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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, June 25, 2012

25 - June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General...Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Emerging Security Challenges Division, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Stop NATO

  • As Syria Beckons, Libya Descending Into Chaos ...
    Chronicle Herald June 25, 2012 Libya descending into chaos after NATO ‘success’ By Scott Taylor Last week, it was reported that the Canadian military is studying their options should an international intervention in war-torn Syria become a reality. The Defence Department sources quoted claimed t ...
  • Pakistan and the Emerging Geo-Political Scenario
    Stop NATO June 25, 2012 Pakistan and the Emerging Geo-political Scenario Sajjad Shaukat ==== [R]apidly developing geo-political differences among global powers in Asia show that the next Cold War is likely to be waged between the Russia-China alliance and the U.S.-led bloc in Asia, while Pakista ...
  • NATO: What’s In A Name?
    OccuWorld Global Occupy News June 25, 2012 NATO: What’s in a name? By ‘Snake’ Arbusto The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has now expanded to include South America. And into countries with no Atlantic coast at all, let alone on the North Atlantic. Unless you count the Caribbean… R ...
  • U.S. Reconstructs Former Military Bases Across ...
    Antiwar.com June 23, 2012   US Reconstructs Former Military Bases Across Asia-Pacific Posted By John Glaser   The Obama administration is continuing its strategic pivot to Asia-Pacific and now trying to cultivate renewed relationships with countries in a bid to further expand the amoun ...
  • Syria: A Precursor To War
    Voice of Russia June 25, 2012 A precursor to war: Syria John Robles         Despite all of the efforts of the UN and Russia and other countries that have influence in the region, the West continues to do anything and everything that it can to facilitate and provoke ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Heading for Economic Collapse
    Stephan Lendman | The late Bob Chapman predicted it years ago. So does Paul Craig Roberts. It could “destroy Western civilization,” he believes.
  • Zionist War Crimes Continue: Netanyahu Ready t ...
    Bob Tuskin | Please note that Israels use of force in the last 60+ years trumps any violence on behalf of the segregated refugees by far. I am not condoning any violence, but the western media has traditionally framed the issue in a certain way that is not accurate to the actual facts at hand.
  • New World Order Blueprint Leaked
    opednews.com June 24, 2012 On June 12, 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 ...
  • Ahmadinejad Calls for ‘New World Order&# ...
    Trend June 24, 2012 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized the current world order as “discriminatory and inefficient”, calling for a new system based on “compassion and justice”, PRESS TV reported. “Discrimination and inefficiency in the current ...
  • Mind Control and the New World Order
    Global Research June 24, 2012 On 28 November 1953, at 2 am, a man crashed through a closed window and fell to his death from the 10th floor of the Statler Hotel in New York City. He was identified as Frank Olson, a bacteriologist with the US Army Research Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. He [...]

FRS

  • Al Jazeera video: “Is this the end of E ...
    Published on Jun 25, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish The decision by Egypt’s electoral commission ends a week of uncertainty in a country without a parliament or a constitution, and a barely functioning economy. There is a new president, the country’s first elected leader. Mohammed Morsi, t ...
  • Egypt’s new president vows unity, but po ...
    CNN, June 25th, 2012 Euphoric jubilation spilled into a second day Monday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where revelers celebrated the election of Egypt’s first democratically elected president. But with the hopes of the Egyptian revolution resting on President-Elect Mohamed Morsi’s ...
  • Nepal: “Anti-government protesters dema ...
    Associated Press, June 25, 2012 KATMANDU, Nepal – Anti-government protesters demanding the resignation of Nepal’s prime minister have clashed with riot police near Katmandu’s airport. The protesters tried to block Baburam Bhattarai’s motorcade as he returned home Monday f ...
  • Deutsche Welle (German press) interview with M ...
    dw.de, 25 June, 2012 Political turmoil continues in Nepal after the break-up of the main party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran,’ former senior-vice chairman of the party, tells DW about his political plan. Mohan Vaidya “Kiran” is the fo ...
  • India: Condemn the murder of Dalits, and supp ...
    Rise!                                                                                      Resist!                                                                  Liberate! REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT (RDF), Press Release, 22 June 2012 RDF strongly Condemns the Dalit Massacre in Lakshimpeta ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • At SETIcon 2012: Planetary Spit-Swapping, Dark ...
    This is ground control to SETIcon SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — I’m huddled outside the Hyatt hotel entrance, shivering with a notepad in hand and half listening to the pop music coming from “Christia and Derick’s wedding reception,” when Erika Dunning breaks the news. “The International Space Station ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    This week we've got a couple of weird climate-related pics to go along with the great feature on the subject we ran earlier. That, plus: humpback whales en flagrante, an arctic blue marble, virtual reality, and pizza delivery. Check it out! Click to launch the gallery.
  • Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew
    Researchers have discovered evidence that there's a lot more water on Mars--at least on parts of Mars--than anyone previously thought. Using new technology, scientists examined the water content in meteorites from the planet, and it points to a lot of it in the Martian mantle. The meteorites t ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
  • Archive Gallery: PopSci's Love Affair With Coral
    The quest to understand, explore, and protect the amazing animals It's no surprise that Popular Science has long been obsessed with coral--it houses up to one-third of all sea life and researchers use its fluorescent green and orange proteins in biomedical research. During the past 100 years, P ...

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Euro 2012 Beggar's Battle: Spain vs Portugal
    There was much made of the earlier Germany versus Greece Euro 2012 match and its symbolism for European integration. To no one's real surprise, Germany, erm, booted Greece out of the Euro by winning 4-2. Sure the Greek fans present at the match had their cheap thrills booing lustily whenever Ang ...
  • So, When Will S&P Downgrade the US Again?
    Friends, there are certain certainties in life: Germany will do well in whatever international football (soccer) competition it enters, Lucy will pull the football before Charlie Brown can kick it; and the United States will inevitably get fatter and more indebted. Unless you read too many Paul ...
  • Putin's a Smart Guy: Worry About $, Not €
    Anglophone economic commentary about the euro usually veers towards the "I told you so" variety, nevermind that no one has actually wanted out of the EMU while many are still lining up to join it--including the most economically progressive economy that's still out of it. British Euroskeptic dys ...
  • New(er) World Order: LDCs Give IMF Condtionalities
    It's a topsy-turvy world when you have poor countries (a) contributing emergency funds to help bail out rich countries and (b) placing loan conditionalities on the IMF instead of having conditionalities being placed on them by the IMF. However, these are not normal times. As Europe lurches from ...
  • Out Now: LSE IDEAS on PRC Geoeconomic Strategy
    As usual, I am somewhat late with the publications generated by our very own LSE IDEAS, but let me rectify that here since there should be something for everyone with an interest in Chinese geopolitics. Drawing upon our own not-insubstantial in-house expertise--our Co-Director Arne Westad is flu ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-06-25 Assange, Diplomacy, and Duplicity
    We are all forced by logic to respect this dichotomy: Either the US threatens Julian Assange's freedom, or it does not. However, the Washington Post editorial board, reflecting the US diplomatic position, prefer to have it both ways in the same article. read more
  • 2012-06-23 Dissecting the Smears: Assange's as ...
    Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19 to apply for political asylum. Since then, there has been mass coverage by the media, which often contains false and misleading information about his reason for applying, the threat he faces in the U.S., and the reaction from ...
  • 2012-06-21 Transcript: Julian Assange's first ...
    Julian Assange interview on ABC Radio National Breakfast, 21 June 2012. This is his first interview conducted since he applied for political asylum in Ecuador. At the time of this interview, Mr Assange had been at the Ecuadorian Embassy for three days. Full Audio is avialable at the ABC Radio we ...
  • 2012-06-21 Hoja con hechos sobre el caso de Ju ...
    Julian Assange fue arrestado al emitirse una Alerta Roja de Interpol y una Orden Europea de Extradición tan solo cuatro días después de iniciar la más grande filtración d e información secreta de los Estados Unidos de América por los diarios con mayor distribución del mundo, en Diciembre de 2010 ...
  • 2012-06-20 Swedish Extradition FACTS from Chri ...
    Julian Assange's mother Christine recently tweeted the following FACTS about extraditions involving the USA, UK, Sweden and Australia: 1. Australian PM Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbot backed new Extradition Act amendments making it easier for U.S.A to extradite Aussies. The Greens ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Military and Police Call About Gun Confiscatio ...
    St Louis City residents have been warned to not be alarmed at the sight of U.S. Army tanks rolling down residential neighborhoods after sightings of the vehicles provoked fears of martial law. ~ Video read more
  • 'It's My Intention, If Elected, To Disarm Amer ...
    Ok if not the antichrist he is with out a second thought anti-American & what your about to read will back that statement up if the renewal of the patriot act or the signing of the NDAA bill was not enough. read more
  • Obamacare Has Literally Replaced the Constitution
    The textbook account of how laws are made is for children. It presents the procedure as if it were governed by the Constitution. This is silly. That went out with high-button shoes. read more
  • The Cortisol Connection... Sick From Stress
    Have you ever been so stressed out you can't think straight? Crunch time, trying to make a rational decision and you can't even clearly see the problem? This happens when there is too much cortisol in the brain. read more
  • U.S. Water Fluoridation Began in 1945 and Cont ...
    The year before water fluoridation began in the United States, the entire dental profession recognized that fluoride was detrimental to dental health. In fact, in 1944 the Journal of the American Dental Association reported that using between 1.6 and 4 ppm (parts per million) flu ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • KATLA Quake Swarms Are Raising Concerns
    Katla, a very dangerous volcano (especially for Europe) located on the south of Iceland, is showing active signs of unrest as increased seismic activity has been detected in the volcano caldera. Dozens of minor earthquakes have been picked up by sensors in groups of swarms. For the past several ...
  • The Paradox Of Our Age
    We have bigger houses, but smaller families; More conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; More knowledge, but less judgement; More experts, but more problems; More medicines, but less healthiness; We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble cros ...
  • New Earthquakes on New Madrid Fault Zone
    Whenever we see new earthquakes along or near the New Madrid Fault Zone in the south central United States, we are reminded of the historical record-breaking earthquakes that have occurred there and the danger that still exists. Recently, beginning June 17 there have been a handful of earthquake ...
  • Genetically-Modified Grass Releasing Cyanide
    Cows are dropping dead within hours of eating a genetically-modified-hybrid form of Bermuda grass, Tifton 85, which appears to be releasing cyanide gas and killing the animals. The cows dropped dead on an 80-acre ranch, just east of Austin. The grass had apparently been growing there for 15 year ...
  • How Bad Would A Yellowstone Eruption Be?
    Mount St. Helens was tiny compared to the most dangerous type of volcano, the super volcano – like Yellowstone located in the Yellowstone National Park of Wyoming. Try to imagine an eruption that could be up to 10,000 times stronger than a Mount St. Helens… an eruption that would thr ...

