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Saturday, June 2, 2012

2 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Australia Blasted for Human Rights Record
    Australia's treatment of refugees and Aboriginal people has received scathing criticism in a report by human rights organisation Amnesty International. In its annual review of global human rights violations, released yesterday, Amnesty singled out Australia for the mandatory and indefinite de ...
  • Burying Lockerbie - and the Truth.
    I first learned about the death of the “Libyan bomber” Ali Megrahi from a television screen. The sound was off, but I could see the closed captioning on CNN. Newspeople and guests were talking about the terrible thing Megrahi had done, and the closure or lack thereof from his passing. One man wa ...
  • Syria: This is no plan for peace
    Major-General Robert Mood, the Norwegian head of the UN observer mission, has been cautious in pointing the finger of blame for Friday's Houla killings: "Whatever I learned on the ground in Syria ... is that I should not jump to conclusions." Probably, the truth is that the two sides share the r ...
  • UN: Syrian Response to Houla allegations
    Full text of Dr Bashar Al-Ja’afari’s Press Conference at the UN In Syria is an appalling, horrific, unjustified, and unjustifiable crime. This massacre was condemned by my government in the strongest terms possible. And here my government’s version of the condemnation has joined exactly the w ...
  • Julia Faces Down The Miners
    Rejecting industry criticism of the rising costs of mining in Australia, Ms Gillard said Australia's economy was the envy of the world and there was no better place to invest. ''And here's the rub. You don't own the minerals. I don't own the minerals. Governments only sell you the right to mi ...

Independent - London

  • Egypt's Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
    Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison today for ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that swept him from power last year.Related StoriesEgypt: Crowds demand Shafiq's removal
  • US will put more warships in Asia, says Defenc ...
    The United States will move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific in coming years and keep six aircraft carriers in the region, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said today, giving the first details of a new US military strategy.Related StoriesColonel's recipe (and his dislike of KFC) to ...
  • Kidnapped British aid worked freed
    A British aid worker kidnapped in north east Afghanistan last month has been freed by coalition forces, the Foreign Office said today.Related StoriesVideo: Crane rescue for taxi driver stranded in flood waterSuu Kyi warns adoring crowd that Burma has a long way to goRegrets over Tiananmen massac ...
  • Kidnapped British aid worker freed
    A British aid worker kidnapped in north east Afghanistan last month has been freed by coalition forces, the Foreign Office said today.Related StoriesVideo: Crane rescue for taxi driver stranded in flood waterSuu Kyi warns adoring crowd that Burma has a long way to goRegrets over Tiananmen massac ...
  • Trayvon killer called back to prison after sec ...
    George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch captain charged with second-degree murder in the killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was heading to jail last night after a Florida judge revoked his bail after hearing from prosecutors that he had lied about his finances.Related StoriesColon ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • 'Human barcode' could make society more organi ...
    As tech companies work to develop ID chips, how long until we're no longer anonymous? Would you barcode your baby? Microchip implants have become standard practice for our pets, but have been a tougher sell when it comes to the idea of putting them in people. Science fiction author Elizabet ...
  • False Reporting on the Health of Venezuela's P ...
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was diagnosed with cancer and a malignant tumor was removed from his pelvic region last June, all kinds of rumors, lies and speculations have circulated about his health. Most of the hype has come from known anti-Chavez media, such as the Miami Herald and several ...
  • Liberals vs. conservatives: How politics affec ...
    Americans are more likely to donate to a charity that reflects the values of their political affiliation, according to a new study from Rice University, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Pennsylvania State University. "The political divide not only impacts political actions, but everyd ...
  • Crisis in the Euro Zone: Alexis Tsipras Is the ...
    Just weeks ago, Alexis Tsipras, 37, was an obscure opposition politician. Now, he's unnerving the powers that be in the European Union because he and his leftist party Syriza - a group whose membership ranges from hardline Communists to moderate socialists - have the potential of forming a ...
  • Banks Skim Millions in Fees From Student Aid U ...
    Over 9 million students are at risk for increased educational debt, due to bank-affiliated campus debit cards that come with high fees, insufficient consumer protections, and few options. Financial institutions now have affinity partnerships with almost 900 campuses nationwide, grafting bank pro ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Funny Friday . . .
    AMERICAN STATE LEGISLATURES are capable of amazing comedy. According to Charlie Jane Anders, at io9, the latest silliness is courtesy of North Carolina (of which someone once remarked that the state bird, the Cardinal, should be replaced by a Pontiac Firebird wrapped around a telephone pole as m ...
  • TTTT: Tools To Tweek Tomatoes . . .
    THE TOMATO GENOME has been sequenced. According to ScienceDaily: "Tomato Genome Gets Fully Sequenced -- Paves Way to Healthier Fruits, Veggies". The genomes from the "Heinz 1706" and a wild precursor were sequenced. Of course, from this, improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste ...
  • State security . . .
    VICKIE'S TRYING TO BUILD ONE OF THESE. Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network: The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants. But Big Vickie loves us, so it'll all work out, right?
  • It slices and dices . . .
    SLAP CHOP THIS AIN'T. It's a piece of malware called "Flame". And what a piece it is: compared to Stuxnet, the malware that gutted the digital controllers for Iranian uranium centrifuges, a smallest-you-can-make-it 500Kb, Flame is Godzilla-size, a whopping 20Mb. According to the article in WIRED ...
  • #ggi
    Yep. Doug Finnson, the union's chief negotiator, says it's only because the government said it would act that CP management isn't at the table. "Collective bargaining in this country is under attack, certainly," he said. "As long as the government intervenes in collective bargaining, a ...

Media Matters for America

  • Who Is The Denver Post's Residen ...
    Denver Post columnist and local radio host Mike Rosen drew criticism this week when he questioned the citizenship status of President Obama. Media Matters looks back at his long record of extreme and hateful rhetoric.Rosen Goes 'Birther,' Says He's Suspicious Of Pr ...
  • Though Experts Agree Spending Cuts Hurt The Ec ...
    Economic experts agree that spending cuts in a weak economy hurt the creation of jobs and economic growth. Though Republicans in Congress spent much of 2011 demanding spending cuts, the media are amplifying their attacks on President Obama's economic record.Experts: Spending Cuts In A Weak Econ ...
  • Media Fail To Fact Check Romney's Solyndra Speech
    Mitt Romney's remarks at Solyndra were full of falsehoods that went unchecked by many major media outlets. The media also largely failed to point out that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney invested in several companies that subsequently went bankrupt or defaulted on state loan ...
  • Planned Parenthood Action Fund Ad Does Not Vio ...
    Fox News attacked Planned Parenthood for violating tax laws by putting out an ad that criticized Mitt Romney. In fact, the ad was put out by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which is organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, the same section Karl Rove's American Crossroads GPS uses to a ...
  • Conservative Pundit Obscures Romney's Jobs Rec ...
    Conservative pundit Jim Geraghty is deflecting attention from Mitt Romney's weak job creation record as governor of Massachusetts, pointing to overall unemployment trends at the time. But that statistic, which one economist has argued is a "false indicator," doesn't change the fact that during ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Sierra Club – 1 : TCEQ – 0
    Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing ov ...
  • NOAA says last 12 months are warmest on record ...
    According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, ...
  • Wild Fire Risk in Texas
    The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County.  The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to dimini ...
  • The Game of Thrones (or Texas Politics)
    By Michael Tahmoressi, St. Edwards student and Public Citizen intern Texas can be characterized as a pay to play environment.  Politicians bend to their districts business interests and gubernatorial appointees seem to be selected based on the amounts they contribute to the governor. Contributio ...
  • The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...

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  • Clinton to Assert U.S. Claim in Scramble for A ...
    (Reuters) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will assert U.S. interest in the Arctic, where the prospects for abundant oil, gas and new trade routes has been likened to a modern-day gold rush, when she visits the region on Saturday. A ...
  • Airborne Particles Blamed for Melting Bolivian ...
    (Reuters) Climate changed had been blamed for the rapid disappearance of the Chacaltaya glacier in the Bolivian Andes. Researchers are now focusing their attention on particles that stick to ice, making it melt faster.
  • Researchers See a Silent Majority Supporting C ...
    (ClimateWire) America's "silent jury" on climate change is seen by some researchers as an important majority that could swing society into action to confront rising temperatures. They're the people whose emotions haven't yet colored t ...
  • Energy Companies Say One Thing, Do the Opposit ...
    (Mother Jones) Many large corporations are saying one thing and doing another on climate change, the Union of Concerned Scientists found in a study released Wednesday. read more
  • U.S. Natural Gas Export Permits Delayed Until ...
    (Bloomberg) Consideration of licenses to export natural gas from the U.S. will have to wait until at least the third quarter, when a study is completed after a delay of several months, according to the Energy Department. Since Chenier ...

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Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Question
    In a hundred years, who will be considered the best rock and roll band of all time, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, or Pink Floyd? And, no, no other bands will be considered. Discuss
  • WSJ Ed Board Hits New Low
    Everybody knows that the reason the Republican Party is making it harder to vote in every state where they have the power to make it harder to vote is because they know that high turnout hurts them. And it's no coincidence that the way they have decided to make it hard to vote impacts people wh ...
  • Why Do Righties Defend Zimmerman?
    Tom Maguire, who has been acting as George Zimmerman's pro bono internet defense attorney since day one, has finally been forced to admit that his adopted client (and his client's wife) are "stupid, scheming, lying weasels." The funny thing about that is that stupid, scheming, lying weasels te ...
  • Romney's Chief Strategist Is Sarah Palin
    (and other takeaways from that BuzzFeed article) You've probably seen this BuzzFeed article by McKay Coppins: After a day spent waging bi-coastal combat with the Obama campaign, Mitt Romney's team in Boston earned the highest compliment Rush Limbaugh has ever paid them Thursday afternoon: ...
  • DOJ Goes After Florida
    It's about time: The Justice Department ordered Floridas elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and purge the states voter rolls of noncitizen voters. Floridas effort appears to violate both the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities, and the 1993 National Voter ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Incredible Images of Waves Smashing Against ...
    These incredible images show historic breakwaters and piers, mainly in England and Wales, being pummeled by waves and yet withstanding Nature's might. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Awful Truth About Lynchings in Latin America
    If you thought lynchings were a thing of the past, think again. Get the lowdown on the reason why so many people are beaten to death or set on fire in Latin America. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Creepiest Abandoned Cold War Missile Silos
    They're vast, located underground, and not so very long ago held the potential to destroy cities and kill millions. Ten amazing abandoned nuclear missile silos. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Early Airplane Crashes in Unusual Places
    Flying has become increasingly safe over the years, but not only were early crashes more common; some occurred in pretty unusual locations. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Solitary Desert Plants Surviving Against th ...
    Take inspiration from these 20 tough and determined desert plants surviving alone in harsh environments where the earth is parched and water is seldom seen. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A baffling tale: Millions of Kg of Asian gold, ...
    I really don't know what to make of this, but it's still worthwhile to pull a few links together for research purposes. Don't assume anything in this story is true, particularly since very little of the info is coming from people I would consider reliable sources. I suggest doing your own resear ...
  • A moment of police state zen: White House-appr ...
    A bunch of new documents have been FOIA'd out showing the various layers of Occupy crackdown. We certainly watched it all happen pretty rapidly from the ol GlobalRev catbird seat. One week, everything seemed weirdly quiet on the eviction front -- then seemingly overnight the police squads rushed ...
  • Sibel Edmonds narrative released in 'Classifie ...
    After many years of struggling to get her story across to the American public, 9/11 & FBI/national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has released " Classified Woman"". For many years we have tried to track aspects of Sibel's case on this site (older hub page & category) including the ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program a ...
    Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit dr ...
  • #WhileWeWatch Occupy Wall Street documentary t ...
    It was a fun experience out at Zuccotti Park last October/November, and one late morning/early afternoon I gave an interview to Kevin Breslin, a gung ho director who pulled the OWS pieces together a 38-minute documentary called #whilewewatch on very little budget. It's been making the rounds and ...

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  • News you may have missed #742
    Obama warns Congress of overspending on intelligence. US forces use fake rocks to spy on Afghans. Pakistan spy chief postpones US trip.
  • Colombian government to probe calls for ‘milit ...
    Colombian authorities have opened an official investigation into calls to remove the government of the country, which were found circulating among former and current military officials.
  • News you may have missed #741
    MI6 role in rendition could be concealed in new bill. Aussie spy agency defends new headquarters. Good interview with ex-CIA officer Glenn Carle.
  • News you may have missed #740
    Denmark professor accused of spying challenges court secrecy. CIA's links with Hollywood are longstanding. CIA funds helped launch literary journal.
  • News you may have missed #739
    US Supreme Court to consider case on secret wiretapping. Why is CIA applauding DoD’s intel grab? FBI forms secretive online surveillance unit.

War is a Crime.org

  • A Killer In the White House
      By John Grant “No, Charlotte, I’m the jury now. I sentence you to death.” The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. “How c-could you?” she gasped. “It was easy.” - Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury read more
  • Risking Global War
      Risking Global War   by Stephen Lendman   Tyranny and permanent wars define Obama's agenda. Since taking office, he exceeded the worst of George Bush.    Much more ahead is coming. Ravaging humanity is policy. Foreign nations and America's homeland are targeted. R ...
  • Baghdadi Mahmoudi Faces Torture and Death in Libya
      Baghdadi Mahmoudi Faces Torture and Death in Libya   by Stephen Lendman   Mahmoudi is a physician. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming Prime Minister and General Secretary of the General People's Congress of the Libyan Jamahiriya. He assumed that post in ...
  • Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military ...
    On the Second Anniversary of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders of Nine Passengers By Ann Wright Two years ago I was a passenger on the first Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was sailing to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. I watched ...
  • Hot, Repressive and Locked in an Internet War: ...
      By Dave Lindorff   My wife and I live on a 2.3-acre plot of forested land in a pre-Revolutionary house with a run-down old barn. When we first moved here, there was a rather large set of grassy areas, one in front of the house, another behind the kitchen, a large field in the back, b ...

Grist - News

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

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    Have you ever been less than honest about your background at work? It may not be a good idea.
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    Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the handle's last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you might find this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier famous catalog. Perhaps the ori ...
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    We take it for granted that the past is fixed. History always happened the way we remember it happening. But how do we know for sure that that's the case? If time travel is possible, time travelers could be zipping back and changing things around all the time. How would we even be able to tell i ...
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    Astronomers have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy left the object about 800 million years after the beginning of the universe, when the universe was in its infancy.The galaxy, des ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Professional Courtesies for the Sharks in the ...
    By Les Visible The lies just keep coming about Syria and Iran, courtesy of the wholly owned Zionist mass media. They own the music and movie machines so you can also see what’s being projectile vomited into our eyes and ears. Their hired killers go round the world, killing at will, blowing ...
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    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian government was not responsible for shelling to deaths some 32 children and their parents, as periodically claimed and ...
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    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post Aluminum toxicity, a characteristically man-made problem, is now impossible to avoid and has become a post-modern rite of passage. Our environment has become so polluted with the stuff, that even our crop plants are being threatened, with biotechnology firms n ...
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    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
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    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...

