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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.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

17 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

English: A Copt (left) and a Salafi (right) de...English: A Copt (left) and a Salafi (right) debate in Tahrir Square on politics and the revolution during a break from the cleaning up efforts in the square. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Liberia Looking for a Sustainable Economic Fut ...
    Deep in the forest in Gbarpolu County, northwest Liberia, a group of men working a surface gold mine are asked what will happen to the land when they are finished with it. They laugh, and shoot each other confused glances. Gbessay Musa, who says he left Sierra Leone in search of work three years ...
  • BOOKS: Guarding the Empire from Four Miles Up
    They are unpopular all over the world, with one exception. According to a new Pew Research Center poll, the only country where a majority of citizens support drone strikes is the country that uses the new technology most regularly: the United States. Only 28 percent of U.S. citizens oppose drone ...
  • Ethnic Cleansing of Muslim Minority in Myanmar?
    Reports of sectarian violence in western Myanmar have exposed the plight of 800,000 Muslim Rohingya, a persecuted minority that a regional human rights body described in 2006 as facing a “slow-burning genocide”. By Thursday, clashes between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Rohingya in pr ...
  • Women Targeted in Tahrir Square
    It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be female or foreign in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution. A wave of sexual assaults against female protestors and foreign female journalists by mobs of men, some armed with sticks and belts, has taken place in ...
  • Saving the Mangroves Front
    On a humid islet covered with mangroves, Lucena Duman and her neighbours have found a route out of poverty. They work as conservationists and tour guides in this isolated corner of the Philippines. After feeding her goats, which were once her only source of income, the 46-year-old Duman dons a w ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran urges its nuclear right be recognized dur ...
    Summary: Iran welcomes dialogue and has always been open to cooperation and talks with different countries on a wide range of issues, including cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, Jalili was quoted as saying on Friday. source: xinhuanetread more
  • The elephant in the room: "Six plus one" talks ...
    Summary: Today Xinhua reports that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here Friday that the format of "six plus one" for Iranian nuclear talks should continue. I assume this was an error by Lavrov but it is quite an interesting error. The talks are formally with the FIVE pl ...
  • After Moscow: Will There be War or Peace? (Par ...
    Summary: Ahmadinejad and PutinThe Russian scholar and independent analyst Dr. Nikolay Kozhanov shares his in-depth insight into the Russian approach towards the upcoming Moscow negotiations between P5+1 and Iran with Shirin Shafaie. Dr. Kozhanov was an attaché at the Embassy of the Russian Fe ...
  • Congress Pushes for War with Iran
    Summary: In another resolution apparently designed to prepare for war against Iran, the US House of Representatives, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 401-11 vote, has passed a resolution (HR 568) urging the president to oppose any policy toward Iran "that would rely on containment as an option ...
  • Obama's Drift Toward War with Iran
    Summary: The most undercovered story in Washington is how President Obama, under the influence of election-year politics, is letting America drift toward war with Iran. This story is the unseen but ominous backdrop to next week's Moscow round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Dark Energy" --Does the Mysterious Anti-Gravi ...
    Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This...
  • Image of the Day: Cosmic Illusion --A Galaxy M ...
    In an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy formerly known as NGC 3314 looks like an interacting pair of galaxies, but is actually an accidental overlapping of two galaxies which just happen to be in the same...
  • A Tipping Point for the Human Species? Our Tec ...
    Has the human species reached a new inflection oint in our history? Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicates that the deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system...
  • Watch Live: A "Potentially Hazardous" Near-Ear ...
    Watch it live tonight: An asteroid that NASA astronomers compared to the size of a city block dubbed 2012 LZ1, is roughly 502 metres wide, and will come within 14 "lunar distances" — a measurement of the distance from the...
  • The Lakes of Titan - Cassini Mission Detects " ...
    NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has imaged methane lakes in the “tropics” of Saturn’s moon Titan. One of the lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, with a depth of at least 3 feet (1 meter),an...

Natural News

  • Dr Oz a sellout on vaccines, declares Robert S ...
    There is a lot that television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz has said over the years that has actually been helpful and eye-opening for many people -- and some of it has even run against the grain of the mainstream medical system. But a recent article co-written by Dr. Oz...
  • Australia plans to create world's largest mari ...
    The world's coral reefs provide shelter for a multitude of sea life. Unfortunately, many have been destroyed or are in rapid decline. Similar to other bodies of water around the world, Australia's oceans are home to an abundance of ecosystems and sea creatures such as...
  • Earthships, the future of self-sustainable living
    (NaturalNews)Imagine living in a house that produces its own energy, generates its own water supply, grows and sustains its own food supply, and continuously maintains interior climate conditions at proper and desirable temperatures. Such a house might seem like some kind of science...
  • Why we are three times heavier than we were in ...
    The affluence of the Western world may be the envy of empires and kingdoms past, but much of that affluence has come at a heavy price in terms of health. The obesity epidemic is only getting worse, despite efforts in the U.S. and Europe to battle bulging waistlines with...
  • If you only choose one remedy for survival and ...
    If you've ever driven by a field of yellow daisy-like flowers and felt a sense of calm, you've experienced the embrace from Arnica, soothing your earthly and invisible aches and pains. Arnica montana, or Leopard's bane has been in use medicinally since the 1500s, and...

Threat Level

  • CIA Refuses to Confirm or Deny Drone Attacks O ...
    The Central Intelligence Agency continues to refuse to confirm or deny the covert military use of drones to kill suspected terrorists overseas, despite President Barack Obama's and even a former CIA director's admission of the agency's targeted killing program.
  • Sweden Will Imprison Assange When Extradited
    Julian Assange will be kept in a Swedish prison when he is extradited to face questioning over sex charges, Sweden announced Friday. But he'll have a hearing on whether he has to stay in custody within 4 days of extradition from the UK.
  • FBI Ordered to Copy Data Seized from Megaupload
    The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in preparation for turning it over to its indicted founder Kim Dotcom. Justice Winkelmann’s order doesn’t necessarily mean ...
  • .WTF? — 20 New Top-Level Domain Names That Sho ...
    On Tuesday, the list of new proposed top-level domains, and the companies seeking to control them, was published by ICANN. The new contenders to the throne of .com’s dominance include Amazon with .book, Google with .youtube, and three companies seeking .sucks. There are also applications f ...
  • Lone Senator Blocks Renewal of NSA Wiretap Program
    The Obama administration wanted a quick, no-questions-asked-or-answered renewal of broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the Bush administration's illegal warrantless wiretapping program. That's despite President Barack Obama's campaign promise to revisit and revise the ru ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller: "Our Goal is No ...
    After his reporter Neil Munro's disgraceful performance at the White House Friday, Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson rushed to his defense, complaining "I don't remember Diane Sawyer scolding her colleague Sam Donaldson for heckling President Reagan." Donaldson was quick to respond, ...
  • The Three Word Legacy of George H.W. Bush
    As he turns 88 this week, former President George H.W. Bush is being celebrated for a lifetime of service to his nation. In the HBO documentary 41, Bush the Elder speaks personally about his career as a World War II aviator, member of Congress, CIA director, ambassador to China, vice president ...
  • Romney's Big Lie on the Economy Now Bigger tha ...
    If nothing else, you have to admire Mitt Romney's persistence. After he formally announced his candidacy a year ago by declaring when President Obama "took office, the economy was in recession, and he made it worse, and he made it last longer," fact checkers quickly demolished Romney's obvious ...
  • John Cornyn is the Very Model of a Modern Majo ...
    During a highly charged Senate hearing on Tuesday, Texas Republican John Cornyn demanded the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder. That Cornyn would emerge from GOP central casting to lead the right-wing witch hunt against Holder comes as no surprise (and not just because of his staunch ...
  • Romney's $25 Billion Voucher Plan Puts Public ...
    For Mitt Romney, the love that dare not speak its name is "vouchers." Two weeks after he delivered a major address on education policy in which he never mentioned the V word, the New York Times detailed Romney's proposal to divert $25 billion in taxpayer dollars to religious, private and for-pr ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Brother Sun and Sister Moon (1972)
    Dandelion Salad http://en.wikipedia.org/ Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Italian: Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francesco, the spoiled son of Pietro Bernardone, a ...
  • The Stimulator: Golden Dawn’s ultra-violence
    Dandelion Salad Jun 13, 2012 by stimulator http://submedia.tv/ This Week: 1. Greek anarchists in Prague? 2. Golden Dawn’s Dark hour 3. Immigrants invade Athens’ streets 4. Pride ain’t scared 5. Greek Anti-Fascist resistance 6. Run this town 7. Just Do It! Golden Dawn’s ultra-violence see T ...
  • Romney’s Campaign of Inanity by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 14, 2012 Mitt Romney’s daily dittohead assertions make one wonder what he got out of the law and business degrees he received from Harvard University. One of his regular blasts blames Barack Obama for the daily reports of bad economic indicators ...
  • Chris Hedges: Rapid soci-economic decay across ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 15, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 by PRNfm Chris Hedges: A look at our nation’s “sacrifice zones” as evidence of rapid soci-economic decay across the US. Guest: Chris Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics ...
  • Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO June 12, 2012 As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Robots Can Learn Language From People
      Robots can develop the basics of language skills through interacting with a human, according to new research from the University of Hertfordshire. The research has just been published in the journal PLoS ONE. The researchers, Dr Caroline Lyon, Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Dr Joe Sau ...
  • Voyager Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System
      NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of our solar system, where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system is markedly increased. The voyager scientists who are studying this rapid rise think that Voyager 1 is very close to exiting out of solar system ...
  • Neutrons Might Be Disappearing Into A Parallel ...
      The existence of mirror particles may explain the anomalous loss of neutrons witnessed during recent experiments, according to a new study just published in the European Physical Journal (EPJ) C. The existence of matter that mirrors our own has been theorized to exist, in a variety of dif ...
  • Oldest Cave Paintings Date Back At Least 40,80 ...
      The El Castillo cave paintings in Northern Spain have now been dated to at least 40,800 years ago. This makes them the oldest known European cave art. The new dating has pushed back the date of the oldest known cave art in Europe by 10,000 years. The research was done by dating 50 paintin ...
  • Renewable Clean Energy Better For Planet
    It's time to do away with coal-fired power plants and Nuclear Energy and switch to renewable energy sources. Coal not only destroys the air we breath, but the mining of it destroys our land and water supply. Nuclear is way too dangerous as we all found out from the disaster that happened in Jap ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Greece: What Can be Done? - Greece
    Introduction Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (from less than 15% to over 40 ...
  • Colombia: Ex paramilitary commander reveals lo ...
    Ex paramilitary commander reveals location of mass graves There have been many requests by the thousands of families whose loved ones were slaughtered by the paramilitaries in Colombia to reveal the whereabouts of the mass graves where their remains are buried. Now the Colombian Attorney Gene ...
  • Independence equals housing, health, agro, def ...
    Last night, Venezuela's VTV reported from CAVIM (Venezuelan Military Industries) in Maracay, on their production of the AK-103 and a full range of ammunition for use by the new National Police Force and the Venezuelan Military. The AK-103 is a modern, Russian-designed assault rifle, chambered fo ...
  • Few Years In Military Would Have Really Straig ...
    06.12.12 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Friends, family, and colleagues of 19-year-old U.S. Marine Alex Penzerton were saddened Wednesday upon learning he had been killed by a roadside bomb and was thus deprived of the life-changing opportunity a few years in the military might have afforded him. "Alex ...
  • Moody's slashes Spain debt ratings three notch ...
    Editor's Comment: Look man, when you read reports like this one ya gotta ask a few questions ... like, Who is "Moody's?" ... Who are Luciana Lopez and Daniel Bases? and who is "Reuters?" What are they really saying here? Do the authors even know what they are talking about?...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The 27 percent: no matter where you go, there ...
    Almost seven years ago at Kung Fu Monkey: Friday, October 07, 2005 Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor ....John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is -- Tyrone: 27%. John: ... you said that immme ...
  • Jack Danforth is not a "moderate" and only bra ...
    By @BGinKC If there is a false equivalency to be made, a faulty premise to be promoted, GOP thuggery to be apologized for, or a blatant lie to be told glibly and with ease, the republicans turn to Jack Danforth to do their bidding. And here in Missouri we know Jack, and we know that he will be m ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Another Day ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by philcollins on May 10, 2010
  • "What's Holding Us Back is a Stalemate in Cong ...
    By @KYYellowDog No, Mr. President: it's not a "stalemate" and you know it. Democrats are proposing and in the Senate passing desperately-needed legislation. It's the repugs who are preventing any action to save the economy. Full transcript here.
  • "Poor confused defense contractors"
    By @KYYellowDog Did you see the nation's top military office in front of Congress this week spouting nonsense about how cutting defense spending would destroy the country? Yeah, here's what's really going on: Digby: And they call the unions thuggish. Get a load of this: Facing economic uncertain ...

Care 2

  • Senator Bernie Sanders Speaks to Dimon Goes To ...
    see video Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: India - Get Tough on Mining Com ...
    Mining companies in India have been allowed to do just about anything they want, from destroying protected ecosystems to illegally mining on other peoples land to desecrating sacred sites to abusing human rights Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...
  • Petition: Oppose Senator Risch's Hunting Amend ...
    U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sportsmens Heritage Act (H.R. 4089), which as drafted, could allow much of the National Park System to be opened to hunting and recreational shooting. Submitted by Dandelion G. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Urge Baseball Team to Cancel Cru ...
    As part of its 2012 promotions, the Frederick Keys minor league baseball team in Frederick, Maryland, has planned a June 22 monkey rodeo, in which capuchin monkeys will be forced into costumes and strapped to dogs who will race around a track Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |  &nbs ...
  • Tell Congress: Pass the transportation bill wi ...
    Big Oil, Big Coal, and their Congressional allies are doing everything they can to cut funding for safe biking and walking and instead load up the transportation bill (S. 1813 and H.R. 4348) with toxic environmental riders that gut our nation's Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama, you are not king or dictator
    President Obama usurped Congress, the Constitution, and our nation’s laws when on Friday he unilaterally declared unofficial amnesty for 2 to 3 million illegal alien youth in the U.S. and created an incredible welcome sign saying our borders and laws do not matter. What “dream” ...
  • Happy Father’s Day, Barack + Open Thread
    To all of you fathers, grandfathers, stepdads, uncles, nephews — heck, all of you guys — a happy Father’s Day. I just hope you don’t get a tie as a gift. This photo was taken as the Obama family left the White House to fly to Chicago for the weekend. Maybe President Barac ...
  • NQ’s Upgraded Comments System Is Here!
    We’ve installed the newest version of Disqus comments software for NoQuarterUSA. Below the fold, you’ll see a couple screenshots I made of how the new version looks. But, really, you won’t need help because, once you explore, you’ll find the new version intuitive. Here&#8 ...
  • Is It Real Or Is It A Movie?
    Editor’s Note: What better late on a Saturday night than talking movies?! I love movies. My tastes are somewhat eclectic but my favorite is The First Wives Club. I love Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton and the parts they play in the film. I thought the rest of the cast was first ...
  • Weekend Open Thread + Romney v. Obama (and a b ...
    A few thoughts on Romney’s response to Obama: I liked it. It was measured. He came off as practical (not hopey changey dreamy). Romney’s a leader who looks ahead and finds solutions that will work for the long haul — not hasty politically-motivated quick fixes that fall apart o ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Child Porn Charge Against Activist an Attempt ...
    Child Porn Charge Against Activist an Attempt to Sidestep ... Care2.com (blog) In case you missed this outrageous bit of absurdity, noted anti-mountaintop removal mining activist Maria Gunnoe was investigated for child porn recently ...
  • Maria Gunnoe Deserves a Public Apology from Re ...
    Maria Gunnoe Deserves a Public Apology from Rep. Doug Lamborn Earth Island Journal In case you missed this outrageous bit of absurdity, noted anti-mountaintop removal mining activist Maria Gunnoe was investigated for child porn recently ...
  • Does BofA's New $50 Billion Green Initiative O ...
    Triple Pundit Does BofA's New $50 Billion Green Initiative Offset its Coal Projects? Triple Pundit RAN's report 'Dirty Money' ranked BofA as the worst bank on coal financing, based on Bloomberg data of each bank's number of transactions with mountaintop removal and coal-burni ...
  • Bank of America plans $50-billion investment t ...
    Moneycontrol.com Bank of America plans $50-billion investment to go green McClatchy Washington Bureau The Charlotte bank joins a number of other large banks in making similar commitments amid complaints that the bank finances coal extraction and mountaintop removal. “Environmental business deliv ...
  • Bank of America makes $50 billion environmenta ...
    Moneycontrol.com Bank of America makes $50 billion environmental pledge Winston-Salem Journal The Charlotte bank joins a number of other large banks in making similar commitments amid complaints that the bank finances coal extraction and mountaintop removal. "Environmental business delivers ...

