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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 II


Injustice Everywhere

  • NPMRP in the News
    From Frontline: Rodney King, who was found dead this weekend in a swimming pool at his house, once said that he believed his beating by Los Angeles police officers back in 1991 had “made the world a better place,” by bringing attention … Continue reading →NPMRP ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, June 20, 2012: Rochester, New York police and federal agents raided the wrong home for a drug bust. The police released a statement saying, “upon encountering an elderly resident, … Continue reading →National Po ...
  • Dallas Cop Pulls Over Motorcycle Rider and Tak ...
    Story here.Dallas Cop Pulls Over Motorcycle Rider and Takes His Camera is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, June 19, 2012: Former Austin, Texas police officer sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion after failing to report $63,000 in federal taxes on a $323,000 income. … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct News ...
  • DUI Arrest for Off-Duty Cop Clocked at 128 MPH
    From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: A DeKalb police officer clocked Jarvis Farley at 128 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-285, near Lavista Road, just before 3 a.m. May 25, police said. The officer pursued Farley, who was driving … Continue reading →DUI Arrest for Off-Duty Cop Clocked at ...

Total Collapse

  • Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
  • Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
    The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
  • Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
    Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
  • China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
    China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Windows Phone 8 ...
    Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8, Apple fined for misleading consumers in Australia. and Tumblr’s new iOS app. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook tells us about the most social places in the world. Amazon is looking for developers for its International app store and Samsung demands cash from Apple for infringement. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft&#8217 ...
    Microsoft reveals its new Surface tablets, Facebook officially confirms its Face.com acquisition, and Google partners with Flipboard. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – A look at table ...
    The Online Publisher’s Association details how we’re using tablets. Google made a big patent buy. The US government is leading the way in asking to Google remove content. You can...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Nokia layoffs, ...
    Nokia lays off 10,000 but acquires another company. Internet giants are fighting back against bad ads online. Twitter is now giving more content in your tweets. You can catch The...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Denying responsibility for our fossil fuel exports
    As Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets other world leaders at the Rio+20 sustainable development summit, a close look at the official messages her government is sending to the world on our behalf reveals a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, the Government appears aware of what is at ...
  • Solar tariff fitted up
    Commission counts only the upfront cost, misses savings Solar feed-in tariffs have been framed. By focusing on the cost but ignoring the savings from solar power, a backlash is being encouraged when we should be celebrating success. The Austra ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
  • Short-circuiting an electric price surge
    According to energy minister Martin Ferguson, our electricity infrastructure will undergo a $42 billion upgrade over the current five-year regulatory period. At around $6000 per household, these grid upgrades are the biggest contributor to recent and forthcoming electricity price rises. Much of ...
  • Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
    Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New geojournalism mapping platform for the Amazon
    A new mapping platform combines georeferenced environmental news articles with data on deforestation, fires, protected areas, and oil and gas concessions in the Amazon.
  • New species threatened by mining dubbed the 'A ...
    A new species of moth has been named after one of the world's most popular movie blockbusters: Avatar. Discovered on New Zealand's Denniston Plateau during a biodiversity survey by local NGO Forest & Bird this March, the new moth species is imperiled by plans for a coal mine on the plateau. The ...
  • Sarawak tribe calls on German company to walk ...
    Indigenous people from the Malaysian state of Sarawak have sent a letter to the German company, Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG, demanding that the consulting group halt all activities related to the hugely-controversial Baram dam, reports the NGO Bruno Manser Fund. Critics of the dam and it parent proje ...
  • Over 700 people killed defending forest and la ...
    On May 24th, 2011, forest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, were gunned down in an ambush in the Brazilian state of Pará. A longtime activist, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva had made a name for himself for openly c ...
  • U.S., others commit to restoring 45 million ac ...
    The U.S. Forest Service joined Rwanda, a Brazilian coalition, and a Central American alliance of indigenous groups in a pledge to restore 18 million hectares (45 million acres) of native forests, reports the IUCN, a conservation group.

Sierra Express

  • PACO Donates office equipment to parliament
    Freetown, 20  June (SLENA): In other to help parliament archive better delivery services, the Parliamentary Assistance Coordination Office through the support of UNDP last week donated office equipment to the hansard section of parliament. Presenting the materials, Mr. Edward Kamara, head of Gov ...
  • Parliament pays respect to late opposition MP
    Freetown, 20 June (SLENA)-Parliament in collaboration with the Freetown City Council opened a book of condolence for the late Minority Leader, Honourable Momoh Pujeh who passed away on Thursday, 17th May 2012. Director of Public Relations Department of Parliament, Cyril Juxon Smith, who doubled ...
  • Parliament approves 3 presidential nominees
    FREETOWN, 20 JUNE (SLENA) - Parliament has approved three presidential nominees to head various public institutions in the country. These are Mrs. Evert Elizabeth Saving, Ambassador to Geneva, Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the UN. Mrs. Konah Cicilla Koroma, member Sierra Leone Tour ...
  • Perm Sec emphasizes the importance of Fibre Optic
    Freetown, 20 June (SLENA): The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications, Mr. Sheku A. Tamu, has acknowledged that environmental impact assessment study is key to the success of any development project in a country. Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Information an ...
  • APPG launched in Sierra Leone…Eddie Turay begs ...
    Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has called on Britain to continue to render more assistance to the people of Sierra Leone. His Excellency Edward Mohamed Turay made these remark during the launch of the All Parties Parliamentary Group (APPG) at the House of Commons, West Ce ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Kiwi union man headhunted for post in Switzerland
    He's spent 28 years pushing for workers' rights in New Zealand and now Hamilton man James Ritchie will represent union members around the world.The National Dairy Workers Union national secretary will leave his post in August after...
  • Dairy price rises 'lock in previous gains'
    Dairy prices have maintained the sharp gains made early this month.Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade auction showed the trade weighted index eased by 0.5 per cent compared with the last sale on June 7 but showed the average winning price...
  • Milk powder up in dairy auction as overall pri ...
    Whole milk powder rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, even as overall prices of dairy products slipped, keeping the price index at its highest level since April 3.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 0.5 per cent...
  • Dairy industry ups the war against mastitis
    A new website has been launched to help tackle a disease which costs the New Zealand dairy industry around $280 million each year. Industry organisation DairyNZ has launched SmartSAMM , an onlin
  • EU eyes Greece, NZ and Oz watch sharemarket
    The general election in Greece is likely to be the talk of the financial markets this week, but there is a lot on the local agenda as well.Much is riding on the election because it will be the key to whether Greece remains in the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Denver Neighborhood Rescued from 3-Year-Old Ch ...
    A Denver homeowner association has outlawed sidewalk drawings in chalk by a pre-school girl.  Three-year old Emerson Cohen's artistic rampage was cut short by leaders of a residential development built on the site of the old Stapleton airport. From Denver's CBS 4:  “We live ...
  • Nick Gillespie on Real Time with Bill Maher, F ...
    I'll be on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, June 22, at 10pm ET (the show airs throughout the weekend). Among the other guests: screen legend Kirk Douglas, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, billionaire publishing magnate Mort Zuckerman, and actor Mark Ruffalo. Go here for sched ...
  • Neil Armstrong Clarification: First Moonwalker ...
    I was hoping a letter in my inbox from 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was a job offer, but it turns out he was just interested in my recent post about the frosty relationship between private space entrepreneurs and NASA veterans Gene Cernan, Neil Armstrong and Chris Kraft: ...
  • Did Gov. Brown Just Admit Defeat of High-Speed ...
    In other California rail news today, Gov. Jerry Brown has backed off his plan to try to block environmental lawsuits against the state’s proposed high-speed rail project. Via the San Jose Mercury News: The Brown administration on Wednesday abandoned its plan to ease envi ...
  • David Harsanyi on Obama's Executive Power
    The greatest crisis of American democracy is not getting your way. And when a sluggish republic hinders progress, it's time to act. Just ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who advanced an astonishing argument the other day on the Senate floor: The president, explained Reid, is fre ...

