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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

9 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

BLAENAVON, WALES - MARCH 01: Horses watch car...BLAENAVON, WALES - MARCH 01: Horses watch cars passing on March 1, 2011 in Blaenavon, Wales. Blaenavon's industrial landscape, in south east Wales, was designated by the United Nations a Unesco World Heritage Site in December 2000 placing it alongside the Pyramids of Egypt and the Taj Mahal in terms of its importance for future preservation and conservation. The UK government is threatening to withdraw its support for Unesco after a government review found it unable to justify the millions of GBP it receives from British taxpayers. Unesco has designated more than 900 cultural and natural world heritage sites and 28 are in the UK including the City of Bath, Stonehenge, Avebury and Dorset and east Devon's coastline. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
The Desolation WildernessThe Desolation Wilderness (Photo credit: AGrinberg)
UFOUFO (Photo credit: corey olsen)
English: Shown here are the remains of the Nab...English: Shown here are the remains of the Nabu Temple in the ancient city of Calah, now known as Nimrud, Iraq, Nov. 19, 2008. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is considering protecting Nimrud as a World Heritage site. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Flag of the United Nations Educationa...English: Flag of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Español: Bandera de la UNESCO Français : Drapeau de l'UNESCO Deutsch: Flagge der Organisation der Vereinten Nationen für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur und Kommunikation (UNESCO) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Schild - Vereinte Nationen-Campus (UN-Campus) ...Schild - Vereinte Nationen-Campus (UN-Campus) Görresstr. 15 in Bonn. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO-UNEVOC), World Health Organization (WHO-ECEH), United Nations University (UNU-EHS). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
    Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate  to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
  • Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
    How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]
  • Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
    Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arct ...
  • Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act ...
    We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in t ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Farmers Should be Worried About the Increasing ...
    With all of the raids the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted on small and Amish farm owners over recent years, where is some of the outcry from our senators and representatives to preserve the backbone of the nation’s food supply? ~ Brent Daggett - State-by-State Laws read more
  • Agenda 21... Alabama Adopts First Official Sta ...
    Alabama became the first state to adopt a tough law protecting private property and due process by prohibiting any government involvement with or participation in a controversial United Nations scheme known as Agenda 21. ~ Alex Newman read more
  • The Next New Land Grab... Oil and Gas Bidders ...
      Oil and gas companies looking to lease swaths of U.S. Forest Service land holding the promise of shale gas deposits and other fossil fuel resources have made the Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern States Office in Springfield ground zero for a new land rush. read more
  • Adam Korkesh Explains Rand Paul's Endorsement ...
    Adam Kokesh gives a fair assessment of Rand Paul's endorsement of Romney, and how bad it is for Ron Paul's campaign. ~ Video read more
  • Is Rand Paul Supporting Romney to Save His Dad ...
    Yesterday on Hannity, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney for President of the Untied States. Just 24 hours earlier, his father, Ron Paul, candidate for the GOP nomination, finally sent out an email acknowledging that he didn’t have enough delegates to win the n ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Household Remedies
    Mold Remover Borax is a natural mold retardant. If you live in an area where the humidity levels are high, try adding a cupful to your soapy water whenever you are washing a moldy surface. ½ cup borax ½ cup vinegar 1 cup water In a spray bottle Combine the ingredients and spray generously on [...]
  • LDS Preparedness Survey Checklist
    The following survival preparedness survey checklist is excerpted (and formatted to fit this page) from the current and latest LDS Preparedness Manual. I recently received communications from Christopher Parrett, who indicated that they have just revised their preparedness manual to the the 15th ...
  • Long Term Survival After TSHTF
    Survival preparedness starts with the basics, the things you hear or read about all the time in this niche… stock up on food, water, ‘bullets-beans-and-band-aids’. All of these basic survival provisions (and many others) are indeed essential if planning to stand a reasonable ch ...
  • Groundwater Depletion Threatens US Food Security
    A recent study from the University of Texas at Austin suggests that it may not be long when portions of the central valley of California (the nation’s ‘fruit and vegetable basket’) and the nations ‘grain basket’ (the High Plains, which run from northwest Texas to so ...
  • Wasp Spray Wards Off Flesh Eating Zombies
    The zombie apocalypse may have begun… yet another zombie attack, this time in Louisiana, was thwarted from further flesh bites by a can of wasp spray being sprayed onto the attacking zombie. The man (apparent zombie), Carl Jacquneaux, was apparently high on ‘bath salts’ and was ...

Fast Company

  • Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Just Join High-End Pin ...
    Is he interested in buying the company, or just a gift for Priscilla?Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined The Fancy this morning under the handle "Zuckd," and Fancy'd his first item: the Extendo Library Shelving System. Sorry if we spoiled the post-Honeymoon homecoming gift, Priscilla.F ...
  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Share this on Facebook before you learn how to dump it with our step-by-step guide.Airbnb was the subject of two stories in this week's lineup. You'll also find out how to disrupt your stagnant industry, perfect your bold pitches, and run a meeting like Steve Jobs (hint: there are already t ...
  • To Thine Own Brand Be True
    In order for people to buy into your brand, you have to know who you are. You must convey to them that you truly understand the problem you are trying to solve and that you care about their experience. But, unfortunately, startups don’t always think about this from a consumer perspective. And fo ...
  • Airbnb Responds To Tenant-Landlord Restraining ...
    Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them.Yesterday, fixie-wielding Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb--that i ...
  • Cracking The Venture Capital Glass Ceiling
    The founders of True & Co. put lacy thongs in the swag bags at a mostly male tech conference; their eyebrow-raising approach to launching caught the eye of a few women investors. Is this what it takes to fund women-led ventures?On the first day of the D10 conference last week, the (mostly male) ...

Jadaliyya

  • Words Are Not Enough
    During the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union released their annual human rights and progress reports, respectively, on Israel. Each one substantially criticized the state of minority rights in the country. The US State Department called the "institutional and societal ...
  • No Comment
      Crowds cheer as a blow-up doll of Iranian President Ahmadinejad gets raped/sodomized with a nuke by a dungeon master Gay Pride San Francisco 2011
  • برلمان بأياد خارجية في السعودية
    لا تريد السلطة في السعودية لشعبها أن يتطلع إلى الأفق ولا أن ينظر إلى الشعوب المتحررة من حوله، وهي  تصادر الحريات في الداخل وفي الخارج وتغيب الكلمة وتغتال الأحلام بالسجن والرصاص. وتلفق التهم ضد كل من يرفع صوته عالياً مطالباً بالحرية والكرامة. تمكنت وزارة الداخلية في السعودية من أن تخفي ...
  • Syria's Creative Resistance
    Bashar al-Assad snores, his head twitching on a large white pillow. Suddenly, he wakes up. “The people want to overthrow me!” he screams, the pompom on his nightcap bouncing.  A military officer approaches, pats him on the head and whispers gently, as if comforting a toddler: “Don’t worry ...
  • Roundtable: The Presidential Poll, Unpacked
    On 29 May, Jadaliyya, in collaboration with Egypt Independent, hosted a roundtable discussion on the Egyptian presidential election. The discussion featured a group of our columnists and commentators. Moderated by Ahmad Shokr, the discussion featured American University in Cairo political scienc ...

