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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

20 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

The Martian meteorite ALH84001 shows microscop...The Martian meteorite ALH84001 shows microscopic formations that may have been created by life. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kurdish tribesmen, 1873.Kurdish tribesmen, 1873. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks stamp. Sp...English: 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks stamp. Space science fiction. Satellite of extraterrestrial civilization. Русский: Марка, Советский Союз, 16 копеек, 1967. Космическая фантастика. Спутник внеземной цивилизации. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Kurdish-inhabited area of Syria by CI...English: Kurdish-inhabited area of Syria by CIA (1992); image has been cropped from larger Kurdish region map; see original source or wikicommons file Kurdish-inhabited_area_by_CIA (1992).jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Christian, Sunni civilians trapped in Homs
    There are approximately 800 civilians trapped in the historical center of Homs, to be rescued, while the fighting rages between the army and opposition forces barricaded in the city. Among the civilians, there are about 400 Christians and 400 Sunni Muslims settled in the neighborhoods of Bustan ...
  • Deportation of Africans Divides Israeli Public
    African migrants chosen for deportation from Israel were nervously awaiting a knock on the door or a tap on the shoulder Tuesday as immigration officials rounded up hundreds for departure flights due to begin over the weekend. “The people are very tense. It’s pretty traumatic,” said Jacob Ber ...
  • Russia: West has no solution to Syria
    "I don't think we have clear answer. If you ask me, do you have a plan on the table? I would say no we don't, but nobody has."
  • A Kurd calls for the Breakup of Syria
    Sherkoh Abbas, a veteran Syrian Kurdish dissident, called on Israel this week to support the break-up of Syria into a series of federal structures based on the country’s various ethnicities. Speaking from Washington, Abbas was also critical of US attempts to induce Syrian Kurds to join and wo ...
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Independent - London

  • Man claiming al-Qa'ida link takes hostages in ...
    A man claiming to be a member of al-Qa'ida has taken several hostages in a bank in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, a police union source said today.Related StoriesUS deserter David Hemler found after 28 yearsSpanish short-term debt costs soarGreek leaders to ask for time to hit loan ta ...
  • Pakistan arrests al-Qa'ida suspect Naamen Meziche
    Pakistani security officials say they have arrested a French man accused of being a prominent al-Qa'ida militant. Related StoriesPakistan plunged into fresh turmoil after Supreme Court disqualifies prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani from officePolitical crises grips Pakistan after court disqualif ...
  • 'Killer cannibal' Luka Magnotta flown back to ...
    A Canadian porn actor suspected of dismembering a Chinese student faced his first court hearing yesterday after returning to Canada on a military transport plane from Germany, where he was arrested.Related Stories'Killer cannibal' flown back to CanadaAssange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassyJulia ...
  • Trending: 'Senator Rick Sanitorium' is back on ...
    Until now, the closest former US presidential challenger Rick Santorum had got to HBO was when Tony Soprano saluted "Senator Sanitorium" for his comparison of homosexuality to bestiality. No more!Related Stories'Killer cannibal' flown back to CanadaAssange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassyJulian ...
  • World's richest woman Gina Rinehart 'tried to ...
    The Australian government launched a bitter attack yesterday on Gina Rinehart, the iron ore magnate recently crowned the world's richest woman, accusing her of seeking to turn the country's oldest newspaper group into a mouthpiece for her business interests.Related StoriesWorld's richest woman ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 'Al-Qaida' gunman takes hostages in Toulouse bank
    Man is reported to have fired shot while holding up to four people in French city. A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida was holding four employees of a bank hostage in southern France on Wednesday, not far from the former home of drive-by killer Mohamed Merah, who shot seven people dead in Marc ...
  • Pathology Once Again Excused as Art in the Fas ...
    A fashion magazine's editors think we need to look beyond the injuries and start seeing "beauty" in a maimed female face? Treating women like dirt is hardly a new tactic for the fashion industry, with its long history of objectifying the female body, idealizing physically impossible beauty ty ...
  • Long-grumbling Alaska volcano has explosive as ...
    Anchorage, Alaska - A remote Aleutian volcano that has been restless for the past year rumbled to life on Tuesday, shooting a thin cloud of ash several miles into the sky, which could pose a slight hazard to aircraft, Alaska scientists said. Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot (1,730 meter) peak on ...
  • 75-Year-Old Woman Still Miraculously Has the B ...
    When I picture myself at 75 years old ... well, honestly, I try to avoid picturing myself at 75 years old. No offense to the average septuagenarian, but I'm just not all that jazzed about a future of wrinkles and saggy old lady arms and boobs that hover around my waistline. Or perhaps I should ...
  • Woman Accused of Groping TSA Agent
    Fort Myers - A lot of people get peeved about TSA pat downs. But a Bonita Springs woman is accused of groping an agent at Southwest Florida International Airport and it's all on tape! It happened on her way to Cleveland, Ohio. Airline passenger Carol Price says while going through security to ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Not politically-correct . . .
    BUT VERY SATISFYING. One less perv is good. Maybe he was misunderstood, maybe he had a rough childhood. Whatever his problem was, he's discussing it one-on-one with God, if you believe that sort of thing, and if you don't, take cheer in that the sumbitch's constituent molecules will get re-c ...
  • You can't get there, from here . . .
    THE NEW YORKER has a fine article for you to ponder: Jonah Lehrer posted "Why Smart People Are Stupid" in the Frontal Cortex blog, in which it is noted that research shows that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to cognitive bias. Good ol' h.sapiens may at times be a ratio ...
  • Times are changing . . .
     — MQ-4C Triton — THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE, and choices we have to make now, that we will have to live with for decades. We've been watching Stevie and AIRSHOW stumble around like a pair of drunks as they pursue their F-35 financial fetish. And the F-35 has problems, as we have seen: it' ...
  • UofA shootings: some initial thoughts
    For those that haven't seen the news, three G4S armoured car employees were tragically shot to death last night at my alma mater, the University of Alberta. A fourth remains in critical condition. Footage shows they were at the north end of HUB mall with doors to a pedway that lead to the Tor ...
  • Lowers delivery costs . . .
    WHILE DAVE AND BORIS and the rest of the wretches bring us the latest outrages of Stevie and his fascists, this little item is worthy of your notice: Boeing has given the JDAM 300% longer range, according to DEFENSETECH. OK, so what's a JDAM, and why the hell should you care? It's an ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity Hosts Romney For A Parade Of Falsehoods
    In an interview aired on his Fox News show, Sean Hannity failed to correct Mitt Romney for repeating a string of long-debunked conservative falsehoods.Hannity Lets Romney Claim That Repealing Health Care Reform Will "Save $100 Billion Per Year" Hannity Lets Romney Claim That "It Saves $100 Bill ...
  • Lou Dobbs Botches Basic Fact Of Immigration Po ...
    Following the announcement that the Department of Homeland Security will stop deporting certain undocumented immigrants, Lou Dobbs incorrectly claimed on his Fox Business show that "a good portion" of those affected were "adults when they came here." In fact, the policy change applies only ...
  • Fox Gets It Wrong: Recessions Following Financ ...
    Fox hosts downplayed the severity of the recession and whitewashed the financial crisis after President Obama reminded voters that the recession was caused by a financial crisis and thus would take longer from which to recover. In fact, economists say that recessions caused by financial crises, ...
  • Nation's Top Print Media Cited Anti-Immigrant ...
    Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, was introduced in January 2010. Since then, in their coverage of immigration issues America's top five newspapers and the Associated Press and Reuters newswires have cited anti-immigrant organizations with ties to white supremacists and racists ...
  • Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Is Differe ...
    Following the Obama administration's announcement that it will grant certain undocumented immigrants the chance to be exempted from deportation, Fox News claimed President Obama had issued the decision as an executive order, implying he did so to circumvent Congress. In fact, the change is an e ...

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TPM Cafe

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

  • At Energy Future Holdings, Failure Pays Well f ...
    If you think that bonuses are supposed to reward success, you’re not alone, but the reality is more bizarre.  While Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas continues its downward spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s handing out millions in bonuses to its executives. The bonuses are called rete ...
  • Rolling Blackouts? There’s an app for that!
    The Texas electric grid operator (ERCOT) has introduced an app for smartphones intended to alert Texas users about emergencies to the electric grid that could trigger rolling blackouts.  This alert system would urge consumers to conserve energy during those times. In the midst of last summer’s r ...
  • Diesel exhaust causes cancer according to the WHO
    Diesel exhaust causes cancer, declared the World Health Organization’s cancer agency earlier this week. The new classification was released by an expert panel organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer arm of the World Health Organization. In 1989, the agency ...
  • Another Bailout for Big Business?
    Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas might be looking for a handout – from you. Back in January, Moody’s changed Energy Future Holdings Corp’s rating outlook to negative and made it impossible to ignore what anyone who had been paying attention to the company’s ...
  • Sierra Club – 1 : TCEQ – 0
    Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing ov ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Why do we fear snakes and spiders ?
    Humans are believed to have evolved the innate ability to both sense and fear spiders and snakes. Many people have an excessive fear of snakes or larg...
  • Isle of Man company offering moon trips
    Excalibur Almaz is offering members of the public a trip to the moon in exchange for a £100M fee. The Isle of Man might not seem like the most likely ...
  • Swifts travel 3,000 miles in five days
    Scientists have recorded swifts flying vast distances of over 3,000 miles in the space of a few days. The remarkable journey has been documented by ta...
  • Scientists predict time will stop completely
    In a startling new theory, scientists have predicted that the passage of time will stop altogether. The theory is based on research conducted at two S...
  • Shenzhou-9 docks with Tiangong-1
    China's latest space mission to dock a manned capsule with their orbiting space lab has been a success. The mission was launched on Saturday with thre...

Grassroots

  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
  • 2012 Partners and Projects Guide
    The attached PDF provides details on our plans in this area for the coming year. For more information on Grassroots International's partnership-based approach, see our grantmaking page.
  • Uprooting GM Crops with Creole Seeds
    Subheadline:  MCP shows Brazilian farmers a better way brazil-creole_seed_saving.jpg In rural areas like Seu Lazaro’s community in the state of Goiás, Brazil, vendors of ge ...
  • New report sites water crisis in Gaza
    gaza-boy_and_water_jugs.jpg The day-to-day struggle in Palestine centers on access to and control of land and water. Not only are these vital resources critical to self-determination, but they are necessary for life. And in Gaza, the five-y ...
  • Haiti’s Minister of Environment Declares June ...
    639294893_7a84e0792b_n.jpg In anticipation of World Environment Day today, June 5, 2012, Haiti’s Minister of Environment, Joseph Ronald Toussaint, and the Martelly government proclaimed June Environment Month in Haiti. The theme for th ...

