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Monday, June 4, 2012

4 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I


English: Sophia Loren in Paris at the César aw...English: Sophia Loren in Paris at the César awards ceremony Français : Sophia Loren à la cérémonie des César du cinéma (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Maher Arar campaign button for the Se...English: Maher Arar campaign button for the Security With Human Rights campaign of Amnesty International, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Bianca Jagger, Fo...LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Bianca Jagger, Founding Patron of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation and patron of the Amazon Charitable Trust attends photocall to highlight the threat of hyrdo-power schemes in Latin America at the Amnesty International office on March 1, 2011 in London, England. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Australia Blasted for Human Rights Record
    Australia's treatment of refugees and Aboriginal people has received scathing criticism in a report by human rights organisation Amnesty International. In its annual review of global human rights violations, released yesterday, Amnesty singled out Australia for the mandatory and indefinite de ...
  • Burying Lockerbie - and the Truth.
    I first learned about the death of the “Libyan bomber” Ali Megrahi from a television screen. The sound was off, but I could see the closed captioning on CNN. Newspeople and guests were talking about the terrible thing Megrahi had done, and the closure or lack thereof from his passing. One man wa ...
  • Syria: This is no plan for peace
    Major-General Robert Mood, the Norwegian head of the UN observer mission, has been cautious in pointing the finger of blame for Friday's Houla killings: "Whatever I learned on the ground in Syria ... is that I should not jump to conclusions." Probably, the truth is that the two sides share the r ...
  • UN: Syrian Response to Houla allegations
    Full text of Dr Bashar Al-Ja’afari’s Press Conference at the UN In Syria is an appalling, horrific, unjustified, and unjustifiable crime. This massacre was condemned by my government in the strongest terms possible. And here my government’s version of the condemnation has joined exactly the w ...
  • Julia Faces Down The Miners
    Rejecting industry criticism of the rising costs of mining in Australia, Ms Gillard said Australia's economy was the envy of the world and there was no better place to invest. ''And here's the rub. You don't own the minerals. I don't own the minerals. Governments only sell you the right to mi ...

Independent - London

  • Church attacks nun's book on sexual ethics
    An American nun's decision to publish her progressive opinions on sexual matters from gay relationships to masturbation has left conservative cardinals at the Vatican seeing red.Related StoriesBerlin man 'killed and dismembered wife'Sophia sails into row about monster ship in VeniceFrom Montrea ...
  • Drones put to work saving swimmers' lives
    The men and women charged with protecting swimmers from dangerous tides and sharks at Australian beaches have recruited an unlikely new ally – unmanned drones. Related StoriesSeveral injured by falling sheep in road crashQueensland dismisses UN report that reef is 'at risk'Australia's man agains ...
  • Sophia sails into row about monster ship in Venice
    Environmentalists are urging Italian screen legend Sophia Loren to ditch her endorsement of the latest giant cruise liner to sully the views and pollute the air of Venice. The 140,000-tonne MSC Divina, which the actress christened last month in France, gained the dubious title at the weekend of ...
  • Australia's man against the mines
    When an open-pit coal mine was established near Acland in 2002, company executives promised a new era of prosperity for the small Queensland town. "They said there would be jobs, jobs, jobs, and Acland would boom," recalls Glen Beutel, one resident.Related StoriesSeveral injured by falling shee ...
  • Good deal gone bad: two British investors jail ...
    When Cuba and its Communist regime made it known they were open to foreign investment, Britain's Coral Capital Group and its top London-based executives were in the vanguard of the flurry of money men who beat a path to Havana to pour millions into the country's picturesque but creaking infrast ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • IBM Says Practical Quantum Computers are Close
    IBM researchers claim they are now close to have access to basic technologies that would allow them to build a "minimum" quantum computer. According to the company, scientists have found ways to retain the integrity of quantum bits (qubits) and reduce computation errors as a result. The solutio ...
  • Pilot signals trouble moments before crash tha ...
    Lagos, Nigeria -- The pilot of the Dana Air plane that crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, radioed that the plane was having trouble just minutes earlier, an airline official told CNN on Monday. The details emerged as search and rescue crews worked to recover bodies ...
  • Man claims his mother was mistreated by TSA at ...
    US, Montana- A Bozeman man says TSA agents at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport went to far while conducting a security check on his 73-year-old mother Saturday. "Putting their hands on her breasts, under her bra, between her thighs, in her thighs. I mean this is a senior citizen for g ...
  • Mexico Police Find Tortured Bodies of 3 Parame ...
    Police in Mexico have found the tortured bodies of three young paramedics and a salesman bearing gunshot wounds along a highway in the western state of Michoacán. State prosecutor's spokesman Jonathan Arredondo says the men were last seen by their relatives two days before they were discov ...
  • Police Brutality: Three Years Later, State Pol ...
    On an early May morning in 2009, after the State Police had searched through the night trying to find two burglary suspects in Warren County, they stopped a car James Bayliss, then 21, was riding in and asked him to step outside so he could be searched. What happened next was captured by a dash ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The costs of democracy . . .
    Charles and David Koch. THE KOCH CRITTERS are going to make this Fall's American election something really special. According to Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson, who has a report on Reader Supported News, "The Billion-Dollar Mitt Machine" that should be of concern.Led by the billionaire Koc ...
  • Where misogyny rules . . .
    FOREIGN POLICY has a fascinating display, worthy of your attention, of just what a raw deal women are given in various parts of the world, in an article by Valerie Hudson, "The Worst Places to Be a Woman: Mapping the places where the war on women is still being fought". Mapped out fo ...
  • Afghan National Army
    The image comes from a photo essay in The Atlantic and is of an Afghan soldier's boot after two months' wear. This army is the one Canada is training, and the one meant to carry on the Afghan civil war with the Taleban in the next couple of years after the most of the West leaves . The A ...
  • Five Years
    Steve Gilliard.
  • Funny Friday . . .
    AMERICAN STATE LEGISLATURES are capable of amazing comedy. According to Charlie Jane Anders, at io9, the latest silliness is courtesy of North Carolina (of which someone once remarked that the state bird, the Cardinal, should be replaced by a Pontiac Firebird wrapped around a telephone pole as m ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sunday Shows Play Along As Romney Campaign Sur ...
    During Mitt Romney's term as Massachusetts governor, that state ranked as one of the worst in the nation in terms of job creation -- squeezing out a net jobs gain of 1 percent compared with the national average of 5.3 percent at the time. But ABC and NBC Sunday shows allowed Romney campaign sur ...
  • Who Is The Denver Post's Residen ...
    Denver Post columnist and local radio host Mike Rosen drew criticism this week when he questioned the citizenship status of President Obama. Media Matters looks back at his long record of extreme and hateful rhetoric.Rosen Goes 'Birther,' Says He's Suspicious Of Pr ...
  • Though Experts Agree Spending Cuts Hurt The Ec ...
    Economic experts agree that spending cuts in a weak economy hurt the creation of jobs and economic growth. Though Republicans in Congress spent much of 2011 demanding spending cuts, the media are amplifying their attacks on President Obama's economic record.Experts: Spending Cuts In A Weak Econ ...
  • Media Fail To Fact Check Romney's Solyndra Speech
    Mitt Romney's remarks at Solyndra were full of falsehoods that went unchecked by many major media outlets. The media also largely failed to point out that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney invested in several companies that subsequently went bankrupt or defaulted on state loan ...
  • Planned Parenthood Action Fund Ad Does Not Vio ...
    Fox News attacked Planned Parenthood for violating tax laws by putting out an ad that criticized Mitt Romney. In fact, the ad was put out by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which is organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, the same section Karl Rove's American Crossroads GPS uses to a ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Sierra Club – 1 : TCEQ – 0
    Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing ov ...
  • NOAA says last 12 months are warmest on record ...
    According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, ...
  • Wild Fire Risk in Texas
    The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County.  The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to dimini ...
  • The Game of Thrones (or Texas Politics)
    By Michael Tahmoressi, St. Edwards student and Public Citizen intern Texas can be characterized as a pay to play environment.  Politicians bend to their districts business interests and gubernatorial appointees seem to be selected based on the amounts they contribute to the governor. Contributio ...
  • The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind . . .
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, hit a new wind record of 7,599 MW on Wednesday, exceeding the previous record set the previous day by almost 200 megawatts (MW). At the time of Wednesday’s record, wind was su ...

Unexplained Mysteries

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Climate

  • Canadian Gov't Overhauling Environmental Rules ...
    (The Washington Post) For years, Canada has been seen as an environmental leader on the world stage, pushing other nations to tackle acid rain, save the ozone layer and sign global treaties to protect biodiversity. Those were the old ...
  • UN Agency Frets Over Climate's Role in Expandi ...
    (ClimateWire) A five-year report out yesterday from a U.N. refugee agency goes to great lengths to say climate change is likely to increase human displacement among nations. What is less clear in the report is what can be done about it ...
  • Global Warming Turns Tundra to Forest: Study
    (Reuters) Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if replicated on a wider ...
  • The Race to Map Africa's Forgotten Glaciers – ...
    (Guardian) Project Pressure, a collaboration of photographers, scientists, web developers and cartographers, is working to document the terminal decline of many of the world's glaciers as they slowly melt away. Here they trek to the sl ...
  • 14 Programs Show CO2 Trade Taking Off: World Bank
    (Bloomberg) New carbon programs in at least 14 emerging nations from China to Costa Rica show emissions trading may take off even as U.S. lawmakers focus on non-market-based regulations for climate protection, a World Bank official sai ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
    Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

  • You've Been Fracked
    Live in a trailer home where the land your trailer sits on was bought out by a company (owned by the former head of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources -- you can't make this crap up!) that wants to divert 3 million gallons of water per day to the hyfrofracking industry? Welc ...
  • The Sad Right-Wing Blogosphere
    Has anyone noticed that the right-wing blogosphere seems to have gotten a little weird lately? I mean, they've always been an atrocious lot of paranoids and bigots, but lately they've been going off on tangents that are totally unrelated to the upcoming elections. Their hallucinatory obsession ...
  • Casual Observation
    This is probably Maureen Dowd's worst and most irresponsible column ever. Truly beneath contempt, and totally dismissive of any kind of stakes for anything she has ever pretended to care about. Discuss
  • The Tricky Subject of Mormonism
    The way I see it, Mitt Romney's Mormon faith shouldn't interfere with his ability to do the duties of a president anymore than Harry Reid's Mormon faith interferes with his ability to serve as Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. There are plenty of reasons to believe that Mr. Romney would be a ...
  • Now Scott Walker is a Baby Daddy?
    Things are getting pretty nasty in the Wisconsin recall. If it is true that Scott Walker got his girlfriend pregnant in college, denied paternity, told her he didn't care if she had an abortion, and then eventually had to acknowledge paternity after she had the baby, that's not very impressive ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Wonders of Bryce Canyon
    With its stunning rock formations, stone 'hoodoos' and natural amphitheaters, Bryce Canyon National Park is an incredible place to visit in any season This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Weirdest Seafood Dishes in the World
    These five weirdest seafood dishes in the world take adventurous dining to new levels This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Incredible Images of Waves Smashing Against ...
    These incredible images show historic breakwaters and piers, mainly in England and Wales, being pummeled by waves and yet withstanding Nature's might. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Awful Truth About Lynchings in Latin America
    If you thought lynchings were a thing of the past, think again. Get the lowdown on the reason why so many people are beaten to death or set on fire in Latin America. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Creepiest Abandoned Cold War Missile Silos
    They're vast, located underground, and not so very long ago held the potential to destroy cities and kill millions. Ten amazing abandoned nuclear missile silos. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Democrats' hypocrisy in our sick & violent dec ...
    Latest: Drone blitz on Pakistan enters third straight day | World news | guardian.co.uk - up to 27 people dead in strikes that began on Saturday. The US has jeopardized its Afghanistan campaign by refusing to apologize for the November 2011 cross-border 'friendly fire' incident which killed 24 P ...
  • Interview on streaming radio & shortwave today ...
    Around 5:30PM Central today I'm doing a phone interview on the DRE drug scandal / MK Occupy Minnesota with the Global Freedom Report (streaming http://freedomradio.us/vof/ - shortwave WWCR World Wide Christian Radio 9.350 MHz!) & other topics - i'll try to get at the latest w Cruz house, etc ...
  • A baffling tale: Millions of Kg of Asian gold, ...
    I really don't know what to make of this, but it's still worthwhile to pull a few links together for research purposes. Don't assume anything in this story is true, particularly since very little of the info is coming from people I would consider reliable sources. I suggest doing your own resear ...
  • A moment of police state zen: White House-appr ...
    A bunch of new documents have been FOIA'd out showing the various layers of Occupy crackdown. We certainly watched it all happen pretty rapidly from the ol GlobalRev catbird seat. One week, everything seemed weirdly quiet on the eviction front -- then seemingly overnight the police squads rushed ...
  • Sibel Edmonds narrative released in 'Classifie ...
    After many years of struggling to get her story across to the American public, 9/11 & FBI/national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has released " Classified Woman"". For many years we have tried to track aspects of Sibel's case on this site (older hub page & category) including the ...

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IntelNews

  • Japan investigates senior Chinese diplomat for ...
    Japanese authorities are investigating a senior Chinese diplomat for having engaged in “activities in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”, which is technical language for espionage.
  • News you may have missed #742
    Obama warns Congress of overspending on intelligence. US forces use fake rocks to spy on Afghans. Pakistan spy chief postpones US trip.
  • Colombian government to probe calls for ‘milit ...
    Colombian authorities have opened an official investigation into calls to remove the government of the country, which were found circulating among former and current military officials.
  • News you may have missed #741
    MI6 role in rendition could be concealed in new bill. Aussie spy agency defends new headquarters. Good interview with ex-CIA officer Glenn Carle.
  • News you may have missed #740
    Denmark professor accused of spying challenges court secrecy. CIA's links with Hollywood are longstanding. CIA funds helped launch literary journal.

War is a Crime.org

  • David Swanson: A Voice For Never-Ending Activism
    By Joanne Boyer of Wisdom Voices For activist, author, and blogger David Swanson, it really is about the never-ending struggle for social and economic justice; the same battle that has been fought since time began.  And for him, “success” or “defeat” cannot be defined by one election or one ...
  • Bilderberg Meeting a Wrap, Who Would Trust the ...
    By Michael Collins (Chantilly, VA 6/3/2012) The Bilderberg Group completed its annual meeting today in Northern Virginia. The group was founded in 1954 by the financial, political, and military elites of Europe and the United States. Annual meetings provide for "regular, off-the-record discussi ...
  • Bipartisan Agreement Possible: Raising Taxes t ...
    From the New York Times: Senator Lindsey Graham rode last week like Paul Revere from South Carolina's wooded upstate to its gracious Lowcountry to its sweltering midsection, offering a bureaucratic rallying cry for his military-heavy state - the defense cuts are coming. On Jan. 2, national secur ...
  • Wisconsin's Recall Election
      Wisconsin's Recall Election   by Stephen Lendman   Winter 2011 witnessed an epic worker rights battle. Wisconsin public workers challenged Republican Governor Scott Walker.   read more
  • Discrimination Against Arab Communities in Israel
      Discrimination Against Arab Communities in Israel and Palestine   by Stephen Lendman   An April joint Bimkom Planners for Planning Rights/Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP) report titled "Outline Planning for Arab Localities in Israel" explains state-sponsored disc ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Groundbreaking experiment offers new hope for ...
    Swiss scientists have conducted an experiment in which paraplegic rats have re-learned to walk, run, and evade obstacles. The spectacular results followed a physical training regimen that included electrical and chemical stimulation of the rats' damaged spinal columns and the use of a "robotic...
  • Are Spacecrafts Killing Thousands of Antelopes ...
    Three years ago, 12,000 rare and endangered antelope carcasses were mysteriously found in Kazakhstan. Nobody knew what happened to them. Exactly one year later, people found 450 new dead bodies.
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    The USS Mississippi was christened yesterday.
  • Near-record Number of Astronaut Applicants (In ...
    More than 6,300 individuals applied to become part of NASA's next generation of astronauts. It was the highest number of applications ever received by the agency since 1978, and the call garnered more than 8,000 submissions. Typically, the agency receives between 2,500 and 3,500 applicants for a ...
  • NASA - Hinode Witnesses Solar Eclipse
    Spectacular images from the Hinode spacecraft show the solar eclipse, which darkened the sky in parts of the world yesterday.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Professional Courtesies for the Sharks in the ...
    By Les Visible The lies just keep coming about Syria and Iran, courtesy of the wholly owned Zionist mass media. They own the music and movie machines so you can also see what’s being projectile vomited into our eyes and ears. Their hired killers go round the world, killing at will, blowing ...
  • Houla, Syria Stunt Proves That Old Tricks are ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian government was not responsible for shelling to deaths some 32 children and their parents, as periodically claimed and ...
  • Eating Aluminum: Is It As Safe As Our Regulato ...
    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post Aluminum toxicity, a characteristically man-made problem, is now impossible to avoid and has become a post-modern rite of passage. Our environment has become so polluted with the stuff, that even our crop plants are being threatened, with biotechnology firms n ...
  • Record 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have f ...
    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
  • Smartcard flaw opens door to identity theft
    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...