Fast Company

  • How Hoboken, New York’s Baby Brother, Built An ...
    New Jersey might not have the luster or the talent pool of the big city, but it's still home to a lively, tight-knit community of tech workers. Here, we drop in on the New Jersey Tech Meetup to discover more. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the c ...
  • “You’re Nuts!” Why--And How--Impact Makers Giv ...
    Impact Makers consults for the rich, and gives to the poor. Is this the future of philanthropy?Michael Pirron is the cofounder and CEO of Impact Makers. His company is a management consulting firm much like any other, but for one extreme distinguishing feature: It donates 100% of its after-tax p ...
  • The Startup Failure Boom, And What To Do When ...
    People are pouring into startups at a rate we've never seen. Literally, never--not even during dotcom mania, at least if Stanford's MBA program is a good barometer. Per a Fortune report, the 2011 class sent 16% of grads to start their own companies, a full third higher than the late-'90s peak, a ...
  • Google TV Getting International Launch, Starti ...
    News updates all day from Fast CompanyGoogle is finally taking its smart/connected TV system outside of the U.S., with Sony as the preferred launch partner. Sony Europe revealed the news this morning, explaining that the NSZ-GS7 "Internet Player with Google TV," which is a set-top box with a sma ...
  • Siri's Voice Is Already In The 2013 Cadillac XTS
    Apple's instantly recognizable virtual-assistant Siri--or at least her twin sister with the same exact voice--is now driving. Just ask Cadillac. Here's what happens when sonic branding collides. Last week, at the Classic Car Club in lower Manhattan, engineers from Cadillac showed off the automa ...

Jadaliyya

  • And The Winner Is...
    Many observers have declared that last week marked the death of Egypt’s democratic transition. First, there was the dissolution of an elected Parliament, ordered by a court and enforced by the army. Then, an arbitrary military decree gave the ruling generals control over the new constitution ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (June 25)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by ...
  • Press Release: International Delegation to Att ...
    [The following press release was issued in English on 25 June 2012 by members of an international delegation that will observe the trial of Ayse Berktay.] Press Release International Delegation to Attend Trial of Ayse Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey During the past three years, the Turkish ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (June 18-24)
        This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.     Open Letter to Dr. Mo ...
  • Elections Commission: Morsy is President
    The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy will be Egypt’s next president, the Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) announced on Sunday. Morsy will be Egypt's first civilian president since the foundation of the modern republic. Morsy took 51.73 percent of the vote, compared to Ahmed Shafiq ...

mediagazer

  • 'Newsroom' Debut Draws Audience of 2.1 Million ...
    Bill Carter / Media Decoder: ‘Newsroom’ Debut Draws Audience of 2.1 Million  —  HBO generated a huge amount of talk — positive and negative — about its new Aaron Sorkin drama, “The Newsroom,” and it managed some better-than-average audience to ...
  • Where rock lives: Boston.com gets into streami ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: Where rock lives: Boston.com gets into streaming radio  —  Boston.com sees a future in radio.  On Monday Boston.com announced plans to launch an alternative music station that would livestream from the Boston Globe's headquarters.  ...
  • Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move (Ma ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move  —  The New York Times hasn't exactly been free-wheeling with its digital content in the past: the only way you could get it was through the newspaper's apps or via excerpts on a site like The Huffington Post or ...
  • Another Reuters magazine, this time targeting ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Another Reuters magazine, this time targeting the Aspen Ideas set  —  The second installment of Reuters' semiregular glossy magazine is scheduled to land this week.  —  As a follow-up to its inaugural issue, which was published in J ...
  • DirecTV, Dish Are Said To Receive Justice Depa ...
    Bloomberg: DirecTV, Dish Are Said To Receive Justice Department Requests  —  DirecTV (DTV) and Dish Network Corp. (DISH) have received requests from the U.S. Justice Department about pricing contracts with television networks, part of a broader probe into whether pay-TV companie ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Euro 2012: Steven Gerrard wants to contin ...
    • England midfielder has no plans to retire from internationals • 'I've loved the responsibility' says Gerrard Steven Gerrard, pictured, says Roy Hodgson has asked him to continue as the England captain. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images...
  • Captain Gerrard committed to England caus ...
    By Mark Meadows KRAKOW, Poland, June 25 (Reuters) - England captain Steven Gerrard is committed to leading his side towards the 2014 World Cup despite being devastated by yet another major tournament heartache at the European Championship. There had been some speculation the 32-year-old migh ...
  • Luther Vandross among new honorees enteri ...
    Manhattan-born and eight-time Grammy winning, sensational R&B recording artist, Luther Vandross is included in new group of honorees to receive his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Vandross will obviously receive a posthumous honor. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Hollywood ...
  • Militants kill 13 Pakistan troops, behead ...
    Militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and killed 13 Pakistani troops, beheading seven of them, the Pakistani military charged Monday. Outraged, Pakistan's new prime minister said he would protest to the Afghan president. The border skirmish is a new sign of tensions between Pakist ...
  • Streisand hopes to direct again
    Singer-actress Barbra Streisand is hoping to get back behind the camera and direct her first movie in 16 years, but is yet to raise all the money for it. Streisand’s spokesperson on Thursday confirmed reports that the Funny Girl actress wants to direct Skinny and Cat, a love story abou ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/25/12 - Should individuals be mandated to ha ...
    2012election.procon.org - Should individuals be mandated to have health insurance? Obama and Romney are Pro. Goode, Johnson, and Paul, are Con.
  • 6/13/12 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
    standardizedtests.procon.org – NEW: Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and activists including Michelle Rhee (pro), Diane Ravitch (con), Bill Clinton (pro), Hillary Rodham Clinton (con), Jeb Bush (pro), and Randi W ...
  • 6/13/12 - State Felon Voting Laws
    felonvoting.procon.org - State Felon Voting Laws - State laws on felon voting differ across the US.  In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons can vote from prison.  In Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, and Virginia, convicted felons can lose the ability to vote permanently. See our updated chart ...
  • 6/13/12 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
    standardizedtests.procon.org – NEW: Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and activists including Michelle Rhee (pro), Diane Ravitch (con), Bill Clinton (pro), Hillary Rodham Clinton (con), Jeb Bush (pro), and Randi W ...
  • 6/13/12 - State Felon Voting Laws
    felonvoting.procon.org - State Felon Voting Laws - State laws on felon voting differ across the US.  In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons can vote from prison.  In Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, and Virginia, convicted felons can lose the ability to vote permanently. See our updated chart ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Excessive Endurance Training Can Be Deadly
    Micah True, legendary ultra-marathoner, died suddenly while on a routine 12-mile training run March 27, 2012. The mythic Caballo Blanco in the best-selling book, Born to Run, True would run as far as 100 miles in a day. On autopsy his heart was enlarged and scarred; he died of a lethal arrhythmi ...
  • Exercise and the Brain
    The effects of exercise are different on memory as well as on the brain, depending on whether the exerciser is an adolescent or an adult. A gene has been identified which seems to mediate the degree to which exercise has a beneficial effect. This has implications for the potential use of exercis ...
  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • When the British Mandate In Palestine Was Abou ...
      Haj Amin was a thorn in the side of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. He was a sleek, charismatic man, soft spoken and known to engender confidence and authority. Once the British wished to mundify Palestine of him and his influence. Yet when he returned from a short prison ter ...
  • Amelia Earhart’s Distress Calls Were In ...
    “The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), sheds new light on what may have happened to the legendary aviator 75 years ago. The researchers plan to start a high-tech underwater search for pieces of her aircraft next July.   “Amelia Earhart did not simply v ...
  • The Carro Veloce L33 Italian Light Tank.
        About 2500 of these machine gun platforms were made and they saw action during the Italo Abyssinian wars and they advanced with the Royal Italian Army when the Italians officially entered the Second World War. They were armed with forward and backward facing 20mm machine gun. Both ...
  • Photos From The Czech Secret Police
        So Read this comment: “They were spying full-time on average citizens, hoping to catch them in a situation that could lead to a swift arrest and a lengthy incarceration in some dank, hidden cell. With their cameras secreted in a suitcase or under a coat, the agents had no ide ...
  • The BAC Strikemaster.
      The BAC Strikemaster was just an armed version of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer. As often happens with trainers, they make great light utility aircraft, and COIN and utility strike aircraft. There were only 167 of these uparmed trainers but they saw action inlmost every theatre they app ...

