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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, June 2, 2012

2 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

June's multi-colored eyesJune's multi-colored eyes (Photo credit: kakissel)
U.S. Diplomats Listen to Discussion of Iran's ...U.S. Diplomats Listen to Discussion of Iran's Human Rights Record at the U.N. Human Rights Council (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Composite shows ultraviolet light, which comes...Composite shows ultraviolet light, which comes from young stars of Centaurus A. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: This image of Centaurus A, also known...English: This image of Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is an example of how frontier science can be combined with aesthetic aspects. This galaxy is a most interesting object and is being investigated by means of observations in all spectral regions, from radio via infrared and optical wavelengths to X- and gamma-rays. It is one of the most extensively studied objects in the southern sky. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: NGC 5128English: NGC 5128 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: German expedition to the transit of p...English: German expedition to the transit of planet Venus on 9.12.1874 in Isfahan, Iran Deutsch: Deutsche Expedition zur Beobachtung des Venustransits am 9.12.1874 in Isfahan, Iran (Gedenksteine) Español: Expedición alemana para el tránsito del planeta Venus en Isfahan en Irán Français : Expédition alleman au transit de la planète Vénus en Isfahan, Iran (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map showing ethnic and religious diversity amo...Map showing ethnic and religious diversity among the population of Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Galaxy Centaurus A, in X-rayGalaxy Centaurus A, in X-ray (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Women Look for a Place in New Egypt
    "It was so frustrating but so exciting at the same time," recalls 15-year-old Mariam Assam, a year-10 student in Cairo. Assam was recalling the days she tried to join protestors during the Egyptian revolution in January 2011 but was intially prevented by her parents who said street protest ...
  • Dam Company in Chile Presses Gov't for Support ...
    Colbún, the electricity generating company that co-owns HidroAysén and its multi-dam project in southern Chile, has recommended suspending the environmental impact assessment for power transmission lines that would connect the hydropower complex to the country's central grid, until the ...
  • Deinstitutionalisation of Mental Health Patien ...
    A new approach to mental health care is slowly making headway in Argentina, against heavy resistance. Based on short-term hospitalisation, fewer psychiatric hospitals, and more services to strengthen the social integration of patients, it is aimed at eradicating inhumane treatment of the mentall ...
  • RIO+20: U.N. Aims To Offset its Own Carbon Foo ...
    As the international community readies for a global mega- conference on sustainable development in Brazil mid-June, the United Nations is determined to practice what it preaches to the outside world: improve resource efficiency and drastically reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.
  • 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.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. unleashed Stuxnet worm on Iran: leak
    Summary: While the Obama administration has repeatedly assured the international community that it would press Iran with only a combination of economic sanctions and an open window for diplomatic negotiations, news that the White House had teamed up with Israeli experts to unleash the so-call ...
  • Israel Decides US Iran Policy - and they don't ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy, discusses his article “US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel;” the deal-breaking US positions on sanctions relief and Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility; the US’s tried-an ...
  • Despite U.S. opposition, Iran to be transport ...
    Summary: A three-day meeting of experts from 16 countries discussed ways to smoothen the way for the International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and at least six supplementary routes despite the U.S. pushing its Silk Road proposal in which its bete noire Iran has been excluded. In st ...
  • NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN HIGHLIGHT THE DOWNSIDE ...
    Summary: A determination to dominate the region badly warps the Obama Administration’s diplomatic approach, for it treats nuclear negotiations with Tehran as a venue for making the Islamic Republic surrender to American demands, not as an important element in realigning the U.S.-Iranian rela ...
  • Russia: US anti-Iran sanctions against interna ...
    Summary: “The United States is abusing its position in the global financial structure and the status of dollar as the international currency, thus slapping economic and financial sanctions against Iran and forcing other countries to engage themselves in this regard,” the Russian foreign minis ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Transit of Venus on June 5th --Only 7th Time S ...
    On June 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the sun. This transit is among the rarest of planetary...
  • Did the Early Venus Harbor Life? (Weekend Feature)
    Some astronomers believe that Venus was once inhabited by life. And some believe that life might even exist today high in Venus's clouds. Venus doesn't score very highly when we think of life-capable planets - with surface pressures 90 times...
  • Image of the Day: Stunning Beauty of the Centa ...
    Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is an odd elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur) and has the distinction of...
  • Found: A Distant Galaxy Formed 800-Million Yea ...
    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...
  • Comment of the Day: Human Technology Scans the ...
    "Beautiful photo. Quite allegorical, all those eyes gazing skyward represent to me our deep fascination with the cosmos. We know we are a part of it, so we look outward for answers, yet as the ancients say, As above, so...

Natural News

  • Health benefits of breastfeeding are real - He ...
    The cover of Time Magazine last week had a picture of a woman nursing her three-year-old child to raise awareness of breastfeeding and get people talking about it. It worked, perhaps better than they anticipated. The tactic was employed and completely justified because...
  • Vitamin D in pregnancy may help prevent childh ...
    A recent study of vitamin D levels in pregnant women has revealed a remarkable finding. Children born to women with a lower vitamin D level during pregnancy have increased body fat later in childhood compared to those children whose mothers have a higher vitamin D level...
  • Man charged with importing, selling millions o ...
    Despite the cumbersome medication approval process of the Food and Drug Adminstration's (FDA) bloated, controlling bureaucracy, a number of good, proven drugs and treatments remain "legal" elsewhere in the world, but not in the United States. We are told that's because...
  • Cell phones: 50 percent increase in frontal an ...
    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? The Department of Health in the UK would...
  • Prescription anxiety drug abuse tied to rising ...
    In an age when the nation's healthcare costs are out of control and policymakers are trying to find ways to reduce burdens on an already over-taxed healthcare system, an investigation in New York City has found that abuse of prescription anxiety drugs is rising fast...

Threat Level

  • Court Wary of Overturning Warrantless Spy Case ...
    PASADENA, California -- A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration's arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued. A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard an hour of oral arguments here by the ...
  • Report: Obama Ordered Stuxnet to Continue Afte ...
    Despite an error in the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's uranium enrichment program, which caused the malware to spread wildly out of control and attack computers outside of Iran in 2010, President Barack Obama ordered U.S. officials who were behind the attack to continue the operation.
  • Why Antivirus Companies Like Mine Failed to Ca ...
    All antivirus companies, including F-Secure, missed detecting the Flame malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general, says Mikko Hypponen, chief security officer for Finnish security firm F-Secure.
  • In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do ...
    Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial "Do Not Track" feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants. That includes one of Microsoft's chief rivals -- Google. ...
  • Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, S ...
    House lawmakers debated Thursday the Obama administration's request that they reauthorize legislation granting the government broad, warrantless electronic surveillance powers. The members appeared likely that they eventually would give the administration what it wants.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt's Massachusetts Excuse: I Inherited a Rec ...
    For months, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has falsely claimed that President Obama "did not cause this recession, but he made it worse." This week, Romney charged that Obama "started off by blaming George Bush, and that worked for a while but, you know, after three and a half years that ...
  • Romney's Ideal President Sounds Familiar
    In Las Vegas Tuesday, Mitt Romney looked to his own biography in proposing a new requirement for anyone seeking the presidency: "In addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the Constitution, I'd like it also to sa ...
  • Romney Campaign Attacks Stimulus Mitt Once Sup ...
    Tuesday's Politico headline shouting "Mitt Romney camp to attack stimulus" may not be surprising, but it is more than a little ironic. After all, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act worked; most economists - including the nonpartisan CBO and some of John McCain's own 2008 advisers - ...
  • Memorial Day Memories from John McCain
    Memorial Day should not be a day for politics. It should be a time for all Americans to remember and honor the men and women in uniform who sacrificed - and still sacrifice - all to make our freedom possible. And yet John McCain, a man whose own service in Vietnam deserves the respect and grat ...
  • Romney Resurrects Bush's "Hollow Military" Myth
    Mitt Romney and his GOP allies want George W. Bush to disappear. Acutely aware of polling that shows Americans still blame President Bush for the economic calamity from which the U.S. is still recovering, Karl Rove advised Barack Obama "this is not a good message to run on." For his part, Mitt ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Facing Funding Cuts, Continuation Schools Stru ...
    California continuation schools are in trouble -- but some are racking up triumphs, even amid the fiscal pain.
  • Guest Post: Joshua Ellis revisits the Grim Mea ...
    This is the first in a series of guest posts I’ve solicited, that will appear over the comings weeks and months. Kicking things off, our friend Joshua Ellis updates his notion of The Grim Meathook Future to give us: The Grim Meathook Future, Revisited Several years ago, I wrote this thing  ...
  • Kucinich Leads Congress in Demanding Accountab ...
    Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington May 31, 2012 Drone Killings a Stain Upon Our Nation Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has opposed the use of combat drones against suspected terrorists abroad since the first known attack in 2004. In February 2006, he asked the Direct ...
  • Obama Accelerated Cyberwar With Iran
    Dandelion Salad Jun 1, 2012 by RTAmerica As if the United States hasn’t already been involved in enough wars, the US government has admitted its role in launching a secret cyber attack against Iran. Since the first day Obama took office, the plot named “Olympic Games” was used ...
  • Bookmarks for 2012-06-01
    U B U W E B – Film & Video: Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle@ubuweb: Guy Debord's film "The Society of the Spectacle" in its entirety (90 minutes, black and white, 1973): http://t.co/40usB8oW http://twitter.com/ubuweb/status/208556641614958593(tags:ifttt twi ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Amelia Earhart’s Fate May Be Solved
    A small cosmetics jar linked to Amelia Earhart has been found on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. This supports the theory that she landed and later died on the island. The jar was found broken into five pieces by researchers from The International Group fo ...
  • Dark Chocolate Prevents Heart Attacks And Strokes
      Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the likelihood of having heart attacks and strokes in people with metabolic syndrome, according to a new study. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors that make you more likely to develop heart disease and diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is the ...
  • Dark Chocolate Prevents Heart Attacks And Strokes
      Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the likelihood of having heart attacks and strokes in people with metabolic syndrome, according to a new study. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors that make you more likely to develop heart disease and diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is the ...
  • We’re At 400 Carbon PPM Now. Thank You To The ...
      Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recently measured levels of CO2 in the atmosphere at 400 parts per million. This is the first time in 800,000 years this has happened on planet Earth. This historical transformation, however, has remained largely abs ...
  • 1 Million Strong
      By Will Bates This is huge. Two weeks ago we joined a diverse coalition to launch an all-out offensive to end fossil fuel subsidies, and we weren’t quite sure how it would turn out. Well, we’ve currently got 958,422 signatures on our combined global petition — almost a m ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Heightened Security and Intimidation Tactics S ...
    In comparison to past Bilderberg events, this year’s meeting in Chantilly, Virginia is seeing a vast increase in the level of security surrounding the event site. From large temporary fences and entrance closures to background checks of guests and threats of machine guns and snipers, it is appar ...
  • Québec government walks away from talks with s ...
    The Québec government has pulled out of talks with student leaders meant to end the province's months-long tuition crisis. Premier Jean Charest said a "big gap" remains between the province and students on the issue, and he's "the first to be disappointed" at the lack of a deal. St ...
  • World Sea Turtle Day Celebrated by Venezuelan ...
    Raffle with prizes after the event The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington, DC, and the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC) invite the public to celebrate World Sea Turtle Day with a panel discussion this Monday, June 4 ...
  • The War on the Syrian People. - Syria
    Editor's Comment: In his article, "Hands Off Syria!" Chris Marsden does a good job of reasserting and explaining the West's malicious scheme leading to the bombing and Libyanization of Syria. But he's careful with his analysis of the perpetrators of the Houla Massacre - too careful: "How ...
  • Shame on You, Dan Rather - Media Critiques
    Rather’s False Reporting on Venezuela & President Hugo Chavez   Since 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 hyp ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Does Mitt Romney Support Scott Roeder?
    By @KYYellowDog Seriously, somebody ask him that question. I doubt Willard even knows who he is - and why should he? What does a repug billionaire care about just another redneck, red-state murderer? But the repug base sure as fuck cares - Scott Roeder is their hero. And Willard better learn how ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy BY: "Freedom"
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by RATMVEVO on Mar 26, 2011
  • Friday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC My internet picks the most inconvenient times to flake out, but flake out it does. Forty year old copper wiring is one of the things that I have to put up with to live in this awesome old (cornerstone says 1905) building. So while all sorts of news was breaking on Thursday, I was cur ...
  • Mitt's Birther Backer
  • Jennifer Gets Her Keith On
    By @KYYellowDog She still needs to stop tolerating lying repugs and to find a professional production crew somewhere, but dayum, this one had me standing and cheering.

Care 2

  • Write now to save South Delta's farmland ! PLE ...
    The farmland in Delta is some of the finest in Canada, is very important wildlife habitat and has been under increasing development pressure as a result of the Gateway Deltaport expansion plans being pushed by Victoria and Ottawa. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   No ...
  • VandanaShiva: A Global Call: Eco Warriors, Arise!
    "None of us are immune to the crisis, or the response to it. None of us are bystanders. we are all immersed in the processes that are either threatening the planet and our own future or finding creative ways to shape a sustainable and just future." Submitted by Judy C. to Green Lifestyle   ...
  • Susan W. - My Care2
    Susan has come over from facebook, she is a wonderful activist,,, I"m asking all my animal rights friends to add her. She is a powerful voice for the animals. Thank you Submitted by Kathy Chadwell to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Warnings on Chicken Treats Made in China
    Though many of us diligently study the ingredient list and nutrition labels on our pets' food and treats, we might not think it important to check the country of origin. Now may be the time to start. The FDA has issued a third Submitted by Agnes N. to Animals  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • Indonesia's Ambitious Rainforest Plan Not Goin ...
    Indonesia's goal is more ambitous than what we've seen from other major emerging economies. However, improved forest maps and data gathering have found that, so far, the moratorium is not having the effect many had hoped for: Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-i ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • More Terrific Economic News
    Okay Lola828 or PPAA, let’s see you spin these turds. Here are the headlines from the Financial Times today: China’s factory output weakens Weaker manufacturing data will add to the pressure on Beijing to take more decisive action to support China’s flagging economy An important gauge of C ...
  • P.U.M.A. Day 2012 – Some of Us Will Never Forg ...
    Four years ago today, Barack Obama was running for the office of President of the United States.  The difference four years ago was that he had an opponent who was also seeking to be the nominee for the Democratic Party in the general election.  Of course, that opponent was then-Senator Hillary ...
  • Barack Obama, Moron?
    For a guy touted by the media as the “SMARTEST GUY EVAH” to inhabit the White House, he seems a tad dim. Let’s ignore, for the moment, his claim that Austrian speak Austria. That Afghans speak Arabic. That there are 57 States in America. But Polish Death Camps? Watch as Obama b ...
  • Nobel Peace Prize Guy Really Proud of Extra Ju ...
    Proof there is a God. Remember that Barack Obama who was given the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2009? The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and coop ...
  • A Watershed Moment in World History?
    The events of the last three weeks in Europe, i.e., the collapse of the Euro and the political chaos in Greece, are but a prelude to more dramatic and consequential events. The European economy is struggling to stay afloat. Germany has been fine and is helping keep the rest of Europe above water ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Talk of the Times: Gloucester activist charged ...
    Talk of the Times: Gloucester activist charged in coal protest Gloucester Daily Times By All Hands A Gloucester resident was one of five environmental activists arrested after they chained themselves to a coal barge in protest of mountaintop removal mining operations in West Virginia. Catherine- ...
  • US House, Witnesses Clash over Spruce Mine Per ...
    C-SPAN US House, Witnesses Clash over Spruce Mine Permit WVNS-TV Since being issued the largest permit for a mountaintop removal project in history, Arch Coal has The battle for the Spruce Mine No. 1 mine permit was analyzed by a US House committee Friday morning. State tax revenues in West Virg ...
  • Maria Gunnoe Testifies Before Congress: The Fa ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net Maria Gunnoe Testifies Before Congress: The Fact Is Mountaintop Removal Is ... AlterNet (blog) In a heroic effort to overcome the theatrics of a Congressional hearing gone wild on Big Coal slogans and anti-EPA fervor, Goldman Prize-winning activist Maria Gunnoe brought the ...
  • Quaker group takes on PNC Bank - phillyBurbs.com
    Quaker group takes on PNC Bank phillyBurbs.com Berry was among an unknown number of people who began closing their PNC Bank accounts Friday to protest the Pittsburgh-based bank's lending to companies that perform mountaintop removal coal mining, a controversial form of mining in which the to ...
  • US House, witnesses clash over Spruce Mine per ...
    C-SPAN US House, witnesses clash over Spruce Mine permit State Journal Since being issued the largest permit for a mountaintop removal project in history, Arch Coal has The battle for the Spruce Mine No. 1 mine permit was analyzed by a US House committee this morning. CSX Corp. on Friday announc ...

