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Saturday, June 9, 2012

9 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • A Melkite on the Desolation of Homs
    "Peace in Syria could be saved if everyone told the truth. After a year of conflict, the reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media": says a testimony sent to Fides Agency by the French Bishop Philip Tournyol Clos, a greek-Catholic Melkite Archiman ...
  • Fragility and Collapse: Slowly at first, then ...
    The US Federal government is currently spending about $300 billion per month. To do so, it “borrows” around $100 billion per month. The word “borrows” is in quotes, because most of that new debt is created by the Treasury and bought up by the Federal Reserve, so in essence the government just wr ...
  • The Peterloo Massacre
    At 1.30 p.m. the magistrates came to the conclusion that "the town was in great danger". William Hulton therefore decided to instruct Joseph Nadin, Deputy Constable of Manchester, to arrest Henry Hunt and the other leaders of the demonstration. Nadin replied that this could not be done without t ...
  • This Rock Could Spy on You for Decades
    U.S. forces may continue to track Afghans for years after the conflict is officially done. Palm-sized sensors, developed for the American military, will remain littered across the Afghan countryside — detecting anyone who moves nearby and reporting their locations back to a remote headquarters. ...
  • Australia: Native Title Changes Flagged
    Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has flagged plans to make changes to the native title system on the 20th anniversary of Australia's historic Mabo ruling. Ms Roxon says the laws Mabo fought for have provided economic benefits and ensured Indigenous Australians have access to their traditional la ...

Independent - London

  • ICC lawyer detained in Libya on security concerns
    A Libyan lawyer says authorities have detained a member of an International Criminal Court delegation after she allegedly showed sensitive documents to deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam, who was captured by revolutionary fighters in November. Related S ...
  • UN says 8 civilians killed in Ivory Coast attack
    A United Nations official says eight civilians were killed in Ivory Coast in an attack that also killed seven peacekeepers.Related StoriesEgypt's on-air warning: Don't talk to foreigners – they're all spiesSeven UN soldiers killed in ambushICC lawyer detained in Libya on security concerns
  • Taliban kill four French troops in Afghanistan 
    A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman and wearing a burqa blew himself up in a market in eastern Afghanistan today, killing four French troops, officials said. Related StoriesNato apologizes for Afghanistan airstrike civilian deathsNato apologises for Afghanistan airstrike civilian death ...
  • Syria rebels say will free Lebanese hostages i ...
    Syrian rebels holding 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims hostage said they would release the men when their country had established a new "civil state".Related StoriesChina says Kofi Annan's Syria efforts are more important than everUN monitors reach Syria massacre sceneMonitors find grim proof of kil ...
  • Shelling in Syria's Deraa kills 17, say activists
    Seventeen people, including 10 women, were killed overnight by shelling in the southern Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted 15 months ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Related StoriesSyrian troops shelling rebel areaChina says Kofi A ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
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    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
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    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
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    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

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    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

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    A 2010 Rockefeller Foundation document entitled "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development" outlines a scenario which results in the death of 13,000 during the 2012 Olympics. Rise of Authoritarianism The first worrying prediction begins in 2012 when 'the pandemic the ...
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    Hundreds of crown-of-thorns starfish found on a beach in southern Japan in January stranded themselves because they were starving, say researchers. More than 800 were discovered on a 300m stretch of sand on Ishigaki island. The starfish population "outbreak" was first identified in 2009, when ...
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    The Pentagon has just launched a multi-year national public relations campaign to justify, glorify and honor Washington's catastrophic, aggressive and losing war against Vietnam - America's most controversial and unpopular military conflict. President Barack Obama opened the militarist event, w ...
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    In this excerpt from The Happiness Diet, discover how Procter & Gamble convinced people to forgo butter and lard for cheap, factory-made oils loaded with trans fat. Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, cana ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • Con diplomacy
    Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre put it another way in the House of Commons. “This Prime Minister will not force hard-working Canadian taxpayers to bail out sumptuous euro welfare-state countries and the wealthy bankers that lend to them,” he said. Boors. We are governed by authoritarian boo ...
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  • Truth in Advertising . . . .
    Lush Cosmetics has produced a rebuttal ad to the enbridge propaganda ad running constantly on BC TV stations:  Much more accurate than the original one, don't you think ? ? ? ?
  • More than students . . .
    SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE, and like Bob Dylan observed, a lot of folks just don't understand, but sometimes, most of the patriots are found in the gang out of uniform. Like Junius wrote, "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media Amplify Obama's Comments On Private Sect ...
    During a campaign stop today, Mitt Romney suggested that "the message" to take away from Gov. Scott Walker's recall victory in Wisconsin is that the United States doesn't "need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers." The media largely ignored this comment in favor of amplifying Republican ...
  • The Main Problem With Jobs Growth Is Lack Of D ...
    Wall Street Journal editor and frequent Fox News guest Steve Moore claimed that concerns over a scheduled expiration of tax cuts is "the whole problem with the U.S. economy right now." In fact, economic experts say that a lack of demand for goods and services is the main factor dragging down jo ...
  • Media Fixation On Obama's Private Sector Remar ...
    Media are diverting attention from the fact that Republicans are obstructing a jobs bill that economists estimate would create millions of jobs by fixating on President Obama's comments that private sector job growth is "doing fine."Obama Contrasts Private Sector Jobs Growth With Public Sector, ...
  • Bill O'Reilly Denies Clear Progress In Green E ...
    Criticizing President Obama for "remain[ing] enthusiastic about massive government investment in green energy," Fox News' Bill O'Reilly claimed that "the feds have not been able to make progress in the green area despite spending many, many billions of dollars." In fact, federal policy has ...
  • Fact: Bill Clinton And Larry Summers Agree Wit ...
    In recent interviews, President Clinton and former White House economic adviser Larry Summers agreed with President Obama that Congress should not extend the Bush tax cuts for wealthy households. But Fox News distorted their comments to falsely claim that Clinton and Summers are in favor of ext ...

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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Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Another Bailout for Big Business?
    Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas might be looking for a handout – from you. Back in January, Moody’s changed Energy Future Holdings Corp’s rating outlook to negative and made it impossible to ignore what anyone who had been paying attention to the company’s ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Divers return to Baltic Sea anomaly
    The large circular object on the floor of the Baltic Sea has been rediscovered by Ocean Explorer divers. The object was originally picked up by Peter...
  • 'Tooth tattoo' could save your life
    A 'tooth tattoo' made from silk strands and gold wires could detect life-threatening illnesses. The device is still in development but could one day b...
  • Buddhists release snakes, cause plague
    Buddhists in China enacted a 'compassionate release' by unleashing hundreds of snakes near a village. 50 members of the "Let Blessings and Wisdom Grow...
  • 'UFO' sighted over the Middle-East
    Authorities in several countries were alerted following sightings of a strange swirling object in the sky. Reports came in from Georgia, Armenia, Turk...
  • Obese woman burns down crematorium
    The cremation of a 200kg woman didn't go according to plan as her excess body fat blocked an air filter. The building in Austria was burnt to the grou...

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

  • Climate Change Message Needs to Be Closer to H ...
    (Phys.org) In a project that aimed to analyse public perceptions of global warming, the researchers focused on ‘psychological distance’ in prompting people to go greener and the significance of uncertainty as justification for inaction ...
  • Lake Chad Shrinks From 25,000 to 2,000 Square ...
    (AllAfrica) The water surface of the Lake Chad basin has gradually shifted since the 1960s from 25,000 kilometers square to less than 2,000 kilometers square as at today, largely due to climate change, population increase and water dem ...
  • New Carbon Emissions Limit for Cars in Europe
    (Guardian) Carmakers will have to slash the carbon emissions of new cars sold in Europe by a third by 2020, according to leaked European Commission documents seen by the Guardian. The EC proposals would be legally binding and the ...
  • Calif. Governor Floats Plan for Letting Bullet ...
    (E&E Daily (sub req'd)) Environmental lawsuits should not halt California's high-speed rail line unless it's proved to cause far more harm than good, the governor's office proposed yesterday. Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) administra ...
  • Good Energies Changes Name as Focus Shifts to ...
    (Bloomberg) Good Energies Inc., the renewable energy investor, changed its name to Bregal Energy and said future private-equity deals will be primarily in North America’s traditional energy industry. The name change comes two years af ...

GreenBiz

  • Run your building like an athlete
    Just like aging athletes, buildings get creakier and crankier as they age; and just like athletes, buildings can benefit from a regular diet of preventative maintenance. Here's how to get the most from your facilities for years to come.
  • How Chicago plans to lead in commercial buildi ...
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel today unveiled the Commercial Building Initiative, a project that will retrofit 14 of the city's most iconic buildings to reduce their energy use by 20 percent over five years.
  • 3 ways Walmart and its suppliers are reducing ...
    At a sustainable packaging expo last month, Walmart and its suppliers showcased the different ways they're reducing packaging, from cereal and shoe boxes to wine bottles and more.
  • 3 green upgrades to boost property values
    A new report gives insight on how property owners can maximize their return from investing in green upgrades.
  • Revised WRI tool aims to help firms assess glo ...
    As water-related risks grow, it's becoming increasingly important for companies to figure out how to assess those risks. The World Resources Institute has launched a revised, global tool that could help.