Taylor Marsh

  • SCOTUS Upholds Capitalistic Democracy
    ANYONE LOOKING TO THURSDAY might take today’s ruling on the Citizens United challenge as a harrowing warning. That today’s ruling and the Citizens United case came about because of the right’s fear of Hillary Clinton in the White House has been largely forgotten. The analysis a ...
  • SCOTUS Punts on Racial Profiling, Next Stop La ...
    The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status of people they stop. – Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law [Wall Street Journal] CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS jumped in to make the majority and avert a tie, due to Justice Kagan&#8 ...
  • Campbell Brown Takes on Planned Parenthood
    “We got more than what we thought we’d get” – Rep. Bart Stupak (via C-SPAN) AND FOR GOOD REASONS. There’s a dust up over Campbell Brown’s op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday, people coming to Planned Parenthood’s aid because of a blast by Dan Senor’s wife. The Times was ...
  • The Irrepressible Secretary Hillary Clinton
    SECRETARY CLINTON is in a league, a class, a realm all her own. A swearing in as only she could. h/t to reader “newdealdem1,” one of our valuable commenters, as well as financial supporters jumping in on the TM.com fundraiser!
  • Historic Egypt Election Delivers Muslim Brothe ...
    **UPDATED below with White House Statement** “There is no such thing called an Islamic democracy. There is democracy only. … The people are the source of authority,” he said. Asked about the role of women, he vowed that “women’s rights are equal to men.” And a ...

Hudson New York

  • Russia's Masterstroke: Bailing Out Cyprus
    What a fine mess the Europeans have made with their deluded dream of a common European currency for 17 countries with different languages, cultures, traditions and economic systems. As a result of the experiment with the euro, almost all countries along
  • Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Personal, to Secre ...
    I cannot believe the "rumors" that the US wants to see members of the Muslim Brotherhood as Egypt's new rulers. If this "rumor" is correct, that policy decision will be the most gigantic, monumental strategic mistake made by the US since the end of WWII.
  • Should Israel Exist?
    Imagine if someone suggested that you should read a book that discusses whether or not Norway, or the United States for that matter, should exist. You would be shocked or at least surprised that anyone would want to question the right of a sovereign
  • Canada: Anti-Semitic Church Attack on Israel
    The United Church of Canada has released the 26 page report of its Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy, which the church will consider introducing as policy when the denomination's 41st General Council convenes in Ottawa August 11-18. The Working
  • Arab Spring vs. Women's Rights
    In the "Arab Spring" countries in transition, women are now marginalized or excluded entirely from political bodies. Denial of one's fundamental right to participate in the democratic process in one's own country is one form of violence. Yet it is not,

Urban Survival

  • Court: Week Two
    After all the hype last week about how the Supreme Court (which I’ve rebranded the supreme corps for putting corporations ahead of humans in the Citizens United case) might do in Obamacare, we’ll see this week if it really happens. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Some Monday Job Hunting ideas
    If you have been unemployed for a while, and you want a career where you can make a few dollars, consider truck driving.  Story in USA Today says there is a national shortage and some of the long haul drivers … Continue reading →
  • What Happened to My @#$%^# Rally?
    What was it I was saying about a “blow-off” rally being at hand?  Oh yes…”This is not to say the market won’t go down:  Markets invariably go the other way from these “Wrong Way George” bets.”  So yes, I have … Continue reading ...
  • Coping: With Dangerous Skies & Meteors
    That possibility for next spring, that Clif’s encounter with space debris as a possibility peeking out of the long-term data values, which we covered in depth in the Wednesday Peoplenomics report this week, has gained a whole bunch of street … Continue reading →
  • Is an All-Time Super Rally at Hand?
    The Fed decision yesterday to keep lending rates unchanged was a given, although it is significant to note that the long-term commitment of the Fed to low rates through 2014 may be enough – with just two possible news events … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • "Cloud" Records over 200 Commitments to Sustai ...
    Michael Davidson, US-China Climate Policy Coordinator, Washington, DC Government leaders, representatives from the private sector and the NGO community have returned home after the two-week long set of activities marking the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Thi ...
  • When values collide: balancing green technolog ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I believe that historic preservation in the right context – a healthy neighborhood – can be intrinsically green.  Most historic buildings, at least the ones c ...
  • Official Rio Document Disappoints, but People' ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City When 17-year-old student Brittany Trilford addressed the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit on Wednesday, she urged world leaders to take concrete action to protect the planet. “I stand ...
  • Big Oil's Monopoly Money: Ending $1 Trillion i ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Yesterday at the Rio+20 Earth Summit I spoke on a panel about eliminating fossil fuel subsidies--a fitting topic for Dump the Pump Day back home. Getting rid of subsidies for the fossil fuel industry i ...
  • Girl Power Goes Global at Rio+20
    Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco Today marked the conclusion of a global environmental summit that drew nearly 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 people. At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, thousands of participants from go ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, June 22, 2012: Saluda County, South Carolina sheriff resigned after a Grand Jury indicted him for charges of misconduct in office. The sheriff used an inmate for work on … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Getting Serious in Sante Fe
    New zero tolerance policy for police: krqe.comGetting Serious in Sante Fe is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Teen Dies in Struggle With Off-duty Officer; D ...
    From the Associated Press: BALTIMORE –  A teenager who died in a struggle with an off-duty police officer in Maryland was an athlete, church usher and mentor, family members said Thursday as they sought to piece together the circumstances of … Continue reading →Teen Dies i ...
  • Police Send Threatening Emails When Lawmakers ...
    Column by Thomas Shapley: OLYMPIA — “We humbly apologize.” Those are words no appointed state official wants to utter to the chairman of a key legislative committee after just three weeks on the job. But Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste had … Continue ...
  • Police Claim They Followed ‘All the Protocols’
    Police Claim They Followed ‘All the Protocols’ is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – The New York Ti ...
    Flipboard nets the New York Times, two admit involvement in Lulzsec, and Google TV spreads its wings outside the States. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Windows Phone 8 ...
    Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8, Apple fined for misleading consumers in Australia. and Tumblr’s new iOS app. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook tells us about the most social places in the world. Amazon is looking for developers for its International app store and Samsung demands cash from Apple for infringement. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft&#8217 ...
    Microsoft reveals its new Surface tablets, Facebook officially confirms its Face.com acquisition, and Google partners with Flipboard. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – A look at table ...
    The Online Publisher’s Association details how we’re using tablets. Google made a big patent buy. The US government is leading the way in asking to Google remove content. You can...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Denying responsibility for our fossil fuel exports
    As Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets other world leaders at the Rio+20 sustainable development summit, a close look at the official messages her government is sending to the world on our behalf reveals a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, the Government appears aware of what is at ...
  • Solar tariff fitted up
    Commission counts only the upfront cost, misses savings Solar feed-in tariffs have been framed. By focusing on the cost but ignoring the savings from solar power, a backlash is being encouraged when we should be celebrating success. The Austra ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
  • Repower Port Augusta: Help us win!
    Support the call for Australia's first solar thermal plant Beyond Zero Emissions is leading a campaign to get Australia’s first solar thermal power plants built - and we need your help. Repower Port Augusta is gaining momentum. Next week we are heading to the SA Parliament, the RPA Alliance ha ...
  • Short-circuiting an electric price surge
    According to energy minister Martin Ferguson, our electricity infrastructure will undergo a $42 billion upgrade over the current five-year regulatory period. At around $6000 per household, these grid upgrades are the biggest contributor to recent and forthcoming electricity price rises. Much of ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Dams are 'centerpiece of greenwashing' in the ...
    Brazil's ambitious plans to build 30 dams in the Amazon basin could trump the country's efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest, said a leading Amazon scientist speaking at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Bonito, Brazil.
  • Small farmers cause substantial damage in the ...
    Small farmers are less likely than large landowners to maintain required forest cover on their property in the Brazilian Amazon, worsening the environmental impact of their operations, reported a researcher presenting at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation ...
  • New Sumatran rhino mama filmed giving birth an ...
    On early Saturday morning, scientists were elated when first-time Sumatran rhino mother, Ratu, gave birth to a healthy male calf. The birth was filmed as well footage has been taken of the little tike—with massive eyes—nursing (see videos below). The new calf gives hope to a species ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: moose twins
    On May 21st, two Eurasian moose twins (Alces alces) were born at the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. The twins were named Toffee and Caramel.
  • Lonesome George passes, taking unique subspeci ...
    Lonesome George, the sole surviving member of the Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni), was found dead on Sunday by staff at the Galapagos National Park. With George's passing, the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies officially falls into extinction. First found in 1972, Lonesome Geo ...