Climate

  • Law Enforcement Restricts Media Wildfire Coverage
    (AP) Reporters covering northern Colorado's massive wildfire cannot enter areas that have been evacuated — an unusual restriction even for this state, where local officials have extensive powers at fire scenes and journalists are usual ...
  • Drought Hits Key Food Province in N.Korea
    (AFP) A long and widespread drought has ravaged one of North Korea's breadbasket provinces, state media say, sparking fears of worsening food shortages in the impoverished communist state. "Most areas of the Democratic People's Republ ...
  • Arctic Expedition to Probe Climate Puzzle
    (Our Amazing Planet ) The German icebreaker Polarstern, a massive floating laboratory and a workhorse of polar research, is headed toward Arctic waters that play a key role in the way climate change affects the world's oceans, in parti ...
  • Climate Panel Adopts Controversial 'Grey' Evid ...
    (New Scientist) Climate scientists are likely to face charges of putting politics before science, following two controversial decisions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this ...
  • Renewables Fraud: Buyers Knew Renewable Energy ...
    (AP) A lawyer for a Maryland man accused of selling $9.1 million in fraudulent renewable energy credits says his client isn't guilty because buyers knew they were fake. The lawyer also says Rodney Hailey of Perry Hall can't be guilty ...

GreenBiz

  • Corporate water disclosure grows, but remains ...
    Ceres updates a 2010 study of corporate water risk reporting and finds improvements, but says quantitative data and supply chain information are still lacking.
  • Coke, Ford join forces to juice supply of plan ...
    Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and several other Fortune 500 companies are working to address the supply shortages that have stymied the goal of make the 100-percent plant-based plastic bottle ubiquitous.
  • How energy benchmarking can boost your buildin ...
    Energy benchmarking can help building owners understand their property's energy use and compare performance to identify the most efficient sites.
  • Run your building like an athlete
    Just like aging athletes, buildings get creakier and crankier as they age; and just like athletes, buildings can benefit from a regular diet of preventative maintenance. Here's how to get the most from your facilities for years to come.
  • How Chicago plans to lead in commercial buildi ...
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel today unveiled the Commercial Building Initiative, a project that will retrofit 14 of the city's most iconic buildings to reduce their energy use by 20 percent over five years.

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • If I Were Filthy Rich
    If I had a quarter of a billion dollars like Mitt Romney, I'd probably still go to WaWa. But the thing is that I wouldn't have a quarter of a billion dollars for very long. I would give almost all of it away. I cannot in my mind justify one person having that much money while many people are ...
  • Your Party Don't Like Brown People
    John Boehner's problem can be summed up this way: 56% of Republicans think we should deport children who were brought here illegally by their parents many years ago, who attended our schools, who graduated, who have no criminal record, and who want to work. Fifty-six percent is a big number whe ...
  • A Little Election Forecast
    It's difficult to explain how Nate Silver calculates his "tipping point state" formula, so if you are really interested in the details, go read his article. The basic idea, however, is fairly simple. In any scenario where one single state decides the presidential election, how likely is each s ...
  • The Real HoagieGate
    Steve M. asks a question about HoagieGate: Do we not have Medicare and Medicaid fraud in this country? Do you think we might have a bit more Medicare and Medicaid fraud if we applied the same level of scrutiny to providers' records that we have for ordering a sandwich at a convenience store? ...
  • Egypt: Let's Support Democracy
    Sigh. I am so tired of the stupid way right-wingers look at foreign policy. They see the words "Muslim Brotherhood" and they pee their pants. What they ought to do is keep an open mind about the Muslim Brotherhood. The movement has evolved quite a bit over the last several decades and it's d ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Spices with Incredible Healing Power
    Even if you aren't into spicy food, the amazing healing powers of spices and herbs are so incredible, you may start sprinkling some extra zest on your French fries. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hanging of the Lincoln Assassination Consp ...
    On a searing hot day in July 1865, four condemned prisoners, including one woman, were executed for their part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Will Genetic Engineering Bring Killer Tomatoes ...
    Geneticists have published the complete tomato genome. With this information, biologists can engineer new strains of genetically modified tomato plants. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Heterochromia in Dogs: Loveable Pooches With D ...
    Fifteen adorable dogs with different colored eyes. Heterochromia can be found in both animals and humans; here we look at its occurrence in our canine companions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Bird of Prey Vs Poisonous Snake
    Two predators, a red-tailed hawk and a venomous rattlesnake, face off in the wild. One of them ends up with lunch while the other is on the menu... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • And then they came for Lauryn Hill - at least ...
    I've tried to convince a few people that something is weird and sketchy in the entertainment industry. It's hard to get people to bite usually -- though as Mr Knowles says at Secret Sun, the old occult-pop-art trick is pretty old and good for boosting sales. There's a whole bunch of sites about ...
  • Political duality of the week: Electoral polit ...
    Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. -- attributed to Frank Zappa The ugly realities of modern electoral politics in America hit home this week with two body blows to self-styled anti-authoritarian political networks: The Ron Paul movement finally hit ...
  • For reference: A convoluted BlackBloc debate - ...
    This post is a spinoff of a larger, incomplete project. Hopefully, it can be completed! :D Having more time on my hands than I expected lately, I've been scouring the interwebs for everything I can find about the ongoing debates around militant direct action, protest tactics, the nebulous fate a ...
  • Bilderberg conference, evil Prince Bernhard, t ...
    In the aftermath of the infamous Bilderberg Conference, I would like to throw this essay out there about the long arc of everything from the Hanseatic League to the European Common Market and European Union. It's jumping off from an old book, The Thousand Year Conspiracy, published during WWII w ...
  • Democrats' hypocrisy in our sick & violent dec ...
    Latest: Drone blitz on Pakistan enters third straight day | World news | guardian.co.uk - up to 27 people dead in strikes that began on Saturday. The US has jeopardized its Afghanistan campaign by refusing to apologize for the November 2011 cross-border 'friendly fire' incident which killed 24 P ...

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  • Big Meetings
    I'd much rather that representatives of the world's nations gather on a regular basis to bore themselves to death in a conference rather than beat themselves to death in a war. Make resolutions, not war is the bumper sticker of the future.
  • A Robin Hood Tax Can Raise Big Bucks for Peopl ...
    U.S. Climate activists are joining a global call for a tax on financial transactions.
  • The Lineup: Week of June 18-24, 2012
    Matias Ramos weighs in on President Obama's new immigration policy.
  • The Elephant in Rio
    Don't bank on a new "green economy" to solve our climate challenges.
  • Obama's DREAM Gambit
    With this new immigration policy, Obama is galvanizing his reelection prospects and potentially boosting support for many Democratic congressional candidates in November.

IntelNews

  • Western spy agencies ‘sharing intelligence’ wi ...
    A British newspaper has cited defense sources claiming that British and American intelligence agencies are passing vital information to Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the country’s government.
  • News you may have missed #747
    Dutch media reportedly spied on China. Nicaragua arrests Colombian national for espionage. Neo-Nazi linked to 1972 Munich Olympic terrorists.
  • Founder of Polish special forces unit found sh ...
    Polish authorities have launched an official investigation into the death of a senior retired military intelligence officer who founded Poland’s best-known special forces unit.
  • News you may have missed #746
    Germany charges alleged Moroccan spy. Delisle spy case in Canada adjourned until July 4. Obama to deny Israeli calls for Pollard's release.
  • CIA ‘seriously damaged’ China’s ov ...
    A high-level Chinese security official, who was arrested earlier this year in China for spying for the United States, compromised several Chinese agents operating on American soil, according to sources.

War is a Crime.org

  • Julian Assange Gets Out of Dodge
    Julian Assange’s Artful Dodge June 20, 2012 Editor Note: Faced with extradition from London to Sweden to face sex-abuse allegations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy and asked for asylum, what ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern considers an artful dodge to avoid possibl ...
  • Environmental lawsuit filed against U.S. Navy’ ...
    www.gzcenter.org Today, two groups took action to halt construction of a second Explosives Handling Wharf at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor until the public is fully informed about the serious environmental risks of the $715 million project.  The groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in T ...
  • Putin/Obama Talks
      Putin/Obama Talks   by Stephen Lendman   Since reelected in March, Putin and Obama met for the first time on Monday at the Los Cabos, Mexico G20 meeting.   Discussions focused on major geopolitical and economic issues. Differences on Syria remain unresolved.   rea ...
  • Palestinian Footballer Wins Release
      Palestinian Footballer Wins Release   by Stephen Lendman   On June 18, Maan News headlined "Al-Sarsak ends hunger strike in release deal," saying:   read more
  • Syria News - June 19
    Syria agrees to evacuate besieged families from Homs, Rebels do not want their exit to avoid Syrian army taking favorable positions - Vatican Fides Service Church occupied by Syrian rebel militias near Homs, The group is now there permanently, carrying out all its activities - Vatican Fides Serv ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disea ...
    by: PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more chi ...
  • Germ theory delusions collapse as new science ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The human body is essentially a “germ” factory, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks the widely believed germ theory, or ...
  • Lance Armstrong named in massive 12-year dopin ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Former professional road racing cyclist and Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is the target of a new investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which alleges Armstrong engaged in a “long running doping conspiracy” between 1 ...
  • Associated Press caught lying about water fluo ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It seems as though every time an American town or city drops the added fluoride chemicals from its water supply, the dinosaur media comes out with its usual talking points about how water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health intervention ...
  • Fed Members Gave Their Own Banks $4 Trillion I ...
    Last Year Senator Bernie Sanders reported a long overdue audit of the Federal Reserve revealed an eye-popping $16 trillion in secret loans to bailout out Wall Street banks. Bernie Sanders has now reporting that 18 Federal Reserve Board Members gave their own banks $4 trillion of these secret bai ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Air Canada Launches First BioFuel Commercial F ...
    Air Canada has joined the growing number of airlines currently investing in green technology, launching their first biofueled plane this past Monday. The flight traveled from Toronto to Mexico City, powered on a combination of recycled cooking oil and traditional jet fuel. The flight kicks off a ...
  • BIG+FREAKS Unveil an Urban Living Room To Serv ...
    Read the rest of BIG+FREAKS Unveil an Urban Living Room To Serve as MÉCA For Art in Bordeaux Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", arts center, big, bjarke ingels, Bjarke Ingels Group, bordeaux, cultural center, Daylighting, eco design, freaks, fr ...
  • DarwinTunes Creates ‘The Perfect Pop Song’ Thr ...
    The likes of McCartney, Springsteen and Dylan could soon be composers of the past as a team from the Imperial College London have programmed a computer to write the ‘perfect pop song’ by adopting the laws of natural selection. The system, known as DarwinTunes,  writes tunes from rand ...
  • Green-Roofed Twitter Headquarters in San Franc ...
    Read the rest of Green-Roofed Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco Also Has a Yoga Studio! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: BCV Architects, corporate, eco design, green design, green roof, Health, health food, Holistic Design, public transportation, San Francisco, Sust ...
  • The Allison Inn and Spa is a Luxurious Green-R ...
    Read the rest of The Allison Inn and Spa is a Luxurious Green-Roofed Getaway in Oregon Wine Country Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: allison inn, allison inn and spa, best hotels in oregon, eco design, eco hotel, green accommodations, green design, green hotel, Green Ho ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Microscopic Snowflakes Fall on Mars
    Researchers have calculated the size of the snowflakes that fall onto the polar regions of Mars in its winter, and it turns out that they're pretty tiny.
  • Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs B ...
    The latest rumors circulating around the physics blogosphere suggest that scientists with the Large Hadron Collider will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson within weeks.
  • Why the Turing Test is a Flawed Benchmark
    By Terry Walby, Wired UK This is a guest post by Terry Walby, UK managing director at IT service company IPsoft June 23 marks a century since Alan Turing’s birth and it’s fair to say that in that time he has inspired many by his theories and work, none more so than the founders of [...]
  • How to Pass the Turing Artificial Intelligence ...
    Are you human or a machine? Prove it, by passing the Turing Test -- a test of the ability of a machine to exhibit intelligent behavior.
  • DarwinTunes ‘Evolves’ Music From Noise
    A new computer program called DarwinTunes is showing how music listeners drive music to evolve in a certain way out of noise.