Memeorandum

  • Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business recor ...
    Rodney Hawkins / CBS News: Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business record doesn't connote endorsement  —  (CBS News) PATERSON, N.J. - Former President Bill Clinton, seeking to contain the political damage from his earlier praise of Mitt Romney's “sterling” business ...
  • Clinton: Mitt comments were twisted (Maggie Ha ...
    Maggie Haberman / Politico: Clinton: Mitt comments were twisted  —  CBS News reports on Bill Clinton's follow-up on his comments on Bain and Mitt Romney on CNN last night: … Clinton did, however, basically repeat the words that will end up in Republican response ads to th ...
  • Obama Returns to Chicago Home to Sleep, Cook, ...
    ABCNEWS: Obama Returns to Chicago Home to Sleep, Cook, ‘Putter in My Backyard’  —  CHICAGO — President Obama is back in his adopted hometown tonight for three campaign fundraisers and an overnight stay (sans family) in his private home on the city's South Side. ...
  • Democrats Cool On Wisconsin (Sally Kohn/The Da ...
    Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast: Democrats Cool On Wisconsin  —  The left has seemed more comfortable being angry than channeling that emotion into influence, writes Sally Kohn.  —  When Scott Walker, freshly elected as governor, dropped his bombshell proposal to re ...
  • On the heels of a depressing jobs report, Bara ...
    Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: On the heels of a depressing jobs report, Barack Obama is raising $5 million at fundraisers in Chicago this Friday - including one co-hosted by Marilyn Katz.  —  So who is Marilyn Katz?  According to the New York Times, she's the person who ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Another attempt to save the planet
    This month's Earth Summit in Rio must prove the doubters wrong: the Green Economy can mean more than profits for business. Farming is a good place to start, argues Barbara Unmüßig.The Rio+20 conference, which begins on June 20, will discuss strategies for building a "Green Econom ...
  • A fallacy of steel and glass
    America's flashy skylines consume far more energy than buildings in China, explains James Connelly. As Chinese cities modernise, they would be wise to avoid the mistakes of the west.Among its many environmental challenges, China faces an enormous increase in energy consumption by buildings over ...
  • Pollution in paradise
    The idyll of Kashmir is ill prepared for an influx of tourists, writes Athar Parvaiz from north-east India. Environmentalists fear the features that attract visitors could prove the region’s undoing.India’s seventeenth century Moghul emperor Jahangir is probably best known for his co ...
  • Catalogue of a crisis
    A Chinese student’s online database of food safety scandals – which crashed after getting 25,000 hits in two hours – is a symbol of the nation’s growing fears. Wu Jiawen and Han Xiaorong report.Chinese website Throw it out the Window crashed earlier this month after being ...
  • We’re all farmers now
    Fans of Community Supported Agriculture don’t care about certificates, write Yin Chuntao and Zhou Wei. For rising numbers of Chinese citizens, “organic” means trust and support between buyer and seller.At a monthly “friends of farming” dinner held by Green Heartland ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Court Wary of Overturning Warrantless Spy Case ...
    PASADENA, California -- A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration's arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued. A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard an hour of oral arguments here by the ...
  • Report: Obama Ordered Stuxnet to Continue Afte ...
    Despite an error in the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's uranium enrichment program, which caused the malware to spread wildly out of control and attack computers outside of Iran in 2010, President Barack Obama ordered U.S. officials who were behind the attack to continue the operation.
  • Why Antivirus Companies Like Mine Failed to Ca ...
    All antivirus companies, including F-Secure, missed detecting the Flame malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general, says Mikko Hypponen, chief security officer for Finnish security firm F-Secure.
  • In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do ...
    Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial "Do Not Track" feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants. That includes one of Microsoft's chief rivals -- Google. ...
  • Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, S ...
    House lawmakers debated Thursday the Obama administration's request that they reauthorize legislation granting the government broad, warrantless electronic surveillance powers. The members appeared likely that they eventually would give the administration what it wants.

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

Marler Blog

  • "Mother Nature" sickened 146 with at least 36 ...
    Karen Robinson-Jacobs of the Dallas Morning News jumped into the Listeria Cantaloupe case today with her story: Texas shipper in cantaloupe listeria case says it has no bankruptcy plans. I spoke to Ms. Robinson-Jacobs about the impact of the bankruptcy of the grower of the Listeria-tainted cant ...
  • What's up with Hepatitis A?
    There is a lot of Hepatitis A in the news over the last few months. The Wilkes County Health Department in the last week administered Hepatitis A vaccinations to 660 people after an employee of a local food establishment was diagnosed with the virus on May 13, said Debbie Nicholson, the departm ...
  • Damn, do I need to check my chickens' poop?
    I have nine seemigly happy heathly chickens in my backyard producing about 60 eggs a week.  Are they Salmonella free?  I guess it is about time to test. Today, according to the CDC a total of 93 persons infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Newport, and Sal ...
  • Great News for Consumers and the Beef Industry ...
    MSNBC’s JoNel Aleccia reported this morning “Testing for new E. coli strains in beef finally to begin.” The move implements long-delayed federal regulations aimed at a group of E. coli bacteria collectively known as “the Big Six,” bugs capable of causing severe inf ...
  • Food Safety - It's a Global Issue
    Food products now come to the United States from over 250,000 foreign establishments in 200 countries. Indeed, 15 percent of fruits, 20 percent of vegetables, and 80 percent of seafood come from overseas. And, with the consumption of imported foods growing, we have seen an increase in recalls a ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Star Wars Prius commercial uses ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Help us, plug-in cars, you're our only hope. In his original deal with Fox for the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas famously kept the licensing rights for himself. That deal - unusual at the time - ha ...
  • Report: Toyota Prius now third-most-popular ca ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Wagon, Hatchback, Toyota Think you're seeing more Toyota Prius models on the road these days? Well, you are. Automotive News is reporting that all those increased Prius sales in the U.S. and Japan (see here and here and here and here etc.) have turned the P ...
  • Official: High-MPG Taylors drive a Volkswagen ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Volkswagen, Diesel Watch out, Wayne Gerdes, there's a new hypermiling crew in town. John and Helen Taylor - Volkswagen calls them "mileage experts" and "the world's most fuel-efficient couple" - recently drove a stock 2012 Passat TDI SE all the way from Houston, Texas to ...
  • Official: Toyota RAV4 EV priced at $49,800
    Filed under: Car Buying, Crossover, Toyota, Electric Announced almost two years ago, Toyota finally gave us some more details about the was the all-electric RAV4 EV will be sold to the general public during the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles today. The important number? The MS ...
  • BMW recalling 24,000 vehicles over emissions p ...
    Filed under: Recalls, BMW, Diesel BMW wants to take another look at over 24,000 vehicles it's sold in the United States. No, this isn't just to check out how they're holding up in the real world, it's to make sure the smoke coming out of the tailpipe is clean enough. BMW is recalling a tot ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • WikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s protracted effort to fight extradition to Sweden suffered a body blow this week. Britain’s Supreme Court upheld the arrest warrant, issued in December 2010. After the court announced its split 5-2 decision, the justices su ...
  • Report On Potential Arrests at 2012 RNC Cites ...
    An article about protesters coming to Tampa, Florida, for the 2012 Republican National Convention features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking about her arrest at the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, Minnesota. Goodman and two producers were unlawfully arrested and subjected to excessive force ...
  • Part 2: “Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, ...
    We continue our conversation with Charles Ferguson, director of the Oscar award-winning documentary, “Inside Job,” about the 2008 financial crisis. In his new book, “Predator Nation,” he argues “the role of Democrats has been at least as great as the role of Republicans” in causing the crisis. ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's UP w/ Chris Hayes
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s UP w/ Chris Hayes on Saturday, May 26th at 8 am ET.
  • Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Allen said the NATO summit in Chicago, which left him feeling “heartened,” “was a powerful signal of interna ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney Economics: Republicans on Romney’ ...
    Published on Jun 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: https://my.barackobama.com/romneyeconomicsgopvid Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. By the time Romney left office, state debt had increased, the size of government h ...
  • MA Gov. Deval Patrick on Romney’s Time a ...
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  • David Axelrod on Romney’s Record as Mass ...
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  • Broken Promises: Romney’s Massachusetts ...
    Published on May 31, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http://www.RomneyEconomics.com Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. Here’s what Massachusetts got instead: Jobs: 47th out of 50 states in job creation Taxes and ...
  • Obama Campaign To Hit Mitt Romney’s Abys ...
    Turns out Mitt Romney’s Bain record didn’t create jobs in Massachusetts (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Daily Kos By- Jed Lewison Wed May 30, 2012 at 07:18 AM PDT With ABC’s Jake Tapper reporting that the Obama campaign is about to unleash an attack on Mitt Romney’s weak job creation ...

Solari

  • Rockefellers and Rothschilds Unite
    Source:News.com.au The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday that Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, agreed to take a 37 per cent stake in Rockefeller Financial Services for an undisclosed amount. The financial marriage of convenience is designed to ...
  • Flame Cyber Attack: Israel Behind Largest Cybe ...
    By Lee Ferran, Alexander Marquardt and Colleen Curry Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable “toolkit” of cyber spying programs that is capable of remotely taking screenshots while the computer user works, recording audio conversations through the computer’s own micropho ...
  • Europe’s Debtors Must Pawn Their Gold for Euro ...
    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The German scheme — known as the European Redemption Pact — offers a form of “Eurobonds Lite” that can be squared with the German constitution and breaks the political logjam. It is a highly creative way out of the debt crisis, but is not a sof ...
  • Special Friday Broadcast: John Laughland on Europe
    British philosopher and historian John Laughland joins me this Friday for a special conversation on events unfolding in Europe, the financial pressures on the Eurozone and the euro and what that means for the way ahead. The interview will be posted here for Solari Report subscribers on Friday. ...
  • Transcript of Catherine’s 5.24.12 Interv ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s May 24, 2012 interview of Jamie Bartholomew Aller and Andrew Bartholomew on How Do I Find a Great Local Bank? – The Next Generation is available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: And now we’re going to turn to our topic of the evening – “How ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • About the May jobs report – a few new jo ...
    Summary:  Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise (unpleasant noise recently).  The year-to-date and 12-month changes are more revealing.  We remain in a slow recovery, somewhat faster than in 2010.  The results of the past two months (n ...
  • The global economy is sitting on a volcano. W ...
    Summary:  Previous posts have discussed our perilous situation and how we got into this predicament.  Let’s take a step back and ask why we are here.  The says much about where we’re going. Contents We’re living on a volcano Let’s look at the volcano How big an eruption m ...
  • The Republic has died. Let’s decide how ...
    Summary:  Here we discuss the hidden history of our generation (hidden to us, obvious to future generations). At the end we announce a contest.  What kind of monument best commemorates the two men responsible for killing the Constitution? The Constitution has died. It lived only in our hearts.  ...
  • The Republic has died. Let’s decide how ...
    Summary:  Here we discuss the hidden history of our generation (hidden to us, obvious to future generations). At they end we announce a contest.  What kind of monument best commemorates the two men responsible for killing the Constitution? The Constitution has died. It lived only in our hearts.  ...
  • Back to the future (we fail because we do not ...
    Summary:  Death to the enemies of America!  The US government acts as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. We’ve tried this before.  It failed then.  It will fail again.  But this time we’re killing on a larger geographic footprint, outside the context of “war”, for ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Iran Negotiations: A Marathon Not A Sprint
    The Iran Negotiations: A Marathon Not A Sprint: Reza Marashi, the Research Director at the National Iranian American Council and a former desk officer at the State Department, has offered his reflections on the negotiations with Iran. He provides a balanced and sober assessment of the state of p ...
  • Stuxnets are Not in the US National Interest: ...
    The United States government has apparently struck a blow against the Iranian nuclear enrichment capability by using Stuxnet to disable centrifuges.   While this cyber weapon destroyed centrifuges and seized up the enrichment process, the cost in American cyber power ultimately will no ...
  • Rafsanjani Praises Effects of Facebook
    Chairman of the Expediency Council and prominent Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani at a national conference on “developments of the Middle East and the Future of the Regional Order” spoke about the influence of social media and praised Facebook for providing an avenue to combat injustice a ...
  • Grand Strategy: Good but Unlikely
    I really enjoyed this post by the always excellent Daveed Gartenstein-Ross as a counter to anti-interventionists with regard to Syria. Daveed lays out arguments made by wunderkind Dan Trombly and his posts against intervening in Syria; mainly that acting in Syria does not further American intere ...
  • Egypt's Prospects for Democracy
    Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council‘s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, sat down with Reza Akhlaghi, senior writer at Foreign Policy Association Blogs, to discuss the Egyptian elections. What, in your opinion, were the key driving factors behind the mass revolt against H ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • 8020 Games…
    …and the Mets have a no-hitter! Congratulations, Johan Santana! And thank you! [Photo Credit: Joshua Tucker, staring in awe at his TV as he realized that this moment had finally arrived…]
  • As Wisconsin Goes...
    Only five more days till the Wisconsin recall, and surprisingly—given Governor Scott Walker’s advantage thus far on the money and polling front—it looks like it’s going to be a tight match. But as exciting as the race will be, that doesn’t mean it’s time to crown it the Great Predictor of the 2 ...
  • Are the Winds Shifting Towards Wisconsin Democ ...
    There's been quite a bit of bad news for the recall activists hoping to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. A close primary at the beginning of the month divided party supporters and muddied the unified front activists formed when they collected over a million signatures to prompt the recall. ...
  • The Insane Scenario Unfolding Before Our Eyes
    As expected, Mitt Romney has had a field day with today’s dismal jobs report. In an interview with CNBC, the Republican nominee went to town on President Obama. Here are a few choice quotes: “The President’s policies and his handling of the economy have been dealt a harsh indictment today.” “Th ...
  • Friday Music Break
    In the wake of today's exceedingly poor jobs report, I thought about giving you something melancholy for the Friday Music Break, and I was leaning toward folk guitar hero Richard Thompson's Beeswing, an achingly beautiful tale of love and loss. But then I decided to mix things up. So here's Tho ...