Sierra Express

  • President Koroma Mourns With SLPP
    Freetown: His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has witnessed the Official and Civic Laying-out ceremony for the late Honourable Momoh Pujeh, Parliamentary Leader SLPP and Minority Party Leader at the State Hall of Parliament Building, Tower Hill. The late Honourable Momoh Pujeh was born on the 8t ...
  • Eric Koi Senessie Convicted of Contempt of Cou ...
    Former RUF member Eric Koi Senessie was convicted late Thursday on eight of nine contempt of court charges alleging that he had attempted to induce five prosecution witnesses who testified in the Taylor trial to recant their testimony.  Four of the counts alleged he had offered a bribe to a witn ...
  • Sierra Leone government suspends honorary Cons ...
    The Sierra Leone government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Thursday, June 21st announced the immediate suspension from office of Madam Sabainya Lamboi-Bandamoy (in photo), Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Kingdom of The Net ...
  • Police Blast Unlawful Arrest of 73 Thieves
    A senior police source has told Sierra Express Media that the arrest and unlawful detention of 73 persons alleged to be thieves is criminal thus also portrays a serious abuse of their human rights. This source said the police were wrong to have branded the individuals criminal because only a cou ...
  • “SLPP Women’s Leader is a Sinful Liar”- Former ...
    Former Young Generation Leader for Bombali District, John M Koroma aka MJ  informed  Sierra Express Media that the name of SLPP women’s Leader, Madam Adama Jalloh was never included in the list of names of 576 persons who switched allegiance with Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara to the ruling All People ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra director's company fined over effluen ...
    A Fonterra director whose company has been fined for fouling a Bay of Plenty waterway with cow effluent declared to the dairy co-op there had been a "one-off breach" on one of his farms.But the judge who yesterday ordered Colin...
  • Farmers back shake-up of Fonterra
    Fonterra's dairy farmers have voted in favour of the Trading Among Farmers scheme, paving the way for the biggest shake-up since the co-operative was formed in 2001, despite a vote for constitutional change not reaching the required...
  • Fonterra in quandary after contradictory vote
    Fonterra directors face a quandary after two-thirds of farmer shareholders voted to support the controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme, but failed to support constitutional changes which were intended to give them protections...
  • Editorial: Farmers should vote for scheme
    Fonterra, New Zealand's most successful international trader, our only truly multi-national enterprise, a world leader in dairy exports, has been trying for years to become more like a normal company. It will try again today when...
  • Dryden Spring: Give law a few tweaks and TAF i ...
    As a retired dairy farmer, co-operative ownership of our industry from cow to customer remains deeply embedded in my DNA. Not because of any abstract philosophical belief but for sound commercial reasons.It is a tough, competitive...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Thumbs-Down to Montana Speech Controls, Split ...
    Montana's effort to bypass the Citizens United ruling and muzzle political speech got a thumbs-down from the Supremes. With its ruling on Arizona's SB 1070, the Supreme Court voided several portions, but left intact a controversial requirement that police check the immigration ...
  • Ira Stoll on the Costs of Political Speech for ...
    President Nixon tried to get the IRS to audit the taxes of his liberal political enemies. The press, the public, and historians rightfully found that to be an affront to the rule of law and to the spirit of liberty. But now President Obama and his allies at The New York Times are ta ...
  • Romney Spox Refuses to Answer Questions About ...
    Here's what happened when reporters asked one of GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's spokespersons for a reaction to this morning's Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's harsh immigration law: GORKA: "The governor supports the states' rights to craft immigration laws when the f ...
  • Cyprus Seeks Bailout, Schaeuble Takes Obama to ...
    Cyprus will become the fifth eurozone member to seek financial assistance. With its banks heavily exposed to Greece’s crisis Cypriots can expect to be among the hardest hit when Greece exits the eurozone. The announcement from the Cypriot government came soon after Fitch cut the Cyp ...
  • Jimmy Carter Blasts Obama Foreign Policy Witho ...
    Former Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter took to the op-ed page of the New York Times to blast violations of human rights caused by policies continued, ramped up or introduced by fellow former Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama. The former president managed to do so wi ...

Mercury Rising

  • In the “irony is officially dead” ...
    Porfirio Lobo, the unlawfully selected successor to the Honduran dictatorship, has announced that the Paraguayan coup is a “wound to democracy.” For the record, the Paraguayan coup, while lacking in due process, at least did not involve machine gunning the presidential palace at 5AM ...
  • Behind Pawlenty’s Saying “No&#8221 ...
    Poor Lawrence O’Donnell. He keeps getting things wrong, in public, on national TV. For instance, remember how he spent half of last year yammering that Tim Pawlenty was a lock for the GOP presidential nomination? Too bad, so sad. Undeterred, O’Donnell simply switched from proclaiming ...
  • Another coup, in Paraguay?
    Via Adrienne, we learn from Mark Weisbrot that the oligarchy has seized power in Paraguay: A coup d’etat is taking place right now, Friday afternoon, in Paraguay. That is how it has been described by a number of neighboring governments. … The Congress of Paraguay is trying to oust th ...
  • Oops
    Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica: Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous ch ...
  • algore Requests Your Attendance at an Event Su ...
    Don Siegelman’s appeal to the Supreme Court needs your assistance. Our last legally-elected president, algore, requests your doing your duty to challenge this miscarriage of justice. Oh, and just adding my own commentary here– F.U., Eric Holder. ————— Ad ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Taking a Leap of Faith
      The following originally appeared in MovieMaker Magazine.   read more
  • Spacehive launches
    From Kickstarter to Indie-gogo, the past few years have brought in a blitzkrieg of crowd-funding platforms, and an expanding number of successfully crowd-sourced projects. Crowd-funding, a collaborative and cooperative financing method where all resources and capital are pooled, has become a m ...
  • Psychedelic Thoughtcrime
      A Singapore-based language and linguistics professor from China is facing an investigation by the National University of Singapore for making comments supportive of psychedelic use. read more
  • Sex in the News
    In this week's "Sex in the News," you may have missed: Vaginas on the House Floor; the wonder of breasts; General Mills and same-sex marriage; the 5 R's of Dating; and things you may not know about his O.  read more
  • Awake Within a Dream
    The following is excerpted from Lucid Dreaming: Accessing Your Inner Virtual Realities, published by Daily Grail. read more

Desertification

  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
  • New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
    When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...
  • Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in ...
    Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. Cilantro is the favourite “because of the flavour it adds to bean ...
  • Activists Aren’t Mourning Obama’s ...
    When a reluctant George H.W. Bush, Sr., then U.S. president, changed his mind and decided at the eleventh hour to address the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, he sounded defensive in his strong response to charges that the United States was one of the major powers responsible for the some of the world& ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Akaash Maharaj: The Mandate of Our Age
    On my new role as COO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption: Today, the greatest threat to democracy is no longer the explicit ideologies of political tyranny, but the far more insidious tyranny of political corruption. Corruption robs citizens of our own resources ...
  • "Men" and "the System of Checks and Balances t ...
    Men's Bras by "Kit Wood" The following original essay was submitted by the author on June 13, 2012 for publication on this blog. It has been edited in terms of its original formatting. You know what I’d love to see as a woman?? I would love to see: A GUY wearing a bra every day of his life ...
  • "Daddy"
  • Akaash Maharaj: Forgiving the Unforgivable
    Some things are broken so utterly, that they can never be made fully whole again. Some wounds are so deep, that the scars can only become part of who we are. Some crimes are so grave, that there can never be adequate justice on this side of eternity. Ultimately, our only source of comfort l ...
  • "Governments and Corporations"
    The less things are in the hands of governments and corporations the less things that can be fucked up by Philip Brennan As originally posted on: Revolt & Resist !!! (der_bluthund) on Twitter June 9, 2012

Press TV - Middle East

  • Kuwaiti cabinet submits resignation
    The Kuwaiti cabinet submits its resignation to the Persian Gulf state's ruler days after the country’s top court annulled elections held in February and reinstated the former parliament.
  • Iran to invite Saudi King to NAM summit
    A senior Iranian official dismisses reports about Tehran’s refusal to invite Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran, saying an invitation will be presented to him.
  • ‘Barzani set up Mossad den against Iran’
    A report says the “autonomous Kurdistan region” in northern Iraq, run by Massoud Barzani, has turned into a safe haven for Mossad spies to conduct their terrorist operations against Iranian nuclear scientists.
  • Syria warns NATO against conspiracy
    Syria has warned NATO against conspiring with Turkey against Damascus in their upcoming meeting on the shooting down by Syria of a Turkish jet fighter.
  • Kuwaiti opposition calls verdict null
    The Kuwaiti opposition has urged the country's top court to reverse its ruling which annulled elections held in February and reinstated the former pro-government parliament installed in 2009.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Knowledge, Power, and the Inalienable Right to ...
    On the classroom wall is a poster with a jumbo-sized declaration: Knowledge is power. I juxtaposed a quotation from John Dalberg-Acton: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”1 I always encourage the critical thinking of learners, so I posted the quotation without commen ...
  • Obama’s Leaked Diary
    6/16/12—Email from Lewinsky. Says she misses the spotlight, wants to get acquainted. Think I’ll pass. Bill’s taste ain’t mine, and she is fifteen years older. This photo can’t be recent. Nice negligee though. Michelle got similar, but when it’s your wife, well, you know how it is. I’ll be gentle ...
  • Golden Dawn’s Ultra Violence
    This Week: 1. Greek anarchists in Prague? 2. Golden Dawn's Dark hour 3. Immigrants invade Athens' streets 4. Pride ain't scared 5. Greek Anti-Fascist resistance 6. Run this town 7. Just Do It!
  • Tragic Week in Paraquay
    Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has just been removed from office by Congress through political impeachment, an express trial that lasted only 24 hours. This manoeuvre must be seen as a coup to the democratic process started in 2008. Social movements are protesting in front of Congress as wel ...
  • Whom Should We Put On Our Kill List
    Now that Obama and his handlers at the Pentagon have informed us that it is legal, appropriate and acceptable to have a “kill list,” we’ve actually warmed up to the subject. After all, if Obama can have a kill list, so should every good American. We sat down and thought about those we would put ...