Memeorandum

  • 'Vagina Monologues' coming to Capitol to prote ...
    Detroit Free Press: ‘Vagina Monologues’ coming to Capitol to protest muzzle on legislators  —  When state House Republicans — a largely male group — indefinitely banned two Democratic women in the House from speaking in the chamber, it set the stage for a ...
  • Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casin ...
    Peter H. Stone / The Huffington Post: Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casino Money On GOP Super PACS, Nonprofits … FOLLOW:  —  Mitt Romney, Video, Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Super PACs, Mitt Romney 2012, Slideexpand, Politics News  —  WASHING ...
  • Explain to me again why they are called "repor ...
    William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Explain to me again why they are called “reporters”?  —  When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thum ...
  • Krauthammer: New Obama immigration policy 'out ...
    Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller: Krauthammer: New Obama immigration policy ‘out-and-out lawlessness’   —  On Friday's “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said that the president's shift on enforcing immigrations ...
  • Tom Friedman, The Musical! (Atrios/Eschaton)
    Atrios / Eschaton: Tom Friedman, The Musical!  —  I guess “Tommy” has already been used.  Inspired somewhat by this, my long friendship with the man, and some suggests from the Twitter, here's what we have so far:  —  It's the tale of a wealthy w ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Our bounded world
    The Earth, our life-support system, has “hardwired” limits we must learn to respect, say Will Steffen, Johan Rockström and Robert Costanza. They explain their planetary boundaries concept – and how it can transform our approach.This is a shorter version of an article that ...
  • “We will only succeed if we are equal”
    Social justice is central to the fight for a greener planet – that’s the message behind Oxfam’s “doughnut” concept. Kate Raworth tells Irina Federenko about the idea she’s taking to Rio.As the UN-led Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro draws closer, sustainability ...
  • Rio and China's global future
    Our abject failures since the last Rio summit are no surprise given the binds of global politics, writes Zheng Yisheng. For real change, we need a new, cooperative world, and China is key to building it.We have a common predicament, and solving it requires humanity to work together. But state ac ...
  • "Not humanity’s last chance"
    Despair is in the air ahead of next week’s Earth Summit as consensus proves elusive. But even the best of outcomes would only be the start – the real work comes later, argue Yang Fangyi and Nala Songtai.When the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm ...
  • The diplomacy of air pollution
    Chinese censure of US embassy Twitter data on air quality may be techically sound, but it's not the way to regain public confidence, writes Zhou Rong.On June 5, World Environment Day, China’s environment ministry published its annual “state of the environment” report as no ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • CIA Refuses to Confirm or Deny Drone Attacks O ...
    The Central Intelligence Agency continues to refuse to confirm or deny the covert military use of drones to kill suspected terrorists overseas, despite President Barack Obama's and even a former CIA director's admission of the agency's targeted killing program.
  • Sweden Will Imprison Assange When Extradited
    Julian Assange will be kept in a Swedish prison when he is extradited to face questioning over sex charges, Sweden announced Friday. But he'll have a hearing on whether he has to stay in custody within 4 days of extradition from the UK.
  • FBI Ordered to Copy Data Seized from Megaupload
    The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in preparation for turning it over to its indicted founder Kim Dotcom. Justice Winkelmann’s order doesn’t necessarily mean ...
  • .WTF? — 20 New Top-Level Domain Names That Sho ...
    On Tuesday, the list of new proposed top-level domains, and the companies seeking to control them, was published by ICANN. The new contenders to the throne of .com’s dominance include Amazon with .book, Google with .youtube, and three companies seeking .sucks. There are also applications f ...
  • Lone Senator Blocks Renewal of NSA Wiretap Program
    The Obama administration wanted a quick, no-questions-asked-or-answered renewal of broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the Bush administration's illegal warrantless wiretapping program. That's despite President Barack Obama's campaign promise to revisit and revise the ru ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • PowerPoint - Food Safety Webinar - Producing F ...
    I had the opportunity to give a webinar to a group of about 100 people interesting in food safety today. Producing Food is Risky Business View more presentations from Bill Marler. The video on slide 7, can be seen here.  And, the handout, can be downloaded here.
  • 22 Sickened by Salmonella-Tainted Pet Food
    A total of 22 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis have been reported. Twenty ill persons have been reported from 13 states and two ill persons have been reported from Canada. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Californi ...
  • June 14, 2 PM EDT Food Safety Webinar - Produc ...
    All presenter fees donated to University of California at Davis Western Center for Food Safety   Register Now - http://www.foodseminarsinternational.com/Other-Discount-Marler.html   Overview: Bill Marler has been litigating foodborne illness cases for nearly two decades. The key t ...
  • Bad News - Good News: Listeria Recall - E. co ...
    First the bad news: Listeria Recall: Golden Glen Creamery of Bow, WA, in cooperation with the WSDA is voluntarily recalling Red Pepper with Onion & Garlic Cheddar produced on August 30, 2011 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The Creamery agreed to ...
  • Salmonella Outbreaks Linked to Chicks and Duck ...
    “Single mail-order hatchery in Ohio” In 2011 that is how the CDC described a hatchery linked to 68 sickened with Salmonella Altona and 28 sickened with Salmonella Johannesburg. “Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Ohio” In 2012 that is how the CDC described the “single mail ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...
  • How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...
  • Official: 2013 Chevy Volt increases range to 3 ...
    And thus the mid-cycle product refresh - so common to computers and cellphones - comes around again to GM's plug-in hybrid. The new EPA sticker for the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has been released, and with it comes a fresh set of numbers. The highlights are an improved all-electric range and mil ...
  • Video: First Tesla Model S delivered to board ...
    We noted yesterday that some 2012 Tesla Model S buyers have already received their cars even though deliveries won't officially begin until June 22. Now we've got video proof. The very first Model S, decked-out with license plate TSLA S1, left the Fremont, CA factory this past weekend, Gre ...
  • Official: Honda Fit EV rated at 118 MPGe with ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Honda, Electric It might only be available to lease in limited numbers in only a few areas, but the Honda Fit EV certainly has one thing that's tremendously good about it: an official EPA rating of 118 MPGe and a range of 82 miles. Specifi ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Watch Amy Goodman Discuss Twilight of the Elit ...
    Tune in to Up With Chris Hayes on Saturday as Amy Goodman joins Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig and others to discuss the twilight of the elites. Watch the interview on MSNBC starting at 8:45am ET. Click to see Democracy Now’s recent coverage of the U.S. economy and Occupy Wall Stre ...
  • Across That Bridge, Again
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As the election season heats up, an increasing number of states are working to limit the number of people who are allowed to vote. Already we have a shamefully low percentage of those eligible to vote actually participating. Florida, a key swing state, is p ...
  • It’s One Person, One Vote, Not 1 Percent, One Vote
    The failed effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely seen as a crisis for the labor movement, and a pivotal moment in the 2012 U.S. presidential-election season. Walker launched a controversial effort to roll back the power of Wisconsin’s public employee unions, and the unions push ...
  • Part 3: Joseph Stiglitz on Ways to Lessen Ineq ...
    In an extended interview about his new book, The Price of Inequality, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers several recommendations for a reform agenda. "Traditional economics said we could only get more equality if we pay a price. We have to weaken our economy in one w ...
  • Part 3: Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says ...
    After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance from the Indian struggle for independence to Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. He says Gandhi found "nothing more despicabl ...

Suzie-Q

  • Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casin ...
    HuffPost Peter H. Stone Posted: 06/16/2012 12:24 am Updated: 06/16/2012  2:06 am WASHINGTON — Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth makes him one of the world’s richest men, is on a check-writing spree that will soon bring his total political contributions in this elect ...
  • Obama Administration To Stop Deporting Younger ...
    HuffPost Elise Foley Posted: 06/15/2012  9:41 am Updated: 06/15/2012  1:12 pm WASHINGTON — The Obama administration responded to years of pressure from immigrants rights groups on Friday with an announcement that it will stop deportations and begin granting work permits for some Dream Act- ...
  • Inside the Koch World Convention
    Politico By KENNETH P.  VOGEL and TARINI PARTI |  6/15/12 4:35 AM EDT The Koch brothers’ political operation has increasingly come to resemble its  own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what  amounts to its most ambitious convention to date. Many of the dozen ...
  • Two Choices: President Obama Sets Out His Visi ...
    Uploaded by     BarackObamadotcom on Jun 14, 2012 Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/twochoicesvid President Obama was in Ohio today to deliver the first in a series of speeches that lay out the clear choice in this election between a vision that moves us forward and creates an economy built ...
  • Daily Kos/SEIU Weekly State of the Nation Poll
    Daily Kos Public Policy Polling, 1000 registered voters, MoE ±3.1%, June  7, 2012 – June 10, 2012. If the candidates for President this fall were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, who would you vote for? Barack Obama Mitt Romney Undecided All 50 42 8 Women 53 39 8 Men 48 44 ...

Solari

  • Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of M ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s June 7, 2012 interview of Macaco Tamerice on Ecovillages is available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: We’re going to be talking with Macaco Tamerice who is coming to us from Italy. We’ve had all sorts of experiments this morning on ho ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you“ ~ Princess Diana
  • $1,000 and a Click: Buying Stock the Crowdfund ...
    By Karen Weise It’s been just two weeks since President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, loosening requirements for companies looking to raise capital. The rules aren’t even written yet, and already one new fundraising outfit is jumping into the fray. On Wednesday, CircleUp was launched as a ...
  • Dr. Jim MacKimmie: 1928 – 2012
    By Anais Starr My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight, and talking about it with my family and friends who knew him, I am remembering the parts of his ...
  • Interested in Lunch With Catherine?
    If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and have lunch with Catherine at one of the many places she will be traveling to. This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with other Solari Report subscribers in your area. ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Ask the mineshaft: how can we use social medi ...
    Summary:  The FM website discusses issues on the frontier of the known.  But its delivery remains less-than-cutting-edge. Twitter.  Facebook.  Others I have heard of but never used, and those that are only strange words to me.  Today we ask the mineshaft  {aka ask the community,  the Gemeinschaf ...
  • Is Clausewitz Still Relevant?
    Summary:  We are several generations of warfare from that of Clausewitz.  His first-generation warfare differs immeasurably from ours, in which atomic weapons limit State-to-State conflict and 4th generation warfare has become the dominate form of conflict.  But many of the essentials of war are ...
  • Sign the petition to require free access to re ...
    Summary:  We pay for much of the basic research done in the US, but have astonishingly little access to the results.  That can be changed.  This is a small reform, giving us practice in collective action of the kind necessary to take back America.  The longest trek begins with a small training h ...
  • Threats to attack Iran are smoke. Sanctions on ...
    Summary:  A follow-up post providing more evidence that neither the US nor Israel plans to attack Iran soon, based not just on the evidence and logic of the situation, but also on statements of senior Israeli officials.  This has been the standing forecast on the FM website since 2007.  See the ...
  • The bailout of Spain’s banks shows the h ...
    Summary:  The US and Europe have not recovered from the 2008-09 crash in part because we applied first aid, but squandered the time those measures bought for us (at great cost).  An essential aspect of post-crash reforms is fixing our financial systems.  The bailout of Spain’s banks &#8212 ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • OPEC and Saudi Shrewd Middle Power Diplomacy
    For middle powers like Saudi Arabia an effective foreign policy requires both cunning and a knack for identifying force multipliers. Of course, being the world’s largest oil producer is a bit of a force multiplier by itself, as the move on Thursday by the Organization of Petroleum Exportin ...
  • Tortured Logic
    Jose Rodriguez is the former head of CIA’s Clandestine Services, the organization responsible for conducting the interrogations of several key al Qaeda figures. He has recently published a new book, Hard Measures, in which he discusses how he fought for authority and latitude to use the no ...
  • What We Should Call What’s Happening in Egypt
    Yesterday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court re-scrambled that country’s already-messy politics by dissolving the country’s recently elected parliament and overturning a law that would have barred the old regime’s last prime minister from participating in the upcoming ...
  • No (Iran) War for Zero Enrichment!
    In the run-up to next week's scheduled P5+1 talks with Iran in Moscow, there are a lot of big issues at play. What effect do US and Israeli domestic politics have? Do sanctions need to be eased? Do the major gaps between the positions of Iran and the others portend a drift toward war?  Let's s ...
  • R2P's Regime-Change Conundrum
    If you haven't yet, I recommend you all read the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (pdf), the foundation of R2P doctrine. As far as reports go, this is a pretty good one: full of interesting thoughts and extremely readable. Please read all of it, but he ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Faith in Action
    Tributes to politicos written by their children don’t have a special place in literary hell, but they probably deserve one.  Most are warm and fuzzy reminisces from kids who seem to know little more about their fathers—and it almost always is fathers—than their dads’ press secretaries. And, lik ...
  • Romney’s Worsening Latino Headache
    Mitt Romney’s Latino problem just got a lot worse. President Obama’s executive order to the immigration service to cease deportations of immigrants who came here without documentation before they turned 16 has gone as far as a president can go without bringing Congress along with him. A preside ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's edition of Weirdly Bad Videos For Anti-Hipster Anthems That You'd Think Would Alienate a Band's Fanbase But Probably Didn't Because Everyone Thinks They're Authentic While Other People Are the Phony Ones, we have Cake, with "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle." How much did you pay for that ba ...
  • Department of Justice Acts to Prevent Disenfra ...
    Florida governor Rick Scott is attempting to engage in a purge of voters, requiring some voters to prove their citizenship within a limited time frame in order not to be disenfranchised, allegedly in order to address "vote fraud" that for all intents and purposes doesn't exist. The Department o ...
  • What's Wrong With Politics-Driven Policy?
    Today's big news is that the Obama administration, through executive action, is enacting a kind of mini-DREAM Act to help undocumented immigrants who were brought to America as children. We'll get to the details in a moment, but one thing we know for sure is that Republicans are going to be ver ...