Buzzflash

  • The US Progression of Amassing the Nation's We ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Last week, I was excited to report from Madison, Wisconsin, for Truthout on the recall election. What I found out through interviews was that "Win or Lose on June 5, Advocates Agree Wisconsin Progressive Movement Must Continue."read more
  • Bernie Sanders | Who's a Greedy Geezer?
    SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Raising the Social Security payroll tax cap would strengthen the retirement program while affecting only a small percentage of the wealthiest workers in the United States, according to a new study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Th ...
  • Romney and The Donald: "Stupid" is the New "Smart"
    MARK PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT OK - let's just admit it! We live in a world where "stupid" is becoming the new "smart". Case in point is The Donald claiming that Obama wasn't born in America. Not only is this an assault on our collective IQ, but the message actually works against Republic ...
  • The Poison of Drone Warfare Seeps Into the Future
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The poison seeps slowly into the future. No one notices. "The Obama administration," the Wall Street Journal informs us, "plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone tec ...
  • Surge in African American Support for Same-Sex ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "The black community is in an adulterous relationship with President Obama." - Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church For decades, conservatives have been pushing the notion that in terms of traditional social values, African Americ ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pluto is not a planet
    Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...
  • The matter of the lost dark matter
    Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...
  • A QR code for emergencies
    Lifesquare is offering users in Marin County, California, a simple way to embed their essential health information, blood group, GP’s name and address, next of kin, medications, allergies, pre-existing conditions, etc into a QR code that emergency responders could scan at the scene of an i ...
  • Lycopene and cancer prevention
    Over the years there has been a lot of tomato talk, about how lycopene, the red pigment found in this fruit (yes, it’s definitely a fruit, it’s got seeds), could ward off cancer, specifically prostate cancer. It has also been linked to protecting us from cardiovascular disease, per t ...
  • Are diamondoids forever too?
    Adamantane, the invincible molecule, was discovered in petroleum in 1933 and stimulated a whole new field in chemistry, that of research into polyhedral organic compounds. It might be thought of as the tiniest possible building block of diamond, which is after all an infinite 3D network of carbo ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • NWC Demands Release of FDA Spying Documents
    On Wednesday May 30, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center filed a motion for preliminary injunction under the Freedom of Information Act in U.S. District Court in DC seeking to compel the FDA to immediately release all documents concerning the FDA's spying program. Pursuant to the rules ...
  • NWC Demands Release of FDA Spying Documents
    On Wednesday May 30, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center filed a motion for preliminary injunction under the Freedom of Information Act in U.S. District Court in DC seeking to compel the FDA to immediately release all documents concerning the FDA's spying program. Pursuant to the rules ...
  • New Sea Turtle Protections in Shrimp Fleet Deb ...
    WHAT: Federal fishery managers will hold public hearings on a new proposal to close a deadly loophole in shrimp fishery laws to protect sea turtles. WHEN and WHERE: • June 4, 6-8 p.m., Larose Regional Park and Civic Center, 307 East 5th Street, Larose, LA. • June 5, 4-6 p.m., Belle C ...
  • New Sea Turtle Protections in Shrimp Fleet Deb ...
    WHAT: Federal fishery managers will hold public hearings on a new proposal to close a deadly loophole in shrimp fishery laws to protect sea turtles. WHEN and WHERE: • June 4, 6-8 p.m., Larose Regional Park and Civic Center, 307 East 5th Street, Larose, LA. • June 5, 4-6 p.m., Belle C ...
  • 10 Recommendations for Increasing the Impact o ...
    At today's event with White House Domestic Policy Director Cecilia Muñoz, Doing What Works, a project of the Center for American Progress will release a report detailing how the United States can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of existing federal and state investments in ea ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • How Corporate Socialism Destroys
    David Cay Johnston A proposal to spend $250 million of taxpayer money on a retail project here illustrates the damage state and local subsidies do by taking from the many to benefit the already rich few. Nationwide state and local subsidies ...
  • Imagining the Post-Occupy Social Movement
    Shamus Cooke If one were to honestly assess Occupy's current strengths and weaknesses as a movement, confusion must be the inevitable result. This is because Occupy is not one movement, but an umbrella term that encompasses several ...
  • Unwelcome Guests: Work Visa Programs Cheat Glo ...
    Michelle Chen When immigration comes up in Washington, politicians either politely ignore the issue or engage in lively debate on how best to punish and get rid of undocumented workers. Yet lawmakers give a strikingly warm embrace to certai ...
  • Compromise Coming Home to Roost: The Real Pro ...
    John Atcheson The stock market’s down.  GDP is on life-support. Jobs numbers are cratering.  The economy is tanking. And you can bet Republicans will jump on this disaster to push their starve the beast strategy of making go ...
  • The World Class Struggle: The Geography of Protest
    Immanuel Wallerstein When times are good, and the world-economy is expanding in terms of new surplus-value produced, the class struggle is muted. It never goes away, but as long as there is a low level of unemployment and the real incomes o ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.
  • Children will not be bored at Blue Plum
    While the music is the headlining activity for this week’s Blue Plum Festival in Johnson City, parts of the downtown will resemble a playground for the kids.
  • Reporter's Notebook: Water wars waged at C ...
    Drinking water is the subject of two completely separate campaigns in Crescent City. At Monday’s City Council meeting, they collided. Del Norte Unified School District Nutrition Coordinator Deborah Kravitz gave a presentation on the “Rethink your Drink” program, which aims to get people, especia ...
  • ABC insiders spill … Baillieu kills uni jobs … ...
    From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours … Fears for ABC’s ‘churnalism sweatshop’. Yesterday’s story by Andrew Dodd on the ABC’s currently unreleased report on the News Gathering... Read more on... Read more on the blog...
  • ABC insiders spill … Baillieu kills uni jobs … ...
    From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours … Fears for ABC’s ‘churnalism sweatshop’. Yesterday’s story by Andrew Dodd on the ABC’s currently unreleased report on the News Gathering... Read more on the... Read more on the blog...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • CAP Mourns The Passing Of Marion Sandler
    Marion Sandler, one of the first and longest-serving CEOs of a Fortune 500 company and Founding Director of the Center for American Progress, past away last night. Sandler was a dear friend of the Center, a pioneering woman in finance, a coach and conscience for progressive organizations, and a ...
  • Romney Won’t Help 11.5 Million Americans ...
    Mitt Romney won’t offer “targeted relief for the 11.5 million American homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth,” Lanhee Chen, his campaign’s policy director, told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt. Chen described such policies as insufficient for sta ...
  • All 67 Florida Election Supervisors Suspend Go ...
    On Thursday, the Justice Department demanded Florida Governor Rick Scott end his extensive purge of registered voters from the rolls because it was in violation of federal law. Scott still hasn’t formally responded but his county election supervisors have already taken action. The Palm Bea ...
  • Norquist: Jeb Bush Insulted Mitt Romney By Aba ...
    Grover Norquist lashed out at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Friday, the latest Republican to buck the conservative leader’s anti-tax pledge. During an appearance on CNN’s the Situation Room, a visibly frustrated Norquist — president of Americans for Tax Reform — sai ...
  • Debunking A Gish Gallop Of Scientific Denial F ...
    by Dana Nuccitelli, via Skeptical Science Climate contrarians often exhibit what we have described as the 5 characteristics of scientific denialism.  These characteristics involve various ways in which people will deny scientific reality by rejecting and misrepresenting data and evidence.  These ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Elections Canada: The Fix is IN
    Holy fucking shit! In May, 2011, the anti-democratic harpercons stole a majority government (by a margin of 6,000 votes) based on a nation-wide campaign of election fraud. As a result, harper is driving a hearse through parliamentary procedures to ram through a whole gamut of right-wing nut-job ...
  • Jeffrey Simpson States the Obvious
    Somebody left a copy of the Globe & Mail at the coffee shop. Leafed through it. A Jeffrey Simpson column "The lingering gloom of recession." I thought: "This'll be good for a laugh." Dude got paid a decent sum to write a very pedestrian survey of the current economic climate:Four years after ...
  • The Economic Consequences of Electoral Fraud
    A lot of people were talking about yesterday's National Post story about the NDP's high standing in the polls. According to the poll, if an election were held now, there would be an NDP minority government. This isn't all that surprising. The present parliamentary majority enjoyed by the harperc ...
  • Where are the libertarians on Bill 78?
    Genuine question. Have any of our right-wing libertarian friends spoken out against Charest's "emergency" law, Bill 78? The one that makes any "demonstration" of 50 people or more illegal if they're held without the state's permission? Something else to be alarmed at: As capitalism goes down the ...
  • What PLG Said
    In his pogge post: "So how'd that Libya thing work out?"So I'd like to suggest that next time around, or for that matter this time around (Syria) we just keep in mind how, no matter how good the spin for any given military intervention seems to be, it is almost certainly a really horrible, ev ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Major League Baseball to ring in 2012 draft se ...
    Six baseball legends will go to Wall Street on Monday to ring the opening bell and commemorate the 2012 First-Year Play Draft.
  • Toronto janitor accused of attempt to blow up ...
    Police allege the head custodian of St. Josephs College, an all-girl private Catholic school, cut a gas line and helped light a stove in an attempt to cause an explosion.
  • Magnotta believed to be in France
    It is believed that the man who cut up a man in Montreal and mailed body parts to Ottawa is now in France. A INTERPOL Red Notice has been issued for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, formerly from Toronto.
  • Partial lunar eclipse set for Monday, ahead of ...
    June will prove to be yet another month of spectacular stargazing events. On Jun. 4, millions of people will be able to witness a partial lunar eclipse, which is just a few short weeks after the recent solar eclipse.
  • Victim Identified In Dismemberment Case As Man ...
    Bizarre details continue to emerge regarding the online profile of Luca Rocco Magnotta, the man accused of the murder and dismemberment of the now identified victim, Lin Jun, as the manhunt for the alleged killer goes international.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Tell Harper to Abolish Nuclear Weapons!
    Tell Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that nuclear weapons need to be abolished!
  • No Russian threat in Arctic
    The Harper government's dire warnings of a Russian threat in the Arctic -- at one time a regular feature of its campaign to sell Canadians on the "need" to buy the F-35 -- do not reflect its own behind-closed-doors assessment of the situation.
  • Tanks and drones are coming to town
    Thousands of military, industry, and government representatives have converged in Ottawa for Canada’s largest annual arms and defence industry showcase.
  • June 2nd is Nuclear Abolition Day!
    Sign up to join thousands of other Canadians on June 2nd, to send your letter to Stephen Harper and your local MP saying "Abolish Nuclear Weapons!"
  • Harper: No Afghan mission extension
    Prime Minister Harper has pledged that no Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan after the end of the current training mission in 2014. But does he mean it?

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
    April 11, 2012 PBS By Christina Bellantoni and Katelyn Polantz “This could help Ron Paul. It really makes you wonder though if Santorum had pressure to bail so Romney can get the nomination which would automatically make Obama the winner. Romney has no chance. If he’s the nominee, le ...
  • TSA Admits $1B Nude Body Scanner Fleet Worthless
    April 11, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson “Why isn’t the TSA responding or even trying to defend these allegations with sound proof that this is false? It’s because they know this to be true. The scanners do NOT work.” –KTRN A TSA screener has lifted to lid ...
  • Health-Care Law Will Add $340 Billion To Defic ...
    April 11, 2012 The Washington Post By Lori Montgomery President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the boar ...
  • What Is ObamaCare?
    April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Paul Craig Roberts Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threa ...
  • Defense Department To Further Militarize U.S. ...
    April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The future is here.  The robots are coming.”  –KTRN Last year I reported on the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, wherein local law enforcement agencies can obtain surplus military hardware through a website, only having to pay to pick up ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com 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 gi ...
  • Why Do Economists Say that Ron Paul Would Be t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhy Do Economists Say that Ron Paul Would Be the Best President for the Economy? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com PhD Economists Endorse Ron Paul A number of well-known PhD economists – such as Marc Faber, Tho ...
  • Big Ben to be renamed Elizabeth Tower
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Britain’s famed parliament clock tower Big Ben is set to be renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honor of the queen’s diamond jubilee, a report said Friday. Prime Minister David Cameron is among 33 ...
  • Lives and Land Destroyed: Ethiopia for Sale
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By Graham Peebles 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 ...
  • Jay Smooth decries ‘slut-shaming by associatio ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com First Lady Michelle Obama surprised observers this week when she answered a question from People Magazine about who she would be if she could be anyone in the world by replaying, “Beyonce.” Loop2 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Kucinich Leads Congress in Demanding Accountab ...
    Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington May 31, 2012 Drone Killings a Stain Upon Our Nation Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has opposed the use of combat drones against suspected terrorists abroad since the first known attack in 2004. In February 2006, he asked the Direct ...
  • Obama Accelerated Cyberwar With Iran
    Dandelion Salad Jun 1, 2012 by RTAmerica As if the United States hasn’t already been involved in enough wars, the US government has admitted its role in launching a secret cyber attack against Iran. Since the first day Obama took office, the plot named “Olympic Games” was used ...
  • “Join the Stream”: Sodastream´s ph ...
    Sent by Stephanie Westbrook Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Italy 31 May 2012 http://stopagrexcoitalia.org/news/comunicati/294-join-the-stream-eng.html “Join the Stream”: Sodastream’s phony commitment to the environment and real violations of international law PRESS RELEASE On May 27, t ...
  • Songs of War: Music as Torture
    Dandelion Salad May 30, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish The film, Songs of War explores the relationship between music and violence. The film’s main protagonist is Christopher Cerf. The award-winning musician is a composer for Sesame Street, a popular American children’s educational series. ...
  • UK Supreme Court backs Julian Assange extradit ...
    Dandelion Salad May 30, 2012 by RussiaToday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his marathon court battle in UK Supreme Court. The judge has granted him 14 days to make an application to reopen the extradition case – READ MORE http://on.rt.com/4krcuo Video: UK Supreme Court backs Ass ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Fear of arrest still prevents Israeli official ...
    Israeli official: "It's true that the new British law is better than the original one, which allowed any judge to issue a warrant, but the government promised it would be changed so that only the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Military Leaders Spea ...
    The rift in Israel between the political leadership’s push for an attack on Iran, and the security establishment’s opposition widened in recent weeks. Three new voices spoke out on the question of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel ranked alongside Iran as one of countri ...
    Israel has been ranked in the top four countries that most negatively influence the word, according to a global public opinion poll conducted by the BBC... Where do the negative evaluations of Israel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Police Target Activis ...
    On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest tents were set up in dozens... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Walid Khalidi: On Nakba Day 2012
    Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • U.S. to Rebalance Navy Fleet towards Asia-Pacific
    The United States will redeploy bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific Ocean by 2020, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Saturday.
  • Russia Wants Missile Defense Guarantees - Putin
    Russia will hold partner-like dialogue on missile defense with Western countries if it has guarantees that the missile shield is not directed against it, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday
  • Russian Ballistic Missiles to Cover Tracks
    Russia's mobile ballistic missile launchers are to be fitted with a new camouflage system that will cover their tracks on the ground, making it harder to detect them, Defense Ministry spokesman Vadim Koval said on Friday.
  • Russian Warship Sails to Baltic Sea for NATO N ...
    The Kaliningrad amphibious assault landing ship from Russia’s Baltic Fleet has set sail for the Baltic Sea to take part in the BALTOPS 2012 naval drills on June 1-16, the press service of the Western military district said.
  • Russian Military to Hold Over 1,000 Drills in ...
    The Russian Armed Forces will conduct over 1,000 command-and-staff and tactical exercises during the summer training period from June to November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

NewsWise

  • Cancer Therapy That Boosts Immune System Ready ...
    Two clinical trials led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in collaboration with other medical centers, testing experimental drugs aimed at restoring the immune system's ability to spot and attack cancer, have shown promising early results in patients with advanced non-small cell ...
  • Wisconsin Research Team Reveals Novel Way to T ...
    New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies.
  • Pets in South Carolina Will Not Be Abandoned, ...
    Things are literally up in the air if a hurricane approaches, but family pets in South Carolina should now breathe a little easier. In a recent survey of coastal residents about their hurricane plans, the one near-certainty was that pets would be going with their owners in any evacuation - 95 pe ...
  • Frog Embryos May Yield Secrets of Cancer Cell ...
    Developmental biologists are investigating craniofacial development in a frog model to better understand genetic control of cell migration. The work is expected to advance knowledge of how cancer cells migrate away from primary tumors to cause metastatic disease in new sites, among other processes.
  • Proposed NYC Ban on Large Sugary Drinks Is Ill ...
    David Just and Brian Wansink, food marketing experts and professors at Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, discuss why a proposed ban on sugary drinks in New York City will fail.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Pre-Trial Chamber Agrees with Dapo and Jen ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber has held that Article 95 of the Rome Statute applies to requests for surrender, thereby agreeing with Dapo and Jens and disagreeing with me. It’s a poorly reasoned decision, giving a completely counterintuitive reading to the ...
  • Weekend Roundup: May 26 – June 1, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Roger Alford marked Memorial Day with the Battle of Blenheim poem, and Deborah Pearlstein weighed in on the discussion about Chris Hayes’ controversial suggestion that the label of “hero” is too often used to refer to US service personne ...
  • The Citation Superstars of International Law: ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Fred Shapiro and Michelle Pearse have just published in the Michigan Law Review “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time.” It is a fascinating read, and includes some choice nuggets about international law scholarship. Among the more interesti ...
  • The Citation Superstars of International Law: ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Fred Shapiro and Michelle Pearse have just published in the Michigan Law Review “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time.” It is a fascinating read, and includes some choice nuggets about international law scholarship. Among the more interesti ...
  • Will the World’s Greatest Deliberative B ...
    by Julian Ku Rather than deride opponents as the "black helicopter" crowd, the proponents of US ratification of UNCLOS should take seriously the upcoming hearings as a chance to weigh the complex policy choices presented by UNCLOS.  Prof. Craig Allen of the University of Washington offers this ...