Destructionist

  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...
  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...
  • N. Carolina refuses to compensate hundreds ste ...
    North Carolina has voted down the first attempt to compensate the victims of its eugenics program, one of 32 such programs that sterilized tens of thousands without their knowledge or consent across the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. ­Opponents cited budgetary restraints and concerns of sett ...
  • N. Carolina refuses to compensate hundreds ste ...
    North Carolina has voted down the first attempt to compensate the victims of its eugenics program, one of 32 such programs that sterilized tens of thousands without their knowledge or consent across the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. ­Opponents cited budgetary restraints and concerns of sett ...
  • Farage: “The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”
    In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP’s Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his ‘peers’ in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy’s proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • 2012 Shaping Up as Worst Year Ever for Journalists
    It’s the type of honour roll that journalists would prefer not to be on. But as an emotional Allison Bethel-McKenzie read out the names of the 72 journalists who have made that grim list so far this year, even Trinidad and Tobago’s president, George Maxwell Richards, was moved to ple ...
  • Climate Change: Waiting for a Catastrophic Wak ...
    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. To spur real action on climate change, a disaster ...
  • Biofuels and Hunger, Two Sides of the Same Coin
    Despite growing evidence that biofuel production is causing food insecurity around the world, the new European Union policy blueprint on renewable energy ignores the social effects of biofuels. Last week, Guatemalan victims of the food crisis came to Brussels to make European policy makers aware ...
  • No Human Rights – in Theory or Practice
    Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948, in the aftermath of the Second World War, world leaders embarked on a process of ensuring the rights of every individual in the world. The theory and practice of human rights is a much-studied topic in every single ...
  • This Football Is a Game of Dispossession
    The football teams are back in their refugee camps in Algeria, and no, FIFA has taken no note of this tournament. And the television cameras are all at the Euro cup. These boys played well enough, even if nobody was around to watch. “They would slip in the first matches but this is underst ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Where are the Iran talks heading after Moscow?
    Summary: To anyone trying to guess where this year’s re-engagement of Iran by the Obama administration is likely to lead, two things look clearer in the aftermath of the 18-19 June talks in Moscow. source: Lobe Log read more
  • Annan: Iran should be part of Syria solution
    Summary: Geneva: UN envoy Kofi Annan has said that Iran should be involved in efforts to end the escalating violence that has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. source: APread more
  • What you can do to stop a war with Iran
    Summary: Back in 2002, a group of influential neoconservatives convinced President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney that it was a really smart idea to invade Iraq. With help from AIPAC and other groups in the Israel lobby, and an assist from Israeli politicians like Ehud Barak, ...
  • Iran Detects ‘Massive Cyber Attack’ After Fai ...
    Summary: The US continues its aggressive postures towards Iran, despite claiming to be on a diplomatic course source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Addressing the Asymmetry in Negotiations betwe ...
    Summary: The Oxford Research Group’s briefing, Iran’s Nuclear Impasse: Breaking the Deadlock (1 May 2012) [1], published before the second round of negotiations between Iran and P5+1 (permanent Security Council and Germany) in Baghdad on 23 May, whilst proposing some positive principles for ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • The seven deadly sins of self-growth
    Self-growth's seven deadly sins are especially dangerous because when you are the sinner, you may not see it. Acting against your own growth, you also blind yourself to the truth of what you are doing. This is known as self-deception and it's truly a maddening issue...
  • EPA drones spying on the livestock activity of ...
    As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to approve scores of drone applications for a range of federal, state and local agencies, concern among Americans and privacy groups is rising about the use of these drones for illegal surveillance. The latest...
  • Experts 30 years later - Intestinal fungi like ...
    Certain biologists and "alternative" practitioners have long been supporting the notion that intestinal fungi can contribute to disease. When we take antibiotics or eat a western diet, yeasts like Candida Albicans gets a chance to flourish in the intestinal tract. Healthy...
  • Nature offers safe and effective blood thinnin ...
    Millions of people in the United States take either prescription medications, aspirin or a combination of those drugs to thin their blood. The problem with prescription blood thinners and aspirin is that they all have a number of side effects associated with them, some...
  • FDA looks the other way while school uses elec ...
    (NaturalNews)A special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts, known as The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is once again in the news, this time for its use of a controversial form of therapy that is no longer officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According...

Threat Level

  • How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, ...
    No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and threatened the 28-y ...
  • DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snoop ...
    DefCon, the premiere conference for blackhat hackers, turns 20 this July, and it's still kept its cred as the place to be for hackers of all hats, and the feds who track them.
  • Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
    It's the 100th birthday of codebreaker Alan Turing this week, and to celebrate geek-style, WiredUK is running a contest with a cipher that needs busting. Call it the Turing test, if you will.
  • Privacy Lawyers Sell Out Facebook Users for $1 ...
    Facebook is agreeing to give its users the right to "limit" how the social-networking site uses their faces in ads, as a part of a way to settle a privacy lawsuit brought against the company. The other part of the settlement is $10 million in fees to the lawyers who brought the case against Face ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Say S*** About Legali ...
    The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside indecency rulings against Fox and ABC for airing fleeting expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of decency standards for broadcast television and radio.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Young and the Reckless
    Admittedly, the young Barack Obama was a pothead and tried cocaine. Apparently, the young Mitt Romney was a bully who liked to pretend to be a cop, a firefighter and a gangster. But whether or not early Obama dabbled in dope or Romney was, well, a douchebag, doesn't really matter. Or, at leas ...
  • The Mandates We Love
    As the Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of the 2010 Affordable Care, recent polling from Reuters and the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that Americans support its major provisions except for one. The individual mandate to purchase private health insurance beginning in 2014, the part of ...
  • Romney "Sick at Heart" Over Bain Job Losses
    Back in 2007, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney declared that taking a big payment from a company that later failed "would make me sick, sick at heart." If so, Romney by now must be badly in need of a quadruple by-pass. Because as the New York Times became just the latest to report, t ...
  • Mitt Romney's Golden Showers
    "It is more blessed," Jesus said, "to give than to receive." That may be, but the billionaire backers of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and Super PAC plan to do both. As they gather this weekend for a three-day Romney conclave in Park City, Utah and a secret Koch brothers summit in San Di ...
  • Mitt Romney's Fatal Prescription for Health Care
    Whatever ruling the nation's highest court hands down on President Obama's Affordable Care Act, Republican challenger Mitt Romney's prescription for health care is unchanged. "Now if I'm able to repeal it--or if the Supreme Court is able to get that job done for us," he announced last week, "We ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • The Race to Make Fake Meat – Saving Animals an ...
    The hottest buzz-phrase in neo-economic theory is “disruptive innovation” and innovation-driven companies are actively trying to identify it, foster it (or control it), and seeking ways to adapt to it and exploit it. If one is looking for a prime example of an emerging disruptive inn ...
  • Stonehenge Marked The Unification Of Britain, ...
      Stonehenge was built as a monument to the unification of Britain’s different tribes of people after a long time period of regional conflict and differences, says researchers, following a ten year long investigation into the site. Each of the large stones are thought to symbolize the ...
  • Is Anybody Out There? On Finding E.T., Remembe ...
    I was 12 years old when I read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Don’t let that age fool you — I considered myself to be a very sophisticated reader at that age, having already read In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, The Exorcist and other culturally impacting literary works. But I ...
  • Stonehenge Was A Monument To Tribal Unificatio ...
      Researchers working at Stonehenge have concluded, after ten years of archaeological investigation at the site, that it was built as a monument to unify the peoples of Britain after a long period of conflict and regional differences.     The researchers theorize that the stones s ...
  • Snow Particles On Mars Are As Small As Red Blo ...
      Researchers have for the first time calculated the size of the snow particles in the clouds at the Martian poles, by using data from orbiting spacecraft. They found that the snow particles at the south pole are somewhat smaller than the snow particles at the north pole, but that they are ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Song to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Homeless"
    By @KYYellowDog Published on Dec 20, 2006 by almirCCR African Concert - Graceland -live in Africa
  • Today's SCOTUS rulings
    By @BGinKC They didn't hand down their  decision on Obamacare today. I'm starting to think they're fucking with me personally, and if they don't do it  Thursday, I'll know they are. The big ruling today was the striking down of  Arizona's  obnoxious 'papers please" law -- &nb ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC Another weekend has come and gone and once again, I didn't get half the stuff done that I needed to. Oh well. All of my problems are of the first-world variety and none of them can't be held at bay with a bubblebath and clean, sunshine-dried percales, so all in all, if I complain, the ...
  • Why Unions Are Necessary
    By @KYYellowDog It's obvious to those of us who understand, but in the face of 100 years of repug corporate lies repeated continuously, this cannot be said often enough. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: Derek Thompson at The Atlantic allowed me to respond to his forum asking whether union ...
  • The Barefoot and Pregnant States
    By @KYYellowDog Yes, of course Kentucky is one. See what a DINO governor and state house will get you? Annie-Rose Strasser at Think Progress: Half Of States Protect Men's Health More Than Women's | Twenty-two states will not offer coverage of contraception to women on the same basis as it is off ...

Care 2

  • Protect Coral Reefs of Antigua and Barbuda ! P ...
    The coastal regions of Antigua and Barbuda are among the most ecologically diverse in the Caribbean. They contain some of the most magnificent reefs in the entirety of the Caribbean Sea, hosting such diverse marine life as the sea turtles, dolphin, and Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • Reviving the Mississippi River Delta: EDF Prov ...
    The Environmental Defense FundEDFhas released a video describing their 4-part plan to tackle wetlands restoration in the Delta region. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 'World's greenest buildings' get seal of approval
    A rigorous green certification system is recognizing the next phase of eco design, which its founders describe as "the world's greenest buildings." Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stay strong -- Save the Amazon ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    All that the indigenous communities fought for is now under threat, but they are planning another courageous march. If we build a massive regional outcry, we can persuade President Morales and his Brazilian partners to reconsider the project and reroute Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbsp ...
  • Strengthen Carbon Pollution Standards to Comba ...
    The EPA recently proposed new rules to curb carbon pollution by placing limits on future power plants. While this new rule is symbolically important, it actually does nothing to regulate current sources of greenhouse gas emission. With the catastrophic Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbsp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Bad, Barack, Bad (but the voters are every bit ...
    Barack, Barack. You did just fell off the turnip truck. Didn’t you. You really thought that that executive privilege stunt would be popular? Or that it would prevent the inevitable? Get a grip, Barack. Did you see the poll? This one? “Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking &# ...
  • SCOTUS: Constitutionality of Arizona Immigrant Law
    UPDATE: Judge Napalitano (Fox News) says that “the heart and soul” of Arizona immigration law has been struck down (125-page ruling). Judge again: SCOTUS looking for “factual challenge” to see if state court can decide if police are properly exercising this authority unde ...
  • Sagacious and Savvy: The Supreme Court Decides ...
    This is the last Monday when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) normally announces its fateful decisions on Mondays and Thursdays before it closes shop for the summer. The last Thursday, June 21, came and went with not a peep. The odds are that today we will learn if the so-called A ...
  • Muslims Brothers Get Egyptian Presidency
    LARRY JOHNSON: Muslims Brothers Get Egyptian Presidency- problem with fundamentalists is “coping with reality.” noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=68600 — NoQuarterUSA (@noquarterusa) June 24, 2012 Fascinating, but not terribly surprising, results out of Egypt. We already knew that the v ...
  • Egypt, Rasmussen Shockers + Sunday Open Thread
    BREAKING NEWS: Larry Johnson is writing a post on the momentous events in Egypt. I can’t wait to see what Larry has to say. In the meantime, here are some fascinating results of Rasmussen Reports’ latest polls: First: Rasmussen’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: Romney 48%, Ob ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