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

  • Those Aren't Really Myths
    Jonathan Bernstein has some pretty bad advice for poll watchers and other presidential election prognosticators. He has come up with five "myths" that contradict conventional wisdom. The first myth is that we should watch the state polls and ignore the national ones. His reason is that electio ...
  • National Day of Blogger Silence Joke
    Did you know that today is National Day of Blogger Silence? No? Well, it doesn't matter. I think it's more important that Michelle Malkin realize that her homepage is so dark that I can't read her hyperlinks on my MacBook Air even with the brightness turned up to the highest level. Perhaps t ...
  • Noonan Hearts Clinton ... Now
    Wow, this is almost too easy: Peggy Noonan -- after briefly doing a post-Wisconsin dance on the bleeding body of the labor movement, as if she were the girlfriend of a 1950s movie hoodlum and the hoodlum and his thug friends had just thrillingly curb-stomped the victim -- moves on to presidenti ...
  • How Things Got So Stupid
    We all know that something about Barack Obama brings out the crazy on the right, but let's not forget that people were equally insane about Bill Clinton. I'll let driftglass do the talking here for a moment, as he waxes nostalgic for 1990's gems like TravelGate, WhiteWater, TrooperGate, the Vin ...
  • I'm getting a Whooping Cough Booster Shot
    My doctor told me I have to get a TDAP booster shot for pertussis otherwise known as whooping cough. Since we are currently experiencing an epidemic of whooping cough in many states, you might want to check to see of you need a booster shot as well. I received an email from our local school ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How Deforestation Caused Easter Island's Socie ...
    Easter Island is a prime example of what can happen when resources are overused. The loss of trees had a devastating impact on the island's birds – and its people. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Incredible Places to Visit in Guatemala
    There's nothing like a little travel to spice up your life! These 5 beautiful locations in Guatemala are sure to feed your travel bug and get you craving for adventure. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Crumbling Soviet Military Bases: A 20th Centur ...
    The collapse of the Soviet Union left many military bases abandoned and decaying. Their haunting quality is captured brilliantly in these stunning photographs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • New Video Games Being Played by Animals
    Video games aren't just for people anymore. A new video game amuses cats and their owners at home, while researches in laboratories put even insects into virtual reality. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: Global Food Prices Retreat
    Prospects are better than had been feared for food supplies this summer, the Food and Agriculture Organization projects, although extreme weather could change the picture.
  • Peter Gleick Reinstated at Pacific Institute
    The Pacific Institute reinstated Peter Gleick as its president, saying it had accepted his apology for using false pretenses to obtain internal documents from an institute that challenges climate science.
  • Thoughts on Water From Young New Yorkers
    The city announced the winners of a poetry and art competition related to water conservation.
  • Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste
    Lawmakers wrestle with the idea that a storage site might be found if the process is based on local consent, as a panel suggests.
  • The Martian Eco-Chronicles
    The fantasy writer Ray Bradbury, who died this week at the age of 91, touched on environmental themes in 1948 with a mixture of anger and elegy that anticipated the writings of Rachel Carson and David Brower.

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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    An American Central Intelligence Agency pilot, who was criticized during the Cold War for allowing Soviet forces to capture him alive during the 1960 U-2 incident, is to be posthumously awarded a military decoration for valor.
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    Source says Mikhailov 'will not be exchanged' with US. CIA preparing to pull back from Iraq. Senior UN official blasts US drone strikes.
  • Russian colonel was ‘most successful CIA spy’ ...
    Before the dust could settle from last month’s closed-door trial of Vladimir Lazar, and the arrest of an unnamed missile engineer on charges of espionage, Russia claims to have exposed yet another spy. Valery Mikhailov, a retired Russian counterintelligence officer, has been given an 18-year pri ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • America's Student Loan Racket
      America's Student Loan Racket    by Stephen Lendman   This writer's recent book titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War" includes a chapter on America's student loan racket. It discusses the issue in detail. &nbsp ...
  • David Sanger's War on Iran
      David Sanger's War on Iran   by Stephen Lendman   Sanger is New York Times chief Washington correspondent. Previously he held other posts. He's reported on foreign policy, globalization, Asian issues, and nuclear-related ones.   Cooperatively with other Times correspon ...
  • Video: Ray McGovern on Iran, Israel, and the U ...
  • Syrian rebels tried to get me killed, says Ch ...
    The chief correspondent of Channel 4 News has claimed that Syrian rebels deliberately tried to get him and his crew killed by gunfire from government forces in a bid to discredit the regime of Bashar al-Assad. READ THE REST. read more
  • Could What's Left of a "Special Counsel" Actua ...
    The White House may be in for a surprise regarding the Special Counsel’s independence

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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    George Lakey, Contributor Waking Times Ever since Iceland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the country has been busy reinventing itself. The first step was to restore democracy through a turbulent nonviolent struggle, then to force resignations in the financial sector and secure a criminal convictio ...
  • Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?
    Jeff Clark Casey Research It may feel like I’m out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now for a huge move into gold and silver. There are, however, very valid reasons to reasonably expect a mania in our [...]
  • How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler&#82 ...
    Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington The Guardian, Saturday 25 September 2004 18.59 EDT George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ...
  • 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 ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • 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 ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    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 ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

  • Win a Stylish Green Messenger Bag From Plaid D ...
    School’s out for summer and Father’s Day is just around the bend, so this year why not give your dad or grad a gift he can actually use – like Plaid Doctrine’s Belltown messenger bag. These handsome bags are handcrafted in downtown Seattle, and they’re made from recy ...
  • City in the Sky: Futuristic Flower Towers Soar ...
    Read the rest of City in the Sky: Futuristic Flower Towers Soar Above Modern Metropolises Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: City in the Sky, empire state building, Hrama, invasive species, japanese haiku, London, London Tower bridge, lotus flower, Megatropolis, new york ...
  • INTERVIEW: We Talk to Artist Benjamin Jones Ab ...
    Some of us were lucky enough to have moms or dads build treehouses for us – for the rest of us, there’s Benjamin Jones. The artist recently brought his colorful TreeHouse made of sustainable materials to Governor’s Island in NYC for the annual Figment Festival and it was an ins ...
  • 11 Great Green Gifts for Father’s Day 2012
    Read the rest of 11 Great Green Gifts for Father’s Day 2012 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco gift guide, father's day 2012, father's day, green dad, green design, green fashion, Green Fathers Day Gifts, green gifts, green gifts for dads, green gifts for g ...
  • 8 Delightful DIY Father’s Day Gifts to Make fo ...
    Read the rest of 8 Delightful DIY Father’s Day Gifts to Make for Dear Old Dad Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: diy father's day gifts, diy gift ideas, diy gifts, diy gifts for dad, eco-friendly father's day gifts, father's day gifts, Green Fathers Day Gifts, green ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Nuclear Cover-Up: Explosions, Military Helicop ...
    Eyewitnesses on the ground near the media-blacked-out elevated radiation zone near the border of Indiana and Michigan, where radiation levels hundreds of times higher than normal were quickly removed from public viewing by the EPA, are now sending in a large number of photos and videos documenti ...
  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse? Have you ever been asked that question? If so, what did you say? Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest. It can be very frustrati ...
  • Russia, America Race To Retrieve Alien Spacecraft
    Ever since the mysterious object was first discovered on the seabed floor by salvage divers questions rose about its origins. Incredibly, images of the object bear a striking resemblence to the Millennium Falcon—character Han Solo's spaceship in the early Star Wars films. Its similarity to the f ...
  • Gates and WHO Partner to Create the Global Vac ...
    The World Health Organization (WHO) has devised a scheme to vaccinate people living in over 194 countries. They joined forces with the Decade of Vaccine Collaboration (DVC) and published their plan last month. The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) is pushing governments worldwide with the pow ...
  • Chicago cops Taser 8-month pregnant woman for ...
    The superintendent of the Chicago Police Department says that the reason one of his officers used a Taser stun gun on a woman days away from giving birth because “you can’t always tell whether somebody is pregnant.”

Andy Worthington

  • EXCLUSIVE: Guantánamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoner ...
    This investigative report is published simultaneously here, and on the website of the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing e ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • School for Scoundrels: Online ‘Patriot&# ...
    Attention, students and lovers of learning: If you’ve been seeking an education with a “moral and nationalist perspective,” unencumbered by government censorship and “political correctness,” your search is finally over. The Roger Sherman Institute (RSI), a new and unusual institute of higher lea ...
  • ‘Anonymous’ Attacks, Shuts Down Neo-Nazi Web Forum
    The Internet hacking collective known as Anonymous continued its assault on neo-Nazi and hate group websites Friday by going after Aryan-Front.com, a white supremacist online forum. Before the website went offline, visitors were greeted with messages such as “Hacked by Anonymous,” “You should ha ...
  • Alabama Defeats Communism with Anti-Sustainabi ...
    With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot on our minds. But at least we can cross one worry off the list: Our property cannot be confiscated by the United Nations or any of its myriad stealt ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Israel Plans Giant Detention Center for Africa ...
    Israel announced on Thursday its plan to create massive detention centers including over 20,000 tents to hold African migrants before they are deported. An anti-racism protest in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2012. (photo: Sasha Kimel) read more
  • Rio+20 Earth Summit: Leaked Draft Portends Ano ...
    The latest draft text that 180 governments are expected to sign up to at the end of the Rio+20 Earth summit has been leaked to the Guardian. According to the UN, only about 20% of the wording has been agreed, so with just three days formal negotiating time before world leaders arrive in Brazil o ...
  • Judge Allows 'Vague' Bradley Manning Charges t ...
    A U.S. military judge is refusing to dismiss eight of the 22 counts against Bradley Manning, the US Army private charged in a leak of US government secrets. The material, much of it published by WikiLeaks between April and November 2010, included videos of a 2007 helicopter gun attack in Baghdad ...
  • 'Hot Spring': Record Temps Herald Era of Warme ...
    With the warmest March, third warmest April and second warmest May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Thursday that the 2012 Spring in the contiguous United States since has been the hottest ever on record. r ...
  • Big Tobacco Cash Floods California Election; R ...
    Proponents of the $1-a-pack tax hike on cigarettes on Tuesday’s state ballot refused to concede Thursday night, saying they still hope to overcome the current 1.4% margin of defeat as elections officials tally an estimated 1 million uncounted ballots. ...