Public News Service

  • Where are Kids on the Campaign Trail?
    Where are Kids on the Campaign Trail? PHOENIX - The youngest Americans are being ignored so far in the presidential campaigns, say advocates for children in Arizona who are hoping that situation changes before November. Big business is steering the campaigns with multi-million-dollar attack adv ...
  • New AZ Law Puts Premium on Pool Pump Efficiency
    New AZ Law Puts Premium on Pool Pump Efficiency PHOENIX - It's the time of year when backyard swimming pools get the heaviest use in Arizona, but it's also when they cost the most to operate. A new state law says only high-efficiency pool pumps can be installed in new pools or as replacements fo ...
  • Stroke Awareness Month: It Can Happen at Any Age
    Stroke Awareness Month: It Can Happen at Any Age PHOENIX - May is Stroke Awareness Month in Arizona, and one of the messages is that it can happen at any age. Kyle Sheeler was a healthy and athletic 18-year-old when he suffered a stroke. Now, he helps educate others about the warning signs and ...
  • Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Tra ...
    Report: AZ Commerce Authority Lacks Needed Transparency PHOENIX - More than 40 percent of the taxpayer-funded corporate subsidies doled out in the first year of the Arizona Commerce Authority have not been disclosed, either by amount or recipient, according to a new report. The study from the A ...
  • Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise ...
    Remember Recess? Women More Likely to Exercise if it Feels Like Play PHOENIX - Women would be more physically active if it were more fun, according to a new survey. Kathi Di Nicola, public relations director for the American Cancer Society Minnesota, says the study found that 40 percent of wome ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
    by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...
  • More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
    by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...
  • USDA Receives Over 365,000 Public Comments Opp ...
    143 Farm, Fisheries, Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Send Secretary Vilsack Joint-Letter on Potential Threats to Human Health, American Farms  Public Comment Period Ends Friday, April 27 Over 140 groups and more than 365,000 citizens from across the country are urging the U.S. ...
  • California Cows Unhappy About Mad Cow Disease
    Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S.  This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow.  USDA has taken the position that milk from BSE-infected cattle is safe for human consumption.  Dair ...
  • FDA Announces Antibiotic Reduction Plan
    3 YEAR PHASE-OUT A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; CONTINUED OVERSIGHT NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for issuing industry guidance limiting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.  Ant ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Bad Cop, Worse Cop?
    A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...
  • Defend our Right to Create and Share!
    I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
  • Meet the Rollerman
    Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
  • RSA: The Empathic Civilization
    With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
  • Hitchiking the Platforms
    Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
    The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
  • Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Bill Clinton Endorses Mitt Romney? (Kinda..)
    WARNING – THIS VIA Rush Limpbaugh. But it does kinda show that the Rats do not like turning on King Rat Romney – or BAIN’s excessive campaign contributions! IMO – Pols are scared of Venture (Vulture) “Capitalists” …     First it was Cory Booker ...
  • Exclusive Commentary: Luka Magnotta, Name Chan ...
    From one of our great readers / listeners… Follow up on our story: Police Ignored Man Saying He’d Seen Luka Magnotta’s Murder & Dismemberment Video Online By Joel for deadlinelive.info First I’d like to say there are a number of facts about this sensational “Luka Magnotta&# ...
  • ‘Human barcode’ could make society more organi ...
    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 Elizabeth Moon last week rekindled the debate on whether it’s a good idea to “barcode&# ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – June 1 2012
    Jack Blood covers Breaking news from www.deadlinelive.info – Zombies gone Wild! More Bilderberg news, Bush gets his moment at Obama WH, Cyber warfare via Darpa, Cop shoots wife (accidentally) in the ass… and other stories from the front lines…
  • BILDERBERG 2012: Man Arrested & Forcefully Vac ...
    Forced shots!

The Air Vent

  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...
  • Steve McIntyre – FOI Granted
    Long time readers will be familiar with the Yamal saga.   Yamal is the name of a region which allegedly demonstrated proof of extreme recent warming in tree ring data.  Recently, after years,  Steve McIntyre was granted access to the total dataset site list. Unsurprisingly for paleoclimatology, ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: Outages, Apple, HQ, hackers, ...
    Facebook offers little information on outages — Facebook went down for many users over the course of several hours Thursday, but the company won’t share the extent of the outage or what caused it. Facebook said in a statement that … Continue reading →
  • Complete walkthrough of Facebook’s mobile Page ...
    Facebook recently released a standalone page management app for iOS devices which gives page owners better moderation tools and alerts about fan activity. Pages Manager has a similar format to Facebook’s existing iOS app, but it adds notifications and insights, … Continue reading →
  • Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012
    May proved a slow month for the social game industry, based on our lists for the Top 25 games of June 2012. Both lists saw notable traffic declines, few gains and no new game debuts. We start with the list … Continue reading →
  • Facebook puts proposed policy changes up to a ...
    Facebook has made proposed revisions to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities open to a user vote between now and June 8. The vote is the second of its kind since Facebook decided in 2009 to … Continue reading →
  • Video, photos, House MD, smileys, Chinese musi ...
    A digital photo app, DoAlbums, topped our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The Ethiopian land giveaway: what is yours is ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the injustices and hardships caused to ordinary Ethiopians by their government's policy of giving away agricultural land to foreign cash-crop investors and land speculators.
  • Iran nuclear irony lost on the West
    Jamal Kanj argues that, in dealing with the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, the five-plus-one countries - the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany - "should be guided by reason, not by Israel's irrational paranoia that foresees other nations' 'potential' development and kno ...
  • Britain's Jewish lobby censors school examinations
    Gilad Atzmon looks at how Britain's Israel lobby, led by arch-Zionist Education Secretary Michael Gove, has mobilized in condemnation of the country’s largest school examinations body for setting a question that asked students to explain "why some people are prejudiced against Jews".
  • Bird's eye view of Zionism's and Israel's stra ...
    Uri Avnery argues that the longstanding strategic aim of Zionism and Israel - a Jews-only state in all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and the prevention of an Arab Palestinian state - is a pipe dream and that Israelis has better formulate a new national aim b ...
  • The media's limitations and manipulations
    Ziad El-Hady looks at how government, elite and corporate interests shape media reports of international and domestic events, trivializing and sensationalizing news, corrupting our understanding of the world and reinforcing prejudice and bigotry.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
    Yesterday I wrote a piece on the real lords of Afghan poppies and heroin operations. I am thankful to all your supportive feedback. Of course not all feedbacks were positive, and I truly understand and accept that. Many of the critics came from mainstream media and establishment’s loyal believer ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 22, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” – ...
  • The Real Lords of Afghan Poppy Fields & Heroin ...
    Facts, Myths, Smugglers, and the International Dudes Yesterday this so-not-news news made the headlines: Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODC. The headline was followed by these so-not-accurate descriptions and statements [emphasis mine]: A new report by the United Nations dr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 21, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve System has usurped the government. It controls everything in Congress and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at wi ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Murder, Inc: Official Obama Policy
    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.
  • Obama Prioritizes War
    Colleagues say killing comes easy for Obama. So does his insatiable appetite for war. Duplicitous rhetoric hides it. Close advisors know better.
  • Got war if you want it
    Even in the -- unlikely -- possibility that the leadership in Tehran suddenly decided to stop all uranium enrichment, and kill the whole nuclear program on the spot, Iran would still be under US sanctions. The sanctions have practically nothing to do with Iran's nuclear program. It's all about r ...
  • A Diabolical Mix: U.S. Wages and European Aust ...
    Since the start of the recession, the share of total US national income going to profits has risen even as the share going to the workforce has plunged. Profits in the US corporate sector are now at a 45-year high.
  • Canadian professor blows lid off of America's ...
    After 911 the fully enlivened myth of the outside enemy & threat of Islamic terrorists was used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan & Iraq - invasions that had been planned, or at least anticipated, for more than a year prior to 9/11. Further, & perhaps more importantly, these invasions helped ...

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 ...
  • Growing Up Green
    Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘foodie’, I’ll admit to being somewhat of a health nut. Just recently, NRDC held its 4th Annual Growing Green Awards. Being that I am somewhat n ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Nanny-State Authoritarianism of the Day
    Yes, Mayor Rich’s big soda ban is really dumb. Informing consumers about the content of products is a good thing, and I was willing to make an exception for the trans-fat ban because the health benefits were clear while the effect on consumer choice is negligible. But this kind of thing ca ...
  • Johan
    Historic! Glad to see it was Santana; his start on 3 days rest on the second-last day of the 2008 season was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever seen; I’ll never forget him heaving the ball into the stands.   And glad to see that Queens’ own Mike Baxter didn’t give h ...
  • Mad Men: Who owns “The Other Woman”?
    Most of what I read about the latest Mad Men (“The Other Woman”) focused on Joan’s decision to accept Pete’s indecent proposal—and rightly so—but the title of the episode basically demands the audience answer the question “Who’s the woman, and who’s the  ...
  • The Media Bias Scam
    Fallows with the key takeaway from the data presented by John Sides: At no time in the past year has coverage of President Obama been as positive as that of Governor Romney. Indeed, at no time in the past year has it been on-balance positive at all.
  • Conservative performance art?
    Matt Labash, mocking the very idea of memes in the Weekly Standard, writes: I have always detested the word meme, and not just because it was coined by Richard Dawkins, though that certainly helps. The concept was originated by Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, back when the Internet w ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Japan Forced to Reconsider Climate Targets Wit ...
    Japanese officials say they may have to scrap long-term targets for carbon emissions reductions as a consequence of moving away from nuclear power in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. According to the Japan Times, government officials this week conceded that goals to cut carbon em ...
  • France to Ban Pesticide Possibly Linked to Dec ...
    French authorities plan to ban a pesticide made by the Swiss company, Syngenta, after scientists said the pesticide’s use could be linked to a sharp decline in bee populations known as colony collapse disorder. France says it plans to withdraw the permit for farmers to spray Cruiser OSR, a pesti ...
  • Can Environmentalists Learn To Love a Texas Co ...
    A planned carbon capture and storage plant in West Texas is being billed as the “cleanest coal plant in the world.” But can the $3 billion project help move the global power industry toward the elusive goal of low-carbon electricity, or is it just another way of perpetuating fossil fuels? BY ...
  • Wind Farms Consider Radar Systems to Prevent B ...
    The operators of large California wind farms are considering the use of
  • Revised Brazilian Forest Code Puts Amazon Fore ...
    Although Brazilian President Delma Rousseff vetoed several controversial changes to the nation’s Forest Code last week, environmental advocates say the final legislation unveiled Monday remains heavily influenced by the powerful agribusiness lobby and will result in widespread deforestation in t ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Rap Music Conspiracy
    After more than 20 years, I’ve finally decided to tell the world what I witnessed in 1991, which I believe was one of the biggest turning point in popular music, and ultimately American society. In early 1991, I was invited to attend a closed door meeting with a small group of music business ins ...
  • Ex-priest guilty of conspiring to kill boy who ...
    A former Roman Catholic priest was found guilty on Thursday of hiring a hit man to kill a boy who had accused him of sexual abuse. John Fiala, 53, showed no emotion as a Dallas jury found him guilty of plotting to kill the boy, according to The Dallas Morning News. He faces a possible sentence o ...
  • The Famous ’Tennis Shoe’ Near Death Experience
    "Some near-death experiences have been corroborated by witnesses. Although such evidence does not constitute scientific evidence it would certainly qualify as "circumstantial evidence" able to be upheld in a court of law. Perhaps the most famous case of this kind is that of Maria, originally rep ...
  • Point, CounterPoint: Why You Should Upload You ...
    Point: Space travel, particle physics, cosmology. These are just some of the endeavors humankind has embarked on, trying to understand the great mysteries of the universe. But why haven’t we been able to decipher those puzzles yet? Is it because they are vast and we are so small and insignifican ...
  • The Science Delusion
    Steve Marshall talks to Rupert Sheldrake about dogma and delusion in contemporary science. Sheldrake questions many of science’s basic ‘truths’, which are revealed, with splendid irony, to be either assumptions or, heaven forbid, beliefs. That the Universe began with a Big Bang has been orthodox ...

Russia Today

  • Baltic blacklist: Professor sacked for speakin ...
    Media coverage of discrimination against ethnic Russians in the Baltic Republics is fuelling a fresh row. Latvian authorities have sacked a professor, after he voiced his grievances on RT. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘This is not about China’: US to move majority ...
    The US is set to reposition its Navy fleet with the majority of its warships to be assigned to the Asia-Pacific by 2020. But this military strategy has nothing to do with US-Chinese rivalry in the region, the defense... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • RT’s OWS game app up for media award
    RT’s Facebook game, where the 99% can occupy New York’s financial district in virtual reality, has made the finals of the prestigious international Promax/BDA award. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iran preparing a soft landing strip for Syria
    Iranian politicians are watching events in Syria with concern: their view is that the country is being attacked by Saudi Arabia and Israel for its ties with Iran and its support for Palestinians, rather than part of the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Tahrir Trial: Mubarak gets life sentence for m ...
    The former Egyptian president was charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the killing of 225 anti-government demonstrators and wounding of more than 1,800 in January last year. His co-defendant... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • US military is poisoning the internet with its ...
    As the Obama moves for more war against the Syrian government, it has also begun the war against Iran. Obama stepped up cyberattacks on Iran: report
  • Guilty!
    Mubarak is found to be Guilty in Egypt! Unfortunately so too is the Egyptian military hand fed by our US Pentagon, and both still hold the reigns of power inside Egypt itself. The US military-Egyptian military are guilty of torture, murder, and theft. They are both guilty, alongside Mubarak, of ...
  • Russia and Putin tell the US- No More of Your ...
    ___ Vladimir Putin is telling the US and its allies to back off on fomenting war inside Syria. Syria conflict: Russia's Vladimir Putin stands firm Putin says that Russia is neither for Assad nor for the rebels but what it is against, is the US and its allies threatening Syria with war and i ...
  • Protests to continue in Quebec
    Negotiations just broke down between the reactionary provincial government of Quebec and the student leadership of the mass movement against tuition hikes, that one week ago mobilized the largest demonstration ever seen in Quebec Province. 250,000+ Defy Anti-Protest Law in Quebec Protests do bri ...
  • Are American soldiers heroes? Were Nazi sold ...
    Jacob G. Hornberger’s opinion piece stands on its own…. Were Nazi Soldiers Heroes? ____ No, of course they weren’t heroes, and neither are American soldiers today. Antiwar.com and Jacob G. Hornberger reach the same conclusion as well.

Debunking the Debunkers

  • National Geographic Catapults George W. Bush's ...
    National Geographic reaired their 9/11 interview with George W. Bush this morning. Bush: "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - May 24, 2005 This reminded us of another famous quo ...
  • AE911Truth Podcast Episode 1
    Published on May 17, 2012 by AE911TruthPodcast Hosted by Bernie Suarez and Andrew Steele. In this inaugural episode Bernie and Andy talk about the film "9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Speak Out!" and the upcoming Final Edition 30-City World Premiere tour, (Look for the closest screening near ...
  • Coast To Coast AM - 2011-09-11 - Unraveling 9/ ...
    Published on May 25, 2012 by PIGAMOUS Unraveling 9/11 Date: 09-11-11 Host: John B. Wells Guests: Russ Baker, Craig Hulet Guest host John B. Wells (email) was joined by award-winning investigative reporter Russ Baker for a discussion on why so many unanswered questions linger about wh ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out - ...
    This is the trailer for the much-anticipated Final Edition of the expert-packed 90-minute documentary by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The powerful documentary takes its cross-country World Premiere Tour of 30 cities with AE911Truth founder and the film's director, Richard Gage, AIA ...
  • Scientism - Why Pseudoskeptics Treat Science A ...
    The following article is new at DebunkingSkeptics.com; a site that stands in solidarity with the 9/11 truth movement, as well they should and visa versa. We are fighting the same people on different fronts and sometimes on both. The larger encompassing battle here is true skepticism vs pseudo-s ...

Fooducate

  • GOOD READ: A Vegetable You Gotta Try
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl I decided to put “Good Read” in my title in the hopes that you will actually read what I have to say. Every year, I post a rhubarb recipe a ...
  • FDA Rejects Name Change for High Fructose Corn ...
    [Image via The Daily Green] New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Make no mistake about the war between the sugar industry and the Corn Refiners Association. It’s about tens of millions of dollars in annual revenues. here’s a recap of ...
  • New York Pushes Envelope With XL Soft Drink Ban
    photo: NY Times New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! New York mayor Bloomberg is not giving up on his fight to combat obesity. After failed attempts to impose a soda tax (shot down by the state legislature) and restricting sugary beverage purcha ...
  • Cold Brew Your Tea
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! With summer just around the corner, proper daily hydration is becoming more important. We are big fans of chilled tap water, as readers of this blog already know. For people who want to add flavor to their H ...
  • What Are Naked Calories?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Elisa Zied, MS, RD, CDN I was recently sent a copy of a new book, Naked Calories: How Micronutrients Can Maximize Weight Loss, Prevent Disease and Enhance Your Life. Here is my in ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch V ...
    Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com
  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast  Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...
  • Vote like an Egyptian?
      by Mark Bebawi   It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly.  Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...
  • Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth
    What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...
  • Condolences
    Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family of our friend and colleague, Bobby Kennedy, and his children, on the tragic death of his wife and their mother, Mary. Our thoughts tonight are with your family. - Greg, Leni & Zach 

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Contest: Somewhere Over The Sea ...
    A few years ago I read "Dear Gabriel" by Norway's Halfdan Freihow. And I loved it. It impressed upon me the importance of the father's point of view and voice within the maelstrom of the autism epidemic. This year Autism...
  • Age of Autism Contest The Anti-Romantic Child ...
    We have a copy of The Anti Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman to give away. Please leave a comment to enter. From Harper Collins: Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth's vision of childhood's spontaneous wonder, eagerly...
  • Skeptics Censor Skepticism of Paul Offit's Book
    By Jake Crosby Two weeks after millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit verbally abused me at the University of Pennsylvania, he gave a talk about his book “Deadly Choices” at the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Center for Inquiry – an...
  • Autism Ages Out into An Endless Summer
    By Natalie Palumbo My older brother Anthony is a senior this year. In our world, this means he's 21 years old, and aging out of the moderately functioning self contained special education classroom at Lexington High School. Anthony has low-verbal...
  • Autism One and a Young Man Going the Distance
    By Teresa Conrick Autism One is always a superb menu of speakers and presentations and this year was no exception. Listening to Dr. Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the 2008 Nobel laureate for Medicine, was...

