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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

20 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Inside Facebook

  • Facebook hides page content from logged-out users
    Facebook pages are no longer visible to users who are logged out of the social network. Users who visit fan pages without being signed into Facebook will not be able to see any details on a page’s Timeline besides a … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: HYFN, Id ...
    Here’s this week’s list of hires in the Facebook platform industry, per LinkedIn and the companies themselves: HYFN Jon Wheat, Business Development – former advertising director at BiggerBoat David Russotto, Business Development – former director of business development at The On3 &# ...
  • Early tests show mobile Sponsored Stories have ...
    A number of third-party ad providers are reporting early success with Facebook’s new mobile-only Sponsored Story advertisements. Nanigans tells us that its mobile campaigns have an average 45 percent lower cost per click than those on desktop. In some cases, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook to launch subscription billing for ap ...
    Facebook will soon support subscription billing for apps on its platform, according to a post on the company’s developer blog. The company will also transition away from Credits to local in-game currency. Subscriptions will launch to all developers in July, … Continue reading →
  • A Look at George Takei’s Tactics in Engaging a ...
    George Takei, of original Star Trek fame, has most recently taken the social media world by storm with outstanding engagement numbers from a dedicated fanbase. Originally created in March 2011, Takei’s page now reaches more than 2 million fans. Impressively, … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US State Department betrays American citizens ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the corrupting influence of the Zionist lobbies in the USA has mean that American officials abroad routinely betray US citizens where Israel is involved.
  • Internet intrusion and increased repression in ...
    Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European Union tolerate the regime's flagrant violations of rights enshrined in domestic and international law.
  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...
  • Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 22, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” – ...
  • The Real Lords of Afghan Poppy Fields & Heroin ...
    Facts, Myths, Smugglers, and the International Dudes Yesterday this so-not-news news made the headlines: Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODC. The headline was followed by these so-not-accurate descriptions and statements [emphasis mine]: A new report by the United Nations dr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 21, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve System has usurped the government. It controls everything in Congress and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at wi ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Pink This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is American singer-songwriter, musician and actress Pink singing her song “Dear Mr. President” live at Wembley Arena. Pink’s incredible career has bought her 3 Grammy’s, 5 MTV Video Music Awards and 2 Brit Awards. Of all her songs, s ...
  • The Government, The One Percent, The Resistanc ...
    Classified Woman Updates & Heads Up For the past ten years, yes-that makes it a decade already, I’ve been asked repeatedly, whether by interviewers- researchers or the general public, ‘How can we bring about needed changes? How can we make a difference? What can we the people do?’ My answer ...

Afro Spear

  • Thoughts for Father’s Day
  • Problem and Solution
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  • “Why is MRC taking Kenya back to colonia ...
    Although there have been much brouhahas and rumpus from Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), agitating for cessation from Kenya, the truth is what MRC is trying to do is treason. For nobody can declare a republic within a republic and fall short of committing treason. Therefore, legally speaking, MRC ...
  • “We Don’t Need Another Hero” By Li ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Our nation’s current political battle about same-sex marriage reminds me of the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in which rivals fight it out in a cage to chants of “two men enter, one man leaves!” I also recall Tina Turner’s song from the film. She belts out: “We ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • It's a BLACK Thing
    It's well-understood that hyperbole, distortions, even outright lying are fundamental parts of a political process in which all's fair in love, war and politics. It's just too bad that during Obama's time in office, racism has to be a part of what's considered fair.
  • State-wide Foreclosure Moratorium: How to Get One
    Yes, we can! Get a foreclosure moratorium for your whole state, here's how.
  • Sun into Cancer: Time to Feel, and Time to Change
    The Sun leaves curious Gemini for emotional Cancer on Wednesday, June 20, bringing a new sign, a new season, and the Solstice. This article reviews the astrological sign Cancer and offers tips on how to harmonize yourself with its watery, tender energies. It also explains the powerful astrologic ...
  • Keep Your Friends Close: Seven Fairly Old Sam ...
    Sam Francis died in 1994; so "Fairly Old" means prior to 1990.
  • Will the Principles of Environmental Justice M ...
    Over the next week more than 50,000 leaders from around the world are expected in Rio de Janeiro to attend the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. Will the world leaders take notice of the "Principles of Environmental Justice" first introduced 20 years ago at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit?

Switchboard

  • Today's House vote on fracking near schools
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Later today the House of Representatives will be deliberating and voting on an energy bill that is opposed by NRDC. As my colleague Elly Pepper posted on her blog, the legislation would weaken c ...
  • What if bus stops were designed as if bus stop ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   When I was a kid growing up in Asheville, bus stops were marked with stenciled lettering on utility poles.  It was fairly primitive, other than perhaps at the busy downto ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green ...
  • Message to governments at Rio+20 Earth Summit: ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. The Rio+20 Earth Summit is a place of contrasting government inertia and public energy. Delegates barely managed to agree upon a weak text that acknowledges the severity of the ...
  • From Rio to Reality: Judges of the World Unite ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City I arrived yesterday in Mangaratiba, Brazil, about an hour down the coast from Rio--and about a meter above sea level--for a relatively small (by international conference standards) gathering of legal e ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • This Day in Labor History: June 20, 1947
    On this date in 1947, President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. Sponsored by Robert Taft (R-OH) and Fred Hartley (R-NJ), the Taft-Hartley Bill was a direct response to the explosion in strikes immediately after Wor ...
  • What Would Happen if the PPACA Is Struck Down?
    This is the time when it seems obligatory for Supreme Court analysts to make predictions about how the Court will rule in the imminent health care ruling. Mine is the same — I have no idea. The case will come down to a justice with an erratic record on the relevant issues who didn’t ...
  • Declarations
    It’s still early, but I think we can say with confidence that Kieran Healy has strategically leveraged his dynamism successfully and has won the internets today fairly decisively: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Universities are endowed by their Donors with certain unalie ...
  • Welfare reform for white people
    Yesterday at lunch time an unknown but apparently quite large number of graduates of George Washington’s 2012 class got this email: From: Dean Paul Schiff Berman Subject: Adjustments to P2P Program Date: June 19, 2012 9:14:12 AM PDT Dear P2P Fellows, I know that most of you are deeply imme ...
  • The University of Virginia, Brought to You by ...
    Oh for the love of god: Both took time to comment on a major donor’s e-mail in which he suggested that university leaders study the way Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, were having success online. The donor wondered in his e-mail if these developments are “a signal th ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • The new prior-user-rights defense: what trade ...
    Among the sweeping changes the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act has brought to U.S. patent law is a broadening rewrite of the prior-user-rights defense. Here's what you need to know.
  • Verizon ordered to prove its compliance with i ...
    A federal judge has ordered Verizon Communications Inc. to provide documentation by June 30 demonstrating that it has complied with a permanent injunction barring video on-demand services that infringe on a rival's patents.
  • Federal judge dismisses suit against SEC over ...
    A federal judge in Washington has outlined the reasons why he dismissed a suit that sought to hold securities regulators accountable for alleged negligence rooted in the Bernie Madoff fraud scheme.
  • Survey suggests prospective law students still ...
    Despite the recent spate of grim news about law graduate employment, one key group appears to be paying little attention: prospective law students. A survey of 645 would-be law students by Kaplan Test Prep found that a law school's job placement numbers ranked last in importance in the decision ...
  • Plea deal all but completes FCPA case
    Federal prosecutors have saved themselves a trial in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case. The last remaining defendant available for prosecution has pleaded guilty.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Growth of Renewables Is Being Significantly Un ...
    While renewable energy sources still provide a small portion of the world's power needs, several new reports suggest that the global community may be Click to enlarge www.gregor.us Global solar consumption, 2001-2011   underestimating the growth potential for the green energy sector. The ...
  • Major World Cities Cite Progress in CO2-Reduc ...
    Speaking at the Rio+20 sustainability summit, the mayors of New York City and Rio de Janeiro will announce that 48 of the world’s largest cities are taking steps to cut 248 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the equivalent of removing 44 million cars from the road for a year. New York May ...
  • Environmentalists, Land Activists Being Killed ...
    At least one person is killed per week in disputes over environmental protection or land rights as the competition for natural resources globally becomes increasingly violent, according to a new report. In a survey of incidents worldwide, the group Global Witness estimated that 711 environmental ...
  • Interview: Thomas Lovejoy on Looking for Solut ...
    For decades, conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy has repeatedly warned — sometimes in dire terms — about the loss of biodiversity. But Lovejoy, who this week was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, remains an Thomas Lovejoy optimist. “There is no point in being unduly pessimisti ...
  • Looking for Solutions in the Fight to Preserve ...
    At the Rio+20 conference this week, conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy received the prestigious Blue Planet Prize. Before traveling to Brazil, Lovejoy talked with Yale Environment 360 about the loss of biodiversity and about whether it is too late for the world to do something about it. BY ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • US clings onto Gulf with tens of thousands of ...
    The latest US Senate Foreign Relations Committee report suggests the US will seek to maintain its position as the only superior military power in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region for the time being. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Assange's mother: Australia puppet govt aided ...
    As the Julian Assange case took a turn for the dramatic with his asylum request to Ecuador, in an exclusive interview to RT Christine Assange called the Australian government a puppet of the US that aided and abetted... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • New Greek PM sworn in; Govt prepares for auste ...
    The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras gets sworn in as Prime Minister as three pro-bailout parties agree to form a coalition in the crisis-ridden country. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UK police want Assange as he seeks asylum in E ...
    London police say they are ready to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for breaching his bail conditions and spending the night in the Ecuador embassy while seeking political asylum in that country. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Tell Brits to remove Cameron and see what hap ...
    Colonial hegemony prevents the west from believing that Arab peoples are equal to westerners and have the right to choose their own system, Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media adviser to the Syrian president, told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Spanish miners lead defense against the super ...
    ___We once had a militant miners union in the US, much of it centered in the West Virginia coal mining regions. That militancy is now gone and the state is now noted for its Democratic Party electorate opposing Barack Obama mainly because he is Black. However in Spain, the coal miners are still ...
  • Mega Agro-industry US style has helped destro ...
    US style mega- corporate agriculture has been pushed onto Mexico rural area for decades now, and as a result tens of millions upon tens of millions of Mexicans have been left destitute in areas that once flourished with small agricultural towns. The rural poverty is much more severe than what th ...
  • How much does Occupy not believe in elections? ...
    Pundits, even friendlies, are infecting the Occupy Movement with direction-waylaying cynicism, so I’ll tell you what I think Occupy should do next. Never mind the usual grievances, leave those to existing groups, although they benefit from Occu-proding obviously. No matter what you think O ...
  • CSU Martin Drake Coal Power Plant won’t ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS- Downtown merchants have asked the city to consider moving the Martin Drake Coal Power Plant to somewhere further afield, hopefully out of the fossil fuels racket entirely. Apparently that’s all it takes. Tomorrow CSU board president Scott Hente will entertain public input ...
  • WWII vet, age 92, finally diagnosed with PTSD ...
    Sgt. Stanley Friedman, a 92 yr-old veteran of the WWII North African campaign, was finally diagnosed with PTSD. Pro bono lawyers couldn’t even verify his service records, but after sixty years of denying his claims, the VA has at last been forced to grant Friedman compensation. Is this rea ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watc ...
    Support the 9/11 families and others who are asking President Obama to review the evidence in the documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out • Who: President Barak Obama • Sponsored by: 9/11 family members, Michele Little, Jane Pollicino, Bob McIlvaine, Josef Princiotta In a ...
  • BBC Planning Huge New 7/7 Conspiracy Hit Piece
    The BBC is set to air a new 'Conspiracy Road Trip' hit piece on the 7/7 London bombings. As we saw with last summer's 9/11 version, the program tries to get "truthers" to recant and swallow the official story - in the process ideologically burning them at the stake for the consumption of the vie ...
  • Jesse Ventura: Make Politicians Wear NASCAR Suits
    Published on Jun 12, 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel [Editor's Note: Jesse's latest book is currently available in the Infowars Shop.] http://www.infowarsshop.com/DemoCRIPS-and-ReBLOODlicans_p_644.html Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura called for the abolition of the Democratic and Rep ...
  • Debunking Study That Claims TSA Body Scanners ...
    Another Bogus “Study” Claims Irradiating TSA Body Scanners Are Safe TSA - Grope & Pillage Related: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/11 The official 9/11 lie used by TSA as a reason to abuse children, women, and the handicapped TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child ...
  • Procrastination, not Conspiracy
    Apparently I'm being gagged, according to the anti-9/11 truth tabloid masquerading as a skeptical website, ScrewLooseChange. Last month, I accidently prematurely published a draft post I was working on (still not used to this new blogger), and even though it was only up for like a minute, someon ...

