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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

14 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Developers can now find out what devices users ...
    Developers can now determine which devices a user has and customize their app or game experience accordingly, Facebook announced today in a blog post. Using the Graph API, developers can retrieve a list of devices that a user has connected … Continue reading →
  • ‘Facebook Exchange’ retargeting system will br ...
    Facebook is testing a new advertising system that will allow third-party platforms to place retargeting ads on Facebook after users visit external websites marked with cookies, according to TechCrunch. The program, called Facebook Exchange, could bring a large influx of … Continue reading ...
  • Facebook prompts admins to re-engage with negl ...
    As part of a continued effort to increase engagement across the site, Facebook has begun emailing some page owners who have not visited or made posts to their pages a while. Earlier this year we noticed Facebook showing some admins … Continue reading →
  • Facebook now asks for more details when users ...
    Facebook has updated its user flow for reporting fake or abusive accounts to include clearer options that could improve the level of feedback Facebook receives. It’s unclear exactly when Facebook made this change, but now when users click “Report/block” from … Continue reading →
  • Inside Network Happy Hour / PageData Launch in ...
    Our PageData launch party and happy hour is tonight. Come by, grab a drink with others in the Facebook and mobile app community. At the very least, be sure to check out PageData, our Facebook pages tracking service. Details are … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...
  • Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.
  • Poisoning public discourse in the USA
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the US National Defence Authorization Act will not only curtail civil liberties by allowing the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike, but will also allow the government to direct the same kind of massive propagand ...
  • Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. B ...
    Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in breach of numerous international conventions, the UN Charter and countless UN Security Council resolutions.
  • The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon
    Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to learn lessons from what was in fact a political and military disaster not only led to another disaster ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 17, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry International Newsworthy MEK Terrorists Blur into Freedom Fighters Iran Urges India to Cherish Friendship India Dumps Iran-S ...
  • Ten Points Everyone Should Know About the Queb ...
    The student strikes in Quebec, which began in February and have lasted for three months, involving roughly 175,000 students in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, have been subjected to a massive provincial and national media propaganda campaign to demonize and dismiss the students and ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Age of Anti-Austerity Tens of thousands take to the streets in Spain, Chile, Quebec, thousands of others in France, Greece, the U.K., protest movement emerging in the United States, across Europe, continuing struggles in Egypt and Tunisia: this is the Age of Anti-Austerity. Drawing on the hi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 15, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “In my many years I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.” – John Adams International Newsworthy Iran Executes Mossad Assassin of Top Nuclear Scientist State Department to Remove MEK fro ...
  • How Do “They” Go About Identifying All These A ...
    The Card-Carrying Flag-Waving Uniform-Wearing Borderless Primitive but Sophisticated yet Abstract Terrorists Called Al Qaeda We have been reading about so many Al Qaeda members killed or captured here and there every single day since the attacks on September 11, 2001. I mean EVERY SINGLE DAY. Pl ...

Afro Spear

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  • “Why is MRC taking Kenya back to colonia ...
    Although there have been much brouhahas and rumpus from Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), agitating for cessation from Kenya, the truth is what MRC is trying to do is treason. For nobody can declare a republic within a republic and fall short of committing treason. Therefore, legally speaking, MRC ...
  • “We Don’t Need Another Hero” By Li ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Our nation’s current political battle about same-sex marriage reminds me of the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in which rivals fight it out in a cage to chants of “two men enter, one man leaves!” I also recall Tina Turner’s song from the film. She belts out: “We ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Another missionary in Africa: the Bill Gates myth The Egyptian Elections and the Arab Spring  The War on Gays Why I Don’t Support Same Sex Marriage New French Socialist Government Appoint 3 Black Cabinet Ministers
  • Madonna and Child
    A gift of love from Deb to my wife and I to congratulate us on the new addition to our family A heartfelt thank you! Here are a couple photos of our princess and prince:                        Alana                                                 Alana and Asa

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • SYRIA : Media Lies Historically Leading Us To ...
    The M.O. of the Syrian insurrection bears the stamp of a Western-supported and planned false flag operation. If so, it won't be the first time that the US and its NATO allies and Tel-Aviv engage in murderous deceit to accomplish "regime change." The playbook has been used before many times, incl ...
  • Schooling, teaching, talking, and being.
    The obscenity of what we call "school" and the real educational imperative: "if you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin
  • Veto the Poor, Enrich the Already Rich
    Corporate Welfare
  • ADC Announces Additional Award Recipients
    OEN contributor retired Colonel Ann Wright will receive the Rachel Corrie Award at this year's ADC Convention in Washington D.C. Wright is known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She was also one of the passengers on the flotillas which tried to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip ...
  • Insurance Industry Myths About Uninsured "Youn ...
    Contrary to Health Insurance Industry propaganda, most uninsured young Americans are not uninsured by choice. The Affordable Care Act has enabled millions of 19 to 26-year-olds to remain on their parents' policies. Millions more with uninsured parents and no jobs remain uninsured.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Bloomberg TV on law graduate debt and the broa ...
  • What did W. ever do to Joffrey?
    Apparently something: As you well know, I’m opposed to violent rhetoric on principle and should be offended, but honestly? A second-long Easter egg that no one notices until the producers point it out in the DVD commentary doesn’t really qualify as a pointed rhetorical statement. Not ...
  • Our Long National Setting of Money on Fire Is Over
    Fortunately, John Edwards will not be re-tried. It would be better had he not been tried at all, given the weakeness of the initial case, but better than nothing. Now, if we could only have applied the same logic to the Roger Clemens steroid witch hunt…
  • I Think Jamie Dimon Should Become Secretary of ...
    My good friend Michelle Rhee is at it again: Rhee, the former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, told the capacity crowd that businesses evaluate their employees based on rigorous standards and public schools should too. Rhee was the keynote speaker at the Te ...
  • Wrap Yourself in the Flag, Because the GOP Alw ...
    Republicans truly do care about our troops….. Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, to expand abortion access for military women who are raped. But despite bipartisan support in the Senat ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Maharashtra's Women Fight for Universal Old Ag ...
    India is often regarded as one of the youngest nations in the world with 33 per cent of its population below 15. The focus of government's policy and social mobilisation has invariably been on the younger and 'productive' sections of society.
  • Two Notorious GNLA Militants Nabbed
    Police recovered one pistol and a revolver, live ammunitions and documents from their possession.
  • Starvation on the Rise in DPR Korea
    According to the Resident Coordinators' office, about 10,300 children will be treated for severe acute malnutrition and 57,000 for moderate acute malnutrition.
  • Violence Againts Women and Girls on The Rise o ...
    Of course, behind the alarming figures are real women and young girls whose lived realities give an insight into what happens when violence enters the secure walls of a home and the abuser is a trusted family member. This is the story of a mother-da
  • LLPP Jeenyo Team Returns At Somalia's 2012 Soc ...
    In the 37th minute of the first half Elman's Abdulkader Ahmed Omar scored the lone goal for his team whose fans stood up with clubbing and chanting up with Elman for at least ten minutes when the goal scored.

environment 360

  • Heating of Forests Releases Large Amounts of C ...
    An experiment that heated forests in the eastern U.S. by 10 to 20 degrees F led to an increase in the release of carbon dioxide from soils by up to eight times, according to a new study. When researchers from the University of California, Irvine and other institutions subjected experimental fore ...
  • Lithium-ion Battery Maker To Announce Technolo ...
    The promising but financially troubled A123 Systems lithium-ion battery maker was expected to announce today it has made a significant advance in battery technology that will enable electric car batteries to last longer and cost less. A123 has been a leader in the race to develop improved batter ...
  • A Desperate Effort to Save the Rainforest of B ...
    The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for oil palm plantations. But in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a top official is fighting to reverse that trend by bringing sustainable forestry to the beleaguered island. BY RHETT BUTLER
  • Renewable Energy Investments Grew by 17 Percen ...
    A surge in investment in renewable energy in India, coupled with strong green energy growth in the U.S. and China, led to a 17 percent global surge in alternative energy investments last year, according to reports by the United Nations Environment Program and another organization. Robust investm ...
  • An Influential Global Voice Warns of Runaway E ...
    Few international figures have been as consistent in warning about the threat posed by global warming as economist Fatih Birol, of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Birol explains why the situation is worsening and what needs to be done to significantly ...

Red Ice Creations

  • How about this? POLICE CHANGE SIDES!
    How about this! From Occupy Frankfurt. May 19, 2012. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protesters- clearing the way for them. The police coming over to serve and protect the people... Blockupy Frankfurt. Police are escorting. Reports of an estimated 20,000+ protesters ...
  • Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released
    The U.S. Department of Justice says at least some materials sealed as part of the court case against seven men involved in the 1972 Watergate burglary should be released. The agency responded Friday to a request by a Texas history professor who is seeking access to materials he believes could he ...
  • Judge caught playing solitaire in Norway court ...
    A judge at the trial of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was caught playing solitaire on his laptop during Monday’s proceedings, the VG newspaper reported. Ernst Henning Eielsen, one of the five judges for the case, can clearly be seen on court cameras playing the card game. Accordin ...
  • What if Yellowstone’s supervolcano erupts?
    For several days, ash would hang in the air, making it difficult to breathe. And that blanket of ash covering the country would smother vegetation and pollute the water supply, quickly leading to a nationwide food crisis. "A lot of people would perish." As for the rest of the world, it would fac ...
  • Man kills housemate in second cannibal-like at ...
    21-year-old man accused of killing a housemate told police in Harford County, Md., that he ate the victim’s heart and part of his brain after killing him. Alexander Kinyua first became a suspect when his brother found what he thought were human remains in the basement of the family’s Joppatowne ...

