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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, June 23, 2012

22 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Australian media shakeup is just the start
    While what is happening to Australia's two largest media companies, News and Fairfax, is capturing the headlines, it is really only part of a major revolution taking place in wide areas of Australian business. Like it or not, countless Australian companies are being forced to re-look at the w ...
  • Christian, Sunni civilians trapped in Homs
    There are approximately 800 civilians trapped in the historical center of Homs, to be rescued, while the fighting rages between the army and opposition forces barricaded in the city. Among the civilians, there are about 400 Christians and 400 Sunni Muslims settled in the neighborhoods of Bustan ...
  • Deportation of Africans Divides Israeli Public
    African migrants chosen for deportation from Israel were nervously awaiting a knock on the door or a tap on the shoulder Tuesday as immigration officials rounded up hundreds for departure flights due to begin over the weekend. “The people are very tense. It’s pretty traumatic,” said Jacob Ber ...
  • Russia: West has no solution to Syria
    "I don't think we have clear answer. If you ask me, do you have a plan on the table? I would say no we don't, but nobody has."
  • A Kurd calls for the Breakup of Syria
    Sherkoh Abbas, a veteran Syrian Kurdish dissident, called on Israel this week to support the break-up of Syria into a series of federal structures based on the country’s various ethnicities. Speaking from Washington, Abbas was also critical of US attempts to induce Syrian Kurds to join and wo ...

Independent - London

  • Asylum-seeker tragedy in the Indian Ocean as 7 ...
    Yet another asylum-seeker tragedy was playing out in the Indian Ocean last night, with at least 75 people believed drowned when their boat capsized and a second boat reportedly also in trouble.Related StoriesWorld's richest woman 'tried to co-opt Australian media'World's richest woman Gina Rineh ...
  • At least 47 drown in Lake Malawi
    At least 47 people thought to be illegal migrants from east Africa died when their boat capsized on Lake Malawi. They were apparently trying to enter northern Malawi from Tanzania and many on board may have been Ethiopians, police said.Related StoriesHosni Mubarak remains in a comaOnly the milit ...
  • Larry Ellison owns a fighter jet, yacht racing ...
    You probably would too if you had $36bn. Not content with a vast collection of toys that spans luxury homes, private jets, lavish cars and cup-winning sailboats, the software mogul Larry Ellison is splashing out on his own paradise island, it has been revealed.Related StoriesUruguay unveils plan ...
  • 'Hit and run' politician John Bryson quits
    A member of Barack Obama's cabinet, who was found slumped at the wheel of his car after three crashes in California earlier this month, has resigned.Related StoriesUruguay unveils plans to allow government to sell marijuanaBillionnaire CEO Larry Ellison buys Hawaiian islandTrayvon Martin police ...
  • Militant who made Bali bombs jailed
    An Indonesian militant was convicted yesterday of helping to build the car bomb used in the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub attacks and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Umar Patek, left, a leading member of the al-Qa'ida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah was found guilty of violating Indonesia's anti-t ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Protein Discovery May Improve Recovery After N ...
    A protein required to regrow injured peripheral nerves has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The finding, in mice, has implications for improving recovery after nerve injury in the extremities. It also opens new avenues of investigation tow ...
  • An American Tragedy: A Serious Diagnosis And N ...
    Susan Murphy-Milano, an author and fellow Forbes contributor, has made it her career to advocate for the rights of women and children. She even lobbied for the passage of 1993′s Illinois Stalking Law. Her quest for justice has been a 20-year pursuit. Now, she's in the fight of her life ag ...
  • Omega-3 Lowers Inflammation in Overweight Olde ...
    New research shows that omega-3 fatty acid supplements can lower inflammation in healthy, but overweight, middle-aged and older adults, suggesting that regular use of these supplements could help protect against and treat certain illnesses. Four months of omega-3 supplementation decreased one p ...
  • Life Expectancy in US Trails Developed Counter ...
    Despite modest gains in lifespan over the past century, the United States still trails many of the world's countries when it comes to life expectancy, and its poorest citizens live approximately five years less than more affluent persons, according to a new study from Rice University and the Uni ...
  • Blood Pressure Drug Olmesartan Linked to Sever ...
    Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an association between a commonly prescribed blood pressure drug, Olmesartan, and severe gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss and electrolyte abnormalities -- symptoms common among those who have celiac disease. The findi ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Like Kirby says . . .
    KIRBYCAIRO'S blog posting is one of the best overviews of the problem facing the Liberals  that I have had the pleasure of reading. Gets to the hard-core center of the Liberal problem. See what the man has to say: Look for Solutions to the Real crisis or continue in Irrelevance. . ..
  • Our Dawg in this fight . . .
    DAWG PUTS THE BITE ON BIGOTS: according to the Winnipeg Free Press, "Ontario court orders blog-based libel case to trial". TORONTO - A right-wing political commentator should face trial for referring to a blogger as a Taliban supporter during a heated online exchange, the Ontario Cour ...
  • Not politically-correct . . .
    BUT VERY SATISFYING. One less perv is good. Maybe he was misunderstood, maybe he had a rough childhood. Whatever his problem was, he's discussing it one-on-one with God, if you believe that sort of thing, and if you don't, take cheer in that the sumbitch's constituent molecules will get re-c ...
  • You can't get there, from here . . .
    THE NEW YORKER has a fine article for you to ponder: Jonah Lehrer posted "Why Smart People Are Stupid" in the Frontal Cortex blog, in which it is noted that research shows that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to cognitive bias. Good ol' h.sapiens may at times be a ratio ...
  • Times are changing . . .
     — MQ-4C Triton — THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE, and choices we have to make now, that we will have to live with for decades. We've been watching Stevie and AIRSHOW stumble around like a pair of drunks as they pursue their F-35 financial fetish. And the F-35 has problems, as we have seen: it' ...

Media Matters for America

  • Rove Touts His Super PAC's Record While Fact-C ...
    In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Fox News contributor Karl Rove touted the campaign ads issued by his Crossroads GPS super PAC, claiming they are "highlighting the shortcomings" of President Obama's policies. But Rove groups have a history of issuing ads and statements that have ...
  • Myths And Facts About Natural Gas
    Natural gas can help the U.S. transition away from reliance on coal in the near-term if it is produced responsibly. But conservative media have dismissed the risks involved with the rapid spread of natural gas extraction to push for deregulation, attack the Obama administration, and ignore the ...
  • Right-Wing Media Misleadingly Cite Cost Projec ...
    Right-wing media have once again attacked the federal food stamp program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), this time by misleadingly citing a projection that the program will cost $770 billion over the next decade. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that bot ...
  • Fox's Attempt To Scandalize Routine Use Of Exe ...
    Following the Obama administration's assertion of executive privilege over some documents related to the ATF's Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has rushed to label the move improper, or evidence that President Obama himself lied about involvement with the failed ope ...
  • Fox Covers Up GOP Obstruction Of The DREAM Act
    After President Obama announced that the U.S. will stop deporting certain young immigrants, Fox News figures have accused President Obama of undercutting Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's attempt to pass legislation reportedly similar to the DREAM Act. In fact, Obama and Democrats attempted to pass ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Deportation show Israel's intolerance (Sandra ...
    "Are you Jewish?" is the first question the U.S. Embassy staffer asked me on the phone while I sat in Israeli detention at the airport in Tel Aviv. When I responded that I was a Palestinian born in the United States, he said he could do nothing for me. Consequently, I endured eight hours of inte ...
  • Palestinian boy killed as Israel bombs Gaza Ci ...
    A 14-year-old boy was killed Wednesday afternoon as Israel bombed Gaza City in the third day of strikes on the enclave, Gaza's health ministry said. Momen al-Adam was killed and two peo ...
  • Palestinian village faces demolition by Israel ...
    Palestinians in this hamlet have clung to their arid acres for decades, living without proper electricity or water while Israel provides both to Jewish settlers on nearby hills. But the ...
  • Israel strikes central Gaza, 1 injured (Ma'an ...
    Israeli war planes shelled the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, injuring one person, medics said. The casualty, who was not identified, was traveling by motorcycle on Salah al-D ...
  • PA officials say Israel responsible for mosque ...
    Palestinian officials on Tuesday slammed the torching of a West Bank mosque overnight, an attack Israel settlers are suspected of carrying out. Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al- ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Later Is Too Late: Examining Gender-Based Viol ...
    Subheadline:  Overview of funding in Haiti to eliminate violence against women Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Alicia Tozour ...
  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
  • 2012 Partners and Projects Guide
    The attached PDF provides details on our plans in this area for the coming year. For more information on Grassroots International's partnership-based approach, see our grantmaking page.
  • Uprooting GM Crops with Creole Seeds
    Subheadline:  MCP shows Brazilian farmers a better way brazil-creole_seed_saving.jpg In rural areas like Seu Lazaro’s community in the state of Goiás, Brazil, vendors of ge ...
  • New report sites water crisis in Gaza
    gaza-boy_and_water_jugs.jpg The day-to-day struggle in Palestine centers on access to and control of land and water. Not only are these vital resources critical to self-determination, but they are necessary for life. And in Gaza, the five-y ...

Climate

  • Ancient North Carolina Records Show Sea-Level ...
    (E&E Daily, sub req'd) Some North Carolina lawmakers have accused scientists of using "made up" estimates of sea-level rise. But a top researcher says some of the world's best evidence for climbing oceans comes from the ground ...
  • China's 'Waste to Power' Plants Burn More Coal ...
    (Forbes) China produces more than a quarter of the world's trash, a burden that the government is attempting to solve by burning some of it for energy. But the incinerators often mix waste with an even greater measure of coal, adding m ...
  • Accounting for Pollution Likely Within a Decad ...
    (Reuters) Corporate and government accounting will likely reflect environmental profit and loss within a decade, thanks partly to progress made this week at a U.N. conference in Rio de Janeiro, backers of the plan told Reuters on Thurs ...
  • New Emissions Policy Will Force Biggest UK Fir ...
    (Guardian) Public companies in the UK are to become the first in the world forced to publish full details of the greenhouse gasses they produce, under plans to be announced by the government. About 1,800 companies listed on the London ...
  • Deadly Colorado Wildfire Surpasses 100-Square- ...
    (Reuters) A deadly, stubborn wildfire that ranks as the most destructive on record for Colorado has scorched more than 100 square miles of rugged mountain terrain northwest of Denver, but a cool snap on Wednesday gave fire crews a chan ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Health Care Debate is Stupid
    Reading back over the oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding the mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it is very striking how stupid this whole argument became. It used to be that Republicans were obsessed about people taking a free ride by refusing to buy insurance. Why should they ...
  • Christie's Misplaced Man-Crush
    I'm willing to acknowledge that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen. And I definitely count that in the governor's favor. But as I read about him dancing like a maniac to Badlands there is a fundamental disconnect. What does Christie know about "Workin' in th ...
  • Casual Observation
    Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced new grants for 219 local health centers. This comes after a May announcement that they had completed the construction of 67 new clinics out of the 200 they intend to construct by 2014. And they have renovated 200 out of the 600 c ...
  • SCOTUS Strikes Again
    I think the Supreme Court just finished off the other half of their plan for a permanent Republican majority. The opinion was just released an hour ago and I am not an expert on labor law, but based on Sotomayor's opinion (pdf) in Knox v. SEIU, it appears that the Court overreached and just leg ...
  • Will SCOTUS Steal Your Rebate?
    Some of you may have a received a letter in your email today from the Department of Health & Human Services. The letter is probably specific to the state you live in. I live in Pennsylvania, so my letter has statistics for Pennsylvania. Today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kat ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Lebanese Village Half Abandoned in the Wak ...
    During the Lebanese Civil War, Christians in the village of Maasser al Chouf were forced to abandon their homes. Some were massacred; some simply never returned. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Enchanting Red Windows from Around the World
    We use windows to see the world outside, but sometimes they are worth looking at for themselves, especially when they're such a vibrant color. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Spices with Incredible Healing Power
    Even if you aren't into spicy food, the amazing healing powers of spices and herbs are so incredible, you may start sprinkling some extra zest on your French fries. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hanging of the Lincoln Assassination Consp ...
    On a searing hot day in July 1865, four condemned prisoners, including one woman, were executed for their part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Will Genetic Engineering Bring Killer Tomatoes ...
    Geneticists have published the complete tomato genome. With this information, biologists can engineer new strains of genetically modified tomato plants. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FAA Sets Large ND Drone Training Airspace - Fe ...
    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
  • And then they came for Lauryn Hill - at least ...
    I've tried to convince a few people that something is weird and sketchy in the entertainment industry. It's hard to get people to bite usually -- though as Mr Knowles says at Secret Sun, the old occult-pop-art trick is pretty old and good for boosting sales. There's a whole bunch of sites about ...
  • Political duality of the week: Electoral polit ...
    Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. -- attributed to Frank Zappa The ugly realities of modern electoral politics in America hit home this week with two body blows to self-styled anti-authoritarian political networks: The Ron Paul movement finally hit ...
  • For reference: A convoluted BlackBloc debate - ...
    This post is a spinoff of a larger, incomplete project. Hopefully, it can be completed! :D Having more time on my hands than I expected lately, I've been scouring the interwebs for everything I can find about the ongoing debates around militant direct action, protest tactics, the nebulous fate a ...
  • Bilderberg conference, evil Prince Bernhard, t ...
    In the aftermath of the infamous Bilderberg Conference, I would like to throw this essay out there about the long arc of everything from the Hanseatic League to the European Common Market and European Union. It's jumping off from an old book, The Thousand Year Conspiracy, published during WWII w ...