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

Inhabitat

  • H&M’s New Hawaiian-Inspired Collection To Bene ...
    With its new “H&M for Water” collection, Swedish retailer H&M is rolling out a whole new line of Hawaiian-themed dresses, shirts, swimsuits, board shorts, and accessories that are made of sustainable materials like as organic cotton, Tencel, linen and silk. But green fabric i ...
  • Flame Retardants Found in Meat, Fish, and Pean ...
    Research published in Environmental Health Perspectives has confirmed some of our worst fears about food additives – hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), a brominated flame retardant used in polystyrene foams in thermal insulation and electrical equipment, has been found in some of our most basi ...
  • Egyptian Teenager Creates Next-Generation Quan ...
    An Egyptain teenager has patented a next-generation propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems—without using a single drop of fuel. While it is not quite warp-drive technology, young physicist Aisha Mustafa’s system is based on quantum physics and could see mankind ...
  • CURB Agency Blends Advertising with Sustainabl ...
    Read the rest of CURB Agency Blends Advertising with Sustainable Eco-Art To Spread its Message Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: advertising alternatives, CURB advertising, eco design, eco-art, green design, living ads, LoGrow, moss art, moss graffiti, reverse graffiti, ...
  • KiteGen’s High Altitude System Generates Affor ...
    Kite power has long been discussed as the next step in the evolution of wind power, and KiteGen’s radical new kite power concept could be one of the cleanest and most efficient ways to address the world’s energy needs. The system uses high altitude, large-winged kites which the company cla ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • US Move To Make Internet “Weapon Of War” Spark ...
    A chilling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the recently completed gathering of global internet professionals attending the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) held in Moscow on 14 May states that the consensus of these world experts is that not only will the United States not agree ...
  • Barack Obama: Drone Warrior
    A very strange story, that 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses who shall die by drone strike. He even reserves for himself the decision of whe ...
  • The Realities Of Choosing Your Survival Retrea ...
    Unfortunately, having a ‘Plan B’ just isn’t the modern American way. The great and diabolical misfortune of having two to three solid generations of assumed prosperity in one’s culture is the side-effect it has of lulling the populace into comfortable apathy. “Prepping” becomes a kind of novel ...
  • Blitzer and Trump go at it over Trump’s ‘birth ...
    Donald Trump did not back down Tuesday from his questioning of President Barack Obama's birthplace, instead arguing heatedly with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate," though he declined to offer names of experts who agree with him. The issue ...
  • SYRIA: Killing Innocent Civilians as part of a ...
    US military doctrine envisages the central role of "massive casualty producing events" in which innocent civilians are killed. The killings are deliberately carried out as part of a covert operation. The enemy is blamed for the resulting atrocities. The objective is to justify a military ag ...

Andy Worthington

  • Remember the Battle of the Beanfield: It&#8217 ...
    27 years ago, a convoy of vehicles driven by refugees from the chronic unemployment of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain — commonly described as new age travellers, but also including environmental and anti-nuclear activists and land reformers — was set upon by police from six counti ...
  • How A Comment on My Website Led Jason Leopold ...
    On Christmas Day 2008, a comment by someone identifying themselves as Hesham Abu Zubaydah was submitted on an article I had written many months earlier, entitled, The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts. This was the first of many articles I ...
  • How Guantánamo Is the Basis for the Mandatory ...
    Yesterday, I was rung by a journalist from Press TV, asking me to discuss my recent article, US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo? My three and a half minute commentary is available here, and in it I reiterated that, while ...
  • Two Years Since His Arrest, Bradley Manning&#8 ...
    Two years and two days since his arrest in Iraq on May 26, 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning still awaits the start of his court-martial, as his lawyers and other sympathizers try to take the government to task for its secrecy regarding the 24-year old, who faces 22 charges, including “aiding the ...
  • Nabil Habjarab, the “Sweet Kid” in ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Who Allegedly Threatened Obama Faces Gu ...
    A detention hearing will be held Monday for a self-described racist from Virginia who allegedly made threats against President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder before illegally taking possession of a machine gun. Douglas Howard Story, 48, of Manassas, Va., was arrested Wednesday by the FBI ...
  • Calif. on Verge of Banning ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy fo ...
    The California state Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would prohibit “ex-gay” therapy for people under 18. If passed by the Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, California will become the first state to protect LGBT people from potential harm caused by the therapy promoted ...
  • Longtime White Supremacist to Serve on Penn. ...
    Steve Smith, a longtime racist activist with a history of violence and top-level ties to numerous white nationalist hate groups, has been elected to a 4-year term on the Republican Party’s county committee for Luzerne County, Penn., One People’s Project reports. Recruited into the neo-Nazi movem ...
  • An Open Letter to the Good People of Iowa: Are ...
    Dear Iowa, I used to think you were a pretty straight-ahead place, what with all that flat land and healthy vegetables and honest living. I mean, Iowans rejected slavery 20 years before the Civil War and they approved interracial marriage a century before the Supreme Court. Homosexuality was dec ...
  • Anti-Racists Charged in Attack on White Nation ...
    Five Indiana men were charged today in a violent attack Saturday that injured 10 alleged participants in a meeting to plan white nationalist strategy at a suburban Chicago restaurant. Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a loosely organized group that fights racism, took credit on its website for the attac ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • US To Heavily Increase Warships in Asia
    Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has announced that the US will be shifting the majority of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020, in a "steady, deliberate" effort to increase US presence in the area 'vital to America's future'. ...
  • Hosni Mubarak Given Life Term for Protester Deaths
    Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian President, has been convicted of involvement in the murder of protesters during the Egyptian uprising last year, which saw the end of Mubarak's 30 year reign. Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison along with his former interior minister Habib al-Adly. Ho ...
  • For an Ailing Planet, the Cure Already Exists
    The planet's climate recently reached a new milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the Arctic. The last time Earth saw similar levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide (CO2) was three million years ago during the Pliocene era, where Arctic temperatures were 10 to 14 de ...
  • Greek Leftists Lead Poll; Vow to Kill Bailout, ...
    As the June 16 elections in Greece near, the final public polls show that the leftist Syriza party continues to build on it's strong showing in the May 6th elections. Syriza maintains a clear lead over second place New Democracy party: 31.5% to 26.5%. (Public Issue poll for the Kathimerini n ...
  • Public Outrage as Japan Officials Push Nuclear ...
    On Thursday, despite popular opposition, Japanese leaders approved a nuclear power restart for two reactors at the Oi nuclear plant in the Fukui Prefecture. Critics blame an intense corporate lobbying campaign and a strong push from the central government for the move. Governors across several J ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Legislators Jacobs And DeRiggi-Whitton Host In ...
    When NIFA rejected the contract between Nassau County and Morgan Stanley that would have allowed for sewer privatization, many people thought that the controversial plan to sell sewage system operation and maintenance to New Jersey-based United Water (UW) was dead in the water. Not so fast, said ...
  • Legislators Hold Meeting On Proposed Sewer Pri ...
    When NIFA rejected the contract between Nassau County and Morgan Stanley that would have allowed for sewer privatization, many people thought that the controversial plan to sell sewage system operation and maintenance to New Jersey-based United Water (UW) was dead in the water. Not so fast, said ...
  • Mangano Vows To Forge Ahead With Nassau Sewer ...
    Standing behind a podium in a second-floor conference room at...
  • Shields: F.C. ‘Very Surprised’ by Army Prohibi ...
    Reversal of Legal Opinion Delayed Bidding Meeting Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields told the News-Press in an exclusive interview yesterday that he was "very surprised" by the opinion from the chief counsel of the U.S. Army delivered on the eve of the City's planned opening o ...
  • City can protect water interests
    Re: Council responsible on water decision, Letters, May 26.

Guardian

  • Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
    Court jails ex-Egyptian president for his part in the deaths of protesters during uprising last yearEgypt's former president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that force ...
  • British and US special forces rescue kidnapped ...
    Four workers with Swiss-based Medair, including a British woman, are freed after a night-time raid in Badakhshan provinceBritish and American special forces have rescued four aid workers, including a 28-year-old British woman, in a daring night-time raid on a mountain cave in remote north-west A ...
  • 'Granny flats' to get tax breaks under new pro ...
    Eric Pickles announces plans to scrap council tax bills for live-in annexes and make it easier to convert garagesHundreds of thousands of families could benefit from tax breaks on "granny flats" under plans being considered by the government.The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said he was k ...
  • Diamond jubilee's boats and bunting: expect sh ...
    Thames river pageant will make history on Sunday, with a flotilla of 1,000 ships recreating royal pageants of oldFinal preparations are under way for the diamond jubilee celebrations, with a dawn rehearsal held on Friday for the ceremonial carriage procession that will be the climax of the bank ...
  • Serbian president denies Srebrenica genocide
    Newly elected Tomislav Nikolic says 'grave war crimes' by Serbs took place but not genocide, angering Bosnian leadershipSerbia's new president has denied genocide took place in Srebrencia, contradicting the international criminal prosecution of Serbian leaders from the Yugoslav wars and angering ...

McClatchey

  • Al Qaida’s al Shabab may be on last leg ...
    With the recent loss of two key transit points, al Qaida?s Somali affiliate, for the first time in years, is facing what military analysts say is the likely end of…Click to Continue »
  • Civilian deaths down, army casualties up under ...
    Despite the international outcry over recent massacres allegedly committed by backers of President Bashar Assad, statistics compiled by human rights activists show that violence in Syria has dropped since a…Click to Continue »
  • Widow of Egyptian protester expects no solace ...
    Soha Sayed has no delusions that Saturday?s expected verdict for deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will bring her any solace or her dead husband any justice. The days of rejoicing…Click to Continue »
  • Mitt Romney vows change on Day One; it’ ...
    Mitt Romney vows that on Day One of his presidency, things would be dramatically different. History and the ways of Washington suggest that by Day Two, he?d find he couldn?t…Click to Continue »
  • U.N. observer frustrated by lack of cease-fire ...
    A meeting between a U.N. monitor and a Syrian rebel commander, witnessed by a reporter who was there at the invitation of the rebels, displayed the difficulties of the U.N.s…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Nato rescue of aid workers in Afghanistan brea ...
    KABUL // NATO forces swooped in by helicopter before dawn Saturday to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues who were held by militants for nearly two weeks in a cave ...
  • NATO forces rescue four hostages in Afghanistan
    Aid worker Helen Johnston is seen in this undated family photograph released by Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office and received in London on June 2, 2012. A NATO rescue team dropped by ...
  • Rape case in public cites abuse by armed Afgha ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan >> Lal Bibi is an 18-year-old rape victim who has taken a step rarely seen in Afghanistan: She has spoken out publicly against her tormentors, local militiamen, including ...
  • 4 Aid Workers Rescued in Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan - Four aid workers including two women, one British and one Kenyan, who were abducted 12 days ago, were freed early Saturday in a NATO rescue operation in northern Afghanistan, ...
  • Daring raid frees aid workers in Afghanistan
    NATO special forces rescued two foreign women and killed five kidnappers in a "breath-taking" pre-dawn raid today on a cave in Afghanistan's remote and mountainous Badakhshan ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NO FEAR award receivers include Richard Renner
    On May 22, 2012, the No FEAR Coalition honored three whistleblowers and our own Richard Renner, who serves as the Legal Director and Secretary of the National Whistleblowers Center. The award for Renner recognized his advocacy for whistleblowers and his pro bono work. Appropriately the awards ce ...
  • NYC Council to Vote on Whistleblower Bills
    Today, the New York City Council will vote on three whistleblower laws. I had the opportunity to testify about these three bills on April 16th this year before the Committee on Governmental Affairs. The NWC supports the NYC Council's efforts to improve whistleblower protections. Proposed Int. N ...
  • New interns take up the whistleblower cause
    With the change of seasons comes another class of interns.  This summer, we are pleased to have a large group of law students, and some undergraduates, who have devoted themselves to learn about whistleblower advocacy.  Pictured here are Adrian, Jane, Nate, James, Richard, Julia, Sehra ...
  • Don't Be Ashamed to Be A "Snitch"
    Last night, I walked into my son's room to say goodnight. I found him with a black sharpie and a pack of stencils. He had used them on a white t-shirt, which now read, “Vicky is NOT a Snitch.” Vicky is not his friend's real name but the one I'll use to relate his story. High sch ...
  • One Case Overturned. How Many More to Come?
    Dr. Frederic Whitehurst took on the FBI because he knew that defendants had been wrongly convicted on the basis of seriously flawed testimony by the FBI crime lab. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Superior Court overturned the conviction of a man who wrongly served 28 yea ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...

TechDirt

  • 'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'
    Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fight off the US government's attack on the use of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption program in the early 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars. That b ...
  • Don't Read Andrew Keen's Book - You'll Harm Hi ...
    To promote his new pop-Luddite book Digital Vertigo—named, I assume, for the slight feeling of dizziness that signals the onset of old age—Andrew Keen has written an opinion column for CNN about the disastrous consequences of social media for the human condition. Having spent a day t ...
  • Myths And Realities About Fair Use
    Here's the final excerpt from our Techdirt Book Club selection for May, Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi. If you want to see the first excerpt, the second excerpt and the third excerpt go check them out. Also, Patricia will be joining us for a live Q&A discu ...
  • DailyDirt: Burger Innovations From Around The ...
    The USA has no monopoly on hamburger innovations. Sure, Americans probably eat more burgers than any other country, and we came up with the drive-thru and drive-in processes for burger orders. But the possibilities for burgers have no limits, and here are just a few global developments in the wo ...
  • Several Major Canadian Universities Reject Acc ...
    When the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) drafted a terrible deal with the collection society Access Copyright, and then withdrew from their fight before the Copyright Board, the onus fell on the schools themselves to stand up for their rights and reject the ridiculous f ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Video: Will the eurozone collapse?
  • Afghanistan: Charges amended for soldier accus ...
    The New York Times reports: The Army has amended its charges against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of murdering civilians in southern Afghanistan in March, reducing the murder count by one, to 16, and adding charges of illegal steroid use and alcohol consumption. In its statement ...
  • Video: Listening in at the Leveson Inquiry
  • The One Percent’s problem
    Joseph E. Stiglitz writes: Let’s start by laying down the baseline premise: inequality in America has been widening for dec­ades. We’re all aware of the fact. Yes, there are some on the right who deny this reality, but serious analysts across the political spectrum take it for granted. I won’t r ...
  • Egyptian elections: Choose none of the above
    Al-Akhbar English reports: A day after the results of the first round of the presidential election were announced, the ground floor of the Journalists’ Syndicate was buzzing. Unlike the arguments blaring through the capital, the crowd wasn’t concerned with comparing the two candidates that made ...

