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