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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

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Personal & Noted

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

  • Axl Rose 'fuming' after £130,000 worth of gold ...
    Axl Rose was said to be “fuming” after the temperamental Guns N’Roses singer was robbed of three gold-and-diamond necklaces, worth an estimated £130,000, in Paris.Related StoriesTel Aviv University refuses to host Wagner concert'Vampire' graves are unearthed in BulgariaSheryl Crow reveals benign ...
  • Israeli Jewish settlement bill defeated after ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today used a threat to sack rebel ministers to prevent parliament bypassing the country' s Supreme Court and legalising Jewish settlement on privately owned Palestinian land.Related StoriesSyria expels western diplomatsSyrian rebels 'kill 100 troops'Syr ...
  • Suicide bombers kill 22 civilians at Afghan market
    Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan today, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies. Related StoriesUS claims al-Qa'ida scalp as drone attack kills terror ...
  • 200 mutinous soldiers killed in east Congo, sa ...
    A Congolese government spokesman says the army has killed some 200 soldiers taking part in a mutiny in the country's east. Related StoriesCairo press revels in tales of angry inmate Mubarak's demand for blue pyjamasNigerian airline's licence suspended indefinitely after crashMass rallies to take ...
  • David Cameron and Barack Obama urge 'immediate ...
    Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama have agreed on the need for “an immediate plan” to resolve the eurozone crisis, Downing Street said today.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • China Tells Embassies to Stop Issuing Pollutio ...
    China said Tuesday foreign embassies were acting illegally in issuing their own air quality readings and that only the government could release data on the nation's heavy pollution. China's cities are among the world's most polluted, but until recently, official air quality measurements regular ...
  • Tornado touches down in Hungary 1 June
  • Tornado Filmed Over Mexico City 1 June
  • Copycat 'zombie attack': Miami homeless man hi ...
    A homeless man high on drugs and drunk on Four Loko growled and tried to bite off a police officer's hand after he was arrested for disturbing customers in a Miami fast food restaurant. The incident comes just two weeks after Rudy Eugene chewed the face off a homeless man in Miami. The frenzied ...
  • DARPA Spends $7 Million On Robot Avatar Project
    DARPA hopes to create real-life "Avatars" in the near future. Science fiction fans and robot fanatics are familiar with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Government (more familiarly known as DARPA). They are also familiar with James Cameron's largely successfu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • For a future fracas . . .
    HERE'S THE FIRST LOOK AT THE DDG-1000 ZUMWALT. It's a major part of the USN's answer to the Chinese navy's growth in Asian waters. It's a littoral vessel, designed for coastal patrols. Like everything these days, it's not cheap: according to the Washington Post/Associated Press, "Stealth destroy ...
  • Chris Hedges at Congress
    (h/t Bob via J.)
  • Airshow's ministry...
    This is getting hilarious. Blame the uniformed Canadian Forces for not sufficiently defending the minister when the minister thunder's in? It is like Airshow's DND staff thinks the Canadian Forces is (1) just some government government organ, and (2) one that is full of people they can bully int ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sorry, Fox: Recall Election Does Not Diminish ...
    Fox News figures have attempted to spin the results of Wisconsin's recall election to claim Gov. Walker's victory is a referendum on President Obama. In fact, polling shows Obama holding a significant lead over Romney in Wisconsin, and even conservatives admit the election is a poor predictor o ...
  • Right-Wing Media Disappear Fact That Conservat ...
    Right-wing media are arguing that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's victory in the Wisconsin recall election was a victory for the grassroots over unions and progressives. But, due to Citizens United and a loophole in Wisconsin campaign finance laws, the progressive message was swamped by conse ...
  • Fox Touts Walker Win As Validation Of Harmful ...
    Economists agree that austerity measures in a weak economy lead to less growth and fewer jobs, and the condition of Wisconsin's jobs market, which is lagging much of the rest of the country, is consistent with that fact. Nevertheless, Fox News figures are spinning Gov. Scott Walker's recall win ...
  • NRA Partners With Conspiracy-Minded Gun Activi ...
    This week, National Rifle Association president David Keene will moderate a "conservative conversation" at the Chicago Conservative Political Action Conference with NRA board member Maria Heil, Illinois State Rifle Association executive director Richard Pearson, an ...
  • This Is Why People In Wisconsin Don't Like Fox
    During a report from Madison, Wisconsin on the recall election of Governor Scott Walker, Fox's Neil Cavuto opined to Fox Business' Don Imus that "some people don't like" Fox, adding: "I don't know why." Of course, people in Wisconsin have ample reason not to like Fox; the network has pushed a l ...

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

Grassroots

  • Haiti’s Minister of Environment Declares June ...
    639294893_7a84e0792b_n.jpg In anticipation of World Environment Day today, June 5, 2012, Haiti’s Minister of Environment, Joseph Ronald Toussaint, and the Martelly government proclaimed June Environment Month in Haiti. The theme for th ...
  • Dams to displace more people after Rio+20
    brazil-itaparica_dam.jpg Yesterday I spoke with two members of Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in Sao Paulo City. MAB is an inspiring organization formed by families who have been displaced by mega-dams in Brazil. Grassro ...
  • RFP for Strategic Planning Consulting
    Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements. We provide grants to our Global South partners and join them in advocating for social change. Qualifications:  ...
  • Industrial Agriculture and the Rising Sea
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Shiney Varghese leads the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's work on global water policy, focusing on the water crisis, its impact on water and food security, and possible local solutions tha ...
  • Future of mining in Haiti
    4092487255_63b8a5d8f9_m.jpg Haiti is not as devoid of resources as you have been led to believe.read more

Climate

  • Former E.P.A. Official Pulls Out of House Hearing
    (NYT Green) A former Environmental Protection Agency official who stepped down this spring over controversial remarks he made about punishing major polluters has sidestepped a grilling that he was expected to face on Wednesday at a Hou ...
  • Coal’s Share of U.S. Electricity Generation Co ...
    (The Financial) Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March ever recorded in much of the United States, coal's share of total net generation dropped to 34%—the lowest level since at least January 1973.  read m ...
  • UK: Renewable Energy Schemes Help Boost Farmer ...
    (Guardian) More than a quarter of all farmers have not just green fields but "green" barns too, thanks to a surge in the use of solar panels and wind turbines. Renewable energy is promising to overtake rural tourism as a secondary inc ...
  • Climate Change-Resilient Landscapes Identified ...
    (AP) Vast national forest areas and scattered pockets of undeveloped lands in in West Virginia and Virginia are among the regions that would be resilient to drought, rising temperatures and other threats associated with climate change, ...
  • Exotic Diseases from Warmer Climates Gain Foot ...
    (ClimateWire) Diseases once thought to be rare or exotic in the United States are gaining a presence and getting new attention from medical researchers who are probing how immigration, limited access to care and the impacts of climate ...

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

  • Thoughts on Wisconsin
    There's a danger that people will learn the wrong lessons from last night's election returns in Wisconsin. While exit polls are imperfect, they were fairly clear last night. Among the people who voted, Obama was preferred to Romney by a healthy 52%-43%. When you consider that the profile of t ...
  • Somebody Has to Pay, and the Bankers Got Away
    On the New York Times front-page right now, right under the headline about Scott Walker's comfortable victory, there's this: Voters in California Appear to Approve Pension Cuts As Wisconsin residents voted on Tuesday not to recall Gov. Scott Walker -- who has become an enemy of labor union ...
  • Declare the War on Terror Over
    If Peter Bergen is right and Ayman al-Zawahiri is the only still-living al-Qaeda leader of any consequence, then the president deserves some serious credit for getting the military focused on the main post-9/11 goal. And if Peter Bergen is right that we are 30 times more likely to be killed by ...
  • NBC Calls WI Recall for Gov. Walker
    With only about 23% of the vote reporting, NBC's experts just called the recall election for the incumbent governor. Some other races are still too close to call. I can't say that I'm very optimistic that they've made a mistake and called it too early. Since the Bush/Gore election, they're pr ...
  • Make Some Calls to Wisconsin Dems
    After the deluge of money spent in Wisconsin, there are basically no undecided voters left. The reputable polls are all close and within the margin of error. What we're going to see today is two gigantic pairings of organizations going to war to see which can bring a higher percentage of their ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Jakarta's Extraordinary Railway Track Slum
    For those living in this trackside shantytown in Jakarta, it's normal for speeding trains to pass by only a few feet from their front doors. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Oldest Tree in the World
    Meet the oldest tree in the world, the bristlecone pine, which can reach ages of 4,750 years and more! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Plant Show Floriade 2012 Celebrates the Art of ...
    Growers flock to the Netherlands to see the latest trends in horticulture. Floriade celebrates environmental stewardship, green technology, landscaping and floral design. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • For reference: A convoluted BlackBloc debate - ...
    This post is a spinoff of a larger, incomplete project. Hopefully, it can be completed! :D Having more time on my hands than I expected lately, I've been scouring the interwebs for everything I can find about the ongoing debates around militant direct action, protest tactics, the nebulous fate a ...
  • Bilderberg conference, evil Prince Bernhard, t ...
    In the aftermath of the infamous Bilderberg Conference, I would like to throw this essay out there about the long arc of everything from the Hanseatic League to the European Common Market and European Union. It's jumping off from an old book, The Thousand Year Conspiracy, published during WWII w ...
  • 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 ...

