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Monday, June 25, 2012

25 - June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Md. man found guilty in renewable energy scheme
Boston.com
A Maryland man accused of selling millions of dollars in fraudulent renewable energy credits was convicted Monday on all 42 counts against him, including ...
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PRNewswire/ -- Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: EWRL) is pleased to provide an update on recycling operations at its Highland Park, ...
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Beyond Rio: Pursuing 'Ecological Citizenship'
New York Times (blog)
A philosopher explores a possible role for the United Nations in fostering "ecological citizenship."
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Ecology Youth Corps heads to the highways to clean up litter
Access Washington
Department of Ecology News Release - June 25, 2012 ... But that participation has dropped off and the need is back for the Ecology Youth Corps (ECY) crews in ...
WA Ecology Department cleaning up tsunami debris
The Seattle Times
The state Ecology Department is deploying three six-member Conservation Corps crews to help clean up tsunami debris on the state's coastal beaches.
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High court grants Georgia water-wars victory
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday secured metro Atlanta's claim to water from Lake Lanier, handing Georgia an enormous legal victory in the tri-state water ...
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Water polo squad looking to Rio
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'Water polo squad looking to Rio' on Yahoo! Eurosport UK. London 2012 will be a stepping stone towards Rio in 2016 for Team GB men's water polo squad, ...
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Flooding cuts BC highway access and drinking water supply
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Flash flooding near Sicamous, B.C., has washed out Highway 97A in two places, damaging several vehicles and cutting off road access and drinking water ...
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  • Syrian violence rises as UN stands down
    The monitors' decision on Saturday was the clearest sign yet that a peace plan brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan had collapsed after repeated violations by Assad's forces and rebels backing a Sunni-led revolt across the country.
  • Alawite fortress and Sunni wasteland in Homs
    The view from the rooftops makes the balance of power clear. In some neighborhoods, cars and people scurry about. In others, only the scarred shells of empty homes remain. After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, the center of Syria’s 15-month-old revolt against Pr ...
  • Saudi iceberg tip of human rights violations
    It was recently announced that a number of Iranian prisoners, after five years of incarceration in Saudi Arabia, were beheaded for alleged involvement in drug trafficking. It was not possible to certify that these prisoners were in fact drug traffickers. The exact number of Iranians who were ...
  • China stimulates, braces for European crisis
    Beijing is fearful that violent class and inter-state conflicts are emerging in Europe. A key comment by the Communist Party’s People’s Daily warned: “Fundamentally, Europe is facing a problem of systemic integration and survival. Overcoming the crisis depends on whether the debt-ridden countri ...
  • Is Barack Obama morphing into Dick Cheney ?
    As details of his administration’s global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords have become more widely known—a war that involves a mélange of drone attacks, covert operations, and presidentially selected assassinations—President Obama has been compared to President George W. ...

Independent - London

  • Indian authorities say they have arrested man ...
    The authorities in Delhi say they have arrested an Indian citizen accused of helping to plot the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It raises the prospect that investigators may finally be able to answer many outstanding questions about the militant attack that left more than 160 people dead.Related StoriesPa ...
  • Cyprus seeks European bailout
    Cyprus became the fifth eurozone country to request financial aid from its partners in the European currency union as it struggles to shore up its banks, which took heavy losses on Greek debt.Related StoriesSpain requests EU aid as market hopes dimFrance faces £8bn budget shortfallFocus on Iran' ...
  • Uganda landslides destroy three villages
    Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials said today.Related StoriesFrom prisoner to president: Islamist wins Egyptian voteGaddafi's PM is extraditedFr ...
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urge ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday it was time to ramp up sanctions against Iran to try to curb its nuclear programme after discussing the matter with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Related StoriesSpain requests EU aid as market hopes dimFrance faces £8bn budget ...
  • New Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi faces st ...
    New Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi has moved first thing into the office once occupied by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak and started work on forming a government.Related StoriesFrom prisoner to president: Islamist wins Egyptian voteGaddafi's PM is extraditedFrom prisoner to president: I ...

Rogue Government.com

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    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Eau de Novel: Book-scented perfume gives eRead ...
    eReader adoptees who miss the nostalgic niff of real paper books, can now coat their Kindles and Nooks in Paper Passion, a perfume that bottles the very scent of bookshops. The Paper Passion fragrance captures the odour of a freshly printed book, its maker claims, so if you share the late Ray ...
  • Would Finding Aliens Shatter Religious Beliefs?
    Santa Clara, California - The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity's place in the universe, but it probably wouldn't seriously threaten organized religion, experts say. Religious faith remains strong in much of the world despite scientific advances showing that Ear ...
  • Electric Blue Noctilucent Clouds
    Last night, 82 km above Earth's surface where our planet's atmosphere meets the vacuum of space, a ray of sunlight hit a wispy, rippling bank of icy noctilucent clouds (NLCs). They lit up, glowing electric-blue, producing this apparition over Queensferry, Scotland: "A stitch of 2 images shows ...
  • Strange Night-Shining Clouds Captured in Space ...
    Delicate, shining threads of white seem alienlike against the darkness of space in a new image of a type of "night-shining" or noctilucent cloud taken from the International Space Station (ISS) and released today (June 25). More specifically, these polar mesospheric clouds (a type of noctilucen ...
  • US-CERT Warns of Intel CPU Flaw
    The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has released an advisory note warning users that Intel CPUs are vulnerable to a privilege escalation hack when running 64-bit operating systems. Intel blames the vulnerability on a software implementation issue and that its processors are run ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A politics of bombers and bars
    About 70 years ago, thousands of Allied aircrew packed themselves in to large, slow moving and vulnerable bombers, flew over German cities and dropped incalculable numbers of high explosive and incendiary bombs on industrial and residential areas. The aim of this campaign, no secret here, was th ...
  • Censorship?
    YA GOTTA WONDER. Time Magazine's December 5, 2011, Vol. 178, No. 22 cover.
  • Illusions and perspective . . .
    BIRTHERS, BAGGERS and all sorts of wackos from Hannity to Limbaugh have turned US politics into the sort of sanity observed in midget wrestling. It seems that reality for the US voter is based on an illusion as you see above, courtesy of Connect-the-dots-usa. The egalitarian Republic is ...
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    KIRBYCAIRO'S blog posting is one of the best overviews of the problem facing the Liberals  that I have had the pleasure of reading. Gets to the hard-core center of the Liberal problem. See what the man has to say: Look for Solutions to the Real crisis or continue in Irrelevance. . ..
  • Our Dawg in this fight . . .
    DAWG PUTS THE BITE ON BIGOTS: according to the Winnipeg Free Press, "Ontario court orders blog-based libel case to trial". TORONTO - A right-wing political commentator should face trial for referring to a blogger as a Taliban supporter during a heated online exchange, the Ontario Cour ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Side With Pro-Romney Forces I ...
    Right-wing media are touting a Washington Post Fact Checker article alleging that the Obama campaign "failed to make its case" in a new ad claiming that Romney "shipped jobs" overseas. But a different Post article pointing to data from the Securities and Exchange Commission has affirmed that Ba ...
  • Fox News Botches Basic Facts About Food Stamp ...
    Fox News attacked the food stamp program for its increasing enrollment and costs, accused the program of facilitating fraud, and expressed astonishment that states are rewarded for increasing enrollment. However, enrollment in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) increased due to th ...
  • REPORT: Media Overwhelmingly Focus On Rulings ...
    A majority of federal rulings on the substance of President Obama's health care reform law have found it to be constitutional, including the law's mandate that individuals purchase health insurance. But a Media Matters review of the five largest newspapers and the flagship C ...
  • Rove Touts His Super PAC's Record While Fact-C ...
    In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Fox News contributor Karl Rove touted the campaign ads issued by his Crossroads GPS super PAC, claiming they are "highlighting the shortcomings" of President Obama's policies. But Rove groups have a history of issuing ads and statements that have ...
  • Myths And Facts About Natural Gas
    Natural gas can help the U.S. transition away from reliance on coal in the near-term if it is produced responsibly. But conservative media have dismissed the risks involved with the rapid spread of natural gas extraction to push for deregulation, attack the Obama administration, and ignore the ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT
    The following story on the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT Enbridge says public data don’t back up spill concerns As the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...
  • At Energy Future Holdings, Failure Pays Well f ...
    If you think that bonuses are supposed to reward success, you’re not alone, but the reality is more bizarre.  While Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas continues its downward spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s handing out millions in bonuses to its executives. The bonuses are called rete ...
  • Rolling Blackouts? There’s an app for that!
    The Texas electric grid operator (ERCOT) has introduced an app for smartphones intended to alert Texas users about emergencies to the electric grid that could trigger rolling blackouts.  This alert system would urge consumers to conserve energy during those times. In the midst of last summer’s r ...
  • Diesel exhaust causes cancer according to the WHO
    Diesel exhaust causes cancer, declared the World Health Organization’s cancer agency earlier this week. The new classification was released by an expert panel organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer arm of the World Health Organization. In 1989, the agency ...
  • Another Bailout for Big Business?
    Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas might be looking for a handout – from you. Back in January, Moody’s changed Energy Future Holdings Corp’s rating outlook to negative and made it impossible to ignore what anyone who had been paying attention to the company’s ...