PakAlert

  • Will Russian And Chinese Military Forces On Sy ...
    Everyone knows that the Obama administration has been steadily gearing up for a military campaign against Syria. Everyone also knows that Russia and China do not want to see this happen. Now Russia and China are sending military forces to Syria. It is being reported that Russia, China, Iran a ...
  • The 6 Creepiest Lies the Food Industry is Feed ...
    As we've talked about before, the food industry is based almost entirely on a series of lies that, quite frankly, most of us just prefer to believe ("'All natural?' Sounds healthy to me!"). But we have to draw the line somewhere, right? Especially when the food you buy has nothing to do with wha ...
  • Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disea ...
    Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more childhood diseases, illness ...
  • “Mark Of The Beast” – First Official TV Commercial
    "And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." Revelation 9:6 What is presented on this page is not fantasy, or our idea of something that could happen in the near future. Every item here will tell you about advance ...
  • Monsanto-Funded Science Denies Emerging Roundu ...
    Monsanto-funded research has been proliferating as uncontrollably as their genetically modified (GM) plants, and the bugs increasingly resistant to them. Two studies have appeared in scientific journals in the past eight months, both funded by Monsanto, and both discrediting a Roundup herbici ...

Andy Worthington

  • Radio: On Eve of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge ...
    Listen to my interview here! A month ago, I was delighted to meet up with — and be interviewed by — an old friend and colleague, Tony Gosling, a journalist and broadcaster, who also has a long-established mail order service, Culture Shop, making videos and books on important politica ...
  • Stop the Extradition to the US of Talha Ahsan, ...
    Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, there is a meeting in the House of Commons to discuss the US-UK Extradition Treaty, a source of consternation since its establishment in 2003, as it allows British citizens to be extradited to the US for the flimsiest of reasons, where they will face a legal s ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: Campaigning to Close Guan ...
    Close Guantanamo, Washington D.C., January 2012, a set on Flickr. In the small hours of this morning, I posted the first set of photos on my new Flickr account, of my wanderings in New York in January, at the start of my two-week US tour to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anni ...
  • Andy Worthington’s Photos on Flickr: New ...
    New York, January 2012, a set on Flickr. Regular readers will be aware that, since the start of this year, some of my articles have featured photos I have taken (see Photos: The “Austerity Isn’t Working” Protest Outside Downing Street and Parliament, Photos: May Day Celebrations in London, Inclu ...
  • Meet the Seven Guantánamo Prisoners Whose Appe ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • YWC Leaders Stay Active, Despite Recent Events
    It’s been a few months since Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) president Kevin DeAnna stepped down in February from the far-right campus organization that has some problematic associations with white nationalists. Since then, and since the group’s appearance at the Conservative Political Acti ...
  • Former Congressman Tancredo to Address White S ...
    Tom Tancredo has no more secrets. The former Republican congressman from Colorado, known for his biting anti-immigration rhetoric and campaign ads suggesting Latino immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, is scheduled to be the luncheon speaker at next month’s annual conference for the white su ...
  • Alaska Militiamen Convicted in Antigovernment ...
    In the end, a federal jury in Alaska didn’t believe militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox’s claim that he was just a free-speech loudmouth — more like Gandhi than Rambo — and convicted him of heading a conspiracy to murder a judge and law enforcement officials. The jury also convicted Lonnie Vern ...
  • Armed with Pig’s Head, Christians Confront Mic ...
    Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., were once again targeted for their beliefs on Friday when a group of protesters calling themselves the “Bible Believers” confronted celebrants at the city’s annual Arab International Festival with a pig’s head on a spike and signs decrying Islam as a false religion, t ...
  • Alabama Public Television Apparently Heading F ...
    Lord help us. Alabama Public Television (APT), a voice of reason in a state that often seems to have very little, is apparently succumbing to the crazies. Last week, the two top executives of the network were summarily fired by the Alabama Educational Television Commission, APT’s governing body, ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Asserts Executive Privilege in Bid to Fo ...
    President Barack Obama stepped into the drama of the high-profile showdown over "Fast and Furious" Wednesday morning, granting Attorney General Eric Holder executive privilege. Obama's executive privilege grant overrides Issa's subpoena for documents related to the House invest ...
  • Vandana Shiva: 'Making Peace With the Earth I ...
    Indian eco-activist Vandana Shiva urges a paradigm shift away from the pervasive short-sighted growth model we see failing all around us, and says that "making peace with the earth" is now a "survival imperative."
  • US, Israel behind Flame Virus Cyber-Attack on ...
    Officials have now confirmed that the US and Israel worked together to develop the Flame computer virus that collected Iranian intelligence as part of a larger cyber attack on Iran, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The virus, which is designed to covertly control everyday computer functions ...
  • Change.org Drops Michelle Rhee Group Under Pre ...
    WASHINGTON -- In a surprising reversal, Change.org, the progressive online powerhouse that channels grassroots energy into petition-based activism, has dropped two anti-union clients, including Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. ...
  • Will Obama Administration Come Clean on Its Ki ...
    After a nearly three year legal battle to obtain government acknowledgement of its clandestine overseas drone and assassination program, the ACLU waits with determined patience today to see how the Obama administration responds to court imposed deadline for an official response and what, if anyt ...

Lifehacker

  • Beeminder Tracks Your Goals, Motivates You by ...
    If you're having trouble staying motivated to achieve your goals—whether it's exercising every day or keeping your email inbox empty—web service Beeminder will help you track your progress, and (optionally) keep you motivated you b ...
  • Hold Off on Those Early-Summer Student Compute ...
    When you start seeing commercials in June that buying a new Ultrabook with your student ID will get you a free Xbox 360, or that flashing your student ID at the Apple Store will net you $100 off a shiny new Retina Macbook Pro, you may be temp ...
  • Like the Lifehacker Page on Facebook for a Cur ...
    On average, we post around 20-plus articles to Lifehacker every day, and we know it can be tough keeping up with them all. If you want to get your Lifehacker fix but don't want to be overwhelmed, and you spend a good chunk of your time hangin ...
  • Build Your Own Sturdy, Good-Looking Standing D ...
    You know that sitting all day is doing terrible things to you, and you've heard the arguments for and against standing desks, and even how to turn your current desk into a standing desk, but if you've still been put off by the idea, perhaps th ...
  • Dolphin Browser Gets Even Faster, Is Still the ...
    Android: Dolphin Browser HD, our favorite web browser for Android, just released a new beta that comes with serious speed boosts. More »

Water Privatization

  • Water Well quality is worsening in New Jersey
    The DEP has released it latest update to testing results from the Private Well Testing Act. Between 2002 and 2009 over 62,600 wells were tested across the state. Unfortunately one out of every eight wells was in violation of...
  • Pa. Liquor Store Privatization Is Dead For Tim ...
    The Pennsylvania House majority leader now says efforts to pass legislation that would privatize the sale of wine and liquor in the Commonwealth is on hold until at least the fall.
  • Ombion: Higher education budget, not privatization
    AFTER prolonging the agony of our parents in the primary and secondary education, which is additional expenses, the government is now into moves that will further deprive many Filipino families of the right to education by privatizing it. Government’s plan to build new schools and classrooms is ...
  • Accounting for natural wealth gains world traction
    What is a sip of clean water worth? Is there economic value in the shade of a tree? And how much would you pay for a breath of fresh air?Putting a price on a natural bounty long taken for granted as free ...
  • Lawmaker allays fears on water reform measure
    A DAVAO City lawmaker has allayed fears raised by some sectors on the proposed water sector reform bills now pending in Congress. Critics of the water reform bills earlier claimed that House Bill 5497 and its counterpart Senate Bill 2997 would lead to privatization of all water districts in the ...

Guardian

  • Julian Assange requests asylum at Ecuador emba ...
    • Wikileaks founder seeks asylum in Ecuadorian embassy • Police say they will arrest Assange • Dramatic move follows failed appeal against extradition • Foreign Office say embassy is "beyond reach of police" • Celebrity backers could be out of pocket if bail terms breached11.39am: The Guardia ...
  • 'Al-Qaida' gunman takes hostages in Toulouse bank
    Man is reported to have fired shot while holding up to four people in French cityA man claiming to be a member of al-Qaida has taken several hostages in a bank in the south-western French city of Toulouse, a police union source said on Wednesday.The man took several hostages in a branch of Fren ...
  • UK unemployment benefit claims post unexpected ...
    Mixed unemployment data show headline jobless rate fell 51,000 to 2.61m as claimant count rose 8,100 to 1.6mThe government was hit with a mixed bag of unemployment data on Wednesday as the headline jobless rate fell but the number of dole claimants rose.The jobless total dropped 51,000 to 2.61 m ...
  • Ai Weiwei's lawyer missing as artist is warned ...
    Chinese dissident being told not to attend court as it considers his challenge to a fine for alleged unpaid taxesThe Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has said police are warning him to stay away from the court hearing on his lawsuit against a tax agency, which he accuses of illegally fining hi ...
  • David Cameron refuses Falklands letter from Cr ...
    PM describes Argentinian president's attempt to force A4 envelope into his hand during G20 summit as 'media stunt'David Cameron and the Argentinian president Cristina Kirchner were involved in bruising verbal exchanges on the margins of the G20 on Tuesday as she tried to force a package into his ...