Russia Today

  • Eurocracy: Lost in translation
    Members of the Lower House of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, are struggling to figure out what some EU papers might mean. Lots of badly translated documents are regularly sent back to Brussels, slowing down... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Falklands dispute: National pride with oil in mind
    Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. Political analyst Martin McCauley says he expects the islanders to show overwhelming support for staying with Britain at the 2013 referendum announced... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • No-fly zone on the horizon in Syria?
    As international pressure against Syrian regime is ratcheting up France has urged to use UN-sanctioned force to implement Kofi Annan peace plan with a no-fly zone being an option. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Terror zone shift: Syrian insurgents 'try to s ...
    While Homs is nearly under control of the government, terrorists and insurgents try to escape north and east. The Syrian military’s strategic task is to keep them from building a new belt of strongholds on Syrian... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UK watchdog chases down Google “street spies” ...
    Google is accused of misleading the UK’s privacy watchdog over a now long running personal data scandal. It has now been forced to re-open a probe after reportedly failing to conduct a proper initial investigation. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • What Is Really Happening in Syria?
    Some are now beginning to ask this question, though to the thorough discredit of much of the Left and liberal US press, most of the people who should be mobilizing themselves in the streets against Obama and the US government cannot even discuss what’s going on, because of the censorship o ...
  • A good question from Russia
    “Russia does not agree with the breakdown of the system of international law which is currently happening,” said Yevgeny Minchenko, director of the Moscow-based International Institute of Political Analysis. “Why should Russia allow the Syrian regime to be annihilated by countr ...
  • The Obama Administration has expanded US milit ...
    As the Democratic Party dominated ‘Peace’ Movement in the US has slept the last 3 years PLUS with its hero in office, the Obama-Clinton Administration has steadily increased the Pentagon presence across Africa. Actually many of the liberal Democrats demanded Pentagon expansionism on ...
  • The violence that the US military brought to I ...
    Here is this weekend’s news from Iraq … A wave of bombings across Iraq has killed 84 people and injured nearly 300 in the deadliest day in the country since US troops withdrew last year. ___ And now these thuggish Democratic and Republican politicians want to bring this Pentagon supp ...
  • Syrian Foreign Ministry: ‘US Administrat ...
    DAMASCUS, (SANA) – An official source at the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the US administration is continuing its blatant interference in the internal affairs of Syria, its open support for terrorists, covering up terrorists’ crimes, distorting facts about Syria at the ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Jesse Ventura: Make Politicians Wear NASCAR Suits
    Published on Jun 12, 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel [Editor's Note: Jesse's latest book is currently available in the Infowars Shop.] http://www.infowarsshop.com/DemoCRIPS-and-ReBLOODlicans_p_644.html Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura called for the abolition of the Democratic and Rep ...
  • Debunking Study That Claims TSA Body Scanners ...
    Another Bogus “Study” Claims Irradiating TSA Body Scanners Are Safe TSA - Grope & Pillage Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child ...
  • Procrastination, not Conspiracy
    Apparently I'm being gagged, according to the anti-9/11 truth tabloid masquerading as a skeptical website, ScrewLooseChange. Last month, I accidently prematurely published a draft post I was working on (still not used to this new blogger), and even though it was only up for like a minute, someon ...
  • My Amazon Review of Popular Mechanics' "Debunk ...
    Source: http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-11-Myths-Conspiracy-Theories/product-reviews/1588165477/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#R21XROM24OW63X Popular Mechanic's revised edition of their book "Debunking 9/11 Myths" will surely impress those ...
  • My New Blog
    If anyone is interested, I've started up my own separate blog where I'll be posting on a wider variety of topics other than just 9/11. http://adamtaylor42.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you there.

Fooducate

  • A Semi-Sweet Recap: Sugary Beverage Summit
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. Lisa Sutherland, PhD Last week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in collaboration with other organizations, presented the Sugary Drinks Summit of 2012 in Washing ...
  • Where’s the “Whole” in Whole Foods Market?
     New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web!  This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. Something has been “softly” incongruous about Whole Foods since the opening of their first store a thousand years a ...
  • Senior Coke Exec: We Don’t Believe in Empty Ca ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Katie Bayne is an Atlanta mother of 2 children, and a busy executive. She is the President & General Manager, Sparkling Beverages, Coca-Cola North America. And she has some advice for us on how to fit Cok ...
  • Hey, Is That Poop On Your Chicken?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! About 50% of supermarket bought poultry is contaminated with fecal matter. This, according to a recent report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Poultry was purchased from 15 grocery ...
  • Sometimes Fat Free Is not the Better Option
    Any sour cream fans here? Whether dolloped with chives onto a baked potato, cooling a hot soup, or sweetened with freshly picked berries, there’s nothing quite like sour cream. Traditional sour cream is a dairy product rich in fats (12-17%). It is made by fermenting cream with certain types of l ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • How Bain Capital helped BPblow up the Deepwate ...
    Review by Greg Palast, for FireDogLake.com Today, Saturday, from 5pm to 7pm, Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic, will be hosting an electronic salon - an open discussion with Mike Magner, author of Poisoned Legacy: the Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power (St. Martin's Press). Join Mike and I ...
  • Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch V ...
    Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com
  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast  Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...
  • Vote like an Egyptian?
      by Mark Bebawi   It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly.  Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...
  • Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth
    What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Sevenly Choose Love Shirts Help Promote Safety ...
    Order your T-shirts here today! Proceeds help families facing the challenges of autism keep their kids safe and sound though the National Autism Association.
  • UK's Leveson Plays Cat and Mouse with Public I ...
    UK's Leveson Inquiry plays cat and mouse with public interest over the Murdoch press investigation into MMR By John Stone When it comes to the MMR affair the UK’s inquiry into the conduct of the press and Rupert Murdoch’s News...
  • When “Special Needs” Services Really Don’t App ...
    By Jennifer Flinton My 10-year-old autistic son was dis-enrolled from the adaptive summer day camp at our local recreation center today. This was a camp specifically designed for special needs children; there were actually several kids my son knew from...
  • Winner: The Anti-Romantic Child By Priscilla G ...
    DAISY is the winner - the contest is closed. We have a copy of The Anti Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman to give away. From Harper Collins: Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth's vision of childhood's...
  • A Decade after Murder-Suicides, D-Day for “the ...
    By Dan Olmsted 1. On June 11, 2002, a Green Beret named Rigoberto Nieves shot and killed his 28-year-old wife, Teresa, with a single bullet to the head in the bathroom of their home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Then he...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Dea ...
    Institute of Science in Society Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn ki ...
  • Poisoning Hawaii – Genetic Engineering Chemica ...
    For over 20 years, Hawai'i has been the global center for the open-field testing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray chemicals on an almost dail ...
  • Thirty Pieces of Silver – The Ron Paul Betrayal
    If you want to live in the past, continue to support the Ron Paul Campaign and watch as your monetary donations will absolutely slip down the rabbit hole and end up in Mitt Romney's coffers. Do not contribute to your own demise as we will undoubtedly witness the November election consisting of O ...
  • Apple Pectin for Radioprotection
    A group of doctors and scientists risked their lives and careers to help children living in the most contaminated areas of the Chernobyl fallout and discovered a simple treatment that clears the radionuclides from their bodies, offering hope for future generations of Chernobyl and Fukushima vict ...
  • GMOs and Glyphosate Linked to Infertility, Bot ...
    There is also the evolving problem of glyphosate’s killing of beneficial gut microbes that suppress botulinum bacteria resulting in chronic, systemic botulism poisoning and death in cattle with probably findings also in humans. One study on SIDS babies found that 20% of Sudden Infant Death Syndr ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bonobo genome reveals more promiscuity in huma ...
    New Scientist – We have now read the genomes of our two closest relatives. The bonobo genome is published today, seven years after the chimpanzee genome was completed. By comparing the human genome with that of chimps and bonobos, we can find out about the last common ancestor of the three ...
  • Group B Streptococcal Meningitis Has Long-Term ...
    ScienceDaily — Parents of infants who survive bacterial meningitis caused by group B Streptococcus might have to live with the effects of the disease on their children long after they’re discharged from the hospital. A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that even though mortality ra ...
  • Iraq attacks kill at least 53, pilgrims targeted
    Reuters – Bombings and shootings targeting Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and police across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Wednesday in apparently coordinated attacks during a major religious festival. Violence in Iraq has eased since the height of the war, but Islamist insurg ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – The nature of a corporation
    Unlike the human beings who inhabit it, the corporation is singularly self interested and unable to feel genuine concern for others in any context. In these days of multi-national corporations that weld unimaginable power compared to years past & have influence over events and our very lives ...
  • News Archive In Focus – Pollution and To ...
    The environment in which we live is far more polluted than ever before and every day the problem worsens. There are nearly 100,000 man-made chemicals today, more pollutants in the air we breathe, in our water supply, even in our food supply. These substances can cause an array of health challeng ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
  • Ikea responds to reports of old-growth logging
    In response to accusations by European NGOs that IKEA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Swedwood, were engaging in some questionable logging practices in Russia, Ikea is arguing that it has been cutting according to international standards that the company itself helped create.
  • Peter Gleick reinstated after investigation in ...
    Peter Gleick, an internationally known Bay Area scientist, has returned to his post as president of the Pacific Institute following a three-month leave of absence prompted by his admission that he had assumed a false identity to obtain documents from a conservative think tank.
  • Death Valley road to stay closed to public
    Inyo County has lost a six-year legal battle for control of “Last Chance Road,” an alleged public highway that starts in a desert wash and peters out at several spots halfway up a small hill on Death Valley National Park’s northern edge.
  • The true cost of IKEA: logging old-growth forests
    Those labyrinthine IKEA showrooms full of dirt-cheap shelving units have to come from somewhere. According to a report released May 16 by the Global Forest Coalition, some of them are clear-cut from old-growth forests in Western Russia.

water.org

  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
  • June 2012 Conference Call
    Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
  • Water for Generations
    The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?
  • Water crisis impacts Lorry drivers
    In many urban places around the world, public and private services deliver water through a patchwork network of trucks - or water lorries as they are known in south Asia. A trucker shares his perspective on the water crisis.
  • Toilets Bring Change to Uganda
    Prior to the introduction of pour flush toilets to Ndeeba Parish, Uganda, residents were using plastic bags as toilets and disposing of them in the drainage channels. This was causing environmental and health hazards for the people living in this slum. New technology changed all that.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Maharashtra's Women Fight for Universal Old Ag ...
    India is often regarded as one of the youngest nations in the world with 33 per cent of its population below 15. The focus of government's policy and social mobilisation has invariably been on the younger and 'productive' sections of society.
  • Two Notorious GNLA Militants Nabbed
    Police recovered one pistol and a revolver, live ammunitions and documents from their possession.
  • Starvation on the Rise in DPR Korea
    According to the Resident Coordinators' office, about 10,300 children will be treated for severe acute malnutrition and 57,000 for moderate acute malnutrition.
  • Violence Againts Women and Girls on The Rise o ...
    Of course, behind the alarming figures are real women and young girls whose lived realities give an insight into what happens when violence enters the secure walls of a home and the abuser is a trusted family member. This is the story of a mother-da
  • LLPP Jeenyo Team Returns At Somalia's 2012 Soc ...
    In the 37th minute of the first half Elman's Abdulkader Ahmed Omar scored the lone goal for his team whose fans stood up with clubbing and chanting up with Elman for at least ten minutes when the goal scored.