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IntelNews

  • Comment: Who authored computer virus that &#82 ...
    Stuxnet, which caused unprecedented waves of panic among Iranian cybersecurity experts, was 500 kilobytes in size. Flame is over 20 megabytes in size, consisting of 650,000 lines of code; it is so complex that it is expected to take programming analysts around a decade to fully comprehend. The t ...
  • US State Department silent on ‘massive’ China ...
    The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has declined to comment publicly on the arrest of a senior Chinese government aide, who is said to have conducted “massive” spying for Washington.
  • News you may have missed #743 (espionage edition)
    India arrests military intel staffer for spying. Retired Russian colonel convicted of spying for US. Denmark professor jailed for spying.
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • Reports of Voter Suppression in Wisconsin--Rob ...
    It's to be expected, of course--an election as important as the recall of Scott Walker in Wisconsin today will have some dirty tricks happening.  But this one's especially nasty. Tom Barrett's campaign announced that there's been a wave of robocalls targeting the people who signed the petit ...
  • U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No N ...
    By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) - France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nuclear weapons, but Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the Unit ...
  • Iran: Facts vs. Fantasy
    Sorting Out the Facts about Iran By Ray McGovern Editor Note: Neocons, including the Washington Post’seditors, keep playing games with the facts regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The plan apparently is to guide the United States into a military confrontation whether President Obama and the Ameri ...
  • Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War
      Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War   by Stephen Lendman   Increasingly war looks likely. Earlier Obama said "the Assad regime must come to an end."   In early June, White House press secretary Jay Carney said "bloody sectarian war will be diminished if Assad remov ...
  • Israeli Commanders Face Trial in Turkish Court
      Israeli Commanders Face Trial in Turkish Court    by Stephen Lendman   A previous article discussed arrest warrants issued for four ex-IDF senior officers.    read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the one ...
  • Vitamin D proven far better than vaccines at p ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) If scientists discovered something that worked better than vaccines at preventing influenza, you’d think they would jump all over it, right? After all, isn’t the point to protect children and adults from influenza? A clinical trial led b ...
  • US, Israel wrote Stuxnet, officials say
    By Greg Masters The United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus, according to government sources. The virus spread in 2010 via Microsoft Windows with a highly specialised malware payload to target Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, particularly within Ir ...
  • DIY Home remedies and old wives cures using ba ...
    by: JB Bardot (NaturalNews) In a world awash with pharmaceutical drugs for everything from dandruff to toenail fungus, it’s refreshing to have do-it-yourself home remedies and trusted old wives cures to heal a wide range of ailments. Baking soda is a staple in most homes and is useful for ...
  • Flame: Attackers ‘sought confidential Ir ...
    Dave Lee By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The attackers behind the massive Flame malware were seeking to obtain technical drawings from Iran, researchers have said. Analysis by Kaspersky Lab suggested that the huge majority of targets were within the country. The malware network, which ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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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 ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • World’s First Cloned Village in China is Now O ...
    China has pulled off a feat that no other country would even dream of achieving: a cloned village. Every detail of the original Hallstatt village, a UNESCO protected heritage gem in Austria, has been copied in a replica situated one hour outside of Huizhou in Guangdong Province. China Minmetals ...
  • Solar Impulse Completes World’s First Solar-Po ...
    Late last night the Solar Impulse successfully completed the world’s first solar-powered intercontinental flight! After taking off from Spain, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg piloted their Solar Impulse airplane over 515 miles to their destination in Rabat, Morocco. “This flight mark ...
  • France Proposes Ban on Pesticide Linked to Bee ...
    This week the French government announced that it plans to prohibit the use of Cruiser OSR, a pesticide manufactured by the Swiss company Syngenta that researchers say may contribute to the massive disappearance of bees. The ban comes in the light of studies indicating that pesticides ...
  • Controversial Dutch Artist Bart Jansen Turns H ...
    Dutch artist Bart Jansen has caused controversy and angered animal groups by converting the body of his dead pet cat Orville into a remote-controlled model helicopter. Orville was tragically killed by a car, but rather than letting go and burying his pet, Jansen decided that the best way to &#82 ...
  • Boeing’s Hydrogen-Powered ‘Phantom Eye’ Succes ...
    Boeing’s drone aircraft, the Phantom Eye UAV, just completed its debut autonomous flight on June 1 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft intially flew for 28 minutes (a short trail run) and then set off on a solo journey that would la ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Rubio: “We Need To Prepare People” For War Wit ...
    Vice-Presidential frontrunner Marco Rubio told the elitist Council on Foreign Relations during an event last week that the American people should be prepared for a war with Iran. Rubio was asked by moderator Richard Stengel, “You would sanction a strike before you would tolerate a nuclear Ira ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA
    Right after Chernobyl blew its top, Edward Teller said on the ABC Evening News in late April 1986, “The chances of a real calamity at a nuclear power station are infinitesimally small. But should it happen, the consequences are impossible to imagine.” The plume from the burning graphite at Chern ...
  • 10 Signs That The Highways Of America Are Bein ...
    Once upon a time, the open highways of America were one of our greatest symbols of liberty and freedom. Anyone could hop in a car and set off for a new adventure at any time and even our music encouraged us to "get our kicks on route 66". But today everything has changed. Now the highways of ...
  • Economic Collapse Nearing
    Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the nationa ...
  • 30,000 secret surveillance orders demanded ann ...
    Even without CISPA on the books, the federal government can still use antiquated legislation to leer into the personal communications of Americans. One judge, in fact, says that thousands are approved each year. It’s been more than a quarter of a century since the US Congress authorized the E ...

Andy Worthington

  • Slave Labour During the Queen’s Diamond ...
    Congratulations to the Guardian for exposing the workfare scandal that took place during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations — and, specifically, the £12m river pageant that took place on Sunday, when, in torrential rain, a flotilla of boats, including one carrying the Queen and ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Oath Keeper Sentenced to 30 Years for Daughter ...
    Charles Dyer, a former Marine with ties to the antigovernment Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for raping his daughter when she was 6, the Stephens County District Attorney’s office in Oklahoma said. The sentencing was the final chapter in a case that sparked national at ...
  • County GOP Committee Wants to Oust Former Skinhead
    The GOP committee for Luzerne County, Penn., is trying to determine whether it can eject from its ranks a white supremacist who was elected to the committee with only one vote during the state’s April 24 primary election, the Scranton Times Tribune reports. Steve Smith, a longtime racist activis ...
  • WND Lawsuit Against Esquire Over ‘Birther’ Par ...
    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., this week dismissed a lawsuit that WorldNetDaily (WND) Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah filed against Esquire over a satirical article the magazine posted online claiming that Farah had recalled 20,000 copies of Jerome Corsi’s “birther” book. The article, tagged ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Echoing Quebec's 'Law 78' Russian Parliament P ...
    In a move that echoes Quebec's recently enacted Law 78, the Russian parliament has just passed a law that skyrockets fines for "illegal" protests. Opponents see the law as "draconian" and believe it will only serve to further catalyze the protest movement. ...
  • CIA ‘Revives Attacks on Rescuers’ in Pakistan
    CIA drones are reportedly reviving the use of highly-controversial tactics that target rescuers and funeral-goers. On Monday US drones attacked rescuers in Waziristan in western Pakistan minutes after an initial strike, killing 16 people in total according to the BBC. On May 28, drones were also ...
  • Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Opens, Defense Seeks ...
    Whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning appeared today at a military court outside of DC in the first day of a three day pretrial hearing. Manning's lawyers are seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts against him. Manning's defense argues the counts in question are either unconstitutionally ...
  • Ex-CIA Official Slams Obama's 'Indiscriminate' ...
    Robert Grenier, a former CIA counter-terrorism head, has slammed President Obama's drone program telling the UK's Guardian that we have been "seduced" by drones and that the drones are killing people "indiscriminately." While White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tol ...
  • Afghan Children Dead After US Air Assault: Report
    17 civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, according to a local official in Logar province. Al-Jazeera reports that the target of the strike was the house of a tribal elder in the district of  Baraki Barak, citing the head of the Logar provincial council. Deny ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Movement vs privatization of water utilites la ...
      Multi-sectoral groups launched yesterday a movement to fight the planned privatization of power and water utilities. Danilo Dayanghirang, one of the organizers of Mindanawons against Privatization of Water and Energy Resources (M-Power), said during the launching in Grand Men Seng Hotel, that ...
  • Davao water firm, other groups seek dads suppo ...
    DAVAO CITY — The Davao City Water District (DCWD) and other support groups are seeking the support of the City Council here in opposing the passage of Senate Bill 2997 and House Bill 5497, which they believed will lead to the privatization of water districts in the country.
  • Treasurer McCord Assesses PA Lottery Performan ...
    HARRISBURG, Pa. -- As the state considers privatizing management of the Pennsylvania Lottery, State Treasurer Rob McCord said the operation's performance and the experience of the only other state to privatize ...
  • DCWD, multi-sectoral groups to create body vs ...
      The Davao City Water District worked hand in hand with environmental groups to fight the proposed bills in senate and congress to push reforms in the water industry. Lawyer Eliseo R. Braganza Jr., vice chair of the board of Davao City Water District (DCWD), said yesterday in the weekly press f ...
  • Privatization ‘to raise’ water rates
    DAVAO City’s water utility firm opposed Monday the Senate Bill 2997 and House Bill 5497 that privatize water resources and utilities in the country. Eliseo Braganza, vice chair of the Davao City Water District (DCWD) Board of Directors, said he believes that the bills' approval will mean an ...

Guardian

  • Andy Murray v David Ferrer – live! | Katy Murrells
    • Hammer F5 for the latest or turn on auto-refresh • Email katy.murrells@guardian.co.uk with any musings • You can also get in touch via Twitter • All the latest news and comment on our French Open siteBrad Gilbert on Twitter: "All sudden raining hard and they are covering the court let's come b ...
  • Cameron and Obama increase pressure on Merkel ...
    Following phone call with US president, British PM will tell German chancellor eurozone has just weeks to act decisivelyDavid Cameron will deliver a blunt message to Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday that he and Barack Obama have agreed on the need to flesh out an "immediate plan" to tackle th ...
  • Met rules out investigation into Lady Warsi's ...
    Scotland Yard's decision comes as the Lords standards commissioner launches formal inquiry into Tory peer's claimsScotland Yard has decided not to investigate the expenses claims of the Conservative party co-chair, Lady Warsi, and has passed the matter back to the House of Lords, saying it has " ...
  • South African campaigners unite against secrec ...
    JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer among those who say bill is country's first attack on democracy since apartheid endedSecrecy laws planned for South Africa fundamentally threaten free speech and investigative journalism, and could have a chilling effect on the rest of Africa, a united front of hum ...
  • Syria 'to admit aid workers' – Wednesday 6 June
    • 'Heaviest clashes yet' in Latakia area • Egypt: Hosni Mubarak likely to be transferred to hospital • Egypt's military council sets deadline on constitution • Bahrain's interior minister denies torture • Read the latest summary4.58pm: Here's a summary of the day's main developments:Syria• US t ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO denies civilians killed in Afghan airstrike
    Afghanistan Afghan officials say at least 15 civilians have been killed in a NATO air-strike south-east of the capital Kabul, but NATO denies the raid claimed any civilian lives.The airstrike ...
  • Afghan Officials Say Taliban Poisoned Schoolgirls
    The Afghan government alleges the Taliban tried to poison students at girls' schools, causing outbreaks of sickness, and says 15 suspects have been ...
  • Afghan official Blast kills 22 civilians
    Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in Kandahar that injured an estimated 50 civilians. The explosion occurred about five kilometers (three miles) from the main ...
  • Suicide bombing in Kandahar airstrike in Logar ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Twenty-two civilians were killed and 50 wounded in a double suicide bombing on Wednesday in the restive southern province of Kandahar, while a further 18 were reported killed ...
  • China Russia welcome Afghanistan as SCO observer
    China and Russia said they welcome the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) inclusion of Afghanistan as an observer state, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday.The statement was ...