Watts Up With That?

  • WUWT gets results
    Readers may recall yesterday that I posted this story : As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing “active”. This was from the FSU press release at Eurekalert here which headlines “Hurricane season … Continue reading →
  • So Dinosaurs Could Fly ! – Part I
    A look at diminishing atmospheric pressure Guest post by Andi Cockroft In an unrelated article of mine on Isostacy and Mean Sea Level posted here, I mentioned in passing a thesis paper by Theresa Cole (here) and here: ColeTheresaN2011MSc – … Continue reading →
  • Global Hawk drones to be used to hunt hurrican ...
    From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, it seems the days of the Orion P3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft may soon be numbered. NASA mission sending unmanned aircraft over hurricanes this year Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA … Continue reading →
  • Phil Jones gives a talk at KNMI in De Bilt &#8 ...
    From  Marcel Crok at De staat van het klimaat: Phil Jones: ‘Contact NMS’s for raw data’ Over at Climate Audit there is renewed interest in data availability with McIntyre asking whether journals that don’t guarantee data archiving (The Holocene in … Continue reading →
  • As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane ...
    The was released today from Florida State University  sans Dr. Ryan Maue. Their forecast is at odds with NOAA’s near normal forecast and Klotzbach’s and Gray’s slightly below-average activity forecast(also released today). Given the history, I’m thinking we’ll see t ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Alzheimer’s Brain Scan Test Gets FDA Approval
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly & Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of patient ...
  • Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
    Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...
  • Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
    The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
  • Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...
    Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...
  • Lapses in oversight compromise omics results
    apses in oversight that prevented a US university from identifying the flawed research behind a series of clinical trials are symptomatic of a larger problem says a report by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM), released today. The case in question, which revolves around papers relating to cancer ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Shalersville speaks out against fracking
    On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video w ...
  • Statement against fracking presented to townsh ...
    This is a lightly modified copy of the statement I presented on Tuesday’s meeting of township trustees. Several cuts were made right before the meeting to keep it under the three minute time limit, and a local business’ name has been removed because I did not speak to them about inc ...
  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
  • Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
    The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
  • Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
    Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • A Global Call: Eco Warriors, Arise!
    In June 2012, movements and leaders will meet in Rio for Rio+20, two decades after the Earth Summit was organised in 1992 to address urgent ecological challenges such as species extinction, biodiversity erosion and climate change.Click here to read this article
  • Why Are Twinkies Cheaper Than Carrots?
    Why is Coca-Cola often more affordable than clean water? Why are candy bars and cigarettes often more readily available than fresh fruits and vegetables?Click here to read this article
  • Dispute Over Labeling of Genetically Modified ...
    GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - On a recent sunny morning at the Big Y grocery here, Cynthia LaPier parked her cart in the cereal aisle. With a glance over her shoulder and a quick check of the ingredients, she plastered several boxes with hand-designed stickers from a roll in her purse. "Warning," th ...
  • 20 yrs Later, the Biotech Brigade Marches on….
    Twenty years ago this week Dan Quayle went against scientific consensus to publicly proclaim that genetically engineered foods were "substantially equivalent" to non-GE food, and that he would therefore work to ensure that GE food would not be "hampered by unnecessary regulation." Click here to ...
  • Peanut Butter, Other Fatty Foods Found To Cont ...
    Nothing says "lunch time" to an American kid quite like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Slices of deli meat might be a close second. Unbeknownst to most parents who pack school lunch boxes, however, both of these favorites could expose kids to toxic chemicals.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Farm Bill 2012: The Senate’s Version
    Here’s a quick, top-line read of new developments we’re tracking in the Senate version due to their potential impact on health, and how they stack up for improving public health.
  • IMHO the IOM Is On to Something: Links Between ...
    This isn’t the first time that the IOM or another official body has called attention to these links, but it is the first time that such an urgency has been placed on the call to better understand and address the connections.
  • Meatless Monday in Sweden: Q & A with Köttfri ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign here in the U.S. has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years (the recent blogpost on Sodexo’s success with the campaign is just one example), but did you know that 23 countries now have campaigns that seek to reduce meat consumption one day a week? When I was ...
  • The Antibiotic Resistance Problem Gets Some Tr ...
    I’m glad the moms are engaged in this fight against antibiotics overuse in farming. When it comes to managing tantrums, sussing out lies, dealing with terrorists, and doling out justice, they are the closest things we have to experts.
  • USDA Gets Fresh with SNAP Dollars: Funding for ...
    This $4 million grant demonstrates a commitment to public health on the part of USDA, and the sidestepping maneuver, which will keep the momentum going despite legislative slowdowns (i.e., Farm Bill politics), further shows that USDA understands the importance of making fresh foods available to ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Bush Page
    "The Bush elites appear more openly and arrogantly dedicated to the aims of U.S. economic, political, and military domination of the world than any previous U.S. administration." Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role ...
    As the Syrian National Council Disintegrates, NATO Tries a New Line: Al Qaedas Central Role in Syria Makes an Invasion Necessary Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Evidence for Negative Water Feedback
    The sun is a main sequence star whose output is known to increase slowly with age. The total change in solar radiation over 4 billion years turns out to be huge. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the Earths oceans have stabilized temperatures . Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • The News at a Furtive Glance: Read Pravda or W ...
    The Chicago Police are making calculated, surgical arrests and literally disappearing activists without even valid warrants.The FBI and Secret Service are jamming cell phone tower signals.Jets from NORAD have been conducting flying exercises over Chicago Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich :  NDAA Authorizes War A ...
    america is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today and the largest exporter of terrorism and its just getting worse...We have to stop this horror! Submitted by michael hall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Weather Disasters, Crop Loss, Biotech Acreage, ...
    Weather control, geoengineering, and genetic modification are man’s attempt to take over the earth’s natural ecosystem and design it according to his own limited concept. But is it wise, prudent, or safe to leave the re-designing of the earth up to some men in little white lab coats who think th ...
  • Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!
    While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...
  • Undercover GMOs Slip through Labeling Crack
    GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You ...
    People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    And just what will these people say when this universal infant immunization program is proven to NOT lower the overall incidence of Hep B infection after our children have been compromised with a dangerous genetically engineered vaccine that starts our lives out under the thumb of Big Pharma and ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, ...
    ShareThisFeds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying Law Can't Touch Them 31 May 2012 The Obama administration is set to argue to a federal appeals court Friday that the government may breach, with impunity, domestic spying laws adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon's Waterg ...
  • Judge Orders Zimmerman to Jail for Lying to Court
    ShareThisJudge Orders Zimmerman to Jail for Lying to Court 01 Jun 2012 Accused murderer George Zimmerman must return to jail within 48 hours, after a judge found he and his wife lied about their finances at a bail hearing in April. Zimmerman "can't sit back and obtain the benefit of a lower bond ...
  • Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60 percent of navy ...
    ShareThisLeon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific 01 Jun 2012 The US is planning to move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed. He said that by 2020 about 60% of the US fleet would be deployed there, in the cle ...
  • US denies Assange 'secret warrant'
    ShareThisUS denies Assange 'secret warrant' 01 Jun 2012 The United States has denied it is secretly preparing legal action against Julian Assange as supporters of the WikiLeaks founder explore fresh legal moves to stop his extradition to Sweden to face questioning over rape allegations. The US a ...
  • 'US-downed' Russia jet's Flight Data Recorder ...
    ShareThis'US-downed' Russia jet's Flight Data Recorder found 31 May 2012 Indonesian villagers have found the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that Moscow claims was downed in southwestern Indonesia earlier in May by US "industrial sabotage," killing a ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...
  • Free Burma Rangers REPORT: 29 May 2012
    Strong Military Presence Remains in Karen State, while Burma Army continues with Attacks, Resupplies and Increased Troops Karen State, Burma 29 May, 2012 Written by: Free Burma Rangers In This Report: In Mergui/Tavoy District, Burma Army soldiers shoot at civilians while maintaining a mili ...
  • Smoking Gun Army Documents
    Removing Red Crosses might help troops, but hurt Propaganda Campaign Photo Credit: DVIDS 21 May 2012 We are making tremendous progress on the MEDEVAC issue.  Much of the progress has come from people scattered around America who contacted their Senators and Representatives.  Our “ME ...
  • US Congress and MEDEVAC
    17 May 2012 The US MEDEVAC issue is picking up speed and mass.  There is so much progress that it is difficult to track.  A separate and excellent website dedicated to the issue has popped up at http://medevacmatters.org/ Also, the highly respected writer and war correspondent Yochi ...
  • MEDEVAC Madness
    10 May 2012 Many people have contacted lawmakers around the country about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Most of the lawmakers blew it off, or seemed intimidated by the Pentagon.  But one serious man over in Missouri has not backed down.  Congressman Todd Akin is demanding ans ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • ILO to ease criticisms on Burma forced labour
    The ILO is likely to ease its criticisms against Burma on forced labour, despite fresh reports of abuses carried out by the Burmese army
  • Suu Kyi demands better rights for Burmese migrants
    Aung San Suu Kyi has called for better rights and protection of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand at meeting with Deputy PM
  • Suu Kyi calls for ‘urgent’ legal r ...
    Aung San Suu Kyi says Burma needs "rule of law" more than legal safeguards for foreign investors in her speech to the World Economic Forum in Bangkok
  • Norway defends controversial peace initiative
    The Norwegian government is defending a controversial peace initiative despite mounting criticism that it risks coercing ethnic and civil society groups into joining the government
  • Who are the Zomi?
    The Union Election Commission's rejection of the Zomi National Congress's registration request effectively keeps the party out of the country's political landscape and marginalises an entire population

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • US Army amends charges in Afghan shootings case
    [JURIST] The US Army has dropped one of 17 murder charges and added others, including steroid and alcohol use, in its case against Army Sgt. Robert Bales, his lawyer told reporters on Friday. Bales was charged with 17 counts of murder [JURIST report] in March for the alleged shooting of Afghan c ...
  • Serbia president: Srebrenica massacre was not ...
    [JURIST] Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told a Montenegrin state television station Friday that he does not think that the 1995 Srebrenica Masscre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] was genocide. The Srebrenica massacre took place during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive] and r ...
  • Nearly 21 million work in forced labor: UN report
    [JURIST] Upwards of 20.9 million people worldwide work in forced labor, the International Labour Organization (ILO) [official website], a UN agency focusing on labor rights, redported [text, PDF] Friday. The ILO's estimate of about 21 million people in forced labor is a revision from its 2005 "m ...
  • Sudan stoning death violates international law ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Thursday urged [HRW news release] the Sudanese government to reform its discriminatory laws and abolish both the death penalty and all corporal punishment after a young Sudanese woman was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Intisar ...
  • China government detains suspected US spy: report
    [JURIST] The Chinese government has detained a former aide to a vice minister in China's security ministry who is suspected of spying for the US [Reuters report], anonymous sources told Reuters. The former aide, whose identity is unknown, allegedly passed information to the US government over a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
  • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
    The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Facebook Bans Israeli Graphic Artist for Bitin ...
    TweetLooks like the folks at Facebook have more to worry about than their plummeting stock price (off 28% since the IPO last week).  In recent days, Facebook suspended the account of the Israeli graphic artist, Mysh, about whom I wrote a post a few days ago.  It seems that some of the brilliant ...
  • Israeli Government to Prosecute Uri Blau for E ...
    TweetI should put “democracy” in quotes in my title as the term is stretched beyond recognition as practiced in Israel.  The latest outrage is the announcement today that the State planned to prosecute Haaretz investigative journalist, Uri Blau for “aggravated espionage,” ...
  • Jews, Apes and African Refugees
    TweetThanks to Sol Salbe for translating the following Haaretz article (to which I made minor editorial and spelling changes), which offers quotations from Vichy era anti-Semitic rants by French collaborators with the Nazis.  It’s important to note the similarities in tone, image and senti ...
  • Does Sheldon Adelson Support Genocide or Popul ...
    TweetI was just reading a 2007 interview Sheldon Adelson gave to the Kahanist Jewish Press.  In it, he rejects the idea of a two-state solution, which is not news.  But the rejection of any rights for the Palestinian people, and his imputation of genocidal intentions to the Palestinians raises t ...
  • Flame: Israel’s New Contribution to Middle Eas ...
    TweetThe country that brought us Iranian nuclear assassinations, explosions at Iran missile bases, and Stuxnet, is at it again.  A computer virus called Flame, is spreading among computers in the Middle East. according to an article by an expert at Kapersky Labs: …We’ve found what might be ...

If Americans Knew

  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Internews Maps the Media Landscape in Afghanistan
    In a country where only 9 percent of the population has access to the Internet and more than half never uses a television, it's critical for journalists and organizations supporting the media to understand how people get news and other information. As part of its efforts to support independent j ...
  • How J-School Students, Developers Collaborate ...
    Here's a recipe for innovation: Start with an interesting problem in journalism, media or publishing. Catch some journalism students. Mix in some computer science students. Mold into interdisciplinary teams. Stick in the oven for 11 weeks and see what happens. For three years ...
  • Next Knight News Challenge Is All About Data
    As the Knight Foundation gets closer to announcing the winners of its News Challenge on Networks, it's opening up its next round of the contest, which now occurs three times a year instead of annually. Round 2 of the 2012 Knight News Challenge will focus on data. Why data? "The world has ...
  • LocalWiki Now Speaks Portuguese, German and Ru ...
    While LocalWiki's roots are in the United States, we've seen increasing interest in starting projects all over the globe. One barrier, however, has been that our interface is entirely in English -- at least it was until now. Thanks to the hard work of Pedro Lima and Nuno Maltez in Portuga ...
  • How the AP's Overview Turns Documents Into Pic ...
    Overview produces intricate visualizations of large document sets -- beautiful, but what do they mean? These visualizations are saying something about the documents, which you can interpret if you know a little about how they're plotted. Same documents, different visualizations There are ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Israel on Edge - New York Parade is no Place f ...
    On Sunday, June 3, 2012, those who live in the tri-state area will have the opportunity to publicly celebrate the State of Israel’s first 64 years as New York City hosts what has become a tradition over the last 48 years — the Salute to Israel Day Parade (sorry, I mean the Celebrate Isr ...
  • Broken Economy - Unemployment Rises To 8.2 Per ...
    The nation's unemployment rate edged up from 8.1 percent to 8.2 percent last month as businesses from factories to office parks pulled back on hiring, the Labor Department reported Friday morning.In a huge disappointment for Main Street and Wall Street, job growth fell sharply to 69,000 during t ...
  • Nigeria on Edge - Prospect of Sectarian Confli ...
    Beyond residual security risks in Nigeria, a well-financed Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram could trigger nation-wide conflict. There is no indication that the group has popular support and it does not appear Muslims in the country support the group itself either. In fact many of their m ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Obama's War for War's Sake
    As he campaigns for reelection, President Obama periodically reminds audiences of his success in terminating the deeply unpopular Iraq War. With fingers crossed for luck, he vows to do the same with the equally unpopular war in Afghanistan. If not exactly a peacemaker, our Nobel Peace Prize-winn ...
  • Inside Nigeria - Concern grows in Oil-Rich Nig ...
    Northern leaders in Nigeria may indeed be sponsoring the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram for political reasons. Recently the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur a prominent northern leader, said that “Boko Haram is fighting for justice� in ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama, Ayers and Klonsky: The Three Marxist Amigos
    When looking at the President's Marxist past, most people focus on Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who was described by the President as "just a guy from the neighborhood."  Actually the Obama, Ayers "duo" was a threesome; the future president, Bill Ayers and Mike Klonsky. K ...
  • Dems To Require All Election-Related Business ...
    Those progressive Democrats are really getting desperate. Perhaps a reaction to the rising unemployment rate they have introduced a bill requiring all voter registration forms, in fact all department of elections business be conducted in Spanish. According to this special report by Newsbu ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Bloomberg Plans Additional "B ...
    Earlier this week Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York announced his plans to implement a ban on large sodas and other sugary drinks in virtually every place but the home. His administration wants to ban the sale of these beverages in containers that are more than 16-fluid ou ...
  • Barack Obama's NewSpeak
      The post below is my Jewish Star column published today. Winston Smith, the main character in Orwell’s novel 1984, worked for the Ministry of Truth, an enormous building made of pristine white concrete which housed over 3000 rooms. On the outside wall are the three slogans of the ...
  • Conflict Can Be Good: What the West Doesn't G ...
    By Barry Rubin There are some people so brilliant and original that you shouldn’t want to miss a single word they write or say. Even when you don’t agree with them, their views inspire a better understanding of this strange world we live in, the complex people who dwell there, and the absolutel ...