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  • Uprooting GM Crops with Creole Seeds
    Subheadline:  MCP shows Brazilian farmers a better way brazil-creole_seed_saving.jpg In rural areas like Seu Lazaro’s community in the state of Goiás, Brazil, vendors of ge ...
  • New report sites water crisis in Gaza
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Climate

  • Arctic Ice Caps May Be More Prone to Melt
    (ClimateWire) Today, the Arctic is synonymous with "cold." But a new study suggests the polar region has experienced periods of intense warmth over the past 2.8 million years that may have been hot enough to melt the Greenland ice shee ...
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    (New York Times) Burdened by low expectations, snarled by endless traffic congestion and shunned by President Obama, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ended here as it began, under a shroud of withering criticism ...
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    (The Paramus Post) On Sunday morning the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) began running TV spots in key states — VA, TN, NC, OH, PA, MO and in DC — asking viewers to tell their Senators "hat defending the EPA's ability to reduce ...
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GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
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Booman Tribune

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  • SCOTUS: Total Betrayal of Democracy
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Environmental Graffiti

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    A new devlopment in Singapore aims to transofrm an urban jungle into a far greener one, leaving an enduring legacy of sustainable design. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    We use windows to see the world outside, but sometimes they are worth looking at for themselves, especially when they're such a vibrant color. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Spices with Incredible Healing Power
    Even if you aren't into spicy food, the amazing healing powers of spices and herbs are so incredible, you may start sprinkling some extra zest on your French fries. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
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  • Bilderberg conference, evil Prince Bernhard, t ...
    In the aftermath of the infamous Bilderberg Conference, I would like to throw this essay out there about the long arc of everything from the Hanseatic League to the European Common Market and European Union. It's jumping off from an old book, The Thousand Year Conspiracy, published during WWII w ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • The Lineup: Week of June 25-July 1, 2012
    William Barclay explains why we need a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.
  • A Radioactive Conflict of Interest
    Having the Energy Department manage radiation health research makes as much sense as giving tobacco companies the authority to see if smoking is bad for you.
  • Celebration and Relief in Egypt
    Many of the secular activists and organizations who had played such a central role in the Arab Spring uprising came together with the Muslim Brotherhood in a unified front to challenge the military's continuing seizure of power.
  • Letter From Financial Industry Professionals i ...
    As individuals with first-hand knowledge and significant experience in the financial industry, we urge you to introduce small financial transaction taxes (FTTs).
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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #751
    Ex-CIA officer remembers his KGB rival. NSA won't reveal how many Americans it spied on. Russian scientist who 'spied for China' freed.
  • CIA helping Turkey, Saudi Arabia, smuggle weap ...
    A growing team of United States Central Intelligence Agency personnel is currently in Turkey overseeing a multinational effort to secretly deliver weapons to Syrian anti-government rebels, according to The New York Times.
  • News you may have missed #750 (US edition)
    US spy agency launches new satellite. FBI takes on larger domestic intelligence role. CIA declassifies 9/11 documents.
  • US and Israel behind computer virus that hit I ...
    Flame, a sophisticated computer malware that was detected last month in computers belonging to the Iranian National Oil Company and Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum, was created by Israel and the United States, according to a leading American newspaper.
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    Why did CIA Director secretly visit Czech Republic? Jordan's ex-spy chief on trial for corruption. CIA still refuses to comment on Predator drone attacks.

War is a Crime.org

  • Vermont Can Lead The Way
    http://www.workerscenter.org/vermontcanleadtheway Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter “The Vermont Workers’ Center is doing exactly the kind of grassroots organizing that needs to happen across America. At a time when the middle class is shrinking and poverty is growing and the very wealthy h ...
  • Amtrak and the TSA
    by Wendy Thomson With the May 30th passing of Rep. Jackie Speier’s legislation allowing the TSA to share data with all manner of ground transportation, the question comes to mind, what’s next? Will we be assaulted every time we try to travel from point A to point B, no matter by what means? ...
  • U.S. Military Immunity for Raping Japanese Wom ...
    Video report from 60 Minutes.
  • We've Been Warned
    From Haaretz: A senior Israeli official recently told Reuters that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to attack Iran before the U.S. elections in November. read more
  • Obama's War on Democracy
      Obama's War on Democracy   by Stephen Lendman   In June 2009, Obama orchestrated Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's ouster. A US supported fascist despot replaced him.    For good reason, Honduras is called the murder capital of the world. Independent journalists ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Panic in the New World Order
    Lew Rockwell – by Gary North For the first time in my career, I see the international establishment, sometimes called the New World Order, facing a crisis so large that its very survival is at stake. For the first time, these people are scared. There are not many of them. In his book, Superclass ...
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    by Michel Chossudovsky Syria has been accused of downing a Turkish fighter jet in international waters, leading to a new round of threats from Washington and Brussels. Beneath the media hype pertaining to possible action against Syria by Turkey and NATO, Turkey’s network TV suggests a diff ...
  • Genetically Modified Grass Kills Cattle By Pro ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Another report of genetically modified creations taking the lives of livestock has hit the media, and this time genetically modified grass has been identified as the culprit according to CBS News. Shockingly (and quite disturbingly), the GM grass actually produced ...
  • The Nightmare Scenario
    3. There is a surplus of human beings in the eyes of the bankers and governments. It is easy to be glib and say there is a population problem because sex is more fun than dying. But one can look at the vast expanses of empty land across the globe and realize that the issue [...]

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • HOW TO: Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit
    Avocados are one of the wonderful fruits of summer. High in nutrition and flavor, nothing signals the start of summer like a zesty lime guacamole dip with tortilla chips. The next time you’re making guacamole or slicing an avocado for a salad, try saving your pits to grow into avocado trees. It’ ...
  • University of Maryland Team Sets New Human-Pow ...
    A team of 40 researchers and students at the University of Maryland’s Department of Aerospace Engineering set a new world record for a flight time set by a human-powered helicopter. Actually, they destroyed it — an earlier Maryland team, Gamera I, had set the record of 11.4 seconds, but th ...
  • VIDEO: Inhabitat Lighting Makeover – Inhabitot ...
    If you read our enlightening “how to switch to LED bulbs” tutorial, you’ve hopefully already seen how much money and energy you can save by replacing your incandescent bulbs, but we wanted to make it even clearer how easy and effective a home light bulb makeover can be. We head ...
  • Shelter ByGG is a Red Cloud-Shaped Cocoon Made ...
    ‘Shelter ByGG‘ may look like a giant red cloud sitting on the street, but it’s really a cozy cocoon-like shelter made of renewable cork ! Gabriela Gomes sent us news about her design, which she describes as an experimental habitable module that can be placed in any empty city s ...
  • GHOST Is the First Super-Cavitating Ship That ...
    It is said that creating a super-cavitating craft is as challenging as breaking the sound barrier, but that is exactly what Juliet Marine Systems have done. The vessel, called GHOST, is a combination aircraft and boat that has been designed to fly through an artificial underwater gaseous environ ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Have Your Genome Made Into a Piece of Art
    A cheek swab of your DNA can do more than test your genome for ancestry, defects or predisposition to disease. Now it can be turned into a beautiful piece of art for your wall.
  • What NASA’s Next Mars Rover Will Discover
    Preview NASA's new Mars mission and the first discoveries it hopes to make after the rover lands on the Red Planet in a little more than a month.
  • Alan Turing’s Legacy Lives On
    When the history books of the future are written, Alan Turing will go down in the company of Newton and Darwin and Einstein. Wired looks at some of the highlights of his extraordinary legacy.
  • Canine Coworkers: Wired’s Best Friends
    Take note bosses: Allowing dogs in the workplace may be the cheapest way to get more from your employees. Even dogless workers can benefit from the presence of a colleague's pooch in the office. And take it from the dogs, coming to work makes them happy too. To celebrate Take Your Dog to Work Da ...
  • New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess wi ...
    Jessica Fournier has a job that makes poor use of her talents. She spends her days stocking sneakers at a warehouse outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. A decade ago she was an astrophysics student at Michigan State University, where she coauthored a paper on RR Lyrae, a low-mass star that pulsates l ...

PakAlert

  • Giant Crystal Pyramid Discovered In Bermuda Tr ...
    The Bermuda Triangle: mysterious, unworldly, sometimes deadly. For decades intrepid researchers delved into the maze of mysteries hidden deep within this most enigmatic place on Earth. Some speculate the bizarre time anomalies, disappearances and weird phenomena can be explained by natural oc ...
  • How US And Israel Are Preparing For A Possible ...
    Israel continues to "prepare all other options" for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, as diplomatic talks go nowhere, according to Reuters. Talk of a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Iran has waned recently, but talk of U.S.-Israel cyberattackshas taken its place. U.S. defense ...
  • New World Order Blueprint Leaked
    a leaked copy of the investment chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was made public. This copy was analyzed by Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and has been verified as authentic. This agreement has been negotiated IN SECRET for 2-1/2 years and no information has ever been relea ...
  • Newly-supplied Russian Pantsyr-1 anti-air miss ...
    To ambush the Turkish Air Force F-4 Super Phantom Friday, June 22, over Latakia Syria used Russian-made self-propelled medium range anti-air Pantsyr-1 missiles recently supplied by Moscow (not as first reported anti-air Buk-M2 missiles). This weapon can down aircraft flying at altitudes up to 12 ...
  • Top 10 Dangerous Toothpaste Ingredients‏
    Even though toothpaste (in some form or another) has been around as long as the Ancient Greeks have, the formula (as we know it) did not become popular until World War I. As soon as companies began manufacturing toothpaste, people began to purchase the magical concoction – guaranteed to produce ...

