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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 III

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Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • North Korea condemns ‘grave’ use of flag durin ...
    North Korea publicly condemned the use of its flag by U.S. and South Korean forces during a war simulation as a “grave” provocation—and further justification for its nuclear program. “It is an extremely grave military action and politically-motivated provocation to fire live bu ...
  • Supreme Court rejects corporate campaign spend ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed its 2-year-old decision allowing corporations to spend freely to influence elections. The justices struck down a state of Montana law limiting corporate campaign spending. By a 5-4 vote, the court’s conservative justices said the decision in the ...
  • High Court upholds key part of Arizona immigra ...
    (Reuters) – The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants on Monday, rejecting the Obama administration’s stance that only the U.S. government should enforce immigration laws in the United States. The nation’s highest court, in an opinio ...
  • No more life without parole for juveniles, Sup ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court says it’s unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to life in prison without parole for murder. The high court on Monday threw out Americans’ ability to send children to prison for the rest of their lives with no chance of ever getting out. The 5-4 decision is in ...
  • Shooting at Denver Jazz Fest – Cop dead
    By Yesenia Robles The Denver Post Denver Police investigate the scene where an officer was shot on Sunday, June 24, at City Park in Denver. The shooting occurred after the weekly City Park Jazz event. Jeremy Papasso/ Camera (Daily Camera | JEREMY PAPASSO) A female police officer was shot an ...

The Air Vent

  • Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivi ...
    Nic Lewis has spent a great deal of time analyzing this important paper in climate science. He has posted an article at Climate etc., readers may comment here or there, Nic will be around to answer technical quesitons.  — Jeff Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivity study by Nicho ...
  • Penguin Divination
    Climate science hasn’t changed a bit since climategate. Sure there are now some climate scientists trying to find a middle ground between insane liberal energy activism and reality, but why is anything other than simple reality necessary? A slow path to Euro-crazy politics is still the wro ...
  • Climate as A Differential Equations Problem
    I hope to be a blogger someday again but in the meantime Timetochooseagain kindly offered this contribution -  Jeff ====================================== TTCA I find that when discussing problems of what are ostensibly physical systems, little progress can be made until people formulate their i ...
  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Bubble Safari keeps popping, TripAdvisor runs ...
    Zygna’s Bubble Safari leads our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users for the third week in a row. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 470,000 and 4.8 … Continue reading →
  • Facebook complicates privacy settings and hide ...
    Facebook appears to have hidden users’ third-party email addresses from Timeline, but left users’ Facebook.com addresses visible. It has also added a confusing new setting to the email portion of a user’s contact info. Although users can choose which of their … Continue r ...
  • Facebook adds COO Sheryl Sandberg to board of ...
    Facebook announced today that Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has joined the company’s board of directors. As COO, Sandberg is already instrumental in leading Facebook, particularly in areas of sales, marketing, business development, legal, human resources, public policy and communicatio ...
  • This Week in the Facebook Marketing Bible
    The Facebook Marketing Bible is being updated daily! The leading resource for marketing and advertising on Facebook, The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands of brands, app developers, content publishers and businesses of all sizes to do more with Facebook. … Continue reading →
  • Facebook tests design and wording changes to e ...
    Facebook appears to be testing a number of changes to the News Feed publisher box aimed at getting users to post more frequently. Some users are seeing stats beneath the publisher about how long it has been since their last … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • "Decent, honest and truthful"? How the pro-Isr ...
    Stuart Littlewood exposes the lies peddled by Israel's foreign pimps, most recently in a Wall Street Journal article by David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, and shows how Israeli public relations fail the simple test of decency, honesty and truthfulness.
  • US State Department betrays American citizens ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the corrupting influence of the Zionist lobbies in the USA has mean that American officials abroad routinely betray US citizens where Israel is involved.
  • Internet intrusion and increased repression in ...
    Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European Union tolerate the regime's flagrant violations of rights enshrined in domestic and international law.
  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Post Welcomes New Partner Eric D ...
    “Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War” We are proud to announce the addition of a new partner to our team here at Boiling Frogs Post. Please welcome Eric Draitser: Eric Draitser- Partner Analyst & Producer Eric Draitser is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. He is the ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 29, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthlessness will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on ...
  • Bill Conroy’s Narco News: Mexican President Ca ...
    Los Pinos Retains Las Vegas-Based R&R Partners to Promote Government’s Successes as the Bloody Drug War Rages On The administration of Felipe Calderón has retained a politically connected US advertising and public relations firm to promote the political and economic agenda of the Mexic ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Nina Simone This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is “I Shall Be Released” written by Bob Dylan in 1967. It has been covered many times by a slew of singers across the musical landscape. None did it better than the late American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights act ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Tell Congress: Protect Public Oversight and Ac ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C.
  • Dispatches from Pride: What do gay rights and ...
    Claire Morgenstern, Online and Social Media Development, NRDC Membership, New York I’m having a case of movement envy. This past weekend I marched in NYC’s annual Gay Pride Parade with my friends at GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance A ...
  • More Good News About State Energy Codes: The U ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Despite the deadlock in our nation’s capital, states are moving forward with a strong clean energy agenda that saves consumers money and protects the environment. Just a few weeks ago, the ...
  • Ocean Devotion (part 1)
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.            &nbs ...
  • Congress: Protect jobs by passing the transpor ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. The last time Congress enacted a federal surface transportation law was back in 2005 and it was supposed to be replaced by a new law in 2009. Instead, the law has been “extende ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Today at the Court
    No health care ruling. Mandatory life sentences for people under the age of 18 unconstitutional. Shockingly, same 5-person majority not willing to say that Citizens United was wrong, throws out Montana campaign finance law. Most of the Arizona immigration law SB-1070 struck down.   Only provisio ...
  • Effectively Anti-Choice Hack of the Day
    Campbell Brown.
  • Foreign Entanglements: Egyptian Election
    Old news, but worth revisiting this pre-analysis from Duss and Hussein Ibish:
  • Can We Agree That “Having It All” ...
    The content of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s much-discussed Atlantic piece is not as bad as the white-baby-with-mean-feminist-mommy cover would indicate. And yet in some ways the cover is accurate, because a lot of unobjectionable content is wrapped around an anti-feminist framing device. The two ...
  • The most important thing for an actor to have ...
    Once you learn to fake that you’ve really got it made.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: In the black
    Profile of Scott Univer, general counsel of WeiserMazars LLP.
  • Why Dewey Died: Three Perspectives
    A collection of post-mortems analyzing the possible reasons behind the fall of a powerful law firm.
  • Law School Innovators
    The pressure for change at the nation's law schools can no longer be denied. Law firms, the American Bar Association and not least the students themselves are demanding that legal education be made more relevant to real-world practice. Law schools are stepping up to the challenge in various ways ...
  • The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST
    We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate win between May 2011 and May 2012 and that had an impressive track record overall. We supplemented the results with our own research to arrive at the list of 16 firms you'll find here.
  • Reform is needed in anti-corruption enforcement
    Congress has a duty to set clear standards for what is permissible; it should not defer to DOJ's plan to craft guidance.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Joyful Olympic Day Commemorations in Somalia
    The global day was commemorated with different sports events including running, relay, karate and taekwondo and traditional dance.
  • New Music Video Honors Palestinian Terrorist P ...
    The video then highlights seven specific terrorists by flashing pictures of them. Those chosen to be highlighted include terrorists serving many life sentences for murder.
  • Syria Shoots Down Turkish Aircraft
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu yesterday and to him her thoughts and prayers are with the missing pilots and their loved ones.
  • The Largest Gathering of The Iranian People in ...
    On Saturday, June 23, the largest gathering of exiled Iranians with the participation of hundreds of political personalities, legislators and jurists with different political tendencies from 40 countries around the world,
  • Shocking Reports of Overmedicated Foster Child ...
    Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FL told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

environment 360

  • Birth of Sumatran Rhino Offers Hope for Endang ...
    Conservationists in Indonesia say a female Sumatran rhino gave birth to a healthy male calf at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, offering International Rhino Foundation Ratu new hope for one of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Following two miscarriages and a ...
  • U.S. Atlantic Coast Already ‘Hotspot’ of Sea L ...
    A 600-mile stretch of the U.S. East Coast is experiencing rates of sea level rise that are three to four times greater than the global average, according a new study. In a new analysis, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that sea levels from Boston, Mass. to Cape Hatteras, N.C ...
  • Senate Farm Bill Curtails Subsidies But Increa ...
    The U.S. Senate yesterday passed a new farm bill that cuts direct subsidies to farmers yet significantly increases the nation’s crop insurance program. The legislation, which passed by a vote of 64 to 35, would cut about $23.6 billion from current federal spending through the elimination of crop ...
  • Rio+20 Summit Ends With Little Faith in Govern ...
    Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro promised an era of aggressive action on biodiversity loss and global warming, the United Nations Rio+20 sustainability summit ended Friday with recriminations and a growing sense that international institutions will play an increasingly dimin ...
  • Drones to Be Used to Prevent Poaching Of Endan ...
    In Nepal, conservationists will soon begin launching low-cost, remote-controlled drones to prevent the poaching of endangered species. Developed by the WWF WWF Nepal staff with the drone group WWF, the technology is seen as an inexpensive way to monitor the protection of species, includin ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Green Gods: New Religion and Eco-Faith
    Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city of Rio is bathing the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer (Christo Redentor) in green light. Is there a push to create a new religion from old ideas, marrying devotion to god(s) ...
  • Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered
    A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces. Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It s ...
  • Washington’s 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Sec ...
    The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are. It’s hardly a secret that the government overclassifies basic information about what it do ...
  • The World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture - Anci ...
    To celebrate our 30th anniversary, Qzina Specialty Foods, has broken a Guinness World Record for building the largest chocolate sculpture. The sculpture models an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18,239 pounds, far surpassing the previous record set in Italy in 2010 by more than 7,500 pounds. Qzi ...
  • Revealed: CIA secretly operates on Syrian bord ...
    American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. ­The paper reports that for weeks now, officers b ...