The Real Agenda

  • Obama Pressed for Cyber attacks against Iran w ...
    Main Stream Media carefully justifies attacks under the excuse that Iran might be producing a nuclear bomb or that Al-Qaeda — a USA creation — is using computers somewhere. By DAVID E. SANGER | NY TIMES | JUNE 1, 2012 From his first months in office, President Obama secretl ...
  • Venezuela Bans Sales of Firearms and Ammunition
    BBC | JUNE 1, 2012 Until now, anyone with a gun permit could buy arms from a private company. Under the new law, only the army, police and certain groups like security companies will be able to buy arms from the state-owned weapons manufacturer and importer. The ban is the latest attempt by ...
  • Banker-Controlled System is Fraudulent and the ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 1, 2012 It took almost 100 years for the globalists in control of the financial and banking systems to realize that their fraudulent debt-based scheme can no longer be utilized to exploit the people and the resources of the planet. Back in 1913, ...
  • Integrating Human Tissue and Circuits
    Technology promises to fuse human cells and computers By COLIN LECHER | POPULAR SCIENCE | MAY 31, 2012 The Chemical Circuit, a chemical chip can deliver a neurotransmitter like acetylcholine, which enables chemical control of muscles. Linköping University, Sweden The human body isn&#82 ...
  • El Secreto Mundo de Google y su Irresponsabili ...
    El fascismo se produce cuando una sociedad pierde el control de su gobierno y las corporaciones no son responsables de sus acciones. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 31 MAYO 2012 Alguien dijo alguna vez que llegaría un momento en que la gente disfrutaría de un estado de cosas que n ...

Wind Watch

  • Growing health concerns pit Queensland against ...
    A “growing body of evidence” that wind farm noise could have health effects has prompted Queensland Health to call for caution when approving wind farm developments. Queensland Health has in effect become the first government health agency to recommend that wind turbines not be built ...
  • Third lawsuit filed over Ocotillo Express wind
    The Protect Our Communities Foundation, Backcountry Against Dumps, and Donna Tisdale of Boulevard are suing the Imperial County Board of Supervisors and Pattern Energy. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Imperial County, seeks to halt construction of the Ocotillo Express wind fac ...
  • Invenergy’s Roanoke Co. plan delayed unt ...
    The sight of wind turbines atop Roanoke County’s highest mountain — a view dreamed of by some and dreaded by others — is at least three years away. Invenergy, a Chicago-based wind energy company with plans to build 15 to 18 giant windmills on Poor Mountain, has pushed its targe ...
  • Residents want a vote on wind project
    PITTSFORD — Residents in Pittsford urged the town and local leaders to use all the power they have to stop the proposed wind farm project from moving forward. They want the town to be proactive in getting their position heard through a townwide vote and a change in the language of the town plan ...
  • Encore Redevelopment sacrifie une éolienne
    [Victory for opponents of Encore Redevelopment's wind project: the developer has announced that it will not install a wind turbine on Smugglers Hill, but the struggle continues...] MAGOG – Victoire en demi-teinte pour les opposants au projet éolien de la compagnie Encore Redevelopment : le ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Hayek’s Wise Words
    “We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does not spare t ...
  • May Job Creation Anemic
    “The United States economy gained a net 69,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, a dismal showing that reflected mounting fears of a global slowdown. The unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent in April.” (New York Times) Do the politicians have it wrong? ...
  • Obama Cut Deals with Drug Firms on Health Care ...
    “Top administration officials cut backroom deals with the nation’s top drug companies to win support for President Obama’s health care overhaul, threatening them with steeper taxes if they resisted and promising a better financial deal for the industry if they acquiesced, according to inte ...
  • Nock Revisited
    "The practical reason for freedom, then, is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fibre can be developed."
  • Big Sodas to Be Outlawed in NYC
    “New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.” (New York Times) It’s government that needs ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
  • The courses a student wishes he had taken
    As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of da ...

Facing South

  • Fighting for home: A discussion with Clarice F ...
    Two years after the BP disaster, the United Houma Nation's outreach coordinator talks about living next to the oil industry and the future she envisions for her tribe and her home. read more
  • Banking on Boeing
    The bipartisan decision to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- which some conservatives have derisively dubbed "Boeing's Bank" -- shows that corporatists retain the upper hand in mainstream U.S. politics. read more
  • VOICES: A new Emancipation Day for Florida's f ...
    May 20 marks the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in 1865 in Florida, marking the end of slavery. Today, a new movement to end slavery in the fields is gaining force among Florida farmworkers. Paul Ortiz read more
  • Latino, black political clout grows in Florida ...
    Voter registration numbers show that Southern electorate in two key battleground states continues to grow more diverse. But will new voting restrictions undermine the power of black and Latino voters? read more
  • Voices: Speaking out against the Tar Sands pip ...
    The push for the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast comes with big promises of jobs and energy independence. But community leaders that will be most affected by the project are speaking out about the toxic consequences. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease
    Or at least, the Bank of Canada thinks so, though they’ll never call it by that name: Nonetheless, Canada’s current account was in surplus for many years before the crisis, and is now expected to remain in deficit indefinitely. The main reason? A currency at parity with the U.S. dollar mea ...
  • My sympathy is about out
    If the Irish vote in a referendum for austerity, then they deserve what they get.  Current polls are showing Greeks will probably vote for pro-austerity parties as well, if so, again, my sympathy will be out.  Democracy is about getting what you vote for, if countries vote for austerity, then th ...
  • John Edwards
    His trial has been declared a mistrial. The personal is not the political. His wife seemed like a good person, but I could care less.  FDR cheated on his wife.  JFK screwed hookers in the White House pool while married. The facts about John Edwards that I care about are these: 1) He was the [...]
  • What’s left of the economy will roll off ...
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]
  • What’s left of the economy will roll off a cliff
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Latin America’s Demographic Divergence
    Increasingly, the debate over plummeting world birth rates is shifting to the developing world. This includes Latin America where on the whole rates are dropping quickly from 5.98 children per woman in 1960 to 2.20 children per woman in 2010. Yet these aggregate numbers do not reflect the ...
  • China's Top Growth Centers
    Hefei, the capital of historically poor Anhui province emerged as China's top growth center among major metropolitan areas over the past 10 years. Metropolitan areas from the interior, the Yangtze Delta and the central and northern coast were the fastest growing, displacing Guangdong's Pearl ...
  • Declining Birthrates Key to Europe's Decline
    The labor demonstrators, now an almost-daily occurrence in Madrid and other economically-devastated southern European cities lambast austerity and budget cuts as the primary  cause for their current national crisis. But longer-term, the biggest threat to the European Union has less to do ...
  • From Connection to Dispersal: Urbanisation in ...
    Commentators have long studied connections between cities and how these influence their development. The city is the natural focus of trade-based theories of growth. Exporting a surplus, based on local resources and specialisation was – and is – considered the way to city wealth. ...
  • Here Come the Plurals!
    This month America’s destiny as a pluralistic democracy took a new and unprecedented turn. First, early in May, USA Today asked Americans what name they thought would be appropriate for the country’s newest generation now moving into grade school classrooms with its unique behavior and pers ...

GM Watch

  • The 'geeks' fight back: challenges for science ...
    NOTE: For the embedded links go to the link. --- --- The 'Geeks' Fight Back: Challenges for Science and Democracy  Ian Scoones Co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ian-scoones/the-geeks-fight-back-cha ...
  • New alliance ignores Africa's farmers
    The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers Eric Holt Gimenez Huffington Post, May 23 2012  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/eric-holt-gimenez/africa-food-security_b_1537279.html President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he ...
  • GM lobby still trying to force discredited GMO ...
    NOTE: Some nice pictures with this excellent piece by Joanna Blythman in the Mail. There's also an important article in The Times today about what's happening in India: Debt-ridden farmers driven to suicide in GM cotton revolution  http://t.co/ivGuZ5mm (paywall)  EXTRACTS: The good-humoured cro ...
  • GM lobby still trying to force discredited GMO ...
    NOTE: Some nice pictures with this excellent piece by Joanna Blythman in the Mail. There's also an important article in The Times today about what's happening in India: Debt-ridden farmers driven to suicide in GM cotton revolution  http://t.co/ivGuZ5mm (paywall)  EXTRACTS: The good-humoured cro ...
  • Hundreds back GM crop ban
    NOTE: Check out the great picture with this article. --- --- Hundreds back council crop resolution Matthew Hoekstra Richmond Review, May 28 2012  http://www.richmondreview.com/news/155214875.html [image caption: Supporters of a city council resolution against genetically modified crops pack cou ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...

Desertification

  • I love flowers (Willem Van Cotthem)
  • NEGLECTED INDIGENOUS FOOD CAN BE IMPORTANT TOO ...
    New York, May 31 2012  2:05PM Indigenous foods which have been neglected by the food industry and urban consumers can be an important tool to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, a United Nations official said today. “The focus of research and … Continue reading →
  • Trees against floods in Pakistan (Alertnet)
    Tree planting helps Pakistani farmers weather floods Source: Alertnet // Saleem Shaikh And Sughra Tunio By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio KHAIRPUR MIR’S, Pakistan (AlertNet) – Abdul Qadir Shah, a cotton farmer in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, has been able … Continue reading &# ...
  • HUNGER ERADICATION ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE SUSTAI ...
    New York, May 30 2012  6:05PM Sustainable development will not be achieved unless hunger and malnutrition are eradicated, the United Nations food agency warned today in a new report. “We cannot call development sustainable while this situation persists, while nearly … Continue reading →
  • Giant blue barrels (drums) for rain water harv ...
    Some time ago I already suggested that aid organizations of developed countries should ship their goods in big barrels or dums instead of crates, big bags, boxes etc. Today I find these photos of Vc Lim (Mandaue City, Cebu) : … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • NYPD school police citations draw criticism, n ...
    Previously undisclosed school police records from New York City are raising new concerns about students getting heavily ticketed for vague allegations of disorderly conduct.   More than 70 percent of court summonses issued to New York City school students between January and the end of ...
  • The state of open records laws: Access denied
    Early last month, lawmakers in Iowa completed work on a new open records statute. Senate File 430 creates the Iowa Public Information Board, a nine-member commission charged with enforcing the state’s open records and meetings laws.For good government advocates in the Hawkeye State, the new legi ...
  • OSHA whistleblower wins court victory
    A whistleblower who was fired by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after complaining publicly about the poor quality of injury and illness data kept by employers has won a major court victory.Robert Whitmore, a supervisory economist with OSHA’s Office of Statistical Analysis, los ...
  • VIDEO: A laborer dies in a gas explosion, safe ...
    On Sept. 3, 2009, contract laborer Nick Revetta was killed in an explosion at U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant near Pittsburgh.  Revetta's death and the events that followed reveal the limitations of a federal law meant to protect American workers.
  • Tea party spends big in Texas Senate primary s ...
    Outside groups have spent more than $6.4 million in the Texas GOP primary for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, more than any other House or Senate race thus far in the primary season, according to Federal Election Commission filings.The race pits establishment favorite David ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Inside Read: Doom — Love Poems for Super ...
    Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, Toronto poet and music journalist Natalie Zina Walschots brings a distinctly erotic edge to her examination of comic book evildoers. Says her publisher: “DOOM addresses th ...
  • Renamed ferry terminal is fitting tribute to J ...
    A BoB short: The Toronto Island Ferry Terminal is set to be renamed in honour of the late NDP leader, Jack Layton. Also a long-time Toronto city councillor, Layton died of cancer last year. The motion was put forward by Mayor Rob Ford, who said that naming the terminal after the widely-admired p ...
  • RIM: An ex-insider on what will happen next
    By Ruth Haworth The Globe & Mail revealed earlier this week that Research in Motion is planning large layoffs in the next couple of weeks, probably more than 2,000 of its 16,500 worldwide workforce. I got out just in time: I resigned from RIM so recently that my last day was this week and I ...
  • Dziekanski flies like a bird in opera
    The tragic story of Robert Dziekanski has become an opera, opening on Thursday in Halifax. Composer John Plant and author J.A. Wainwright have put music and lyrics together to tell the tale of the Polish immigrant who died in 2007 after being tasered multiple times by RCMP at Vancouver Internati ...
  • Occupy, the Quebec strike, and Canada’s ...
    By Montreal Simon On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were made, and so many dreamed of a better world, was quiet now. And where there were once tents huddled together in ...

libcom

  • Repression of day-laborer organizing in Tokyo
    qtama.jpg A day-laborer organizer in Tokyo has been held in solitary confinement, for almost four months, by police for a broken window. (this article is an updated and expanded ...
  • Sussex University outsourcing update
    aitoiaita.jpg A short update on opposition to privatisation at the University of Sussex. More demonstrations. Tuesday's demonstration happened despite Unison emailing its ...
  • Return of the repressed; new days of rage for ...
    Ashulia_clash-fire-May-2012.jpg After a long period of relative quiet, workers are again taking mass action in the Bangladeshi garment industry. Also; some comments on the recent wave of political &#0 ...
  • Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Wall Street ...
    An anonymous anarchist infiltrator in the NYPD provides the cops' explanation of their actions in their own words. Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012 read more
  • 150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resista ...
    150 Years of Colonialism: 150 Years of Resistance Call to Participate in the 2012 Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals ...