McClatchey

  • Sandusky's wife testifies about kids she and h ...
    Dottie Sandusky described the life she and her husband, Jerry Sandusky, had as one filled with children - first the six they adopted, then their grandchildren and the ones he…Click to Continue »
  • Even if health care law dies, many of its chan ...
    The 2010 health care law launched what insurance executive Brad Wilson calls ?the revolution? ? unprecedented efforts to expand coverage, contain costs, cut waste and improve care.Click to Continue »
  • Egypt officials deny reports that Hosni Mubara ...
    Top security officials denied reports by Egyptian state media Tuesday that former President Hosni Mubarak whose health reportedly had been deteriorating since he was sentenced earlier this month to…Click to Continue »
  • Parties maneuver in Greece as coalition talks ...
    Talks on forming a new conservative-led government after the weekend?s parliamentary elections in Greece were extended an extra day Tuesday as the likely coalition partners jockeyed for position, possibly to…Click to Continue »
  • Obama prods Europe to boost growth
    President Barack Obama on Tuesday wrapped up two days of talks aimed at prodding European leaders to act aggressively to boost growth in their countries, as Europe?s economic crisis threatens…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pak singer who defied Taliban killed
    Pashto singer Ghazala Javed and her father were shot and killed by unidentified men in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, police said today. The men fired indiscriminately at Javed and her father ...
  • US troops may face administrative punishment i ...
    March 6, 2012: Traders hold placards as they shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in Peshawar. About 200 protesters gathered to condemn the February 21 burning of copies of the Koran at ...
  • Services scheduled for Andover Marine killed i ...
    This undated photo provided by Colleen Baune shows her with her husband, Marine Cpl. Taylor J. Baune, 21, of Andover, Minn. Taylor Baune died June 13, 2012, while conducting combat operations in ...
  • U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
    The Department of Defense has identified 1,997 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans ...
  • 27 Taliban insurgents killed in cleanup operat ...
    KABUL, June 19 (Xinhua) -- A total of 27 Taliban insurgents have been killed and seven others detained in joint cleanup operations carried out by Afghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA orders railroad to pay $800,000 to three ...
    This week, OSHA found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a major transporter of commodities based in Norfolk, Virginia, owed over $800,000 in damages to three whistleblowers. These actions are the most recent of a number of OSHA decisions against Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in the past year. OS ...
  • Congress Considers Granting PHS Whistleblower ...
    House and Senate leaders are in "conference" right now debating whether or not employees in the Public Health Service (PHS) will obtain whistleblower protections. At stake is whether or not thousands of PHS employees who work at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the ...
  • Federal judge rules in favor of whistleblower ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Leonard B. Sand issued a ruling on Tuesday that allowed a corporate fraud whistleblower, Benjamin Ashmore, to proceed with his case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The CGI Group is a Canadian company that lists its stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: GIB).& ...
  • Federal Circuit finally gets due process and " ...
    In this week's Honesty Without Fear radio program, I interviewed Robert "Bob" Whitmore and his lawyer, Paula Dinerstein, about the landmark decision Whitmore won from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week. The Federal Circuit has finally put to rest the unfortunat ...
  • NWC amicus brief urges protection for railroad ...
    Today, attorney Stephen Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I are filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief urges the ARB to affirm a decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in favor of Christophe ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • The New Elitism: File Sharing 'Created' Pop Mu ...
    Helene Lindvall is back, bringing with her one of the worst anti-piracy arguments ever crafted. You might remember her from such Techdirt posts as "You Can't Trust Anyone Who Gives Stuff Away But Still Makes Money" and "Not Wanting To Spend All Your Time Playing Pirate Whack-A-Mole Is Defeatist. ...
  • Should We Want A 'Cyberwar'? It's A Lot Less B ...
    We've certainly written an awful lot about the ridiculousness of the concept of "cyber war." Even with things like Stuxnet and Flame, it seems silly to compare what amounts to either electronic espionage or a little hacking as "war." But perhaps we were looking at it the wrong way. In a Forei ...
  • A Broken System: Einstein Wouldn't Have Been ' ...
    We've argued for years that many professions that require certain forms of "licensing" are often more about restricting supply. That's not say those who set up the licensing effort didn't have the best of intentions, but the end effect often doesn't actually do much to benefit the public. I'm ...
  • Proposed Licensing For Newspaper Snippets Coul ...
    A few months ago we wrote about a really bad idea that was being floated in Germany: making companies like Google pay for the use of news snippets in services such as Google News. Unfortunately, that idea has now been turned into a concrete proposal for a new law; remarkably, it is even worse t ...
  • Canada Has Hidden Microphones In Airports Reco ...
    Some recent news out of Canada involves reports that the airport in Ottawa has hidden microphones installed, designed to record conversations of people. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this, admitting that it's spent $500,000 upgrading video equi ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • 64 drone bases on American soil
    Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: We like to think of the drone war as something far away, fought in the deserts of Yemen or the mountains of Afghanistan. But we now know it’s closer than we thought. There are 64 drone bases on American soil. That includes 12 locations housing Predato ...
  • Congress unlocks America’s hidden shame of sol ...
    James Ridgeway and Jean Casella write: Imagine a place filled with closed, windowless cells. Each cell may be so small that you can extend your arms and touch the side walls. It may contain a bunk of poured concrete, a toilet, perhaps a small table and stool. A few personal possessions – books, ...
  • Julian Assange requests asylum at Ecuador embassy
    James Ball writes: With its stand-off at the tiny Ecuadorian embassy in London, the Assange melodrama has entered its third act. But despite the drama, we don’t yet know for sure what kind of story it is. The first possibility is political thriller: Assange is right, his critics wrong. The ...
  • The right to resist is universal: A farewell t ...
    Max Blumenthal writes: I recently learned of a major exodus of key staffers at Al Akhbar caused at least in part by disagreements with the newspaper leadership’s pro-Assad tendency. The revelation helps explain why Al Akhbar English now prominently features the malevolent propaganda of Amal Saad ...
  • Sectarian violence undermines Syrian regime
    Juan Cole writes: The Syrian upheaval has gone through several stages. It began with relatively peaceful protests by crowds in a handful of small and medium-size cities outside the large metropolitan areas of Damascus and Aleppo. Severe repression by the national regime led some revolutionaries ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Lord Leach of Fairford weighs in on Nature&#82 ...
    I’ve still not received any reply from Nature Climate Change editor Rory Howlett to my query about why he allowed the term “deniers” in scientific literature (Bain et al), and neither has Bishop Hill to my knowledge. Lord Leach however, … Continue reading →
  • Oh, the ironing!
    The headline is a hat tip to The Daily Bayonet, who we miss, still in hiatus.  Excerpts from the Los Angeles Times: By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times June 19, 2012, 12:33 a.m. Faulty computer modeling caused the equipment problems … Continue reading →
  • Researchers calculate size of particles in Mar ...
    Mars’ carbon dioxide ‘snowflakes’ are about the size of red blood cells. In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet’s poles — but unlike our water-based snow, the particles on Mars are frozen crystals of … Continue reading →
  • Keeping track of NOAA’s ENSO data changes
    The NOAA Weekly ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Indices Webpage Has Changed Location By Bob Tisdale There has been concern expressed recently around the blogosphere that NOAA hasn’t updated their weekly El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) sea surface temperature-based indices webpage since May &#82 ...
  • 30 years of soil moisture imaged from satellit ...
    From the Vienna University of Technology, a first. A very cool video follows. Since soil moisture is an indicator of evapotranspiration, I’d love to see a closeup around Mount Kilimanjaro, whose ice cap loss is said to be more related … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Antiaging Protein Helps Set Daily Rhythms
    A protein famous for slowing aging and increasing life span also acts as a metronome, helping coordinate metabolism and the body’s daily rhythms. SIRT1, one of a group of proteins called sirtuins, plays roles in many cellular processes, including aging. Researchers hope that activating the prote ...
  • Using Parents’ Blood to Decode the Genom ...
    For the first time, scientists have deciphered the genome of a fetus using only DNA from the unborn child’s parents. The advance represents a significant step forward in the effort to create noninvasive genetic tests that could assess a wide array of genetic diseases. A small percentage of ...
  • Synthetic Biology Explained
  • Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped
    A new drug for advanced prostate cancer patients has proved so effective that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a chance to receive the life-extending medication, according to a UCSF-led study released Saturday. The hormone treatment, Johnson & Johnson’s ...
  • Is there a ‘healthy’ obesity gene?
    Why is it that some obese people are healthier than others? This was one of the main questions Dr. Chaodong Wu of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — Texas A&M University System — and a group of researchers tried to answer in a recent study. The study, which will appea ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • The Wisconsin recall: myths and talking points
    Part 1.Part 2.Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy’s article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I’m focusing on today. He writes: ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: how the movement could h ...
    Part 1.Since the recall was run as a conventional political campaign, instead of one grounded in the turmoil of last year, it’s fair to ask how the latter might have looked. Doug Henwood offered these thoughts:Suppose instead that the unions had supported a popular campaign - media, door ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: a movement sidelined
    The recall election in Wisconsin has produced a great deal of analysis, most of which seems to have highlighted the poll finding that 60% of voters thought a recall was only appropriate in cases of malfeasance. I have a hard time seeing that as being decisive, though. The biggest reason is tha ...
  • Madison's Statement of Solidarity with Quebec
    This was read last night at a People’s Assembly in Madison, WI - one day after Scott Walker won the recall election.  Immediately afterwards we marched from the Capitol to the UW Madison campus banging pots and pans and wearing red squares, the symbol of the Quebec student strike and ...
  • Policy vs. personality in politics
    The New York Times report on president Obama’s kill list put into stark relief something that has been easy to overlook at times over the past few years: the differences between those who prefer a personality-based political environment and those who emphasize policy.1 Those tensions real ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Today June 20 - URGENT ACTION NEEDED ON FARM BILL!
    The Senate draft of the Farm Bill has moved to the floor for a series of votes on amendments. Voting could begin Tuesday, June 19! You can follow the action on CSPAN. We'll be updating this page with news and alerts until there's a final Senate vote on the so-called Agriculture Reform, Food and ...
  • Shopper's Delight: Here's What to Buy Organic
    Every year, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases a new version of its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides just as I start gearing up to fill my gullet with watermelon, peaches, and tomatoes.Click here to read this article
  • Whole Foods Rejects Dialogue on GMO Safety
    Drivers passing by the Brentwood (MO) Whole Foods Market (WFM) on June 9 spied a 14 foot tall coyote puppet. Next to the puppet was a sign reading "Coyote Jim Says" followed by "GMOs Contaminate Food" and "Whole Foods Sells GMOs." Click here to read this article
  • 40 Years of Environmental Diplomacy - What Do ...
    It was 1972, and to anyone who was paying attention, it was obvious that we humans were making a real mess of things. Tropical forests were falling at an alarming rate. Whale populations were in a death spiral. Our cities were choked with smog, our rivers had turned into fire traps, and we were ...
  • Rio: Let's Unleash the Power of People Back Home
    The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 marked a heady period for environmentalists - Mother Earth had been declared TIME's Person of Year, and the largest gathering of heads of state ever in the Earth's history converged on Rio to put their signatures on new treaties to protect biodiversity and cont ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Conserv ...
    The Senate Agriculture Committee recently put forth their version of the Farm Bill, which included steep cuts to conservation funding. Conservation efforts protect natural resources as well as the public’s health. As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to be debated on the Senate floor, it is clear tha ...
  • Court to FDA: The Science Actually Matters
    The FDA certainly has been confronted with scientific evidence of the human health risks, but the agency has routinely set aside the science when making decisions.
  • The Power of Story: Conversations with Philipp ...
    While covering the Gulf oil spill, I was talking to a group of elementary school students in Tennessee.... I asked them, “Who do you think is going to clean up this mess?” These students—they were between four and six years old—turned to me and said, “We will.”
  • People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
    A single mother of four, she said, “We live it every day,” referring to the lack of sick leave, not being allowed to go to the bathroom, being laughed at for not speaking English, and lifting heavy things even though she is not supposed to.
  • The Fast and the De-Feathered: Proposed Proces ...
    Every fraction of a second, a robotic arm presented one of the inspectors with the viscera (guts) of a chicken carcass. The inspectors handled the viscera and took a quick glance at each carcass, checking for tumors, fecal contamination and other obvious signs that the carcass might pose a food ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • How Bain Capital helped BP blow up the Deepwat ...
    it was Bain Capital (Mitt Romney, former CEO), that told oil giant BP it was a good idea to cut costs. The cuts would lead to death, mayhem and the destruction of the Gulf Coast (not to mention BPs poisoning of Alaska, Africa, Central Asia and Colombia). Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Endangered whales begin to recover
    Population of a once near-extinct whale is on the rise Ten years ago, New Brunswick-based Irving Oil rerouted its shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy away from feeding grounds of the North Atlantic right whale, whose population has since grown Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |  & ...
  • Evidence for Negative Water Feedback
    The sun is a main sequence star whose output is known to increase slowly with age. The total change in solar radiation over 4 billion years turns out to be huge. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the Earths oceans have stabilized temperatures . Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Uncle Gordys Mid-Week Reality Check, May 23, 2012
    The money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves 30 years. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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 Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
    A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. Whi ...
  • Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Dea ...
    Institute of Science in Society Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn ki ...
  • Poisoning Hawaii – Genetic Engineering Chemica ...
    For over 20 years, Hawai'i has been the global center for the open-field testing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray chemicals on an almost dail ...
  • Thirty Pieces of Silver – The Ron Paul Betrayal
    If you want to live in the past, continue to support the Ron Paul Campaign and watch as your monetary donations will absolutely slip down the rabbit hole and end up in Mitt Romney's coffers. Do not contribute to your own demise as we will undoubtedly witness the November election consisting of O ...
  • Apple Pectin for Radioprotection
    A group of doctors and scientists risked their lives and careers to help children living in the most contaminated areas of the Chernobyl fallout and discovered a simple treatment that clears the radionuclides from their bodies, offering hope for future generations of Chernobyl and Fukushima vict ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Turkish party: CIA, Mossad responsible for Syr ...
    ShareThisTurkish party: CIA, Mossad responsible for Syria massacres 20 Jun 2012 A Turkish political party says the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's spy agency Mossad are responsible for massacres in Syria, Press TV reports. A Turkish paper quoted the Deputy Chief of Turkey's Fel ...
  • 15,000 American forces stationed in Kuwait: Se ...
    ShareThis15,000 American forces stationed in Kuwait: Senate account 20 Jun 2012 A US Senate report indicates that the United States has now nearly 15,000 troops in three bases across Kuwait - triple the average number of American forces in the Middle East country before the US-led invasion of Ir ...
  • US Senate blocks bid to restore $4.5 billion f ...
    ShareThisUS Senate blocks bid to restore $4.5 billion for food aid 20 Jun 2012 The US Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a bid to preserve some $4.5 billion in food stamps funding, as part of the massive farm bill. The request to keep that spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progra ...
  • Greek conservatives hope to seal coalition deal
    ShareThisGreek conservatives hope to seal coalition deal 20 Jun 2012 Greek conservatives hope to form a coalition government on Wednesday which must persuade mistrustful foreign lenders to allow more leeway in pushing through a deeply unpopular austerity program. Exasperated with Greece's repeat ...
  • Fed members gave their own banks $4 trillion d ...
    ShareThisFed members gave their own banks $4 trillion during bailout 15 Jun 2012 A report released by the US Government Accountability Office explains how the Federal Reserve divvied up more than $4 trillion in low-interest loans after the fiscal crisis of 2008. When the Federal Reserve looked t ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • Implosion of the MilBlogs: Glimmers of Hope
    18 June 2012 Amid the sea of milblog riffraff are a few islands of hope.  Hershel Smith is one of those islands: Why I Am A Milblogger Written By: Herschel Smith Occasionally I receive a note from someone or read something that confirms my hard work as a Milblogger and gives me the energ ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...
  • Another Smoking Gun: The Pentagon Caught Again ...
    12 June 2012 The Pentagon has repeatedly deceived Senators, Representatives and the Public on the MEDEVAC issue.  This fact pattern has been systematically revealed and irrevocably proven. For instance, top Generals have said that if ground commanders requested changes to MEDEVAC procedure ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge strikes down part of Chicago gun law
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [official website] on Tuesday struck down [opinion, PDF] a portion of the Chicago Firearms Ordinance [text, PDF], saying the standard was unconstitutionally vague. Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan struck down a section of ...
  • Kuwait court invalidates newly elected parliament
    [JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Kuwait on Wednesday held that this year's election for the new parliament [official website, in Arabic] was unconstitutional and the previous parliament of 2009 should be reinstated, state agency Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) [official website] reported. The cour ...
  • US lawmaker introduces bill to block new immig ...
    [JURIST] US Congressman Ben Quayle (R-AZ) [official website] on Monday introduced a bill aimed at blocking the Obama adminstration's decision last week to stop deporting many illegal immigrants. President Barack Obama's administrative action will temporarily stop deporting many illegal immigrant ...
  • Egypt politician challenges interim constitution
    [JURIST] A former candidate in Egypt's presidential election and several non-government organizations filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging Egypt's interim constitution, which was put in place by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) [NYT backgrounder]. SCAF amended the constitution on ...
  • Serbia court sentences police officers for war ...
    [JURIST] The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court on Tuesday sentenced four former police officers for crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian War [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in which around 20,000 people lost their lives. The four paramilitaries have been accused of killing [B ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
    By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Flame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project
    TweetThe Washington Post is enjoying another one of those sneaky-leaky moments thanks to willing sources in the Obama administration who both sought to reinforce U.S. involvement with anti-Iran cyberwarfare, and distinguish between it and the meshuga Israelis who are using the weapons in indiscr ...
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-06-19
    Tweet Annals of Israeli racism: Israelis call African T.A. African neighborhood, "Soweto." http://t.co/ydqFJrf4 # Egyptian military launches coup against democracy: this shall not stand. http://t.co/tBnRtxGt # Haaretz rprts unsubstantiated Isr intel claim that Muslim Brotherhood ordered ...
  • Adelson’s $71-Million Bet Doubles Down on Repu ...
    TweetGamblers around the world have made Sheldon Adelson not just rich, but super-rich.  Plus he greased a few palms along the way in Macao and Las Vegas that helped him build his monuments to greed, avarice and addiction.  Now, Adelson proposes to shower a bit of that manure on the American pol ...
  • Pew Poll: Obama World Support Drops, U.S. Only ...
    TweetA new Pew poll of world opinion finds that approval of Pres. Obama outside the U.S. has dropped precipitously since he took office: The 2009 Pew Global Attitudes survey found that many believed the new American president would act multilaterally, seek international approval before using mil ...
  • Flame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Coll ...
    TweetI reported here about the Flame computer cyberweapon developed by Israel, which has infected individual computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern nations, including Israel and Palestine.  A number of pro-Israel readers dismissed these findings.  Now Kaspersky Labs, which was one of the fir ...