Russia Today

  • Assange wants guarantee he won’t be sent to the US
    After a week holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he is prepared to go to Sweden for questioning in a sexual assault case – but only if he is guaranteed that he won’t... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • India wants Iran to insure, ship oil in sancti ...
    India has allowed its state refineries to import Iranian oil on the condition that Tehran arranges for insurance and shipping of the crude oil. This will give India a chance to continue buying Iranian oil after EU... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Cyprus applies for EU bailout
    The Cypriot government has issued a statement, confirming that they have officially made an EU bailout bid. This makes it the fifth state within the currency union to ask for help. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Islamic Awakening': Morsi’s Egypt turns to Ir ...
    Newly-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will rekindle dormant ties between Egypt and Iran and re-consider his country’s peace accord with Israel, according to a controversial interview with an Iranian news... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Confirmed: Iraq orders closure of BBC and 43 o ...
    Iraq's communications and media commission announced the impending closure of several media outlets, including the BBC and Voice of America. While officials chalk the matter up to expired license fees, press freedom... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Topfree Equal Rights Association
    Visit the Topfree Equal Rights Association (TERA) and let them know that they are not completely support free still!
  • In a nutshell, this is Israel
    The above was seen just tonight at the website of Haaretz, which is Israel’s most important newspaper. Apparently the Jewish people in Israel see nothing wrong with inviting people from Kansas to go and live on land being stolen, step by step, from the original inhabitants of the country, ...
  • PICS- Waldo Canyon Fire Class Warfare
    MANITOU SPRINGS, CO- More likely one too many McMansions underwater with their mortgage. You wonder how many have their fingers crossed, wishing against why most have our fingers crossed.
  • Arson most likely cause of Waldo Canyon Fire?
    The Teller County area reported of 20 attempted arsons in the few days just before the fire began in Waldo Canyon. As a result, as Manitou Springs is evacuated and the fire moves over Rampart Ridge and eastward, many are beginning to discuss this issue of possible arson being the most likely cau ...
  • The new Coup in Paraguay
    We don’t get much news in the US about Paraguay, but the Obama Administration is once again supporting a coup in Latin America, just like it already did in Honduras. Here is the first informative report about this coup I can find… Paraguay's Lugo denounces ouster as president Lu ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Former Iowa Governor Chet Culver Supports Arch ...
    Holly Berkowitz in Iowa City, IA, comments on the petition entitled, "President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watch “9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out”: Thank you so much, Governor Culver for forwarding this petition. I'm surprised it took so long for many to notice. The eviden ...
  • Oklahoma City: Tim McVeigh & Dr. Jolyon West - ...
    Clip from the film A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 released this past December. Related: On This Day in History 1995: The U.S. Government Allowed the Oklahoma City Bombing to Happen Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing Red Ice Radio - A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City bombing 199 ...
  • Random Ranting
    1. Pat Curley has attacked me for being lazy: I think it's time to get off your duff and let people know that you've begun to worry that your eight YouTube videos and your "over fifty articles" might be wrong. James and I make an effort to correct the occasional posts where we make a mistake ( ...
  • 9/11: Jesse Ventura vs FOX News
    Published on Jun 20, 2012 by TheTruthseeker55 Patriot Jesse Ventura on 'Fox & Friends' back in 2010 FAUX News - faux/fō/ Adjective: 1. Artificial or imitation: "faux pearls". 2. Not genuine; fake or false: "her faux New York accent". View the original (full-length) here: http://www. ...
  • President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watc ...
    Support the 9/11 families and others who are asking President Obama to review the evidence in the documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out • Who: President Barak Obama • Sponsored by: 9/11 family members, Michele Little, Jane Pollicino, Bob McIlvaine, Josef Princiotta In a ...

Fooducate

  • FRS Healthy Slim – BS PR for a BS Product
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We recently received an email pitch from FRS, a beverage company affiliated with Lance Armstrong, Tim Tebow and other super sport stars. We decided this would be a good opportunity to conduct an exercise in c ...
  • Kids’ Cereal: Slight Improvement. Long Road St ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity recently released its 2012 report entitled Cereal F.A.C.T.S. Three years after their original report on the state of advertising to children, researchers repor ...
  • Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate – Chances are You’ll ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The above humorous poster, spotted on Food Renegade‘s Facebook page, immediately led us to explore said ingredient. Turns out its not as bad as one would think. Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate is an additive ...
  • Kellogg’s Nutty Delights Chewy Bars – Less tha ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! On a recent visit to my aunt, I found this Nutty Delights Bar on her kitchen counter.  Looked yummy and seemed like a decent choice for auntie, a known junk food addict.  It has fiber, it has antioxidants . . ...
  • Cleanse Diets. The Hope. The Horror
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Lucy is a friend, educated and familiar with nutrition basics, who eats a relatively healthy vegetarian diet. Lucy recently surprised us by announcing she is going on the Master Cleanse Diet. For those unfami ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
    Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...
  • Guarani community in Brazil could get $83m award
    Guarani man. A Guarani community in Brazil could receive $83m for 'moral and material' damages © Fiona Watson/Survival A public prosecutor in Brazil is asking the government to pay $83m to a Guarani Indian community as compensation for ‘moral and material’ damages. The community, ...
  • ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ appeals for Rio ...
    Davi Kopenawa Yanomami says Brazil can save the Awá tribe. © Survival The ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ is urgently appealing to governments attending Rio+20 to help save the earth’s most threatened tribe, by pressuring Brazil to stamp out illegal logging. Speaking ahead of the UN confere ...
  • South Africa’s indigenous ‘icon’ Dawid Kruiper ...
    Dawid Kruiper was considered an 'icon' and key representative of the Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. © Bill Kemp/Strata 360 Dawid Kruiper, a traditional leader of the Khomani Bushmen of South Africa has died, aged 76. He will perhaps be best remembered for his determination to ...
  • Just sign here: cowboys' attempt to fool India ...
    Gabide Etacori, an Ayoreo Totobiegosode leader whose signature was allegedly forged. © Survival An elaborate ploy by ranchers in Paraguay to trick an Indian tribe into allowing them to build a new road that would cut the Indians’ land in half has backfired, with an official investigation no ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • “Protocol 007”: Merck Scientists Accuse Compan ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill At its core, the 55-page whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia makes one stunning allegation – that pharmaceutical giant Merck traded children’s health to protect monopoly profits, and engaged in...
  • Look It Up
    Managing Editor's Note: There was a chain of off-price clothing stores in the NorthEast called Sym's, whose tagline was "An educated consumer is our best customer." It's a shame American doctors don't feel the same way. By Cathy Jameson Something’s...
  • Autism "A really interesting story," Unless Yo ...
    By Anne Dachel Dr. Nancy Snyderman is the NBC medical expert who's gone on the record a number of times solemnly declaring that autism is nothing to worry about and that vaccines have nothing to do with it. On the...
  • Read the Complaint Against Merck Claiming Mump ...
    INTRODUC'I'ION 1. This case is about Merck's efforts of more than a decade to defraud the United States through Merck's ongoing scheme to sell the government its mumps vaccine that is mislabeled, misbranded, adulterated and falsely certified as having an...
  • Lawsuit Claims Merck Overstated Mumps Vaccine ...
    From 4-Traders.com's Jon Kamp Two former Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) employees have sued the company in federal court alleging Merck overstated the effectiveness of a mumps vaccine for which the U.S. government paid hundreds of millions of dollars. Merck--which...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...
  • Behind the GM Wheat Trial
    Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?
  • Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
    A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. Whi ...
  • Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Dea ...
    Institute of Science in Society Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn ki ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Greece Seeks at Least Two-Year Extension to Ba ...
    Bloomberg – Greece will push its creditors to extend fiscal deadlines under the country’s bailout program by at least two years, according to a policy document drawn up by the three parties in the country’s governing coalition. New Democracy, Pasok and the Democratic Left agree that plans ...
  • CIA Wanted ‘Torture’ Cage for Secr ...
    ABC – A Polish official says that prosecutors have a construction order that proves the CIA wanted a cage for terror suspects built at a secret ‘black site’ prison inside Poland. Senator Jozef Pinior claims Krakow prosecutors have a document that shows a local contractor was as ...
  • Statin Side Effects Stymie Compliance
    Medical-News – Experiencing side effects such as muscle-related pain or weakness was the top reason why patients stopped taking statins, according to results from a large survey. Of the 1,220 respondents who stopped taking statins, 62% cited side effects as the main reason, compared with 1 ...
  • Experts find 30 trillion tons of toxic liquid ...
    PressTV – Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the ...
  • EU should ‘undermine national homogeneit ...
    BBC – Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural. He also suggested the UK government’s immigration policy had no basis in international law. He was being quizzed by the Lords EU home affairs sub-committee which is inve ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
  • Ikea responds to reports of old-growth logging
    In response to accusations by European NGOs that IKEA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Swedwood, were engaging in some questionable logging practices in Russia, Ikea is arguing that it has been cutting according to international standards that the company itself helped create.