Andy Worthington

  • Bring Omar Khadr Home: His Lawyers Demand His ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Andy Worthington’s Photos on Flickr: Pro ...
    Protest 2012 – Guantánamo, Aafia Siddiqui and Shaker Aamer, a set on Flickr. Since setting up my new Flickr account last week, I’ve posted three sets of photos from my US tour in January, to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison & ...
  • Still No Accountability for Torture
    Last week, the bad news from the Supreme Court was not just manifested in the court’s decision to abdicate its responsibilities towards the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by turning down appeals submitted by seven of the 169 men still held, although that was a dreadful decision, e ...
  • Britain’s Tax Avoidance Scandal and Davi ...
    When David Cameron responded to a Times investigation into offshore tax avoidance schemes, which found that around 1,000 individuals — including the comedian Jimmy Carr, and other celebrities, including musicians and sports stars — were paying as little as 1% of their earnings in tax ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: San Francisco and Chicago ...
    San Francisco and Chicago, January 2012, a set on Flickr. Earlier this week, I posted the first two sets of photos on my new Flickr account. The first set was of of my wanderings in New York in January, at the start of my two-week US tour to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Documents: Neo-Nazi Murderer J.T. Ready Detain ...
    J.T. Ready, the neo-Nazi border vigilante who killed himself and four others in a domestic dispute in May, was twice caught forcibly detaining immigrants in the Arizona desert last year, but federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against him, according to newly released documents. The doc ...
  • Hate Group Leader to Serve as California State ...
    Gary Kreep, a longtime antigovernment activist, “birther” and hate group leader who uses anti-Obama rhetoric as a proxy for anti-Muslim hate, has emerged victorious in a tight race for a seat on San Diego’s Superior Court, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Kreep, who received the San Diego Co ...
  • YWC Leaders Stay Active, Despite Recent Events
    It’s been a few months since Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) president Kevin DeAnna stepped down in February from the far-right campus organization that has some problematic associations with white nationalists. Since then, and since the group’s appearance at the Conservative Political Acti ...
  • Former Congressman Tancredo to Address White S ...
    Tom Tancredo has no more secrets. The former Republican congressman from Colorado, known for his biting anti-immigration rhetoric and campaign ads suggesting Latino immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, is scheduled to be the luncheon speaker at next month’s annual conference for the white su ...
  • Alaska Militiamen Convicted in Antigovernment ...
    In the end, a federal jury in Alaska didn’t believe militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox’s claim that he was just a free-speech loudmouth — more like Gandhi than Rambo — and convicted him of heading a conspiracy to murder a judge and law enforcement officials. The jury also convicted Lonnie Vern ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Jimmy Carter: US Foreign Policy Since 9/11 Has ...
    In a scathing op-ed in Monday's New York Times, former US president Jimmy Carter issued a sharp rebuke against a series of Obama administration policies and positions that he described as an affront to human rights and argued are helping to create a US foreign policy that "abets our ene ...
  • Sudan Cracks Down as Protests Over Austerity Grow
    Raging against austerity measures and calling for an end to dictatorship, people across Sudan have staged 9 days of protests. read more
  • Climate Change: Waiting for a Catastrophic Wak ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO - Disasters are the new midwives of history. But in order to play this role, they need to be catastrophic, like the accidents in Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 that led governments to suspend and even abolish their nuclear energy programs. ...
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Life With ...
    In a Supreme Court decision today, judges ruled 5-4 that juveniles convicted of homicide can not be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. The decision written by Justice Elena Kagan stated, "Mandatory life without parole for a juvenile precludes consideration of his chronolog ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Citizens United; Tighten ...
    In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court has struck down (pdf) Montana's 100 year old law that banned direct corporate political campaign spending in state and local elections. The court reversed a lower court ruling, but did so without allowing full briefing or argument in the case. ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Bung Mokhtar slams Penang port privatization: ...
    KUALA LUMPUR– A senior Umno backbencher accused the Najib administration today of favouring Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary in government procurement, saying the logistics tycoon is “like a king.”
  • Mindanao water districts say no to privatizati ...
    SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – Water utilities all over Mindanao are against the plan to reorganize and privatize the water districts in the country. Engr. Benjamin R. Ensomo Jr., chair of the Mindanao Association of Water Districts (MAWD) and general manager of Surigao Metropolitan Water Di ...
  • Economists upbeat on privatization strategy
    RIYADH, 7 June — The privatization drive is to accelerate after the Supreme Economic Council approved a new economic strategy aimed at boosting the private sector and generating revenue to pay for the $168-billion public debt, economists said yesterday.
  • Water Well quality is worsening in New Jersey
    The DEP has released it latest update to testing results from the Private Well Testing Act. Between 2002 and 2009 over 62,600 wells were tested across the state. Unfortunately one out of every eight wells was in violation of...
  • Pa. Liquor Store Privatization Is Dead For Tim ...
    The Pennsylvania House majority leader now says efforts to pass legislation that would privatize the sale of wine and liquor in the Commonwealth is on hold until at least the fall.

Guardian

  • Mohamed Morsi spends first day in office in di ...
    Tahrir Square empty as Egypt's new president talks cabinet selection with generals, but many fear his powers are curtailedPresident-elect of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi, spent his first day in office on Monday locked in discussions with the military over choosing his cabinet, with an i ...
  • Economic climate has not affected views on glo ...
    Guardian/ICM poll reveals public perception of climate change remains consistent despite political shift during financial crisisThe cold financial climate of the last three years has made little impact on public attitudes towards global warming, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.As the world ...
  • Iranian pair face death penalty after third al ...
    Two people previously lashed 160 times for consuming alcohol, which is forbidden under Islamic Sharia lawTwo Iranians have been sentenced to death for persistent consumption of alcohol under the country's Islamic Sharia law, which forbids the use, manufacturing and trading of all types of alcoho ...
  • Syria shot at second Turkish jet, Ankara claims
    Turkey raises stakes over the downing of military jet claiming Syria also shot at one of its search and rescue planesTurkey has sharply raised the stakes in a military standoff with Syria, claiming one of its search and rescue planes was shot at as it attempted to find a Turkish jet that was sh ...
  • Cyprus seeks eurozone bailout
    Cyprus becomes fifth eurozone country to ask for outside financial help after it is caught in backwash of Greek crisisCyprus has become the fifth eurozone country to seek outside financial help to shore up its ailing economy after a day of heavy selling on financial markets prompted by fear that ...

