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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.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

27 June - RSS SnapShot ! - Pt II

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U N News

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Sound of HAARP Weapon in Action!!!
    Ummmmmmmmmmm... Does HAARP make any sound?... If it doesn't... what is? ~ Video read more
  • What's In YOUR Vaccine?... List of Vaccine Ing ...
    There has been much recent concern regarding vaccines given to children, and their possible side effects. Particularly highlighted is the link between early childhood vaccines and autism. read more
  • Oreo Cookies Go Gay on Facebook?... What?
    This image was posted yesterday on Facebook to the Oreo fan page, apparently by representatives of the company that makes the “world’s favorite cookie.” While the cookie depicted is not available for consumption, this decision by representatives of such an iconic snack to support gay pride h ...
  • Another Attack on the Second Amendment... UN S ...
    The United Nations, that bastion of self-enriching, bloated gas bags, will soon be holding a month-long convention on the UN Small Arms TREATY between 192 nations. Of course, Hillary Clinton is right in the middle of things in an effort to commit the US to this unconst ...
  • Warning!... Agenda 21 Comes to Life!... The Cr ...
    Transition towns are a movement modeled after the UN’s Agenda 21 to create communities that adhere to the initiative that center around reducing CO2 emissions. ~ Susanne Posel read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Dehydration – More Common Than You Think
    Dehydration occurs when the amount of water leaving the body is greater than the amount being taken in. Makes sense, yes? Up to 75% of the body’s weight is made up of water. Five quarts of blood coursing through your body are ninety percent water, and the rest of your body holds between fi ...
  • Mountain House now available from CampingSurvi ...
    msb-note Our friend, Tom, over at Camping Survival.com has just told us they are now carrying Mountain House #10 cans and pouches. For those of you looking to shore up your food storage preps, we would appreciate it if you have a look at their Mountain House products which they now carry. Mounta ...
  • 2-Way Radios for Emergency Kit or Preps
    Communications. It is an integral part of modern life, and the number of electronic communication gadgets that are available to us today is staggering. During an emergency or disaster, our common methods of communication might not be available to us. The most likely problem would be the electric ...
  • KATLA Quake Swarms Are Raising Concerns
    Katla, a very dangerous volcano (especially for Europe) located on the south of Iceland, is showing active signs of unrest as increased seismic activity has been detected in the volcano caldera. Dozens of minor earthquakes have been picked up by sensors in groups of swarms. For the past several ...
  • The Paradox Of Our Age
    We have bigger houses, but smaller families; More conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; More knowledge, but less judgement; More experts, but more problems; More medicines, but less healthiness; We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble cros ...

Fast Company

  • The Best Of Google I/O: Project Glass, Nexus 7 ...
    Google announced a slew of new products today at its annual developer conference, including the long-awaited Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus Q, a home media streamer for Android devices. Here's what you need to know.Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 The Best: Search Android's updated search function features a ...
  • The 3 LinkedIn Etiquette Rules You Should Neve ...
    LinkedIn is one social network where little mistakes can directly impact your financial future. Avoid these LinkedIn no-nos that could work against you when building your networking or looking for a job.I first started blogging and hosting online videos for Fast Company in the spring of 2011. Ho ...
  • Social Media Festivals Come To Cuba
    Over the past two months, pro-Castro and opposition social media geeks held dueling social media festivals in Cuba. Both groups are calling for change, with even regime supporters calling for lessened restrictions on Internet access.Cuba is not generally known for its technology sector. The coun ...
  • Why Tech Startups Are Mad For Madison
    Madison, Wisconsin, already has a healthy startup scene, thanks to the success of heavy hitters, like Sonic Foundry and Call of Duty co-creator Raven Software. Now progressive legislation is helping the city spawn the next generation of innovators.   UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Idea ...
  • Google Now's Personalized Search With Automate ...
    For more than a decade, online search has long relied on the same paradigm: a blank search box, and a user's query. But with the massive amount of data we're now providing to search engines on PCs and mobile devices--everything from location to calendar to browsing history--companies rangi ...

Jadaliyya

  • الالتفات للملف اليمني سيتأخر
     لطالما أحيط الملف اليمني بأعلى درجات الاهتمام من قبل العائلة المالكة في السعودية، التي ترى ضرورة أن يبقى الوضع في اليمن تحت السيطرة الدائمة من قبلها، إضافةً إلى بقاء رجالها هناك متأهبين لمواجهة أي طارئ قد يعمل على خلط الأوراق السعودية في البلاد وعدم ابتعادها عن دائرة التحكم. ولا شك في أن ت ...
  • Nahr al-Bared, Palestinian Refugees, and Leban ...
    The following is the translated transcription of a Skype interview that was conducted on Friday 22 June 2012. It features Lebanese activist Ghassan Makarem. The interview explores the particular events that transpired last week in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, locating them with ...
  • The Politics of Image: The Bedouins of South Sinai
    They live within Egyptian borders, they carry Egyptian identification cards, some of them even serve in the Egyptian army, but to the majority of Egyptians, the Bedouins of the Sinai Peninsula remain the widely enigmatic “others,” if not exotic creatures of the desert then villainous outlaws of ...
  • جامعة فلسطينية تفضّل الجهل على المعرفة
    منذ شهر أو أكثر يتعالى الجدل في الساحات الافتراضية الفلسطينية، وخلف الستار، حول قضيّة الأستاذ موسى البديري وجامعة بير زيت الفلسطينية. على ما يبدو هنالك من يخشى في وسائل الإعلام الفلسطينية، رسمية وغير رسمية، من الولوج في صلب هذه القضايا. وكأنّ لسان حالهم يقول: لأيش وجع الرأس؟ غير أنّ وجع ...
  • Ajamindustry
    It is problematic enough that Fouad Ajami repeats much of the reductionist arguments about all things Arab in his new book on Syria's rebellion, but then the New York Times must stumble upon this book, and review it. I will not attempt to review the book itself, for critiquing Mr. Ajami has beco ...

mediagazer

  • The Times Is Introducing a Chinese-Language Ne ...
    Christine Haughney / Media Decoder: The Times Is Introducing a Chinese-Language News Site  —  The New York Times is introducing a Chinese-language Web site, part of a continuing effort to expand its reach to international readers.  —  The site, which is called cn ...
  • News Corp Lines up Bankers to Advise on Breaku ...
    Dow Jones Newswires: News Corp Lines up Bankers to Advise on Breakup Plan  —  News Corp. (NWS, NWSA) has hired Centerview Partners LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to advise the media conglomerate on the possible separation of the publishi ...
  • 'Today' to lose Natalie too? (Cindy Adams/New ...
    Cindy Adams / New York Post: ‘Today’ to lose Natalie too?  —  Could “Today” veteran and news reader Natalie Morales be the next to leave the NBC morning show?  Sources tell us “Today” will announce the long-rumored departure of its co-hos ...
  • Romney to seek Washington Post retraction (Dyl ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Romney to seek Washington Post retraction  —  Mitt Romney campaign representatives will meet with the Washington Post today to seek a formal retraction of its June 21 report that Bain Capital invested in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs ...
  • Patch staffers on advertorials, inflated numbe ...
    Jim Romenesko: Patch staffers on advertorials, inflated numbers and more  —  Yesterday's post about Patch brought in many comments, Facebook wall posts and emails to me.  Here's what some Patch employees told me in those emails: PATCH STAFFER #1 “I saw your piece toda ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Most of Kashmir shut for 3rd day over shr ...
    AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press= SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Shops and businesses are closed for a third straight day across much of Indian-controlled Kashmir as residents protest the fiery destruction of a 200-year-old Muslim shrine. Thousands of government forces are patrolling streets in the di ...
  • Ford to Close Assembly Plant in Philippin ...
    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co. says it will close its 13-year-old assembly plant in the Philippines at the end of the year. Ford Group Philippines president Randy Krieger said Wednesday that the company "could not make a strong enough business case for fut ...
  • North Korea Tests the Patience of Close A ...
    Beijing. As Kim Jong Un, the young leader of North Korea, consolidates his grip on power, China is showing signs of increasing frustration at the bellicose behavior of its longtime ally. Since succeeding his father, Kim Jong Il, six months ago, Kim Jong Un has quickly alienated the Obama adm ...
  • Jimmy Carter attacks Barack Obama over as ...
    In an article written for the New York Times headlined "A Cruel and Unusual Record", Mr Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work trying to resolve conflicts around the globe, suggested that the US is in violation of 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declarati ...
  • Top US Afghan general visits Pakistan ami ...
    ISLAMABAD - The top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan is expected to visit Pakistan amid heightened tensions over militant networks allegedly based on Pakistani soil and still-closed military supply lines. The Pakistani military said U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen's Wednesday ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    In today's show we come to grips with the psychology behind the power structure. What kind of people become "leaders" in the type of system in which we live? What are the traits that enhance a person's potential to move up the ladder in organisational hierarchies? My guests today are Dan Colli ...
  • Radiographer Anthony Hall slams EU safety repo ...
    In the 2nd hour of  today's show, Anthony Hall returns to critique the newly released report from the European Commission on the health effects of of x-ray body scanners. Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, and holds a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible b ...
  • Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails ...
    Vapour trails left by British bombers on route to attack flying-bomb sites encircle the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1944. All those who passionately believe that "contrails dissipate quickly" whereas "chemtrails linger" and are deeply offended by the sceptical position that TNRA take ...