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

  • Transparency International hosts international ...
    Transparency International (TI) hosted a conference for whistleblowers last week in Berlin, Germany. Mark Worth is reporting in a blog post that around the world, "Powerful cultural, political and social forces – often dating back centuries – can keep the lid on bribery, extorti ...
  • ARB says SOX covers contractor's employees; re ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a precedent setting decision last week holding that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) does protect the employees of contractors to publicly traded companies.  The decision is particularly noteworthy as the ARB rejected the Fi ...
  • Researcher seeks government whistleblowers and ...
    An assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University has launched a website to recruit participants for her study of government whistleblowers and reporters who use whistleblowers as sources. Dr. Cary A. Greenwood, APR, Fellow PRSA, is a former corporate and government public re ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, whistleblower Robert Whitmore speaks with Richard Renner about the landmark decision in his case last week. Mr. Whitmore's 37-year career with the Department of Labor came to an end after h ...
  • NWC Demands Immediate Release of FDA Spying Do ...
    Last week, the National Whistleblowers Center filed a motion for preliminary injunction under the Freedom of Information Act in U.S. District Court in DC. The motion has been filed in order to get the FDA to release all documents pertaining to their illegal surveillance of employees’ priva ...

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

  • North Korean Study Confirms It: People Will Sh ...
    A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the ever-increasing storage capacity of portable hard drives made it unlikely that the sharing of music could ever be stopped. That was a somewhat theoretical piece based on general trends in technology; but here's some supporting data from a rather unus ...
  • Copyright Extension: A Way To Protect Hollywoo ...
    There has been plenty of talk over the years about why we keep extending copyright. Of course, we've discussed the infamous Mickey Mouse Curve, showing how copyright extension always seems to happen whenever Mickey Mouse is going to hit the public domain. However, Julian Sanchez notes ...
  • Yet Another Of The FBI's Own Terrorist Plots.. ...
    The latest Radiolab "shorts" episode, entitled Grumpy Old Terrorists, seems like a bit of a departure in subject matter for that program -- but fits right in with something we've been talking a lot about lately. Over the past few years, we've noticed the rather disturbing trend in how the FBI k ...
  • Oracle Sues To Stop Lodsys Patent Trolling
    Oracle apparently has no sense of irony when it comes to patents. The day after a judge issued a complete smackdown in Oracle's "big" patent and copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle has suddenly decided that it doesn't like patent bullies. Well, as long as the bully isn't Oracle. It filed ...
  • Help To Save The World: Go Online
    Too often we read that the Internet is making us stupid or fat, or destroying the "fabric of society." Indeed, judging by the all the digital jeremiads it's a wonder that anybody dares to use it at all, since it's clearly irredeemably bad in every way. So it's refreshing to come across an upbe ...

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

  • Weiss and Finkelstein debate the two-state sol ...
    Philip Weiss writes: Last month I wrote to Norman Finkelstein offering to debate the chapter dealing with the Israel lobby theory of Walt and Mearsheimer in his new book, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End. He wrote back to say that’s just one secti ...
  • Video: Incitement against refugees leads to ra ...
  • How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach ge ...
    Katherine Stewart writes: The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in point. It’s not a pretty story, and it is often used by people ...
  • Video: Why is ‘x’ the unknown?
  • U.S. diplomatic mission bombed in Libya
    The Guardian reports: A bomb exploded outside the gates of the US consulate in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, on Tuesday night, in the first attack on an American diplomatic target in the country since the fall of Gaddafi. There were no casualties reported and the explosion caused damage t ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Pacific Institute reinstates Peter Gleick
    Breaking news from the Pacific Institute website: http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/statement6612.html PACIFIC INSTITUTE BOARD OF DIRECTORS STATEMENT The Pacific Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Gleick back to his position as president of the Institute. An independent r ...
  • NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center cau ...
    We’ve seen examples time and again of the cooling of the past via homogenization that goes on with GISS, HadCRUT, and other temperature data sets. By cooling the data from the past, the trend/slope of the temperature for the last … Continue reading →
  • Arctic temperature anomaly uncertainties
    Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes of a new paper which suggest that Arctic temperaturehas even greater uncertainty problems. He writes (excerpts) New Paper “A Multi-Data Set Comparison Of The Vertical Structure Of Temperature Variability And Change Over The Arctic During … Continue reading →
  • Time lapse video of Venus transit seen from SDO
    Thanks to reader Mike McMillan for pointing this awesome HiDef video out. It is the best I’ve seen. And… Super high resolution prints of the SDO imagery are available here, suitable for framing.
  • Yeah, we’ll get right on that…
    From Inderscience Publishers , a shocking revelation. People actually go to Botswana. Though, maybe they’ve been jealous of the Maldives and Tuvalu getting all the attention and handouts for non-existent climate threats. The Maldives formula is simple: Say your livelihood … Continue ...

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 6
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Iran Questions G5+1 Talks ‘with No Agenda’
    Tehran said on Wednesday failure to draft an agenda for the upcoming nuclear talks in Moscow was not conducive to their success, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.
  • Vampires Unearthed in Bulgaria
    The bodies of two men believed to have been vampires by their medieval contemporaries were found in an archeological dig in Bulgaria, local media reported.
  • Lebedev in Talks to Fight Guillermo Jones - Pr ...
    Interim WBA cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev is in talks to fight full WBA champion Guillermo Jones in Russia, Lebedev’s promoter Vlad Hrunov said Wednesday.
  • Duma Speaker Accused of Blocking Ambulance
    Traffic police in the northern Leningrad region stopped an ambulance to clear the way for the convoy of the current speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.

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

  • 20 yrs Later, the Biotech Brigade Marches on....
    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." Click here to ...
  • Food and Health Luminaries, Public Interest Gr ...
    Click here to read this article
  • '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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Fast and the De-Feathered: Proposed Proces ...
    Every fraction of a second, a robotic arm presented one of the inspectors with the viscera (guts) of a chicken carcass. The inspectors handled the viscera and took a quick glance at each carcass, checking for tumors, fecal contamination and other obvious signs that the carcass might pose a food ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Evidence for Negative Water Feedback
    The sun is a main sequence star whose output is known to increase slowly with age. The total change in solar radiation over 4 billion years turns out to be huge. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the Earths oceans have stabilized temperatures . Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • 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 ...
  • The News at a Furtive Glance: Read Pravda or W ...
    The Chicago Police are making calculated, surgical arrests and literally disappearing activists without even valid warrants.The FBI and Secret Service are jamming cell phone tower signals.Jets from NORAD have been conducting flying exercises over Chicago Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich :  NDAA Authorizes War A ...
    america is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today and the largest exporter of terrorism and its just getting worse...We have to stop this horror! Submitted by michael hall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • GMOs and Glyphosate Linked to Infertility, Bot ...
    There is also the evolving problem of glyphosate’s killing of beneficial gut microbes that suppress botulinum bacteria resulting in chronic, systemic botulism poisoning and death in cattle with probably findings also in humans. One study on SIDS babies found that 20% of Sudden Infant Death Syndr ...
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • CIA director beat up his deputy in front of Obama
    ShareThisCIA director beat up his deputy in front of Obama 05 Jun 2012 Former CIA Director Michael Hayden found an unusual way to show President-elect Barack Obama how the agency's interrogation techniques worked during a December 2008 briefing: Hayden beat up his own deputy in front of the futu ...
  • Israel airport security demands access to tour ...
    ShareThisIsrael airport security demands access to tourists' private email accounts --Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts 06 Jun 2012 Israel's Shin Bet security service has been demanding access to personal email acco ...
  • Democrat Barrett concedes Wisconsin recall ele ...
    ShareThisDemocrat Barrett concedes Wisconsin recall election defeat 05 Jun 2012 Democratic challenger Tom Barrett conceded Wisconsin's recall election to Republican Governor Scott Walker on Tuesday, saying he hoped the deeply divided state would now come together. With 85 percent of the vote cou ...
  • Wisconsin governor Scott Walker survives bitte ...
    ShareThisWisconsin governor Scott Walker survives bitterly fought recall election 06 Jun 2012 Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker survived a bitterly fought recall election on Tuesday after Republican voters mobilised in huge numbers [after corpora-terrorists outspent Democrats by $27 million], pr ...
  • Senate Will Investigate National Security Leak ...
    ShareThisSenate Will Investigate National Security Leaks About Terrorism 'Kill List' 05 Jun 2012 The Senate will investigate recent national security leaks to the news media in the wake of articles in The New York Times about a "kill list" for terrorists and the use of cyberweapons against Iran, ...

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

  • Brazil company challenges Florida ban on busin ...
    [JURIST] A lawsuit [complaint, PDF] filed against the state of Florida on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] alleges that the state's ban on local authorities hiring companies that do business in Cuba or Syria is unconstitutional. Odebrecht Co ...
  • Muslim rights group files lawsuit challenging ...
    [JURIST] A Muslim rights group filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey [official website] on Wednesday seeking to end the New York Police Department (NYPD) [official website] controversial surveillance program, which allegedly targe ...
  • Bahrain rights activist returned to jail
    [JURIST] Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested and returned to prison on Wednesday after posting critical comments about the government on his social media page, according to his lawyer. This is not the first time Rajab has been arrested in connection with comments posted ...
  • Federal judge rejects media request for access ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Idaho [official website] on Tuesday rejected [opinion, PDF] a petition for full access to executions submitted by the Associated Press [media website] and 16 other newspaper agencies. The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) [offici ...
  • Philippines lawmakers approve terrorism fundin ...
    [JURIST] The Philippine Congress on Wednesday approved the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 [text, PDF] that criminalize the financing of terrorism. The bill penalizes an individual who organizes or directs the commission of the crime of financing terrorism with impriso ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Germany Financed Israel’s Race to Get Nukes an ...
    TweetI’ve just read the full Der Spiegel expose on Germany’s arms deal with Israel which will eventually bring nine nuke-armed submarines into its naval arsenal. The report is so rich that it’s worth delving into it for a second blog post. In 2008, Angela Merkel, on her first v ...
  • 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,” ...

If Americans Knew

  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.