If Americans Knew

  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to Offer Source for Jo ...
    Way back in November, as the ideas that led to Knight-Mozilla's OpenNews relaunch were starting to be articulated, I wrote about the need for something to "shine a spotlight" on the code being written in journalism: I think that there's real work to be done in advocating for, shining a spotl ...
  • Knight Announces Winners for News Challenge on ...
    The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the winners of its first round of this year's Knight News Challenge contest at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference held in Cambridge, Mass. Networks is a theme you'll see running through the winners. That's because that was the focu ...
  • iWitness Launches Tool for Exploring Social Me ...
    We are very excited to announce the launch of iWitness, a free tool created by Adaptive Path for exploring social media content by time and place. We designed iWitness to enable people to explore content in new ways. We wanted it to be a vehicle for discovering what's happening in the wo ...
  • FrontlineSMS Version 2 Provides Intuitive, Sca ...
    Mobile phones are everywhere. There are now 6 billion active mobile phone connections across the world, an increasing number of which are in emerging markets, in communities that have previously been hard to reach. Recognizing this potential, our founder, Ken Banks, envisioned FrontlineSMS six a ...
  • How Upworthy Makes Important Content Sharable
    A talk by Upworthy's Sara Critchfield and Adam Mordecai at Netroots Nation (#nnupFTW) was less-than-standing-room only, so I've combined the parts we were able to catch with a similar talk by their colleague Peter Koechley at the Conversational Marketing Summit. Thanks to Deepa Kunapuli for her ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - Failing Security in Libya ...
    A breakdown of security in Libya has allowed a significant flow of militants and weapons into other troubled areas in North Africa, according to the top Pentagon official on Africa policy.The outflow of Libyan weapons and militants has “created opportunities for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ...
  • Broken Government - Contempt Hearings on Tap f ...
    Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. faces a contempt of Congress hearing Wednesday after refusing a last-minute compromise offer to turn over subpoenaed documents to a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.Deadlocked since October over the delivery of hu ...
  • The Health Edge - How Food Packaging affects F ...
    Long before deciding on “paper or plastic� at the checkout, shoppers make a plethora of choices at the grocery store, especially in the produce aisle.Packaging influences the way fruits and vegetables are chosen by consumers, according to a Michigan State University study.The study found tha ...
  • Nigeria on Edge - Islamists conduct Religious ...
    A curfew has been imposed by Nigerian authorities in the city of Damaturu, following deadly clashes between Boko Haram islamist terrorists and the army in the northeastern state of Yobe. Violence swelled on June 18 and grew overnight in Damaturu. It is believed that at as many 52 deaths came abo ...
  • Egypt and Israel - The Egypt-Gaza Powder Keg
    Recent developments on Israel's southern borders have illustrated the direct relationship between the changes sweeping Arab lands and mounting threats to Israel's national security. This past weekend, as Egyptians went to the polls, terrorists operating in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula fired two Grad ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • ...The White House had NOTHING to Do With This ...
    Yesterday, the Washington Post published a report about the flame virus a new malware program supposedly designed by the United States and Israel which infected Iranian computers and spied on its nuclear weapons program. While the original leak about this program took place a few weeks ago, ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama to Blame Lousy Eco ...
    The President's reelection campaign is going to have to pivot once again. The Mitt Romney hates women meme didn't work, so they tried the Bain Capital is evil approach. Now that the Bain Capital attacks have been rejected by Democrats and Republican's alike,  they are going back to the old ...
  • Antisemitism in France At Crisis Level -Govt. ...
    Five years ago, Linda moved from Paris to Canada and then to the Israeli port city of Ashdod. Only a week ago, she, her husband and their two sons faced a hail of rockets from the Gaza Strip. Nevertheless, Linda, who doesn't want to be identified by her last name, is delighted to be living i ...
  • Iranian Nukes and Their Role in the Region
    “Hitler’s primary task was to put himself over as a misunderstood moderate….Trotsky summed it up neatly: ‘Anyone who expects to meet a lunatic brandishing a hatchet and instead finds a man hiding a revolver in his trouser-pocket is bound to feel relieved. But that doesn’t prevent a revolver from ...
  • Chuck Schumer's Solution To The Bad Economy: M ...
    As the United States economy continues to stagnate or (depending on who you talk to) slip toward a second recession, the senior senator from New York, Chuck Schumer has a solution to all of our problems....maple syrup. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced an amendment to a Senate ...