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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Takeshi Hosaka’s Inside-Out House has Trees Gr ...
    Read the rest of Takeshi Hosaka’s Inside-Out House has Trees Growing Inside! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Conceptual, Daylighting, green interiors, inside out house, interior spaces, Japanese, Japanese design, minimalistic house, natural light, s ...
  • Carmen Miranda Meets LEGOs In Bizarre Brazilia ...
    Tired of peeling labels off of your fruit? The Brazilian advertising agency AGE Isobar has found a solution with its cubic mold, which presses a brand’s label into the surface of pieces of fruit. The mold is now the base for a juice company’s marketing campaign, and the results resemble a ...
  • LA’s Biggest Apartment Project Since the Reces ...
    The largest apartment building since the beginning of the Great Recession has broken ground in Los Angeles, promising to reinvigorate the Koreatown neighborhood. The Vermont is a two-tower, mixed-use behemoth that will contain 464 apartments and plenty of retail. Besides the size the other notab ...
  • PNNL’s New Affordable, Small-Scale Fuel Cell C ...
    The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has created a solid oxide fuel cell system that is small enough for domestic homeowners and affordable for the average citizen. There are currently multiple green ways to power your home (such as solar power and wind turbines), but fuel cell techn ...
  • Sebastián Errázuriz Creates Anti-Capitalist St ...
    The prolific designer Sebastián Errázuriz has transformed some regular streets into anti-capitalist works of art using only a brush and some white paint. Since wowing us with his elaborate Magistral Cabinet design, the Brooklyn-based artist has been making a statement by turning street lines int ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Chemtrails Are Destroying Our Health!
    For decades, governments and scientists worldwide have been denying the existence of discreet operations which (for various reasons) use military aircrafts to spray our skies with chemical toxins. Such operations have often been dismissed as conspiracy theories, or in many cases a misinterpretat ...
  • AMERICA THREATENS CHINA: Pentagon Prepares for ...
    In January of this year the three officials in charge of U.S. global military strategy and operations - commander-in- chief President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey - unveiled the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance, ...
  • Germany sells Israel nuke-ready submarines – r ...
    Germany is supplying the Israeli Navy with submarines that are fully capable of being fitted to carry cruise missiles with nuclear-warheads, Spiegel reports. Thus, if Israel does indeed have any such missiles, it could deploy them immediately. ­The extensive military deal suggests that German ...
  • “The End Game: 2012 And 2013 Will Usher In The ...
    If Raoul Pal was some doomsday spouting windbag, writing in all caps, arbitrarily pasting together disparate charts to create 200 page slideshows, it would be easy to ignore him. He isn't. The founder of Global Macro Investor "previously co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund in London for GLG Par ...
  • War in the White House: attorney general Eric ...
    Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department.

Andy Worthington

  • Video: “Songs of War,” an Al-Jazee ...
    In a new film for Al-Jazeera, “Songs of War: Music as a Weapon,” the filmmaker Tristan Chytroschek follows “Sesame Street” composer Christopher Cerf on a journey to discover how his music came to be used as a weapon in the Bush administration’s “war on terror& ...
  • A Powerful Interview with Former Guantánamo Pr ...
    Last Saturday, the New York Times published an article based on an interview with former Guantánamo prisoner Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian whose case, Boumediene v. Bush, was regarded at the time as one of the most significant legal victories in the whole of the Bush administration’s &#8 ...
  • Remember the Battle of the Beanfield: It&#8217 ...
    27 years ago, a convoy of vehicles driven by refugees from the chronic unemployment of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain — commonly described as new age travellers, but also including environmental and anti-nuclear activists and land reformers — was set upon by police from six counti ...
  • How A Comment on My Website Led Jason Leopold ...
    On Christmas Day 2008, a comment by someone identifying themselves as Hesham Abu Zubaydah was submitted on an article I had written many months earlier, entitled, The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts. This was the first of many articles I ...
  • How Guantánamo Is the Basis for the Mandatory ...
    Yesterday, I was rung by a journalist from Press TV, asking me to discuss my recent article, US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo? My three and a half minute commentary is available here, and in it I reiterated that, while ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Who Allegedly Threatened Obama Faces Gu ...
    A detention hearing will be held Monday for a self-described racist from Virginia who allegedly made threats against President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder before illegally taking possession of a machine gun. Douglas Howard Story, 48, of Manassas, Va., was arrested Wednesday by the FBI ...
  • Calif. on Verge of Banning ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy fo ...
    The California state Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would prohibit “ex-gay” therapy for people under 18. If passed by the Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, California will become the first state to protect LGBT people from potential harm caused by the therapy promoted ...
  • Longtime White Supremacist to Serve on Penn. ...
    Steve Smith, a longtime racist activist with a history of violence and top-level ties to numerous white nationalist hate groups, has been elected to a 4-year term on the Republican Party’s county committee for Luzerne County, Penn., One People’s Project reports. Recruited into the neo-Nazi movem ...
  • Racists Arrested After Chicago Attack Have Lo ...
    One of the two white nationalists arrested after a violent surprise attack by anti-racists in suburban Chicago has a long history of activism on the racist right and was suspected of having ties to several militias in the late 1990s. The other has a lengthy record of arrests on battery and drug ...
  • Neo-Nazi Activist Gets 40 Years for Arizona Ma ...
    Notorious racist Dennis Mahon will spend the next 40 years in prison – and likely die behind bars – for sending a mail bomb that exploded in 2004 and injured the diversity officer for Scottsdale, Ariz. In handing down the sentence Tuesday in Phoenix, U.S. District Judge David Campbell said Mahon ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Canadian Websites Go Dark for 'Black Out Speak ...
    Today is "Black Out Speak Out Day" in Canada -- a national day of protest against Canada's conservative government's attack on non-profits including labor, environment, immigration, and students. Over 18,000 Canadians and more than 500 organizations have blacked out their websi ...
  • Fewer but Newer Nuclear Arms Deemed Future Threat
    UNITED NATIONS - "The best way to eliminate the nuclear threat anywhere is by eliminating nuclear weapons everywhere", says Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who is increasingly viewed as one of the strongest opponents of nuclear arms. But the lingering hopes of eliminating the nuclear t ...
  • US Drone Blitz on Pakistan Continues
    A weekend of missile attacks in Pakistan did not cease on Monday, as US drones unleashed on what they claim was a hideout in the Hesokhel village, located in the North Waziristan tribal region.  Airstrikes further south on both Saturday and Sunday left as many as twelve dead, and today' ...
  • Israel Reneges on Hunger Strike Agreement, Pal ...
    Within two weeks after an agreement reached between Palestinian hungers strikers in Israeli prisons, Israel has begun to renege on the deal. Days after announcing the end of the strike, Israel renewed administrative detention orders for 30 prisoners, according to Palestinian prisoners minister I ...
  • Day 2: Egypt Protesters Continue New Occupatio ...
    * * * Egypt's AhramOnline reports: read more

Lifehacker

  • Use a Baking Rack to Cool Nearly Any Piece of ...
    Overheating tech is bad news, and we all have one or two things in our house that doesn't get enough airflow—whether its an Xbox, a DVD player, or a constantly failing router. If you don't want to buy a cooling rack just to stick it in y ...
  • Facebook Fast Delete Messages for Chrome Simpl ...
    Chrome: If you want to delete messages you receive on Facebook you have to select the message, click the Actions button, and then select delete. It's a cumbersome process, but Facebook Fast Delete Messages is a Chrome extension that simplifies ...
  • The 10-20-30 Running Concept Can Increase Perf ...
    A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen have come up with a new training concept for runners that shows an increase in health and performance despite a 50% reduction in the amount of training. It's most applicable to people train ...
  • How to Keep Track of How Other People Are Usin ...
    Whether you have a blog, you post photos on photo sharing sites, or you're a YouTube star you probably wonder when and how your media is getting used by other people. Regardless of whether it's free-to-use media or copyrighted material the pro ...
  • To-Do Manager Any.DO Comes to the Web, Launche ...
    Web/iOS: Previously mentioned Android to-do app Any.Do took the wraps off of its webapp and iOS app this weekend, so if you were previously using the service on your phone and wished you could get access to your to-dos at your computer or on ...

Water Privatization

  • Party-list hits ‘privatization’
    “THE government’s policy of privatization is not intended to improve the government’s services and accountability to the people but will only result to their further impoverishment,” said Alejando Deoma, Negros coordinator of Bayan Muna party-list.
  • Legislators Jacobs And DeRiggi-Whitton Host In ...
    When NIFA rejected the contract between Nassau County and Morgan Stanley that would have allowed for sewer privatization, many people thought that the controversial plan to sell sewage system operation and maintenance to New Jersey-based United Water (UW) was dead in the water. Not so fast, said ...
  • Legislators Hold Meeting On Proposed Sewer Pri ...
    When NIFA rejected the contract between Nassau County and Morgan Stanley that would have allowed for sewer privatization, many people thought that the controversial plan to sell sewage system operation and maintenance to New Jersey-based United Water (UW) was dead in the water. Not so fast, said ...
  • Mangano Vows To Forge Ahead With Nassau Sewer ...
    Standing behind a podium in a second-floor conference room at...
  • Shields: F.C. ‘Very Surprised’ by Army Prohibi ...
    Reversal of Legal Opinion Delayed Bidding Meeting Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields told the News-Press in an exclusive interview yesterday that he was "very surprised" by the opinion from the chief counsel of the U.S. Army delivered on the eve of the City's planned opening o ...

Guardian

  • Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant
    Coachloads of jobless people brought in to work unpaid on river pageant as part of Work ProgrammeA group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river ...
  • Germany weighs up federal Europe plan to end d ...
    Calls for 'banking union' to save euro after Paris and Brussels support Spain's plea for EU rescue of its beleaguered banksEurope's leaders appear to be edging towards an ambitious and controversial new blueprint for a federalised eurozone after Paris and Brussels threw their weight behind Spain ...
  • Barack Obama and Bill Clinton unite for New Yo ...
    Despite recent tension that has fueled speculation about a deeper hostility, the presidents expect $4m haul in the Big AppleBarack Obama and Bill Clinton put on a display of unity in New York city on Monday evening amid ongoing speculation about renewed tensions between the two presidents.The 44 ...
  • PM calls in adviser on ministerial interests o ...
    Inquiry follows Warsi's apology for failing to disclose business interest with relative who travelled with her on official visitThe political career of the cabinet minister Lady Warsi received another severe blow on Monday after she apologised to the prime minister and was then referred to the a ...
  • Nigeria mourns 153 dead as questions mount ove ...
    Three days of mourning declared as investigators say inquiry into Dana Air crash in Lagos suburb could take monthsNigeria has said it may take months to investigate why a plane that was allegedly too old to fly crashed, killing all 153 people on board.Witnesses said the plane, a second-hand MD-8 ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO strikes Afghan transport deals
    NATO has concluded agreements with Central Asian nations allowing it to evacuate vehicles and other military equipment from Afghanistan and completely bypass Pakistan, which once provided the main ...
  • Afghan government praises dead British soldier
    The Afghan government on Monday praised a British soldier who was killed by militants during a successful mission to rescue a kidnapped Afghan police officer. The policeman was abducted Sunday ...
  • NATO Plans New Afghan Mission
    The Afghan government and NATO have agreed to develop a plan for a new international peacekeeping mission in the country, which will start after 2014, when Afghan forces take on full control of the ...
  • Afghanistan mission crucial to NATOs plans
    Announcing the trip next week to Australia only hours before meeting New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Brussels, Rasmussen said: "Both countries are making a real difference to our mission ...
  • British soldier killed in Afghan rescue mission
    The U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan says a British soldier has been killed during a successful mission to rescue an Afghan police officer kidnapped by militants. The provincial government of ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NO FEAR award receivers include Richard Renner
    On May 22, 2012, the No FEAR Coalition honored three whistleblowers and our own Richard Renner, who serves as the Legal Director and Secretary of the National Whistleblowers Center. The award for Renner recognized his advocacy for whistleblowers and his pro bono work. Appropriately the awards ce ...
  • NYC Council to Vote on Whistleblower Bills
    Today, the New York City Council will vote on three whistleblower laws. I had the opportunity to testify about these three bills on April 16th this year before the Committee on Governmental Affairs. The NWC supports the NYC Council's efforts to improve whistleblower protections. Proposed Int. N ...
  • New interns take up the whistleblower cause
    With the change of seasons comes another class of interns.  This summer, we are pleased to have a large group of law students, and some undergraduates, who have devoted themselves to learn about whistleblower advocacy.  Pictured here are Adrian, Jane, Nate, James, Richard, Julia, Sehra ...
  • Don't Be Ashamed to Be A "Snitch"
    Last night, I walked into my son's room to say goodnight. I found him with a black sharpie and a pack of stencils. He had used them on a white t-shirt, which now read, “Vicky is NOT a Snitch.” Vicky is not his friend's real name but the one I'll use to relate his story. High sch ...
  • One Case Overturned. How Many More to Come?
    Dr. Frederic Whitehurst took on the FBI because he knew that defendants had been wrongly convicted on the basis of seriously flawed testimony by the FBI crime lab. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Superior Court overturned the conviction of a man who wrongly served 28 yea ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Google Cryptically Alerts The World That It Wi ...
    It's no secret that Google has a troubled relationship with China: at one point leaving the market entirely, and later going back but with significant limitations, though where Google tried to be as transparent as possible about when information was being censored on behalf of the Chinese govern ...
  • If You're Going To Leak Classified Info About ...
    We've noted the unfortunate trend of the Obama administration vindictively going after any whistleblowers (despite one of Obama's first moves in office being to encourage whistleblowing). To date, the Obama administration has been involved in six prosecutions of whistleblowers using the Espiona ...
  • AOL Threatens Blogger With Copyright Infringem ...
    There have been plenty of accusations made against AOL's the Huffington Post concerning its habit of "over aggregating" content from other sites. While, personally, I think people who accuse HuffPo of being just an aggregator are overreacting on two separate issues (one: HuffPo does a ton of a ...
  • Cisco Has Enough Of TiVo Patent Claims, Files ...
    Over the past few years, as competition in the DVR market has become tougher, TiVo has become more and more reliant on using its patents to stop competition and innovation, rather than focusing on competing in the marketplace. its most famous case was the one against EchoStar, which even includ ...
  • Study Claims Old People Select Stronger Passwo ...
    We've all seen tons of reports on how bad people are at choosing secure passwords, but it's not too surprising to find out that different demographic segments are better or worse than others at having secure passwords. Though, it may be a bit surprising to find out that a new study suggests tha ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Israeli minister sees African immigrants as th ...
    As Israel implements a law aimed at stemming the flow of Africans entering the Jewish state from the south, Interior Minister Eli Yishai says Israel must protect itself from a demographic threat. Africans pose such a threat, Yishai says, because they don’t recognize that Israel belongs to ...
  • Bill McKibben: Climate-change deniers have don ...
    Here’s the thing about climate-change deniers: these days before they sit down to write their blog posts, they have to turn on the AC.  After all, it might as well be July in New York (where I’m writing this), August in Chicago (where a century-old heat record was broken in late ...
  • What crows can teach people
    Are you as smart as a crow? Take this test to find out. I’m proud to say I got it right the first time — but I probably had an advantage: I tamed two crows when I was a kid so I’ve spent some time staring them in the eye. As a nine-year-old had I [...]
  • Music: Arve Henriksen — ‘Migration’
  • Video: The empathic civilization

Watts Up With That?