Global BDS Movement

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Mexico fears volcanic eruption
    June 1 – Officials consider evacuating towns and villages surrounding Mexico’s famed Popocatepetl volcano. (Sarah Sheffer reports) Page with Transcript LInk
  • China steals $114 million U.S. defense deal wi ...
    Washington Times – Trade between China and Peru, a key U.S. ally in the regional drug war, is at a new high. Now the Chinese defense industry is getting in on the action. Military officials from Beijing increasingly are making high-level visits, pushing initiatives to protect Chinese natio ...
  • Chinese Officials Rewarded 30,000 Yuan for Sen ...
    Epoch Times – Communist officials were rewarded 30,000 yuan ($4,700) for forcing two Falun Gong practitioners into the Hebei Province Women’s Labor Camp, an insider revealed to The Epoch Times. The local Political and Legislative Affairs Committee issues the amount as “prize money” for suc ...
  • U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Near Terrorists Ma ...
    Huffington Post – The Obama administration has in turn been secretive about its use of targeted drone strikes, boasted about the program’s success, and fended off critics who say the strikes are killing and injuring too many civilians. A New York Times story published Tuesday has the ...
  • ‘Western cancers’ spreading to dev ...
    New Scientist – Cancer’s bite could soon be felt more strongly in the developing world. The increase in affluence among some of the world’s poorer countries will lead to a 75 per cent surge in the cancers typical of western countries. The prediction comes from a new study that ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • FARM campaign pays viewers $1 to watch graphic ...
    Acknowledging the existence of animal cruelty is unpleasant, and getting people to actually watch footage of it is understandably difficult. The folks at Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) found one way: Pay them.
  • Sea Shepherd's Watson arrested, faces extradit ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson, who was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 13, has been freed on bail and awaits possible extradition to Costa Rica. He and Sea Shepherd's director of investigations, Scott West, met with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Enrique Castillo on ...
  • Federal judge blocks National Defense Authoriz ...
    In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction against use of the ...
  • Clean Mobility Center, focusing on alternative ...
    Jamie Caissie says he's picky about the gas he puts in his GMC Sierra truck. For years, the 35-year-old flooring contractor only filled up at 76 brand stations, but on a recent Monday, he decided to try something new: the Propel Clean Mobility Center in Fullerton, which sells E85 flex fuel and b ...
  • An electrifying freight solution on the 710? S ...
    Los Angeles may be one of the first global cities to adopt a new electric freight trucking system, unveiled by electrical engineering giant Siemens Corp. last week at the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium, or EVS26.

water.org

  • Water crisis impacts Lorry drivers
    In many urban places around the world, public and private services deliver water through a patchwork network of trucks - or water lorries as they are known in south Asia. A trucker shares his perspective on the water crisis.
  • Toilets Bring Change to Uganda
    Prior to the introduction of pour flush toilets to Ndeeba Parish, Uganda, residents were using plastic bags as toilets and disposing of them in the drainage channels. This was causing environmental and health hazards for the people living in this slum. New technology changed all that.
  • Conference Call: June
    Join our live conference call on June 5, 2012 to learn about current programs in Haiti.
  • WaterCredit in Kenya: Beth's Story
    Mrs. Beth Muguru lives near Koimbi town, approximately 25 kilometers north of Muranga town where she engages in small scale farming. She took the steps necessary through her self help group to take out a WaterCredit loan to benefit her business and shared the benefits she's seen after the instal ...
  • Learning to Conserve Water
    People in Kashiram Nagar, India struggle for water every day. However, they were not thinking about conserving the water they did have. They were unintentionally wasting water in their daily lives by not utilizing it well. Then on World Water Day 2012, a program through Water.org's partner, ESAF ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 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. Rule of law principles are ignored. Unchallenged dominan ...
  • 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 March 2006. Mathaba explained that he wasn't Gaddafi's prime minister. He ...
  • Murder, Inc: Official Obama Policy
    by Stephen Lendman 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. Summary judgment means no arrests. N ...
  • Obama Prioritizes War
    by Stephen Lendman Colleagues say killing comes easy for Obama. So does his insatiable appetite for war. Duplicitous rhetoric hides it. Close advisors know better. America is on a fast track toward attacking Syria. Humanitarian intervention hypocrisy justified war on Libya. Expect somet ...
  • Silent killing
    Khaled Amayreh in Nablus Settler violence and cultural war against Palestinians continues under Israeli occupation. For the second consecutive week, armed Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian villagers and torched their fields in the northern region of the West Bank as Israeli occupation troo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • 50th Anniversary of Medicare Calendar
    The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...
  • 50th Anniversary of Medicare Calender
    The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...
  • Income inequality, by the numbers
    This week, The Huffington Post features an infographic breaking down the details on the growth of income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2009. Created by Ryerson University journalism student Jeff Fraser, the infographic draws on data from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ...
  • The Three Amigos: How Income Inequality in Mex ...
    An examination of income inequality in North America reveals that Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth, according to a new study by internationally respected economist Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and CCPA Research Associate. ...
  • New report lifts fog on government job cuts
    Due to the opaque reporting methods used by the federal government to detail its spending and employment projections, getting a clear picture of core public service job losses is unnecessarily complicated. However, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald has analyzed data from recently released 20 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Egypt’s Mubarak gets life in prison CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for his role in the killing of protesters during last year’s revolution that forced him from power, a verdict that caps a stunning fall from grace for a ...
  • The death of a Tree.
    By Brian McDonagh,Worldwidehippies - An environmental poem I wrote in my teens: “Help me” said the tree to the rain, to the air, to the earth, sun and sky “Help me” said the tree, to a man who was just standing by “I cannot” said the rain to the tree, “for my clouds are filled [...]
  • Your weekly Hippie Trivia Question
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. Post your answer in the comments section.     Answer to last question - Charles ...
  • ‘Ew’ Royal Placenta: What It Is & ...
    By Robert Sietsema,villagevoice.com - A friend came back from Japan recently with a passle of interesting gifts. The one she pulled out of the bag for me was a pink foil bag filled with something called Queen Up Royal Placenta. There was no other English on the wrapper. My initial reaction was r ...
  • Chagas, the New Fragrance, Designed to Wipe Ou ...
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWide Hippies- It’s really not a fragrance. It’s actually a disease that mainstream media is calling “the new AIDS of the Amercias.” Chagas is said to be a disease that is spread by insects and most likely affects those who are poor, people in Latin and Central America. ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The First Commercial Cellulosic Plant is NOT A ...
    House Ag Committee Holds Hearings on Energy On May 18, 2012 the House Committee on Agriculture held hearings on retaining Energy Title funding in the 2012 Farm Bill. Written testimonies and the video of the hearing are available at Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill: Energy and Forestry Programs. ...
  • Electric Cars & Keystone Impact on Gas Prices ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: What are the chances that electric vehicles will be more than a boutique item, and will make up a noticeable portion of cars on the road by 2020? Do you agree with the recent report from the Natural Resources ...
  • If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy
    I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...
  • If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy &nb ...
    I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...
  • The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important problem in renewable energy. In t ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Storybricks
    Comments:via David Kapuler https://plus.google.com/105869951428386281310/posts/KHGtSpCumhM - Fred DelventhalTags: story, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, writing, languagearts, students, elementary, educationby: Fred Delventhal
  • MakeWaves for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, ...
    Comments:Features - Create unlimited stories and blogs from anywhere - Easily upload photos, video and audio - Post comments and likes - Keep connected with Buzz notifications - See the best work from 1000's of schools - Fred DelventhalTags: iphone, ipod, ipod touch, ios, podcasts, stories, vide ...
  • Give Speech Foundation - FreeSpeech for iPad
    Comments:FreeSpeech is a communication tool based upon research in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and human-computer interaction, as well clinical insight and expertise in speech and communication disorders. - Fred DelventhalTags: speech, freespeech, ipad, ios, free, augmentati ...
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Rodale News

  • 3 Breast Facts Everyone Must Know
    This is an age where, love it or hate it, we are connected. Facebook, smartphones, and WiFi are just a few of the things that keep us linked in to the world around us. And if you think your breasts are just humbly sitting atop your chest, waiting to either nurture a child or attract your mate, ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Grow Your Own Pet Treats!
    Everyone enjoys a dinner made from freshly harvested backyard-garden ingredients, and that includes your four-legged family members. Why should they be relegated to a diet that comes entirely from a bag or a can? Catnip, fresh vegetables, and even grass make great additions to your pets' diets ...
  • What's Wrong With Your Shrimp Cocktail
    Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the United States, but here's an unsettling fact that might keep you from ordering your next shrimp cocktail: 90 percent of the shrimp we eat has been imported, but less than 2 percent of that gets inspected by U.S. regulatory agencies. What's the big deal? ...
  • The Clean-Air Trick You Don't Know About
    If you have a gas stove, you're cooking up a lot more than just dinner every time you switch it on. Though prized for their efficiency and cooking qualities, gas stoves and ovens pollute the air with nasties like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, aldehydes and other gases linked to nerve damage a ...
  • How to Use a Paper Towel
    Think you know how to dry your hands? You don't, at least not according to this guy. Most people grab two paper towels in public bathrooms, if not more, adding to the 3,000 pounds of paper towels sent to landfills every day, and that's completely unnecessary. You only need one, even when you're ...

big think

  • Ban on Drugs Interfere With Brain Research
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The ban of marijuana, ecstasy, magic mushrooms and LSD, which are of interest in terms of consciousness, perception, mood and psychosis, have held back researchers in terms of seeking new treatments. Neur ...
  • The Fat Tax: An Alternative to Mayor Bloomberg ...
    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not an ideologue. New Yorkers tend to like him and give him the benefit of the doubt because his motivations seem transparently rational. He is thought of as a businessman running what was once regarded as an "ungovernable city," and he is running it as a ...
  • Dark Chocolate Key to a Healthy Heart
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The high content of flavonoids, a group of organic compounds that dark chocolate contains, are good for the heart. Eating dark chocolate containing 60-70 percent (even more is better) of cocoa is benefici ...
  • No Winners in an Online Dating Tournament
    Charging a $100,000 membership fee for an online dating site could be a great way to profit off men who want to signal their wealth to potential mates. But the profits from the Secret Diamond Club will come from women who don’t realize that the “secret” part of the club is there is almost no cha ...
  • Human Evolution From Promiscuity to Monogamy: ...
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Researchers say the transition from promiscuity to pair bonding among couples occurred with the faithful woman mating with a man of a lower rank physically, but ranked higher when it came to providing sta ...

Information Liberation

  • The Juice that Defied an Empire
    What's great about POM Wonderful? Sure, this pomegranate juice tastes great. POM is one of the few drinks that seems to have the same scrunch-up-your-mouth effect that you get with a bold dry red wine. When I was a kid, it didn't exist. Like every...
  • To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-de ...
    Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American*media*outlets*dutifully*trumpet*in headlines*that*the*dead*were**militants*** even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea ...
  • Honor Student Jailed for Missing Too Much Scho ...
    Ever since seventeen year old Diane Tran's parents divorced, she's had to work two jobs to support her little sister while simultaneously going to high school. She dared to miss a day of school after a Texas judge "warned" her not to, and so the...
  • Schools Barred From Handcuffing Students
    Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed to handcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court. Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of t...
  • A Way to Soak the Rich
    You might have noticed that lots of people are really down on the so-called 1%. It drives many people, especially politicians, absolutely bonkers that there are lots of people out there sitting on millions, billions. Populists imagine that these peop...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
  • Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour
    I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Di ...
    Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →
  • Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?
    I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →
  • Deferring To Our Betters?
    I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Pluto is not a planet
    Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...
  • The matter of the lost dark matter
    Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...
  • A QR code for emergencies
    Lifesquare is offering users in Marin County, California, a simple way to embed their essential health information, blood group, GP’s name and address, next of kin, medications, allergies, pre-existing conditions, etc into a QR code that emergency responders could scan at the scene of an i ...
  • Lycopene and cancer prevention
    Over the years there has been a lot of tomato talk, about how lycopene, the red pigment found in this fruit (yes, it’s definitely a fruit, it’s got seeds), could ward off cancer, specifically prostate cancer. It has also been linked to protecting us from cardiovascular disease, per t ...
  • Are diamondoids forever too?
    Adamantane, the invincible molecule, was discovered in petroleum in 1933 and stimulated a whole new field in chemistry, that of research into polyhedral organic compounds. It might be thought of as the tiniest possible building block of diamond, which is after all an infinite 3D network of carbo ...

RFF Library

  • Effect of Bark Beetle Infestation on Secondary ...
    Environmental Science and Technology (dx.doi.org/10.1021/es204205m) / by Hardik Amin, P. Tyson Atkins, Rachel S. Russo, Aaron W. Brown, Barkley Sive, A. Gannet Hallar,‡and Kara E. Huff Hartz http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es204205m [From a Greenwire article by April Reese, sub. req'd] &#823 ...
  • The UB Shale Play: Distorting the Facts about ...
    Public Accountability Initiative http://public-accountability.org/2012/05/ub-shale-play/ The University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) released a report last week that concluded that the practice of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is becoming less risky ...
  • Worker Exposure to Crystalline Silica During H ...
    NIOSH Science Blog / by Eric Esswein, MSPH; Max Kiefer, MS; John Snawder, PhD; and Michael Breitenstein, BS http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2012/05/silica-fracking/ [From Occupational Safety and Health]  Crystalline silica exposure among workers should be evaluated at all U.S. hydraulic ...
  • Summer on the Road: Going Further on a Gallon ...
    Environment America / by John Cross http://bit.ly/JCJNpb [From Press Release]  …If the cars and trucks on the road today met the proposed 54.5 mpg standard, it would slash the country’s oil dependence by 16.6 billion gallons and cut our global warming pollution by more than 146 million met ...
  • EPA’s Regulation of Coal-Fired Power: Is ...
    US Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41914/ Given the central role of electric power in the nation’s economy, and the importance of coal in power production, concerns have been raised recently about the cost and potential impact of regulations under development at the E ...