The Real Agenda

  • Leak confirms US and Israel created Flame Comp ...
    By ELLEN NAKASHIMA | WASHINGTON POST | JUNE 19, 2012 The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, ...
  • Rio+20 discute Impor Limites planetários à Hum ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 19 JUNHO 2012 A conferência globalista Rio+20 começou, e os temas a serem discutidos durante o encontro serão de grande importância para todos nós, não porque as pessoas no foro querem realmente resolver os problemas que ameaçam a humanidade como um ...
  • Río+20 discute imponer límites planetarios a l ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 19 JUNIO 2012 La conferencia globalista Río+20 comenzó, y los temas que se discutirán durante la reunión serán de gran importancia para todos nosotros, no porque sus asistentes quieren realmente resolver los problemas que amenazan a la humanidad com ...
  • DARPA to use Implantable Sensors to Monitor So ...
    The In Vivo technology would also have commercial applications for physiological monitoring of patients. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 19, 2012 How beneficial would it be for warfare if soldiers did not get sick in the battlefield, or if those who get sick could be orderly r ...
  • United Nations Environmental Program Embraces ...
    By JURRIAAN MAESSEN | EXPLOSIVEREPORTS | JUNE 19, 2012 The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro has begun. The global leviathan that is the United Nations bares its teeth. In the months preceeding the summit, a continuing stream of publications has poured down from every corner of the transn ...

Wind Watch

  • Peru voters say no to wind farms
    PERU — Election clerks were still busy counting ballots at noon on Wednesday from Tuesday’s town meeting polls. They took a break from midnight to Wednesday morning. Results, however, were in for the municipal elections and the straw poll on wind farms. A majority of voters said no to wind ...
  • Opposition to wind project mounts
    The Castleton Select Board’s decision to stand against the proposed wind project on Grandpa’s Knob is finding support in other towns affected by the plan. The project’s developer, Reunion Power, would not comment on Castleton’s action but other town and state officials weighed in on what the opp ...
  • Gamesa halts Shaffer Mountain wind plans
    Most of the signs, scattered in lawns and on porches from Reels Corner to Windber, read: “Stop Gamesa From Destroying This Mountain.” “This Mountain” refers to Shaffer Mountain. And though “destroy” is a word that project supporters will contest, one thing is certain: Gamesa’s six-year fight for ...
  • Turbines ‘clearly’ heard 2km away: ...
    A report into wind farm noise has recommended that turbines on existing wind farms less than 2km from housing be removed. The Victorian Government last year introduced policy that states a wind farm cannot be located within 2km of an existing dwelling but turbines built near homes before the leg ...
  • Pinnacle noise complaint dismissed
    KEYSER – Pressed by the corporate ownership of the Pinnacle Wind Farm, the West Virginia Public Service Commission has dismissed a protest filed by a Green Mountain man who complained about noise from the turbines, with the Commission reversing itself and over-ruling its own staff in determining ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Obama Looks to Europe to Boost U.S. Economy
    “President Obama said tonight that European leaders must quickly fix their ailing economies and banking systems in order to help boost world financial markets–and create jobs in the United States.” (USA Today) Poor excuse for his failure. FEE Timely Classic “How Governmen ...
  • Worries Arise over Domestic Drones
    “The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms. The worries began mostly on the political margins, but there are signs that ordinary people are startin ...
  • Section of Chicago’s Gun-Control Law Struck by ...
    “A federal judge has ruled it’s unconstitutional for Chicago to deny gun permits to people convicted of weapons crimes, the Chicago Tribune reports. The city’s ordinance forbids gun permits to people who have been convicted ‘in any jurisdiction’ of an ‘unlawful use of a weapon ...
  • Google Bombarded with Requests to Suppress Inf ...
    “Google has received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results or YouTube video in the last six months of 2011, the company said on Monday, denouncing what it said was an alarming trend. In its twice-yearly Transparency Report, the world’s ...
  • Anti-Immigration Law Takes Toll on Alabama Pou ...
    “For years, most poultry workers here [Albertville, Ala.] were Mexican immigrants, including some who were in the country illegally. But last fall, after a tough state law against illegal immigrants took effect, many vanished overnight, rattling the town’s large Hispanic community and leav ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...
  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...
  • The Scott Walker recall fails
    Ordinary people hate other ordinary people who are doing better than them.  The politics of envy isn’t about the rich, whom ordinary people almost never see, but about their neighbours.  And Americans want a mean economy, one where everyone has to suffer like they do.  As long  as the unio ...
  • Oil Prices and the economy for the next year t ...
    Quick note, given I think that the economy is going to roll off a cliff in the new year, and soften between now and then, that means I think that oil prices are going to drop further.  I won’t be surprised to see them go under $50/barrel, unless something stupid like war with Iran happens. ...
  • Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease
    Or at least, the Bank of Canada thinks so, though they’ll never call it by that name: Nonetheless, Canada’s current account was in surplus for many years before the crisis, and is now expected to remain in deficit indefinitely. The main reason? A currency at parity with the U.S. dollar mea ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Evolving Urban Form: Tokyo
    Tokyo is the ultimate in urbanization, being nearly one-half larger than any other urban area in the world. Further, Tokyo has retained been the largest urban area in the world for longer than any period since London's approximately 100 year run from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. During ...
  • Historic Heritage of the Rust Belt
    I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ravenna recently. No, not the town in Italy with its early Christian buildings and glittering mosaics. I mean Ravenna, Ohio, a small industrial city of some 12,000 people near Akron.  Along with Akron and Cleveland, Ravenna flourished as an industr ...
  • Millennials’ Home Ownership Dreams Delayed, No ...
    Eighty percent of Americans buy their first house between the ages of 18-34. While the Millennial Generation’s (born 1982-2003) delayed entry into all aspects of young adulthood has sometimes been characterized as a “failure to launch,” the generation’s  preference for single tract, suburban ...
  • Cities, Cars, People: Is Changing Car Use a Fu ...
    One cornerstone for urban designers and planners seeking to transform the polycentric or suburban city of the 20th Century into something resembling the high density city of the 19th was a cross-city comparison by Newman and Kenworthy and successors. [1]   They argued that this proved ...
  • No, It's the Deniers who Are Wrong
    Dennis Meyers is the Principal Economist at California’s Department of Finance. He has recently published two parts of what is promised to be a four-part series titled The Declinists are Wrong. He intends to convince us of “the fundamental strength of the Golden State’s dynamic and vibrant eco ...

GM Watch

  • Mother Jones: Blinded by 'science' on GM food
    NOTE: Lots of useful embedded links to sources in original. --- --- Mother Jones: Blinded by "Science" on GMO Food Charles Margulis Center for Environmental Health, June 19 2012  http://generationgreen.org/2012/06/mother-jones-blinded-science/ Sarah Zhang's defense of genetically modified (GMO) ...
  • Mother Jones: Blinded by 'science' on GM food
    NOTE: Lots of useful embedded links to sources in original. --- --- Mother Jones: Blinded by "Science" on GMO Food Charles Margulis Center for Environmental Health, June 19 2012  http://generationgreen.org/2012/06/mother-jones-blinded-science/ Sarah Zhang's defense of genetically modified (GMO) ...
  • 250m new funding for new UK bio-economy
    EXTRACT: Breakthroughs in GM crop science are fundamental to this Green Revolution, and today's announcement of major new funding for the UK Agri-science base marks a historic shift in the Government's recognition of the importance of the UK Agricultural Science sector. We need a new debate abou ...
  • 250m new funding for new UK bio-economy
    EXTRACT: Breakthroughs in GM crop science are fundamental to this Green Revolution, and today's announcement of major new funding for the UK Agri-science base marks a historic shift in the Government's recognition of the importance of the UK Agricultural Science sector. We need a new debate abou ...
  • GM-feed may harm animals' reproduction
    GM-feed may harm the reproductive system of animals All About Feed, 19 Jun 2012 http://www.allaboutfeed.net/news/gm-feed-may-harm-the-reproductive-system-of-animals-13346.html Russian scientists have proven the existence of very serious health risks for animals given genetically modified (GM) f ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Greece: Official Projection of Result: New Dem ...
    Via: BBC Liveblog: That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.
  • Living Large in a Tiny House
    Via: Yahoo Finance: Imagine living in a space that measures a mere 168 square feet, more than 14 times smaller than the average American home. That’s the reality for one family of four who, for the past year, has been living in their “Tiny House” tucked away in the rural mountains of Virginia. I ...
  • Ottawa Airport Wired with Microphones to Recor ...
    Via: Ottawa Citizen: Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is nearing completion of a $500,000 upgrade of old video cameras used to monitor its new “customs controlled areas,” includ ...
  • China Launches Its First Female Astronaut Into ...
    Via: PC Magazine: China on Saturday launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman to travel to space. The Long March-2F rocket lifted off successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m local time an ...
  • Financial Firms Ready ‘Special Teams’
    Via: New York Times: The banks are on high alert. Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...

Desertification

  • The logic behind the definition of ‘dese ...
    Between May 1993 and 17th June, 1994 I have participated, as the scientific adviser of the Belgian governmental delegation,  at all the meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Desertification Convention (INCD/CIND).  International drylands experts and representatives from ...
  • Desertification in LDC, LLDCs and SIDs (UNCSD ...
    Read at : http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1000&nr=18&menu=126 Addressing Desertification and Land Degradation in LDC, LLDCs and SIDs Organizing partners UNCCD Secretariat, FAO, UN-Water, GEF, CARICOM, SPREP Introduction The side-event will focus on LDCs, LLDCs and S ...
  • Désertification en Algérie (El Watan) – ...
    Lu à : http://www.elwatan.com/actualite/plusieurs-wilayas-de-l-est-menacees-par-la-desertification-20-06-2012-175544_109.php Plusieurs wilayas de l’Est menacées par la désertification Les Aurès, considérés comme le dernier rempart contre le phénomène, sont en danger.  Près de 50% du territoire d ...
  • Halt the desert (Chinadialogue)
    Read at : http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4987-Holding-back-the-desert Holding back the desert chinadialogue June 18, 2012 See VIDEO
  • Media Covers World Day to Combat Desertificati ...
    Read at : http://3blmedia.com/theCSRfeed/Rio-Dubai-Media-Covers-World-Day-Combat-Desertification From Rio to Dubai, Media Covers World Day to Combat Desertification Summary On the World Day to Combat Desertification, media around the world wrote about the importance of restoring lands and soils. ...