mediagazer

  • Murdoch's Australian news chief rejects beefed ...
    Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Murdoch's Australian news chief rejects beefed up regulation  —  A debate in Australia about the appropriate powers for a press regulator may be a pointer to News International's views on the outcome of the Leveson inquiry.  —  Campbell ...
  • Newhouse: Staying the Course in New Orleans (M ...
    Michaelle Bond / American Journalism Review: Newhouse: Staying the Course in New Orleans  —  Despite the public outcry against its plan to reduce publication of the Times-Picayune to three days a week, the company is not backing down.  Fri., June 8, 2012.  —&nbsp ...
  • It's not a 'paywall' when it's 'freemium' (Ste ...
    Steve Outing: It's not a ‘paywall’ when it's ‘freemium’  —  The word “paywall” as applied to news websites sucks.  It's a negative word.  If a consumer hears that a favorite news site is putting up a “paywall,” the respon ...
  • Attorney General Holder appoints 2 US attorney ...
    Associated Press: Attorney General Holder appoints 2 US attorneys to lead leak probes  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a pair of criminal investigations into possible unauthorized disclosures of classified informa ...
  • Comcast CFO: Report That Comcast Pondering BSk ...
    Deadline Hollywood: Comcast CFO: Report That Comcast Pondering BSkyB Buy Is “Rubbish”  —  Comcast's CFO is slamming a New York Times report that the company is weighing a possible purchase of BSkyB.  “This is complete rubbish”, Michael Angelakis, Com ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Sleep well, like a baby
    Haven't we all read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Princess and the Pea, where under the princess' 20 mattresses and 20 feather-beds lies a pea, and she's so sensitive that she cannot sleep because of it? Maybe this story explains why consumers don't mind...
  • Hasselbaink: Holland's players must not w ...
    In the first of a series of exclusive Euro 2012 columns for Goal.com, the former Netherlands striker gives his view on racism and explains why Torres will win the Golden Boot More On : Denmark, England, Netherlands, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Comments Getty Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Euro 2012 ...
  • UN team sees traces of Syria massacre
    UN observers in Syria who visited the site of a reported massacre in a village in Hama province said they saw blood on the walls and were hit by a "stench of burnt flesh" but could not confirm how many had died. While the government denied responsibility, Martin Nesirky, a UN spokesman, said ...
  • Afellay: You have to be strong to ignore ...
    The Dutch winger from Spanish giants Barcelona says that players should not have to tolerate abuse, but admitted that it has been commonplace throughout his career By Enis Koylu More On : Netherlands, Ibrahim Afellay Comments Getty NETHERLANDS...
  • India Allows More Remittances to Support ...
    By KHUSHITA VASANT MUMBAI—India's central bank more than doubled the number of remittances nonresident Indians can make to individuals in a year, a step aimed at arresting a slide in the rupee that is worsening the nation's economic outlook. Enlarge ImageClose...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • 5 Ways to Celebrate World Oceans Day
    Every day is World Oceans Day when you're a humpback whale ©Oceana/Carlos Suarez Happy World Oceans Day! The ocean does a lot for us — it generates much of the oxygen we breathe, provides us with nutritious food to eat and regulates our climate. But if we want to hold onto these valuable res ...
  • The Next Wave of Plastic Bag Bans
    Sea turtles often confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which makes them sick.©Flickr/Bag Monster In a sweeping 5-0 vote, the Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council took action yesterday evening to ban single-use plastic bags in the quaint and beautiful coastal city of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. ...
  • Nominate an Ocean Hero!
    2011 Junior Ocean Hero Sophi Bromenshenkel with her snow hammerhead. Is someone in your community doing great things for the oceans? We want to hear about them! Nominations for our fourth annual Ocean Heroes Awards open today and we’re searching for people who work hard to make a difference ...
  • Q&A with 'To The Arctic' Filmmakers
    To the Arctic showcases unique Arctic species like polar bears. ©IMAX Oceana had a chance to talk to Greg and Shuan MacGillivray, the producers of To the Arctic, an IMAX 3D film that explores the changing landscape of the Arctic and the animals that call it home. Here's what they had to ...
  • The Shark Finatics are Back
    2010 Junior Ocean Heroes the Shark Finatics are building a shark out of recycled materials. ©ArtsWestchester Editor’s note: With two days until the launch of the 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, we have a guest post today from Robin Culler – one of the founders of the Shark Finatics (Junior Award wi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Hitler’s Views On Unions
  • There Are Upsides To Piracy.
      This week, there is a flurry of news in Piracy and it isn’t all-bad. The San Jose Mercury News reported Monday that a 2013 trial date has been set for three Somali men who allegedly murdered four Americans in their yacht off the coast of Africa. The four Americans, all from Seattle were t ...
  • The Wheels Of Justice Are Turning.
      Hosni Mubarak just received a life sentence. Here is a man who spent three decades lining his pockets with the money his people made and ultimately is paying a price for horribly repressing dissent with lethal violence.   Interestingly the new President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic has ...
  • Even A Blind Squirrel Finds An Acorn Occasionally.
              How a victory in the field for the Aghan Army will appear in the Presidential debate.   I can sum this up in a single news item. Apparently, an Afghan citizen wrote a poem in praise of the Afghan Security Forces we have been training.   It looks like ...
  • The Salang Pass Is The Only Shortcut We Have Left.
      The Pakistanis have closed the main roads down into the Afghan theater that ISAF has been using to resupply after a NATO strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Thus we see the first immediate consequences of the drone wars.     For 20 miles north and south of the old Soviet-built ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Joe Scarborough’s Ego
    The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook JOE SCARBOROUGH’S EGO in full flight is something to behold. As you see in the exchange from “Morning Joe,” complete with priceless Jon Stewart mockin ...
  • Pres. Obama: “Private Sector Doing Fine”
    “The truth of the matter is that, as i said, we’ve created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government.” – Pres. Barack Obama A V ...
  • What Has Labor Done for Democrats Lately, the ...
    With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose… – Mark Halperin IT’S IRONIC, which you’ll understand in a moment, but it was almost a year ago that Mark Halperin ...
  • Battle Elizabeth
    “This kind of corporate and special-interest spending is exactly what we could be up against this fall,” he said before asking supporters to donate $3 or more to the president’s reelection campaign. – Jim Messina [The Hill] MARKOS MOULITSAS TURNED the Wisconsin recall disaster into wine fo ...
  • The Wisconsin Auction
    With his defeat of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and the union leaders who rallied for months against Walker’s agenda, the rising GOP star became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall attempt. – Walker survives recall election in Wisconsin [AP] KARL ROVE AND COMPANY pu ...

Hudson New York

  • Recipe for War: Unilateral Withdrawal from Wes ...
    Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes that Israel should consider a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank if negotiations with the Palestinian Authority fail to bear fruit. Under the current circumstances, such a move would lead to the
  • Egyptian "Honor": Brothers Butcher Mother, Sis ...
    According to yesterday's edition of Youm7, two brothers in a village in Assuit, Egypt, slaughtered their mother, sister, and aunt, "after discovering their sister's actions were contrary to morality." After chaos erupted in the house, including gunfire,
  • "Don't Buy From Jews"
    A prominent Roman Catholic NGO in Germany has called for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli products. The petition represents an expansion of the boycott, disinvestment and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel in Germany, where efforts by
  • If the US Disarms, Will Its Adversaries Do the ...
    Although the American public -- according to countless polls including one earlier this year by "Let Freedom Ring" -- overwhelmingly supports a strong US nuclear deterrent, there are pressures from some anti-nuclear elements to eliminate 70% of our
  • Economic Warfare against Iran
    The world is aware of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its sponsorship of terrorist organizations. What is less understood is Tehran's abuse of the financial sector, banks, front companies, and other deceptive techniques to evade the controls

Urban Survival

  • Consumer Debt Report: Ugly
    Although you didn’t feel the earthquake yesterday afternoon when the Federal Reserves Consumer Credit (it’s really debt) Report was released, a quick look at how the last hours of trading went Thursday ought to be some kind of a clue.  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Visions of Pythagoras
    Say, here’s an interesting note on migraines related to our recent WuJo discussions which I wasn’t aware of: “Regarding this:  “No Pythagorean images for me but twice within the past 6 months a large golden mirrored-finish circle, with perfect saw … Continue re ...
  • Is this a “Genuine” Rally?
    Better late than never, I suppose.  The stock market went on a binge Wednesday and nailed its best day of the year.  And this morning, with the futures up another 4.5 on the S&P and delirium running in the tech … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Prepping: Fame versus Doing
    A number of television shows have touched on “prepping” and there’s even one that we’ve mentioned a few times (“Doomsday Preppers”) which seems to find more good copy in the extreme fringe of things than in mainstream following of common … Continue readi ...
  • Technically Bouncing
    That rally going into the close of markets on Monday isn’t to be mistaken for optimism.  It was a mere technical bounce since the market is waiting on hard news events although there are plenty of rumors going around.  One … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • The MLP Parity Act: Leveling the playing field ...
    Doug Sims, Energy Project Finance Specialist, New York Yesterday, Senator Coons (D-DE) and co-sponsor Senator Moran (R-KS) introduced the Master Limited Partnership Parity Act.  NRDC strongly endorses the Act, which would help level the playing ...
  • Responding to the bat signal: scientists at wo ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC I recently got back from the annual meeting of scientists working on white-nose syndrome and I have to say – although white-nose syndrome (the fungal disease causing mass bat die-offs) is a depre ...
  • Mexican regulators find that proposed Cabo Cor ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC The verdict on the Cabo Cortés mega tourism project in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula is in: the Mexican Environment Secretariat (Semarnat) found the project proponent failed t ...
  • A Beacon in the Fog: Opportunities for Interna ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco June 8 is World Oceans Day, and I’m thrilled to celebrate it from Rio de Janeiro, where I’ve just arrived for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.  50,000 people a ...
  • "Extremely Vulnerable" South Atlantic Grouper ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York A year and a half ago, the National Marine Fisheries Service concluded that two species of deepwater grouper – speckled hind and warsaw grouper – were both so “extremely vulnerable&rd ...

Injustice Everywhere

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook’s App C ...
    Facebook’s App Center goes live, more evidence of Retina-equipped Macs emerges, and Twitter upgrades its Facebook integration. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Foursquare’s app ...
    Foursquare launches a complete revamp of its app, Vigin Mobile is to sell the iPhone 4 and 4S prepaid in the USA, and Airfoil Speakers Touch returns to the App...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: LinkedIn’s repor ...
    LinkedIn may have suffered a huge user data breach, Apple’s WWDC banners go up in San Francisco, and Angry Birds Space hits another milestone. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google buys Meebo and ...
    Google acquires Meebo and Quickoffice, Microsoft bumps up Xbox’s TV credentials and the mysterious Airtime isn’t so mysterious any more. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Salesforce.com acquires Budd ...
    Salesforce.com acquires Buddy Media, Samsung announces when the Galaxy S3 is coming to US shores, and Google acquires KikScore to boost its Trusted Stores program. It’s all in today’s Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Short-circuiting an electric price surge
    According to energy minister Martin Ferguson, our electricity infrastructure will undergo a $42 billion upgrade over the current five-year regulatory period. At around $6000 per household, these grid upgrades are the biggest contributor to recent and forthcoming electricity price rises. Much of ...
  • Repower Port Augusta Petition: support Austral ...
    Click here to sign the petition We Have A Choice – Add Your Voice ! Australia is the sunniest continent in the world yet we are slow to harness the potential of our solar energy.  I support replacing Port Augusta’s coal generators with renewable energy: particularly baseload sola ...
  • South Australia wind power figures vindicate r ...
    Yesterday energy consultants EnergyQuest broke the news that wind power supplied 31% of South Australia’s electricity in the last quarter. Solar panels added another 3.5% to put renewable energy’s share in that state well above coal (26%) ...
  • Sydney trigen? Try again with renewables
    Since the industrial revolution, when cities became dirty places, we have been removing pollution from their streets and neighbourhoods. We’ve seen old central coal plants closed down and replacements built hundreds of kilometres away. Stricter and stricter vehicle emissions standards have bee ...
  • Join Beyond Zero Radio for 3CR Radiothon Live ...
    3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming from 4 – 17 June! This is your opportunity to invest in independent community radio. 3CR exists as a direct counter to the corporate media. Beyond Zero Emissions has two weekly shows on 3CR. Join Melissa and Nick for Australia's best hour of radio dedicated to co ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Brazilian beef giant on defensive on its Amazo ...
    JBS, the world's largest meat and leather company, is on the defensive after Greenpeace accused it of failing to abide by a 2009 agreement to implement safeguards that would exclude cattle produced on recently deforested lands in the Amazon.
  • EPA considers ban on herbicide that triggers s ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will weigh a ban on Atrazine, a widely used herbicide linked to sex reversal and other reproductive problems in amphibians and fish. The chemical, which is manufactured by Syngenta, has been banned in the European Union since 2004 but some 80 million pou ...
  • Scientists: if we don't act now we're screwed
    Scientists warn that the Earth may be reaching a planetary tipping point due to a unsustainable human pressures, while the UN releases a new report that finds global society has made significant progress on only four environmental issues out of ninety in the last twenty years. Climate change, ov ...
  • Want to stop climate change: buy fossil fuel d ...
    Governments, NGOs, and others fighting climate change should consider buying coal and oil deposits—not to exploit them, but to keep them from being exploited, according to a bold new policy paper in the Journal of Political Economy. Economist Bard Harstad with the Kellogg School of Managem ...
  • Jaguars photographed in palm oil plantation
    As the highly-lucrative palm oil plantation moves from Southeast Asia to Africa and Latin America, it brings with it concerns of deforestation and wildlife loss. But an ongoing study in Colombia is finding that small palm oil plantations may not significantly hurt at least one species: the jagua ...