McClatchey

  • Teen page an open book on months she spent wor ...
    Catherine Wolfe is safely home after four months in what many Americans consider one of the most dysfunctional places in the nation. Wolfe, 17, a new senior at Tacoma, Wash.'s…Click to Continue »
  • Jean Schulz: why 'Peanuts' has staying power
    Jean Schulz, the widow of Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, works to preserve the legacy of her husband, whom she calls Sparky.She married Schulz in 1973; his second marriage. The couple…Click to Continue »
  • Credit card 'cloning' is a growing form of ide ...
    Lexington, Kentucky, financial crimes detective Gene Haynes swiped a credit card through an innocuous black card reader known as a "skimmer." Less than a second later, two lines of illuminating…Click to Continue »
  • Mother of Missouri girl found in barricaded cl ...
    In an apartment that reeked of urine, a Kansas City police officer called out. Is anyone in here? Neighbors had said not a soul was home. But a tiny voice…Click to Continue »
  • Across pop culture, it’s the summer of lu ...
    Men are being sexualized at a breathless rate this summer, beyond the usual hypersexy Abercrombie & Fitch beefcake selling clothing while wearing little of it. (Over it.) Can you hear…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Walking To Mecca A Lavish Feast And A Run-In ...
    RFE/RL It was another week of stumbling into the unknown for a group of seven men attempting to make the long trek from Tajikistan to Mecca entirely by foot. "A rather uneasy encounter with the ...
  • Taliban bomb expert held in Afghanistan
    NATO security forces held a Taliban explosives expert believed to be responsible for many attacks against Afghan and coalition units, military officials said. The Taliban member led a bomb-attack ...
  • Canadian Afghan mission misrepresented in new book
    Canadian soldiers hand over Forward Fire Base Masum Ghar to U.S. forces in the Panjwaii district in Kandahar province in July 2011. Canadian Afghan mission is misrepresented in a new book: Strategic ...
  • Seven Pakistani soldiers beheaded by Afghan mi ...
    Peshawar: Pakistan said on Monday that seven soldiers were beheaded by Islamist militants who infiltrated from Afghanistan, lashing out at Kabul over cross-border attacks.The protests come with ...
  • Afghanistan Bomb Blast Kills Seven Soldiers
    Kabul, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) An Italian soldier and six Afghan policemen were killed and three others wounded by the explosion of a bomb and a rocket in the provinces of Herat and Uruzgan, military ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblowers Are Underpaid And Under Appreciated
    Washington, DC, attorney Steven N. Berk wrote the following in his blog, The Corporate Observer. He has generously given permission for us to repost it here: To many, whistleblowers are akin to lottery winners; just plain lucky. If you complain enough (like buying plenty of lottery tickets) you ...
  • IRS plans to retool its whistleblower program
    On Wednesday, the IRS announced a plan for a comprehensive review of its whistleblower program, working with both “internal and external shareholders” to produce a program that can evaluate whistleblower claims and make quicker payouts to whistleblowers. As a part of the review, the ...
  • U.S. Special Counsel Warns Agencies Not to Spy ...
    FDA Whistleblowers’ Complaint Sparks OSC Guidance Memo on Electronic Surveillance Today, U.S. Special Counsel Carolyn N. Lerner issued a formal memorandum that the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) sent to the Chief Information Officers and General Counsels of all executive departme ...
  • "The Garcetti Virus" and an erosion of whistle ...
    In Nancy M. Modesitt’s recent research article “The Garcetti Virus,” she explains how a doctrine known as the job duties exclusion has come to erode protections once afforded to whistleblowers. She explains that this doctrine allows the discharge of an individual who discovers ...
  • OSHA orders railroad to pay $800,000 to three ...
    This week, OSHA found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a major transporter of commodities based in Norfolk, Virginia, owed over $800,000 in damages to three whistleblowers. These actions are the most recent of a number of OSHA decisions against Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in the past year. OS ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Former Righthaven CEO Secretly Hires Lawyers F ...
    We'd pretty much thought that the Righthaven saga was over. After all, the company had gone into receivership back in December, and the court-appointed receiver had been auctioning off what little assets the company had in an attempt to satisfy all of the court-ordered attorneys' fees that Righ ...
  • Being Pissed Off Doesn't Mean You Have A Legal ...
    One of the common themes we see over and over again is people filing lawsuits just because they're upset about something (to a lesser extent, this also applies to DMCA takedowns). We just wrote about Judge Posner's shredding of Apple's patent litigation strategy, noting that just because you're ...
  • Some Facts & Insights Into The Whole Discussio ...
    I know we've written a few times now about David Lowery's now infamous shaming of an intern because she apparently doesn't give him enough of her money, but that story keeps getting attention. Thankfully, a lot of that attention comes in the form of people from all over the music business poppi ...
  • Miami Heat Owner Sues Blogger & Google Over 'U ...
    What is it with super rich sports owners and SLAPP suits? Remember Redskins owner Dan Snyder? Well here's a situation that seems even more ridiculous. Ranaan Katz is a minority owner of the Miami Heat, who just won the NBA championship. You might think he'd be pretty happy right now. Instea ...
  • Japan Criminalizes Unauthorized Downloads, Mak ...
    There's a fairly constant pattern in the world of copyright enforcement. The media companies claim that piracy is "destroying" their industries, although they never offer any independent evidence to back this up. They "demand" that governments "do something" -- by which they mean introduce har ...

VacTruth

  • Proof Armed Forces are Given Untested and Expe ...
    In October 2000 a letter was written to the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the introduction of the MMR vaccination containing the Schwarz measles, Urabe Am9 mumps and Wistar RA27/3 rubella strains, as mandatory in 1998 to examine the vaccine's efficiency. On ...
  • New Vaccine Protects Against This Unpleasant A ...
    It seems some market-dressed pig meat, a.k.a. pork, gives off an unpleasant aroma, boar taint, which farmers and U.S. veterinarians want to control. Question: Aren’t pigs supposed to be pigs and smell?
  • Autism Brain Freezer Malfunction: “The Perfect ...
    Here is what destroyed a third of the world’s largest collection of autism brains, putting a huge damper on research.
  • Here is the Reason Your Child Should Not Be Nu ...
    Would you let your doctor inject your child if you knew a vaccine container has a 27% risk of microbial contamination? Read this article now and discover what other contaminants are in multi-dose vaccines.
  • Breaking News: Autism Ruling Hot Off Italian J ...
    What are the chances you will read this information about autism being caused by the MMR vaccine in an Italian youngster in the mainstream USA media, e.g., TV, newspapers, magazines, online? How about nil!

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Did the New York Times cover up the cause of A ...
    When heroes die, the institutions they represent sometimes feel driven to turn an avoidable tragedy into a final act of heroism. That’s what happened to Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. Did the New York Times journalist, Anthony Shadid, suffer the same fate? Shortly after his death in Syria, th ...
  • Morsi’s Fars News Agency interview
    Iran’s Fars News Agency reports on an interview with Egypt’s newly-elected president. (Note: The Guardian reports “Fars is linked to the revolutionary guards controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. But now the Islamic Republic News Agency, linked to President Mahmoud Ahmadin ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood tallies and keeping Egypt h ...
    At The Arabist, Bilal Ahmed writes: The most striking thing about these elections, and probably one of its most important lasting effects, is the accuracy of the independent tallies conducted by the Muslim Brotherhood and its political faction the Freedom and Justice Party. There is no other org ...
  • New York Times accused of killing Anthony Shadid
    Politico reports: Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporter who died in Syria this year, had heated arguments with his editors just prior to his final trip into the country, a cousin of Shadid’s says, and told his wife that were he to die the New York Times would b ...
  • Defections and downed Turkish jet worsen Syria ...
    The New York Times reports: Syria’s isolation deepened on Monday, hit by a rash of high-ranking military defectors who sought refuge in Turkey, new European Union sanctions and plans for an emergency NATO meeting over its shooting down of a Turkish warplane. Seeking to publicly justify the ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Tisdale: “Mercury rising”? “Greater L.A. to he ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale SkepticalScience recently published a post titled Mercury rising: Greater L.A. to heat up an average 4 to 5 degrees by mid-century. It’s a cross post of a UCLA press release with the same title. It … Continue reading →
  • An interesting graph showing solar cycle, El N ...
    Ian H. Bryce writes at Jo Nova’s website: The thing that intrigued me about the maximum temperatures is the high peaks, which occur at the peak of the odd solar cycles, and four other times, when we had strong El … Continue reading →
  • Throwing down the gauntlet on reproducibility ...
    After spending a year trying to get the data from the author without success, Nic Lewis has sent a letter to the editor of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and has written to me to ask that I bring attention to … Continue reading →
  • Don’t worry about the ickle birdies
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Rio de Janeiro “BUT what about the ickle birdies?” wailed the ancient, off-blonde representative of the planet’s indigenous peoples in the shapeless, grimy, crumpled eco-sackcloth shift that is de rigueur this season among the … Continue reading →
  • Another Stephan Rahmstorf sea level scare
    From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)  another Stephan Rahmstorf scare projection, so important they couldn’t even wait for it to be put on the NCC website before sending off this press release to Eurekalert (see weblink at … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Antiaging Protein Helps Set Daily Rhythms
    A protein famous for slowing aging and increasing life span also acts as a metronome, helping coordinate metabolism and the body’s daily rhythms. SIRT1, one of a group of proteins called sirtuins, plays roles in many cellular processes, including aging. Researchers hope that activating the prote ...
  • Using Parents’ Blood to Decode the Genom ...
    For the first time, scientists have deciphered the genome of a fetus using only DNA from the unborn child’s parents. The advance represents a significant step forward in the effort to create noninvasive genetic tests that could assess a wide array of genetic diseases. A small percentage of ...
  • Synthetic Biology Explained
  • Cancer: ‘Book of knowledge’ published
    The first volume of a “book of cancer knowledge” has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs. The “encyclopaedia” details how hundreds of different cancer cells respond to anti-cancer agents. UK, US and European researchers say t ...
  • Advances Suggest Possible Cures for Ebola and ...
    Ebola and its relatives, like Marburg virus, above, are considered among the most fearsome in nature. People infected with these long, wire-shaped filoviruses often bleed to death from every orifice, so the bugs make ideal villains for apocalyptic films like “Outbreak” and “28 Days Later.” The i ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Scientists Confirm 117th Element
    A Russian research team successfully reproduced its experiment to synthesize the 117th chemical element, paving the way for its formal addition to the periodic table.
  • Chinese Submersible Dives Below Record 7,000 M ...
    A manned Chinese submersible set a new record for the country’s deepest ever sea dive at over 7,000 meters (some 23,000 feet) on Sunday morning
  • ISS to Build Up Meteorite Defenses
    Russian cosmonauts will conduct a space walk in August during which they will install additional anti-meteorite panels on the International Space Station (ISS), cosmonaut Yury Malanchenko said on Friday.
  • New Space Station Crew Confirmed
    Space officials confirmed on Friday the line-up of a new mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of their launch next month.
  • Russia, Ireland Sign Space Cooperation Memorandum
    Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and Ireland’s National Space Center have signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation in space exploration.