water.org

  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
  • June 2012 Conference Call
    Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
  • Water for Generations
    The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Joyful Olympic Day Commemorations in Somalia
    The global day was commemorated with different sports events including running, relay, karate and taekwondo and traditional dance.
  • New Music Video Honors Palestinian Terrorist P ...
    The video then highlights seven specific terrorists by flashing pictures of them. Those chosen to be highlighted include terrorists serving many life sentences for murder.
  • Syria Shoots Down Turkish Aircraft
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu yesterday and to him her thoughts and prayers are with the missing pilots and their loved ones.
  • The Largest Gathering of The Iranian People in ...
    On Saturday, June 23, the largest gathering of exiled Iranians with the participation of hundreds of political personalities, legislators and jurists with different political tendencies from 40 countries around the world,
  • Shocking Reports of Overmedicated Foster Child ...
    Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FL told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Unanswered Question Remains about Sandusky Case
    By Michael Collins Jerry Sandusky has molested his last troubled boy. He is going to jail for life. But a larger question remains after Sandusky's conviction. (Image: marsme1551) How did Jerry Sandusky get away with his conspicuous deviant behavior all of these years when so many people in a ...
  • Obama's War on Democracy
    by Stephen Lendman In June 2009, Obama orchestrated Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's ouster. A US supported fascist despot replaced him. For good reason, Honduras is called the murder capital of the world. Independent journalists are killed. So are protesters for democratic change. ...
  • The menacing plots of MKO for Iran
    Kourosh Ziabari The ill-omened, inauspicious plots of the terrorist gang Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization against Iran seem to have no end. The recent letter signed by 44 U.S. Senators addressed to President Obama in which it was implied that time for diplomacy with Iran is over and other options ...
  • Heading for Economic Collapse
    by Stephen Lendman The late Bob Chapman predicted it years ago. So does Paul Craig Roberts. It could "destroy Western civilization," he believes. Untenable political and financial decisions put US and European economies on a collision course with disaster. Bailouts and market manipulatio ...
  • Turkish Plane Reported Shot Down in Syrian Air ...
    by Stephen Lendman On June 22, Reuters headlined "Turkish jet downed by Syria air defenses: report," saying: According to Lebanon's Al-Manar television, "Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish military aircraft, quoting Syrian security sources." Reportedly it was an F-4 Phantom figh ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Far Out Man… “MoonBeams in a Jar& ...
    “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is beads (in a lab tempered glass Amulet) containing multiple mic ...
  • Digby Wolfe
    telegraph.co.uk – Digby Wolfe, who has died aged 82, was a comedy writer for the satirical BBC revue That Was The Week That Was before helping to create the American television hit Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, which also became cult viewing in Britain in the late 1960s. Taped in psychedeli ...
  • I Want To Be Anarchy
    By Ars Moriendi,WorldWide Hippies-In 1976 The Sex Pistols song “Anarchy in the UK” hit the mainstream. First lines: I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist. I am not sure if that is when Anarchy took its turn to the darker side, you see for me it was Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and the like [...]
  • Occupy vs Eviction: Radicals, Reform, and Disp ...
    by Nate Hawthorne Libcom.org - In the first part of this post I discuss the anti-eviction work of Occupy Homes. In the second part I discuss some of the demographics of home ownership in the U.S.. In the third part, I discuss political reformism. In the fourth I take up radicals acting in reform ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Police Rescue Malnourished Girl From Closet in Kansas City A Kansas City, Mo., mother is behind bars, accused of keeping her 10-year-old daughter locked in a closet, not letting her come out to eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. The girl weighed just 32 pounds, and hospital records indicated ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How Much Oil Does the World Produce?
    In the first installment of this series, I took a look at U.S. and global oil reserves according to the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Today, I want to examine oil production statistics since 1965. Highlights of this article and topics that will be explored include: New global oil p ...
  • How Much Oil is Left in the World?
    Over the next two to three weeks, I am going to post a series of short articles utilizing graphics I created from the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because I am working on the roll-out of a new product which will be geared specifically toward those with a financia ...
  • Highlights of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
    Last week the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy was released. I always look forward to the release, because the data represent the most comprehensive, publicly available database on energy consumption and production statistics. I have now read through this year’s report, picking o ...
  • Oil Prices and Updates About Merica Internatio ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: Is there any merit to the rumor that the Obama Administration asked Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil output in order to lower prices leading up to the November election? What has caused the drop in West Texa ...
  • Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
    Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Big Pharma's New Low
    Tired of Ronald McDonald pushing cheeseburgers on your toddler? That's nothing compared to the pharmaceutical industry's new marketing campaign: using characters from Disney's Madagascar 3 movie to push over-the-counter drugs. The pharmaceutical company Merck has been using Madagascar character ...
  • The Food Threat That Worries Your Doctor
    Genetically modified foods have saturated supermarket shelves. About 80 percent of processed foods in stores today contain ingredients created through complex laboratory methods, resulting in foods that would never be found in nature. While it might seem that such a widespread shift in the food ...
  • Decorate Your House...With Trash
    Want to do something to stem the tide of trash that's smothering fish and creating ecological havoc in the world's oceans? Install new carpet, specifically, carpet from Interface FLOR, the über-green carpet company that's made a name for itself by making carpet from discarded plastic and other ...
  • 6 Shocking Facts About Your Dinner
    When you dine out at restaurants or cruise through the aisles of a grocery store, your eye is on the prize: filling your stomach—or pantry—with your favorite foods. Little thought is given to those who actually harvest, prepare, serve, and sell what you choose. Yet, those workers constitute one ...
  • The Surprising Reason Lyme Disease is Out of C ...
    Many people think a robust deer population is to blame for the rising rates of Lyme disease in many states. But a new study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests it's the decline of another animal that's actually causing the Lyme disease spike. Researchers f ...

big think

  • Report Shows Consumer Spending Down in May
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? According to reports, due to low employment rates and low compensation, consumers were more financially conscious about spending in May. Industry experts say consumers will probably be more focused on whe ...
  • China Leads the Way in Burning Clean Coal
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? According to the Department of Energy, coal "will continue to provide the majority of our Nation’s baseload generation capacity" in the near future. China burns the most coal per week than other nations. ...
  • A Summer Reading List for Innovators
    If ideas are the currency of the future, then books are still the best way to trade these ideas with others. To celebrate the 600th blog post of Endless Innovation, I've put together a summer reading list of ten books for innovators. These books feature some of the big ideas that are winning in ...
  • Another Failed Round of Iran and America Talks
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Talks between the U.S. and Iran in Moscow didn’t produce anything positive between the adversaries and were once again deemed a failure. According to reports, Iran is not interested in reaching an agreeme ...
  • Political "Science" and Its Forecasting Failures
    Here’s a distinguished political scientist—Jacqueline Stevens—who agrees with me that the NSF ought to cut the funding for political science.  The Republicans in Congress think that these “scientists” are covertly pushing an ideological agenda that lurks behinds all their jargon and “methods ... ...

Information Liberation

  • Whoops!: Police & Federal Agents Raid Wrong Ho ...
    Whoopsie daisy, an armed government goon-squad accidentally raided the wrong home while looking for inanimate plant-substances, they left a terrified older woman in their wake. The situation could have potentially ended in bloodshed as her son loa...
  • US Involvement In Honduran Massacre
    Hilda Lezama was taking passengers back upriver to the township of Ahuas after a fishing expedition in a remote area of the Mosquito Coast in Honduras. In the pre-dawn darkness, she could hear the helicopters buzzing overhead, but she thought nothing...
  • More, Please: Jury Refuses To Convict Man Over ...
    This is a good sign. Israel Rangel was charged with possession of less than a gram of cocaine. Cops said he had half as much coke as there is Sweet*N Low in a single packet. When citizens showed up in court to pick a jury, it started the way all ...
  • Let Go, Live Free
    We*ve received an inordinate amount of emails lately from people who sound absolutely defeated. They often state something along the lines of: *We know the Western world is in collapse but we have no real assets and we are stuck.* They also usually...
  • The Silent Killer
    I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, is inflation. Inflation? That's interesting. Hardly anyone talks about that anymore. I can't remember the last time I read a ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • A Democrat You Could Vote For
    Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...
  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...
  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...