Lifehacker

  • Salvage a Camera Strap From an Old Laptop Bag ...
    If you need a new neck strap for a DSLR, you need look no further than an old laptop bag. More »
  • Spectacle Is a Free Window Management Tool for ...
    OS X: Macs have great gesture-based window management, but keyboard shortcuts are largely absent. Spectacle corrects this oversight by allowing you to move and resize windows with simple keystrokes. More »
  • Top 10 Fixes for Life's Daily Annoyances
    Every day is filled with little annoyances that we just don't have the time to solve. Thanks to the internet, someone's out solving most of those problems for us. If you want to remove the tiny frustrations that plague you day to day, here a ...
  • Create a Behind-the-Scenes Blog to Augment You ...
    If you really want to stand out from the pack in a job search, consider creating a blog to give employers a behind-the-scenes look at your greatest professional achievements. More »
  • Cut the Tediousness Out of Your Life by Automa ...
    Nobody likes busywork, but we do a lot of it every day—between our gadgets, our home appliances, and even the chores we do every day, we waste an awful lot of time on mindless tasks. Take some time this weekend to automate some of these ...

Water Privatization

  • Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to hire m ...
    Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority members said Friday that the decision to bring in a management firm will make the agency stronger
  • Davao water firm workers oppose proposed Angar ...
    DAVAO CITY — Workers of the Davao City Water District (DCWD) led by Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa DCWD (NAMADACWAD) on Wednesday registered strong opposition against the proposed Angara Bill (House Bill 2997), saying enactment of the measure would lead to the full privatization of all water districts ...
  • CUPE reminds Grits of privatization pitfalls
    WINDSOR, Ont. -- CUPE Local 543.1 delivered a crate of oranges to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s office Thursday as a “gentle reminder” of what can happen when the provincial government contracts services out to private entities like it did with the troubled Ornge air ambulance service.
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Euro 2012: Germany v Portugal - live | Scott M ...
    • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Email scott.murray@guardian.co.uk • A Twitter account from which nothing will ever be sent • Click here for our dedicated Euro 2012 siteThe other game in this group, in case you missed it earlier today, was a corker: Holland 0-1 Denmark ...
  • Spain poised to get up to €100bn for bank bailout
    Country joins Greece, Ireland and Portugal in bowing to need for aid to survive European debt crisisA European bailout of up to €100bn (£81bn) for Spain's ailing banks was being put together on Saturday as the country joins Greece, Ireland and Portugal in bowing to the need for outside aid to su ...
  • Afghan government warns US over 'one-sided' ai ...
    Raid that killed over a dozen civilians condemned as Afghanistan warns that future raids would be a breach of pactThe Afghan government has hit out at the US for failing to consult with local forces ahead of an airstrike that killed 18 civilians, suggesting future such raids would be viewed as a ...
  • Russia backs Assad's departure 'if that is wha ...
    Foreign minister's comments suggest that Moscow's backing for Syrian president is weakeningRussia has indicated that it will no longer stand in the way of the departure of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if that is what Syrians want.The comments by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov come d ...
  • Golden Dawn spokesman claims he was provoked b ...
    Far-right Greek politician Ilias Kasidiaris, who has been in hiding since slapping female politician on Thursday, says he will sueThe far-right Greek politician who slapped a woman and threw water in the face of another on live television has threatened to sue his victims, claiming they provoked ...

McClatchey

  • Muslim Brotherhood still can’t win the ...
    The presidential runoff, which features two days of voting that begin Saturday, should easily go to the Brotherhood?s candidate, Mohammed Morsi, over Ahmed Shafik. But with less than a week…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Leaders tell blatant lies about OA ...
    All politicians lie, or sometimes play games with the truth, but the presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador were so off the mark when they asked the Organization of American States…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Droning on and on
    Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering words of a constitutional law professor who promised us he was…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: In time, N.C.'s marriage amendment ...
    We have been there before. After I voted in my first election in 1972 (the voting age had changed to 18), I overheard some folks saying, Im ashamed. Im going…Click to Continue »
  • Guantánamo defense lawyers seek national ...
    In a war court first, defense lawyers for the accused architect of al Qaidas USS Cole bombing are asking the military judge to broadcast the Guantánamo death-penalty trial to the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • France to quit Afghanistan by end-2012
    TULLE, France (AFP) - French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that France would begin its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next month and complete it by the end of the year.Speaking after ...
  • 4 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Four French soldiers were killed and five others wounded in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, the French government said. The office of French ...
  • Fight Isnt Over for Soldiers in Remote Afghanistan
    COMBAT OUTPOST RAHMAN KHEL, Afghanistan - Lt. Col Shawn Daniel, standing in the middle of this dusty little outpost beneath the Afghan mountains, reassured the 70 soldiers gathered close around him ...
  • US did not consult Afghan forces on drone stri ...
    KABUL // The Afghan leader says the United States failed to consult Afghan forces when calling in an airstrike this week that killed civilians. President Hamid Karzai also warned his government will ...
  • World Powers Once Again Eye Afghanistan Influence
    In the 19th Century Afghanistan was seen as a major prize for the superpowers of that time, Britain and Russia. It was known as 'The Great Game' and involved the two nations attempting to ...

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

  • Federal Circuit finally gets due process and " ...
    In this week's Honesty Without Fear radio program, I interviewed Robert "Bob" Whitmore and his lawyer, Paula Dinerstein, about the landmark decision Whitmore won from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week. The Federal Circuit has finally put to rest the unfortunat ...
  • NWC amicus brief urges protection for railroad ...
    Today, attorney Stephen Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I are filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief urges the ARB to affirm a decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in favor of Christophe ...
  • FBI keeps agent who botched Stevens case and h ...
    The Alaska Dispatch published a story yesterday that reveals how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) condones misconduct and punishes those who speak out for the truth. The story by investigative reporters Amanda Coyne and Tony Hopfinger is called, "Why is the lead agent in the botche ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Silverscarcat's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The ...
    Hey, Techdirt readers. What's up? Yeah, looks like it's my turn to pick my favorite posts of the week. Lots of stuff was covered this week, so how about we get into it? I've always been interested in various copyright laws, since I, like many fans, tend to use the "gray" area of copyrigh ...
  • Press Tries To Pin High Profile Killings On Th ...
    And, here we go again. The press and "cultural commentators" absolutely love to blame new technologies for someone who does something bad. The latest is that in response to the crazy Luka Magnotta case (involving the guy in Canada who killed and dismembered someone, filming the whole thing, ea ...
  • Holder In The Hot Seat, Still Can't Explain Wh ...
    Back in December, right after it came out that the Justice Department had seized and censored a hip hop blog for over a year and then gave it back, effectively admitting that there was no legal basis for the censorship, Rep. Zoe Lofgren asked Attorney General Eric Holder about what happened in t ...
  • Does 'The Future' Need Lobbyists Too?
    Back in April, I wrote about the Hack Society meeting at Union Square Ventures, where Rep. Jim Cooper provided a great quote: "The past, in general, is over-represented in Washington. The future has no lobbyists." That is, indeed, a problem to some extent. Of course, that then leads to a ...
  • DailyDirt: Piece Of Cake
    For people who are trying to watch their waistline, cake is generally off-limits. Sure, there are ways to make cake "healthier" -- for example, by using less sugar and substituting oil and butter with things like pureed fruit and vegetables or yogurt -- but that cake just won't be as satisfying ...