Pruning Shears

  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: myths and talking points
    Part 1.Part 2.Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy’s article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I’m focusing on today. He writes: ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: how the movement could h ...
    Part 1.Since the recall was run as a conventional political campaign, instead of one grounded in the turmoil of last year, it’s fair to ask how the latter might have looked. Doug Henwood offered these thoughts:Suppose instead that the unions had supported a popular campaign - media, door ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: a movement sidelined
    The recall election in Wisconsin has produced a great deal of analysis, most of which seems to have highlighted the poll finding that 60% of voters thought a recall was only appropriate in cases of malfeasance. I have a hard time seeing that as being decisive, though. The biggest reason is tha ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Association Challenges Logic ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Nuclear Shutdown in Japan
    "We lost Japan," said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter. "I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in the future."Click here to read this article
  • Mid-South Producers Fight Regulations to Meet ...
    Consumer demand for "natural" meat produced without growth hormones or antibiotics is said to be growing so rapidly it is outstripping supply. But many of the farms that produce such meat are seeing only a trickle of the demand.Click here to read this article
  • Without Fukishima Scale Disaster National; Gov ...
    The difficulties in reaching an agreement on emissions reductions, made evident once again at Rio+20, could be solved by a climate disaster destructive enough to sensitize the international community. Click here to read this article
  • U.S. Consumers Say 'No' to Antibiotics in Food ...
    A U.S. consumer group is campaigning to get local supermarkets to sell only meat that has been raised without antibiotics.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • DOJ ain’t the new sheriff in town, after all
    Ask and you shall receive … In early April I wrote a blogpost lamenting the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice had not followed up on its nationwide “workshops” on competition in agricultural markets that were held throughout 2010. The lack of follow-up seemed a bold-faced betrayal of farm ...
  • Get by with a little health from my friends…
    In an uncharacteristic act of relative efficiency, the Senate debated 73 amendments and on Thursday, June 21, passed the bill in the span of three short days. And, believe it or not, the final bill is a little better for public health than it was three days ago.
  • Feeding the World, or What We Talk About When ...
    It sounds simple, doesn’t it, that all humans have a right to food and natural resources? After all, most of the world’s poor and hungry depend on agriculture for their survival—and yet, they bear a disproportionate burden of the planet’s degraded lands.
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iraqi Police Given Orders to Shut Down 44 Loca ...
    ShareThisIraqi Police Given Orders to Shut Down 44 Local and Foreign Media Agencies 23 Jun 2012 An official document has been obtained by the JFO, revealing that security forces in Iraq have received orders from the authorities to shut down the offices of 44 media agencies. Included are prominen ...
  • 4 NATO Service Members Killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis4 NATO Service Members Killed in Afghanistan 24 Jun 2012 NATO says four service members have died in southern Afghanistan in the past two days. The alliance says one service member died in an insurgent attack and another in a bomb blast on Saturday. The two other service members died Su ...
  • New Egyptian President Worked for NASA
    ShareThisNew Egyptian President Worked for NASA By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 26 Jun 2012 Egypt's president-elect, Mohammed Mursi, received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Southern California in 1982. He was an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northri ...
  • Supreme Court to rule Thursday on 'health care'
    ShareThisSupreme Court to rule Thursday on 'health care' 25 Jun 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court will rule Thursday on the constitutionality of the sweeping health care law insurance cartel giveaway championed by President Barack Obama. The stakes cannot be overstated -- what the justices decide will ...
  • Supreme Court upholds most controversial part ...
    ShareThisSupreme Court upholds most controversial part of Arizona immigration law 25 Jun 2012 The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the most controversial element of Arizona's immigration law, allowing the state to require police officers to enforce immigration laws. Three other provisions of the l ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Rep Rohrabacher to DOS and DOD June 13 2012
  • Good Report from Afghanistan
    21 June 2012 Reports come in daily from the military in Afghanistan.  Many have good news, but subsequent the MEDEVAC deceptions from the Army, I do not trust the current bunch and so do not bother publishing.  Yesterday, I asked Shem Klimiuk, an old Afghan hand from Australia (now in ...
  • Combat Camera For Sale
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/300728129820
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Suu Kyi addresses British Parliament
    Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday urged the world to help Burma complete its journey towards democracy, as she became the first foreign woman to address both houses of Britain's parliament
  • The Rohingya, myths and misinformation
    Much hot air has been expelled to debate the origins of the Rohingya since communal tensions erupted in late May and early June, but perhaps more telling is the now common refrain that they are “terrorists”
  • Fighting continues in Kachin state as peace ta ...
    The Kachin Independence Army and government forces are engaged in heavy fighting as the group’s political wing and the government’s Union Peace-making Work Committee held unofficial talks earlier this week
  • News journal loses defamation appeal
    The Voice will face criminal proceedings at the end of this month, after losing an appeal for defamation charges - brought by the Ministry of Mines over corruption allegations made against them in March
  • Immigration officials prevent conference atten ...
    Foreign investors paying top dollar to attend a Burmese investment summit have been sent home empty handed after immigration officials refused to grant them visas

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • ICTY prosecutor seeks 20-year sentence for for ...
    [JURIST] Prosecutors in the retrial of Ramush Haradinaj [materials; BBC profile], a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] commander and the former prime minister of Kosovo, on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website ...
  • Supreme Court strikes down Montana campaign fi ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday issued a per curiam opinion [text, PDF], striking down a century-old campaign finance law in Montana that restricts the amount of money corporations can spend on campaigns. In American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock [SCOTUSblog b ...
  • Uganda official: government not discriminating ...
    [JURIST] Ugandan Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo said [press release] last week that no "government official is bent to harass any section of the community and everybody in Uganda enjoys the freedom to lawfully assemble and associate freely with others." The statement cam ...
  • Rwanda genocide tribunal transfers case to nat ...
    [JURIST] The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] on Monday transferred [press release] the case of Aloys Ndimbati [case materials] to the authorities of the Republic of Rwanda. Ndimbati, a former local government official in Rwanda, has been charged [indictmen ...
  • Supreme Court takes 10 more cases for 2012 term
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in 10 cases. In the consolidated cases of Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center [docket; cert. petition, PDF] and Georgia-Pacific West v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center [docket; cer ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Jewish Federation Cancels Geller Speech
    TweetWonder of wonders, the Los Angeles Jewish Federation either understood the lunacy of hosting a lecture by Pam Geller, or they were embarrassed beyond belief by the Council for Islamic-American Relations press release that announced Geller’s public event, that was to be hosted by the f ...
  • Iran Should Get the Bomb: a Contrarian’s Delight
    TweetAll of us who are trying to make the world see reason about Iran’s alleged nuclear threat and the likelihood of war, pussyfoot around the idea of Iran actually getting a nuclear weapon.  What I love about this Foreign Affairs article by noted Columbia University international relation ...
  • Los Angeles Jewish Federation Hosts, Endorses ...
    TweetWell, now I’ve seen everything.  In the course of writing this blog, at various points I’ve made similar statements.  But invariably an even greater outrage occurs and I have to amend myself.  Tonight is such a time. CAIR’s daily press briefing reveals that the Los Angeles ...
  • Antiwar.com Publishes My New Expose on Iran180
    Tweet Some of you may be wondering why my pace of publishing has slowed of late.  The main reason is that Ben Doherty of Electronic Intifada and I were diligently pursuing the story of Iran180, that wild and wacky faux human rights group that smeared Iran using floats in which Mahmoud Ahmadineja ...
  • Half of U.S. Senate Calls on Obama to Cancel I ...
    TweetIf it were left to the U.S. Senate, Israeli and American air power would already be winging its way to Tehran to destroy Iran’s nuclear plants.  44 senators, including a considerable number of Democrats, wrote to the president that he should abandon the nuclear talks which recently co ...

If Americans Knew

  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The New Egypt - Two Economic Priorities for Po ...
    Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been elected president of Egypt after a long period of uncertainty as the announcement of official results kept being postponed. The chaotic post-election scene was a reflection of the absence of credible democratic institutions as well as the abs ...
  • Coke Continues its Nazi Link with Muhtar Kent
    Coke was the company that helped raise the morale of Nazi soldiers with Fanta. Now they spend a fortune to preserve the theft of Jewish property in Egypt and to claim Hitler was not acting illegally  (see Jewish Egyptian vs. Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent in Lifetime Struggle over Stolen Fa ...
  • The Economy on Edge - Beyond H-1B: Other Avenu ...
    Last Thursday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his new “softened� immigration plan, and called for lifting the cap on visas for high-skilled temporary workers. This year, the H-1B high-skilled worker visa cap was reached within two months after the application period opened. Cha ...
  • The New Egypt - Gaza Celebrates while Israel i ...
    The victory by a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in presidential elections in Egypt is raising concern in neighboring Israel. Israel says it respects the outcome of the democratic process in Egypt, in which Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi was elected president. A statement by the prime minister†...
  • Greece on Edge - Soup Kitchens now Daily Fare ...
    As Greece approaches five years of recession, the number of its citizens unable to provide food for themselves is increasing. Soup kitchens in Athens used to be the preserve of undocumented immigrants and the homeless, but now more people from the general population use them too. It's just befor ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • UPDATED: Supreme Court Backs Arizona On Most I ...
    This morning the Supreme Court told Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama that state police can indeed check the immigration status of people they stop a big win for the Arizona Immigration law but for the rule of law through out the country. It is also a setback to the Presiden ...
  • More on Brett Kimberlin-The Best Quotes From " ...
    By John Hawkins: I'm sure you've heard a great the SWAT-tings of conservative bloggers that are allegedly connected to Brett Kimberlin. Well, a book was written about Kimberlin's Speedway Bomber exploits and his claim to have sold pot to Dan Quayle. You can find the best excerpts from that ...
  • Dementia or Party Hack? Ed Koch Gets Fooled by ...
    Ed Koch former Mayor of NY used to be a "political hero"of mine because he would base his opinions/endorsements on what he thought was right or wrong with no regard to party.  That was the good old days. Today the Mayor acts the role of a  political hack, foolishly looking for a w ...
  • Too Bad Obama Didn’t Listen to His Rabbi About ...
    By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama’s view of Judaism, Zionism, and Israel was very much shaped by his liberal and left-wing Jewish contacts in Chicago, some of whom became key members of his entourage. Among these influential acquaintances was Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf. Wolf was of a typ ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Wants To Legalize Pot So Peo ...
    There has been rumors floating around that President Obama intends to legalize pot nation wide to help him out with the youth vote.  Now in an exclusive report from Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller, Obama's rationale for legalizing grass is his hope that if America gets stoned they will forget ...