  • ARCUS 2012 PAN-ARCTIC sea ice forecast submitted
    PAN-ARCTIC OUTLOOK Submitted by WUWT today, June 4th to Helen Wiggins of ARCUS, details here About the Sea Ice Outlook The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook is an international effort to provide a community-wide summary of the expected September arctic sea … Continue reading →
  • Greening the hospital operating room – a ...
    From the Canadian Medical Association Journal another one of those areas like the ridiculous attempts to green the military, where I think most people don’t give a rats patootie about whether they are getting “green care” or not. In the … Continue reading →
  • Was “Good Science” Really Applied ...
    Guest essay Dr. Willie Soon (Note: the newspaper The Florida Times-Union at jacksonville.com refuses to allow Dr. Soon to post a rebuttal fitting the word length and other editorial restrictions, so he has offered this expanded essay. He asks readers … Continue reading →
  • May UAH Global Temperature – unchanged
    UAH Global Temperature Update for May 2012: +0.29°C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for May 2012 (+0.29 °C) changed little from April (+0.30 °C), with some warming to near-average temperatures in the tropics being … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week – I get an endorsment ...
    James Hansen’s understudy, eco activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben just gave me an endorsement, which I’m surprised about. The article, syndicated in a number of outlets is titled Climate-change deniers on the ropes McKibben writes of the Heartland … Continue reading ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Alzheimer’s Brain Scan Test Gets FDA Approval
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly & Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of patient ...
  • Novartis Compound Spurs Cartilage in Arthritic ...
    Scientists at Novartis AG (NOVN) have discovered a compound that spurred cartilage growth from stem cells to fix damaged joints of mice, a finding that may point to a novel therapy for the arthritis that afflicts most elderly. Researchers tested 22,000 drug-like molecules using a robotic screen, ...
  • Salk scientists find cellular switches for the ...
    The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in S ...
  • Virtual dissection table
  • Targeted nanoparticles show success in clinica ...
    Targeted therapeutic nanoparticles that accumulate in tumors while bypassing healthy cells have shown promising results in an ongoing clinical trial, according to a new paper. The nanoparticles feature a homing molecule that allows them to specifically attack cancer cells, and are the first such ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Main News of June 4
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Deeper Than Oil: The Pages of Wealth
    At first, I thought the price tag was a mistake; that some inattentive shop assistant in the downtown Moscow bookstore had added a couple of extra zeros and no one had noticed. After all, there was no way 500,000 rubles ($15,000) could be right for a collection of twenty books of children’s stor ...
  • Eduard Khil, 'Mr. Trololo,' Dies at 77
    People’s Artist of Russia Eduard Khil has died of a stroke at the age of 77. It’s hard to believe he is gone. Khil was always known for the humor and optimism that permeated his songs, and he remained lively and energetic to the end. Khil possessed a calm but powerful lyric baritone voice, fanta ...
  • Epsom Derby Guests Sport Array of Hats
    Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations have become the highlight of this year’s Epsom Derby, an annual horseracing festival held on the first Saturday of June.
  • Russia Registers Three New Political Parties
    The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Monday the registration of three more political parties under new legislation ushered in earlier this year by then-President Dmitry Medvedev following a wave of protests over alleged vote fraud.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Shalersville speaks out against fracking
    On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video w ...
  • Statement against fracking presented to townsh ...
    This is a lightly modified copy of the statement I presented on Tuesday’s meeting of township trustees. Several cuts were made right before the meeting to keep it under the three minute time limit, and a local business’ name has been removed because I did not speak to them about inc ...
  • Scott Walker’s “Jobs Plan” is Working
    A lot of folks have been jumping on the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which shows Wisconsin hemorrhaging jobs faster than any other state over the past 12 months.  Many have been quick to point out that these numbers prove that Walker’s plan is failing; that his “ ...
  • Home rule goes up against the fracking industr ...
    The fight against fracking in Ohio comes at a time when the state is approving new wells at a rapid pace. Local activists are organizing in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting under their feet - sometimes literally.Anti-fracking activism has been influenced by developments bo ...
  • Occupy Madison is a Home for the Homeless
    Since its beginning in October 2011, Occupy Madison has evolved from a symbolic occupation of public space to a social experiement that fills an important gap in the services that the city of Madison provides for the homeless.  The site of the encampment has moved from a public park on the ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 'Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto' Campaign Rai ...
    FINLAND, Minn. - June 4, 2012 - The Organic Consumers Association, Organic Consumers Fund, FoodDemocracyNow!, Alliance for Natural Health USA, and a broad coalition of food, farm, natural health, public interest, and environmental groups, joined by leading organic food companies across the coun ...
  • A Guide to the Sweet and Simple Life
    Robyn Jasko started her blog Grow Indie as a way to offer a guide to easy, DIY garden and cooking projects. (It's part of the goindie.com network, which she and her husband created to encourage the support of local, independent businesses.) Now, Jasko has put together a book, inspired by informa ...
  • 8 Surprising Things That May Be Making America ...
    Eating too much and exercising too little, considered the root of obesity, are not the only probable culprits. Click here to read this article
  • Researchers Find Evidence of Banned Antibiotic ...
    In a joint study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. government for poultry production is still in use. Results of the study are published in Environm ...
  • A Global Call: Eco Warriors, Arise!
    In June 2012, movements and leaders will meet in Rio for Rio+20, two decades after the Earth Summit was organised in 1992 to address urgent ecological challenges such as species extinction, biodiversity erosion and climate change.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Real Men Eat Kale
    Memorial Day = summer = grilling = men = meat. Why do I automatically make those associations?
  • Farm Bill 2012: The Senate’s Version
    Here’s a quick, top-line read of new developments we’re tracking in the Senate version due to their potential impact on health, and how they stack up for improving public health.
  • IMHO the IOM Is On to Something: Links Between ...
    This isn’t the first time that the IOM or another official body has called attention to these links, but it is the first time that such an urgency has been placed on the call to better understand and address the connections.
  • Meatless Monday in Sweden: Q & A with Köttfri ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign here in the U.S. has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years (the recent blogpost on Sodexo’s success with the campaign is just one example), but did you know that 23 countries now have campaigns that seek to reduce meat consumption one day a week? When I was ...
  • The Antibiotic Resistance Problem Gets Some Tr ...
    I’m glad the moms are engaged in this fight against antibiotics overuse in farming. When it comes to managing tantrums, sussing out lies, dealing with terrorists, and doling out justice, they are the closest things we have to experts.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Uncle Gordys Mid-Week Reality Check, May 23, 2012
    The money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves 30 years. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
    Yesterday I wrote a piece on the real lords of Afghan poppies and heroin operations. I am thankful to all your supportive feedback. Of course not all feedbacks were positive, and I truly understand and accept that. Many of the critics came from mainstream Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...
  • Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
    Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Surfing Notes
    Sometimes things snowball - including another anti AGW tale turning to new science and Facebook adding to the stew. My compensation for slowing my news submissions here Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Former-US President George Bush Officially a W ...
    Independent media, rights advocates, and activists hand Bush & associates a well-deserved conviction. Next, we must organize to hand them a well-deserved penalty - economic sanctions. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Weather Disasters, Crop Loss, Biotech Acreage, ...
    Weather control, geoengineering, and genetic modification are man’s attempt to take over the earth’s natural ecosystem and design it according to his own limited concept. But is it wise, prudent, or safe to leave the re-designing of the earth up to some men in little white lab coats who think th ...
  • Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!
    While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...
  • Undercover GMOs Slip through Labeling Crack
    GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You ...
    People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...
  • Why is GMO Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newbor ...
    And just what will these people say when this universal infant immunization program is proven to NOT lower the overall incidence of Hep B infection after our children have been compromised with a dangerous genetically engineered vaccine that starts our lives out under the thumb of Big Pharma and ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Advanced Homeland Security Training in Israel ...
    ShareThisAdvanced Homeland Security Training in Israel by Security Solutions International (SSI Press Release) 04 Jun 2012 With a seven-year history of taking Homeland Security Professionals to Israel, SSI has now created a new Advanced Program that kicks off June 15th. Many of the participants ...
  • Bradley Manning lawyer in struggle to have gov ...
    ShareThisBradley Manning lawyer in struggle to have government documents released 03 Jun 2012 The US government is in possession of 250,000 pages of documents relating to the transmission of state secrets to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which it is refusing to disclose to defence lawyers rep ...
  • US terror drones kill 16 in NW Pakistan
    ShareThisUS terror drones kill 16 in NW Pakistan 04 Jun 2012 As many as 16 people have been killed and several others injured in two airstrikes carried out by US assassination drones on the northwestern Pakistan tribal area of North Waziristan. [This is *ridiculous.* People need to get much bett ...
  • US assassination drone strikes kill 16 in nort ...
    ShareThisBreaking: US assassination drone strikes kill 16 in northwestern Pakistan [This is ridiculous. People need to get *a lot better* at shooting drones out of the sky.] 04 Jun 2012
  • Activists converge on Wisconsin for historic r ...
    ShareThisActivists converge on Wisconsin for historic recall vote 03 Jun 2012 Political activists converged on Wisconsin on Sunday to join get-out-the-vote efforts two days before a historic recall election for Republican Governor [Koch brothers' troglodyte] Scott Walker that is seen as a test f ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...
  • Free Burma Rangers REPORT: 29 May 2012
    Strong Military Presence Remains in Karen State, while Burma Army continues with Attacks, Resupplies and Increased Troops Karen State, Burma 29 May, 2012 Written by: Free Burma Rangers In This Report: In Mergui/Tavoy District, Burma Army soldiers shoot at civilians while maintaining a mili ...
  • MEDEVAC Madness
    10 May 2012 Many people have contacted lawmakers around the country about MEDEVAC failures in Afghanistan.  Most of the lawmakers blew it off, or seemed intimidated by the Pentagon.  But one serious man over in Missouri has not backed down.  Congressman Todd Akin is demanding ans ...
  • Little Girl Revisited
    02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court to hear case on detention incide ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in Bailey v. United States [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether police officers may lawfully detain individuals incident to a search warrant when those individuals have left the premises be ...
  • Rwanda urged to stop assisting DRC war crimes ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday urged Rwanda [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to stop assisting an accused war criminal [press release] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] who is wanted by the International Crimina ...
  • Mongolia ex-president on trial for corruption
    [JURIST] Former Mongolian president Nambar Enkhbayar went on trial for corruption charges on Monday. Enkhbayar was arrested in April and charged with corruption and abuse of power during his time as president until 2009. Enkhbayar told reporters that he believed his trial was politically motivat ...
  • Libya high court to review controversial speec ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Libya on Sunday agreed to rule on a controversial law [Law 37, PDF, in Arabic] that criminalizes and punishes speech and propaganda endangering the security of the state or glorifying former leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive]. The law prohibi ...
  • Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak trial verdict
    [JURIST] Egyptian prosecutors plan to appeal the verdict in the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile, JURIST news archive] and his associates, a court official told reporters on Sunday. An Egyptian court on Saturday found Mubarak guilty of complicity in the killin ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
  • Administration Admits That Indefinite Detentio ...
    The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that it would be a violation of current law to transfer individuals from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to its soon-to-be acquired Thomson prison in Illinois unless they are destined for a federal trial or military tribunal. In a conference call with reporte ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Germany Sells Israel Nuclear-Armed Submarines
    TweetDer Spiegel has just published an important article about the Dolphin submarines Germany has been selling to Israel over the past fifteen years.  Israel now has three, with a fouth and fifth on the way and sixth in the pipeline by 2017.  Sale of up to nine submarines is contemplated by both ...
  • Michael Oren to Rally Seattle Jews at “Private ...
    TweetA funny thing happened to Michael Oren on his way to Seattle.  This month, he was scheduled to address St. Mark’s Cathedral, seat of Seattle’s Episcopal diocese.  But he dropped out at the last minute.  Now his only major appearance will be speaking to a “private” au ...
  • Facebook Bans Israeli Graphic Artist for Bitin ...
    TweetLooks like the folks at Facebook have more to worry about than their plummeting stock price (off 28% since the IPO last week).  In recent days, Facebook suspended the account of the Israeli graphic artist, Mysh, about whom I wrote a post a few days ago.  It seems that some of the brilliant ...
  • Israeli Government to Prosecute Uri Blau for E ...
    TweetI should put “democracy” in quotes in my title as the term is stretched beyond recognition as practiced in Israel.  The latest outrage is the announcement today that the State planned to prosecute Haaretz investigative journalist, Uri Blau for “aggravated espionage,” ...
  • Jews, Apes and African Refugees
    TweetThanks to Sol Salbe for translating the following Haaretz article (to which I made minor editorial and spelling changes), which offers quotations from Vichy era anti-Semitic rants by French collaborators with the Nazis.  It’s important to note the similarities in tone, image and senti ...

If Americans Knew

  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Internews Maps the Media Landscape in Afghanistan
    In a country where only 9 percent of the population has access to the Internet and more than half never uses a television, it's critical for journalists and organizations supporting the media to understand how people get news and other information. As part of its efforts to support independent j ...
  • How J-School Students, Developers Collaborate ...
    Here's a recipe for innovation: Start with an interesting problem in journalism, media or publishing. Catch some journalism students. Mix in some computer science students. Mold into interdisciplinary teams. Stick in the oven for 11 weeks and see what happens. For three years ...
  • Next Knight News Challenge Is All About Data
    As the Knight Foundation gets closer to announcing the winners of its News Challenge on Networks, it's opening up its next round of the contest, which now occurs three times a year instead of annually. Round 2 of the 2012 Knight News Challenge will focus on data. Why data? "The world has ...
  • LocalWiki Now Speaks Portuguese, German and Ru ...
    While LocalWiki's roots are in the United States, we've seen increasing interest in starting projects all over the globe. One barrier, however, has been that our interface is entirely in English -- at least it was until now. Thanks to the hard work of Pedro Lima and Nuno Maltez in Portuga ...
  • How the AP's Overview Turns Documents Into Pic ...
    Overview produces intricate visualizations of large document sets -- beautiful, but what do they mean? These visualizations are saying something about the documents, which you can interpret if you know a little about how they're plotted. Same documents, different visualizations There are ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Economy - The Human Disaster of Unemplo ...
    The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs. In 2007, before the Great Recession, people who were looking for work for more than six months—the definition of long-term unemployment—accounted for just 0.8 percent of the la ...
  • The Edge of Dance - African Contemporary Dance ...
    The AfroMob flash mob broke into dance in a Washington, DC suburb, and for five minutes hundreds of surprised passers-by gathered to watch the performers entertain with Ndombolo, Coupe Decale, Azonto and hip-hop moves. The five-minute dance eventually turned into a four-hour long block party, sa ...
  • Iran on Edge - Iran Issues List Of Banned Citi ...
    Iran's National Organization for Educational Testing has issued a list of university courses that are banned for Afghans living in Iran, including atomic physics, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, and military sciences. The list has been published by the semi-offi ...
  • Broken Economy - Clinton Says US Economic Reco ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States needs a strong recovery in Europe to help right its own economy. Given the long-standing importance of cross-Atlantic trade, Clinton says the health of the U.S. economy is tied in part to how Europe manages its debt crisis. "In order to f ...
  • Europe on Edge - Britain's Queen Joins Giant F ...
    This weekend marks the culmination of year-long celebrations in Britain marking the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. A specially outfitted ship carried the 86-year-old queen and her family along the River Thames at the head of a 1,000-boat parade. Rain and cold kept many people awa ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Socialist Rabbi Who Taught Obama About Israel
    This past Tuesday, President Obama declared that he probably know more about Judaism than any other president because he read about it. He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish.” That might ve ...
  • Dems Worry That Obama's Losing Religious People
    In 2008 Barck Obama didn't win over the hearts and minds of people of faith--it wasn't necessary. The President's campaign did what it had to, close the gap, taking some of the votes away from a traditional GOP voting bloc a bit as part of the 2008 victory. The upcoming 2012 pres ...
  • Where Did All the Billions of Dollars Given to ...
    By Barry Rubin Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says that his regime is short of funds. And meanwhile a reader asks me: "Can you please explain to me why 20 years after Oslo and billions in dollars in foreign aid, the Palestinian Authority (PA) still has not built ...
  • What to Say When You’re Handed the Obama-Is-Go ...
    by Barry Rubin Many Americans, and particularly Jews, are starting to receive mailings encouraging them to vote for President Barack Obama or donate to his reelection campaign of by arguing that he is pro-Israel. Several readers have asked me to provide them with responses. Here is a brief a ...
  • Obama, Ayers and Klonsky: The Three Marxist Amigos
    When looking at the President's Marxist past, most people focus on Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who was described by the President as "just a guy from the neighborhood."  Actually the Obama, Ayers "duo" was a threesome; the future president, Bill Ayers and Mike Klonsky. K ...