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IntelNews

  • US and Israel behind computer virus that hit I ...
    Flame, a sophisticated computer malware that was detected last month in computers belonging to the Iranian National Oil Company and Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum, was created by Israel and the United States, according to a leading American newspaper.
  • News you may have missed #749
    Why did CIA Director secretly visit Czech Republic? Jordan's ex-spy chief on trial for corruption. CIA still refuses to comment on Predator drone attacks.
  • Russian professors jailed for passing military ...
    Two Russian professors were convicted yesterday of handing over to Chinese government agents highly classified technical details about one of Russia’s most secretive military projects.
  • News you may have missed #748 (US edition)
    US lawmakers probe China companies over spy concerns. Lone Senator resists Bush/Obama NSA wiretapping plan. What did Hayden tell Obama in January 2009?
  • Western spy agencies ‘sharing intelligence’ wi ...
    A British newspaper has cited defense sources claiming that British and American intelligence agencies are passing vital information to Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the country’s government.

War is a Crime.org

  • Oh Say, Maybe We Can't See: Another 4th of July
    It's just possible that the space of 236 years and a truckload of fireworks are obscuring our vision. It's hard for us to see what should be obvious. Many nations -- including Canada as the nearest example -- have gained their independence without wars. We claim that a war was for independenc ...
  • How Small Abused Nations Could End War
    An urgent plea to the nations that my nation likes to kick around. The U.S. State Department has a list of the treaties it believes are in force and the United States a party to.  On that list one finds this: RENUNCIATION OF WAR Treaty providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument ...
  • Syria News - June 21
    Russia says Assad exile plan ‘unworkable’, He will not quit 'before something happens in terms of a cessation of violence and a political process' - AFP  Russian Defence Ministry prepares its troops and special forces for operations outside the country, including Syria - CNN iReport ------ ...
  • Philadelphia City Council Says Stop Funding th ...
    By Jane Dugdale Philadelphia City Council, by a vote of 15-2, passed today a resolution "calling on the U.S. Congress to bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, to take the funds saved by that action and by significantly cutting the Pentagon budget, and to use that money to fund education, ...
  • Jullian Assange, Bradley Manning and More
    On the phone TONIGHT 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific with Kevin Gosztola of The Dissenter blog at Firedoglake, co-author of Truth & Consequences: The U.S. v Bradley Manning and the subject of this interview.  We invite all onto a conference call to discuss Bradley's case, as we prepare to ...

Grist - News

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

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    A little less than 2 billion years ago, metals including copper, molybdenum and zinc became available to primitive cells, at the same time that the cells began to become much more complex. Scientists indicate that they have identified the event that introduced these metals, which made it possibl ...
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    The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GI ...
  • June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It’ ...
    240 B.C.: Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculates the Earth’s circumference. His data was rough, but he wasn’t far off. Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Some contemporaries called him Pentathalos, a ...
  • Image: An Australian “Anti-storm”
    A high near Tasmania left a gaping hole in the clouds. High-pressure weather systems often bring fair weather and relatively clear skies. In early June 2012, a high off the coast of Tasmania did just that...and in spectacular fashion. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on ...
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    Saturn's largest moon, Titan appears to be strung like a bead on its rings, which cast shadows onto the southern hemisphere of the gas giant in this extraordinary image from the Cassini Spacecraft. Faint but exquisite detail in the gas giant’s upper atmosphere paints a tranquil scene. A thin ban ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – A government big enou ...
    A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
  • Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disea ...
    by: PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more chi ...
  • Germ theory delusions collapse as new science ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The human body is essentially a “germ” factory, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks the widely believed germ theory, or ...
  • Lance Armstrong named in massive 12-year dopin ...
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  • Associated Press caught lying about water fluo ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It seems as though every time an American town or city drops the added fluoride chemicals from its water supply, the dinosaur media comes out with its usual talking points about how water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health intervention ...

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Rec ...
    Read the rest of Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Recycled Bottles Rise From Rio Beach Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Botafogo Beach, eco design, green design, plastic bottle fish sculptures, recycled art, recycled plastic bottles, rio 20, rio de janiero, su ...
  • US Navy Develops Underwater Solar Panels to Po ...
    Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Electronics Science and Technology Division recently announced that they have developed a new breed of underwater solar panels that are able to power submerged electronics and sensor systems. You might think that solar cells would have limited use ...
  • Study Finds Western World Must Halve Meat Cons ...
    Meat in a Shop Window Photo from Shutterstock It is estimated that the world’s population will reach 9.3 billion people by 2050, which raises significant questions as to how exactly we are going to feed such a massive number of people — and according to a new report from the University of ...
  • Marko Manriquez’s Burritob0t is a 3D Burrito P ...
    Marko Manriquez has designed the Burritob0t, an incredible 3D printer that can whip up an edible burrito in just a few minutes! The recent New York University graduate created the contraption as his thesis for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications program. Manriquez describes the Burritob0t as th ...
  • Finnish Scientists Create Optical Displays Mad ...
    Optical displays have been getting smaller, slimmer, and more advanced by the second, but we doubt any are as pared down as the ones created by Finnish scientists from nothing but air and water. Based out of Aalto University, the researchers took their inspiration from the superhydrophobic prope ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Deliberately Destroying America
    It has taken three and a half years into Barack Obama’s presidency for most Americans to realize that he has been deliberately destroying America by driving up the nation’s debt and deficit, reducing privately held wealth, forcing millions onto the public dole, undermining its moral structure, a ...
  • The New World Order in 2012
    In 2012 very few people understand what the New World Order is all about and how the New World Order has evolved to what it is today. This lack of understanding is derived from a systematic denial by the Globalists and Politicians that the New World Order doesn’t exist.
  • HAARP and the Tesla Connection
    H.A.A.R.P. – The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate ...
  • West Nile Spraying: Are Pesticides Leading To ...
    As parents in Sacramento County, Calif., put their kids to bed on Monday and Tuesday night, a pair of planes flying overhead doused a 30,000-acre area with a fine mist of pesticides. The target of the repeated aerial assault: mosquitoes. A growing number of the pests harbor the West Nile viru ...
  • Obama’s Nixon moment: Executive Order invoked ...
    The level of outright criminality in the Obama administration is now apparent to almost everyone. In the face of incriminating documents being released regarding the lawbreaking Fast and Furious operation pulled off by Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama has invoked executive order to ...

Andy Worthington

  • Stonehenge and the Summer Solstice: On the 28t ...
    So today, as 14,000 revellers at Stonehenge faced a rainy summer solstice morning, with some of them, at least, echoing the reverence that those who built this giant sun temple over 4,000 years ago had for the great axis of the solar year, many of those in attendance may not have known of the lo ...
  • Radio: On Eve of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge ...
    Listen to my interview here! A month ago, I was delighted to meet up with — and be interviewed by — an old friend and colleague, Tony Gosling, a journalist and broadcaster, who also has a long-established mail order service, Culture Shop, making videos and books on important politica ...
  • Stop the Extradition to the US of Talha Ahsan, ...
    Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, there is a meeting in the House of Commons to discuss the US-UK Extradition Treaty, a source of consternation since its establishment in 2003, as it allows British citizens to be extradited to the US for the flimsiest of reasons, where they will face a legal s ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: Campaigning to Close Guan ...
    Close Guantanamo, Washington D.C., January 2012, a set on Flickr. In the small hours of this morning, I posted the first set of photos on my new Flickr account, of my wanderings in New York in January, at the start of my two-week US tour to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anni ...
  • Andy Worthington’s Photos on Flickr: New ...
    New York, January 2012, a set on Flickr. Regular readers will be aware that, since the start of this year, some of my articles have featured photos I have taken (see Photos: The “Austerity Isn’t Working” Protest Outside Downing Street and Parliament, Photos: May Day Celebrations in London, Inclu ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Hate Group Leader to Serve as California State ...
    Gary Kreep, a longtime antigovernment activist, “birther” and hate group leader who uses anti-Obama rhetoric as a proxy for anti-Muslim hate, has emerged victorious in a tight race for a seat on San Diego’s Superior Court, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Kreep, who received the San Diego Co ...
  • YWC Leaders Stay Active, Despite Recent Events
    It’s been a few months since Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) president Kevin DeAnna stepped down in February from the far-right campus organization that has some problematic associations with white nationalists. Since then, and since the group’s appearance at the Conservative Political Acti ...
  • Former Congressman Tancredo to Address White S ...
    Tom Tancredo has no more secrets. The former Republican congressman from Colorado, known for his biting anti-immigration rhetoric and campaign ads suggesting Latino immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, is scheduled to be the luncheon speaker at next month’s annual conference for the white su ...
  • Alaska Militiamen Convicted in Antigovernment ...
    In the end, a federal jury in Alaska didn’t believe militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox’s claim that he was just a free-speech loudmouth — more like Gandhi than Rambo — and convicted him of heading a conspiracy to murder a judge and law enforcement officials. The jury also convicted Lonnie Vern ...
  • Armed with Pig’s Head, Christians Confront Mic ...
    Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., were once again targeted for their beliefs on Friday when a group of protesters calling themselves the “Bible Believers” confronted celebrants at the city’s annual Arab International Festival with a pig’s head on a spike and signs decrying Islam as a false religion, t ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Time to End the 'Conspiracy of Silence Over Dr ...
    At an international conference today in Geneva, Switzerland, international law and human rights experts told of the dire Human Rights implications of the US Targeted Killing Program. The conference, put together by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and oth ...
  • Rio Fail: Youth Lead Walkout of UN Summit
    Youth climate leaders and their supporters have walked out of the UN climate summit in Rio today to protest the negotiating text that fails to protect the climate. The group staged a "people's plenary" saying the text decided at the conference by world leaders does not represent &q ...
  • Greenpeace Launches 'Unprecedented' Campaign t ...
  • Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
    Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto th ...
  • 'NATO 3' Indicted on Terror Charges for Allege ...
    Three protesters arrested at the NATO summit in Chicago last month have been indicted on 11 counts, including four terrorism-related charges. Jared Chase, Brent Betterly and Brian Jacob Church — the so-called "NATO 3" — were arrested for an alleged plot to attack President ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Fix Movies that Are Really Quiet, then ...
    Have you ever watched a movie where the dialogue was almost inaudible, but then all of a sudden an action scene comes in and shakes your house with noise? Here's how to fix that problem in VLC. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Facebook Learns the Meanin ...
    Facebook users will be getting more control over their information, TiVo introduces an app for Android tablets, Yahoo releases a new photo app for both mobile and desktop users, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean makes an appearance in a Google Play l ...
  • Best Home Wi-Fi Router? [Hive Five Call For Co ...
    If you haven't replaced your router in a long time, there's a whole new world of dual-band, Wi-Fi, hackable, tweakable routers on the market today. Our own Adam Dachis had to replace his router this week, and found himself confronted with a n ...
  • WindowPad Uses Your Number Pad to Snap Windows ...
    Windows: WindowPad takes the number pad that you rarely use and turns it into a quick shortcut for organizing all the windows on your screen. More »
  • Craftsman Lighted Pliers Make It Much Easier t ...
    Pliers work a lot better when you can see what you're, you know, plying. When you have to grab a flashlight you lose the use of your second hand and, perhaps, the stability you need for the DIY work you're attempting to do. Craftman's got a ...