RFF Library

  • Annual Energy Outlook 2012
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/ {From Press Release] Key results highlighted in AEO2012 include: The rate of growth in energy use slows over the projection period, reflecting moderate population growth, an extended economic recovery, and in ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources: Sepa ...
    Pacific Institute http://www.pacinst.org/reports/fracking/ [Scientific American] …the sustainability think tank Pacific Institute, in a report released on June 21 on water issues of fracking, says fracking’s water woes aren’t confined to just the precise chemicals involved but extend to en ...
  • Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforest ...
    Science (22 June 2012, v336 n6088 pp. pp1573-1576 DOI: 10.1126/science.1217962) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6088/1573.full [Abstract] Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation would benefit from clearly derived, spatially explicit, statistically bounded estimates of carbon emissi ...
  • What are Greenhouse Gases and How Much are Emi ...
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/greenhouse_gas.cfm [Website] Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun and warm the planet’s surface. Of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the majority are related to energy consumption, and most of those are carbo ...
  • Nanotechnology: Improved Performance Informati ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/591007.pdf [From an article in Greenwire by Jeremy P. Jacobs, sub. req'd] The governmentwide effort to address the environmental and health risks posed by nano-sized materials must improve its efforts to develop performance standa ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Student Protests in Sudan
    an Interview with Girifna co-founder Nagi Musa On June 24, 2012, David Widgington spoke with Sudanese activist and co-founder of Girifna, Nagi Musa, from his location in Cairo about the student demonstrations and violent repression that is ...
  • Photos from June 19 First Nations Anti-Cuts Ra ...
    On Tuesday, June 19, First Nations from the north shore of Lake Huron organized a demonstration against cuts and against auterity in Sudbury, Ontario. The action had a particular focus on the cuts to OntarioWorks (the government's name for welfare in Ontario) and the Ontario Disability Suppo ...
  • Nobody's Children
    Métis Residential School Survivors Continue to Fight for Recognition Note: This article may be triggering. For immediate emotional support, the 24-hour Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available toll-free at 1-866-925-4419. SASKATO ...
  • Update from a visit with Yoli Oqueli, anti-min ...
    This letter is an update from friends after the June 13th shooting of Yoli Oqueli, an activist organizing against Vancouver-based Radius Gold Inc. Español Abajo. June 23, 2012 Dear Friends, Today we able to pay a brief visit to Yoli in Guatemala City.  She is in recovery still, bu ...
  • Right Queer
    By Rebecca Rose The first time I remember hearing the word queer was in my nanny’s smoky basement apartment. You see, my dad’s mother was born and raised in Reserve Mines, one of 18 children. Long after she moved to the mainlan ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
  • Why is the American left so useless?
    David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
  • Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
    David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
  • American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
  • Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 4
    David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Future of Cyberwarfare
    Tyler Cowen has a question: Didn’t it just come out in The Washington Post that the United States helped attack Iran with Flame, Stuxnet and related programs? If they did this to us, wouldn’t we consider it an act of war? Didn’t we just take a major step toward militarizing ...
  • Optical Illusion of the Day
    Via Alex Tabarrok and Geekolinks, I have to admit that this is one of the damnedest illusions I've ever seen. What's really surprising is that if you cover up 90% of the white line in the middle and let only a tiny part show, the illusion still works. The top looks darker. The fact that both ha ...
  • Chris Hayes Wins the Wonk Marathon
    The New York Times profiles rising Sunday TV prodigy Chris Hayes today, and includes this biographical tidbit: At a table of wonks, Mr. Hayes, who studied the philosophy of mathematics at Brown, came off as the wonkiest as he deconstructed the budgetary implications of tax arbitrage. Tha ...
  • Six Minutes With Karl Rove
    The New York Times has a story today about a stupendous Mitt Romney shindig for wealthy donors in Park City, and for the most part the event turns out to be just what you'd imagine these things are like. Flawlessly executed, as you'd expect from Romney, packed with GOP stars, backstopped by go ...
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter's Time-Saving Microwave Tips
    Approximately everyone in the world has already commented on Anne-Marie Slaughter's cover story in this month's Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All," so I'm not going to. I'm not female, not a parent, and don't have a hugely demanding job, so I'm unusually poorly qualified to ha ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
    Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...
  • IC 329: The Liam Neeson Okie Doke
    Topics: The Worst Three Days The Liam Neeson Okie Doke The Lindsay Lohan Death Clock Watch Tourist injured by Drake & Chris Brown scuffle Forcing empathy never works Australia…God’s way of saying he hates us Uncle Luke as a father figure The false false equivalency Serial Teddy ...
  • IC 328: Sophtest Niggas Alive
    Topics: Octomom Porn Pictures Paul W.S. Anderson needs to be stopped Kriss threatens to stab Adam Sandler Slave shackle sneakers Chris Brown and Drake have an altercation R Kelly is a pedophile Sandusky trial updates Why kriss doesn’t talk politics anymore Share with your friends:
  • IC 327: Flowers
    Topics: Boxing disappoints again What the UFC did to become popular Ninja Assassin these hoes Giving a guy flowers Men lie to women more than women know Django Unchained Just shut up and enjoy the movie Negro Twitter Rebellion Is Creflo Gonna Having to Choke a Bitch? Share with your friends:
  • IC 326: T.O. Tears
    Topics: Avengers news Aliens 3 > Alien? Judge Dredd The Amazing Spider-Man video game Kriss hates strippers Strippers the only women you’re allowed to disrespect The Horrors of strippers Banning Sodas in NYC Salting your food with tears Celebrities going broke Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues

e!Science News

  • 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. read more
  • Eating garbage: Bacteria for bioremediation
    A 150-foot-high garbage dump in Colombia, South America, may have new life as a public park. Researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated that bacteria found in the dump can be used to neutralize the contaminants in the soil. read more
  • Mercury mineral evolution
    Mineral evolution posits that Earth's near-surface mineral diversity gradually increased through an array of chemical and biological processes. A dozen different species in interstellar dust particles that formed the solar system have evolved to more than 4500 species today. Previous work from C ...
  • How bacteria change movement direction in resp ...
    How single cell organisms like bacteria manage to react to their environment is not yet completely understood. Together with colleagues from Japan, Dr. Samir El-Mashtoly from the RUB Department of Biophysics, led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert, has gained new insights into the molecular interactions ...
  • Cassini shows why jet streams cross-cut Saturn
    Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures in Saturn's atmosphere and the source from which the jets derive their energy. read ...

unEarthed

  • Chesapeake Settles $1.6 Million Pollution Case
    Plaintiffs insisted that details of case be made public After being sued by a group of families in Pennsylvania with methane-contaminated water, fracking giant C ...
  • Protection Of Oceans A Bright Spot At Rio+20
    Nations take positive actions to enhance ocean protections The news out of the Rio+20 Earth Summit has been bleak. World leaders, yet again caught in the headlig ...
  • Victories For East Coast Forage Fish
    Finally, oversight coming for poorly regulated fisheries Herring school. A special thank you goes out to the thousands of Earthjustice supporters who took act ...
  • Friday Finds: An Oceanic-Sized Miracle
    Plus: Body snatching weeds, clean air apps, cold chemicals, pineapple pesticides (Shutterstock) Mexican government saves miracle reef Cabo Pulmo, an ecologi ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Two Years is Too Long
    EPA's delay in issuing a final coal ash rule is jeopardizing its very authority Although the EPA’s proposed coal ash rule was published two years ago, ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Artists heed J14 protesters’ call to boy ...
    Facebook in Israel has been flooded all day with reports of cultural figures and venues announcing their decision to boycott the annual ‘White Night’ events sponsored by the Tel Aviv Municipality, in reaction to the weekend’s police violence; meanwhile, over 100 protesters show ...
  • Amidst hostile media and police violence, J14 ...
    Has the movement – also known as ‘the tent protest’ – abandoned its consensus-building approach, and is it ready to pursue a more confrontational agenda through more radical means? It was a different J14 protest than the ones we saw last year: less organized, and more emo ...
  • How much does Israeli security know about any ...
    Call it a postcard from Putin, if you will: The account below was posted by Gil Yardeni, one of my favourite Israeli poets and a Hebrew University biology major, who happened to be passing by the visiting Russian president’s convoy in Jerusalem, a few hours ago. The weirdest thing about th ...
  • It doesn’t matter how much the occupatio ...
    I have so many things I want to write about, and so little time. Day jobs… you gotta hate ‘em. I particularly want to write about #J14, about the escalation in the south, and a zillion other things. Inshallah I’ll find the time. But one thing has been on my mind lately that I n ...
  • The earth belongs to the famished
    By Professor Minna Rozen Over the last 600 years, the Caucasian race has succeeded in prolonging its life expectancy and improving its quality of life. As opposed to prevailing myths in western society, it did not manage to do so just by using technological and scientific advances, but rather th ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Banks Breaking Into Homes, It’s Unfair D ...
    If a bank sent a jack booted thug to come kick down your door, burst into your home, take your personal property and then asked for your mortgage account number and whether you had 401 k’s that could be liquidated to pay your mortgage, even the most hostile court might just find that to be ...
  • You’re A Moron If You Don’t Watch ...
    Amerikans have become hopelessly moronic, wasting all their time watching sports, entertainment television and the insanely delusional games of diversion called “The News” and the seasonally fabricated distractions called, “The Elections”. As modern day Amerikans, we are ...
  • My Next Exciting Appeal: BEDNAREK v. AMERICAN ...
    They’re keeping me busy on appeals these days…the more they lose, the more the banks are forced to appeal. Now this attorney did a really good job of fighting his case and frankly he does the best job he can with the facts he has…. Now read through the brief and the appellate r ...
  • FASCISM ALERT- BANKS SHUTTING DOWN COURTROOMS, ...
    PACENTI’S RANT ON CLOSED COURTROOMS     Scridb filter
  • JACK BOOTED THUGS/BANK BREAK INS AND THE MISSI ...
    Huffington Post reports on the latest Jack Booted Thug, bank burglar story.  With these intrusions, the banks are violating one of America’s key rights….THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE AND SECURE IN ONE’S HOME FROM UNLAWFUL SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: When it comes to metaphors describing fore ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Dialogue of Silence
    The most recent edition of National Geographic presents us with some troubling news. Around the globe, one language dies every …Continue reading »
  • What If Citizens Led Ottawa
    Note: The following is the article I wrote for the London Free Press for June 23, 2012, with the illustration …Continue reading »
  • Humanizing Our Words
    A few days ago I was having coffee at one of my favourite places when in walked a Conservative MP …Continue reading »
  • New Cards
    William Greider, an astute chronicler of the American political system, has come to believe that without citizen interaction the United …Continue reading »
  • From Interests to Interest
    It all was rather bizarre. Attending the peace talks between north and south Sudan in a nice hotel outside of …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • DOJ ain’t the new sheriff in town, after all
    Ask and you shall receive … In early April I wrote a blogpost lamenting the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice had not followed up on its nationwide “workshops” on competition in agricultural markets that were held throughout 2010. The lack of follow-up seemed a bold-faced betrayal of farm ...
  • Get by with a little health from my friends…
    In an uncharacteristic act of relative efficiency, the Senate debated 73 amendments and on Thursday, June 21, passed the bill in the span of three short days. And, believe it or not, the final bill is a little better for public health than it was three days ago.
  • Feeding the World, or What We Talk About When ...
    It sounds simple, doesn’t it, that all humans have a right to food and natural resources? After all, most of the world’s poor and hungry depend on agriculture for their survival—and yet, they bear a disproportionate burden of the planet’s degraded lands.
  • Meetings with Meat-Eaters: Exploring the JHSPH ...
    For some, the share represented most or all of their monthly meat consumption. Others estimated that it would be anywhere from 30–50 percent, with the rest coming from grocery stores and farmers’ markets.
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Conserv ...
    The Senate Agriculture Committee recently put forth their version of the Farm Bill, which included steep cuts to conservation funding. Conservation efforts protect natural resources as well as the public’s health. As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to be debated on the Senate floor, it is clear tha ...