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

  • Building a LocalWiki Is About Community and Ha ...
    LocalWiki is all about community, and we believe that starts with people coming together and having fun. Here are a couple of recent examples of ordinary people hanging out, having fun, and building out LocalWiki projects! San Francisco parklet ride A couple of weeks ago, we were slat ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Society on Edge - Religious Control of Women's ...
    Religious practices that strongly control female sexuality are more successful at promoting certainty about paternity, according to a study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study analyzed genetic data on 1,706 father-son pairs in a tradit ...
  • Broken Mideast Peace - The ICG Rethinking the ...
    The International Crisis Group defines itself as an "independent, non-partisan, [sic] source of analysis ... on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict."  While presidents and secretaries of state have relied it upon for analysis in places as disparate as Sudan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, an ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Rejuvenated Gov. Walker Vaults ...
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s ability to fight off a concentrated Democratic recall challenge on Tuesday, June 5, has instantly thrust him into the picture as a possible vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, giving the low-key Mr. Walker the edge over rivals such as the more voluble New ...
  • The Edge of Health - Air Pollution Linked to C ...
    Air pollution, a serious danger to the environment, is also a major health risk, associated with respiratory infections, lung cancer and heart disease. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher has concluded that not only does air pollution impact cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke, but i ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Study Offers Hope For M ...
    Research by an optometrist at the University of Houston (UH) supports the continued investigation of optical treatments that attempt to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children.Conducted by UH College of Optometry assistant professor David Berntsen and his colleagues from The Ohio Sta ...

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

  • Breaking: Maxine Waters' Ethics Case WILL Proceed
    When ethics charges were brought up against California Rep Maxine Waters in 2010 she responded with cries of racism and unfair practices from the committee's lawyers that violated her rights.  The truth was the ONLY thing unfair was that Ms. Waters may have helped her husbands bank receiv ...
  • Kimberlin Update- Bloggers Continue to Fight F ...
    The Day after the cronies of  convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin went after the family of Blogger's club president Ali Akbar, the bomber and his friends got their answer--The blogging community will not be intimidated! I just received this press release: WASHINGTON, DC -- The National ...
  • The Meaning of the Failed Wisconsin Recall (It ...
    There are those who will tell you that Governor Walker's win in yesterday's Wisconsin recall election guarantees that Mitt Romney will take the state in November. Indeed some say that it a foreshadowing of Romney winning the presidency. Others ...
  • Egypt’s Presidential Election: Moderate Establ ...
    By Barry Rubin Egypt’s fate, I think, will not be settled by the June 16-17 presidential election (second round). It has already been set by the parliamentary election which has given a large majority to the Islamists as well as the ability to write the constitution. If Ahmad Shafiq defeats t ...
  • Newsbusted: White House Unveils New Term "Jobs ...
    President Obama has "evolved' once again. Remember before he became president and the White House tracked jobs by announcing the monthly jobs created figure?  Then after the stimulus started to fail, the Obama Administration came out with the bogus "Jobs saved or created." Now according to ...

The Real Agenda

  • Google Warning Users against State-sponsored C ...
    This move by the technology giant shouldn’t be understood as an attempt to keep user information safe. Google, a government-sponsored data mining operation is perhaps the largest violator of privacy on the Internet. By JOHN ROGIN | FOREIGN POLICY | JUNE 6, 2012 A s ...
  • Is Marco Rubio the First Hispanic American Tra ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 6, 2012 Marco Rubio, the new rising star in the Republican Party who many say may occupy a relevant position during a Mitt Romney presidency, is often meeting with globalists and talking at globalist organizations during conferences and other ev ...
  • Argentina Sues British Companies over Falkland ...
    By INDALECIO ALVAREZ | AFP | JUNE 5, 2012 Argentina declared British oil exploration off the Falklands “illegal” on Monday and immediately set about suing five companies for pursuing activities around the contested islands. Britain responded almost immediately, saying the i ...
  • Global Banking Authority will Open for Busines ...
    Just as advertised, the all mighty global bank has now been announced by European nations in order to save the Eurozone By JUERGEN BAETZ | AP | JUNE 5, 2012 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she is open to establishing a European banking authority as a long-term solution ...
  • Globalist Larry Summers calls for QE3 as US Dr ...
    WASHINGTON POST | JUNE 5, 2012 With the past week’s dismal jobs data in the United States, signs of increasing financial strain in Europe and discouraging news from China, the proposition that the global economy is returning to a path of healthy growth looks highly implausible. It is more l ...

Wind Watch

  • Farmer fends off a new pest near Red Wing: Win ...
    Dan Ryan was out working on his farm when he saw a car drive down a dead-end road skirting his property. A woman eventually got out and began to scan the terrain with binoculars. Then she drove onto a private road owned by Ryan. What happened next was a matter of debate in a recent Hennepin Coun ...
  • Ocotillo Express wind facility opposition grows
    The Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation is no longer the only voice in legal protest against a proposed wind energy project on the delicate desert landscape surrounding Coyote Mountain in southern California. The Desert Protective Council (DPC) and the Laborers’ International Union ...
  • New fears over spread of pollution
    Just a day after The Courier highlighted a Fife Council windfarm planning blunder, new concerns have emerged over the potential dangers of the turbines spreading pollutants to wider areas. The Courier today publishes details of a study which suggests the turbines could push pollutants from a che ...
  • Clean energy projects taking a toll on environment
    NEW DELHI: Who wouldn’t want to replace polluting energy with clean, renewable energy? Surprisingly, some wouldn’t. Because, sometimes they end up paying a heavier ecological price for it. Communities in many parts of the country are fighting a war against ‘clean energy’ ...
  • Buffer zone hope in turbine fight
    Campaigners have won a victory in their fight over disruptive noise from Alltwalis Wind Farm. The possibility of new guide lines on buffer zones and turning off faulty wind farm turbines at night will now be debated at the Welsh Assembly. It follows a 1,000-name petition and hearing held in Carm ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

  • Debt to Dwarf Economy by 2037
    “The U.S. government risks a fiscal crisis unless it makes significant changes in tax and spending policies, the Congressional Budget Office said. . . . By 2037, the debt would be almost twice the size of the economy, the agency said. That would mean higher interest rates, slower economic ...
  • Equal-Pay Bill Fails in Senate
    “A bill that would pave the way for women to more easily litigate their way to pay equality failed to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday as Republicans united against the measure for the second time in two years.” (New York Times) An issue easily demagogued. FEE Timel ...
  • Greece Soon to Be Out of Money
    “Government coffers [in Greece] could be empty as soon as July, shortly after this month’s pivotal elections. In the worst case, Athens might have to temporarily stop paying for salaries and pensions, along with imports of fuel, food and pharmaceuticals.” (New York Times) A sign of t ...
  • Decriminalization of Pot Possession Advances i ...
    “The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city’s top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a resul ...
  • U.S. Gvt. Pulls Plug on Sesame Street . . . in ...
    “The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations of corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative.” (Washington ...

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

  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Scott Walker recall fails
    Ordinary people hate other ordinary people who are doing better than them.  The politics of envy isn’t about the rich, whom ordinary people almost never see, but about their neighbours.  And Americans want a mean economy, one where everyone has to suffer like they do.  As long  as the unio ...
  • Oil Prices and the economy for the next year t ...
    Quick note, given I think that the economy is going to roll off a cliff in the new year, and soften between now and then, that means I think that oil prices are going to drop further.  I won’t be surprised to see them go under $50/barrel, unless something stupid like war with Iran happens. ...
  • Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease
    Or at least, the Bank of Canada thinks so, though they’ll never call it by that name: Nonetheless, Canada’s current account was in surplus for many years before the crisis, and is now expected to remain in deficit indefinitely. The main reason? A currency at parity with the U.S. dollar mea ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Facebook’s False Promise: STEM's Quieter Side ...
    Facebook‘s botched IPO reflects not only the weakness of the stock market, but a systemic misunderstanding of where the true value of technology lies. A website that, due to superior funding and media hype, allows people to do what they were already doing — connecting on the Intern ...
  • The Atlanta Transportation Tax: Too Much for T ...
    On July 31, voters in a 10 counties of the 28 county Atlanta metropolitan area will vote on whether to raise the sales tax by one cent for $8 billion in transit and highway projects over 10 years. The measure is highly tilted towards transit spending. Sadly, this would do virtually nothing to ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • GM not solving drought problem
    NOTE: Download:  High and Dry: Full Report http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/high-and-dry-report.pdf High and Dry: Executive Summary http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/high-and-dry-summary.pdf --- --- High and Dry: Why Genetic Engineering Is Not ...
  • GM not solving drought problem
    NOTE: Download:  High and Dry: Full Report http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/high-and-dry-report.pdf High and Dry: Executive Summary http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/high-and-dry-summary.pdf --- --- High and Dry: Why Genetic Engineering Is Not ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
  • 21 Signs That This Could Be A Long, Hot, Crazy ...
    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Bottle towers for fresh food production at hom ...
    Here is one of the best low-tech methods to combat hunger and malnutrition all over the world.  It is called “the BOTTLE TOWERS method“.  I have develop this low-cost method to help people to fresh food with a minimum of … Continue reading →
  • PROGRESS ON UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS TO ...
    New York, Jun  6 2012 12:05PM The United Nations today launched an online platform that will track the progress on the financial and policy commitments made by countries towards realizing the anti-poverty and social development targets known as the Millennium … Continue reading →
  • COUNTRIES MUST FULLY SUPPORT RIGHT TO WATER AT ...
    New York, Jun  6 2012  2:05PM A United Nations independent expert today called on governments to “fully support” the right to drinking water and sanitation at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development  (Rio+20) in Brazil later this month. In … Continue reading →
  • Jewels in nature (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden and house. I like to share … Continue reading →
  • UN FOOD AGENCY WARNS OF DANGER TO CROPLANDS IN ...
    New York, Jun  5 2012 12:05PM The United Nations food agency warned today that croplands in Niger and Mali are at imminent risk from Desert Locust swarms that are moving southward from Algeria and Libya. “How many locusts there are … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • 'The Dark Money Behind the Wisconsin Recall' b ...
    Read the rest of the recall numbers round-up from Mother Jones.
  • Dems target independent in California House race
    Groups hoping to help Democrats pick up a House seat in November have spent more than $1 million aimed at boosting their favorite candidate and knocking off an independent challenger.The race is for California’s 26th Congressional District in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The candidate that has at ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 'Stop Silicosis,' a 1938 Dept. of Labor film
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backofthebook.ca

  • Dad arrested for kid’s drawing gets apology
    A BoB short: Police in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario have apologized to a man they believed to be dangerous after his daughter drew a picture of him shooting a gun at bad guys. In February, Jessie Sansone, 26, was arrested at his four-year-old daughter Nevaeh’s school for possession of a firearm. ...
  • Will “Slings and Arrows” take aim ...
    By Zoe Grams When NBC’s dreadful soap-musical “Smash” is the only representation of theatre artists in mainstream culture, you know there’s a problem (for theatre artists, at any rate). So it’s no wonder there has been an online flutter over the potential relaunch of the ...
  • Canada’s startup landscape: sexy?
    By Mark Evans It must have been quite the party last week at the Canadian Venture Capital Association’s annual meeting in Montreal. In stark contrast to previous years, it seems attendees were downright giddy about the venture capital landscape and where it’s heading. It may be that after severa ...
  • A Modest Opinion – But what will the pro ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I know a lot of things about a lot of things (the moon, living on the moon, the total weight of all moon rocks on Earth down to the last kilogram), and one of those things I know a lot of things about is revolution (as outlined in my many articles [...]
  • Jean Charest’s Grand Prix panic
    By Montreal Simon Oh no. Somebody please stop him. It looks as if Jean Charest has finally, as we say in Québec, perdu ses pédales, or lost his pedals. He’s so eager to discredit the students, so he can run against them in a snap election, he’s accusing them of plotting to sabotage t ...

libcom

  • Palermo's Workers Strike
    palermos.jpg The people who make our frozen pizzas are on strike. Beginning on Friday, June 1st, 2012, approximately 120 workers at Palermo's, a frozen pizza factory in Mil ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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 Nuclear Waste Scandal
    Nightmare Nuclear Waste (2009) Film Review Embed featire still not working - go to free link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv73MfgZWdg Click on the CC button at lower right to see English subtitles. In the face of growing international concern about an impending nuclear holocaust at Fukus ...
  • 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 ...