Fooducate

  • What Secret Ingredients are Lurking in Burger ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Burger King’s summer menu includes a new dessert that’s riding high on the bacon fetish that has swept America in the last few years. The Bacon Sundae is your basic Sundae dessert with a few piece ...
  • America’s Top 10 Favorite Ice Creams Are…
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We ran a survey last week and asked our Android and iPhone app users to scan their favorite ice cream. The top ten brands accounted for 75% of your “votes”. Here is the full list. Rank Brand Name ...
  • What’s a Banana Bunker and Why You Need One!
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Folks, this is hilarious. Turns out bananas need protection. Despite their durable outer protective skin, bananas tend to get mushed when packed in bags for “later”. That’s what led to the c ...
  • More Fathers in the Kitchen, Please
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Father’s Day! Dads have come a long way in the last two generations. Where in the 1950′s, most men were no more than weekend dads, today it is generally expected of males to share the burden ...
  • Will This 9 Year Old Girl Change School Lunches?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Martha Payne is a 9 year old Scottish girl. In April she started recording the rather crappy school lunch she and her classmates were being served. Going by the nickname Veg, Payne photographed and wrote abou ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • ‘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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Greg Palast and Ted Rall in Sag Harbor Live!
    Election Games: Billionaires and Ballot Bandits Canio's Cultural Cafe and WPKN Radio 89.5 FM present: Friday June 22, 6:30PM - 8PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 977 Sag Harbor - Bridgehampton Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY. The meeting house is midway between Bridgehampton and Sag H ...
  • How Bain Capital helped BPblow up the Deepwate ...
    Review by Greg Palast, for FireDogLake.com Today, Saturday, from 5pm to 7pm, Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic, will be hosting an electronic salon - an open discussion with Mike Magner, author of Poisoned Legacy: the Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power (St. Martin's Press). Join Mike and I ...
  • Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch V ...
    Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com
  • Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
    by Greg Palast  Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...
  • Vote like an Egyptian?
      by Mark Bebawi   It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly.  Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Secretary Sebelius to Attend July IACC Meeting
    Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Full Committee Meeting Please join us for an IACC Full Committee meeting that will take place on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in downtown...
  • Legislators and Advocates Call For Passage of ...
    LEGISLATORS AND ADVOCATES CALL FOR PASSAGE OF BILL TO PROTECT PEOPLE WITH AUTISM (ALBANY)- Legislators and advocates today renewed their efforts for passage of A.9983/S.7072 which codifies the current longtime definition of autism. The bill is intended to be the...
  • New Yorkers! Call Albany to Pass DSM5 Bills!
    Efforts to stop the State of New York from adopting the proposed changes in the definition of autism laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM5) have paid off. The two bills, A9983 in the Assembly, and...
  • DSM-5 Proposed Autism Spectrum Criteria – Update
    DSM-5 Proposed Autism Spectrum Criteria – Update - June 13, 2012 By Katie Weisman, Director of Communications The autism community is extremely concerned about potential impacts of the proposed criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorders in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic...
  • Why Autism is Like Watergate
    By Dan Olmsted This week’s 40th anniversary of Watergate is a reminder of how quickly good governance can get away from us. The hodgepodge of criminality, cover-up, and sheer paranoid mendacity that came to be known by the name of...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Yet another pyramid with gold capstone image a ...
  • JPMorgan Chase Gets $14 Billion Per Year In Go ...
    Bloomberg – When JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon testifies in the U.S. House today, he will present himself as a champion of free-market capitalism in opposition to an overweening government. His position would be more convincing if his bank weren’t such a ben ...
  • Ugandan police raid gay rights meeting
    Herald Sun – Ugandan police have raided a gay rights workshop in Kampala and questioned activists attending the gathering. East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, the organisation behind the workshop, said that police interrupted the meeting and began questioning participan ...
  • Arthritis therapy tied to liver injury cases
    Reuters – A “medical food” sold as an arthritis treatment may have caused four cases of temporary liver damage, researchers reported Monday. The product in question is called flavocoxid, sold under the brand-name Limbrel. It’s a mix of plant compounds called flavonoids, i ...
  • Romanian PM may have copied his PhD: Nature jo ...
    Phys – In a news article, Nature said it had seen documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta’s 432-page law thesis on the International Criminal Court, written in Romanian, “consists of duplicated text”. “Moreover, the ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
  • Ikea responds to reports of old-growth logging
    In response to accusations by European NGOs that IKEA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Swedwood, were engaging in some questionable logging practices in Russia, Ikea is arguing that it has been cutting according to international standards that the company itself helped create.
  • Peter Gleick reinstated after investigation in ...
    Peter Gleick, an internationally known Bay Area scientist, has returned to his post as president of the Pacific Institute following a three-month leave of absence prompted by his admission that he had assumed a false identity to obtain documents from a conservative think tank.