Scientific American - News

  • Transit of Venus App Enables Cosmic Calculatio ...
    On June 5-6, amateur and professional astronomers alike will be treated to a very rare celestial event: the trek of the planet Venus across the sun. Of course, there’s an app for that. [More]
  • Vestiges of Violence: Towering Gamma-Ray Jets ...
    At the center of our galaxy is a sleeping giant, a black hole more than four million times as massive as the sun. The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is mostly quiet, nibbling on small objects at the galactic center and giving off only faint belches of radiation as it digests its pre ...
  • With Willpower, and a Jolt of Electricity, Par ...
    The rat stood on its hind limbs at one end of a narrow runway. It wore a tiny black vest attached to a robotic arm that hovered above its head. Without such mechanical support, the rat would have fallen over--its spinal cord had two deep cuts, rendering its back legs useless. Rubia van den Bran ...
  • Ethanol Scheme Bids to Clean Up Cooking
    A farmer in Mozambique grows peas, beans and cassava in rotation--enough to feed the family with a little to spare. The farmer then sells that excess to CleanStar Mozambique, which dries and packages the produce for sale in the capital, Maputo. But the company also takes the surplus cassava , a ...
  • Rewarding Research: Top Scientists Share $3-Mi ...
    Mildred Dresselhaus, the so-called “queen of carbon science,” took home the $1-million Kavli Prize in Nanoscience today. The materials scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was awarded for her work in revealing the strange thermal and electrical properties that car ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Fort Chipewyan community alarmed: Two deformed ...
    For Immediate Release Fort McMurray – May 31, 2012 – Wednesday afternoon members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), including Chief Allan Adam, found two grotesquely deformed, lesion covered Fish in Lake Athabasca n ...
  • CKUT: Radio Resistance May 31st part 1
    We hear interviews with Wagner Pierre and Serge Bouchereau about Haiti Radio Resistanz - Grassroots news and views on Haiti, heard the last thursday of every month from 5-6pm on CKUT. On this week's show, we hear interviews with Wagne ...
  • CKUT: Off the Hour May 30th edition part 1
    We will hear a a presentation called Autonomous Media, a Decade After Indymediam, A round table discussion organized by CKUT. We'll hear a presentation called Autonomous Media, a Decade After Indymedia. The round-table discussion was o ...
  • CKUT: Off The Hour May 29th edition part 1
    We hear exceprts from a round table dicussion, The Smash the state report, the infamous casserola protests, and the Red Square report On tonight's show, we'll hear excerpts from a roundtable discussion at this year's Montreal A ...
  • CKUT: Live from the anarchist book fair part 3
    CKUT: Funky revolution does a live broadcast from the anarchist book fair Funky revolution did a live broadcast from the anarchist book fair on Saturday the 19th, between 2 and 4 pm. For more infomation on the book fair go to http://w ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 4
    David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
    David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 2
    Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys - 1
    The Child is  Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...
  • The Crisis: where are we headed?
    David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: Inflation Credibility is Not ...
    From Paul Krugman, bemoaning the fact that the European Central Bank has adopted such tight monetary policy: The fact is that the ECB is highly credible: most observers, me included, are quite sure that it is totally allergic to inflation and relatively indifferent to the collapse of the re ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging (Bonus Round!) - 1 June 2012
    I have to end my week guest blogging for Kevin in the only appropriate way. It's Friday. And you know what that means: Photographs by Heather Digby That's Rhubarb, my 15-year-old lap warmer, lolling on his chair in the garden. (I have had the pleasure of meeting Inkblot and Domino in per ...
  • Friday: Cat, Blogging
    With Kevin out on vacation, I volunteered my cat, George, for some Friday blogging action. (I usually blog over on Mother Jones' environmental blog, Blue Marble.)  George is way more involved in the lives of the humans he shares his home with than any other cat I've encountered. Mos ...
  • The Right's Version of Military Heroism
    Earlier in the week the discussion was all about what defines a hero, and the question came up frequently about when we became so reverent toward military service. Now, it's probably true that we've always had a special place for martial heroism, most societies do. But as one who grew up in a m ...
  • Are We About to See Another Stolen Presidentia ...
    From the time I started blogging about a decade ago I've been writing somewhat frantically about the GOP efforts to suppress the vote. This should not be surprising since I started writing online in the aftermath of the most dubious election result in history: the infamous Bush v. Gore. Vote su ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 325: Channing Tatum Must Die
    Topics: Stitcher Radio The Reason GI Joe 2 got pushed back a year Snow White and the Huntsman IS a Trap The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us Florida is Ground Zero Getting the ‘Celebrity’ treatment sucks What are the rules to slander online? Justin Bieber trains with Mike Tyson Random ch ...
  • IC 324: Opportunistic “-isms”
    Topics: Kev moves to the “white” part of his neighborhood Kev gets blocked by Holly Robinson Peete MMA isn’t as violent as people think Twitter is a warzone with no Geneva Convention Putting yourself out there is risky Opportunistic Feminism Slander happens both ways Twitter is ...
  • IC 323: Both Sides Do It
    Topics: Geordi Laforge first intergalactic simp Punching kids in the face Liberals going overboard with Cory Booker Liberals pretending that they don’t stretch the truth as well Johnny Depp Goes Native Too Busty for work Dressing appropriately Share with your friends:
  • IC 322: When Keeping It Gay Goes Wrong
    Topics: Not Understanding the Avengers Possible cross studio movies The titty-less Lara Croft How you know you’re ready for kids 30 kids by 11 different women? Stop having kids with hoodrats and ain’t shit dudes Will Smith uses his pimp hand Dr. Cornell West still ain’t shit Sh ...
  • IC 321: The Avengers Initiative
    Topics: 30 for 30 update Kev’s stories “Miss, is that your lightsaber?” Mass Effect Avengers might do $100 mill second weekend The Avengers Initiative We won’t agree to disagree Breastfeeding toddlers You’re weird and I don’t have to accept that Real marriage ...

Simple Climate

  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues
  • Baking sands worsen leatherback turtle surviva ...
    Global warming will reduce the hatchling survival rate by at least half for the already endangered leatherback turtle, studying nests has told James Spotila from Drexel University and collagues.
  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Climate will thwart some mammals’ quest ...
    Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...
  • Economy-CO2 link reveals GDP weakness
    There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.

e!Science News

  • UH students develop prototype device that tran ...
    Too often, communication barriers exist between those who can hear and those who cannot. Sign language has helped bridge such gaps, but many people are still not fluent in its motions and hand shapes. read more
  • New understanding of terrestrial formation has ...
    The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to 3 billion years ago, the theory isn't sufficient in explaining the dynamics of Earth and cru ...
  • The cell's 'New World'
    n one of the most famous faux pas of exploration, Columbus set sail for India and instead 'discovered' America. Similarly, when scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, set out to find enzymes - the proteins that carry out chemical reactions inside c ...
  • Geoengineering: A whiter sky
    One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar geoengineering could have a side effect of whitening the sky during the day. New research from Carnegi ...
  • Nanotechnology breakthrough could dramatically ...
    A laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more sensitive, according to researchers who combined standard biological tools with a breakthrough in nanotechnology. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Backpacking Brain Boost
    Fukushima fish, two-faced corporations, corn sugar fail (Photo courtesy of fortherock) Taking a hike may boost your brainpower Spending time outside doesn&r ...
  • Judge Jumpstarts Action on Deadly Soot
    Federal court gives EPA a week to sign proposal, after Earthjustice suit Nothing cuts baloney like a court order. Today, in response to a request made by Earthju ...
  • Energy Giant Ditches Coal Plant Retrofit
    Kentucky ratepayers breathe sigh of relief Big Sandy coal plant. (Chris M / Flickr) She’s big, dirty and 42-years old—that’s old in power pl ...
  • Energy Ditches Coal Plant Retrofit
    Kentucky ratepayers breathe sigh of relief Big Sandy coal plant. (Chris M / Flickr) She’s big, dirty and 42-years old—that’s old in power pl ...
  • An Unhealthy Mountaineer
    Air pollution penetrates the heart of California's wild places A giant ponderosa pine. Photo: USFS. Over this past long weekend, spent backpacking in Cal ...

Brave New Climate

  • Roads Not Taken (yet)
    Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...
  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • The Power Makers’ Challenge – and the ne ...
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...
  • Carbon offsetting of uranium mines?
    Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Hands Across Riverdale!
    Hands Across Riverdale.   – Today, June 1st, the residents of Riverdale Mobile Home Park are facing the threat of eviction by Aqua America. This corporation hopes to put in a water withdraw site for natural gas drilling where there … Continue reading →
  • Kentucky Rising: Occupy the Capitol
    Kentucky Rising: Occupy the Capitol at the State Capitol Building, Frankfort, KY Let your voice be heard. Demand the end of corporate domination of our politics. Help build a new participatory politics for our Commonwealth. We will convene a People’s … Continue reading →
  • Pro-mountain activists board coal barge and bl ...
    Follow coverage at http://action.mountainjustice.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Contact: Robert Livingston 304.731.1740 http://action.mountainjustice.org Note: Photos available within 1 – 2 hours.   KAYFORD, W.Va. –Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transpor ...
  • West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital
    May 23, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital Sacrifice of Locks in Name of Appalachian Mountains COOL RIDGE, W.VA. – Fed up with government inaction, a group of outraged West Virginians will gather this … Continue reading →
  • Women Unite to End Mountaintop Removal May 28
    The time is approaching that women of Appalachia will come out of the bellies of the extraction communities to tell the world about the travesty of mountaintop removal. We are grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and SISTERS! Join us in a silent … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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  • Defeating the illusionists: We must return to ...
    The preoccupation with Iran and migrants is calculated to deflect attention from the empty public purse, our shattered health system, the disintegrated education system and our pretend welfare system. The renewed protest movement will be different, but it is the only way to save democracy and sa ...
  • Israel prevents young Gazan from studying law ...
    By Tania Hary Last Wednesday morning, for just under an hour, Israel’s High Court heard arguments about whether or not five women from Gaza should be able to travel to their studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank. In a watershed moment for Gisha, which has brought no less than thre ...
  • Anniversary of Dolphinarium bombing and the lo ...
    I went for a walk along the shore yesterday evening, just shy of a stunning sunset. Late-Friday afternoons are essential to understanding Israel, and Tel Aviv in particular; there is a shared serenity that lulls the residents. Everyone can share in the calm and natural beauty of the sea: it&#821 ...
  • Stop excusing the ‘have-nots’ for ...
    The riots in South Tel Aviv are further evidence of the violent racism among Israel’s Sephardi underclass. It’s part of a worldwide, historic phenomenon among poor people that the left doesn’t want to face up to.   As a matter of principle, I think Israel has to relocate the gr ...
  • The Wall, 10 years on / part 8: A working clas ...
     The wall was built to stop suicide bombers from entering Israel, so they say. But the people who do enter Israel on a daily basis are the tens of thousands of Palestinians who work here. Some go through hours of waiting at checkpoints, others climb the wall and risk injury or arrest – but all [...]

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOOM- POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP IN THE FLORIDA HO ...
    As most of you know, as a direct result of the dedicated efforts of you readers and supporters, I qualified as a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives seat here in St. Petersburg, Florida. The headlines from today’s Tampa Times is that Jeff Brandes has abandoned the House seat ...
  • COP TO JOURANLIST: YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS ...
    WAKE THE HELL UP FORMERLY FREE AMERIKANS, YOUR RIGHTS HAVE BEEN STRIPPED FROM YOU…. THIS IS A TRULY TERRIFYING VIDEO     Scridb filter
  • OBAMA (and Congress) DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION, ...
    Remember the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012?  The maniacs in Congress signed the bill then the tyrant Obama signed it into law while you were distracted, lying in a drunken stupor on January 1, 2012. The law allows the federal government to “disappear” me or any citizen w ...
  • MAKE CALLS NOW……STOP RICK SCOTT AN ...
    No, I don’t think people not eligible to vote should vote. But I don’t think that our elected supervisors of elections should be used to bully, harass and intimidate our neighbors. The tactics playing out all across this state in particular are nothing but straight up fascism…. ...
  • Fraudclosure, Bank Break Ins And The Fatally D ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • Long In The Tooth
    The call caught me somewhat by surprise. From a West coast publishing firm: “Would I be willing to write a …Continue reading »
  • Young At Heart … Again
    So now it’s out there: Canada’s a greying nation. No one’s really surprised by this; we’ve been warned about it …Continue reading »
  • A Government Eating Its Young
    The following is a piece I penned for the Huffington Post, laying out the sad story of how one government …Continue reading »
  • The Long Road Home
    Of all our numerous undertakings, our work in Sudan over the last 15 years has stretched us the most. Something …Continue reading »
  • We Are What We Affect
    For anyone inclined to participate in citizen engagement it is essential to understand not only why it is important but …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Global warming is just another false deity of ...
    "Global warming" like "excess population" is merely a fashionable deity of the "God of the Greater Good" which will be worshipped for as long as it serves as a convenient label to suspend rational thought and justify the unjustifiable.
  • The Dragon docks
    The Dragon spacecraft has successfully attached to the International Space Station.
  • More evidence that cloud cover – and not ...
    Cloud cover decreased sharply from 1985 to 2010 giving sharply increased sunshine hours possibly due to cleaner air and solar effects.
  • Sapiens + dogs >> Neanderthals
    Though fossil evidence of domesticated dogs is very sparse and the earliest is from around 30,000 years ago, there is no certainty about when domestication actually occurred. Human-canine co-operation – eventually leading to domestication – perhaps started some 50,000 years ago.
  • Snow in Sarajevo in May
    For the first time in 50 years Sarejovo was covered by snow in May.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Find-And-Replace Is Not A Good Idea When Porti ...
    As any thrifty e-book reader knows, there are a ton of cheap and free public domain titles available for download. But one War and Peace reader in North Carolina was confused about the new word he saw among the 1,100 or so pages of the classic Tolstoy novel. The reader was enjoying his $.99 ve ...
  • Despite Economic Woes, Americans Are Still Get ...
    Some Americans might be cutting back in tough economic times and tightening purse strings on big splashy purchases -- but skip checking out Hogwarts in Harry Potter World? Not gonna happen. Despite financial woes across the country, theme park attendance was up for 2011, partly due to the boy w ...
  • Trail Of Snacks Leads Cops To Thieves Suspecte ...
    Seasoned criminals know better than to leave a trail connecting them to their crime, so we've got to believe the suspects accused of robbing a Little League snack bar are hardly experienced when it comes to pilfering. Cops say they found the perps by following a sprinkling of snacks dropped on ...
  • Michigan Medical Marijuana Users Gain Ability ...
    People in Michigan who use marijuana for medical purposes now have the right to use their health issues to defend themselves in court -- even if they don't have a medical marijuana card -- thanks to a Michigan Supreme Court ruling. Until this point, defending yourself against a marijuana-relat ...
  • Has Gatorade Been Slimmed Down By The Grocery ...
    For years, Gatorade drinkers have grown familiar with the hard lines of the sports drink's 32 oz. plastic bottle. Now we're hearing that the beverage might be shifting over to a slimmer, easier-to-grip bottle -- that is also 12.5% smaller. Gatorade has already been selling 28 oz. versions of i ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • More Groups Criticize Poultry Inspection Plan: ...
    Food Safety News: Consumer Groups Criticize Poultry Inspection Proposal Summary: More consumer groups have publicly critiqued USDA's plan to shift poultry inspection duties to companies (expanding aprogram known as HIMP) in comments filed this week. Concerns included a lack of specific require ...
  • Study Shows Corporate Whistleblowers Report In ...
    Wall Street Journal: Most Whistleblowers Report Internally, Study Finda Summary: A study released yesterday shows that most corporate whistleblowers choose to only report problems internally. According to the report by the nonprofit Ethics Resource Center, only "18 percent" [of corporate whist ...
  • Radack, Drake Win Hugh Hefner First Amendment ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user imjoshdotcomThe winners for this year's Hugh M. Hefner Foundation First Amendment Awards were announced today and – lo and behold – GAP’s own National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack has been honored! Radack is co-winner in the government category wit ...
  • Kill List Criteria & The 100-Person "Death Pan ...
    I thought we were done with "death panels" after the health care debate, but as the New York Times reported yesterday, Obama has his own 100-person "death panel" made up of members of the ever-expanding national security state. It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals: Every week o ...
  • WikiLeaks' Assange Loses Extradition Appeal: D ...
    Los Angeles Times: Julian Assange Loses Appeal Against Extradition Summary: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his UK Supreme Court appeal fighting his extradition to Sweden where he faces on questions related to a sexual assault charge. Assange is currently under house arrest in Englan ...

UK Progressive

  • Unequal Political Coverage in the Media
    A few years ago, I met Sue Wilson a media reform activist who was promoting her awarding winning documentary, “Broadcast Blues” at the annual L.A. Media Reform Summit.  Sue, who has been a foot soldier in the battle to take back the media, was on a campaign that continues today. Sue believes med ...
  • Karl Rove’s Grand Slam
    It is far too early to predict the election returns for November. Forecasts today are subject to dramatic change based on events yet to happen, but: If the election were held today I now believe Mitt Romney and the Republicans win it because more of their voters would be motivated to vote and mo ...
  • Romney-Trump in 2012!
    What could Romney’s handlers be thinking when they hyped his connection with Donald Trump — fundraising with Trump, offering supporters the possibility of a meal with Trump, relishing Trump’s attention and endorsement? Trump signifies everything Romney presumably doesn’t want people to associate ...
  • NC Cleric Wants Gays Behind Electric Fence
    When North Carolina amended its constitution last month strengthening its prohibition against LGBTQ marriage equality, it came as no surprise it was the loudest voices condemning President Obama’s support of marriage equality. “The last time NC amended the constitution on marriage was in 1875 to ...
  • Herds On The Street
    For the first time in well over 15,000 consecutive nights, I will not have a roof over my head this evening. I don’t know where I will sleep, how I will eat tonight or where I will shower, shave and dress tomorrow. I have no idea where – or whether – I’ll be safe or [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Bonds set record on record, stocks down, gold ...
    The world is so poised on the edge. The jitters are sweeping through tonight. Just suppose you have $100m in assets that you are nervous about. You cannot stick that amount in a bank, because government guarantees only cover the first $1m or whatever, and banks are all risky now. So you buy into ...
  • Spot the conflict: GE owns NBC, the Weather ch ...
      + … .. = “…news”?   Harold Ambler (Don’t Sell Your Coat) points to a conflict of interest that hadn’t hit my radar til now (golly): “In the newspaper business, and other journalistic domains as well, fires are of note. Non-fires aren’t. Fair ...
  • Does Climate Money matter? Is a monopoly good ...
    Climate Money turned the tables on the Big-Oil criers Alarmists rarely attack, or even mention the Climate Money paper I did in 2009. It’s an own goal to draw attention to the fact that skeptics are paid a pittance, while the alarm industry soaks in extended baths of cash, grants, and jun ...
  • EU Carbon trading crashes: German bourse close ...
    More signs Australia is leaping onto a burning ship as it starts carbon taxing, just as the largest carbon markets are winding up: (Reuters) – Bavaria’s stock exchange will abandon its carbon emissions certificate trading operations in the EU-traded CO2 market on June 30 after volume ...
  • $700,000 for believers to convert skeptics &#8 ...
    From the 2011 Australian Research Council report: as much as $45,700,000 was spent on An Environmentally Sustainable Australia in 2011. The cash cow that is “Climate Change” is so loaded that over a six year period, $718,000 dollars of ARC funds has flowed to “believers” ...