Mercury Rising

  • Bradlee Dean May Run, But He Can’t Hide ...
    This cracked me up: City Councilman Gary Schiff is challenging Bradlee Dean to a debate over Dean’s comments disparaging south Minneapolis as a “Third World country.“ “You call it the Third World Bradlee Dean, I call it the Ninth Ward,” Schiff posted on Facebook. &# ...
  • The real truth is worse than a massive conspir ...
    Our leaders are incompetent, venal, whose only skill is blaming others for their blunders. And our media, including people who call themselves “liberal” or “lefties” are complicit in silencing those who demanded that the blunders be exposed. Jordan Michael Smith, Salon, v ...
  • Rick Wolff: The Smartest Economist You’v ...
    Rick Wolff’s website, http://www.rdwolff.com, has all sort of nifty videos and online lectures for those wanting to learn the forbidden history of economics and the future of economic democracy. His latest book, Occupy the Economy, will be the subject of an FDL Book Salon next month. Check ...
  • A great religious mystery
    David Kerr, Catholic News Agency: In his eight and a half minute address, the Pope explained to that the Council Fathers had wanted to renew the external forms of the Mass so as to “make it easier to enter into the inner depth of the mystery,” and therefore “lead people to a personal encounter w ...
  • Greece and the Underpants Gnomes; Egypt under ...
    Don’t ask me to explain the Greek left. If they had worked together, they would control Greece and could have led it out of the EU currency straitjacket. Instead, left-wing Syriza declined to work with the discredited socialists of PASOK and has ended up with center right discredited New D ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Protect the Prey Lang Forest
    [Action Alert] • Prey Lang, the last large primary forest of its kind on the Indochinese peninsula, is vital to the livelihood and culture of the indigenous Kuy people, and all other life forms, including at least 40 endangered plant and animal species. Without government protection, this imp ...
  • Veggie Leather!
    Suzanne Lee is a designer from London with a revolutionary product: a durable, bio-degradable, cruelty-free leather substitute.  read more
  • Introducing Evolver Editions
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  • School is Out!
    All In The Red is an activist collective based in NYC, which focuses on issues around student debt. It has emerged from a series of marches expressing solidarity with thousands of students striking in Quebec against tuition hikes. read more
  • Flying without Fuel
    An experimental solar-powered airplane completed its first successful journey on June 5th: a 20-hour transcontinental flight from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco’s capital city. read more

Desertification

  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
  • New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
    When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...
  • Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in ...
    Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. Cilantro is the favourite “because of the flavour it adds to bean ...
  • Activists Aren’t Mourning Obama’s ...
    When a reluctant George H.W. Bush, Sr., then U.S. president, changed his mind and decided at the eleventh hour to address the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, he sounded defensive in his strong response to charges that the United States was one of the major powers responsible for the some of the world& ...
  • Indian Ocean Rim Countries Battered by Disaste ...
    This is the second of a two-part series on hydrometeorological disasters in the Indian Ocean rim.

Blogging Canadians

  • Akaash Maharaj: The Mandate of Our Age
    On my new role as COO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption: Today, the greatest threat to democracy is no longer the explicit ideologies of political tyranny, but the far more insidious tyranny of political corruption. Corruption robs citizens of our own resources ...
  • "Men" and "the System of Checks and Balances t ...
    Men's Bras by "Kit Wood" The following original essay was submitted by the author on June 13, 2012 for publication on this blog. It has been edited in terms of its original formatting. You know what I’d love to see as a woman?? I would love to see: A GUY wearing a bra every day of his life ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: Forgiving the Unforgivable
    Some things are broken so utterly, that they can never be made fully whole again. Some wounds are so deep, that the scars can only become part of who we are. Some crimes are so grave, that there can never be adequate justice on this side of eternity. Ultimately, our only source of comfort l ...
  • Laying the Foundation for a North American Sec ...
    Dana Gabriel, BeYourOwnLeader June 11, 2012 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently unveiled a northern border strategy which seeks to address security concerns, while at the same time facilitating the flow of lawful travel and trade. The new plan promotes enhanced shared intelligence ...
  • Manitoba Government Seeks to Overturn Laws of ...
    "The Manitoba government is looking to cut the price of milk and other essential foods in remote northern communities." Or, in other words, "the Manitoba government can't understand why things don't costlessly appear where they're needed, and think transportation costs are a moral issue to ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Palestinian prisoner in danger: NGO
    Palestinian prisoner Akram Rikhawi who is on hunger strike for more than two months is at immediate risk of death, an Israeli rights group says.
  • ‘Kuwait court declares polls illegal’
    Kuwait’s constitutional court has declared February's legislative elections, won by the opposition, illegal, reinstating the previous pro-government parliament, dissolved by Emir Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah in December.
  • Iran reaffirms support for Syria
    Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for the Syrian government, saying the planned reforms should be carried out by Damascus.
  • Jailed Bahraini doctor on hunger strike
    A Bahraini doctor has gone on a hunger strike in protest at a one-year jail term he has received on charges of 'aiding anti-regime protesters.'
  • ‘Iran must partake in Syria confab’
    Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Bin Hilli stresses that Iran should participate in an international conference on Syria proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
    We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
  • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
    Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...

Dissident Voice

  • World Refugee Day
    We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere We have a country of words. Speak, speak so we may know the end of this travel. — Mahmud Darwish, 1942-2008 Wednesday, June 20th was World Refugee Day. This acknowledgement of the tragically displaced was declared an annual event on the 50th ...
  • Adapting to History: The Parthenon and the Euro
    The atmosphere on the hills of the Acropolis after the Sunday elections has an immemorial flavour, scented with a certain resignation.  Grape vines cascade over the restaurants of Minissikleous street with tempting promise.  The bouzouki players gather with ease and lazy moves to strum a few tun ...
  • Cuba Hosted Sri Lanka War Criminal President
    “Cuban President Receives Counterpart from Sri Lanka” read the Prensa Latina headline of June 17. The agency reported that the four-day official visit by President Mahinda Rajapaksa was at the invitation of President Raul Castro. Does this mean that the “honored guest”—widely known to be one of ...
  • Why Are We Still Living the Apartheid Life?
    I sit back and fail to understand why there are people still staying in shacks. I fail to understand why there is so much separation in this country, why there are areas for the rich and the poor. I fail to understand why we are still living the same way that we lived in the [...]
  • Assange Seeks Asylum in Ecuador: Australia Bet ...
    I’ve long had a fondness of Australia. Since back in the early 1980s, when I worked out of the New York City bureau of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, flagship of the Fairfax publishing company, writing for several Fairfax publications (including the sadly now defunct National Times and the ...