Beacon

  • Delaware to Consider Shark Fin Trade Ban
    The demand for shark fins puts endangered shark species at higher risk ©Oceana/LX With the session ending in just three days, Delaware may become the first East Coast state to ban the shark fin trade. HB 324, the bill banning the sale, trade, possession and distribution of shark fins througho ...
  • Presenting the 2012 Ocean Heroes Finalists
    After a long deliberation process, we’re ready to announce the finalists for our 2012 Ocean Heroes Award. We received over 400 fantastic nominees from all over the country (and a few international ones), but we think these five juniors and six adults are the best of the best. You’ll have a ch ...
  • Victory for Polluted Chilean Community
    © Claudia Pool We have some good news from Chile -- Oceana has been fighting against the approval of a thermoelectric plant, Punta Alcalde, and we are excited to announce that the plant’s permit was denied this week. The plant was to be built in Huasco, which is already suffering from severe ...
  • Andy Sharpless at Ideacity 2012
    Watch live streaming video from ideacity at livestream.com Did you know that the world’s oceans have the power to feed millions of hungry people? It’s true, but only if we make sure that we’re using them sustainably. Our CEO Andy Sharpless spoke about this at the Ideacity conference in Toronto ...
  • Intermission at the Ocean Heroes Awards
    Alexandra Cousteau aboard Oceana's Hanse explorer in the Baltic ©Oceana/Carlos Suarez We’ve gathered hundreds of nominations for this year’s Ocean Heroes Contest and over the next 6 days, Oceana’s Finalist Selection Committee will have the difficult task of choosing six Adult and six Junior F ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Shuriken, Throwing Stars, And Cool Knives.
                        Source: Amazon, Ebaumsworld, Awesomecoolpics.com    
  • More Great Articles From Modern Mechanix.
            Source: http://blog.modernmechanix.com
  • When the British Mandate In Palestine Was Abou ...
      Haj Amin was a thorn in the side of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. He was a sleek, charismatic man, soft spoken and known to engender confidence and authority. Once the British wished to mundify Palestine of him and his influence. Yet when he returned from a short prison ter ...
  • Amelia Earhart’s Distress Calls Were In ...
    “The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), sheds new light on what may have happened to the legendary aviator 75 years ago. The researchers plan to start a high-tech underwater search for pieces of her aircraft next July.   “Amelia Earhart did not simply v ...
  • The Carro Veloce L33 Italian Light Tank.
        About 2500 of these machine gun platforms were made and they saw action during the Italo Abyssinian wars and they advanced with the Royal Italian Army when the Italians officially entered the Second World War. They were armed with forward and backward facing 20mm machine gun. Both ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Please Don’t Feed Oreos to the ‘Ho ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. On the night of June 27 / early morning of June 28, 1969, what came to be known as the Stonewall Riots, or the Stonewall Rebellion, began. For any number of reasons, that night when the latest of the frequent police r ...
  • Rielle Hunter Met Her Perfect Match with the I ...
    I couldn’t imagine I was, given I was 43 and had never been pregnant. Johnny and I never used birth control, but I was always mindful of my cycle and I was certain that I had never been ovulating during any of my visits with Johnny. [...] I discovered (to my shock and surprise) that [...]
  • Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the Set Up for Sarah Palin
    Asked where she disagrees with President Obama on foreign policy, she said she understands “how hard it is to be in the White House,” but said the United States cannot “lead from behind.” “The United States has to have a view, it has to gather people around that vie ...
  • Rand Paul Is Not Libertarian, He’s Not Even Co ...
    “FETAL PERSONHOOD” being considered over a woman’s own personal freedom is not a libertarian idea. It’s not even a conservative idea. In fact, when women like myself say Do Not Tread On Me, it may be a civil rights and privacy notion, but it also used to be a conservative ...
  • Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, Climate Change is Real
    VICTORY FOR planet-loving people over industry and environmental marauders came today in a spectacular validation of the EPA. From the AP: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said that the Environmental Protection Agency was “unambiguously correct” in using ...

Hudson New York

  • Arab Apartheid Against Palestinians
    The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are considered the worst in the region in terms of poverty, health, education and living conditions, according to a report published this week by the American Near East Refugee Aid [ANERA], one of the largest
  • The Incredible Shrinking US-Israel Security Co ...
    In light of increased sensitivity to intelligence leaks, it seemed innocuous – or even admirable – when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) asked the Senate to remove a few words from the US-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act
  • Turkey's Sex, Lies and Videotapes
    Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals did not criminalize all porn recently—it just ruled that anyone in possession of videos depicting oral or anal sex may be sentenced to prison. This followed a recent ruling identifying videos of gay and group sex as
  • Birthplace of Christ Used in Bid for Palestini ...
    The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will soon decide whether to honor the Palestinian application to award The Church of the Nativity the designation of a World Heritage Site—a title reserved for locations
  • Russia's Masterstroke: Bailing Out Cyprus
    What a fine mess the Europeans have made with their deluded dream of a common European currency for 17 countries with different languages, cultures, traditions and economic systems. As a result of the experiment with the euro, almost all countries along

Urban Survival

  • Home Prices Up–Slightly
    Just out from Case Shiller/S&P:   “New York, June 26, 2012 – Data through April 2012, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case- Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that on average home … Continue reading →
  • Waiting on Housing
    Assuming everything runs on schedule this morning, check back at about 8:15 AM Central for the Case Shiller/S&P Housing data.  This is the biggie that cuts through all the noise in the data and gives realistic numbers on how much … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With GMO Crops
    I mentioned the other morning that a local TV station down here in Texas was pointing at a 15-year old strain of GMO grass as being suspect in the death of a small herd of roping cattle.  Was something triggered … Continue reading →
  • Court: Week Two
    After all the hype last week about how the Supreme Court (which I’ve rebranded the supreme corps for putting corporations ahead of humans in the Citizens United case) might do in Obamacare, we’ll see this week if it really happens. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Some Monday Job Hunting ideas
    If you have been unemployed for a while, and you want a career where you can make a few dollars, consider truck driving.  Story in USA Today says there is a national shortage and some of the long haul drivers … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Jay Rockefeller: A Voice of Reason, and Vision
    Ed Chen, Federal Communications Director, Washington, DC Jay Rockefeller is quite the truth-teller.  I was reminded of that when he discussed the future of coal while opposing a bid in the Senate last week to repeal historic public health prote ...
  • Toxic oil and gas waste being dumped in wells ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There is a new must-read investigation into documented environmental contamination of groundwater around the country from oil and gas waste that has never before been brought to light. ...
  • Plan for Arctic Drilling a Bad Move When No Pr ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday that his agency is poised to approve oil and gas drilling in the Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska later this summer, and sell more Arctic offshore ...
  • Testing the Waters: Pollution is an Equal Oppo ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Pollution is refreshingly nondiscriminatory. Often, it is a shared burden that messes with everyone. With the 4th of July coming, issues of water pollution come into focus and make ...
  • How Clean Is This Beach?
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City When I travel for work--NRDC has offices across the country--I like to try to get out and take a swim. It's a nice break from suing polluters. But I'm always wondering: How clean is that beach in Santa ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, June 26: Los Angeles, California sheriff’s deputy, Henry Marin, has been sentenced to two years in jail for attempting to smuggle heroin, hidden inside a burrito, into a courthouse. … Continue reading →National P ...
  • The Robert Charles Leone Arrest Video
    A short video documentary was recently released about the 2010 arrest of  Robert Charles Leone by Pennsylvania State Troopers.    The gist of the story is that when Leone failed to pull his vehicle over to the side of the road–despite the … Continue reading & ...
  • Florida Newspaper Exposes Speeding Cops
    From the Sun-Sentinel: “All law enforcement officers must be fully aware of the ethical responsibilities of their position and must strive constantly to live up to the highest possible standards of professional policing,” James Loftus, director of the countywide department, … C ...
  • A Survey on How Cities and Counties Handle Pol ...
    From the Connection Newspapers: The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement supports member cities and counties with citizen police oversight functions. Its U.S. membership is approximately 100 organizational and individual members and growing. The association exists to pr ...
  • To Ease Concerns, the Police Painted the Tank ...
    From Wired: Small police departments across America are collecting battlefield-grade arsenals thanks to a program that allows them to get their hands on military surplus equipment – amphibious tanks, night-vision goggles, and even barber chairs or underwear – at virtually … Con ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Zynga’s n ...
    Zynga announces a rash of new features and games, Spotify and Yahoo hook up for a content deal, and Apple releases a standalone app for podcasts. It’s all in today’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Sheryl Sandberg ...
    Facebook’s COO joins the company board. Apple is replacing “ghosting” Retina Pro displays. Jack Dorsey’s two companies are at odds with one another. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – The New York Ti ...
    Flipboard nets the New York Times, two admit involvement in Lulzsec, and Google TV spreads its wings outside the States. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Windows Phone 8 ...
    Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8, Apple fined for misleading consumers in Australia. and Tumblr’s new iOS app. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook tells us about the most social places in the world. Amazon is looking for developers for its International app store and Samsung demands cash from Apple for infringement. You...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...
  • Now we’re cooking without gas!
    Zero emissions buildings are good for your health Common wisdom has it that gas is the best for cooking and it’s the most efficient for heating. This thinking is out of date, as will be demonstrated in a talk at the Healthy Buildings Symposium by Trent Hawkins, Buildings Plan project director ...
  • Denying responsibility for our fossil fuel exports
    As Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets other world leaders at the Rio+20 sustainable development summit, a close look at the official messages her government is sending to the world on our behalf reveals a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, the Government appears aware of what is at ...
  • Solar tariff fitted up
    Commission counts only the upfront cost, misses savings Solar feed-in tariffs have been framed. By focusing on the cost but ignoring the savings from solar power, a backlash is being encouraged when we should be celebrating success. The Austra ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • World's last 300 Narcondam hornbills threatene ...
    A plan to build a radar installation on a remote island puts the world's only population of some 300 Narcondam Hornbills (Aceros narcondami) at risk, warns Conservation India.
  • Brazil’s environmental leadership at ris ...
    The Brazilian government is putting its global environmental leadership at risk by ignoring scientific concern on large infrastructure projects and changes in the country's forest laws, warned an association of more than 1,200 tropical scientists gathering last week in Bonito, Brazil on the heel ...
  • Small farmers cause substantial damage in the ...
    Small farmers are less likely than large landowners to maintain required forest cover on their property in the Brazilian Amazon, worsening the environmental impact of their operations, reported a researcher presenting at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation ...
  • Dams are 'centerpiece of greenwashing' in the ...
    Brazil's ambitious plans to build 30 dams in the Amazon basin could trump the country's efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest, said a leading Amazon scientist speaking at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Bonito, Brazil.
  • Agricultural area larger than Texas has been ' ...
    Compiling over 1,000 foreign land deals from 2000-2010, a new report finds that 702,000 square kilometers (271,043 square miles) of agricultural land worldwide has been sold-off to foreign governments or international corporations, an area larger than Texas. The report by the Worldwatch Institut ...