The Real Agenda

  • Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all
    By LEWIS PAGE | THE REGISTER | JUNE 25, 2012 Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time – and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all. “P ...
  • “We are absolutely slaves to Central Ban ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 25, 2012 It hasn’t been a secret for long, but very few times do viewers watch or listen to guests on main stream media not only accepting the fact that we are all slaves who work for central bankers, but to admit it emphatically on US [...]
  • U.S. consumers say ‘No’ to antibiotics
    By MICHELLE GROENKE | UPI | JUNE 25, 2012 A U.S. consumer group is campaigning to get local supermarkets to sell only meat that has been raised without antibiotics. The campaign by Consumers Union, the public policy arm of Consumer Reports, coincides with the release of a study that su ...
  • América Latina infiltrada por Fascistas, Socia ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 22 JUNHO 2012 Os números e os tipos de socialistas, fascistas e corporativistas eleitos na América Latina tem crescido exponencialmente ao longo das últimas duas décadas, e assim também as massas de pessoas bem-intencionadas que acreditam em suas me ...
  • América Latina infiltrada por Fascistas, Socia ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 22 JUNIO 2012 Los números y tipos de Socialistas, Fascistas y Corporatistas electos en toda América Latina ha crecido exponencialmente en las últimas dos décadas, y con ello también las masas de personas bien intencionadas que creen en sus mentiras ...

Wind Watch

  • Quechan Tribe sues to halt construction of win ...
    The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area: “Removal, disturbance or attempting to remove archaeological materials is a felony. Selling, receiving, purchasing, transporting, ...
  • Wind farm faces closure over noise breach
    A wind farm company has been told to comply with noise regulations or face shutdown. Download mp4 (20 MB)
  • Local organization supports golden eagle resea ...
    Highlanders For Responsible Development (HRD) has donated $1,000 to support a West Virginia University research effort to better determine the status and behavior of golden eagles in the central Appalachians, including Highland County and the surrounding area. A major concern for HRD and the WVU ...
  • 3rd town votes to oppose wind farm
    PITTSFORD — Following on the heels of Castleton and Hubbardton, officials in Pittsford took a stand Wednesday night against the proposed industrial wind project on the Grandpa’s Knob. In a unanimous vote, the five-member Select Board resolved to oppose the Reunion Power wind project. The decisio ...
  • Resident appeals to selectmen on turbines
    FAIRHAVEN — Karen Isherwood of Teal Circle made an appeal to selectmen June 18 about the disruption caused by the town’s new industrial wind turbines on the tranquility of her family’s life. As she did recently before the Board of Health, Ms. Isherwood said the noise has so disturbed ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Impending Obamacare Ruling Has Washington on E ...
    “The impending heath care ruling by the Supreme Court has become [Washington, D.C.’s] O. J. Simpson verdict crossed with a papal conclave—polarizing, maddeningly unpredictable and shrouded in mysterious signaling. The ruling is expected to come this week, either shortly after 10 a.m. on Mo ...
  • Oil Prices Fall Further
    “The price of oil fell below $79 a barrel Monday due to concerns over Europe’s economic and financial woes. The drop was limited somewhat by a supply disruption from a storm that shut down about a quarter of crude output in the Gulf of Mexico.” (Associated Press) Are we to assu ...
  • Big Banks Hit with Credit Downgrades
    “Already grappling with weak profits and global economic turmoil, 15 major banks were hit with credit downgrades on Thursday that could do more damage to their bottom lines and further unsettle equity markets.” (New York Times) Another shoe drops for the government-banking cartel. FE ...
  • Trade with Russia Pushed by Obama
    “The way the Obama administration tells it, improving trade relations with Russia as it prepares to enter the World Trade Organization would be in America’s best interest.” (Washington Times) The best trade policy is for government to get out of the way. FEE Timely Classic “Fre ...
  • Cleaning Up After the Elephants (and Donkeys)
    "Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice."

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Despite Obama’s Policies, The Rust Belt’s Revi ...
    Barack Obama’s political base always has been more “creative class” than working class—and his policies have favored that base, seeming to cater to energized issue and identity constituencies including African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, and greens, often at the expense of blue-collar workers. ...
  • The Collapse of Chicago Media
    When the satirical humor weekly The Onion announced it was moving its editorial staff from New York to Chicago it was considered quite a coup by boosters of the Windy City. Yet the hoopla surrounding revealed more about Chicago’s decline as a media center than any significant uptick. This inc ...
  • The Beijing Bicycle: A Requiem
    Just because China has 500 million bikes on the road or tucked away in sheds or courtyards does not mean the two-wheeler has a bright future there, especially in its largest cities. Such is the growing indifference to the bike in China that no one seems to mind that the national model is manufa ...
  • Will Servants' Quarters Come Back, Too?
    As the Great Recession enters its fourth summer, America continues to separate into the multiple economic strands that characterized an earlier day. Our cities, built mostly since the 1930s, poorly accommodate this lack of unity, and will require radical revision if our class divisions continue ...
  • Thunder On The Great Plains: A Written-Off Reg ...
    They may not win their first championship against Miami’s evil empire, but the Oklahoma City Thunder have helped to put a spotlight on what may well be the most surprising success story of 21st century America: the revival of the Great Plains. Once widely dismissed as the ultimate ...

GM Watch

  • Stop telling lies about Zambia
    1.It's time to stop the lies about Zambia 2.Sikatana was fearless voice of reason --- --- 1.It's time to stop the lies about Zambia GMWatch The Times of Zambia article below is about the death of the country's former Agriculture Minister, Mundia Sikatana, who is described "as a fearless voice o ...
  • Stop telling lies about Zambia
    1.It's time to stop the lies about Zambia 2.Sikatana was fearless voice of reason --- --- 1.It's time to stop the lies about Zambia GMWatch The Times of Zambia article below is about the death of the country's former Agriculture Minister, Mundia Sikatana, who is described "as a fearless voice o ...
  • Study questions sustainability of Bt cotton
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Study questions sustainability of Bt cotton in water-starved Vidarbha 2.Maharashtra Govt. and CICR admit Bt cotton's failure NOTE: The findings in item 1 below on Bt cotton in Vidarbha come from a study that's drawn a lot of criticism for being overly-optimistic about the impa ...
  • Study questions sustainability of Bt cotton
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Study questions sustainability of Bt cotton in water-starved Vidarbha 2.Maharashtra Govt. and CICR admit Bt cotton's failure NOTE: The findings in item 1 below on Bt cotton in Vidarbha come from a study that's drawn a lot of criticism for being overly-optimistic about the impa ...
  • Bt crops are everyone's concern
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Bt crops are everyone's concern 2.Bt cotton toxic, bollworms seek new hosts --- --- 1.Bt crops are everyone's concern Justice Sujata Manohar Tehelka, 23 June 2012 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Fw230612concern.asp *Justice Sujata Manohar on how the Biotechnol ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Data Mining: Big Corporations Are Gathering Ev ...
    When most people think of "Big Brother", they think of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security and other shadowy government agencies.  Yes, they are definitely watching you, but so are many big corporations.  In fact, there are some companies that are makin ...
  • Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the ...
  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...

Desertification

  • Life after Rio: a commentary by Mark Halle, IISD
    WINNIPEG—June 25, 2012—Mark Halle, International Institute for Sustainable Development executive director IISD-Europe, is back from Rio de Janeiro and has declared the Rio+20 summit a disappointing failure. In his commentary, Life after Rio, he concludes, “Yet another UN mega-conference ends &#8 ...
  • Ecological restoration in the desert regions o ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120615000047&cid=1105 China’s desertification problem seeing signs of improvement Xinhua China’s stony desert areas shrank to 12 million hectares by the end of 2011, down 7.4% ...
  • Scientific collaboration to fight desertificat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.be/2012/06/anti-desertification-plan-gets-official.html Anti-desertification plan gets official launch in Rio Ochieng’ Ogodo in SciDev.net: Organisations from Africa, Brazil and France have officially launched ...
  • Rio+20 and now what ? (Google / Nat. Communic. ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://ncnguyana.com/ncngy/index.php/local/local-news/regional-development/3711-un-secretary-general-pleased-at-outpouring-of-commitment-at-rio20 UN Secretary General pleased at outpouring of commitment at Rio+20 Written by Super User World leaders ...
  • BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATERS (Book, VUBPRESS)
    CROSSTALKS presents BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATERS Since 1990, 1.7 billion people have gained access to safe drinking water, but 884 million people are still without. By 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