Destructionist

  • N. Carolina refuses to compensate hundreds ste ...
    North Carolina has voted down the first attempt to compensate the victims of its eugenics program, one of 32 such programs that sterilized tens of thousands without their knowledge or consent across the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. ­Opponents cited budgetary restraints and concerns of sett ...
  • Farage: “The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”
    In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP’s Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his ‘peers’ in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy’s proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he ...
  • Farage: “The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”
    In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP’s Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his ‘peers’ in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy’s proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he ...
  • These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everythin ...
    Infographic shows how the top 10 corporations control almost everything we buy.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Financial Professionals Call for Transact ...
    In an open letter published Thursday, 52 professionals from the financial sector urged the U.S. Congress to pass legislation mandating a tax on financial transactions. The tax would cover stock trading, derivatives and other financial instruments, but, proponents say, would have a significant im ...
  • Mexican and U.S. Activists Join Forces Against ...
    Another Caravan for Peace is being organised in Mexico, but this time it will travel through the United States and call for action against weapons smuggling, as part of a bi-national initiative aimed at attracting the attention of President Barack Obama. “We don’t want any more deaths. We ...
  • Nigerian Cities in Lockdown after Deadly Riots*
    Soldiers and police are patrolling the empty streets of two Nigerian cities after three days of violence left at least 101 people dead, with some residents still unable to return home. The violence between Sunday and Tuesday in Kaduna and Damaturu in Nigeria’s north has led to round-the-cl ...
  • Q&A: Involvement of Local Communities Key to C ...
    Patricia Grogg interviews marine biologist ÁNGEL QUIRÓS
  • Earth Summits Fail Biodiversity in India
    Heads of state and governments are meeting in Rio de Janeiro this week to decide how to renew their pledges made during the first Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. The Indian government, with its impressive dossier of legislation on conservation and biodiversity, is at the forefront of negotiati ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The media and nuclear weapons: spot the differ ...
    Summary: The sham concern over the risks of nuclear proliferation when discussing Iran is in high contrast to the media’s portrayal of the UK’s nuclear ambitions, which ignore issues of the NPT and disarmament. source: News Unspunread more
  • United Nations Security Council: Stop Israel's ...
    Summary: Since the UN Resolution 3263 (XXIX) was adopted in 1974, urging the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, there were numerous occasions when the United Nations and other international organizations reiterated the same c ...
  • How the Obama Administration Is Stalling Its W ...
    Summary: Since talks with Iran over its nuclear development started up again in April, U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that Tehran will not be allowed to “play for time” in the negotiations. In fact, it is the Obama administration that is playing for time. source: Huffington Postrea ...
  • Negotiations only succeed if US recognises Ira ...
    Summary: The bottom line is that as long as the US is not willing to recognize such a basic principle -- that Iran, like any other sovereign country, has a right to enrich uranium, just as Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands etc. -- then really there just isn't anything to talk about. And the US w ...
  • Iran talks end on positive note in Moscow
    Summary: Iran and the international negotiators would hold the next meeting at the level of experts on July 3 to evaluate the proposals on the table. The West wants Iran to “stop, shut and ship,” as a Western diplomat put it, referring to demands for Iran to stop producing high-grade uranium, ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Planet's Metals "Trigger Creation and Evolutio ...
    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...
  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Galaxy Clusters
    Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of galaxies, now appropriately called Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs). With only a few member galaxies per group, HCGs are much smaller than the immense...
  • Galaxy Fans -- "Comments" Back Tomorrow AM
    Our apologies. The "Comments" function has been on the fritz the past two days. Will be back in full working order tomorrow.
  • Image of the Day: A New View of Saturn and Its ...
    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...
  • NewsFlash: Rumors Swirling that CERN will Conf ...
    Scientists at CERN might be on the verge confirming the existence of what they call the "Higgs boson", according to rumors circulating this week. Higgs, they believe, is a particle, or set of particles, that might give others mass. According...

Natural News

  • ALIVE New York celebrity awards event crumbles ...
    The ALIVE New York event that promised to celebrate pioneering natural health innovators, speakers and authors has imploded over the last 48 hours, with a co-founder of the event quitting and laying out allegations of gross financial mismanagement on the part of the...
  • DEA agents terrorized the wrong family, includ ...
    Not that it happens often, but when police and federal agents screw up, they sure seem to do it right. The agency could be held liable for a botched raid during the early morning hour in 2007, when agents burst into a mobile home in Seely, Calif., guns drawn, after...
  • Use Native American favorite bee balm plants f ...
    Bee balm plants are a showy and fragrant group of plants indigenous to northeastern North America which have long been prized for their medicinal and culinary properties as well as showy flowers which attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Bee balm plants are members...
  • Top four causes of degenerative disease
    Some people might say that the greatest threat to human health is fear, an inability to forgive and a lack of love in our heart. In addition, many health experts simply warn us about the dangers of genetically-engineered foods, chemtrails and over-exposure to radioactive...
  • Facts about homeschooling show promising results
    The numbers of families choosing to homeschool their children has shown a dramatic increase since the 1980s. The number of homeschooled children in the United States is currently estimated to be between 2.5 and 4 million. Many people are critical of the idea of homeschooling...