Water Privatization

  • Mindanao water districts say no to privatizati ...
    SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – Water utilities all over Mindanao are against the plan to reorganize and privatize the water districts in the country. Engr. Benjamin R. Ensomo Jr., chair of the Mindanao Association of Water Districts (MAWD) and general manager of Surigao Metropolitan Water Di ...
  • Economists upbeat on privatization strategy
    RIYADH, 7 June — The privatization drive is to accelerate after the Supreme Economic Council approved a new economic strategy aimed at boosting the private sector and generating revenue to pay for the $168-billion public debt, economists said yesterday.
  • Water Well quality is worsening in New Jersey
    The DEP has released it latest update to testing results from the Private Well Testing Act. Between 2002 and 2009 over 62,600 wells were tested across the state. Unfortunately one out of every eight wells was in violation of...
  • Pa. Liquor Store Privatization Is Dead For Tim ...
    The Pennsylvania House majority leader now says efforts to pass legislation that would privatize the sale of wine and liquor in the Commonwealth is on hold until at least the fall.
  • Ombion: Higher education budget, not privatization
    AFTER prolonging the agony of our parents in the primary and secondary education, which is additional expenses, the government is now into moves that will further deprive many Filipino families of the right to education by privatizing it. Government’s plan to build new schools and classrooms is ...

Guardian

  • Julian Assange has 'no idea' if asylum bid wil ...
    WikiLeaks founder uses Australian radio interview to highlight US attempts to draw up charges against himJulian Assange has admitted that he has no idea whether his bid for political asylum in Ecuador to avoid extradition to Sweden will be successful.The WikiLeaks founder, who has sought refuge ...
  • Mario Monti: we have a week to save the eurozone
    Italian prime minister warns that there is no room for failure in talks between single currency's big four countriesItaly's prime minister, Mario Monti, has warned of the apocalyptic consequences of failure at next week's summit of EU leaders, outlining a potential death spiral whose consequence ...
  • British woman found guilty of murdering her ch ...
    Lianne Smith smothered five-year-old and 11-month-old with plastic bag at hotel on the Costa BravaA British woman has been found guilty of the "abominable" murders of her two children in a Spanish hotel in 2010.Lianne Smith, 45, admitted smothering 11-month-old Daniel and five-year-old Rebecca w ...
  • Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and ...
    Who'd have predicted that Dizzee Rascal would go from grime pioneer to global pop star? He discusses the pros and cons of fame and his new life in MiamiAt the start of last year, Dizzee Rascal moved to Miami. He'd gone there for Christmas, and decided to stay. "I went there and thought, what the ...
  • Change rules on migrant workers, says Ed Miliband
    Labour leader admits party allowed too many Eastern European immigrants into country by lifting controls too earlyEd Miliband has signalled a change in Labour's immigration policy by disclosing he wants to change the economic rules to do more to help people already living and working in Britain. ...

McClatchey

  • Thousands flee Sudanese army’s scorched ...
    In interviews this week, refugees who?ve made it to South Sudan described a Sudanese military offensive that began in May and has driven at least 40,000 people from their villages.Click to Continue »
  • Obama asserts presidential powers he once spok ...
    President Barack Obama is starting to channel his inner Cheney. For years, Obama talked about the limits on presidential power. Now, driven either by principle or political expediency, hes working…Click to Continue »
  • Frank, Warren urge stricter rules on banks' tr ...
    U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, a lead sponsor of 2010's Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, joined with U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on Thursday morning to call for tighter regulation of large banks'Click to Continue »
  • Puerto Rico governor urges federal help in dru ...
    Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno asked the federal government Thursday for help battling drug trafficking and violence on his island and accused the United States of favoring states over territories…Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court health-law ruling will only begi ...
    The Supreme Court soon will pull the trigger on the epic health-care case. Better be ready to rumble. Everyone else is, as the court should announce Monday or by the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban police die in Afghan hotel attack
    Three suicide bombers have attacked a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, taking hostages and staging an hours-long gunbattle with Afghan security forces, police say.The bombers, armed with machines guns, ...
  • Taliban storm hotel at Kabul beauty spot
    AFP © <p>Afghan soldiers stand guard near the hotel on Qargha lake outside Kabul, where Taliban militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons have mounted a suicide attack on June 22. ...
  • Taliban Take Dozens of Hostages in Kabul Resor ...
    At least seven people have been killed in a hostage takeover of a hotel by Taliban extremists in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday citing a police source. ...
  • Insurgents strike Afghan hotel NATO says
    NEW: At least 22 civilians are rescued, officials say Police are moving slowly to avoid hurting civilians, Kabul chief says At least one police officer has been killed, he says It's the ...
  • Hostages Freed From Taliban-Held Hotel
    Afghan security forces have freed 18 civilians and two militants after a Taliban attack on a popular lakeside hotel on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, but a siege is still continuing and more ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • U.S. Special Counsel Warns Agencies Not to Spy ...
    FDA Whistleblowers’ Complaint Sparks OSC Guidance Memo on Electronic Surveillance Today, U.S. Special Counsel Carolyn N. Lerner issued a formal memorandum that the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) sent to the Chief Information Officers and General Counsels of all executive departme ...
  • "The Garcetti Virus" and an erosion of whistle ...
    In Nancy M. Modesitt’s recent research article “The Garcetti Virus,” she explains how a doctrine known as the job duties exclusion has come to erode protections once afforded to whistleblowers. She explains that this doctrine allows the discharge of an individual who discovers ...
  • OSHA orders railroad to pay $800,000 to three ...
    This week, OSHA found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a major transporter of commodities based in Norfolk, Virginia, owed over $800,000 in damages to three whistleblowers. These actions are the most recent of a number of OSHA decisions against Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in the past year. OS ...
  • Congress Considers Granting PHS Whistleblower ...
    House and Senate leaders are in "conference" right now debating whether or not employees in the Public Health Service (PHS) will obtain whistleblower protections. At stake is whether or not thousands of PHS employees who work at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the ...
  • Federal judge rules in favor of whistleblower ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Leonard B. Sand issued a ruling on Tuesday that allowed a corporate fraud whistleblower, Benjamin Ashmore, to proceed with his case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The CGI Group is a Canadian company that lists its stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: GIB).& ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • A Postgame On Canada's Copyright Reform
    On Monday, after multiple attempts over several years, Canada's House of Commons passed Bill C-11 (previously known by other names), a sweeping copyright reform bill. Senate approval is all but assured, and the bill is essentially certain to become law in the near future. Luckily, unlike SOPA/PI ...
  • DailyDirt: Pocketful Of Useless Coins
    Some people hate carrying around coins and just save them up in jars or throw them into water fountains. There is a never-ending discussion over whether or not to stop printing the US penny, but some folks just don't like rounding to the nearest nickel. Some new coins have been extremely popular ...
  • Reminder: The Case For Copyright Reform: Techd ...
    We mentioned this earlier in the month, but just wanted to pass on a reminder that the June "Techdirt Book Club" book is The Case for Copyright Reform, by Rick Falkvinge (founder of the first Pirate Party) and Christian Engstrom (Member of European Parliament). Both Christian and Rick will be j ...
  • Seth Godin Uses Kickstarter To Test The Market ...
    As a few people sent in, famed author Seth Godin is doing an interesting experiment with Kickstarter, where he has teamed up with a publisher who essentially wanted to use the platform to prove there's significant demand for Godin's next book. Basically, if he could effectively sell pre-orders ...
  • Gym Allegedly Threatens To Call Police On Blog ...
    Every time you think that there have been enough examples of the Streisand Effect that it should stop people from trying to censor perfectly legitimate content, you're just setting yourself up to be surprised by the next such attempt -- often more bizarre than the previous one. The latest one c ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Michael Klare: The Cheney effect (in the Obama ...
    Back in September 2001, Dick Cheney was, according to Jane Mayer in The Dark Side, being chauffeured around Washington “in an armored motorcade that varied its route to foil possible attackers.”  In the backseat of his car (just in case), adds Mayer, “rested a duffel bag s ...
  • Why Iran should get the bomb
    Kenneth N Waltz, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, writes: Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In ...
  • Why the U.S. will sell out Egyptian democracy
    M.J. Rosenberg writes: I have a prediction about how the United States will respond if the Egyptian revolution is ultimately utterly crushed by the military, which certainly seems to be happening. My prediction is that we say how terrible it is that the Egyptian people lost their struggle for de ...
  • Obama’s financial dependence on pro-Israel sup ...
  • Israel breaks deal, renews detention of hunger ...
    Al-Akhbar reports: Israel has broken a deal reached last month with the Palestinian prisoners’ committee that ended a mass hunger strike by renewing the detention of Hassan Safadi for another six months, an NGO said on Thursday. Over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails went on a m ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Chiefio Smith examines GHCN and finds it “not ...
    E.M. Smith over at the blog Musings from the Chiefio earlier this month posted an analysis comparing versions 1 and 3 of the GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) data set.  WUWT readers may remember a discussion about GHCN version 3 … Continue reading →
  • More climate idiocy from California
    If the looming spectre of rising electricity prices due to CARB’s upcoming “cap and trade” isn’t enough, now the Department of Water resources has opted to be less efficient by giving low cost electricity the boot. Somebody else will buy … Continue reading →
  • Satellite imagery of Colorado’s High Par ...
    To hear and read the MSM reports about this fire, you’d think that the entire states of Colorado and Wyoming were ablaze. Meanwhile, the usual paid advocates are already wailing about how the fires are supposedly exacerbated by “climate change”. … Continue reading →
  • Rio+20 is greatest threat to biodiversity
    99% of species and humans are ill served by the 0.1% UN and environmentalist elites Guest post by Paul Driessen and David Rothbard The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after … Continue reading →
  • New modeling analysis paper by Ross McKitrick
    Dr. McKitrick’s new paper with Lise Tole is now online at Climate Dynamics. He also has an op-ed in the Financial Post on June 13. A version with the citations provided is here. Part II is here online, and the … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Food and Farming Non-Profits Oppose Costly USD ...
    Proposed government regulations may threaten the viability of small scale producers and raise the cost of locally produced food, say local food advocates.Click here to read this article
  • Breaking News: We Win Major Concession on New ...
    We have pointed out for months that the FDA's NDI (new supplement) guidance threatens our access to supplements and indeed could destroy the industry, leaving drugs with a total monopoly. After adamantly digging in its heels and refusing to reconsider, FDA has now at last agreed that the draft ...
  • Environmental Killings Report Reveals Startlin ...
    A new report from international NGO Global Witness suggests that, in the past decade, 711 individuals have been killed while defending land and forest rights. 106 of these deaths allegedly came in 2011, with the number killed almost doubling over the past three years.Click here to read this article
  • Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainabl ...
    The "Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication" or The UN's Rio+20, is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 20-22, 2012. The conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) meeting marks the 20th anniversary of Rio's first "Earth Summit," the 1992 UN ...
  • Tell Your Senator What You Think of Their Farm ...
    Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Meetings with Meat-Eaters: Exploring the JHSPH ...
    For some, the share represented most or all of their monthly meat consumption. Others estimated that it would be anywhere from 30–50 percent, with the rest coming from grocery stores and farmers’ markets.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Afghans (and Pakistanis in tribal areas across the border) surely know the rules of the road of the American war: there is no sanctity in public or private rites. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PNAC: The Dawn of a New Fascism
    an animated look at War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the PNAC as stated in the September 2000 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Water customers threatened with debt collector ...
    Tens of thousands of families have been wrongly billed $177 in desalination plant charges. David Galbally, QC, said the charge was illegal . City West Water managing director Anne Barker said in extreme cases water supplies may be restricted to customers Submitted by John Farnham to Business & ...
  • Swimming in Circles
    An unflattering exposé on salt water aquaculture and the mindset that promotes it. Maines seafood industry was driven into the ground by perpetual overfishing.In the nick of time, the Technology Fairy appeared and filled the coast with salmon farms Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle & ...
  • The Human Cost of the "War on Terror" Body Counts
    In the early days of the War on Terror, US General Tommy Franks declared, We dont do body counts. He was referring, of course, to the dead of Afghanistan. Submitted by Jason S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Behind the GM Wheat Trial
    Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Probe: Bad Judgment in Military School Islam Class
    ShareThisProbe: Bad Judgment in Military School Islam Class 20 Jun 2012 Poor judgment and poor oversight led to the teaching of anti-Islamic material at a military school for officers, according to a Pentagon report Wednesday. Though an Army lieutenant colonel who taught the class has been relie ...
  • US Denies Role in Legal Battle Over Assange
    ShareThisUS Denies Role in Legal Battle Over Assange 21 Jun 2012 The United States said Wednesday it has no role in a legal battle over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has sought political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London. "To my knowledge, we are not involved in any of th ...
  • U.S. Seeks to Reject ACLU Request For Informat ...
    ShareThisU.S. Seeks to Reject ACLU Request For Information On Drone Strikes 21 Jun 2012 The United States government is seeking to reject a lawsuit demanding information about drone strikes that target suspected terrorists overseas, saying releasing details on the program would have a major effe ...
  • Lack of banker prosecutions debated after ING ...
    ShareThisLack of banker prosecutions debated after ING sanctions case 21 Jun 2012 Even though Dutch bank ING Bank Nv agreed last week to forfeit a record $619 million (397 million pounds) for improperly helping Iranians and Cubans evade sanctions by pumping billions of dollars through the U.S. f ...
  • Drone strikes threaten 50 years of internation ...
    ShareThisDrone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur --US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings 'may encourage other states to flout international law' 21 Jun 2012 The US policy of using aerial drones to carry out targeted killings presents a m ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Good Report from Afghanistan
    21 June 2012 Reports come in daily from the military in Afghanistan.  Many have good news, but subsequent the MEDEVAC deceptions from the Army, I do not trust the current bunch and so do not bother publishing.  Yesterday, I asked Shem Klimiuk, an old Afghan hand from Australia (now in ...
  • Combat Camera For Sale
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/300728129820
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • News journal loses defamation appeal
    The Voice will face criminal proceedings at the end of this month, after losing an appeal for defamation charges - brought by the Ministry of Mines over corruption allegations made against them in March
  • Immigration officials prevent conference atten ...
    Foreign investors paying top dollar to attend a Burmese investment summit have been sent home empty handed after immigration officials refused to grant them visas
  • Gov’t launches investigation into mob attack
    A union-level investigation team has launched a probe into the killings of 10 Muslim pilgrims in Arakan state’s Taungup town by a mob, which was one of the precursors to the recent sectarian riots
  • Suu Kyi: ‘Burma does not yet have an environme ...
    During Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip to Norway this month, DVB’s Aye Chan Naing spoke with the country’s opposition leader about accepting her peace prize and what advice she has for the Burmese community living abroad. During your Nobel acceptance speech today, you received a heart-warming response– ...
  • Foreign oil companies ink exploration deals
    Burma has signed a raft of oil exploration deals with foreign companies, state media reported on Wednesday, as the reformist government seeks overseas investment to spur economic development