  • Court: No automatic life without parole for ju ...
    Raju Chebium / USA Today: Court: No automatic life without parole for juveniles  —  WASHINGTON - Juveniles convicted of murder can't be automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.  —  The 5-4 ruling, involv ...
  • Plane Tows Swastika Banner, Startles New Jerse ...
    Steve Beck / CBS Philly: Plane Tows Swastika Banner, Startles New Jersey Beachgoers  —  LONG BEACH, N.J. (CBS/AP) — New Jersey beachgoers were startled over the weekend to see a small plane flying overhead pulling a swastika banner.  —  VIEW: Photo Plane To ...
  • Iranian pair face death penalty after third al ...
    Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian: Iranian pair face death penalty after third alcohol offence  —  Two people previously lashed 160 times for consuming alcohol, which is forbidden under Islamic Sharia law  —  Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for persistent ...
  • 'We Certainly Don't Want to Divide Europe' (Sp ...
    Spiegel Online: 'We Certainly Don't Want to Divide Europe'  —  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble believes that only further EU integration can save the euro.  SPIEGEL spoke with him about how the currency can be strengthened, the hurdles presented by Germany's ...
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. treated for exhaustion ...
    Seung Min Kim / Politico: Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. treated for exhaustion, takes medical leave  —  Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) has taken a medical leave of absence because he is being treated for exhaustion, according to his office.  —  In a brief statement r ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • After Rio, a new consensus
    The text agreed in Brazil may be a compromise, says Ma Jun, but it shows the world is a fairer place than 20 years ago. On the summit sidelines, the campaigner spoke to Xu Nan about global politics, supply chains and China's shifting role.Ma Jun is founder of the Institute of Public and Environm ...
  • The hard climb continues
    Most observers have been disappointed by Rio+20 and rightly so. But the conference has kept the door open for some constructive work – in mountain conservation, for instance, writes Joydeep Gupta.The politics of Rio+20 – as in similar global conferences – has worked at two leve ...
  • Pale shade for the green economy
    One of the most hotly debated concepts in the approach to Rio has been watered down in the summit’s draft declaration to a point where it means almost nothing. Joydeep Gupta reports.“Green economy” has been the buzz-phrase in national and international development circles for q ...
  • China’s shifting public space
    New laws to boost the citizen role in green governance are major gains for Chinese civil society – at least on paper. Chang Cheng looks at highs and lows of the last decade.Ten years ago, a small delegation of Chinese NGOs went to Johannesburg for the 2002 Earth Summit. For China’s n ...
  • At Rio, a new contract for science?
    As global leaders try to chart a course for the planet, scientists are seeking to influence policymakers far more than they have proved able to in recent years. Joydeep Gupta reports from Brazil.Ensuring a sustainable future in the face of inter-connected, human-induced challenges to the Earth s ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, ...
    No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and threatened the 28-y ...
  • DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snoop ...
    DefCon, the premiere conference for blackhat hackers, turns 20 this July, and it's still kept its cred as the place to be for hackers of all hats, and the feds who track them.
  • Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
    It's the 100th birthday of codebreaker Alan Turing this week, and to celebrate geek-style, WiredUK is running a contest with a cipher that needs busting. Call it the Turing test, if you will.
  • Privacy Lawyers Sell Out Facebook Users for $1 ...
    Facebook is agreeing to give its users the right to "limit" how the social-networking site uses their faces in ads, as a part of a way to settle a privacy lawsuit brought against the company. The other part of the settlement is $10 million in fees to the lawyers who brought the case against Face ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Say S*** About Legali ...
    The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside indecency rulings against Fox and ABC for airing fleeting expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of decency standards for broadcast television and radio.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Pink Slime Headed to Court?
    According to KTIV TV, a "former BPI employee will file a civil lawsuit following the controversy surrounding lean, finely textured beef -- or LFTB" (a.k.a. Pink Slime).  "[T]he civil suit he'll file against a 'national news broadcasting company,' and other individuals involved."  Here ...
  • Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak: 146 Sickened wit ...
    CNN’s Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin did a great job of telling the back-story on the deadliest foodborne illnesses outbreak in the US in 100 years.
  • A Smorgasbord of Outbreaks and Recalls - We sh ...
    Looking at the Salmonella Tuna Scrape (they really need a better name for it) outbreak numbers yesterday, it got me spending some of my day at work today looking at CDC data over the last few years on outbreak surveillance, investigations, announcements and governemnt or business recalls.  ...
  • When is a Recall not a Recall? Perhaps when pe ...
    The CDC reported this week that a total of 390 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly (376 persons) or Salmonella Nchanga (14 persons) have been reported from 27 states and the District of Columbia.  Of those sickened, 47 people have been hospitalized - fortunatel ...
  • Marler to Congress - "Put me out of Business"
    This was testimony i gave before the House Energy and Commerce Committee which has oversight of the FDA.  My testimony, along with that of over a dozen Marler Clark clients, was part of a years long push for passage of the Food Safety Moderization Act.

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Wanna Buy An Election? Mother Jones Expose on ...
    Part two of our conversation with Monika Bauerlein and Andy Kroll of Mothers Jones magazine. The new cover story in the magazine is called "Follow the Dark Money." We discuss at how Karl Rove, Sheldon Adelson and others are bankrolling Mitt Romney’s campaign, why President Obama ...
  • A Movement Built By Dreamers
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Undocumented immigrants in the United States number around 12 million people, a group larger than the populations of most countries on the planet. Among those are as many as 800,000 young people who are now most likely eligible for limited legal status, tha ...
  • VIDEO: Police Detained Ramarley Graham's Grand ...
    Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after New York police officers raided his home without a warrant and shot him dead. He was unarmed. Ramarley’s grandmother and his six-year-old brother were home at the time of the shooting. The police detained the grandmother for hours aft ...
  • VIDEO: Police Detained Ramarley Graham's Grand ...
    Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after New York police officers raided his home without a warrant and shot him dead. He was unarmed. Ramarley’s grandmother and his six-year-old brother were home at the time of the shooting. The police detained the grandmother for hours aft ...
  • Full Interview: Comedian, Activist Dick Gregor ...
    Amy Goodman interviews the legendary comedian Dick Gregory at Sunday’s Father’s Day march against the New York police practice known as stop-and-frisk. Gregory, 79, also talks about racial profiling, police relations, the execution of Troy Davis and the 2012 race. Full Democracy ...

Suzie-Q

  • Companies’ Ills Did Not Harm Romney’s Firm
    New York Times By MICHAEL LUO and JULIE CRESWELL Published: June 22, 2012 Cambridge Industries, an automotive plastics supplier whose losses had been building for three consecutive years, finally filed for bankruptcy in May 2000 under a mountain of debt that had ballooned to more than $300 milli ...
  • Romney’s Bain Capital Invested In Companies Th ...
    Washington Post By Tom Hamburger, Thursday, June 21, 7:53 PM Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. During the nearly 15 years that Rom ...
  • Romney Campaign Said to Ask Scott to Downplay ...
    Bloomberg By Michael C. Bender -  Jun 21, 2012 1:46 PM MT Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffer ...
  • Follow the Dark Money
    The down and dirty history of secret spending, PACs gone wild, and the epic four-decade fight over the only kind of political capital that matters. Mother Jones  —By Andy Kroll | July/August 2012 Issue “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can& ...
  • Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casin ...
    HuffPost Peter H. Stone Posted: 06/16/2012 12:24 am Updated: 06/16/2012  2:06 am WASHINGTON — Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth makes him one of the world’s richest men, is on a check-writing spree that will soon bring his total political contributions in this elect ...