Sierra Express

  • Timis cleared to take executive roles
    Controversial businessman Frank Timis has been cleared to take an executive role at his two Perth-based oil and gas plays, two years after a bruising battle with the Australian Securities Exchange that saw them list instead on the low-profile National Stock Exchange.  (Photo: Timis cleared to ta ...
  • Journalism is Organised Gossip: Discuss
    Many great thinkers have held the belief that “a free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society”. It is against this background that a recent blog by the British High Commissioner, Ian Hughes’ blog (19/06/12) on the issue of press freedom in Sierra Leone must be hailed ...
  • Deputy Commissioner of NaCSA interacts with SA ...
    The Deputy Commissioner of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) Charles Rogers has interacted with 30 carefully selected participants of an ongoing Master Trainers workshop on the establishment of Self–Help Affinity Groups in poor communities for community Base Facilitators (CBF) an ...
  • CDP leader blasts APC and SLPP
    The Leader of the newly registered political party Citizens Democratic Party (CDP) Joshua Carew has accused both the All Peoples Congress Party (APC) and the Sierra Leone People Party (SLPP) of creating tribal and regional divide ahead of the General Election to be held November 17, 2012.  (Phot ...
  • Malaria experts join forces with Novartis to e ...
    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 26, 2012/ – Today, more than 35 countries from across Africa are represented at this year’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Workshop, entitled ‘Empowering Communities: The Heart of Malaria Control’. Convened by Novartis (http://ww ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fran O'Sullivan: Another step, but road ahead ...
    Fonterra's top brass emerged from their Monday board meeting claiming a clear mandate to proceed with the controversial trading among farmers (TAF) scheme.It's going to take a lot of work to rebuild trust between the Fonterra board...
  • Fonterra director's company fined over effluen ...
    A Fonterra director whose company has been fined for fouling a Bay of Plenty waterway with cow effluent declared to the dairy co-op there had been a "one-off breach" on one of his farms.But the judge who yesterday ordered Colin...
  • Farmers back shake-up of Fonterra
    Fonterra's dairy farmers have voted in favour of the Trading Among Farmers scheme, paving the way for the biggest shake-up since the co-operative was formed in 2001, despite a vote for constitutional change not reaching the required...
  • Fonterra in quandary after contradictory vote
    Fonterra directors face a quandary after two-thirds of farmer shareholders voted to support the controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme, but failed to support constitutional changes which were intended to give them protections...
  • Editorial: Farmers should vote for scheme
    Fonterra, New Zealand's most successful international trader, our only truly multi-national enterprise, a world leader in dairy exports, has been trying for years to become more like a normal company. It will try again today when...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Sheldon Richman on Submitting to Political Aut ...
    New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks America “has a followership problem” because “vast majorities of Americans don’t trust their institutions.” But is anti-authoritarianism actually a problem in America today? Sheldon Richman looks around and sees very little real rejection o ...
  • A.M. Links: Charlie Rangel, Orrin Hatch Surviv ...
    Charlie Rangel survived a primary challenge in a redrawn district in New York City, virtually securing a 22nd term in Congress. Senator Orrin Hatch survived a primary challenge as well, and will likely become the Senate Pro Tempore and 3rd in line to the presidency if he wi ...
  • Jacob Sullum on 'Our Right to Decency on the P ...
    Last week, after the Supreme Court passed up a chance to overturn federal restrictions on the content of TV and radio shows, Morality in Media President Patrick Trueman declared, "The FCC must now enforce our right to decency on the public airwaves." Senior Editor Jacob Sullum says un ...
  • Brickbat: That Will Teach Him
    A teacher at Salinas Elementary School in Texas ordered 24 kindergarten students to hit another student who had allegedly been bullying others. School officials say the teacher ordered the punching after a younger colleague asked her how to deal with the alleged bully. Both teacher ...
  • The Inevitable Man-Bites-Dog Story
    It is well established that "synthetic drugs" make you fuck goats and eat people's faces. It turns out they also make you eat the family dog. While it's still alive. On Monday police in Waco, Texas, charged 22-year-old Michael Daniel with felony animal cruelty because of a June ...

Mercury Rising

  • Richard Wolff, Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robi ...
    I have just enough of a residual interest in science fiction to have heard the name of Kim Stanley Robinson, but didn’t have enough interest to actually check out his books. But that changed when I heard his works referenced recently — and danged if he doesn’t sound like a nice ...
  • Double your pleasure, double your fun with Dou ...
    First, some straight talk from James Earl Carter: THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. … our country can no longer speak with moral authority on these critical issues. … At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United ...
  • The Ron Paul Insurgency Hits A Roadblock In Ma ...
    Remember the Ron Paul group’s efforts to take over various state-level Republican Party organizations? In Massachusetts, the established Republicans have struck back: Evan Kenney had just turned 18 and registered to vote for the first time when he campaigned to be an alternate delegate to ...
  • In the “conservatism is based on stupidi ...
    Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: One of the most frequently repeated talking points used by lawmakers seeking to reduce or eliminate income and estate taxes is that doing so will usher in an economic boom. Recently a number of observers, led by supply-side economist Arthur Laffer, have ...
  • In the “irony is officially dead” ...
    Porfirio Lobo, the unlawfully selected successor to the Honduran dictatorship, has announced that the Paraguayan coup is a “wound to democracy.” For the record, the Paraguayan coup, while lacking in due process, at least did not involve machine gunning the presidential palace at 5AM ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Tech
      In This Week in Tech we check out the next paradigm shift: going from sustainable to evolveable, graphene captures light, NYC gets its Gamification on, Japan to boom with renewable energy, Kevin Kelly on the "Global Collectivist Society," RedLetterMedia decimates Prometheus, 3 ...
  • Why Rio +20 Failed
      The following first appeared on CharlesEisenstein.com You know folks, I'm a bit worried about my 16-year-old son, Jimi. When he was 13, he grew three inches. When he was 14, he grew five inches. When he was 15 his growth slowed to three inches, and no matter how much I feed him ...
  • Evolver Intensives Dream Course Contest
      Love Evolver Intensives? We do too. Want to win a free pass to a course of your choosing? It's easy! Just follow these steps: Simply "Like" our Facebook page  read more
  • Lowline Under Delancey
    Support the Delancey Underground Project at the fundraiser for their innovative vision, Lowline, this Wednesday, June 27, at the Bowery Hotel. read more
  • From Tree-Hugger to Tech-Lover
      read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Akaash Maharaj: A Jubilant Thank You
    This is a special blog post for me, because it enables me to offer a public thanks to my former colleagues for doing me a very public kindness... Receiving the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal is a profound honour, not only because it is a gift from my country, but still more because it is a sym ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: The Mandate of Our Age
    On my new role as COO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption: Today, the greatest threat to democracy is no longer the explicit ideologies of political tyranny, but the far more insidious tyranny of political corruption. Corruption robs citizens of our own resources ...
  • "Men" and "the System of Checks and Balances t ...
    Men's Bras by "Kit Wood" The following original essay was submitted by the author on June 13, 2012 for publication on this blog. It has been edited in terms of its original formatting. You know what I’d love to see as a woman?? I would love to see: A GUY wearing a bra every day of his life ...
  • Musical Performer / Pop Celebrity Justin Bieber
    Justin Bieber is much bigger than Kurt Cobain, so shut up. Did Kurt Cobain ever have the biggest fanbase on Twitter? NO. by "Amanda Bieber" As originally posted on: Amanda Bieber (MandaSwaggie) on Twitter June 13, 2012
  • "Daddy"

Press TV - Middle East

  • Yemen admits to request for US drones
    The Yemeni foreign minister has admitted that Sana’a had asked for US assassination drone attacks in the country.
  • Bahraini activist to continue protest
    Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has vowed to continue his protest against the regime until the goals of the revolution are achieved.
  • ‘Talks best solution to Syria crisis’
    Iran's ambassador to Damascus stresses that dialogue between the authorities and the opposition is the only path to resolving the crisis in Syria, which has plagued the Arab nation for more than a year.
  • 'Hamas popularity on the rise'
    A new survey has found that the popularity of acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has declined in favor of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
  • Iraqi premier calls for early elections
    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called for early elections after efforts to end the political crisis in the country through negotiations failed.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Corporate Media Poisons the Well
    In northeastern “British Columbia,” a blockade was held by a dozen Tla’amin First Nation members at the reserve’s voting station over concerns that the “treaty” process is undemocratic.1 An opinion columnist at the online Vancouver Sun wrote a piece that deser ...
  • Never Ending Load of Gobshite from the Lying B ...
    One thing that Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) can be relied upon for: a never ending stream of disinformation with cesium laden piles of putridity. Firstly, there is the matter of the Unit 4 spent fuel pool, that many experts claim could collapse in a major earthquake leading to massive re ...
  • Cuba: A Society in Motion
    In Cuba change is in the air. But such change should not be read as an end to the revolution. “The United States and the exile community are dead wrong if they think that regime change will take place at any time in the near future,” said Julio Diaz Vazquez, a professor at the Center [...]
  • Will Future Generations Have to “Blame it on Rio?”
    The weather in Rio de Janeiro during the three-day UN “Earth Summit II” was warm, gray, indistinct—a soft haze covered the city and muted its world-famous contours. Something like that cloudiness shrouded the concluded summit itself—a generalized feeling of anti-climax and uncertainty. The massi ...
  • The Elite Coup is Complete
    The American plutocratic revolution is now complete. The proof is: There are no criminal charges for the housing bust and financial meltdown of 2008. Starting with Reagan in the 1980s, as of today the Right has won their decades-long overthrow for complete control of America. An elite corps of w ...