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Khadr lawyers renew request for transfer to Canada
    [JURIST] Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainee and convict Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] on Thursday renewed calls for the Canadian government to respond to a request to transfer Khadr to Canada. A former child soldier for al Qaeda, Khadr has expres ...
  • UN expert urges international community to pro ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai [official profile] on Thursday called on the international community to protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association [press release]. In a report [text, PDF] to the UN Human Rights Council [official website], he provided several rec ...
  • Libya authorities interrogating ICC detainees
    [JURIST] A spokesperson for the Libyan government told reporters this week that the government has begun interrogations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] staff members detained in Libya. The Libyan government maintains that they have evidence some of the ICC staff may ...
  • Indonesia court sentences Bali bomber to 20 years
    [JURIST] A five-judge panel for the West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday sentenced Umar Patek to 20 years in prison for his role in several terrorist plots including the Jakarta church bombings in 2000 and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news a ...
  • Supreme Court rules FCC indecency guidelines t ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday ruled unanimously [decision, PDF] that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] indecency guidelines were too vague to be properly enforced. The case, Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Half of U.S. Senate Calls on Obama to Cancel I ...
    TweetIf it were left to the U.S. Senate, Israeli and American air power would already be winging its way to Tehran to destroy Iran’s nuclear plants.  44 senators, including a considerable number of Democrats, wrote to the president that he should abandon the nuclear talks which recently co ...
  • Flame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project
    TweetThe Washington Post is enjoying another one of those sneaky-leaky moments thanks to willing sources in the Obama administration who both sought to reinforce U.S. involvement with anti-Iran cyberwarfare, and distinguish between it and the meshuga Israelis who are using the weapons in indiscr ...
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-06-19
    Tweet Annals of Israeli racism: Israelis call African T.A. African neighborhood, "Soweto." http://t.co/ydqFJrf4 # Egyptian military launches coup against democracy: this shall not stand. http://t.co/tBnRtxGt # Haaretz rprts unsubstantiated Isr intel claim that Muslim Brotherhood ordered ...
  • Adelson’s $71-Million Bet Doubles Down on Repu ...
    TweetGamblers around the world have made Sheldon Adelson not just rich, but super-rich.  Plus he greased a few palms along the way in Macao and Las Vegas that helped him build his monuments to greed, avarice and addiction.  Now, Adelson proposes to shower a bit of that manure on the American pol ...
  • Pew Poll: Obama World Support Drops, U.S. Only ...
    TweetA new Pew poll of world opinion finds that approval of Pres. Obama outside the U.S. has dropped precipitously since he took office: The 2009 Pew Global Attitudes survey found that many believed the new American president would act multilaterally, seek international approval before using mil ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Economy on Edge - Moody's Downgrades 15 of the ...
    Moody's Investors Service issued downgrades to 15 of the world's biggest banks Thursday, saying that they all had "significant exposure" to volatility and risk inherent in their global trading activities.Banks such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America were among the firms downgr ...
  • The Obama Edge - President Obama, Interrupted
    President Obama’s latest refusal to execute the laws is granting de facto amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants under the age of thirty. Every American, no matter their race, should be furious at him for this.It comes at a time of a level of long-term unemployment for legal Americans under ...
  • Broken Government - Defeat of Healthcare Law W ...
    Every political strategist working the fall elections sees a game changer coming by the end of the month. That’s when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.The Democrats have a nuclear option in thi ...
  • Asia on Edge - Asian Money Launderers Sent Reg ...
    Law enforcement officials in China, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, and the Philippines have launched a blitzkrieg targeting money launderers who have been swindling and blackmailing average citizens throughout Asia to the tune of millions of dollars.The criminals, part of a transnational syndicate, be ...
  • The Human Edge - Paralympian Hopes to Lift Gol ...
    The Paralympic Games will be staged in London less than three weeks after the 2012 Summer Olympics end. Charles Teye is a disabled Ghanaian powerlifter who is headed to London in late August to show off his skills and try to win a medal.Teye has great hopes of winning a medal in the bench press ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Al Sharpton's Hypocritical Claim - Holder is V ...
    Al Sharpton is at it again.  The Reverend who acts as if he's never heard of the ninth commandment wrote a slander piece in today's Huffington Post. According to the MSNBC host, Eric Holder was the victim of a racist witch hunt. The highest officer of law and order in this nation has ...
  • Breaking: Obama Takes Ownership Of Fast and Fu ...
    President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House. While the executive privilege ...
  • ...The White House had NOTHING to Do With This ...
    Yesterday, the Washington Post published a report about the flame virus a new malware program supposedly designed by the United States and Israel which infected Iranian computers and spied on its nuclear weapons program. While the original leak about this program took place a few weeks ago, ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama to Blame Lousy Eco ...
    The President's reelection campaign is going to have to pivot once again. The Mitt Romney hates women meme didn't work, so they tried the Bain Capital is evil approach. Now that the Bain Capital attacks have been rejected by Democrats and Republican's alike,  they are going back to the old ...
  • Antisemitism in France At Crisis Level -Govt. ...
    Five years ago, Linda moved from Paris to Canada and then to the Israeli port city of Ashdod. Only a week ago, she, her husband and their two sons faced a hail of rockets from the Gaza Strip. Nevertheless, Linda, who doesn't want to be identified by her last name, is delighted to be living i ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.N. Rio+20 Final Decisions are made Secret
    By CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON | CLIMATE DEPOT | JUNE 21, 2012 RIO DE JANEIRO – In a shock move, officially-accredited non-government delegates who had traveled thousands of miles to attend the UN’s Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil have been refused all access t ...
  • Obama Sponsoring Privileged Corruption
    Obama hides behind legalities to build iron presidency and support government corruption. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 21, 2012 It was just a matter of time after Barack Obama took office for the public to find out about his real deal, and it took less time than with previo ...
  • Who Destroyed the Middle Class? An Amoral Fina ...
    BURNING PLATFORM | JUNE 20, 2012 “Over the last thirty years, the United States has been taken over by an amoral financial oligarchy, and the American dream of opportunity, education, and upward mobility is now largely confined to the top few percent of the population. Federal policy is inc ...
  • Leak confirms US and Israel created Flame Comp ...
    By ELLEN NAKASHIMA | WASHINGTON POST | JUNE 19, 2012 The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, ...
  • Rio+20 discute Impor Limites planetários à Hum ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 19 JUNHO 2012 A conferência globalista Rio+20 começou, e os temas a serem discutidos durante o encontro serão de grande importância para todos nós, não porque as pessoas no foro querem realmente resolver os problemas que ameaçam a humanidade como um ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Cleaning Up After the Elephants (and Donkeys)
    "Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice."
  • Fed to Continue Pushing Down Long-Term Interes ...
    “In a pattern that has become familiar, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that the economy was growing more slowly than it had forecast, in part because its efforts to hasten recovery had proved insufficient. With the economy stumbling into the summer months after the false promise of ...
  • Business Loses Confidence in Recovery
    “America’s business leaders are losing faith in the economy’s ability to produce a strong recovery by the end of the year. The Business Roundtable’s second-quarter Economic Outlook Survey, released Wednesday, saw a decline in optimism from the nation’s leading CEOs, with lower expectations ...
  • Does the Size of the Boom Explain the Size of ...
    Modestly keeping our claims about Austrian cycle theory consistent with what it can and was meant to do is both good economics and good defense against unjustified criticism.
  • Obama Looks to Europe to Boost U.S. Economy
    “President Obama said tonight that European leaders must quickly fix their ailing economies and banking systems in order to help boost world financial markets–and create jobs in the United States.” (USA Today) Poor excuse for his failure. FEE Timely Classic “How Governmen ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Will Servants' Quarters Come Back, Too?
    As the Great Recession enters its fourth summer, America continues to separate into the multiple economic strands that characterized an earlier day. Our cities, built mostly since the 1930s, poorly accommodate this lack of unity, and will require radical revision if our class divisions continue ...
  • Thunder On The Great Plains: A Written-Off Reg ...
    They may not win their first championship against Miami’s evil empire, but the Oklahoma City Thunder have helped to put a spotlight on what may well be the most surprising success story of 21st century America: the revival of the Great Plains. Once widely dismissed as the ultimate ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Tokyo
    Tokyo is the ultimate in urbanization, being nearly one-half larger than any other urban area in the world. Further, Tokyo has retained been the largest urban area in the world for longer than any period since London's approximately 100 year run from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. During ...
  • Historic Heritage of the Rust Belt
    I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ravenna recently. No, not the town in Italy with its early Christian buildings and glittering mosaics. I mean Ravenna, Ohio, a small industrial city of some 12,000 people near Akron.  Along with Akron and Cleveland, Ravenna flourished as an industr ...
  • Millennials’ Home Ownership Dreams Delayed, No ...
    Eighty percent of Americans buy their first house between the ages of 18-34. While the Millennial Generation’s (born 1982-2003) delayed entry into all aspects of young adulthood has sometimes been characterized as a “failure to launch,” the generation’s  preference for single tract, suburban ...