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • European Court Says Getting Sick On Vacation M ...
    Okay, that's it. We're moving to Europe: They're already entitled to four to six weeks of guaranteed vacation leave per year, and now a court there just ruled that workers who happen to fall ill while on vacation are legally entitled to get a do-over on their trip. Who needs tips about how to n ...
  • EA To Finally Appease Ticked-Off Mass Effect 3 ...
    When video game giant Electronic Arts became the (to some) surprising winner of this year's Worst Company In America tournament, the company was also in the middle of one of its biggest PR problems ever, as fans of the bestselling Mass Effect series of games felt like they'd been bilked out of ...
  • Comments Are Taking A Vacation This Weekend Wh ...
    In order to finish what we began back a few weeks back, we once again need to temporarily shut off commenting starting... well, any minute now (It might take a while for the shut down to thoroughly propagate). Things should be back up to normal (whatever that means) come Monday morning -- thoug ...
  • Who Knew It Only Costs $1.36 To Charge An iPad ...
    When it comes to bang for the bucks you spend on electricity, it seems some devices run pretty darn cheap -- in fact, it costs more to buy say, your morning muffin than to charge an iPad for a whole year. Juicing up your iPad for 12 months will only run you about $1.61, according to the Elect ...
  • GM Recalls 475K Chevy Cruze Vehicles Over Fire ...
    As we mentioned back in April, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration had launched an investigation into the cause of fires in two Chevy Cruze vehicles. Today, General Motors announced a recall of more than 475,000 Cruze cars for safety modifications intended to prevent engine f ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • One Former Democratic President & Nobel Peace ...
    President Jimmy Carter penned a must-read op-ed in today's New York Times, sharply criticizing the current President.  Carter and Obama share more than having held the same office, they are also both Nobel Peace Prize winners. Here's what one Nobel Peace Prize winner has to& ...
  • A 'Coup' That Threatens the Goals of the Arab ...
    On June 5, in my last blog, I stressed the need to keep a close watch on the courts and ruling military government in Egypt. Since then, the urgency to do so has escalated. Underscored in that piece was the very real threat that the courts were incapable of enforcing the law, and that the iron f ...
  • UN Tribunal Rules in Favor of Whistleblower: D ...
    Al Jazeera: Panel Says UN Failed to Protect Whistleblower Summary: The UN Dispute Tribunal, a recently established court that hears employee issues and whose decisions are binding on UN officials (including Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon), has found the UN liable for failing to protect a w ...
  • "The Cost of Justice's Bad Decisions:" Whistle ...
    White collar criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell published an insightful op-ed in theWashington Post about the Justice Department's bad choices in spending millions in taxpayer dollars prosecuting John Edwards and Roger Clemens. Lowell's conclusions are well-taken: Another conc ...
  • Whistleblower Alleges Fatal Flaw in Jeep Grand ...
    WUSA 9 News (DC): Jeep Gas Tank Fire and Explosions – Chrysler Whistleblower Speaks Out Summary: A former Chrysler employee is speaking out about extreme problems with the 1993-2004 model Jeep Grand Cherokee. The fuel tank, because it is located behind the rear axle in this model, allegedly ...

UK Progressive

  • COMMENT: Third Time Lucky for Ryanair?
    by Business Travel News BTNews is not a fan of Ryanair.  The nickname it has earned with the travelling public is well justified. “The world’s most annoying airline.” Michael O’Leary will say that the 76m sector passengers who fly with Ryanair prove that the pseudo Dublin-based carrier (its larg ...
  • Republicans Back Down On Effort to Defund Tran ...
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee today dropped an effort to defund a new Federal Communications Commission rule that will make political ad data available on the Internet. The FCC rule, which was OKed by the commission earlier this year and is expec ...
  • The Monday Line: SCOTUS Healthcare Ruling Due ...
    by Denis G. Campbell Will it be Monday, Wednesday or Thursday? Whatever day, the Obama Administration is bracing for every possibility with The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Affordable Care Act ruling on what was their signature piece of 1st term legislation. Here are a few things ...
  • Romney’s Many Cover-Ups Must End
    Mitt Romney’s “jobs experience” was not only one of the worst records of any governor in America, Democrat or Republican, creating jobs during the time he served as governor (a record Romney runs and hides from today). Now we learn even more about how Mitt Romney pioneered, and immensely profite ...
  • By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit ...
    by Suevon Lee, ProPublica The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Disaster! Denialism makes it to Brazil. (Skept ...
    Desmogblog mark yet another day in the Diary of How the Skeptics Won. They thought they had Brazil sewn up, but now realize with dismay that skeptics are getting heard (funny how the truth spreads). Brazil with the 6th biggest economy in the world and 200 million people is “influential&#82 ...
  • Has North Victoria cooled, and is that the gho ...
    Ian Bryce sent me a striking graph (or two). Looking at the original raw data from Echuca Victoria shows a dramatic cooling trend of nearly half a degree since 1900, and rather than being a siting anomaly, it’s repeated in two towns about 100km away. Curiously he also finds peaks in the ma ...
  • Rio secrets? They were hiding their failure &# ...
    News coming in suggests Rio was a junket to nowhere. I’m still waiting for Monckton to go through the fine print. Is there a sting? Still it’s not hard to feel happy. The Telegraph says: “Washout” It was so bad, even the cheer squad were shocked: The organisers behind ...
  • Rio: The Political freeloaders hide — bu ...
    I wrote yesterday about the unprecedented way the UN was locking out anyone at Rio that was not part of an official government delegation. More than ever before, the UN is not even pretending to to serve the people of the world. Even the facade is gone. The rules have changed since Monckton, Wat ...
  • Cheifio (E.M.Smith) responds to Bain et al
    In the comments here: E.M.Smith (Chiefio) responded to Paul Bain and then posted it on his own site. It’s very popular (thank you Michael!) Response to Paul Bain Dear Paul Bain: First off, thank you for responding. FWIW, I am a hard core skeptic. I’m the “target” of your analysis. As such, ...