Free Range International

  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
  • One Year Later
    Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
  • Dalton Thomas Comes Home
    This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
    Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • AMERICA FIRST-BEFORE POLITICS by Scotty
    AMERICA FIRST BEFORE POLITICS While listening to the Interview by FAREED ZAKARIA who was interviewing Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.  I was pleasantly suprised that Simpson had the guts to put America First before Politics. (emphasis added by Scotty) At the start of the Interview he got my ful ...
  • Tell EPA to step in to ensure Keystone XL sout ...
    In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it needs to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast — unless we convince the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.   News ...
  • Get ready… National Green Week is only 7 days ...
    Reblogged from Green Education Foundation (GEF): Get ready! National Green Week 2012 is only a week away! For those of you who don’t know, National Green Week is the largest waste reduction campaign in history for K-12 schools nationwide.  This year’s event will be kicking off on February 6, 201 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • 150,000 Postal Workers to Lose Their Jobs
    Occupy the Post Office May 15th marked the end of the 4½ month moratorium on post office closures. The Postmaster General was pressured to call the moratorium last December, following an outcry from Senate and state leaders. A week after the moratorium ended, the US Postal Service (USP ...
  • CIA Whistleblower Talks of 12 Month Incarcerat ...
          Ex-CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Embed feature still not working today. Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LUHa_-OlA&feature=related Former CIA asset Susan Lindauer describes how the Department of Homeland Security locked her up on a military base for 12 ...
  • 97% Owned: Democratizing the Money Supply
    Film Review (The embed feature isn't working today - for a free link go to http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/97-owned/) 97% Owned is a documentary by a British group called Positive Money. It’s an ideal film for people who have difficulty comprehending that the government doesn’t iss ...
  • Insider Trading by Facebook and Goldman Sachs: ...
    Learning that Goldman Sachs is being sued for insider trading for their role in misleading investors about Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is raising a lot of red flags here in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs is one of three investment banks New Zealand’s National government ...
  • The Loan Sharks Behind China’s Economic ...
    Wenzhou: birthplace of Chinese capitalism Last week I was surprised to learn that private lending is illegal in China. In view of the country’s economic miracle, I was even more surprised to learn that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 90% of businesses, are ineligib ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
    Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...
  • Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
    Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
  • New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
    NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The Challenge of Natural Gas
    The Economist has a decent piece up about natural gas fracking, Shale gas: Fracking great. I say only “decent” because it underplays the side effects of fracking, like ground water contamination, the spread of who-knows-what chemicals, etc., but it does end with this graf:
  • Important: About the Malware Warnings Some Vis ...
    We are aware that many users attempting to access our communities today are seeing malware warnings from Google. We want to assure all our visitors that there in not nor has there been any malware distributed via our sites. According to Google, some of the advertisiment insertion code ...
  • North Carolina Bill Would Require Coastal Comm ...
    Some North Carolina GOP legislators want to stop the use of science to plan for the future. They are circulating a bill that would force coastal counties to ignore actual observations and the best science-based projections in planning for future sea level
  • The Military Plays an Important Role in Biofue ...
  • Shale gas ‘golden rules’ from the IEA – will e ...
    Lest there be any doubt, the call for understandable rules, regulations and disclosure requirements for the hydraulic fracturing of unconventional natural gas (aka fracking) from shale deposits deep underground is gaining steam not just in the U.S. but throughout much of the industrialized world.

EU Times

  • Americans afraid of Obama’s drones
    Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an updated proposal: Mr. Obama, please don’t kill us. Unlike the correspondence from 1860 that was signed ...
  • “US-downed” Russia jet’s Flight Data Recorder ...
    Indonesian villagers have found the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that Moscow claims was downed in southwestern Indonesia earlier in May by US “industrial sabotage,” killing all 45 people on board. The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency c ...
  • House Passes HR 4133 Binding the US to Israel
    Without any mainstream media coverage at all, the House of Representatives passed the United States – Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (USIESC). The USIESC, written by Eric Cantor , claims there is a need to provide Israel with unlimited military and financial aid as a result of ...
  • EU-skeptic Ireland votes on austerity
    Ireland is voting in a referendum on an EU austerity pact. If Dublin does not accept tough budget deficit obligations, it would be a kiss goodbye to EU rescue money, which could be followed by default and a eurozone exit. The mooted European Fiscal Pact was initiated by Germany and France. If ap ...
  • US Move To Make Internet “Weapon Of War” Spark ...
    A chilling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the recently completed gathering of global internet professionals attending the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) held in Moscow on 14 May states that the consensus of these world experts is that not only will the United States not agree ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Sefolosha, OKC defense step up to Parker
    By Tim Griffin OKLAHOMA CITY — Thabo Sefolosha’s game with the Oklahoma City Thunder usually consists of floor burns and skinned knees. It was a typical Sefolosha game Thursday night, much to the dismay of the Spurs. But the lanky native of Switzerland added a surprising offensive twist, torchi ...
  • Kristen Stewart’s Best Red Carpet Looks
    Kristen Stewart has been through something of a style evolution this past year. While she’s still known for looking casual, the star of the new ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ has proved over the past few months that she can also look glamorous. While she’s not giving up her running shoes and t-s ...
  • IE10 in Windows 8 “release preview” has flash
    Windows 8 release preview was released today , with something weird. IE 10 contains new features it didn’t before such as; The new Windows 8 Start Screen, making use of flat, colored live tiles and a full bleed canvas as used in Windows Phone and Xbox 360 Dashboard
  • Chris Hemsworth Had A Baby!
    Chris Hemsworth is now openly being photographed with his daughter, India Rose . Though little India had her public debut a couple weeks ago , Chris Hemsworth and his wife, Elsa Pataky ,  have been getting more comfortable having her out and about in their hometown of London. Chris has had a RE ...
  • Snigdha Nandipati spells âGuetapensâ â wins Na ...
    Snigdha Nandipati spells ‘Guetapens’ – wins National Spelling Bee | Source: Rickey.org | The X Factor | The Voice | American Idol Snigdha Nandipati won the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling “guetapens” correctly. The word means ambush, snare or trap. Congratulations! From AP : Snig ...

Groklaw

  • Experts Torn on Oracle's Chances of Appeal in ...
    The ruling is so artfully rendered, in fact, that Oracle will have a tough time winning an appeal, according to Tyler Ochoa, an intellectual-property law professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law. "This is by far the most careful and well-written opinion on software copyright I've e ...
  • Why the GPL licensing cops are the good guys
    The SFC's real target: Electronics makers If enterprise users can essentially ignore this news, who is the target of the SFC's actions? Its approach is well documented, but its targets are harder to identify. Kuhn's presentation on the subject makes clear that SFC's main target is hardware manuf ...
  • Charles-H. Schulz Joins Mandrivas Recovery Team
    Today Charles-H. Schulz posted a short message on Mandriva's official blog stating that he will be joining the Mandriva team to help them come back to life. Charles-H. Schulz is a very active member of the Open Source community and is probably best known for his invaluable contributions to Open ...
  • Price tag for Google-Oracle World Series trial ...
    "As a general rule, even simple patent cases can cost a few million dollars," said Doody. "This is probably ten times the size of the average patent case. $50 million in legal fees for both sides [is a reasonable guess]."...The outsized legal fees in the Oracle case, and in dozens of other s ...
  • Judge deals deathblow to Oracle in Google fight
    Legal experts say that the judge's ruling maintains the status quo. "It affirms what most people in the software industry thought all along: APIs are just functional code that is outside the scope of copyright," said Mark Webbink, a law professor at Duke who has been closely following the case. ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Solar power doubles pumped hydro output
    Credit: heco.comThe falling price of solar power during the day in Germany means pumped hydro operators can operate at low prices twice a day now, not just at night when traditional power is cheaper. This potentially doubles output because now reservoirs can be filled twice a day.With pumped hyd ...
  • Former hedge fund manager warns of ‘The End Game’
    This has been making the rounds of financial blogs today. Business Insider now has the slide presentation online.Raoul Pal expects a series of sovereign defaults, the “biggest banking crisis in world history”, and asserts that we don’t have many options to stop it.I wish I did ...
  • I’d vote for that Obama too
  • Employment growth slows, unemployment rises
    U.S. job growth slowed sharply in May, the latest indication that the economy has lost momentum.
  • Zombie apocalypse continues
    In wake of the Florida face-eater and Canadian body parts mailer, a college student ate some brains

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • An amazing Kiwi off to Rio
    I’d like to congratulate Brittany Trilford, who is off the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Brazil after winning the Date With History contest. She won it after posting this amazing short video – The future I want:   It was a pleasure to meet her this week along with Kennedy Graham and Holly W ...
  • Gold rush or fools gold? Fracking and the ‘Gol ...
    This week the International Energy Agency has published a report into the future of gas, with a focus on the controversial fracking method.
  • “General support… no specifics… no UN document ...
    Yesterday the Parliament celebrated the 25th anniversary of New Zealand’s nuclear-free zone.  It was a day of reminiscence, with a formal gathering at noon and a notice of motion in the House straight after.  Having done my doctorate on nuclear-free zones and having participated in the South Pac ...
  • Scientists say ‘fin’ to shark finning.
    I was on Breakfast this morning talking about an open letter released this week from 40 international scientists documenting their concerns of shark management, with specific mention of the poor way New Zealand conducts shark conservation.
  • Skynet isn’t working
    The Skynet (Copyright Infringing File Sharing Act) law was much criticised when it was rammed through under urgency last term and now evidence is emerging it’s simply not working.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Ignore This Essential Habit and Your Health Wi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Researchers have learned that circadian rhythms—the 24-hour cycles known as your internal body clock—are involved in everything from sleep to weight gain, mood disorders, and a variety of diseases. Your body actually has many internal clocks—in your brain, lungs, liver, heart ...
  • Ask Your Doctor: Are You Being Bribed to Recom ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ever wonder why your child's pediatrician—or your own physician for that matter—seems to be pushing vaccines on you every time you walk in the door? Does your doctor actually seem angry if you're not interested in buying a dose of that flu vaccine? Well, maybe it's because he ...
  • Sippy Cups and Other Little-Known Childhood Ha ...
    By Dr. Mercola Sippy cups, bottles and pacifiers are the last items you’d expect to hurt your child. After all, their very purpose is designed for nourishment, nurturing and comfort … However, a new study has revealed that these objects can be extremely hazardous for young childr ...
  • Why I Believe Over Half of Your Diet Should Be ...
    By Dr. Mercola A little over 100 years ago a German scientist wrote a letter to a company that made soap, and in so doing changed the way the world cooks its food.  The soap company, Procter & Gamble, bought the scientist's idea—and Crisco was born. At this time in history, people ...
  • Beware: Most Green Cleaning Products Contain This
    By Dr. Mercola Commercial cleaning products, even "green" ones like Simple Green, clean faster than soap and water can. But this is because they contain small amounts of the most powerful grease-cutting class of chemicals known -- glycol ethers. Overexposure to glycol ethers can cause anemi ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Mick Jagger drawn into row over ‘illegal gas g ...
    Mick Jagger was named Peru's honorary Environmental Ambassador last year. © Survival Music legend Mick Jagger has been drawn into a bitter row over an ‘illegal gas grab’ in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru’s government has provoked fury from indigenous groups after it was discovered that it ...
  • Tribes urge UK to sign law to ‘guarantee’ thei ...
    Kenya's Samburu tribe has urged the UK to ratify ILO 169. © Survival Tribes from four continents have urged Britain to ratify a law that will ‘guarantee’ their survival. It is the first time a group of tribal representatives have made such a direct appeal, reflecting the urgent need f ...
  • Film footage released to mark 20-year annivers ...
    Yanomami woman. The Yanomami territory has allowed uncontacted Indians to survive. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami Indians in Brazil have released aerial film footage of an uncontacted Indian community, to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the ‘Yanomami Park’. This Yanomami are ...
  • Humiliation as Indian Minister scraps lecture ...
    Naveen Patnaik's state of Odisha is renowned for brutally crushing indigenous protests © Survival The controversial Chief Minister of an Indian state has pulled out of a public lecture after learning that human rights organizations would attend. Naveen Patnaik’s 12-years as Chief Mini ...
  • Paper forced to apologize to Penan after false ...
    A Penan family. The tribe have been the subject of several defamatory stories in Malaysia's press. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival A Malaysian paper has been forced to apologize after publishing a highly controversial report, which accused the Penan tribe of practising incest. It is th ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
  • Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
    It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
  • Student protests, pro and con
    "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
  • Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
    A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.

Food World Order

  • 20 yrs later, the Biotech Brigade marches on….
    from source: Twenty years ago this week Dan Quayle went against scientific consensus to publicly proclaim that genetically engineered foods were “substantially equivalent” to non-GE food, and that he would therefore work to ensure that GE food would not be “hampered by unnecessary regulation.” ...
  • #Audio: Episode022 - Potland, Oregon
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show one last time and goes out in a blaze of medical marijuana glory in Ore ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Rejection, Election, Oddities ...
    Biotech: U2, Bono? Celeb Partners With Monsanto to Biowreck Africa With GMOs* Feds Knew Monsanto planted GM alfalfa before USDA approval* Okanagan Fruits submits GMO apple for approval* GMO labels continue to be pushed by concerned activists* Label-It-Yourself Movement Raises Aware ...
  • Fukushima radiation now detected in the U.S. f ...
    from naturalnews.com: Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan's Fukushima complex has made it into the seafood chain off the coast of America. Small amounts of cesium-137 and cesi ...
  • Food Safety Squad Preps for London Olympics
    from foodsafetynews.com: At undisclosed locations across London, there are sites ready to store seized foods and even food trucks. Liaisons with the courts have distributed emergency applications for food seizures and establishment closures. All that is necessary is for local health authoritie ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Blair and Bilderberg: The Other Smoking Gun
    A fascinating three way collaboration between The Guardian newspaper, writer Charlie Skelton and We Are Change activist Luke Rudkowski yesterday highlighted Tony Blair's discrepancies over his recollections of attending the Bilderberg conference in Greece in 1993. Skelton wrote - and The Guar ...
  • Young US Forces Vet Claims Forced Vaccination ...
    Courtesy of We Are Change, watch the following video clip featuring a Bilderberg protester who attempted to film arrivals of Bilderberg attendees yesterday: So, the first guy in that video clip was interviewed live by Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change today. The protester claims to be an e ...
  • Bilderberg 2012 Protests: Watch LIVE
    This post will remain up while stream is live.
  • Dear MSM... will you have the 'cojones' to cov ...
    So, it's that time of year again. No, not the G8 or G20. Bigger than that. Yes, it's the time of year when the Bilderberg scumbags gather to plot and scheme against the people of Planet Earth but the mainstream media goes into overdrive to pretend that it does not exist. Kudos to RT.c ...
  • Quote of the Days: Diana's Boys Edition
    "I think she had the best seat in the house probably." - Diana's son, Prince Harry, talking about his mum being at William & Kate's wedding in spiritual terms of which we're certainly she would have been proud. Unlike the McCrocodiles who spent days after Diana's death in her Kensington ...