Sierra Express

  • Catch UBKs declaration live on Star Radio!
    Freetown, Sierra Leone – The coordinating team of Usman Boie Kamara has just announced to Sierra Express Media that Saturday June 9th, 2012 will be a day to remember in the history of Sierra Leone! Usman Boie Kamara’s declaration for the All People’s Congress Party (APC) will be broadcast live o ...
  • Police Hunt Suspect Corpse at Ahmadiyya Muslim ...
    Tension mounted in the late afternoon hours of Thursday June 7 at Ferry Junction following suspicion by the police that a suspect corpse was taken to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School, Kissy Dockyard, for courtesy prayers. In a telephone interview with the Principal of Ahmadiyya Muslim Secon ...
  • Community Policing At The Expense of What?
    Post-war Sierra Leone seems to be degenerating into a state of chaos and fear following the continuous rate at which the masses lose confidence at the police and security apparatus of the state. Although the police are working assiduously day and night to arrest this dreadful armed robbery situa ...
  • Information Ministry Assures City Residents
    The Minister of Information and Communications Ibrahim Ben Kargbo at the usual press briefing at the Ministry of information and Communication, Youyi Building said His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma has taken exception to the spate of armed robberies in the capital of Freetown, especially the Well ...
  • Warwick Professor calls for a ‘fortified’ Sier ...
    A UK based Sierra Leonean Professor, working at the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization in the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom has spoken that given the opportunities that a country like China has to offer to developing countries, there is need for more support ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • China demand drives baby formula exports
    After two years of product development and battles against red tape, an Auckland company's maiden shipment of infant formula left the Port of Tauranga yesterday, destined for China.Biopure Health's 17,000-can consignment is heading...
  • Fonterra gains small victory on road to TAF
    Fonterra appears to have passed another crucial hurdle on the way to the June 25 special vote on the proposed Trading Among Farmers initiative, to create publicly investable units in the cooperative which runs New Zealand's largest...
  • World dairy prices up 13.5pc in overnight auction
    Economists were encouraged by a sharp surge in world dairy prices that emerged from Fonterra's Global Dairy Trade auction overnight, but said it was too early to speculate as to whether the downward trend in prices had been reversed.Fonterra's...
  • Dairy prices rebound 13.5pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products rebounded from a three-year low as buyers returned to the market, posting their biggest gain in almost two years, led by skim milk powder and anhydrous milk fat.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 13.5...
  • Fonterra puts focus on redemption risk
    Fonterra launched a campaign yesterday to deal with what has become its achilles heel: redemption risk.Dairy farmers are required to buy shares in the dairy co-operative when they set up shop. When they sell, Fonterra has to pay...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ask A Libertarian is Back
    Got a question for a libertarian? Then give it your best shot on Tuesday, June 12, when Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch answer any and all queries, such as: Should anything be banned? Aren't libertarians just Democrats who hate poor people? Do you really want ...
  • The Lousiest ObamaCare Defense You’ll Read Today
    The legal challenge to ObamaCare’s individual mandate, which requires the purchase of government-approved health insurance under Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, rests on the idea of judicial precedent. When the libertarian and conservative lawyers challenging the he ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on Why Bans on Feeding the Hom ...
    Starting around 2006, various cities began arresting, fining, and otherwise oppressing private individuals and nonprofits that feed the homeless and less fortunate. In New York City, for example, Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned food donations to the homeless earlier this year "because ...
  • A Modern Timeline of Liberals Claiming That Op ...
    08/23/08: Jacob Weisberg, Slate: "Racism is the only reason Obama might lose." 08/07/09: Paul Krugman, New York Times: "[T]he driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that's behind the 'birther' movement, which denies Mr. Obama's ...
  • Charles C. Johnson on Ray Bradbury, Enemy of t ...
    Ray Bradbury, who died this week at the age of 91, was a man of the right, a detail sadly airbrushed out of most obituaries this week. Like the best science fiction writers, notes Charles C. Johnson, Bradbury imagined worlds and realms outside the grasp of government, where the focus ...

Mercury Rising

  • Study: Obama’s Stimulus Saved America An ...
    Check out this very interesting study of the effects of the Obama stimulus package. I’m not bummed out about housing starts still being flat — that was a bubble that needed to be popped. What I do find interesting is that while most Americans have benefitted mildly — and that t ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • It’s morning in America!
    Things will be much better if government gets out of the way of business. Click to enlarge.
  • Will Wisconsin Republicans Pay Up To Delay The ...
    Van Wanggard is doing a silly stalling tactic to keep from admitting he lost or from choosing to pay for a recount he will very likely lose: State Senate Republican Van Wanggaard had not conceded defeat as of late Wednesday morning. Unofficial vote totals show that Wanggaard lost to the senator ...
  • Exit Poll: 53% of Walker Voters Back Obama
    It’s been all over the TV, and was mentioned here: Exit polls showed that 53% of Walker voters back Obama. In other words, what I’d been hearing from some Sconnie friends is true: There are a lot of Wisconsinites of all parties who dislike recalls done for anything but criminal convi ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Calls for an African Green Revolution, Only Sm ...
    To deal with looming food crises in the coming decades, Africa needs a Green Revolution on par with what took place in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, according to experts in Washington.
  • Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
    With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.

Blogging Canadians

  • Blogposts - Past Favourites: Nelson Mandela - ...
    “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”Mandela It was recently Nelson Mandela’s ninety-third birthday. We live today in an era marked by cynicism about politics, the political process, and the ability to bring about real social change. We are t ...
  • Blogposts - Past Favourites: Human Body and H ...
    We all know the five miraculous human senses: Sight Hearing Taste Touch Smell Otherwise the human body is just a physical being but those miraculous senses make it a very unusual and special being. Only those who lose one or more senses come to appreciate it more and the rest of us take i ...
  • Blogposts - Past Favourites: A Small Vegetable ...
    The picture of the garden is from Google and not of our garden. This spring we restarted a small vegetable garden in the backyard. I said "we" because it is my son who did all the work and I just watched. It is amazing that some plants need more light and others need more shade, yet regardless ...
  • In Defense of the Dismal Science
    Economists don't know anything!  Their predictions are always wrong! ...is what I would say if I didn't know very much about economics.  I've heard a lot of variations of this trope (mainstream economists failed to predict the 2008 crash, etc.), sometimes from well-educated people. T ...
  • "Your Corrupt and Authoritarian Society"
    Montreal F1 ticket-buyers hacked by Anonymous F1 boss not aware of threats CBC NEWS May 30, 2012 Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said he isn't aware of any cyber threats against ticket holders for the upcoming Montreal Grand Prix race. More than 130 people who bought F1 Montreal ticket ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • A Startling Rise in Suicides
    The most compelling reason for ending the war in Afghanistan is that it simply can’t be won.  Indeed, it is so clearly and obviously unwinnable, we can’t even come up with a rosy, hypothetical, make-believe “win-win” scenario without blushing in embarrassment.  The reason we blush is because we ...
  • US Empire: The Feature Film
    Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is especially true when one considers that most people who live in the United States have little or no concept of what an ...
  • Will Design for Change
    To say that designers and artists of all kinds play a crucial and highly complicitous role in the great circus of consumer capitalism is, if by now a somewhat obvious observation, an insight that sill evades your average art school student. They are the aesthetic force at work in the mass deliri ...
  • We Don’t Need to Sacrifice Social Justice for ...
    So let me get this right: free market economists’, right wing politicians and commentators’ solution to the economic depression engulfing Europe and the U.S. is to cut government spending, slash welfare payments to the bone, and make it easier for employers to fire people. Additionally, cut taxe ...
  • Literature in a Locked Down Land
    Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is “well” not in the sense of being contented and happy but rather of being vital and impassioned. And it is imprisoned not just in the sense of being locked behind bars but also of being locked into poverty. Some pr ...