Buzzflash

  • Chris Hayes: US Leadership Based on Meritocrac ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It might appear to be an outlandish thesis to claim that national leaders in government and other fields, who arrived at their positions due to an age of meritocracy, could actually prolong inequality in the United States, but Chris Hayes (of MSNBC an ...
  • Why Has Everyone Forgotten the Four Letter Wor ...
    MARK PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'm trying to figure out what happened to Bush? I can understand why the Republicans aren't talking about him, but why isn't Obama talking about him, and why aren't the Democrats talking about him? After all - our country is in serious trouble and the reason ...
  • Progressive Morality and the Looming President ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT To what extent will progressive morality be a factor in the looming presidential election? Is it simply a nuisance? Will mainstream Democrats (yet again) cringe in its presence, disavow it, spout mostly Republican-lite platitudes about tough-guy patrio ...
  • Is Homophobia Curable?
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Homophobia can be defined as hatred of homosexuals on the basis of who they are, and the nature of their sexuality and sexual practices. Given the attention paid to the matter in the relevant texts, both homosexuality and homophobia have existed i ...
  • Thanks to Citizens United, Political Consultan ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Just prior to the Wisconsin recall election I posted this terse and understated observation on Facebook: "WISCONSIN WINDFALL - With all the money that has been poured into the Wisconsin Recall Campaign, the only clear beneficiaries are the political consu ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Flaky safety concerns over graphene
    It was almost inevitable that the naysayers and scaremongers would start to express concerns about graphene, the new wonder material that won its developers a Nobel prize for their work with sticky tape and HB pencils. It’s sensible to look at graphene if there are risks and Ken Donaldson, ...
  • Coin-flipping spectral alchemy
    This week, The Alchemist hears that the "wonder" material of the modern age, graphene, might soon be used as a safe agent in medical imaging while pharma chemists are yet to boldly go anywhere very far in chemical space. A surprising discovery unravels nanoscopic coax cables for energy s ...
  • Marblar, creating community for science and in ...
    If you are a working scientist, a recovering scientist, a revolutionary, or simply a geek looking for new innovations, take a look at Marblar. They’re creating a community to open up the process of invention and finding the right home for those inventions. They call themselves “a dem ...
  • Patent pressure – who does intellectual proper ...
    Greg Aharonian has said for many years that the patent system is bust. If it weren’t how could there possibly be tens of thousands of software patents given that so many of them are simply variations on the spreadsheet, word processor, file compression, and image editing? I followed Aharon ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • During Green Economy Negotiations Leading Up T ...
    “As activists from around the globe are convening at the Rio +20 conference to protect our common resources from private interests, the Stockholm International Water Institute’s decision to award PepsiCo for water efficiency is a cruel irony. PepsiCo has inflicted massive harm on vit ...
  • FCC to Finally Review Cell Phone Standards
    After years of neglecting to update its science, and refusing to even consider updating its safety standards, the Federal Communications Commission has made an about-face in announcing a review of its current position on cell phone radiation safety standards. The Environmental Working Group has ...
  • Internet Archive Sues to Stop New Washington S ...
    The Internet Archive has filed a federal challenge to a new Washington State law that intends to make online service providers criminally liable for providing access to third parties' offensive materials.read more
  • Global Wind Day Attracts Families Calling on G ...
    Today groups of parents, kids and Sierra Club members gathered at beaches in Asbury Park and Ocean City for Global Wind Day to celebrate the abundance of clean, renewable wind on New Jersey’s shoreline. Participants flew kites along to the beach to demonstrate the power of wind on the shor ...
  • Planned Parenthood Statement on Senate Appropr ...
    Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading women’s health care provider and advocate, today urged Congress to increase funding for the Title X National Family Planning Program, which provides cancer screenings and other preventive care to nearly five million women a year, and applauded ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon ...
    Matt Taibbi I was unable to watch J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s Senate testimony live the other day, so I had to get up yesterday morning and check it out on the Banking Committee’s web site. I had an inkling, from the gen ...
  • Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon ...
    Matt Taibbi I was unable to watch J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s Senate testimony live the other day, so I had to get up yesterday morning and check it out on the Banking Committee’s web site. I had an inkling, from the gen ...
  • Climate Change, Food Security and the G-20
    Julia Olmstead From north to south, Mexican farmers are facing some of the most severe climate instability they’ve ever confronted. The northern states are suffering from what the Mexican government has called the worst drought the co ...
  • Climate Change, Food Security and the G-20
    Julia Olmstead From north to south, Mexican farmers are facing some of the most severe climate instability they’ve ever confronted. The northern states are suffering from what the Mexican government has called the worst drought the co ...
  • Rio+20: A Defining Choice
    David Korten Next week, 20 years after the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit, representatives of the world’s governments will gather again in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to frame a global response to the Earth’s environmental crisis. Debates ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water wars
    COEUR d'ALENE - The 2012 Marina Challenge to help fund the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce's Fourth of July fireworks show is under way.
  • Water Wars: Silver Lake Reservoir Could Be Emp ...
    A scene from the 2008 reservoir drain Which would you prefer, Silver Lake? A dig for a mile-long tunnel or an empty Silver Lake Reservoir? The LADWP is working on replacing the SL and Ivanhoe Reservoirs (to meet new...
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    The last time we dropped in on the Kennedys, their cotton property Whitegates resembled a setting for The Grapes of Wrath. Dust into dust, and under dust to lie.
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Michigan Lawmaker Barred From Speaking After S ...
    Michigan Rep. Lisa Brown “barred from speaking in the state House after she used the word ‘vagina’ during a debate on an anti-abortion bill will participate in a performance of the Tony Award-winning play, ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ on the state Capitol steps.” ...
  • Parsing The Words Of A ‘Happily Married& ...
    Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that the “happily married” gay Mormon, Josh Weed, may actually practice ex-gay therapy as part of his profession. On his own bio, he describes helping those “with sexual identity issues and unwanted sexual attractions and/or behaviors.” G ...
  • Sex Is Better With Energy Efficiency
    by KC Golden, via Grip on Climate Something  must be done about the abysmal marketing of energy efficiency.  Never has such a big energy story received so little love. In the pie-throwing contest that passes for energy dialogue in our political culture, Solyndra gets the ink, while the biggest s ...
  • Special Interests Kill Proposal For Merit Sele ...
    Pennsylvania is one of 39 states in which voters elect state appellate court judges. An effort to change the state’s process to one of gubernatorial appointment is apparently dead for the year, after encountering significant opposition from outside interest groups. The move comes just week ...
  • U.N. Suspends Syria Observer Activities
    With both Bashar al-Assad’s forces and Syrian rebels stepping up their attacks, the U.N. team assigned to observe the crisis there ceased its activities, including patrols. “Violence over the past 10 days has been intensifying willingly by both parties, with losses on both sides and ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What a long, strange trip it's been ...
    This whole online political education. ... Into the breach!!!!
  • Start Writing Your Wish-List [Updated!]
    Well, to no one's surprise, despite the symbolic, peaceful protests, the harpercons' Bill C-38 passed the House of Commons. Canadians are a busy people. Just because our present inhabitants of government power won their majority with a mere 6,000 votes after a campaign of massive, centralized el ...
  • INSITE, SOAD and stephen harper ...
    So, I was listening to "Prison Song" by System of a Down and I had an epiphany about stephen harper's irrational vendetta against the safe injection site INSITE:So to sum up, heaps of evidence suggests Insite saves lives, while the federal government has acknowledged before the Supreme Court ...
  • Prudence
    ORNGE - $1.3 billion. (The actual waste and corruption is probably $500 million?) F-35 fighters - $35 billion. (For an attack fighter-bomber that might not work.) Toronto G20 - $1 billion plus. (Mainly as corruption but also to buy the police the toys they need to keep us down and make us stay a ...
  • SCUM
    The headline says it all: "Quebec protester arrested on way to sister's funeral." Go to the link. Read it. There are no mitigating circumstances. This is fascist intimidation and both its enablers and its enforcers deserve whatever happens to them.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Doctor-assisted suicide legal again in Canadia ...
    A Supreme Court Justice, Madam Lynn Smith, in Canada's province of British Columbia struck down a ban in that country on doctor-assisted suicide on Friday. She agreed with plaintiffs that preventing it was unconstitutional.
  • Stage collapse in Toronto kills 1, Radiohead c ...
    A stage at Toronto's Downsview Park has collapsed, killing one and seriously injuring another. The stage was being set up for the big Radiohead concert later tonight, and the venue spokesperson announced the show is cancelled in light of the tragedy.
  • John Doe died this week in Toronto
    This week the remains of a man were found in a crawl space in Toronto on Parliament Street near Shutter Avenue. The space is in the farthermost recesses of an abandoned building with a sales sign.
  • PS22 choristers go over the rainbow in new doc ...
    The chorus of New York school PS22 became famous with their cover versions of pop songs posted on Youtube. A new documentary explores the rise of the troupe, and the challenges of their dedicated teacher, as they journey to the 2011 Oscars.
  • Costa Concordia salvage team brings in Micrope ...
    A platform, the Microperi 61, has arrived on scene at the island of Giglio to help refloat the stricken Costa Concordia. The platform has arms to work undersea and set up scaffolding to build a foundation to keep the ship stable.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Global nuclear arsenal declines
    Over the past twelve months, the world has seen a drop in the number of active nuclear weapons as countries retire aged or obsolete weapons. China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States possess in total approximately 19,000 nuclear weapons.
  • Access to information facing cuts?
    Many government departments have improved their response to Access to Information requests, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault reports. But these gains may be compromised by the current round of budget cuts.
  • Canada doesn’t need a defence industry
    Steven Staples outlines five reasons why Canada doesn't need a defence industry.
  • Tories to shut down F-35 probe?
    The Harper government is seeking to end the parliamentary probe into the planned F-35 fighter purchase after only nine hours of committee hearings.
  • Tell Harper to Abolish Nuclear Weapons!
    Tell Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that nuclear weapons need to be abolished!

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by this?  What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit ...
  • Orwellian Free Speech Zones Expand to Mesa, Ar ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By AP “Shouldn’t there be free speech everywhere? Watch the video below. The man interviewing the cop should be given a medal.” –KTRN The “free speech zone,” despite being anathema to the U.S. Constitution, has been used intermitten ...
  • French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforceme ...
    April 2, 2012 EFF By Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional. 200 members of the ...
  • How Wall Street Manipulates and Manufactures A ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Tony Cartalucci An attempted color revolution backed by Wall Street unfolded in Bangkok, Thailand in 2010, leaving 91 dead. Since then, Wall Street as well as its proxies inside of Thailand have attempted to blame all 91 deaths on the Thai military despite overwhel ...
  • Is The S&P 500 Now A Currency?
    April 2, 2012 321 Gold By Morris Hubbartt China continues to make progress in widening the use of the renminbi in global trade. Partner countries are using swap agreements to bypass the US dollar. China has entered into currency swap agreements with about 20 nations, the largest of which is Braz ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Street lamps now spying on you in US cities
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Today youtube.com Tim isn’t the only person with an insane invention. All across America, street lights will have the ability to spy on citizens! Can Tim convince Apathybot that these lights are a threat to ...
  • Are you only against certain actions when &#82 ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politricks This a quiz for my readers to see if you are a free thinker who chooses your morals and behaviour independently of whether “your guy” is in the White House or are you someone who sees right ...
  • Agent Provocateur at Bilderberg 2012 Tried to ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com June 17, 2012 Jason Bermas conducts an interview with two We Are Change activists who helped confirm our story in regards to an agent provocateur who attempted to set up the protests very early the first ...
  • Social Security Money Is Not Like T-bills
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Allen W. Smith Much of the Washington debate over Social Security assumes that the government securities in the trust fund are the same as the bonds owned by the government of ...
  • “Best Thing that ever happened to me&#82 ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Erica Ritz The Blaze An article in Reuters Friday describing the current activities of evicted Occupiers is prompting jokes from conservatives, with one commenter saying: “These people have become a caricature of them ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Brother Sun and Sister Moon (1972)
    Dandelion Salad http://en.wikipedia.org/ Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Italian: Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francesco, the spoiled son of Pietro Bernardone, a ...
  • The Stimulator: Golden Dawn’s ultra-violence
    Dandelion Salad Jun 13, 2012 by stimulator http://submedia.tv/ This Week: 1. Greek anarchists in Prague? 2. Golden Dawn’s Dark hour 3. Immigrants invade Athens’ streets 4. Pride ain’t scared 5. Greek Anti-Fascist resistance 6. Run this town 7. Just Do It! Golden Dawn’s ultra-violence see T ...
  • Romney’s Campaign of Inanity by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 14, 2012 Mitt Romney’s daily dittohead assertions make one wonder what he got out of the law and business degrees he received from Harvard University. One of his regular blasts blames Barack Obama for the daily reports of bad economic indicators ...
  • Chris Hedges: Rapid soci-economic decay across ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 15, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 by PRNfm Chris Hedges: A look at our nation’s “sacrifice zones” as evidence of rapid soci-economic decay across the US. Guest: Chris Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics ...
  • Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO June 12, 2012 As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared ...