Worldnews

  • Andy Roddick exits Queen's after 2nd-roun ...
    LONDON -- Andy Roddick was ousted from the grass-court tournament at Queen's Club after losing in the second round to...
  • Pres. Obama in Philadelphia Tuesday
    President Barack Obama is set to arrive in Philadelphia Tuesday for several evening fundraising events. The visit will mark the last of six Obama campaign events on Tuesday. Supporters will pay from $250 to $40,000 to spend time with the president. The evening events include a reception, a r ...
  • Petkovic to miss Wimbledon
    World number 18 Andrea Petkovic will miss Wimbledon due to an ankle injury. The problem of torn ligaments has kept...
  • Are Black Voters Cooling to Obama?
    By W. James Antle, III on 6.13.12 @ 11:43AM Does Barack Obama have a black voter problem? A new survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows Obama losing black support in North Carolina. The poll found Mitt Romney winning 20 percent of North Carolina's black vote to Obama's 76.. ...
  • Aegon Classic: Elena Baltacha to face Hea ...
    British number two Elena Baltacha will face Heather Watson in the Aegon Classic second round after beating Kai-Chen Chang 4-6 6-4 7-5. Baltacha scraped past the Taiwanese after resuming 4-6 3-2 down, and is due back on court later on Wednesday. Britain's Mel South fell to former world n ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Those who benefit from failed Iran talks
    Kourosh Ziabari With only a week remaining to the sensitive, determining talks between the top negotiators of six world powers and Iran over the latter's nuclear program, some wicked, corrupt forces from here and there are trying their best to deliver a lethal blow to Tehran and weaken the chan ...
  • Supreme Court Approves Police State Harshness
    by Stephen Lendman On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 in Boumediene v. Bush. It affirmed habeas rights for Guantanamo detainees. It let them petition for release from lawlessly imposed custody. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. He said America maintains com ...
  • Spain: The Latest Shoe to Drop
    by Stephen Lendman This one won't be the last. The late Bob Chapman warned years ago about what's unfolding now in real time. He explained what this writer calls bad policies assure bad results. It happens every time. They've simmered for decades. They continue now. They're worse than ever. Gr ...
  • Contagion Affects Europe
    by Stephen Lendman Europe keeps sinking deeper into financial crisis. Eurozone straightjacket rules force 17 dissimilar countries to live by one size fits all diktats. Flawed planning preordained eventual disaster. Monthly more systemic cracks emerge. Money creation alone prevents collap ...
  • The war drums are beating again
    Joey Ayoub On the 16th of February, The Telegraph reported that Iran is "strengthening ties with al-Qaeda," according to "intelligence chiefs," in yet another report of Iran's secret ambitions. This is all too familiar for us Arabs. Ten years ago, Brian Whitaker wrote in The ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • SaskNotes: The Shield or the Sword? The Saskat ...
    Dan Cameron reviews the Saskatchewan government's recent Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation and asks whether the consultations may actually serve as an opportunity for the provincial labour movement to expand the process of collective bargaining. More here. 
  • Canadian identity, pluralism, and the performi ...
    The CCPA Education Project is pleased to present a remarkable education and cultural resource: Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come, edited by CCPA Research Associate charles c. smith. With narratives coming out of theatre, dance, music and other forms of artistic expression f ...
  • Green investments will boost economy and set u ...
    Today, CCPA released a report by Senior Economist Marc Lee and researcher Amanda Card, which suggests that a new green industrial strategy needs to be at the heart of federal policy-making. Accelerated oil and gas extraction will boost profits but won't drive major employment gains. Instead, em ...
  • New video: Taxes, the gift we give each other
    Tired of the Fraser Institute’s worn-out gimmick to fuel tax resentment? We’ve got the cure: A new video that shows the value of contributing taxes. Public health care, garbage pick up, safe food, clean water, public parks, emergency services, higher learning – the chance to live in great commun ...
  • 50th Anniversary of Medicare Calendar
    The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Spain’s debt hits record as euro zone crisis worsens LONDON (Reuters) – Spain’s 10-year bond yields hit a euro-era record of 7 percent on Wednesday as investors fled to safe-haven assets on fears the storm surrounding Europe’s two-year long debt crisis was worsening, send ...
  • They Killed Democracy! You Bastards!
    By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – – Perhaps in the year 2111, if Earth is still a viable ecosystem and we haven’t blown each other to smithereens; if we haven’t been reduced to bartering and begging; if a few great minds have access to non-revisionist history and analyzed the prec ...
  • Meditation over Medication
    WWH- I’ve been meditating for over 20 years. I started when my my father-in-law died. His death was extremely hard for me. At the time, I had three small children to take care of and a business to run. I didn’t have time to grieve, so I kept pushing forward. Yet, all the while, I [...]
  • Marijuana advocate in a tough fight
    By Paul Hammel - WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER – WAHOO, Neb. — Back in the ’60s, Dana Beal was one of the original Yippies — the radical, counterculture group known for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention and advocating legalization of drugs and a nation powered by people ...
  • Real Patriotism – Then and Now – P ...
    By Cindi Silva,WorldWide Hippies-People often refer to the 1980s as the “Me Decade” which is true for me as well. Looking back on the 80s . . . the decade started off with a huge party celebrating my 21st birthday, and ended with an even bigger party celebrating my 30th birthday! So ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
    Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...
  • Why Gas Prices are Higher in the West
    I have been traveling for the past week and have not had a chance to do an episode of R-Squared Energy TV. It will return next week. For this week, I thought I would share the video for a recent appearance I made on Insights on PBS Hawaii. The topic was The Price of Gas: As gas prices continue t ...
  • How Taxpayers Could Benefit From High Oil Prices
    In last week’s post — If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy — I mentioned three specific examples of legislation under consideration that create uncertainties within U.S. energy policy. These uncertainties increase the financial risks for those trying to develop energy projects ...
  • The First Commercial Cellulosic Plant is NOT A ...
    House Ag Committee Holds Hearings on Energy On May 18, 2012 the House Committee on Agriculture held hearings on retaining Energy Title funding in the 2012 Farm Bill. Written testimonies and the video of the hearing are available at Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill: Energy and Forestry Programs. ...
  • Electric Cars & Keystone Impact on Gas Prices ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: What are the chances that electric vehicles will be more than a boutique item, and will make up a noticeable portion of cars on the road by 2020? Do you agree with the recent report from the Natural Resources ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Free online mind mapping software | MAPMYself ...
    Tags: mindmap, mindmapping, brainstorming, tools, mappingby: Fred Delventhal
  • Education « « Swivl - Personal Cameraman for h ...
    Comments:Portable lecture capture Record lectures in any classroom cost effectively. Any instructor can set up Swivl quickly without an AV tech, record every move and word.   Flipped classroom content Are you flipping your classroom? Use Swivl to record classroom content for student consumption ...
  • My reflections after Intel Teach Essentials Co ...
    Comments:See also #prgessentials glog http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/prgessentials/  ; and presentation http://slide.ly/view/cedc01bae8087587172744b5913217cd  - LUCIAN DUMATags: web, tools, my research, intel, intelTeach, glogstereduby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app - Sp ...
    Comments:SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online! - Fred DelventhalTags: mindmap, brainstorming, collaboration, web2.0, mapp ...
  • BiblioNasium - Kids Share Book Recommendations ...
    Comments:Social network for kids 6-12 years built around sharing books/reading. Teachers can easily set up classes, reading lists, etc. - Randy RodgersTags: book, reading, recommendations, web 2.0, social+network, collaboration, literacyby: Randy Rodgers

Rodale News

  • Strange Partnership Could Change Eggs Forever
    Your omelet could experience a radical makeover if the Senate passes an amendment that would require better living conditions for every one of the 250 million egg-laying hens in America. In an unusual partnership, a prominent animal rights group and the nation's largest egg industry group—two ...
  • Would You Drink Toilet Water?
    When it comes to living in a world with adequate amounts of clean water, we're starting to skate on some pretty thin ice. By 2025, half of the world's population won't have access to safe water, thanks to disasters fueled by climate change, pollution, political conflict, overdevelopment, and un ...
  • Sausage's Unpleasant Side Effect
    Grab that next sausage, or peanut butter sandwich, or piece of grilled fish, at your own risk. According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, fatty foods could be exposing you to a toxic chemical in your food called hexabromocyclodecane (HBCD). Researchers ...
  • The New Statistic You Can't Afford to Ignore
    You don't need to be told we had a warm winter and spring. Sure, it felt nice, but we'll pay the price later. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released new statistics finding that this past spring was the warmest on record, with temperatures a full 5.7ºF warmer than norm ...
  • 4 Ways to Stop a Monarch Butterfly Collapse
    The majestic monarch butterfly is in desperate need of your help. Once a common sight in backyard gardens, the population of the orange and black butterfly known for its long migration to its overwintering grounds in Mexico is now on the brink of collapse. Chemical farming practices, overdevelo ...

big think

  • Welcome to the Hybrid Age
    What's the Big Idea? Parag and Ayesha Khanna's new book  Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization  is bursting with big ideas, but the most fundamental concept is what the authors call 'the Hybrid Age.' The Khannas take their cue from Alvin and Heidi Tof ...
  • Are “National” Artists a Thing of the Past?
    Say “nationalism,” and most minds immediately think “war.” Word association games aside, nationalism comes in all shapes and sizes, but the most dangerous form historically has led to armed conflict and borders shifting in blood. Embodiments of nationalist fervor always feel like the first sympt ...
  • SSA Week Day 4: My Picks
    SSA Week is ongoing, as atheist bloggers come together to raise money for the Secular Student Alliance. At the time this post was published, they've collectively raised $61,250 out of a goal of $100,000. (Hmm. Didn't I write yesterday that the total amount was over $65,000? Either it's s ...
  • Study: Decisions Made in a Foreign Language Ar ...
    Struggling with a foreign language is practically the definition of mental strain: what is the word for "screwdriver" again? did I produce that "ĥ" sound correctly? are they laughing with me or at me? And mental strain, according to post-rational theories of the mind, has consequences for how we ...
  • The Future Of Energy and Public Good: There's ...
    What is the Big Idea? The energy crisis is one of the greatest economic and social problems of our time. How can greenhouse gas emissions be reduced at a time when developing nations are increasing consumption? How can development of alternative fuels be encouraged to ease dependence on ...