GM Watch

  • GM crop trouble as pests develop resistance
    1. GM cotton problems 2. GM crop trouble as pests develop resistance --- --- 1.GM cotton problems The Gurdian (Letters), 20 June 2012  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/20/gm-cotton-problems?INTCMP=SRCH Encouraging predator insects is crucial to managing crop pests sustainably – in ...
  • GM crop trouble as pests develop resistance
    1. GM cotton problems 2. GM crop trouble as pests develop resistance --- --- 1.GM cotton problems The Gurdian (Letters), 20 June 2012  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/20/gm-cotton-problems?INTCMP=SRCH Encouraging predator insects is crucial to managing crop pests sustainably – in ...
  • Genetically engineering Washington politics
    Genetically Engineering Washington Politics Deniza Gertsberg GMO Journal, June 21 2012  http://gmo-journal.com/index.php/2012/06/21/genetically-engineering-washington-politics/ To borrow a phrase from Bill Maher, here's a New Rule: anytime a GMO advocate gushes about the benefits and safety of ...
  • Genetically engineering Washington politics
    Genetically Engineering Washington Politics Deniza Gertsberg GMO Journal, June 21 2012  http://gmo-journal.com/index.php/2012/06/21/genetically-engineering-washington-politics/ To borrow a phrase from Bill Maher, here's a New Rule: anytime a GMO advocate gushes about the benefits and safety of ...
  • GMOs should be safety tested - AMA
    NOTE: U.S. regulators rely almost exclusively on information provided by GM crop developers like Monsanto on an entirely voluntary basis, and those data are not normally published in journals or subjected to peer review. This is why many critics regard U.S. regulation of GM foods as a rubber-sta ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the ...
  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...

Desertification

  • BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATERS (Book, VUBPRESS)
    CROSSTALKS presents BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATERS Since 1990, 1.7 billion people have gained access to safe drinking water, but 884 million people are still without. By 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country … Continue reading →
  • Zaden voor Voedsel – Zaden voor het leve ...
    VIDEO Met veel genoegen terugdenkend aan een interview voor TV OOST (Vlaanderen, België), een interview in het kader van de Millenniumdoelstellingen http://www.tvoost.be/nl/2012-06-19/zaden-voor-het-leven/ Veel kijkgenot, Willem
  • Regreening Africa (Ecofilms Australia)
    Read at : http://www.ecofilms.com.au/how-a-2-pocket-knife-is-regreening-africa/ How-a-$2-pocket-knife-is-regreening-Africa How can barren fields, degraded forests and grazing lands be reforested without planting a single tree? Is it possible? Well yes, according to Tony Rinaudo and his work with ...
  • The splendour of lilies (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Please have a look at my latest video : http://youtu.be/6FGTBEh6j9g 2012-06 LILIUM FLOWERING SPLENDOUR Images of lilies showing the beauty of flower development from buds to adult flowers
  • The logic behind the definition of ‘dese ...
    Between May 1993 and 17th June, 1994 I have participated, as the scientific adviser of the Belgian governmental delegation,  at all the meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Desertification Convention (INCD/CIND).  International drylands experts and representatives from ...

The Paper Trail

  • Bouncing too much to find the enemy
    A host of problems plague the military’s newest jet fighter, the F-35, but one of the simplest yet most troublesome is identified in a new government audit as unreadable “symbology.”The problem exists inside a small item at the heart of what makes the F-35 the world’s most sophisticated air ...
  • U.S. arms shipments by fiscal year, 2007-2011
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  • U.S. Chamber, GOP block election ad transparen ...
    Alexi Giannoulias “can’t be trusted,” the 2010 election ad said. His family’s bank loaned money to mobsters, he accepted an illegal tax break and he even squandered money that families were saving for college.If the charges were true, the U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois must have been a real ...
  • Wisconsin recall breaks record thanks to outsi ...
    Tuesday’s recall election of Republican Gov. Scott Walker is the most expensive in Wisconsin history. More than $63.5 million has been spent by candidates and independent groups, the overwhelming majority underwritten by out-of-state sources.The record spending total was made possible thank ...
  • Walker wins Wisconsin recall election flooded ...
    With a 7-to-1 fundraising advantage and record turnout, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defeated a union-led recall challenge by Democratic Mayor of Milwaukee Tom Barrett.The Wisconsin vote captured national attention, and a flood of out-of-state money. Of the $63.5 million dollars spent, $45 millio ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • USI-AIT declares involvement in general strike
    sciopero.jpg Statement from USI-AIT declaring its participation in the co-ordinated general strike of Italian base unions on June 22nd, and laying out both its political and social demands. ...
  • Resistance is high; garment workers force shut ...
    Ashulia-youth-2012-06-17_14862.jpg The resurgence of unrest in the Bangladeshi garment sector continues with over 500,000 workers now locked out in Ashulia... The main costs of ...
  • Benefits withdrawn to punish low-waged workers ...
    Iain-Duncan-Smith_1667305c.jpg The "right to strike" in the UK comes under further attack today, as Iain Duncan Smith announces plans to withdraw Working Tax Credit for workers who take stri ...
  • Mauritanian mining strike over - workers win t ...
    tasiast2.jpg This time last week libcom reported on striking gold miners in Mauritania - after five days of strike action, the miners have won their demands and returned to work. ...
  • Write letters to anarchist and anti-fascist pr ...
    Kharchenko Igor Olegovich FKU SIZO-2 UFSIN Rossii po g. Moskve ul. Novoslobodskaya d. 45 127055 Moskva Russia Igor was arrested in September 2011. He is accused of having participated in a fight on the 4th of July 2010, during ...