water.org

  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
  • June 2012 Conference Call
    Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
  • Water for Generations
    The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?
  • Water crisis impacts Lorry drivers
    In many urban places around the world, public and private services deliver water through a patchwork network of trucks - or water lorries as they are known in south Asia. A trucker shares his perspective on the water crisis.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Keri Hilson: Helping others humbles me
    Keri Hilson says giving back to her community gave her 'a sense of appreciation and humbleness'. The singer is currently promoting Bing's Summer of Doing campaign, which is aiming to encourage teenagers to get...
  • Dolly Parton rules out Gaga and Madonna s ...
    Dolly Parton thinks a collaboration with Madonna and Lady Gaga would be 'overkill'. The country singer is regularly asked about recording a duet with Gaga. She isn't sure when the rumour started and although she isn't ruling anything out, Dolly isn't sure their voices would work together....
  • Kate Moss Celebrates Her Best Friend's Bi ...
    Kate Moss spent yesterday afternoon at lunch with her friend Sadie Frost in London. The pals celebrated...
  • 28 soldiers among 39 dead in Syria: right ...
    Twenty-eight soldiers and a Shiite Muslim cleric were among 39 people killed in violence across Syria today, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. At least 20 troops were killed in fierce clashes with rebel fighters in the...
  • President Obama created immigration law
    | President Obama announced some new intentions regarding illegal immigration. A portion of his justification for doing so involves his concept of fairness. He's either just created law or he has abdicated his responsibility to enforce the law. NewsOK Related Articles Biofuels practical an ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Beware of the Antichristians
    Tony Soldo When I proclaim that soldiers do not kill or die for my freedom, only Jesus Christ lived, died, and rose again, so that I may be free and live forever, I am simply stating my personal belief. Everyone must find their own personal belief system to live by, even if you say you believe ...
  • 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. At a joint press conference, Putin said: "We ...
  • Palestinian Footballer Wins Release
    by Stephen Lendman On June 18, Maan News headlined "Al-Sarsak ends hunger strike in release deal," saying: On March 19, Sarsak began hunger striking for justice. Israel lawlessly imprisoned him under its Unlawful Combatants Law (UCL). Without evidence, it's imposed based on "a reason ...
  • Terrorists arrested, hopes renewed
    Kourosh Ziabari The announcement by Iran's intelligence ministry that it has arrested 20 people associated with the terrorist operations in which two of the country's nuclear scientists were assassinated received the Western mainstream media's meaningful silence, but clearly demonstrated the in ...
  • I Don’t Want to Conquer The World
    By Timothy V. Gatto Let’s face it, this relationship with the Obama administration just isn’t working out. I’m going to give some concrete reasons why. I’m also going to give my opinion at the end of this article. Let me say that this list is flabbergasting. Anyone with ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    42,000 modern-day slaves rescued but millions in bondage, trafficking report saysMore than 42,000 adults and children kept as slaves, forced into prostitution or otherwise trafficked were discovered by authorities around the world in 2011, according to a new report by the U.S. State Department. ...
  • Just the Facts: The A B C’s of HIV/AIDS
    By Linda Wolf,WorldWide Hippies- Remember the old TV show, ‘Dragnet’? “Just the facts?” I love facts and research. I’m also blessed to be related to a research ‘scientist’ at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), in Cleveland, Ohio. She works in the in ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest: ‘Hippie chimp& ...
    ‘Hippie chimp’ genome may shed light on our dark side Bonobo’s genetic code deciphered; could show how humans took middle evolutionary path WASHINGTON — Behold the bonobo, our ape cousin that’s kinder and gentler than the chimp or, well, us. Now scientists have mapped the ...
  • Citizen Journalism and Independent Media are C ...
    Yes!  I support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Get T-shirt ) No!  I don’t support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Fox News )
  • 71 Billion ? – Forget the Corporations, Tax th ...
    by Tip O’Neill,tucsoncitizen – While I share the trepidation of those who are afraid of the corrupting effect of Corporations buying our legislatures and writing our laws, a greater danger to democracy has already taken place with barely an acknowledgement. It is the extent of church ...

FourWinds10

  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...
  • Scientists discover oil-containing dirty blizz ...
    Herald Tribune by Kate Spinner, May 26, 2011: A mixture of oil and dead organic particles may still be falling to the deep bottom of the northern Gulf of Mexico, potentially harming the base of a food web that supports all kinds of sea life, from giant whales and blue-fin tuna to grouper and sna ...
  • Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
    (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
  • 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
  • Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
    (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Highlights of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
    Last week the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy was released. I always look forward to the release, because the data represent the most comprehensive, publicly available database on energy consumption and production statistics. I have now read through this year’s report, picking o ...
  • Oil Prices and Updates About Merica Internatio ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: Is there any merit to the rumor that the Obama Administration asked Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil output in order to lower prices leading up to the November election? What has caused the drop in West Texa ...
  • Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
    Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...
  • Why Gas Prices are Higher in the West
    I have been traveling for the past week and have not had a chance to do an episode of R-Squared Energy TV. It will return next week. For this week, I thought I would share the video for a recent appearance I made on Insights on PBS Hawaii. The topic was The Price of Gas: As gas prices continue t ...
  • How Taxpayers Could Benefit From High Oil Prices
    In last week’s post — If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy — I mentioned three specific examples of legislation under consideration that create uncertainties within U.S. energy policy. These uncertainties increase the financial risks for those trying to develop energy projects ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Worst Cleaners in America
    A squeaky-clean, spotless house brings a sense of pride to many Americans, but here's the toxic truth: something that should be making us feel good is actually making us people sick. From cleaning ingredients powerful enough not just to cut through grease and grime, but also human bone and tiss ...
  • A Must-Have Food Item for Your Medicine Cabinet
    Scientific researchers are starting to figure out what alternative medicine followers have known for centuries: Honey heals. The most recent evidence comes from a European study published in International Wound Journal that evaluated the effectiveness of floral honey as a wound treatment. Over ...
  • Is Your Grocery List Toxic?
    Strawberries that cause nerve damage, celery that's messing with your fertility…are these what you want in your grocery cart? Probably not, but an overabundance of pesticides in the U.S. food supply is making even healthy foods less healthy for us. According to the Pesticide Action Network, th ...
  • Your Cellphone Might Not Be Safe
    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced it will be looking into its current standards to make sure they are properly protecting people from cellphone radiation. As it stands, the current standards have not been changed in 15 years. Since then, there's been an explosion in ...
  • The Summer Bag Everyone Needs to Buy
    Although store shelves are filled with options, many contain materials that aren't good for your health, the environment, or workers' rights. Model and designer Lauren Bush-Lauren set out to change that five years ago by launching FEED, a project based on the idea that paying a fair price for a ...

big think

  • Siri Hustvedt on Living, Thinking and Looking
    It’s difficult to categorize Siri Hustvedt. She is, first and foremost, a writer and a thinker. Her well-known novels include What I Loved and The Sorrows Of An American. They explore, among various other topics, the nature of perception and identity. But her prose goes beyond the typical themes ...
  • Why You're Better Off Being a 21st Century Phi ...
    What's the Big Idea? A Florida teenager will have a bad headache for a while after being shot through the head with a three-foot fishing spear, but doctors expect a full recovery. Remarkably, doctors say that after two to three months of rehabilitation the patient will retain the full sp ...
  • Saturn's Moon Titan Could Host Life in New Met ...
    What's the Latest Development? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected what may be lakes of liquid methane near the equatorial regions of Saturn's moon Titan, which astronomers say would expand the potential for carbon-based life forms. Titan is known to have methane lakes at its poles bu ...
  • China Becomes 3rd Nation to Dock Spacecraft i ...
    What's the Latest Development? As the spacecraft Shenzhou-9 docked with the small space lab Tiangong-1, China became only the third country ever to dock two crafts in space. Perhaps more impressive is that the process was completely automated and overseen by China's missions control. "As ...
  • How to Justify Long Term Travel to Yourself, F ...
    Dear friends and family, I’ve gathered you all together tonight to tell you that, although I care deeply for every one of you, I’ve decided to go halfway across the world to a place where I won’t see any of you for a rather long time. It’s nothing personal, I just need an adventure and to try .. ...

Information Liberation

  • Woman Groped by TSA Gropes Back, Gets Arrested
    Despite the fact that thousands of TSA agents across the country engage in similar behavior on a daily basis, a woman was arrested after she turned the tables on the federal agency and groped a TSA supervisor in protest at her treatment. ...
  • Reno Newspaper Photographer, 60, Assaulted by ...
    Reno Gazette-Journal Photo Director Tim Dunn was thrown to the ground by a pair of deputies while trying to cover a fire. Via his own newspaper: A 60-year-old Reno Gazette-Journal photojournalist was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and suffered mi...
  • Ohio Cop Shoots At Dogs, Hits Random Pedestrian
    Via LimaOhio: LIMA * A tiny circle of blood splatter on the sidewalk was all that remained Tuesday afternoon after an early morning scene of unfortunate events unraveled in a Lima neighborhood. A pedestrian was accidentally shot by police and a w...
  • The Washington 1 Percent
    The Associated Press recently reported that half of all new college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed. These fresh-faced bachelor-degree holders are finding themselves opting for waiting tables and serving coffee just to pay off a tril...
  • Gov't to makeup artists: Put down the blush, o ...
    In Nevada, teaching others how to apply makeup without a government-issued license can subject you to up to $2,000 in fines. http://www.ij.org/nevadamakeup...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →
  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...
  • Tea increases prostate risk, sex and coffee re ...
    UPDATE: Just to be clear, these kinds of studies are often very limited, have many confounding risk factors and cannot “prove” anything. Science and even more specifically, epidemiology, does not prove things, it demonstrates a correlation, often finds causative effects (mostly not), ...
  • Tea increases prostate risk, sex and coffee re ...
    UPDATE: Just to be clear, these kinds of studies are often very limited, have many confounding risk factors and cannot “prove” anything. Science and even more specifically, epidemiology, does not prove things, it demonstrates a correlation, often finds causative effects (mostly not), ...
  • Drugs in drinking water
    Rather bizarre extrapolations about the presence of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor Prozac in water and the development of "autism" in fish hit the headlines recently and were quickly debunked by science bloggers around the world. Nevertheless, the presence of pharmaceuticals in the wat ...
  • Drugs in drinking water
    Rather bizarre extrapolations about the presence of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor Prozac in water and the development of "autism" in fish hit the headlines recently and were quickly debunked by science bloggers around the world. Nevertheless, the presence of pharmaceuticals in the wat ...

RFF Library

  • Where Are the Jobs? – The Elusiveness of Job C ...
    US Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Majority Staff http://energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/PDFs/061812greenjobsstaffreport.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Emily Yehle, sub. req'd]  …The new GOP report foc ...
  • Economic Analysis of the Implications of Imple ...
    Navigant Economics for the Emissions Control Technology Association (ECTA) / by George R. Schink, Ph.D.and Hal J. Singer, Ph.D. http://bit.ly/KwxMbQ [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] Environmentalists are touting a new study backed by the emissions control industry finding it is “ve ...
  • Promoting International Energy Security: Volum ...
    Rand Corp. / by James T. Bartis http://bit.ly/Kii122 [From a Greenwire article by Annie Snider, sub. req'd] Alternative fuels are likely to remain more expensive than their petroleum counterparts and offer the military little advantage as it seeks to secure its access to energy supplies, accordi ...
  • Renewable Electricity Futures Study: Explorati ...
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/52409-1.pdf [From an E&E News PM story by Hannah Northey, sub. req'd]  Renewable energy could supply up to 80 percent of the country’s electricity by 2050 if the United States makes major upgrades to the electric grid and ...
  • Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based ...
    Harvard Univ., Kennedy School, Belfer Center / by Joseph Aldy and Matthew Ransom http://bit.ly/Moxxcu  [Abstract] The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy arc ...