Your New Reality

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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Wired - Science

  • Why the Scientist Stereotype Is Bad for Everyo ...
    To many – too many – science is something like North Korea. Not only is it impossible to read or understand anything that comes out of that place, there are so many cultural differences that it’s barely worth trying. It’s easier just to let them get on with their lives while you get on with [...]
  • Q&A: Why It’s Sometimes Rational to Be Irrational
    In his new book, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, science writer Matthew Hutson argues that we're all believers -- even the staunchest of skeptics.
  • Book Excerpt: Why We Blame God for Our Problems
    Read an excerpt about why people tend to blame god for their problems from the new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking by science writer Matthew Hutson.
  • Acidifying Ocean Threatens California Coast
    A new computer model suggests that, over the next 40 years, rising ocean acidity could upend the entire marine ecosystem off the West Coast of the United States and affect millions of people dependent upon it for food and jobs.
  • First Painters May Have Been Neanderthal, Not ...
    European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than humans were the earliest painters.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli MK, AIPAC behind Senate bid to cut tot ...
    Every year the US allocates $250 million to UNRWA, which provides food as well as health, education and employment services to millions of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Head of Arab political party harassed, detaine ...
    The National Democratic Party has accused Israel’s security services of repeatedly harassing one of its leaders each time he leaves and enters Israel. The NDP, which represents Israel’s large... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Incitement against refugees l ...
    In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israel airport security demands access to tour ...
    Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts; Israel's Shin Bet security service says it acted within the law. IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinia ...
  • Spiegel: Israel’s deployment of nuclear missil ...
    The Spiegel's special report on Israel's German-made nuclear-capable Dolphin class submarines: Many have wondered for years about the exact capabilities of the submarines Germany exports to Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • U.S. Revises Comments on Russian Helicopters G ...
    The State Department on Thursday acknowledged that the Russian helicopters Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier claimed would “escalate quite dramatically” the Syrian conflict were actually returning to Syria after being refurbished.
  • Putin Calls for New Long-Range Bomber and UAVs
    Russia must start development of a long-range bomber aircraft, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a meeting on defense orders.
  • Putin: Russia Ready to Respond to U.S. Missile ...
    Russia has every possibility to provide a proper response to the projected deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe, though Moscow would like to see the U.S. plans revised, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
  • Russia Must Develop Unmanned Planes - Putin
    Russia must develop a range of military unmanned air vehicles (UAV) including strike and reconnaissance types, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during a visit to an air force base.
  • Fourth T-50 Stealth Fighter to Fly This Year
    Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is to introduce a fourth Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter into its test and development program this year, the company's President Mikhail Pogosyan said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • Freud's Theory of Unconscious Conflict Linked ...
    An experiment that Sigmund Freud could never have imagined 100 years ago may help lend scientific support for one of his key theories, and help connect it with current neuroscience.
  • Inexpensive Approach to Preventing Type 2 Diab ...
    A simple, inexpensive method for preventing type 2 diabetes that relies on calling people and educating them on the sort of lifestyle changes they could make to avoid developing the disease has proven effective in a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (U ...
  • UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Reaches Fun ...
    The fundraising campaign to build the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay achieved a major milestone this month, surpassing the $400 million mark in philanthropic gifts. This brings the campaign more than two-thirds of the way to its $600 million goal.
  • California Physicians Unprepared for Electroni ...
    Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according to a report from UCSF researchers.
  • Low-Dose Vitamin D May Not Prevent Fractures i ...
    Vitamin D and calcium are dietary requirements, but it's unclear how much is best for us. New draft findings by the United States Preventive Services Task Force conclude that for healthy, postmenopausal women, daily supplementation with low levels of vitamin D -- up to 400 international units - ...

Natural Health News

  • The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for RA
    If you’re looking for a way to fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without drugs, then you need look no further than the spice shelf at your local market. New research published in the spring of 2012 shows that curcumin possesses potent anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties. The clinical s ...
  • Why Is Walking in the Woods So Good for You?
    If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods, then you know the wonder of the feeling you get from it. But did you know that besides giving you a good feeling, walking in the woods is actually good for you? The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. Translated, it literally means “forest bathing.” And no ...
  • Aspirin May Help Prevent Skin Cancer―But Don’t ...
    A new study shows that aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprophen and naproxen may lessen the risk of three major types of skin cancer. The study was based on Danish medical records that researchers examined from 1991 through 2009. The findings showed that ...
  • Sympathy for Africa Leads to Exploitation by C ...
    In an effort to end hunger in Africa, the Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest in projects all over the continent. Much of the effort will go toward developing seeds and fertilizers and building silos for storage. To do this, the Presi ...
  • Why BMI Is Not a Great Indicator of Body Compo ...
    Measurement of BMI―Body Mass Index―has long been the standard scoring system for determining how much excess fat you have in your body. But a new study indicates that the BMI may well be way off when it comes to measuring your true amount of fat stores. In the study, researchers used a special s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: June 9 – 15, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we launched our first Readers’ Survey. Your input is valued so we hope you will find a spare ten minutes to complete yours if you have not yet done so. If you want, you can enter your e-mail address in the draw to win a $100 Amazon [...]
  • Weekend Roundup: June 9 – 15, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we launched our first Readers’ Survey. Your input is valued so we hope you will find a spare ten minutes to complete yours if you have not yet done so. If you want, you can enter your e-mail address in the draw to win a $100 Amazon [...]
  • Why I Think the Detained ICC Personnel Are Ent ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator.  There is no evidence that Taylor has done anyt ...
  • Why I Think the Detained ICC Personnel Are Ent ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator.  There is no evidence that Taylor has done anyt ...
  • UNCLOS: A Response to Professors Kraska, Noyes ...
    by Steven Groves [Steven Groves is a Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C.] Many thanks to Julian Ku for inviting me to participate in this UNCLOS debate on one of my favorite websites. There is much I agree with in the posts of Professors Kraska, Noyes ...

Public News Service

  • Organic Farmers in AZ: Time for Farm Bill Fairness
    Organic Farmers in AZ: Time for Farm Bill Fairness PHOENIX - It's debate time at the U.S. Senate for the next Farm Bill - with organic farmers in Arizona joining peers across the nation in closely monitoring the topic of crop insurance. Organic farmers pay a 5 percent surcharge for the insuranc ...
  • Health Records: Round 'Em Up, Store 'Em Online
    Health Records: Round 'Em Up, Store 'Em Online PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona hospitals and doctors are increasingly switching to electronic medical records - and now, their patients over age 50 can use them, too. This month, AARP has launched an online tool to allow its members to organize health and ...
  • Planned Parenthood Marks Anniversary of Decisi ...
    Planned Parenthood Marks Anniversary of Decision Legalizing Contraception PHOENIX, Ariz. - Thursday was the 47th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraceptives by married couples in all 50 states. ...(Read More)
  • What the Paycheck Fairness Act Means to Arizon ...
    What the Paycheck Fairness Act Means to Arizona Children PHOENIX - The Paycheck Fairness Act is up for a vote today in the U.S. Senate. Nearly four decades after the Equal Pay Act passed, many women earn less than 80 cents to the dollar earned by men. ...(Read More)
  • Report: 'Killer Heat' Could Take Thousands of ...
    Report: 'Killer Heat' Could Take Thousands of AZ Lives PHOENIX - Arizona's summer heat has arrived, and a new report finds that excessive heat is likely to continue in years to come, with deadly consequences. A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council predicts that 2000 people in Phoenix ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
    by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...
  • Mercury Bigger Worry than Radiation in Tuna
    By Michele Simon Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on our plates, and people suddenly get very serious about what they are eating. A ...
  • Groups ask FDA for final response to petition, ...
    Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ...
  • Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
    by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...
  • More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
    by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
    Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...
  • Bad Cop, Worse Cop?
    A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...
  • Defend our Right to Create and Share!
    I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
  • Meet the Rollerman
    Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
  • RSA: The Empathic Civilization
    With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...

Green Times

  • The connection between Ocean temperature and e ...
    According to a new report, high ocean temperatures contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11. For example, 25% of rainfall across the state was due to the average sea surface temperatures in december 2010! For further information l ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
  • Famous melt ice cream
    Just to think about global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) with humour!Photo by William Murphy (http://www.flickr.com/people/infomatique/)via Flickr Creative Commons
  • Cycling for sustainable development
    Biking is less impacting environment than cars or other transportations. It doesn't damage the environment with pollutant emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html) for example. Of course, the production of bikes and their infrastructures uses energy (glossary/categories/ ...
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
    I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...
  • Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
    The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
  • Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Carbon farming in the Sacramento Delta
    The Sacramento Delta has immensely fertile peat soil. But the land is sinking due to farming. Some farm land now lies below sea level, protected by levees. But this can and does lead to catastrophe when levees fail.California is starting a carbon market. It may now be possible for farmers to pla ...
  • Karl Rove supports extension of wind power pro ...
    This is welcome support. Without extension of the production tax credits, the US wind power industry will be seriously hurting. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. Companies will shut down.“We’re going to have a train wreck,” said Rove about the prospects of dealing with the PTC ...
  • Links
    EurozoneSpain’s Fixed??? Even Spain’s PM Admits that REAL Capitalization Needs Are Closer to 500 billion Euros!!!Deutsche Bank: “The Spanish Recapitalization Is Not Working” – A Market Shock Is RequiredThe World’s Largest Banks Are Girding Themselves For A Gre ...
  • Undocumented workers go public. A study in bravery
    Steve HyndThis is not a rhetorical question: would you have the guts to appear on the cover of Time magazine if you were in their shoes?Honestly, I don’t think I’m brave enough for that. I don’t think I’m brave enough to risk an eight year old autistic child who has had h ...
  • The charade of medical marijuana
    (Images are from the Metro Silicon Valley weekly semi-alt newspaper.)“Cannibis clubbing.” Yes, this is just totally for medicinal purposes (nudge nudge wink wink.)Seriously though, let’s just legalize it. The prices at the clinics are astronomically, um, high. Legalization woul ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Prison Break From the Historical Narrative of ...
      We have a LOT of experience dealing with porky pig aka Webster “TRAPley”. He wouldn’t want you to know what we have learned about him.   Sure his co authored LaRouche book (with fellow Free market enemy and Ron Paul hater Anton Chatkin) about George HW Bush is good. ...
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    By supporting LibertyStickers.com you are supporting us and keeping us on the air, and online. Win / Win. Ask them about No Agenda Stickers, and or Jack Blood Stickers…. OR, design your own for your band, site, special event, or cause. Mention this site for a discount!   Check out the ...
  • Newest attempt: Rand Paul, and Why He Endorsed ...
    Rand admitted in the beginning of the interview that he’d rather stand by Republican principals that put us in two wars, deep into debt, the passing of the Patriot Act, etc. over his dad’s principals.
  • Ron Paul new about Rand’s Romney Endorse ...
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  • NATO Foreign Troops Training In Tampa for GOP ...
    Just in case Occupy Freedom shows up angry and disgruntled… Here is what might be waiting for us. FEAR NOT! They can’t get all of us!

The Air Vent

  • Climate as A Differential Equations Problem
    I hope to be a blogger someday again but in the meantime Timetochooseagain kindly offered this contribution -  Jeff ====================================== TTCA I find that when discussing problems of what are ostensibly physical systems, little progress can be made until people formulate their i ...
  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...

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

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Warner Bros., Work4 … Continue reading →
  • Facebook stock above $30, denial of IPO fraud, ...
    Facebook shares are back above $30 for the first time since May, closing today at $30.01 — up 6 percent from Thursday. Earlier today Facebook filed a motion to consolidate the 40-plus class-action lawsuits against the company following its initial … Continue reading →
  • Birthday Reminder, SimCity promotion, Songza, ...
    Birthday Reminder took the top spot in our top emerging Facebook applications this week with a 165 percent gain in monthly active users. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past … Continue reading →
  • Facebook CTO leaving company to build future s ...
    Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor announced today that he will be leaving the company later this summer to start a new business with friend and Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs. Director of Engineering Mike Vernal and Director of Mobile … Continue reading →
  • BuzzFeed gets permission to use Facebook socia ...
    Social news and entertainment site BuzzFeed has gotten permission from Facebook to use social plugins in advertisements on its site. Facebook guidelines prevent third-party advertisers from using any platform integrations, such as the Like button or other plugins, in their … Continue readi ...

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ReDress News

  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • 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.

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

  • The Real Lords of Afghan Poppy Fields & Heroin ...
    Facts, Myths, Smugglers, and the International Dudes Yesterday this so-not-news news made the headlines: Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODC. The headline was followed by these so-not-accurate descriptions and statements [emphasis mine]: A new report by the United Nations dr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 21, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve System has usurped the government. It controls everything in Congress and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at wi ...
  • Classified Woman Unplugged in a New Session wi ...
    From the Book the Establishment Doesn’t Want you to Read to 9/11, Perpetual War, Police State & Beyond Yesterday (Friday, May 18), I had another video-radio session with Alex Jones that was supposed to be for 20 minutes but went on for over an hour. I was completely (utterly-totally) unplugg ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Pink This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is American singer-songwriter, musician and actress Pink singing her song “Dear Mr. President” live at Wembley Arena. Pink’s incredible career has bought her 3 Grammy’s, 5 MTV Video Music Awards and 2 Brit Awards. Of all her songs, s ...
  • The Government, The One Percent, The Resistanc ...
    Classified Woman Updates & Heads Up For the past ten years, yes-that makes it a decade already, I’ve been asked repeatedly, whether by interviewers- researchers or the general public, ‘How can we bring about needed changes? How can we make a difference? What can we the people do?’ My answer ...

Afro Spear

  • Problem and Solution
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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

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

  • JPMorgan Chase on Capitol Hill
    On June 13, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified before the Senate Banking Committee. He discussed his firm's recent trading loss and industry practices.
  • Three anti-NATO protesters brought to Chicago ...
    In addition to the shackling, prosecutors refused to engage in the informal lawyer-to-lawyer communication that is usual in the criminal justice system. They stuck to the letter of state legal procedure, refusing to make public the charges or release any details of the evidence until the actual ...
  • U.S. Exploits Syrian Situation For Showdown Wi ...
    U.S. Exploits Syrian Situation For Showdown With Russia
  • A Red State Rebuke to Religious Fear-Mongering
    Mitt Romney -- who once spoke with relative eloquence about the importance of religious diversity and tolerance -- now declares without cracking a smile that "I don't think we've seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious conscience, religious freedom, religious toleranc ...
  • Disclosures: Health Insurance Companies Plowed ...
    If the insurers are successful with continuing to elect pro-repeal politicians using secret cash, it's likely we will continue to live in a country where up to 45,000 people die every year due to lack of insurance, and millions lose coverage due to so-called pre-existing conditions and other den ...

Switchboard

  • A Prelude to Rio: Mexico Takes a Stand to Prot ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City NRDC has been calling for the Rio+20 Earth Summit to be a different type of international meeting – one where our world leaders act, and not just talk. On Friday, Mexican president Calderó ...
  • Cabo Pulmo's Victory in Mexico is a Victory fo ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC “Victory” is a word I don’t use lightly or often. But there are few situations I can think of for which “victory” would be more appropriate than yesterday’s ...
  • At Rio's Giant Trash Dump, Protecting People a ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco What we do on land dramatically effects the health of our oceans.  There is no better example of that fact than Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest garbage dumps in the world, located ...
  • NRDC and WSPA, CMTA and Chamber of Commerce Jo ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Conventional wisdom is that politics these days is nothing more than a bunch of polarized special-interests that can’t agree on anything. Well it simply ain’t true. The Natural Resources Def ...
  • India at Rio+20: Putting Commitments Into Action
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco As Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh heads to the Earth Summit to address the gravest global challenges of our generation, India has a key opportunity to show how strong economic growth can be co ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Superstition
    Good music for a Saturday night. Also, Sesame Street!
  • The Daily Caller: Copulating with the Dessicat ...
    And you thought a wacko interrupting the president was the most embarrassing thing that would happen to The Daily Caller this week. Not even close. This is quite literally one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read. Bryce Harper is a conservative hero. The star rookie for the Washington Na ...
  • One year later, it’s still the greatest ...
    At 8 a.m. on the morning of 16 June 1904, two men woke up.  One shaved for class and breakfasted with his usurper and an anti-Semite.  The other, a Jew, purchased a pork kidney, ate it, then stared at his wife in the same bed in which she cuckolded him.  He left to pick up [...]
  • Why Do We Think Plutocrats Know How to Run the ...
    Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good piece at Slate about the absurd firing of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. Despite widespread support from the university community, Sullivan was canned last week for reasons that remain unclear, but seem to revolve around her not bringing in enough ...
  • If We Want a Better Blogosphere, Forbes Should ...
    Adam Ozimek says something really stupid: Amidst this conversation, host of PBS’s Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, repeated a highly misleading talking point, contributing. It’s a claim you’ve probably seen it a hundred times before, that the wealth of the six Waltons, who own Walmart, is greater th ...

