the law. IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinia ...
- Spiegel: Israel’s deployment of nuclear missil ...
The Spiegel's special report on Israel's German-made nuclear-capable Dolphin class submarines: Many have wondered for years about the exact capabilities of the submarines Germany exports to Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for RA
If you’re looking for a way to 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 shows that curcumin possesses potent anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties. The clinical s ...
- Why Is Walking in the Woods So Good for You?
If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods, then you know the wonder of the feeling you get from it. But did you know that besides giving you a good feeling, walking in the woods is actually good for you? The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. Translated, it literally means “forest bathing.” And no ...
- Aspirin May Help Prevent Skin Cancer―But Don’t ...
A new study shows that aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprophen and naproxen may lessen the risk of three major types of skin cancer. The study was based on Danish medical records that researchers examined from 1991 through 2009. The findings showed that ...
- Sympathy for Africa Leads to Exploitation by C ...
In an effort to end hunger in Africa, the Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest in projects all over the continent. Much of the effort will go toward developing seeds and fertilizers and building silos for storage. To do this, the Presi ...
- Why BMI Is Not a Great Indicator of Body Compo ...
Measurement of BMI―Body Mass Index―has long been the standard scoring system for determining how much excess fat you have in your body. But a new study indicates that the BMI may well be way off when it comes to measuring your true amount of fat stores. In the study, researchers used a special s ...
- Protect Yourself from Skin Cancer: Slap on the ...
Protect Yourself from Skin Cancer: Slap on the Sunscreen PHOENIX - The season for summer fun is here, and that also means it's time for sunscreen. Paul Kamman, president of the Minnesota-based group Melanoma Awareness, says protecting your skin means protecting yourself from melanoma, the deadl ...
- Supreme Court May Not End SB 1070 Legal Fight
Supreme Court May Not End SB 1070 Legal Fight PHOENIX - The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule any day now on the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law. Legal observers believe the court is more likely than not to uphold the law. ...(Read More)
- Border Community Activists Warn of “Moun ...
Border Community Activists Warn of “Mounting Human Rights Crisis” PHOENIX – The number of illegal border crossings from Mexico has dropped sharply in recent years, but that hasn't slowed human-rights violations against border-area residents, according to community advocates. T ...
- Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservat ...
Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservation in AZ PHOENIX - Adjacent public lands and how they're managed offer insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Arizona, according to a new report from Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development. Rob Southwick, presid ...
- Who Keeps Your Investment Adviser Honest?
Who Keeps Your Investment Adviser Honest? WASHINGTON - A U.S. House committee today takes up a bill that would allow investment advisers to police themselves, through what's called a self-regulatory organization, or "SRO." Critics of the idea say that's like putting a fox in charge of the henho ...
- Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...
- Mercury Bigger Worry than Radiation in Tuna
By Michele Simon Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on our plates, and people suddenly get very serious about what they are eating. A ...
- Groups ask FDA for final response to petition, ...
Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ...
- Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...
- More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...
- .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
- GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
- A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
- The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
- The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...
- Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...
- Bad Cop, Worse Cop?
A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...
- Defend our Right to Create and Share!
I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
- Meet the Rollerman
Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
- RSA: The Empathic Civilization
With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
- Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...
- Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
- Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
- Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
- Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
(this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
- 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. [...]
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
- Climate as A Differential Equations Problem
I hope to be a blogger someday again but in the meantime Timetochooseagain kindly offered this contribution - Jeff ====================================== TTCA I find that when discussing problems of what are ostensibly physical systems, little progress can be made until people formulate their i ...
- Understanding Growth Response Modeling
As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
- Understanding Growth Response Modeling
As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
- Sometimes they forget
So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
- Sometimes they forget
So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
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