ReNew America

  • What both parties need to do (according to a c ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - As is the case with many others who have followed the uniquely anti-American path of this administration, the shock waves emanate not so much from the man himself, but from the mere fact that in his quest for re-election, President Obama remains highly competitive (if ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood takes Egypt
    (Al Jazeera) - The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi has officially won Egypt's presidential election and will be the country's next president, the electoral commission has announced. Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote...
  • Obama's great American novel
    (National Review Online) - Courtesy of David Maraniss's new book, we now know that yet another key prop of Barack Obama's identity is false: His Kenyan grandfather was not brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his British colonial masters. The composite gram'pa joins an ever-swellin ...
  • The coming DNC disaster
    (Michelle Malkin) - There aren't Greek columns tall or wide enough to camouflage Barack Obama's impending North Carolina catastrophe. In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party's presidential nominating convention. For once, the incurable jetsetter may wish he h ...
  • Michigan pro-lifers derail abortion mill plans
    (WorldNetDaily) - Planned Parenthood officials in Michigan apparently have given up on plans to open an abortion business at an Auburn Hills building they bought for some $700,000 several years ago and have offered the structure either for sale or rent. That's according to the Citizens for a Pro ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Do You Wear A Seatbelt?
    You probably do, because in the western world you are typically legally compelled to wear one. Regardless of the law, sensible drivers would still wear a seat belt, even though they could easily go years or even a lifetime without ever needing one. Is your home insured for fire? It probably is. ...
  • NRC/FEMA Caring Less About Nuclear Safety
    In the USA, nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending fewer people be evacuated right away. This seems at odds with the recent nuclear disaster in Japan ...
  • (Benevolent?) New World Order
    This isn’t something that came up during a drunken discussion last night. I’ve been pondering over this for a few years, and right or wrong, I think the possibility is worth contemplating and rarely considered. The majority of New World Order discussions revolve around conspiracy / ...
  • Prepping Requires Extreme Privacy
    Prepping is a deadly serious occupation. If nothing terrible happens (probably the most likely scenario), then it can be joked about, it can be a humorous anecdote. But if the SHTF, then everything you have done until that point can become deadly serious: Did you forget to pack identity docum ...
  • Mass Grave of Giant Wombats
    So big were these marsupials that an adult human could fit in their pouch. The Diprotodon (giant wombat) is a great example of megafaunal extinction, and Australian scientists have uncovered the fossils of 50 of these animals. And as usual, the reason for their demise is about as far from global ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Federer through, bad boy Nalbandian loses in W ...
    Federer, playing his opener on Court 1 instead of on Centre Court for the first time since 2003 cleaned up Ramos 6-1 6-1 6-1 as fiery Argentine Nalbandian was beaten 6-4 7-6 6-2 by Janko Tipsarevic. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Joint River Commission of India, Bangladesh co ...
    25 Jun 2012 The Joint River Commission of India and Bangladesh held a meeting at Belonia district in Tripura today. Chief Engineer of state Irrigation and flood control department Tapan Lodh said the Joint River commission discussed issues related to embankment in Belonia on Indian side ... ...
  • Mantralaya fire: BJP targets Ajit Pawar
    Targetting Maha Dy CM Ajit Pawar over the devastating fire at Mantralaya, the BJP said the incident exposed state government`s 'inefficiency'. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
  • Soon I will not be a political entity: Pranab ...
    Mukherjee received a warm send off from officials of Finance Ministry whom he thanked for the support extended during his three-year stint at North Block. Reported by DNA 3 hours ago
  • EU ministers to condemn downing of Turkish jet
    EU foreign ministers today condemned Syria's downing of a Turkish jet, but said the bloc will not support military action in the troubled country. Reported by Firstpost 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • BlogHer Food Delivers the Foodies You Want to ...
    In June, 2012, BlogHer hosted its fourth annual BlogHer Food Conference in Seattle, Washington. More than 500 influential food writers, photographers, stylists, chefs, cookbook authors, activists, and top food brands gathered to enjoy diverse programming on everything from food politics to food ...
  • Conference Corner: 3 Things to Know About Blog ...
    Not that I'm counting or anything, but BlogHer '12 in New York is ::justsixshortweeksawayzomg:: Now is about that time we all go from planning the weekend out in our heads to realizing that there are actual items we need to start getting checked off of actual to-do lists. And, if you asked me, I ...
  • 5 Things I Learned from Abraham Lincoln, Vampi ...
    The premise of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is pretty straightforward. This enlightening work of historical fiction follows Abraham Lincoln’s rise to power and struggle for the nation and freedom for all. And also, he’s a vampire hunter.  How could this possibly not be awesome? Image co ...
  • Trust Me Moms, You're Gonna Miss These Days
    [Editor's Note: It's hard to remember when you're in the thick of mothering and in the midst of some horrid, awful, wretched phase that your child just won't exit already... that there will come a time when you will miss these days. Maybe not this precise moment of woe, but these days in general ...
  • Spice Up Dessert With Sriracha Peach Crisp
    After hearing that a local ice cream shop was selling a Sriracha-peach ice cream, I knew I had to make something with that flavor combination.  A simple, summer peach crisp did the trick! Sweet and spicy are a classic pair. If you're not sold on the idea, think about all of the wonderful f ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
    Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...
  • Rockefeller tells W.Va. what it doesn’t ...
    Some things are abundantly clear this week, following Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Senate floor speech about the future of our state’s coalfields: In West Virginia, it’s big news — huge news, really — if one of our political leaders dares to tell a little bit of truth abo ...
  • Rockefeller: Coal must ‘boldly embrace&# ...
    Mr. President, I rise today in the shadow of one seemingly narrow Senate vote — the Inhofe resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on mercury and air toxics — to talk about West Virginia. About our people – our way of life, our health, our ...
  • Happy West Virginia Day!
  • Legislation seeks review of mining’s hea ...
    AP photo by Jeff Gentner New federal legislation was introduced today that seeks a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits and demands that the federal government examine the growing scientific evidence that residents living near these mining operations are at greater risk of serious healt ...

Daniel Miessler

  • O2 Platform – Real-Time Vulnerability Creation ...
    via youtube.com Compelling. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentA Creative SongSeriously Fast LyricsHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)David Simon on the End of the American Empire
  • Google is an Unhappy Math Genius
    Google is like a math prodigy that is unhappy because no matter what he tries he’s unable to write poetry or make people laugh. Link. Related ContentMath and ProgrammingGoogle and Big BrotherThe First Result When Googling SantorumMath Pickup LinesPromiscuous Women Tend to be Unhappy
  • The Vim Pedal
    VIM Clutch is a hardware pedal for improved text editing speed for users of the magnificent VIM text editor (1, 2). When the pedal is pressed down, the pedal types “i” causing VIM to go into Insert Mode. When released, it types and you are back in Normal Mode. via githu ...
  • The Flaws in Defending Morality With Religion ...
    As Plato first portrayed it, we have to ask with James Rachels a two-part question: “(1) Is conduct right because the gods command it, or (2) do the gods command it because it is right?” “Conduct is moral because god says so” If (1) then conduct takes on the afterglow of being moral because of [...]
  • The Republican Plan
    Anyway you cut it, what Republicans vaguely advocate (even Brooks emphasizes the vagueness) is not only radically nuts, but utterly unworkable–hence the vagueness. Here’s Brooks, trying his best to apply the lipstick: Mitt Romney … would structurally reform the health care syst ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Far Out Man… “MoonBeams in a Jar& ...
    “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is beads (in a lab tempered glass Amulet) containing multiple mic ...
  • Digby Wolfe
    telegraph.co.uk – Digby Wolfe, who has died aged 82, was a comedy writer for the satirical BBC revue That Was The Week That Was before helping to create the American television hit Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, which also became cult viewing in Britain in the late 1960s. Taped in psychedeli ...
  • I Want To Be Anarchy
    By Ars Moriendi,WorldWide Hippies-In 1976 The Sex Pistols song “Anarchy in the UK” hit the mainstream. First lines: I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist. I am not sure if that is when Anarchy took its turn to the darker side, you see for me it was Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and the like [...]
  • Occupy vs Eviction: Radicals, Reform, and Disp ...
    by Nate Hawthorne Libcom.org - In the first part of this post I discuss the anti-eviction work of Occupy Homes. In the second part I discuss some of the demographics of home ownership in the U.S.. In the third part, I discuss political reformism. In the fourth I take up radicals acting in reform ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Police Rescue Malnourished Girl From Closet in Kansas City A Kansas City, Mo., mother is behind bars, accused of keeping her 10-year-old daughter locked in a closet, not letting her come out to eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. The girl weighed just 32 pounds, and hospital records indicated ...

reference frame

  • Higgs boson, scalar fields, and a victory for ...
    A celebration of scalar fields in string theory Because the Higgs boson became such a standard player in mainstream particle physics in the recent 50 years, people underestimate the importance of the looming discovery of the first spinless elementary particle we know in Nature as a sign ...
  • Xena: Rio+20 failed to mention billions of cas ...
    Among many other things I experienced today, my nephew told me about various incredible catastrophes he is going to experience in his lifetime according to everything he is told at school and in the media so I decided to look at some of the sources again. Before I did so, I also tried to ...
  • Have Starkman and pals shown that the hierarch ...
    The Higgs mass around \(125\GeV\) together with the Higgs vev around \(246\GeV\) and the masses of related particles such as the W-bosons and Z-bosons are much smaller than some other energy scales, e.g. the GUT scale and the Planck scale, where some new interesting effects almost certainly o ...
  • About a 2007 Higgs boson $500 bet
    The truth ultimately prevails. The equivalent Latin slogan, "Veritas vincit", has been a part of the Czechoslovak and – more recently – Czech presidential flag since 1920. Its origin dates back to the 15th century Czech reformer of the Catholic Church, Mr John Huss. Sometimes it ta ...
  • Alan Turing: 100th birthday
    Echo comments migrated: The migration process was underway when I was originally writing these paragraphs and was completed in 2-3 hours, around 6:40 pm Pilsner Summer Time (Saturday). As expected, the reply from DISQUS hadn't been too helpful. The avatars and recognized identities are l ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
    By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
    Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
    By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
  • "We need to stop this."
    Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • BPA and... Wait for It... Breast Cancer
    DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer. What's particularly concerning is the level of BPA in the monkey's blood was equivalent to average levels found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Three missing after fatal fishing trip
    One man was found drowned and three of his companions were still missing on Monday after their fishing trip in a small boat on a fjord in Hordaland County ended in tragedy. An extensive search for the three missing men was called off Sunday night. The four men were all from Poland, and reportedl ...
  • Rain dampened Midsummer Eve
    Norwegians intent on carrying out traditional Midsummer celebrations during the weekend had to brave chilly temperatures and rain, sometimes torrential. Bonfires were lit anyway, and the inner Oslo Fjord was among areas aglow. There weren’t quite as many boats out on the fjord as in earlie ...
  • New strike shuts Norwegian oil rigs
    Around 700 North Sea oil rig workers went on strike Sunday, demanding early and full retirement benefits from the age of 62. The strike was shutting down production at various rigs on the Norwegian continental shelf and can cost the state billions in lost oil revenues if it drags on. Both the em ...
  • Dramatic end to ‘ten weeks of hell’
    Tears, applause and a silent protest from those most traumatized by Anders Behring Brevik’s terrorist attacks marked the end of his 10-week trial in Oslo on Friday. Breivik himself was also allowed to make a final statement, in which he marveled that no other right-wing nationalists had ca ...
  • Breivik’s defense seeks sanity ruling
    Defense counsel for confessed terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik asked an Oslo court on Friday to either acquit Breivik, on the grounds his attacks of July 22 were “necessary” to his anti-Islamic campaign, or sentence him on the grounds he is sane and thus accountable for his ac ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Raised Beds and Soil Rehab with Yard Waste
    Clean up Over the last two years, here in South West Pennsylvania, a snow and wind storm knocked down a few trees in the back yard. This provided both resources and opened up a nice hole in the canopy where I could put those resources to use. The first thing I wanted to do [...]
  • How “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
    Editor’s Preamble: In a prevous editorial life, I used to make a decent attempt at commentary for these large international events — those organised with some pretention towards shifting us onto a ’sustainable path — but I no longer have the energy for it. Pinning our hop ...
  • The Mendacity of Hope
    The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Worn down by hope. That’s the predicament of those who have sought to defend the earth’s living syst ...
  • Coal Seam Gas – Music to Soothe the Mining Bea ...
    Editor’s Note: If you’re in the Northern Rivers area of NSW, Australia (or if you can otherwise make it!), please support this important initiative! Coal Seam Gas (CSG) mining, or ‘fracking’ (see here and here), has potential to impact adversely on the natural environmen ...
  • Upcoming Courses at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm (Ju ...
    Head to our courses section for more info, and for other courses.