Destructionist

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

    PS - Inter Press Services

  • New Initiative to Combat Toxic Threats
    Reducing the risks associated with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats is the goal of a new multi-country initiative known as the Centres of Excellence (CoE). The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), representatives of the European ...
  • Haiti’s “Gold Rush” Promises ...
    Twenty billion dollars worth of gold, copper and silver hidden in the hills of the hemisphere’s poorest country. Investors in North America so convinced of the buried treasure, they have already spent 30 million dollars collecting samples, digging, building mining roads and doing aerial su ...
  • Genetic Research Gives a Ray of Hope in Guatemala
    Cases like that of a little boy with an undetected metabolic disorder whose parents sold everything they owned to cover the costs of medical treatment that was ineffective prompted a doctor to create a vanguard institute of human genetics in Guatemala. “A couple from a rural village, who longed ...
  • Success of Remedial Education in DRC
    The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is enjoying success with the remedial education centres set up to give children from underprivileged backgrounds a free education and vocational training. Evodie is one of the 20,000 children at remedial education centres – known as CRS – who pa ...
  • Conflict Heats Up in the Sahara
    “We’ve been building a lot of new walls lately,” says Polisario Front commander Ahmed Salem as he drives his 4 X 4 across Tindouf in Western Algeria. But the newly introduced security measures may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Western Sahrawis. Salem Ahmed drives along ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • June 28 London Public Meeting: Syria and Iran ...
    Summary: Public Meeting Thursday 28 June 6.30pm Syria and Iran - No Western Intervention Room G3 SOAS Thornhaugh Street Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG   Speakers: • Jeremy Corbyn MP • Abbas Edalat Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran • Sami Ramadani Iraq D ...
  • Sat 30 June 1pm Don't Iraq Iran: Protest outsi ...
    Summary: Student Stop the War Coalition Don't Iraq Iran - No to NATO Protest outside the National Gallery Saturday 30 June 1pm Trafalgar Square, Upper Concourse source: Stop Warread more
  • U.S. in Iran Cyber War
    Summary: A series of revelations suggest that the U.S. and Israel are engaged in a cyber war with Iran. If true, any hope of progress in talks over Iran’s nuclear program could be jeopardized. source: The Diplomatread more
  • Iran's So-Called Intransigence
    Summary: Here's an interesting scenario: Suppose that in the most recent round of negotiations, in Moscow, America and its negotiating partners had said to Iran essentially what Hillary Clinton said: Yes, we can in principle recognize an Iranian right to enrich uranium for peaceful use (which ...
  • Obama’s October Surprise: Largest War Games in ...
    Summary: Israel’s daily Maariv reported yesterday that the long delayed war games between U.S. and Israeli forces will take place in October. It noted that some commentators are calling it a “dress rehearsal” for the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iran. IDF sources quoted in the article ca ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Unique Object in Collision Course with Milky W ...
    In 2011, astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating fast towards the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This was the first time ever...
  • NASA Tweaks Flight Path of Mars Science Lab -- ...
    On Tuesday, NASA adjusted the flight path of Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft on for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target at Gale Crater.The car-size, one-ton rover is bound for arrival the evening of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (early...
  • Giant Arc of Light --A Mystery Observed Behind ...
    Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away. The galactic grouping, discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, was observed as it existed when...
  • "Look North of the Big Dipper": A Tiny Field o ...
    For over a decade astronomers have been probing a region of the northern sky, not far from the handle of the Big Dipper, that is relatively free of bright stars and the diffuse glow of the Milky Way. The scientists...
  • SETICON 2 & Beyond --"Mankind Will Make Contac ...
    SETICon 2 conference ran this past weekend in Santa Clara, California to share ideas on what has been discovered of late regarding the possibility of life on other planets and what might lie ahead.Much of the discussion was focused on...

Natural News

  • Where are all the dead bodies from swine flu? ...
    Until a couple of days ago, the CDC had claimed that the swine flu pandemic of 2009 killed roughly 18,500 people. That's been the "official" number for the last three years. But suddenly, in a burst of revisionist inspiration, the CDC has retroactive altered medical...
  • Afraid of whistleblowers, TSA acquiring techno ...
    What does it say when an agency is so afraid of what its own employees might say, that it is willing to invest in technology to spy on them to prevent (or, at a minimum, identify) whistleblowers? In this day and age, the Leviathan seems unwilling to stop at anything...
  • Blaming China for mercury pollution is not sol ...
    Eighty-seven percent of all mercury falling on the United States comes from outside the country. Two thirds of worldwide mercury contamination comes from industrial pollution from Asia as mercury in the air settles into lakes, streams, and oceans. There is a global reservoir...
  • China bypasses Big Pharma patents, authorizes ...
    The Chinese government has officially amended its patent laws to allow drug companies to reproduce generic, low-cost versions of expensive, patented drugs, a daring move that is sure to shake up the pharmaceutical industry. According to Reuters Health, information posted...
  • Why NOT to give your doctor an anti-vaccine li ...
    Every so often, information circulates around the alternative vaccine community recommending that parents ask their child's pediatrician to sign a liability form. Typically, these forms list vaccine ingredients and ask the doctor to assume liability for any adverse events...

Threat Level

  • Mobile Carriers Gladly Give Your Data to the C ...
    The nation's major mobile carriers have amassed a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers that they share with police and advertisers -- but keep hidden from the consumers themselves.
  • Feds Arrest 24 in Global Carding Ring Bust
    Two dozen people were arrested around the globe on Tuesday in what authorities are calling a “breathtaking spectrum of cyber schemes and scams” that involved buying and selling bank card details, stolen identities, counterfeit documents, and sophisticated hacking tools on an FBI unde ...
  • Double-Protected Bank Clients Tricked by $78M ...
    It used to be that a password was enough to keep your online bank account relatively safe. Then you needed a second factor -- a text message or a one-time PIN, say -- to be sure thieves weren't breaking into your account. Now, even this so-called "two-factor" authentication has been broken, than ...
  • Uncle Sam Wants You! … to Combat Online Piracy
    The Obama administration is apparently out of ideas on how to protect Big Content from online piracy. So now it's asking for your help.
  • Kim Dotcom Taunts U.S. Law Enforcement via Twitter
    Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is taking his public-relations campaign to Twitter, where he's busy poking fun at the U.S. effort to try him for criminal copyright infringement.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Goal: Kill Health Care Reform and a Lastin ...
    Despite the overwhelming consensus of legal scholars regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down all or part of President Obama's signature health care reform law. If so, that would be the culmination of a decades-long ...
  • The Young and the Reckless
    Admittedly, the young Barack Obama was a pothead and tried cocaine. Apparently, the young Mitt Romney was a bully who liked to pretend to be a cop, a firefighter and a gangster. But whether or not early Obama dabbled in dope or Romney was, well, a douchebag, doesn't really matter. Or, at leas ...
  • The Mandates We Love
    As the Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of the 2010 Affordable Care, recent polling from Reuters and the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that Americans support its major provisions except for one. The individual mandate to purchase private health insurance beginning in 2014, the part of ...
  • Romney "Sick at Heart" Over Bain Job Losses
    Back in 2007, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney declared that taking a big payment from a company that later failed "would make me sick, sick at heart." If so, Romney by now must be badly in need of a quadruple by-pass. Because as the New York Times became just the latest to report, t ...
  • Mitt Romney's Golden Showers
    "It is more blessed," Jesus said, "to give than to receive." That may be, but the billionaire backers of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and Super PAC plan to do both. As they gather this weekend for a three-day Romney conclave in Park City, Utah and a secret Koch brothers summit in San Di ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Plant More Wind Power with GreenerGreenGrass ( ...
      It’s been awhile since we wrote about a Click it for Good! campaign. But there’s a new one going that could use all the clicks you can give it. You can go straight to the post to get clicking. It is: Share this link for free wind power – compliments of GreenerGreenGrass. But j ...
  • Panguite, New Mineral Discovered In Meteorite
    The Allende meteorite that exploded over the skies of Mexico in 1969 is the source of a newly discovered mineral, panguite. More than 40 years after crashing to Earth this meteorite is still a spring of information, a previously unknown mineral embedded in it was recently identified by scientist ...
  • Gene Analysis Reveals Up to 79 New Species of ...
      Many species of shark and ray have taken major hits from human over-hunting (e.g., “finning” and sport-killing) as well as marine environment changes brought about by climate change impacts (e.g., the collapse of many smaller fish species). Understanding how these creatures li ...
  • Condors Are Being Driven To Extinction By Lead ...
      New research from environmental toxicologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that California condors are exposed to harmful levels of lead regularly. The main source of this being from ingesting lead ammunition. This continual exposure to lead is preventing the condor& ...
  • Rinehart, The Age, and the End of Australian J ...
      What could arguably be labeled the most reliable and intellectual newspaper in Australia is having its future journalistic integrity threatened by a mining magnate who believes that in exchange for her financial help, she should not only receive director positions on the board as well as ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • A Monument to Anti-Women Hate, Murder and Terr ...
    By @KYYellowDog Not a metaphorical monument; an actual, physical, concrete celebration of their horrible cult of death And they plan to build it in the very place where one of their pet terrorists assassinated a genuine hero of the Right of Every Woman to Life. Stan Finger at The Wichita Eagle: ...
  • So we're all in agreement that it's real then?
    By @BGinKC There is no doubt in any sane and reasonable person's mind that Global Warming is real and is happening, right now. It's still June and Kansas City is in the grip of August-type weather. We have already had a couple of hundred-degree days, and there is no relief in sight. In the last ...
  • Good news that was five years in the making
    By @BGinKC For my entire adult life I have been telling people who are either leaving the armed forces or have already separated and are looking for a new career to stay the hell away from any and all for-profit peddlers of "education." They have been preying on veterans and lusting after their ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Jacob's La ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by MarkWillsMusic on Sep 19, 2010
  • Repugs Playing PAC Hardball in Kentucky
    By @KYYellowDog Mitt Romney is shamelessly coordinating his campaign with Super-PAC master Karl Rove and dems don't make a peep, but let a dem PAC use old campaign footage, and the repugs are in court charging high crimes and misdemeanors. Jack Brammer at the Herald: A Lexington attorney has fil ...