The Real Agenda

  • Britain to Wage War on Syria as Rebels Reject ...
    Armed groups say not committed  to Annan’s peace plan anymore, and instead side with British-led attack. PRESSTV | JUNE 4, 2012 Britain is reportedly planning to set up refugee camps inside Syria under the pretext of saving civilian lives but in reality to help armed rebels fighting a ...
  • Russia, China and Arabs want to surrender Inte ...
    By JIM ALGAR | UPI | JUNE 4, 2012 The Internet could someday look very different and be less open and  free if a proposal for the International Telecommunications Union, an arm of the  United Nations, to take over management of the Internet comes to pass, critics  of the proposal say. ...
  • In Brazil, it is Monsanto vs 5,000,000
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 4, 2012 Monsanto is one of the most powerful corporations on the planet and one of a handful that heavily influences government policy when it comes to food production. This company is also one of a few that has proposed as their main goal to co ...
  • O Mundo Secreto de Google Cresce sem Controle
    O fascismo chega quando uma população perde o controle de seu governo e as empresas não são responsáveis por suas ações. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 3 JUNHO 2012 Alguém disse uma vez que chegaria um momento em que as pessoas gostariam de um estado de coisas que norma ...
  • France to ban Sybgenta Pesticide
    AFP | JUNE 2, 2012 The French government is to ban a pesticide made by Swiss giant Syngenta used in rapeseed cultivation that has been found to shorten bees’ lifespan, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said Friday. “I have warned the group that sells Cruiser that I envisage  ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm subsidies should be cut by 25 per ce ...
    Subsidies for wind farms should be cut even further than planned, the Treasury has suggested. George Osborne, the Chancellor, is said to be fighting Ed Davey, the energy secretary, for a deep cut in public support for onshore wind turbines. The Coalition last year proposed cutting the subsidy fo ...
  • Broken turbine blade problem found
    PAYNE – After an investigation lasting more than a month, the manufacturer of the wind turbine blades which failed at the Timber Road Wind Farm in Paulding County has determined a cause. Documents filed Friday with the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) by Vestas and by EDP Renewables show the ...
  • Operators refuse to shut down Kessingland turb ...
    Villagers disturbed by wind turbines in Kessingland have been told they cannot be shut down while operators try to fix problems with noise and vibration. Operators EcoGen and Triodos apologised for the disruption at a public meeting today, but refused to stop the turbines amid claims it would lo ...
  • Windmill project in Karnataka wildlife reserve ...
    Intervention by the courts and conservationists has stopped the destruction of a critical tiger corridor in the Western Ghats, where a private firm was permitted to set up windmills by the Karnataka forest department in violation or rules. Recently, the government withdrew the permission given t ...
  • Pickens may drop troubled wind deal
    An expanding list of problems plaguing a 78MW southern Minnesota wind development backed by T Boone Pickens has spawned reports that the billionaire Texas oil tycoon may be attempting to sell out of the $180 million deal. The AWA Goodhue project has been seeking state approval since 2008 – ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Drivers to Face New Road Repair Taxes
    “States are looking for new ways of taxing motorists as they seek to pay for highway and bridge repair and improvements without relying on the per-gallon gasoline tax widely viewed as all but obsolete.” (USA Today) Why is government even operating the roads? FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...
  • Debate to Begin on Ending Farm Payments
    “A program that puts billions of dollars in the pockets of farmers whether or not they plant a crop may disappear with hardly a protest from farm groups and the politicians who look out for their interests. The Senate is expected to begin debate this week on a five-year farm and food aid b ...
  • Hayek’s Wise Words
    “We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does not spare t ...
  • May Job Creation Anemic
    “The United States economy gained a net 69,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, a dismal showing that reflected mounting fears of a global slowdown. The unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent in April.” (New York Times) Do the politicians have it wrong? ...
  • Obama Cut Deals with Drug Firms on Health Care ...
    “Top administration officials cut backroom deals with the nation’s top drug companies to win support for President Obama’s health care overhaul, threatening them with steeper taxes if they resisted and promising a better financial deal for the industry if they acquiesced, according to inte ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.
  • The courses a student wishes he had taken
    As he prepares to graduate, University of Oregon public relations student Sam Drake reflects on the courses he did not take: Computer science: “To be able to code in Java, HTML, C++ or Python is one skill that is going to be extremely important in the coming years.” Marketing cla ...
  • The liberal arts portion of a journalism education
    Model Curricula for Journalism Education is a 150-page document produced by UNESCO and published in 2007. Its contents are based on work done in 2005 by an international group of journalism educators. While many details in the document (particularly the recommended books) are now quite out of d ...

Facing South

  • ALEC staggers but will it fall?
    The campaign calling on companies to sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council is one of the most successful corporate accountability initiatives in history, but it now faces the challenge of persuading those unfazed by consumer unrest. read more
  • Toxics lobby pours money into North Carolina p ...
    Big industrial polluters have been investing millions in lobbying and campaign contributions while seeking to weaken North Carolina standards governing health-damaging pollution. read more
  • Is Florida's voter purge breaking the law?
    Democrats and election watchdogs say that Florida's aggressive purging of supposed non-citizens from its voter rolls is a nakedly partisan attempt to help Mitt Romney win the presidency. But the bigger problem for Gov. Rick Scott is that it likely violates federal laws. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Fighting nuclear power's mone ...
    As the cost of proposed nuclear projects spirals out of control, regulated utilities across the Southeast turn to ratepayers for financing -- but they face growing resistance. read more
  • Study: One in 10 U.S. veterans has no health i ...
    Research by the Urban Institute finds a high rate of veterans who lack insurance in states like Louisiana that have been slow to implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • The Need to "De-Nairobify" Somali Affairs
    For quite some time, international players have been conducting operations related to Somalia from across the Kenyan border in Nairobi.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease
    Or at least, the Bank of Canada thinks so, though they’ll never call it by that name: Nonetheless, Canada’s current account was in surplus for many years before the crisis, and is now expected to remain in deficit indefinitely. The main reason? A currency at parity with the U.S. dollar mea ...
  • My sympathy is about out
    If the Irish vote in a referendum for austerity, then they deserve what they get.  Current polls are showing Greeks will probably vote for pro-austerity parties as well, if so, again, my sympathy will be out.  Democracy is about getting what you vote for, if countries vote for austerity, then th ...
  • John Edwards
    His trial has been declared a mistrial. The personal is not the political. His wife seemed like a good person, but I could care less.  FDR cheated on his wife.  JFK screwed hookers in the White House pool while married. The facts about John Edwards that I care about are these: 1) He was the [...]
  • What’s left of the economy will roll off ...
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]
  • What’s left of the economy will roll off a cliff
    in the beginning of next year.  China is heading for a hard landing, Europe is a basket case and once the election is over no one will be propping up the US economy for a while. Make as much money as you can now, work as much overtime, unless you’re sure your revenue stream is [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • It Can Happen Here: The Screwed Generation in ...
    In Madrid you see them on the streets, jobless, aimless, often bearing college degrees but working as cabbies, baristas, street performers, or—more often—not at all. In Spain as in Greece, nearly half of the adults under 25 don’t work. Call them the screwed generation, the victims ...
  • Vermont: The Cost of Joining the Gentry Class
    There’s nothing particularly modern about traditional rural gentrification. The English roots of successful upper-middle-class urbanites retiring to newly acquired country estates with large houses and small livestock flocks are 18th century or older. Perhaps its earliest American example is Al ...
  • Latin America’s Demographic Divergence
    Increasingly, the debate over plummeting world birth rates is shifting to the developing world. This includes Latin America where on the whole rates are dropping quickly from 5.98 children per woman in 1960 to 2.20 children per woman in 2010. Yet these aggregate numbers do not reflect the ...
  • China's Top Growth Centers
    Hefei, the capital of historically poor Anhui province emerged as China's top growth center among major metropolitan areas over the past 10 years. Metropolitan areas from the interior, the Yangtze Delta and the central and northern coast were the fastest growing, displacing Guangdong's Pearl ...
  • Declining Birthrates Key to Europe's Decline
    The labor demonstrators, now an almost-daily occurrence in Madrid and other economically-devastated southern European cities lambast austerity and budget cuts as the primary  cause for their current national crisis. But longer-term, the biggest threat to the European Union has less to do ...

GM Watch

  • Meet the corporate front groups
    Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food  Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins AlterNet, May 31 2012     http://www.alternet.org/story/155675 *Here's a partial lineup of hired guns and organizations behind the anti-labeling advertising blitz soon ...
  • Meet the corporate front groups
    Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food  Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins AlterNet, May 31 2012     http://www.alternet.org/story/155675 *Here's a partial lineup of hired guns and organizations behind the anti-labeling advertising blitz soon ...
  • A scientist's response to Rothamsted
    1.GM Wheat Journalists Unquestioning and Supine 2.A Scientist's Response to Rothamsted --- --- 1.GM Wheat Journalists Unquestioning and Supine Lawrence Woodward http://www.gmeducation.org/s/blog/p149360/gm-wheat-journalists-unquestioning-and-supine.html The Guardian carried an article by James ...
  • A scientist's response to Rothamsted
    1.GM Wheat Journalists Unquestioning and Supine 2.A Scientist's Response to Rothamsted --- --- 1.GM Wheat Journalists Unquestioning and Supine Lawrence Woodward http://www.gmeducation.org/s/blog/p149360/gm-wheat-journalists-unquestioning-and-supine.html The Guardian carried an article by James ...
  • 'Science one, whining greenies nil'
    NOTE: SpinWatch has published an updated version of Jonathan's article about the PR campaign unleashed in response to last weekend's Take the Flour Back protest. There are lots of embedded links on the SpinWatch page.  --- --- 'Science one, whining greenies nil'             

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spiked

Cryptogon

  • Arming Police Drones with Rubber Bullets and T ...
    Via: CBS: With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft. Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mex ...
  • New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Onlin ...
    It’s time for some comedy. Via: Wired: Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as ...
  • Depleted Uranium: Kids of ‘The Iraqi Hir ...
    Via: Vice: I had been to Fallujah before, but I didn’t have any access to the hospital then. The last time I went, I did. Fallujah is particularly interesting because it is being called “the Iraqi Hiroshima” – the town was obliterated in 2004, in the Battle of Fallujah.
  • NSA Running College Programs for Cyber Operators
    Via: Reuters: The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to providing the basic education for ...
  • DELL DOWN 17%
    Dell Inc. (DELL) 12.51 Down 2.57(17.04%) 10:49AM EDT Splat. Via: Reuters: Shares of Dell Inc (DELL.O) fell 15 percent on Wednesday after a weak revenue forecast and disappointing quarterly results triggered stock price target cuts by a slew of brokerages on the world’s No. 3 personal compu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...
  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...

Desertification

  • Climate-smart agriculture for food security (CDKN)
    Read : A link mentioned by Cynthia Odera http://cdkn.org/2012/01/joto-afrika-special-issue-climate-smart-agriculture-for-food-security-in-africa-2/?loclang=en_gb ‘Joto Afrika’ special issue: Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa Agriculture in developing countries must change sig ...
  • I love flowers (Willem Van Cotthem)
  • NEGLECTED INDIGENOUS FOOD CAN BE IMPORTANT TOO ...
    New York, May 31 2012  2:05PM Indigenous foods which have been neglected by the food industry and urban consumers can be an important tool to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, a United Nations official said today. “The focus of research and … Continue reading →
  • Trees against floods in Pakistan (Alertnet)
    Tree planting helps Pakistani farmers weather floods Source: Alertnet // Saleem Shaikh And Sughra Tunio By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio KHAIRPUR MIR’S, Pakistan (AlertNet) – Abdul Qadir Shah, a cotton farmer in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, has been able … Continue reading &# ...
  • HUNGER ERADICATION ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE SUSTAI ...
    New York, May 30 2012  6:05PM Sustainable development will not be achieved unless hunger and malnutrition are eradicated, the United Nations food agency warned today in a new report. “We cannot call development sustainable while this situation persists, while nearly … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • NYPD school police citations draw criticism
    Previously undisclosed school police records from New York City are raising new concerns about students getting heavily ticketed for vague allegations of disorderly conduct.   More than 70 percent of court summonses issued to New York City school students between January and the end of ...
  • 'Stop Silicosis,' a 1938 Dept. of Labor film
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  • OSHA rules on workplace toxics stalled
    At 58, retired machinist Bruce Revers is tethered to his oxygen machines — a wall unit when he’s at home, a portable tank when he’s out. The simple act of walking to the curb to pick up his newspaper is a grind.“This is a hell of a thing to live with,” Revers, of Orange, Calif., said of his wors ...
  • OPINION: Guess who would benefit from privatiz ...
    If you think the idea of privatizing Medicare has gone away, that the health insurance industry has thrown in the towel on one of its biggest goals, there was fresh evidence last week that you would be wrong.As I wrote more than a year ago — when Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) unveiled his plan to rep ...
  • Wisconsin recall breaks record thanks to outsi ...
    Tuesday’s recall election of Republican Gov. Scott Walker is the most expensive in Wisconsin history. More than $63.5 million has been spent by candidates and independent groups, the overwhelming majority underwritten by out-of-state sources.The record spending total was made possible thank ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Green, gay, and duping the news
    By Mark Leiren-Young Green Lantern is gay? It sounds like big news, doesn’t it? It was reported like it was big news. And, of course, loopy American Christians opposed to living in the 21st century proclaimed that DC’s decision to change an iconic character’s sexuality was corrupting their child ...
  • Inside Read: Doom — Love Poems for Super ...
    Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, Toronto poet and music journalist Natalie Zina Walschots brings a distinctly erotic edge to her examination of comic book evildoers. Says her publisher: “DOOM addresses th ...
  • Renamed ferry terminal is fitting tribute to J ...
    A BoB short: The Toronto Island Ferry Terminal is set to be renamed in honour of the late NDP leader, Jack Layton. Also a long-time Toronto city councillor, Layton died of cancer last year. The motion was put forward by Mayor Rob Ford, who said that naming the terminal after the widely-admired p ...
  • RIM: An ex-insider on what will happen next
    By Ruth Haworth The Globe & Mail revealed earlier this week that Research in Motion is planning large layoffs in the next couple of weeks, probably more than 2,000 of its 16,500 worldwide workforce. I got out just in time: I resigned from RIM so recently that my last day was this week and I ...
  • Dziekanski flies like a bird in opera
    The tragic story of Robert Dziekanski has become an opera, opening on Thursday in Halifax. Composer John Plant and author J.A. Wainwright have put music and lyrics together to tell the tale of the Polish immigrant who died in 2007 after being tasered multiple times by RCMP at Vancouver Internati ...

libcom

  • South Africa: victory for student hunger strik ...
    Micah Roshan Reddy reports from Wits University, South Africa, where a hunger strike by students against a proposed abusive sacking of 17 catering staff became an international campaign and secured a remarkable victory. This year has ...
  • Repression of day-laborer organizing in Tokyo
    qtama.jpg A day-laborer organizer in Tokyo has been held in solitary confinement, for almost four months, by police for a broken window. (this article is an updated and expanded ...
  • Sussex University outsourcing update
    aitoiaita.jpg A short update on opposition to privatisation at the University of Sussex. More demonstrations. Tuesday's demonstration happened despite Unison emailing its ...
  • Return of the repressed; new days of rage for ...
    Ashulia_clash-fire-May-2012.jpg After a long period of relative quiet, workers are again taking mass action in the Bangladeshi garment industry. Also; some comments on the recent wave of political &#0 ...
  • Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Wall Street ...
    An anonymous anarchist infiltrator in the NYPD provides the cops' explanation of their actions in their own words. Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012 read more