Free Range International

  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]
  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...
  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Putting Americans Back to Work: A Simple, No-C ...
    The reasons for the failed US recovery are really quite simple: Most economists agree that the US economy remains stalled because of poor consumer demand. Because so many Americans are unemployed or coping with reduced hours and wage cuts, they aren’t spending money. And owing to poor dem ...
  • When Your Bank Freezes Your Account
    One way to tell that the economy is about to collapse (or has done so already) is when your bank won’t let you have your money. An interesting account from Alexander Higgins’ Blog about the major Italian bank that has frozen all withdrawals – and the devastating effect this has ...
  • Five Myths About the Causes of Unemployment
    Professor Jem Blendell, founder of Lifeworth Consulting and member of the World Economic Forum, gave the keynote address at the Rebuild21 conference in Copenhagen two weeks ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeQfNpW9sQ). A week later Blendell addressed the World Economic Forum in Istanbul ...
  • Indiana Allows Self-Defense Against Unlawful P ...
    SWAT team storms family home Owing to the recent militarization of police, an increasing number of families have been terrorized by SWAT teams breaking down their doors – only to discover they have targeted the wrong individual or the wrong house. It’s high time other states passe ...
  • How the Sustainability Movement Defies Conserv ...
    The late Barry Goldwater My decision to focus my activism in the sustainability movement has nothing to do with the horror stories climate change and Peak Oil aficionados tell about the horrible future my children and grandchildren face. I have never found terrifying or guilt-tripping people an ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • CIA secretly operates on Syrian border, suppli ...
    American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. ­The paper reports that for weeks now, officers b ...
  • UN questions legality of U.S. drone attacks
    On Wednesday, a rapporteur of the United Nations Organization (UNO) condemned the drone attacks carried out by U.S. forces that have killed thousands, and has questioned the legality of such aerial assaults. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary executions, Cristoff Heyns, in his r ...
  • ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow bef ...
    The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament recommends rejecting ACTA. The committee rejected the controversial legislation 19 votes to 12. This is the fourth and final committee to deliver its report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and will likely affe ...
  • Germany rules out military intervention in Syria
    Germany has strongly opposed military intervention in Syria, adding voice to the calls for a political solution to the country’s prolonged crisis. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday warned that military action — strongly supported by Britain, France and the US — ...
  • Uruguay to sell marijuana to take profits from ...
    The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose. ­The Uruguayan government has devised a new measure to fight drug trafficking: lawmakers are to send a bill to Congress on Wednesday that would legalize marijuana sales. Only the gov ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Rickâs Cabaret Girls Congratulate Miami Heat
    Dancers from the famous Rick’s Cabaret gentlemen’s club in midtown Manhattan formed their own basketball squad several months ago and the team watched last night’s NBA Miami Heat vs Oklahoma City Thunder contest with rapt attention. The basketball game was shown on the club’s numerous TVs and s ...
  • Website asks, would Obama or Romney make the b ...
    It may be hard to imagine the political process cheapened any more than it does on its own, but a website calling itself the largest Sugar Daddy âdatingâ service on the Internet is apparently upping the ante. In a crass, self-seeking promotional stunt (the website, not a politican this time) 30 ...
  • American Idolâs Jessica Sanchez In Talks To Ap ...
    Jessica Sanchez – PCN If reports are true, season four of Glee is about to get seriously divalicious. According to TV Line , American Idol season 11′s resident diva and runner-up, Jessica Sanchez , is in talks to join the cast for a multi-episode arc
  • Pelosi, take two: Republicans want to bring do ...
    **Written by Doug Powers Yes, it’s a Nancy Pelosi two-fer today. A rare treat I know… kind of like an extra helping of spinach
  • Syria Verging on Civil War
    By Jamal Kanj What started as an extension to the Arab Spring is pushing Syria to the verge of a civil war. Bashar Al Assad must stop deluding himself by blaming the frustration of the Syrian people on a foreign conspiracy. Indulging in self-denial is what could eventually justify outside inter ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft wants a do-over with Windows Phone 8 ...
    Why a new device? No existing Windows Phone 7 devices will be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. None. Early adopters who have embraced Windows Phone devices like the new Nokia Lumia phones will have no choice but to abandon them in favor of new devices if they want to move to Windows Phone 8. Wind ...
  • Woz visits Kim Dotcom in New Zealand
    MegaWoz. Great guy & supporter of EFF. EFF is helping to give Mega users their files back. Thanks Woz & EFF. http://instagr.am/p/MGyV4wskfq/ - Kim Dotcom, Twitter
  • Surface tablet intro no Moses event for Microsoft
    Two tablets were announced but only one was shown. No prices and few specs were announced. The clever keyboard cover mentioned in all stories (including this one) wasn't functional. No reporters thought to count the ports on the sides of the one tablet available for use and they couldn't look a ...
  • Microsoft poisons its partners
    First, Microsoft announces a vaporware tablet, Surface. On paper Surface is much better than anything its partners were building. Now, Microsoft has announced Windows Phone 8, a smartphone operating system that instantly makes every existing Windows Phone obsolete. On behalf of ASUS, Dell, HP, ...
  • How to Keep Facebook from Recognizing Your Face
    While Facebook users can't stop the company from gathering the information, the privacy settings in their accounts lets them pull in the reins and take some control over which photos bear their names. "This doesn't mean that Facebook won't learn about what you look like and associate it with yo ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Don’t Doubt Yourself Babe.The Byrds
    Many years ago at a dark point in my life, this song gave me new hope and lifted me back off the ground. That’s the power of music It was written by Jackie DeShannon, who was friends with The Byrds.Truth is proven to be found Hard to take the first time around But [...]The post Don’t ...
  • The U.S. Left and the Audacity of SYRIZA
    Northstar is running a thoughtful series titled on The U.S. Left and the Audacity of SYRIZA: an Online Roundtable on the success of Syriza in Greece and what Occupy and the hard left can learn from them.The North Star’s name is a conscious reference to the The North Star network set up by Peter ...
  • Quasi-legal medical marijuana has become a dan ...
    Gosh, that sure looks medicinal to meMedical marijuana in California was instituted with the best of intentions by the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996. It mandated that marijuana could be grown and cultivated legally for personal use by those with a recommendation from a doctor and their care ...
  • The Freeway Blogger explains how to poster fre ...
    The Freeway Blogger has put thousands of signs near freeways in California. It’s easy to do, cheap, and gets your message out to literally hundreds of thousands of motorists.These signs were made with about a dozen bike boxes, an overhead projector, duct tape, and about thirteen dollars wo ...
  • House panel cites AG Holder for contempt on gu ...
    Credit: wikimedia commonsObama cited executive privilege as a reason to not produce gunwalking documents that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee headed by Darrell Isa have requested.Sen. Grassley says “How can the president assert executive privilege if there was no White ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Meet John Adams, NZ Prime Minister – mas ...
    Some 115 heads of state or government assemble at the 3rd Earth Summit in Rio this week.  They include France and Australia. John Key, our erstwhile Prime Minister, is not among them.  He has more important things to do.  He has sent one of our more junior cabinet ministers, Amy Adams.  Amy Adam ...
  • Valuing Volunteers in Volunteer Awareness Week
    In the last week I’ve spent a lot of time working alongside volunteers as we collect signatures for the petition calling for a referendum on the sale of our state-owned assets. Invariably they’re committed, good-humoured (even in the foulest weather) and graciously give their time to a cause tha ...
  • Rhetoric and reality – New Zealand at Rio
    Environment Minister, Amy Adams, presented New Zealand’s statement Wednesday afternoon. In some ways it was a good statement. As required, it sought to portray the Government in the most positive light possible. As required, my job is to constructively critique it. The statement bore little rese ...
  • Supporting the Gifts and Talents of Youth
    Every year the Green Party celebrates the “Gifted and Talented” which to us means all children, tamariki katoa! We also specifically support “Gifted and Talented” programmes in schools because they are broad and recognise the diversity of gifts that need encouragement from a young age. These gif ...
  • Other names for the Mixed Ownership Model Bill
    (because the Government rationale resembles reality TV and really bad movies) “The GC – greedy corporates go shopping Bill” “Project Runaway – steal our assets!” “Flight of the Conmen” “NZ’s Next Top Rip Off” “The Biggest Loser – Citizens of Aotearoa/NZ” “Survivor Asset Sales – no one gets immun ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Unplanned Pregnancies 20 Times More Likely on ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you think your birth control pill is the best pregnancy prevention tool there is, you may be surprised by new research looking into its failure rates. Compared to other forms of protection, the Pill failed miserably, which only adds to the myriad of reasons why you should h ...
  • Could This Be Nature's Near-Perfect Blood Suga ...
    By Dr. Mercola For many years now, my favorite source of omega-3 fats has been krill oil. Every time a new study about krill oil hits the journals, its list of health benefits grows longer and the differences between fish oil and krill oil become more pronounced. Krill oil is often compared ...
  • BPA-Free Products Still Contain Bisphenols of ...
    By Dr. Mercola Just when you thought you'd learned everything there was to learn about how to avoid bisphenol-A (BPA), the endocrine-disrupting plastics chemical, new research shows that there's more hormone-disrupting bisphenols around you than you probably thought. In answer to consumers' ...
  • Eating This Feeds Bacteria That Can Poke Holes ...
    By Dr. Mercola Azithromycin (Zithromax) is a macrolide antibiotic used in the treatment of bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections, and sexually transmitted diseases. It's known for having unpleasant side effects such as skin rashes, itching, allergic or anaphylactic reactions, and severe, wate ...
  • Stolen Freedoms Regained in Stunning Blow to S ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher This month, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) joins with our Health Liberty partners to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Health Liberty Coalition by Mercola.com. For many years, NVIC and the non-profit Consumers for Dental Choice, ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Guarani community in Brazil could get $83m award
    Guarani man. A Guarani community in Brazil could receive $83m for 'moral and material' damages © Fiona Watson/Survival A public prosecutor in Brazil is asking the government to pay $83m to a Guarani Indian community as compensation for ‘moral and material’ damages. The community, ...
  • ‘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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #Audio: Episode024 - Green Christ
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features shrooms, blogs and superbugs + Green Christ, Rio+20, the 'Binge and Purge' and more... E ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Postpone, Block, Restrict and more
    Maurice Strong, Global Greening Godfather, Steps Out of Shadows at Rio+20* Video: Maurice Strong talks at Rio+20* Watermelons of the World Unite in Rio* China Releases Five Year Food Safety Plan* As Renewable Energy Spreads in Europe, U.S. Resists Growth* Video: Gov't to seize pri ...
  • Christ Turns ‘Green’ at U.N. Earth Summit — Li ...
    from nationalreview.com: Green guru James Lovelock was right. He warned last week that “the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion.” Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city of Rio is bathing t ...
  • Nine-year-old girl's lunch blog shames school ...
    from naturalnews.com: A nine-year-old Scottish girl, Martha Payne, got some help from her dad to set up her blog "Never Seconds," in which she displayed her school's lunches and created her own content about them. Although the photos of those meals were not flattering, Martha was not decrying ...
  • #Superbugs From Overuse of #Antibiotics on #Fa ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Big Government loves Big Agriculture because their friends at the Big Banks make big bucks off it. The only problem is that this totally unnatural way of raising livestock destroys communities, kills family farming and has created new breeds of super bugs that have e ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the ...
  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Dear Members of Parliament: Support This, or f ...
    Yes, Members of Parliament - the public will be watching the passage of this Bill, and how you vote on it, with great interest: European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57) Mr Douglas Carswell, supported by Mr Philip Hollobone, Steve ...
  • Of Idiots, Extreme Communists and the Eurozone ...
    Nigel Farage at his very best here in this interview with Fox Business (H/T: ukipmeps via Twitter). No real commentary needed. It stands tall enough and strong enough as an isolated video clip without our need to add comment.
  • And now, sadly, we must turn our backs on the ...
    So, at this stage, it looks as though the Greek people have handed electoral victory to a party that is pro the memorandum. It appears to be the case that, presented with an opportunity to say 'enough', the Greek people have decided that they actually quite like painful austerity, starvation, ...
  • A David Icke Saturday Wake Up Call
    "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." - Nuremberg Principle IVWhile we wait to see whether the Greek people are slaves or the hero ...
  • Eurozone: Apocalypse Now (for Space Aliens)
    What do we want? Apocalypse! When do we want it? Now! The several years long farce - with more than a hint of unprecedented criminality about it - known as the 'financial crisis' rumbles on and, at the epicentre of destruction, ruination, starvation, unemployment, homelessness and suicide, th ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – A government big enou ...
    A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
  • Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disea ...
    by: PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more chi ...
  • Germ theory delusions collapse as new science ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The human body is essentially a “germ” factory, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks the widely believed germ theory, or ...
  • Lance Armstrong named in massive 12-year dopin ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Former professional road racing cyclist and Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is the target of a new investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which alleges Armstrong engaged in a “long running doping conspiracy” between 1 ...
  • Associated Press caught lying about water fluo ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It seems as though every time an American town or city drops the added fluoride chemicals from its water supply, the dinosaur media comes out with its usual talking points about how water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health intervention ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Drug-Addled Burlesque Empire On Global Joyride
    RT June 21, 2012 America: Drugged up, dumbed down and crazy dangerous Robert Bridge ==== If you were planning to conquer the world, or at least a broad swath of it, the war would necessarily start at home. After all, no general worth his salt would rush into battle with his rear exposed. You’d h ...
  • No Replay: Russia Says NATO, Not Libyan People ...
    Itar-Tass June 21, 2012 Lavrov says Russia will not admit replay of Libyan scenario for Syria MOSCOW: Russia will not admit a replay of the Libyan scenario in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow liberal radio. “It wasn’t the Libyan people who decide ...
  • U.S. Remains In Gulf With Tens Of Thousands Of ...
    RT June 20, 2012 US clings onto Gulf with tens of thousands of troops in region ==== The build-up of the American contingent in the region is a direct result of Washington withdrawing troops from Iraq in December 2011. The troops and military vehicles did not actually go far: many simply crossed ...
  • Syria Is West’s Way Station En Route To ...
    Voice Russia June 20, 2012 Syria – Iran – Russia: is the West ready for any kind of compromise? Dmitry Babich ==== Western proven arms’ sales to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s enemy and one of the perpetrators of the revolt in Syria, somehow attract a lot less attention in the global media than Russia’s a ...
  • Iraq: NATO Forges New Strategic Partnership In ...
    Stop NATO June 20, 2012 Iraq: NATO Forges New Strategic Partnership In Persian Gulf Rick Rozoff The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced on June 20 that it has opened what it terms a Transition Cell in Iraq “to smooth the path towards strengthened partnership and cooperation.&#8221 ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Bilderberg 2012 EXPOSED! Globalist Attendees I ...
    theintelhub.com | A video compilation identifying attendees to the Bilderberg 2012 meetings.Attendees coming and going from Bilderberg 2012, complete with protester's horns and heckling. The first round of footage was shot with a very crappy camera; all of my batteries were already drained ...
  • Obama Moves To Conceal Drone Death Figures
    By Steve Watson Infowars.com June 21, 2012 Public disclosure would expose vast scale of “war crimes” under supposed “anti-war” president; Experts say drone use increases terror attacks The Obama administration has moved to block the release of information relating to its overseas drone assassina ...
  • Woman Protests TSA Pat-Down; Arrested for Battery
    RT June 21, 2012 A former TSA agent stood up to security screeners during a recent attempt to board a flight to Cleveland, Ohio, but the altercation ended with the would-be passenger being booked for misdemeanor battery. Carol Price, 59, says that an agent with the Transportation Security groped ...
  • New Hampshire Passes First State-Wide Fluoride ...
    Bob Tuskin | I would love to see fluoride flat out banned from being added to the public's water but nonetheless, this is a step in the right direction. On the back of most sheeples toothpaste already exists a warning label. Somehow the same rules do not apply when the government indiscrim ...
  • The Huntsman Corporation: BPA and the Molecula ...
    By Daniel Taylor theintelhub.com June 20, 2012 Cancer is a major business. It seems that massive amounts of money are raised in a “race for the cure” while the cause of cancer is ignored. The influence of foundations, corporations and entrenched scientific theory are all at work in this business ...