Information Liberation

  • U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked do ...
    The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations. The European proposal, offered...
  • Senator Boxer Confronted on Bilderberg
    Watch Luke Rudkowski guide Mark Dice through his first confrontation with US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) about the notorious Bilderberg Meeting....
  • Fatal Police Shootings Up 70 Percent in Los An ...
    From the Associated Press: The number of suspects killed by police in Los Angeles County has risen nearly 70 percent in 2011 over the previous year. The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday that 54 people were killed by law enforcement in 2011 county...
  • Rand Paul Damage Control
    Jack Hunter claims Rand Paul *had* to endorse Romney. *Mike Adams claims Rand Paul is lying in his endorsement in an attempt to insert himself into a position of power. *An article on the Daily Paul*also claims the same thing.**Dan McCarthy of the Am...
  • Rand Paul Confronted on Bilderberg
    Rand Paul is confronted on a variety of Issues aswell as Bilderberg 2012. Astonoshing Response! - Published on Jun 10, 2012 by PplAwaken...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
  • Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour
    I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Charity Engine
    Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Charity Engine is a post from: Sc ...
  • Charity Engine
    Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Related Posts:The evolving, revol ...
  • Are we overdiagnosing the worried well?
    NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
  • Are we overdiagnosing the worried well
    NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
  • Take flight
    Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...

RFF Library

  • The Heat Is On: U.S. Temperature Trends
    Climate Central / by Claudia Tebaldi, Dennis Adams-Smith and Nicole Heller http://www.climatecentral.org/wgts/heat-is-on/HeatIsOnReport.pdf [From Summary]  Global warming isn’t uniform. The continental U.S. has warmed by about 1.3°F over the past 100 years, but the temperature increase has ...
  • Strengthening the European Union Emissions Tra ...
    Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) for Greenpeace and WWF / by Hauke Hermann, Felix Chr. Matthes http://bit.ly/LGNMoY [From Bloomburg]  The European Union’s emissions trading system will be oversupplied for the next 12 years unless policy makers intervene to withhold carbon allowances ...
  • Linking Climate Policy to Fiscal and Environme ...
    Brookings Institution / by Ted Gayer http://bit.ly/Lskawg [Response by Katherine Sierra] [Response by Charles K. Ebinger] [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd.] …Regardless of which political party controls the next administration, a renewed push for a comprehensive clim ...
  • A Snapshot of the Impact of Outdoor Recreation
    Western Governors’ Association http://www.westgov.org/reports [From Website]  WGA and five industry groups — Outdoor Industry Association; Motorcycle Industry Council; Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association; Specialty Vehicle Institute of America; and National Marine Manufactur ...
  • Net Loss: Comparing the Cost of Pollution vs. ...
    Environmental Integrity Project http://bit.ly/LE9Mi9 [From Press Release] Up to 5,700 deaths a year can be attributed to 51 of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the United States with no announced plans for sulfur dioxide (SO2) clean-up measures, according to a new report from the nonprofi ...

Scientific American - News

  • Small Comfort: Nanomedicine Able to Penetrate ...
    Tears and a runny nose can be unpleasant on a windy day, but these mucosal secretions play a vital role in protecting the body from viruses and other malicious microbes. Unfortunately, mucus is also adept at washing away medication designed to treat infections and inflammation that occur when an ...
  • Testing Their Metal: Small Exoplanets Abound i ...
    ANCHORAGE--In planet formation, slow, steady and small wins the race. [More]
  • Body Count: Taking Stock of All the Bugs That ...
    The microbes that inhabit our bodies are intimately involved in human health and disease yet we still know relatively little about them. A new major census of these tiny symbionts has revealed that they are an even more diverse bunch than was once presumed. [More]
  • Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Dirty ...
    Read Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 Part 4 and Part 5 of the Special Report [More]
  • Walking the Line: How to Identify Safe Limits ...
    Is preserving the general environmental conditions that allowed civilization to flourish--a moderate climate, a rich array of species, rivers that reach the sea--necessary to ensure humanity endures? Or is minimizing alterations to the global environment introduced by human activity--rising leve ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Form of Law: The Charter, Jordan's Principle ...
    This post is an update to Error of Law, posted yesterday during a trial at the Law Courts in Halifax. In this precedent-setting case, Maurina Beadle and Pictou Landing First Nation are taking the Government of Canada to court over its failure to provide to Beadle's son the same level of heal ...
  • Sacrifices on the Job: A photography exhibit c ...
    Davis Day, an annual day of remembrance honouring miners killed on the job, was celebrated in Nova Scotia yesterday. The day’s namesake, William Davis, was shot and killed by police employed by the British Empire Steel Corp ...
  • Red Square Scare
    They are on the Montréal metro, in summer festivals crowds and on the street–-anywhere havoc can be wreaked or terror instilled in the general population. That teen or twentysomething may look innocent enough, but what about that squ ...
  • The Media Co-op is hiring: Project co-ordinato ...
    Community journalism across generations: The Media Co-op is seeking a dynamic person to co-ordinate our newest project! The project aims to link elder (late in career or retired) journalists, writers and editors with young (20- to 30-year-old) journalists and media activists to provide mentorshi ...
  • Salmon Testing in Cheam
    On 8 and 9 June 2012, Cheam band members and allies headed to the Fraser River to test local wild salmon for viruses known to have been spread from salmon farms on the coa ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 4
    David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
    David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 2
    Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
    The Child is  Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Belief in Climate Change Is On the Way Back Up
    Climate Progress points us to some good news today. The latest Brookings poll on climate change shows that belief in global warming has continued to rebound from its recent lows. Acceptance of climate change still isn't as high as its post-Inconvenient Truth peak, but at least progress is being ...
  • What Do Jamie Dimon's Cufflinks Tell Us About ...
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified before Congress today about his bank's gigantic trading losses a few weeks ago, and the gist of his testimony was — well, something or other. Basically, nobody laid a glove on him, and Republican senators in particular practically genuflected in hi ...
  • Who Reports on the Reporters?
    President Obama is raising less money this year than he did in 2008. Quelle disaster! But wait: during the first half of 2008 Obama was in a tightly contested primary contest. This year he's running unopposed. So it's not very surprising that the pace of fundraising is a little less frenetic t ...
  • Scandals and Presidential Pets
    Sarah Kliff reports on a new study of presidential pets: Crunching the numbers, the article finds that White House dogs could be playing a diversionary role: They tend to get trotted out during times of international conflict and presidential scandal (no similar effect, it’s worth not ...
  • Quote of the Day: Defining Down Smug Hackishness
    From Joe Klein this morning: A break from the road trip for one small quibble with Charles Krauthammer: he has now completely abandoned any intellectual integrity he may have had and joined the cult of Reagan mythmaking....Krauthammer used to be an independent thinker, too. Tis a pity he&rs ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 327: Flowers
    Topics: Boxing disappoints again What the UFC did to become popular Ninja Assassin these hoes Giving a guy flowers Men lie to women more than women know Django Unchained Just shut up and enjoy the movie Negro Twitter Rebellion Is Creflo Gonna Having to Choke a Bitch? Share with your friends:
  • IC 326: T.O. Tears
    Topics: Avengers news Aliens 3 > Alien? Judge Dredd The Amazing Spider-Man video game Kriss hates strippers Strippers the only women you’re allowed to disrespect The Horrors of strippers Banning Sodas in NYC Salting your food with tears Celebrities going broke Share with your friends:
  • IC 325: Channing Tatum Must Die
    Topics: Stitcher Radio The Reason GI Joe 2 got pushed back a year Snow White and the Huntsman IS a Trap The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us Florida is Ground Zero Getting the ‘Celebrity’ treatment sucks What are the rules to slander online? Justin Bieber trains with Mike Tyson Random ch ...
  • IC 324: Opportunistic “-isms”
    Topics: Kev moves to the “white” part of his neighborhood Kev gets blocked by Holly Robinson Peete MMA isn’t as violent as people think Twitter is a warzone with no Geneva Convention Putting yourself out there is risky Opportunistic Feminism Slander happens both ways Twitter is ...
  • IC 323: Both Sides Do It
    Topics: Geordi Laforge first intergalactic simp Punching kids in the face Liberals going overboard with Cory Booker Liberals pretending that they don’t stretch the truth as well Johnny Depp Goes Native Too Busty for work Dressing appropriately Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues
  • Baking sands worsen leatherback turtle surviva ...
    Global warming will reduce the hatchling survival rate by at least half for the already endangered leatherback turtle, studying nests has told James Spotila from Drexel University and collagues.

e!Science News

  • 'No-sleep energy bugs' drain smartphone batteries
    Researchers have proposed a method to automatically detect a new class of software glitches in smartphones called "no-sleep energy bugs," which can entirely drain batteries while the phones are not in use. read more
  • 'Magical state' of embryonic stem cells may he ...
    With their potential to treat a wide range of diseases and uncover fundamental processes that lead to those diseases, embryonic stem (ES) cells hold great promise for biomedical science. A number of hurdles, both scientific and non-scientific, however, have precluded scientists from reaching the ...
  • Stanford researchers discover the African cich ...
    African cichlids enjoy an alien, exotic courtship routine. A dominant male attracts choice females to his territory by dancing seductively. If the female is sufficiently impressed, she lays her eggs and immediately collects them in her mouth, where the male fertilizes them. And, in some species, ...
  • Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electro ...
    A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons, yet at the same time act as speedy superconductors. read more
  • Increased use of hand held devices may call fo ...
    Viewing Facebook and Flickr photos on a smart phone are becoming common practice. But according to a recently published Journal of Vision study, pictures on the small screen often appear distorted. Vision scientists found that perceptual distortions occur because picture takers do not take their ...

unEarthed

  • Death Valley Wilderness Is Safe
    Judge tosses road claim by Inyo County The Last Chance Mountains in Death Valley National Park. (Yathin) A 6-year legal battle to save some of Death Valley Na ...
  • Better Living Through Chemistry…or Not
    Earthjustice’s campaign to ban fungicide will protect future generations (Shutterstock) Many of our legal team’s victories in defense of the environment ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Is Poisoned Water Necessary for Jobs?
    That’s what some congressional leaders want people to think So, you’d think we’d all be in agreement here: clean water is a boon for everyone. That m ...
  • Friday Finds: Big Win for Great Barrier Reef
    Plus: fatty flame retardants and debris tsunamis Great Barrier Reef. (Shutterstock) Coal project kept out of Great Barrier Reef This week, Australian envir ...
  • The Many Humble Heroes of Appalachia
    Courage - not capes and superpowers - defines them Maria Gunnoe in action. Photo by Mark Schmerling. As we were working on our new campaign ("Mountain He ...