Care 2

  • Log Cabins An Eco-Friendly Investment for Eve ...
    The most ideal and inexpensive way to extend your living space is to invest in an outdoor garden cabin. Making permanent renovations to your physical home can be incredibly costly and there are far cheaper options available to maximise your storage space Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle ...
  • Water Droughts & Extortionate Prices Drill a ...
    This year has been very changeable across the UK in terms of water availability through droughts and in terms of the prices for metered water. Water bills within some industries are now twice as expensive as electricity and are leading to companies Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...
  • Federal Appeals Courts Gives Landmark Decision ...
    On Tuesday a federal appeals court gave a landmark decision upholding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) global warming rules the rules are the first regulations that are geared towards reducing gases that cause global warming. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &n ...
  • LED Bulbs Better To Refit Now Or Wait?
    Its definitely a no-brainer to say that you should replace your incandescent bulbs with LEDs once they burn out, but should you do it sooner that that? There are a lot of factors that need to be considered before you decide whether to fit your home with Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle & ...
  • The 5 Best Forests in England
    England is well known for its rolling countryside and beautiful landscapes. But perhaps not enough credit is given to its amazing woodland and forests. Here we run through the top 5 forests in England, and why each one is so special. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |&nb ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Voter Suppression: Is It Just Political? + Hum ...
    I bet you can grasp this complex debate over supposed voter suppression. Yes, that’s the same “theory” that Nancy Pelosi (snort!) is exploiting to explain why Darrell Issa is going after Attorney General Eric Holder. Via Erin Burnett’s Outfront on CNN, “Voter ID Law ...
  • Democrats & Obama are spending more than they ...
    Ahhhhhhh. Doesn’t this make you sad? I’m all choked up. It’s embarrassing they’ve had to move to a cheaper venue for their national convention. The video from today’s Special Report With Bret Baier tells more of the story: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ...
  • Obama’s best shot — probably his only shot
    In 2008, millions of white Americans felt great pride in voting for the first-ever black president. But there’s a problem. The President has turned out to be a poor executive, ignorant about the complexities of economics, bored by meetings and briefings, and exhibiting a strong preference ...
  • [With Two Updates] Breaking: GOP senators issu ...
    UPDATES below: (1) A new directive from James Clapper, head intel honcho. “Clapper’s order applies to 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency. …” and (2) Hokma quoted Pat Caddell‘s allegatiion that the lea ...
  • Wars, Politics, and so on…
    I’ve been watching “The Revolution,” on Netflix streaming the past week or two. Originally aired in 2006 on The History Channel, it’s a fascinating and deep telling of the events leading to the founding of the United States of America. Rather appropriate brain food as we approach another anniver ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountain Hero Gets Help from Author Wendell Be ...
    Mountain Hero Gets Help from Author Wendell Berry unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Bill Will Protect Communities, Families From Mountaintop Removal ... Big news today in our fight to end destructive mountaintop removal mining: 13 ...
  • “Don't drink the water” - San Francisco Chroni ...
    San Francisco Chronicle (blog) “Don't drink the water” San Francisco Chronicle (blog) In all of Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining has already damaged or ... But the violence of mountaintop-removal mining — blasting and bulldozing, air and ...
  • House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal Mines WVNS-TV A new bill aiming to put a moratorium mountaintop removal coal mining was introduced until further health study can be conducted. New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaintop Removal Perm ...
  • New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaint ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaintop Removal Permits Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) There is good news today in the fight to to protect Appalachian communities from the health effects of mountaintop removal mining. Yesterday Reps ...
  • Bill would require federal mountaintop removal ...
    Bill would require federal mountaintop removal health study Charleston Gazette New or expanded mountaintop removal permits would be blocked until the federal government concludes the mining technique is not contributing to increased ... Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Act Introduced in CongressAl ...

Memeorandum

  • Laffer Curve - This panel explores the extent ...
    Experts Panel / IGM Forum: Laffer Curve  —  This panel explores the extent to which economists agree or disagree on major public policy issues.  To assess such beliefs we assembled this panel of expert economists.  Statistics teaches that a sample of (say) 40 opinions ...
  • Holder in peril as Dems break ranks on contemp ...
    Fox News: Holder in peril as Dems break ranks on contempt resolution  —  June 26, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while speaking at a civil rights symposium in Boston.AP  —  The congressional contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder is looki ...
  • Day 5 of Waldo Canyon Fire evacuation: Blaze e ...
    Michelle Malkin: Day 5 of Waldo Canyon Fire evacuation: Blaze engulfs homes/historic ranch; 32k total evacuated; more dangerous winds, heat ahead  —  Twitter panorama photo from last night via @megzenger  —  Via Matt Meister, StormTracker 13, from the front lines ...
  • Minnesota For Marriage Spokesman Claims Death ...
    Joe / Joe. My. God.: Minnesota For Marriage Spokesman Claims Death Threat To Gays Was A Hack  —  Earlier today I posted the Minnesota For Marriage Facebook thread which opened with the the Leviticus command to murder homosexuals.  Two hours ago the group posted this message:
  • Colorado wildfires: C-130 air tankers called i ...
    Tim Hoover / Denver Post: Colorado wildfires: C-130 air tankers called in for “surge capability”  —  The battle to contain devastating wildfires across Colorado reached a new and more aggressive stage Monday as C-130 military tankers joined the fight to bombard the W ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Flores region, Indonesia
    Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:56:55 UTC Wednesday, June 27, 2012 08:56:55 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.30 km (5.78 mi)
  • M 5.1, Volcano Islands, Japan region
    Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:30:01 UTC Wednesday, June 27, 2012 09:30:01 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.60 km (6.59 mi)
  • M 5.7, El Salvador
    Wednesday, June 27, 2012 06:31:03 UTC Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:31:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 160.50 km (99.73 mi)
  • M 5.3, Guatemala
    Tuesday, June 26, 2012 17:19:06 UTC Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:19:06 AM at epicenterDepth: 181.40 km (112.72 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
    Tuesday, June 26, 2012 14:17:40 UTC Wednesday, June 27, 2012 03:17:40 AM at epicenterDepth: 159.90 km (99.36 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Korea at the green-growth crossroads
    A political turning point for South Korea raises a number of important questions about Seoul’s sustainable development strategy, writes HSBC climate-change strategist Wai-Shin Chan.South Korea emerged from national parliamentary elections in April with the ruling Saenuri party holding a ...
  • “Don’t write off cap-and-trade”
    It’s time to stop the hand-wringing over carbon markets, writes Robert Stavins. Low permit prices in Europe and America point to changing circumstances and fixable flaws  – not the failure of an idea.Various journalists and advocates have, of late, described America’s ...
  • After Rio, a new consensus
    The text agreed in Brazil may be a compromise, says Ma Jun, but it shows the world is a fairer place than 20 years ago. On the summit sidelines, the campaigner spoke to Xu Nan about global politics, supply chains and China's shifting role.Ma Jun is founder of the Institute of Public and Environm ...
  • The hard climb continues
    Most observers have been disappointed by Rio+20 and rightly so. But the conference has kept the door open for some constructive work – in mountain conservation, for instance, writes Joydeep Gupta.The politics of Rio+20 – as in similar global conferences – has worked at two leve ...
  • Pale shade for the green economy
    One of the most hotly debated concepts in the approach to Rio has been watered down in the summit’s draft declaration to a point where it means almost nothing. Joydeep Gupta reports.“Green economy” has been the buzz-phrase in national and international development circles for q ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Mobile Carriers Gladly Give Your Data to the C ...
    The nation's major mobile carriers have amassed a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers that they share with police and advertisers -- but keep hidden from the consumers themselves.
  • Feds Arrest 24 in Global Carding Ring Bust
    Two dozen people were arrested around the globe on Tuesday in what authorities are calling a “breathtaking spectrum of cyber schemes and scams” that involved buying and selling bank card details, stolen identities, counterfeit documents, and sophisticated hacking tools on an FBI unde ...
  • Double-Protected Bank Clients Tricked by $78M ...
    It used to be that a password was enough to keep your online bank account relatively safe. Then you needed a second factor -- a text message or a one-time PIN, say -- to be sure thieves weren't breaking into your account. Now, even this so-called "two-factor" authentication has been broken, than ...
  • Uncle Sam Wants You! … to Combat Online Piracy
    The Obama administration is apparently out of ideas on how to protect Big Content from online piracy. So now it's asking for your help.
  • Kim Dotcom Taunts U.S. Law Enforcement via Twitter
    Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is taking his public-relations campaign to Twitter, where he's busy poking fun at the U.S. effort to try him for criminal copyright infringement.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Escapes for Clark College Lab
    KOIN TV Sally Showman reported on a very interesting way of contracting Salmonella. A teenager was sickened by a strain of Salmonella that originated inside a Clark College microbiology lab earlier this month.  "We believe the child could have been infected one of two ways," Catherine Kro ...
  • Pink Slime Lawsuit Press Conference (and book ...
    According to KTIV this morning: We'll have to wait a while longer to learn the details of a lawsuit being filed by a former employee of Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Incorporated. Bruce Smith has postponed a news conference he had scheduled for this afternoon at company headquarters. No expl ...
  • CDC: "chicks, ducklings, and other live baby ...
    According to the CDC, epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback findings have linked this outbreak of human Salmonella infections to contact with chicks, ducklings, and other live baby poultry from Estes Hatchery in Springfield, Missouri. A total of 66 persons infected with the outbreak strai ...
  • Pink Slime Headed to Court?
    According to KTIV TV, a "former BPI employee will file a civil lawsuit following the controversy surrounding lean, finely textured beef -- or LFTB" (a.k.a. Pink Slime).  "[T]he civil suit he'll file against a 'national news broadcasting company,' and other individuals involved."  Here ...
  • Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak: 146 Sickened wit ...
    CNN’s Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin did a great job of telling the back-story on the deadliest foodborne illnesses outbreak in the US in 100 years.