Free Range International

  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]
  • The Storm
    I drove into town the next morning to pick up supplies for the horses and my dog, Tor Spay (which means “black dog” in Pashtu), who was due to arrive within the next 24 hours.  But first I hit Starbucks, aka “Fivebucks,” so that I could check my email.  I paused at the entrance because [...]
  • Calm Before the Storm
    Dalton Thomas posts the second  of I’m still not sure how many posts about coming home. I didn’t sleep well on my third night home.  I gave up trying around 0500, made coffee and sat outside to watch the sunrise.  Just after 0800 the county sheriffs prowler climbed up the long gravel driv ...
  • One Year Later
    Last night I was coming back from the Lebanese Restaurant located in the Wazar Akbar Khan section of Kabul.  Back in the day it had a full bar and open patio with large crowds of expat customers, but not these days.  Now you have to walk through a long blast proof hallway through a series [...]
  • Dalton Thomas Comes Home
    This is the first of what I hope is many posts from my friend Dalton Thomas.  He wanted me to stress that he is practicing his creative writing skills and his story is a fictional account of coming home after being gone a long long time. I went to the local family practice center for [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Remembering Rachel Corrie
    She was her Daddy’s “Little Girl” -   Her name, Rachel Corrie. Take a few minutes and remember her LIFE, and her tragic death in 2003, especially her speech as a tender 5th grader:  
  • Why Homeland Security Needs 650 Million Bullet ...
    Because of the arch-enemy of humanity, one Osama bin Laden (aka Tim Osman – CIA) and the “terror” he supposedly inflicted on the entire free world Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military, most likely under orders from Israel, invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.   Unto ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • AMERICA FIRST-BEFORE POLITICS by Scotty
    AMERICA FIRST BEFORE POLITICS While listening to the Interview by FAREED ZAKARIA who was interviewing Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.  I was pleasantly suprised that Simpson had the guts to put America First before Politics. (emphasis added by Scotty) At the start of the Interview he got my ful ...
  • Tell EPA to step in to ensure Keystone XL sout ...
    In less than 45 days, Canadian oil giant TransCanada could receive the rubber stamp it needs to build the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma through Texas to the Gulf Coast — unless we convince the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.   News ...
  • Get ready… National Green Week is only 7 days ...
    Reblogged from Green Education Foundation (GEF): Get ready! National Green Week 2012 is only a week away! For those of you who don’t know, National Green Week is the largest waste reduction campaign in history for K-12 schools nationwide.  This year’s event will be kicking off on February 6, 201 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Houla Massacres and the Cold War Against R ...
    The Houla Massacre I find the US government version of the Houla massacre in Syria extremely problematic for all the usual reasons: 1)      The story keeps changing. The initial reporting blamed the civilian deaths on heavy artillery bombardment and shelling by the Syria ...
  • 150,000 Postal Workers to Lose Their Jobs
    Occupy the Post Office May 15th marked the end of the 4½ month moratorium on post office closures. The Postmaster General was pressured to call the moratorium last December, following an outcry from Senate and state leaders. A week after the moratorium ended, the US Postal Service (USP ...
  • CIA Whistleblower Talks of 12 Month Incarcerat ...
          Ex-CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Embed feature still not working today. Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LUHa_-OlA&feature=related Former CIA asset Susan Lindauer describes how the Department of Homeland Security locked her up on a military base for 12 ...
  • 97% Owned: Democratizing the Money Supply
    Film Review (The embed feature isn't working today - for a free link go to http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/97-owned/) 97% Owned is a documentary by a British group called Positive Money. It’s an ideal film for people who have difficulty comprehending that the government doesn’t iss ...
  • Insider Trading by Facebook and Goldman Sachs: ...
    Learning that Goldman Sachs is being sued for insider trading for their role in misleading investors about Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is raising a lot of red flags here in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs is one of three investment banks New Zealand’s National government ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 11 UC DAVIS STUDENTS, PROFESSOR, CHARGED FOR U ...
    Accused May Face up to Eleven Years in Prison Occupy UC Davis Antirepression Crew Media oucd-antirepression-media@googlegroups.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Call-In to Oppose Prosecution of the 12 UCD Protesters Contact: Yolo County District Attorney at (530) 666-8180 or Fax: ...
  • Former Top CIA Official Defends Waterboarding ...
    Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, has written a new book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives which defends the CIA's use of waterboarding after 9/11 and disputes that it amounted to ...
  • New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained b ...
    NPS Production Documents: Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with the ...
  • 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of C ...
    PRESS ADVISORY 20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience Disruption of Congressional “Super Committee” could result in 6-month sentence Retired Naval Commander Leah Bolger will appear in court Thursday, April 12th 2012 on charges stemming from her arrest on O ...
  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • With further PTC uncertainty, where is the win ...
  • Policy Decisions Make Things Happen for the Sm ...
  • Greg Jaczko – Lame Duck Press Conference At Nu ...
     I had the opportunity to attend the Nuclear Energy Assembly held in Charlotte, NC during the period from May 21-23. Dr. Gregory Jaczko submitted his resignation as the Chairman of the NRC on May 21, but he did not change his plans to address the annual nuclear industry gathering on May 23. ...
  • Wind Power’s CO2-Cutting Impact Disputed
    Inconsistency of supply is one of the biggest drawbacks of renewables such as wind and solar. Put simply: the wind doesn’t blow all day, and the sun doesn’t shine at night. Now scientists are saying that the sporadic supply of renewables coupled with an inefficient power grid means that car ...
  • Harvest the Wind
    Bill Stovall is a long-haul trucker from Texas. He used to deliver fresh meats and produce, a job he did with pride. But for the past few years, he's been hauling a very different kind of load, in a special, telescoping truck-trailer combo that stretches out to 168 feet. All that length is devot ...

EU Times

  • Portuguese bank demands 1.3bn euros in state a ...
    The Portuguese bank BPI has reportedly asked for 1.3 billion euros in public aid to comply with the principles laid out by the European Banking Authority, as the financial crisis in the eurozone seems to be deepening. Banco BPI, which is Portugal’s third largest listed bank, said on Monday that ...
  • Couple arrested in France for mutilating their ...
    An Islamic holy man and his wife have been jailed for the genital mutilation of their four daughters. The case has shocked France and was branded by a female government minister as a ‘grave crime’ and an ‘intolerable affront to women’s dignity.’ All four of the vict ...
  • Bilderberg Group Exposed Worldwide on their 58 ...
    Times have never been more exciting as the Bilderberg Group has now been exposed worldwide on the 58th anniversary of their ultra secret meetings. The alternative media, along with the help of some very brave mainline press agencies such as the Drudge Report, the London Guardian, German sources, ...
  • Germany sells Israel nuke-ready submarines
    Germany is supplying the Israeli Navy with submarines that are fully capable of being fitted to carry cruise missiles with nuclear-warheads, Spiegel reports. Thus, if Israel does indeed have any such missiles, it could deploy them immediately. ­The extensive military deal suggests that German sh ...
  • 10,000 Egyptian protestors return to Cairo in ...
    Egypt descended into chaos last night despite President Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence, after he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off huge protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the birthplace of the Arab Spring. By nightfall, a large crowd of up to 10,000 w ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Lets Make the Jubilee the Last Gasp of a Discr ...
    Stuff the Jubilee and the Royal Parasites Anti-monarchy protesters gather on the banks of the river Thames at city hall, London. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/PA   A variety of tyrants and pretenders
  • Who is Mitt Romney? We know who he is!
    For one he's no Barack Obama! The life and career of Mitt Romney is an open book with a traceable background that clearly runs from Point A to Point B with no unknown detours in-between.   Barack Obama on-the-other-hand is certainly a well-crafted work, but one that could contain fiction, non-f ...
  • THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012): MTV Movie Awards ...
    The Dark Knight Rises MTV Movie Awards Video Footage. The 2012 MTV Movie Awards video footage for The Dark Knight Rises is mostly comprised of new scenes with large doses of Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Anne Hathaway), ending with her telling Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s character that she is afraid of B ...
  • Johnny Depp Wins The MTV Generation Award At T ...
    We want to send a huge congratulations out to Johnny Depp who took home the MTV Generation Award at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2012. Johnny has starred in a number of amazing movies, and played so many memorable characters, including our favorite Captain Jack Sparrow! Watch Johnny acc ...
  • Can Elizabeth Warren Beat the Curse of Female ...
    Her show of force at the state Democratic convention this weekend was reassuring for supporters rattled by a few rough weeks. Reuters It's been clear for some time that Elizabeth Warren would be the Democratic Senate nominee in Massachusetts. What has been in doubt of late is whether she would ...

Groklaw

  • Internet powers flip the IPv6 switch
    What began as a 24-hour test a year ago will become business as usual on Wednesday as a range of big-name Internet companies permanently switch on the next-generation IPv6 networking technology. And now there's no turning back. - Stephen Shankland, CNET
  • Apple CEO: Microsoft might have too much bagga ...
    Cook drew a sharp line between tablets and PCs, saying the former are "not encumbered by the legacy of the PC." Instead of blending a tablet with a PC, Apple made something new and different, he said. "I think convergence is great in many areas, but I think that products are about trade-offs, a ...
  • Open Standards Holiday Deadline
    Your last chance to keep Britain open is here. As Glyn noted this morning, the UK's Open Standards Consultation closes tonight at midnight in the UK. ... I'm told that as well as being a search for facts and opinions, this is partly a numbers game where a high volume of responses for a particula ...
  • The Oracle v. Google aftermath
    The Oracle v. Google patent and copyright trial is over, resulting in definitive wins for Google on both fronts. Ars interviewed two Google attorneys-general counsel Kent Walker, and litigation counsel Renny Hwang-asking for their sense of what the case could mean beyond its effects on the compa ...
  • Facebook IPO: Wall Street Wins, Muppets Lose, ...
    On the surface, it may seem like a simple mis-pricing by the main underwriting banks and Facebook. However, judging from the sequence of reported events (see timeline below), instead of a "botched" event, the IPO is actually a total success by Wall Street standard, since concerted effort appear ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Eurozone “bought time” is ending
    The Spanish real estate bubble was much more pronounced than here and hasn’t fully deflated yet. Their banks make ours look like models of stability. Currently the ECB is loaning money to these banks which the banks in turn use to buy government bonds. This doesn’t help real estate v ...
  • Bassnectar – Ugly ft. Amp Live
  • Drachmas appear on Bloomberg ticker
    Bloomberg said they were just testing. Testing for what? Alexander Higgins reports that intermediary companies have seen the new drachma bills.
  • Bill Bloomfield, independent, cautiously optim ...
    Credit: bloomfieldforcongress.comBill Bloomfield’s congressional campaign is sn example of how the new California open primary can help elect genuine moderates or at the very least, get their views known. Bloomfield is running a self-financed campaign as an independent against incumbent He ...
  • Electro-shock torture school donates exclusive ...
    Last night I wrote about the Boston, Massachusetts school which gives electric shocks as “treatment” to autistic kids – a practise which has led to two successive UN Rapporteurs on Torture calling for the school to be closed.I noted at the time that there must be some heavy pol ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, June 4, 2012
  • An amazing Kiwi off to Rio
    I’d like to congratulate Brittany Trilford, who is off the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Brazil after winning the Date With History contest. She won it after posting this amazing short video – The future I want:   It was a pleasure to meet her this week along with Kennedy Graham and Holly W ...
  • Gold rush or fools gold? Fracking and the ‘Gol ...
    This week the International Energy Agency has published a report into the future of gas, with a focus on the controversial fracking method.
  • “General support… no specifics… no UN document ...
    Yesterday the Parliament celebrated the 25th anniversary of New Zealand’s nuclear-free zone.  It was a day of reminiscence, with a formal gathering at noon and a notice of motion in the House straight after.  Having done my doctorate on nuclear-free zones and having participated in the South Pac ...
  • Scientists say ‘fin’ to shark finning.
    I was on Breakfast this morning talking about an open letter released this week from 40 international scientists documenting their concerns of shark management, with specific mention of the poor way New Zealand conducts shark conservation.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Can Celery Be Useful to Treat Breast Cancer?
    By Dr. Mercola The University of Missouri was abuzz with excitement recently when researchers announced they'd found a non-toxic treatment that can stop breast cancer in its tracks. In the study, this treatment worked even on deadly, fast-growing breast tumors, inhibiting cell proliferation ...
  • This Everyday Outdoor Mistake Can Make You a M ...
    By Dr. Mercola With the height of the sun season upon us, health officials are telling everybody to pull out their sunscreen and slather it on. But before you do that, it might be best to check the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) 2012 Sunscreen Guidei to see if your sunscreen is one of ...
  • Task Force Tells Women to Stop Doing This (No, ...
    By Dr. Mercola The US Preventive Services Task Force recently published its draft recommendations on hormone replacement therapyi. While the task force has previously sparked controversy with its recommendations for breast cancer- and PSA prostate cancer screening, their recommendations for ...
  • Ignore This Essential Habit and Your Health Wi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Researchers have learned that circadian rhythms—the 24-hour cycles known as your internal body clock—are involved in everything from sleep to weight gain, mood disorders, and a variety of diseases. Your body actually has many internal clocks—in your brain, lungs, liver, heart ...
  • Ask Your Doctor: Are You Being Bribed to Recom ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ever wonder why your child's pediatrician—or your own physician for that matter—seems to be pushing vaccines on you every time you walk in the door? Does your doctor actually seem angry if you're not interested in buying a dose of that flu vaccine? Well, maybe it's because he ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Mick Jagger drawn into row over ‘illegal gas g ...
    Mick Jagger was named Peru's honorary Environmental Ambassador last year. © Survival Music legend Mick Jagger has been drawn into a bitter row over an ‘illegal gas grab’ in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru’s government has provoked fury from indigenous groups after it was discovered that it ...
  • Tribes urge UK to sign law to ‘guarantee’ thei ...
    Kenya's Samburu tribe has urged the UK to ratify ILO 169. © Survival Tribes from four continents have urged Britain to ratify a law that will ‘guarantee’ their survival. It is the first time a group of tribal representatives have made such a direct appeal, reflecting the urgent need f ...
  • Film footage released to mark 20-year annivers ...
    Yanomami woman. The Yanomami territory has allowed uncontacted Indians to survive. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami Indians in Brazil have released aerial film footage of an uncontacted Indian community, to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the ‘Yanomami Park’. This Yanomami are ...
  • Humiliation as Indian Minister scraps lecture ...
    Naveen Patnaik's state of Odisha is renowned for brutally crushing indigenous protests © Survival The controversial Chief Minister of an Indian state has pulled out of a public lecture after learning that human rights organizations would attend. Naveen Patnaik’s 12-years as Chief Mini ...
  • Paper forced to apologize to Penan after false ...
    A Penan family. The tribe have been the subject of several defamatory stories in Malaysia's press. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival A Malaysian paper has been forced to apologize after publishing a highly controversial report, which accused the Penan tribe of practising incest. It is th ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Caveman Blogger Fights for Free Speech and Int ...
    Blogger says state tried to censor his website from brasschecktv.com: Can the government throw you in jail for offering advice on the Internet? That is exactly the claim made by the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. This animated short from the Institute for Justice tells the story.
  • Is this an American Beverage Association ad in ...
    from theatlantic.com: If the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is placing ads attacking Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to limit the size of soft drinks to 16 ounces, he must have done something right. CCF...is used as an attack dog by the National Restaurant Association and other food and beverag ...
  • Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 ...
    from guardian.co.uk: "The news today, that some stations have measured concentrations above 400ppm in the atmosphere, is further evidence that the world's political leaders – with a few honourable exceptions – are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis," former vi ...
  • 20 yrs later, the Biotech Brigade marches on….
    from source: Twenty years ago this week Dan Quayle went against scientific consensus to publicly proclaim that genetically engineered foods were “substantially equivalent” to non-GE food, and that he would therefore work to ensure that GE food would not be “hampered by unnecessary regulation.” ...
  • #Audio: Episode022 - Potland, Oregon
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show one last time and goes out in a blaze of medical marijuana glory in Ore ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...
  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • May she defend our laws, and all that...
    "Royal Assent is the Monarch's agreement to make a Bill into an Act of Parliament. The Monarch actually has the right to refuse Royal Assent but nowadays this does not happen and the Royal Assent is a formality." - www.parliament.uk While the British people have never needed any excuse to have ...
  • The Banker Fraud: So simple, a 12-year-old can ...
    Meet 12-year old Victoria Grant from Canada. She has been looking at the issue of the global economic situation and trying to work out what on earth the problem is. From the mouths of babes, it really is this simple: Banker fraud. You don't need to be Einstein to understand it. 1 ...
  • Blair and Bilderberg: The Other Smoking Gun
    A fascinating three way collaboration between The Guardian newspaper, writer Charlie Skelton and We Are Change activist Luke Rudkowski yesterday highlighted Tony Blair's discrepancies over his recollections of attending the Bilderberg conference in Greece in 1993. Skelton wrote - and The Guar ...
  • Young US Forces Vet Claims Forced Vaccination ...
    Courtesy of We Are Change, watch the following video clip featuring a Bilderberg protester who attempted to film arrivals of Bilderberg attendees yesterday: So, the first guy in that video clip was interviewed live by Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change today. The protester claims to be an e ...
  • Bilderberg 2012 Protests: Watch LIVE
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Facing South