The Paper Trail

  • U.S. Chamber, GOP block election ad transparen ...
    Alexi Giannoulias “can’t be trusted,” the 2010 election ad said. His family’s bank loaned money to mobsters, he accepted an illegal tax break and he even squandered money that families were saving for college.If the charges were true, the U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois must have been a real ...
  • Environmentalists decry 'irresponsible' lobbyi ...
    The Natural Resources Defense Council condemned eight coal-burning utility companies Tuesday for flouting the Clean Air Act and spending millions to lobby against pollution controls.In a report, the NRDC detailed how the companies have poured money into blocking or delaying clean ...
  • Bouncing too much to find the enemy
    A host of problems plague the military’s newest jet fighter, the F-35, but one of the simplest yet most troublesome is identified in a new government audit as unreadable “symbology.”The problem exists inside a small item at the heart of what makes the F-35 the world’s most sophisticated air ...
  • OPINION: UnitedHealth Group's misleading promises
    Several years ago, when I was still a health insurance company PR guy, I was accused by a furious CNBC producer of withholding important information when I cajoled her into having my CEO on “Squawk Box” to talk about some new initiative we were rolling out.  “You played us like a Stradivari ...
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backofthebook.ca

  • Parliament’s latest protesting Page
    By Montreal Simon It’s an inspiring sight, and a chilling one. Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer standing up for the right to know the truth, in a country where the Big Lie rules. As the Cons try to smear him and muzzle him as they have so many others. They have attacked him for ...
  • Bear cub returned to wild amid protests
    A BoB short: Makoon, a five month old bear cub has been released into the wild despite critics’ fears that he would not survive. The cub was rescued in March by a Manitoba family who kept him in their house until the young bruin was seized by conservation officers. He was rehabilitated by staff ...
  • Volunteers aim to avoid 200,000+ book-burning
    A BoB short: Maybe it has something to do with the recent death of Ray Bradbury, and memories of Farenheit 451, but Shaunna Raycraft has found lots of help with her 200,000+ books. Seven years ago, the Pine Lake, Sask. woman rescued the massive literary hoard from a neighbour, who had threatened ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Why do scientists kee ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I live by only a few certainties when it comes to my health. One, that eggs are bad for me. Two, that drinking 12 shots of Jim Beam a day makes me more interesting. And three, that if you don’t drink eight glasses of water a day you will die of [...]
  • Parliament’s darkest day, and finest
    By Montreal Simon It was the Canadian Parliament’s darkest day, and at the same time one of its finest. Each new round of voting began with a round of applause from the New Democrat benches and ended with whoops and cheers from the Conservatives whose majority might means they’ve voted dow ...

libcom

  • Resistance is high; garment workers force shut ...
    Ashulia-youth-2012-06-17_14862.jpg The resurgence of unrest in the Bangladeshi garment sector continues with over 500,000 workers now locked out in Ashulia... The main costs of ...
  • Benefits withdrawn to punish low-waged workers ...
    Iain-Duncan-Smith_1667305c.jpg The "right to strike" in the UK comes under further attack today, as Iain Duncan Smith announces plans to withdraw Working Tax Credit for workers who take stri ...
  • Mauritanian mining strike over - workers win t ...
    tasiast2.jpg This time last week libcom reported on striking gold miners in Mauritania - after five days of strike action, the miners have won their demands and returned to work. ...
  • Write letters to anarchist and anti-fascist pr ...
    Kharchenko Igor Olegovich FKU SIZO-2 UFSIN Rossii po g. Moskve ul. Novoslobodskaya d. 45 127055 Moskva Russia Igor was arrested in September 2011. He is accused of having participated in a fight on the 4th of July 2010, during ...
  • Oakland parents and teachers announce plans to ...
    oakland sch.jpg As 5 elementary schools are set for closure at the end of this school year, displacing around 900 children to schools 10 miles away with no transport provided, parents and teachers ann ...

Free Range International

  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]
  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...
  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...
  • The Harbinger – A Book Review (i.e. Refl ...
    The “New York Times Bestseller” book The Harbinger was written by a Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn.   Its subtitle is: “The ANCIENT MYSTERY That Holds the SECRET of America’s Future.”   Rabbi Cahn claims to be a “Messianic Jew” – i.e. a practicing Rabbi ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
    I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • When Your Bank Freezes Your Account
    One way to tell that the economy is about to collapse (or has done so already) is when your bank won’t let you have your money. An interesting account from Alexander Higgins’ Blog about the major Italian bank that has frozen all withdrawals – and the devastating effect this has ...
  • Five Myths About the Causes of Unemployment
    Professor Jem Blendell, founder of Lifeworth Consulting and member of the World Economic Forum, gave the keynote address at the Rebuild21 conference in Copenhagen two weeks ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeQfNpW9sQ). A week later Blendell addressed the World Economic Forum in Istanbul ...
  • Indiana Allows Self-Defense Against Unlawful P ...
    SWAT team storms family home Owing to the recent militarization of police, an increasing number of families have been terrorized by SWAT teams breaking down their doors – only to discover they have targeted the wrong individual or the wrong house. It’s high time other states passe ...
  • How the Sustainability Movement Defies Conserv ...
    The late Barry Goldwater My decision to focus my activism in the sustainability movement has nothing to do with the horror stories climate change and Peak Oil aficionados tell about the horrible future my children and grandchildren face. I have never found terrifying or guilt-tripping people an ...
  • The Greek Town that Already Opted Out of the Euro
    An interesting  BBC feature about a flourishing Greek town. They have plenty of money because they have their own local currency – the TEMS. If video fails to play go to free link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y9R0v96K48&feature=youtu.be A Video About Greek Time Banks A second ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...
  • Twenty Names
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore "Moore, YOUR SHIRTTAIL is out!" It was the voice of Mr. Ryan, the assistant principal for discipline at my high school, and he was right on my back. Not figuratively. He was literally on it. "Turn around!" I did as I w ...
  • 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
    Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...
  • Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
    Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
  • New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
    NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Three Lessons Learned on the Future of Smart B ...
    Last week I attended Realcomm’s first IBCON in Las Vegas. This gathering of real estate professionals, information technology and building efficiency vendors represented major stakeholders in the Smart Buildings market. The presentations and discussions at this inaugural meeting provided valuabl ...
  • Take Me Out To The Utility-Scale Solar Farm
    It won’t make up for the absence of injured slugging first baseman Ryan Howard, but the Philadelphia Phillies are acquiring some power.The Phillies are getting behind the effort to build Pennsylvania’s largest utility-scale solar farm, agreeing to buy 22 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) – 22,00 ...
  • Promoting Low-Carbon Innovation at Rio+20
    As Rio+20 negotiators rush to complete a consolidated text of outcomes before heads of state begin arriving tomorrow, participants at hundreds of side events are calling on business and government to take stronger action on clean energy, poverty elimination, food security, oceans, sustainable ci ...
  • Great data on on PV and falling energy demand ...
    Today see’s the release of yet another important and much needed set of up-to-date data and truth on PV and falling energy demand in Australia.
  • No easy answers at SONGS - Update
    Faulty computer analysis, design flaws, and manufacturing changes are among the reasons there is excessive tube wear in the steam generator at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 3

EU Times

  • Japan sat on Fukushima data as people fled to ...
    Japanese authorities failed to disclose US data on the spread of radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last year, a cabinet minister says. This left some evacuees fleeing in the same direction as the radioactive emissions, media report. ­The March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake pa ...
  • Obama Push For World War III Shocks Putin
    A highly disturbing report prepared by the Foreign Ministry on yesterdays nearly 3 ½ hour meeting between President’s Putin and Obama at the G-20 Summit in Mexico states that Russia’s leader was “shocked” after he told the US leader that America’s Middle East policies were bringing the world to ...
  • FBI wants to ban new Internet protocol
    With the recent unveiling of the newest Internet protocol system, trillions upon trillions of devices are being paved access to the Internet for the unforeseeable future. And right on cue, the FBI is already up in arms over IPv6. With computing devices around the globe already switching from the ...
  • Cassini finds tropical lakes on Saturn’s moon ...
    Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, with a depth of at least one meter. The longstanding bodies of liquid were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been ...
  • Assange asks for political asylum in Ecuador
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the site’s Twitter. Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino says Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in Lo ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Snow White and the Huntsman
    Movie Review by Joyce Kulhawik www.joyceschoices.com   Iâve always had a soft spot for Snow White. She was the only fairy tale princess Iâd heard of who wasnât blonde, and the Disney cartoon was the first movie I ever saw as a child. I was entranced. I have taken all my fashion cues from her s ...
  • Bristol Palin Sued by Kyle Massey for Cutting ...
    As you know, most reality shows are not what they seem to be. Producers who are hungry for fame and wealth often fake plots, and even manufacture relationships (Kanye and Kim, Evelyn and Chad), to get their shows picked up by major networks. That’s So Raven star Kyle Massey thought he was set t ...
  • Darrell Issa: Holder not complying, contempt v ...
    **Written by Doug Powers Last Monday, the House Oversight Committee scheduled a contempt of Congress vote against Eric Holder unless he complied with all 22 parts of a congressional subpoena that Darrell Issa served him last October
  • Max Payne launched for Android Platform brings ...
    The amazing first person shooter game which is a favorite all-time game for game lovers all over the world is now available on selected Android devices. The classic bullet-time shooter game ( Max Payne ) was released for selected device on Friday June 15. After the release of the Matrix, Max Pa ...
  • Fighting Returns Between Hamas And Israel
    Hamas Fires Barrage Of Rockets Into Israel -- BBC Hamas militants in Gaza have fired rockets and mortars into southern Israel following air strikes against the Palestinian territory. The Israeli raids have killed at least six Palestinians in recent days. The death of a two-year-old girl in Gaza ...