Brave New Climate

  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
  • BNC Discussion Forum updates
    In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
  • Roads Not Taken (yet)
    Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...
  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
  • Donate to Support Mountain Heroes Arrested Today!
    Donate here to support the 22 arrested today sitting in Congressional Offices to stop mountaintop removal. NOTE: this button will take you to Rising Tide America’s website.  We can’t yet release the names of those arrested by Capitol Police, but … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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  • Outcry prompts police to call off interrogatio ...
    In recent days several activists in the J14 movement across the country have been summoned to interrogations in various police stations with the stated goal of learning what their plans are for the coming summer. I was one of them. Today I showed up at the central district station in Tel Aviv on ...
  • South Sudanese child abuse victims face expuls ...
    Among the hundreds of South Sudanese slated for deportation is a group of children who have been removed from their parents’ custody due to severe domestic violence. The authorities have not taken steps to ensure their protection, and they risk not only immediate deportation, but a forced ...
  • On racism, Foreign Ministry worried about imag ...
    Diplomats warn that reports of Israeli attitudes and acts towards refugees may harm Israel’s image, ignoring the acts themselves. Our Foreign Ministry finds itself in a quandary. Israel brutally expels refugees from South Sudan, and runs a vicious and racist campaign against refugees from ...
  • Mavi Marmara report shows how Israel investiga ...
    Today’s state comptroller’s report on the deadly 2010 flotilla raid treats it as a bureaucratic issue with no moral dimension. There’s so much to say about the raid on the Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza two years ago, so much that has been said, and what’s the big, long- ...
  • Israeli radio host: ‘Islam is most terri ...
    Just a few thoughts on stuff that’s been “bothering” me… to say the least 1. My tax shekels pay too many idiots I read a column today by Ofer Shelach [Heb], who writes for the daily Ma’ariv, and pounded my desk rather hard. Shelach was angry, rightfully so, for the words spewed ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural w ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Does The Florida Supreme Court Require Residen ...
    THE JUDGE: Go ahead, please. 5 MR. WEIDNER: Please the Court, Your 6 Honor, Matthew Weidner on behalf of William 7 Donovan. As the court is acutely aware, 8 this Florida Supreme Court passed the rules 9 requiring plaintiffs to verify every 10 complaint. That rule is effected in 2010. 11 The comp ...
  • THE FASCISTS ATTACK- (first thing we do… ...
    I have a rough detente worked out with The Dark Side, The Fascists and all those in government and in regulatory agencies and the banks and law firms…they (barely) tolerate me and this blog because I don’t usually name names (anymore) and I frankly don’t usually get real specif ...
  • THE BANKS WANT TO TAKE MY APPEAL TO THE FLORID ...
    The Florida Supreme Court said, “The Plaintiff Shall Verify” so that we can hold someone accountable when they are not truthful. The trial court affirmed, “The Plaintiff Shall Verify” . Florida’s Second DCA affirmed, “The Plaintiff Shall Verify”. But the ...
  • TERRIFYING-YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO! ETHOS
    we cannot all ignore this forever ETHOS THE MOVIE Scridb filter
  • FANNIE MAE AND PROPERTY PRESERVATION- KICKING ...
    We all need to understand that it’s the federal government that is kicking down our doors, “winterizing” homes in Florida in the dead of summer and ignoring or taking property if they choose to. It’s all spelled out in the kind of detail we’ve come to expect from mi ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Public Dialogue – Not
    To happen upon a discovery of importance has the effect of shaking up everything around it. It gets people to …Continue reading »
  • Political Dialogue – Not
    I received an email from a University of Toronto researcher thanking me for yesterday’s blog on “Negative Discovery.” He reminded …Continue reading »
  • A Journey of Negative Discovery
    They were as impressive as they come.  Technically called the “Governor General’s SW Ontario Study Group,” the 17-member team, accompanied …Continue reading »
  • The Perils of Judging
    From my London Free Press article this week on the need to recognize faith groups for what they bring to …Continue reading »
  • Smashing Time
    An American research project, called the Casey Carlson & Deloitte & Touche Study, spent some time analyzing the attitudes of …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • Court to FDA: The Science Actually Matters
    The FDA certainly has been confronted with scientific evidence of the human health risks, but the agency has routinely set aside the science when making decisions.
  • The Power of Story: Conversations with Philipp ...
    While covering the Gulf oil spill, I was talking to a group of elementary school students in Tennessee.... I asked them, “Who do you think is going to clean up this mess?” These students—they were between four and six years old—turned to me and said, “We will.”
  • People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
    A single mother of four, she said, “We live it every day,” referring to the lack of sick leave, not being allowed to go to the bathroom, being laughed at for not speaking English, and lifting heavy things even though she is not supposed to.
  • The Fast and the De-Feathered: Proposed Proces ...
    Every fraction of a second, a robotic arm presented one of the inspectors with the viscera (guts) of a chicken carcass. The inspectors handled the viscera and took a quick glance at each carcass, checking for tumors, fecal contamination and other obvious signs that the carcass might pose a food ...
  • Real Men Eat Kale
    Memorial Day = summer = grilling = men = meat. Why do I automatically make those associations?

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Consumerist

  • Newegg Refuses To Exchange Defective Laptop Th ...
    Gary's friend's laptop didn't have a catastrophic flaw or anything. But its wireless Internet connection was slower than it should have been, indicating a possible problem with the wireless card. So he packed it up and sent it back to Newegg to exchange for a new one. Newegg's RMA department de ...
  • State Farm Will Believe You Hit A Deer When Yo ...
    Sean hit a deer with his car a few weeks ago. We believe him, but his insurer, State Farm, doesn't. It's not like the deer, which disappeared into the woods, is going to stop by his agent's office and testify. So they were going to use his collision coverage, which would result in an increase i ...
  • Failed Walmart Robber Unfortunate Enough To Ge ...
    Some people just aren't very good at getting away with crimes, which is perhaps where the phrase "crime doesn't pay" comes from, eh? Case in point: A man from New York failed in his alleged attempt to rob a Virginia Walmart, and then had the misfortune to get dinged up by his own getaway truck. ...
  • IHOP Waitress Mocks My Fiancee's Disorder, Man ...
    Some days are so stressful that a plate of pancakes for dinner sounds like the perfect way to relax. That is, until your waitress treats your fiancee's neurological disorder like it's the plague and then proceeds to openly mock her and call her a "junkie." Consumerist reader Dan's fiancee has ...
  • Man Sentenced To Two Years Of Probation For Se ...
    As we've written before, the people of Vermont take their maple syrup very seriously. Just ask the Rhode Island man who has been sentenced to two years of probation for selling plain old cane sugar syrup as authentic stuff from the Green Mountain State. The case goes back to 2009, reports the ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Bradley Manning Thanks His Supporters: Daily W ...
    Associated Press: Army Private Charged in WikiLeaks Case Thanks His Supporters for Their Dedication Summary: Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, issued a statement yesterday thanking his supporters for their “ongoing efforts.” Manning’s full ...
  • The Dangers of "Leak" Hysteria #2: Could Lead ...
    In 2000, Congress created and passed a broad anti-leak measure without holding public hearings. President Clinton vetoed the bill because, although the bill was well-intentioned, it would . . . chill legitimate activities that are at the heart of a democracy. The difference between 2 ...
  • Whistleblowers ≠ Leakers: Daily Whistleblower News
    Salon: Whistleblowers vs. Leakers Summary: Salon’s David Sirota makes the important distinction between “selfless whistleblowers and self-interested leakers” in this column. The Obama administration has come down hard on intelligence whistleblowers, but is also allegedly strategically lea ...
  • The Real Dangers of the "Leak" Hysteria
    The most dangerous thing that can come out of the latest "leak" hysteria is that Congress will pass some broad anti-leak law, which will undoubtedly be used against whistleblowers. With secrecy experts universally agreeing that rampant overclassification plagues the classification system and mor ...
  • Obama’s ‘War on Intelligence Whistleblowers’ A ...
    Over the weekend, The Listening Post, an Al Jazeera program, aired an episode entirley focused on exploring the Obama administration's attack on intelligence whistleblowers. In the past few years, the administration has charged six intelligence whistleblowers under the Espionage Act, an archaic ...

UK Progressive

  • Why The Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear
    Rarely in history has the cause of a major economic problem been so clear yet have so few been willing to see it. The major reason this recovery has been so anemic is not Europe’s debt crisis. It’s not Japan’s tsumami. It’s not Wall Street’s continuing excesses. It’s not, as right-wing economist ...
  • Egypt’s Constituent Assembly Crisis: What Happ ...
    The 100-member Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting the Constitution has been named. Again, it is dominated by Islamists, and many liberals and secularists have withdrawn themselves from the process. MP Amr Hamzawy said today:“They [the Islamists] are repeating the same mistakes again ...
  • Five ‘Stand Your Ground’ Cases You Should Know ...
    by Suevon Lee, ProPublica The Stand Your Ground law is most widely associated with the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who claimed he was acting in self-defense. But as a recent Tampa Bay Times i ...
  • Occupy Makes the Local News Focus on Economic ...
    This is an interview I did with The UpTake. The Occupy movement has successfully put the economic injustice plaguing the United States on televisions across America, says Tina Dupuy, a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist and managing editor of Crooks and Liars. The reason that most Americans w ...
  • How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politician ...
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services. The Web giants provide users no ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Ineptocracy — the word du jour
    Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscate ...
  • How Green is Your Bankster? Bank of America sp ...
    Bank of America Pledges $50 Billion to Combat Climate Change The unholy alliance between bankers and government is on naked display. It’s the black hole in the kitchen: huge, obvious, and silent. And boy does it suck. As Climate Depot points out, Bank of America got a $45 billion bailout ...
  • Gone Feudal: Oregon State Uni (OSU) sack and t ...
    In an extremely worrying development, we can add Nick Drapela’s name to the list of skeptics fired for the heresy of speaking out. This email from Gordon Faulks came around today, and I want to spread the message. I have written before about the scientist of upstanding integrity and action ...
  • Agenda 21: Alabama may have outfoxed it. Why y ...
    “Agenda 21″ sounds like a daft-but-harmless-idea you can ignore. I found it hard to get enthused, but I was wrong, and no one sums this up better than James Delingpole in “Watermelons” (aka “Killing the Earth to Save it). To paraphrase James’s brilliant work ( ...
  • 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a p ...
    The paper might have been scientifically invalid, but it was a box-office success. The headlines were everywhere “1000 years of climate data confirms Australia’s warming” said the press release from University of Melbourne. It was picked up by The Guardian: “Australasia has hot ...

