22 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Your New Reality

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  This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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  Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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  Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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  Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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  Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Wired - Science

• Rocky Super-Earth And Gas Giant Are Latest Sup ...
  A rocky planet 1.5 times the size of Earth and a Neptune-like gas giant were spotted orbiting a star daringly close to each other. The two-planet Kepler-36 system is the Kepler space telescope’s latest treasured find.
• Pandemic Flu Risk Raised by Lax Hog-Farm Surve ...
  Researchers who track flu's evolution lack reliable data on a vast, teeming viral reservoir. It's a hog-sized blind spot.
• Mutant-Bird-Flu Study Fuels Fears of Airborne H5N1
  After months of anticipation, the second of two controversial experiments to increase the virulence of H5N1 avian influenza has been published.
• ‘Vanished’ Sri Lankan Dwarf Toad Sighted
  During a 2009 effort at cataloguing Sri Lanka's forests, scientists noticed four unusual toads on rocks in a fast-flowing stream: Sri Lankan Kandyan dwarf toads, or Adenomus kandianus, long thought to be extinct.
• Tour the Tomb of NASA’s First and Last Nuclear ...
  A gallery of images showing NASA's first and only nuclear reactor, which was built in the 1960s to research nuclear-powered airplanes, then eventually nuclear-powered space rockets. After being decommissioned in 1973, the site was demolished this year.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israeli reservist goes on hunger strike in sol ...
  An Israel reserves soldier, who has refused to partake in army duty to protest Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, has gone on hunger strike in military prison, in what he said was a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Amira Hass: The law, ass or donkey?
  As a result of the High Court ruling, officers of the Civil Administration show up in Susya on June 12 and hand out six collective demolition orders affecting 52 buildings, including a preschool, a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Arab educators in uproar over plan to study Be ...
  Raja Zatara: "From the perspective of the Arab population, which was part of the Palestinian people, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are not just prime ministers. The former is identified with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Israeli MK, AIPAC behind Senate bid to cut tot ...
  Every year the US allocates $250 million to UNRWA, which provides food as well as health, education and employment services to millions of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Head of Arab political party harassed, detaine ...
  The National Democratic Party has accused Israel’s security services of repeatedly harassing one of its leaders each time he leaves and enters Israel. The NDP, which represents Israel’s large... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia to Take on ‘High Risk’ Defense Research ...
  The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry will finance high-risk projects, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
• WWII Plane Retrieved from Russian Lake
  A World War Two-era Soviet fighter-bomber has been recovered from a lake in northern Russia, the military said on Thursday.
• Iran to Build 10 New Warships
  Iran will build 10 new frigates and destroyers, Navy deputy chief Rear Adm. Abbas Zamini said on Wednesday.
• Russia Gets New Deep-Sea Research Ship
  A new ship for deep-sea reasearch will enter service with the Russian Navy later this month, officials said on Wednesday.
• Putin Pessimistic on Missile Defense Problem
  The missile defense dispute between Russia and the United States will not be resolved regardless of whether President Barack Obama will be re-elected in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

NewsWise

• Device is Effective in Managing Incontinence a ...
  A device used to prevent incontinence in women who undergo a common pelvic-floor surgery reduces symptoms but increases side effects in these patients. These findings were published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Astronomers with NASA's Kepler Mission Find 'P ...
  Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler Mission have found a planetary odd couple 1,200 light years from Earth. The discovery is published online by Science Express. Iowa State's Steve Kawaler is part of the research team and a leader of Kepler star studies.
• Montefiore CEO Dr. Steven Safyer Available to ...
• Sandia Seeks Best Ways to Protect Infrastructu ...
  Sandia National Laboratories is expecting the unexpected to help the nation prepare for severe weather and figure out the best ways to lessen the havoc hurricanes and other disasters leave on power grids, bridges, roads and everything else in their path.
• Patient Educational Program on Diagnosis, Trea ...
  Brain tumor patients, families and caregivers are invited to an educational conference that will focus on patient empowerment June 23 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The free, Saturday program, "Outsmarting Brain Tumors," will feature presentations by Keith L. Black, MD, chair of the Department ...

Natural Health News

• The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for RA
  If you’re looking for a way to fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without drugs, then you need look no further than the spice shelf at your local market. New research published in the spring of 2012 shows that curcumin possesses potent anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties. The clinical s ...
• Why Is Walking in the Woods So Good for You?
  If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods, then you know the wonder of the feeling you get from it. But did you know that besides giving you a good feeling, walking in the woods is actually good for you? The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. Translated, it literally means “forest bathing.” And no ...
• Aspirin May Help Prevent Skin Cancer―But Don’t ...
  A new study shows that aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprophen and naproxen may lessen the risk of three major types of skin cancer. The study was based on Danish medical records that researchers examined from 1991 through 2009. The findings showed that ...
• Sympathy for Africa Leads to Exploitation by C ...
  In an effort to end hunger in Africa, the Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest in projects all over the continent. Much of the effort will go toward developing seeds and fertilizers and building silos for storage. To do this, the Presi ...
• Why BMI Is Not a Great Indicator of Body Compo ...
  Measurement of BMI―Body Mass Index―has long been the standard scoring system for determining how much excess fat you have in your body. But a new study indicates that the BMI may well be way off when it comes to measuring your true amount of fat stores. In the study, researchers used a special s ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• UNCLOS and Dispute Settlement: A Response to ...
  by John Noyes [John E. Noyes is the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at California Western School of Law.] I do not share Professor Rabkin’s pessimistic view of the prospect of international arbitration of law of the sea disputes under the Law of the Sea Convention.  LOS Convention tribunals ...
• UNCLOS: Why the Precedents for Compulsory Arbi ...
  by Jeremy Rabkin by Jeremy Rabkin [Editors Note: We inadvertently posted the incomplete version of this post by Jeremy Rabkin this morning. This post has his response to Prof. Noyes earlier post today. Sorry for the confusion.] [Jeremy Rabkin is Professor of Law at George Mason University Scho ...
• The Must-Read I Should’ve, But Didn’t, See Coming
  by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein The cover story in this month’s Atlantic magazine is an article by former U.S. State Department head of policy planning, former dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public & International Affairs, former Harvard Law professor Anne-Marie ...
• Assessing Length: The Blind Spot in Habeas Rev ...
  by Jonathan Hafetz [Jonathan Hafetz is Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. He has also represented several Guantanamo detainees.] The Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari last week in seven Guantanamo detainee cases marks the end of an important chapter in the po ...
• UNCLOS and the Continental Shelf: A Response ...
  by John Noyes [John E. Noyes is the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at California Western School of Law.] My thanks again to Julian Ku for organizing this series on U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Convention.  I write to respond to Mr. Groves’s contention, based on U.S. experience in th ...

Public News Service

• New Research: Don't Discount Stress Test as He ...
  New Research: Don't Discount Stress Test as Heart Health Indicator PHOENIX - High-tech approaches have become more common in medicine to diagnose and treat a variety of ailments, but when it comes to heart health, one expert says a back to basics approach can be just as effective. Cardiologist D ...
• AARP promueve cambios de raíz a Medicare ...
  AARP promueve cambios de raíz a Medicare y Social Security PHOENIX – Hace pocos meses la AARP lanzó una "discusión nacional" para encontrar soluciones sobre cómo reforzar a Medicare y Social Security. Luego de recibir y tomar en consideración la opinión de m&# ...
• AARP Seeks Grassroots Fixes for Medicare, Soci ...
  AARP Seeks Grassroots Fixes for Medicare, Social Security PHOENIX - AARP's national campaign to find ways to strengthen Social Security and Medicare has already heard from more than a million people. Now AARP has commissioned liberal and conservative experts to evaluate dozens of reform proposal ...
• Protect Yourself from Skin Cancer: Slap on the ...
  Protect Yourself from Skin Cancer: Slap on the Sunscreen PHOENIX - The season for summer fun is here, and that also means it's time for sunscreen. Paul Kamman, president of the Minnesota-based group Melanoma Awareness, says protecting your skin means protecting yourself from melanoma, the deadl ...
• Supreme Court May Not End SB 1070 Legal Fight
  Supreme Court May Not End SB 1070 Legal Fight PHOENIX - The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule any day now on the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law. Legal observers believe the court is more likely than not to uphold the law. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

• Farm Groups and Public Interest Advocates Join ...
  Hidden rider poses unprecedented constitutional assault, blocks USDA authority and denies GE crop safeguards The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of farm, food safety, environmental and consumer advocacy groups today formally submitted a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Co ...
• Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
  by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...
• Mercury Bigger Worry than Radiation in Tuna
  By Michele Simon Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on our plates, and people suddenly get very serious about what they are eating. A ...
• Groups ask FDA for final response to petition, ...
  Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ...
• Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
  by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Magic Wands Almost Possible
  “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...
• Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
  Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...
• Bad Cop, Worse Cop?
  A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...
• Defend our Right to Create and Share!
  I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
• Meet the Rollerman
  Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...

Green Times

• The connection between Ocean temperature and e ...
  According to a new report, high ocean temperatures contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11. For example, 25% of rainfall across the state was due to the average sea surface temperatures in december 2010! For further information l ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
• Famous melt ice cream
  Just to think about global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) with humour!Photo by William Murphy (http://www.flickr.com/people/infomatique/)via Flickr Creative Commons
• Cycling for sustainable development
  Biking is less impacting environment than cars or other transportations. It doesn't damage the environment with pollutant emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html) for example. Of course, the production of bikes and their infrastructures uses energy (glossary/categories/ ...
• Green art project
  The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Children raised in gay and lesbian households ...
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• Three New Zealand triplets killed in Doha mall ...
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• Obama birth shock – president’s literary agent ...
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• Global financial crisis makes green energy uns ...
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• NZ movie ‘Boy’ generates joy in United States
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
  Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
• “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
  In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
• Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
  I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...
• Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
  The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
• Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
  Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – June 22
  1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. 1813 – War of 1812: After learning [...]
• Freedompalooza 2012: June 30th – July 2n ...
    Freedompalooza 2012 June 30 2012 – July 2 2012 Freedompalooza is an annual festival committed to the fight for freedom and exposing the truth by means of music, speakers and vendors dedicated to helping Americans be successful in restoring the Republic. This is a family gathering fo ...
• Chuck Baldwin takes Rand Paul to the woodshed ...
    Four For Freedom Chuck Baldwin Live Given the choices for President that the two major parties have given us over the last couple of decades (including this year), it is a truism that it really doesn’t matter much whether the Democrat or the Republican nominee is elected. No, it really do ...
• (Who told these people about Jury Nullificatio ...
  THIS IS HUGE! What is Jury Nullification?   HOUSTON (KTRK) — A juror’s job is to decide guilt or innocence. We don’t ask them to make the law. But last week in a Harris County courtroom, dozens of potential jurors said a Texas drug law is no good, and no matter how strong ...
• Latest ‘zombie’ eating attack: Man ...
    ABC PALMETTO, Fla. – The latest in a string of “zombie” like attacks happened in a Manatee County home Wednesday night after a man under the influence went into a fit of rage and bit a piece of someone’s arm off during a visit with his children. Much like the Miami face-eating attac ...

The Air Vent

• Climate as A Differential Equations Problem
  I hope to be a blogger someday again but in the meantime Timetochooseagain kindly offered this contribution -  Jeff ====================================== TTCA I find that when discussing problems of what are ostensibly physical systems, little progress can be made until people formulate their i ...
• Understanding Growth Response Modeling
  As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
• Understanding Growth Response Modeling
  As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
• Sometimes they forget
  So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
• Sometimes they forget
  So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...