Destructionist

  • NDAA unconstitutional: Federal judge bans Obam ...
    Sorry, Mr. President. A US Federal judge has clarified a decision made last month with some news sure to upset the Obama administration: the White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens. Judge Katherine B. Forrest has answered a request made by US President Barack ...
  • Despair As Collapse Accelerates: “My Shotgun i ...
    Hi guys, The daily life is still the same. Things keep going because some divine hand still help us. You wake up in the morning having no mood at all. And it’s this heat which destroys your brain cells. Today, it’s 34 degrees Celsius. I’ve kept a small amount of a ...
  • TIME Magazine pushes death agenda: Remove feed ...
    TIME Magazine is peddling a death agenda propaganda piece with a new issue that features these words on the cover: “HOW TO DIE.” Inside, the magazine promotes a cost-saving death agenda that encourages readers to literally “pull the feeding tubes” from their dying elderly parents, causing the ...
  • Carnegie Institute Calls For Spraying Aerosols ...
    A Carnegie Institution for Science proposal to spray aerosol particles into the upper atmosphere to block out the sun and “tackle global warming” would turn sunny blue skies into a hazy white, a process that many contend is already taking place via the chemtrails phenomenon. “Blue skies would ...
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    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SYRIA: Conscience Is Their Only Armor
    With the international community vowing to ratchet up pressure on the Syrian government, non-violent activists say they remain undeterred even as the situation seems to be deteriorate daily.
  • How Would You Measure Success at the Rio Summit?
    When the heavily hyped three-day U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) comes to a close in Rio de Janeiro Jun. 22, what would be the yardstick to measure its successes and failures?
  • At Home, Israelis Attack Africans
    It's Saturday night in south Tel Aviv. Amine Zegata, a 36-year-old refugee from Eritrea is reopening the small bar he owns in the HaTikva neighbourhood. The pub was closed after Jewish Israelis smashed his windows and the bottles within during the race riots two weeks back. But Zegata has ...
  • Trans Community Makes Slow Progress in Vietnam
    The restaurant Thuy Linh sits by one of Saigon's black, soupy canals at the edge of District Three. Though operating in an area already full of restaurants and cafes it doesn't struggle for business.
  • Washington's Asia Pivot Gains Momentum
    The much-anticipated U.S. "pivot" from the Greater Middle East to the Asia/Pacific accelerated this week, which began with Pentagon chief Leon Panetta's high-profile, nine-day swing through the region and ended with a White House summit between Barack Obama and Philippine President Benig ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Changes at Parchin Suggest an Iranian Bargaini ...
    Summary: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Western governments acted this week to escalate their accusations that Iran has "sanitized" a site at its Parchin military complex to hide evidence of nuclear weapons work, showing satellite images of physical changes at the site to I ...
  • Iran prepares for Moscow
    Summary: Two days of talks between the world powers and Iran in Baghdad late last month produced few tangible results, save an agreement to continue for another round set in Moscow, due to start on June 17. On Monday, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said his o ...
  • All to play for in Moscow
    Summary: Ahead of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 in Moscow, the West seems confident that sanctions will induce Iran to settle on its uranium enrichment. But rather than arriving at a negotiated settlement by applying the principle of reciprocity, the West may look to anaesthetize oi ...
  • Pushing China to Act Against its Interests in ...
    Summary: In the near term, the United States faces a fateful choice whether to impose extraterritorial (and, hence, blatantly illegal) secondary sanctions against China for its ongoing purchases of Iranian oil. source: Race for Iranread more
  • Iran-EU Negotiating Disagreement Could Delay M ...
    Summary: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Wednesday criticized the European Union diplomat Catherine Ashton, who acts as a middle -man between Iran and the P5+1, for dragging her feet in setting up smaller meetings with deputies and experts in between the major talks. In a lette ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Unique Micro-Organisms in High Andes Volcanoes ...
    A University of Colorado led team has discovered some rare, primitive microorganisms on high volcanoes in South America that may be fueled by drifting gases in the region rather than photosynthesis. There's a possibility that some of the extremophiles might...
  • Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' --Explores Origins ...
    Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) was a landmark in screen science fiction is structured,ike Alien, around a journey into space. The year is 2093: Prometheus is a brand-new spacecraft. Prometheus and its crew of 17, in deep sleep for most of...
  • Image of the Day: Strange Rectangular Galaxy Found
    An international team of astronomers discovered a rectangular‑shaped galaxy within a group of 250 galaxies some 70 million light years away. “In the Universe around us, most galaxies exist in one of three forms: spheroidal, disc-like, or lumpy and irregular...
  • Astronomers Spy Hidden Light of 1st Stars & Ga ...
    The light patterns were hidden within a strip of sky observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe. These faint objects might be hugely massive stars or...
  • "The Earliest Galaxy Clusters Formed in Deep W ...
                     In a 2011 sky survey made in near-infrared light the astronomers studying Hubble Space Telescope images spotted five clustered galaxies so distant that their light has taken 13.1 billion years to reach us. These galaxies are among the brightest galaxies at that early s ...

Natural News

  • Anti-oxidant extracts maximize clean energy
    Like a battery you need to be charged up every day. At the atomic level, our bodies run through an electrical energy system. The coordinated flow of this electrical energy at all times is what makes up the presence of life. Lifestyle habits that add voltage to our system...
  • Solving the Pro Bowl Dilemma (Satire)
    (NaturalNews)Yay, the Pro Bowl gets to come to Hawaii for another year and the tourist industry is jumping for joy. The executive bonuses stay and the execs do not have to patrol Waikiki "hooking" in the tourists there to frequent the 52 booth International Market Place all selling...
  • Latest attack on calcium fails to link mineral ...
    A new scare study intended to deter people from taking calcium supplements only further reinforces the fact that calcium is actually safe, at least when taken with cofactor nutrients that aid in its proper absorption. The poorly-designed study, which was published in...
  • The brain body connection - The first of the f ...
    There are four major systems that control most bodily functions and when these systems are out of balance, disease will eventually manifest. These systems include in order of priority: the nervous system, hormonal system, digestive system and the detoxification system...
  • Boost your defenses against flesh-eating bacteria
    If you've been following our site and the news in general recently, you're aware of an outbreak of MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - cases involving antibiotic-resistant, flesh-eating bacteria. Three cases of necrotizing fasciitis, as it is called...

Threat Level

  • Anarchopanda Hugs the Front Lines of Montreal ...
    Memes move fast, it's true. Cutesy, folksy, or ridiculous, they mean that a movement, like the Quebec students, like Occupy, and many others across the globe that are as inspired by their successes as their in-jokes, are serious, here to stay. Memes slow the pace just long enough for an outsider ...
  • South Park’s ‘What What (in the Butt)’ Beats I ...
    A federal appeals court affirmed Thursday that a 2008 South Park parody of a real-world video -- "What What (In The Butt)" -- did not infringe on the YouTube video of the same name. The decision upheld a lower court which sided with Viacom subsidiary Comedy Partners' fair-use defense. More impor ...
  • Pranksters Hijack Republican Live-Streamed Pet ...
    Congressional Republicans on Thursday abruptly halted what was surely the most innovative internet petition drive in history, after too much of the internet discovered it. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had invited voters to visit its “I Want Repeal” Tumblr to ...
  • ACLU Phone App Lets You Shoot the Cops
    The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has released an Android application allowing mobile-phone users to easily capture police patdowns on video, which is then automatically uploaded to the rights group’s servers. The “Stop & Frisk Watch” application, w ...
  • Court Halts Law Allowing Indefinite Detention ...
    A federal judge is blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an "individual who was part of or substantially supported" groups "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners."