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • FRIDAY: Amy Goodman on HBO's Real Time with Bi ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, June 29th at 10 pm ET.
  • Democracy Now! Live Coverage of U.S. Supreme C ...
    Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman will host a live one-hour broadcast on Thursday morning, June 28, covering the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Guests will include health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter, Georgetown Un ...
  • Wanna Buy An Election? Mother Jones Expose on ...
    Part two of our conversation with Monika Bauerlein and Andy Kroll of Mothers Jones magazine. The new cover story in the magazine is called "Follow the Dark Money." We discuss at how Karl Rove, Sheldon Adelson and others are bankrolling Mitt Romney’s campaign, why President Obama ...
  • A Movement Built By Dreamers
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Undocumented immigrants in the United States number around 12 million people, a group larger than the populations of most countries on the planet. Among those are as many as 800,000 young people who are now most likely eligible for limited legal status, tha ...
  • VIDEO: Police Detained Ramarley Graham's Grand ...
    Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after New York police officers raided his home without a warrant and shot him dead. He was unarmed. Ramarley’s grandmother and his six-year-old brother were home at the time of the shooting. The police detained the grandmother for hours aft ...

Suzie-Q

  • Arizona Immigration Law Ruling: Supreme Court ...
    HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/25/2012 10:19 am Updated: 06/25/2012  2:52 pm WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a split decision in the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s aggressive immigration law, striking multiple provisions but upholding the & ...
  • Companies’ Ills Did Not Harm Romney’s Firm
    New York Times By MICHAEL LUO and JULIE CRESWELL Published: June 22, 2012 Cambridge Industries, an automotive plastics supplier whose losses had been building for three consecutive years, finally filed for bankruptcy in May 2000 under a mountain of debt that had ballooned to more than $300 milli ...
  • Romney’s Bain Capital Invested In Companies Th ...
    Washington Post By Tom Hamburger, Thursday, June 21, 7:53 PM Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. During the nearly 15 years that Rom ...
  • Romney Campaign Said to Ask Scott to Downplay ...
    Bloomberg By Michael C. Bender -  Jun 21, 2012 1:46 PM MT Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffer ...
  • Follow the Dark Money
    The down and dirty history of secret spending, PACs gone wild, and the epic four-decade fight over the only kind of political capital that matters. Mother Jones  —By Andy Kroll | July/August 2012 Issue “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can& ...

Solari

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    Photo: James Duncan Davidson Source: TED In pictures, quotes and more. As the world becomes interconnected, the ways we relate and learn about one another (and the rules about what we share) are changing. That’s the inspiration for TEDGlobal 2012: Radical Openness, happening now in Edinbu ...
  • Iceland De-zombifies-While Americans Fork Over ...
    By Dave Gonigam Hooray for Iceland. The nation has effectively purged an entire class of zombies. Late on Friday, the Icelandic government repaid $483.7 million in loans to the International Monetary Fund. Ahead of schedule. On top of another early payment totaling $900 million in March. “Icelan ...
  • Pentagon Lists 110 Potential Drone Bases in U.S.
    [click on the image for a larger version By Steven Aftergood The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones.  Continue reading the article . . . Solari Report Blog Commentaries
  • The World at War, $20 at a Time
    by Catherine Austin Fitts In April, I dropped into the Verizon Store in Corte Madera, California. I was headed to Portugal. My iPhone did not work globally. On my last few trips to Europe, Verizon had sent me a temporary global phone which needed to be returned. Getting my reception switched and ...
  • Rappoport on the Election
    The people of the United States are, as usual, being whipsawed between two ridiculous alternatives.  Every four years, this happens by design.  Stir up the hatreds and the rancor, make it appear that a new face is the answer, pin hope on Hope, vote for a better day, pick a leader who will take u ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Run from the rising waves! (The latest climate ...
    Summary:  The past month has brought forth a sudden burst of studies using models to forecast an acceleration in rising sea levels, accompanied by alarmist new stories.  Here we review them, seeking the common element. There has long been an odd pattern to climate science articles and news, appe ...
  • Run from the rising waves! (The latest climate ...
    Summary:  The past month has brought forth a sudden burst of studies using models to forecast an acceleration in rising sea levels, accompanied by alarmist new stories.  Here we review them, seeking the common element. There has long been an odd pattern to climate science articles and news, appe ...
  • A look back at the madness that led us into ou ...
    Summary: Now that we’re extricating ourselves from the first two nations we occupied in the War On Terror, with no gains to offset the cost in money and blood, let’s re-examine the advice that led us into those holes.  Like the memos planning the Vietnam War, after the war they&#8217 ...
  • A look back at the madness that led us into ou ...
    Summary: Now that we’re extricating ourselves from the first two nations we occupied in the War On Terror, with no gains to offset the cost in money and blood, let’s re-examine the advice that led us into those holes.  Like the memos planning the Vietnam War, after the war they&#8217 ...
  • Slowly more people see the “quiet coup&# ...
    Summary: Slowly the quite coup in motion becomes visible to Americans. One by one. Unfortunately we’re still early in the problem recognition stage, while the coup advances rapidly. Here are three articles, milestones along the road away from the Second Republic to our new political regime ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Re-Writing History - The Afghan Surge Version
    I've been meaning for some time to read and write a bit about Rajiv Chandrasekaran's new book on Afghanistan, but deadlines, work and the raising of a 6-month old daughter tends to get in the way. Still I've been struck by the popular reaction to the book, which appears to be an updated versio ...
  • Washington’s Chronic Threat Inflation
    In the March/April print edition of Foreign Affairs, Michael Cohen and I coauthored an essay challenging the prevailing rhetoric of Washington-centric threat inflation, “Clear and Present Safety: The United States Is More Secure than Washington Thinks.” We argue that the world today is one with ...
  • South Asia's New Regional Realities
    US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta urged New Delhi to adopt a “more active role” in Afghanistan as NATO troops prepare to withdraw and championed an expansion of the US-India defense and security partnership. Speaking in the Indian capital during a visit there earlier this month, ...
  • Top of the Morning: Epic Drought in the Koreas ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Security Council to Release Report Accusing Rwanda of Fueling DRC Rebellion There’s been much drama over whether or not the Security Council would release the secret annex to a report that all but accuses the Rwandan government of supporting mutineers in the army of ...
  • Turkey's Prudent Management Ends Syria Crisis
    Four days after Syria’s downing of a Turkish F-4 fighter aircraft, the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan brought the crisis to a close by securing NATO support, reporting its views to the UN Security Council, complaining formally to Damascus, and altering the rules of engag ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Medicare is Not Your Savior
    Vermont Representative Peter Welch says that, if the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act, Democrats should begin to push for universal Medicare: “If the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare, we have to have a substantive policy and political response — in my view, that’s Medicare f ...
  • On the Word "Faggot"
    (Flickr/Lisa Monster) Rabble-rouser and sex columnist Dan Savage has a corner of the gay blogosphere clutching its pearls over his use of the word "faggot" to describe members of GOProud, the gay Republican group that endorsed Mitt Romney last week: The GOP's house faggots grab their a ...
  • Yes, America, Global Warming Does Exist
    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four,” Winston Smith, the hero of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four, writes in his secret journal. “If that is granted, all else follows.” Or to paraphrase for the modern era, “EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom ever ...
  • Why Windows 8 Might Force Microsoft into the L ...
    Farhad Manjoo has a great column on the pitiful performance of PC trackpads: I switched to Apple notebooks more than five years ago, and I did so precisely because of things like the trackpad. I’ve searched high and low for a Windows notebook with a touchpad that comes close to the buttery blis ...
  • Not Everyone Can Be a Radical
    While Anne-Marie Slaughter was blowing away the work-life crowd last week, David Blankenhorn, in The New York Times, dropped a similar thought bomb on the LGBT world, coming out in favor—kinda sorta—of legal recognition for same-sex couples. David Blankenhorn, founder of the socially conservati ...