Threat Level

  • Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
    It's the 100th birthday of codebreaker Alan Turing this week, and to celebrate geek-style, WiredUK is running a contest with a cipher that needs busting. Call it the Turing test, if you will.
  • Privacy Lawyers Sell Out Facebook Users for $1 ...
    Facebook is agreeing to give its users the right to "limit" how the social-networking site uses their faces in ads, as a part of a way to settle a privacy lawsuit brought against the company. The other part of the settlement is $10 million in fees to the lawyers who brought the case against Face ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Say S*** About Legali ...
    The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside indecency rulings against Fox and ABC for airing fleeting expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of decency standards for broadcast television and radio.
  • Ecuador’s Decision on Assange Asylum Expected ...
    As police stand guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the Latin American government is expected to decide today whether it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden.
  • Assange Breached Bail in Seeking Asylum, Briti ...
    British police say that Assange reneged on his bail by fleeing to the Ecuadoran embassy and that he's arrestable if he steps foot outside.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney's Fatal Prescription for Health Care
    Whatever ruling the nation's highest court hands down on President Obama's Affordable Care Act, Republican challenger Mitt Romney's prescription for health care is unchanged. "Now if I'm able to repeal it--or if the Supreme Court is able to get that job done for us," he announced last week, "We ...
  • New 9/11 Documents Expose the "Nobody Could Ha ...
    On Tuesday, the National Security Archive released a trove of 120 previously secret documents concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. With revelations about the CIA's budget concerns in 2000 and the unheeded warnings in 2001, the picture they paint isn't a pretty one for ...
  • The Chutzpah of Mitt Romney
    Earlier this month, Team Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul explained her candidate's rule for determining the fairness of press coverage of his Mormon faith. "Our test to see if a similar story would be written about others' religion," Saul declared, "is to substitute 'Jew' or 'Jewish.'" That re ...
  • Romney: I Do - and Don't - Need OK from Congre ...
    On Sunday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made two stunning statements about Iran. First, Romney managed to unlearn the entire history of the Cold War by claiming the United State "cannot survive" the advent of a nuclear Iran. Just as jaw-dropping, Governor Romney told Face the N ...
  • Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller: "Our Goal is No ...
    After his reporter Neil Munro's disgraceful performance at the White House Friday, Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson rushed to his defense, complaining "I don't remember Diane Sawyer scolding her colleague Sam Donaldson for heckling President Reagan." Donaldson was quick to respond, ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • 5 DIY Hacks for an Eco-Friendly Bathroom
      Saving the environment begins at home and what better part of your house to concentrate on than the one that uses up to hundreds of liters of water each day? Between the toilet, wash basin, bathtub and shower, more water is wasted through bathroom activities each day than in any other are ...
  • Carbon Omission
      And of course, before there was “OAL,” there was “Clean Coal”. It’s unfortunate that Big Coal has Big Cash to peddle Big BS to further delay little wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal. More on Big Coal BS: From Coal Tattoo: Coal PR firm set up state’s anti-Oba ...
  • Emperor Penguin Population May Collapse By 210 ...
      The Emperor penguin, Antarctica’s iconic, nearly 4-foot-tall sea bird, is likely to see its populations collapse as warming and ice loss in Antarctica accelerates. According to a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), the Emperor penguins living in Terre Adéli ...
  • The Red List Of Threatened Species, Annual Rep ...
      The rapid decline of the world’s animal, plant, and fungi species is threatening the livelihood of many millions of people. Food, clean water, medicine, and climate, are heavily dependent on the myriad numbers of species in the world, many of which are rapidly approaching extinction ...
  • New USA-Made Supercomputer Is The Fastest In T ...
      The Energy Secretary of the United States, Steven Chu, announced on June 18th that a newly built supercomputer called Sequoia is now the fastest computer in the world. Built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California; Sequoia has now been ranked in &#82 ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in west Ch ...
    BEIJING - (AP) -- Two young Tibetans, a herder and a migrant carpenter, set themselves on fire and hold up Tibetan flags as the flames engulf them before they stumble and fall on a street in western China, in a graphic video of their immolations released Thursday. ...
  • Assange's Asylum Fate to be Decided Today - Wo ...
    If Asylum is granted, Assange still faces likely UK arrest Last night Ecuadorian officials announced they will decide by the end of the day today whether or not to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum. Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in Lo ...
  • The F Word - Media Critiques
    You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus...
  • Revolutionary Music : “I don’t know philosophy ...
    Editor's Note: After corresponding and publishing with Axis of Logic writers, Venezuelan Arturo Rosales and the intrepid Latin American independent journalist, Ramón Santiago, this is the first time we've seen them team up. Ramón, writes a follow-up to Arturo's recent article on Paul Gillman's m ...
  • Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Seeking Asylu ...
    Assange taking refuge in Ecuador embassy WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has 'taken refuge' in the Ecuador embassy, Tuesday evening in London.  Assange is seeking political asylum in the country according to Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino.  "I can ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Save Democracy: Repeal Taft-Hartley
    By @KYYellowDog Unions haven't gotten soft, gone corrupt, forgotten where the came from or any other corporatist bullshit. Corporate repug attacks kneecapped them 65 years ago at the height of their power, and they've been fighting for bare survival ever since. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and M ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "The Day Th ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by SongsofHarry on Jul 3, 2011 There's a short intro to this song at the end of copper I'll probably add to this later - "This is really, actually a song about about a one-horse town when the one horse decides to up and leave". "She said, "I watch him walk down Main Stre ...
  • Radical Republicans twist words to hide real a ...
    By @TedFrier Will liberal outrages never cease?! How dare those angry leftists ram their live-and-let-live dogmatic tolerance down our throats? When tolerance itself is now seen by conservatives as its own form of intolerance we need to be doubly alert to the meanings of words people use. That i ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD Oh for fuck's sake, at least be honest. Shit like this just makes the entire agency a joke. Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart appeared before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday, and repeatedly refused to acknowledge that marijuana isn't as harmful as heroin to t ...
  • Why Your Vote Is Worth Squat #2
    BY @TomBales1 Again Sourced from a piece at Erica Payne_The Daily Agenda: Sen. Bernie Sanders gave anti-TBTF advocates a huge boost today as he unleashed records from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that demonstrated a clear conflict of interest between Wall Street and the Fed. Thes ...

Care 2

  • Breaking: Two Tibetans self-immolate calling f ...
    Ngawang Norphel and Tenzin Khedup raise Tibetan national flags as flames rise from their bodies. Zatoe, Keygudo June 20, 2012. Submitted by robert zank to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Join the Watch: Sign for the Pr ...
    The waters around Antarctica are the only oceans on this earth still relatively untouched by human activity. They are home to almost 10,000 unique and diverse species, many of which cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-i ...
  • Help us Save Endangered Atlantic Bluefin Tuna ...
    Atlantic Bluefin Tuna are threatened with extinction from overfishing. Now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service is considering changes in fishing policy, yet not all changes may benefit this population of enigmatic predators. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |    ...
  • Starving Young Dog is Rescued - With a Surpris ...
    This rescue video is so touching. Not only do these kind hearted people save a dog from a life of starvation, but they helped many lives that day. Just watch to see what we mean - you'll love it. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell the EPA: Ban the pesticide that's killing ...
    In the next week, the EPA is expected to issue a decision on the pesticide Clothianidin -- which scientists believe is a major factor in the alarming decline in U.S honey bee populations, known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to Green Lifestyle  |   No ...