Focal Point

• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

• 21 Questions, Daily Horoscope, Song Pop, Embas ...
  Quiz app 21 Questions led our list of top Facebook apps growing by daily active users this week. The titles below grew between 100,000 and 1.3 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook. Top Gainers This … Continue reading →
• Facebook brings cover photo design to ‘hover c ...
  Facebook has redesigned its so-called “hover cards” which appear when users mouse over the names of users and pages that have upgraded to Timeline. These hover cards now display a user’s or page’s cover photo, in addition to profile pictures. … Continue reading →
• Facebook must let users opt out of Sponsored S ...
  Facebook will have to give users more control over which of their actions can be promoted in Sponsored Stories, as part of a settlement for a suit claiming the social network violated California law by using people’s names and images … Continue reading →
• ‘Facebook for Every Phone’ becomes first page ...
  “Facebook for Every Phone,” the official page for Facebook’s feature phone application has become the first page on the social network to surpass 100 million Likes, according to our PageData tracking service. What’s more, the page only seems to have been created five … Continue reading →
• Facebook updates payments terms to reflect add ...
  Facebook has updated its payment terms for both users and developers following Tuesday’s announcement that it would support monthly subscription billing for apps and games on its platform and phase out Credits in favor of a user’s local currency. Note … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Is Barack #Obama Morphing Into Dick ...
  truthout: Is Barack #Obama Morphing Into Dick #Cheney? http://t.co/HAm7qzwP @tomdispatch #drones #waronterror #p2
• truthout: Senate Rejects Resolution to Repeal ...
  truthout: Senate Rejects Resolution to Repeal EPA's Air #Pollution Standards http://t.co/4lVxy7gr @ludwig_mike #coal #mercury
• truthout: #NATO3 Indictment Shows Increased Te ...
  truthout: #NATO3 Indictment Shows Increased Terrorism Charges http://t.co/WLyYnHqa @yanazure @peopleslawchi @NLGChicago #NATO #OChi #OWS
• truthout: #Bush Lied About 9/11, and Now We Ha ...
  truthout: #Bush Lied About 9/11, and Now We Have the Documents to Prove It http://t.co/r1hiH7h6 @buzzflash #CIA #terrorism
• truthout: Marjorie Cohn: Hope Dies at #Guantan ...
  truthout: Marjorie Cohn: Hope Dies at #Guantanamo http://t.co/GiliVlbN @JURISTnews

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 29, 2012
  BFP Nightly Quote “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthlessness will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on ...
• Bill Conroy’s Narco News: Mexican President Ca ...
  Los Pinos Retains Las Vegas-Based R&R Partners to Promote Government’s Successes as the Bloody Drug War Rages On The administration of Felipe Calderón has retained a politically connected US advertising and public relations firm to promote the political and economic agenda of the Mexic ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Nina Simone This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is “I Shall Be Released” written by Bob Dylan in 1967. It has been covered many times by a slew of singers across the musical landscape. None did it better than the late American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights act ...
• Classified Woman-Your Questions & My Answers
  Bookstores, Signing Arrangement, Media Coverage & More Since the release of Classified Woman I have been receiving dozens of e-mails each day, and with those e-mails come many questions regarding the status of the book. As always, with my frantic schedule, I’ve been saving the e-mails to res ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• You Mean Muslims Make Art?
  When Jesus used a good Samaritan to explain the need to appreciate foreigners, he can be forgiven for not having known that so many Samaritans would later convert to Islam.
• Assange Seeks Asylum in Ecuador: Australia Bet ...
  Assange, betrayed by his own government, which, like Britain and Sweden, has buckled under pressure from the US, even in the case of its own citizen, has to turn to a Latin American nation for protection, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
• Justice, Upside Down and Out of Touch
  In America, the innocent often wind up in jail while the guilty are never prosecuted. The system is corrupt and biased against the innocent and in favor of corruption. It's time for a change.
• Saudi Arabia: Persian Gulf Of Strategic Intere ...
  Saudi Arabia: Persian Gulf Of Strategic Interest To NATO
• Julian Assange's Artful Dodge
  Faced with extradition from London to Sweden to face sex-abuse allegations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy and asked for asylum, what ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern considers an artful dodge to avoid possible U.S. persecution.

Switchboard

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Because really important news always involves ...
  Do you mean to tell me that the same folks who write things like this would willingly participate in a contest like this? I’m shocked that otherwise intelligent people can’t understand that there’s no downside to objectifying women on your blog. It’s not like these folks ...
• Labor Notes
  The big labor news today is obviously the Supreme Court decision that Scott discussed. But there is a lot of other important stuff happening that you should be aware of. 1. Mark Ames has an excellent article at The Daily Banter about how labor rights became so disconnected from human rights. He ...
• Crack, Momentary Nudity, and Union-Busting
  An important day at the Court, despite the lack of a ruling on the PPACA. Knox, which Garrett Epps also discusses, is the case that won’t get the attention it deserves. As with Citizens United, the problem isn’t so much the outcome of the case as the unnecessarily broad ruling. The S ...
• Witch Hunts And Show Trials
  Well, the egregious waste of money in the Clemens prosecution was good for one thing — we get Pierce to weigh in: We all should have seen the Clemens verdict coming from the end of the first trial when, in a veritable tsunami of flop-sweat, the prosecution tried to introduce evidence that ...
• We Are All the University of Virginia
  Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, on the ouster of the school’s president and the behavior of the plutocrats behind the plan. A few tidbits, but you should read the whole thing. Dear Ms. Dragas & Mr. Kington: I’m writing to let you know your gra ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Visionary Architecture For A Vsionary Green Mi ...
• In Writing Cleantech’s Obituary, Is Washington ...
• Outdoor Gym Turns Your Extra Calories Into Ele ...
• Burning Desire For Efficiency
• Smart Meters Steadily Spread Across United States

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Cooley's Ann Arbor campus wins ABA accreditation
  The American Bar Association has given its full blessing to the Ann Arbor, Mich. branch of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. "It's an honor to have the council recognize our efforts in providing great legal education and public service," said associate law dean Joan Vestrand.
• Taxpayers lose as First Circuit defers to IRS ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has adopted a deferential standard for reviewing Internal Revenue Service collection due process proceedings — one based on reasonableness, not necessarily correctness.
• Google accused of infringing CYBERsitter trademark
  A California company that recently settled a $2.2 billion copyright lawsuit over its filtering software has turned its sights on Google Inc., claiming that the search engine company profited from posting ads that infringe on its trademarks.
• At the Court, four more down, five to go
  With decisions ranging from broadcast indecency to union fees and corporate fines, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the term's biggest and likely most controversial rulings to come next week.
• Suit challenges creation of the Consumer Finan ...
  A Texas community bank on June 21 will file what lawyers say is the first suit directly challenging the constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Act and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Ventura-Riverside Mayors Bet Fruit For Ortiz L ...
  Both fighters have heart and fight hard, which will make this fight, a well attended one at that. The Ortiz-Lopez fight will be shown on Showtime.
• New Online Tool Helps Drive Urban Sustainabili ...
  A global coalition of partners including C40 Cities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tijuca Center for Applied Sustainability, US Green Building Council and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,
• Elmira Teachers Slam Union for Lack of Concessions
  But Elmira is different in one very notable way: Some rank-and-file members of the teachers union disagree with their leaders' stubborn position, and aren't afraid to say so.
• US Strongly Committed to Protect and Assist Re ...
  She notes that Since 1975, more than three million refugees have made new homes in the United States, and nearly half of them have become U.S. citizens.
• Is Iraqi Government Responding Positively to D ...
  European Parliament Vice President Alejo Vidal-Quadras said in a statement that Col. Sadiq Mohammad Kazim has been summoned by the Spanish National Court for an alleged role in killings in Camp Ashraf in 2009 and 2011.

environment 360

• A Tepid Agreement Takes Shape at Rio+20 Summit
  World leaders attending the UN’s Rio+20 sustainability summit appear prepared to rubber-stamp an agreement that has been widely criticized by environmental groups and some government officials as ineffectual. As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of Stat ...
• Drones to Be Used to Prevent Poaching Of Endan ...
  In Nepal, conservationists will soon begin launching low-cost, remote-controlled drones to prevent the poaching of endangered species. Developed by the WWF WWF Nepal staff with the drone group WWF, the technology is seen as an inexpensive way to monitor the protection of species, includin ...
• Growth of Renewables Is Being Significantly Un ...
  While renewable energy sources still provide a small portion of the world's power needs, several new reports suggest the global community may be Click to enlarge www.gregor.us Global solar consumption, 2001-2011   underestimating the growth potential for the green energy sector. The Was ...
• Major World Cities Cite Progress in CO2-Reduc ...
  Speaking at the Rio+20 sustainability summit, the mayors of New York City and Rio de Janeiro will announce that 48 of the world’s largest cities are taking steps to cut 248 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the equivalent of removing 44 million cars from the road for a year. New York May ...
• Environmentalists, Land Activists Being Killed ...
  At least one person is killed per week in disputes over environmental protection or land rights as the competition for natural resources globally becomes increasingly violent, according to a new report. In a survey of incidents worldwide, the group Global Witness estimated that 711 environmental ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Sweden, UK dragging feet while US drums up cas ...
  Whistleblower Julian Assange has accused the UK and Sweden of conspiring to trap him in England while US authorities make a legal case against him. He said the Australian government has abandoned him by refusing to... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Police free 18 hostages in Taliban siege of Ka ...
  Afghan security forces freed 18 people taken hostage by Taliban militants who attacked a lakeside hotel on the outskirts of the Afghan capital. The siege is still ongoing and more hostages, included women and children,... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Ousting Assad: Western panacea to Syrian conflict?
  The new Western tactic to creating an end to violence in Syria is, yet again, centered on ousting President Assad. Britain and the US are ready to offer Assad clemency would he join a UN-sponsored conference on a power... Read Full Article at RT.com
• New red threat? Virus stole, sent thousands of ...
  A new virus, dubbed ACAD/Medre.A, has been uncovered by Cybersecurity firm ESET. The worm mostly affected computers in Peru, and leaked thousands of original blueprints for machinery and other products to e-mail... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Healthcare on hold: UK doctors start 24 hour s ...
  Medical appointments and surgeries are being cancelled across Britain as doctors have begun striking in protest of proposed pension reforms that would raise the retirement age and increase social security contributions. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• The Repukins are all in a dither over a Democr ...
  So hear the noise, brethren, the shrill whines that erupt every time a Democrat says anything resemblant of “Hate speech”. In what sounds a lot like chickenHawk “reporter” O’Keefe clip-editing the ACORN counselor stalling him while the office manager was CALLING THE ...
• Not much of a surprise at all- The CIA is arm ...
  Hey we knew that already! Report: CIA aids in funneling arms to Syrian rebels. According to The New York Times, the CIA is helping to vet Syrian rebel groups for arms shipments paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Well what did all the Lefty liberal humanitarian imperialists think? That ...
• Michelle Obama visits Pueblo for Latino Dream ...
  PUEBLO, COLORADO– Chris Curry had this to say about First Lady Michelle Obama’s appearance in Pueblo yesterday: “No signs were allowed anywhere in or around the building and the cops had cattle cage barriers around the entire perimeter. It felt like we were being herded into a ...
• Angela Merkel- Far Right Dominatrix of Europe& ...
  There is a rotten and conservative politician in Europe who is today’s modern version of Herbert Hoover, as she sinks us ALL worldwide down economically with her policies of ‘austerity’ for the poor, and public tax monies as gifts for the rich elites. I am talking of Germany&#8 ...
• This Is Nuts: Colorado Springs Public Input Ga ...
  Just in from Lotus: This is nuts. Not only is it nuts to allow a mostly unregulated, major polluting industry inside a city of half a million people, but also citizens are being largely gagged on this issue. Oil and gas drilling is dangerous! 60% of well casings in Pennsylvania leaked over a 20 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Random Ranting
  1. Pat Curley has attacked me for being lazy: I think it's time to get off your duff and let people know that you've begun to worry that your eight YouTube videos and your "over fifty articles" might be wrong. James and I make an effort to correct the occasional posts where we make a mistake ( ...
• 9/11: Jesse Ventura vs FOX News
  Published on Jun 20, 2012 by TheTruthseeker55 Patriot Jesse Ventura on 'Fox & Friends' back in 2010 FAUX News - faux/fō/ Adjective: 1. Artificial or imitation: "faux pearls". 2. Not genuine; fake or false: "her faux New York accent". View the original (full-length) here: http://www. ...
• President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watc ...
  Support the 9/11 families and others who are asking President Obama to review the evidence in the documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out • Who: President Barak Obama • Sponsored by: 9/11 family members, Michele Little, Jane Pollicino, Bob McIlvaine, Josef Princiotta In a ...
• BBC Planning Huge New 7/7 Conspiracy Hit Piece
  The BBC is set to air a new 'Conspiracy Road Trip' hit piece on the 7/7 London bombings. As we saw with last summer's 9/11 version, the program tries to get "truthers" to recant and swallow the official story - in the process ideologically burning them at the stake for the consumption of the vie ...
• Jesse Ventura: Make Politicians Wear NASCAR Suits
  Published on Jun 12, 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel [Editor's Note: Jesse's latest book is currently available in the Infowars Shop.] http://www.infowarsshop.com/DemoCRIPS-and-ReBLOODlicans_p_644.html Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura called for the abolition of the Democratic and Rep ...