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

  • Why Obama will free Jonathan Pollard
    Grant Smith writes: The US Department of Justice has released new files about convicted spy Jonathan Pollard’s bid for presidential clemency. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after passing more than a million highly classified documents to Israel while working as an intelligence a ...
  • Video: The Feynman series
  • Tehran’s views on U.S. politics, nuclear talks
    Mehdi Khaliji writes: Iran’s ruling regime pays close attention to American politics in its own calculations about how to negotiate with Washington—and how to game the new diplomatic effort. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner circle, for example, believe that President Barack Ob ...
  • The bloody Islamic insurgency in Russia’s backyard
    Anna Nemtsova writes: The officers nervously cocked their rifles as the crowd began to swell. The Kirovsky police station in the capital city of Russia’s Dagestan region was now under siege. But the angry cohort outside the station walls on May 27 wasn’t composed of the bearded, gun- ...
  • America, oil, and war in the Middle East
    Toby Craig Jones writes: Middle Eastern oil has enchanted global powers and global capital since the early twentieth century. Its allure has been particularly powerful for the United States. The American romance began in earnest in the 1930s, when geologists working for Standard Oil of Californi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • 2012 Annular solar eclipse – followup
    Readers may remember that my family and I made a mad dash through northern California into Nevada trying to get ahead of clouds. Readers may remember this “perfect” image taken by my lovely wife that we uploaded to WUWT from … Continue reading →
  • American Meteorological Society disappears wit ...
    UPDATE: It appears the paper has been withdrawn and credit acknowledgement given to Steve McIntyre, see below: There was yet another recent “hockey stick” being foisted on the public. Gergis et al. It says: The average reconstructed temperature anomaly in … Continue reading →
  • NASA June 2012 Solar Cycle 24 Prediction
    Compiled by Joe D’aleo WeatherBell via NASA MSFC The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 60 in the Spring of 2013. We are currently over three years into Cycle 24. The current … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale: NOAA Issues El Niño Watch for Second ...
    The WUWT ENSO meter – at zero, or neutral at the moment: Guest post by Bob Tisdale NOAA issued an El Niño watch yesterday morning. The watch seems a bit premature. A “watch” in NOAA parlance means “conditions are favorable,” but … Continue reading →
  • UAH continental US Temperature for May 2012: + ...
    by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The U.S. lower-48 surface temperature anomaly from my population density-adjusted (PDAT) dataset was 1.26 deg. C above the 1973-2012 average for May 2012, with a 1973-2012 linear warming trend of +0.14 deg. C/decade (click … Continue reading →

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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 ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • PSV's Toivonen Target for Russian Club - Agent
    A Russian league club is interested in buying Sweden midfielder Ola Toivonen from PSV Eindhoven, the player's agent Martin Dahlin was quoted as saying by Dutch magazine Voetbal International on Saturday.
  • Russia May Budget $6 Bln for Corporate Crisis ...
    The Russian government may set aside over 200 billion rubles ($6 billion) in the 2013 budget for anti-crisis support to domestic companies in case of further global economic deterioration, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Saturday.
  • Animals Set to Predict Results of 2012 Europea ...
    A female elephant, a cow, a stag, a seal, a polecat, a swine, two octopuses and two otters are trying to predict the results of the championship’s matches.
  • Ray Bradbury Predictions Fulfilled
    Sixty years ago, the great science fiction author predicted the appearance of various devices, which have now become commonplace.
  • RIA Novosti, R-Sport Provide Multimedia Covera ...
    This summer's premier sporting events, the European Football Championships in Poland and Ukraine, and the Olympic Games in London, will be covered by RIA Novosti and the R-Sport sports news agency, which have created special Euro-2012 and London-2012 projects in order to provide maximum coverage ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Madison's Statement of Solidarity with Quebec
    This was read last night at a People’s Assembly in Madison, WI - one day after Scott Walker won the recall election.  Immediately afterwards we marched from the Capitol to the UW Madison campus banging pots and pans and wearing red squares, the symbol of the Quebec student strike and ...
  • Policy vs. personality in politics
    The New York Times report on president Obama’s kill list put into stark relief something that has been easy to overlook at times over the past few years: the differences between those who prefer a personality-based political environment and those who emphasize policy.1 Those tensions real ...
  • 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 “ ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Heartbreak in the Heartland: Voices from Wisco ...
    Why did Scott Walker comfortably defeat the recall by better than 53 to 46 percent? With so much energy and effort by thousands of workers, activists, students, and young people going into the Wisconsin Uprising, why did this movement fail to achieve its prime immediate political goal?Click here ...
  • Monsanto’s Deep Roots in Washington
    If you've ever wondered how Monsanto―a company that admits it wants to own the world's food supply through its patented genetically engineered seeds―gets away with not having to label its products, all you have to do is follow the trail of money leading from their coffers into the pockets and c ...
  • Feds to Farmers: Grow GMO Beets or Face Sugar ...
    If you're Monsanto, you're probably really proud of your genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets. Introduced in 2008, the beets are the company's most recent Roundup Ready product genetically engineered to withstand the direct application of the herbicide glyphosate.Click here to read this article
  • The Food Movement's Final Frontier: Taking Car ...
    Rita has worked for the same Missouri-based pork processing company for 13 years. And yet she feels like she could lose her job at any time. If this 49-year-old mother of four is late for work by as little as five minutes, that's one strike.Click here to read this article
  • Farmers, Ranchers and Consumers Fight USDA Ani ...
    A coalition of agriculture and consumer organizations from across the nation is challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to push ahead with a complicated and expensive Animal ID program.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
    A single mother of four, she said, “We live it every day,” referring to the lack of sick leave, not being allowed to go to the bathroom, being laughed at for not speaking English, and lifting heavy things even though she is not supposed to.
  • 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.

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

  • Apple Pectin for Radioprotection
    A group of doctors and scientists risked their lives and careers to help children living in the most contaminated areas of the Chernobyl fallout and discovered a simple treatment that clears the radionuclides from their bodies, offering hope for future generations of Chernobyl and Fukushima vict ...
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NATO Bypasses Pakistan With New Transport Deals
    ShareThisNATO Bypasses Pakistan With New Transport Deals 04 Jun 2012 NATO has concluded agreements with Central Asian nations allowing it to evacuate vehicles and other military equipment from Afghanistan and completely bypass Pakistan, which once provided the main supply route for coalition for ...
  • Military court denies dismissal of WikiLeaks c ...
    ShareThisMilitary court denies dismissal of WikiLeaks charges 08 Jun 2012 A military judge refused on Friday to dismiss any of the 22 counts against an Army private charged in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history. Col. Denise Lind also indicated she will postpone Pfc. Bradley M ...
  • Holder appoints U.S. attorneys to head crimina ...
    ShareThisHolder appoints U.S. attorneys to head criminal probes into leaks 08 Jun 2012 Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. appointed two top federal prosecutors late Friday [LOL! Of course.] to "lead criminal investigations" into the recent leak of U.S. classified intelligence information, acting on a ...
  • Montreal police clash with protesters at Grand ...
    ShareThisMontreal police clash with protesters at Grand Prix event 08 Jun 2012 Montreal riot police have clashed with thousands of anti-tuition hikes students protesting close to the site of the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix. Riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades on Thursday in a bid to ...
  • New Jersey Muslims file federal suit to stop N ...
    ShareThisNew Jersey Muslims file federal suit to stop New York Police Department from spying on them 06 Jun 2012 One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance p ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Taliban Denounce Poisoning of Girls
    18 April 2012 Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan.  Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers.  Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it ...
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012
    Please click here to view the entire document.

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Riots erupt in Arakan state
    Fresh riots have flared in Northern Arakan state with a group of Muslim residents destroying local restaurants and schools this afternoon as sectarian tensions erupted in the wake of anti-Muslim violence
  • Strikes spread to Mandalay
    Widespread factory strikes in Burma that began in Rangoon’s Industrial Zones last month have spread to Mandalay as 300 workers from Aung Sein textile and wool factory are staging a sit-in protest
  • MP’s company publishes warning aimed at party ...
    The Zaykabar company, which is owned by parliamentarian Khin Shwe, published a statement in several weekly journals warning individuals against filing lawsuits that threaten to discredit the company
  • Australia drops sanctions, doubles aid
    Australia will drop its remaining sanctions against Burma and more than double its foreign aid to encourage democratic reforms
  • Govt sets up committee to investigate mob attack
    The government has formed a committee to investigate the deaths of ten Muslim pilgrims killed in a vicious mob attack on Sunday

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • DOJ appoints US Attorneys to investigate natio ...
    [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] appointed two US Attorneys [press release] on Friday to investigate recent "leaks" of classified information. The investigation will run concurrently with an FBI investigation, and the US Attorneys are empowered to prosecute any suspect ...
  • ICC staff members detained in Libya
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] said Saturday that four ICC staff members have been detained in Libya [press release] since Thursday. They traveled to Libya Wednesday to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the son of former Libya ...
  • Defense lawyers request USS Cole trial be broa ...
    [JURIST] Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive], on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo [JURIST backgrounder] trial, instead of limited broadcast in the Pentagon. La ...
  • Thailand court sentences Indian financier to j ...
    [JURIST] A court in Thailand sentenced former Indian financier Rakesh Saxena to 10 years in prison on Friday for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a bank in Thailand during the 1990s. The Bangkok South Criminal Court, found Saxena guilty [Reuters report] of five counts of securities fr ...
  • Idaho prosecutor to ask prison for full access ...
    [JURIST] Idaho Deputy Attorney General Michael Gilmore said on Thursday that he will ask the warden of an Idaho prison to change the prison policy that limits public access to executions. The Associated Press [media website] and 16 other newspaper agencies have filed suit to gain full access to ...

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 ...