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

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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

  • George Runner Says Governor Should Veto Budget
    When voters approved Proposition 25, they didn't anticipate it would allow one party to make all major budget decisions in secret. Not only were Republicans shut out of the process, but so was the public.
  • Yemeni Military Reclaims Territories from Al-Q ...
    Al-Qa'ida's presence in Abyan has had a devastating impact on the citizens there and prevented the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance desperately needed by the Yemeni people.
  • Gambian Fatou Bensouda Sworn in as New Prosecu ...
    Since 2004, Bensouda has served as a deputy to outgoing ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, during which time she was in charge of the prosecution division of the Office of the Prosecutor.
  • Somalia's Old Stadium Artificial Turf Arrives ...
    The SFF officials disclosed the arrival of the carpet during a joint press conference by the State minister for sport, SFF president and secretary General at the Stadium Banadir on Saturday Morning.
  • EPA Proposes Air Quality Standards for Harmful ...
    EPA's proposal would strengthen the annual health standard for harmful fine particle pollution (PM2.5) to a level within a range of 13 micrograms per cubic meter to 12 micrograms per cubic meter.

environment 360

  • Australia to Create World’s Largest Marine Res ...
    Australia has announced that it will create the world’s largest marine reserve, a network of protected areas that will cover 1.2 million square miles, more than one-third of the country’s waters. Environment Minister Tony Burke, making the announcement in advance of the Rio+20 sustainability sum ...
  • The Crystal: What Would the River Say?
    One of the last free-flowing rivers in Colorado, the Crystal is now threatened by two proposed dam projects that would transform its rushing waters. In a Yale Environment 360 video, filmmaker Pete McBride, who grew up along the river’s banks, captures the breathtaking beauty of the Crystal and ...
  • Ban on Fish Discards Is Approved by the Europe ...
    The European Union has decided to end the controversial practice of allowing fishermen to select high-value species from their nets and then discard the remainder of dead fish, a practice that leads to the destruction of an estimated 1 million tons of edible fish a year in EU waters. The EU Coun ...
  • Parasitic Mite Found to Play Key Role in Colla ...
    Extensive research in Hawaii has shown that a major cause of so-called colony-collapse disorder, which has sharply reduced bee populations in many parts of the world, is related to the spread of the parasitic varroa mite. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in England were able to track th ...
  • Major NASA Discovery Finds Phytoplankton Bloom ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered extensive blooms of phytoplankton under Arctic Ocean ice, contradicting the widely held conviction that such blooms could not occur under sea ice that blocked the sun's rays from triggering the blooms. Scientists on a NASA-sponsored expedition to th ...

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

  • Not ‘if’ but ‘when’: US intervention in Syria ...
    A delegation from Syrian opposition is reportedly in talks with US officials over the targets they want to attack to weaken the Syrian government and the arms they want America to provide to do it. A “Libya lite”... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Bound for Syria’ Russian warship remains unlo ...
    The Russian warship which was reported as moving towards Syria with a unit of commando troops, is at its home port on the Black Sea, Ukraine’s Sevastopol. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Arab Spring plunges Middle East back into 195 ...
    The rapid change in the Arab world is turning Middle East into a region where peace is not possible. Israel is confused and has no strategy for the shift, which pushes its neighborhood half a century back in time, says... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Stage collapse kills 1, halts Radiohead Toront ...
    One person died and three were injured after a stage collapsed before a Radiohead concert in Toronto. The show by the legendary rock band was scheduled for Saturday, but after the incident the event was canceled. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Twice as deadly: Saudi Arabia aims at 10 bln e ...
    Saudi Arabia wants to buy between 600 and 800 Leopard II main battle tanks from Germany, at least twice more than what was previously reported, a German newspaper says. The future deal is estimated to worth around 10... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • For US covert intervention in Syria, precedent ...
    OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- While antiwar traditionalists remain stymied about Syria, let’s recognize that the US-EU intervention has already begun. Stop the escalating covert destruction of Syria. Bring our Special Forces boys home now.
  • Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and Leon Panetta- Egyp ...
  • Only in America….
    Only in America can you have a region announcing that it has put into law a “Homeless Bill of Rights” as Rhode Island’s Governor Chafee is doing! Now just exactly what ‘rights’ could a capitalist economy give to their multitude of wandering Homeless other than to ha ...
  • I’m going loroco thinking about you!
    OK I don’t know just why, but I’m going loroco thinking about you! LA PUPUSA MAS GRANDE DEL MUNDO — Well who took the real fast food away from the US? Imagine if we had vendor carts downtown in Acacia Park here in Colorado Springs? Imagine if we had a community? What happened? ...
  • Egypt’s Revolution is now stalled by the ...
    Sure the Egyptian military jettisoned Mubarak under pressure to do so, but he was/ is dying anyway. What they did not jettison is their direct control over about 1/3 of the Egyptian economy. How did they get that huge a portion of control over employment and salaries in Egypt? Time Magazine, in ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watc ...
    Support the 9/11 families and others who are asking President Obama to review the evidence in the documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out • Who: President Barak Obama • Sponsored by: 9/11 family members, Michele Little, Jane Pollicino, Bob McIlvaine, Josef Princiotta In a ...
  • BBC Planning Huge New 7/7 Conspiracy Hit Piece
    The BBC is set to air a new 'Conspiracy Road Trip' hit piece on the 7/7 London bombings. As we saw with last summer's 9/11 version, the program tries to get "truthers" to recant and swallow the official story - in the process ideologically burning them at the stake for the consumption of the vie ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Will This 9 Year Old Girl Change School Lunches?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Martha Payne is a 9 year old Scottish girl. In April she started recording the rather crappy school lunch she and her classmates were being served. Going by the nickname Veg, Payne photographed and wrote abou ...
  • Guess What, Food is Too Cheap in America!
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The headline may come as a shock to many, but when we compare the price we pay for groceries today as a percentage of our income vs 30 years ago, it turns out we are paying less, 25 percent less. In 1982, we ...
  • Froot Loops, German Edition – Das ist Gut?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Here’s the European version of Froot Loops. It’s Manufactured by Kellogg’s in th UK, and distributed across the continent. This package has information, including nutrition and ingredients, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • South Africa’s indigenous ‘icon’ Dawid Kruiper ...
    Dawid Kruiper was considered an 'icon' and key representative of the Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. © Bill Kemp/Strata 360 Dawid Kruiper, a traditional leader of the Khomani Bushmen of South Africa has died, aged 76. He will perhaps be best remembered for his determination to ...
  • Just sign here: cowboys' attempt to fool India ...
    Gabide Etacori, an Ayoreo Totobiegosode leader whose signature was allegedly forged. © Survival An elaborate ploy by ranchers in Paraguay to trick an Indian tribe into allowing them to build a new road that would cut the Indians’ land in half has backfired, with an official investigation no ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Support Strong Whistleblower Protections for D ...
    Click HERE to show your support for Whistleblower protection. Ask Congress to go all the way with a proposed law giving whistleblower protections to PHS employees. Congress has taken an important first step to pass whistleblower protections for Public Health...
  • Daily Mail Reports on Italian MMR Autism Vacci ...
    At nine months old, Valentino Bocca was as bright as a button. In a favourite family photo, taken by his father, the baby boy wriggles in his mother’s arms and laughs for the camera. His parents look at the precious...
  • Winner Somewhere Over the Sea by Halfdan Freihow
    Carter's Daddy is the winner. Congrats and Happy Father's Day weekend. A few years ago I read "Dear Gabriel" by Norway's Halfdan Freihow. And I loved it. It impressed upon me the importance of the father's point of view and...
  • Bismarck is Blind to the Autism Epidemic
    Maybe the Bismarck (ND) Tribune is the most honest newspaper in the U.S. when it comes to acknowledging what’s happening to our children. On a daily basis the mainstream media admits nothing when it comes to autism. They’re not sure...
  • Harvard's Autism Brain (down the) Drain
    By Teresa Conrick On May 31st, it was discovered that the federally funded Harvard Brain Tissue Resource had a problem. A freezer containing one-third of the brains of those who had an autism diagnosis was thawed. Fifty-four brains were now...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
    A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. Whi ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Video Of The Week – Conspiracy Of Silence
    Conspiracy of Silence is a 56-minute unreleased documentary film produced by Yorkshire Television in 1994. The subject of the film is an alleged child sexual abuse ring involving a number of prominent Nebraska persons, including Lawrence King, an Omaha banker, political fundraiser, and convicted ...
  • Quoation Of The Week
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - George Orwell
  • Court rejects Canada’s ban on assisted s ...
    The Guardian – A judge in Canada has ruled that its laws against assisted suicide are unconstitutional because they discriminate against severely ill patients. Justice Lynn Smith of the British Columbia supreme court declared the laws invalid but suspended her ruling for one year to give C ...
  • Breast milk’s anti-viral effect ‘c ...
    Daily Mail – Breast milk may protect children against the Aids virus, research suggests. Tests on mice infected with HIV showed that even though some of their offspring acquired the virus from breastfeeding, the mothers milk also had a strong anti-viral effect. Read article
  • In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria
    NY Times – For years, bacteria have had a bad name. They are the cause of infections, of diseases. They are something to be scrubbed away, things to be avoided. But now researchers have taken a detailed look at another set of bacteria that may play even bigger roles in health and disease: ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • 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.

water.org

  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • 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.

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 ...
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • 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

  • George Runner Says Governor Should Veto Budget
    When voters approved Proposition 25, they didn't anticipate it would allow one party to make all major budget decisions in secret. Not only were Republicans shut out of the process, but so was the public.
  • Yemeni Military Reclaims Territories from Al-Q ...
    Al-Qa'ida's presence in Abyan has had a devastating impact on the citizens there and prevented the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance desperately needed by the Yemeni people.
  • Gambian Fatou Bensouda Sworn in as New Prosecu ...
    Since 2004, Bensouda has served as a deputy to outgoing ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, during which time she was in charge of the prosecution division of the Office of the Prosecutor.
  • Somalia's Old Stadium Artificial Turf Arrives ...
    The SFF officials disclosed the arrival of the carpet during a joint press conference by the State minister for sport, SFF president and secretary General at the Stadium Banadir on Saturday Morning.
  • EPA Proposes Air Quality Standards for Harmful ...
    EPA's proposal would strengthen the annual health standard for harmful fine particle pollution (PM2.5) to a level within a range of 13 micrograms per cubic meter to 12 micrograms per cubic meter.

Worldnews

  • Selena Gomez Wants Taylor Swift Duet
    Selena Gomez is eyeing collaborations with Taylor Swift and pop rockers Fun. as she prepares to resume her music career after a short hiatus. Justin Bieber's girlfriend put her singing aspirations on hold to boost...
  • Pune civic schools score 100% results in ...
    What do you think is common amongst all these schools? That they are all civic schools falling under the purview of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and that they all scored 100% results in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams. Besides these five schools, all PMC schools have see ...
  • Hamilton keeps his foot on the pedal desp ...
    LONDON: Formula one championship leader Lewis Hamilton has warned there is no time to relax...
  • Hodgson feels worthy
    Roy Hodgson is reluctant to be drawn into a debate regarding his coaching credentials, with his England appointment a matter for others to discuss. The Football Association's decision to hand the 64-year-old the national reins in the wake of Fabio Capello's resignation came as something of a ...
  • Marin Cilic beats Sam Querrey to make Que ...
    Croatia's Marin Cilic reached the final of the Aegon Championships with a 6-3 3-6 6-3 victory over 2010 champion Sam Querrey at a windy Queen's Club. The sixth seed survived nine break points en route to the first set before Querrey broke twice to level the match. But Cilic's ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Thanks for Nothing, Dad!
    This Father’s Day, be thankful for your father, no matter how much money he has. After all, a rich dad doesn’t guarantee a cushy inheritance. The millionaire and billionaire fathers in this gallery gave most of their money to someone other than their children. Sometimes the rationale ...
  • It's Baaack! XB-37B Finally Lands
    ColdWetDog writes "The US Air Force / DARPA 'baby shuttle,' the Boeing-built XB-37B has just landed after 469 days in orbit. No official explanation of why controllers kept the mission going past the original duration of 270 days other than 'because we could.' I, for one, welcome our long durati ...
  • The Syrian Revolution, the Jerry Sandusky Tria ...
    “ Inside the Syrian Revolution: Whether it is this year or not, Bashar Assad’s regime is already finished.” Syria is an irreversibly and fundamentally changed country. Just last year, public protests against the Assad regime in central Damascus were unthinkable. Now, such demon ...
  • Possible outcomes in pivotal health care law case
    Some are already anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law as the "decision of the century." But the justices are unlikely to have the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. The problems of high medical costs, widespread wast ...
  • FLUOCINOLONE ACETONIDEcream [E. Fougera Co. A ...
    Updated Date: Jun 15, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

  • Global Eyes on Greece as It Prepares for Auste ...
    Greeks are set to vote tomorrow in a pivotal election to choose either an anti-bailout or pro-austerity path for their country. Left party Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said, "On Monday, the bailout will be history. Monday will be a new era of growth, social, solidarity. Together, we will be ...
  • Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader Suu Kyi Accepts N ...
    Today in Oslo Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has formally accepted the Nobel Prize she was awarded 21 years ago while under house arrest by the Burmese military junta. In her speech today she said that humanity must continue to search for peace "like a traveler in the desert ...
  • UN Suspends Syria Mission
    The United Nations has suspended its peace mission in Syria citing surging violence in the past 10 days as posing a risk to its observers. General Robert Mood, head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), said in a statement, "This escalation is limiting our ability to observe, ver ...
  • Egyptians Boycott Elections or Choose Between ...
    Egypt's electoral crisis continues in Egypt today as voters head to polls in the latest round of presidential elections with some voters boycotting the process refusing to take part in what they see as an undemocratic election that leaves them with no real change. ...
  • Why the Economy Has Only Recovered for the One ...
    For the fortunate few scanning America's economic recovery from luxurious penthouse suites, they are treated to the magnificent scenery of record profits, escalating CEO pay and an ever-growing share of the nation's income.While the economy is going well for the 1%, "for the vast ma ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • EPA’s Costly, Unnecessary Soot Proposal
    EPA continues to act tone deaf to the real-world needs of U.S. businesses and regular Americans. Its particle standards proposal issued this week is a good example of the kind of investment-squelching overregulation that ultimately could hurt the country’s energy future.
  • Has the fuel-cell industry reached a tipping p ...
    There was a shareholder who stood up at Ballard Power’s annual meeting last week to share her experience with the company’s stock price. It pretty much summed up the frustration shared by most investors in the fuel-cell industry.
  • The Road To Rio Goes Through Mexico: Connectin ...
    The Group of 20 developed and developing nations will meet Monday in Los Cabos, Mexico, for their seventh meeting since the initial G-20 summit in November 2008, hosted by the George W. Bush administration in Washington, D.C. What will be the role of climate and energy issues at this latest summit?
  • NOAA: Second Hottest May On Record Globally, H ...
    NOAA has released its “State of the Climate Global Analysis” for May 2012. Here are the highlights:
  • Experts Say Solar Power Needs Global Collaboration
    An expert panels of IEEE members, representing the world’s largest technical professional association dedicated to advancing technology, yesterday said that collaboration is key to develop the global solar energy marketplace. They were speaking at the Intersolar Europe 2012 trade fair