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No Quarter

  • Romney Attracts Latinos, Attacks Obama’s Broke ...
    The “talking heads” discussion tonight about Mitt Romney’s speech to members of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials is worth listening to, despite some issues mentioned below the fold.[ALSO: Romney's speech is covered in a campaign press release t ...
  • Is Grover Norquist losing power in D.C.?
    Erin Burnett, the host of CNN’s Outfront, asks tough questions of Grover Norquist. Note how Norquist disses Jeb Bush, who has recently challenged Norquist’s rigid demand that every GOP politician sign that damn tax pledge of his. (Can you tell that I think his pledge is not just wron ...
  • Alert: White House Will Hold a Press Briefing Soon
    Megyn Kelly: “Fiery exchange between Jay Carney and press corps. … Political war breaking out. … They are accusing Republicans of playing politics here.” [Kelly is also airing Carney, whose long-winded answers are something else.] Original re press briefing: This will be ...
  • Thursday Open Thread
    Hi all. We won’t put up new posts today for the short time our blog software is updated. No matter. You can comment in the meantime because the external blog (and comments software) will still be up and running. Here’s a mosh pit of news we’re all tracking … OBAMACARE: To ...
  • The New Prohibition
    Forget about buying a large-size soda in New York City. Any sugary drink over 16 oz. may soon be banned in restaurants, movie theaters, sports arenas, food carts, and delicatessens. Papa Bloomberg apparently knows what’s best for his mentally challenged 19 million wards he figures are too dumb t ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • “Don't drink the water” - San Francisco Chroni ...
    San Francisco Chronicle (blog) “Don't drink the water” San Francisco Chronicle (blog) In all of Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining has already damaged or ... But the violence of mountaintop-removal mining — blasting and bulldozing, air and ...
  • House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal Mines WVNS-TV A new bill aiming to put a moratorium mountaintop removal coal mining was introduced until further health study can be conducted. New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaintop Removal Perm ...
  • New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaint ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaintop Removal Permits Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) There is good news today in the fight to to protect Appalachian communities from the health effects of mountaintop removal mining. Yesterday Reps ...
  • Bill would require federal mountaintop removal ...
    Bill would require federal mountaintop removal health study Charleston Gazette New or expanded mountaintop removal permits would be blocked until the federal government concludes the mining technique is not contributing to increased ... Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Act Introduced in CongressAl ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Act Introduced ...
    Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Act Introduced in Congress AlterNet (blog) Recognizing the mounting humanitarian crisis from mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian coalfields, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Rep. Louise ... Bill Will Protect Communities, Families From Mountaintop Removalun ...

Memeorandum

  • Skip to page content (United States Department ...
    United States Department of Labor: Skip to page content  —  Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis  —  EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION  —  Program Contact:  —  TRANSMISSION OF MATERIAL IN THIS RELEASE IS EMBARGOED UNTIL  &md ...
  • Ann Romney's High Horse (BuzzFeed)
    BuzzFeed: Ann Romney's High Horse  —  Super Hit had Butorphanol, Delomidine, Romifidine, and Xylatine in its system at the time of his sale, according to court documents.  Testified an expert: “In my 38 years of practice, I have never come across a drug screen such as ...
  • DREAM On - America needs much bigger, bolder i ...
    Matthew Yglesias / Slate: DREAM On  —  America needs much bigger, bolder immigration reform—for low-skilled workers, not just supergeniuses—to boost the economy.  —  Last week, the Obama administration reignited the immigration debate with a modest ef ...
  • Boehner: If Supreme Court strikes down health ...
    Chris Moody / Yahoo! News: Boehner: If Supreme Court strikes down health care law, ‘there will be no spiking of the ball’  —  The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law within the next week, and House Sp ...
  • George Zimmerman says Trayvon Martin's last wo ...
    Arelis R. Hernández / Orlando Sentinel: George Zimmerman says Trayvon Martin's last words were: ‘You got me’  —  George Zimmerman told investigators he fired one shot into Trayvon Martin's torso when he felt the teen reach for his gun while he was smothering h ...

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China Dialogue

  • Pale shade for the green economy
    One of the most hotly debated concepts in the approach to Rio has been watered down in the summit’s draft declaration to a point where it means almost nothing. Joydeep Gupta reports.“Green economy” has been the buzz-phrase in national and international development circles for q ...
  • China’s shifting public space
    New laws to boost the citizen role in green governance are major gains for Chinese civil society – at least on paper. Chang Cheng looks at highs and lows of the last decade.Ten years ago, a small delegation of Chinese NGOs went to Johannesburg for the 2002 Earth Summit. For China’s n ...
  • At Rio, a new contract for science?
    As global leaders try to chart a course for the planet, scientists are seeking to influence policymakers far more than they have proved able to in recent years. Joydeep Gupta reports from Brazil.Ensuring a sustainable future in the face of inter-connected, human-induced challenges to the Earth s ...
  • 20 years of China’s public voice
    Since the last Rio summit, China's way of doing things has changed: citizens have become players in environmental governance. Chang Cheng reflects on a civil-society journey.In 1992, the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil produced the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. Its 10th p ...
  • What does China want from Rio?
    Five figures from China’s sustainable development field tell chinadialogue what they hope for from this week’s Earth Summit.After days of fringe events, the Rio+20 talks are moving into their main phase. Nobody dares hold out too much hope for a major and binding outcome, but the sum ...

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Threat Level

  • Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
    It's the 100th birthday of codebreaker Alan Turing this week, and to celebrate geek-style, WiredUK is running a contest with a cipher that needs busting. Call it the Turing test, if you will.
  • Privacy Lawyers Sell Out Facebook Users for $1 ...
    Facebook is agreeing to give its users the right to "limit" how the social-networking site uses their faces in ads, as a part of a way to settle a privacy lawsuit brought against the company. The other part of the settlement is $10 million in fees to the lawyers who brought the case against Face ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Say S*** About Legali ...
    The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside indecency rulings against Fox and ABC for airing fleeting expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of decency standards for broadcast television and radio.
  • Ecuador’s Decision on Assange Asylum Expected ...
    As police stand guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the Latin American government is expected to decide today whether it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden.
  • Assange Breached Bail in Seeking Asylum, Briti ...
    British police say that Assange reneged on his bail by fleeing to the Ecuadoran embassy and that he's arrestable if he steps foot outside.