Fooducate

• Cleanse Diets. The Hope. The Horror
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Lucy is a friend, educated and familiar with nutrition basics, who eats a relatively healthy vegetarian diet. Lucy recently surprised us by announcing she is going on the Master Cleanse Diet. For those unfami ...
• What Secret Ingredients are Lurking in Burger ...
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Burger King’s summer menu includes a new dessert that’s riding high on the bacon fetish that has swept America in the last few years. The Bacon Sundae is your basic Sundae dessert with a few piece ...
• America’s Top 10 Favorite Ice Creams Are…
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We ran a survey last week and asked our Android and iPhone app users to scan their favorite ice cream. The top ten brands accounted for 75% of your “votes”. Here is the full list. Rank Brand Name ...
• What’s a Banana Bunker and Why You Need One!
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Folks, this is hilarious. Turns out bananas need protection. Despite their durable outer protective skin, bananas tend to get mushed when packed in bags for “later”. That’s what led to the c ...
• More Fathers in the Kitchen, Please
  New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Happy Father’s Day! Dads have come a long way in the last two generations. Where in the 1950′s, most men were no more than weekend dads, today it is generally expected of males to share the burden ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Guarani community in Brazil could get $83m award
  Guarani man. A Guarani community in Brazil could receive $83m for 'moral and material' damages © Fiona Watson/Survival A public prosecutor in Brazil is asking the government to pay $83m to a Guarani Indian community as compensation for ‘moral and material’ damages. The community, ...
• ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ appeals for Rio ...
  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami says Brazil can save the Awá tribe. © Survival The ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ is urgently appealing to governments attending Rio+20 to help save the earth’s most threatened tribe, by pressuring Brazil to stamp out illegal logging. Speaking ahead of the UN confere ...
• South Africa’s indigenous ‘icon’ Dawid Kruiper ...
  Dawid Kruiper was considered an 'icon' and key representative of the Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. © Bill Kemp/Strata 360 Dawid Kruiper, a traditional leader of the Khomani Bushmen of South Africa has died, aged 76. He will perhaps be best remembered for his determination to ...
• Just sign here: cowboys' attempt to fool India ...
  Gabide Etacori, an Ayoreo Totobiegosode leader whose signature was allegedly forged. © Survival An elaborate ploy by ranchers in Paraguay to trick an Indian tribe into allowing them to build a new road that would cut the Indians’ land in half has backfired, with an official investigation no ...
• Shell scraps controversial biofuels plan after ...
  Raizen signs landmark agreement with FUNAI. The company vows to stop sourcing sugar cane from Guarani land by November 25. © Raízen A biofuels company set up by Shell in Brazil has scrapped controversial plans to source sugar cane from land stolen from an indigenous tribe after a vociferous ...

Greg Palast

• Palast London Events Schedule
  Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's  100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...
• Greg Palast and Ted Rall in Sag Harbor Live!
  Election Games: Billionaires and Ballot Bandits Canio's Cultural Cafe and WPKN Radio 89.5 FM present: Friday June 22, 6:30PM - 8PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 977 Sag Harbor - Bridgehampton Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY. The meeting house is midway between Bridgehampton and Sag H ...
• How Bain Capital helped BPblow up the Deepwate ...
  Review by Greg Palast, for FireDogLake.com Today, Saturday, from 5pm to 7pm, Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic, will be hosting an electronic salon - an open discussion with Mike Magner, author of Poisoned Legacy: the Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power (St. Martin's Press). Join Mike and I ...
• Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch V ...
  Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com
• Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: E ...
  by Greg Palast  Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Mitsubishi Funds Group that Opposes Preventin ...
  Mitsubishi Funds Group that Opposes Preventing or Curing Autism Written by The Canary Party Friday, 08 June 2012 08:43 Despite the many worthwhile autism charities desperately in need of funding, Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF) has chosen to fund one...
• Register for The Canary Party Convention: Make ...
  This is a critical election year for our community. The attack on our medical and food rights has increased dramatically in the last four years, and if we do not push back now, there is no telling how bad it...
• AofA Science Summary: Psychoactive pharmaceuti ...
  PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e32917. Epub 2012 Jun 6. Psychoactive pharmaceuticals induce fish gene expression profiles associated with human idiopathic autism. Thomas MA, Klaper RD. Source Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University School, Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America. Abstr ...
• Secretary Sebelius to Attend July IACC Meeting
  Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Full Committee Meeting Please join us for an IACC Full Committee meeting that will take place on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in downtown...
• Legislators and Advocates Call For Passage of ...
  LEGISLATORS AND ADVOCATES CALL FOR PASSAGE OF BILL TO PROTECT PEOPLE WITH AUTISM (ALBANY)- Legislators and advocates today renewed their efforts for passage of A.9983/S.7072 which codifies the current longtime definition of autism. The bill is intended to be the...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Behind the GM Wheat Trial
  Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?
• Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
  A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. Whi ...
• Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Dea ...
  Institute of Science in Society Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn ki ...
• Poisoning Hawaii – Genetic Engineering Chemica ...
  For over 20 years, Hawai'i has been the global center for the open-field testing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray chemicals on an almost dail ...
• Thirty Pieces of Silver – The Ron Paul Betrayal
  If you want to live in the past, continue to support the Ron Paul Campaign and watch as your monetary donations will absolutely slip down the rabbit hole and end up in Mitt Romney's coffers. Do not contribute to your own demise as we will undoubtedly witness the November election consisting of O ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kil ...
  Daily Mail – NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ ...
• G20 summit: US ‘encouraged’ by eur ...
  BBC – In a final communique, world leaders said they would take “all necessary measures” to protect the euro area. Leaders said they welcomed Spain’s plans to recapitalise its banks, according to the communique. The talks were being held as Greece seeks to form a coalitio ...
• Divide & Rule: Libya’s tribal clashes le ...
  BBC – Recent tribal clashes in western Libya left 105 people dead and some 500 injured, the government has said. Government spokesman Nasser al-Manaa said there had been no fighting in the mountainous area since Monday, following the deployment of the army. The area includes the towns of Z ...
• Syria crisis: Homs shelling stalls evacuation
  BBC – Continued shelling in the Syrian city of Homs is stopping Red Cross teams from evacuating scores of civilians. Government forces and rebel fighters agreed on Wednesday to a two-hour ceasefire to allow aid workers into the worst affected areas. However, correspondents say it may be ho ...
• China tests troubled waters with $1 billion ri ...
  Reuters – China has spent nearly $1 billion on an ultra-deepwater rig that appears intended to explore disputed areas of the South China Sea, one of Asia’s most volatile hotspots and where the United States is strengthening ties with Beijing’s rival claimants. For now, the loca ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
• Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
  Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
• Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
  Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

• Ventura-Riverside Mayors Bet Fruit For Ortiz L ...
  Both fighters have heart and fight hard, which will make this fight, a well attended one at that. The Ortiz-Lopez fight will be shown on Showtime.
• New Online Tool Helps Drive Urban Sustainabili ...
  A global coalition of partners including C40 Cities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tijuca Center for Applied Sustainability, US Green Building Council and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,
• Elmira Teachers Slam Union for Lack of Concessions
  But Elmira is different in one very notable way: Some rank-and-file members of the teachers union disagree with their leaders' stubborn position, and aren't afraid to say so.
• US Strongly Committed to Protect and Assist Re ...
  She notes that Since 1975, more than three million refugees have made new homes in the United States, and nearly half of them have become U.S. citizens.
• Is Iraqi Government Responding Positively to D ...
  European Parliament Vice President Alejo Vidal-Quadras said in a statement that Col. Sadiq Mohammad Kazim has been summoned by the Spanish National Court for an alleged role in killings in Camp Ashraf in 2009 and 2011.

Worldnews

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

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• "Neuroscience, PTSD and Sentencing Mitigation"
  Recently Posted to SSRN: "Neuroscience, PTSD and Sentencing Mitigation" 33 Cardozo L. Rev. (2012) BETSY GREY, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Like other mental disorders, PTSD has been advanced in criminal law to support...
• AMIODARONE HYDROCHLORIDEinjection, Solution [G ...
  Updated Date: Jun 20, 2012 EST
• Meeting Materials posted for June 21, 2012 Gen ...
• MEPIVACAINE WITH LEVONORDEFRIN (Mepivacaine Hy ...
  Updated Date: Jun 20, 2012 EST
• HEALTH MART ENEMA (Dibasic Sodium Phosphate, M ...
  Updated Date: Jun 19, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Thomas White on Puritan Medit ...
  ExamineReligion: Thomas White on Puritan Meditation, Pt. 3. http://t.co/kZcHQdes
• ExamineReligion: An Evening with Yogi Mruthyun ...
  ExamineReligion: An Evening with Yogi Mruthyunjaya at Coral Gables Public Library http://t.co/N1dgfE7v
• ExamineReligion: Psalm 6:2, Pt. 2. http://t.co ...
  ExamineReligion: Psalm 6:2, Pt. 2. http://t.co/IS5aoxOW
• ExamineReligion: Through it all http://t.co/M8 ...
  ExamineReligion: Through it all http://t.co/M8hBJJjp
• ExamineReligion: International Eucharistic con ...
  ExamineReligion: International Eucharistic congress: The humble opinion of a pilgrim-journalist http://t.co/z6bc2uXh

Energy Collective

• Does Energy-Related Drilling Trigger Earthquakes?
• Yes, U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Increasing ...
  A variety of recent articles have trumpeted how U.S. oil and gas production is up.  For example, Daniel Yergin, in a New York Times op ed, notes that U.S.
• Paving The Way For Technology Innovation and M ...
  Standards over the boundaries of international boundaries, increase technical evolution and help vendors and users wisely plan infrastructure/product roadmaps. So, by paving the way for innovations to be more cost-effectively developed and implemented worldwide, standards spur technological and ...
• Can increased energy access levels go hand-in- ...
  "Rio +20 is occurring as we enter a phase of planetary emergency - we've recently surpassed 400 ppm in the Arctic, biodiversity loss is occurring at an exponential pace and global warming is magnifying global abnormal weather conditions. The political will to be proactive about these conditions ...
• Introducing the Energy Collective Roundtable

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Election Fraud in Egypt
  By Michael Collins One goal of Egypt's 2010 union inspired Tahrir Square protests was fulfilled during the December, 2011 parliamentary elections. Nearly 65% of the nation's fifty million eligible voters turned out to vote. Turnout for the June 16 and 17, 2012 presidential election dropped to ...
• Why the Senate Won’t Touch Jamie Dimon: ...
  by Ellen Brown When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Bank, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, he was wearing cufflinks bearing the presidential seal. “Was Dimon trying to send any particular message by wearing the presidential cufflinks?” asked CNBC editor Jo ...
• UN Monitors Spy for Washington
  by Stephen Lendman On April 21, Security Council Resolution 2043 established UNSMIS. It authorized 300 observers to monitor "a cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties and to monitor and support the full implementation of the (Annan plan) to end the conflict in Syria. ...
• Israel Declared an Apartheid State
  by Stephen Lendman Colonialism and apartheid breach international law. The 1973 International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) called it state-sanctioned discriminatory "inhuman" racism "committed for the purpose of estab ...
• Egypt braces for confrontation with military a ...
  Dr. Ashraf Ezzat “The political scene in Egypt nowadays is pretty tense and rather precarious” As June 30, the predetermined date for Egypt’s supreme council of armed forces(SCAF) to hand over power to an elected civilian government, is drawing nearer, all the major players i ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• BC can meet energy needs, reduce GHGs — but we ...
  The latest study from our Climate Justice Project is both cautionary and hopeful. The study warns that mining, oil and gas corporations are putting increasingly large demands on BC’s hydroelectricity system, and BC households and small businesses face steep rate increases to pay for this industr ...
• Too big to fail? Canadian banks are not immune ...
  A new report released by CCPA says that Canada is not immune to the banking problems we see abroad, and cautions that like all banks worldwide, Canadian banks are structurally vulnerable to instability.  The report, No More Swimming Naked: The Need for Modesty in Canadian Banking,  ex ...
• SaskNotes: The Shield or the Sword? The Saskat ...
  Dan Cameron reviews the Saskatchewan government's recent Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation and asks whether the consultations may actually serve as an opportunity for the provincial labour movement to expand the process of collective bargaining. More here. 
• Canadian identity, pluralism, and the performi ...
  The CCPA Education Project is pleased to present a remarkable education and cultural resource: Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come, edited by CCPA Research Associate charles c. smith. With narratives coming out of theatre, dance, music and other forms of artistic expression f ...
• Green investments will boost economy and set u ...
  Today, CCPA released a report by Senior Economist Marc Lee and researcher Amanda Card, which suggests that a new green industrial strategy needs to be at the heart of federal policy-making. Accelerated oil and gas extraction will boost profits but won't drive major employment gains. Instead, em ...