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 9/11: Shattering the Spell of Mythical Realities
    by Gavin Phillips Have we been lied to about 9/11? What kind of world do you want your children to grow up in? By the end of this article you will have the answer to your first question. What you do with the answer will determine your answer to the second question. Learning the truth about 9/1 ...
  • Europe in Crisis
    by Stephen Lendman Four and a half years after crisis conditions erupted, nothing's been done to resolve them. The smartest guys around haven't fixed things. On June 14, rumors circulated about coordinated central bank intervention. European banks are especially troubled. Recapitalizing ...
  • Washington's Imperial Brinksmanship
    by Stephen Lendman Syrian violence rages. Washington bears direct responsibility. Regime change plans are longstanding. Military intervention is planned. Expect it. It's coming. Pretexts are easy to create. Large scale insurgent massacres blamed on Assad may trigger war. False flags alwa ...
  • Greece: What Can be Done?
    James Petras Introduction Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (fr ...
  • May God be with Egypt
    By Khalid Amayreh Employing legalistic chicanery, blatant deceit and contemptible conspiracies, the remnants of the Mubarak regime seem hell-bent on aborting the Egyptian revolution. On Thursday, 14 June, the so-called Constitutional Court, an entity that was utterly silent during 30 years of ...

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

  • In Washington, Leaking As A Way Of Life
    by LINTON WEEKS,NPR - A leak – in a pipeline, at a nuclear plant, within a top-secret agency – can be dangerous, disastrous, deadly. But sometimes a leak can also be a good thing — drawing attention to a larger systemic problem. The debate over news leaks bubbled up again this week after reports ...
  • Letter to the Editor: Are You Serious? Talk ab ...
    Sen. Sanders and Boxer and Democracy for America Joe -Can you believe that, only four years after Wall Street and the Big Banks brought our economy to its knees, many of those same bank CEOs are helping to shape policy at the Federal Reserve? Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. These execu ...
  • Citizen Journalism and Independent Media are C ...
    Yes!  I support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Get T-shirt ) No!  I don’t support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Fox News )
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Saturday
  • India: Mining Industry Out of Control
    By Human Rights Watch - Panaji) – India’s government has failed to enforce key human rights and environmental safeguards in the country’s mining industry, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 70-page report, “Out of Control: Mining, Regulatory Failure and Human Rights in India ...

FourWinds10

  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...

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

  • Oil Prices and Updates About Merica Internatio ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: Is there any merit to the rumor that the Obama Administration asked Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil output in order to lower prices leading up to the November election? What has caused the drop in West Texa ...
  • 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. ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • iPad As....
    Tags: ipad, apps, technology, ipads, learning, education, objectivesby: Dean Mantz
  • 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 ...

Rodale News

  • The Summer Bag Everyone Needs to Buy
    Although store shelves are filled with options, many contain materials that aren't good for your health, the environment, or workers' rights. Model and designer Lauren Bush-Lauren set out to change that five years ago by launching FEED, a project based on the idea that paying a fair price for a ...
  • Vietnam Vets Pushing for More Research on "Age ...
    Moms and food activists have been fighting genetically modified foods for years. Now, they have a new ally. Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), a group representing 67,000 military veterans, sent a letter to President Obama just before Memorial Day asking for his assistance in delaying approval ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Four Reasons You Need a Duck
    Sure, backyard chickens are popular. In addition to giving you a constant supply of omega-3-rich eggs, they make really cool pets. But so do ducks, which can be a perfect addition to your backyard flock if you like to garden and love eggs—and if you hate bugs. They're great animal companions, ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Approaching Normal
    Nearly two decades ago, I walked into my first Abnormal Psychology class.  Given the course title, I thought I had a pretty good handle on what the subject matter would be.  So imagine my surprise when the professor walked in and said, "The 'abnormal' in the course title is a bit of a misnomer," ...
  • Why Is there no “Fatherhood War?”
    A childfree friend of mine once memorably wondered why moms are so “judge-y” toward each other. I’m loath to reinforce the rhetorical overkill of calling this judge-y state the “mommy wars.” For one thing it belittles the literal war we’re still waging in which actual lives and limbs are ...
  • SSA Week Day 6/7: My Picks
    Today's the last day of SSA Week, and the end is in sight! At the time of this writing, we've raised just over $88,000 out of a target of $100,000. We can do this, people! If you haven't donated yet, now's your chance: get out your credit card, click this link, and become a donor by givi ...
  • New Device Smells Cancer on Your Breath
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an easy and more affordable way to detect certain kinds of cancer. The cancer breathalyzer is designed to prescreen individuals for sign ...
  • Lack of Single Protein Causes Persistent Viral ...
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have discovered a protein believed to aid in the passing of viral infections. Based on a study that examined mice affected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis ...

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!

  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
  • 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 →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Flaky safety concerns over graphene
    It was almost inevitable that the naysayers and scaremongers would start to express concerns about graphene, the new wonder material that won its developers a Nobel prize for their work with sticky tape and HB pencils. It’s sensible to look at graphene if there are risks and Ken Donaldson, ...
  • Coin-flipping spectral alchemy
    This week, The Alchemist hears that the "wonder" material of the modern age, graphene, might soon be used as a safe agent in medical imaging while pharma chemists are yet to boldly go anywhere very far in chemical space. A surprising discovery unravels nanoscopic coax cables for energy s ...
  • Marblar, creating community for science and in ...
    If you are a working scientist, a recovering scientist, a revolutionary, or simply a geek looking for new innovations, take a look at Marblar. They’re creating a community to open up the process of invention and finding the right home for those inventions. They call themselves “a dem ...
  • Patent pressure – who does intellectual proper ...
    Greg Aharonian has said for many years that the patent system is bust. If it weren’t how could there possibly be tens of thousands of software patents given that so many of them are simply variations on the spreadsheet, word processor, file compression, and image editing? I followed Aharon ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Public Views on Climate Policy Options: Spring ...
    Brookings Institution / by Chris Borick and Barry Rabe http://tinyurl.com/6w8aysp  [From a posting in GRIST by David Roberts] …Here’s how the results are being pitched: The public rejects the climate policies that economists prefer — market-based options like carbon pricing through a tax o ...
  • Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technol ...
    National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13355 [From a Greenwire article by Mike Soraghan, sub. req'd] Hydraulic fracturing presents little risk of causing damaging earthquakes, a government study released today concludes, but earthquakes can be caused by other oil and ...
  • Warming Accelerates Decomposition of Decades-o ...
    PNAS (Published online before print June 11, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120603109) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/07/1120603109.abstract  [New York Times Green blog]  Climate scientists have long been concerned about the possibility that warming temperatures will speed changes on the ea ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

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

  • Vancouver Delegation Arrives in Gaza
    A delegation from Vancouver, Canada has arrived in Gaza, Palestine on Saturday, June 16. The eight delegates will meet with health work, refugee rights, labour union, boycott divestment sanctions (BDS), women's, student and youth organizations and activists during their visit to the besieged ...
  • 10 Reasons to Oppose Bill C-38
    The Harper government is trying to quickly pass, without debate, one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in Canadian history. Anyone concerned with tar sands pipelines, climate change, workers rights, unemployment insurance, Indigenous peoples' rights, women's rights, food secu ...
  • Salmon Wars
    Silver Donald Cameron’s documentary on open net-pen salmon aquaculture is a hard-hitting lesson on the environment, science and politics The premiere of Salmon Wars last night demonstrated a film that will no doubt become a powerful resourc ...
  • Shared information between the V2010ISU-JIG an ...
    The Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit - Joint Intelligence Group was active years prior to the start of the Olympics, while the G8/G20 Integrated Security Unit - Joint Intelligence Group was put together more recently, however it was suspected that there were numerous members who were acti ...
  • Bringing OUT the Best
    A new film festival in town celebrates queer cinema Pink popcorn is being prepared for the opening night of the first ever OUTeast Queer Film Festival. Running June 14 to 17, the Halifax screening bonanza promises some of the best in local ...

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

  • Public vs. Private Universities: A Reply From ...
    A professor friend of mine with experience at both private universities and the University of California emailed me a response to my post a couple of days ago about funding of higher education. My description of public vs. private universities, he says, might have been accurate 30 or 40 years ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 15 June 2012
    According to the EXIF data on this photo, it was taken on Wednesday at 4:44 PM. What you're seeing is the Dinner Stare™, designed to make it clear that the cats will brook no tardiness in producing dinner promptly at 5:00. They are not amused that instead of making preparations, I'm sitt ...
  • Opinion About Recess Appointments is "Eyes Onl ...
    Marcy Wheeler alerts us to a document posted today by Charlie Savage of the New York Times about the authority of the president to make recess appointments even when the Senate is conducting brief pro forma sessions in order to pretend that it's not in recess. The Office of Legal Counsel weigh ...
  • Message Discipline and the Decline of Politica ...
    Ezra Klein is only 28 years old, but he says that Washington DC has changed in just the few years he's been there: Perhaps my favorite thing to do on the blog is long Q&As, like the ones I’ve conducted with Tom Coburn, Kent Conrad, Paul Ryan, and Buddy Roemer, to name just a ...
  • Obama to Stop Deporting Young Immigrants With ...
    I guess I'm surprised that President Obama has the power to do this via executive order, but apparently he's decided to partially implement the goals of the DREAM Act without asking for congressional approval: Under the new plan, illegal immigrants will be immune from deportation if they we ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 328: Sophtest Niggas Alive
    Topics: Octomom Porn Pictures Paul W.S. Anderson needs to be stopped Kriss threatens to stab Adam Sandler Slave shackle sneakers Chris Brown and Drake have an altercation R Kelly is a pedophile Sandusky trial updates Why kriss doesn’t talk politics anymore Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • 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

e!Science News

  • Ionic liquid improves speed and efficiency of ...
    The design of a nature-inspired material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas has gone holistic. Usually, tweaking the design of this particular catalyst -- a work in progress for cheaper, better fuel cells -- results in either faster or more energy efficient production but not both. Now, r ...
  • Scientists tie DNA repair to key cell signalin ...
    University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found a surprising connection between a key DNA-repair process and a cellular signaling network linked to aging, heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions. The discovery promises to open up an important new area of researc ...
  • Nanoparticles engineered at Notre Dame promise ...
    Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have engineered nanoparticles that show great promise for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. read more
  • Quantum bar magnets in a transparent salt
    Scientists have managed to switch on and off the magnetism of a new material using quantum mechanics, making the material a test bed for future quantum devices. read more
  • Research team finds knowledge of fractions an ...
    From factory workers to Wall Street bankers, a reasonable proficiency in math is a crucial requirement for most well-paying jobs in a modern economy. Yet, over the past 30 years, mathematics achievement of U.S. high school students has remained stagnant -- and significantly behind many other cou ...

unEarthed

  • Acidification Threatens Oceans' Food Web
    Earthjustice at Rio+20 to seek solutions It started in 2005, when baby oysters began dying by the billions in Oregon and Washington. At first, the fishermen were ...
  • Time Is Ticking On 'Franken-food' Review
    FDA must stop dawdling on genetically modified salmon and other food Californian voters will vote in the fall on a proposal to require most food products to lab ...
  • Spurred by Earthjustice, EPA Issues Limits for ...
    Final standards, due in December, must be strongest possible Photo: Chris Jordan-Bloch/Earthjustice Just two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency wa ...
  • Red Bluff Success Story
    Fish-friendly project on Sacramento nears completion Chinook salmon One of the most significant measures undertaken to protect California’s iconic Sacra ...
  • Arctic Drilling Fleet Poised To Sail
    Shell Oil hopes to drill this summer The Shell drillship Kulluk, off the Seattle, WA, waterfront. (Dave Nakayama) As I write this, ships are being prepared to ...

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

+972

  • Questions raised on Robert Conquest interview ...
      Veteran Yediot Ahronoth reporter Sever Plocker published the following account on his Facebook page earlier tonight: Professor Robert Conquest is one of the greatest living historians. He earned undying fame with the publication of his book on Stalin’s purges, “The Great Terro ...
  • Fresh attack on Eritrean pub vandalized in ant ...
    A firecracker was hurled into an Eritrean bar in south Tel Aviv late Saturday night, the latest incident in mounting violence against the African asylum seeker community in Israel. On Eritrean customer was injured in Saturday night’s incident. The bar, located in the Hatikva neighborhood o ...
  • Palestinian nonviolent protest leader arrested ...
    By The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Issa Amro, Coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, was stopped last night by Israeli authorities at the Allenby Bridge. He was arrested and taken to the Hebron police station, where he was interrogated for hours on suspicion of involvement in orga ...
  • Lovely summer for a war
    One of these lazy, sunny days, we’re likely to hear on the news that Israel has just bombed Iran. The question of whether Israel will soon attack Iran is one of those things where your senses completely deceive you. The more Israeli politicians and generals talk about it, the closer it see ...
  • Women challenge segregation of Hebron street i ...
    Palestinian, Israeli and international women activists dressed in traditional Palestinian garb attempted to walk down Shuhada street, Hebron’s main commercial thoroughfare. After only a few minutes, they were stopped by soldiers, and seven people were arrested in total. By Noa Shaindlinger ...