Scientific American - News

  • Could the Supreme Court's Health Care Ruling K ...
    In all the talk about the Supreme Court's impending health care reform ruling , one question is often overlooked: What might happen to the many patient safety and quality of care provisions sprinkled through the Affordable Care Act? [More]
  • Head Start: Scientists Trace a Wiring Plan for ...
    One of the items high on the big science project to-do list is to devise a wiring diagram for the human brain. Its 100 billion neurons and the hundreds of trillions of connections among these cells consign this goal and the specifics of achieving it to the long-term bin. A first step, though, is ...
  • Bright Idea: New "Tractor Beam" Proposal Relie ...
    Tractor beams, a staple of science fiction, may be moving closer to science fact. In a paper published earlier this spring, physicists have proposed a structure that may enable light to pull objects. [More]
  • Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Fallin ...
    Read Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 Part 4 , Part 5 and Part 6 of the Special Report. [More]
  • Moot Loot: Stats Show Crime Doesn't Pay--for M ...
    Aspiring bank robbers, take heed. New statistical analyses of confidential bank data suggest that mountains of riches aren't in your future, but that a jail cell is. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Community Rallies to Save Kitpu Youth Programs
    50 people gather for emergency fundraising, long-term strategizing against federal cuts to Aboriginal programs   HALIFAX - Last week the Kitpu Youth Program, based out of the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre on Gottingen St., lea ...
  • Journée nationale d'actions pour la santé des ...
    Entrevue avec Marie Munoz et Janet Cleveland - Rassemblement des professionnel-les de la santé à Montréal   Lundi, le 18 juin, des professionnel-les de la santé se sont rassemblé-es dans plusieurs villes du Canada dont Winnipeg, Toron ...
  • "Boudreau is the Law": The legal nature of an ...
    This post is an update to Error of Law and Form of Law, posted last week during a trial at the Law Courts in Halifax. Background links below. The "heart of Jordan's Principle"—that no child should suffer a lack of critical health care as a result of a dispute between levels o ...
  • 146 Greek Academics Shows Solidarity With Queb ...
    Message of solidarity of the Greek academic community to the students in struggle in Quebec The following is a message of solidarity for the students of Quebec signed by nearly 150 Greek academics. They provided French and English versions ...
  • Halifax Celebrates 40 Years of Dr. Zayid
    Interview with Dr. Ismail Zayid, on being displaced and staying positive K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Dr. Ismail Zayid, like millions of indigenous Palestinians scattered the world over, is still waiting for the first convenient opportunity ( ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why is the American left so useless?
    David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
  • Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
    David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
  • American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 4
    David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3
    David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Fast & Furious Inanity Reaches New Heights
    I'm pretty sure I've never blogged anything about the Fast & Furious program, which has long struck me as a fairly ridiculous invented controversy that Republicans care about only because (a) it involves guns, and (b) it involves the Obama administration. Darrell Issa, one of the GOP' ...
  • Needed: Development Reform in California
    The Los Angeles city council has unanimously approved a plan to allow higher density construction around metro stations and bus routes in Hollywood, and wealthy residents in the nearby Hollywood Hills aren't happy about it. So naturally they're threatening to sue the city for "failing to condu ...
  • How Americans Feel About Foreign Policy
    Dan Drezner points us to a new poll on American attitudes toward foreign policy conducted by Dartmouth Dartmoth professor Benjamin Valentino. It's got plenty of fodder in it, but Dan points in particular to question 25: A full 80% of Republicans think we face worse threats today than we did ...
  • Republicans, Hypocrisy, and the Individual Mandate
    Ezra Klein is arguing today with Peter Suderman and Reihan Salam about conservative support for the individual mandate. The question is: why have conservatives flip-flopped? Why did they mostly support it 20 years ago but now unanimously agree that it's the biggest threat to economic liberty s ...
  • Quote of the Day: GOP Leader Says Obama Using ...
    From Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, describing the Obama campaign on Fox News last Friday: What they’re trying to do is intimidate donors to outside groups that are critical of the administration. The campaign has rifled through donors' divorce records. They’ ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 329: The Liam Neeson Okie Doke
    Topics: The Worst Three Days The Liam Neeson Okie Doke The Lindsay Lohan Death Clock Watch Tourist injured by Drake & Chris Brown scuffle Forcing empathy never works Australia…God’s way of saying he hates us Uncle Luke as a father figure The false false equivalency Serial Teddy ...
  • IC 328: Sophtest Niggas Alive
    Topics: Octomom Porn Pictures Paul W.S. Anderson needs to be stopped Kriss threatens to stab Adam Sandler Slave shackle sneakers Chris Brown and Drake have an altercation R Kelly is a pedophile Sandusky trial updates Why kriss doesn’t talk politics anymore Share with your friends:
  • IC 327: Flowers
    Topics: Boxing disappoints again What the UFC did to become popular Ninja Assassin these hoes Giving a guy flowers Men lie to women more than women know Django Unchained Just shut up and enjoy the movie Negro Twitter Rebellion Is Creflo Gonna Having to Choke a Bitch? Share with your friends:
  • IC 326: T.O. Tears
    Topics: Avengers news Aliens 3 > Alien? Judge Dredd The Amazing Spider-Man video game Kriss hates strippers Strippers the only women you’re allowed to disrespect The Horrors of strippers Banning Sodas in NYC Salting your food with tears Celebrities going broke Share with your friends:
  • IC 325: Channing Tatum Must Die
    Topics: Stitcher Radio The Reason GI Joe 2 got pushed back a year Snow White and the Huntsman IS a Trap The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us Florida is Ground Zero Getting the ‘Celebrity’ treatment sucks What are the rules to slander online? Justin Bieber trains with Mike Tyson Random ch ...

Simple Climate

  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues

e!Science News

  • Most quasars live on snacks, not large meals
    Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, a new study shows. read more
  • Research identifies specific bacteria linked t ...
    Bacterial contamination in water-damaged buildings has been identified as a potential cause of health problems, including infection and respiratory conditions like asthma. Which specific bacteria contribute to these problems, however, has been unknown -- making it difficult for public health off ...
  • Should consumers trust their feelings as infor ...
    Consumers who trust their feelings are more likely to make choices based on what "feels right" even when feelings are irrelevant to their decision, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • On the origin of music by means of natural sel ...
    Do away with the DJ and scrap the composer. A computer program powered by Darwinian natural selection and the musical tastes of 7,000 website users may be on the way to creating a perfect pop tune, according to new research published June 18 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
  • Fishing for answers to autism puzzle
    Fish cannot display symptoms of autism, schizophrenia, or other human brain disorders. However, a team of Whitehead Institute and MIT scientists has shown that zebrafish can be a useful tool for studying the genes that contribute to such disorders. read more

unEarthed

  • Tipping Toward Point of No Return
    Enormous body of evidence warns of climate change impacts An increasing number of experts are reaching consensus on the devastating and possibly irreversible effects of climate change linked to human activity, according to the Natu ...
  • Bill Will Protect Communities, Families From M ...
    Congress finally addresses community health emergency in Appalachia Mountaintop removal mining devastates the landscape, turning areas that should be lush with forests and wildlife into bar ...
  • Advocate for Clean Air Dies
    Edgar Mouton spent final years seeking health safeguards against PVC pollution Edgar Mouton Edgar Mouton lived much of his 76 years in Mossville, Louisiana, a ...
  • White House Vows Veto If Deadly Air Bill Passes
    Bill is dangerous scheme to exempt power plants from clean air laws Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is spearheading an egregious effort in the Senate to exempt the nation ...
  • Oceans Protection A Top Priority at Rio+20
    Earthjustice delegation focuses on fortifying oceans resilience More than 130 heads of state, other leader, and some 50,000 participants from all over the globe ...

Brave New Climate

  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
  • BNC Discussion Forum updates
    In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
  • Roads Not Taken (yet)
    Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • Anchorman turned politician: Netanyahu does no ...
    Political neophyte Yair Lapid gave his first television interview since announcing his entry into politics, on Channel 2 evening news on Tuesday. The media man thus generated plenty of media, from journos eagerly waiting for him to move his message beyond cyber-campaigning into the traditional r ...
  • The ‘drift toward war’ with Iran
    Nuclear talks fail; hot summer ahead. What’s missing is courage. Even the New York Times is now reporting that what we’ve got with Iran is a ”drift toward war.” The nuclear talks in Moscow ended yesterday, the NYT wrote, with “little visible progress toward a compro ...
  • Is Twitter jargon pushing English to resemble ...
    As Twitter and text messaging push vowels out of English to economize on space, could the language end up looking more Semitic than Germanic? I’m used to seeing abbreviations on Twitter, Gchat, and SMS. But I was surprised recently when an editor closed an email with “Rgds.” The “s” on the end h ...
  • WATCH: MK claims gays interfere with army’s ab ...
    After Yisrael Beiteinu MK Anastasia Michaeli’s rant a few days ago against homosexuals (which will apparently continue in a lengthy interview later this week in Maariv) it was MK Uri Ariel’s (National Union) turn to do some gay-bashing. On June 18 he was interviewed on the Knesset channel ...
  • On Alice Walker and cultural boycott: A debate
    Alice Walker, author of the award-winning novel ‘The Color Purple,’ has reportedly refused translation rights of her book to an Israeli publisher, citing Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ with policies worse that the treatment of blacks in the southern United States and Sout ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