World Wide Hippies

• Making Criminals Out of Cancer Patients
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Last night I was talking with a guy I’ve known for over 10 years. He’s only 4 years older than I am and has been fighting cancer for about 5 years now. He’s a tough guy, a Vietnam vet. So far he has rallied even after some pretty invasive surgeries ...
• Dalai Lama in UK as self-immolations amongst T ...
  From SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL- Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Scotland this Friday, amid growing concern over the rise of self-immolation amongst Tibetan nomads.More than 30 Tibetans are known to have set themselves on fire in the last year in an unprecedented protest at China’ ...
• Summer Solstice marked by thousands at Stonehenge
  By Cheryl Mullin,walesonline – THOUSANDS of people have marked the summer solstice despite the celebration being one of the wettest in years. Poor weather could not dampen the spirits of 14,500 people who welcomed the sun at Stonehenge at dawn this morning. The annual pagan celebration of ...
• Rio+20: Sabotaging Sustainable Development
  By Fazila Farouk,sacsis.org.za – COP 17 and Rumours of ‘Success’: What Should One Expect? Just How Much Economic Growth can the Planet Sustain? Meeting MDG 7: Is South Africa on Track to Nurture a Sustainable Environment? Can Big Tech Go Green? How Facebook, Apple and Google St ...
• Letting Go – A Tale of Modern Times; or ...
  By Cindi Silva,WorldWide Hippies-I’m pretty sure that accepting life’s impermanence is one of the hardest lessons any one of us will ever have to learn. Some of us may never learn it. The good thing is we have daily opportunities to practice until we finally come to peace with imperm ...

FourWinds10

• INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...
• US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...
  (NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...
• Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
  MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
• Climate 'science' gone wild: UK researchers to ...
  (NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate "scientists" have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a ne ...
• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• How Much Oil is Left in the World?
  Over the next two to three weeks, I am going to post a series of short articles utilizing graphics I created from the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because I am working on the roll-out of a new product which will be geared specifically toward those with a financia ...
• Highlights of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
  Last week the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy was released. I always look forward to the release, because the data represent the most comprehensive, publicly available database on energy consumption and production statistics. I have now read through this year’s report, picking o ...
• Oil Prices and Updates About Merica Internatio ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: Is there any merit to the rumor that the Obama Administration asked Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil output in order to lower prices leading up to the November election? What has caused the drop in West Texa ...
• Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
  Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...
• Why Gas Prices are Higher in the West
  I have been traveling for the past week and have not had a chance to do an episode of R-Squared Energy TV. It will return next week. For this week, I thought I would share the video for a recent appearance I made on Insights on PBS Hawaii. The topic was The Price of Gas: As gas prices continue t ...

Discovery Educator Network

• NETS for Kids
  Comments:Kid friendly wording describing Student NETS. - jeff trudellTags: NETSby: jeff trudell
• Free Technology for Teachers: 21 Map Creation ...
  Tags: map, creation, tools, students, geography, freetech4teachersby: Dean Mantz
• iPad As....
  Tags: ipad, apps, technology, ipads, learning, education, objectivesby: Dean Mantz
• Free online mind mapping software | MAPMYself ...
  Tags: mindmap, mindmapping, brainstorming, tools, mappingby: Fred Delventhal
• Education « « Swivl - Personal Cameraman for h ...
  Comments:Portable lecture capture Record lectures in any classroom cost effectively. Any instructor can set up Swivl quickly without an AV tech, record every move and word.   Flipped classroom content Are you flipping your classroom? Use Swivl to record classroom content for student consumption ...

Rodale News

• The 3 Worst Products in Your Bathroom
  Did you know you could be shelling out extra money for bathroom staples that are actually making your life miserable? A common chemical found in soap, toothpaste, and mouthwash products could wreck your thyroid and cause congestion, itchy eyes, breathing problems, and even food allergies! In t ...
• The Worst Cleaners in America
  A squeaky-clean, spotless house brings a sense of pride to many Americans, but here's the toxic truth: something that should be making us feel good is actually making us people sick. From cleaning ingredients powerful enough not just to cut through grease and grime, but also human bone and tiss ...
• Is Your Couch Killing You?
  Whether you're a member of the 99 percent or the 1 percent, there's a definite chance you're a member of the 95 percent—that is, the percentage of the U.S. population contaminated with toxic flame-retardant chemicals that you've inhaled from your couch over the years. These chemicals in your f ...
• A Must-Have Food Item for Your Medicine Cabinet
  Scientific researchers are starting to figure out what alternative medicine followers have known for centuries: Honey heals. The most recent evidence comes from a European study published in International Wound Journal that evaluated the effectiveness of floral honey as a wound treatment. Over ...
• Is Your Grocery List Toxic?
  Strawberries that cause nerve damage, celery that's messing with your fertility…are these what you want in your grocery cart? Probably not, but an overabundance of pesticides in the U.S. food supply is making even healthy foods less healthy for us. According to the Pesticide Action Network, th ...

big think

• The Meanings of American Decline
  A new Pew poll, and the global perception captured in the chart below, leads Ali Wyne, a fellow Big Thinker, to inquire in an interesting post about the meaning of the idea, recently in vogue, that the U.S. is in decline. Wyne writes: [T]he more that folks opine ...
• What Does the Commerce Clause Have to do with ...
  Any day now, the Supreme Court will release its ruling on the individual mandate in President Obama’s healthcare reform. It will inspire pontification about how far the government can “interfere” in Americans’ lives under the constitutional power of the commerce clause. Apropos that poin ...
• Bill Bradley: Always Err on the Side of Taking ...
  Former Rhodes Scholar, NBA star and U.S. Senator Bill Bradley has consistently ignored advice and surpassed expectations throughout his career. In a recent interview with Big Think, he tells us that what guided him was a belief in himself, and a desire to always aim high.  Watch the vide ...
• How the Great Artists Imagined Paradise Lost, ...
  “We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion year old carbon. And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden,” sang Joni Mitchell in her song “Woodstock.” Every generation before and since has longed to return to the garden—the Edenic paradise found in every human culture and religion on . ...
• Billion-Pixel Camera Sees Five Times Better th ...
  What's the Latest Development? Engineers at Duke University have created a billion-pixel digital camera which, by using a spherical lens similar to the human eye, is set to revolutionize how people take and use photographs. The exposure is so detailed, collecting five times more informat ...

Information Liberation

• FBI & DEA Warn That IPv6 May Be Too Damn Anonymous
  IPv6 has been around for quite some time at this point, but as we get closer and closer to moving the internet over to the system, it appears that American and Canadian law enforcement has just noticed that it's not as easy to identify and track user...
• Canada Has Hidden Microphones In Airports Reco ...
  Some recent news out of Canada involves reports that the airport in Ottawa has hidden microphones installed, designed to record conversations of people. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this, admitting...
• SWAT Cop Sucker Punches Man For 'Talking Loud, ...
  Brain Vander Lee is the latest victim of mindless violence by a violent cop. He was put in intensive care at a hospital in Minnesota after a Minneapolis SWAT team police officer sucker punched him in the face. Sgt. David Clifford (pictured left), a m...
• Caught On Tape: Cop Tases Handcuffed & Hogtied ...
  A cop "investigating" whether a woman was a victim of domestic abuse decided to abuse the woman himself, tasing her while she was handcuffed and hogtied in the back of his police car. Via WHOTV: A mentally troubled woman, tased by a Chariton poli...
• 'Roid-Raging Cop Shoots Up Neighborhood: Get R ...
  Richard Klementovich, the 42-year-old Clifton, New Jersey police officer who barricaded himself in the home of his ex-wife in nearby Doylestown and turned a quiet neighborhood into a free-fire zone, was apparently attempting to commit "suicide by cop...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Size does matter for wind turbines
  Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...
• Tea increases prostate risk, sex and coffee re ...
  UPDATE: Just to be clear, these kinds of studies are often very limited, have many confounding risk factors and cannot “prove” anything. Science and even more specifically, epidemiology, does not prove things, it demonstrates a correlation, often finds causative effects (mostly not), ...

RFF Library

• Nanotechnology: Improved Performance Informati ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/591007.pdf [From an article in Greenwire by Jeremy P. Jacobs, sub. req'd] The governmentwide effort to address the environmental and health risks posed by nano-sized materials must improve its efforts to develop performance standa ...
• The Outdoor Recreation Economy
  The Outdoor Industry Association http://bit.ly/M6YuH9 [From Press Release] A report released today… shows that outdoor recreation is a major economic driver in the United States — and one that has grown throughout the recession. According to The Outdoor Recreation Economy report, more than ...
• Fracking Our Future: Measuring Water and Commu ...
  Western Resources Advocates http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org/frackwater/ [From Press Release] Western Resource Advocates (WRA) today released a new report on the amount of water needed for hydraulic fracturing in Colorado, providing the most comprehensive numbers available on the subject& ...
• Frontline Observations on Climate Change and S ...
  United Nations http://on.undp.org/NU8a9X [Website] The growing risks and impacts of climate change and the accompanying loss of ecosystem services require the world to urgently invest in a new development paradigm.  As the UN’s global development network, UNDP recognizes the increasing urgency o ...
• Where Are the Jobs? – The Elusiveness of Job C ...
  US Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Majority Staff http://energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/PDFs/061812greenjobsstaffreport.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Emily Yehle, sub. req'd]  …The new GOP report foc ...