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Tikun Olam

  • My New Comment is Free Piece on the Strategic- ...
    TweetMuhammad Sahimi and I published our second collaboration, this one in the Guardian’s Comment is Free, Obama’s virus wars: mutually assured cyber-destruction. It deals with the bankruptcy of current U.S. Middle East policy, which uses cyberwarfare and drone counter-terror operati ...
  • Seattle American Jewish Committee as Talent Bo ...
    TweetAmerican Jews are extremely sensitive to the charge of dual loyalty.  That is, that they might see their loyalty to Israel as equally or superseding their loyalty of the United States.  This charge makes me uncomfortable as well for obvious reasons. But I have to say that Israel advocacy gr ...
  • Links for 2012-06-08 [Digg]
    Obama's virus wars: mutually assured cyber-destruction Richard Silverstein and Muhammad Sahimi: By officially sanctioned leaks, the US brags of its cyber warfare alliance with Israel against Iran. Is this wise or safe policy?
  • Tikkun Magazine Publishes Article on Israeli P ...
    TweetA number of you will remember my post about the battle I had with the local Jewish community leadership and media about the Israeli LGBT delegation sent here to Seattle on a pinkwashing mission.  My effort to have the local Jewish newspaper, the JTNews, either publish a fair news article or ...
  • Barak Acknowledges Israeli Cyberwarfare Capabi ...
    TweetIsraeli defense minister Ehud Barak confirmed one of the worst-kept Israeli military-intelligence secrets by acknowledging that his nation has a cyber warfare capability.  His comments came on the heels of revelations here that the recent attacks by an ambitious cybervirus called Flame, wer ...

If Americans Knew

  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...

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

  • Human-Assisted Reporting Made Easier With PAND ...
    Wouldn't it be sweet if you just got an email when something newsworthy happens? Wouldn't that make your job easier? Well, have we got news for you. Today's release, PANDA beta 2, has an awesome new feature: search notifications. Think of it like a Google News search: Go to PANDA and search f ...
  • Study Results Show Truth Goggles Helps Combat ...
    Last month, I ran a user study to test the effectiveness of Truth Goggles (a credibility layer/B.S. detector for the Internet). The tool attempts to remind users when it's important to think more carefully. If you're curious, you can check out the demo page. Now that the study has officia ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - GOP: East Coast Missile Defens ...
    A new Republican plan to set up a missile defense site on the East Coast has attracted election-year fireworks, with Democrats accusing the GOP of pushing the idea to undercut President Obama’s national-security credentials. Democrats say Republicans are playing politics, but GOP members hit b ...
  • Broken Economic - Legislation to Raise Minimum ...
    Rep. George Miller (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Workforce Committee, is readying legislation to raise the minimum wage. Miller's proposal  which will include a series of small, gradual hikes modeled on a bill championed by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) – strays from the approach urg ...
  • Book Review - Blood Libel and Its Derivatives: ...
    Raphael Israeli of Hebrew University has published more than a score of books on Islamism, Islamist terrorism, the modern Middle East, and Islam in China and elsewhere in Asia. This time its subject matter is the history and present currency of blood libel.Blessedly, this is not a work of s ...
  • Turkey on Edge - Turkish Muslims Insist on Con ...
    Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey's populace—once deemed the most secular and liberal in the Muslim world—is reverting to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of Islam's glory days of jihad and conquest. Accor ...
  • Broken Government - Obama's Talk about the U.S ...
    If you are wondering why President Obama and his supporters spend so much time in this election condescending to female voters, jabbering about gay marriage and contraception, or whether Mr. Obama really was born in Kenya, it is because they simply cannot talk about the economy.And when they do, ...

High Country News

  • Life among the Bluffoons
    There may be only 200 people living in Bluff, Utah, today, but they cherish a history that goes back for centuries, along with the dramatic red-rock
  • The Black Hills await justice
    The U.N. Human Rights Council believes that South Dakota's Black Hills belong to their native Sioux inhabitants -- but do most Americans even understand the issue?
  • Talking vegetarianism to a hunter
    An airplane chat between a vegetarian and a hunter yields unexpected common ground, largely over a mutual love and respect for wildlife.
  • Protection versus promotion at Brown's Canyon
    If national monument or wilderness designation gets more people to visit Browns Canyon, wouldn't that threaten the very resource that is supposed to be protected by that action?
  • Ronald Reagan: The accidental environmentalist
    He may not have meant to do so, but Ronald Reagan ended up helping the West's environment.

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

  • Kimberlin's Cronies Go After The Lid
    As I mentioned earlier this week today has been declared a national day of blogger silence/action to protect blogger freedom of speech. Since Ace suggested we use today to urge congress protect free speech the day has taken on more significance to me personally, yesterday I was added to the at ...
  • Kimberlin Update: ACLJ Joins The Fight-And So ...
    Here Comes the Calvary! The American Center for Law and Justice will be representing Ali Akbar and the National Bloggers Club, and Congressman Kenny Marchant, Texas Republican, sent a letter on Thursday to the attorney general demanding an investigation into the SWAT-ing (letter embedded below). ...
  • Barack Obama: "Card-Carrying" Marxist
    This was originally published back in March, but since much of the information below has been released today by another writer as "brand new revelations" I decided to republish-as it is more detailed, with more evidence than the other piece.  It’s been four years and the mainstream me ...
  • How The Muslim Brotherhood Became Dominant For ...
    by Barry Rubin Today, the Muslim Brotherhood is the most important international political organization in the Arabic-speaking world. It is the dominant party in Egypt’s parliament, having obtained about 47 percent of the vote there, and in the Tunisian government, having received 40 perc ...
  • Kimberlin Update! Swatting Story Hits ABC.Com
    Thank You Saxby Chambliss! There is a glimmer of hope that he practice of SWAT-ing taking place against conservative bloggers may receive some legal attention. The Senator has requested AG Holder conduct an investigation (see letter at the end of this post). While it is doubtful that the partisa ...

The Real Agenda

  • Internet Tax Proposed by European to be Handle ...
    Taxes on large Internet providers is an attempt to set the precendent that taxes on the Web are somehow a good idea. By  DECLAN McCULLAGH | CNET.com | JUNE 8, 2012 The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebo ...
  • Genetic screening of unborn babies ‘may ...
    BY NICK COLLINS | THE TELEGRAPH | JUNE 8, 2012 American   experts have developed a blood test which they claim could be used to routinely screen fetuses for more than 3,000 genetic conditions such as   cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. But the researchers recognised that the abil ...
  • Obama Machine Preparing for Healthcare Defeat
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 8, 2012 The Obama administration recognizes that it may actually be handed a defeat later this month if the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate that obligates Americans to buy health insurance from a government program or worse, if ...
  • Time Magazine promotes Death Care Agenda
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 7, 2012 The new ‘pull the plug’ care system is now being celebrated by re-known writers and philanthropists as a way to cut down healthcare costs. Not a word about preventive care, though. In an article authored by writer Joe Klein, ...
  • Scientific American Advocates Government Viole ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 7, 2012 One of the most effective forms of violence is that which isn’t noticed or felt, and in that regard, government has all the accolades. Often, the existence of big government is justified by its supporters based on the idea that it ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind energy is booming, but where’s the ...
    Jerry Beaird has 16 wind turbines on his property. They’ve been producing quite efficiently but Beaird hasn’t seen a single penny since November. “So December, January, February, March and April we got letters saying there was no revenue generated but the site managers say that ...
  • Council slams the brakes on Lincolnshire wind ...
    Lincolnshire County Council on Wednesday voted at an Executive meeting to call a halt to the spread of wind turbines across the county. There are 75 wind turbines in the county, with dozens more in the pipeline. Councillor Martin Hill, Leader of the County Council, said: “There’s been a prolifer ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fed Not Inclined to Act on Economy, Bernanke Says
    “Lackluster jobs data and storm clouds on the economic horizon have not yet convinced Federal Reserve officials that growth is slowing, nor that they should respond, the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said on Thursday.” (New York Times) Please, Mr. Chairman, no more help! FEE Timel ...
  • Trade Deficit Shrinks as Imports and Exports Drop
    “The U.S. trade deficit shrunk in April, but only because a big drop in imports offset the first decline in U.S. exports in five months.” (Washington Post) A falling trade deficit is often a bad sign. FEE Timely Classic “The Balance-of-Payments Deficit: Not to Worry” by D ...
  • There’s No Such Thing as Economic Freedom
    The case for the indivisibility of freedom is not hard to make when one remembers that there are no economic ends.
  • Kirzner on the Distinction between Equilibrium ...
    What is Austrian economics and how does it differ from other strands of neoclassical economics? These are question that anyone who has studied Austrian economics eventually gets asked. If you have ever had any trouble coming up with a satisfactory answer, fear no more. Israel Kirzner provides a ...
  • Congressman Says Higher Minimum Wage Would Boo ...
    “Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. tried to give new vitality to the issue of the federal minimum wage on Wednesday, coming at the debate with a fresh angle: that raising it might encourage Americans to spend more and, thus, help stimulate the nation’s struggling economy.” (New Yor ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • 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.