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Introducing the Romney-McConnell Jobs Plan
    In the wake of the disappointing May jobs report, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney comically charged that Barack Obama "hasn't put forth a plan to get us working again." Comically, that is, because the same Senate Republicans who gave the February 2009 stimulus bill only three votes ...
  • CBO Director Demolishes GOP's Stimulus Myth
    For months, Mitt Romney and his Republican allies have been falsely claiming that President Obama "made the economy worse." This week, Romney preposterously declared Obama "knowingly slowed down our recovery." And today in Missouri, the Republican nominee doubled-down, charging that the Presid ...
  • Total Recall
    If nothing else, Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin showcased the triumph of deep pockets and short memories. But while Republicans tried to downplay their side's 8-to-1 cash advantage, they and their right-wing water carriers loudly denounced the recall effort itself. They weren't alone. ...
  • Romney Campaign's Test for Mormon Coverage Isn ...
    Mitt Romney's religion is back in the news this week thanks to a flood of articles saying it shouldn't be. While the Los Angeles Times reports "Obama and Romney shun confrontation on religion," Richard Cohen of the Washington Post declared "Mitt Romney's faith is his business." Two weeks before ...
  • Studies, Media Ignore Romney's Tax Cut Windfal ...
    On Monday, the Associated Press gave Mitt Romney great headline. Summing up recent analyses comparing how President Obama and his challenger would fare under their own tax plans, the AP reported "Obama win could cost Romney $5M in personal taxes." Rather than declaring "Romney would cut his ow ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Bookmarks for 2012-06-09
    Untitled@justinmcguirk: Very excited to see Strelka Press launching today. http://t.co/o98KchWO @StrelkaPress http://twitter.com/justinmcguirk/status/211472812303597570(tags:ifttt twitter editmytaglaterwarren! ) End of Days by LIGHT ASYLUM on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your soun ...
  • 5 Reasons America's "Assassinations from Above ...
    These killings would be criminal acts if they occurred inside the US. Does it make legal sense that these killings would be legal outside the US?
  • Facing Funding Cuts, Continuation Schools Stru ...
    California continuation schools are in trouble -- but some are racking up triumphs, even amid the fiscal pain.
  • Chris Hedges Calls Banksters “Demon Possessed” ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 8, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 by TruthSquadTV Chris Hedges addressed the Occupy Wall Street crowd today reading a passage from the Bible. He compared the banksters to a demon possessed flock of swine. 6/7/2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Chris Hedges Calls Ba ...
  • Bookmarks for 2012-06-08
    U B U W E B – Film & Video: Erkki Kurenniemi – Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968)@ubuweb: Erkki Kurenniemi's "Electronics in the World of Tomorrow" (1964) Techno-fetishist film of diagrams, chips, machines: http://t.co/lxZ0w42I http://twitter.com/ubuweb/stat ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Colbert Nails Climate Change Skepticism & GOP
      Colbert, at it again, makes a good long joke out of climate change skepticism and American stupidity a bit following news of the Earth being at 400 ppm of carbon. Of course, as part of that, he also tackles the GOP’s very real efforts to address global warming and [...]
  • Global Trade Is Causing Many Species Extinctions
      Thirty percent of the threatened species in the world are in that situation because of consumption in the developed world, according to new research from the University of Sydney. The researchers mapped the global economy to track the trade of goods that are implicated in biodiversity l ...
  • Nick Rahall (WV) Has Peaceful Protesters Arres ...
    West Virginia is one of the nation’s biggest coal-producing states. But both the production and treatment of coal produce major health risks for our local residents. Many residents in West Virginia are adversely effected by the coal industry and have been protesting for decades, especially again ...
  • Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Worldwide, Wor ...
      New cases of untreatable gonorrhoea have been found in Australia, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that with resistance to the last antibiotic effective against gonorrhoea growing, millions of people will be left with no tr ...
  • Rio+20 Must Have Concrete Decisions Made About ...
      The Rio+20 sustainable development conference beginning on June 20th must achieve concrete decisions and agreements regarding clean energy, poverty, and more sustainable and fair use of resources, says the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. “Rio+20 is a once-in-a-generation o ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Bodies with Histories: The New Search for the ...
    Editor's Note: Our friend from way back, Dave Stratman, founding editor of New Democracy World, sent this article to us. Dave has a long history of defending the rights of minorities going back to the days of integrating children and families of racial minorities into the privileged white school ...
  • Syria & Libya: What is really going on? - Syria
    The NATO/FUKUS Axis has lost control of the situation in Libya and Syria, after unleashing a massive terrorist attack in both countries, using foreigners armed by the west and digging up trouble among disaffected elements with axes to grind. The mainstream media has ominously gone silent since H ...
  • Monsanto Vs Nature: The Weeds Fight Back - Env ...
    Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America's agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn't working, they're probably not using enough of it. Monsanto, for example, has banked a fortu ...
  • Quebec legislator arrested as state repression ...
    Quebec City police arrested 65 people, including Amir Khadir, Québec Solidaire’s lone member of the provincial parliament, Tuesday evening. Their crime? Demonstrating illegally—that is, without police permission. Tuesday’s arrests are part of an ongoing campaign of state repression directed ...
  • Anti-terrorism law to name ecologists as threa ...
    Nicole Eaton may be Canada's Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential candidate comes across as a wealthy patrician with little sense of how tough the world can be for people who don't have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal. That tendency also seems to afflict Eaton, a weal ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "The Walls ...
    By @KYYellowDog Shamelessly stolen from Ed Kilgore at Political Animal: An inspirational tune for whatever resistance to truth and justice you are facing today: "The Walls Came Down," from The Call, 1983. The Band's Garth Hudson is on keyboards.
  • "Get our teachers back in the classroom"
    By @KYYellowDog Let's see: teachers are public employees (union thugs and parasites), they provide a service to non-rich people, and hiring more of them would improve the economy. Yeah, congressional repugs are gonna jump right on that one. Full transcript here.
  • AynRandPaul Jumps on the Hemp Bandwagon
    By @KYYellowDog The Tribble-Headed One figures better late than never. From the Herald: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, is joining a Democratic senator from Oregon in supporting a proposal to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp. Vote Hemp, a non-profit organization pushing the issue, sai ...
  • Do Mitchie-poo and AynRand Support Kentucky Fa ...
    By @KYYellowDog Then why aren't they co-sponsoring a bill that would bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Commonwealth? Raw Story: In a last minute addition to the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has submitted an amendment that would legalize the pr ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "We Are the ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by MakanaVideos on Nov 10, 2011 Ye come here, gather 'round the stage The time has come for us to voice our rage Against the ones who've trapped us in a cage To steal from us the value of our wage From underneath the vestiture of law The lobbyists at Washington do gn ...

Care 2

  • Who Has No Jobs Plan?
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop Federal Funding of Ani ...
    Withhold funding from academic institutions that permit animal cruelty in research.By signing the petition, you can urge NIH to withhold funding until higher standards for ethical behavior are met in Ivy League research facilities. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note ...
  • Raise the Minimum Wage!
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ohio, haunted by slaughter, restricts exotic a ...
    Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law on Tuesday new state restrictions on the ownership of exotic animals following the slaughter last year of dozens of wild animals freed by a man before he committed suicide. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!   ...
  • New hope for elephants under threat in Central ...
    Central African countries today signed a groundbreaking regional plan to strengthen law enforcement and better combat poaching of elephants and other species at risk from illegal wildlife trade. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • More Delusional Economic Nonsense from Obama
    Barry Soetoro Obama remains his own worst enemy. He’s like a cocaine addict or alcoholic that refuses to admit he has a problem. As long as he denies he has a problem he will be unable to take steps to fix it. In his clouded brain there is nothing to fix–things on the economic front ...
  • A “great” King * TGIF open thread
    A House member describes how she quiets constituents’ fury over her vote for ObamaCare:         “When I get home, I speak their language. I speak my language. I quote the great philosopher Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?& ...
  • Sack? Shun? Silence? Disappear? Terminate? All ...
    What? Bill Clinton? Deval Patrick? Cory Booker? Ed Rendell? These staunch Democrats? Given POTUS’s blessings? Directed to act as his most powerful surrogates? President Obama, a narcissist, requires fulsome praise and deference. He had expected loyalty from surrogates in their public remar ...
  • Upstaging 103 stars left in the shadows, Campa ...
    “What we’re seeing, Wolf, is an avalanche of leaks and it is very, very disturbing. It’s dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.” – Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat-Calif), Chair of the U.S. Senate ...
  • “Clear and Present Danger” + Open Thread
         ”Progressive” Protester in Wisconsin, about GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch: Run, Rebecca . . . Run, get the FUCK out of the state . . . We’re coming after her anyways, so it doesn’t freaking matter anyways, win or lose . . .     &#160 ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • The Many Humble Heroes of Appalachia - unEARTH ...
    The Many Humble Heroes of Appalachia unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) by Liz Judge: Over our years of working to stop mountaintop removal mining, we at Earthjustice have met so many brave and dedicated people fighting for their commun... by Liz Judge: A bipartisan bill is coming up for a vote ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    ThinkProgress INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountaintop removal Facing South Number of minutes award-winning mountaintop removal mining activist Maria Gunnoe of Boone County, W.Va. was questioned by US Capitol Police over a photo she submitted to a congressional panel showing a five-yea ...
  • Pressure Mounts to End Mountaintop Removal Coa ...
    Between The Lines Pressure Mounts to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Huffington Post This week hundreds of residents from Appalachia and beyond came to Washington, DC, to demand Congress end mountaintop removal coal mining and enforce the Clean Water Act. They talked to their representatives ...
  • EPA sues India-based firm mining coal in Kentu ...
    EPA sues India-based firm mining coal in Kentucky CBS News The EPA is alleging that mountaintop removal mines in three counties dumped pollutants into tributaries of the Levisa Fork River in 2005 and 2007. The mines were run by Trinity Coal Corp. and its subsidiaries, based in Scott Depot, W.Va. ...
  • EPA sues India-based firm mining coal in Kentu ...
    Daily Caller EPA sues India-based firm mining coal in Kentucky CBS News The EPA is alleging in a federal lawsuit that mountaintop removal mines in three counties dumped pollutants into tributaries of the Levisa Fork River in 2005 and 2007. The mines were run by Trinity Coal Corporation and its s ...