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

EU Times

  • Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto
    Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own. The farmers claim that Monsanto unfairly collec ...
  • Credit markets close doors to Spain as banking ...
    The Greek stock market has plummeted 5.9 percent after Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency warned that the country has a one-in-three chance of leaving the eurozone. The minister made the remarks on Tuesday, admitting that Spain’s high borrowing costs have shut out bond markets at a ...
  • Saturn’s moon Enceladus, new plasma laboratory
    Recent data and findings from NASA’s Cassini mission have revealed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus can provide scientists with a laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma. According to two papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists can observe the theorized c ...
  • French nationalist Marine Le Pen to sue Madonna
    Madonna seems to have crossed the line and may now face a court battle with France’s top far right-wing politician, Marine Le Pen. She claims the singer depicted her as a Nazi, placing a swastika on her forehead during a stage slide show. The face of Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s Front Nat ...
  • US role to fade with China calling shots as cr ...
    China has accumulated enough financial resources to induce borrowers US and EU to share power, argues Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. ­In an exclusive interview to RT the author of Eclipse: Liv ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Gritty Garnett effort boosts Boston within a g ...
    Even facing deficits most of the night, the Boston Celtics weren’t flummoxed. They trailed by 13 in the second quarter, by nine in the third quarter, by six with 6 minutes left to play. And each time they answered. The ageless Kevin Garnett produced 26 points and 11 rebounds to lead Boston to a ...
  • Scott Walker Defies Exit Polls, Wins Wisconsin ...
    Governor Scott Walker easily won the Wisconsin recall election with results that defied data from the early exit polls. The buzz for the past few days has been that the battle between Gov. Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was going to be a close one. Exit polls likewise showed the race be ...
  • Obama Campaign: Recall Election Not What We Ho ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) â President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign says the outcome of the Wisconsin recall election isn’t what it had been hoping for. The Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, defeated the Democrat who sought to oust him, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Obama never travel ...
  • West, regional puppets follow Zio-Nazi agenda ...
    NOVANEWS Interview with Mark Glenn, from the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, Idaho.â The UN doing this and warning of the civil war… This is the way of preparing the public mind for countries to push for âmilitary action to go in to Syria. It really is a very diabolical method that they ...
  • Comment on MELTDOWN! Lib Kook Slaps Mayor Tom ...
    Incredibly, MSNBC’s lead story on the Walker win does not provide the vote tally or the margin of win. They only say Walker “survived’ the election as though he squeaked by by a hair. http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12074595-walker-emerges-victorious-in-wisconsin-recall?lite T ...

Groklaw

  • Fedora Linux 18 Will Boot on UEFI Hardware wit ...
    The key costs $99 and the funds go to VeriSign (though hardware signing is done via Microsoft). The problem of course is that Fedora will perhaps be tied to Microsoft's Secure UEFI efforts in order to enable Linux on new hardware. The bigger problem would be if Secure UEFI wasn't dealt with ...
  • LinkedIn passwords 'leaked by hackers'
    Security researcher Graham Cluley told the BBC he believed the breach was genuine. "We've confirmed there are LinkedIn passwords in the data. "We did this by searching through the data for (hashed) passwords that we at Sophos use only on LinkedIn. We found those passwords in the data. We also ...
  • Ray Bradbury dies: Author of Fahrenheit 451 an ...
    "I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say: 'My God, did I write that? Did I write that?' Because it's still a surprise," Bradbury said in 2000. Bradbury, who died Tuesday night at age 91, was slowed in rec ...
  • Google warns Gmail users of 'state-sponsored' ...
    Google began warning users today of its Gmail online email services when it suspects they may be targets of "state-sponsored" attacks.... The new warning states: "We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer." It will appear at the top of the Gmai ...
  • Samsung Joins Linux Foundation as Platinum Member
    We are pleased to announce that Samsung is joining The Linux Foundation at the Platinum level. This is the highest level of support at The Linux Foundation and represents Samsung's commitment to and understanding of the value of Linux and collaborative development. Samsung makes a wide range of ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Democratic Party corporatists triumph by losin ...
    Mission accomplished. Genuine revolt and dissent was channeled into the Democratic Party and neutralized.Matt StollerBy calling for a recall instead of a general strike after Walker stripped collective bargaining rights and cut benefits for workers, labor and Democratic leadership in the state d ...
  • Party partisanship increases as party membersh ...
    “The percentage of Americans who call themselves independents has hit a 75-year high, and Democrats and Republicans have moved further apart.” — Pew Research CenterThe two parties continue to lose members and those that remain become more calcified and polarized. We are seeing ...
  • Need more room in your condo?
    Then get a Backpack House!
  • Ass-whipping in Wisconsin
    Zazzle bumperstickerMarc Cooper on FacebookRegarding Wisconsin: I’m reposting a comment below from my pal and long time community organizer Horace Small who fully gets what happened tonite. His words: “Bro…this wasn’t a defeat…it was an ass-whipping. In any politica ...
  • Pension reform leading big in San Jose and San ...
    In early counts in closely watched contests, pension reform is ahead by huge margins in both San Jose and San Diego. Both are major cities. San Jose is liberal, San Diego less so. Thus these votes indicate an emerging bipartisan consensus and will encourage other municipalities to put pension re ...

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

  • What protected NZ species is being sold as pet ...
    What native species is as endangered as Great Spotted Kiwi is being sold as cat food? Longfin eels deserve protection not being killed for upmarket cat food. Populations of longfin eels are declining and the species is at risk of extinction yet they have no legal protection in New Zealand and th ...
  • Pokies and porkies
    Am I the only one who thinks the folks from the pokie trusts have been telling a load of porkies lately, in their desperate attempts to get public opinion on side? Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling Harm Reduction Bill certainly seems to have caused a flurry of lobbying – with Pub Charity and the Lion ...
  • Double Standards: Private schools receive Gove ...
    The National-led Government’s proposed cuts in teacher staffing numbers and increased class sizes in public schools reeks of hypocrisy and double standards. Their proposals are informed in part by New Zealand Treasury’s briefing paper recommendations, which suggested increasing student-teacher r ...
  • Growing the Greens – AGM weekend
    This Queen’s Birthday weekend, the Green Party held its AGM at Upper Hutt’s native bush-surrounded Silverstream retreat with ‘Growing the Greens’ the appropriate theme. The largest Green Party AGM yet kicked off on Friday 1st June by celebrating the founding of the Values Party some 40 years ago ...
  • General debate, June 4, 2012

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

  • Major Journal Blasts New Code Book for Making ...
    By Dr. Mercola After the death of a loved one, do you think you'd feel (or if you've lost a loved one already, did you feel) back to your old self again in just two weeks? For nearly everyone, the answer is a resounding no. Grief is a highly individual experience, but for most people it tak ...
  • Doctor Says: If There's a Single Marker Lifesp ...
    By Dr. Mercola You've heard of mind hacks for being more efficient in the office and tech hacks for keeping your computer humming. So if you've been wondering if somebody will ever come up with some tricks for living a longer, happier, healthier life, there's good news: Best Health Degrees. ...
  • 9 Things You Need to Know about the Food You Eat
    By Dr. Mercola Seems like every week there is a new revelation of massive perversion in the food industry, resulting in more corporate profits and a greater risk to your health. From arsenic in fruit juice and chicken to "pink-slime" ground beef treated with ammonia, nasty tidbits about the f ...
  • Attacks Your Brain Like a Piranha - A New Way ...
    By Charlie Brown Consumers for Dental Choice Today, we celebrate the one year anniversary of the creation of Health Liberty - a nonprofit coalition formed by Mercola.com, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Fluoride Action Network (FAN), Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), O ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Morgan Stanley Private Equity Stealing Childre ...
    from realecontv.com: I've covered a lot of really unfortunate stories on the abuse of young children at the hands of teachers, police, and even Child Protective Services, but this story? Wow. Our sister site, RealEconTV, is posting a story now in which companies owned by Wall Street private equi ...
  • 74% Whooping Cough Outbreak Cases Involve Vacc ...
    from brasschecktv.com: Clearly, I'm not a doctor or any kind of medical professional, but I present to you this information so that you can make of it what you will and decide for yourself. There is a whooping cough epidemic. It's the worst we've seen in 70 years. Yes, we've covered this before, ...
  • School Lunch Contracts Awarded To The Lowest B ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Imagine schools feeding children the cheapest and nastiest garbage, er, excuse me, I mean 'processed foods' available. Imagine the government and media blaming parents for childhood obesity, when it's the schools that are feeding kids stuff as bad or possibly worse t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
  • 21 Signs That This Could Be A Long, Hot, Crazy ...
    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Roll up children, get your eurozone bailouts h ...
    Going bankrupt? Come get your ECB/IMF bailouts. All free! Economy knackered? We've got EU banking unions! Tasty treats! Come on, children of the European Union. Yum, yum! (with due credit to the 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' filmmakers)
  • Quote of the Day: 5th June 2012
    "The more angry and furious Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy make the global private mega-bankers – and the IMF, ECB, Fed, and global rating agencies – the more certain you can be that you’re on the right track. Woe to Greece, woe to Spain, Italy and others if the day dawns when these ...
  • Gotcha! Come in Ken Clarke, Bilderberg trash.. ...
    We're quite sure that, for most people, patriotic fervour regarding the Diamond Jubilee will figure highly in people's 'picture of the day' stakes. At this blog, however, our picture of the day is that snapped by writer Charlie Skelton and online over at The Guardian. Bilderberg trash Ken ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

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

  • 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the one ...
  • Vitamin D proven far better than vaccines at p ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) If scientists discovered something that worked better than vaccines at preventing influenza, you’d think they would jump all over it, right? After all, isn’t the point to protect children and adults from influenza? A clinical trial led b ...
  • US, Israel wrote Stuxnet, officials say
    By Greg Masters The United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus, according to government sources. The virus spread in 2010 via Microsoft Windows with a highly specialised malware payload to target Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, particularly within Ir ...
  • DIY Home remedies and old wives cures using ba ...
    by: JB Bardot (NaturalNews) In a world awash with pharmaceutical drugs for everything from dandruff to toenail fungus, it’s refreshing to have do-it-yourself home remedies and trusted old wives cures to heal a wide range of ailments. Baking soda is a staple in most homes and is useful for ...
  • Flame: Attackers ‘sought confidential Ir ...
    Dave Lee By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The attackers behind the massive Flame malware were seeking to obtain technical drawings from Iran, researchers have said. Analysis by Kaspersky Lab suggested that the huge majority of targets were within the country. The malware network, which ...