Buzzflash

  • Barclays Execs Get No Criminal Charges for Int ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Okay, so the Associated Press (AP) just reported that "Barclays and its subsidiaries have agreed to pay more than $450 million to settle charges that it tried to manipulate key global interest rates." That might seem like a lot of money, but remember ...
  • Truthout Revealed That at Least Some Bush Admi ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT BuzzFlash at Truthout has recently run two commentaries on the failure of the Bush administration to prevent 9/11 (based on recently declassified documents) and his inexplicable prolonged elementary school visit, even after being informed of both of t ...
  • The Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court, and He ...
    MARK VORPAHL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Any day the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most at risk is this act's "individual mandate" which requires everyone to buy health insurance from a private insurer or face a steep fine. If the ...
  • The Facts Make It Clear: Public Workers and Un ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The wealthiest Americans have a long-held delusion, passed along through their media outlets to the rest of us, that they pick up the bill for most of our country's needs, and that middle-class public workers and unions benefit from their generosity. But f ...
  • Catholic League’s William Donohue’s Rage Again ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let's start with the now immortal words of United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who during a February 2002 press briefing tried to explain the absence of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Time to rebuild the Periodic Table electronically
    Back in the 20th century, around the time quantum physics was emerging, Niels Bohr tried to explain the pattern of elements that make up the Periodic Table based on the order in which each atom’s “shells” fill with electrons. Unfortunately, the theoretical filling order governe ...
  • Giving birth in an MRI machine
    It’s unlikely to be a comfortable place to deliver a baby, but now a video documents the first birth in an MRI machine. Christian Bamberg and a team from Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, announced the world first in December 2010, but the movie has only recently been release ...
  • Michael McIntyre’s three ways to save the planet
    Michael McIntyre and Steven Murphy of Carleton University and Bernard Funston of Northern Canada Consulting in Ottawa, and Canada, suggest that the resources required to sustain human life are being degraded perhaps to the point of no return. They suggest that now is the time for collective acti ...
  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...
  • Size does matter for wind turbines
    Earlier today there were concerns aired regarding harm to eagles and other birds caused by rotating wind turbine blades. However, a new study in the journal ES&T suggests that bigger wind turbines are “greener” in terms of materials used and the electricity generated. So, if the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • EPA Challenged Over Failure to Implement Clean ...
    Public-interest groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to fully implement new air-quality standards for lead, required under the Clean Air Act. The EPA revised 30-year-old air standards for lead in 2008, lowering allowable airborne lead ...
  • Congressional Democrats Escalate Criticism of ...
    The combination of unprecedented secrecy during three years of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement negotiations and recent leaks of TPP chaptersrevealing that U.S. negotiators have approved extreme, troubling terms has sparked a veritable tsunami of congressional critic ...
  • Bahrain: Police Attack Peaceful Protest
    Bahraini authorities should immediately end the use of security forces to unlawfully attack peaceful protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Riot police used teargas and sound bombs to disperse a demonstration on June 22, 2012, called by Al-Wefaq, Bahrain’s largest opposition group. re ...
  • Cambodia: Release of 13 Women a Victory for Th ...
    Today’s decision by Cambodia’s Appeal Court to release 13 women imprisoned for peacefully protesting against a forced eviction is a victory for their community, but their convictions must now be overturned, Amnesty International said. On 24 May, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenc ...
  • Latino Students Hit Hard by Doubling Student L ...
    As student loan interest rates are set to double in 4 days for 7.5 million students, college leaders of Hispanic Serving Institutions are urging the US Senate to take swift action to freeze the low rate on subsidized Stafford student loans. On July 1, if Congress does nothing, the interest rate ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Real UVA Story: The 99 Percent Win
    Valerie Strauss In the end, it wasn't really so much about the ousted and then reinstated University of Virginia president, Teresa Sullivan, or about the governing board leader, Helen Dragas, who had led a secret campaign against her an ...
  • Who is Bankrolling the Fight Against "Obamacare?"
    Brendan Fischer The lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB), is a highly partisan front group masquerading as the "na ...
  • Rio+20 Ends in Failure, Corporate Capture
    Pratap Chatterjee The United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil concluded this past weekend with no new government pledges. On the other hand, multinationals scored a public relations victory by claiming that the ...
  • The Failure of Rio+20 is a Wake-Up Call for Pe ...
    Adam Parsons Almost a week since the Rio+20 Earth Summit ended, civil society is coming to terms with the ‘epic failure' of global leaders to agree meaningful action for addressing the worsening planetary and social crises.read more
  • Old Monopoly Tricks in the New Media Age
    Tim Karr Welcome to the Comcast Age.(Free Press/Flickr) No, that's not a new corporate slogan, but the future facing Internet users everywhere. Cable giants like Comcast and Time Warner have come to dominate information access in the Un ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Why Romney Couldn’t Convince The Washing ...
    The Mitt Romney campaign met with editors of the Washington Post today in an attempt to get the paper to retract a story about how the private equity firm Bain Capital helped outsource jobs when Romney was its CEO. Initially, the campaign merely admonished the Post for not distinguishing between ...
  • Federal Judge: Counseling Student Has No Right ...
    A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that Jennifer Keeton’s constitutional rights were not violated when Augusta State University expelled her from its counseling program for her unwillingness to abide by its professional ethics. Keeton insisted that homosexuality is an “immoral pers ...
  • Thinking Big: NREL Study Shows 80 Percent Rene ...
    by Adam James and Bracken Hendricks Americans have always prided themselves on thinking big. When it comes to energy, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has given big-thinkers everywhere a shot in the arm with a new study that concludes: “Renewable energy sources, accessed with commerciall ...
  • Judge Allows Florida Voter Purge To Move Forwa ...
    Federal Judge Robert Hinkle rejected the Justice Department’s request for a temporary order suspending Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) effort to purge tens of thousands of names from his state’s voter roles. According to the AP, Judge Hinkle relied on highly questionable reasonin ...
  • REPORT: How The Earned Income Tax Credit Boost ...
    Our guest blogger is Seth Hanlon, Director of Fiscal Reform at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. A House subcommittee held a hearing today titled “How Welfare and Tax Benefits Can Discourage Work.” The clear subtext of the hearing is that negative work incentives can justify cuts to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Two Books
    In light of my busy schedule and my sense of ennui today, I thought I'd just provide links to two books that I'm currently reading. The first book is Edward Dolnick's The Clockwork Universe about the intellectual history leading up to Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. It's very brisk, almost li ...
  • Joe Oliver gets interrupted and FUCK HIM
    And Dan Gardner and other twits stand up for him. Gardner, pull your head out of your ass. Either the harpercons are a threat to democracy, either they are contemptuous of Parliament, either they are fraudsters, or they are not. And if they are undemocratic thugs, then they should be forced to s ...
  • Constitutional Insurgency
    I wrote about this concept once before. I think it holds true more today. harper has launched an all-out assault on our system of government. he disregarded the majority in Parliament. he stole his majority through election fraud. he now uses his fraudulent majority to ram through his corrupt, u ...
  • Crumbs II
    So, yesterday, when I posted about how neo-liberals will appeal to progressives by incorporating feminist, pro-GLBT or anti-racist policies into their grab-bag of electoral platforms (so long as they don't really cost anything), CounterPunch.org posted an essay by Mike Whitney on the very same t ...
  • Crumbs
    This might not be a popular post. I don't want to come off all Marxist here and privilege economic oppression as the worst and most important form of oppression. I think what I want to do is warn people that capitalism, which is impoverishing the world and destroying the planet, can and will gra ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Vancouver hockey coach arrested for tripping t ...
    A youth hockey coach in Vancouver has been arrested after he was accused of tripping a member of the opposing team during the end-of-game handshake routine. The 13-year-old player broke his wrist.
  • Titan Salvage says Costa Concordia removal don ...
    The American marine salvage company that is working to refloat the Costa Concordia, says work is going well. Initial reports suggested the boat would be gone by the spring of 2013, but Titan Salvage said it will be earlier.
  • Reds' Aroldis Chapman told to smarten up after ...
    After breaking through one of the most difficult stretches in his young career, Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman celebrated his 9th save of the season in bizarre fashion on Tuesday night.
  • Ontario bar owners face manslaughter charges a ...
    After a four-month investigation, two Belleville, Ontario bar owners face manslaughter charges after a horrific crash on Highway 401 claimed the lives of two women.
  • Conrad Black: United States 'terribly corrupt, ...
    The story of Conrad Moffat Black is both compelling and complex. Since being released, Black made his second public appearance and speaking engagement Tuesday evening at the Toronto Reference Library where he touched upon a variety of topics.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • CSIS destroyed thousands of secret files
    The vast majority of the secret files collected on Canadians by the RCMP Security Service were destroyed by its successor agency, CSIS, in 1988.
  • F-35 probe survives Tory tactics
    An NDP filibuster has saved the House of Commons committee investigation into the F-35 procurement process, at least temporarily.
  • Blue helmets cast aside, Canada keeps the peac ...
    “The need is greater than ever but Canada’s contribution has never been lower,” said Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, an Ottawa research and advocacy group. “The Harper government doesn’t regard peacekeeping as a route to enhancing Canada’s international stature.”
  • Report on FWSAR procurement
    A new report calls on the government to replace the Canadian Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) fleet in a timely and objective manner and proposes that a number of made-in-Canada aircraft be considered to fulfill Canada’s search and rescue requirements.
  • Arms Trade Treaty talks begin next month
    Negotiations on a multilateral Arms Trade Treaty are scheduled to take place from July 2nd to the 27th in New York.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Mysterious Clintonville Booms Caught On Tape
    March 30, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson “Something really weird is happening in Clintonville. The authorities say they are mini-earthquakes. But everyone knows there is no way that explanation is correct.” –KTRN An audio engineer has captured on tape the sound of one ...
  • United Nations Soft-Kill Depopulation Agenda E ...
    March 30, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joesph Watson “Click the link the below to watch the video exposing the truth about depopulation.” –KTRN Eugenics expert Jurriaan Maessen talks to Paul Joseph Watson about the population control agenda. Click here for the interview and video ...
  • Money is Not Needed with Energy Abundance
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Amaterasu Solar In order to understand the very basis of money, it is best to contemplate how it developed in the first place. Once society developed past the clan stage, when barter, trade and so forth arose, it became the practice to place value on the products ...
  • TSA Continues To Expand Operations Outside Of ...
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “If you don’t think the TSA is out of control yet, read this article.” –KTRN Through so-called VIPR teams, meaning Visual Intermodal Protection and Response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a child agency o ...
  • Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
    March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve audit approved by H ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   One of Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) lifelong policy goals is on the brink of becoming a reality. In a nearly unanimous voice vote on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee approved a bill that would re ...
  • Whistleblower Reveals Plan To Evacuate London ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com200,000 casket linings on standby says undercover journalist who infiltrated security team Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, June 27, 2012 An undercover journalist going by the pseudonym ‘Lee Hazledea ...
  • Corporate Media Poisons the Well
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Kim Petersen In northeastern “British Columbia,” a blockade was held by a dozen Tla’amin First Nation members at the reserve’s voting station over conc ...
  • Study: ‘Stand your ground’ laws result in an a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A working paper (PDF) released this week with the National Bureau of Economics Research found that states that have passed controversial “Stand Your Ground” laws, such as the one George Zimme ...
  • U.S. Army Admits Troops Conducting Law Enforce ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comYet it continues to happen across the country on a routine basis Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, June 27, 2012 As military vehicles roll down streets and highways in St. Louis, Missouri amidst rising conc ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Five Years for Dandelion Salad … So Time ...
    by Lo Editor Dandelion Salad June 27, 2012 Well, it’s been 5 years now on Dandelion Salad and most of my regular readers are well informed of the death and destruction running amok in the world, so I’m going to change the focus of the blog. First, I’d like to thank all of you, ...
  • The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky and Tari ...
    Dandelion Salad Jun 26, 2012 by RussiaToday A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange ...
  • Gareth Porter: Economic War Against Iran Conti ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 26, 2012 Jun 25, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: US continues to insist Iran gives up all nuclear enrichment and offers no concessions on sanctions Economic War Against Iran Continues; Still No Evidence of a Weapons Gareth Porter is an i ...
  • Michael Parenti: Lesser of Two Evils?
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org June 25, 2012 by AkashaTempleRadio Progress Toward Democracy Blog Talk Radio Brian Stetten and Ruthann Amarteifio, looking for Democracy! Michael Parenti, www.michaelparenti.org, author of 23 books, ...
  • Are Wars Inevitable? by William T. Hathaway
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad June 20, 2012 “We’ve always had wars. Humans are a warring species. Without an army to defend us, someone will always try to conquer us.” These assumptions have become axioms of our culture. They generate despair but also a ce ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Speech Algorithm Could Detect Early Parkinson’ ...
    A UK mathematician has made a public appeal for people to phone a dedicated number so data can be gathered to hone a tool that can diagnose Parkinson's disease by analyzing voice patterns.
  • Meteorite Hunter Discovers New Mineral
    Hidden within a rock from space, geologists have discovered a mineral previously unknown to science: panguite.
  • Lords of the Rings: Oldest Tree Species on Earth
    Trees are among the oldest living organisms on the planet. Some individual trees have lived for several thousand years, and connected groves of trees can sometimes live for tens of thousands of years. Living that long requires a combination of steady climate, solitude, luck and of course, geneti ...
  • Astronomers Discover Galaxy They Thought Could ...
    Astronomers have spotted one of the rarest and most extreme galaxy clusters in the universe and, behind it, an object that shouldn’t exist.
  • Google’s Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat V ...
    When computer scientists at Google's mysterious X lab built a neural network of 16,000 computer processors with one billion connections and let it browse YouTube, it did what many web users might do -- it began to look for cats.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis Join “C ...
    On Friday, June 22 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the ...
    On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The evil of humanitarian wars
    Societies cannot have democracy imposed from without, as though it were an item to be ordered from a lunch menu. The West’s democracies, imperfect as they are, were fought for by their peoples over... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Author: Israel can claim the title of the most ...
    Sami Michael: "Israel is in danger unless its leadership understands it isn't located in Europe's tranquil north but in the Middle East's seething center," said Michael. "We may lose everything.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Akiva Eldar: Palestinian disinheritance sponso ...
    It's a shame the police don't show the same determination treating the settlers who invade private Palestinian land as they do evicting the temporary settlers on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard. It's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Estonia Concerned by NATO Spending Cuts
    Estonia is worried over defense spending cuts by NATO member states, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said on Wednesday.
  • U.S. Missile Defense System Completes Second Test
    The United States successfully carried out a flight test of a new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor on Wednesday, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said.
  • Putin Urges Restoration of Materiel Acceptance ...
    The Soviet-era practice of keeping military representatives at defense industry firms to ensure high-quality production of weaponry should be restored, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
  • Venezuela to Buy More Russian T-72 Tanks
    Caracas and Moscow have agreed on the purchase of additional 100 T-72 main battle tanks by Venezuela as part of a $4-bln loan secured by the oil-rich Latin American country in 2011 to buy Russian weaponry, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper said on Wednesday.
  • Hypersonic Brahmos Missile to be Ready by 2017
    The first prototype of a hypersonic cruise missile being jointly developed by Russia and India will be ready for flight testing in 2017, CEO of the Russian-Indian joint venture Brahmos Aerospace, Sivathanu Pillai, said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Are These the Men that Made the World Fat?
  • Pharma’s Top 10 Marketing Settlements
    If it seems like the number of lawsuits that Big Pharma companies are settling―many of them out of court without going to trial―are rising, they are. From Merck’s $950 million Vioxx deal to the latest announcement that Pfizer has made an $896 million settlement with Prempro victims, the deals sh ...
  • How Treating Non-Aggressive Breast Cancers wit ...
    It’s only been a few months since a ground-breaking study published in the British Medical Journal reported that mammographic breast cancer screening could be doing more harm than good. It was a hard blow to the medical paradigm that preaches mammography as the end-all, be-all to cancer detectio ...
  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). [1]  Government ...
  • Midwife Mania? More Babies than Ever Are Deli ...
    In 2009, 8 percent of all babies born in the U.S. were delivered by midwives. It’s an all-time high in the history of birthing in this country. New Mexico holds the record for most babies delivered this way―24 percent. And, according to Time Healthland, it’s a trend that not only is growing, but ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • YJIL Symposium: Human Rights and Climate Chang ...
    by Siobhan McInerney-Lankford by Siobhan McInerney-Lankford This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. [Dr. Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is a Senior Policy Officer in the Operations ...
  • YJIL Symposium: The International Right to Equ ...
    by J.B. Ruhl by J.B. Ruhl This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. [J.B. Ruhl is the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School] In Avoidi ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: June 27, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen As a second boat of refugees in less than a week sinks on its way from Indonesia to Australia’s Christmas Island, Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to revive an earlier plan to have refugees processed in Malaysia in exchange for the accept ...
  • John Bellinger on the ICC at 10
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In case you missed it, I want to call your attention to an excellent editorial on the ICC written by friend-of-OJ John Bellinger III.  Although John does not support US ratification of the Rome Statute, he argues that the ten-year history of the Court ha ...
  • YJIL Symposium: Population Growth: The Sticky ...
    by Robin Kundis Craig by Robin Kundis Craig This post is part of the Yale Journal of International Law Volume 37, Issue 2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. [Robin Kundis Craig is a professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of L ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
  • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
    I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Justice Department sues polygamist towns in Ut ...
    Cafe run by polygamist wives. Hildale UTIn what is certainly a novel approach, the Department of Justice has sued two polygamist towns for religious discrimination against non-members and expelled members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). This includes “de ...
  • Immigration ruling Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Gov. Ja ...
    I’m in Phoenix now. Local media and others are braying about how the Supreme Court decision on immigration was somehow a partial victory for anti-immigration zealots. It wasn’t.Obama rescinded 287(g) agrrements immediately after the court’s decision. This means that Pima, Pinal ...
  • It’s so hard to tell bankers from organized cr ...
    Taibbi’s latestThe Scam Wall Street Learned From the MafiaHow America’s biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy – until they were caught on tapeFunny, but I’m not hearing anything about criminal indictments from Barack “I heart Wall Street&#82 ...
  • Can Women Have It All? The Fight Among Us
    Why women still can’t have it all (The Atlantic)Can women have it all? (US News and World Report)Can women have it all? (Clutch)Can you have it all? Talking about The Atlantic piece (Slate)I doubt any of these writers care to ask me if “I have it all” – nor do [...]The post Can ...
  • Trade wars. China may retaliate against US on ...
    This is a stunningly clear example of why trade wars generally backfire.The Obama Administration last month instituted punitive tariffs on Chinese solar cells, citing unfair competition and dumping. China’s response may well be to impose duties on silicon imported from the US used to make ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Tax cheats got $1.4 billion in stimulus loans
     ”Ever get the felling you’ve been Cheated?” ~ Johnny Rotten   Washington Times Tax cheats were given $1.4 billion in government-backed mortgage loans under President Obama’s economic stimulus, and the government doled out at least an additional $27 million in tax credits ...
  • Russian nuclear bombers test U.S. air defenses ...
      Free Beacon Russian strategic nuclear bombers threatened U.S. airspace near Alaska earlier this month and F-15 jets responded by intercepting the aircraft taking part in large-scale arctic war games, according to defense officials. The Russian war games began the same day President Obama ...
  • Assad says Syria at war as battle reaches capital
      Claims they shot down Turkish jet -- because they thought it was Israeli! TURKEY: Target Any Forces Nearing Border...   BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Tuesday that his country was at war and ordered his new government to spare no effort to achie ...
  • The Michigan State House Vagina Dialogues
    So, this Michigan state congress woman said the word “vagina” on the floor of the Michigan state house while debating new regulations on abortion in that state. Because of this, she was banned from speaking on that floor anymore. It seems when I’m on the road or otherwise out of touch, that’s wh ...
  • NATO Loses Plane Violating Syrian Airspace
    NATO attempts to use own act of war to justify escalation – also, NATO-backed terrorists murder/kidnap journalists with absolute impunity – setting dangerous precedent.  by Tony Cartalucci  June 27, 2012 – Once again the Western press preys on the ignorance of the population as ...