Equality Trust

  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • 390 with Salmonella Bareilly and Nchanga Linke ...
    Illness onset dates range from January 1, 2012 to June 3, 2012.  Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas hardest hit. The CDC reports a total of 390 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly (376 persons) or Salmonell ...
  • A Dog Named Marler
    Some people get bridges, schools or battleships named after them.  The Rivera family named their newest family member Marler.  I am very, very proud. Marler and me?
  • 91-year-old Lois Tufly Died from Listeria-Tain ...
    91-year-old Lois Tufly from Fruita died from Listeria last September - her family hired me today. "She was very outgoing, always wanted to go somewhere and do something," said Brent Boyce, Tufly's grandson. He remembers his grandma, who lived in Fruita for most of her life, loved to have get-t ...
  • First Lawsuit Filed in Salmonella Paratyphi B ...
    The defendants named in the lawsuit are Asheville-based Smiling Hara Tempeh and Maryland-based Tempeh Online. In May, 2012, Buncombe County health officials and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services linked Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak to unpasteurized tempeh pr ...
  • Grand Island Nebraska Girl Needs Our Help!
    From Food Safety News Today: A four-year old Grand Island, Nebraska girl needs our help, Food Safety News Publisher Bill Marler says. Rory Thorpe, born with spina bifida four years ago, contracted E. coli last October from an unknown source.  The child is currently being treated for kidne ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...
  • Video: Translogic checks out the made-for-whee ...
    Filed under: Videos, Hatchback, Specialty, Electric The people behind the subway-friendly, all-electric Kenguru have experienced many of the ups and downs that other start-up EV companies are all too familiar with. In fact, when you first go to the Kenguru website, it doesn't ask if you want ...
  • Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...
  • How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • A Movement Built By Dreamers
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Undocumented immigrants in the United States number around 12 million people, a group larger than the populations of most countries on the planet. Among those are as many as 800,000 young people who are now most likely eligible for limited legal status, tha ...
  • VIDEO: Police Detained Ramarley Graham's Grand ...
    Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after New York police officers raided his home without a warrant and shot him dead. He was unarmed. Ramarley’s grandmother and his six-year-old brother were home at the time of the shooting. The police detained the grandmother for hours aft ...
  • VIDEO: Police Detained Ramarley Graham's Grand ...
    Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after New York police officers raided his home without a warrant and shot him dead. He was unarmed. Ramarley’s grandmother and his six-year-old brother were home at the time of the shooting. The police detained the grandmother for hours aft ...
  • Full Interview: Comedian, Activist Dick Gregor ...
    Amy Goodman interviews the legendary comedian Dick Gregory at Sunday’s Father’s Day march against the New York police practice known as stop-and-frisk. Gregory, 79, also talks about racial profiling, police relations, the execution of Troy Davis and the 2012 race. Full Democracy ...
  • Full Interview: Comedian, Activist Dick Gregor ...
    Amy Goodman interviews the legendary comedian Dick Gregory at Sunday’s Father’s Day march against the New York police practice known as stop-and-frisk. Gregory, 79, also talks about racial profiling, police relations, the execution of Troy Davis and the 2012 race. Full Democracy ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney Campaign Said to Ask Scott to Downplay ...
    Bloomberg By Michael C. Bender -  Jun 21, 2012 1:46 PM MT 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 suffer ...
  • Follow the Dark Money
    The down and dirty history of secret spending, PACs gone wild, and the epic four-decade fight over the only kind of political capital that matters. Mother Jones  —By Andy Kroll | July/August 2012 Issue “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can& ...
  • Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casin ...
    HuffPost Peter H. Stone Posted: 06/16/2012 12:24 am Updated: 06/16/2012  2:06 am WASHINGTON — Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth makes him one of the world’s richest men, is on a check-writing spree that will soon bring his total political contributions in this elect ...
  • Obama Administration To Stop Deporting Younger ...
    HuffPost Elise Foley Posted: 06/15/2012  9:41 am Updated: 06/15/2012  1:12 pm WASHINGTON — The Obama administration responded to years of pressure from immigrants rights groups on Friday with an announcement that it will stop deportations and begin granting work permits for some Dream Act- ...
  • Inside the Koch World Convention
    Politico By KENNETH P.  VOGEL and TARINI PARTI |  6/15/12 4:35 AM EDT The Koch brothers’ political operation has increasingly come to resemble its  own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what  amounts to its most ambitious convention to date. Many of the dozen ...

Solari

  • New Classes – Decorative Paper, Painting ...
    Workshop- Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012 Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00 Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,S.A., 78209 Fee: One day $50, both days $85 plus supply fee $10 a day Lunch: Bring your lunch or go out. Please email me if you want to take this class. The class [...]
  • Food Stamp Funds May be Reduced
  • The Evolution of the Computing Value Chain
    By Horace Dediu [click on the image for a larger version Continue reading the article . . .
  • Asia’s Millionaire Count Passes North Am ...
    Source: CNBC The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is continuing its movement eastward. Continue reading the article . . .
  • Disney: Protecting IP or Compromising Personal ...
    By a Solari Report Subscriber [CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or, if not, let us know at communicate@solari.com. Let us know if we can share your story!] My girlfriend and I had an interesting incident this evening. We had been giv ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Shaping your view of the world with well-const ...
    Summary: Perhaps among the worst consequences of the anti-carbon crusade (fighting anthropogenic global warming and climate catastrophe) is the loss of confidence by the public in scientists and science media.  Many scientists have become advocates first, scientists second — abusing the pu ...
  • More death throes of the Constitution. Nothing ...
    Summary:  As the Constitution nears the time for its Last Rites, its enemies become bolder.  Reports of blows to the Constitution, repeal of specific provisions, becomes unremarkable blips in the daily news.  But some blows are larger than others. June 2012 might be a historic month for the Seco ...
  • About the coming sea ice Armageddon!
    Summary: Every day brings a new warnings in the news media about the coming climate catastrophe. These go beyond known science, and often contradict well-established research. Despite that, they’ve terrified many people.  For example, comments on leftist-friendly websites team with resigne ...
  • Whither Greece after the election? Why do the ...
    Summary:  Greece had its election.  The pro-austerity party won, despite their policy’s lack of success — and lack of historical for theoretical foundation (it’s contrary to basic economics).  Despite the applause in the banker-dominated news media, it’s unlikely to work, ...
  • Ask the mineshaft: how can we use social medi ...
    Summary:  The FM website discusses issues on the frontier of the known.  But its delivery remains less-than-cutting-edge. Twitter.  Facebook.  Others I have heard of but never used, and those that are only strange words to me.  Today we ask the mineshaft  {aka ask the community,  the Gemeinschaf ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • How the Moscow Talks Are Like "Seinfeld"
    Not to be cynical, but it really doesn’t matter that the latest talks with Iran came up empty. Outnumbered six to one, Iranian negotiators did a classic job in Moscow earlier this week (June 18-19) of defending past positions, raising old grievances and demanding concessions that they knew ...
  • Domestic Drones Are Here…to Stay
    Today, I have a piece in Foreign Policy that assesses the use of surveillance drones by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP). While many are understandably anxious about the seemingly inevitable expansion of drones across the United States, I argue that many fears are either overblown or base ...
  • The Simmering Sinai
    The polls had closed a few hours earlier in Cairo, after two days of voting for a president who may or may not have any power. The Muslim Brotherhood was preparing to claim victory. Meanwhile, in the desert to the west, three gunmen crossed the border between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Israel, ...
  • Drone Intelligence Complex Undermines Strategi ...
    Reuters David Ignatius reveals this morning that US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has fought hard and ultimately failed to maintain ultimate 'country authority' over the CIA's drone attacks inside Pakistan. Ignatius writes: As America's relationship with Pakistan has unraveled over the p ...
  • Top of the Morning: Egypt Election Shennanigan ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Egypt’s Military Council Delays Election Results The final, official results of the Egypt’s election were supposed to be certified by the ruling Military Council, but in further evidence of their determination to eviscerate the revolution, they have delayed the el ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Mitt Romney Pretends Congress Doesn't Exist
    Mitt Romney went before a group of Latino public officials today to offer some remarks on immigration. Calling it a "plan" would be too generous, although there were a couple of details, some of them perfectly reasonable, like giving green cards to people who get an advanced degree at an Americ ...
  • Why Does The Atlantic Hate Women?
    The picture alone filled me with dread: a baby in a briefcase. (Do go look at Jessica Valenti’s hilarious compilation of images from this genre.) That sick feeling only increased when I got to the hideous ­headline: “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” There they go again! Once again, The Atlan ...
  • Can Broadcasters Use Dirty Words? Court says, ...
    Thursday was First Amendment day at the Supreme Court. But the Court ducked the chance to decide what is literally its most visible case of the term—the “dirty words on broadcast TV” case. Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, was on its second trip to the show. Seven ju ...
  • Romney Dodges on Immigration, Again
    Fittingly, the only thing that distinguished Mitt Romney’s speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials from his usual stump address was the slight focus on Latino unemployment, and a fairly a brief mention of immigration. He offered a few ideas—prioritizing gree ...
  • The Court’s Scott Walker Moment
    On First Amendment Thursday, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court delivered an unsubtle warning to public employee unions: You are living on borrowed time. In Knox v. Service Employees International Union, the five—Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anth ...