  • ALEC staggers but will it fall?
    The campaign calling on companies to sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council is one of the most successful corporate accountability initiatives in history, but it now faces the challenge of persuading those unfazed by consumer unrest. read more
  • Toxics lobby pours money into North Carolina p ...
    Big industrial polluters have been investing millions in lobbying and campaign contributions while seeking to weaken North Carolina standards governing health-damaging pollution. read more
  • Is Florida's voter purge breaking the law?
    Democrats and election watchdogs say that Florida's aggressive purging of supposed non-citizens from its voter rolls is a nakedly partisan attempt to help Mitt Romney win the presidency. But the bigger problem for Gov. Rick Scott is that it likely violates federal laws. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Fighting nuclear power's mone ...
    As the cost of proposed nuclear projects spirals out of control, regulated utilities across the Southeast turn to ratepayers for financing -- but they face growing resistance. read more
  • Study: One in 10 U.S. veterans has no health i ...
    Research by the Urban Institute finds a high rate of veterans who lack insurance in states like Louisiana that have been slow to implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
  • [OT] I Just Got Married!
    You might have noticed a tremendous decrease in posting frequency over the past few months (especially during April 2012). I got married on April 30th 2012 to my college sweetheart, Suji John. Since Tech Drive-in is a one-man-effort for the most part, I was just not able to keep up. N ...
  • Two Ways to Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has just been released. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. We will be doing a comprehensive review of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" very soon. Anyway, here is how you can easily upgrade to latest Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier version of Ubunt ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NARCOLPESY VICTIMS OF SWINE FLU JAB CAN JOIN M ...
    Anyone who has developed narcolepsy as a result of a swine flu vaccine can join my case in Austria as a victim and apply for compensation, according to new legal advice. To apply for compensation, all you need to do is send 1)      a diagnosis confirming narcolepsy as a result of a pandemic [...]
  • Narcolepsy traced to 12 Pandemrix batches in S ...
    Twelve of the 35 batches of the Pandemrix vaccine have been linked with narcolepsy in Sweden, according to a new study by the country’s narcolepsy association http://www.thelocal.se/41180/20120601/ http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.962202-vaccinets-nitlott-narkolepsi 224 people in Sweden so far ...
  • Did Baxter’s Celvapan contain an adjuvan ...
    The myth that Baxter’s Celvapan swine flu vaccine was a safer has been called into question by the findings of the Irish government, which showed that Celvapan caused narcolepsy. http://www.dohc.ie/publications/pdf/Final_Report_of_National_Narcolepsy_Study_Steering_Committee.pdf?direct=1 Celvapa ...
  • UK government unveils plans to vaccinate all s ...
    A terrible development. Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2151678/Children-soon-given-annual-flu-vaccinations-school-prevent-spread-illness-age-groups.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
  • Infowars covers Bilderberg meeting
    Check out the latest news on the 2012 Bilderberg meeting in the USA at infowars.com http://www.infowars.com/knock-knock-whos-there-bilderberg-bilderberg-who/ Politicians are a bit thin on the ground this year according to the official list of participants but Austrian SPÖ Chancellor and Globalis ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Professional Courtesies for the Sharks in the ...
    By Les Visible The lies just keep coming about Syria and Iran, courtesy of the wholly owned Zionist mass media. They own the music and movie machines so you can also see what’s being projectile vomited into our eyes and ears. Their hired killers go round the world, killing at will, blowing ...
  • Houla, Syria Stunt Proves That Old Tricks are ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian government was not responsible for shelling to deaths some 32 children and their parents, as periodically claimed and ...
  • Eating Aluminum: Is It As Safe As Our Regulato ...
    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post Aluminum toxicity, a characteristically man-made problem, is now impossible to avoid and has become a post-modern rite of passage. Our environment has become so polluted with the stuff, that even our crop plants are being threatened, with biotechnology firms n ...
  • Record 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have f ...
    By Muriel Kane According to a new report from the Associated Press, a record 45% of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking compensation for service-related injuries. This is more than double the rate for Gulf War veterans. For all the publicity given to “Gulf Wa ...
  • Smartcard flaw opens door to identity theft
    Bill Goodwin Thursday 16 May 2002 01:00 The Government may be forced to rethink its plans to introduce a national identity smartcard after scientists revealed details of a low-cost attack that could allow criminals to read and copy confidential data. Researchers at Cambridge University’s c ...

Veterans Today

  • Is Time Running Out for the VA Temporary Resid ...
    In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37.
  • Indiana Veterans’ Home Remembers Fallen Heroes
    On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.
  • Japan’s Broke – Highest Debt Ratio ...
    While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is n ...
  • Duff on Press TV – Missile Shield and Na ...
    "The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to o ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008.

electric politics

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

PR News

  • The System Within names Susan Blond AOR
    NEW YORK: International networking organization The System Within has selected Susan Blond Inc. as its AOR. The firm will launch a revamped website for the group this summer.
  • NASDAQ OMX to launch video platform at NIRI
    NEW YORK: NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions will launch a customizable multi-platform video and slideshow news viewer called Streaming Media Player at the 2012 National Investor Relations Institute conference this week. It will also relaunch GlobeNewswire.com, the company's digital news publishing ...
  • Fenton hires Kreider to lead Washington office
    WASHINGTON: Fenton has hired Kalee Kreider, former communications director and environmental adviser to former Vice President Al Gore, as MD of its Washington office.
  • Red Robin picks Coyne as AOR, replacing Linhart
    GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO: Restaurant chain Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has selected Coyne PR as AOR after an RFP involving a dozen agencies.
  • IRS renews contract with TMP Worldwide
    WASHINGTON: The Internal Revenue Service has renewed its contract with TMP Worldwide for another year.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Reconstructing Regional Stability: Afghanistan ...
    China Daily June 4, 2012 Reconstructing regional stability ==== The clearer the West’s intention was to impose on Kabul its political, economic and other standards, the stronger the SCO documents stressed the fruitlessness of resolving the conflict solely through military means and the ove ...
  • International Relations at Turning Point: Russ ...
    Itar-Tass June 3, 2012 SCO enlargement to give fresh boost to organization MOSCOW: Moscow stands for the enlargement of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which will give it a fresh boost, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Xinhua ahead of the SCO Beijing summit. “Obviously, regional ...
  • Pentagon Prepares for Confrontation in the Asi ...
    Stop NATO June 2, 2012 Pentagon Prepares for Confrontation in the Asia-Pacific Rick Rozoff In January of this year the three officials in charge of U.S. global military strategy and operations – commander-in-chief President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of th ...
  • Stop NATO: Digest for May 28-June 1
    Stop NATO: Digest for May 28-June 1 “Humanitarian Intervention” May Cause Bigger Disaster In Syria Politicizing humanitarian crises is a dangerous tendency. The so-called humanitarian intervention in a country’s domestic crisis has often resulted in a bigger or a real humanitarian disaster. On t ...
  • “Humanitarian Intervention” May Ca ...
    People’s Daily June 1, 2012 ‘Humanitarian intervention’ may cause bigger disaster By Tian Wenlin Eight Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom, expelled Syrian diplomats Tuesday in response to a massacre of civilians in the Syrian town of Houla on May 25. ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Bilderberg Photo Gallery
    theintelhub.com | A series of pictures captured throughout the bilderberg meeting at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly Virginia. A sneek peek inside Bilderberg.
  • The Media is Dead….Long Live the Media (Bilder ...
    J.G. Vibes | This weekend while CNN, MSNBC, FOX and their identical counterparts were sitting in their air conditioned offices running pointless and divisive stories to distract the public, the REAL media was on the ground at Bilderberg 2012 chasing down the limousines of war criminals.
  • Diverse Activist Groups Unify to Protest Bilde ...
    J.G. Vibes | This fact was not overlooked by those in attendance, many of whom took place in respectful and friendly debating, hashing out their ideas and finding common ground.
  • Bilderberg 2012 and the Death of Corporate Media
    Avalon | Consider for a moment that 200 plus of some of the most powerful and wealthy individuals on the planet are to meet in one place for a ‘private’ meeting that has a tradition shrouded in secrecy for over 50 years – and virtually no corporate media covers the event.
  • The Killer Elite Hit List Against “Certi ...
    Sartre | The recent disclosure that Barack Obama pours over a master list of threats and picks the most dangerous candidates for surgical removal, demonstrates the care and precision used against "certified terrorists".

FRS

  • Syria: A darkening horizon
    29 May 2012. A World to Win News Service. The photos of dozens of dead little children – their bodies lying side by side in a row, each upturned face tearing at the heart of anyone who has ever loved a child and bringing to mind other children all over the world – convey only [...]
  • Syria: A darkening horizon
    29 May 2012. A World to Win News Service. The photos of dozens of dead little children – their bodies lying side by side in a row, each upturned face tearing at the heart of anyone who has ever loved a child and bringing to mind other children all over the world – convey only [...]
  • Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Uncons ...
    8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision AlterNet / By Kristen Gwynne A US district judge has exposed the NYPD game as an illegal system of quotas and racial profiling imposed on field police from the top of the NYPD. May 28, 2012  | This month, a federal judge in New York dealt a blow [...]
  • Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Uncons ...
    8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision AlterNet / By Kristen Gwynne A US district judge has exposed the NYPD game as an illegal system of quotas and racial profiling imposed on field police from the top of the NYPD. May 28, 2012  | This month, a federal judge in New York dealt a blow [...]
  • Chinese Workers Defy the Government and Employ ...
    by Sarah Vrba May 29, 2012 An intense protest of enraged migrant workers broke out on Tuesday in Ruian, China. The city is located in the Zhejiang, a wealthy province in China. Reuters reports that about 1,000 migrant workers proceeded to turn over an iron gate, and damaged at least a dozen cars ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Radioactive Fish Invade U.S. Waters
    More than a year after the nuclear disaster in Japan, Pacific bluefin tuna were found off the coast of California with alarmingly high levels of radiation.Contributor: KW Rosenfeld Published: May 30, 2012
  • Report: Obama Redefines 'Militant' to Avoid Co ...
    President Barack Obama has embraced a disputed method for counting civilian drone strike casualties in which all military-aged males in a strike zone are counted as militants, several administration officials told the New York Times.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 30, 2012
  • Fox News Guest Says Letting Women Vote "One of ...
    Fox News contributor and fundamentalist clergyman Jesse Lee Peterson delivered a sermon in which he said that allowing women to vote was one of the greatest mistakes America has made; despite this, he was invited on Sean Hannity's program.Contributor: Brett Wilkins Published: May 08, 2012
  • 9/11 Trial Proves America Still Hasn’t Gotten ...
    Five defendants of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are facing hearings in Cuba.Contributor: William Browning Published: May 06, 2012
  • Canada Kills the Penny; Should the U.S. Follow ...
    May 4 marked the final date of production of the Canadian penny. Should the U.S. end production of its own 1-cent coin?Contributor: Alex Wibholm Published: May 05, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • How The Last Transit of Venus in Our Lifetime ...
    Tomorrow's historical astronomical event is not just a beautiful novelty Tomorrow, skywatchers the world over will look up to behold a strange sight witnessed just seven times in the past five centuries. The last transit of Venus until 2117 is an occasion for astronomical celebration and histor ...
  • First Images From Complete Map of Mouse Brain
    Despite plenty of advances in neuroscience, often what we know about the brain comes with gaps, and anything close to a full piece of knowledge always ends up lacking something — whether it's for the human brain or a mouse's. Researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are starting to r ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    It's been a shortened workweek for us here in the U.S., but there's been no shortage of amazing science and tech imagery--from a rat that regained the power of movement to shoes made from custom-bred, genetically engineered stingrays to a gorgeous shot of the Pinwheel Galaxy. More in the galler ...
  • Archive Gallery: The Exciting Growth of The Pe ...
    PopSci discovers the elements, one by one The periodic table of elements, organized thoughtfully from hydrogen to ununoctium, is a tribute to the accomplishments of modern chemistry and physics. Since Dmitri Mendeleev developed an early version of the now-ubiquitous layout in 1869, discovering ...
  • Images of the Week, May 28-June 1, 2012

Veterans Today

  • Is Time Running Out for the VA Temporary Resid ...
    In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37.
  • Indiana Veterans’ Home Remembers Fallen Heroes
    On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.
  • Japan’s Broke – Highest Debt Ratio ...
    While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is n ...
  • Duff on Press TV – Missile Shield and Na ...
    "The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to o ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • All eyes on June after an 'average' May
    The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...
  • Arctic methane sets global warming alarm bells ...
    Research published this week which identifies thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane gas is being released into the atmosphere could have serious ramifications for global warming. Methane is twenty times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it's estimated that there' ...
  • A taste of summer. But for how long?
    At long last warm weather is returning to much of the country for the first time since March, after weeks of cold, wet weather. High pressure will dominate our weather all week, with temperature reaching 23C (73F) across inland parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as early as tomorrow. The char ...
  • Global temperature and Arctic ice update
    The average global temperature for April on the UAH satellite measure jumped to +0.295C above the 30 year running mean. This equates to approximately +0.548C above the standard 1961-1990 average, used by the World Meteorological Organisation. Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close ...
  • Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorksh ...
    Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire's ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 we ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Why Japan Favours an FTA With China, Not the US
    I almost missed this, but better later than never: the Economist's Banyan has a perceptive entry into why a pan-Asian FTA incorporating the world's three largest economies US, China and Japan is unlikely. Not only do the US and China have competing regional interests, but their preferences diffe ...
  • ASEAN Way, Not Sanctions, Swayed Myanmar
    My memory was jogged about making this post by a family friend who recently came back from Myanmar on an expedition to buy Burmese rubies. "Gotta go now that tourists are welcome again but before jewelry prices go up as more international buyers come" she offered. There's nothing wrong with co ...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi Goes Neoliberal, Attends WEF
    For her very first trip out of Myanmar (Burma) in 24 years, Aung San Suu Kyi has made the interesting choice of attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Thailand to be held on 30 May to June 1. While she has been in touch with the WEF organizers in the past, it was only through remote broadca ...
  • It's (Sorta) Official: Poland, European Darling
    I add the qualifier in the title for the reason that I wish not to jinx this country. Lest we forget, it was not so long ago that the darling of European integration was Ireland (believe it or not nowadays). I remember my time in Europe when near-accession country officials would dutifully troop ...
  • Curt Schilling's 38 Games & Video Game Subsidies
    [NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part American subsidies series. Forgive me in advance for another reference to what's obviously my favourite Eagles tune.] They came to Providence, the one in Rhode Island, where tech enclave dreams hang heavy in the air. It was supposed to be an All-Star l ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages An ...
    When the economy of a nation collapses, almost everything changes.  Unfortunately, most people have never been through anything like that, so it can be difficult to know how to prepare.  For those that are busy preparing for the coming global financial collapse, there is a lot to ...
  • The Bad Jobs Report Is Just A Very Small Taste ...
    Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession.  Economists ...
  • 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
    America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and ...
  • How The Super Rich Avoid Taxes Even As They De ...
    The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.  The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid taxes while many of the rest of us are being taxed into oblivion.  In our ...
  • When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Wi ...
    Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction", and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivat ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Portuguese bank demands 1.3bn euros in state a ...
    The Portuguese bank BPI has reportedly asked for 1.3 billion euros in public aid to comply with the principles laid out by the European Banking Authority, as the financial crisis in the eurozone seems to be deepening. Banco BPI, which is Portugal’s third largest listed bank, said on Monday that ...
  • Couple arrested in France for mutilating their ...
    An Islamic holy man and his wife have been jailed for the genital mutilation of their four daughters. The case has shocked France and was branded by a female government minister as a ‘grave crime’ and an ‘intolerable affront to women’s dignity.’ All four of the vict ...
  • Bilderberg Group Exposed Worldwide on their 58 ...
    Times have never been more exciting as the Bilderberg Group has now been exposed worldwide on the 58th anniversary of their ultra secret meetings. The alternative media, along with the help of some very brave mainline press agencies such as the Drudge Report, the London Guardian, German sources, ...
  • Germany sells Israel nuke-ready submarines
    Germany is supplying the Israeli Navy with submarines that are fully capable of being fitted to carry cruise missiles with nuclear-warheads, Spiegel reports. Thus, if Israel does indeed have any such missiles, it could deploy them immediately. ­The extensive military deal suggests that German sh ...
  • 10,000 Egyptian protestors return to Cairo in ...
    Egypt descended into chaos last night despite President Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence, after he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off huge protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the birthplace of the Arab Spring. By nightfall, a large crowd of up to 10,000 w ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-06-03 Open letter to the Australian peopl ...
    The following is an open letter to the Australian people from Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange. read more
  • 2012-06-02 Senator Ludlam confronts DFAT over ...
    On the 30th May 2012, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam raised concerns over Julian Assange's looming extradition to the US before Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The response he obtained regarding the protection of Julian Assange's rights as an Australian citizen (full ...
  • 2012-06-02 WikiLeaks News Update: Worldwide ra ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 546 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 543 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 740 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 626 days. read more
  • 2012-06-01 The hidden, human cost of the EAW
    Since its 2004 debut, use of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has exploded; in those eight years, its flaws have already destroyed or destabilized many lives. Although high-ranking EU officials now admit that the current EAW system is a "threat to human rights," EAW reform may not happen soon e ...
  • 2012-05-31 CIA Codename "SIMO" Disclosed In Wi ...
    by Novinite.com & TAZ.de The German edition Taz.de asks rhetorically whether Bulgarian PM, Boyko Borisov, would have remained in office if the US secret service CIA was to appear as key witness of the charges against him. Photo by BGNES The secret cables of the US Embassy in Sofia, exposin ...