Groklaw

  • Senior Executive Quits at Oracle
    Oracle Corp. said Monday that its fourth-quarter profit increased 7.5%, a surprise announcement three days ahead of schedule that appeared to be triggered by the departure of a top sales executive. The executive, Keith Block, was in charge of sales in North America, which account for about half ...
  • NVIDIA PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words
    Basically they said they're committed to Linux using their (proprietary) driver that is largely common across platforms and this allows for same-day Linux support, etc. They also promote how they're active in ARM Linux for Tegra, support a wide-range of hardware under Linux, etc. However, they h ...
  • Kodak sues Apple, claiming interference in pat ...
    Photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co sued Apple Inc to stop it from interfering with plans to sell a large patent portfolio, a significant part of its bankruptcy restructuring. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, Kodak said Apple, the largest U.S. company by mark ...
  • Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web: Repl ...
    This is the second part of a two-post recap of the "Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web" workshop at the recent International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. The session was divided into three topics: - Capture: challenges in acquiring web content; - Replay: ...
  • Federal Circuit takes willfulness out of juror ...
    Chances are that any given juror in a patent case has never before and will never again have to decide a similar legal dispute. But because jurors sit through patent trials and weigh the evidence they've heard, they've always been charged with determining not only whether the plaintiff has a val ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hempcrete. Houses made from hemp.
    Hempcrete is made from hemp, water and lime. It is “non-toxic, mold-resistant, mildew-resistant, non-flammable, formaldehyde-free, and perfect for people with chemical sensitivities.” It weighs seven times less than concrete and insulates so well that heating and cooling costs are ab ...
  • Floating offshore wind turbine for Portugal
    In addition to being the first offshore wind turbine in Portugal, this is the first offshore wind turbine to be installed without the use of any heavy lift vessels or piling equipment at sea,” says manufacturer Principle Power. It is assembled on land, then towed to the siting area in the ...
  • Microsoft Surface. I think they got something here
    Surface is a tablet computer. The case folds out to support it horizontally AND the case also becomes a full-sized keyboard. That means you don’t have to buy a case or a keyboard. Plus it’ll talk to printers and has USB ports.Corporations are going to love Surface.I may hold off on b ...
  • How Syriza rose to power in Greece
    Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza. Credit: commons.wikimedia.orgRadical left Greek party Syriza didn’t win the election yesterday but did come in second with a highly respectable 26%. They did this by grassroots organizing over several years. (The center-right New Democracy Party won with 30%.) B ...
  • Texas handled their drought well
    Water wonk JfleckI think I’d argue the Texas experience shows that, when communities are really up against it, they’ve demonstrated the ability to do a far better job at managing scarce water.Only two small communities in Texas ran out of water during one of the worst droughts ever. Well done, T ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Rio+20: We can give Kiwi kids a future they ca ...
    In Brazil the Rio +20 Earth Summit officially starts today. It’s great that Kennedy Graham is there from the Greens and blogging on his experiences. As I told Parliament today, 20 years on it is a good time to look back at our environmental record over the last two decades since the first Rio ea ...
  • Living with Marina – Copenhagen style
    I live with Marina.  It is another special experience in the journey of life. Once upon a time, when I lived in Copenhagen for a brief moment, I lived with Therese. We slept, harmoniously, under the same roof.  I almost didn’t meet Therese – one coffee was all we managed, before I rushed to the ...
  • Sad Labour’s not here? Don’t ask, ...
    Apart from the dutiful cabinet minister, I am the only NZ member of parliament at Rio de Janeiro. Should I be here? Days back, in the ‘80s, it was a rare thing for parliamentarians to front up to a UN conference. But that was when international diplomacy was confined to the diplomats, and the ex ...
  • Residential Schools and Inclusion – A Genuine ...
    Unlike the absurd proposals to raise class size, create league tables that rank schools, or bring in performance pay for teachers, the future of the residential schools for disabled students is a genuine dilemma now for some families. Like all the people I have met from the education sector and ...
  • The ghost of conferences past – New Zeal ...
    Here are key extracts from our national leaders at the evolving Earth Summits, as New Zealand confronts the historically-unprecedented problem of global sustainability in the late 20th-early 21st century (CE). 1992:    Minister for Environment, Hon. Rob Storey, 1st Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro “ ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • BPA-Free Products Still Contain Bisphenols of ...
    By Dr. Mercola Just when you thought you'd learned everything there was to learn about how to avoid bisphenol-A (BPA), the endocrine-disrupting plastics chemical, new research shows that there's more hormone-disrupting bisphenols around you than you probably thought. In answer to consumers' ...
  • Eating This Feeds Bacteria That Can Poke Holes ...
    By Dr. Mercola Azithromycin (Zithromax) is a macrolide antibiotic used in the treatment of bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections, and sexually transmitted diseases. It's known for having unpleasant side effects such as skin rashes, itching, allergic or anaphylactic reactions, and severe, wate ...
  • Stolen Freedoms Regained in Stunning Blow to S ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher This month, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) joins with our Health Liberty partners to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Health Liberty Coalition by Mercola.com. For many years, NVIC and the non-profit Consumers for Dental Choice, ...
  • Poised: When Doctors Question Your Family's Va ...
    By Cathy Jameson I'm no stranger to the onslaught of questions the medical field throws at me about vaccines. One of our doctors finally stopped asking when would we "catch up" on some of the shots my kids' records were "missing." After years of hearing me say politely, "Not today, thank ...
  • 9 Health Risks that Aren’t Worth Taking
    By Dr. Mercola For a quick look at health risks that just aren't worth it, you can review our featured article that has a list of products or habits you'd be better off avoiding than taking a chance with. Many of these habits are not only completely accepted by our society and typic ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ appeals for Rio ...
    Davi Kopenawa Yanomami says Brazil can save the Awá tribe. © Survival The ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ is urgently appealing to governments attending Rio+20 to help save the earth’s most threatened tribe, by pressuring Brazil to stamp out illegal logging. Speaking ahead of the UN confere ...
  • South Africa’s indigenous ‘icon’ Dawid Kruiper ...
    Dawid Kruiper was considered an 'icon' and key representative of the Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. © Bill Kemp/Strata 360 Dawid Kruiper, a traditional leader of the Khomani Bushmen of South Africa has died, aged 76. He will perhaps be best remembered for his determination to ...
  • Just sign here: cowboys' attempt to fool India ...
    Gabide Etacori, an Ayoreo Totobiegosode leader whose signature was allegedly forged. © Survival An elaborate ploy by ranchers in Paraguay to trick an Indian tribe into allowing them to build a new road that would cut the Indians’ land in half has backfired, with an official investigation no ...
  • Shell scraps controversial biofuels plan after ...
    Raizen signs landmark agreement with FUNAI. The company vows to stop sourcing sugar cane from Guarani land by November 25. © Raízen A biofuels company set up by Shell in Brazil has scrapped controversial plans to source sugar cane from land stolen from an indigenous tribe after a vociferous ...
  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands action a ...
    The Awá's forest is being illegally cut down at an alarming rate. © Fiona Watson/Survival Earth’s ‘most threatened tribe’ has made a desperate appeal for the Brazilian government to halt the illegal logging that is ravaging its territory, as the Amazon’s logging season starts in earnes ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Nine-year-old girl's lunch blog shames school ...
    from naturalnews.com: A nine-year-old Scottish girl, Martha Payne, got some help from her dad to set up her blog "Never Seconds," in which she displayed her school's lunches and created her own content about them. Although the photos of those meals were not flattering, Martha was not decrying ...
  • #Superbugs From Overuse of #Antibiotics on #Fa ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Big Government loves Big Agriculture because their friends at the Big Banks make big bucks off it. The only problem is that this totally unnatural way of raising livestock destroys communities, kills family farming and has created new breeds of super bugs that have e ...
  • Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose. She knows which on ...
  • Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
    from farmwars.info: “A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. E ...
  • Siege in Hawaii: 20 years of Genetic Engineeri ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: For over 20 years, Hawai’i has been the global center for the open-field testing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s), including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • And now, sadly, we must turn our backs on the ...
    So, at this stage, it looks as though the Greek people have handed electoral victory to a party that is pro the memorandum. It appears to be the case that, presented with an opportunity to say 'enough', the Greek people have decided that they actually quite like painful austerity, starvation, ...
  • A David Icke Saturday Wake Up Call
    "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." - Nuremberg Principle IVWhile we wait to see whether the Greek people are slaves or the hero ...
  • Eurozone: Apocalypse Now (for Space Aliens)
    What do we want? Apocalypse! When do we want it? Now! The several years long farce - with more than a hint of unprecedented criminality about it - known as the 'financial crisis' rumbles on and, at the epicentre of destruction, ruination, starvation, unemployment, homelessness and suicide, th ...
  • Problem, reaction, solution: They want your in ...
    Over the last few days, the UK corporate media has filled Twitter with stories and snippets which suggest that the internet is to blame for all society evils. Children have been become serial sex abusers, children are committing suicide inspired by suicide glorifying websites - these and many ...
  • Nigel Farage: "The euro has failed and there i ...
    A simple lesson in maths and numbers for the lunatics of the European Union. We love the faces of devestation that you see at the end...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • GREEK ELECTIONS ON SUNDAY COULD SPELL EXIT FRO ...
    European leaders are set to hold an emergency video call ahead of elections in Greece on Sunday 17th which could see Greece exit from the eurozone. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9334129/David-Cameron-holds-video-call-with-European-leaders-over-financial-crisis.html Bankers can use mathemati ...
  • Protest the ESM: it can take all your money an ...
    The German government has named the nine lawmakers who can decide in total secrecy what happens to hundreds of millions if not billions of German tax payer’s money in the next few years if the parliament votes „Yes“ to  the ESM euro facility on June 29th. http://www.freiewelt.net/nachricht-10116 ...
  • Will there be a flase flag bioterrorism attack ...
    Note: the WHO’s pandemic plans are still in place with the UK among the few countries to introduce a slight modification. In a meeting in Geneva  in May 2010, the WHO’s advisory committee on vaccines, SAGE, confirmed that the people of the world will get the same toxic pandemic jabs ...
  • Bilderberger Jürgen Trittin confirms Globalist ...
    Jürgen Trittin, the German Green Party leader, who attended the Bilderberg meeting of the Global elite last week confirmed in a tweet that the Globalists are furious with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to join in their debt slavery scam and introduce eurobonds. http://www.mmnews.de ...
  • US congress blocks new bioterrorism and forced ...
    Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/bioterrorism-bill-congress_n_1510571.html

Invisible Opportunity

  • Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disea ...
    by: PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more chi ...
  • Germ theory delusions collapse as new science ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The human body is essentially a “germ” factory, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks the widely believed germ theory, or ...
  • Lance Armstrong named in massive 12-year dopin ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Former professional road racing cyclist and Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is the target of a new investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which alleges Armstrong engaged in a “long running doping conspiracy” between 1 ...
  • Associated Press caught lying about water fluo ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It seems as though every time an American town or city drops the added fluoride chemicals from its water supply, the dinosaur media comes out with its usual talking points about how water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health intervention ...
  • Fed Members Gave Their Own Banks $4 Trillion I ...
    Last Year Senator Bernie Sanders reported a long overdue audit of the Federal Reserve revealed an eye-popping $16 trillion in secret loans to bailout out Wall Street banks. Bernie Sanders has now reporting that 18 Federal Reserve Board Members gave their own banks $4 trillion of these secret bai ...

 
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