ReNew America

  • House GOP schedules contempt vote against Holder
    (Washington Examiner) - House Republicans say they have run out of patience with the Justice Department over its withholding of documents related to the gun walking operation known as Fast and Furious...
  • GOP Senate members rips Holder for 'Furious' probe
    (Washington Times) - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. came under a withering attack Tuesday from Republicans over his handling of the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, including a call by one senior Senate Judiciary Committee member for his resignation...
  • Sheriff Joe strikes back: asks court to dismis ...
    (Stand With Arizona) - Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorneys have filed a "Motion to Dismiss" in response to Eric Holder's ridiculous lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by the Sheriff and his deputies against "Latinos" through their enforcement of existing Federal immigration laws...
  • A secret U.N. plan to tax you?
    (Conservative HQ) - Documents have leaked indicating that the U.N. is considering a global internet tax based on the "sender pays" principle, similar to how international telephone calls are charged. The U.N. internet tax proposal was offered by European interests at a December meeting of a U.N. ...
  • Unravelling history's sacred cows
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Readers were warned at the outset of our our summation of pre-Cold War events that it would require an entire book -- rather than a mere column -- to do full justice to so huge a swath of history. We still are not writing a book, but for those genuinely in search of fu ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Aussie Surfers Survived A Tsunami
    The 2010 Mentawai Island tsunami in Indonesia provides some useful information for 2012ers who live near the coast. Nine Australian surfers survived the tsunami with just minor injuries. The first step was to recognize that an earthquake could mean a tsunami. The surfers immediately climbed aboa ...
  • More Evidence for Younger Dryas Boundary Hypot ...
    One of the best alternative science books of recent years is The Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith. Published in 2006 it presented powerful evidence for a comet causing a global catastrophe 13,000 years ago. In March I reported that the ancient Toltec/Aztec tale ...
  • Lego 2012 Figures
    These are not official Lego products, but that does not detract from their coolness. What a great way to introduce your 2012 ideas to your young children! Some are limited edition as packs, but all the individual pieces appear to available from the online store. Made by BrickForge. Your' ...
  • Why Isn’t the Great Pyramid Bigger?
    Sometimes if you turn a question around, it helps you understand the entirety of the topic at hand. The most common question regarding the Great Pyramid is How did they construct it? Far less often asked are questions like Why did they build it? and Why did they make it so big? I’m awa ...
  • British Tsunamis
    I’ve only really investigated the tsunamis of places I recommend to be for maximum safety. For everywhere else, I suggest being at least one hour’s drive inland and 500m above sea level. That is for protection from tsunamis generated by the sea impact of an asteroid or comet. Of cou ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • CORRECTED – New Egypt constitution body faces ...
    (Corrects number of church seats to four instead of seven) By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has for the second time approved an assembly to draft a new constitution after the first attempt was criticised for including too many Islamists. But the list of 100 names ... Report ...
  • Gomez brace gives Germany 2-1 win over Dutch
    Two goals from Mario Gomez gave Germany a 2-1 victory over Netherlands in their Euro 2012 Group B match on Wednesday, putting them on the brink of the quarter-finals while the Dutch face a potential early exit. Reported by Rediff.com 3 hours ago
  • Krishna, Clinton welcome tangible progress on ...
    External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washingtons chairmanship of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Reported by Indian Express 3 hours ago
  • Missing girl killed by father to save family ' ...
    Investigations on Wednesday revealed that a 22-year-old woman, who was reportedly missing from Hisar since June 5, was allegedly killed by her father and uncle for saving the family's 'honour'. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • On the run, marine engineer arrested in Karnal
    On the run after giving Punjab Police a slip from Ludhiana in February, a marine engineer-turned-most wanted criminal landed behind bars in Karnal on Tuesday night. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...
  • Sentenced to Extermination
    The clouds gather over the Middle East. Not so long ago the clashes between the Sunni Muslims, who support the Free Syrian Army, and the Alawites, who stand by the government of Syrian president Bashar Assad, took place in Tripoli, the second largest city of Lebanon. Fighting also took place in ...

BlogHer

  • Hey, I Could Make That Necklace!
    [Editor's Note: How many times have you seen an expensive piece of jewelry at the store and thought to yourself – “hey I could make that”. Apparently Kelly from Live, Laugh, Rowe had that exact same idea when she recently saw a necklace at Target. The difference is most people just think it, Kel ...
  • Enjoying the Greener Grass of Mothering Across ...
    The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but Ashley at Bohemian Born Baby is really enjoying the shade of the grass where she is right now. And the "where" is Prague for the time being. She does miss some things about convenience in the US, but her list of things that she's enjoy ...
  • Are Your Kids Chatting with Brands or Real Kids?
    I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago and one of the companies presenting was a kid-targeted social network. Apparently this particular social network has over 11Million global members (remember, these are kids) and they spend on average 65 minutes PER DAY using the site. ON AVERAGE. ...
  • A Sudden and Unexpected Loss
    A former firefighter and nurse experiences an unexpected loss that catches her off guard:"Death is something that I have a lot of experience with; as an EMT and nurse I've watched people pass away right in front of me. Sometimes it was expected and sometimes it was the last thing in the world th ...
  • Roots and Trees: Talking to Your Kids About Ad ...
    [Editor's Note: I think the trap that those in the adoption triad often fall into is that we assume because our child isn't asking question that they don't have questions. I love this post by Vanessa from At the Picket Fence. It shows that even when children have always been told their life stor ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • ShopSmart Poll: 57 percent of women say cost o ...
    Seven easy fixes to help you eat better and achieve your nutrition goals YONKERS, N.Y., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Women find many excuses not to eat healthy and many feel bad about it, but according ...
  • Cancer Fighting Foods – 4 Anti-Cancer Foods
    Could it be that cancer rates are so rampant because people are simply not eating the right foods. While there are many factors that play into the development of cancer, diet and smoking habits make up nearly ...
  • Suzanne Somers’ ‘Bombshell’ ...
    Hollywood superstar Suzanne Somers has played many roles in her long career: television actress, fitness-product pitchwoman, and best-selling author. But with her new book, Somers has become something else entirely: a medical pioneer. In “Bombshell: Explosive ...
  • Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhe ...
    Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...
  • Avocados Naturally Overcome Aging and Disease
    Contrary to many anti-aging pills and creams, avocados are extremely inexpensive and also quite a delicious addition to any seasonal meal. The best part, however, is that they are actually effective in fighting both again ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • State downplays Alpha’s Road Fork problems
    While we wait to see if U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin will publicly release the six-month progress report on his Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster settlement with Alpha Natural Resources, it’s interesting to take a look at the state Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training’s report on ...
  • Raese update: Is this the sort of nonsense thi ...
    Well … there’s another ad out from Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Raese, in which Raese continues to allege that Sen. Joe Manchin supports the actions the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has taken to try to reduce the environmental damage, public h ...
  • Shoveled to the sidelines: AP on coal’s ...
    In this Thursday, April 29, 2010 file photo, a pair of coal trains idle on the tracks near Dry Fork Station, a coal-fired power plant being built by the Basin Electric Power Cooperative near Gillette, Wyo.  (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) The Associated Press has moved a national business story looking ...
  • WVDEP policy: Are ‘retroactive’ pe ...
    We broke the story yesterday on Coal Tattoo about the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement stepping in to potentially stop the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection from retroactively granting Alpha Natural Resources an extension of time to start mountainto ...
  • Breaking: Tentative deal in Prenter slurry case
    Word just in from Boone County that a tentative agreement has been reached between residents of the Prenter-Seth community and Alpha Natural Resources, potentially resolving the major coal-slurry pollution case that was set to go to trial. A court official confirms that the deal was reached earl ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Apple Store Purchase Experience
    I’m something of an Apple enthusiast. (gasp) As such, I’m prone to being hyped on Apple products. But I had an Apple-related experience recently that left me pleasantly stunned. I was purchasing some minor item at an Apple store somewhere and the girl behind the counter asked if I ha ...
  • What’s Coming in iOS 6
    Beautifully designed from the ground up (and the sky down), Maps will change the way you see the world.1 Map elements are vector based, so graphics and text are incredibly detailed — even when you zoom all the way in — and panning is smooth. Tilt and rotate to view an area, and Maps keeps [...]
  • Straight White Male is Life on the Easy Setting
    Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s c ...
  • Apple is About to Gut Google’s Map Revenue | F ...
    More to the point, Google charges Apple for having Maps loaded onto that Apple hardware. And as I’ve noted before, this is a substantial sum: rather more than Google currently makes from Android for example. The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such ...
  • Did Republicans deliberately crash the US econ ...
    In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country’s economic recovery. These charges are now being le ...

Fitwatch

  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Spain’s debt hits record as euro zone crisis worsens LONDON (Reuters) – Spain’s 10-year bond yields hit a euro-era record of 7 percent on Wednesday as investors fled to safe-haven assets on fears the storm surrounding Europe’s two-year long debt crisis was worsening, send ...
  • They Killed Democracy! You Bastards!
    By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – – Perhaps in the year 2111, if Earth is still a viable ecosystem and we haven’t blown each other to smithereens; if we haven’t been reduced to bartering and begging; if a few great minds have access to non-revisionist history and analyzed the prec ...
  • Meditation over Medication
    WWH- I’ve been meditating for over 20 years. I started when my my father-in-law died. His death was extremely hard for me. At the time, I had three small children to take care of and a business to run. I didn’t have time to grieve, so I kept pushing forward. Yet, all the while, I [...]
  • Marijuana advocate in a tough fight
    By Paul Hammel - WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER – WAHOO, Neb. — Back in the ’60s, Dana Beal was one of the original Yippies — the radical, counterculture group known for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention and advocating legalization of drugs and a nation powered by people ...
  • Real Patriotism – Then and Now – P ...
    By Cindi Silva,WorldWide Hippies-People often refer to the 1980s as the “Me Decade” which is true for me as well. Looking back on the 80s . . . the decade started off with a huge party celebrating my 21st birthday, and ended with an even bigger party celebrating my 30th birthday! So ...