  • BANK BREAK INS, PROPERTY PRESERVATION…FA ...
    The national press, picking up on what I’ve been saying for years….this is just the tip of the iceberg…and i’m coming to chop away at that iceberg: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to keep tabs on thousands of contractors hired to manage more than 1 million foreclosed ho ...
  • “NOVEL” DEFENSES OF A HOMEOWNER IN ...
    This is a brilliant, and very well written, attack on my pleadings and the work I’m doing for homeowners. The fundamental proposition is that homeowners have limited rights to fight a foreclosure. I disagree. Plaintiff motion to strike affirm def Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint   ...
  • THE GMAC BANKRUPTCY- ACT IMMEDIATELY TO PRESER ...
    ALERT  BANKRUPTCY PETITION FOR OFFICIAL BORROWER COMMITTEE  In re: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York (Manhattan) Bankruptcy Petition #: 12-12020-mg Debtor-Residential Capital, LLC aka Residential Capital Corporation Subsidiary List – See Attached Exhibit A 1177 Avenue of the Am ...
  • Federal Trade Commission Halts Loan Audit Firm ...
    Consumers need to be very careful in dealing with any loan audit or any other company or individual preying on foreclosure victims: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that allegedly preyed on financially vulnerable homeowners, convincing ...
  • HAPPY FATHER’S DAY…..(YOU DIDN&#82 ...
    Congratulations to everyone who sat there yesterday and basked in the warm glow of that special day.  For the vast majority of Amerikans, it was a false delusion celebrating what men should have accomplished.  The truth is the vast majority of American fathers have failed miserably in their only ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • From Interests to Interest
    It all was rather bizarre. Attending the peace talks between north and south Sudan in a nice hotel outside of …Continue reading »
  • Expressions of Interest
    It wasn’t the usual Twitter exchange for me. A city councilor in Toronto was in a verbal exchange with some …Continue reading »
  • A Life More Important Than Words
    “Dialogue” is an extremely misunderstood word. It’s not overused, or even overrated, but its meaning tends to be subject to …Continue reading »
  • What Can I Possibly Say To This?
    I just received this note a few minutes ago from my son, Ater, for Father’s Day and I wept. To …Continue reading »
  • Public Dialogue – Not
    To happen upon a discovery of importance has the effect of shaking up everything around it. It gets people to …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Rio+20 fizzles into insignificance
    A text has been agreed in Rio to be "approved" by country leaders later this week. The text appears to watered down and to be largely meaningless in terms of binding commitments by any country for moving towards the politically correct view of "a more sustainable future".
  • Innovation – To do what cannot be done
    To be able to state that "something" cannot be done we must first be able to articulate that "something". And to articulate it we must be able to imagine it. And when we find "it cannot be done" we can qualify it to be "it cannot be done now" -- and the process of innovation starts.
  • Greece stays in the Euro! Football or is it th ...
    Football is a great leveller. And so is the Eurozone - but unfortunately it levels down to the Lowest Participating Economy (LPE).
  • Chinese astronauts to launch on Saturday
    Three Chinese astronauts will launch at 1237 GMT on Saturday to dock with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space "station" (module) now orbiting 322 kilometers above the Earth.
  • Chinese astronauts to launch on Saturday
    Three Chinese astronauts will launch at 1237 GMT on Saturday to dock with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space "station" (module) now orbiting 322 kilometers above the Earth.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Lenovo Reads Consumerist, Lets Customer Buy Laptop
    A couple of weeks ago, we shared the story of Devotee, who tried to buy a computer directly from Lenovo's site, only to have the order canceled out from under him with no explanation why. You may remember reading this story, and so did Lenovo employees. They wondered what happened, too, and rea ...
  • Offering 'Catch-Up' Service That Leaves Out Ep ...
    Carol has been watching the AMC program "Breaking Bad" using Comcast on-demand. Specifically, the Catch-up service so she can catch up on season 4 before the new season starts next month. This service skips episodes and doesn't seem to actually be designed to catch anyone up, though...unless th ...
  • Would You Consider Renting Out Your Car For Cash?
    Got a car you don't use? Or even one you do, but can spare for a few hours to a complete stranger? You could be making some cash using new peer-to-peer car sharing services that set up car owners with people in need of a ride. To wit: CNNMoney profiles one man who happens to have a BMW 5-serie ...
  • Who Is Really Making Money When We Don't Buy T ...
    The new 21-year-old intern on NPR's All Songs Considered claims to have only purchased 15 CDs in her entire life. This amounts to shocking news for some, probably because it doesn't match our collective mental image of a true music enthusiast, especially one who works on a national radio show ...
  • Judge Gives Louis Vuitton Lesson In Film Comed ...
    The folks at monogram-loving handbag company Louis Vuitton are not famous for their sense of humor, especially when it comes to their oft-copied designs. And they certainly didn't see what was so funny about a scene in Hangover 2 featuring a character carrying knock-off Louis Vuitton bags throu ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in Ecuador: Daily ...
    The Week: Assange Seeks Asylum at Ecuador Embassy; Faces Arrest Summary: It was revealed yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has applied to the Government of Ecuador for political asylum. This comes shortly after the UK Supreme Court denied his appeal to reopen ...
  • Why Ecuador Should Grant Julian Assange Asylum
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum from the Ecuador Embassy in London. As a signatory to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Embassy has an obligation to review his application and should grant it. Asylum eligibility has three requirements, all of which Assange meets: 1) ...
  • IRS Not Using Whistleblower Program: Daily Whi ...
    Bloomberg: IRS Resists Whistleblowers Despite Wide US Tax Gap Summary: Two former employees of an advisory firm filed a whistleblower complaint with the IRS, alleging that the firm had been helping clients to evade taxes, costing the US government as much as $712.5 million. The IRS has re ...
  • Lieberman Feeds Off Leak Hysteria, Calls For d ...
    On Sunday, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) called for resurrecting a broad anti-leaks law that would be a de facto Official Secrets Act. (I warned that the result of the recent hysteria over leaks could be such a broad anti-leak measure that would no doubt stifle legitimate diss ...
  • What do Vaginas, Massachusetts, and Media Leak ...
    The language of the First Amendment on the outside of the Newseum in Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Flickr user neko687First Amendment infringements. The Washington Post editorial board opines on Middleborough, Massachusetts, where they voted 183-50 in a town meeting las ...

UK Progressive

  • Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last year “U.S. officials” said drones in Pakistan killed about 30 civilians in just a yearlong stret ...
  • Gimme Shelter
    The nights I’ve had to spend in shelters were an assault on my senses. First, there was combination of smells that don’t exist anywhere else. Walking through the door, I was overwhelmed with the aroma of disinfectant mixed with the sweat of too many bodies, stale urine that came from the toilets ...
  • Corporate Feelings
    Perhaps you’d expect no more from the Republican leader of the Senate who proclaimed three years ago that the GOP’s first priority was to get Obama out of the White House. But Senator Mitch McConnell’s speech Friday at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington is simply bonkers. The only r ...
  • The New ‘Dallas’: Sex, Scandal and U.S. Energy ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Did the fracking debate dredge up ‘Dallas’ – the redux – or was this soap opera’s resurgence just another convenient mirror in which to reflect how central the nation’s debate over energy has now become in our culture? Either way, the show’s creators seem to have ...
  • Meet Rob Ford: Canada’s Chris Christie
    When Rob Ford was elected Toronto’s mayor last year, mostly it was by accident: Two reasonable, qualified candidates split the moderate vote, allowing the hard-right Ford to get elected. Ford is loud, uncouth and abusive. A conservative ideologue who denies climate science, he favors cars over p ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Nature — and that problem of defining ho ...
    This week Nature Climate Change published the Bain et al letter. Could Nature now be the Journal of UnScience? Surely this whole paper is not based on a name-calling assumption, a confusion about an illusory sub-species, homo sapiens denier? How does Nature define this group? They imply that den ...
  • Rupert Wyndham’s excellent prose to Bish ...
    No one says it quite like Rupert. Reprinted with permission, thank you. Read, enjoy the vivid panoply, — Jo My favourite extract — the 26 ethical flaws of propagandists (For the full letter and context go straight to the post below – apologies to Rupert for discontinuous edit ...
  • On those recent site troubles….
    Sorry the site was down twice yesterday. We are still figuring out what happened. It’s probably innocent, but we won’t know for sure until we’ve gone through the logs which are monstrous. I suspect that restoring all 100k comments (lost to data corruption after the transfer of ...
  • Threat of ANAO Audit means Australia’s B ...
    Joanne Nova and Ken Stewart A team of independent auditors, bloggers and scientists went through the the BOM “High Quality” (HQ) dataset and found significant errors, omissions and inexplicable adjustments. The team and Senator Cory Bernardi put in a Parliamentary request to get our ...
  • The UN defines “climate change” as ...
    George Orwell, Photo: Wikipedia Sloppy language works for cheats and charlatans. In the search for the truth only accurate language will do. Orwell understood the power of language to change the way we think, indeed to fence off some possible options completely. Roger Pielke Snr put out a call t ...