Buzzflash

  • Dred Scott, Citizens United, and the Future of ...
    STEVEN JOMAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In 1820, Thomas Jefferson described the Missouri Compromise as a "firebell in the night," warning of "future bloody conflict." That Act of Congress had allowed the expansion of slavery beyond its original boundaries, into the territory of Jefferso ...
  • Bush Lied About 9/11, and Now We Have the Docu ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT At the time of 9/11, BuzzFlash was one of the extremely few major progressive websites on the Internet. In the months and years following the suicidal hijacking attacks on the Twin Towers, BuzzFlash relentlessly exposed the negligence of the Bush admi ...
  • The Republican Strategist Is a Slippery Politi ...
    Body It isn't just flip flops and roof -riding family pets that call attention to the Romney way of dealing with little inconveniences like how to reinvent history or what to do with the family dog on long road excursions. But they exemplify the candidate's inconsistent and muddled ...
  • Washington Post Upchuck Teaser of the Day: "Is ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Before author Joe McGinnis briefly was in the news for moving next to Sarah Palin's house in Alaska and writing a tawdry book on her called "The Rogue," he became famous for infiltrating the 1968 Nixon campaign decades ago and authoring the seminal "T ...
  • I Need Surgery, But My Health Insurance is Vir ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A few months ago, I stayed home from work for two days straight with crippling abdominal pains. My first thought was maybe extreme menstrual cramps but I soon realized that this was something else. Never had I had cramps and pains so bad that it kept me from ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...
  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...
  • Tea increases prostate risk, sex and coffee re ...
    If you’re male and a big tea drinker, then you might have been worried by this week’s news that men who drink a lot of tea are at increased risk of developing prostate cancer. Women needn’t worry about their own health in this regard. I would post the links to the research, but ...
  • Drugs in drinking water
    Rather bizarre extrapolations about the presence of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor Prozac in water and the development of "autism" in fish hit the headlines recently and were quickly debunked by science bloggers around the world. Nevertheless, the presence of pharmaceuticals in the wat ...
  • Flaky safety concerns over graphene
    It was almost inevitable that the naysayers and scaremongers would start to express concerns about graphene, the new wonder material that won its developers a Nobel prize for their work with sticky tape and HB pencils. It’s sensible to look at graphene if there are risks and Ken Donaldson, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Senate-Passed Farm Bill Misses the Mark on Imp ...
    “Today, the U.S. Senate passed a farm bill that left the largest agribusiness and food processing companies firmly in control of America’s food system. The giant companies that buy crops and livestock and manufacture processed food, and grocery stores that sell to consumers, remain f ...
  • Senate Vote on Farm Bill a Dissappointment; Ta ...
    Statement of Nasima Hossain on the Senate vote today to approve the 2012 Farm Bill: “U.S. PIRG is disappointed in the Senate’s approval of the 2012 Farm Bill, which will send tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to Big Ag. The Senate missed a golden opportunity to tackle the problem ...
  • Supreme Court Rules Fairer Sentences Apply to ...
    The Supreme Court ruled today that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), which reduced the disparity in federal sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, applies to people whose offenses pre-date the law but who were sentenced after its passage. By passing the FSA, Congress reduced the ratio ...
  • House Interior Department Appropriations Bill ...
    Crucial programs that protect wildlife and habitat were slashed today in a bill approved by the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee. While the bill’s overall funding is reduced by 4 percent, certain programs were singled out for the worst cuts in t ...
  • Sierra Club Response to House GOP’s “Oil Above ...
    Today, House Republicans passed their so-called “energy plan,” another in a long series of attempts to gut the country’s clean air and water safeguards, eviscerate critical environmental review laws, and turn over American public lands and billions in tax giveaways to Big Oil c ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Ai Weiwei: To Live Your Life in Fear Is Worse ...
    Ai Weiwei A year ago tomorrow, I was released from more than two months of secret detention. Police told me today that they have lifted my bail conditions. I am happy that the year is up, but also feel sorry about it.read more
  • Backdoor Talks on Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Aim ...
    Michelle Chen President Obama speaks to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk (R) during a meeting with Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on November 12, 2011. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty ...
  • President Correa, Please Protect Julian Assang ...
    Robert Naiman WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum from Ecuador.Rafael Correa (AFP/File, Dani Pozo)read more
  • ‘Dreamers’ Add New Chapter to Their Story
    Amy Goodman Undocumented immigrants in the United States number around 12 million people, a group larger than the populations of most countries on the planet. Among those are as many as 800,000 young people who are now most likely eligible ...
  • America's Long Slope Down
    David Cay Johnston A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest rates and made more of the manufactured goods we use. The numbers sinc ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Debut Novel about Western Water Wars on Oprah’ ...
    Western land and water conflicts figure large in a debut novel from Linfield College professor Anna Keesey. The novel is on Oprah’s Top 16 Best Books and a recommended favorite on many summer reading lists. Although Little Century is set in the early 1900s, its political themes still resonate.Mc ...
  • Stuck in the Muck
    San Clemente Dam removal cost inflames local water wars.
  • Vital UN Watercourses Convention on Verge of R ...
    WWF and partners, along with representatives of countries attending next week's Earth Summit in Rio come together on enforcement of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention.
  • Alabama, Florida, Georgia water wars case coul ...
    The Supreme Court could decide Thursday whether it will hear the case of the tri-state water flow dispute between Florida, Georgia and Alabama, according to a story at the newspress.com.
  • FIRST IN A 2-PART SERIES Water wars: Reservoir ...
    The throaty roar of Central Florida's water wars was audible a few weeks ago as tractors that had planted 440 acres of potatoes back in January dug up their freshly grown crop from fields some 30 miles southeast of Orlando.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • CHARTS: How Austerity Is Hurting State Economies
    The effect of austerity in Europe has been decidedly detrimental, stifling growth and needlessly prolonging economic pain for the continent’s residents. And in America, many states are doing the exact same thing, slashing spending and laying off workers in an attempt to cope with collapsed ...
  • PHOTOS: June’s Top 5 Extreme Weather Eve ...
    by Steven Perlberg Western wildfires, record-setting temperatures, devastating floods, and other extreme weather made more extreme by global warming have welcomed us to summer 2012. Yesterday’s solstice — marked by 66 high scorching records across the Eastern Seaboard — should ...
  • U.S. Regulators Will Require Banks To Pay Up T ...
    The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a plan today that will attempt to compensate consumers for banks’ reckless behavior during the foreclosure fraud scandal that broke in 2010. The new system will review complaints from homeowners about predatory ...
  • House Energy Bill Fuels Dirtier Air, More Lung ...
    Today, the House of Representatives passed the Strategic Energy Production Act of 2012, H.R. 4480. This bill puts oil and gas profits above the health of the most vulnerable Americans, especially infants, children and senior citizens, in a concentrated attack on air pollution safeguards under th ...
  • Clinton: Iranian Hard-Liners Think An Attack & ...
    In an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former George H.W. Bush Secretary of State James Baker discussed a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear program. Both told Rose that they think the U.S. should keep all options on the table to deal with a p ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • All power to the Central Committee!
    A particularly obnoxious troll was recently celebrating Bill-38 as being "efficient." Here's what Michael Harris has to say about that (hat-tip to Dr. Dawg):As everybody knows, the vast majority of C-38 has nothing to do with the finances of the country. That makes it a legislative stealth atta ...
  • Two Links Relevant to the Robocall Scandal
    For whatever they're goddamned worth: "Information on Enforcement of the Canada Elections Act" "Director of Public Prosecutions" Check 'em out!
  • harpercon fund-raising
    Impolitical and Dammit!Janet! had it first, but I think we're seeing, with Dean (dumb-fuck) Del Mastro's fund-raising scandal, a glimpse into the whole harpercon success in fund-raising from small donors:David Del Mastro, owner of Deltro Electric Ltd., denies any wrongdoing and says he fundrais ...
  • Absent Bloggers
    .... Just saying that there are a couple of female bloggers who have been conspicuously silent for the past few weeks/months. Sometimes in the past when the progressive blogging community has speculated on someone's silence in the past it turned out to be a deeply personal illness or family tra ...
  • What a long, strange trip it's been ...
    This whole online political education. ... Into the breach!!!!