FRS

  • Nepal: The new Maoist party meets, and sets i ...
      Communist Party of  Nepal –Maoist    Central Committee    Press Communique A national convention of the revolutionary faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) successfully held on June 16-18, 2012 concluded amid inaugural session, closed session and concluding session in the pr ...
  • The POSCO project in Odisha, India: Against al ...
    June 21, 2012 http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3555520.ece?homepage=true Today marks seven years of protests against the Posco project June 22 marks the seventh year of the struggle against the Posco project in Odisha. It was on this day in 2005 that the Odisha government and the Sou ...
  • Oppression, Resistance, Unity, Power: A Statem ...
    June 21, 2012 by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson In protest against the ongoing foul and inhumane conditions at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison – one of Amerika’s most notoriously abusive and racist prisons – dozens of men at the prison went on a hunger strike. The strike began on May 22, 2012 and last ...
  • Top Ten Things That Have and Have Have Not Cha ...
    Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Bruce A. Dixon, BAR Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report In the spirit of Bill Clinton’s 1992 “the Man From Hope” slogan, Barack Obama in 2008 declared himself the candidate of Hope and Change. So what about it? Are the real changes, if we can find them, at all ...
  • Author of The Color Purple condemns Israeli Ap ...
    http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/author-of-the-color-purple-refuses-to-authorize-hebrew-version-because-israel-is-guilty-of-apartheid-1.437220 Author of The Color Purple refuses to authorize Hebrew version because ‘Israel is guilty of apartheid’ Alice Walker says ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Plenty of Ice Awaits Future Moon Settlers at S ...
    If humans ever move to the moon, we’ll need a steady supply of the two most basic elements for life: Sunlight and water. The lunar poles have long been prime candidates for settlement, because they’re exposed to sunlight almost all the time and because for at least three years now, scientists h ...
  • Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Bette ...
    One of the most vexing problems that confronted surgeons after they completed the first successful human organ transplant, in 1954, was: Where would they get more organs? Medical researchers have since figured out how to transplant hearts, eyes and even entire faces. But half a century later, t ...
  • The Best Medical Images of 2012
    The Wellcome Awards go to the most amazing medical imagery of the year, from closeups of the moth fly to extremely off-putting images of the brain Each year, the Wellcome Trust in the UK hosts an image competition that showcases medical science at work. The awards honor the "most informative, s ...
  • The Struggle to Image NFL Players' Brains Whil ...
    This morning, Deadspin took a deep look at new research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disorder caused by blunt head trauma that's affecting NFL players in big numbers. The problem is, up until now it's only been diagnosed post-mortem. But maybe not anymore. "If [Dr. Gary Small] i ...
  • The Wellcome Awards: The Most Amazing Medical ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...
  • 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
    The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...
  • All eyes on June after an 'average' May
    The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...
  • Arctic methane sets global warming alarm bells ...
    Research published this week which identifies thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane gas is being released into the atmosphere could have serious ramifications for global warming. Methane is twenty times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it's estimated that there' ...
  • A taste of summer. But for how long?
    At long last warm weather is returning to much of the country for the first time since March, after weeks of cold, wet weather. High pressure will dominate our weather all week, with temperature reaching 23C (73F) across inland parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as early as tomorrow. The char ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Putin's a Smart Guy: Worry About $, Not €
    Anglophone economic commentary about the euro usually veers towards the "I told you so" variety, nevermind that no one has actually wanted out of the EMU while many are still lining up to join it--including the most economically progressive economy that's still out of it. British Euroskeptic dys ...
  • New(er) World Order: LDCs Give IMF Condtionalities
    It's a topsy-turvy world when you have poor countries (a) contributing emergency funds to help bail out rich countries and (b) placing loan conditionalities on the IMF instead of having conditionalities being placed on them by the IMF. However, these are not normal times. As Europe lurches from ...
  • Out Now: LSE IDEAS on PRC Geoeconomic Strategy
    As usual, I am somewhat late with the publications generated by our very own LSE IDEAS, but let me rectify that here since there should be something for everyone with an interest in Chinese geopolitics. Drawing upon our own not-insubstantial in-house expertise--our Co-Director Arne Westad is flu ...
  • Like Attracts Like: Glazers Plan US Man U IPO [?!]
    I have been following the plight of the reviled Glazer clan, erstwhile owners of Manchester United Football Club, as they raise the ire of English football fans with their vile "Ameriscum" shenanigans, featuring the worst sort of financial chicanery their home nation has to offer. Their 2005 ori ...
  • It's All Greek to Me: Cyprus, Next on the EU Dole
    Erm, on second thought, let's not call it a "bailout" but a "bank recapitalization programme" to use the sort of euphemisms Spanish officials prefer as they too succumbed to the inevitable when you have overextended banks. To be sure, there are differences among a balance-of-payments crisis (in ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the ...
  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Not A Single Event
    Many people hype "the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functi ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • CIA secretly operates on Syrian border, suppli ...
    American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. ­The paper reports that for weeks now, officers b ...
  • UN questions legality of U.S. drone attacks
    On Wednesday, a rapporteur of the United Nations Organization (UNO) condemned the drone attacks carried out by U.S. forces that have killed thousands, and has questioned the legality of such aerial assaults. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary executions, Cristoff Heyns, in his r ...
  • ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow bef ...
    The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament recommends rejecting ACTA. The committee rejected the controversial legislation 19 votes to 12. This is the fourth and final committee to deliver its report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and will likely affe ...
  • Germany rules out military intervention in Syria
    Germany has strongly opposed military intervention in Syria, adding voice to the calls for a political solution to the country’s prolonged crisis. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday warned that military action — strongly supported by Britain, France and the US — ...
  • Uruguay to sell marijuana to take profits from ...
    The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose. ­The Uruguayan government has devised a new measure to fight drug trafficking: lawmakers are to send a bill to Congress on Wednesday that would legalize marijuana sales. Only the gov ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-06-21 Transcript: Julian Assange's first ...
    Julian Assange interview on ABC Radio National Breakfast, 21 June 2012. This is his first interview conducted since he applied for political asylum in Ecuador. At the time of this interview, Mr Assange had been at the Ecuadorian Embassy for three days. Full Audio is avialable at the ABC Radio we ...
  • 2012-06-21 Hoja con hechos sobre el caso de Ju ...
    Julian Assange fue arrestado al emitirse una Alerta Roja de Interpol y una Orden Europea de Extradición tan solo cuatro días después de iniciar la más grande filtración d e información secreta de los Estados Unidos de América por los diarios con mayor distribución del mundo, en Diciembre de 2010 ...
  • 2012-06-20 Swedish Extradition FACTS from Chri ...
    Julian Assange's mother Christine recently tweeted the following FACTS about extraditions involving the USA, UK, Sweden and Australia: 1. Australian PM Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbot backed new Extradition Act amendments making it easier for U.S.A to extradite Aussies. The Greens ...
  • 2012-06-20 What #JA41 means to me
    After a debate with a colleague about WikiLeaks, I was told "Assange stole our Graham". Assange didn't steal me, nor did he steal a host of others who stand firm on their belief systems of truth, justice, and holding governments to account. I happen to have a moral compass that aligns with those ...
  • 2012-06-20 WikiLeaks News Update: Assange seek ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 564 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 561 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 758 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 644 days. read more

U N News

  • Ban pays tribute to late scholar, friend and U ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Dr. J. Michael Adams, President of the International Association of University Presidents, paying tribute to the late scholar who was also a friend of the United Nations and its chief.
  • Amid global uncertainty, G20 summit in Mexico ...
    Next week's summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies must achieve meaningful results, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told world leaders, stressing the need to tackle the global jobs crisis, ensure green growth and promote sustainable development.
  • Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
    Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.
  • UN envoy hails workshop related to Guyana-Vene ...
    A UN envoy today hailed a recent workshop related to a long-standing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela as a demonstration of both countries' on-going commitment to a peaceful resolution of the matter.
  • UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strat ...
    Noting that some 800,000 households in Canada are unable to meet their daily food needs, an independent United Nations expert today called on the country to adopt a national right to food strategy.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
    Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...
  • END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
    Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate  to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
  • Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
    How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • New Hampshire... First State-Wide 'Fluoride Wa ...
      I would love to see fluoride flat out banned from being added to the public’s water but nonetheless, this is a step in the right direction. On the back of most sheeples toothpaste already exists a warning label. Somehow the same rules do not apply when the government in ...
  • Introduction to Chemtrail Week
    In British Columbia, numerous Morgellonss  sufferers believe that mysterious fibers and microscopic slivers removed from their bodies are nanotech devices, sprayed onto the unwitting populace by jets. read more
  • Executive Privilege Order?... For Obama's Boy ...
      Barack Obama’s transition from president to king continues with his invoking of executive privilege to block Congress from documents related to Eric Holder’s involvement in “Fast and Furious,” the Justice Department program that put U.S. guns in the hands of Mexican drug runners. re ...
  • Ohio... Toledo May be the First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The bo ...
  • Obamas Latest Executive Order... Sets A New Lo ...
      Obama’s latest Executive Order… just one more reason why Americans need to vote him out of office in November… why Americans have to vote him out of office in November if they want to avoid living under a dictatorship. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • How Bad Would A Yellowstone Eruption Be?
    Mount St. Helens was tiny compared to the most dangerous type of volcano, the super volcano – like Yellowstone located in the Yellowstone National Park of Wyoming. Try to imagine an eruption that could be up to 10,000 times stronger than a Mount St. Helens… an eruption that would thr ...
  • Why Use Sprouts?
    Do not ignore the benefits of storing dried sprout seeds and/or using sprouts for your survival preparedness, or for your overall health and well being. The advantages of using sprouts are their nutrition, simple and flexible food preparation, and storage. Nutritional Advantages of Sprouts The d ...
  • People Speak Out Against Government On Rights ...
    I saw this little segment on the evening news yesterday regarding the size of sodas to be served in restaurants. It wasn’t so much the news article that impressed me, but the responses from viewers that posted on FOX news facebook page. Americans are starting to get so fed up with our gove ...
  • Vitamin Supplements Guide
    Preppers will store up a supply of food, but have they considered the nutritional balance of the foods they’ve stored versus what the body needs? Vitamins are necessary for our general nutrition and good health. Although they do not directly contribute to energy or body-building materials, ...
  • Ready Reserve Foods
    Ready Reserve Foods is your source for emergency preparedness products, including disaster survival food and water supplies. Emergency preparedness means being ready for the unexpected with emergency supplies and survival kits. Ready Reserve Foods, Inc. is here to help. With the most knowledgeab ...

Fast Company

  • Kickstarter Launches A New Live Stats Page So ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Kickstarter launched a live statistics page today on which anyone can view all kind of data behind both successful and unsuccessful projects across the different categories, cofounder Yancey Strickler wrote in a blog post. In addition to the usual Kickstart ...
  • Google-backed Endangered Language Project Help ...
    Google is backing a cultural initiative to help preserve more than 3,000 dwindling languages around the world. The Endangered Language project is backed by Google.org and maintained by the Alliance for Language Diversity. According to the group, half the world's 7,000 languages are at threat of ...
  • Gabriella Coleman: Helping Hackers Infiltrate ...
    A chance encounter with a programmer in college sent anthropologist Gabriella Coleman’s career in an unexpected direction. As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university. She w ...
  • When Web Addresses Are Discovery Engines
    Soon you may find yourself turning off the URL bar of your browser for good--in order to make the web a more illuminating place.Web addresses are slowly becoming less relevant as tech progresses on a number of fronts. As they're replaced, the systems used in their place will be more than a desti ...
  • How Colorado Springs Became The Heart Of The U ...
    In the 1970s, a fierce power struggle over the future of amateur sports landed the U.S. Olympic Committee in a Cold War-era tactical room in southern Colorado. With the London Olympics around the way, we delve into the strange story behind the city cultivating America’s top athletes. UNIT ...