Facing South

  • Fighting for home: A discussion with Clarice F ...
    Two years after the BP disaster, the United Houma Nation's outreach coordinator talks about living next to the oil industry and the future she envisions for her tribe and her home. read more
  • Banking on Boeing
    The bipartisan decision to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- which some conservatives have derisively dubbed "Boeing's Bank" -- shows that corporatists retain the upper hand in mainstream U.S. politics. read more
  • VOICES: A new Emancipation Day for Florida's f ...
    May 20 marks the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in 1865 in Florida, marking the end of slavery. Today, a new movement to end slavery in the fields is gaining force among Florida farmworkers. Paul Ortiz read more
  • Latino, black political clout grows in Florida ...
    Voter registration numbers show that Southern electorate in two key battleground states continues to grow more diverse. But will new voting restrictions undermine the power of black and Latino voters? read more
  • Voices: Speaking out against the Tar Sands pip ...
    The push for the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast comes with big promises of jobs and energy independence. But community leaders that will be most affected by the project are speaking out about the toxic consequences. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
  • [OT] I Just Got Married!
    You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
  • Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NARCOLPESY VICTIMS OF SWINE FLU JAB CAN JOIN M ...
    Anyone who has developed narcolepsy as a result of a swine flu vaccine can join my case in Austria as a victim and apply for compensation, according to new legal advice. To apply for compensation, all you need to do is send 1)      a diagnosis confirming narcolepsy as a result of a pandemic [...]
  • Narcolepsy traced to 12 Pandemrix batches in S ...
    Twelve of the 35 batches of the Pandemrix vaccine have been linked with narcolepsy in Sweden, according to a new study by the country’s narcolepsy association http://www.thelocal.se/41180/20120601/ http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.962202-vaccinets-nitlott-narkolepsi 224 people in Sweden so far ...
  • Did Baxter’s Celvapan contain an adjuvan ...
    The myth that Baxter’s Celvapan swine flu vaccine was a safer has been called into question by the findings of the Irish government, which showed that Celvapan caused narcolepsy. http://www.dohc.ie/publications/pdf/Final_Report_of_National_Narcolepsy_Study_Steering_Committee.pdf?direct=1 Celvapa ...
  • UK government unveils plans to vaccinate all s ...
    A terrible development. Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2151678/Children-soon-given-annual-flu-vaccinations-school-prevent-spread-illness-age-groups.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
  • Infowars covers Bilderberg meeting
    Check out the latest news on the 2012 Bilderberg meeting in the USA at infowars.com http://www.infowars.com/knock-knock-whos-there-bilderberg-bilderberg-who/ Politicians are a bit thin on the ground this year according to the official list of participants but Austrian SPÖ Chancellor and Globalis ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Professional Courtesies for the Sharks in the ...
    By Les Visible The lies just keep coming about Syria and Iran, courtesy of the wholly owned Zionist mass media. They own the music and movie machines so you can also see what’s being projectile vomited into our eyes and ears. Their hired killers go round the world, killing at will, blowing ...
  • Houla, Syria Stunt Proves That Old Tricks are ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian government was not responsible for shelling to deaths some 32 children and their parents, as periodically claimed and ...
  • Eating Aluminum: Is It As Safe As Our Regulato ...
    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post Aluminum toxicity, a characteristically man-made problem, is now impossible to avoid and has become a post-modern rite of passage. Our environment has become so polluted with the stuff, that even our crop plants are being threatened, with biotechnology firms n ...
  • Record 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have f ...
    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
  • Smartcard flaw opens door to identity theft
    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO: Digest for May 28-June 1
    Stop NATO: Digest for May 28-June 1 “Humanitarian Intervention” May Cause Bigger Disaster In Syria Politicizing humanitarian crises is a dangerous tendency. The so-called humanitarian intervention in a country’s domestic crisis has often resulted in a bigger or a real humanitarian disaster. On t ...
  • “Humanitarian Intervention” May Ca ...
    People’s Daily June 1, 2012 ‘Humanitarian intervention’ may cause bigger disaster By Tian Wenlin Eight Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom, expelled Syrian diplomats Tuesday in response to a massacre of civilians in the Syrian town of Houla on May 25. ...
  • Norway: U.S. Missile Radar Targets Russia
    Voice of Russia June 1, 2012 Radar keeps an eye on Russia Grigory Milenin Meeting in Chicago last Month, NATO leaders looked at all aspects of the potential Iranian threat and how to unravel the Afghan knot, and once again they assured Moscow that a missile defense shield that is currently being ...
  • NATO Summit Highlights Neo-Con/Neo-Liberal Overlap
    Al Jazeera June 1, 2012   NATO summit highlights neo-con/neo-liberal overlap More similar than different, both of America’s recent imperial ideologies have failed By Paul Rosenberg   San Pedro, CA - As the general election phase of the American presidential election gets underway ...
  • Ambassador: Russia Alarmed Over Greater Albani ...
    Beta News Agency/Tanjug News Agency June 1, 2012 Russian envoy warns about “Greater Albania” project BELGRADE: Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin says his country is concerned about the existence of a project to establish a so-called Greater Albania. “It’s a very danger ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Veteran Forcefully Vaccinated After Arrest At ...
    By Alex Thomas theintelhub.com June 2, 2012 An exclusive interview with a U.S. veteran who was arrested on Thursday May 31st, at the 2012 Bilderberg 2012 meetings. This veteran was apparently forcefully vaccinated and intimated by Fairfax County Police who were trying to scare protesters of the ...
  • Transit of Venus: US National Parks Set to Obs ...
    OurAmazingPlanet June 2, 2012 When Venus interposes itself directly between Earth and the sun for the last time in more than a century, national parks across America will be prepared to observe the historic event. Many will have special filtered telescopes set up for safe viewing of the sun, whi ...
  • Panetta: No China Threat From US Military
    AP / LOLITA C. BALDOR June 2, 2012 From this island nation in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sent a message Saturday that America’s new military focus on the Asia-Pacific is not intended to raise tensions in the region or threaten Beijing. The Pentagon chief appea ...
  • Murder, Inc: Official Obama Policy
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com June 2, 2012 Obama’s wars increase body counts daily. New ones planned will add more. Death squads operate in 120 or more countries. So do CIA agents licensed to kill. US citizens may be targeted at home or abroad. No one anywhere is safe. Su ...
  • Baghdadi Mahmoudi Faces Torture and Death in Libya
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com June 2, 2012 Mahmoudi is a physician. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming Prime Minister and General Secretary of the General People’s Congress of the Libyan Jamahiriya. He assumed that post in March 2006. Mathaba explaine ...

FRS

  • Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Uncons ...
    8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision AlterNet / By Kristen Gwynne A US district judge has exposed the NYPD game as an illegal system of quotas and racial profiling imposed on field police from the top of the NYPD. May 28, 2012  | This month, a federal judge in New York dealt a blow [...]
  • Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Uncons ...
    8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision AlterNet / By Kristen Gwynne A US district judge has exposed the NYPD game as an illegal system of quotas and racial profiling imposed on field police from the top of the NYPD. May 28, 2012  | This month, a federal judge in New York dealt a blow [...]
  • Chinese Workers Defy the Government and Employ ...
    by Sarah Vrba May 29, 2012 An intense protest of enraged migrant workers broke out on Tuesday in Ruian, China. The city is located in the Zhejiang, a wealthy province in China. Reuters reports that about 1,000 migrant workers proceeded to turn over an iron gate, and damaged at least a dozen cars ...
  • Chinese Workers Defy the Government and Employ ...
    by Sarah Vrba May 29, 2012 An intense protest of enraged migrant workers broke out on Tuesday in Ruian, China. The city is located in the Zhejiang, a wealthy province in China. Reuters reports that about 1,000 migrant workers proceeded to turn over an iron gate, and damaged at least a dozen cars ...
  • Slow Death, Fast Profits: Pesticides, GMOs, In ...
    www.countercurrents.org/todhunter260512.htm By Colin Todhunter, Countercurrents.org, 26 May, 2012 The next time you serve up a good old ‘wholesome’ meal of rice and various vegetables in India, you will probably take in half a milligram of pesticide also, around a pin prick. That would be more t ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Radioactive Fish Invade U.S. Waters
    More than a year after the nuclear disaster in Japan, Pacific bluefin tuna were found off the coast of California with alarmingly high levels of radiation.Contributor: KW Rosenfeld Published: May 30, 2012
  • Report: Obama Redefines 'Militant' to Avoid Co ...
    President Barack Obama has embraced a disputed method for counting civilian drone strike casualties in which all military-aged males in a strike zone are counted as militants, several administration officials told the New York Times.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 30, 2012
  • Fox News Guest Says Letting Women Vote "One of ...
    Fox News contributor and fundamentalist clergyman Jesse Lee Peterson delivered a sermon in which he said that allowing women to vote was one of the greatest mistakes America has made; despite this, he was invited on Sean Hannity's program.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 08, 2012
  • 9/11 Trial Proves America Still Hasn’t Gotten ...
    Five defendants of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are facing hearings in Cuba.Contributor: William Browning Published: May 06, 2012
  • Canada Kills the Penny; Should the U.S. Follow ...
    May 4 marked the final date of production of the Canadian penny. Should the U.S. end production of its own 1-cent coin?Contributor: Alex Wibholm Published: May 05, 2012

Popsci - Science

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • All eyes on June after an 'average' May
    The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...
  • Arctic methane sets global warming alarm bells ...
    Research published this week which identifies thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane gas is being released into the atmosphere could have serious ramifications for global warming. Methane is twenty times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it's estimated that there' ...
  • A taste of summer. But for how long?
    At long last warm weather is returning to much of the country for the first time since March, after weeks of cold, wet weather. High pressure will dominate our weather all week, with temperature reaching 23C (73F) across inland parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as early as tomorrow. The char ...
  • Global temperature and Arctic ice update
    The average global temperature for April on the UAH satellite measure jumped to +0.295C above the 30 year running mean. This equates to approximately +0.548C above the standard 1961-1990 average, used by the World Meteorological Organisation. Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close ...
  • Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorksh ...
    Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire's ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 we ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • ASEAN Way, Not Sanctions, Swayed Myanmar
    My memory was jogged about making this post by a family friend who recently came back from Myanmar on an expedition to buy Burmese rubies. "Gotta go now that tourists are welcome again but before jewelry prices go up as more international buyers come" she offered. There's nothing wrong with co ...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi Goes Neoliberal, Attends WEF
    For her very first trip out of Myanmar (Burma) in 24 years, Aung San Suu Kyi has made the interesting choice of attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Thailand to be held on 30 May to June 1. While she has been in touch with the WEF organizers in the past, it was only through remote broadca ...
  • It's (Sorta) Official: Poland, European Darling
    I add the qualifier in the title for the reason that I wish not to jinx this country. Lest we forget, it was not so long ago that the darling of European integration was Ireland (believe it or not nowadays). I remember my time in Europe when near-accession country officials would dutifully troop ...
  • Curt Schilling's 38 Games & Video Game Subsidies
    [NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part American subsidies series. Forgive me in advance for another reference to what's obviously my favourite Eagles tune.] They came to Providence, the one in Rhode Island, where tech enclave dreams hang heavy in the air. It was supposed to be an All-Star l ...
  • Obama's Deficits: The Buck Stops Nowhere in US
    The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job - Harry Truman It was not always that American leaders--Democrats or Republicans--were such feckless deficit lovers. A measure of American decline is surely c ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...
  • 25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely W ...
    When it comes to the financial world, it is important to listen to what the "smart money" is saying, but it is much more important to watch what the "smart money" is actually doing.  The ultra-wealthy and those that run the biggest financial institutions on the planet are far mor ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Americans afraid of Obama’s drones
    Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an updated proposal: Mr. Obama, please don’t kill us. Unlike the correspondence from 1860 that was signed ...
  • “US-downed” Russia jet’s Flight Data Recorder ...
    Indonesian villagers have found the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that Moscow claims was downed in southwestern Indonesia earlier in May by US “industrial sabotage,” killing all 45 people on board. The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency c ...
  • House Passes HR 4133 Binding the US to Israel
    Without any mainstream media coverage at all, the House of Representatives passed the United States – Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (USIESC). The USIESC, written by Eric Cantor , claims there is a need to provide Israel with unlimited military and financial aid as a result of ...
  • EU-skeptic Ireland votes on austerity
    Ireland is voting in a referendum on an EU austerity pact. If Dublin does not accept tough budget deficit obligations, it would be a kiss goodbye to EU rescue money, which could be followed by default and a eurozone exit. The mooted European Fiscal Pact was initiated by Germany and France. If ap ...
  • US Move To Make Internet “Weapon Of War” Spark ...
    A chilling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the recently completed gathering of global internet professionals attending the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) held in Moscow on 14 May states that the consensus of these world experts is that not only will the United States not agree ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
  • Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
    I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
  • Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
    Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
  • Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
    It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...