reference frame

  • Strings with low GUT scale, high SUSY breaking ...
    There are various interesting papers on the arXiv today, including new proposed models (based on NMSSM) for the 130 GeV Fermi gamma-ray line. One of the papers notices that the CP-odd Higgs mass is cutely and accidentally close to 260 GeV which provides the WIMP pairs with a resonance. ...
  • NASDAQ press release on a denier video
    Globe Newswire, one of the world's largest distribution networks belonging to the NASDAQ OMX group and specializing in the delivery corporate press releases, has just released one of the most important press releases in the history of humanity: REAP Releases Latest Satirical Video Parody "M ...
  • TRF comments and posts: migration and statistics
    Quick note: Please feel more than free to register with Disqus and post testing comments at the Stuxnet playground blog. If you already have a Disqus comment, sign with "D" for "Disqus". If you don't, click a check box and register. The e-mail you use during registration will only be visible ...
  • Fermi \(130\GeV\) line claimed to reach 5 sigma
    Evidence for WIMP dark matter could have gotten strong Christoph Weniger's observation of a gamma-ray line in the Fermi photographs of the galaxy has ignited some activity in the astroparticle physics boundary. In eight weeks, the paper has collected 20 citations. Most of the follow ...
  • Speculating on CMS hints of \(320\GeV\) MSSM Higgs
    TRF has considered that \(125\GeV\) Higgs to be a sure thing since December 14th, 2011. New signals appear every day as experimental physicists say that they're indeed closer to the most official discovery you may get. But I am convinced that even those people who say that they remain "o ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
  • Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot
    A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of money in the lottery. Now that the party is over it is time to move forward with the rest of my life. I have hummed and hawed for a few days now on how to spend some of this money and have decided to direct [...] Related posts: Crazy Man Praises Th ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
    By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
  • "We need to stop this."
    Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • BPA and... Wait for It... Breast Cancer
    DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer. What's particularly concerning is the level of BPA in the monkey's blood was equivalent to average levels found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...
  • Safe - vs. Safer
    The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • Our 6th Annual Sunscreen Guide
    When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Driving costs shift into high gear
    As the summer driving season sets in, comes news that the already-high costs of driving a car in Norway have accelerated in recent years. Higher fuel prices, higher fees and, not least, more tolls have all made car ownership and driving pricier than ever before. Newspaper Aftenposten headlined a ...
  • Auditor General fends off critics
    Norway’s state Auditor General, Jørgen Kosmo, has been fending off criticism this week from a string of top state leaders. Now a professional evaluation of the Office of the Auditor General (Riksrevisjonen) has been carried out by representatives for the European Court of Auditors (ECA), a ...
  • New shutdowns loom in train service
    Train service north of Trondheim was due for disruption this weekend, while service through Oslo’s Central Station (Oslo S) was also due to halt for six weeks from June 24. The shutdowns are tied to necessary maintenance that’s part of an overall service improvement plan. “We n ...
  • Oslo sets up Olympic program
    The City of Oslo, moving forward with its expensive application to host the Winter Olympics in 2022, has formally launched the application process, called it “OL-søknad Oslo 2022″ and transferred over the city’s boss for water and sewage to run it. Eli Grimsby will thus be the ...
  • State tests disaster alarms
    Loud disaster alarm systems were due to start blaring in cities and town all over Norway on Wednesday. It was just a test, though, with officials assuring there was no danger at hand. The alarms were scheduled to start bellowing at noon on June 13, to test the state’s civil defense warning ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Consultancy: Who Needs It? Why Do It? Are You ...
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh It turns out that very few of those that do a PDC end up being consultants. It took me a while to actually become a paid consultant and I’ve only been doing it for a little while. I took so long to become one as I truly thought everyone [...]
  • The Secret Life of Plankton and the Acid Test
    Take a fish’s eye view of the world. It’s both beautiful and fascinating. You’ll be peering under the waves to look at the least understood part of our world, the ocean and its hidden mysteries. In this video, you’re looking at the basis of your own existence…. ...
  • PRI Networking, the Value of Collaboration, an ...
    Do we segregate…? Photos © Craig Mackintosh Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global response to long-brewing trouble has been well short of timely or appropriate. The world as a whole, if I were to be brutally honest, is taking three steps backwards for ev ...
  • Foodscaping: Reap What You Sow
    I thought you might be interested in this short news segment which recently aired nationally on the ‘America Now’ news network in the USA, featuring yours truly: Check out the lengthy disclaimer given by the TV hosts at the end of the segment (morbidly fascinating), though I esp ...
  • Julious Piti from the Hugely Successful Chikuk ...
    When: Sunday July 1, 6:30-9pm, 2012 Where: Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College, West Campus Cost: $10-$5 SBCC Students Please join the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability on Sunday, July 1, as we host Julious Piti, founding member of the Chikukwa Ecological Land ...

Pointman's

  • How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
    Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...
  • The day of days.
    I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he … Rea ...
  • The real bastards.
    I want to tell you the story of a couple of things that happened in the not too distant past, because they obviously need to be told again, if only to serve as a warning from history. They’re forgotten stories nowadays, possibly because they’re not very pleasant ones, but they did ha ...
  • The 100,000 pages landmark.
    Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...
  • Climate Alarmism and The Prat Principle.
    I’d like to introduce you to one of the great discoveries of my life, the Prat Principle. Before doing so, I’ll have to ensure we have a common understanding of what exactly a prat is, prior to sharing it with you, together with some related tricks and tips. Prat is one of the great ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Spa ...
    This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision: Dear friends and family,  With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, I wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support.  Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your n ...
  • Choice Of Weapons: A Commentary on Youth in Ne ...
    Sometimes Truth whispers conspiratorially; other times it gets naked in public. This was one of those times. On May 31, Truth painted an undeniably clear picture on the front page of section B of the Times Picayune. The article headlined “Frame by Frame” is a mini-feature on an event the day ...
  • Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta ...
    On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...
  • Call to Action: Stop Deporting Community Organ ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice: “The main reason people don’t stand up for themselves and defend their own rights,” says Josue Diaz, “is because they’re afraid of being deported.” Josue should know. He was arrested and put in deportation proceedings – ...
  • Warning NOPD: Not My Sons! by Tracie Washington
    My friends Richard and Hilda McCline needed a couple of guys to help them move boxes from the American Can to storage. So on Thursday, Jacob picked-up Donald (his friend) and they worked from a little after 11am until 2pm. On the way home, they stopped at the light at Carrollton and Tulan ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Heating of Forests Releases Large Amounts of C ...
    An experiment that heated forests in the eastern U.S. by 10 to 20 degrees F led to an increase in the release of carbon dioxide from soils by up to eight times, according to a new study. When researchers from the University of California, Irvine and other institutions subjected experimental fore ...
  • Lithium-ion Battery Maker To Announce Technolo ...
    The promising but financially troubled A123 Systems lithium-ion battery maker was expected to announce today it has made a significant advance in battery technology that will enable electric car batteries to last longer and cost less. A123 has been a leader in the race to develop improved batter ...
  • A Desperate Effort to Save the Rainforest of B ...
    The once-magnificent tropical forests of Borneo have been decimated by rampant logging and clearing for oil palm plantations. But in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a top official is fighting to reverse that trend by bringing sustainable forestry to the beleaguered island. BY RHETT BUTLER
  • Renewable Energy Investments Grew by 17 Percen ...
    A surge in investment in renewable energy in India, coupled with strong green energy growth in the U.S. and China, led to a 17 percent global surge in alternative energy investments last year, according to reports by the United Nations Environment Program and another organization. Robust investm ...
  • An Influential Global Voice Warns of Runaway E ...
    Few international figures have been as consistent in warning about the threat posed by global warming as economist Fatih Birol, of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Birol explains why the situation is worsening and what needs to be done to significantly ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • More civil liberties at the Grand Prix
    By Marilyne Veilleix This Sunday, June 10, 2012, I attempted to take part in a protest-action: over the course of a few hours, I would take the metro back and forth from Berri to Jean-Drapeau station to peacefully protest my disagreement with the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which in my opinion promote ...
  • LPG cut, Summerworks restored: Is this any way ...
    By Frank Moher Let us now consider the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the confusion that is its Minister, James Moore. As we reported on the weekend, the Literary Press Group of Canada, a 37-year old organization whose job is to sell the books of Canadian authors, unexpectedly lost its fun ...
  • Long live Jean Charest, says Amir Khadir
    A BoB short: Amir Khadir says he has no desire to see Jean Charest dead. “Mr. Charest is quite alive and I wish he stays that way for a long time,” the Quebec MNA told reporters on Tuesday. The remarks came after artwork depicting a partially nude, fully deceased Jean Charest, lying ...
  • Twitter tale: Civil liberties at the Grand Prix
    The following account of the new Quebec normalcy appeared today in the twitter stream of Mathieu Perron (@matness), who identifies himself as a “twentysomething playwright, director, producer, photographer, educator, activist, student organiser, lover & feminist from montréal.”
  • Inside Read: Bad Mommy
    Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In Bad Mommy, Vancouver author Willow Yamuchi satirically assesses all the ways women can (and will) mess-up child-rearing, while also featuring tales from “22 admitted bad mommies . . . Instead of hiding mommy ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Rivera says surgery was successful
    New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said Tuesday's surgery on his injured right knee "went perfectly" and he was looking forward to beginning his rehabilitation. The 42-year-old Major League Baseball all-time saves leader tore his right ACL and damaged meniscus in the knee while shagging fl ...
  • Firms urged to pull plug on incandescent bulbs
    The environment and industry ministries asked businesses Wednesday to refrain from manufacturing and selling incandescent light bulbs to accelerate their replacement with eco-friendly LED bulbs in households and offices. Vice Environment Minister Katsuhiko Yokomitsu met with representatives of ...
  • Australia FTA talks begin in Tokyo
    Japan and Australia began Wednesday in Tokyo three-day talks toward sealing a bilateral free-trade agreement, with the focus on what concessions Japan is prepared to make on liberalizing trade in farm products and Australia on investor protection. It is the 16th round of bilateral FTA negotiat ...
  • Seibu's Ishii shuts down Tigers on two hits
    Former major leaguer Kazuhisa Ishii was atypically businesslike and purposeful on the mound on Wednesday and the Hanshin Tigers suffered for it. Ishii (6-2) threw his second shutout of the season and Takeya Nakamura continued his home run rampage as the Seibu Lions beat the Hanshin Tigers 2-0 ...
  • Chinese to be issued multiple-entry visas
    Japan will start accepting applications July 1 for multiple-entry visas from individual Chinese tourists visiting disaster-hit areas, the Foreign Ministry said. To be considered eligible for the new visas, travelers will need to have sufficient financial means and spend at least one night in F ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The pharmaceutical industry in Québec: time fo ...
    Last week it was announced that the German firm TVM Capital will manage a Montréal fund dedicated to the life sciences sector and meant to allow the multinational pharmaceutical Eli Lilly, amongst others, to set up shop in Québec’s metropolis. With $150M planned investments, does this mean that ...
  • A Green Industrial Revolution
    Today the CCPA released a new big picture report by myself and student researcher Amanda Card calling for a Green Industrial Revolution. The report builds on work done for the BC-focused Climate Justice Project, bringing to bear a national analysis of green and not-so-green jobs. We take a close ...
  • Complete Details of 2008-09 Bank Support
    Readers of this blog will have hopefully read my report “The Big Banks’ Big Secret”, which examines the $114 billion that Canada’s banks received during the 2008-09 financial crisis. The report’s major finding was that at some point during the crisis, three of Canad ...
  • Complete details of 2008-09 Bank Support
    Readers of this blog will have hopefully read my report “The big banks big secret” which examines the $114 billion that Canada’s banks received during the 2008-09 financial crisis.  Its major finding was that at some point three of Canada’s five big banks had received sup ...
  • The Student Strike in Québec
    Québec is in the midst of a social crisis of rare intensity, both in terms of the duration of the confrontation between the student movement and the Québec government and the extent to which citizens have rallied behind students in the last weeks. After more than four months, a total of 161 stud ...