Scientific American - News

• Astronomers Catch Video of 'Near-Miss' Asteroid
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• Deadly Pandemic Bird Flu Details Finally Are M ...
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• Are Fracking Wastewater Wells Poisoning the Gr ...
  Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground. [More]
• Rudimentary Liver Grown in the Lab
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Asthma ...
  Read Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 and Part 7 of the Special Report. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Remain Calm and Keep Eating
  Cooke Aquaculture gets provincial millions in expansion money. But do you want what they're selling? K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On June 21st, the provincial government of Nova Scotia announced that Cooke Aquaculture, the New Bruns ...
• Protest Not Pride on World Refugee Day in Canada
  No One Is Illegal’s Ninotchka Sequeira explains the impacts of Canada’s changing refugee policies On this World Refugee Day, Canada is no place for celebration. Two recent refugee policy changes have made Canada less inviting to those looki ...
• Protest Not Pride on World Refugee Day in Canada
  No One Is Illegal’s Ninotchka Sequeira explains the impacts of Canada’s changing refugee policies On this World Refugee Day, Canada is no place for celebration. Two recent refugee policy changes have made Canada less inviting to those looki ...
• Community Rallies to Save Kitpu Youth Programs
  50 people gather for emergency fundraising, long-term strategizing against federal cuts to Aboriginal programs   HALIFAX - Last week the Kitpu Youth Program, based out of the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre on Gottingen St., lea ...
• Community Rallies to Save Kitpu Youth Programs
  50 people gather for emergency fundraising, long-term strategizing against federal cuts to Aboriginal programs   HALIFAX - Last week the Kitpu Youth Program, based out of the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre on Gottingen St., lea ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Maybe It's Time to Shut Down the Commerce Depa ...
  Kevin Williamson reacts to the news that John Bryson has resigned as Secretary of Commerce: The existence of the Commerce Department, a.k.a. the Department of Corporate Welfare, suggests that Washington has little institutional confidence in free markets and believes that markets must be gu ...
• Mitt Romney Kinda Sorta Takes a Stand on Immig ...
  Surprise! Mitt Romney, who was immigration's most strident foe during the primaries, has suddenly discovered that "we can find common ground here, and we must." Also unsurprisingly, he's still declining to take a firm stand on President Obama's mini-DREAM order: “Some people have ...
• Philly Fed Says Business Outlook Has Plummeted
  Joe Weisenthal points us to the Philadelphia Fed's monthly Business Outlook Survey, which he terms a "disaster." Here's what the Philly Fed says: The survey’s indicators for general activity, new orders, shipments, and average work hours were all negative this month, suggesting overal ...
• Today's High School Grads Are Just as Good as ...
  Tyler Cowen recommends a post from Steve Postrel attempting to explain why students are willing to pay ever higher amounts for a college degree. Unfortunately, it starts like this: Typical graduate business school education has indeed become less rigorous over time, as has typical college e ...
• The One-Sided War Against Obamacare
  Abby Goodnough of the New York Times explains why misinformation and fear of Obamacare is increasingly widespread. It's the money, stupid: In all, about $235 million has been spent on ads attacking the law since its passage in March 2010, according to a recent survey by Kantar Media’s ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Dad's brains mean more to his son's success th ...
  Sons of fathers with high incomes tend to end up with higher than average incomes themselves, but new research shows that it's not just dad's money that helps a son on his way. read more
• Lab-engineered kidney project reaches early mi ...
  Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have reached an early milestone in a long-term project that aims to build replacement kidneys in the lab to help solve the shortage of donor organs. read more
• Research suggests new cause to blame for spina ...
  Over 15 years ago, researchers linked a defect in a gene called survival motor neuron -- or SMN -- with the fatal disease spinal muscular atrophy. Because SMN had a role in assembling the intracellular machinery that processes genetic material, it was assumed that faulty processing was to blame. ...
• Penn researchers' study of phase change materi ...
  Memory devices for computers require a large collection of components that can switch between two states, which represent the 1's and 0's of binary language. Engineers hope to make next-generation chips with materials that distinguish between these states by physically rearranging their atoms in ...
• Researchers tune the strain in graphene drumhe ...
  Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing the sound, stretching graphene has a profound effect on the material's electrical properties. Researchers working at the National Institu ...

unEarthed

• A Community Being Poisoned from Within
  Huffington Post details injustice facing Mossville residents Mossville, LA. Last year, the EPA proposed an air rule that would finally limit the amount of can ...
• Soot Gets Editorial Ink
  Papers come out in support of strong standards to control deadly pollutant The historical significance of the Environmental Protection Agency's recently proposed ...
• Deadly Air Bill Voted Down in Senate
  Victory for clean air and public health There are some straight spines left in the U.S. Senate, which today voted down a resolution from Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) t ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: We’re Watching Your Vote
  McKinley offers motion testing House Democrats' concern for public health (Shutterstock) It’s Groundhog Day in the House of Representatives. Once a ...
• Tipping Toward Point of No Return
  Enormous body of evidence warns of climate change impacts An increasing number of experts are reaching consensus on the devastating and possibly irreversible effects of climate change linked to human activity, according to the Natu ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

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• World Refugee Week: A community deported, in p ...
  Refugees and their supporters in Tel Aviv mark World Refugee Day on Friday. But amidst what is meant to be a celebration day hangs a strong sense of unease, as Israel tightens its immigration policies, threatening to deport those who seek protection and to jail the ones it cannot expel. Last wee ...
• WATCH: Campaign video incites against Arab Ame ...
  The campaign to get American citizens in Israel to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections claims it is nonpartisan, despite its candid agenda of electing the most ‘pro-Israel’ president, its refusal to divulge its donors and a campaign manager clearly identified with the ri ...
• ’100 Days in Syria’: An eyewitness ...
  By Yacov Ben Efrat In seeking the “truth” about Syria, I came across a book by Lebanese reporter Ghadi Francis, “My pen and pain: One hundred days in Syria” (Beirut: Saqi Books 2012), in Arabic. I did not find the “truth” but I did find many things which explain the outbreak of revol ...
• LISTEN: Israeli talk show hosts phone Auschwit ...
  Shay Goldstein and Dror Rafael are two guys with a morning radio show on 103FM. Thye’re kind of “out there”, but very, very popular. I used to listen to them quite a bit until I transferred my allegiance to their competition on 99FM, Tal Berman and Aviad Kisos. But today for so ...
• Anchorman turned politician: Netanyahu does no ...
  Political neophyte Yair Lapid gave his first television interview since announcing his entry into politics, on Channel 2 evening news on Tuesday. The media man thus generated plenty of media, from journos eagerly waiting for him to move his message beyond cyber-campaigning into the traditional r ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

• CRITICAL ANNOUNCMENT- EMAIL SERVICE OF ALL COU ...
  As originally proposed in the joint report, rule 2.516 was intended to be both mandatory and uniform, such that e-mail service would be mandatory in all types of cases in Florida. The rules committees also urged the Court to make e-mail service mandatory as soon as practicable. The Criminal Proc ...
• BANK BREAK INS, PROPERTY PRESERVATION…FA ...
  The national press, picking up on what I’ve been saying for years….this is just the tip of the iceberg…and i’m coming to chop away at that iceberg: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to keep tabs on thousands of contractors hired to manage more than 1 million foreclosed ho ...
• “NOVEL” DEFENSES OF A HOMEOWNER IN ...
  This is a brilliant, and very well written, attack on my pleadings and the work I’m doing for homeowners. The fundamental proposition is that homeowners have limited rights to fight a foreclosure. I disagree. Plaintiff motion to strike affirm def Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint   ...
• THE GMAC BANKRUPTCY- ACT IMMEDIATELY TO PRESER ...
  ALERT  BANKRUPTCY PETITION FOR OFFICIAL BORROWER COMMITTEE  In re: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York (Manhattan) Bankruptcy Petition #: 12-12020-mg Debtor-Residential Capital, LLC aka Residential Capital Corporation Subsidiary List – See Attached Exhibit A 1177 Avenue of the Am ...
• Federal Trade Commission Halts Loan Audit Firm ...
  Consumers need to be very careful in dealing with any loan audit or any other company or individual preying on foreclosure victims: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that allegedly preyed on financially vulnerable homeowners, convincing ...

abelard - news

• updated: current fuel prices in france | franc ...
  Crude oil prices may be dropping, but French pump prices are being slow to follow.
• interesting social history - william talman (h ...
  Perry Mason's district attorney had a 'colourful' off-scene life.
• 5 billion a month looks horribly like an openi ...
  Will Britain fall into the US trap of never-ending money-printing?
• this year's top ten seeded riders | the tour d ...
  But only nine will be riding - the tenth is withdrawing due to a work injury.
• am i richer or poorer? | economics news at abe ...
  What can happen when you don't understand the implications of inflation.

The Parallel Parliament

• New Cards
  William Greider, an astute chronicler of the American political system, has come to believe that without citizen interaction the United …Continue reading »
• From Interests to Interest
  It all was rather bizarre. Attending the peace talks between north and south Sudan in a nice hotel outside of …Continue reading »
• Expressions of Interest
  It wasn’t the usual Twitter exchange for me. A city councilor in Toronto was in a verbal exchange with some …Continue reading »
• A Life More Important Than Words
  “Dialogue” is an extremely misunderstood word. It’s not overused, or even overrated, but its meaning tends to be subject to …Continue reading »
• What Can I Possibly Say To This?
  I just received this note a few minutes ago from my son, Ater, for Father’s Day and I wept. To …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Lost in the Maize
  Last September, I started posting my reflections on the weirdness of  academia – amongst other things – every Friday, under the title Lost in the Maize.  In part this was to document the shift from being a pseudo-academic to a real one.  But it was also to provide some motivation to ...
• NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lac ...
  Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the p ...
• Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will de ...
  Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentiall ...
• Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
  “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
• Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
  Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Meetings with Meat-Eaters: Exploring the JHSPH ...
  For some, the share represented most or all of their monthly meat consumption. Others estimated that it would be anywhere from 30–50 percent, with the rest coming from grocery stores and farmers’ markets.
• Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Conserv ...
  The Senate Agriculture Committee recently put forth their version of the Farm Bill, which included steep cuts to conservation funding. Conservation efforts protect natural resources as well as the public’s health. As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to be debated on the Senate floor, it is clear tha ...
• Court to FDA: The Science Actually Matters
  The FDA certainly has been confronted with scientific evidence of the human health risks, but the agency has routinely set aside the science when making decisions.
• The Power of Story: Conversations with Philipp ...
  While covering the Gulf oil spill, I was talking to a group of elementary school students in Tennessee.... I asked them, “Who do you think is going to clean up this mess?” These students—they were between four and six years old—turned to me and said, “We will.”
• People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
  A single mother of four, she said, “We live it every day,” referring to the lack of sick leave, not being allowed to go to the bathroom, being laughed at for not speaking English, and lifting heavy things even though she is not supposed to.

k2p blog

• Midsommar
  A week away from blogging as we travel north through the hinterland and into the Arctic Circle for a Swedish Midsommar! With the midnight sun and consequent shortage of sleep I suspect I shall not be blogging much.
• Political correctness shifts away from wind in ...
  A government re-think on costly green energy resources is a winning statement of intent.
• Rio+20 fizzles into insignificance
  A text has been agreed in Rio to be "approved" by country leaders later this week. The text appears to watered down and to be largely meaningless in terms of binding commitments by any country for moving towards the politically correct view of "a more sustainable future".
• Innovation – To do what cannot be done
  To be able to state that "something" cannot be done we must first be able to articulate that "something". And to articulate it we must be able to imagine it. And when we find "it cannot be done" we can qualify it to be "it cannot be done now" -- and the process of innovation starts.
• Greece stays in the Euro! Football or is it th ...
  Football is a great leveller. And so is the Eurozone - but unfortunately it levels down to the Lowest Participating Economy (LPE).

Left Foot Forward

• The government has no ambition on carbon reporting
  From yesterday’s announcement on carbon reporting, it looks like the coalition are trying to divert attention from its own domestic record on the environment.
• So, Mr Cameron, are Tory boys Philip Green and ...
  David Cameron is facing charges of hypocrisy over his failure to condemn celeb Tory Gary Barlow's tax avoidance, having last night attacked non-Tory Jimmy Carr.
• From Boots to Barclays: Why branch businesses ...
  Paul Swinney of the Centre for Cities looks at the effects of independent businesses on the economy.
• Gove must stop seeing the British education sy ...
  News of education secretary Michael Gove’s plans to scrap GCSEs made headlines this morning and the story warrants some unpicking.
• Wales education minister: Gove’s way of announ ...
  Education secretary Michael Gove wants to scrap the national curriculum and bring back exam systems from the past, to the anger of the Welsh education minister.

Consumerist

• Woman Says She Can't Possibly Keep Diamond Rin ...
  We've heard of good consumers returning cash they've found or not accepting an accidental tax refund, but a diamond ring lands in your pocket and you decide to try to find its owner? Now that is what we call an extremely honest person. A woman in Minnesota splashed out $3.99 on a pair of capri ...
• LinkedIn Sued For $5 Million For Failing To Pr ...
  A LinkedIn user has filed suit against the business for $5 million, claiming the networking site failed its members by not doing enough to protect the 6.5 million passwords that were leaked in a recent hack attack. The lawsuit seeks class action status, and was filed by an Illinois woman who s ...
• Mother & Daughter Accused Of Pretending To Be ...
  Online dating is already fraught with enough questions and anxiety over whether or not the person you're going to meet is as charming or attractive (or has as much hair) as the person you've come to know through the Internet. You shouldn't also have to worry that that soldier stationed in Afgha ...
• Facebook Agrees To Let Users Control Whether O ...
  Facebook has finally agreed that yeah, maybe users should be able to control whether or not it appears to their friends that they're advertising a product or page. Fancy that! As part of the settlement in a lawsuit brought by five users, Facebook says it will change its controls to enable membe ...
• Woman Forcibly Removed From Home, In Spite Of ...
  A woman in El Paso has been fighting foreclosure for several months, saying she was making payments and that Citibank was crediting them to an escrow account without telling her or explaining why. A federal court recently issued a temporary restraining order preventing the bank from foreclosing ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Will Ecuador Grant Asylum to Julian Assange?: ...
  The Alyona Show: Assange’s Last Hope, Ecuadorian Embassy? Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on The Alyona Show on RT to talk about Julian Assange’s application for political asylum in Ecuador. Assange is facing extradition to Swe ...
• Obama's First Assertion of Executive Privilege ...
  A House panel led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) voted yesterday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt after the Obama administration's first assertion of the rarely used Executive Privilege to withhold information from Congressional investigators about the botched Operati ...
• GAP Lauds OSC Move to Curtail Surveillance of ...
  GAP praised today's action by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to curtail illegal government surveillance of whistleblowers. In a memorandum to all Executive branch departments and agencies, Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner urged all federal agency chiefs to assess current employee monitor ...
• Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in Ecuador: Daily ...
  The Week: Assange Seeks Asylum at Ecuador Embassy; Faces Arrest Summary: It was revealed yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has applied to the Government of Ecuador for political asylum. This comes shortly after the UK Supreme Court denied his appeal to reopen ...
• Why Ecuador Should Grant Julian Assange Asylum
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum from the Ecuador Embassy in London. As a signatory to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Embassy has an obligation to review his application and should grant it. Asylum eligibility has three requirements, all of which Assange meets: 1) ...