WL Central

  • 2012-06-01 The hidden, human cost of the EAW
    Since its 2004 debut, use of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has exploded; in those eight years, its flaws have already destroyed or destabilized many lives. Although high-ranking EU officials now admit that the current EAW system is a "threat to human rights," EAW reform may not happen soon e ...
  • 2012-05-31 CIA Codename "SIMO" Disclosed In Wi ...
    by Novinite.com & TAZ.de The German edition Taz.de asks rhetorically whether Bulgarian PM, Boyko Borisov, would have remained in office if the US secret service CIA was to appear as key witness of the charges against him. Photo by BGNES The secret cables of the US Embassy in Sofia, exposin ...
  • 2012-05-31 Understanding the Supreme Court ver ...
    Mainstream media around the world has been plastered with headlines stating Julian Assange's impending extradition to Sweden. But the ruling is far more complicated than that, and the case currently has the potential of being reopened. This is nearly unprecedented, as Britain has not reopened a ...
  • 2012-05-31 How the UK's Supreme Court is wrong ...
    Notwithstanding the clear UK meaning of ‘judicial authority’ to mean a magistrate, judge or court; notwithstanding that Parliamentary debates and reading speeches reiterated that definition; notwithstanding the primacy of the UK parliament to enact law for effect in the UK; notwithstanding the F ...
  • 2012-05-31 Transcript: UK Supreme Court gives ...
    Transcript of the UK Supreme Court handing down the judgment in Julian Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority, 09:15 on 30 May 2012. The full judgment and further statement is available at the UK Supreme Court's website. read more

U N News

  • Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
    Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.
  • UN envoy hails workshop related to Guyana-Vene ...
    A UN envoy today hailed a recent workshop related to a long-standing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela as a demonstration of both countries' on-going commitment to a peaceful resolution of the matter.
  • UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strat ...
    Noting that some 800,000 households in Canada are unable to meet their daily food needs, an independent United Nations expert today called on the country to adopt a national right to food strategy.
  • Top UN officials underscore need to combat org ...
    Senior United Nations officials today drew the world's attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said is spreading to other continents.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for an investigation into the killing of Erick Martínez Ávila, a Honduran journalist and gay rights activist.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
    How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...
  • Hungry Dragon
    COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has b ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Cell Phones and Your Kids... 50 Percent Increa ...
      The Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom discovered a 50 percent increase in frontal and temporal lobe tumors in children during the ten year span covering 1999 to 2009. Was this a result of cell phone radiation? read more
  • Agenda 21... America Needs Your Help Right Now!
      In 1982 while Ronald Reagan was President of the United States a treaty was drafted under the auspices of the United Nations that would establish international control of the oceans and everything underneath them. ~ John Rolls read more
  • Senator Charles Grassley... U.S. Supreme Court ...
      Jobs, the national debt, government intrusion and health care. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, got an earful Tuesday about what he said are the most passionate issues facing the nation at one of several town hall meetings he is holding this week in the state. read more
  • Free Guns For Postmen and Everybody Else Until ...
      The Daily Caller will be giving away one gun per week until Election Day: November 6, 2012. read more
  • Insider Warns Family Of EMP Strike On U.S. Thi ...
      I don’t say this lightly. It shocked me as well when I heard it. This information came to me in a very synchronistic way, as is so often the case. No anonymous phone call. No dark suited stranger whispering at a street corner. It came out in a conversation with a young man managing ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Garden Vegetable Calories
    When considering what vegetables to grow in your survival garden, one thing to consider is the calories that you will get in return for the work that you put in. The following is a list of garden vegetables whose caloric data has been normalized to a 3.5 ounce serving, which is 100 grams, or abo ...
  • My SPAM®
    What is SPAM® ? SPAM® is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. On average, 3.8 cans are consumed every second in the United States. SPAM® is still quite popular in the United States, but is sometimes associated with economic hardship beca ...
  • Tips For First Time Gun Buyers
    Guest post: by ‘Night Owl’ Gun sales are up! With terrorism, uncertainty of what the Obama administration might do as far as gun control, a generally heightened awareness of self security and the vast majority of states issuing concealed carry permits to lawful citizens, more and mor ...
  • Choosing A Gas Mask
    Guest post: by Giurza This is in no way a comprehensive guide to choosing a gas mask. For one such, you’d have to look for a man who wore all or at least most of modern gas masks. With my limited experience of gas masks, I will try to provide you with some guidelines and [...]
  • Get Back To Your Roots…Literally
    Years ago, our ancestors knew farming was a viable career path. Today, that may well be coming around again. Ken and I are frequently running into people that are very concerned about food for their families, how they can save money and how they can protect themselves. A recent newspaper story t ...

Fast Company

  • This Week In Bots: How Robots Could Teach Your ...
    While some robotics research pursues freaky tech suggesting Terminator-like powers, other scientists are putting robots to good work, helping teachers in the classroom. Yep, just like Walt Whitman, bots contain multitudes!Bot Vid: Pebble Bots Replicate PatternsRemember the murderous liquid-metal ...
  • Tech Please! Austin-Born App Speeds Up Your Di ...
    Inspired by an hour wait to pay his check at a business lunch, Rick Orr came up with TabbedOut, a nationwide mobile payment software platform. Now Austin eateries are ordering apps from him! UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans ...
  • Netflix Overtakes Apple In Online Movie Business
    News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.2011 was a rough year for Netflix. One bright spot? The company surpassed Apple to become the leader in the U.S. online movie business, according to a new report from IHS Screen Digest out today. Netflix's revenue share of the U.S. online movie ...
  • Mass Transit Cameras Spot Bad Guys, No Human J ...
    A new camera system for San Francisco's MUNI system will use algorithms and machine learning to track and monitor commuters. Can computer programs predict bad guys... and what will they be looking for?A new breed of security cameras can supposedly detect terrorism and crime without a human judgm ...
  • Nook De-Kindles Classic Books
    Some classic public domain books for the Nook appear to be stripped of any mention of the word "Kindle," no matter what the context, resulting in some odd reading.One blogger recently discovered that his downloaded 99-cent Nook version of War and Peace, ported by Superior Formatting Publishing f ...

Jadaliyya

  • Malayalee Associations in the Gulf: Pushing Bo ...
    The migration of Keralites to the Arab Gulf region has generated various forms of translocal political moorings in the host countries. They are translocal in the sense that they are impacted by even the minutest currents within the political intricacies and specificities of Kerala politics, yet ...
  • Anti-Shafiq Protest in Tahrir
    Hundreds of protesters marched on Tahrir today, calling for the execution of presidential candidate General Ahmad Shafiq, Mubarak's former prime minister and head of the air force. The demonstrators accused the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces of rigging the vote in the first round of elec ...
  • Garbage Collectors and the Struggle for Worker ...
    “I will do everything I can to grow a field in the dessert” - Haidar Swaid, Member of the Garbage Collectors Syndicate In both the foreign and local press, conventional frameworks for understanding the uprising in Yemen locate its popular impetus within two main social groupings: the disaffect ...
  • Egypt’s Elections under Military Rule: Join Ou ...
    [The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo on 31 May 2012.] Egypt’s Elections under Military Rule: Join Our Resistance to the Counter-Revolution To you at whose side we struggle, From the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, the powers that be have launched a vicious counte ...
  • الأميرة النائمة: الوردة الكبيرة 1939-2012
    العناوين الكثيرة يمكن أن نضعها لآلاف من صفحات الكتابة، ورقية وضوئية، وتخطيطات كتاب وارد، عن الوردة "أميرة الغناء العربي" (1939-2012). لقب صنعته الصحافة بعد فيلمها الثاني"أميرة العرب"(1963). كأن نقول "الأميرة والمنفى"، "الأميرة والنضال"، "الأميرة والعس ...

mediagazer

  • New York Times turns readers into beta testers ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: New York Times turns readers into beta testers with Test Drive  —  Congratulations, New York Times readers: You can now think of yourself as beta testers.  —  The Times has released a new browser tool that will let readers te ...
  • Kathleen Kennedy to succeed George Lucas atop ...
    Los Angeles Times: Kathleen Kennedy to succeed George Lucas atop Lucasfilm  —  Kathleen Kennedy has been named co-chair of Lucasfilm.  —  Kathleen Kennedy has been named co-chair of Lucasfilm, positioning her to take over the legendary San Francisco studio, home ...
  • More NYT journalists ask for a fair contract ( ...
    Jim Romenesko: More NYT journalists ask for a fair contract  —  Here's the New York Newspaper Guild's fourth video featuring Times journalists appealing for a fair contract.  In this one, Dan Wakin, Ralph Blumenthal, Clyde Haberman and John Schwartz “describe their de ...
  • The Return of Oprah's Book Club (Julie Bosman/ ...
    Julie Bosman / Media Decoder: The Return of Oprah's Book Club  —  Oprah Winfrey, the publishing industry's unrivaled tastemaker, will revive her popular book club next week after a two-year hiatus, promising the book business some of the sales and publicity it thought had vanish ...
  • Rielle Hunter to Publish a Memoir This Month ( ...
    Julie Bosman / Media Decoder: Rielle Hunter to Publish a Memoir This Month  —  Only one day after former Senator John Edwards escaped conviction in federal court on six corruption charges, Rielle Hunter announced some news of her own: she has written a memoir.  —&nbsp ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Carl Froch plans to avenge defeats by Mik ...
    Carl Froch could, quite plausibly, be branded the most underrated fighter in British boxing history. New chapter: Carl Froch is keen to balance family life with his son Rocco and girlfriend Rachael Cordingley (left) with a few final glory nights in the ring Photo: GETTY IMAGES tag --> By Oli ...
  • Maradona plotting ambitious swoop for fre ...
    Diego Maradona is considering an ambitious move to bring free agent Didier Drogba to Al Wasl. The former Chelsea striker is considering a move to Shanghai Shenhua but the UAE side could hijack the offer. Manager Maradona said: 'Who in the world would not want Drogba? Every team would love to ...
  • Gerrard admits he will have to be careful ...
    England skipper Steven Gerrard admits he may have to modify his game to reduce the risk of picking up a red card during Euro 2012. Gerrard and the rest of the England squad have been spoken to by FIFA and UEFA referees delegate David Elleray about what is permissible ahead of the tournament ...
  • Egyptian court sentences former president ...
    Tweet CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. Also given a...
  • Sangay concerned over unrest in Tibet
    Tweet Dharamsala, June 2 (IANS) Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Saturday expressed concern over the prevailing tense situation in Tibet and sought an end to "human rights violations by China" in the region. "As the self-immolations continue unabated inside ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/29/12 - Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? - Read pro and con arguments from the Congressional Research Service (pro), Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace Franklin Lamb (con), the Parliament of the European Union (pro), British Member of Parliament G ...
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah's position on Israel?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah’s position on Israel?
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah?
  • 5/25/12 - Barack Obama: Document History from ...
    2012election.procon.org - Barack Obama: Document History from Birth to Harvard (1961-1991) - Our new resource shows Obama’s birth certificates, birth announcements, school registration forms, and interviews with his classmates from elementary school in Indonesia through law school at Harvard.
  • 5/24/12 - Should Palestinian refugees have the ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Should Palestinian refugees have the "right of return”? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (con), Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal (pro), 9th Presiden ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...
  • The Richest, Fattest Nation
    HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS According to recent studies, roughly half of adults and a third of children in Qatar are obese, and almost 17 percent of the native population suffers from diabetes. By comparison, about a third of Americans are obese, and eight percent are diabetic. Qatar also has very h ...
  • Grass’s Poem
    Jeffrey Goldberg “What Must Be Said” is interesting for what it says about the mind of Guenter Grass, but it is more interesting for what it says about the manner in which some intellectuals think about Israel and Iran. By extracting the self-pity, self-aggrandizement and guilt-expiation from “W ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
    BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    Part 2 of Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits with Damon Crowe
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...
  • Invasion of the body scanners - Part 1
    In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into A ...
  • Pure psychopathic evil is the prerogative of t ...
    WARNING: The following video graphically depicts psychopathic torture and murder which makes the crimes of infamous serial killers pale into insignificance by comparison. This atrocity was perpetrated by agents of a modern democratic state, with full authority and backup support. It all happen ...

Beacon

  • Interesting Things About Interests
    2011 Ocean Hero Peter Wallerstein works to protect and rehabilitate marine mammals. If you read the blog yesterday, you may recall two things: (1) the 4th Annual Ocean Heroes Contest kicks off on June 6, and (2) nearly 1/3 of Ocean Heroes finalists hail from California. Now while the a signif ...
  • A Future Without Plastic Bags?
    Plastic bag bans help make the ocean safer for animals like sea turtles. ©Oceana/Brianne Mecum Ordinances to ban single-use plastic bags are picking up steam here in California. A growing list of cities and counties in the state are taking action to get rid of this frequent source of pollutio ...
  • State of the Ocean Heroes
    Has your state gone blue? It could — nominate an Ocean Hero! Oceana’s 4th annual Ocean Heroes Contest kicks off June 6, which gives you one week to think about this question: “Who do I know that works hard for the oceans and deserves recognition?” From work in activism to conservation, from ...
  • Tuna Still Feeling the Effects of Fukushima
    Bluefin tuna are carrying radiation from Japan to California. ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen It might seem straight out of science fiction, but this story is real – radioactive tuna could be swimming in an ocean near you. A new study found that after last spring’s Fukushima nuclear accid ...
  • CA Fish & Game Commission Endorses Sea Turtle Bill
    Pacific leatherback sea turtles migrate to California waters to feed on jellyfish. © NOAA Yesterday afternoon the California Fish & Game Commission voted unanimously to support legislation to designate the Pacific leatherback sea turtle as the state’s official marine reptile. The Commiss ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • USS Iowa Decommissioned.
          She had nine 16 inch guns, twenty 5 inch guns, eighty 40mm anti aircraft batteries, forty-nine 20 mm cannons. She was 45,000 displaced tons, 887 feet long, 108 feet wide, and carried 2637 crew and 151 officers. She was the lead vessel of her kind and the only Iowa class batt ...
  • The Welrod Pistol Came With A Silencer.
    The Welrod pistol was created in the United Kingdom during World War II to serve special operations forces. The idea was to provide a firearm with its own built in silencer so operatives would not give away their position. Normal silencers could be heard because the reciprocating slide makes a s ...
  • Luke Pryor Blackburn. Physician. Philanthropis ...
      Born in 1816 in Kentucky, Luke Blackburn became a physician. During his practice he became famous for treating Yellow Fever that exploded into epidemiological disasters every few years when construct projects sprang up along rivers. In 1848 he became famous for an effective quarantine of ...
  • George S. Patton Was The Most Interesting Man ...
        He was born George Smith Patton, the son with an illustrious family tree that skeins back all the way to George Washington and the American Revolution. Patton listened to the stories told in his home about cavalry battle by John Singleton Mosby a cavalry officer who served with Jeb ...
  • Eerie Haunting Black & White Photos Of Atomic ...
        During the 1950s the United States detonated 739 nuclear weapons around the world in remote and unpopulated places. Often the scientists and civil engineers built entire village wholly unoccupied save for mannequins positioned as if in a moment frozen in time. This was done to help ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Judge Revokes George Zimmerman’s Bond
    LYING TO A JUDGE is always a bad idea, but when you’re charged with second degree murder it’s criminally stupid. That’s the charge being levied, the prosecution alleging Zimmerman and his wife lied in his bail hearing about the funds they had available to them for bond. The mot ...
  • Mitt Romney Thanks Pres. Clinton
    “I think Bain Capital has a good and solid record,” Romney said in a CNBC interview. “I was happy to see President Clinton made a similar statement today and called my record superb.” [Romney smiles at Clinton compliment [CNN] “This is good work.” – Pres ...
  • Queer Talk: Out Latina Elected to Texas State ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Call it a Queer kick-off to the Pride month of June: Texas primary voters chose Mary Gonzales, an out Latina, as the Democratic nominee for State House District 75, in El Paso County. With no Republican challenger, Go ...
  • Nowhere to Hide After Dismal Jobs Report
    The American jobs engine hit stall speed in May, with the economy adding just 69,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent. [CNBC] PRESIDENTS CAN’T create jobs to move the economy, but they can fall because of it. The news was bad on Friday, with Dow Jones futures rea ...
  • The Most Ignorant, Stupid, Insipid and Moronic ...
    THE HOUSE actually voted on a bill to penalize doctors who perform “sex-selective abortions.” From The Hill: The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), H.R. 3541, was defeated in a 246-168 vote. While that’s a clear majority of the House, Republicans called up the bill under ...