Facing South

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

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

  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America's Two Economies
    Surely you’ve seen it in your own neck of the woods: great contrasts between prosperity and wealth on the one hand, and hardship and despair on the other. I have certainly seen it in every place I have been over the last four years. FDR described the Great Depression as “one-third ...
  • How To Build a Culture of Bike Safety
    As I've settled into life in Florida, I've found myself for the first time using a bicycle as a form of transportation instead of as a form of leisure activity. And, as an urban designer involved in a team that designs bicycle and pedestrian master plans, I've become increasingly aware of the fa ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • As grain piles up, India's poor still go hungry
    1.As Grain Piles Up, India's Poor Still Go Hungry 2.Feeding Hungry Indians EXTRACT: Just exactly how are their technologies going to feed hungry Indians when over 30 million tons of excess grain can't? (item 2) --- --- 1.As Grain Piles Up, India's Poor Still Go Hungry Vikas Bajaj New York Times ...
  • As grain piles up, India's poor still go hungry
    1.As Grain Piles Up, India's Poor Still Go Hungry 2.Feeding Hungry Indians EXTRACT: Just exactly how are their technologies going to feed hungry Indians when over 30 million tons of excess grain can't? (item 2) --- --- 1.As Grain Piles Up, India's Poor Still Go Hungry Vikas Bajaj New York Times ...
  • India denies GMO contamination in basmati
    1.India denies GMO contamination in basmati 2.TN rice association's move to safeguard rice from genetic modification --- --- 1.India denies GMO contamination in basmati Jyotika Sood Down To Earth, May 30 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/india-denies-gmo-contamination-basmati *EU had s ...
  • India denies GMO contamination in basmati
    1.India denies GMO contamination in basmati 2.TN rice association's move to safeguard rice from genetic modification --- --- 1.India denies GMO contamination in basmati Jyotika Sood Down To Earth, May 30 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/india-denies-gmo-contamination-basmati *EU had s ...
  • Illegal GM rapeseed spreading in Switzerland
    1.Genetically modified rapeseed spreading 2.Illegal GM canola found growing in Swiss port area --- --- 1.Genetically modified rapeseed spreading WRS - World Radio Switzewrland, 7 June 2012 http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/genetically-modified-rapeseed-spreading.shtml Genetically modified r ...

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

  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • I’m dreaming … (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 →
  • 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 →

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

  • “Frankenfish” caught; Burnaby resi ...
    A BoB short: BC’s monster fish has been caught and killed. Dubbed “Frankenfish,” the two foot long snakehead was first spotted on May 13th in a Burnaby pond. An invasive species native to China, the fish is a so-called “top-level predator” with the hellish potential ...
  • Francesca Eastwood: woman up
    By Emily Olesen When Francesca Eastwood, 19-year-old daughter of legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood, recently desecrated a $100,000 Birkin Bag on the reality series “Mrs. Eastwood & Company,” she was only trying to please her boyfriend. Thirty-year old celeb photographer Tyler Sh ...
  • Bill 13 and the victory of the bullied children
    By Montreal Simon It seems like it took forever. But tonight bullied children in Ontario are finally a little bit safer. And gay kids have the right to call themselves gay, and form Gay-Straight Alliances. No matter what some Catholic School Boards have to say, or what grotesque homophobes like ...
  • Why the Best Gore owner shouldn’t be arr ...
    By Frank Moher Now that Luka Rocco Magnotta has been arrested, the biggest danger posed by his alleged murder-dismemberment spree is that it will be used to push through internet surveillance measures by the likes of Vic Toews. The Public Safety Minister has already used the incident to try to r ...
  • 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. ...

libcom

  • Action against the Euro 2012
    kokokokoko.JPG On June 8, the Euro Cup opened in Warsaw. The city was full of police, military police and football fans. ZSP and the Tenants Defense Committee organized a protest against the politics of the Euro. The protest was at the mai ...
  • Evicted families occupy a building in Seville ...
    la corrala.jpg Evicted families have squatted a building in Seville. They are resisting despite having the water and electricity cut off. “Twenty families in urgent need of hous ...
  • During European Football Championship in Polan ...
    witzberg.JPG Brogans Irish Pub is one of the two pubs which belong to Maciej Witzberg, Polish neofascist who attacked squat Rozbrat last time. Everything happened in May. After ...
  • 600 Mauritanian gold miners launch illegal wor ...
    RBI-Tassiast-mine.jpg Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, walked off the job on Monday 4th June. The Tasiast open-pit mine in Mauritan ...
  • Mental Health workers in Birmingham strike
    Unite-the-Union-300x233.jpg Staff at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust have struck over the removal of a payment which amounts to a £1,400 annual pay cut. ...

Free Range International

  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...
  • 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 [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • 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 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Syria’s New Prime Minister
    Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab Riad Farid Hijab is the former agriculture minister President Assad recently appointed as Syria’s new prime minister. Syrians went to the polls to elect a new parliament last month, and Assad has asked Hijab to form a new government. In Syria, as in Russia, ...
  • Will the Germans Allow the Greek Grid to Collapse?
    German chancellor Angela Merkel A total collapse of the electricity and telecommunications grid is the way I always visualize TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). It seems about to happen in Greece, where the government is out of money and depositors are withdrawing their money from G ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Wave Energy Device Tested In Black Sea
    Israel-based wave power designer and manufacturer Eco Wave Power (EWP) has completed the first open water phase of testing for its new wave energy device. The company said it successfully installed a medium-scale wave energy power plant in the Black Sea during April.
  • Is the Southeast America’s best bet for offsho ...
    As Windpower 2012 is winding down, I sat in on one of the last sessions, which discussed challenges and opportunities facing offshore wind energy across the globe. As it turns out, one of the most interesting markets for wind developers is going to be the American Southeast, despite appearances.
  • Smart Meters Steadily Spread Across United States
    Whether or not the average American homeowner has much idea why, as of this month, almost one third of American households have made the leap from ye olde analog electric meter to the smarter, digital variety.  This according to the latest report [PDF] from the Institute for Electric E ...
  • A Need For Reality-Based Energy Policies
    One of the biggest challenges in planning for our energy future is that opponents of oil and natural gas are quite unwilling to acknowledge the reality of our energy supply and demand.  Two examples: First, from a new Sierra Club video (ably rebutted in full by Oil Sands Fact Check here):“M ...
  • EU to impose new rules that will cut driving c ...
    The European Commission is proposing tighter carbon emissions standards for new European cars with a 2020 target of 95gm CO2 per kilometre, that will cut costs for motorists by 25%. But will they be binding?

EU Times

  • Undeniable Proof Of Atlantis – More Proof
    Carl Munck’s playlist is on my channel page. Definitely worth watching to see how the pyramid code actually works. Related posts:17 New Pyramids Found in Egypt10,000 Egyptian protestors return to Cairo in outrage after trialHosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prisonEgypt cuts off gas supply ...
  • Global cancer rate to surge 75% by 2030
    Poor countries that adopt unhealthy ‘Westernized’ lifestyles are expected to see the greatest rise. The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75% across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy “Westernized” lifestyles, a stud ...
  • UN to tax American Internet companies?
    The way the Internet operates as we know it could all soon change. A recently leaked document reveals that a European-based lobby group has asked the United Nations to tax American websites that provide services abroad. In December, the leak reveals, the European Telecommunications Network Opera ...
  • Common diseases of Generation Digital
    Getting rid of the plug and swapping landlines for cell phones, representatives of the Generation Digital will soon feel that they paid for the mobility with their own health. As the growing industry of mobile devices develops, the list of diseases that are typical for members of the “digi ...
  • 25% of Spain’s population lives below poverty line
    A recent report released by a Spanish institution says 25 percent of Spain’s population lives below poverty line, 2 percent higher than last year, as the country grapples with the highest rate of impoverishment among European states. According to an annual report issued by the Spanish Economic a ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • 'Prometheus,' 'Madagascar 3,' And More: Double ...
    In theaters, the story of the week is clearly "Prometheus" and for good reason. Ridley Scott has done something very big and very ambitious, and whether he pulls it off is up to you. But in case you're interested in checking out the rest of this week's releases, we have all the movie pairings y ...
  • Oklahoma City Thunder: Fandom reaches all the ...
    Thunder phenomena stretches far. Oklahoma City absolutely could not purchase the publicity it is receiving through this NBA run. Within 12 hours Thursday night/Friday morning, I received two emails. One came from my brother, who does a ton of business with Chinese officials. My brother received ...
  • Take a quick tour of Microsoft's E3 2012 booth
    E3 2012 is over, but you can relive the big event by taking a tour of Microsoft's booth, featuring a laundry list of upcoming Xbox 360 titles, including Halo 4 , Dance Central 3 , and bunch of upcoming Kinect titles. Take a quick tour of Microsoft's E3 2012 booth originally appeared on Joystiq ...
  • Kim Kardashian Gifts Kanye West $750K Lamborgh ...
    A Lamborghini gifted to Kanye West from Kim Kardashian. The Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 was delivered to the Kardashian’s home and Kim was spotted taking it for a test drive
  • LeBron James only scores 4 points in the 4th
    There has to be a clown out there that is talking about how LeBron James only could put together a great game for 3 quarters because the Miami Heat were blowing out the Boston Celtics in Game 6 last night. James truly put on a great performance last night, and did something in the playoffs