Memeorandum

  • Remarks by the President (The White House)
    The White House: Remarks by the President  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  I just want to say a few words about the economy, and then I will take some of your questions.  —  Today, we're fighting back from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depres ...
  • Iraq Ambassador Nomination Jeopardized by Racy ...
    Dana Hughes / ABCNEWS: Iraq Ambassador Nomination Jeopardized by Racy Emails to Journalist  —  As a former national security staffer for President George W. Bush, President Obama's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Brett McGurk, was supposed to garner bipartisan support for ...
  • Eric Holder unaware that court visitors must s ...
    Josh Gerstein / Politico: Eric Holder unaware that court visitors must show ID  —  Due to a recent work assignment, I had the opportunity to enter a federal courthouse about 200 times in the past six weeks or so.  Each and every time, I was asked for a photo ID, which the c ...
  • Absence Makes the Vote Grow Bigger for GOP (Co ...
    Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal: Absence Makes the Vote Grow Bigger for GOP  —  The Play: Getting out the absentee vote  —  The Strategy: As Mr. Walker, Wisconsin's Republican governor, tried to fend off an effort to recall him from office over his la ...
  • Kelly talks policy and politics (qchron.com)
    qchron.com: Kelly talks policy and politics  —  In Queens, commissioner touts crime reduction, terror prevention  —  Misinformation.  That's the problem causing public misperception of the New York Police Department's policies on issues such as stop and fris ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • In Ecuador, home truths for China
    Hostility to an open-pit mining project points to the strife facing Chinese companies abroad. Huang Hongxiang headed for South America to investigate the clash between investors, NGOs and locals.“We need to make contact with the Chinese media as urgently as possible.” I was on my uni ...
  • A new deal for the oceans
    Overfishing, global warming and relentless pollution are changing the planet’s waters, putting both marine and human life at risk. On World Oceans Day, Caspar Henderson urges the terrestrial world to wake up.As terrestrial creatures, we seldom give much thought to the fact that seven-tenth ...
  • What's coming out of China's taps?
    Studies suggest water flowing into city homes is too dirty, while new rules seem flawed from the get-go and residents are kept firmly in the dark. Gong Jing and Wang Haotong report.China’s urbanites use a lot of water. Every day, more than 4,000 water-treatment plants supply 60 million ton ...
  • Chinese nuclear goes global?
    From Paris boardrooms to Kazakh uranium mines, the nuclear industry anxiously awaits news from Beijing. A latecomer to the party, China is looking more and more the favoured guest, writes Antony Froggatt.In the space of a couple of decades, China has become a major player in the global nuclear s ...
  • Nuclear Europe: a dream unwinding
    Francois Hollande’s election victory is the latest blow to an industry struggling to revive the optimism of pre-Fukushima days. But the seeds of crisis were there well before Japan’s disaster, writes Steve Thomas.Prospects for nuclear power in post-Fukushima Europe are looking grim. ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Anarchopanda Hugs the Front Lines of Montreal ...
    Memes move fast, it's true. Cutesy, folksy, or ridiculous, they mean that a movement, like the Quebec students, like Occupy, and many others across the globe that are as inspired by their successes as their in-jokes, are serious, here to stay. Memes slow the pace just long enough for an outsider ...
  • South Park’s ‘What What (in the Butt)’ Beats I ...
    A federal appeals court affirmed Thursday that a 2008 South Park parody of a real-world video -- "What What (In The Butt)" -- did not infringe on the YouTube video of the same name. The decision upheld a lower court which sided with Viacom subsidiary Comedy Partners' fair-use defense. More impor ...
  • Pranksters Hijack Republican Live-Streamed Pet ...
    Congressional Republicans on Thursday abruptly halted what was surely the most innovative internet petition drive in history, after too much of the internet discovered it. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had invited voters to visit its “I Want Repeal” Tumblr to ...
  • ACLU Phone App Lets You Shoot the Cops
    The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has released an Android application allowing mobile-phone users to easily capture police patdowns on video, which is then automatically uploaded to the rights group’s servers. The “Stop & Frisk Watch” application, w ...
  • Court Halts Law Allowing Indefinite Detention ...
    A federal judge is blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an "individual who was part of or substantially supported" groups "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners."

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Non-O157 E. coli - An Alphabet Soup of Illness
    E. coli O157:H7, O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145 – it can get a bit(e) confusing. As of June 8, 2012, the CDC and various State health Departments report that there are 14 cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O145 infection with indistinguishable DNA patterns that ha ...
  • UPDATE: E. coli O145 Outbreak Sickens 14 in Si ...
    UPDATE: CDC: Background on Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O145 Infections As of June 8, 2012 Outbreak information As of June 8, 2012, there are 14 cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O145 infection with indistinguishable DNA patterns that have been identified in lab samples ...
  • E. coli O145 Outbreak Toll: Tennessee (1 ill), ...
    Louisiana 21 month old, Maelan Elizabeth Graffagnini, dies. Jim Avila, Brian Hartman and David Muir of ABC brought us the story of “Officials in Race Against Time to Stop E. Coli Outbreak.” As the number of E. coli cases climbs to 11 (actually 12) across four southern states, Georg ...
  • E. coli O145 - A decade of outbreaks
    Zillman Meat Market Ready-to-Eat, Custom, Smoked Meat Products Made From Game 2010:  An outbreak of E. coli O145 was linked to the consumption of ready-to-eat, custom, smoked meat products that were made from game. These products were produced and sold by the Zillman Meat Market in Wausau, ...
  • Southern, multi-state E. coli Outbreak Kills L ...
    Louisiana State Health officials are working with neighboring southern states and the CDC to identify the cause of several cases of E. coli illnesses (presumably not E. coli O157:H7) in the New Orleans area - one of which is blamed for the death of 21-month-old Maelan Elizabeth Graffagnini. Whi ...

AutoblogGreen

  • How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...
  • Official: 2013 Chevy Volt increases range to 3 ...
    And thus the mid-cycle product refresh - so common to computers and cellphones - comes around again to GM's plug-in hybrid. The new EPA sticker for the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has been released, and with it comes a fresh set of numbers. The highlights are an improved all-electric range and mil ...
  • Video: First Tesla Model S delivered to board ...
    We noted yesterday that some 2012 Tesla Model S buyers have already received their cars even though deliveries won't officially begin until June 22. Now we've got video proof. The very first Model S, decked-out with license plate TSLA S1, left the Fremont, CA factory this past weekend, Gre ...
  • Official: Honda Fit EV rated at 118 MPGe with ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Honda, Electric It might only be available to lease in limited numbers in only a few areas, but the Honda Fit EV certainly has one thing that's tremendously good about it: an official EPA rating of 118 MPGe and a range of 82 miles. Specifi ...
  • Video: Star Wars Prius commercial uses ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Help us, plug-in cars, you're our only hope. In his original deal with Fox for the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas famously kept the licensing rights for himself. That deal - unusual at the time - ha ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • It’s One Person, One Vote, Not 1 Percent, One Vote
    The failed effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely seen as a crisis for the labor movement, and a pivotal moment in the 2012 U.S. presidential-election season. Walker launched a controversial effort to roll back the power of Wisconsin’s public employee unions, and the unions push ...
  • Part 3: Joseph Stiglitz on Ways to Lessen Ineq ...
    In an extended interview about his new book, The Price of Inequality, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers several recommendations for a reform agenda. "Traditional economics said we could only get more equality if we pay a price. We have to weaken our economy in one w ...
  • Part 3: Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says ...
    After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance from the Indian struggle for independence to Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. He says Gandhi found "nothing more despicabl ...
  • Syrian Filmmaker Who Appeared on Democracy Now ...
    Democracy Now! is saddened to report that one of our past guests, Bassel Shahade, was killed last Monday while he worked on a documentary and trained media activists in Homs, Syria. Our producers first met Shahade at Syracuse University, where he was a Fulbright scholar studying filmmaking. ...
  • WikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s protracted effort to fight extradition to Sweden suffered a body blow this week. Britain’s Supreme Court upheld the arrest warrant, issued in December 2010. After the court announced its split 5-2 decision, the justices su ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Campaign Calls For Romney To Put Assets ...
    MSNBC.com By NBC’s Ali Weinberg 6/8/12 Swiss bank accounts. Money hidden in the Cayman Islands. Bain capital income. The Obama campaign warned Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will have full access to those three pots of money and more unless he puts his investme ...
  • Wisconsin Recall Election Results 2012: Live U ...
    HuffPost  Posted: 06/05/2012  8:09 pm The Wisconsin recall election results have all eyes on the Badger State. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) challenged Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Tuesday’s gubernatorial contest. HuffPost’s Mark Blumenthal reports: The final round of polls o ...
  • We’ve Heard it All Before – Obama ...
    Published on Jun  4, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http:www.romneyeconomics.com Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. By the time Romney left office, state debt had increased, the size of government had grown, and M ...
  • Romney Economics: Republicans on Romney’ ...
    Published on Jun 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: https://my.barackobama.com/romneyeconomicsgopvid Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. By the time Romney left office, state debt had increased, the size of government h ...
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  • Public Comment on Inflation Measurement
    Source: Shadowstats This article replaces the earlier “Primer” on the Consumer Price Index   Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s?So As to Understate Inflation versus Common Experience   CPI no longer measures the cost of maintaining a constant stan ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • US economic update. Everything that follows is ...
    Summary:  This cycle (a series of crisis, response, euphoria, repeat) has lasted so long that it’s easy to forget the larger dynamics at work.  The forest is more than the trees.  Here we briefly review what’s happened, what’s happening, what might happen — focusing on th ...
  • The Fate of Europe has become visible. Only h ...
    Summary:   The last act of the EMU’s death throes has begun. We already knew the two possible endings: further unification or fragmentation.  Now we can see far enough to guess about when and how it will end.  Probably in a crisis, in which the odds of policy errors will be high — an ...
  • America is rich and powerful because we can bo ...
    Summary: This was originally intended as a follow-up to The Titanic’s lessons for us about the coming economic crisis. But as so often the case on the FM website, it changed while being written.  Instead of a discussion about the importance of choosing good leaders, it asks what we think we&#821 ...
  • The Titanic’s lessons for us about the c ...
    Summary: Bad decisions often transform a crisis into a disaster.  Sometimes bad decisions are unavoidable. Today we’ll look at two episodes of the past, mining them for useful lessons for us about leadership. Contents Introduction Learning from the Titanic Learning from the Great Depressio ...
  • Looking back at how our folly and ignorance fa ...
    Summary:  A vital aspect of high performance is the “lessons learned” exercise after every operation, however painful. Watching the game films to see what we did right and wrong, so that we can do better.  Unfortunately America’s broken observation-orientation-decision action l ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • A Brief History of National Security Leaks
    In today’s White House press briefing, President Obama responded to claims that his administration permitted the unauthorized leaking of classified information, particularly regarding U.S. targeted killing policy and efforts to sabotage Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges through cyber attacks ...
  • The Strategy of Targeting al Qaeda’s Senior Le ...
    Leadership decapitation is one means of combating violent non-state actors. However, the fact that the leader of a terrorist or insurgent organization being fought can be killed doesn’t mean that he should be. One obvious example is when a group’s leader is incompetent. In such a sit ...
  • Iran and the West Should Learn Lessons from Ba ...
    The Baghdad negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 ended with the announcement that “fundamental differences exist between Iran and the West.” Expectations for reaching a resolution over Iran’s nuclear program were dashed. The major reasons behind the failure of these talks were the miscalculati ...
  • 5 Places Where Internet Access is REALLY Expensive
    Denizens of the developed, Western world may take cheap and easily accessible Internet service for granted—and according to recent International Telecommunications Union data, prices for communications services just keep dropping from year to year across the world.  But that’s not the case ev ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones Abroad and at Home
    Michael Crowley, “Drone Dilemma,” Time, June 18, 2012. When the White House announced on June 5 that a CIA drone attack in Pakistan’s tribal area had killed al-Qaeda’s No. 2 official, Abu Yahya al-Libi, even the Wall Street Journal editorial page, hardly a White House fan site, cheer ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • FineGaffeGate!
    If you don't follow a bunch of conservatives on Twitter, you may have missed the fact that in a press conference this morning, Barack Obama said the most horrific thing any president has ever said, an extemporaneous utterance so mind-boggling, so vile, so earth-shatteringly awful that it will f ...
  • Racist Searches and Drug Arrests Fine With New ...
    Last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union released some extremely disturbing data about "stop and frisk" searches in New York City. Since 1968, the Supreme Court has held that warrantless patdown searches by police require only "reasonable suspicion" rather than the "probable cause" requir ...
  • What's the Deal With All These Voting Restrict ...
    Though it is the crown jewel of our charming little American democracy, the right to vote hasn’t ever been a thing of glittering beauty. At its best, voting is the stuff of fluorescent-lit hallways at local middle school schools and the withering glares of geriatric poll workers. At its worst, ...
  • Structurally Flawed
    Before July 1, five apartment buildings in a West Bank settlement will be cut from their foundations and dragged over the hilly terrain to a new location elsewhere in the community. That's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan, anyway. From an engineering perspective, the idea is "de ...
  • Friday Music Break
    The Friday Music Break is coming a bit early in the day today, and the reason is that I got this in the old Twitter feed and wanted to pass it along before it spreads across the Internet. Astute readers may know that I'm a huge fan of Symphony of Science, which is one of those rare needles of a ...