ReNew America

  • The false promises of modern liberalism
    (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - There are two promises that modern liberalism asserts -- two images about itself that it propagates. First, that it strives to fulfill the communal bonds and yearnings of human beings, to mitigate the harsh brutalities of an Ayn Rand-type of conservatism. And second ...
  • Restoring representation--A Strategic Proposal ...
    (Alan Keyes) - This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation. Step Two: Focus on restoring the political standard of America's founders and renewing America's common bond...
  • Unanswered questions about global warming
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - The scientists whose voices are quoted in the popular press sound like they are certain about global warming. But do they have adequate grounds for that certitude? Have they really done their homework?...
  • June can't come soon enough
    (Matt Patterson) - June is shaping up to be a pivotal month for American liberty. On one front, the Supreme Court is expected in June to hand down its decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare, specifically, the individual mandate provision of President Obama's signature health care law, wh ...
  • The Chicago way
    (John Fund) - Every president comes to Washington with a coterie of outside advisers, friends, and fixers they've picked up during the course of a career. Eventually one or more of them becomes controversial. Richard Nixon had Bebe Rebozo. Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy and Bert Lance. Ronal ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Jeep JK8 Survival Vehicle
    When you are fleeing the city, there’s every chance that some nasty folk will aim to stop you and steal your survival goodies. So if you are driving one of these, perhaps they’ll leave you alone and look for easier pickings… The machine gun is fake, but as long as your 9-yea ...
  • Bunker Fire Sale
    Regular readers may have noted my love of the missile-silo-as-a-bunker concept. As 2012 progresses, expect to see the prices of some specialist survival properties reduced – like this one: The underground structure has been converted to a 2300 sq. ft. 2-story (3 bedroom, 2 bath) luxury ...
  • The Little Solar Flare That Could
    Regardless of whether you are a survivalist ready to flee to your safe spot, or a power grid executive, the thing you are watching for is an X-Class solar flare, and a large one at that. All types of extra-nasty space weather tend to be associated with the largest solar flares. The biggest fl ...
  • Lunar Eclipse, June 4 = Earthquakes?
    Last year I undertook a long and tedious task that seemingly nobody else has done. I checked every lunar and solar eclipse since 1973, and I checked them against every earthquake measuring 6.5 or greater in magnitude. I would have gone further back, but that’s the limit for comprehensive U ...
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
    Until recently the NASA mantra regarding an asteroid impact in 2012 went like this: We already know there is no asteroid large enough to produce a mass extinction that is in an Earth-crossing orbit today. We have found at least 90% of those large enough to threaten civilization. NASA is referr ...

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

One News Page

  • 22 insurgents killed in different accidents in ...
    2 Jun 2012 NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan has said that 14 insurgents were killed in suicide attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday.A press release issued by the Eastern Regional Command of the NATO Forces today says several insurgents ... ...
  • Thousands join Ranvir Sena chief's funeral pro ...
    Brahmeshwar Singh was killed on Friday morning in in Bhojpur district, triggering violence by supporters of Ranvir Sena. Reported by DNA 37 minutes ago
  • Will slump in exports lead to India’s worst fall?
    Investors are saying that there is no one blame for the petrol-hike fiasco, rupee slide and GDP's snail-paced growth but ourselves and the clean-up needs to be done soon. Reported by Firstpost 44 minutes ago
  • Over 2.50 lakh pilgrims registered for Amarnat ...
    2 Jun 2012 Over 2.50 lakh pilgrims have registered themselves for the forthcoming Amarnath yatra to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) NK Chaudhury said the quota for registration through online service ... Repo ...
  • Gelfand neutralised almost everything I did: Anand
    In a rare display of annoyance, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand hit out at chess great Gary Kasparov and other critics for suggesting that he lacked motivation. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...
  • Sentenced to Extermination
    The clouds gather over the Middle East. Not so long ago the clashes between the Sunni Muslims, who support the Free Syrian Army, and the Alawites, who stand by the government of Syrian president Bashar Assad, took place in Tripoli, the second largest city of Lebanon. Fighting also took place in ...
  • Hillary Finally Brings Bureau of Spy/Diplomati ...
    Clinton finally brings the secret military/State Dept. covert operations out into the open (SEE: Clinton Goes Commando, Sells Diplomats as Shadow Warriors). This is the logical outcome of a process started long ago, during the Reagan Administration, when Congress put restrictions on the CIA’s sh ...
  • Why It Is Highly Unlikely the Syrian Regime Wa ...
    I am not saying any group is immune from committing war crimes or terrorism in times of war, and I am fully aware of the Syrian regime’s repressive tactics, but even the most horrific acts of violence are driven by a certain “logic” which strives to achieve concrete objectives. There has to be a ...
  • Syrian Government Denies Involvement in Houla ...
    Damascus has refuted accusations of being behind a ruthless attack in Houla where over 90 civilians were killed. Political analyst Ibrahim Alloush told RT that those killed were actually Assad loyalists, and the timing is suspicious. Friday’s attack in the Governorate of Homs has risen already-h ...

BlogHer

  • Crocheted Floral Measuring Tape Cozy
    [Editor's Note: Is your measuring tape cold? Maybe you should crochet it a cozy. Carli Lowry from Simply Notable just so happens to have complete instructions for doing just that. Any self respecting crafter, flea market shopper or interior decorator has a measuring tape on them at all times. Se ...
  • Backlash: Diddy's Son Gets a $54,000 UCLA Foot ...
    Justin Combs, the 18-year-old son of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, worked hard for the money and now plans to attend UCLA in the fall on a $54,000 football scholarship.Universities routinely use scholarships as a recruiting tool and Justin, a 5-foot-9, 175-pound defensive back from New ...
  • Low Carb Cilantro Cream Chicken
    One of my favorite parts of eating Low Carb is the cream sauces. I'd spent so many years avoiding them on low-calorie/low-fat diets that I still kind of giggle and feel like I'm being naughty every time I make one. This Cilantro Cream Sauce was very good! The Hubs cut me off while talking to tel ...
  • Super-Sized Nanny State Reaches Big Gulp Propo ...
    Happy National Donut Day.That was the message from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg just a day after he announced his proposal to ban large fountain drinks because they're bad for you.Even Today show host Matt Lauer scoffed at the hypocrisy: "It sounds ridiculous."Bloomberg countered that " ...
  • The Defense of Marriage Act is Challenged, But ...
    [Editor's Note: On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. BlogHer Shannon LC Cate explains why - and what could happen in the future. --Grace] People invoking the “traditional” or “age-old” or “historical” “definition of marriage” are invoking ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 1, 2012
    Pakistani Saima Khadim, 5, carries remains of coal that she collected from a brick factory, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Given this week’s troubling news about safety problems at Alpha Natural Resources, it’s worth taking ...
  • Flooding: What is Senator Kirkendoll talking a ...
    Believe it or not, I’m sitting here watching today’s House hearing on mountaintop removal through a second time … and I’m glad I did, because somehow I missed this the first time, and I swear — I’m not making this up. I was listening to the testimony from Loga ...
  • MSHA: Alpha did not evacuate miners
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has just released this collection of citations and enforcement orders issued to Alpha Natural Resources following discovering of a burning coal conveyor belt at the company’s Road Fork No. 51 Mine in Wyoming County. As readers recall, this is ...
  • Alpha touts coal-mine search and rescue dog
    Here’s the latest email message from a publicist representing Alpha Natural Resources: Dear Ken, As you continue to bring your readers news about the Appalachian mountain region’s coal industry and developments in mine safety techniques, I thought it might be appropriate to introduce you t ...
  • Alpha on mine safety: ‘There’s wor ...
    Still no word this morning from either the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration or Alpha Natural Resources about the results of the huge MSHA inspection sweep of Alpha mines following a conveyor belt fire that apparently raised serious concerns among federal mine safety officials. MSHA spo ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Hyperbolic Humility
    Me:“Dude, you’re like the master of hyperbole.” Him:“I actually don’t feel like I’m the master of anything.” Me:“What about false humility.” Him:“I’m just ok at that.” Related ContentHyperboleMartial Arts GoalsDown the Rogue ...
  • Barack Obama Requires Federal Agencies to Have ...
    As a follow-up to the Executive Order 13571 issued on April 27, 2011, requiring executive departments and agencies to identify ways to use innovative technologies to streamline their delivery of services to lower costs, decrease service delivery times, and improve the customer experience–B ...
  • Ketamine Improves Bipolar Depression Within Mi ...
    When the patients received ketamine, their depression symptoms significantly improved within 40 minutes, and remained improved over 3 days. Overall, 79% of the patients improved with ketamine, but 0% reported improvement when they received placebo. via medicaldaily.com A truly stunning find. I i ...
  • Blank Label Shirts
    Many peacocks hide their feathers and call that their pride. ~ Frederich Nietzsche I am getting ready to consider moving from Brooks Brothers to Blank Label shirts. I have been getting more into the quality of my shirts over the last couple of years, and as of about a year ago I’ve been 10 ...
  • The Great Gatsby Curve
    As he shows, America is both especially unequal and has especially low mobility. But he also argues that because we are even more unequal now than we were a generation ago, we should expect even less social mobility going forward. via krugman.blogs.nytimes.com An interesting system for estimatin ...

Fitwatch

  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]
  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Egypt’s Mubarak gets life in prison CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for his role in the killing of protesters during last year’s revolution that forced him from power, a verdict that caps a stunning fall from grace for a ...
  • The death of a Tree.
    By Brian McDonagh,Worldwidehippies - An environmental poem I wrote in my teens: “Help me” said the tree to the rain, to the air, to the earth, sun and sky “Help me” said the tree, to a man who was just standing by “I cannot” said the rain to the tree, “for my clouds are filled [...]
  • Your weekly Hippie Trivia Question
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Win a Worldwide Hippies Bumper Sticker. Post your answer in the comments section.     Answer to last question - Charles ...
  • ‘Ew’ Royal Placenta: What It Is & ...
    By Robert Sietsema,villagevoice.com - A friend came back from Japan recently with a passle of interesting gifts. The one she pulled out of the bag for me was a pink foil bag filled with something called Queen Up Royal Placenta. There was no other English on the wrapper. My initial reaction was r ...
  • Chagas, the New Fragrance, Designed to Wipe Ou ...
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWide Hippies- It’s really not a fragrance. It’s actually a disease that mainstream media is calling “the new AIDS of the Amercias.” Chagas is said to be a disease that is spread by insects and most likely affects those who are poor, people in Latin and Central America. ...

reference frame

  • Perimeter Institute says good-bye to Joy Christian
    In the final paragraph of a March 2012 blog entry, I encouraged the Perimeter Institute and Oxford University to cut their ties with an anti-Bell-theorem activist and the author of repetitive and smug, yet almost uncited (if you remove self-citations) and nonsensical papers irrationally assau ...
  • Arctic stratospheric clouds unrelated to tropo ...
    Radiative cooling (and warming) isn't a key effect: a piece of the man-made climate change "lore" is shaken This particular paper which may have isolated a major mistake in the would-be mainstream "lore" of the climate science – and in all the climate models – hasn't gotten a sufficient ...
  • The last transit of Venus in this century
    It may seem as though the 21st century is still just getting started. But there is one event that will occur on Tuesday night UTC and its next repetition will have to wait until the year 2117. And in the "hectic" 20th century, this event hasn't occurred at all. What is it? The Venu ...
  • Milky Way will crash to Andromeda Galaxy
    The Sun will go red giant in 7.5 billion years but long before that moment, in about 4-6 billion years from now, "we" will be reminded of a neighbor we considered so well-known yet so detached. As The Telegraph and others told us minutes ago, new accurate NASA measurements which em ...
  • How to avoid national redirect of Google, Blogspot
    Just open motls.blogspot.com/ncr Google began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, dozens of nations are affected, aside from the original three, especially: Australia: motls.blogspot.com.au New Zealand: motls.blogspot.co.nz India: motls.blog ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
  • Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot
    A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of money in the lottery. Now that the party is over it is time to move forward with the rest of my life. I have hummed and hawed for a few days now on how to spend some of this money and have decided to direct [...] Related posts: Crazy Man Praises Th ...
  • Crazy Man Praises The Mad Ape
    http://tatumba.com – This sickly and mentally deranged dude is the net result of a lifetime of bio-weapon attacks. He wishes to do a bit of show and tell and provide a testimonial of how he became a walking corpse. I have told you guys repeatedly about the cumulative health hazards of cons ...
  • HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise
    HSBC Bank is a Criminal Enterprise, so says former Vice President and Relationship Manager John Cruz. Mr. Cruz has gone public and turned over to more than 1,000 pages of documents to World News Daily. In an exclusive interview with Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. Mr. Cruz had explained in grea ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • BPA and... Wait for It... Breast Cancer
    DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer. What's particularly concerning is the level of BPA in the monkey's blood was equivalent to average levels found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...
  • Safe - vs. Safer
    The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • Our 6th Annual Sunscreen Guide
    When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...
  • Another Delay from FDA
    Late Thursday EWG found out the Food and Drug Administration was going to delay their sunscreen regulations by six months, at the request of the cosmetics industry. EWG replied with a statement that called out the agency's foot-dragging and highlighted... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Security guards go out on strike
    Despite hours of negotiations long past an initial strike deadline, mediation failed to avert yet another labour conflict from hitting Norway. Nearly 1,800 vektere (security guards) will walk off the job from 8pm Friday evening, in a strike that’s expected to create long lines at airport s ...
  • Clinton hails US-Norwegian ties
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t spare her praise for Norway or downplay the close relations between the US and Norway during her remarks at a government luncheon held in her honor in Oslo on Friday. Her thank-you speech to her Norwegian hosts could only be described as ...
  • Clinton dodges striking workers
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a warm welcome to Oslo on Friday despite unseasonably cold weather and a strike by state workers outside Norway’s foreign ministry. As Clinton began a hectic two-day official visit, both she and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre faced the disr ...
  • Clinton lands amid protocol conflict
    UPDATED: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed in Oslo Thursday night and planned to stay into the weekend with a trip up to northern Norway, escorted by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The ministry itself was left denying that Clinton’s visit didn’t involv ...
  • Suspect faces prison for forging Ibsen and Hamsun
    State prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison term for a 41-year-old Norwegian charged with the sale and attempted sale of 23 forged historic documents, books and manuscripts that he linked to Norwegian literary heroes Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. Prosecutors claim they’ve proven that ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Y ...
    Paradise Dam, April 2012, from the now-climaxing food forest Photos © Craig Mackintosh (unless otherwise indicated) Zaytuna Farm Video Tour, duration 41 minutes Note: Switch YouTube player to HD if your internet connection allows Having spent the last few years seeking to e ...
  • Take a PDC and/or Earthworks Course with Geoff ...
    This is a rare opportunity for people living in Europe and Northern Africa to take a course with Geoff and Nadia Lawton in a location that’s not only closer to home, but amazing in its own right. The city of Fès, that you will pass through on your way to the nearby course sites, hosts ...
  • Bonfire of Promises
    The government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Energy policy in the United Kingdom looks like a jam factory hit by a meteorite: a multi-coloured pool ...
  • Our Backyard Soil Sample – The Results Are In!
    Four years ago Now A few weeks ago we had our amazing interns prepare a soil sample to be sent off to the Soil Food Web Lab in Vulcan, Alberta. (See the blog, Testing Our Soil for a Nutrient Dense Garden). A few quick weeks later, [...]
  • The Deep Truth of a Sheltering Roof
    The roof plays a primal role in our lives. The most primitive buildings are nothing but a roof. If the roof is hidden, if its presence cannot be felt around the building, or if it cannot be used, then people will lack a fundamental sense of shelter. – Christopher Alexander Traditional ...