  • Toews plays Gitmo jailer
    By Montreal Simon It’s a Canadian horror story. A young boy is taken from his Toronto home by his Jihadi father to a place he never should have been. He is riddled with shrapnel, shot twice in the back. The bullets exploding out of his chest and exposing his beating heart. He is taken to [...]
  • Inside Read: “Cold Comfort” by Gil ...
    Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In Cold Comfort, Colborne, Ontario poet and curator Gil McElroy uses a box of photographs left behind by his late father, a DEW line operator during the Cold War, to reconstruct that era and “come to terms with ...
  • Postmedia: This is the way the words end
    By Zoe Grams Many arts supporters are just regaining their breath after the cuts, no cuts, debacle around the Literary Press Group of Canada, which sent waves of disbelief and frustration across the publishing community. But it’s not time to celebrate yet; now the Postmedia Network has ann ...
  • Lies, damned lies, and statistics on Canada’s ...
    First published on The Sixth Estate Recently the National Post’s resident anti-government wingnut, William Watson, sallied forth with a strangely positive report on what he calls Canada’s poverty rate, which he says has fallen to an all-time low of 9%. This, says Watson, means we should keep goi ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Genoa isn’t over…new support campaign for acti ...
    logo_web_leggero1.jpg I’m not usually one for signing petitions, but a recent initiative has started up which I feel very strongly about. While the top table directly involved in organising and carryi ...
  • BNP murderer and paedophile convicted
    nonce-BNP.jpg One British National Party member has been jailed for the murder of a delivery driver and his father, a BNP organiser and candidate, becomes the latest activist in the fascist organisat ...
  • Asturias miners' strike: Letter from a miner
    miners.jpg A translation of a letter from a retired miner from Asturias, where miners have been on indefinite strike for weeks, explaining the dispute and giving its background. ...
  • USI-AIT declares involvement in general strike
    sciopero.jpg Statement from USI-AIT declaring its participation in the co-ordinated general strike of Italian base unions on June 22nd, and laying out both its political and social demands. ...
  • Resistance is high; garment workers force shut ...
    Ashulia-youth-2012-06-17_14862.jpg The resurgence of unrest in the Bangladeshi garment sector continues with over 500,000 workers now locked out in Ashulia... The main costs of ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...
  • The Harbinger – A Book Review (i.e. Refl ...
    The “New York Times Bestseller” book The Harbinger was written by a Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn.   Its subtitle is: “The ANCIENT MYSTERY That Holds the SECRET of America’s Future.”   Rabbi Cahn claims to be a “Messianic Jew” – i.e. a practicing Rabbi ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • It’s Official: CIA Arming Syrian Rebels
    Free Syrian Army (from Washington Post) On June 21st, Fox News became the fifth major media outlet to report that CIA operatives in Turkey are “coordinating” arms shipments from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Islamic states to the Free Syrian Army (the Islamist branch of the Syrian re ...
  • Take Direct Action Against Genetic Modification!
    According to Natural News, the refusal of federal and state governments to require mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods has led a US grassroots network calling themselves “Label it Yourself” to take matters into their own hands. They have started their own campaign to ...
  • Putting Americans Back to Work: A Simple, No-C ...
    The reasons for the failed US recovery are really quite simple: Most economists agree that the US economy remains stalled because of poor consumer demand. Because so many Americans are unemployed or coping with reduced hours and wage cuts, they aren’t spending money. And owing to poor dem ...
  • When Your Bank Freezes Your Account
    One way to tell that the economy is about to collapse (or has done so already) is when your bank won’t let you have your money. An interesting account from Alexander Higgins’ Blog about the major Italian bank that has frozen all withdrawals – and the devastating effect this has ...
  • Five Myths About the Causes of Unemployment
    Professor Jem Blendell, founder of Lifeworth Consulting and member of the World Economic Forum, gave the keynote address at the Rebuild21 conference in Copenhagen two weeks ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeQfNpW9sQ). A week later Blendell addressed the World Economic Forum in Istanbul ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...
  • Twenty Names
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore "Moore, YOUR SHIRTTAIL is out!" It was the voice of Mr. Ryan, the assistant principal for discipline at my high school, and he was right on my back. Not figuratively. He was literally on it. "Turn around!" I did as I w ...
  • 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
    Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Biblical story on Solomon confirmed by new gen ...
    The Queen of Sheba’s genetic legacy may live on in Ethiopia, according to new research that finds evidence of long-ago genetic mixing between Ethiopian populations and Syrian and Israeli people. The Queen of Sheba, known in Ethiopia as Makeda, is mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran. ...
  • NASA to build 2500 mph supersonic passenger jet
    Aircraft enthusiasts are waiting with growing anticipation for the unveiling of plans for a supersonic jet that may be able to fly London to Sydney in just four hours. U.S. builders – helped by the Nasa space agency – will reveal the prototype successors to Concorde at the Farnboroug ...
  • Syria downed our unarmed jet without warning – ...
    The Turkish foreign minister says the military jet shot down by the Syrian military on Friday was not spying on Syria. It was testing a domestic radar system and was fired upon without warning upon leaving Syrian airspace, he said. ­The jet was unarmed, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu s ...
  • Ancient Roman jewellery found in fifth century ...
    Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan. In a sign the empire’s influence may have reached the edge of Asia, three glass beads discovered in the 5th Century ‘Utsukushi’ burial mound in Nagaoka, near Kyoto, were pr ...
  • Sky-high and abyss-deep: China’s double record ...
    China has reached two technological milestones spanning great depths and heights. In the earth’s orbit, the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft manually docked a space module while under the Pacific, a Jiaolong submersible dived to the bottom of the Marian Trench. The symbolism behind the scheduling of the tw ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Facebook Sued Again: App Developer FriendThem ...
    Facebook recently unveiled a new mobile feature, “Find Friends Nearby.” Mobile app Friendthem believes that the social network stole its idea and is now planning to file a lawsuit against Facebook. Friendthem is a mobile app for Android and iOS that allows users to find Facebook users who are ...
  • Facebook Names COO Sheryl Sandberg to Its Boar ...
    In a post on its newsroom blog , Facebook just announced that it has named long-time COO Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. Sandberg will be the eighth member of the board and its first female member to date. But what took so long? Facebook has been criticized for a notable lack of raci ...
  • Better Notifications in Gmail's iOS App
    When Google released an iOS app for Gmail , many users complained that the app didn't integrate with the notification center from iOS 5. The Gmail app didn't support banner notifications and the messages weren't included in the notification center or in the lock screen. The latest update fixed ...
  • Egypt's New President Wants 'To Rethink Israel ...
    Egypt's Morsi 'To Rethink Israel Pact, Build Iran Ties' -- AFP Egypt's Islamist president-elect, Mohamed Morsi, wants to "reconsider" the peace deal with Israel and build ties with Iran to "create a strategic balance" in the Middle East, according to an interview published by Iran's Fars news a ...
  • Microsoft Buys Yammer for $1.2 Billion
    Microsoft today announced that Microsoft will acquire Yammer , a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, and the team will continue to report to current CEO David Sacks. Launched in 2008, Yammer is a leading provi ...