UK Progressive

• Southern Baptist Convention Elects its First A ...
  Will he push an anti-gay agenda? African American voters are President Obama’s largest and steadfast supporters. They are also one of the largest and steadfast opponents of marriage equality. So, when President Obama finally made publicly his support of same- sex marriage, one group wonder ...
• Message Machine Update: A Cameo by Sheldon Adelson
  by Jeff Larson, ProPublica On Saturday, the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters mentioning Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who has donated millions to Republican super PACs. Politico noticed the email and noted that Adelson is becoming a useful fundraising pitch to the Obama ...
• Op-Ed: Guantanamo’s Goon Squads Still Torturin ...
  Despite President Obama’s pledge to end torture, the brutalization of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo prison continues under his regime. Guantanamo is where a thug squad called the Immediate Reaction Force(IRF) tortures inmates while pointing their required video cameras at the floor to hid ...
• “Our Disgrace”
  Sitting here in 86’ sunlight with a humidity index crawling into the upper 90s and major thunderstorms forecast for later, I’m wondering where I’ll eat tonight and sleep tomorrow. Wrapped up in my immediate problems, it’s easy to lose sight of how many folks share my dilemma of being poor, homel ...
• Predictions in Chalmers Johnson Book About U.S ...
  Few books of our time are proving to be as prophetic as Chalmers Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire,” published  in 2004 by Henry Holt & Co. Its description of  the impact of the Pentagon’s war machine on our civil liberties and economy today appears largely to be right on the mark. A best-sel ...

NewsAlert

• Ron Paul‘s Lesson on the Benefits of Freedom S ...
  The Blaze Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
• ADL Scolds Russell Simmons
  The Washington Free Beacon
• Obama campaign manager knows how to grab attention
  The San Francisco Chronicle
• Rahm Emanuel helped Republicans win control of ...
  The Daily Caller
• King Barack: Obama thinks his word is law
  Andrew P. Napolitano

JoNova

• Cheifio (E.M.Smith) responds to Bain et al
  Response to Paul Bain
• Rio – 50,000 people flock to a flop &#82 ...
  According to Greenpeace its an “epic fail”. WWF says its a “colossal failure”, and it’s so bad, Oxfam want to start all over again. That news may sound good to the free citizens of the West, but that’s only because we aim so low. They may not get as much as th ...
• Nature — and that problem of defining ho ...
  This week Nature Climate Change published the Bain et al letter. Could Nature now be the Journal of UnScience? Surely this whole paper is not based on a name-calling assumption, a confusion about an illusory sub-species, homo sapiens denier? How does Nature define this group? They imply that den ...
• Rupert Wyndham’s excellent prose to Bish ...
  No one says it quite like Rupert. Reprinted with permission, thank you. Read, enjoy the vivid panoply, — Jo My favourite extract — the 26 ethical flaws of propagandists (For the full letter and context go straight to the post below – apologies to Rupert for discontinuous edit ...
• On those recent site troubles….
  Sorry the site was down twice yesterday. We are still figuring out what happened. It’s probably innocent, but we won’t know for sure until we’ve gone through the logs which are monstrous. I suspect that restoring all 100k comments (lost to data corruption after the transfer of ...

ReNew America

• Obama's abuse of power demands a 'national inq ...
  (Alan Keyes) - We most conscientiously commemorate epoch-making events in human history by fully recalling their signal importance to the welfare or suffering of humanity...
• Understanding the enemy
  (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - Lee Harris, author of Civilization and its Enemies, believes that neither liberals nor conservatives understand radical Muslim terrorists. We will have difficulty winning a war against an enemy we do not understand. Both liberals and conservatives have misconceptio ...
• House panel charges Attorney General Holder wi ...
  (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled House committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department documents. The party-line vote was 23-17. The controversy goes next to the full House, which is to vote next week unless th ...
• Obama: Accessory to murder?
  (Joseph Farah) - When Barack Obama claimed executive privilege today in an effort to protect Attorney General Eric Holder from a contempt-of-Congress charge in the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, he may have inadvertently exposed himself as an accessory to murder...
• Holder's contempt and Obama's privilege
  (Washington Times) - President Obama's attempt to invoke executive privilege to forestall contempt-of-Congress proceedings against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. failed. Instead, the claim elevates the dispute between the administration and Capitol Hill to a new and troubling level. The ope ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Where Do People Flee To?
  In my book Survive 2012 there is a lot of advice about where people should have a safe spot, or in which direction they should escape from major cities around the world. But where would non-survivalists flee to? In general I’ve just assumed they’d head for the major arterial roads an ...
• Low Latitude Auroras
  The Northern Lights have just been seen as far south as Iowa, Nebraska and Maryland in the United States which, relative to Europe, are about as far South as southern Spain and the Mediterranean. A double CME from a sunspot on Saturday caused auroras like the photograph above from South Dakot ...
• CPAK 2012, California, October
  There have been quite a few conferences in recent years that appeal to 2012ers. They have mostly featured New Age authors, but a few concentrate on real science being used to solve ancient riddles. And given the Mayan Long Count calendar is an ancient riddle, this conference might be worth a loo ...
• Happy Solstice!
  Tomorrow marks a self-imposed deadline – I decided that all my SHTF preparations needed to be in place by June 21, 2012, which is the winter solstice in Australia. My reasoning is that Dec 21, 2012 is the darkest day in the Northern Hemisphere (and more noticeable the further north you ar ...
• Melbourne – New Moon – 5.2 Quake
  According to Universe Today, this month’s New Moon is at June 19, 15:02 (Universal Time). According to the USGS and The Age, Moe (country town not far from Melbourne) had a 5.2 magnitude earthquake at June 19, 10:53. My recent research has determined that major earthquakes are more likel ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Microsoft's downfall: Steve Ballmer to be blamed?
  Steve Ballmer would be dead in the water without Windows and Office, which he inherited. Reported by Rediff.com 38 minutes ago
• Relentless Ronaldo does it again for Portugal
  On this evidence the Czech Republic could play a dozen quarter-finals and still not produce the number of goal attempts that Cristiano Ronaldo managed on his own in another display of awesome authority by the Portugal skipper. Reported by Rediff.com 38 minutes ago
• Taliban attack Afghan hotel, hold hostages
  Taliban suicide bombers attacked a lakeside hotel on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday night. Reported by Zee News 52 minutes ago
• RIM to ditch keyboards for new BlackBerry 10 O ...
  The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd's new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• Google CEO Larry Page loses voice, skips share ...
  Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page sat out his company's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday due to an unspecified condition affecting his voice that will sideline him from speaking engagements for several weeks. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Vanishing of the Bees: Beekeeper Leaks EPA Doc ...
• Food Politics: Exploring the Economic and Ecol ...
• GMO Foods Alter Organ Function and Pose Threat ...
• Michel Chossudovsky on the Creation of Global ...
• Russia Confronts US on Human Rights Violations

Daily Tech

• Quick Note: Ford Respond to JD Power MyFord To ...
  Ford defends its infotainment system
• Quick Note: Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" Coming Ne ...
  Android 4.1 is expected to be revealed at Google I/O
• Microsoft Scrambles to Send Takedown Notices i ...
  Details of 2013 console and 2014 augmented reality glasses trickle out
• Samsung Investigates Report of Melting Galaxy ...
  Melting victim to receive a new handset
• Apple Raises Retail Employee Wages, Offers Emp ...
  Apple recently announced that it will bump retail store wages up to 25 percent next month

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• Announcing the BlogHer '12 HealthMinder Day Cl ...
  Dr. Pamela Peeke can be found sharing nutrition, stress, fitness, and public health information virtually everywhere, whether you're looking in the magazine rack in O, Prevention, Fitness, or More. She's on television on CNN, Fox, and as chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV. You c ...
• Escape Summer Reruns and Read These Five Books
  Summer is here and not only are the days long, but the evenings feel longer with so little on the television to tempt you. While we acknowledge that Bunheads might just be a summer wonder (not based on the book Bunheads), it feels like we've been watching reruns for months. What should you do wh ...
• Susie Middleton's New Cookbook Puts Vegetables ...
  This month, Susie Middleton of SixBurnerSue.com released her second book, The Fresh & Green Table, a cookbook that sets vegetables at the center of the table. The clearly-written recipes help cookbook readers build a meal around vegetable-based main dishes. Middleton, who lives and writes on ...
• What Every Woman Must Know About Office Politics
  I try not to dwell on this too much.  But had I known this sooner, this little bit of intelligence may have prevented a lot of angst and propelled my AOL career to even higher levels:  Office politics can be a good thing. Wasn’t it enough that I was helping the company change the world ...
• Send Letters to Each Other: Make a Family Mailbox!
  [Editor's Note: Looking for a way to help your kids pass the long hours of summer break? Create a family mailbox. I can assure you after you read this post at Or So She Says, you will want to set one up immediately. It seems like a great activity for kids of all ages, maybe even teenagers. I can ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection
  According to CDC statistics, it is estimated that 29.8 million adults suffered from sinus infection, or sinusitis in 2010. This infection of the sinuses causes individuals to experience trouble breathing, and can often be painful. ...
• Basil: A Potent One-Two Punch of Robust Flavor ...
  Derived from the Greek word meaning royal,1 basil is a versatile herb that has lived up to its pedigree. With its wealth of nutrients, from hefty amounts of vitamin K and calcium, to its high antioxidant oils, basil offers an ...
• How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishme ...
  In his book Psychiatryland, psychiatrist Phillip Sinaikin recounts reading a scientific article in which it was debated whether a three-year-old girl who ran out into traffic had oppositional-defiant disorder or bipolar disorder, the latter marked by “grandiose delusions” ...
• Cut Your Cholesterol Without Drugs
  Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were once viewed as “wonder drugs” and as major players in the fight to reduce cardiovascular disease. But as use of statins became widespread, serious side effects emerged. Side effects, coupled with ...
• Which eco-labels can you trust?
  When you go to the store, you probably notice the colorful multitudes of eco-product labels. The claims are diverse, touting everything from “100% recycled materials” to “cruelty-free” farming methods. But how can you tell if ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Rockefeller: Coal must ‘boldly embrace&# ...
  Mr. President, I rise today in the shadow of one seemingly narrow Senate vote — the Inhofe resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on mercury and air toxics — to talk about West Virginia. About our people – our way of life, our health, our ...
• Happy West Virginia Day!
• Legislation seeks review of mining’s hea ...
  AP photo by Jeff Gentner New federal legislation was introduced today that seeks a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits and demands that the federal government examine the growing scientific evidence that residents living near these mining operations are at greater risk of serious healt ...
• House Democrats question if Alpha is ‘ru ...
  This just in: House Democratic leaders have sent a strong letter to Alpha Natural Resources President Kevin Crutchfield, questioning whether the company has met its promises to improve safety at former Massey Energy operations and complied with its non-prosecution agreement with U.S. Attorney Bo ...
• Obama threatens to veto plan to block emission ...
  Some of West Virginia’s Democratic leaders are so upset with President Obama that they’re not even going to attend their own party’s national convention … So not only will most of them not talk about things like those studies linking mountaintop removal coal mining to ser ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Making Criminals Out of Cancer Patients
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Last night I was talking with a guy I’ve known for over 10 years. He’s only 4 years older than I am and has been fighting cancer for about 5 years now. He’s a tough guy, a Vietnam vet. So far he has rallied even after some pretty invasive surgeries ...
• Dalai Lama in UK as self-immolations amongst T ...
  From SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL- Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Scotland this Friday, amid growing concern over the rise of self-immolation amongst Tibetan nomads.More than 30 Tibetans are known to have set themselves on fire in the last year in an unprecedented protest at China’ ...
• Summer Solstice marked by thousands at Stonehenge
  By Cheryl Mullin,walesonline – THOUSANDS of people have marked the summer solstice despite the celebration being one of the wettest in years. Poor weather could not dampen the spirits of 14,500 people who welcomed the sun at Stonehenge at dawn this morning. The annual pagan celebration of ...
• Rio+20: Sabotaging Sustainable Development
  By Fazila Farouk,sacsis.org.za – COP 17 and Rumours of ‘Success’: What Should One Expect? Just How Much Economic Growth can the Planet Sustain? Meeting MDG 7: Is South Africa on Track to Nurture a Sustainable Environment? Can Big Tech Go Green? How Facebook, Apple and Google St ...
• Letting Go – A Tale of Modern Times; or ...
  By Cindi Silva,WorldWide Hippies-I’m pretty sure that accepting life’s impermanence is one of the hardest lessons any one of us will ever have to learn. Some of us may never learn it. The good thing is we have daily opportunities to practice until we finally come to peace with imperm ...