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

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    Facebook has added a small icon linking to an “About Facebook Advertising” page next to the word “Sponsored” above ad units on the site. This gives users a quick way to learn more about how Facebook ads work and why users … Continue reading →
  • Facebook updates Messenger and Pages Manager m ...
    Facebook updated its Messenger and Pages Manager mobile apps on Monday with new features and bug fixes. Version 1.1 of Facebook Pages Manager for iOS adds functionality that was missing when the app was first released in May. Now page owners … Continue reading →
  • Petflow, Walmart, Converse and more on this we ...
    Petflow leads the list of weekly gainers for the People Talking About This metric among retail and consumer merchandise pages. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 30,000 and almost 250,000 engagements. We compile this … Continue reading →
  • Facebook removes Find Friends Nearby feature, ...
    Facebook has removed its little-known location-based feature called Find Friends Nearby. A day after the feature had been revealed by TechCrunch, Facebook removed it from its mobile site and apps. Facebook tells us it never formally released the product and … Continue reading →
  • Timeline still optional for Facebook users mor ...
    More than six months after Timeline launched for users around the world, Facebook still hasn’t made the new profile mandatory. Timeline, like most Facebook changes, has a large group of critics. But unlike most Facebook changes, this one has been … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

  • Hero on the run: Julian Assange and his US det ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be treated as a hero, not hunted as a criminal, because he has exposed US violations of domestic and international law, noting that if Assange had instead exposed the sins of Russia in Chechnya or China in Tibet, he would have ...
  • "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.

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 ...

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