Groklaw

  • Gorgeous Look at the Aurora Borealis Took Thr ...
    This stunning time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis was created over the course of three years. It was shot with a DSLR camera and used thousands of hours of footage to create the final breathtaking effect. [PJ: The stars are spectacular too, if you are a city dweller and never get to see them ...
  • Sonic.net: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks ...
    DJ: I've read about cases where a lawyer was doing this for the movie "The Expendables," and 5% of people settled. So then he switched to representing someone with an embarassing porn title, and like 30% of people paid. It seemed like half the time, the customer wasn't the one right one, but t ...
  • High Court Asks SG To Weigh In On GSK, Classen ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday invited the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on Classen Immunotherapies Inc.'s dispute with GlaxoSmithKline PLC over Classen's patents for evaluating a vaccine immunization schedule. The high court asked Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. to file a brief ...
  • Is Stealing Music Really the Problem?
    Respected blogger Cory Doctorow also noted last month that a summary of over 20 different papers on file trading shows very little impact on sales from file trading. Drew Wilson, the author of the summary, got his results from such "fringe" groups as The Wharton School, The Journal of Law And Ec ...
  • Google and Boingo offer free wi-fi in New York ...
    Google and wireless Internet group Boingo said Monday they would offer free Wi-Fi access over the summer months in many parts of New York City, including some busy subway stations. "Big Apple visitors and New York straphangers on the go can stay productive, update their status and surf online w ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • United States endless wars: Started with King ...
    Simsbury CT Town Hall placardThe warlike attitude of the US had its birth in King Philip’s War, which predated the country and set it on its current militaristic path.The United States has been at war almost continually since 1776. In the past 236 years we have been fighting some type of conflic ...
  • Supreme Court. What Fallows said (better than ...
    Capitol from Supreme Court, March 1937. Harris & Ewing, Inc. ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Short version titled 5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics via the Supreme Court.Through the past decade, there has been a radical shift in the “by ...
  • Hoosier Life and Casualty. Ian Woollen. A nove ...
    As we await the momentous decision for the Supreme Court this week on health care, Hoosier Life and Casualty is apropos. It focuses on our venal, ineffective health care system as well as on class. I’d say our health care system is ineffective primarily because it is venal, easily gamed by ...
  • The Sacramento Delta: “An intricacy of endless ...
    A government report in 1874 said if Sacramento Delta water wasn’t handled correctly “the result will be a partial and temporary good for only a part of the valley.”How prescient they were. JFleck uncovered this illuminating report. Because the Delta continues to be mismanaged, ...
  • The individual mandate. Will the Supreme Court ...
    Just in the past few days there’s been a burst of news about how the Supreme Court may well rule that most or all of the individual mandate section of Obamacare is unconstitutional. The ruling should come sometime this week. Sadly, too much of the analysis of this focuses how how the rulin ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Insulation shambles needs sorting so Christchu ...
    Our houses help determine our health. Everyone has a right to a warm, dry and healthy home.  Warm homes can reduce respiratory illnesses and mean fewer days off sick from school or work, and fewer premature deaths among older persons. Much of our housing stock is not built for our climate. Aroun ...
  • Clean air in Christchurch
    The onset of winter has brought to a head debate on wood burner use in Christchurch. People living in damaged homes must be able to stay warm even if their wood burner doesn’t meet Environment Canterbury’s Air Plan rules. It’s also important that we don’t unwind the gains of recent years and hav ...
  • Hawke’s Bay Regional Council confused about it ...
    There is something strange and disturbing going on in Hawke’s Bay involving the proverbial fox and the hen house. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) is the enthusiastic principle promoter of the $230-million Ruataniwha Plains water storage scheme, a project which would see a 77 metre high dam a ...
  • We neither ‘succeeded’ nor ‘ ...
    Rio + 20 is probably the most important gathering of humankind to date.  The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance.  Earth will endure, albeit in degraded form.  Once were beauties, but the warriors turned up. There will be those who will say the G-20 in Mexico trumps it.  True in short-term; w ...
  • No paradigm, please, we’re Kiwis – ...
    Rio has come and gone, and so have the New Zealanders. I am off tomorrow, to New York on a different assignment for a few days. Then off again, to home where I have laid my head twice in two months. What did New Zealand achieve at Rio? I have blogged on Minister Adams’ speech, and [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Italian Court Reignites MMR Vaccine Debate Aft ...
    By Dr. Mercola Many parents don't think twice about taking their children in for routine vaccinations, as they are an integral and heavily promoted part of the conventional medical system. But this decision has had life altering, and sometimes life-ending, ramifications for more children than ...
  • Why Is Big Corn Continuing to Run ‘Corn Sugar’ ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2010, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow manufacturers the option of using the term "corn sugar" instead of "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS) on food labels. This renaming was a clever marketing ploy that woul ...
  • Are Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes the Answ ...
    This is a Flash-based video and may not be viewable on mobile devices. By Dr. Mercola Australian research scientists have developed a strategy for fighting Dengue fever, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes that affects more than 50 million people annually and causes fever an ...
  • Could Your Annual Doctor’s Visit Cause More Ha ...
    By Dr. Mercola In a startling reversal of years of pressing healthy and symptom-free men to get routine PSA prostate tests, U.S. health officials now say these tests do more harm than good. What's more, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said they aren't recommending ...
  • Does Your Supplement Contain this Potentially ...
    By Dr. Mercola It's common knowledge that drugs, vitamins or supplements contain more than just the active ingredient. Something has to encapsulate them―hold them together―in a form that not only makes them usable, but producible by a manufacturer in massive quantities. In the U.S. many sup ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
    Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • What Killed Us, Then and Now
    from theatlantic.com: Via The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff comes this incredible chart from the New England Journal of Medicine comparing the reasons we die now to the way Americans went to their graves a century ago.  The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In additi ...
  • Study Says Kids Cereals Actually Are Healthier ...
    #PDF: Cereal FACTS 2012 Report* From Reuters: While U.S. food companies are making healthier breakfast cereals for children, they're also aiming more ads for their unhealthiest products at kids, according to a report issued on Friday. The "Cereal Facts" study from Yale University's Rudd Cente ...
  • Antibiotic-Free Meat Map Launched for Consumers
    from foodsafetynews.com: Coinciding with the new "Meat Without Drugs" campaign announced this week, tech start up Real Time Farms launched a crowd-sourced map to help consumers locate meat from animals raised without antibiotics. The FixAntibiotics Food Finder allows shoppers to look up retail ...
  • #Audio: Episode024 - Green Christ
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features shrooms, blogs and superbugs + Green Christ, Rio+20, the 'Binge and Purge' and more... E ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Postpone, Block, Restrict and more
    Maurice Strong, Global Greening Godfather, Steps Out of Shadows at Rio+20* Video: Maurice Strong talks at Rio+20* Watermelons of the World Unite in Rio* China Releases Five Year Food Safety Plan* As Renewable Energy Spreads in Europe, U.S. Resists Growth* Video: Gov't to seize pri ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Data Mining: Big Corporations Are Gathering Ev ...
    When most people think of "Big Brother", they think of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security and other shadowy government agencies.  Yes, they are definitely watching you, but so are many big corporations.  In fact, there are some companies that are makin ...
  • Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American ...
    It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the ...
  • The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic De ...
    This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men.  During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then.  That is why many referred to the last recession as a "mances ...
  • Oh Crud! 19 Reasons Why It Is Time To Start Fr ...
    Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going to be saved it would have happened by now.  The big money insiders have already pulled their funds from ...
  • Forget The Election Results – Greece Is ...
    The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Tho ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • EMERGENCY UPDATE: SIGNS GLOBALISTS PLAN NEW PA ...
     *Video update on the new pandemic hype coming soon *New pandemic virus hype by controlled media and Infowars *Threat of a new monolithic mass vaccination campaign as real as in 2009 *Pharmaceutical companies given more influence over WHO pandemic virus warning system in 2011 Hundreds of reports ...
  • Austrian Globalist received kickbacks over pan ...
    Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, the husband of the former Austrian health minister Maria Rauch-Kallat, received a kick back of 275.591 euros between March and December 2006 for his role in a deal to buy pandemic flu masks, according to local media. http://kurier.at/nachrichten/4500892-mensdorff-pouill ...
  • GREEK ELECTIONS ON SUNDAY COULD SPELL EXIT FRO ...
    European leaders are set to hold an emergency video call ahead of elections in Greece on Sunday 17th which could see Greece exit from the eurozone. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9334129/David-Cameron-holds-video-call-with-European-leaders-over-financial-crisis.html Bankers can use mathemati ...
  • Protest the ESM: it can take all your money an ...
    The German government has named the nine lawmakers who can decide in total secrecy what happens to hundreds of millions if not billions of German tax payer’s money in the next few years if the parliament votes „Yes“ to  the ESM euro facility on June 29th. http://www.freiewelt.net/nachricht-10116 ...
  • Will there be a flase flag bioterrorism attack ...
    Note: the WHO’s pandemic plans are still in place with the UK among the few countries to introduce a slight modification. In a meeting in Geneva  in May 2010, the WHO’s advisory committee on vaccines, SAGE, confirmed that the people of the world will get the same toxic pandemic jabs ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Panic in the New World Order
    Lew Rockwell – by Gary North For the first time in my career, I see the international establishment, sometimes called the New World Order, facing a crisis so large that its very survival is at stake. For the first time, these people are scared. There are not many of them. In his book, Superclass ...
  • Nature fights back – bugs devour GM Mons ...
    by: Tony Isaacs (NaturalNews) Corn genetically engineered by Monsanto to kill western corn rootworm is reportedly being devoured by those pests with a vengeance. Thanks to heavy reliance on the genetically modified (GM) crops, the tiny rootworm pest has overtaken fields, outsmarting the genetic ...
  • Syria War on Hold? Turkey and Syria “Col ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky Syria has been accused of downing a Turkish fighter jet in international waters, leading to a new round of threats from Washington and Brussels. Beneath the media hype pertaining to possible action against Syria by Turkey and NATO, Turkey’s network TV suggests a diff ...
  • Genetically Modified Grass Kills Cattle By Pro ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Another report of genetically modified creations taking the lives of livestock has hit the media, and this time genetically modified grass has been identified as the culprit according to CBS News. Shockingly (and quite disturbingly), the GM grass actually produced ...
  • The Nightmare Scenario
    3. There is a surplus of human beings in the eyes of the bankers and governments. It is easy to be glib and say there is a population problem because sex is more fun than dying. But one can look at the vast expanses of empty land across the globe and realize that the issue [...]

Veterans Today

  • Nursing The Wounded
    The end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will bring home hundreds of thousands of enlisted men and women, and it’s likely that many of them will come home with either traumatic brain injuries or serious psychological wounds from their tours of duty.
  • The Arabs; What Went Wrong?
    I thought the original title “ The Failing Arabs” would be too offensive to a very proud people and nation.
  • Watergate to Fast and Furious
    The Department of Justice has a long record of acting as the dictatorship of jurisprudence.
  • Obama Plays Lead For Jamie Dimon and the Fat C ...
    Jamie Dimon’s gold embossed presidential seal cuff links, a gift from the president, are a blatant reminder that Obama plays lead to Jamie Dimon and the fat cats ~ who obviously control America
  • The menacing plots of MKO terrorists for Iran
    The ill-omened, inauspicious plots of the terrorist gang Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization against Iran seem to have no end. They are continuing their perilous anti-Iranian plots

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

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