Solari

  • Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
    “A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ“. ~John Steinbeck Related reading: John Steinbeck From Wikipedia John Steinbeck Quotes quotesdonkey.com John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr, 1902 – 1968 qotd.org
  • Quote du Jour
    “I see things getting faster, stupider and weaker all the time.” ~  Solari Report Subscriber
  • Million Dollar Blocks
    [CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, "It's like one way in and no way out."] By Spatial Information Design Labs The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s bigge ...
  • All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
    By Adam Curtis All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.” Series: Part 1 — Love and [...]
  • Consumer Credit Impaired By Under-45 Job, Debt ...
    By Jed Graham Nearly four years after a borrowing binge gave way to financial crisis, have households slashed enough debt to take on new credit and start spending again? Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Slowly more people see the “quiet coup&# ...
    Summary: Slowly the quite coup in motion becomes visible to Americans. One by one. Unfortunately we’re still early in the problem recognition stage, while the coup advances rapidly. Here are three articles, milestones along the road away from the Second Republic to our new political regime ...
  • Another view of the euro-crisis: Germany vs. ...
    Summary: The current crisis is another chapter in the two-thousand year story of Europe’s people struggle to live together.  As an economic crisis it shows progress from the last chapter, 1914-1945, their attempts at mutual annihilation.  It’s better than the long-feared next chapter ...
  • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
    Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”:  post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Questio ...
  • Is 4GW magnifique?
    Summary:  FM writer Chet Richards (Colonel, USAF, retired) describes what our military refuses to see, that 4GW has become the dominate form of warfare in our age.  That others are mastering it, while we spend vast sums preparing for wars that will not occur again during our lives.  And, like al ...
  • Shaping your view of the world with well-const ...
    Summary: Perhaps among the worst consequences of the anti-carbon crusade (fighting anthropogenic global warming and climate catastrophe) is the loss of confidence by the public in scientists and science media.  Many scientists have become advocates first, scientists second — abusing the pu ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Scenes from a Taliban Attack in Afghanistan
    Note: Ali Latifi, a freelance journalist based in Doha, was reporting from the scene of a Taliban attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan last week in which 23 people were killed. He tells the story of the attack through his interaction with Haider, an Afghan who fought against the Soviet invas ...
  • Iran’s Relations with Turkey Experience Fresh ...
    As the Islamic Republic waits to see how the June 22 downing of a Turkish plane by Syria will affect the situation on the already tense Syrian-Turkish border, Iran’s government is more concerned still about its own relations with Turkey. Iran’s support for the Syrian government’s violent crackdo ...
  • Top of the Morning: Egypt Gets A President; Mo ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi Named Winner of Egypt Presidential Contest This is a huge milestone in Egypt’s post revolutionary phase, it also shows that Egypt’s military rulers are willing to at least countenance the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ascent ...
  • Why Sudanese Are Protesting in the Streets
    Protests in Sudan entered their seventh day today, after being sparked on June 17 by female students at the University of Khartoum. The protests spread to other universities, and then from students to wider communities. They came after the government of Omar Al Bashir announced austerity measure ...
  • Why NATO Won't Go to War Over Syria Shooting D ...
    Following yesterday's shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It's not going to happen. Article 5, while relatively short, is much more complicated than commonly understood:  The Parties agree that ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • How Vague is Too Vague?
    This was clearly the question in the Mitt Romney camp this morning, as the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s immigration law came down: How little can we get by with saying? When it comes to practically any issue beyond the economy, the clear challenge for the Romney campaign has become how to ...
  • Telecommuters Playing Video Games While Outwor ...
    I work at home, which I much prefer to going into an office every day, for a whole host of reasons. There's the lack of a commute, which means that the hour and a half I used to spend every day in transit is now devoted to sleep, time with family, and even sometimes more work. There's money sav ...
  • Give Them Papers, Please!
    In the legal battle over Arizona's "papers, please" law, SB 1070, the only part left standing after today's Supreme Court decision is the "papers, please" part. The Court found that Arizona does not have the authority to make unlawful presence in the country a separate state crime; to make it a ...
  • What the SCOTUS Ruling on SB 1070 Means for Ot ...
    Two years ago, when the Arizona Legislature passed the controversial SB 1070, immigration rights activists feared it was only the beginning. The anti-immigrant measure put new and significant burdens on non-citizens while seemingly encouraging law enforcement officials to rely on racial profili ...
  • Romney Faces a Tough Choice on Immigration
    Two weeks ago, President Obama put Mitt Romney in a tough position with his DREAM Act by executive action—with a policy on the table, Romney was forced to respond, and his opposition to humane immigration reform came to the forefront of the election. With today’s ruling on Arizona’s immigration ...

Buzzflash

  • The George W. Bush Pet Goat "Dereliction of Du ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Last Wednesday (6/20), BuzzFlash at Truthout posted a commentary entitled, "Bush Lied About 9/11, and Now We Have the Documents to Prove It."  It's received nearly 2000 FB likes as of this moment, and we will be posting more tomorrow from work Jason L ...
  • Republican War on Food Stamps is Just More Rac ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ever since Nixon's Southern strategy, the GOP has made race baiting for votes its trusty hot button. They've used coded appeals to whites that invoke racism in more ways than Mitt Romney can fire people. So now, the Republicans are bringing back thei ...
  • American Patriotism in Hyper-Drive with Flags ...
    WALTER BRASCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's midway between Flag Day and Independence Day. That means several million copies of full-page flags printed on cheap newsprint, June 14, have been burned, shredded, thrown away, or perhaps recycled. It's an American tradition. Flag Day was created by P ...
  • Dred Scott, Citizens United, and the Future of ...
    STEVEN JOMAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In 1820, Thomas Jefferson described the Missouri Compromise as a "firebell in the night," warning of "future bloody conflict." That Act of Congress had allowed the expansion of slavery beyond its original boundaries, into the territory of Jefferso ...
  • Bush Lied About 9/11, and Now We Have the Docu ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT At the time of 9/11, BuzzFlash was one of the extremely few major progressive websites on the Internet. In the months and years following the suicidal hijacking attacks on the Twin Towers, BuzzFlash relentlessly exposed the negligence of the Bush admi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Michael McIntyre’s three ways to save the planet
    Michael McIntyre and Steven Murphy of Carleton University and Bernard Funston of Northern Canada Consulting in Ottawa, and Canada, suggest that the resources required to sustain human life are being degraded perhaps to the point of no return. They suggest that now is the time for collective acti ...
  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...
  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...
  • Tea increases prostate risk, sex and coffee re ...
    If you’re male and a big tea drinker, then you might have been worried by this week’s news that men who drink a lot of tea are at increased risk of developing prostate cancer. Women needn’t worry about their own health in this regard. I would post the links to the research, but ...
  • Drugs in drinking water
    Rather bizarre extrapolations about the presence of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor Prozac in water and the development of "autism" in fish hit the headlines recently and were quickly debunked by science bloggers around the world. Nevertheless, the presence of pharmaceuticals in the wat ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Federal Appellate Court Upholds Washington Ene ...
    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Washington’s energy efficient building code—a code that sets standards that is saving Washington families and businesses millions of dollars on energy bills and reducing harmful global warming pollution. The energy code sets minimum sta ...
  • Kucinich Responds to Supreme Court Ruling “We ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today responded to a ruling by the Supreme Court reaffirming Citizens United and overturning a Montana limit on corporate campaign expenditures. Congressman Kucinich renewed his support for H. J. Res. 100, a constitutional amendment that would require all feder ...
  • Introducing 'Clean Resources Standard' for Pub ...
    This week the Department of the Interior will lease 721 million tons of coal in the North Porcupine tract in Wyoming, and according to an analysis released today by the Center for American Progress, "Using Public Lands for the Public Good: Rebalancing Coal and Renewable Electricity with a C ...
  • “Tragic Week in Paraguay”
    AP is reporting: “Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fought back Sunday against the politicians who engineered his dismissal, setting up an alternative government and pledging to upstage Paraguay’s new leaders at an upcoming regional summit.”read more
  • ACLU Responds to Decision in Miller/Jackson
    The Supreme Court ruled today that juveniles convicted of murder cannot be subject to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Twenty nine states currently have such laws. The Court’s rulings in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs build on a decision ...