U N News

  • Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
    Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.
  • UN envoy hails workshop related to Guyana-Vene ...
    A UN envoy today hailed a recent workshop related to a long-standing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela as a demonstration of both countries' on-going commitment to a peaceful resolution of the matter.
  • UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strat ...
    Noting that some 800,000 households in Canada are unable to meet their daily food needs, an independent United Nations expert today called on the country to adopt a national right to food strategy.
  • Top UN officials underscore need to combat org ...
    Senior United Nations officials today drew the world's attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said is spreading to other continents.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for an investigation into the killing of Erick Martínez Ávila, a Honduran journalist and gay rights activist.

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

  • 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 ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Agenda 21... Taxpayer-Funded Gun Control?
      Gun rights advocates recently discovered that the gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns has burrowed its “gun violence prevention coordinators” (read “anti-gun lobbyists”) into city payrolls from Augusta, Maine to Seattle, Washington, at taxpayer expense. read more
  • Gay Marriage... The Hidden Agenda
      Marriage has always been universally understood as a biological, social, and economic arrangement to bring into the world and rear the young, thus perpetuating the species.  Indeed, humans took their cue from wild nature, where heterosexual family is virtually the sole organizin ...
  • Agenda 21... S.3239 - H.R.3798... Humane Socie ...
      One day soon, America could wake up to a dozen eggs costing $8 or more.  And unless you are involved in some aspect of farming or agriculture, you would never know that egg prices are about to skyrocket or the reason why.  read more
  • Eugenicist Ted Turner 'Spawned 5 Kids' Yet Wan ...
      Eugenicist and land grabber Ted Turner Not seen on CNN in an interview at the Bilderberg 2012 meeting, founder Ted Turner says a global population reduction eugenics program  should  be implemented to reduce the world’s population to 2 billion people. ~ Video read more
  • J. C. Penney Has Embraced the ‘Gay’ Lifestyle ...
      James Cash Penney (1875–1971) began his career in retail management when he opened The Golden Rule store in 1902. Penney built his company based on the premise that business is “as much religious as it is secular.” read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • What Are Derivatives And Credit Default Swaps?
    “Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is linked to something else. They’re basically fancy instruments that have evolved over the last ten years that enable investors and institutions to bet on virtually anything, from interest rates or exchange rates to commodities.&#82 ...
  • Europe Will See Deep Depression, China Bubble ...
    On Bloomberg TV this morning, Todd Schoenberger, managing principal at BlackBay Group said, “They’re headed for a deep depression (Europe). The debt bombs that are there… we’re looking at 1.5 Trillion dollars in debt just amongst the PIGS countries that are held by those ...
  • Basil Herb, Harvest – Rinse – Hang
    How’s your herb garden? Basil is a culinary herb most often featured in Italian cuisine. Basil is commonly used fresh in cooked recipes. In general, it is added at the last moment, as cooking quickly destroys the flavor. If you are not plucking fresh leaves to use immediately in your dish, ...
  • Tips For Plant Watering
    Plants can absorb food from the soil only if is is in ‘solution’. So in effect, plants must have damp feet in order to eat. Adding several inches of surface mulch helps to keep soil moist as well as to suppress weeds. Vegetables need a lot of water, as they are about 85 to 90 [...]
  • The Great Economic Reset, Only Months Away?
    In case you haven’t noticed, the DOW is down nearly 800 points in the last several weeks. Friday, the world markets have suffered their bleakest day of the year so far. Prominent financial players are expressing extreme concern, and some believe the end game is nigh. Could we finally be at ...

Fast Company

  • Google To Acquire Instant Messaging Service Meebo
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Google will acquire Meebo, the social services company announced in a blog post today. Meebo, a Mountain View veteran that's been around since 2005, first began as a messaging program that allowed users on different instant messaging clients to send each ot ...
  • The 350-Year-Old British Post Office Is Leadin ...
    You listening, USPS? And they aren't the only British organization going mad for mobile.The British Post Office, a company that can trace its roots back to 1660, is leaping with both feet into the 21st century and the NFC payments game. The PO is rolling out NFC-compatible payment systems&n ...
  • Mahalo.com: Pivot or Die
    Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis was on the cusp of big success until Google took it away. So he boldly changed course. The fifth in our Pivot series. After selling his blog syndicate Weblogs, Inc. for around $20 million and spending a year as an executive at AOL, Jason Calacanis departed cor ...
  • How An Airbnb "Super Host" Plans To Reinvent T ...
    Meet Chelsey Bingham, a onetime real estate developer who this week is launching Wiseling, an Internet marketplace for vintage clothes. Can her niche approach fit into an eBay world?Chelsey Bingham is the cofounder and CEO of the New York-based Wiseling, an online marketplace for high-quality pr ...
  • Investment Hunting With Greylock Partner, Inst ...
    An inside look at what Greylock partner John Lilly, who has invested in a string of hit startups including Instagram, Tumblr, and Dropbox, calls his "first filter" when hunting for new investments. Every VC likely has his or her rule of thumb about what startups to invest in, but for John Lilly ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Space Between
    The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey. 27 April – 10 May 2012, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY. Introducing “The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey,” a major retrospective of Turkish cinema featuring twenty-nine films from 1958 to the present recently scr ...
  • Reflections on a Silenced History: The PCP and ...
    When I embarked on my research in 1970, to my mind I was engaged in a political project of attempting to rescue and reconstruct a slice of history in Palestine in the years following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The very existence of a communist movement in Palestine uniting within its ranks A ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (4 June)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
  • Bahrain: The Dragonfly's Eye
    I look in the dragonfly's eye, and I see the mountains over my shoulder--- Issa Bahrain is a small country, and though the story of its own trials and troubles during the past year and a half is intrinsically valuable, it also tells a bigger story, about bigger countries. Small countries, dista ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (June 4)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

  • TNR: 'The New Yorker' of Washington D.C.? (Dyl ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: TNR: ‘The New Yorker’ of Washington D.C.?  —  The New Republic has a new goal: It wants to be The New Yorker of Washington, D.C.  —  Chris Hughes, who bought the 98-year-old magazine three months ago, has literally said just th ...
  • Macmillan's Tor/Forge will launch DRM-free dig ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Macmillan's Tor/Forge will launch DRM-free digital bookstore this summer  —  Macmillan's science-fiction/fantasy imprint, Tor/Forge, will launch a DRM-free digital bookstore this summer.  Fritz Foy, Macmillan's EVP of digital publishing, mad ...
  • Roger Ailes wife's newspaper in state of denia ...
    Erik Wemple: Roger Ailes wife's newspaper in state of denial  —  Elizabeth Ailes has a message for journalist Gabriel Sherman.  He's welcome to schlep to a local newsstand to buy a copy of her Putnam County News and Recorder.  But that's the only way he's going to get ...
  • Times-Picayune Citizens' Group aims to stop pu ...
    Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune: Times-Picayune Citizens' Group aims to stop publication changes at newspaper  —  About 50 business and civic leaders and organizations have joined together to express frustration at a recently announced plan to reduce print publicatio ...
  • Fired U-T San Diego sports columnist: I wasn't ...
    Jim Romenesko: Fired U-T San Diego sports columnist: I wasn't told my job was in danger  —  U-T San Diego sports columnist Tim Sullivan was fired on Friday after working at the paper for a decade.  “I was advised that my services were no longer required,” Sulliv ...

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

  • Sales of new vehicles 20,7% higher in May
    SALES of new vehicles in South Africa rose 20,7% last month compared with the same period a year earlier, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) said on Monday. In May, 50229 were sold, from 41625 a year ago — substantially above the 9,4% growth rate in ...
  • Obama and Romney raising money, plus more ...
    President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will spend Monday raising campaign dollars. Obama's fundraisers will be in New York City, where he will be joined by former President Bill Clinton. His day includes a special performance by Jon Bon Jovi. Romney, meanwhile, will be on the other coast, wi ...
  • Study suggests lower death risk for coffe ...
    Older people who reported drinking a few daily cups of coffee were less likely to die over the subsequent 14 years than were those who abstained from the beverage or rarely drank it, according to a US study of 400,000 people. In particular, coffee was tied to a lower risk of dying from heart ...
  • Hazardous sheesha smoking assuming epidem ...
    Residents of Islamabad have demanded that the parliament make laws to ban sheesha smoking at restaurants, cafes and other public places, as it is extremely injurious to health. A senior citizen, said most of hotels,...
  • A hydel project that will submerge anothe ...
    These days one scam is weirder than the previous one. But this one will take the cake-here we have a dam that, if implemented, will submerge the tail of another upstream mini-hydel project. The mini-hydel project in question is the 24MW Kukke Stage I project. Once commissioned, it will subme ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/29/12 - Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? - Read pro and con arguments from the Congressional Research Service (pro), Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace Franklin Lamb (con), the Parliament of the European Union (pro), British Member of Parliament G ...
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah's position on Israel?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah’s position on Israel?
  • 5/29/12 - What is Hezbollah?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – What is Hezbollah?
  • 5/25/12 - Barack Obama: Document History from ...
    2012election.procon.org - Barack Obama: Document History from Birth to Harvard (1961-1991) - Our new resource shows Obama’s birth certificates, birth announcements, school registration forms, and interviews with his classmates from elementary school in Indonesia through law school at Harvard.
  • 5/24/12 - Should Palestinian refugees have the ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org – Should Palestinian refugees have the "right of return”? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (con), Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal (pro), 9th Presiden ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...
  • Life Without Sex
    Now that he’s raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives RACHEL HILLS But what all asexual people have in common — and what defines asexuality as an orientation — is that, while they may have a desire ...
  • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
    Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
  • Karl Marx
    Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. Capitalism has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-i ...
  • Some Years Before 1963
    Norma Clarke A woman born in 1600 grew up being told she was the most lustful of God’s creatures. Come 1800 and the message was reversed: she was ‘naturally’ delicate and pure. No longer having lusts of her own to manage, her role was to control the ‘natural’ lust o ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • 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 ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

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

  • Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
    BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    Part 2 of Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits with Damon Crowe
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...
  • Invasion of the body scanners - Part 1
    In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into A ...
  • Pure psychopathic evil is the prerogative of t ...
    WARNING: The following video graphically depicts psychopathic torture and murder which makes the crimes of infamous serial killers pale into insignificance by comparison. This atrocity was perpetrated by agents of a modern democratic state, with full authority and backup support. It all happen ...

Beacon

  • The Shark Finatics are Back
    2010 Junior Ocean Heroes the Shark Finatics are building a shark out of recycled materials. ©ArtsWestchester Editor’s note: With two days until the launch of the 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, we have a guest post today from Robin Culler – one of the founders of the Shark Finatics (Junior Award wi ...
  • Interesting Things About Interests
    2011 Ocean Hero Peter Wallerstein works to protect and rehabilitate marine mammals. If you read the blog yesterday, you may recall two things: (1) the 4th Annual Ocean Heroes Contest kicks off on June 6, and (2) nearly 1/3 of Ocean Heroes finalists hail from California. Now while the a signif ...
  • A Future Without Plastic Bags?
    Plastic bag bans help make the ocean safer for animals like sea turtles. ©Oceana/Brianne Mecum Ordinances to ban single-use plastic bags are picking up steam here in California. A growing list of cities and counties in the state are taking action to get rid of this frequent source of pollutio ...
  • State of the Ocean Heroes
    Has your state gone blue? It could — nominate an Ocean Hero! Oceana’s 4th annual Ocean Heroes Contest kicks off June 6, which gives you one week to think about this question: “Who do I know that works hard for the oceans and deserves recognition?” From work in activism to conservation, from ...
  • Tuna Still Feeling the Effects of Fukushima
    Bluefin tuna are carrying radiation from Japan to California. ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen It might seem straight out of science fiction, but this story is real – radioactive tuna could be swimming in an ocean near you. A new study found that after last spring’s Fukushima nuclear accid ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Midway. The Empire Strikes Back.
    Early June, 1942. Still smarting from an unprovoked attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States is planning some revenge.       The American empire has always been driven on pride. It is an ineluctable amino acid in American DNA to do what we decide to do, no ...
  • The French 370 mm Mortar.
    The 370 mm Mortar was a product of and for French artillery. The gun itself was so big it had to be mounted on a rail and moved slowly into a semi permanent position. The Gun was transporter, then the mount then the ammunition. The round itself had to be loaded using a loading car [...]
  • USS Iowa Decommissioned.
          She had nine 16 inch guns, twenty 5 inch guns, eighty 40mm anti aircraft batteries, forty-nine 20 mm cannons. She was 45,000 displaced tons, 887 feet long, 108 feet wide, and carried 2637 crew and 151 officers. She was the lead vessel of her kind and the only Iowa class batt ...
  • The Welrod Pistol Came With A Silencer.
    The Welrod pistol was created in the United Kingdom during World War II to serve special operations forces. The idea was to provide a firearm with its own built in silencer so operatives would not give away their position. Normal silencers could be heard because the reciprocating slide makes a s ...
  • Luke Pryor Blackburn. Physician. Philanthropis ...
      Born in 1816 in Kentucky, Luke Blackburn became a physician. During his practice he became famous for treating Yellow Fever that exploded into epidemiological disasters every few years when construct projects sprang up along rivers. In 1848 he became famous for an effective quarantine of ...

Taylor Marsh

  • A White House Exchange, and Anna’s Ad
    CAMPAIGNER IN CHIEF, via ABC News: CARNEY: Jake, the president is focused far less on his job than on the jobs of the American people. That’s what he works on every day. That is what drives all of the economic proposals that he has put forward. TAPPER: Well not today, right? Today he has fundrai ...
  • Two Roads to July 4 in Philadelphia, One “Repr ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. July 4 is one month away. Two groups associated with the Occupy / 99% movements have been planning for months, and both will gather in Philadelphia. Via The Daily Pennsylvanian : Occupy movement and 99% Declaration gr ...
  • Obama Hits Romney on Jobs Record in Massachusetts
    ROMNEY’S RECORD as Massachusetts governor was always the follow-up to Obama team’s anti-Bain avalanche. After the Wall Street contingent of the Democratic Party took Bain’s side against Obama, it became critical to change the subject for now. Obamans will be back beating the Ba ...
  • Old White Men for Walker, Barack Obama for Himself
    Walker has a 51/47 approval rating. He’s up with men (55-42), whites (52-46), seniors (58-39), and especially voters in the Milwaukee suburbs (70/29). – Public Policy Polling BLAME PRESIDENT OBAMA‘s lack of Democratic Party leadership if Tom Barrett can’t pull off an upse ...
  • Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Economics, and a Map
    An Obama campaign spokeswoman, Katie Hogan, disputed BuzzFeed’s analysis with the statistics, noting that 98% of its donors have given less than the $200 threshold this year and that the campaign is ahead of its 2008 pace. But Obama is now operating with the technical advantages of a permanent c ...