Pointman's

  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
    Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
    From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade:  Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
  • Celebrate Juneteenth
    A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States.  The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...
  • Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Spa ...
    This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision: Dear friends and family,  With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, I wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support.  Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your n ...
  • Choice Of Weapons: A Commentary on Youth in Ne ...
    Sometimes Truth whispers conspiratorially; other times it gets naked in public. This was one of those times. On May 31, Truth painted an undeniably clear picture on the front page of section B of the Times Picayune. The article headlined “Frame by Frame” is a mini-feature on an event the day ...
  • Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta ...
    On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    maz wrote: I don't know if I agree with this part, about calling ZCF an ADL shill. It does seem to be rather silly to go to the extreme to say that Hitler was a "hero,"and it does seem to support evidence of a dialectic, but an ADL agenda? OK so how does that work? ADL funds ZCF and th ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Yahweh Is A Pagan Name
    ada wrote: Often i see that messianic s are using the tetragrammaton yhwh what is supposed to be derived from Yeshua Hanozri Wemelech Hajehudim. But is this really correct and how do we handle this ? I have problems with it and would never use it. Here is why. Its heavy involved with freemason ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Why would godaddy take down other tribe member pron sites? show a pic of herr adolf and you are asking for it remember 2-3 years ago, the buzz was internet 2 and all that shite now here it is and no mention of it /insert smart quote from the protocolsStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Mon Jun 25, 2 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Christopher Marlowe wrote: The rare times that I watch TV, e.g. the superbowl, I have seen godaddy commercials, and they are basically advertising themselves as a place to publish porn. So godaddy is spending millions of dollars to let everyone know that they will host porn sites, but they are k ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_nK6XuWOQg Anyone who wants to say that this is not to cover-up what is REALLY happening to that nation doesn't know what in the Hell is happening there. The Japanese government has done literally almost EVERYTHING that it can to keep information from r ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Birth of Sumatran Rhino Offers Hope for Endang ...
    Conservationists in Indonesia say a female Sumatran rhino gave birth to a healthy male calf at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, offering International Rhino Foundation Ratu new hope for one of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Following two miscarriages and a ...
  • U.S. Atlantic Coast Already ‘Hotspot’ of Sea L ...
    A 600-mile stretch of the U.S. East Coast is experiencing rates of sea level rise that are three to four times greater than the global average, according a new study. In a new analysis, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that sea levels from Boston, Mass. to Cape Hatteras, N.C ...
  • Senate Farm Bill Curtails Subsidies But Increa ...
    The U.S. Senate yesterday passed a new farm bill that cuts direct subsidies to farmers yet significantly increases the nation’s crop insurance program. The legislation, which passed by a vote of 64 to 35, would cut about $23.6 billion from current federal spending through the elimination of crop ...
  • Rio+20 Summit Ends With Little Faith in Govern ...
    Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro promised an era of aggressive action on biodiversity loss and global warming, the United Nations Rio+20 sustainability summit ended Friday with recriminations and a growing sense that international institutions will play an increasingly dimin ...
  • Drones to Be Used to Prevent Poaching Of Endan ...
    In Nepal, conservationists will soon begin launching low-cost, remote-controlled drones to prevent the poaching of endangered species. Developed by the WWF WWF Nepal staff with the drone group WWF, the technology is seen as an inexpensive way to monitor the protection of species, includin ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Miracle of R.A. Dickey
    With the Mets-Yankees game scheduled tonight, Allen Barra extols the brilliant season of pitcher Dickey.
  • Romney On The Dairy Farm: Prefers 1%?
    In front of federally subsidized cows, Romney reiterated his opposition to big-government spending. Wayne Barrett speaks to the cows’ owners, who say they dislike Obama even while they take government money.
  • History on Gay Marriage’s Side
    Marriage is not an unchanging institution—and gay unions have a long history, says Faramerz Dabhoiwala.
  • Gandhi Mystery Sets India Adrift
    With India’s economy faltering, questions about Sonia Gandhi’s future need resolving, says Bruce Riedel.
  • We Are All Penn State
    It wasn't just university leadership that enabled Jerry Sandusky. It was a system that discourages rocking the boat at all costs.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Social-media manager Lin Qing Xiang
    Lin Qing Xiang, 33, is the social-media manager of the "The Ruby Alan Show" (also known as "The RA Show"), a video blog that explores both Singaporean and Japanese culture. Lin creates travelogues of his journeys around Japan and also films Japanese-culture events in Singapore. A die-hard fan, h ...
  • Fukushima tests seafood demand in local trial sale
    Octopus and whelks caught off Fukushima were showcased in a trial sale Monday at supermarkets and other stores in the city of Soma, making it the first local seafood put on the market since the Fukushima nuclear disaster erupted in March last year. A local fisheries cooperative said no radioac ...
  • Teijin eyes India carbon fiber foray
    Teijin Ltd. is preparing to make a full foray into the Indian market for carbon fibers, a light but strong material that can replace steel and aluminum, a senior company official said. "Teijin is contacting a major Indian automaker," Vice President Norio Kamei said Friday, indicating its plan ...
  • In shift, public increasingly wants larger rol ...
    The public increasingly wants fathers to participate actively in child-rearing, according to a recent opinion poll. Respondents who think fathers should participate actively in child-rearing accounted for 45.0 percent, exceeding for the first time those who say it is enough for fathers to part ...
  • Hurry with reapportionment
    The Supreme Court in March 2011 ruled that the 2009 Lower House election, which brought the Democratic Party of Japan to power, was held in an unconstitutional state because of great disparity in the value of a vote between depopulated rural areas and populated urban areas. But it refrained from ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Freedom from Medicare and lower tuition days
    Well well, another misinformed tax freedom day has come and gone on June 12th.  To mark the occasion this year I wanted to skip over the very serious methodological flaws that others have pointed out, and take a look at several other items that Canadians are “free of” at various poin ...
  • CPI Deflates Case for Rate Hike
    Today’s report that the national inflation rate fell to 1.2% in May deflates calls for higher interest rates to reduce inflation. The central bank’s core rate was 1.8%, also below the 2% target. The other argument for an interest-rate hike was to moderate mortgage lending and the housing market. ...
  • Deflating Housing Bubble Risks Recession
    Seen in isolation,  Finance Minister Flaherty probably did the right thing yesterday in seeking to safely deflate the housing bubble and lower the dangerous growth of household credit to a record level as a share of household income. But he did it very late in the game, and risks tipping an alre ...
  • Clean electricity, conservation and a zero-car ...
    Today we released a new Climate Justice Project report, Clean Electricity, Conservation and Climate Justice in BC: Meeting our energy needs in a zero-carbon future, co-authored by John Calvert and myself. The report is central to the vision we have been developing of a zero-carbon BC, with a foc ...
  • Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary ...
    On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link. Points I raised in the address include the following: -Canada’s economy has been growing quite steadily over ...