Groklaw

  • A 1956 encyclopaedia's view on the computer
    What struck me most about the entry was Van Riesen's philosophical approach to the matter, which is remarkably prescient of the challenges we, as the human race, face with how to deal with the computer, the internet, and how they have tipped the balance of power back in favour of the people inst ...
  • India Court Summons Top Internet Executives
    A trial court in India Friday moved ahead with a criminal case against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Facebook Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and some other entities, by issuing summons to the global executives of these companies for allegedly failing to censor objectionable content from their websites. - WSJ
  • World's Largest Organization for Computer Prof ...
    The US Public Policy Council of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), representing ACM, came out against CISPA, the cybersecurity legislation recently passed by the US House. ACM is the world's largest organization for computer professionals. They are joining a diverse group of individu ...
  • The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say S ...
    A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, "scares the hell out of me." That would be James H. Brown, one of the author ...
  • Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
    Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis. For more on Bret, see worrydream.com. This talk was given at CUSEC 2012 (2012.cusec.net). [PJ ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Our Orwellian president and administration
    Obama’s kill list – All males near drone strike sites are terroristsIf we killed them they must be terrorists unless proven otherwise, which is difficult to do when you’re dead.Holder claims emails using words “Fast and Furious” don’t refer to Operation Fast and Fur ...
  • Pet adoptions thriving in healthy S.F. Bay Are ...
    Maddie’s Matchmaker non-profit Adoptathan plans to place 3,000 dogs and cats this weekend in the S.F. Bay AreaThe San Francisco Bay Area is pet-friendly and their economy is doing well. People have disposable income.  It is one of the few areas where pet adoptions are thriving. In fact, rescue g ...
  • Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO2
    Massive phytoplankton bloom solves missing carbon mystery“This wasn’t just any phytoplankton bloom,” Stanford University marine scientist Kevin Arrigo told The Christian Science Monitor. “It was literally the most intense phytoplankton bloom I’ve ever seen in my 25 ...
  • Oh noes. Click and Clack the Tappett Brothers ...
    Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the long-running and much-beloved Car Talk on NPR are retiring.RAY: But to our fans, don’t be sad. We’ve managed to avoid getting thrown off NPR for 25 years, given out tens of thousands of wrong answers, generated lawsuit threats from innumerable car companies, a ...
  • Our Orwellian president and administration
    Obama’s kill list – All males near drone strike sites are terroristsIf we killed them they must be terrorists unless proven otherwise, which is difficult to do when you’re dead.Holder claims emails using words “Fast and Furious” don’t refer to Operation Fast and Fur ...

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

  • More fracking good news
    Two positive developments out of the Hawkes Bay this week: Hastings District council has voted unanimously to take a precautionary approach when it comes to fracking, and a whānau has ‘locked their gates’ barring Tag Oil from fracking on their land; resulting in TAG Oil backing away from the pro ...
  • Dairy Bill not good enough
    The Primary Production Committee’s report on the Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill report has just been released. We worked with Labour on a minority report to express our concerns but I also wrote a minority report on some of the Greens additional concerns. The first of these is that the ...
  • Wellington Regional Council to question fracking.
    Green Party Councillor Paul Bruce has put fracking on the Greater Wellington Regional Council’s agenda, and it will be interesting if they will continue the momentum seen in other councils in New Zealand questioning or calling for a halt on fracking.
  • 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 ...

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

  • When You Heat Natural Plant-Based Foods You Ca ...
    By Dr. Mercola Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted, grilled or toasted. Some of the worst offenders include potato chips and French fries, but many foods cooke ...
  • New Evidence Against These Cancer-Causing Food ...
    By Dr. Mercola The World According to Monsanto is an absolutely brilliant documentary  that should be on the required viewing list of virtually everyone on the planet.  While it's already a few years old, the information it contains will remain current until we stop allowing genetic ...
  • Study Shows Barefoot Running Is Less Efficient
    By Dr. Mercola A number of runners who believe barefoot is best may be surprised to learn that a new study shows they may not be getting the boost they thought they were from going without shoes. Researchers at the University of Colorado say what's really best is running with lightweight, c ...
  • Always Tired? Take This Daily to Help Drench Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Barry focuses on clinical research development and collaboration and on the development of the technical, business and commercial translation of products and technology. Dr. Barry earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Boston College; his Ph.D. in chemistry/biochemi ...
  • Newest Scam to Increase Drugs If You’re Older ...
    By Dr. Mercola A UK Daily Mail headline from May 2012 read: "Why EVERYONE over 50 needs to be taking statins."i If you find the notion that taking medications should be construed as something for everyone, like drinking water or breathing air, as appalling as I do, then you will probably be e ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands action a ...
    The Awá's forest is being illegally cut down at an alarming rate. © Fiona Watson/Survival Earth’s ‘most threatened tribe’ has made a desperate appeal for the Brazilian government to halt the illegal logging that is ravaging its territory, as the Amazon’s logging season starts in earnes ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Scientists Predict Imminent Planetary Collapse
    from ecowatch.org: A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destruc ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: #Flame, Pain Killings and more
    Flame Retardant Found to Cause Health Effects at Small Doses* Opportunity to Participate in Food Safety Research* Disney to curb junk-food ads, label healthier food* Disney junk-food ad ban latest move to slim US kids* Starbucks spends $100 million to improve food; Coffee chain bu ...
  • Chinese Communists Demand that U.S. Embassy St ...
    from allgov.com: Tired of being told about the nation’s bad air quality, China’s government demanded the United States stop publicizing pollution readings taken from its embassies in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai. For the past four years, American officials have posted information on China’ ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • A Cast-Iron Threat of a Referendum From a Roth ...
    You've got to laugh - you really have. Otherwise, you might make with pitchforks and go a-marching. The Independent - and they're not alone in this - carry a story which suggests that: "George Osborne threatens referendum over place in the EU". This is one of a number of recent stories in ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

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

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

  • Bilderberger Jürgen Trittin confirms Globalist ...
    Jürgen Trittin, the German Green Party leader, who attended the Bilderberg meeting of the Global elite last week confirmed in a tweet that the Globalists are furious with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to join in their debt slavery scam and introduce eurobonds. http://www.mmnews.de ...
  • US congress blocks new bioterrorism and forced ...
    Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/bioterrorism-bill-congress_n_1510571.html
  • Austrian finance minister battles to regain co ...
    One of the most important steps to avert the financial and economic collapse of Austria is to wrest back control of  the Austrian national bank (OeNB) from the international bankers, and right now in Austria a fight over the OeNB seems to be escalating. Austrian ÖVP Finance Minister Maria Fekter ...
  • Why the monarchy present a real danger to the ...
    *Prince Charles has close links to GlaxoSmithKline, producer of Pandemrix *GSK chief executive awarded knighthood by Charles in May *UK health authorities refuse to recognize link between Pandemrix and narcolepsy *Is the new school vaccine programme part of the eugenics programme of the UK elite ...
  • A poem about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
    A free England   Dragged along by sails of red and gold The wild, grey river surges forward Sensing the horizon Lost behind the mist and rain, The shadows of so many bridges.   A fleet of a thousand ships Trapped between granite banks The leaden weight of history Has thrown out an angle to ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Dr. Oz caves to Big Pharma, pimps vaccines on ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Vaccinations have far more benefits than risks, and when children are not vaccinated, their own health and the health of everyone around them is at serious risk. These are some of the outrageously false statements made by the infamous Dr. Mehmet Oz i ...
  • Icelanders Force Accountability for Banks – Wh ...
    George Lakey, Contributor Waking Times Ever since Iceland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the country has been busy reinventing itself. The first step was to restore democracy through a turbulent nonviolent struggle, then to force resignations in the financial sector and secure a criminal convictio ...
  • Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?
    Jeff Clark Casey Research It may feel like I’m out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now for a huge move into gold and silver. There are, however, very valid reasons to reasonably expect a mania in our [...]
  • How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler&#82 ...
    Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington The Guardian, Saturday 25 September 2004 18.59 EDT George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Half Of Humanity: SCO Opposes Global Military ...
    Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2012 Commentary: SCO says “no” to interventionism ==== The SCO summit marks the first time for the leaders of all SCO member states to stand together and speak with one voice on major international issues. With its growing economic power and unambiguous pos ...
  • Syria: Russia Denounces Foreign Intervention, ...
    RT June 9, 2012 Annan plan stalled because of those who support intervention, but plan ‘only chance for peace’ – Russian FM ==== Lavrov has voiced concern about “the reaction on the part of some foreign players”, who, he said, “support armed groups of the opposition and at the same time de ...
  • Interview: Rebel Groups In Syria Backed By NATO?
    Voice of Russia June 9, 2012   Rebel groups in Syria backed by NATO? John Robles   Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager and the owner of the STOP NATO website and mailing list, and a regular contributor to the Voice of Russia. Recorded on June 1, 2012 AUDIO: Download   Correcti ...
  • Southeast Asia: U.S. Revives And Expands Cold ...
    Stop NATO June 8, 2012 Southeast Asia: U.S. Revives And Expands Cold War Military Alliances Against China Rick Rozoff On May 30 the two officials most in charge of the U.S.’s formidible global military machine, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Genera ...
  • Stop NATO Digest: June 2-7
    Stop NATO Digest: June 2-7 SCO Wants Nuclear-Free Zone, Opposes Space Weapons, Missile Shield U.S. Seeks Militarization of Strategic Asian Waterways With New Partners, SCO To Be Force For Security, Stability, Development Report: U.S. To Regain Use of Philippine Air and Naval Bases Pentagon Chief ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Major Nuclear Base Running ‘Containment Exerci ...
    By Anthony Gucciardi theintelhub.com June 8, 2012 Contributed and Originally Appeared on NaturalSociety Amid a number of reports of massive and bizarre radiation readouts coming from experts, eyewitnesses, radiation facilities, and a key choice news outlet, it has now come out that one of the la ...
  • Washington Post Finally Breaks ‘Bilderberg’ Si ...
    By Mark Anderson American Free Press June 8, 2012 CHANTILLY, Virginia—The Washington Post—whose top managers have long attended the hyper-exclusive Bilderberg Conferences each year and were thanked by Bilderberg leaders for never reporting on the conference—broke decades of silence and gave a re ...
  • Right Royal Gang Bang: the Grim Reality Behind ...
    By Richard Cottrell – Contributor theintelhub.com June 8, 2012 London has scarcely seen a frenzy like the royal jubilee celebrations since, well we can say VE Day back in 1945. True, total strangers didn’t indulge in wild sex in the crowded streets (well, not too conspicuously at any rate) ...
  • VIDEO: NATO Special Op Forces Assault Tampa, F ...
    NATO June 8, 2012 Special Forces from 96 countries focused on “Building the Global SOF Partnership” at a conference in Tampa, Florida. The multinational cooperation of NATO Special Operations Forces serves as a good example for such a global Special Forces network. Intel Hub Note: Di ...
  • Indiana Radiation Spike Triggers Elevated Leve ...
    By Anthony Gucciardi theintelhub.com June 8, 2012 Contributed and Originally Appeared on NaturalSociety.com Elevated Indiana radiation levels — specifically near the border of Indiana and Michigan — have prompted explosions, military helicopters, thousands of eyewitness accounts, but where is th ...