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

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

  • SCO Beijing Summit To Set Tone For Next Decade
    Xinhua News Agency June 6, 2012 SCO Beijing Summit to set tone for new decade By Wu Liming BEIJING: The 12th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), to be held here Wednesday and Thursday, is expected to set the tone for the development of the six-member bloc over the next decade. ...
  • NATO Air Strike Kills At Least 18 Afghan Civilians
    Pajhwok Afghan News June 6, 2012 17 civilians dead in NATO airstrike By Abdul Maqsud Azizion PUL-I-ALAM: A pre-dawn airstrike by NATO-led forces killed at least 18 civilians, including women and children, and seven insurgents, in central Logar province, officials said on Wednesday. The air raid ...
  • U.S. Boosts Ties With Georgia As Syria And Ira ...
    Voice of Russia June 5, 2012 The U.S. steps up activity in Georgia Ilya Kharlamov ==== Moscow is particularly concerned over intensified military cooperation between Washington and Tbilisi. It`s no secret that before invading Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008 the Georgian army had been trained ...
  • SCO Can Free Pakistan From West’s Strang ...
    Express Tribune June 4, 2012 China and Russia can free us of the US Farooq Yousaf Pakistan is looking to the East for help. We are pinning our hopes on regional cooperation through blocs such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). This bloc boasts support from two major regional powers ...
  • NATO: From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific
    Stop NATO June 5, 2012 NATO: From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific Rick Rozoff On June 4 NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key signed a partnership agreement at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. As the Western military bloc re ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Advantages of Chinese Trade Policy
    James Hall | The saying "At a good bargain, think twice" is pretty risk-averse. On the other hand, a typical Chinese proverb such as "Seize an opportunity and make good use of it" shows how risk-taking is ingrained in Chinese culture.
  • Patriot Bob Chapman Passes Away
    Infowars | Our thoughts and prayers go out to Bob’s family and friends at this difficult time.
  • Bilderberg 2012: Exclusive Interview With Lond ...
    Alex Thomas | Jason Bermas interviews London Guardian journalist and vocal anti Bilderberg critic Charlie Skelton. Charlie published numerous reports on the Bilderberg 2012 meetings including an article that used our exclusive Bilderberg attendee photos!
  • Fundraiser: Bilderberg 2012 Costs and theintel ...
    theintelhub | We wanted to first start off by saying thank you to all who donated and help make it possible for theintelhub.com to provide groundbreaking and exclusive coverage from Bilderberg 2012. With your help we were able to offset a little over 1/3 of our costs.
  • Activists and Protesters Confront Bilderberg 2 ...
    Alex Thomas | Protesters were gathered around a barb wired security fence that was closest to the actual conference room that the Bilderberg Group were meeting in. The last part of the video shows a portion of a Salon.com interview with Alex Jones.

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

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

Popsci - Science

  • FYI: Can a Bladder Actually Burst?
    Only under special circumstances. “I mean, it doesn’t just happen to any Joe Schmo walking down the street holding his urine too long,” says Scott Eggener, a urologist at the University of Chicago. “But for someone who has had major surgery or cancer or had radiation in his bladder, or whose bl ...
  • Book Review: The Transits of Venus Down The Ce ...
    Modern science moves so fast that it’s easy to reflect on the changes of the past week, let alone the past decade or century. But astronomy is one notable exception to this rule. Arguably no other scientific endeavor is so full of history. For this reason, astronomical events like the transit ...
  • With New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient's Pas ...
    Doctors can do HARM to prevent disease An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the future, based on his or her past — and that of everyone else. Netflix or Amazon make suggesti ...
  • What We Saw at the World Science Festival: Qua ...
    An unearthly demonstration of the eternal feud between superconductivity and magnetism Enthusiastic crowds jostled to get a better view of the quantum levitation display at Innovation Square on Saturday, a day-long celebration of science held at MetroTech Plaza in Brooklyn as part of the World S ...
  • How to Watch the Last Transit of Venus This Ce ...
    Observatories the world over will be watching on Tuesday as Venus crosses the face of the sun for the last time in any of our lifetimes. It will be a banner day for astronomers, providing ample opportunities for measuring Venus' characteristics, and for determining some rules that will help in ...

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

  • Bremmer and Roubini's Faulty Russia Analysis
    It's nice to find new blogging talent every once in a while, and boy this fellow is impressive. I had never heard of Mark Adomanis before coming across his neat riposte to famous political risk analyst Ian Bremmer and economist Nouriel Roubini on why the West should "blackball Russia." Partly it ...
  • Egypt, Spain & Far Beyond: Youth Unemployment
    As an educator, I believe there is a personal responsibility on my part to ensure that my students are able to find gainful employment. I am not paid so that those seeking work won't be...simple as that. While there are others in academia who see themselves as  "preparing people for life ou ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair ...
    All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know ...
  • 21 Signs That This Could Be A Long, Hot, Crazy ...
    The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.  Th ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto
    Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own. The farmers claim that Monsanto unfairly collec ...
  • Credit markets close doors to Spain as banking ...
    The Greek stock market has plummeted 5.9 percent after Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency warned that the country has a one-in-three chance of leaving the eurozone. The minister made the remarks on Tuesday, admitting that Spain’s high borrowing costs have shut out bond markets at a ...
  • Saturn’s moon Enceladus, new plasma laboratory
    Recent data and findings from NASA’s Cassini mission have revealed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus can provide scientists with a laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma. According to two papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists can observe the theorized c ...
  • French nationalist Marine Le Pen to sue Madonna
    Madonna seems to have crossed the line and may now face a court battle with France’s top far right-wing politician, Marine Le Pen. She claims the singer depicted her as a Nazi, placing a swastika on her forehead during a stage slide show. The face of Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s Front Nat ...
  • US role to fade with China calling shots as cr ...
    China has accumulated enough financial resources to induce borrowers US and EU to share power, argues Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. ­In an exclusive interview to RT the author of Eclipse: Liv ...

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

  • 2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Assange and ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 549 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 546 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 743 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 629 days. read more
  • 2012-06-05 Transcript: Julian Assange on 2UE R ...
    Julian Assange interviewed on 2UE Radio, 4 June 2012. Full audio is available via the 2UE website. Tim Shaw: Well, I'm really pleased to say, as promised, joining me live on the line from London is founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. Good morning from here, good afternoon/evening to you, Julia ...
  • 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

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

  • HR 3541... Statement on Prenatal Nondiscrimina ...
      Congressman Ron Paul  Mr. Speaker, as an Ob-GYN who has delivered over 4,000 babies, I certainly abhor abortion. And I certainly share my colleagues’ revulsion at the idea that someone would take an innocent unborn life because they prefer to have a child of a different sex ...
  • Human Fetus Grabs and Holds on to Surgeon's Fi ...
    A fetus learns to love long before it is ever taught to hate... read more
  • Undeniable Proof Of Atlantis
      Atlantis has been found... here's the proof. See how the pyramid code works. ~ Video read more
  • The Clock That Rules Your Body... and Controls ...
      UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have taken a major step toward understanding the cellular clock, mapping for the first time the atomic-level architecture of a key component of the timekeeper that governs the body’s daily rhythms. ~ Alton Parrish read more
  • Agenda 21... Funded by HUD, EPA, USDA, DOT and ...
      Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook Model Statues for Planning and the Management of Change was funded by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (the lead federal agency); Federal Highway Administration (US Department of Transportation); US Environmental ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • 15 Hand Tool Groups For Survival Preparedness
    Becoming closer to self-sufficiency will involve becoming adequately proficient with a variety of hand tool groups. Having basic skills with tools (and tools that do not require electricity) is an essential aspect to overall survival preparedness. Sadly, most people growing up today are not taug ...
  • Drones, Drones, and more Drones
    A brand new drone designed and built by Boeing (with their own money), has been spotted in test flights at Edwards Air Force Base a few days ago. The drone will smash the flight time of all other drones and will be able to stay in the air for 4 days. The drone is named [...]
  • 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, ...