Hudson New York

  • Questions Facing the Muslim World
    Many parts of the world, such as Korea, China, and India - basically medieval kingdoms fifty or sixty years ago -- are now among the pacesetters of the modern world, both producing, and improving on, existing inventions. The Muslim world, however, often
  • The Process Trap
    Few things ought to be as urgent as keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, yet the West – led from the front by the United States – has fallen into the "peace process" trap that considers talk to be progress and, once a conversation has begun, that
  • Edwards' Jury Couldn't Decide and For Good Reason
    It is a wise person who knows when not to decide. The jury in the John Edwards case rendered exactly the right verdict. Of course they couldn't make up their mind on most of the charges. No rational person could. The judge essentially instructed them to
  • "SILEX": Iran's Undetectable Nuclear Enrichmen ...
    German nuclear weapons expert Hans Rühle warned in the daily Die Welt May 21 that Iran can enrich uranium using laser technology that is much harder to detect than centrifuges. Rühle headed the German Defense Ministry's policy planning staff during the
  • "Islam to Topple Man-made Democracy"
    Police in Amsterdam have arrested the spokesperson of the Islamist group Sharia4Holland on charges of making death threats against the Dutch Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders. Abu Qasim was arrested after a speech he gave in Amsterdam's central Dam

Urban Survival

  • Silver Bullet Theatrics: The Comedic Jobs Report
    My friend Howard Hill called last night, please to advise me that he had written the big story about this morning’s unemployment number a day ahead of the event.  So I’m sitting there wondering WTH?  I mean Howard’s good and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Future of Silver and Gold
    Time to refocus a bit on economic things, and we kick around a very good question from a reader: Every once and a while you hear that the/a government is going to confiscate gold from vaults when the poop hits … Continue reading →
  • The Hijack of Legislative Process
    We begin this morning not with our usual assortment of economic this and thats – we’ll serve those up in a minute.  But instead we pause to congratulate state representative Mike Bost of Illinois who called it like it was, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Is this What Disclosure Looks Like?
    Been getting a tremendous amount of feedback on our Tuesday WuJo report which chronicles a series of dreams which starts with lights on the bedroom wall and got progressively weirder from there – including some abduction-sounding aspects.  Along the way … Continue reading →
  • RealityJack Alert
    Several readers (including Oilman2) have noticed that one of the body pictures out of (supposedly Syria) was really out of Iraq in 2003, or so goes recall on this.  Reminder:  Guard your gates of awareness.  We’re in spin to win … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Can punk rock solve LA's traffic woes?
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California I found a story on KPCC about a video produced by a Boyle Heights punk rocker named Eddie Solis who plays in a group called It's Casual.  The song calledThe Red Li ...
  • Illinois Must Address Risks From Fracking
    Thom Cmar, Attorney, Chicago The Illinois General Assembly just wrapped up a contentious session that left some major bills addressing the state’s economic woes unfinished.  But while most eyes were on chippy debates over pension reform, ...
  • Pressure on controversial Cabo Cortés coastal ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Mexico’s National Congress has given the Ministry of the Environment (SEMARNAT) just fifteen days to report back on actions surrounding the environmental impact approvals granted to the c ...
  • Generating Support for Cleaner Air through Bik ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. What could possibly be a stronger statement that people are demanding cleaner air and a stop to climate change, than 200 cyclists peddling in unison down Constitution Ave. after rid ...
  • Poll: 'Supermajority' of New Yorkers Want Long ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Nearly nine out of ten New Yorkers (89% to be exact) say they support increasing the use of solar energy to meet New York power needs.  And almost nearly as many (85%) say they ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Federal Judge Threatens Oakland Police Departm ...
    From the Oakland Tribune: A federal judge ordered a probe Thursday into how Oakland police investigate officer-involved shootings and threatened the department with sanctions if misconduct is uncovered. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson also ordered Oakland to provide by June … Continu ...
  • Fort Lauderdale ‘Raiders’ Arrested
    From Local10.com: Three Fort Lauderdale police officers bonded out of jail Thursday night after they were arrested on charges of falsifying a police report and sworn testimony in connection with an officer-involved crash. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department said that … Continue reading & ...
  • NYPD Cop Lied and Falsified Record
    The police officer told everyone that the man, John Hockenjos,  had nearly run him over.  More here.  Relatedly,  today’s Washington Post has another story on the mysterious shooting in Culpeper, Virginia.  Hard to believe the police officer’s account that th ...
  • Breaking Bad
    Former Secret Service agent is a candidate for the local sheriff position, but his candidacy has been put on hold because he has now been arrested for plotting to kidnap a judge: Solicitor Chrissy Adams said evidence was captured on … Continue reading →Breaking Bad is a post from Pol ...
  • New Map Available
    For interested persons, we took the 2009 Aggregate Reports and 2010 Aggregate Reports previously compiled by David Packman and exported them to a single Fusion table, which we then linked up with a Google Map to visually display the incidents in … Continue reading →New Map Available ...

Total Collapse

  • Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
  • Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
    The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
  • Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
    Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
  • China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
    China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • South Australia wind power figures vindicate r ...
    Yesterday energy consultants EnergyQuest broke the news that wind power supplied 31% of South Australia’s electricity in the last quarter. Solar panels added another 3.5% to put renewable energy’s share in that state well above coal (26%) ...
  • Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
    Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...
  • Join Beyond Zero Radio for 3CR Radiothon Live ...
    3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming from 4 – 17 June! This is your opportunity to invest in independent community radio. 3CR exists as a direct counter to the corporate media. Beyond Zero Emissions has two weekly shows on 3CR. Join Melissa and Nick for Australia's best hour of radio dedicated to co ...
  • CEFC a distraction, not a solution: We need a ...
    Renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has today released its response to the government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) legislation. To download it click here. BZE opposes the CEFC in its current form, as it will not secure any extra renewable energy over the already ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Voluntary carbon market reaches $576 m in 2011
    The voluntary carbon offset market reached a three-year high in 2011, according to the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report released this week.
  • 3 elephants killed on Indonesian oil palm plan ...
    Three critically endangered Sumatran elephants were poisoned to death within an palm oil plantation on the island of Sumatra, reports the Associated Press.
  • Photos: Mama lemurs with babies
    Two baby lemurs were put on display this week in the Madagascar! exhibit at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.
  • Another record in global carbon emissions puts ...
    Last year global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.2 percent to a new record of 31.6 gigatons, keeping the planet on track to suffer dangerous climate change, which could propel global crop failures, sea level rise, worsening extreme weather, and mass extinction. According to data from the Interna ...
  • Regulations help fish, and fishermen, recover ...
    Marine fish populations in the U.S. are generally recovering, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Last year six fish populations reached healthy levels in the U.S., boosting the total number of fish populations that have recovered to 27 since ...

Sierra Express

  • From Forceful Marraiges… ABC Secretariat Liber ...
    Students of Koinadugu District, especially the female group, who albeit structures in place are denied the opportunities that could empower them to be retain in the country’s challenging 6-3-3-4 system were on Tuesday 29th May 2012 liberated by the Executives of the Attitudinal and Behavioural C ...
  • RNP Launches African Women Are Gorgeous.com
    Beverly Hills - River Naija Productions a division of the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce-USA launches African Women Are Gorgeous International, an online lifestyle and entertainment platform that empowers everyday women of African descent to celebrate and share their inner and aesthetic beauty wit ...
  • Professor Joseph Opala Honored in the 2012 Nat ...
    Washington, D.C., May 16th, 2012: In recognition of his role in documenting the historical link between the Gullah people in the United States of America and Sierra Leone, and for his outstanding contribution in preserving Sierra Leone’s Slave Trading port of ‘Bunce Island’ as a heritage site, t ...
  • As the world enters a new age of accountabilit ...
    Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) today hailed the 50-year jail term imposed on former Liberian President Charles Taylor as “The strongest message yet that the era of impunity for the ‘big men’ of Africa is coming to an end.” Charles Taylor was convicte ...
  • Defence Ministry lectures at Ministry of Forei ...
    Freetown, May 31 (SLENA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has held a public lecture on the topic: ‘Sierra Leone in Peacekeeping Operations: Prospects and Challenges’. In her welcome remarks, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ebun ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra puts focus on redemption risk
    Fonterra launched a campaign yesterday to deal with what has become its achilles heel: redemption risk.Dairy farmers are required to buy shares in the dairy co-operative when they set up shop. When they sell, Fonterra has to pay...
  • Fonterra's TAF scheme needs 'strong' mandate
    Fonterra will require a 75 percent majority from its 10,500 farmer-shareholders to move ahead with its proposal to create non-voting, tradeable units allowing arms-length investment in New Zealand's largest business by non-farmers...
  • Voting packs for TAF scheme sent to Fonterra f ...
    A mass mail-out is under way to Fonterra Co-operative Group's 10,500 farmer shareholders of the voting packs for the June 25 special meeting on the controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme.The vote is the second time the Fonterra...
  • Milk-pricing plan gets initial tick
    Fonterra Co-operative Group's method of setting its farm-gate milk price has been given an initial, conditional tick of approval by the Commerce Commission in a dry run of its proposed oversight role set out in the Dairy Industry...
  • Fonterra eyes factory deal with Dutch
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is looking at signing a deal with Netherlands-based A-Ware Food Group to set up a new European cheese and dairy ingredients factory.The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Mubarak Found Guilty, Sentenced to Life in Pri ...
    The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killing of protesters during last year's demonstrations at Tahrir Square. He did not receive a death sentence because, the judges noted, there wasn't "clear evidence" that M ...
  • Reason Writers Around the Internet: B ...
    Jonathan Talet Phillips, author of The Electric Jesus and co-founder of Evolver.net names the "Top 10 Books of the New Edge" at Huffington Post and names my This is Burning Man as number 4.   "Books of the New Edge," Phillips writes, are those:   Featuring a brutally h ...
  • Drones Are Better Than All-Out War So Obama is ...
    At The San Francisco Chronicle, moderate liberal columnist Jon Carroll writes paragraphs of criticism towards the very Obama-heavy system of drone strikes detailed in The New York Times a few days ago. Carroll calls the program "assassinations." He admits they are "not strictl ...
  • More Stealth Inflation: Shrinking Portion Depa ...
    You know how nobody (except the vast majority of Americans) considers inflation a problem? How inflation is under control, and doesn’t even exist, and wouldn’t be a threat if it did exist, and in fact needs to be even higher?  This kind of sophisticated economic theory is hard ...
  • "High-Tax and High-Regulation" California Targ ...
    California's self-inflicted economic woes are nicely summarized in the state Senate's passage of a bill targeting underground economic activity, and a Board of Equalization press release trumpeting the same. In explaining the need for SB 1185, BOE Vice Chair Michelle Steel describes ...

Mercury Rising

  • Scott Walker Basically Admits He’s Under ...
    Here’s the scoop: Following reports that Scott Walker’s criminal defense fund grew by $100,000 in May, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is today reporting major revelations in the John Doe criminal corruption probe, including Scott Walker’s mistaken admission that he is under investigation. ...
  • Corporate Profits Soar As Jobs Falter. Honeywe ...
    Today I saw this: The Bureau of Labor Statistics brings bad news for the Obama Administration, as the spring slowdown we’ve seen for the last two years appears to be the same mode for 2012 as well. The economy added only 69,000 jobs in May, and worse, the totals for March and April were revised ...
  • Yet another political show trial crashes and burns
    Michael Biesecker, HuffPo: A jury’s refusal to convict John Edwards was less a redemption of the former White House hopeful than a rejection of the Justice Department’s boldest attempt to make an example of someone in the name of enforcing campaign finance laws. … “As not ...
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Reality Sandwich

  • We're Tumblin'
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  • The "Leap" into the Future
    LeapMotion's new breakthrough technology promises a leap into the future, and it delivers. Like something straight out of Minority Report, it's a camera that can detect finger movement within 1/100 of a millimeter. Co-founds Michael Buckwald and David Holz have created a sleekly de ...
  • The Evolver Convergence
    The Evolver Convergence Pittsburgh, PA: Friday, June 1 - Sunday June 3 read more
  • Meditation: The Controlled Psychophysical Self ...
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  • Sights in Sounds
    New technology is allowing the blind to “see” by way of soundscapes. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a sensory substitution device (SSD) that has allowed subjects trained in using the system to “read” an eye chart with letters even tinier than those normally us ...

Desertification

  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Bill 13: Parental Rights Protest May 31
    Details here.
  • Stephen Harper’s Portrait
    Ms. Margaret Sutherland got it all wrong. This portrait of Stephen Harper would have been more appropriate.
  • Michael Voris Ignites Ottawa
    Last night, two hundred people packed Mac Hall at the Bronson Center to hear Internet sensation, Catholic Evangelist and…uh…Peacemaker, Michael Voris.  Although I was expecting about 140 people based on the registration information that I received over the past month or so, it seems ...
  • Bill Clinton: He did not have sex with these women
    Old Willy is at it again! Bill Clinton's picture with Porn Stars.
  • Anti-coal Mark Jaccard, a Nobel Peace Prize wi ...
    Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas and coal companies. People are left with no choice but to protest. Professor Mark Jaccard was arrested along with other protestors. A ha ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Anti-govt. demos held across Yemen
    Yemenis have taken to the streets across the country to call for the resignation of the government and to protest against US and Israeli interference in Yemen’s internal affairs, Press TV reports.
  • 10 Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace
    Ten Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanon's airspace and flown over the country in flagrant violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, Press TV reports.
  • Nasrallah urges pilgrims release
    Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has urged the speedy release of the Lebanese nationals abducted by anti-government gangs in Syria earlier this month.
  • Putin urges political solution for Syria
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again expressed opposition to foreign military intervention in Syria, saying nothing can be imposed by force.
  • Two Gazans killed in Israeli attacks
    At least two Palestinians have been killed and three others injured in two separate Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
    We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
  • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
    Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...

Dissident Voice

  • Lives and Land Destroyed: Ethiopia for Sale
    It is a colonial phenomenon — appropriate land for the needs of the colonists and to hell with those living upon the land, indigenous and at home. Might is right, military or economic. The power of the dollar rules supreme in a world built upon the acquisition of the material, the perpetua ...
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Radioactive Lies
    Nuclear energy is incredibly expensive as well as fantastically dangerous…. One might ask why, if nuclear power is the energy of the future, it has taken so long for it to supply less than 6 percent of the world’s energy. Even this meager achievement accounts only for commercial energy, ex ...
  • Pledge to Sam
    Fealty to the Red-White-and-Blue Uncle.
  • Classroom Confessions of a Vagabond Adjunct Hi ...
    The month of May concluded my first full year of teaching college history courses in Maryland. I had previously taught a full school year of US history courses in Florida before the economy there tanked right after the mortgage crisis. In addition to the 2008 election of an anti-education govern ...
  • America Is under Attack!
    Vicious fanatics are trying to kill us and destroy our country. They’re blowing up our soldiers overseas. They’ve infiltrated our country. We must defend ourselves against these mad-dog berserkers before it’s too late. This litany has been repeated by corporate-controlled media ...

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