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

  • WIDE AWAKE AMERICA RADIO Live Interview! It&#8 ...
    A youtube recording of my interview! Please share your thoughts and comments, most importantly WAKE UP! Get your neighbors talking, Get your friends talking and GET INVOLVED! YouTubePart1 YouTubePart2       Scridb filter
  • Jamie Dimon Appears Before The Congress He Bou ...
    What kind of treatment should one get after gambling with your customer’s money and reportedly losing $2billion?  I guess that all depends on how much you’ve given in campaign contributions. Focus back then on those key elements of fascism; a corporate owned government turned against ...
  • BOMBSHELL- FED “ENTERPRISES” SPEND ...
    Hold on folks, this government work product is going to blow your doors off.  Keep studying the fundamentals of fascism.  What you will find is the nationalization of all industries, food, travel, energy, finance and homes makes anyone who would challenge any of the nationalized industries an En ...
  • It’s Time To Be a Threat To Their System ...
    LISTEN TO ME LIVE TONIGHT ON WIDE AWAKE NEWS! Click here From Charlie McGrath: Build a bridge and get over it!!!!! Patriots, Tea Partiers, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Libertarians, Birchers, Sound Money Crowd, Gold and Silver Bugs, Sovereign Citizens, Anarchists, Liberals, Conservatives, Alte ...
  • The Fascist State, Banks Wiping Out Accounts o ...
    Scary stuff out here folks, the banks coming after those who are critical… fascism= fusion of corporation and state….. HUFFINGTON POST     Scridb filter

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

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

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

  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Center for a Livable Future

  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Conserv ...
    The Senate Agriculture Committee recently put forth their version of the Farm Bill, which included steep cuts to conservation funding. Conservation efforts protect natural resources as well as the public’s health. As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to be debated on the Senate floor, it is clear tha ...
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • FCC Taking Another Look At Mobile Phone Radiation
    For the first time in 15 years, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission says it's planning on asking if its standards protect people from mobile-phone radiation, partly because of how often we use smartphones now and since we yak away on them for longer periods of time than we used to. The ...
  • Woman Claims She Got A Mouthful Of Hairy Spide ...
    Just a little warning to the weak stomachs out there: Don't read this if you're eating lunch or ever want to enjoy canned Italian cuisine ever, ever again. A woman in Florida claims she was chowing down on some Chef Boyardee Mini Ravioli when she bit into an unexpected, disgusting surprise -- w ...
  • June Recall Roundup: Mac 'N' Cheese 'N' Metal ...
    Pull up a stepstool, park your kid's stroller, and let's sit down with some Trader Joe's chicken breasts and Walmart mac and cheese, with Sienna Bakery macademia nut cookies: it's time for the Recall Roundup. Oh. All of those things have been recalled, really? Food Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Nou ...
  • Why The Math On Your Soda Bottles & Cans Doesn ...
    In the two years since we first covered the complicated rounding involved with soda bottle nutrition labels, some changes have been made with the goal of clearing up things like calorie count and serving size. But some questions still keep popping up, so it's probably time for a refresher cours ...
  • The DOT Thinks It Might Be Nice For You To Get ...
    While instances of "mishandled baggage" are at the lowest levels for domestic airlines since 1987, when the Department of Transportation started tracking those numbers, the government seems to be flirting with the idea of making things even better for passengers. Perhaps with say, a little cash ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Gulf War Veteran Walks from AZ to DC for Whist ...
    Photo courtesy of Flickr user BodsWBIR (TN): Gulf War Veteran Walks to Raise Awareness of Whistleblower Laws Summary: A Gulf War veteran has been walking from Arizona to Washington, DC for the last four months in an effort to gain more support for whistleblowers. He has averaged 20-25 mil ...
  • The Dangers of "Leak" Hysteria #3
    I was on Democracy Now! this morning around discussing the latest in "leak" hysteria, which I've written about on Kos this week. (here and here). Watch Democracy Now! here or below: Yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defende ...
  • Will the 'Leaks' Investigation Lead to an Offi ...
    Democracy Now!: After Unprecedented Attack on Whistleblowers, Obama Admin Accused of Leaking Info for Political Gain Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on Democracy Now! this morning to talk about the recently announced investigat ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Supply-Side Mayhem
    Supply-side economics is front-and-center this political year. Every presidential candidate who participated in the Republican primary debates preached the gospel of Supply-side economics, prompting this article, inquiring about its efficacy. Supply-side economics is a flawed theory that does no ...
  • The Ultimate Indignity
    When you’re homeless, each day brings a new indignity. Having my underpants stolen may be as demoralizing as indignities can get. Common sense dictates that when you’re adrift with not much left in life beyond the clothes on your back, survival means keeping a keen eye out for anyone coveting yo ...
  • Why the Feds Are Suing Florida for Allegedly P ...
    by Suevon Lee, ProPublica On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Florida over its voter purge program aimed at removing non-citizens from voter rolls. We’ve taken a closer look at the controversy surrounding the program and why the federal government has gotten involved: S ...
  • A Back Door to the Public Option
    Any day now the Supreme Court will issue its opinion on the constitutionality of the Accountable Care Act, which even the White House now calls Obamacare. Most high-court observers think it will strike down the individual mandate in the Act that requires almost everyone to buy health insurance, ...
  • Grieving Father Struggles to Pay Dead Son’s St ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. “They would say, ‘We don’t care what happened with your son, you have to pay us,’” recalled Reynoso, a garden ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The UN defines “climate change” as ...
    George Orwell, Photo: Wikipedia Sloppy language works for cheats and charlatans. In the search for the truth only accurate language will do. Orwell understood the power of language to change the way we think, indeed to fence off some possible options completely. Roger Pielke Snr put out a call t ...
  • 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 ( ...

ReNew America

  • Obama administration makes election-year chang ...
    (The Hill) - The Obama administration announced Friday it will stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age. The politically charged decision comes as Obama faces a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney, and Hispanic voters in swing states will play a ...
  • Rep. Steve King to sue Obama administration ov ...
    (Daily Caller) - Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King said Friday that he plans to sue the Obama administration to halt implementation of its newly announced selective illegal immigration law enforcement policy...
  • Corrupt Eric Holder's Republican enablers
    (Michelle Malkin) - While calls for U.S. Attorney General Eric "Stonewall" Holder's resignation grow and the House GOP gears up for a contempt vote next week, it's worth remembering how we got into this mess. In two words: feckless bipartisanship. "I like Barack Obama and want to help him if I c ...
  • Attorney general above the law?
    (Joseph Farah) - Let's take a quick look at the top law enforcement official in Washington -- Attorney General Eric Holder: First, for 18 months he has stonewalled congressional investigations into the "Fast and Furious" government gunrunning sting operation that resulted in the death of at leas ...
  • GOP delegates sue to be free from Romney
    (WorldNetDaily) - Over 120 delegates to the Republican National Convention have joined a lawsuit against the GOP arguing they have been illegally coerced into choosing Mitt Romney for the party's presidential nominee and demanding they be "unbound" to vote for another candidate instead...

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

  • Mermaids, Sold-Out Bunker & Jim Bakker
    Mermaids A show called Mermaids: The Body Found has been running on Animal Planet in the USA. According to Huff Post, it’s not exactly a serious doco, but what it has done is introduce the Aquatic Ape Theory to many people. The theory is very relevant to 2012 – a previous global ca ...
  • Evolution, Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Pole Shifts
    If you ask me What could an ancient civilisation have predicted for Dec 21, 2012?, then my answer is a comet, either flying by or crashing into us, or a solar storm. If you take the predictive element out of the 2012 equation, my best guess is a magnetic pole shift, or crustal displacement, or b ...
  • Survive 2012 Book – DISCOUNT WEEKEND
    My book, Survive 2012, is now available at all Amazon bookstores. For this weekend I’ve lowered the prices especially for my USA and UK readers: Amazon UK £3.67 (with free delivery) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survive-2012-Robert-Bast/dp/1475249756/ref=sr_1_1 Amazon USA $6.63 http://www. ...
  • Archeologist : Popol Vuh Only Speaks of Creation
    Literally every day a new, generic article appears in a newspaper somewhere explaining that the 2012 phenomenon is nothing to worry about. And because they quote expert academics, people believe they are being told the full story. Most experts proudly share that there is no evidence that the Ma ...
  • The Secret of Sion: Free Kindle Book
    It’s not very often you can score a free book from an author in the 2012 realm. William Henry (you may have seen him on Ancient Aliens) is offering his latest book for free for the next two days only, Kindle only: * Sion is rising and with it a new, new world order. * The connection be ...

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

  • Govt cannot penalise for not meeting productio ...
    Refuting Oil Ministry charges on KG-D6 gas field output lagging targets, Reliance Industries has said there is no 'obligation' in the contract to achieve certain levels of production. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • India PM condoles Saudi prince's death
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday expressed grief over the death of Saudi Arabia's deputy prime minister and crown prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who was also the interior minister of the country. Reported by IndiaVision 2 hours ago
  • Egypt tenses for new president after vote
    CAIRO (Reuters) - A second day of voting on Sunday will deliver Egypt's first freely elected president, though the country faces renewed tension whether he is a former general from the old guard or an Islamist from the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood. Reported by Reuters India 2 hours ago
  • Pranab indicates action by RBI and Gov to chec ...
    17 Jun 2012 Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says, the government is not sitting idle on reforms and indicated a cut in interest rates by the RBI, in its review of Monitory policy tomorrow, to arrest the slowdown in Economic growth. Addressing an Assocham conference in Mumbai yesterday, ... ...
  • Bodies of Andhra accident victims given to rel ...
    Bodies of the 30 victims of a horrific bus accident in Maharashtra were on Sunday transported to their home districts in Andhra Pradesh. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • New Sponsor Announcements For BlogHer '12!
    We have so many amazing new sponsors for BlogHer '12 that we want to share with you! Our annual conference wouldn't be possible without these awesome sponsors. Read on to hear a little bit from this week's new sponsors. Chuck E. Cheese's Chuck E. Cheese's features games, food and entertainmen ...
  • How to Make Authentic Spanish Paella
    [Editor's Note: When I lived in Spain, I loved so much of the food, but paella was always one of my favorites. It incorporated seafood AND meat, and plenty of rice and vegetables cooked in an amazing saffron-infused broth. Plus, it was such a social dish—paella is rarely cooked in a small b ...
  • Tips for Improving the Sound in Your Videos
    Are you shooting video with a smart phone or other similar device? You may have noticed the sound quality isn't great. But Gena Haskett from Create Video Notebook has a few tips for you that may help you improve on sound quality. She writes, Since there is a wide variety of devices this is going ...
  • BlogHer Conference Update - - June 16, 2012
    Well friends, it's been one fabulous week post conference! For all of you who were in Seattle thank you for spending your time with us, we know how precious your time is and spending it with us was so very special. Let's do a quick recap of BlogHer Food '12 in Seattle: Over 500 attendees23 spo ...
  • Imagine If We Measured Gross National Happiness
    What we measure, matters. So why not measure happiness? If everyone is striving for it, and the point of life is to have a measure of happiness, why does it get lost in the shuffle? Imagine if one of the key indicators each night on the news was the Gross National Happiness. How might that ch ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Appeal Filed!
    Dear Organic Lovers, On March 23, 2012 the collective of farmers, seed growers and farm groups (OSGATA) supporting organic and non-GMO farming filed an appeal for their case against Monsanto to be heard in The United States Court of Appeals ...
  • Are you getting enough Vitamin M?
    Are you suffering from low Vitamin M? Here are some of the symptoms: - depression - lethargy - poor circulation - weak social or community health - isolation - poor mobility Are you suffering from a deficiency of Music? Music has often been demonstrated ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Friday roundup, June 15, 2012
    Spanish coal miners talk as they spend their twenty-third day underground in a mine as part of a strike in Santa Cruz del Sil, Spain, Tuesday June 12, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests aga ...
  • Sen. Manchin’s Magical Mystery Tour
    This weekend is sure to see a flurry of media coverage here in West Virginia of  what Sen. Joe Manchin’s press office is for some reason calling an “unprecedented energy tour“.   The Daily Mail and the AP are already promoting the events which include visits — and “ ...
  • Why does the coal industry get a bad name?
    There was an interesting pair of stories recently in the Cumberland Times-News over in Maryland that offered a glimpse at why the coal industry is sometimes its own worst enemy. First, there was  June 7 story headlined, One industry is tired of its name being blackened: Summit provides stage for ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Flash Mob Idea
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerStudent FailFlowers and StoneTry a BookHow to Nap | Boston Globe
  • Lawrence Lessig on How We Lost Our Republic
    via youtube.com Lawrence Lessig, like Sam Harris, represents a standard I am attempting to reach. Quite simply, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing in life. They believe something, and they spend their lives trying to make positive change toward that goal. I respect that, and I wil ...
  • Why I’m Considering a Switch from Chrome to Safari
    With the changes to Safari coming up in Mountain Lion I may abandon Chrome as my primary browser. Here are my main thoughts: Safari now has a unified input interface (search, direct urls, etc.) which was the main reason I was using Chrome Performance of the two browsers are pretty much negligibl ...
  • On Thanking Service People
    I can testify that the character of the people in the military is in general not of a high caliber. A majority of the people I served with were of less than average intelligence and of low morals. A lot of them thought it would be cool to see combat and get to kill Iraqis. [...]
  • Don’t Look Back in Anger! Responsiveness to Mi ...
    Life-span theories explain successful aging with an adaptive management of emotional experiences like regret. As opportunities to undo regrettable situations decline with age, a reduced engagement into these situations represents a potentially protective strategy to maintain well-being in older ...

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 Sunday
    Stage Collapses Before Radiohead Concert, One Dead One person was killed and another seriously injured in a stage collapse before a Radiohead concert that was expected to draw 40,000 people today in Toronto, police said. Two other people were treated for minor injuries at the scene in Downsview ...
  • In Washington, Leaking As A Way Of Life
    by LINTON WEEKS,NPR - A leak – in a pipeline, at a nuclear plant, within a top-secret agency – can be dangerous, disastrous, deadly. But sometimes a leak can also be a good thing — drawing attention to a larger systemic problem. The debate over news leaks bubbled up again this week after reports ...
  • Letter to the Editor: Are You Serious? Talk ab ...
    Sen. Sanders and Boxer and Democracy for America Joe -Can you believe that, only four years after Wall Street and the Big Banks brought our economy to its knees, many of those same bank CEOs are helping to shape policy at the Federal Reserve? Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. These execu ...
  • Citizen Journalism and Independent Media are C ...
    Yes!  I support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Get T-shirt ) No!  I don’t support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Fox News )
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Saturday

reference frame

  • Nuclear energy: Japan is back
    Japanese PM orders to restart two reactors On March 11th, 2011, Japan was crippled by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake followed by a giant tsunami. The number of casualties was clearly high. A week later, Gene made the following prediction in the Echo comments that will hopefully be converted ...
  • Sid Meier's civilization, doom, and Cosmic Var ...
    It's remarkable how diametrically opposite conclusions may be reached by various people when they look at the very same data. Sean Carroll talks about Sid Meier's Civilization I-V, a famous series of computer games Dismal Global Equilibriaand the message they're telling us about the future. ...
  • Grexit and learning from Czecho-Slovak currenc ...
    The Prague Post has published an interesting interview with the guy who was in charge of the Czech side of the Czechoslovak currency split: Lessons for Greece from Czech-Slovak splitThe man was Mr Pavel Kysilka, now the chief economist of Česká spořitelna [chess-car spaw-rzih-tel-nuh], a co ...
  • George Musser's occult musings on Erik Verlind ...
    Among the editors of Scientific American whose names I can recognize, George Musser is the most reasonable one. The relevance of this babe will be clarified below. Nevertheless, I still find his reasoning and approach to questions to be largely incompatible with the scientific ...
  • 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. ...