reference frame

• Agent Higgs: the game!
  Guest blog by Andy Hall The whole world is after the elusive Higgs boson. Accelerators the size of cities are being used to create truly awesome concentrations of energy in a vast number of collisions. We've detected the other particles of the Standard Model. Muons, quarks, neutrinos, th ...
• Financial natural selection: how to easily ear ...
  A typical TRF reader has tens of millions of dollars and is somewhat bored. A half of those would like to transform the millions to billions. It's easy, just read and follow these instructions. By doing so, you promise that you will send your humble correspondent 1% if you earn big bucks and ...
• Why Feynman's path integral doesn't contradict ...
  I just decided to write a short (but not too short) text elaborating on the April 2011 Physics Stack Exchange question by Jane. Are the Lagrangians in the Feynman path integrals operators? And if they're not, why doesn't it conflict with the basic fact of quantum mechanics that observabl ...
• John Kerry slams "disgraceful climate denial"
  If you need to raise your blood pressure, here is the newest tool. Click to get to the page with the video. The links point to The Hill and they are here: Sen. Kerry attacks 'campaign of disinformation' on climate change (Senate video, 1 minute) Ben Geman's extra story F ...
• Currency exchange rates
  Just a widget: Just testing whether their widgets work...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• An unadvertised Council committee meeting abou ...
• Another NY-06 debate, and Andrew Cuomo gets a ...
• After a week of silence, Cuomo comes out in su ...
• Leroy Comrie fined for a campaign-filing failure
• 'Be Safe. Be Smart.': A new campaign against f ...

Views & News from Norway

• Immigrants to be issued new residence cards
  Foreign citizens living in Norway will no longer get a sticker in their passports to indicate legal, permanent residence. Instead, reports newspaper Aftenposten, they’ll now be issued plastic cards that they must carry along with the passports when traveling abroad. All foreign residents f ...
• Suspicions rise over illegal wolf hunting
  Several wolves that had been tracked by researchers in Norway have gone missing, and those doing the monitoring of the country’s small but replenished wolf population suspect illegal wolf hunting.  Wolves are extremely unpopular in the eastern counties of Hedmark and Oppland, where most of ...
• Prosecutors want Breivik committed
  State prosecutors asked an Oslo court on Thursday to commit confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik to mandatory psychiatric treatment instead of sending him to jail. They think there’s too much doubt about the state of his mental health to recommend a prison term based on current Norwe ...
• 75 percent want Breivik sent to jail
  A new public opinion poll shows that 75 percent of the Norwegian population wants their home-grown confessed terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, to be held accountable for his deadly attacks on July 22 and sent to prison. The poll results, which follow massive debate over Breivik’s mental h ...
• Savoring the lightest night of the year
  It was nearly midnight in Oslo on June 20, billed in Norway as the lightest night of the year. After weeks of rain and chill, even autumn-like gloom, the sun had been shining and the evening skies were clear. The temptation was too great to simply stay indoors. There’s a classic Norwegian ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• What Will Rio+20 Bring?
  In a few days the international community will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro, to hold the most significant environmental conference since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. As the planet’s ecosystems tremble under the weight of overconsumption, this conference surely provides one of few remainin ...
• Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer
  It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong contingent here from all over the world. We have erected a dome at the People’s Summit in Cupala dos Povos (Flamingo Park) and are providing a “Speaker’s Corn ...
• Storm Warning
  The shocking standards of tabloid weather reporting. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. I suppose I should have seen this coming. In January, I discovered that the forecasters employed by a company called Positive Weather Sol ...
• VEG Design Solutions, Part One: the Chicken/Fo ...
  by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens When designing edible gardens, a site-specific problem will often crop up. One of the most enjoyable aspects of permaculture design for us is devising site-specific solutions to those problems. In this short series we give four examples, all bona fide VEG ori ...
• Background on Our ‘How to Make Your Own Natura ...
  Paul Taylor, the main teacher of our ‘How to Make Your Own Natural Fertilizer’ biological soil science course, is the managing director of Trust Nature Pty Ltd. Paul has been working as a recognized educator and sustainable design consultant for the past 30 years. Paul has Austr ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Amanda, you are welcome. Are you a christian?Statistics: Posted by ada — Thu Jun 21, 2012 4:43 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Here's (Jewish) UKIP MEP on Central Banks iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ewGvLKgQY iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKQReTqxcAStatistics: Posted by sullivan — Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:33 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  The Holy Hell of City-Living That the UN Plans http://americanfreed.com/?p=736 Links Is the Soros Sponsored Agenda 21 a Plan for Hidden World Government? http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the- ... ot-hidden/ Agenda 21 For Dummies? http://w w.w.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM WHY ARE AMERIC ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  How about this: Mikhail Gorbachev apparently set up some organization called "Green Cross International": http://www.gcint.org/Statistics: Posted by Amanda — Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:15 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  So, what's this all about?? Are they trying to hook Christians into their global warming/global enslavement plan??? Christ Turns ‘Green’ at U.N. Earth Summit — Literally (go to the link for photo) http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-go ... -rothbard# By David Rothbard & Craig Rucker Ju ...

TVNZ

• Afghan Taliban take hostages in Kabul hotel attack
  Gunmen took scores of hostages at a hotel on the outskirts of the Afghan capital today.
• Up to 100 feared dead in capsizing
  Up to 100 people are feared dead after a boat capsized.
• Assange says ready for life in Ecuador
  Julian Assange says he is ready for a life in Ecuador.
• Fund for bullied grandmother hits $417,000... ...
  Thousands of dollars have been raised for a grandmother who was bullied on a bus.  
• At least 10 killed in Indonesia plane crash
  An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a residential area in Jakarta yesterday.

environment 360

• A Tepid Agreement Takes Shape at Rio+20 Summit
  World leaders attending the UN’s Rio+20 sustainability summit appear prepared to rubber-stamp an agreement that has been widely criticized by environmental groups and some government officials as ineffectual. As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of Stat ...
• Drones to Be Used to Prevent Poaching Of Endan ...
  In Nepal, conservationists will soon begin launching low-cost, remote-controlled drones to prevent the poaching of endangered species. Developed by the WWF WWF Nepal staff with the drone group WWF, the technology is seen as an inexpensive way to monitor the protection of species, includin ...
• Growth of Renewables Is Being Significantly Un ...
  While renewable energy sources still provide a small portion of the world's power needs, several new reports suggest the global community may be Click to enlarge www.gregor.us Global solar consumption, 2001-2011   underestimating the growth potential for the green energy sector. The Was ...
• Major World Cities Cite Progress in CO2-Reduc ...
  Speaking at the Rio+20 sustainability summit, the mayors of New York City and Rio de Janeiro will announce that 48 of the world’s largest cities are taking steps to cut 248 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the equivalent of removing 44 million cars from the road for a year. New York May ...
• Environmentalists, Land Activists Being Killed ...
  At least one person is killed per week in disputes over environmental protection or land rights as the competition for natural resources globally becomes increasingly violent, according to a new report. In a survey of incidents worldwide, the group Global Witness estimated that 711 environmental ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Food Freedom News | Decentralize – Grow Your O ...
  Tags: food news gardening survivalism GM_'food' pesticides seeds ...
• Civilization defined and explained in plain En ...
  Tags: civilization decline
• Non-GMO Project
  Tags: food sustainability health gmo consumer
• From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, ...
  Tags: oil drugs black ops Iran_Contra
• Suppressed Inventions - Jonathan Eisen - Googl ...
  Tags: inventions books medicine ``public malnutrition``

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Newsweek & The Daily Beast-Open Hands Prize Ce ...
  India is messy. The nation is waging wars against western influence, religion, and freedom of speech. The term “Indian” itself has moved beyond the definition of “love of Bollywood and cricket.”  And in America, Indians are no longer just doctors, spelling bee champions, and the model minority, ...
• Guvs’ Good News Is Mitt’s Bad News
  Falling unemployment? How the GOP’s own are undermining Team Romney’s message. By Matt Taylor.
• Member of Terror Group Goes to D.C.
  Terrorists aren’t supposed to get visas. But Hani Nour Eldin was apparently invited to D.C. this week to meet with top officials. Eli Lake asks: Did no one Google him?
• Bloomberg Poll: Huh?
  Obama and Romney have been neck in neck in the polls—until Bloomberg announced a 13-point gap this week. What’s a voter to think? Michael Keller on the polling pickle.
• Fast and Furious for Dummies
  A failed attempt to snare Mexican drug cartels has blown up into a national debate. Matthew DeLuca on what you need to know.

Loonwatch

• Iranian-American woman says Apple refused to s ...
  19-year-old Sahar Sabet says an Apple Store in Georgia refused to sell her an iPad after a store representative overheard her speaking in Farsi.
• Anders Behring Breivik Trial: Norway Killer’s ...
  Prosecutors on Thursday asked a court to send confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik to a mental institution instead of prison for his massacre of 77 people in a gun and shooting rampage.
• Video: Right-winger Frank Gaffney Claims the M ...
  Gaffney did say that “the enemy is trying to keep us stupid” through “information dominance.”
• Dutch Upper House Rejects Ban on Ritual Slaughter
  The Dutch upper house, the Senate, on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have banned the ritual slaughter of animals and had been criticised by both Muslim and Jewish groups.
• Debbie Schlussel: Zayn Malik of the Boy Band O ...
  A new low for wing-nut Schlussel: hates on boy band pop star Zayn Malik.

Energy News

• Japan Gov’t Expert: Water could get sucked out ...
• ‘China Syndrome’? Former Japan Official: Under ...
• TV: Bluefin tuna picking up more and more cesi ...
• Fukushima Authorities: Tepco report has fabric ...
• Former Japan Official: US army planned to ento ...

Japan Times

• Skytree a mixed blessing for locals
  A month after the opening of Tokyo Skytree and Tokyo Skytree Town in Sumida Ward, the world's tallest broadcasting tower and its shopping and entertainment complex continue to draw hordes of visitors, reaching 1.6 million in just the first week, according to operator Tobu Tower Skytree Co. and i ...
• Wizards offload Lewis to Hornets for Okafor
  The New Orleans Hornets traded forward Trevor Ariza and center Emeka Okafor to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday for forward Rashard Lewis and a second-round draft pick. Lewis is entering the last season of a $118 million, six-year contract and could be a candidate for the NBA's amnesty ...
• 'One Day'
  They say that the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. "One Day" is all about that need, and how two people (subconsciously and otherwise) hold on to that for 23 long years. Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) are college friends who almost ...
• Strasburg handcuffs Rays in 10-strikeout perfo ...
  Before the first pitch was thrown, Stephen Strasburg saw home plate umpire Jeff Nelson walked toward the mound and began preparing for a pine tar search. "I thought he was going to check my glove," Strasburg said.
• Innovative data delivery firm e-Parcel takes o ...
  When e-Parcel Corp., an online data delivery service provider, last year sued 13 U.S. Internet-related service firms, including Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., AOL Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc., for patent infringement, the action meant more than just protecting its intellectual property. The pre ...