Pointman's

  • The day of days.
    I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he … Rea ...
  • The real bastards.
    I want to tell you the story of a couple of things that happened in the not too distant past, because they obviously need to be told again, if only to serve as a warning from history. They’re forgotten stories nowadays, possibly because they’re not very pleasant ones, but they did ha ...
  • The 100,000 pages landmark.
    Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...
  • Climate Alarmism and The Prat Principle.
    I’d like to introduce you to one of the great discoveries of my life, the Prat Principle. Before doing so, I’ll have to ensure we have a common understanding of what exactly a prat is, prior to sharing it with you, together with some related tricks and tips. Prat is one of the great ...
  • What I’m going to say will upset a few p ...
    This is not going to be a popular article with some people on the skeptical side of the global warming divide but you’re going to get it anyway, because a few things that have needed to be said for some time, now require to be said more urgently, especially in the light of recent events.&# ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta ...
    On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...
  • Call to Action: Stop Deporting Community Organ ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice: “The main reason people don’t stand up for themselves and defend their own rights,” says Josue Diaz, “is because they’re afraid of being deported.” Josue should know. He was arrested and put in deportation proceedings – ...
  • Warning NOPD: Not My Sons! by Tracie Washington
    My friends Richard and Hilda McCline needed a couple of guys to help them move boxes from the American Can to storage. So on Thursday, Jacob picked-up Donald (his friend) and they worked from a little after 11am until 2pm. On the way home, they stopped at the light at Carrollton and Tulan ...
  • New Orleans Filmmakers Win Major Award at Cann ...
    Beasts of the Southern Wild, the remarkable film by a collective of New Orleans filmmakers calling themselves Court 13, won the Caméra d’Or today at the Cannes Film Festival. The award, which recognizes the best film by a first-time filmmaker, is one of the most prestigious honors in the world o ...
  • Official Statement From Women With A Vision Af ...
    This letter and video is reposted from the website of Women With A Vision. You can donate on their site: http://wwav-no.org. Dear friends, colleagues and family, Today we reach out to express our gratitude for your support and to let you know that everyone in the Women With A Vision family is ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/f ... euglytruth Pharisee Tuchman Calls for Crucifixion of TheUglyTruth John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in h ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    This video is not available in your countryStatistics: Posted by imsamhi1 — Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:19 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists By: Patrick J. Buchanan (sent by Invictus) on: 31.05.2012 [12:34 ] (116 reads) After taping John Stossel’s show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the ...
  • Historical Events • Jesus 'died on Friday, Apr ...
    Jesus 'died on Friday, April 3, 33AD' claims study that matches crucifixion to earthquake mentioned in gospel By: Eddie Wrenn (sent by Invictus.) on: 26.05.2012 [14:14 ] (340 reads) t Jesus died on Friday, April 3, 33AD, according to an investigation which matches his death to an earthquake. T ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Bill Kristol and Jeremy Ben-Ami on Israel By: Kevin MacDonald (sent by Invictus) on: 31.05.2012 Philip Weiss has a nice column on the debate between Bill Kristol and Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street held at a synagogue in New York (“Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Japan Forced to Reconsider Climate Targets Wit ...
    Japanese officials say they may have to scrap long-term targets for carbon emissions reductions as a consequence of moving away from nuclear power in the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima disaster. According to the Japan Times, government officials this week conceded that goals to cut carbon em ...
  • France to Ban Pesticide Possibly Linked to Dec ...
    French authorities plan to ban a pesticide made by the Swiss company, Syngenta, after scientists said the pesticide’s use could be linked to a sharp decline in bee populations known as colony collapse disorder. France says it plans to withdraw the permit for farmers to spray Cruiser OSR, a pesti ...
  • Can Environmentalists Learn To Love a Texas Co ...
    A planned carbon capture and storage plant in West Texas is being billed as the “cleanest coal plant in the world.” But can the $3 billion project help move the global power industry toward the elusive goal of low-carbon electricity, or is it just another way of perpetuating fossil fuels? BY ...
  • Wind Farms Consider Radar Systems to Prevent B ...
    The operators of large California wind farms are considering the use of
  • Revised Brazilian Forest Code Puts Amazon Fore ...
    Although Brazilian President Delma Rousseff vetoed several controversial changes to the nation’s Forest Code last week, environmental advocates say the final legislation unveiled Monday remains heavily influenced by the powerful agribusiness lobby and will result in widespread deforestation in t ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Japan-China currency deal aims high
    The yuan and the yen — the currencies of Asia's two biggest economies — started direct trading Friday in Tokyo and Shanghai. The increase in economic cooperation comes despite constant political disputes, including bickering over the sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands in the East C ...
  • 'Loophole drug' blamed for crash
    A young male driver has been arrested after injuring two pedestrians in Osaka's bustling Minami district, police said Saturday. Shunichi Haito, 26, was seized by officers at the accident scene around 9:35 p.m. Friday on suspicion of negligent driving, and a druglike substance in his minicar wa ...
  • S-Pulse coach Ghotbi tips Asian big guns to re ...
    Asia's final round of 2014 World Cup qualifying begins Sunday, with Japan hosting Oman and Jordan welcoming Iraq in Group B. In Group A, Uzbekistan is at home to Iran, while Lebanon and Qatar square off in Beirut as the 10 finalists begin their fight for the four certified tickets out of the w ...
  • Garnett comes up big as Celtics cut Heat lead ...
    Kevin Garnett went hard to the court when he was fouled underneath the basket. He remained on his back, motionless, as his teammates rushed over to check on him and offer a hand to help him up. The Boston Celtics center ignored them, instead gingerly rolling over onto his stomach before extend ...
  • Japan plans embassy in Bhutan
    Japan has decided to open an embassy in Bhutan, possibly in 2014, following a request last year from the Himalayan country's king, diplomats said. To maintain peace and a neutral stance on the world stage, Bhutan has not established diplomatic relations with any of the five permanent members o ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • GDP: Austerity Bites
    Canada’s economy grew by half a percent in the first quarter of 2012, staying on pace for unimpressive annual growth of two percent. The good news is that business investment was strong, at least on a seasonally-adjusted basis. (As usually happens in the first quarter, the actual dollar value of ...
  • The Real Culture of Dependency: In Defense of ...
    Co-authored with Brian Foster “Is the EI system making it more attractive to not work?” That’s the (attempt at) thought-provoking (or fire-stoking) title of a recent National Post piece, written in the aftermath of Jim Flaherty’s intellectually lazy and socially irresponsible public musings on t ...
  • The Oil Industry’s Own Numbers Make the Case f ...
    Saskatchewan’s Minister of Energy and Resources replied to my op-ed and letter on Dutch disease and resource royalties. On Friday, he was promoted to Minister of Everything. Columnist Murray Mandryk wrote, “Given the amount of power Bill Boyd now has in his super-economy portfolio, he may be one ...
  • How the Anglo punditocracy demonizes Quebec&#8 ...
    Anglo Canada is sticking its fingers in its ears and humming a happy song. Many in the English-speaking punditocracy and media (or perhaps mediocracy?) are doing their best to persuade us that student protests in Quebec are nothing of any consequence. This is getting a little harder to do, now t ...
  • EI Reform: Who Are We Really Subsidizing?
    The Conservative government is making changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) regime. While previous changes to EI have tightened eligibility requirements, making it more difficult for workers to collect EI if they lose their job, the current proposals focus on making it harder for unemployed w ...

ReDress

  • The Ethiopian land giveaway: what is yours is ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the injustices and hardships caused to ordinary Ethiopians by their government's policy of giving away agricultural land to foreign cash-crop investors and land speculators.
  • Iran nuclear irony lost on the West
    Jamal Kanj argues that, in dealing with the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, the five-plus-one countries - the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany - "should be guided by reason, not by Israel's irrational paranoia that foresees other nations' 'potential' development and kno ...
  • Britain's Jewish lobby censors school examinations
    Gilad Atzmon looks at how Britain's Israel lobby, led by arch-Zionist Education Secretary Michael Gove, has mobilized in condemnation of the country’s largest school examinations body for setting a question that asked students to explain "why some people are prejudiced against Jews".
  • Bird's eye view of Zionism's and Israel's stra ...
    Uri Avnery argues that the longstanding strategic aim of Zionism and Israel - a Jews-only state in all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and the prevention of an Arab Palestinian state - is a pipe dream and that Israelis has better formulate a new national aim b ...
  • The media's limitations and manipulations
    Ziad El-Hady looks at how government, elite and corporate interests shape media reports of international and domestic events, trivializing and sensationalizing news, corrupting our understanding of the world and reinforcing prejudice and bigotry.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Iraq’s PM warns Arab states may face &#8 ...
    “At a conference in Baghdad, he urged countries to work together in order to prevent conflict in the arid region. Issues include desertification, poor water management, and the need for most Arab countries to rely on the goodwill of upstream states for river water. Arab countries are seeki ...
  • California’s New Water Wars
    “The story of that water acquisition is one of “lies, chicanery and subterfuge” and even an armed rebellion in 1924. After drying up Owens Valley, the city attempted to divert water from nearby Mono Lake but lost its bid to legal challenges. LA has always needed more water than it produced ...
  • 57% China’s Urban Underground Water Polluted
    “Underground water in 57 percent of monitoring sites across Chinese cities have been found polluted or extremely polluted, the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper run by Xinhua News Agency, reported on Monday, quoting figures from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). The MEP ...
  • DRC Short-Circuits Power Supply
    “The government now wants to develop the Inga III dam on the river, which will produce somewhere between 4000MW and 5000MW of electricity a year. But the intentions of the DRC go well beyond this. Over time, it wants to develop the Grand Inga Dam project, which will provide 40000MW of elec ...
  • And Let the Fish be Dammed
    “The bountiful rivers throughout this South-east Asian country have allowed Cambodians to be self-reliant for generations. But concerned environmentalists envision a future where this vital food supply will no longer provide enough protein to feed the country on its own. The Mekong system ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Builds Support for Congressional Dema ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today circulating a Dear Colleague in support of a letter to President Obama demanding the legal justification for drone attacks on suspected militants. Kucinich took to the House Floor in support of the letter. See video ...
  • Kucinich Leads Congress in Demanding Accountab ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has opposed the use of combat drones against suspected terrorists abroad since the first known attack in 2004. In February 2006, he asked the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to suspend the use of Predator drones citing the “high toll in innocen ...
  • A Billion Dollars to Buy Democracy?
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), author of House Joint Resolution 100, a constitutional amendment to get private money out of federal elections, today released the following video after Politico reported that super PACS and outside groups plan to spend one billion dollars to influence Novembe ...
  • Kucinich: Austerity is Counterproductive. We N ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report indicating that policies designed to reduce the deficit beginning in 2013 will result in a recession. “Today’s CBO report backs up what economists have been te ...
  • New Study Confirms (Again): Keystone XL Would ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after a study by the National Resources Defense Council showed once again that the Keystone XL pipeline would raise gas prices for American consumers. Kucinich has frequently argued this point on the House floor, in a ...

Authentically Wired

  • I want to believe this is true
    …I want to believe this is true …   Going nuclear-free: Germany smashes solar power world record 05-28-2012  •  http://www.rt.com  Germany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants. .   &#1 ...
  • Look over the list to follow and consider care ...
    …Look over the list to follow and consider carefully in November…?   Do ALL The Members Of The House Financial Services Committee Take Bribes From The Banksters? 05-26-2012  •  DownWithTyranny   "Contributions from parties with an interest in legislation are really nothin ...
  • Germier Than Toilet Seats, But You Touch Them ...
    …What and where they are just might surprise you…   Germier Than Toilet Seats, But You Touch Them Every Day   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/27/mrsa-on-common-places.aspx?e_cid=20120527_SNL_Art_1 What do restaurant menus, hands-f ...
  • disgruntled pharmaceutical whacko
    …Most likely a position to follow was taken by a disgruntled pharmaceutical whacko don’t you reckon…?   Is The Pharmaceutical Cure Part of the Disease? 05-26-2012  •  http://wakeup-world.com, By Dylan Charles My flight from the American healthcare system began in my late twenties ...
  • TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED …
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...
  • 100 pictures for Earth Day
    One of the things that makes my job enjoyable despite the hours are the opportunities for getting out in the field. Reporting on tropical forests and other environmental issues frequently takes me to some places of amazing natural beauty. Along the way, I take pictures when I can.

Science - NZ Herald

  • Top award for deceased physicist
    Sir Paul Callaghan, who lost a long battle with cancer in March, has received top honours at the 2012 World Class New Zealand Awards.The world-renowned physicist was named "Supreme Winner" at the awards ceremony in Auckland last...
  • 'Star Trek' device will take pain out of jab
    Painful injections may become a thing of the past thanks to a high-pressure needle-less device that has been developed with New Zealand scientists.The invention has been compared to the one used in science fiction series Star Trek...
  • Kiwi scientists miss history-making rocket
    Tonight was meant to be an exciting end to two long weeks of work for a group of AUT professors tracking the first private space flight's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere - instead their subject went zooming overhead and out of...
  • Kiwi scientists keep watch on history-making r ...
    Two very long weeks of work will tonight come rocketing back down to Earth for a group of AUT professors.AUT University's radio astronomy observatory north of Auckland has been contracted to track the re-entry into Earth's atmosphere...
  • Creatures dredged from the deep
    Hairy crabs, fanged worms and midget lobsters are the latest freakish lifeforms dredged up by scientists exploring the sea volcanos of the Kermadec Ridge.A three-week New Zealand expedition has returned with thousands of specimens,...

The Bovine

  • Hoosier state residents to get input on raw mi ...
    From Indiana Green Living.com “An Indiana health agency is asking residents to comment on the banned sale of raw milk and dairy products made from unprocessed milk. Raw milk has not gone through any process of pasteurization, homogenization or irradiation. It has … Continue reading & ...
  • Astroturf “groups” to campaign aga ...
    From Alternet.org: “May 31, 2012  |  What do a former mouthpiece for tobacco and big oil, a corporate-interest PR flack, and the regional director of a Monsanto-funded tort reform group have in common? They’re all part of the anti-labeling PR team … Continue reading →
  • “Dewey, Cheatem and Howe” invited ...
    From Grist.org: “When President Obama announced a new program during the recent G8 summit to help bolster food and agriculture in developing nations through corporate “pledges,” I was most struck by his choice of partners in the effort. A Reuters report on the announcement … Continue ...
  • Michael Schmidt’s further reflections on ...
    From raw milk farmer and advocate Michael Schmidt: Before we get too far into this we should remind everybody that there is an upcoming raw milk debate via webinar, at “Sustain Ontario” on June 4th. Here’s the link to sign … Continue reading →
  • Sen. Rand Paul’s FDA motion fails to gai ...
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Lots of people were discouraged because Sen. Rand Paul’s proposed amendment to reign in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was overwhelmingly defeated last week. It would have prohibited FDA agents … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Spain's Prime Minister Begs for European Fisca ...
    On Saturday, Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy Asked For a Eurozone Fiscal Authority, in effect the "Fiscal Nannyzone" that I have spoken about on numerous occasions.Spain on Saturday proposed the set up a new fiscal authority in the euro zone which would control and harmonize national budget ...
  • Morgan Stanley Bonds Trade at Junk Pricing, Do ...
    Morgan Stanley's corporate borrowing costs are already way higher than Goldman Sachs and more downgrades are likely in the works. The Fiscal Times explains How Morgan Stanley sank to junk pricing The bond markets are treating Morgan Stanley like a junk-rated company, and the investment ...
  • Edge of a Precipice; Doublethink Extraordinair ...
    George Orlwell coined the term doublethink in his classic book 1984. Doublethink is the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. Have you listened to the conflicted beliefs coming from Spain lately? Conflicted Beliefs “ ...
  • Another Payroll Disaster: Jobs +69,000, Employ ...
    Quick Notes About the Unemployment Rate US Unemployment Rate rose .1 to 8.2%   In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,653,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 1,307,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,345,000.   This month the Civilian Labor Forc ...
  • Mish on Capital Account: Spotlight on GDP, Spe ...
    Once again it was a pleasure to be on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster. The show is live TV with the studio in Washington D.C. with the feed to my house over Skype. The clip below was taped. The audio connection dropped twice but most of that was edited out in the video below. The ma ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Tony Joe White Tonight’s BFP/Jamiol music pick is what “Soothing the Beast” is all about. American singer-songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White wrote his hit Rainy Night In Georgia back in 1962. It has been covered by many artists but no one does it like Mr. White. So break o ...
  • Obama Deeds vs. Obama Words
    “What you need to succeed is sincerity, and if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made” William Blum “A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me [...]
  • Podcast Show #85: US-Israel War on Iran & the ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr James Petras Professor James Petras returns to our show to discuss the mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran and the two-track US war propaganda- one directed at Iran, the other targeting the ‘liberal public’ to confuse and undermine the major ...
  • Is Shale Gas a Real Energy Solution?
    The Serious Consequences of New Technologies to Explode Gas out of Shale Rock William Engdahl There is a global rush to embrace a new technique to extract hydrocarbons from the Earth. From  Germany to Poland and France, from China and above all in the USA where the technique of hydraulic fractur ...
  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • 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.
  • British soldier killed in Afghanistan
    A British soldier has been killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
  • 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.
  • US unemployment 8.2% , real rate 14.8%
    The official US unemployment rate has hit 8.2 percent, although the real figure is 14.8 percent when factoring in the jobless people who have given up looking for work.
  • Egyptians rally against ex-Mubarak PM
    Egyptians have taken to the streets to call for the disqualification of former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq from the upcoming presidential run-off election.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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