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: Are There Traffic Laws in Space Yet?
    Only a few. Right now, the roughly 20,000 man-made objects orbiting the Earth are less regulated than the cars on a morning commute. Satellites are usually on a fixed path, so the traffic control comes prelaunch. Most can move slightly to maintain orbit, but only a few can maneuver on short not ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    Today is the Images of the Week: Space Edition. There's this long-exposure shot, but also the Space Shuttle trudging past the Statue of Liberty, Venus passing over the sun, a gorgeous shot of the Sagittarius constellation, and many more. Also polar bears frolicking. Enjoy! Click to launch the g ...
  • Images of the Week, June 4-8, 2012
  • Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
    Last August, while diving to conduct a fish census on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, marine ecologist Daniela Ceccarelli spotted the ghostly white skin of a brown-banded bamboo shark. When she swam in for a closer look, she saw that the fish’s head had disappeared—into the mouth of another sha ...
  • There Are a Million Billion x Five More Billio ...
    That's a novemdecillion drugs Think a trip to the pharmacy is overwhelming? Try this: One million billion billion billion billion billion billion. That’s a 1 with 60 zeroes after it. That’s the number of potential new medicines that could still be made, according to a new study. It may be more ...

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

  • The International Political Economy of Obesity
    To be honest, IPE is usually not quite on the leading edge of social science in many respects. Prior to the breakout of the subprime crisis, there were next to no scholars focusing on real estate for instance save for a few exceptions like Herman Schwartz and Len Seabrooke. It thus bothers me th ...
  • Rogue Traders, or Le Grand Casino Francais
    I've long supported the claim that London, not New York, is the financial capital of the world [1, 2]. I guess it's a backhanded compliment to London's claim to be the world's financial capital that earthshaking events for US financial concerns more often than not emanate from there instead of N ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The U.S. Economy By The Numbers: 70 Facts That ...
    Why is the economy going to collapse?  Have you ever been asked that question?  If so, what did you say?  Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest.  It can b ...
  • 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 ...

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E U Times

  • Undeniable Proof Of Atlantis – More Proof
    Carl Munck’s playlist is on my channel page. Definitely worth watching to see how the pyramid code actually works. Related posts:17 New Pyramids Found in Egypt10,000 Egyptian protestors return to Cairo in outrage after trialHosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prisonEgypt cuts off gas supply ...
  • Global cancer rate to surge 75% by 2030
    Poor countries that adopt unhealthy ‘Westernized’ lifestyles are expected to see the greatest rise. The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75% across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy “Westernized” lifestyles, a stud ...
  • UN to tax American Internet companies?
    The way the Internet operates as we know it could all soon change. A recently leaked document reveals that a European-based lobby group has asked the United Nations to tax American websites that provide services abroad. In December, the leak reveals, the European Telecommunications Network Opera ...
  • Common diseases of Generation Digital
    Getting rid of the plug and swapping landlines for cell phones, representatives of the Generation Digital will soon feel that they paid for the mobility with their own health. As the growing industry of mobile devices develops, the list of diseases that are typical for members of the “digi ...
  • 25% of Spain’s population lives below poverty line
    A recent report released by a Spanish institution says 25 percent of Spain’s population lives below poverty line, 2 percent higher than last year, as the country grapples with the highest rate of impoverishment among European states. According to an annual report issued by the Spanish Economic a ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-06-09 WikiLeaks News Update: Bradley Mann ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 553 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 550 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 747 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 633 days. read more
  • 2012-06-07 Renewed call to support Julian Assange
    On May 30, the UK Supreme Court ruled in favor of Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden, five to two. But Mr Assange's lawyer Dinah Rose QC - as an act of quick thinking which earned her The Guardian's "star of the week" - raised a point which was able to delay his extradition and potentially r ...
  • 2012-06-06 Letter to Prime Minister Gillard on ...
    The Hon Julia Gillard MP Prime Minister Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 4 June 2012 Dear Prime Minister RE: JULIAN ASSANGE Regrettably we feel compelled to write to you about the plight of Mr Assange. read more
  • 2012-06-06 Transcript: Julian Assange on LNL R ...
    Julian Assange interviewed on Late Night Live Radio, 6 June 2012. Full audio is available via the RadioNational website. Phillip Adams: Good day, beloved listeners. Last night on this little wireless program, I was talking to Shapiro about the Obama kill-list. It's pretty dangerous being deemed ...
  • 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

    To Do

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    Green Energy Renewable Solutions Provides Company Direction And Update
    Sacramento Bee
    By Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. LAS VEGAS, June 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: EWRL) today is pleased to provide a new Company direction and update on its planned operations Green Energy Renewable ...
    China-US Trade Tensions Rise as Renewable Energy Sags
    Bloomberg
    When solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC collapsed in September after winning a $535 million US loan guarantee, President Barack Obama's administration blamed China's even bigger aid for its renewable-energy industry. The China Development Bank Corp. in ...
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    Renewable-Power Boom Leaves Nations Without Backup, Report Shows
    BusinessWeek
    By Kari Lundgren on June 08, 2012 Nations adding wind and solar power aren't doing enough to ensure their electricity systems can meet demand when renewable-energy output falls short, according to a Bloomberg Industries analysis.
    IRENEW Expo Speaker: Renewables Cure Energy Price Volatility
    KCRG
    By Dave DeWitte, Reporter By Jay Knoll CEDAR RAPIDS, iowa - Consumers and utilities should embrace renewable fuels as an escape hatch from sharp price fluctuations in fossil fuels, according to the keynote speaker at this year's IRENEW Expo this ...
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    Human Habitat

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    Ecology talkfest unlikely to help
    Casey Weekly Berwick
    ONCE again 120 world leaders - Julia Gillard among them - are about to attend a United Nations mega conference on the environment with a yawning gap between the dire warnings of ecological devastation and what the politicians appear likely to achieve.
    Country Ecology: Rose-breasted grobeak
    Conway Daily Sun
    This activity flies in the face of ecologists' thoughts that brightly colored males avoid the nest-building and incubating duties that go with raising a family, because their brilliant coloring can reveal the exact location of the nest to predators!
    Taiwan's ocean ecology a mystery to most: survey
    Taipei Times
    By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter Taiwan may be an island, surrounded by sea, but a recent survey has shown that people in the nation fared poorly in their knowledge of the oceanic environment. The survey, carried out by Taiwan Environmental Info ...
    Ecologists Call for Preservation of Planet's Remaining Biological Diversity
    EP Magazine
    Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 prominent ecologists are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of biological diversity, which is compromising nature's ability to provide goods and services essential for ...
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    Water Power

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    Glacier Water Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results
    MarketWatch (press release)
    Brian McInerney, Chief Executive Officer of Glacier Water, said, "We experienced record first quarter revenues increasing 5.7% versus the same quarter last year, with same-store revenues increasing 4.1%. We continued to aggressively expand our network ...
    Lake Ontario water level plan praised, protested
    Albany Times Union
    AP ALBANY — A plan to bring more natural water level fluctuations to Lake Ontario has drawn protests from some lakeshore residents who say it would speed shoreline erosion and increase the risk of flooding, while scientists say it will rebuild beaches ...
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    New Rates Approved for California American Water Customers in Ventura County
    MarketWatch (press release)
    NEWBURY PARK, Calif., Jun 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission issued an order increasing revenues for California American Water in its Ventura County service district. The CPUC approved the increase to ...
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    Water board approves household replacement water system for Hinkley
    Redlands Daily Facts
    HINKLEY - The water agency supervising the cleanup of this High Desert community's contaminated groundwater is allowing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to install voluntary whole-house-replacement-water systems in potentially hundreds of homes.
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