Common Dreams-Views

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Video: Scott talks immigration, water wars, Ob ...
    TALLAHASSEE — After Mother Nature pulled a Debby Downer, Gov. Rick Scott scrubbed his Monday schedule to stay close to the Florida Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee. He also fielded a few off-topic questions at the gaggle today, including on immigration, his confidence that the U.S. Sup ...
  • Water Wars not going to Supreme Court
    U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Alabama Water Dispute case
  • U.S. Supreme Court stays out of Florida, Alaba ...
    By Ray Henry Associated Press -- The decision to stay out of the long-running legal feud means that an appeals decision favorable to the metro Atlanta area will stand, a situation bound to frustrate authorities in Florida, Alabama and even southern Georgia who complain Atlanta uses too much wate ...
  • Supreme Court won't hear tri-state "W ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court will not intervene in a tri-state water dispute between Alabama, Georgia and Florida that has threatened the metro Atlanta area's water supply. The decision Monday by the top court
  • SCOTUS declines to hear Alabama's appeals ...
    Lower court ruling allowing Georgia to use Lake Lanier for drinking water stands.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Intermission
    The bridge is yours. -Getting increasingly excited for 12 Years a Slave, due to things like this. -I do like that Michelle Williams was the person who got escape velocity from Dawson’s Creek. -This is apparently the year that actors slightly older than me figure out marriage and divorce:
  • California Tobacco Tax Increase Fails By Less ...
    A measure to increase California’s tobacco tax by $1 failed by 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent. The vote had been too close to call for two weeks, but the measure was losing by 27,000 votes with 150,000 ballots left to be counted. Opponents of the $1-a-pack tax spent $47 million to fight it, ...
  • Midwestern Drought Intensifies: ‘I Don’t Remem ...
    A mild snow-less winter, an unusually dry spring, and debilitating heat in May and June have created serious drought conditions in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, among other states. Despite recent severe storms that dumped more than 7 inches of rain on Duluth, Minnesota, last ...
  • Jimmy Carter On Drone Program: U.S. ‘Aba ...
    Former President Jimmy Carter urged the United States to regain moral leadership in its foreign policy, writing in a New York Times op-ed Monday that the U.S. “is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.” The former Democratic president’s op-ed came on the he ...
  • Congressman Laughs As Radio Host Suggests &#82 ...
    On an Iowa radio show this weekend, Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) laughed along as the host suggested he “pistol whip” nuns who are objecting to the Republicans’ draconian budget cuts. A group of Catholic nuns are traveling around the country to protest the cuts, which they say go aga ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Joe Oliver gets interrupted and FUCK HIM
    And Dan Gardner and other twits stand up for him. Gardner, pull your head out of your ass. Either the harpercons are a threat to democracy, either they are contemptuous of Parliament, either they are fraudsters, or they are not. And if they are undemocratic thugs, then they should be forced to s ...
  • Constitutional Insurgency
    I wrote about this concept once before. I think it holds true more today. harper has launched an all-out assault on our system of government. he disregarded the majority in Parliament. he stole his majority through election fraud. he now uses his fraudulent majority to ram through his corrupt, u ...
  • Crumbs II
    So, yesterday, when I posted about how neo-liberals will appeal to progressives by incorporating feminist, pro-GLBT or anti-racist policies into their grab-bag of electoral platforms (so long as they don't really cost anything), CounterPunch.org posted an essay by Mike Whitney on the very same t ...
  • Crumbs
    This might not be a popular post. I don't want to come off all Marxist here and privilege economic oppression as the worst and most important form of oppression. I think what I want to do is warn people that capitalism, which is impoverishing the world and destroying the planet, can and will gra ...
  • All power to the Central Committee!
    A particularly obnoxious troll was recently celebrating Bill-38 as being "efficient." Here's what Michael Harris has to say about that (hat-tip to Dr. Dawg):As everybody knows, the vast majority of C-38 has nothing to do with the finances of the country. That makes it a legislative stealth atta ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Video: Missing grows to 30 as rubble searched ...
    The number of those missing in the collapse of a mall in Elliot Lake, Northern Ontario, is now reported to be 30, growing from 9 reported missing over the weekend. Rescue workers searching for survivors have found one dead body to date.
  • Walmart Canada goes on hiring spree; seeks 4,0 ...
    Looking for a job? Why not become an associate for Walmart Canada? The retail juggernaut is opening 47 hiring centres and is seeking to hire approximately 4,000 associates and have 94,000 employees by late January.
  • Will bullion prices fall further then climb to ...
    Throughout 2012, bullion prices have been rather lackluster. Investors saw silver jump to $35 in February, but fall since. Gold has also seen a sharp drop. Does this spell the end for bullion or is this just a temporary adjustment for goldbugs?
  • Strait of Dover Goes Wire-to-wire to Win 153rd ...
    With the future of the race very much in doubt and light rain falling from above, New Westminister, B.C. jockey Justin Stein ran the race of his life to capture the 153rd, and possibly last, Queen’s Plate.
  • Ottawa: A brief historical account and photogr ...
    Once winter is over in one of the world’s coldest capitals, Ottawa prepares to celebrate Canada Day and to receive visitors from all over the world who marvel at the natural beauty of the area and the splendid displays of military pageantry at The Hill.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Blue helmets cast aside, Canada keeps the peac ...
    “The need is greater than ever but Canada’s contribution has never been lower,” said Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, an Ottawa research and advocacy group. “The Harper government doesn’t regard peacekeeping as a route to enhancing Canada’s international stature.”
  • Report on FWSAR procurement
    A new report calls on the government to replace the Canadian Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) fleet in a timely and objective manner and proposes that a number of made-in-Canada aircraft be considered to fulfill Canada’s search and rescue requirements.
  • Arms Trade Treaty talks begin next month
    Negotiations on a multilateral Arms Trade Treaty are scheduled to take place from July 2nd to the 27th in New York.
  • Global nuclear arsenal declines
    Over the past twelve months, the world has seen a drop in the number of active nuclear weapons as countries retire aged or obsolete weapons. China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States possess in total approximately 19,000 nuclear weapons.
  • Access to information facing cuts?
    Many government departments have improved their response to Access to Information requests, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault reports. But these gains may be compromised by the current round of budget cuts.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
    April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
  • Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
    April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
  • Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
    April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
  • McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
    April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
  • Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
    April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Knowledge, Power, and the Inalienable Right to ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Kim Petersen On the classroom wall is a poster with a jumbo-sized declaration: Knowledge is power. I juxtaposed a quotation from John Dalberg-Acton: Power tends to corrupt and ...
  • New Research: Drones Can Easily Be Hijacked
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSteve Watson Prisonplanet.com June 25, 2012 As exponentially more government and law enforcement drones take to the skies over America, new research has highlighted the fact that the unmanned vehicles are extremely vulne ...
  • Biden warned Obama of flaws in Afghan surge pl ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A forthcoming book about the Afghanistan war claims that Vice President Joe Biden warned President Barack Obama that military leaders’ plans for an Iraq-style “surge” were deeply flawed ...
  • DHS Cellphone Alert System ‘Follows You Around’
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPresidential messages to have their own distinctive ring tone Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, June 25, 2012 Not only does the Department of Homeland Security’s new emergency alert system force cellphon ...
  • ‘Andatu’ becomes the fourth endagered Sumatran ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, which became Saturday only the fourth birth in captivity in more than a century, was named Monday a “gift from God”. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Ha ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Why We Fight by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 25, 2012 I park my car in the lot in front of the rectory of Sacred Heart in Camden, N.J., and walk through a gray drizzle to Emerald Street. My friend Lolly Davis, whose blood pressure recently shot up and whose kidneys shut down, ha ...
  • World Refugee Day: “Crusaders” Collateral Dama ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 21 June 2012 “We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere … We have a country of words. Speak, speak so we may know the end of this travel.” (Mahmud Darwish, 1942-2008) Wednesday, 20th June was World Refugee Day. Thi ...
  • Bruce Gagnon on U.S. Aggression Toward Russia ...
    by Bruce Gagnon Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes June 20, 2012 by David Swanson http://warisacrime.org June 20, 2012 Bruce Gagnon describes U.S. and NATO plans in the works to militarily surround and threaten both Russia and China.  Gagnon is co-founder and coordinator of the Glo ...
  • The Stars in Allah’s Sky by Ed Ciaccio + Denni ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer June 20, 2012 Above our tiny village the stars in Allah’s sky shone bright. The special wedding food and music had all filled me with delight. We’d gathered there to celebrate the start of the new life Of my gentle older brother and his lovely young ...
  • Franklin Lamb: US-led nasty alliance behind Sy ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon June 22, 2012 Jun 22, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews US media has confirmed finally that the CIA is helping armed gangs in Syria, operating out of Turkey with weapons smuggled through Turkey. Interview with Franklin Lamb, international ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s ‘price tag’ terrorism ...
    Palestinians in areas of the West Bank under Israeli control live with settler neighbours who beat and shoot them, set alight fields, poison wells, kill livestock and steal crops. These acts of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli reservist goes on hunger strike in sol ...
    An Israel reserves soldier, who has refused to partake in army duty to protest Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, has gone on hunger strike in military prison, in what he said was a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amira Hass: The law, ass or donkey?
    As a result of the High Court ruling, officers of the Civil Administration show up in Susya on June 12 and hand out six collective demolition orders affecting 52 buildings, including a preschool, a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Arab educators in uproar over plan to study Be ...
    Raja Zatara: "From the perspective of the Arab population, which was part of the Palestinian people, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are not just prime ministers. The former is identified with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israeli MK, AIPAC behind Senate bid to cut tot ...
    Every year the US allocates $250 million to UNRWA, which provides food as well as health, education and employment services to millions of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Greenland Ice May Exaggerate Magnitude of 13,0 ...
    Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere's climate. But the method -- comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow ...
  • Tonsillectomy A Common Summer Activity At Loyola
    Scheduling tonsils and adenoids to be removed figures into many parents' itineraries for their children's summer vacation, right up there with summer camp and family reunions. An estimated 500,000 children have the procedure each year.
  • GW Announces Creation of Computational Biology ...
    Keith Crandall, a renowned biologist and population geneticist, has been named founding director of the George Washington University Computational Biology Institute. This newly created position will further strengthen GW's role as a leader in science and research in the region and nationally.
  • Sounds Of Summer Can Be A Danger To Hearing Sa ...
    Hearing can be permanently damaged by loud summer noises such as fireworks, marching bands, construction and the like. A Loyola audiologist explains decibels for common sounds and offers tips and expertise to safeguard hearing.
  • University of Michigan Pediatric Cardiac Surge ...
    Edward L. Bove, M.D., leads top-ranked C.S. Mott Children's Hospital congenital heart program.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • More Information About Taylor’s Detention
    by Kevin Jon Heller An excellent new report by the Guardian contains a number of interesting tidbits.  To begin with, the report confirms that Taylor -- like her erstwhile client -- is being held by the Zintan rebels, not by the Libyan government, and that the relationship between the two is s ...
  • In Other Supreme Court News: International Law ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Supreme Court has struck down state laws mandating juvenile offenders to be sentenced to life without parole with its decision in Miller v. Alabama. The decision is part of a logical progression from decisions constitutionally barring the death penalty for juv ...
  • Court Guts SB 1070 (Immigration Still Part of ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro As predicted here, the Supreme Court delivered a split decision today in the Arizona immigration case.  But to the extent that it’s a partial victory for supporters of SB 1070, it’s only a nominal one.  Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion broadly ...
  • Wanted: Best-Selling Novelist Who Needs Advice ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Long-time readers may recall that I have a standing offer to employ my services as a technical consultant for any Hollywood producer or New York Times best-selling novelist looking for accuracy in popular portrayals of international law.  And we here at Opinio ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: June 25, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is declared the winner in the Egyptian Presidential Election. Turkey has invoked article 4 of the NATO Charter to arrange consultations on its response after Syria shot down a Turkish fighter plane. Turkish w ...

Public News Service

  • Backyard Campout Weekend: De-bug First
    Backyard Campout Weekend: De-bug First PHOENIX - This weekend is the Great American Backyard Campout, designed to get families outside and away from electronics. The National Wildlife Federation promotes the event in Arizona, and naturalist David Mizejewski says recent polling he conducted unco ...
  • Report: White-Collar Wage Theft Examined in Ar ...
    Report: White-Collar Wage Theft Examined in Arizona PHOENIX, Ariz. - Wage theft can take a 15 percent cut out of a person's earnings each year, according to a new report that examines the issue by state. The research shows that Arizona, like most states, lacks wage theft protections for workers. ...
  • FCC Calls for Cell Phone Safety Review
    FCC Calls for Cell Phone Safety Review PHOENIX - Concerns continue to be raised about how the rapid and unchecked growth of wireless technology such as cell phones and smart meters will affect the health of Arizonans and others across the nation. Camilla Rees, founder and director of Electromag ...
  • Organic Farmers in AZ: Time for Farm Bill Fairness
    Organic Farmers in AZ: Time for Farm Bill Fairness PHOENIX - It's debate time at the U.S. Senate for the next Farm Bill - with organic farmers in Arizona joining peers across the nation in closely monitoring the topic of crop insurance. Organic farmers pay a 5 percent surcharge for the insuranc ...
  • Health Records: Round 'Em Up, Store 'Em Online
    Health Records: Round 'Em Up, Store 'Em Online PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona hospitals and doctors are increasingly switching to electronic medical records - and now, their patients over age 50 can use them, too. This month, AARP has launched an online tool to allow its members to organize health and ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
  • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
    I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...
  • Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
    The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
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