Alexander Higgins

• The Deer Is Back As Markets Go Reality-On
  US stock markets go from 'risk on' 'risk off' to 'reality on' 'reality off' as indexes crash as the reality of a global recession sets in.
• Video: Zimmerman Reenacts The Trayvon Martin S ...
  George Zimmerman reenacts the night of the Trayvon Martin shooting, taking police through the neighborhood.
• Seattle Cops Continue To Use Excessive Force a ...
  ABC KIRO 7 news reports on the police brutality and excessive force that continues to be used against peaceful protestors in Seattle.
• LinkedIn Taken To Court Over 6 Million Stolen ...
  A LinkedIn user has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the social network highlighting the corporation’s negligence in security issues that led to a massive password leak.
• Stocks Crash As Moody’s Prepares To Anno ...
  US stocks and commodities are hammered across the board as Moody's is set to downgrade the credit rating of several major US banks to near junk status.

Macleans - Central

• High concepts: A feminist Scot, a sombre Steve ...
  Reviews of 'Brave,' 'Searching for a Friend,' 'Your Sister's Sister,' and 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
• The Commons: Mulcair and Harper wish each othe ...
  And Peter MacKay gives one last sermon
• Obama official who quit: ‘Women still ca ...
  If, like me, you’ve pondered issues of work-life balance but try to steer clear...
• How not to ask a question about supply management
  Fans of both supply management and proper parliamentary practice take note: the government side...
• Day 17 on the Trans-Canada, Moncton, New Brunswick
  Trans-Canada distance: 1,445 km Actual distance driven:  4,247 km THEN: ...Bob and Carol Hyslop

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

• Singapore International Water Week 2012 to Foc ...
  “The Singapore International Water Week 2012 shines its spotlight on the emerging global industrial water sector and sets the stage to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative water technologies that address the world’s most pressing water challenges. “To be held from 1 t ...
• Mozambique: Netia Water Supply System Inaugurated
  “A new water supply system has been inaugurated in Netia, in the district of Monapo in Mozambique’s northern province of Nampula. “The rehabilitated small water supply system will provide clean drinking water for the 15,000 people living in the area. It has seven new water stan ...
• Water mismanagement threatens Moroccan oasis
  “Tucked away in Morocco’s high Atlas mountains the vast oasis of Errachidia, among the most beautiful in the south of the country, is today threatened by bad management. “I dug four wells before finding water. Around me, the neighbours have no water. Before, there was water eve ...
• Water will run out in 9 days for Sudan refugee ...
    Water will run out in just nine days for tens of thousands of refugees who have fled from Sudan into South Sudan, overwhelming the few camps in a parched stretch of Upper Nile state, the aid agency Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. Many of the exhausted refugees are dying from diarrhe ...
• Toxic algae forces water sports ban at Llangor ...
  “Water sports have been banned at a lake in Powys after toxic blue-green algae was identified. “Possible side effects of the toxins include skin rashes, eye irritation, vomiting fever, diarrhoea and muscle pain. “The location of the algae is caused by the conditions, such as wi ...

D. Kucinich

• The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...
• FirstEnergy’s “Snow Job” Puts Safety at Major ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today warned on the House Floor about FirstEnergy’s “Snow Job” attempt to blame cracking at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Northern Ohio on a blizzard in 1978. Kucinich reminded colleagues that this dubious claim is only the latest in a long line of pro ...
• Like the Davis-Besse Shield Building Wall, Fir ...
  Tomorrow, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will issue a report that formally accepts FirstEnergy’s explanation of the cause of the cracking in the shield building wall at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant--that the cracking was caused, during the blizzard of 1978, by moisture “driven into the ...
• Kucinich: We Remain Committed to Keeping Inner ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after reports that the City of Cleveland was not successful in its bid for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant to help fund the construction of the second Innerbelt Bridge. “While disapp ...
• Kucinich, 12 Members of Congress Introduce Leg ...
  Washington D.C. (June 19, 2012) – Thirteen Members of Congress led by Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) today introduced legislation to provide a full scientific analysis of the potential health threats to communities affected by mountaintop mining. H.R. 595 ...

Authentically Wired

• Appears foreigners find the USA a good place t ...
   www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
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• How to Tell if Your Favorite Companies Are Tru ...
   www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
• Pass Bill to Insure Iran Oil Imports
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• WHAT’S FOR LUNCH…?
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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Kiwi breakthrough in search for life on Mars
  Martian lifeforms could be hiding under the surface of the Red Planet's atmosphere, according to ground-breaking research led by a New Zealand scientist.Canterbury University geologist Dr Christopher Oze believes evidence of life...
• Kiwi scientist's team has breakthrough in moto ...
  A New Zealand professor is leading a team of scientists which has made a breakthrough in a global project to cure motor neuron disease.Professor Chris Shaw, formerly of Wellington, works with researchers at King's College in London...
• 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
• Nicola Power: Schools banning hugging are sadl ...
  Outlawing healthy contact ignores social and personal benefits, writes Nicola Power. It was with regret that I listened to a television news report of another school banning hugging during school time. This ban was seemingly pre...
• Pilotless spacecraft back after 469 days
  Boeing's second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed in California after a 469-day mission by the US Air Force to test the capabilities of reusable unmanned vehicles for space missions.The pilotless spacecraft, which was launched from...

The Bovine

• Woman sues city of Tulsa for cutting down her ...
  From Lori Fullbright, on Oklahoma’s Own: “TULSA, Oklahoma - A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in … Continue reading →
• We’ve got 10 times as many bacteria as w ...
  From Evan Rodgers on The Verge: “Would you be upset to know that you’re coated in bacteria and other microorganisms from head to foot? According to the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), the average adult human’s genome is quite small compared … Continue reading →
• Lessons from the fight over an attempt at comp ...
  From Barbara Loe Fisher, on Mercola.com “This month, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) joins with our Health Liberty partners to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Health Liberty Coalition by Mercola.com. For many years, NVIC and … Continue reading ...
• Radioactive rain in Calgary, religious fervour ...
  From Michael Platt in the Calgary Sun: “There’s no need to panic — probably. But not knowing whether to shrug or cower over radioactive iodine falling on Calgary as a result of a meltdown in Japan last year has Canada’s … Continue reading →
• Bureaucrats & FDA vs local sovereignty ordinan ...
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Two more Maine towns—Appleton and Livermore– have passed food sovereignty ordinances in the last few days during the current town meeting season. This brings to eight the total number that have legally sanctioned … Continue ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Lagarde Shows True Colors
  The Financial Times says IMF challenges Berlin’s crisis response The International Monetary Fund on Thursday challenged Berlin’s game plan for pulling the eurozone out of its crisis by advocating a series of short-term fixes that the German government has resisted. Christine Lagarde, th ...
• 12 Reasons US Recession Has Arrived (Or Will S ...
  I am amused by the Shadow Weekly Leading Index Project which claims the probability of recession is 31%. I think it is much higher. When the NBER, the official arbiter of recessions finally backdates the recession, May or June of 2012 appear to be likely months. Let's take a look at why. ...
• Monti Begs Germany to Stabilize Interest Rates ...
  The G-20 summit is over. As expected, the two-day summit produced nothing but bickering. On day one, European Commission president Jose Barroso kicked things off by sniping at a Canadian reporter and blaming the US for Europe's problems. UK Independent Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage ...
• China Manufacturing PMI 7-Month Low, Sharpest ...
  The global economy continues to slow led by Europe and China. The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI is at a 7-month low. Moreover manufacturers report the sharpest decline in new export orders since March 2009. Key points Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ at 48.1 (48.4 in May). 7-month ...
• Nigel Farage: "EC president Jose Barroso is a ...
  Those needing a laugh today need only listen to another rant from UKIP leader Nigel Farage who says "Listen! The Whole Thing's a Giant Ponzi Scheme!" Select Quotes "EC president Jose Barroso is a delusional idiot and was a supporter of Chairman Mao" "America, you are not to ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 30, 2012
  BFP Nightly Quote “Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our b ...
• Pentagon Consolidates Control over Balkans
  Getting Closer to New Theaters of War By Rick Rozoff Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkan region. The milit ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 29, 2012
  BFP Nightly Quote “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthlessness will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on ...
• Bill Conroy’s Narco News: Mexican President Ca ...
  Los Pinos Retains Las Vegas-Based R&R Partners to Promote Government’s Successes as the Bloody Drug War Rages On The administration of Felipe Calderón has retained a politically connected US advertising and public relations firm to promote the political and economic agenda of the Mexic ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• The Post-Panamax’s Are Coming: U.S. Explores O ...
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on Wednesday submitted to Congress it’s awaited “U.S. Port and Inland Waterways Modernization” report as the U.S. prepares for an increase in post-panamax vessels.  [...]
• Interview with Pankaj Khanna, Chief Marketing ...
  I met up with Pankaj Khanna, Chief Marketing Officer at Ocean Rig UDW at Marine Money in New York this week.   Ocean Rig (ORIG:NASDAQ) owns 9 offshore drilling vessels, [...]
• Bourbon Lands Financing to Help With 144-Ship ...
  French offshore supply shipowner Bourbon Offshore said Thursday that it has landed 420 million euros in new financing to help with the company’s massive newbuild program. The deal has given [...]
• Weekly Piracy Report: What Happened to the Mon ...
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• Qatar Shipping Secures $110 Million in Financi ...
  Qatar Shipping SPC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Milaha (Qatar Navigation QSC), has secured a ten year US $110 million ship financing facility with QNB. Proceeds from the facility will [...]

Press TV

• 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.
• ‘Iran ready for talks if N-rights asserted’
  A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic is ready to proceed with negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) if its nuclear rights are asserted.
• US-led nasty alliance behind Syria unrest
  US media has confirmed finally that the CIA is helping armed gangs in Syria, operating out of Turkey with weapons smuggled through Turkey.
• A decade of spending cuts for Britain
  The British people are to face spending cuts for a decade as a senior British official has said the austerity measures could last beyond the next national election until 2020.
• Baku, Ashgabat lock horns over oilfield
  Tensions have heightened between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over resumption of oil exploration in a disputed oil-rich section of the Caspian Sea.

SciDev.net

• Sustainable energy budgets must increase, says ...
  The Global Energy Assessment, launched at Rio+20, has warned that an extra half billion dollars is required to limit global warming.
• Overcoming obstacles to GM crop adoption
  Careful assessment and policies on genetically modified crops could contribute to agricultural development and food security.
• Climate change threatens Botswana's main touri ...
  A study of forecasted climate change impacts on the Okavango Delta has called for the urgent introduction of a national adaptation policy.
• Anti-desertification plan gets official launch ...
  Africa, Brazil and France are coming together to tackle desertification, and have presented their first concrete actions at Rio+20 this week.
• Carbon payments 'could help enrich African soil'
  Paying farmers to sequester carbon could do more to improve soil quality than the fertiliser subsidies currently offered, say researchers.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
  Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
• Pint sized rocket
  A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
• Seeing Around the Corner
  Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
• Drugs in sewage
  Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
• Messages from Mercury
  The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

• Knight News Challenge Round 2: "Where are the ...
  Knight News Challenge Round 2: "Where are the Women At" Database: newschallenge: 1. What do you...
• pulitzercenter:Nujood Ali was 10 when she fl ...
  pulitzercenter: Nujood Ali was 10 when she fled her abusive, much older husband and took a taxi to the courthouse in Sanaa, Yemen. The girl’s courageous act — and the landmark legal battle that ensued — turned her into an international heroine for women’s rights. Image by Stephanie Sinclair. Y ...
• "When it comes to the pursuit of enhanced ener ...
  “When it comes to the pursuit of enhanced energy independence, Obama has embraced the...
• "When the police are violent against activists ...
  “When the police are violent against activists, journalists tend to frame it as though there...
• life:On this day in LIFE Magazine — June 13, ...
  life: On this day in LIFE Magazine — June 13, 1969: The LIFE Poll: Science and Sex