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Over-educated? American man, 71, going for 30 ...
    There is no substitution for getting yourself a good education but Michael Nicholson may be going a bit far. The uber-educated American from Michigan, 71, is studying for his 30th degree. And he's not stopping there.
  • Obese Canadian father says he lost custody of ...
    An Ottawa dad who weighs in at 360 pounds, says his obesity is the reason he was not given custody of his 2 kids. But, as Canada's CTV pointed out in a report, there may be more weight to the story than he's letting on.
  • Emily St John Mandel weaves a mystery with 'Th ...
    When author Emily St. John Mandel starts a novel she's not sure where the journey will take her. In her latest, "The Lola Quartet" she takes us on a twisting road from New York City to Florida with her main character disgraced journalist Gavin Sasaki.
  • Bike for Tykes aiming to raise $250,000 for To ...
    Today at the TD Centre at King and Bay Streets the sweat was flying as over 600 participants took a turn at the pedals to Bike for Tykes.
  • Civil servants' rising absenteeism costing Can ...
    An internal report from the Treasury Board suggests that the number of sick days among federal public sector servants is increasing. It highlighted that civil servants stayed home 18 days each year and this costs the taxpayers more than $1 billion.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Report on FWSAR procurement
    A new report calls on the government to replace the Canadian Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) fleet in a timely and objective manner and proposes that a number of made-in-Canada aircraft be considered to fulfill Canada’s search and rescue requirements.
  • Arms Trade Treaty talks begin next month
    Negotiations on a multilateral Arms Trade Treaty are scheduled to take place from July 2nd to the 27th in New York.
  • Global nuclear arsenal declines
    Over the past twelve months, the world has seen a drop in the number of active nuclear weapons as countries retire aged or obsolete weapons. China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States possess in total approximately 19,000 nuclear weapons.
  • Access to information facing cuts?
    Many government departments have improved their response to Access to Information requests, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault reports. But these gains may be compromised by the current round of budget cuts.
  • Canada doesn’t need a defence industry
    Steven Staples outlines five reasons why Canada doesn't need a defence industry.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Follow the Money: BPA Makers to Gross $8 Billi ...
    April 4, 2012 Activist Post By Anthony Gucciardi “One has to wonder who is working at the FDA that used to work for the BPA industry?” –KTRN Producers of toxic BPA are now boasting $8 billion in sales for 2012 thanks to the FDA rejecting a potential ban on the cancer-linked che ...
  • Next Phase of the Surveillance State: Nuclear ...
    April 4, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “Why are they so afraid of us that they would need to use nuclear drones to watch every move we make? Let’s hope they use these drones to catch real criminals like rapists and murderers. More than likely, they will be watching pot growers and cars ...
  • Police State Tracks Citizens through Cell Phones
    April 4, 2012 Info Wars By Chris Martin “Maybe the real reason we all have cell phones now is because the powers that be want us to be tracked.  Perhaps that was their intention all along.”  –KTRN On January 23, 2012 the United States Supreme Court decided unanimously that Anto ...
  • ‘Pink Slime’ Is Now Found In 70 Percent Of The ...
    April 4, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs “Solution – stop eating beef. Or if you must, grind up your own organic grass fed steak for ground beef.” –KTRN Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been s ...
  • FDA Says Fresh Milk Is Dangerous, But Chemical ...
    April 4, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “The FDA is not only out of control, they are also completely looney.” –KTRN The FDA, the organization that conspired with California bureaucrats to attack raw milk distribution centers over the past two years, has just announced it will ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • World Refugee Day
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere We have a country of words. Speak, speak so we may know the end of this travel. ” Mahmud Darwish ...
  • Fred Karger debates Bryan Fischer on same sex ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Fred Karger, an openly gay Republican, appeared on the radio program of Bryan Fischer on Thursday, where he told the conservative radio host that it was offensive that the Republican Party had such an exclus ...
  • Obama Admin. Uses Prison Labor to Advance “Gre ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBrian Koenig New American Thursday, June 21, 2012 The Obama administration is utilizing the U.S. prison system to help bolster its green-energy agenda, while boosting foreign companies and funneling cash into the hands o ...
  • Moody’s cuts ratings of 15 global banks
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comReuters Thursday, June 21, 2012 (Reuters) – Moody’s Investors Service cut the credit ratings of 15 of the world’s biggest banks on Thursday in an expected move that was part of a broad review of major f ...
  • Senate strips public funding from party conven ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The Senate on Thursday approved an amendment to the farm bill that would prevent taxpayer dollars from being used for party conventions. The amendment was introduced earlier this month by Sens. Mark Udall (D ...

Dandelion Salad

  • David Rovics: Bradley Manning Song
    Dandelion Salad Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Jun 21, 2012 by davidrovics David Rovics: Bradley Manning Song see Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuador + Julian Assange Show: Rafael ...
  • Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuad ...
    Dandelion Salad Updated: June 20, 2012 added more video reports plus an Action Alert. Jun 19, 2012 by RTAmerica On Tuesday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, UK. At a press conference today in Quito, the foreign minister said to the med ...
  • Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics by Felici ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 19 June 2012 “A rock, Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic, That is it, This is the twentieth century.” (A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: Adonis – Ali Ahmad Said, 1930 – ) Recently a contradictory, but in important a ...
  • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Fossil Fuel, ...
    by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 16, 2012 Sense those hooves pounding around the world? Little surprise that these four bedfellows have in their reins the fate of humanity, even life on Earth. Profit and conquest are all that matter; there is no such thing as enough, only, m ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Whole House of Cards Is Comi ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 17, 2012 Interviewed by William Stranger by DharmaCafe.com http://vimeo.com June 14, 2012 If the video doesn’t show up or doesn’t work, please watch on http://vimeo.com. Chris Hedges Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign re ...

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