Jadaliyya

  • Summer Culture
    Jadaliyya's first summer culture bouquet brings you poetry from Egypt, fiction from Lebanon, and art from Palestine: * Maymanah Farhat interviews Samia Halaby. * Ibtisam Azem interviews Hoda Barakat (translated by Suneela Mubayi). * Gaelle Raphael translates an excerpt from Hoda Barakat' ...
  • On "Liberation Art" and Revolutionary Aestheti ...
    In 2001, Samia Halaby independently published Liberation Art of Palestine, a detailed study of Palestinian art during the second half of the twentieth century. The first of its kind, Liberation Art is an English-language book that is based on dozens of interviews with artists who were integral t ...
  • Interview with Hoda Barakat
    [This interview was originally conducted in Arabic by Jadaliyya co-editor Ibtisam Azem and is translated by Suneela Mubayi. You can read the original Arabic here]  Jadaliyya interviewed Hoda Barakat on the occasion of the publication of her fifth novel, Malakut Hadhi-l-Ard [The Kingdom ...
  • “Yamna” by Abdul-Rahman al-Abnudi
    [Egyptian colloquial poetry occupies an ambivalent, if not dubious, status in the Arabic literary canon. Whereas it is largely absent in school syllabi and programs of Arabic literature at institutions of higher education in Egypt, critics and researchers tend to deal with it as an instance of f ...
  • Hoda Barakat: Kingdom of this Earth
    [With her latest novel, Kingdom of this Earth, Hoda Barakat enriches Lebanese literature with a gem of a novel, and, as other critics have noted, inaugurates a new aesthetics in novelistic writing in Arabic literature. Kingdom of this Earth relates the lives of the people of Bsharri, a small Mar ...

mediagazer

  • Turning the morning news into soap opera (Jack ...
    Jack Shafer: Turning the morning news into soap opera  —  Ann Curry, the second fiddle on NBC's Today show, is apparently being shown the door.  That news was broken yesterday afternoon by Brian Stelter, the prolific media reporter of the New York Times on the newspaper's w ...
  • Indecency Ruling Fails to Clarify Broadcast Ru ...
    Wall Street Journal: Indecency Ruling Fails to Clarify Broadcast Rules  —  WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously threw out government sanctions against networks that aired fleeting profanity and nudity, saying regulators didn't provide fair notice that they ...
  • Atlantic adds revenue exec for global business ...
    Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Atlantic adds revenue exec for global business bet  —  Atlantic Media is rounding out the launch team for global finance publishing start-up Quartz by hiring Michael Cascio to lead the revenue charge.  As vice president of global revenue, Gawk ...
  • Joichi Ito and Brian McAndrews Join The New Yo ...
    Business Wire: Joichi Ito and Brian McAndrews Join The New York Times Company Board of Directors  —  COMPANIES:  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—  The New York Times Company (NYT) announced today that Joichi Ito and Brian McAndrews have been elected ...
  • The Times Co. Names 2 Directors, Including Joi ...
    Christine Haughney / Media Decoder: The Times Co. Names 2 Directors, Including Joi Ito, Internet Entrepreneur  —  The New York Times Company, continuing its efforts to move forward in the world of news media, has added two new members to its board who have extensive technology b ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Kanye West 'wants to release album full o ...
    Kanye West is reportedly interested in making an album full of animal noises. The 'Lost in the World' rapper is said to be looking into producing an experimental compilation of atmosphere sounds from the jungle. "Kanye's telling mates this is his next ingenious plan," a source told The Sun. ...
  • Cheryl Cole for Radio 1 Hackney Weekend?
    Cheryl Cole will reportedly be a secret special guest at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend. The star will allegedly take to the stage on Saturday (June 23) to perform a track from her latest album A Million Lights, as well as perform new single 'Call My Name' with Calvin Harris. "Cheryl has kept the ...
  • PM asked to tell Kerala to halt irrigatio ...
    Tweet Chennai, June 21 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to tell the Kerala government not to proceed with its Attapadi Irrigation Scheme. The scheme, she said, violates the Cauvery...
  • US probe recommends punishment of troops ...
    A US military investigation has recommended disciplinary actions against culprits involved in the Quran burning incident in Afghanistan early this year, the Pentagon has said. "The results from the investigation concerning allegations that US service members...
  • Rooney - All about belief
    Wayne Rooney believes that the team spirit in the England camp can help them to beat Italy in their Euro 2012 quarter-final meeting on Sunday. The striker returned from suspension to score the winning goal as Roy Hodgson's men beat Ukraine to finish top of Group D. Now the 26-year-old says t ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/13/12 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
    standardizedtests.procon.org – NEW: Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and activists including Michelle Rhee (pro), Diane Ravitch (con), Bill Clinton (pro), Hillary Rodham Clinton (con), Jeb Bush (pro), and Randi W ...
  • 6/13/12 - State Felon Voting Laws
    felonvoting.procon.org - State Felon Voting Laws - State laws on felon voting differ across the US.  In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons can vote from prison.  In Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, and Virginia, convicted felons can lose the ability to vote permanently. See our updated chart ...
  • 6/13/12 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
    standardizedtests.procon.org – NEW: Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and activists including Michelle Rhee (pro), Diane Ravitch (con), Bill Clinton (pro), Hillary Rodham Clinton (con), Jeb Bush (pro), and Randi W ...
  • 6/13/12 - State Felon Voting Laws
    felonvoting.procon.org - State Felon Voting Laws - State laws on felon voting differ across the US.  In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons can vote from prison.  In Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, and Virginia, convicted felons can lose the ability to vote permanently. See our updated chart ...
  • 6/7/12 - ACLU Positions on 55 Issues from Abor ...
    aclu.procon.org - ACLU Positions on 55 Issues from Abortion to the War on Terror - Read the ACLU's pro or con positions on 55 issues including abortion, the death penalty, religion in public schools, and the war on drugs.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...
  • Dodos Solitaires
    This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Making an open enterprise work
    Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...
  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
  • Short, powerful video explains why we must opp ...
    This excellent video was produced by the video production company Koozzoo for Civil Liberties Australia.
  • Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
    BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...
  • Invasion of the body scanners - Part 1
    In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into A ...

Beacon

  • Intermission at the Ocean Heroes Awards
    Alexandra Cousteau aboard Oceana's Hanse explorer in the Baltic ©Oceana/Carlos Suarez We’ve gathered hundreds of nominations for this year’s Ocean Heroes Contest and over the next 6 days, Oceana’s Finalist Selection Committee will have the difficult task of choosing six Adult and six Junior F ...
  • House Committee Considers Bill to Fight Illega ...
    A new bill would protect vulnerable species from illegal fishing. ©Oceana/LX In a hearing yesterday in the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs, administration officials and fishing industry representatives expressed support for a bill that ...
  • One Step Closer to a Fin-Free New York
    With your help, we can keep this from happening. ©Oceana/LX New York state is the largest importer of shark fins on the East Coast, but if a new bill passes, this fact could be history. This trade is driven by a demand for shark fin soup, which can sell for hundreds of dollars. Sadly, shark ...
  • Video: The Ocean that We Want to Know
    Here's a song that will get stuck in your head and teach you something about the world's oceans at the same time. Our friends over at One World One Ocean put together this parody of Gotye's earworm "Someobody that I Used to Know" for World Oceans Day. It follows Ferdie and Mitzi on an animated ...
  • Infographic: Gas Prices Not Really Impacted By ...
    Where this gas came from probably won't affect the price ©futureatlas.com via Flickr Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Are gas prices impacted by the source of countries' oil? The graphic below, from Oceana, suggests that how much oil a country ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Photos From The Czech Secret Police
        So Read this comment: “They were spying full-time on average citizens, hoping to catch them in a situation that could lead to a swift arrest and a lengthy incarceration in some dank, hidden cell. With their cameras secreted in a suitcase or under a coat, the agents had no ide ...
  • The BAC Strikemaster.
      The BAC Strikemaster was just an armed version of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer. As often happens with trainers, they make great light utility aircraft, and COIN and utility strike aircraft. There were only 167 of these uparmed trainers but they saw action inlmost every theatre they app ...
  • The Sanjiegun. Three Section Staff
      The staff or pole that water carriers balanced water on, or the cane that older people walked with was a ready weapon in medieval China. In Japan the staff was called a bo. In China, it was called a gun. The three sectioned staff was comprised of three staves of equal length, typically ab ...
  • Pizarro And Atahualpa.
    Pizarro must have been the quintessential charismatic. He managed to sail across a vast ocean, make contact with people who had never seen Europeans, and all but ruin a thousand year old empire. In the meantime he enriched himself, acted as a tyrant leveraging his Toledo swords and armor to garn ...
  • “That When A Lady Lifts Her Skirt, She S ...
      One of the memes about the Civil War that frequently circulates is that the South was dirt poor and the North was fairly affluent. This was mostly true. It followed then that most of the industry, especially the extremely technical industries like chemical manufacturing, or steel working ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Romney Expects Allies to Downplay Good Economi ...
    Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people ...
  • 23 Democrats Voted Against Gillibrand’s Food S ...
    Congress has grown increasingly concerned about spending for the food stamp program. Some 26 million Americans received the aid in 2007, while more than 44 million received it last year, at a cost of $76 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimated recently that demand will continue to gro ...
  • SCOTUS and Obamacare: Strike the Mandate, Keep ...
    Striking down the mandate would be a huge deal legally, because it would signal the Court is prepared to resume its Gilded Age function as a kind of right-wing GOP super-legislature, wantonly tossing out laws that offend laissez-faire orthodoxy. It would be, in addition to a travesty of justice, ...
  • Supreme Court Rules Against SEIU
    SCOTUSBLOG: The union dues case may be quite significant — there is not only the dissent but a narrower concurring opinion that says that “[t]he majority thus decides, for the very first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances [for union due ...
  • The Problem with Democrats
    “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day,” Pelosi said to laughter, during a sit-down with reporters. “I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in the Capitol … If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.” … Asked on wh ...

Hudson New York

  • Arab Spring vs. Women's Rights
    In the "Arab Spring" countries in transition, women are now marginalized or excluded entirely from political bodies. Denial of one's fundamental right to participate in the democratic process in one's own country is one form of violence. Yet it is not,
  • Alice Walker's Bigotry
    Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, who has a long history of supporting terrorism against Israel, has now resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew speaking readers of her writings. She has refused to allow The Color Purple to be
  • Why Is the Peace Process Dead?
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced this week that the Middle East peace process was "clinically dead" because Israel was refusing to accept his conditions for returning to the negotiating table. Abbas has been demanding that Israel
  • Egypt: Islamists vs. Copts
    As Egypt's presidential elections come to a close, with the Brotherhood claiming presidential victory, the future for Egypt's indigenous Christians, the Copts, looks bleak. Earlier, after the first presidential elections of May 23-24, any number of
  • Germany: "Radical Salafism is Like a Hard Drug"
    German authorities have launched a major crackdown on radical Islamists suspected of plotting against the state. The move reflects mounting concern in Germany over the growing assertiveness of Salafist Muslims, who openly state that they want to

Urban Survival

  • Is an All-Time Super Rally at Hand?
    The Fed decision yesterday to keep lending rates unchanged was a given, although it is significant to note that the long-term commitment of the Fed to low rates through 2014 may be enough – with just two possible news events … Continue reading →
  • Coping: When the WuJo Gets Real
    I get a kick out of people’s reactions when the WuJo (middle world between realities, where hard physics and science smash into local non-reality or stochastic variations from “real”) reaches out and smacks ‘em upside the head. Like this poor … Continue reading →
  • Defending OIl
    Word that the US is planning a commitment of 13,500 troops in Kuwait is notable this morning since it is yet another indicator that my envisioned Manufacturers Resource Wars are entering a new phase.    Since a few people are … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With “Indigo Children”
    Wow!  I am amazed at the amount of response to the Indigo kid’s note from yesterday’s column.  Why, I thought everyone was kinda going through this stuff and was up at the front of the “aware” line.  Rather than print … Continue reading →
  • OK, Now What?
    To use an old Dakotas farming term, this was a real pee-dinger of a weekend:  The Greece elections got held, the left had a good showing, but not enough to win outright, so now we have to watch a while … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Rio+20 Earth Summit: Putting a human face on c ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Fighting climate change has not been a front-burner issue at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. But it has been a priority that underlies many of the discussions and actions that we see f ...
  • Living in style in Santa Monica's first energy ...
    Jessica Lass, Senior Press Secretary, Santa Monica Earlier this week I toured what’s being dubbed the “greenest” home in Santa Monica. The energy-neutral, LEED platinum residence belongs to broadcast journalist Lisa Ling and her hu ...
  • Meet the Members of Congress Who Voted to Take ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Today, 248 members of the House of Representatives voted to take away your right to breathe clean, healthy air. They voted to pass legislation misleadingly called the Domest ...
  • Marine Mammal Commission Supports Greater Prot ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica With mounting evidence that global trafficking in polar bear parts (skins, skulls, claws, and teeth) is threatening polar bear populations, the Marine Mammal Commission is recomme ...
  • Pipe Dreams - The Explosion of Proposed Pipeli ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco One of the surprising conclusions of NRDC’s new paper on proposed western water pipelines is the number of such proposals in the Colorado River Basin.   We discovered ...
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