Fast Company

  • So You Think Your Customers Trust You? 5 Reaso ...
    Humans are social by nature, and technology is now amplifying that tendency, turning us into an always-connected, interactive network of advice, feedback, information, and gossip. For thousands of years we only interacted with others face to face, but we now do it by phone, email, status update, ...
  • Layar Sticks The Knife In QR Codes With Augmen ...
    Augmented reality technology is hot right now, due especially to Google's Project Glass, which is developing wearable AR tech. But Layar, one of the biggest players in AR systems for smartphones, has set its sights on energizing an old technology, print, with AR. It's just released Layar Creator ...
  • Airtime, Photographing You While You Chat, Fac ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Sean Parker's new video chat enterprise has found itself in a media storm at launch, but there's now a genuine bolt of lightning sparking in the midst of it: Accusations from Forbes that Airtime secretly snaps photos of you while you're web chatting with a ...
  • MOG, Ford Partner On Voice-Controlled App For Cars
    News updates all day from Fast Company.On-demand music service MOG has partnered with Ford on a voice-controlled MOG app for several 2012 models. The app, which has a monthly subscription fee of $9.99, lets MOG-subscribed drivers use Ford's existing SYNC AppLink voice control technology to monit ...
  • Dog Owners, Watch Your Pooch Being Walked (And ...
    The New York City dog walking service Swifto has released an app that lets owners track their dog's every step... and, well, every poop. Fur real.A New York dog-walking service has created the ultimate accessory for pet parents: A smartphone app that lets them watch their dog being walked in rea ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spr ...
    Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism. London and New York: Zed Books, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Hamid Dabashi (HD): As you well know, a massive set of revolutionary uprisings are sweeping across North Africa and Western Asia, from Morocco to Syri ...
  • Tahrir Protests Continue (Photos and Video)
    Hundreds of thousands took part Tuesday in protests across Egypt, calling for a "political isolation" law to be implemented against General Ahmad Shafiq and remnants of the old regime. Protesters in Tahrir Square and elsewhere demanded the retrial of Hosni Mubarak, his sons, and the po ...
  • جدار الفصل العنصري: خنق في الهوة وخلق للهوية
    لا شك في أن جدار الفصل العنصري، الذي بدأ العمل عليه منذ العام 2002 على الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، كان ضمن مشروع ممنهج لخلق واقع جديد، عبر اختراقه أراضي المحافظات الفلسطينية، عازلاً لبعضها، ومحاصراً للبعض الآخر، وفي النتيجة ملتهماً آلاف الدونمات، ومفسحاً المجال لسياسات وعمليات تهويدية جديدة، على ...
  • حيرة واشنطن بين شفيق ومرسي
     باستثناء المصريين، لا يسبق أحد الإدارة الأمريكية قلقاً وفضولاً لمعرفة هوية واسم الرئيس المقبل. وأثبتت خبرة الستين عاماً الأخيرة أن الرئيس المصري يمثل حجر الأساس الأهم للعلاقات بين القوة الأكبر فى عالم اليوم من ناحية، وبين القوة الأكبر فى الشرق الأوسط من ناحية أخرى. ويثبت التاريخ أن ميول ور ...
  • Convulsions in Libya
    Fifteen days from now, the Libyan people will go to the polls. It will be the first election of its kind in Libya, but not the first election in the country. Qaddafi’s Jamahiriya held elections, but these turned out to be very large rubber stamps for a regime that conducted the spectac ...

mediagazer

  • NBC digital chief Zigler exits (Stuart Levine/ ...
    Stuart Levine / Variety: NBC digital chief Zigler exits  —  NBCUniversal digital president Vivi Zigler is out at NBC.  Topper of the digital division since 2008, Zigler has been replaced by Showtime alum Robert Hayes, who is now the exec VP of digital media.  Not only ...
  • Bradley Manning defence gets report on WikiLea ...
    Ed Pilkington / Guardian: Bradley Manning defence gets report on WikiLeaks damage to US interests  —  Judge rules that Obama administration must hand over documents assessing leak of diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks  —  Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of be ...
  • New York Times Scoops Spur Calls For Investiga ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: New York Times Scoops Spur Calls For Investigation, White House Responds  —  NEW YORK — The Obama administration disputed claims Wednesday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and others that it had revealed national security secrets to ...
  • Future of Audio Hearing Kicks Over Old Issues ...
    Katy Bachman / Adweek: Future of Audio Hearing Kicks Over Old Issues  —  A House hearing on the future of audio kicked the rock over on two old issues in the radio business exacerbated by the stunning growth of digital radio services like Pandora.  Should over-the-air radio ...
  • Media executives cite progress in dispute over ...
    Associated Press: Media executives cite progress in dispute over Labor Department curbs on release of jobs data  —  WASHINGTON — Progress is being made in talks with government officials over a Labor Department proposal to require reporters to use agency computers and tele ...

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

  • Cristiano Ronaldo: If I had a suitcase fu ...
    The Real Madrid attacker is hopeful of the Seleccao's chances in the finals, but feels that the defending European champions are the team to beat...
  • Monsoon hits Kerala, to reach Pune in 4 d ...
    SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet PUNE: The southwest monsoon finally made an onset over Kerala on Tuesday, five days later than its June 1 forecast. It is likely to reach Pune and Mumbai in three-four days. In the last 24 hours, the monsoon...
  • Type 2 diabetes ups risk of developing bl ...
    Tweet Washington, June 6 (ANI): Patients with type 2 diabetes have a 20 percent increased risk of developing blood cancers, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma, according to a new meta-analysis. The findings add to the growing evidence base linking diabetes and certain types o ...
  • Miley Cyrus confirms Liam Hemsworth engag ...
    Miley Cyrus is engaged to her boyfriend of three years, Liam...
  • Waist size alone may predict diabetes ris ...
    Waist size can predict your diabetes risk, even if you are not obese, according to a new study. Related Health stories » Waist size alone may predict diabetes risk STD grows resistant to drugs Calif. voters split on tax targeted by Big Tobacco Weight Loss Success Stories Diet and exerc ...

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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   ...

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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

  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    In today's show we come to grips with the psychology behind the power structure. What kind of people become "leaders" in the type of system in which we live? What are the traits that enhance a person's potential to move up the ladder in organisational hierarchies? My guests today are Dan Colli ...
  • Radiographer Anthony Hall slams EU safety repo ...
    In the 2nd hour of  today's show, Anthony Hall returns to critique the newly released report from the European Commission on the health effects of of x-ray body scanners. Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, and holds a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible b ...
  • Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails ...
    Vapour trails left by British bombers on route to attack flying-bomb sites encircle the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1944. All those who passionately believe that "contrails dissipate quickly" whereas "chemtrails linger" and are deeply offended by the sceptical position that TNRA take ...
  • The last desperate gambit of a failing government
    Our Banana Republic is running a desperate gambit in order to defuse the Craig Thomson affair and cling to power. They are putting out the meme that there are "allegations" against Thomson, whereas in fact, Fair Work Australia, "the national workplace relations tribunal" delivered their findin ...
  • Naked body scanners could be soon be in all UK ...
    Trials had been halted over fears of harmful radiation New study reveals risk to passengers is 'close to zero' Controversial 'naked' body scanners could be introduced at all UK airports after top scientists declared them safe. Manchester Airport has been trialling the device - known as ...

Beacon

  • Nominate an Ocean Hero!
    2011 Junior Ocean Hero Sophi Bromenshenkel with her snow hammerhead. Is someone in your community doing great things for the oceans? We want to hear about them! Nominations for our fourth annual Ocean Heroes Awards open today and we’re searching for people who work hard to make a difference ...
  • Q&A with 'To The Arctic' Filmmakers
    To the Arctic showcases unique Arctic species like polar bears. ©IMAX Oceana had a chance to talk to Greg and Shuan MacGillivray, the producers of To the Arctic, an IMAX 3D film that explores the changing landscape of the Arctic and the animals that call it home. Here's what they had to ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Even A Blind Squirrel Finds An Acorn Occasionally.
              How a victory in the field for the Aghan Army will appear in the Presidential debate.   I can sum this up in a single news item. Apparently, an Afghan citizen wrote a poem in praise of the Afghan Security Forces we have been training.   It looks like ...
  • The Salang Pass Is The Only Shortcut We Have Left.
      The Pakistanis have closed the main roads down into the Afghan theater that ISAF has been using to resupply after a NATO strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Thus we see the first immediate consequences of the drone wars.     For 20 miles north and south of the old Soviet-built ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • The Wisconsin Auction
    With his defeat of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and the union leaders who rallied for months against Walker’s agenda, the rising GOP star became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall attempt. – Walker survives recall election in Wisconsin [AP] KARL ROVE AND COMPANY pu ...
  • Tom Barrett Accuses Walker Allies of Voter Sup ...
    ** NBC NEWS CALLS WISCONSIN FOR SCOTT WALKER ** “When somebody stands with you, you stand with them. It’s raw politics 101…” – Paul Begala on CNN Meanwhile, Barrett for Wisconsin finance director Mary Urbina-McCarthy emailed supporters late Monday, writing, “Reports ...
  • Republican Calls Paycheck Fairness for Women “ ...
    Both the Paycheck Fairness Act and and Heller’s legislation would protect women who are trying to find out if they are being discriminated against based on their gender. The Paycheck Act also allows the federal government to collect salary information to monitor possible pay discrimination ...
  • “Save the Rich”: Watch This Video
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. On this day of Wisconsin voting, 2012 electoral politicking, and a generally still prevalent pre-Occupied view of things, a song that provides a post-Occupied perspective. Lyrics below the video. Followed by a few oth ...
  • WSJ Reveals Romney Emails Showing Support for ...
    SEVENTY-THREE PAGES OF EMAILS from former Gov. Romney have been disclosed by the Wall Street Journal. “We can’t make this work without an individual mandate,” Mark Maremont reports one of Romney’s aides saying, in what should be a blockbuster story. The individual mandate ...

Hudson New York

  • Economic Warfare against Iran
    The world is aware of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its sponsorship of terrorist organizations. What is less understood is Tehran's abuse of the financial sector, banks, front companies, and other deceptive techniques to evade the controls
  • The Real Purpose of Boycotts
    Is the purpose of the calls for boycotts against Israel and its citizens because not a concern for the human rights or welfare of Palestinians, or actually a call ultimately to eliminate the state of Israel? If there were a real concern for human rights
  • Prosecutor Angela Corey Rants and Whines About ...
    State Attorney Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case, recently called the Dean of Harvard Law School to complain about my criticism of some of her actions. She was transferred to the Office of Communications and proceeded to engage in
  • Eurocrisis: Russia Offers Its Services
    Europe's politicians will not admit it openly but they are afraid that the dire economic situation in countries such as Greece and Spain might lead to revolution. In two weeks' time, the Greeks will go to the voting booths again. The far-left Syriza
  • 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