Hudson New York

  • Where Are the Moderate Arabs and Palestinians?
    In Israel, there are dozens of organizations and parties that openly advocate peace with the Palestinians and the Arab world. Some even go as far as calling on the Israeli government to comply with 100% of the Palestinians' demands by fully withdrawing
  • Graphic Video: Muslims Slaughter "Apostate" in ...
    Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt Today," airing a video of Muslims slicing off a young man's head off for the crime of apostasy -- in this instance, the crime of converting to Christianity and refusing to renounce it. The
  • Questions Facing the Muslim World
    Many parts of the world, such as Korea, China, and India - basically medieval kingdoms fifty or sixty years ago -- are now among the pacesetters of the modern world, both producing, and improving on, existing inventions. The Muslim world, however, often
  • The Process Trap
    Few things ought to be as urgent as keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, yet the West – led from the front by the United States – has fallen into the "peace process" trap that considers talk to be progress and, once a conversation has begun, that
  • Edwards' Jury Couldn't Decide and For Good Reason
    It is a wise person who knows when not to decide. The jury in the John Edwards case rendered exactly the right verdict. Of course they couldn't make up their mind on most of the charges. No rational person could. The judge essentially instructed them to

Urban Survival

  • Monday at the Financial Playground
    Our first mental image is of a huge playground where bankster-types have assembled a who bunch of paper abstractions which are now all failing.  If this was a playground at a city park, we’d see an unusual number going “down … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Student Loan Scam
    This week we may be staying a bit closer to our economic roots with a discussion of the whole “Boomerang Kids” situation (impoverished loan-burdened kids having to move back in with mom and pop because the “drank the Kool-Aid on … Continue reading →
  • Silver Bullet Theatrics: The Comedic Jobs Report
    My friend Howard Hill called last night, please to advise me that he had written the big story about this morning’s unemployment number a day ahead of the event.  So I’m sitting there wondering WTH?  I mean Howard’s good and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Future of Silver and Gold
    Time to refocus a bit on economic things, and we kick around a very good question from a reader: Every once and a while you hear that the/a government is going to confiscate gold from vaults when the poop hits … Continue reading →
  • The Hijack of Legislative Process
    We begin this morning not with our usual assortment of economic this and thats – we’ll serve those up in a minute.  But instead we pause to congratulate state representative Mike Bost of Illinois who called it like it was, … 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

  • Standing Room Only in Seattle to Stop the Pebb ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA The dark mood among the few Anglo American and the Pebble Limited Partnership representatives at the U.S. Environme ...
  • By a rate of nearly 2 to 1, New Yorkers think ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City A report released last Friday by the Cornell University Survey Research Institute summarizing polling data from the last three years demonstrates that New Yorkers’ attitudes toward natural gas drill ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile In a surprise move, the Board of Directors of the energy company Colbún announced that it wants to suspend progress on HidroAysén transmission line indefinitely because of w ...
  • Bike lanes 2.0: now or soon in a city near you
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Cities in the US, including Washington, DC where I live, are making significant investments in bicycling infrastructure.  Two categories that have appeared just in the la ...
  • Black Out, Speak Out across North America to p ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. NRDC's Black Out Screen for June 4th After the fall of the Berlin wall, I worked with environmental groups in Eastern Europe. They were looking at good examples of democracy ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Without Disclosure, Accountability Can be Thwarted
    Newsday recently ran a terrific article about a secrecy law in New York that has the effect of keeping police misconduct from public view.  By way of background, Nassau County just settled a lawsuit  that had been filed against the … Continue reading →Without Disclosure, Ac ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, May 31, 2012: The Supreme Court has decided that it will not review the Seattle case where police used a Taser on a woman that was 7-months pregnant. The lower courts  did … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • Trouble in Seattle
    From the Seattle Times: An acting Seattle police captain who was recently given a key role in the city’s plan to fix problems in the Police Department was booked into jail early Sunday after being arrested in a domestic-violence incident. … Continue reading →Trouble in Seattle ...
  • Shooting Death by Dallas Officer: Was it Justi ...
           Shooting Death by Dallas Officer: Was it Justifiable? is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Officers Charged With Unlawful Weapons Sales
    From Fox News: Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against two Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies accused of illegally selling dozens of weapons, some of which authorities say fell into the hands of criminals. Deputies Ryan McGowan, 31, and Thomas Lu, 42, … Continue readin ...

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • South Australia wind power figures vindicate r ...
    Yesterday energy consultants EnergyQuest broke the news that wind power supplied 31% of South Australia’s electricity in the last quarter. Solar panels added another 3.5% to put renewable energy’s share in that state well above coal (26%) ...
  • Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
    Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...
  • Join Beyond Zero Radio for 3CR Radiothon Live ...
    3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming from 4 – 17 June! This is your opportunity to invest in independent community radio. 3CR exists as a direct counter to the corporate media. Beyond Zero Emissions has two weekly shows on 3CR. Join Melissa and Nick for Australia's best hour of radio dedicated to co ...
  • CEFC a distraction, not a solution: We need a ...
    Renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has today released its response to the government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) legislation. To download it click here. BZE opposes the CEFC in its current form, as it will not secure any extra renewable energy over the already ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and ...
    Severely affected by recent turmoil across its northern frontiers, Nigerien tourism pins hope on river valley attractions to play a major role in rebuilding its tourism industry in the upcoming years. Even though the river itself is threatened. Located in the heart of the Sahel Region, the vast ...
  • Why bird droppings matter to manta rays: disco ...
    Ecologists have long argued that everything in the nature is connected, but teasing out these intricate connections is not so easy. In fact, it took research on a remote, unoccupied island for scientists to discover that manta ray abundance was linked to seabirds and thereby native trees.
  • After damning research, France proposes bannin ...
    Following research linking neonicotinoid pesticides to the decline in bee populations, France has announced it plans to ban Cruiser OSR, an insecticide produced by Sygenta. Recent studies, including one in France, have shown that neonicotinoid pesticides likely hurt bees' ability to navigate, po ...
  • Pressured in West, APP looks toward markets in ...
    Facing pressure in Europe and the United States over its environmental practices and the E.U.'s Timber Legality and Verification System (SVLK), Asia Pulp & Paper is planning to increase sales in Africa and the Middle East, the paper giant told the Investor Daily.
  • Indonesia eco-news review: Fisherman still usi ...
    A wrap-up of some of the stories that appeared last week on the Indonesian-language version of mongabay.com (mongabay.co.id).

Sierra Express

  • Prince Waleans Congratulate Her Majesty Queen ...
    Prince Waleans congratulate Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, on her Diamond Jubilee Anniversary, June 2 – 5, 2012. Courtesy: 2012 Muslim Service Program  – Old Prince Waleans Association -Washington Metropolitan Chapter. Photographs include – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with ...
  • Conakry-Freetown Highway and Joint Border Post ...
    Words are not enough to describe the joy and sense of fulfilment I feel today on this auspicious and epoch making occasion of the commissioning of the Conakry-Freetown Highway and the opening of the joint border post. An occasion in which the presence and participation of my elder brother, colle ...
  • Dr. Abdul J Sankoh: The “Quiet Storm”
    BOSTON, June 3, 2012 – Excellence and outstanding contributions to the profession is what is required to be named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s preeminent statistical society founded in Boston in 1839. Individuals must have established a very solid re ...
  • Prof Sheku Kallon Jr. is like the Professor th ...
    I respect Professor Sheku Kallon’s academic achievements and I will always feel the pride of that achievement because he is my fellow Sierra Leonean. It takes a lot of work to get to that point. However, I expect the Professor to utilize his knowledge in a manner that benefits not only his count ...
  • Guinean President Alpha Conde Reaffirms Commit ...
    His Excellency Professor Alpha Conde, President of the Republic of Guinea has re-affirmed his Government’s commitment to resolving the Yenga border issue within the shortest possible time. He made this declaration on the occasion of the milestone commissioning of the newly constructed Cona ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra puts focus on redemption risk
    Fonterra launched a campaign yesterday to deal with what has become its achilles heel: redemption risk.Dairy farmers are required to buy shares in the dairy co-operative when they set up shop. When they sell, Fonterra has to pay...
  • Fonterra's TAF scheme needs 'strong' mandate
    Fonterra will require a 75 percent majority from its 10,500 farmer-shareholders to move ahead with its proposal to create non-voting, tradeable units allowing arms-length investment in New Zealand's largest business by non-farmers...
  • Voting packs for TAF scheme sent to Fonterra f ...
    A mass mail-out is under way to Fonterra Co-operative Group's 10,500 farmer shareholders of the voting packs for the June 25 special meeting on the controversial Trading Among Farmers scheme.The vote is the second time the Fonterra...
  • Milk-pricing plan gets initial tick
    Fonterra Co-operative Group's method of setting its farm-gate milk price has been given an initial, conditional tick of approval by the Commerce Commission in a dry run of its proposed oversight role set out in the Dairy Industry...
  • Fonterra eyes factory deal with Dutch
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is looking at signing a deal with Netherlands-based A-Ware Food Group to set up a new European cheese and dairy ingredients factory.The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Sorry, Students! Colleges Cease Offering Stude ...
    College students who like their health insurance plans may not be able to keep them, reports The Wall Street Journal. A number of higher education institutions have chosen either to cease offering health plans to students or have informed students that they should "expect sharp pre ...
  • Eric Holder Was “Mesmerized” and “Repulsed” by ...
    The Telegraph writes up the soon-to-be-released “Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency” by Daniel Klaidman, focusing on a confrontation the book detailed between Eric Holder and David Axelrod over the placement of politicial apparatchiks in the D ...
  • Is Scott Walker a "Goggle-Eyed Homunculus" Lea ...
    Tomorrow is the big recall vote in Wisconsin and, while it's far from certain how things will turn out, most polls are looking pretty good for the target of the action, Gov. Scott Walker, who is beating his challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, by about 5 points to 7 points in most ...
  • Obama's Utterly Bogus and Insincere Attack Aga ...
    The D.C. Examiner's Timothy P. Carney spells out how "Emails show Obama fake-fighting the drug industry" before, during, and after passage of ObamaCare. Excerpt: Obamacare emails made public last week show that Obama is skilled at publicly pretending to fight a supposed bad gu ...
  • From Satanic Panic to Sex-Traffic Panic
    Last week I posted a vintage piece of anti-Satanist scare-mongering that aired on 20/20 in 1985. Maggie McNeill, a prominent advocate for prostitutes' rights, suggested in the ensuing comment thread that the Satanic panic of the '80s and early '90s resembled the current hysteria o ...

Mercury Rising

  • If the Fed bails out the markets this time, th ...
    It’s definitely look out below time in the stock market. And that’s a good thing! The S&P was in a minibubble, outracing other markets. Now it looks to print -1%, with Asia down 2%. The stock market does not produce anything useful. It does serve to allow companies to raise money ...
  • My money’s on the nuns
    (or, as Brother John reminds us, on the sisters) David Gibson, Religious News Service at HuffPo: Leaders representing most of the nation’s 57,000 Catholic nuns on Friday (June 1) answered a Vatican crackdown on their group by charging that Rome’s criticisms of the sisters were &#8220 ...
  • Scott Walker Basically Admits He’s Under ...
    Here’s the scoop: Following reports that Scott Walker’s criminal defense fund grew by $100,000 in May, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is today reporting major revelations in the John Doe criminal corruption probe, including Scott Walker’s mistaken admission that he is under investigation. ...
  • Corporate Profits Soar As Jobs Falter. Honeywe ...
    Today I saw this: The Bureau of Labor Statistics brings bad news for the Obama Administration, as the spring slowdown we’ve seen for the last two years appears to be the same mode for 2012 as well. The economy added only 69,000 jobs in May, and worse, the totals for March and April were revised ...
  • Yet another political show trial crashes and burns
    Michael Biesecker, HuffPo: A jury’s refusal to convict John Edwards was less a redemption of the former White House hopeful than a rejection of the Justice Department’s boldest attempt to make an example of someone in the name of enforcing campaign finance laws. … “As not ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The Post-Capitalist City of Your Dreams
      We’re all familiar with the Burning Man aesthetic, and the post-apocalyptic fantasies, both dystopic and utopic, that litter the imaginative realms of Hollywood’s best. In response to the popularity of the (post) apocalyptic meme, and in the wake of the global financial crisis, a design ...
  • Getting Past the Worldview of Scientific Mater ...
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  • The "Leap" into the Future
    LeapMotion's new breakthrough technology promises a leap into the future, and it delivers. Like something straight out of Minority Report, it's a camera that can detect finger movement within 1/100 of a millimeter. Co-founds Michael Buckwald and David Holz have created a sleekly de ...
  • The Evolver Convergence
    The Evolver Convergence Pittsburgh, PA: Friday, June 1 - Sunday June 3 read more

Desertification

  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Bill 13: Parental Rights Protest May 31
    Details here.
  • Stephen Harper’s Portrait
    Ms. Margaret Sutherland got it all wrong. This portrait of Stephen Harper would have been more appropriate.
  • Michael Voris Ignites Ottawa
    Last night, two hundred people packed Mac Hall at the Bronson Center to hear Internet sensation, Catholic Evangelist and…uh…Peacemaker, Michael Voris.  Although I was expecting about 140 people based on the registration information that I received over the past month or so, it seems ...
  • Bill Clinton: He did not have sex with these women
    Old Willy is at it again! Bill Clinton's picture with Porn Stars.
  • Anti-coal Mark Jaccard, a Nobel Peace Prize wi ...
    Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas and coal companies. People are left with no choice but to protest. Professor Mark Jaccard was arrested along with other protestors. A ha ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Syria rebels reject Annan peace plan
    The terrorist Free Syrian Army has announced that it is not committed to the peace plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan anymore.
  • UK to set up Syria camps to aid rebels
    Britain is reportedly planning to set up refugee camps inside Syria under the pretext of saving civilian lives but in reality to help armed rebels fighting against the government.
  • Car bombing kills 15 in Iraqi capital
    At least fifteen people have been killed and 50 others injured in a car bombing in the central Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police and medical sources say.
  • Palestinian dies of Israel strike wounds
    A Palestinian, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Tel Aviv-blockaded Gaza Strip on Friday, has died of the wounds he had suffered during the attack, Press TV reports.
  • Germany strengthens Israel war machine
    Germany continues to provide nuclear-capable submarines to Israel, despite decades-long prior knowledge of Tel Aviv’s nuclear military program, a report says.

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

  • The Limbo of Death Row: A Review of In This Ti ...
    The death penalty is a fact of life in the United States. Despite the actions of many well-intentioned people, these premeditated murders continue to take place at a shameful pace. The fact that the death penalty does exist has brought many young people to question the morality of a system that ...
  • I Can’t Wash Away that Stench of Sulfur: ...
    I’ve been foisting around books for weeks trying to get them finished to self-educate and then try out a little bit of pontification a la book reviews-analysis articles for Dissident Voice. I’ve been like a Sherpa retreating to glaciers my entire life, hauling books into the jungles ...
  • Pennsylvania Politics Continues to Override Hu ...
    A national animal welfare organization has filed an ethics complaint against a Pennsylvania district attorney. SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) charges Bucks County DA David Heckler with conflict-of-interest, favoritism, and failure to fulfill his professional responsibilities. The e ...
  • The Illusion of a Meritocracy
    Just because people speak of a meritocracy as if it exists does not mean it does exist.
  • John Wolfe Jr. and the Democratic Party
    What [Obama] did was he brought in people who caused the crisis and made them his closest advisers: Rahm Emanuel, Bill Daley, Jack Lew.  He basically institutionalised failure. — John Wolfe Jr. ABC News, May 22, 2012 The assumption that a candidate has won it all before the final cast of the bal ...

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