Buzzflash

  • If Student Concerns Are Not Addressed, There M ...
    ROSS MITIGA FOR BUFFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A Washington Post article illustrated some of the recent rhetorical back-and-forth between the President and Congress over the soon-to-be-doubled interest rates on subsidized student loans. Obama's halfhearted rebuke-"My message to Congress is: Let's get ...
  • Court Halts Law Allowing Indefinite Detention ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT With the continued erosion of civil liberties that began in the Bush years and has expanded in the Obama administration, it was hopeful that a federal judge struck down one of the most chilling laws in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): th ...
  • Stop the Secret White House Kill List
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT St. Augustine blesses the kill list. And liberalism is just a nicer, slicker, more PR-savvy way of carrying on the brutal work of empire. Behold President Obama, on the second day of his presidency, flanked by retired generals and admirals, signing an ...
  • The Democrats Must Begin Advocating for the Wo ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ed Schultz lamented the other night that 27% of union members in Wisconsin voted for Scott Walker. That is, as Ed explained, astonishing.read more
  • Farmworkers Face Rape and Sexual Abuse Epidemi ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTAt the age of twenty-one, Patricia M. arrived in the United States from Mexico without a work visa. She eventually found a job harvesting almonds. Within days of starting her job, her foreman took her to a remote field and, "got on top of her and tied her ...

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Sciencebase

  • Charity Engine
    Charity Engine was created to enable millions of home PCs to raise millions of dollars for the best possible causes, all thanks to spare computing power that nobody is using anyway. “Together, our PCs really can change the world – one bit at a time.” Related Posts:The evolving, revol ...
  • Are we overdiagnosing the worried well?
    NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...
  • Take flight
    Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...
  • Pluto is not a planet
    Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...
  • The matter of the lost dark matter
    Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • During Resolutions Week, People Throughout the ...
    From Atlanta, Ga., and Corpus Christi, Texas, to Wichita, Kansas, and Irvine, Calif., people throughout the country will rally during “Resolutions Week” to show support for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commi ...
  • Imperiled South Atlantic Fish Left Unprotected
    Two critically imperiled species of deepwater grouper – speckled hind and Warsaw grouper – must be protected from overfishing immediately, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ocean Conservancy.read more
  • Arcticready or #Shellfail? Shell's Climate Dis ...
    NEW behind-the-scenes VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InL4ONJh9fA&feature=youtu.be Greenpeace, the Yes Lab, and members of the Occupy movement are claiming responsibility for a set of actions that have focused intense attention on Shell's Arctic drilling program.read more
  • Planned Parenthood Statement on House Passage ...
    Planned Parenthood remains steadfast in its opposition to the abortion rider included in the the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that passed the House of Representatives yesterday. The provision, adopted in committee markup last month, is unnecessary and redundant to existing policy, and i ...
  • Rights Must Be At the Center of the Family Pla ...
    MADRE has joined civil society organizations including the Center for Reproductive Rights, Amnesty International, DAWN, the International Women's Health Coalition and RESURJ in endorsing the following statement. We're calling on leaders at the upcoming Family Planning Summit to ensure th ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Accountability in Defeat: On a Whupping in Wis ...
    Matthew Rothschild Spare me the spin. This was a whupping. After sixteen months of the most historic and exciting citizens’ uprising that I’ve ever been a part of in my thirty-five years of progressive activism and journalism, w ...
  • Bernie Sanders Sees Threatening 'Aggressivenes ...
    John Nichols Governor Scott Walker says that, with his victory in Tuesday’s recall election, he will “tell Wisconsin, tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and ...
  • Translating the Quebec Student Protests
    Joan Donovan Compared to its current clamor, the Quebec student protests began last year with a whimper. In March of 2011, Finance Minister Raymond Bachand announced that Quebec student tuition would increase by $325 every year for five yea ...
  • Hold That "Hot" Fukushima Sushi
    Harvey Wasserman We all knew it was coming. Pacific Bluefin Tuna (Photo from OpenCage). Radioactive tuna has been caught off the coast of California.  The fingerprint of cesium 137 is unmistakably from the exploded reactors at ...
  • How the Obama Administration is Making the US ...
    Glenn Greenwald Over the past several weeks in the US, there has been a series of high-profile media scoops exposing numerous details about President Obama's covert foreign policy and counterterrorism actions, stories appearing primaril ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Good times reignite the water wars
    The last time we dropped in on the Kennedys, their cotton property Whitegates resembled a setting for The Grapes of Wrath. Dust into dust, and under dust to lie.
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.
  • Good times reignite the water wars
    Rivers are flowing again, but so is the friction over water rights among states and between farmers and conservationists, writes David Humphries.
  • Children will not be bored at Blue Plum
    While the music is the headlining activity for this week’s Blue Plum Festival in Johnson City, parts of the downtown will resemble a playground for the kids.

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The Wonk Room

  • How Biodiversity Loss is Like LeBron James & M ...
    JR: With game 7 of Heat vs. Celtics tonight, it seems like an apt time for this repost. by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central Ecologists have been saying for decades now that the world is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. Hundreds of species are vanishing every year, thanks to assault ...
  • Open Thread Plus Climate Cartoon Of The Week
    A penny for your cyber-thoughts. How about crowd-sourcing some real pennies for cartoonist, Stephanie McMillan, who has given me permission to reprint her cartoons. Here’s the link to Paypal where you can donate to her if you like her cartoons.  CLICK HERE (then click where it says DONATE). Rela ...
  • Dallas Pastor Preaches Compelling Endorsement ...
    Pastor Frederick Haynes of the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas gave a powerful sermon in support of President Obama’s recent endorsement of marriage equality. Haynes notes that during his oath of office, Obama vowed to uphold the constitution, not the Bible. During his sermon, which cri ...
  • Tokenism v. Pigeonholing On This Season of &#8 ...
    If you wondered why Mad Men bothered to open its fifth season with a Civil Rights protest and to make the arc of the first episode the arrival of the first black employee at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, only to assign Dawn, the new secretary, a single substantive sequence for the entire rest of ...
  • Hate Group Places ‘Bullseye’ On Ta ...
    It seems that the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins finally got the memo about which LGBT organization Target is supporting with 100 percent of the sales of its LGBT pride month t-shirts. Today, Perkins sent out an “alert” email entitled “Put a bullseye on Target&#82 ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Debased Culture
    Yesterday, on a crowded subway, there was a tall athletic man standing next to me. I'm short so my eye level was at his tie. I thought his tie was quite stylish and then noticed the fine material and colour of his suit and the powder-blue shirt. Then I noticed the dude was reading what looked li ...
  • harper and Mansbridge Discuss European Economi ...
    Can you imagine a greater waste of your time than watching such a thing as that?? It's one of the top stories on the CBC News website, and there's an image of Mansbridge looking serious as harper gesticulates and blathers about something. Even if harper wasn't an illegitimate prime minister, a s ...
  • Two Opposing Points of View
    Just another reflection on the obvious folks! "Right" and "Left" or "Conservative" and "Progressive." For all the knocking of these terms, I believe they still have some explanatory power. I think they do encompass specific ways of looking at the world. This being the case, I think it's safe to ...
  • Two Books
    I just finished reading Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. I thought it was pretty good but I'm not a sciency guy. I'm going to have to re-read the parts on embryology and the whole RNA/DNA/Proteins part again to get a better handle on the ideas. I might not ...
  • thwap's snappy answers to shit-headed questions
    This CBC story details the United Nations' condemnation of Canadian complicity in various instances of torture. It criticizes such things as:How Canada's recent immigration law reforms put more refugees at risk of deportation to tortureThe torture-by-proxy of Muayyed Nureddin, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati ...