ReNew America

  • Obama's latest excuse against probing eligibility
    (Joseph Farah) - What's Barack Obama's latest legal excuse against probing his eligibility to serve as president? He's not the nominee of the Democratic Party...
  • ACTION ALERT: Reagan, the Cold War, and world ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Calling on Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and the senators from your state (details below). When Ronald Reagan arrived at the White House with an agenda to end the Cold War, he understood that in order to bring down the Soviet Empire, he would also have to face down one ...
  • Romney dodges immigration questions
    (Politico) - Mitt Romney refuses to say whether he'd repeal the Obama administration's decision to stop deporting certain undocumented immigrants. In an interview with Bob Schieffer aired Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee five different times decl ...
  • Scratch Rubio from VP list
    (Joseph Farah) - It's easy for Republicans to get angry with Barack Obama over his latest usurpation of congressional authority with his unconscionable and unconstitutional decision to stop deporting most illegal immigrant students and young adults...
  • Obama tied to architect of U.S. collapse
    (WorldNetDaily) - Frances Fox Piven, co-architect of a strategy to overload the U.S. welfare system to precipitate a transformative economic crisis, was an early builder of the socialist-leaning New Party. Scores of other New Party activists, meanwhile, have been tied to President Obama...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Happy Solstice!
    Tomorrow marks a self-imposed deadline – I decided that all my SHTF preparations needed to be in place by June 21, 2012, which is the winter solstice in Australia. My reasoning is that Dec 21, 2012 is the darkest day in the Northern Hemisphere (and more noticeable the further north you ar ...
  • Melbourne – New Moon – 5.2 Quake
    According to Universe Today, this month’s New Moon is at June 19, 15:02 (Universal Time). According to the USGS and The Age, Moe (country town not far from Melbourne) had a 5.2 magnitude earthquake at June 19, 10:53. My recent research has determined that major earthquakes are more likel ...
  • David Wilcock: Genius or Charlatan?
    Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending David Wilcock’s presentation in Melbourne – the very first time he has been down this way. It cost $99 and was all but sold out. I figure the average age of the attendees was about 40. And they seemed like they could follow the science ...
  • Mermaids, Sold-Out Bunker & Jim Bakker
    Mermaids A show called Mermaids: The Body Found has been running on Animal Planet in the USA. According to Huff Post, it’s not exactly a serious doco, but what it has done is introduce the Aquatic Ape Theory to many people. The theory is very relevant to 2012 – a previous global ca ...
  • Evolution, Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Pole Shifts
    If you ask me What could an ancient civilisation have predicted for Dec 21, 2012?, then my answer is a comet, either flying by or crashing into us, or a solar storm. If you take the predictive element out of the 2012 equation, my best guess is a magnetic pole shift, or crustal displacement, or b ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Why Mark Mobius is bullish on Europe’s comeback
    Once European countries agree to fiscal responsibility and adhere to a certain set of principles, Europe will emerge stronger. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • `442 convicted in various anti-Sikh riots cases`
    One of the 'untraced' cases was the one registered on November 1, 1984 in Naraina police station in which 'three unknown person (were) burnt and killed'. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Breaking news: PA Sangma resigns from NCP
    In a statement the veteran leader said that he had no option but to resign from the party. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Nobody has right to give fatwa on secularism: BJP
    With Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launching a disguised attack on his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said the party will  announce its own prime ministerial candidate and that nobody has the right to give fatwa on secularism. Reported by India ...
  • Minister dares Nitish to sack him over support ...
    A defiant Bihar minister Giriraj Singh dared Chief Minister Narendra Modi to sack him while reiterating support to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the NDA prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 general elections. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • Writing Tip: Refill Your Well
    Lauren Willig is one of my favorite authors and I loved everything she had to say in her recent writing tips post. Most of all, I love that she emphasized the importance of daydreaming and down time. All work and no play time makes me a very unhappy writer. - Karen "Your brain needs these de ...
  • Should Children's Authors Be Role Models?
    A couple of months ago I was searching online for information about the children's author Margaret Wise Brown. In the last little while I've developed a fascination with children's authors & illustrators of previous generations. I've been reading a wide range of picture books published from abo ...
  • Put Your Hand in Your Pocket & Other Ways to A ...
    I am mama to an extraordinary kid. He is my light. My heart. But he also struggles with self-control just like any other three-year-old. And on top of being three, he struggles with all these added elements. The feeling of his body moving through space can send him into panic or confusion. His ...
  • Rio+20: Family Planning and Global Sustainability
    Thousands of women have descended on Rio de Janeiro, but they’re not there to do the samba. They’ve gone to Brazil to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, where they intend to get family planning and reproductive rights on the global sustainability agenda. Why? Bec ...
  • Copyrights, Watermarks, And Internet Creepy Cr ...
    When you choose to splash your family across the Internet, how do you know when you’re in danger?  I write this blog to keep an online record of Max’s life, and to chronicle my journey as his mother.  I write to gain community.  I write to document what mothering feels like.  ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Why We Cry: The Fascinating Psychology of Emot ...
    At the site of the 2010 Chilean mine disaster, the son of miner Florencio Avalos burst into tears when his father was brought safely to the surface. Later that month, Caylee Anthony’s grandmother was shown ...
  • Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Appeal Filed!
    Dear Organic Lovers, On March 23, 2012 the collective of farmers, seed growers and farm groups (OSGATA) supporting organic and non-GMO farming filed an appeal for their case against Monsanto to be heard in The United States Court of Appeals ...
  • Are you getting enough Vitamin M?
    Are you suffering from low Vitamin M? Here are some of the symptoms: - depression - lethargy - poor circulation - weak social or community health - isolation - poor mobility Are you suffering from a deficiency of Music? Music has often been demonstrated ...
  • ShopSmart Poll: 57 percent of women say cost o ...
    Seven easy fixes to help you eat better and achieve your nutrition goals YONKERS, N.Y., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Women find many excuses not to eat healthy and many feel bad about it, but according ...
  • Cancer Fighting Foods – 4 Anti-Cancer Foods
    Could it be that cancer rates are so rampant because people are simply not eating the right foods. While there are many factors that play into the development of cancer, diet and smoking habits make up nearly ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Legislation seeks review of mining’s hea ...
    AP photo by Jeff Gentner New federal legislation was introduced today that seeks a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits and demands that the federal government examine the growing scientific evidence that residents living near these mining operations are at greater risk of serious healt ...
  • House Democrats question if Alpha is ‘ru ...
    This just in: House Democratic leaders have sent a strong letter to Alpha Natural Resources President Kevin Crutchfield, questioning whether the company has met its promises to improve safety at former Massey Energy operations and complied with its non-prosecution agreement with U.S. Attorney Bo ...
  • Obama threatens to veto plan to block emission ...
    Some of West Virginia’s Democratic leaders are so upset with President Obama that they’re not even going to attend their own party’s national convention … So not only will most of them not talk about things like those studies linking mountaintop removal coal mining to ser ...
  • Report: Strip miners face serious black lung risks
    A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported this weekend: Long linked to underground coal mining, black-lung disease ...
  • Goodwin praises Alpha for ‘great strides ...
    U.S. Attorney  Booth Goodwin  speaks to reporters Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at the Robert C. Byrd federal courthouse  (AP Photo/Brad Davis). U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin this morning put out a news release to update the public on the still-secret report that Alpha Natural Resources provided to give ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Flaws in Defending Morality With Religion ...
    As Plato first portrayed it, we have to ask with James Rachels a two-part question: “(1) Is conduct right because the gods command it, or (2) do the gods command it because it is right?” “Conduct is moral because god says so” If (1) then conduct takes on the afterglow of being moral because of [...]
  • The Republican Plan
    Anyway you cut it, what Republicans vaguely advocate (even Brooks emphasizes the vagueness) is not only radically nuts, but utterly unworkable–hence the vagueness. Here’s Brooks, trying his best to apply the lipstick: Mitt Romney … would structurally reform the health care syst ...
  • Basic Beliefs of the Modern Human
    For most of human history people have been wrong about Earth’s place in the universe. Some thought we were the only thing here, others thought we were at the center of many things. But it wasn’t until very recently that we have come to know that we are just a speck in a monumental pi ...
  • High Fructose Intake Sabotages Cognitive Perfo ...
    A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition. “Our finding ...
  • U.S. No Longer Land Of Opportunity’ | Here & Now
    Nobel Prize winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues in his new book that the Horatio Alger rags-to riches story is no longer a reality for Americans. “The chances of someone making his way from the bottom to the top are less than those of citizens in other industrialized countries,” he writes. ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    42,000 modern-day slaves rescued but millions in bondage, trafficking report saysMore than 42,000 adults and children kept as slaves, forced into prostitution or otherwise trafficked were discovered by authorities around the world in 2011, according to a new report by the U.S. State Department. ...
  • Just the Facts: The A B C’s of HIV/AIDS
    By Linda Wolf,WorldWide Hippies- Remember the old TV show, ‘Dragnet’? “Just the facts?” I love facts and research. I’m also blessed to be related to a research ‘scientist’ at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), in Cleveland, Ohio. She works in the in ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest: ‘Hippie chimp& ...
    ‘Hippie chimp’ genome may shed light on our dark side Bonobo’s genetic code deciphered; could show how humans took middle evolutionary path WASHINGTON — Behold the bonobo, our ape cousin that’s kinder and gentler than the chimp or, well, us. Now scientists have mapped the ...
  • Citizen Journalism and Independent Media are C ...
    Yes!  I support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Get T-shirt ) No!  I don’t support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Fox News )
  • 71 Billion ? – Forget the Corporations, Tax th ...
    by Tip O’Neill,tucsoncitizen – While I share the trepidation of those who are afraid of the corrupting effect of Corporations buying our legislatures and writing our laws, a greater danger to democracy has already taken place with barely an acknowledgement. It is the extent of church ...