ReDress

  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...
  • Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.
  • Poisoning public discourse in the USA
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the US National Defence Authorization Act will not only curtail civil liberties by allowing the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike, but will also allow the government to direct the same kind of massive propagand ...
  • Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. B ...
    Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in breach of numerous international conventions, the UN Charter and countless UN Security Council resolutions.
  • The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon
    Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to learn lessons from what was in fact a political and military disaster not only led to another disaster ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Fire, Drought, and Water Stress
    “Scientists have long known that forest fires affect water yield.  For the initial 5-10 years after a big fire, water supply typically increases, because the dead trees are no longer transpiring water, which leaves more to run off across the landscape.  But as the forest regenerates, the n ...
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    “South Australia wants more Murray water reaching its end (the proposed farming reduction is well short of the 3000 to 4000 gigalitres proposed by the authority in October 2010 and less than a third the volume the authority then said was needed to fully restore the rivers); the other state ...
  • Water Too Dangerous to Drink: What Life’ ...
      “The struggle to find clean drinking water has become a way of life for the residents of East Orosi. But they’re not alone. Like a growing number of California’s poor people, they’re paying for water that’s not fit to drink. One in 10 Californians in two major agricultural reg ...
  • Land grabs leave Africa facing ‘hydrological s ...
    “A scramble for cheap African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent’s rivers, a report warns. “If these land grabs are allowed to continue, Africa is heading for a hydrological suicide,” ...
  • Water crisis to continue in Delhi after Haryan ...
    “The severe water crisis in the capital is likely to continue as Delhi government’s efforts to get additional water from neighbouring Haryana to ease the worsening situation did not yield any result. “Several areas of Delhi have been facing severe water shortage for the last fe ...

D. Kucinich

  • Major Disclosure: Margin of Safety Eroded at D ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video explaining how the cracking at Davis-Besse nuclear power plant operated by FirstEnergy has deteriorated the ‘margin of safety’ below the threshold required for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a license to operate. Despite that ...
  • Kucinich: Peace is Inevitable
    Appearing on a live broadcast of Brian Lehrer Radio Show at The Green Space, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) called for a new approach to peace. He explained H.R. 808, his legislation to establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace. H.R. 808, which seeks to address the causes of violence bot ...
  • 26 Members of Congress Demand Answers About Co ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and twenty-five fellow Members of Congress today wrote to President Obama demanding the White House’s legal justification for “signature” drone strikes, which could significantly increase the risk of killing innocent civilians or those who have no relationship ...
  • Following Leak of Radioactive Coolant at Davis ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called upon the Inspector General (IG) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to immediately investigate misleading and inaccurate statements made to the public by NRC officials. The call comes after radioactive coolant was found to be leaking at the ...
  • Former Coke Marketing Exec Tales Make Case for ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today pointed to an insider’s depiction of marketing strategies at Coca Cola as further evidence for the need to for his legislation to end taxpayer subsidies that have contributed to high rates of childhood obesity. Kucinich introduced similar legislation to r ...

Authentically Wired

  • Industrial Policy Run by the Pentagon
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...
  • I’m curious why would anyone need to ask ...
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • we are NOT at the mercy of
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • and who is the wiser…?
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • NO SURPRISE IS THERE …?
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
    North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
  • The rarest rhino's last stand
    Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Probe strikes trouble around the red planet
    A Nasa spacecraft orbiting Mars is in safe mode after it detected a problem.The Mars Odyssey, which has been circling the red planet since 2001, noticed something odd with one of its gyroscope-like devices that helps control its...
  • Whooping cough epidemic rapidly escalating
    The epidemic of whooping cough, a potentially fatal infection, is rapidly escalating, the latest figures published by health authorities show.The disease, spread by coughing and sneezing, is particularly dangerous for babies and...
  • Kiwi scientists developing 'groundbreaking' drug
    Kiwi scientists are part of a team developing a groundbreaking drug to stop the body from rejecting bone marrow transplants in cancer patients.Auckland University's Professor Bill Denny and Dr Julie Spicer are part of a group working...
  • Sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91
    Ray Bradbury anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits - and not necessarily as good things.The science fiction-fantasy master spent...
  • Cloud prevents many from spotting Transit of Venus
    Some New Zealanders were lucky enough to catch a once in a lifetime glimpse of Venus passing over the sun today but cloud over much of the country prevented many others from spotting the Transit of Venus.The weather stayed clear...

The Bovine

  • Formerly AWOL Shropshire sheep and lambs kille ...
    From Susan Mann on Better Farming: “The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has euthanized 26 adult sheep and 11 lambs for scrapie testing after finding the animals that were stolen from Montana Jones’ quarantined farm two months ago. But details on … Continue reading →
  • Saga of the little Chilliwack dairy
    From Michael Schmidt: Preface In a surprise move Fraser Health lawyer Susan Beach took sick leave and Gordon Watson’s and my 55,000 dollar contempt of court hearing was “indefinitely postponed”, agreed on by all parties. Susan Beach is the second … Continue reading →
  • Ron Paul talks raw milk at Texas GOP
    From The Examiner.com: “But then, Ron Paul made a statement that aroused even more applause.   “You might even be able to drink raw milk.” It was deafening in that arena.  For a moment I thought the roof might collapse as … Continue reading →
  • Texas Republicans favour raw milk
    From Chron.com: “….The platform also opposes affirmative action and supports: –Voter ID –English as the official language –Defining marriage as “a God ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman.” –Motherhood –Abolishing property taxes … ...
  • CFIA starting to kill the formerly missing she ...
    From Adrian Humphreys in the National Post: “The strange yarn of the fugitive flock – heritage sheep said to be related to the first sheep that came from England to Canada – is coming to a messy end after food … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Any Rabbits Left in the Hat?
    Inquiring minds are pouring over the ESM Treaty to see how it is supposed to work in theory, assuming it will be ratified by counties with the required 90% of EMU voting rights. Given that Spain is supposed to get €100 billion from the ESM, some might be surprised to learn ESM Still Not Rat ...
  • Spanish 10-Year Bond Yield Hits 6.96%, a New E ...
    A big selloff in Spanish government bonds is underway this morning at 3:15AM central. Conditions can change by the US equity market open, but the results are currently very ugly. At the time of this writing, the yield on 2-Year Spanish Bonds is 5.12% (up 20 basis points) having soared as hi ...
  • Spain Bailout Terms: 100 Billion Euros for 15 ...
    According to a Google Translate from Libre Mercado, Spain will receive €100 billion for 15 years at 3% interest with no payment due for 5 years. How will Spain pay for this? By sticking it to taxpayers, that's how. Pressure on Spain from Brussels to hike the VAT is intensifying accor ...
  • German Vote on ESM Fails; Still Not Ratified b ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports European Economics Commissioner Olli Rehn expressed concern Monday that Germany, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Slovakia, and the Netherlands were dragging their feet in ratifying the ESM. In the meantime, the Journal reports Spain May Tap EFSF. The ar ...
  • Italian Paradox: Italy is Borrowing money at 4 ...
    Sovereign bond yields in Spain and Italy have been climbing across the board, not just the longer durations. Please consider Italy pays dearly to issue one-year debt. Italy sold €6.5bn of one-year debt at the highest cost since December, underscoring how one of the world’s biggest bond marke ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 14, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington International Newsworthy IAEA Refuses Iran Cooperation Act War with Iran Propaganda: New Murky ‘Evidence’ of Iran’s N ...
  • Obama Deeds vs. Obama Words
    “What you need to succeed is sincerity, and if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made” William Blum “A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me [...]
  • Podcast Show #85: US-Israel War on Iran & the ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr James Petras Professor James Petras returns to our show to discuss the mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran and the two-track US war propaganda- one directed at Iran, the other targeting the ‘liberal public’ to confuse and undermine the major ...
  • Is Shale Gas a Real Energy Solution?
    The Serious Consequences of New Technologies to Explode Gas out of Shale Rock William Engdahl There is a global rush to embrace a new technique to extract hydrocarbons from the Earth. From  Germany to Poland and France, from China and above all in the USA where the technique of hydraulic fractur ...
  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Petrobras’ Ultra-Deepwater Chinook Field Leaks ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA(PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, said Wednesday a “small leak” of hydraulic fluid was detected during commissioning of a submarine system Sunday at its Chinook [...]
  • Subsea Tidal Turbine Installed And Powering Homes
    ome believed that tidal energy generation was an unrealistic dream. Engineering a turbine to withstand the harsh marine environment and operate at the seafloor appeared to be a challenge the [...]
  • Kongsberg’s New Wind Division Finds Home in Norway
    Kongsberg Group announced today that it has chosen a new home for its new wind division ‘Centre for Optimum Wind Park Operation’ at its maritime facility in Trondheim, Norway. The [...]
  • Kongsberg’s New Wind Division Finds Home ...
    Kongsberg Group announced today that it has chosen a new home for its new wind division ‘Centre for Optimum Wind Park Operation’ at its maritime facility in Trondheim, Norway. The [...]
  • A Dirty Ship is an Expensive Ship to Operate [ ...
    - by Daniel Kane, Propulsion Dynamics A half decade ago, hull performance sounded like some esoteric concept, but the ban on tributyl tin (TBT) coatings and increasing bunker prices has [...]

Press TV

  • Steel plant explosion kills 11 in India
    At least 11 people have been killed and many others injured in an explosion which ripped through a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police say.
  • ‘Obama’s ‘cheap words’ on economy’
    US President Barack Obama is set to deliver his first major speech on the country’s economy in his re-election campaign, an address which his republican rival Mitt Romney labeled as “cheap words.”
  • Spain borrowing costs hit record 7%
    Spain’s 10-year borrowing costs have hit a eurozone-era record high of about seven percent after Moody’s rating agency downgraded the country’s credit rating.
  • Iran condemns recent terror acts in Iraq
    Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Iraq as ‘inhumane,’ attributing them to the ‘enemies of the region.’
  • ‘Foreign forces stoke Afghan insecurity’
    Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has warned against the prolonged presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan, which will deteriorate the security situation in the war-wracked country.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

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