ReDress

  • "Decent, honest and truthful"? How the pro-Isr ...
    Stuart Littlewood exposes the lies peddled by Israel's foreign pimps, most recently in a Wall Street Journal article by David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, and shows how Israeli public relations fail the simple test of decency, honesty and truthfulness.
  • US State Department betrays American citizens ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the corrupting influence of the Zionist lobbies in the USA has mean that American officials abroad routinely betray US citizens where Israel is involved.
  • Internet intrusion and increased repression in ...
    Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European Union tolerate the regime's flagrant violations of rights enshrined in domestic and international law.
  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
  • South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlement ...
    Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights undermines the fraudulent practice of labelling products made outside Israel as if they were made in Israel ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

  • Alaska Glacier Studied For Clues On Water Supply
    “Anchorage is one of the few North American cities that depend on a glacier for most of their drinking water. The Eklutna glacier also provides some of the city’s electricity, through hydro power. So a team of researchers is working to answer a very important question: How long will ...
  • Desalination: Tell It To The DEC Judge
    “The Hudson Valley’s leading environmental organizations formally requested that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) hold a hearing to consider an industrial water desalination facility proposed by United Water for Haverstraw, Rockland County following advocac ...
  • ‘Shock Doctrine’ in Action: Vital ...
    “We are countless compared to the infinitesimal contingency who live to profit off of water. For the purposes of Patagonia Rising, screening now in New York and beyond, that includes the privatization capitalists of HidroAysen, which is planning to build five hydroelectric power plants (ma ...
  • Fracking In California’s Monterey Shale
    “Yes, California. Contrary to what some might think, the practice of fracking is not limited to the eastern states and Colorado, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. It is alive and well in the Golden State—and has been for some time. Fracking has been going on in California since the 1950s, according ...
  • What Does Climate Change Mean for Water in the ...
    “Nearly every climate change model puts a red bulls-eye on the Colorado River Basin, suggesting profound temperature increases over the coming decades.  The models don’t speak in unison when it comes to precipitation projections, but most studies that have looked at the effects of both tem ...

D. Kucinich

  • The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...
  • Kucinich Stands in Solidarity with Postal Work ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today stood in solidarity with postal workers across America and with ten postal activists in particular as they begin a four-day hunger strike to protest Congress’s “starving” of the United States Postal Service through cuts to service and a 2006 Congressional ...
  • Kucinich Stands in Solidarity with Postal Work ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today stood in solidarity with postal workers across America and with ten postal activists as they begin a four-day hunger strike to protest Congress’s “starving” of the United States Postal Service through cuts to service and a 2006 Congressional mandate to pr ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kucinich: Drones Strikes Create New Enemies
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released this video continuing his steadfast opposition to the use of combat drones which undermine our long-term national security and kill innocent civilians. Kucinich cites a 23-year-old democracy activist in Yemen who argues that our drones drive Yeme ...

Authentically Wired

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

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
    North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
  • The rarest rhino's last stand
    Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Firm ready to go global on P lab detector
    An Auckland company is preparing to take its clever, methamphetamine lab-detecting technology to the world.The manufacturing process can be highly toxic and rental property owners have faced cleanup bills running into tens of thousands...
  • Sea levels set to rise further than expected
    But the northern part of the state as well as the coasts of Oregon and Washington could see less of an impact than the rest of the world because of shifts in the Earth that are causing the coasts there to rise, it said."The lower...
  • Kiwi breakthrough in search for life on Mars
    Martian lifeforms could be hiding under the surface of the Red Planet's atmosphere, according to ground-breaking research led by a New Zealand scientist.Canterbury University geologist Dr Christopher Oze believes evidence of life...
  • Kiwi scientist's team has breakthrough in moto ...
    A New Zealand professor is leading a team of scientists which has made a breakthrough in a global project to cure motor neuron disease.Professor Chris Shaw, formerly of Wellington, works with researchers at King's College in London...
  • Dairy industry ups the war against mastitis
    A new website has been launched to help tackle a disease which costs the New Zealand dairy industry around $280 million each year. Industry organisation DairyNZ has launched SmartSAMM , an onlin

The Bovine

  • Summer Solstice / St. John’s day celebra ...
    From farmer Michael Schmidt: Year after year we celebrate solstice with a huge St. Johns fire, built from brush and trees and scrap wood collected over the las 12 months. It is part of a ongoing effort to reconnect to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt’s seeking dialog with CF ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Over nearly two decades of fighting for the right to access raw milk, Michael Schmidt has become legendary for his persistent promotion of dialog with reluctant regulators and politicians. He went … Continue reading →
  • Ontario sheep tested negative for scrapie afte ...
    From the Manitoba Co-operator: “Over two dozen sheep that vanished from a scrapie-quarantined eastern Ontario farm for about two months have all tested negative for the brain-wasting disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday confirmed it had recovered, euthanized … Con ...
  • The Trans Pacific Partnership and the end of d ...
    From Martha Hall Findlay, in the Globe and Mail: “Despite a professed commitment to free trade, Canada has retained a staunchly protectionist supply management regime in several agricultural sectors, notably the dairy industry. It harms our trade options. Domestically, it also costs &#8230 ...
  • Woman sues city of Tulsa for cutting down her ...
    From Lori Fullbright, on Oklahoma’s Own: “TULSA, Oklahoma - A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Greek Finance Minister Resigns Before Being Sw ...
    One might think the the newly elected Prime Minister of Greece would have enough common sense to not appoint a finance minister with a history of medical problems. One might also think a person with known medical problems would turn down the position if offered because of the obvious stress. ...
  • EU Takes Great Britain to Court over Garlic; N ...
    If you are looking for solid reasons why the UK should kiss the EU goodbye, then I can provide one: Brussels acts over garlic tax. The European Commission is taking Britain to court in a battle over an unpaid bill of millions of pounds in duty on imports of garlic. The European Commissi ...
  • Is There a Limit on Central Bank's Ability to ...
    On Friday, ECB President Mario Draghi announced ECB to Accept BBB- Rated Debt (One Step Above Junk) as Collateral. Reaction from the German central bank was immediate: Bundesbank Swipes at Draghi as European Fault Lines Deepen “We’re critical of this,” Bundesbank spokesman Michael Best said ...
  • Poll Shows 78% in Germany, 65% percent in Fran ...
    Reuters reports Greek PM, Finance Minister Will Miss Summit Due to Illness. Illness means both Greece's new prime minister and finance minister will miss an anxiously awaited summit of European leaders later this week and delayed a visit by the country's international lenders. According ...
  • Mainstream Media Headline Silliness
    I am frequently amused by mainstream media news headlines that come across my screen. For example, here are three consecutive headlines on Bloomberg in the span of 13 minutes that will show the silliness of it all. At 8:40 Bloomberg reported Japanese Stocks Advance on Optimism ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Post Welcomes New Partner Eric D ...
    “Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War” We are proud to announce the addition of a new partner to our team here at Boiling Frogs Post. Please welcome Eric Draitser: Eric Draitser- Partner Analyst & Producer Eric Draitser is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. He is the ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 30, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our b ...
  • Pentagon Consolidates Control over Balkans
    Getting Closer to New Theaters of War By Rick Rozoff Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkan region. The milit ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 29, 2012
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Activities Feeling ...
    Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in the path of Tropical Storm Debby, says the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement [...]
  • Defiant Offshore Workers Cost Statoil $19 Mill ...
    OSLO (Dow Jones) –Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA (STO) has said it will lose about 115 million kroner ($19 million) a day due to a strike by offshore workers, and said that [...]
  • Intermarine Hires Venture Capital and Private ...
    Intermarine, a Houston-based international shipping company specializing in project and heavy lift cargo transportation, announced today that Alfred (Al) JV Stanley has joined Intermarine as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Andre [...]
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    Independent Australian grain-handling company, Newcastle Agri Terminal, has signed a contract for a new flexibly-designed Siwertell ship loading system from Cargotec. The order is booked into first quarter order intake. [...]
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    Technip was awarded by EnQuest Britain Limited a contract for the development of the Alma and Galia fields, located 310 kilometers Southeast of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. The fields, which will [...]

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Egypt democracy dependent on Morsi
    Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi has called on all Egyptians to unite and says the revolution, which ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, will continue.
  • US banks wage war on working class
    A political analyst says American banks and corporations have launched an all-out war against the country’s working class, Press TV reports.
  • London to exhibit Alikhanzadeh artworks
    The Artspace Gallery has mounted an exhibition of works by contemporary Iranian artist Samira Alikhanzadeh in the British capital of London.
  • Nepalese police clash with protesters‎
    Nepalese riot police forces have clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters near the capital city of Katmandu, arresting more than 30 people.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

Nick Turse

  • "New philosophies call all in doubt, the more ...
    “New philosophies call all in doubt, the more so as the accelerating rates of technological...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Picture of the Day: The ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day: The valley stretching from Lalibela to Makina Lideta Maryan in Ethiopia, 2008. This is part of the “Genesis” collection by Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who has made it his mission to travel to the remaining truly wild places of the glob ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:More: Mohammed Morsi wi ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: More: Mohammed Morsi wins Egypt’s presidential runoff with a total of 13,230,131 votes. Ahmed Shafiq received 12,347,380 votes. [Al Jazeera’s Egypt Live Blog] Above: Side-by-side screenshots of Al Jazeera English and Arabic announcing the Muslim Brotherhood’s win over ...
  • kateoplis:Fake meat: is science fiction on t ...
    kateoplis: Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact? | Guardian Professor Patrick Brown could easily be taken for a deranged visionary. He is intense, driven and unfazed by critics and rivals. This 57-year-old ultra-lean, sandal-wearing, marathon-running vegan wants to stop ...
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    “It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot John Trithemius of Sponheim, a...
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