reference frame

  • Currency exchange rates
    Just a widget: Just testing whether their widgets work...
  • Google Maps StreetView covers almost all of Cz ...
    When I used Google Maps in the morning, I noticed that all streets of Pilsen have been mapped via StreetView and the photographs are available online right now. In fact, it turns out that most of Czechia has been mapped and it was made accessible yesterday. Can you find people on Google ...
  • Steve Pinker vs group selection
    Steve Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist, a great thinker, a popular author, an impressive speaker (I remember one of his talks about the evolutionary explanation of the religion: it was cool), and also one of the few brave Harvard professors who have defended Larry Summers when professio ...
  • IPCC votes to eliminate last traces of excellence
    First, let me begin with another climate-related story I know from Benny Peiser. Four days ago, I mentioned two articles in The Guardian, the leading British left-wing daily, that presented the opinions of James Lovelock, the father of Mother Gaia, who now supports fracking, among other ...
  • Higgs: Does science require to hide data?
    Unofficial reports say that the Higgs signals after more than 5/fb of the 8 TeV 2012 data boast the same same strength that you would expect based on the 2011 5/fb 7 TeV data. Up to this point, almost 12.5/fb of data were delivered to each detector in the 2010-2012 runs and about 92%, o ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Godmother Gro’ hailed in Rio
    Former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was the target of much attention in Rio de Janeiro this week, at the latest international climate conference organized by the United Nations. Brundtland was honoured as the person who got the ball rolling even before the first major climate c ...
  • Prime minister plans holiday
    Norway’s jet-setting prime minister was flying down to Rio on Wednesday, for more climate talks with other world leaders, but after that the pace of official duties may slacken off a bit, even for him. Jens Stoltenberg disclosed some holiday plans this week, when meeting reporters for a tr ...
  • Borrowers avoid interest rate hike
    Norway’s central bank board has ignored some economists’ calls for a hike in interest rates. Just a day after even Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg worried that Norwegians have too much debt, the bank nonetheless kept interest rates low on Wednesday, at their last meeting before the s ...
  • Progress Party sends a message to refugees: ‘L ...
    Norway’s most conservative party is proposing new criteria for approval of refugees’ applications for asylum in Norway: Dress like Norwegians, communicate in Norwegian, get a job, respect Norwegian culture and attitudes, don’t exploit welfare programs and stay out of trouble wi ...
  • New butter woes spread cost cut calls
    Norway’s two largest non-socialist parties, the Conservatives (Høyre) and the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), think it’s possible to cut billions in state funding for agriculture, by reducing the bureaucracy that protects Norwegian farming and by promoting more free-market ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Myth of Perpetual Growth is Killing America
    Editor’s preamble: It’s refreshing and even somewhat reassuring when a major stock market website runs an article like the one below…. Everything you know about economics is wrong A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon, southern Lebanon. ...
  • Consultancy: Who Needs It? Why Do It? Are You ...
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh It turns out that very few of those that do a PDC end up being consultants. It took me a while to actually become a paid consultant and I’ve only been doing it for a little while. I took so long to become one as I truly thought everyone [...]
  • The Secret Life of Plankton and the Acid Test
    Take a fish’s eye view of the world. It’s both beautiful and fascinating. You’ll be peering under the waves to look at the least understood part of our world, the ocean and its hidden mysteries. In this video, you’re looking at the basis of your own existence…. ...
  • PRI Networking, the Value of Collaboration, an ...
    Do we segregate…? Photos © Craig Mackintosh Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global response to long-brewing trouble has been well short of timely or appropriate. The world as a whole, if I were to be brutally honest, is taking three steps backwards for ev ...
  • Foodscaping: Reap What You Sow
    I thought you might be interested in this short news segment which recently aired nationally on the ‘America Now’ news network in the USA, featuring yours truly: Check out the lengthy disclaimer given by the TV hosts at the end of the segment (morbidly fascinating), though I esp ...

Pointman's

  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
    Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...
  • The day of days.
    I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he … Rea ...
  • The real bastards.
    I want to tell you the story of a couple of things that happened in the not too distant past, because they obviously need to be told again, if only to serve as a warning from history. They’re forgotten stories nowadays, possibly because they’re not very pleasant ones, but they did ha ...
  • The 100,000 pages landmark.
    Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    What do you all think of Nigel Farage? iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN_1mF-3JTIStatistics: Posted by THE AQUARIAN 1 — Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:12 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    When is fatboy having his next money bomb, let's try for a million this year Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:01 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yeah, and Hitler was a Fascist, not a socialist like Obama. Jones is a complete joke. Are people still tuning in to Fatboy?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:33 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Almost every single one of these compares Obama to Hitler. Not a single mention of a Zionist influence. Proof positive that Jones is either too afraid to approach the issue or is actively censoring this, unfortunately the latter seems more likely. http://www.infowars.com/obama-filthy-mu ... d ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    filosophia wrote: The theory that disease somehow leads to increased intelligence seems like complete hogwash, maybe a DECREASE in intelligence. If the ashkenazi/sephardic/jews are so smart, why are they continuously thrown out of countries? Seems like a smart race of people ought to be able to ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Growth of Renewables Is Being Significantly Un ...
    While renewable energy sources still provide a small portion of the world's power needs, several new reports suggest that the global community may be Click to enlarge www.gregor.us Global solar consumption, 2001-2011   underestimating the growth potential for the green energy sector. The ...
  • Major World Cities Cite Progress in CO2-Reduc ...
    Speaking at the Rio+20 sustainability summit, the mayors of New York City and Rio de Janeiro will announce that 48 of the world’s largest cities are taking steps to cut 248 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the equivalent of removing 44 million cars from the road for a year. New York May ...
  • Environmentalists, Land Activists Being Killed ...
    At least one person is killed per week in disputes over environmental protection or land rights as the competition for natural resources globally becomes increasingly violent, according to a new report. In a survey of incidents worldwide, the group Global Witness estimated that 711 environmental ...
  • Interview: Thomas Lovejoy on Looking for Solut ...
    For decades, conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy has repeatedly warned — sometimes in dire terms — about the loss of biodiversity. But Lovejoy, who this week was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, remains an Thomas Lovejoy optimist. “There is no point in being unduly pessimisti ...
  • Looking for Solutions in the Fight to Preserve ...
    At the Rio+20 conference this week, conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy received the prestigious Blue Planet Prize. Before traveling to Brazil, Lovejoy talked with Yale Environment 360 about the loss of biodiversity and about whether it is too late for the world to do something about it. BY ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Some Context for Gaza Rockets
    Over the past two days, Hamas has launched a barrage of rockets into southern Israel. These attacks are horrible, and their significance far-reaching: No one should have to live with the uncertainty and fear they bring; no one should have to grab a child and run. Moreover, rockets fired by Hamas ...
  • This is Why You're Broke
    A new survey of American politics by the British polling firm YouGov highlights a familiar pattern in US deficit politics:
  • How 9-11 Happened, or, We Must Never Forget th ...
    New documents: CIA requested more money for counter-terrorism, incoming Bush admin didn't act
  • Zara's Olympic Bid
    Zara's Olympic Bid
  • A Note to Conservative Readers
    Hey conservatives: Try arguing with a fact once in a while. Really, it's fun!

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Powerful typhoon hits Japan, 150,000 ordered t ...
    A powerful typhoon made landfall Tuesday for the first time this year in southern Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, with evacuation orders issued for more than 150,000 people in central, eastern and northeastern Japan. The typhoon made landfall just afte ...
  • Spain, Italy advance to quarterfinals
    Unconvincing as it was, it was still enough for Spain. The defending champions advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championship on Monday, getting an 88th-minute goal from substitute Jesus Navas in a 1-0 win over Croatia.
  • Helping Myanmar transform
    Across the Mideast, and now in Myanmar, one of the great questions of contemporary global politics has resurfaced: How can countries move from a failing authoritarianism to some form of self-sustaining pluralism? Foreign ministers everywhere, in turn, face crucial policy questions: When a coun ...
  • Three foreign funds eye investing in strugglin ...
    Three overseas investment funds are considering buying a stake in struggling chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp., which seeks funds to carry out the closure of domestic plants and other restructuring, sources said Tuesday. NEC Corp. and two other major shareholders of Renesas and its main cred ...
  • G-20 eyes global growth to stem euro debt crisis
    The leaders of the world's largest economies were to portray themselves on Tuesday as united behind efforts to boost growth and job creation to repair a fragile global economy roiled by fears over the European financial crisis, according to a draft of the statement to be released at the end of t ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Clean electricity, conservation and a zero-car ...
    Today we released a new Climate Justice Project report, Clean Electricity, Conservation and Climate Justice in BC: Meeting our energy needs in a zero-carbon future, co-authored by John Calvert and myself. The report is central to the vision we have been developing of a zero-carbon BC, with a foc ...
  • Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary ...
    On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link. Points I raised in the address include the following: -Canada’s economy has been growing quite steadily over ...
  • Incomes Flat as a Pancake in 2010
    Today’s Statscan release of income data for 2010 allow for a backward glance at the state of the recovery. What is most striking is that – following two years of flat income growth in 2008 and 2009 – there was no meaningful economic recovery for most Canadians in 2010. Median earnings (half earn ...
  • The pharmaceutical industry in Québec: time fo ...
    Last week it was announced that the German firm TVM Capital will manage a Montréal fund dedicated to the life sciences sector and meant to allow the multinational pharmaceutical Eli Lilly, amongst others, to set up shop in Québec’s metropolis. With $150M planned investments, does this mean that ...
  • A Green Industrial Revolution
    Today the CCPA released a new big picture report by myself and student researcher Amanda Card calling for a Green Industrial Revolution. The report builds on work done for the BC-focused Climate Justice Project, bringing to bear a national analysis of green and not-so-green jobs. We take a close ...

ReDress

  • US State Department betrays American citizens ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the corrupting influence of the Zionist lobbies in the USA has mean that American officials abroad routinely betray US citizens where Israel is involved.
  • Internet intrusion and increased repression in ...
    Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European Union tolerate the regime's flagrant violations of rights enshrined in domestic and international law.
  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...
  • Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justic ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the developing nations may eventually be realized.