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
  • 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
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

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

  • Photo special: Burmese Day in Oslo
    Celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo locals and exiled Burmese joined each other for what was billed as a Folkefest (party for the people) in the square in front of Oslo’s City Hall on Saturday. It turned out to be a colorful gathering with many of the Burmese minority representatives w ...
  • Conferences may say sluggish tourism market
    More conferences than ever before were arranged in Norway last year, and those attending are now viewed as saviours for the tourism industry. With visitor numbers down because of financial problems abroad, hotel owners are among those keen to attract professionals gathering for a combination of ...
  • Burmese in exile hail their ‘Lady’
    Thousands of Norwegian residents, many of them Burmese in exile in Norway, headed for the City Hall plaza (Rådhusplassen) in Oslo on Saturday to catch a glimpe of their heroine Aung San Suu Kyi, fondly referred to as “The Lady” in Burma. Torrential rains didn’t scare them away, ...
  • Suu Kyi finally on the Nobel podium
    Twenty-one years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Burmese democratic champion Aung San Suu Kyi could finally step onto the Nobel podium in Oslo on Saturday and deliver her Nobel Lecture. The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee couldn’t resist drawing attention to the inability of ...
  • Norwegian missiles win nod from American buyers
    Norwegian and US defense officials have completed some classic bargaining involving huge sums of money, according to an announcement Friday from Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide. He told reporters that Norway had agreed to move forward with ordering its new generation of fighter jets, the F-35 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Myth of Perpetual Growth is Killing America
    Editor’s preamble: It’s refreshing and even somewhat reassuring when a major stock market website runs an article like the one below…. Everything you know about economics is wrong A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon, southern Lebanon. ...
  • 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 ...

Pointman's

  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Well, after over a year in waiting, part 2 of this series is just about ready. Should have it posted within the next day or two. My apologies for the delay. I had to do a lot of research and was caught up writing other articles.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:57 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    There is a smart way to default on a loan, but few debtors are savvy enough to pull it off. It's called negotiated debt settlement. This route is better for your credit than outright bankruptcy, and it's better for your wallet than making payment you can't afford. But most debtors never reach ...
  • Social Engineering • Like Madoff, Stanford Tar ...
    Like Madoff, Stanford Targeted Jews ( Looks like a Goyim may have pulled the wool... but the J-Tribers will likely get the US govt. to bail their J-*sses out. --CSR ) By CBSNews A report from GlobalPost reveals that R. Allen Stanford's $8 billion Ponzi scheme scammed hundreds of mill ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hell ...
    Anyone still have access to these documents? Crotchshotradio is now defunct.Statistics: Posted by THE AQUARIAN 1 — Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:20 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Luke Rudowski of We Are Change just harassed Rand in D.C. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2I42NQqZs Kind of feels like this was planned by Ron Paul and Alex Jones, but if so, what's the point of it? What would be the point of having Rand support Mitt Romney? It's very confusing. ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Australia to Create World’s Largest Marine Res ...
    Australia has announced that it will create the world’s largest marine reserve, a network of protected areas that will cover 1.2 million square miles, more than one-third of the country’s waters. Environment Minister Tony Burke, making the announcement in advance of the Rio+20 sustainability sum ...
  • The Crystal: What Would the River Say?
    One of the last free-flowing rivers in Colorado, the Crystal is now threatened by two proposed dam projects that would transform its rushing waters. In a Yale Environment 360 video, filmmaker Pete McBride, who grew up along the river’s banks, captures the breathtaking beauty of the Crystal and ...
  • Ban on Fish Discards Is Approved by the Europe ...
    The European Union has decided to end the controversial practice of allowing fishermen to select high-value species from their nets and then discard the remainder of dead fish, a practice that leads to the destruction of an estimated 1 million tons of edible fish a year in EU waters. The EU Coun ...
  • Parasitic Mite Found to Play Key Role in Colla ...
    Extensive research in Hawaii has shown that a major cause of so-called colony-collapse disorder, which has sharply reduced bee populations in many parts of the world, is related to the spread of the parasitic varroa mite. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in England were able to track th ...
  • Major NASA Discovery Finds Phytoplankton Bloom ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered extensive blooms of phytoplankton under Arctic Ocean ice, contradicting the widely held conviction that such blooms could not occur under sea ice that blocked the sun's rays from triggering the blooms. Scientists on a NASA-sponsored expedition to th ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Parliament’s darkest day, and finest
    By Montreal Simon It was the Canadian Parliament’s darkest day, and at the same time one of its finest. Each new round of voting began with a round of applause from the New Democrat benches and ended with whoops and cheers from the Conservatives whose majority might means they’ve voted dow ...
  • Teacher fired for showing class grisly video
    A BoB short: A high school teacher at Montreal’s Cavelier-de LaSalle High School has been fired for showing the video “1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick” to his grade 10 history class. The grisly video, which is available online, is believed to show alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta butchering Concordia Un ...
  • Think you bought that DVD? Think again.
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Imagine buying a house, and being locked out of the basement by the previous owner. That’s what digital locks do. If you’ve been following Canadian politics, particularly the new Copyright Act (Canada’s DMCA) Bill C-11, you’ve heard of “d ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Japan: the history behind its love affair with ...
    The Japanese fascination with dogs is long-standing, but the pampered pooches of today would cringe at the horrid treatment of their predecessors during wartime Japan and extensive extermination campaigns before that. In Empire of Dogs, author Aaron Skabelund explains how the dog-eat-dog world o ...
  • Honda to halt two luxury models
    Honda Motor Co. will stop manufacturing two luxury models by next month to allocate more resources to its more popular compact cars and minivehicles, sources said Saturday. The automaker will cease production of its top-end Legend sedan at the end this month and that of the Inspire sedan in Ju ...
  • Workers' comp for mental illness hit record hi ...
    The number of applications approved to compensate employees for work-related mental illnesses climbed to an all-time high of 325 in fiscal 2011, the health ministry said. The total exceeded the previous year's tally by 17, setting a new record for the second straight year, a ministry report sa ...
  • Resident of last Dojunkai laments passing of ' ...
    "One of the members of the residents association once told me that we shouldn't talk to journalists, but I have nothing to lose now." Helmut Rudolph was sitting on a low couch, surveying the interior of his tiny, 20-sq.-meter apartment. It seemed as though the lanky self-described German-New Z ...
  • Dempster pitches Cubs past Matsuzaka's BoSox
    Ryan Dempster realizes his days with the Chicago Cubs could be winding down, particularly if he keeps this up. He's dominating, and a contender just might want him. Dempster pitched four-hit ball over seven innings, and the Cubs hung on to beat team president Theo Epstein's former club, toppin ...

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

  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • 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.

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

  • Water customers threatened with debt collector ...
    “Tens of thousands of families have been wrongly billed $177 in desalination plant charges. “One of Melbourne’s most respected lawyers, David Galbally, QC, said the charge was illegal and debt collectors should instead be visiting water authorities. “Mr Galbally has issue ...
  • 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,” ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Applauds World Trade Organization Dec ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today applauded the determination by a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel which found that China unfairly imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties to U.S.-manufactured grain-oriented flat-rolled electric steel (GOES).  Kucinich h ...
  • Israeli Comptroller Confirms Mistakes Were Mad ...
    A report by the Israeli state comptroller criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the commando raid on the Mavi Marmara in 2010, which resulted in the death of nine people. The report found that Prime Minister Netanyahu failed to heed multiple warnings from top officials ...
  • Kucinich Updates Filing to SEC: Another Potent ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) updated his earlier request to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after an egregious misrepresentation made by FirstEnergy to shareholders was uncovered.  On March 21, 2012, Kucinich called upon the SEC to examine whether “material misrepresentat ...
  • Kucinich: We Can’t Wait for the Banks to Save Us
    As President Obama and Governor Romney square off with competing economic speeches in Ohio, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sent a letter to Congressional colleagues highlighting the urgent need to reassert Congressional authority over American monetary policy in order to build an economy tha ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • FOLLOW THE $$$ SEE WHERE “DISHONEST&#822 ...
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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

  • China sending astronauts to permanent space base
    China will launch three astronauts, including a mother of one who flies transport planes, to live and work on a space station for about a week, a major step in its goal of becoming only the third nation with a permanent base orbiting...
  • Huge asteroid to fly by Earth
    An asteroid the size of a city block discovered by astronomers in Canberra will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision.The "unusually large" asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye, but asteroid enthusiasts may watch...
  • 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...

The Bovine

  • Deconstructing Dinner is now up for crowd-sour ...
    Devlin O’Driscoll, maker of the award winning documentary “Milk War” invites regular people to support a new documentary series on food: “Just what and who are we investing in when we sit down to eat? Are these ‘investments’ secure? Become … Continue rea ...
  • What are they saying about Michael Schmidt dow ...
    From David E. Gumpert’s The Complete Patient blog: “There’s a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canada’s rulers. Call it “Michael Schmidt Paralysis.” You don’t wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has … Continue readi ...
  • What are they saying about Michael Schmidt dow ...
    From David E. Gumpert’s The Complete Patient blog: “There’s a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canada’s rulers. Call it “Michael Schmidt Paralysis.” You don’t wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has … Continue readi ...
  • Nine year old British schoolgirl called to the ...
    From The Verge, which, for the most part, is a technology blog: “A month and a half ago, a nine-year-old schoolgirl called Martha began blogging photos of the food from her elementary school cafeteria. After just ten days the blog, … Continue reading →
  • Nine year old British schoolgirl called to the ...
    From The Verge, which, for the most part, is a technology blog: “A month and a half ago, a nine-year-old schoolgirl called Martha began blogging photos of the food from her elementary school cafeteria. After just ten days the blog, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Sacramento "Teacher of the Year" Laid Off; Who ...
    I have a great deal of sympathy for Michelle Apperson, the Sacramento "Teacher of the Year" who was laid off. Assuming she deserved the award, she should not have been laid off. Sixth-grade teacher Michelle Apperson passed down a simple message to her students. "My favorite teachers gro ...
  • You Don’t Need to be a Lefty to Support Krugma ...
    Financial Times writer Samuel Brittan says You Don’t Need to be a Lefty to Support Krugman.  Brittan kicks off with "The remedy for too little spending is more spending. Everything else is commentary." Who Decides? Just who gets to decide there is "too little spending?" Krugm ...
  • Greeks Rail Against "Crude" German Editorial; ...
    In the past week, as I expected, the ECB, Troika, German officials and others have all warned Greeks to not vote for Alexis Tsipras and his radical-left party Syriza. Will those tactics backfire? I suggest they already have. The pertinent question is whether they have backfired enough to ma ...
  • Europe Will Splinter Regardless of Greek Elect ...
    All eyes are focused on the Greek election on Sunday. However, a fundamentally far more important election (for the long term) will take place in France on Saturday. If socialists take control of both houses in French parliament as expected, president François Hollande would have free r ...
  • IMF Pressures Spain to Lower Salaries, Raise t ...
    My friend Bran reports from Spain that IMF urging Spain to raise VAT, reduce public pay and positions, and eliminate housing deduction is the headline of every main news broadcast and newspaper. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended Spain to cut the salaries of employees and ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Real Lords of Afghan Poppy Fields & Heroin ...
    Facts, Myths, Smugglers, and the International Dudes Yesterday this so-not-news news made the headlines: Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODC. The headline was followed by these so-not-accurate descriptions and statements [emphasis mine]: A new report by the United Nations dr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 21, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve System has usurped the government. It controls everything in Congress and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at wi ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Classified Woman Unplugged in a New Session wi ...
    From the Book the Establishment Doesn’t Want you to Read to 9/11, Perpetual War, Police State & Beyond Yesterday (Friday, May 18), I had another video-radio session with Alex Jones that was supposed to be for 20 minutes but went on for over an hour. I was completely (utterly-totally) unplugg ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Pink This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is American singer-songwriter, musician and actress Pink singing her song “Dear Mr. President” live at Wembley Arena. Pink’s incredible career has bought her 3 Grammy’s, 5 MTV Video Music Awards and 2 Brit Awards. Of all her songs, s ...

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 →
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gCaptain

  • Bulk Carrier Update | Market Looks Tough in th ...
    By Jarle Hammer, Republished from the DNV Bulk Carrier Update The dry bulk market has deteriorated significantly over the last six months, although rates have recovered from recent bottom levels. Since [...]
  • Shipowners Stress Their Role in Delivering Gre ...
    Today in Rio de Janeiro at a high level ‘Oceans Day’ event during the United Nations ‘Rio+20’ Summit on Sustainable Development, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) presented the views [...]
  • Producing Oil Like it’s Going Out of Style | S ...
    PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Dow Jones)–Global oil supply is exceeding demand by 1.5 million barrels a day, the chief executive of state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Co. said Thursday. The [...]
  • APM Terminals Signs $508 Million Agreement to ...
    (Dow Jones) COPENHAGEN–The port-operating arm of Danish shipping and oil company A.P. Moller Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO) Friday signed an agreement with China’s Ningbo Port Co. for the joint development and operation of facilities [...]
  • IMB Survey Notes Container Security Challenges
    The results of a recent survey conducted by the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in conjunction with an international trade association have served to underline the challenges associated with container [...]

Press TV

  • Israeli settler kills two Palestinians
    Two Palestinians have been killed in a shooting attack by an Israeli settler in the city of al-Khalil in southern West Bank.
  • Another UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
    Corporal Alex Guy, 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan on Friday June 15, 2012, while being caught in an ambush in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand.
  • ‘Muslim unity vital against enemy plots’
    Iran's deputy minister of foreign affairs has highlighted the significance of Muslim unity in the face of intensifying enemy plots in a meeting with Tunisian Muslim scholars and other elites.
  • Most Britons distrust Chancellor: poll
    Only one in four Britons believes George Osborne, the ­Chancellor, is taking the country’s economy in the right direction, a ComRes poll shows.
  • UK universities receive bomb hoaxes
    Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism branch, SO15, has launched a national investigation into the threats plaguing Britain’s universities.

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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 ...
  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

Nick Turse

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  • Barcelona, Spain. 22nd May 2012 — Thousands of ...
    Barcelona, Spain. 22nd May 2012 — Thousands of students and professors gather to protest against budget cuts at all levels of public education. — Tens of thousands of students and professors protested in Barcelona against budget cuts at all levels of public education proposed by the current Spa ...
  • Peter Hart of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in R ...
    Peter Hart of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) dismantles an NYPD press release, er I mean article from the current issue of Newsweek, where, he writes, “one can find another embarrassing tribute to.. New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly.”  He continues: “Kelly is the ‘pug ...
  • operatorsgonnaoperate:József Tibor Fejes, a ...
    operatorsgonnaoperate: József Tibor Fejes, a young Hungarian identified by C. J. Chivers in The Gun as ‘the first known insurgent to carry an AK-47.’, ‘Fejes obtained his prize after Soviet soldiers dropped their rifles during their attack on revolutionaries in Budapest in 1956…. The Hungarian ...
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