Urban Survival

  • Technically Bouncing
    That rally going into the close of markets on Monday isn’t to be mistaken for optimism.  It was a mere technical bounce since the market is waiting on hard news events although there are plenty of rumors going around.  One … Continue reading →
  • Coping: In Wisconsin’s War Zone
    Election day in Wisconsin where the corporate interests have been watching nervously as government Scott Walker is up in a recall election.  If you remember, this is the same Walker who was accused of union-busting on the one hand, but … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • Meeting California's critical need for electri ...
    Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco On May 24th, 2102 the CPUC approved a decision that establishes a framework for investment in energy-related research, development and deployment projects.  The Decision will ensure that Califor ...
  • Work and Progress: Illinois Legislative Sessio ...
    Nick Magrisso, Midwest Program , Chicago You wouldn’t know it from some of the coverage evaluating the end of the Illinois General Assembly’s session last week, but along with the disappointments there were some very significant environm ...
  • NRDC Litigator Named One of Top 50 Young Attor ...
    Mitch Bernard, Director of Litigation, New York City Today, my NRDC Litigation Team colleague Selena Kyle is being recognized by The Recorder as one of the top 50 young lawyers in California—a select group of attorneys the legal newspaper sele ...
  • How walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods h ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   The video below, produced by AARP in collaboration with StreetFilms, provides a superb illustration of how walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods can help seniors.  Fro ...
  • Fighting Climate Change, One Gorgeous Building ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Today Mayor Rahm Emmanuel announced plans to tackle one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases in Chicago (or any city), and a key part of the City’s economy at the same ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • NY Cop Went for the Jugular — of a Local Judge
    From today’s New York Times: Thomas D. Raffaele, a 69-year-old justice of the New York State Supreme Court, encountered a chaotic scene while walking down a Queens street with a friend: Two uniformed police officers stood over a shirtless man … Continue reading →NY Cop Went for ...
  • Texas Police Chief Accused of Reckless Shootin ...
    Texas Police Chief Accused of Reckless Shooting at Home, Dogs is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, June 5, 2012: A Hackensack, New Jersey police chief was ordered by a judge to forfeit his job.  A jury convicted Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa of official misconduct … Continue reading →National Police Misconduc ...
  • Forced Catheterization?!
    The police applied for a warrant and it was granted–so this is not a case of rogue police acting on their own.  I was aware that the police can forcibly remove blood from DUI suspects but I had not heard … Continue reading →Forced Catheterization?! is a post from PoliceMis ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for June 1-4, 2012: A Tallahassee, Florida police officer has been charged with aggravated assault without the intent to kill and burglary with assault http://bit.ly/NzlBIm Maui, Hawaii officer was arrested for third … Continue read ...

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 )

  • Jaguars photographed in palm oil plantation
    As the highly-lucrative palm oil plantation moves from Southeast Asia to Africa and Latin America, it brings with it concerns of deforestation and wildlife loss. But an ongoing study in Colombia is finding that small palm oil plantations may not significantly hurt at least one species: the jagua ...
  • Scientists to Rio+20: save biodiversity to sav ...
    World leaders need to do much more to protect the Earth's millions of species for the services they provide, according to a new scientific consensus statement in Nature based on over 1,000 research papers. Written by 17 top ecologists, the statement points out that despite growing knowledge of t ...
  • 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.
  • 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.

Sierra Express

  • Koinadugu Yells for Development
    As the quest for national development receives a wider reckoning, the Northern Koinadugu District in the forest region of Sierra Leone shares a spell of backward development as Donstance Koroma reports. Fadugu and Kamukeh are two amalgamated chiefdoms that both form Constituency 49. This hub of ...
  • VACANCY – Consultancy for Technical Assistant, EPI
    UNICEF Sierra Leone invites applications from interested Sierra Leoneans to undertake consultancy for Technical Assistant for EPI. Purpose and rationale To provide technical assistance to the MOHS EPI unit and the District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) for the implementation of the recommendat ...
  • Innovate Salone Competition Awards $500 to 8 F ...
    The President and Board of Global Minimum Inc. is proud to announce the 8 finalists for the Innovate Salone 2012: “A De Mek Am” competition for Secondary School students in Sierra Leone (SL). For this first-of-its-kind competition in Sierra Leone, all the applicants helped us make history.  We a ...
  • Constituency 112, Endorses Aminata Ismail
    Residents of Lumley and its environs in constituency 112 have pledged their huge support for Madam Aminata Ismail commonly known as White Queen, an indigene and daughter of soil. The people of constituency 112 have reposed confidence in her to represent them in Parliament under the ticket of the ...
  • UNICEF FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, RE-ADVERTISEMEN ...
    If you are a committed and creative individual and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.  For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to p ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices up 13.5pc in overnight auction
    Economists were encouraged by a sharp surge in world dairy prices that emerged from Fonterra's Global Dairy Trade auction overnight, but said it was too early to speculate as to whether the downward trend in prices had been reversed.Fonterra's...
  • Dairy prices rebound 13.5pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products rebounded from a three-year low as buyers returned to the market, posting their biggest gain in almost two years, led by skim milk powder and anhydrous milk fat.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 13.5...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • If in Doubt, Handcuff Everyone
    Police officers thought it necessary to stop forty vehicles and handcuff nineteen people at an intersection in Aurora, Colorado, after a “reliable tip” suggested that a bank robber might be stopped at a red light. Some of those handcuffed were detained for over two hours without c ...
  • Is the UN Planning to Regulate the Internet? W ...
    At the end of the year, nations belonging to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are scheduled meet in Dubai to finalize negotiations over rules to regulate and control the Internet. The goal of the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT), ...
  • More on the Death of Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury, who it seems was nearly every Americans' favorite writer for at least briefly when they were kids, is dead, as Peter Suderman discussed here earlier today. A few thoughts from a fan since reading "The Sound of Summer Running" in a grade school lit book at age 7 and a f ...
  • The Unions Could Have Won the Recall If the Ot ...
    The Washington Post's Greg Sargent blames the failure to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 decision in which the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on independent spending in election campaigns. Sargent calls yesterday's ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doh ...
    Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, author of the new book Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, writes at Fox News' site on why the Republican Party can't afford to ignore the supporters of Ron Paul. An excerpt:   Even though Paul’s budget plan, wit ...

Mercury Rising

  • Exit Poll: 53% of Walker Voters Back Obama
    It’s been all over the TV, and was mentioned here: Exit polls showed that 53% of Walker voters back Obama. In other words, what I’d been hearing from some Sconnie friends is true: There are a lot of Wisconsinites of all parties who dislike recalls done for anything but criminal convi ...
  • A lesson for progressives from Wisconsin
    The results are still coming in, but it looks as though Walker has retained his seat. Given that Republicans vote lockstep, Kleefisch is almost guaranteed election. Now, this is beyond disappointing. It’s devastating. The Democrats will point to the 8:1 advantage in funding that Walker had ...
  • Governor Mahlon Mitchell? It Could Happen.
    As Charles noted yesterday, Scott Walker, should he actually survive today’s recall, is not exactly out of the woods — he has looming legal threats that could soon force him out of office regardless of the tens of millions spent by his billionaire pals like Ms. Diane “I paid no ...
  • Definitely re-elect
    Mary Bottari, PRWatch (via t/o) So far the investigators have charged six people with 15 felonies; one person, who turned himself in to prosecutors, was convicted on two counts: * Timothy Russell (former deputy chief of staff to Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker) was charged with two felon ...
  • The latest corruption extravaganza
    Public Citizen has correctly labeled Susan Collins’ bill S. 1100 an invitation to contractor corruption. The bill says right up front that its purpose is: To amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit inserting politics into the Federal acquisition process by prohibiting the submissio ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Psychedelics
      A software pioneer donates $10 million to MAPS and other drug policy organizations, the Philadelphia Daily News celebrates Philly's "psychedelic renaissance," and the media links a "zombie attack" to LSD and bath salts in this week's psychedelic news. read more
  • Squat the Condos!!!
      read more
  • Beyond The Walls
      You are invited to an inspiring and revolutionary evening on Monday, June 11, with people who believe this world can be saved. Aida Shibli (Palestine), Tamir Yaari and Uri Ayalon (Israel) studied and lived in Tamera peace center in Portugal during the previous four years and moved ba ...
  • 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 ...
      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

  • "Governments of the World"
    Dear Governments of the world, You can't control something that doesn't belong to you, the internet will never be yours. - Love, ‪#Anonymous‬ by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter May 30, 2012
  • 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.
  • AT&T Inc.
    Listen, AT&T: I Am Sick And Tired Of Hearing From The Nonexistent "Kelly" by Mary Beth Quirk As originally posted on: The Consumerist May 24, 2012 Consumerist reader Mike uses AT&T internet and home phone, but hasn't bought into the U-verse TV situation. He says he's got an anten ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Fuel crisis shuts down Gaza power plant
    The only power plant in the Gaza Strip has once again stopped generating electricity after running out of fuel, causing serious difficulties for the Palestinian residents of the area.
  • Israel to build 300 new houses in WB
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to expand Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank by 300 families.
  • Russia, China against meddling in Syria
    Russia and China have once again expressed strong opposition to foreign military intervention in Syria and a forced government change.
  • Russia urged to change Syria stance
    Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has called on Russia to change its stance on Syria, warning Moscow could lose its credibility in the region if it did not stop supporing Damascus.
  • Israel thanks Germany for nuclear sub
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised and thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her commitment to Israel’s security by the recent sale to Tel Aviv of a submarine that is capable of being armed with atomic warheads.

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 Elephant in the Room: The Police and the O ...
    As the Occupy movement, and the new culture of resistance it has spawned, continues to grow and diversify, there is an obvious dilemma that will have to be worked out if we are serious about changing American society in any meaningful way. Of the many obstacles facing what, from our current vant ...
  • Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes in
    One could be forgiven for thinking there’s anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of State as something of a real life action hero, a reluctant warrior whose greatest fault – should they deign t ...
  • Killing Christ With A Drone…
    leaves no mess behind. No bloody, tortured, wracked remains lovingly removed by tender hands, captured by innumerable painters since– Titian, Tintoretto–placed in a tomb only to rise three days later–you know the rest. “Where technology meets free markets” some sono ...
  • U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No N ...
    IPS — France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nuclear weapons, but Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the United States, according to a new account by a f ...
  • Staged Delusion: Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee
    Incoherent Australians taking to the Thames in body tight suits waiting to row in the procession, disgruntled West Indians in their social club in London wanting compensation for past wrongs, banked up traffic in the city, and the obsession with catching a glimpse of the sovereign.  The largest ...

Destructionist

  • Time Lapse Video of the Transit of Venus
    Watch Venus by in front of the Sun
  • Eyewitnesses: Mitt Romney Attended Bilderberg 2012
    Four separate eyewitnesses inside the Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly Virginia told London Guardian writer Charlie Skelton that Mitt Romney was in attendance at Bilderberg 2012, suggesting the Republican candidate could be the elite’s pick for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. “ ...
  • “World Government” Advocate Attend ...
    Financial Times writer Gideon Rachman was in attendance at this year’s 2012 Bilderberg Group conference, no doubt to further the agenda he advanced in a December 2008 FT article in which he argued that “everything is in place” for a dictatorial world government to be imposed by a technocratic el ...
  • AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 Af ...
    “Retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80 years old,” Benmosche, who turned 68 last week, said during a weekend interview at his seaside villa in Dubrovnik, Croatia. “That would make pensions, medical services more affordable. They will keep people working longer and will take that burden off ...
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