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

  • Water will run out in 9 days for Sudan refugee ...
      Water will run out in just nine days for tens of thousands of refugees who have fled from Sudan into South Sudan, overwhelming the few camps in a parched stretch of Upper Nile state, the aid agency Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. Many of the exhausted refugees are dying from diarrhe ...
  • Toxic algae forces water sports ban at Llangor ...
    “Water sports have been banned at a lake in Powys after toxic blue-green algae was identified. “Possible side effects of the toxins include skin rashes, eye irritation, vomiting fever, diarrhoea and muscle pain. “The location of the algae is caused by the conditions, such as wi ...
  • Rio+20 deal weakens on energy and water pledges
    “Governments are set to weaken pledges on boosting access to water and energy after a new draft negotiating text was issued at the Rio+20 meeting. “Many campaign groups have been urging that this summit should at the least acknowledge everyone’s basic right to food and water. T ...
  • Water customers threatened with debt collector ...
    “Tens of thousands of families have been wrongly billed $177 in desalination plant charges. “One of Melbourne’s most respected lawyers, David Galbally, QC, said the charge was illegal and debt collectors should instead be visiting water authorities. “Mr Galbally has issue ...
  • Fire, Drought, and Water Stress
    “Scientists have long known that forest fires affect water yield.  For the initial 5-10 years after a big fire, water supply typically increases, because the dead trees are no longer transpiring water, which leaves more to run off across the landscape.  But as the forest regenerates, the n ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: We Remain Committed to Keeping Inner ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after reports that the City of Cleveland was not successful in its bid for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant to help fund the construction of the second Innerbelt Bridge. “While disapp ...
  • Kucinich, 12 Members of Congress Introduce Leg ...
    Washington D.C. (June 19, 2012) – Thirteen Members of Congress led by Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) today introduced legislation to provide a full scientific analysis of the potential health threats to communities affected by mountaintop mining. H.R. 595 ...
  • Kucinich: Time Is Running Out to Protect Stude ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has opposed the predatory lending that has burdened college students with debilitating debt just as they begin professional careers, today released the following statement urging Congress to take action to prevent student loan rates from doubling on July 1 ...
  • Kucinich Applauds World Trade Organization Dec ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today applauded the determination by a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel which found that China unfairly imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties to U.S.-manufactured grain-oriented flat-rolled electric steel (GOES).  Kucinich h ...
  • Israeli Comptroller Confirms Mistakes Were Mad ...
    A report by the Israeli state comptroller criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the commando raid on the Mavi Marmara in 2010, which resulted in the death of nine people. The report found that Prime Minister Netanyahu failed to heed multiple warnings from top officials ...

Authentically Wired

  • America’s racist underbelly remains unch ...
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...
  • Artificial Spinal Disc
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...
  • And the answer is … of course they are & ...
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...
  • And they are still getting it wrong
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • paints “Mittens” into a corner
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Nicola Power: Schools banning hugging are sadl ...
    Outlawing healthy contact ignores social and personal benefits, writes Nicola Power. It was with regret that I listened to a television news report of another school banning hugging during school time. This ban was seemingly pre...
  • Pilotless spacecraft back after 469 days
    Boeing's second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed in California after a 469-day mission by the US Air Force to test the capabilities of reusable unmanned vehicles for space missions.The pilotless spacecraft, which was launched from...
  • Kenneth Husted: The best belongs at home
    In the latest in our State of the Nation series, Kenneth Husted identifies ways to keep our innovations here in New Zealand and reap the benefits. Innovation and entrepreneurship are the engines of profitability for firms and economic...
  • China sending astronauts to permanent space base
    China will launch three astronauts, including a mother of one who flies transport planes, to live and work on a space station for about a week, a major step in its goal of becoming only the third nation with a permanent base orbiting...
  • Huge asteroid to fly by Earth
    An asteroid the size of a city block discovered by astronomers in Canberra will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision.The "unusually large" asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye, but asteroid enthusiasts may watch...

The Bovine

  • Lessons from the fight over an attempt at comp ...
    From Barbara Loe Fisher, on Mercola.com “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 … Continue reading ...
  • Radioactive rain in Calgary, religious fervour ...
    From Michael Platt in the Calgary Sun: “There’s no need to panic — probably. But not knowing whether to shrug or cower over radioactive iodine falling on Calgary as a result of a meltdown in Japan last year has Canada’s … Continue reading →
  • Bureaucrats & FDA vs local sovereignty ordinan ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Two more Maine towns—Appleton and Livermore– have passed food sovereignty ordinances in the last few days during the current town meeting season. This brings to eight the total number that have legally sanctioned … Continue ...
  • Deconstructing Dinner is now up for crowd-sour ...
    Devlin O’Driscoll, maker of the award winning documentary “Milk War” invites regular people to support a new documentary series on food: “Just what and who are we investing in when we sit down to eat? Are these ‘investments’ secure? Become … Continue rea ...
  • What are they saying about Michael Schmidt dow ...
    From David E. Gumpert’s The Complete Patient blog: “There’s a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canada’s rulers. Call it “Michael Schmidt Paralysis.” You don’t wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has … Continue readi ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • European Crisis Summit Score 0-18 With Another ...
    Steen Jakobsen, chief economist of Saxo Bank in Denmark, asks via email: "Is Merkel Misinterpreted? Will the FOMC Move Decisively?"  The misunderstood Chancellor. The market clearly believes Ms. Merkel will, ultimately, not withstand the pressure - and she will end up collateraliz ...
  • Discussion of Target2 and the ELA (Emergency L ...
    Reader Thomas who lives in the Netherlands writes ... Hi Mish, I am a daily reader of your blog. I live in the Netherlands. Recently I saw an overview of target2 balances, including charts. Could you explain target2 and what the graphics mean? Does it really mean that we ...
  • Spanish Banking Audits Delayed Until September ...
    Via Google Translate from La Vanguardia, please note that Spanish banking audits are delayed until September Audits of Spanish banks, which should conclude in late July, will be delayed until September in order to get "further examination", as reported by Efe sources close to the process. ...
  • It's Just Impossible
    The off-again, on-again, off-again Telegraph writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is back on-again with correct analysis in his post Greek agony drags on as Asphyxiation Bloc wins Europe’s establishment is delighted by the victory of New Democracy and pro-asphyxiation bloc. This relief is unlikely ...
  • Six Reasons Why Italy May Exit the Euro Before ...
    As I have said repeatedly, Greece is noting but a sideshow, with the election last Sunday in France far more important than the election in Greece that has had everyone's attention. For further discussion, please see Greek Election Sideshow; Socialists Win Absolute Majority in France; How L ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Giant Cranes To Stop Traffic On America’s Larg ...
    Of all the ships in world trade some prefer the sleek lines of a ocean liner while others prefer the mighty aircraft carrier or battleship but both vessels are too [...]
  • Exploring “Adjacent Markets”, Teekay Floats En ...
    At it’s annual Investors Day event held in New York City Monday, Teekay Corporation announced its ambitions to enter the offshore wind industry by converting some of its existing DP-equipped [...]
  • Syria-Bound Cargo Ship Turns Back to Russia
    LONDON—British Foreign Secretary William Hague said a ship that was believed to be carrying military helicopters to Syria appears to have turned back after its insurer removed its coverage. Mr. [...]
  • Sit Down with Katharine Palmer, Environmental ...
    I recently met up with Katharine Palmer, Environmental Manager of Marine Product Development at Lloyd’s Register for an interview.  Here’s what she had to say: Tell us a little bit [...]
  • Aussie’s Titanic Vision Moves Closer
    By Robb M. Stewart Australia’s version of the Titanic has taken another step towards becoming reality. Finnish ship design and marine engineering firm Deltamarin Ltd. has been commissioned to assist [...]

Press TV

  • Israeli airstrike kills another Gazan
    Another Palestinian has been killed in a fresh Israeli airstrike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing to eight the number of Palestinians killed over the past three days.
  • ‘Iran protests state cyberterrorism’
    Iran's Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour says Tehran has complained about ‘state cyberterrorism’ against the country to international organizations.
  • Wall Street elites want to dump Obama
    The public opinion pollsters are telling the world that the race for the White House between President Obama and the Republican Party candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney is still too close to call, but Obama has already lost the election when it comes to the elitist bankers and officials of the semi ...
  • 'Greece forms new government'
    Greece's socialist party head and former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos has announced that a deal has been clinched for a coalition government in the debt-ridden country.
  • 'West must prove sincerity towards Iran'
    Iran's nuclear point man Saeed Jalili says Tehran insists on its naturally-endowed right to uranium enrichment activities and the nuclear fuel cycle within the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • pulitzercenter:Image by Micah Albert. Kenya, ...
    pulitzercenter: Image by Micah Albert. Kenya, 2012. Above, Dandora: Nairobi’s municipal dumpsite that takes in 2,000 tons of waste per day despite being declared “full” years ago. Learn more about Kenya’s waste management disaster, and the scavengers that count on it to survive.
  • Separated By Massacre, a Father And Son Reunit ...
    Separated By Massacre, a Father And Son Reunite Three Decades Later - ProPublica
  • "As Middle Eastern governments become somewhat ...
    “As Middle Eastern governments become somewhat more representative of their peoples’ concerns...
  • Police arrest a protestor during an anti-NATO ...
    Police arrest a protestor during an anti-NATO demonstration in downtown Chicago May 19, 2012. A two-day NATO summit which starts May 20 will draw representatives from some 50 countries, including leaders of the 28 members of the military alliance. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
  • life:You know the cover well — the very firs ...
    life: You know the cover well — the very first issue of LIFE Magazine. Shot by the one and only Margaret Bourke-White.  To state the obvious, no one could even begin to encompass Margaret Bourke-White’s achievements as a LIFE photographer and as a journalist. Here, on Margaret Bourke-White ...
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