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Digital Journal

  • Four-star Russia brush aside Czechs as Euro 20 ...
    Russia has emerged as the first country to impress on the opening day of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament finals. They swept aside the Czech Republic with a four-goal salvo with Andrei Arshavin, a constant thorn in the side of the Czechs.
  • Sprinter Usain Bolt wins race - then bolts int ...
    This is a cautionary tale: if your task is to hand out flowers after a big sprint, don't start by crossing into a runner's lane. Especially as the race is just ending and the lane belongs to the fastest human on the planet.
  • Oil spills into the Red Deer River amid monito ...
    Oil spill from a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline, contaminates Jackson Creek and oozes into the Red Deer River and Gleniffer Lake and Reservoir. The 3,000 barrels of light sour crude oil stench seeped into the homes of residents who reported the spill.
  • AHL: Fluke goal in Toronto Marlies loss, a mis ...
    The AHL issued a statement today admitting the fluke goal in Toronto Marlies loss to Norfolk Admirals was a 'mistake' but nothing can be done now. Norfolk won the game 1-0 in the first over-time, leading the series 3-0.
  • Lindsay Lohan: the Charlie Sheen that never go ...
    Lindsay Lohan continues to get her name in the news and it is almost always for the wrong reasons. This time it's a car accident that occurred outside of Santa Monica, California.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada doesn’t need a defence industry
    Steven Staples outlines five reasons why Canada doesn't need a defence industry.
  • Tories to shut down F-35 probe?
    The Harper government is seeking to end the parliamentary probe into the planned F-35 fighter purchase after only nine hours of committee hearings.
  • Tell Harper to Abolish Nuclear Weapons!
    Tell Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that nuclear weapons need to be abolished!
  • No Russian threat in Arctic
    The Harper government's dire warnings of a Russian threat in the Arctic -- at one time a regular feature of its campaign to sell Canadians on the "need" to buy the F-35 -- do not reflect its own behind-closed-doors assessment of the situation.
  • Tanks and drones are coming to town
    Thousands of military, industry, and government representatives have converged in Ottawa for Canada’s largest annual arms and defence industry showcase.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
    April 11, 2012 PBS By Christina Bellantoni and Katelyn Polantz “This could help Ron Paul. It really makes you wonder though if Santorum had pressure to bail so Romney can get the nomination which would automatically make Obama the winner. Romney has no chance. If he’s the nominee, le ...
  • TSA Admits $1B Nude Body Scanner Fleet Worthless
    April 11, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson “Why isn’t the TSA responding or even trying to defend these allegations with sound proof that this is false? It’s because they know this to be true. The scanners do NOT work.” –KTRN A TSA screener has lifted to lid ...
  • Health-Care Law Will Add $340 Billion To Defic ...
    April 11, 2012 The Washington Post By Lori Montgomery President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the boar ...
  • What Is ObamaCare?
    April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Paul Craig Roberts Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threa ...
  • Defense Department To Further Militarize U.S. ...
    April 11, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The future is here.  The robots are coming.”  –KTRN Last year I reported on the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, wherein local law enforcement agencies can obtain surplus military hardware through a website, only having to pay to pick up ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Mad Men Season Five’s recent twists
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   For those of you who don’t follow Mad Men : don’t trouble reading. We make no apologies for writing about a mere television series, here – this one bears writing about every bit as much ...
  • ‘Intervention in Syria worst scenario, S ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Moscow says it will not let the UN Security Council sanction military action in Syria. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said external players are provoking the Syrian opposition to continue figh ...
  • A Startling Rise in Suicides
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Macaray The most compelling reason for ending the war in Afghanistan is that it simply cant be won. Indeed, it is so clearly and obviously unwinnable, we cant even come ...
  • Afraid to bank on banks?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Money makes the world go around… When high yield savings rates start dropping, do we have to save our money the Pirate way? Or simply hide it in a sock? Our own resident Lori Harfenist gauge ...
  • Maher: Democrats can win if they ‘stick to the ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher delivered some advice to the Democratic Party in the wake of the unsuccessful recall election against Wisconsin&#82 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges Calls Banksters “Demon Poss ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 8, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 by TruthSquadTV Chris Hedges addressed the Occupy Wall Street crowd today reading a passage from the Bible. He compared the banksters to a demon possessed flock of swine. 6/7/2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Chris Hedges Calls Ba ...
  • NDAA unconstitutional: Federal judge bans Obam ...
    Dandelion Salad Jun 7, 2012 by RTAmerica On Thursday, District Judge Katherine Forrest finalized a ruling on the controversial National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Obama. Last month Forrest ruled the NDAA unconstitutional and now decided no American should be subject to indefin ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: War on Whistleblowers: Manning ...
    with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 7, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 by RussiaToday The pre-trial hearings in the case of Bradley Manning, accused of the biggest classified data leak in U.S. history, have kicked off in Maryland. But there’s growing concern over their fairness, with ...
  • Gareth Porter: Objective of US and Israeli Pol ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 6, 2012 Gareth Porter: IAEA keeps Iran in “dock of global public opinion” while sanctions aim to weaken Iran as a regional power Objective of US and Israeli Policy is Economic Warfare Against Iran Gareth Porter is an investigati ...
  • Do Lebanon-Syrian borders still exist? by Fran ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon June 6, 2012 Three or four gentlemen regularly sit outside a small grocery store, opposite this observer’s flat, drinking coffee and smoking argileh water pipes, in the Hezbollah neighborhood of Haret Hreik in south Beirut. I rely ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Head of Arab political party harassed, detaine ...
    The National Democratic Party has accused Israel’s security services of repeatedly harassing one of its leaders each time he leaves and enters Israel. The NDP, which represents Israel’s large... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Incitement against refugees l ...
    In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israel airport security demands access to tour ...
    Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts; Israel's Shin Bet security service says it acted within the law. IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinia ...
  • Spiegel: Israel’s deployment of nuclear missil ...
    The Spiegel's special report on Israel's German-made nuclear-capable Dolphin class submarines: Many have wondered for years about the exact capabilities of the submarines Germany exports to Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amira Hass: The old man and the ‘strip and swi ...
    The Oslo Accords permit Gazan fishermen to sail up to 20 nautical miles from shore. In practice, the furthest they were allowed to fish was 12 miles. This was shortened to six miles after 2000, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for RA
    If you’re looking for a way to fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without drugs, then you need look no further than the spice shelf at your local market. New research published in the spring of 2012 shows that curcumin possesses potent anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties. The clinical s ...
  • Why Is Walking in the Woods So Good for You?
    If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods, then you know the wonder of the feeling you get from it. But did you know that besides giving you a good feeling, walking in the woods is actually good for you? The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. Translated, it literally means “forest bathing.” And no ...
  • Aspirin May Help Prevent Skin Cancer―But Don’t ...
    A new study shows that aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprophen and naproxen may lessen the risk of three major types of skin cancer. The study was based on Danish medical records that researchers examined from 1991 through 2009. The findings showed that ...
  • Sympathy for Africa Leads to Exploitation by C ...
    In an effort to end hunger in Africa, the Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest in projects all over the continent. Much of the effort will go toward developing seeds and fertilizers and building silos for storage. To do this, the Presi ...
  • Why BMI Is Not a Great Indicator of Body Compo ...
    Measurement of BMI―Body Mass Index―has long been the standard scoring system for determining how much excess fat you have in your body. But a new study indicates that the BMI may well be way off when it comes to measuring your true amount of fat stores. In the study, researchers used a special s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Should the President (Micro?) Manage Drone Att ...
    by John C. Dehn Not according to John Yoo. Believing a recent NY Times article to be accurate, Yoo criticizes the President for “personally select[ing] the targets and approv[ing] each operation” and characterizes this as “an incredible misuse of presidential time and a serious distortion of p ...
  • Opinio Juris Now Available for Kindle Users!
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey In our pursuit to make Opinio Juris more accessible to our readers, we are now offering the option of reading the blog on your Kindle device through Kindle Publishing. Kindle blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to your device so you can stay up-to-date throu ...
  • All You Ever Wanted to Know About Non-Self-Exe ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Prof. Martin Flaherty of Fordham was gracious enough to join me for a (short) podcast hosted by the Federalist Society on my book (co-authored with John Yoo) Taming Globalization. Marty takes John and I to task for our analysis of non-self-executing treaties and our l ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, June 8, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay has argued that US drone strikes in Pakistan raises legal questions. China has promised “sincere and selfless” help to Afghanistan, committing to increasing aid, investment and security cooperation. In other news ...
  • The UN’s Alphabet Soup of Entities
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (Amended:  Kevin suggests in the comments that this is a cheap shot at the UN, and after sleeping on it, I agree.  I’ve amended it, but in case anyone wants to see what Kevin is objecting to – and I agree he’s right that it’s unne ...

Public News Service

  • Border Community Activists Warn of “Moun ...
    Border Community Activists Warn of “Mounting Human Rights Crisis” PHOENIX – The number of illegal border crossings from Mexico has dropped sharply in recent years, but that hasn't slowed human-rights violations against border-area residents, according to community advocates. T ...
  • Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservat ...
    Study: Per-Capita Cash Connection to Conservation in AZ PHOENIX - Adjacent public lands and how they're managed offer insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Arizona, according to a new report from Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development. Rob Southwick, presid ...
  • Who Keeps Your Investment Adviser Honest?
    Who Keeps Your Investment Adviser Honest? WASHINGTON - A U.S. House committee today takes up a bill that would allow investment advisers to police themselves, through what's called a self-regulatory organization, or "SRO." Critics of the idea say that's like putting a fox in charge of the henho ...
  • "Put a Lid on It" to Prevent Cycling Injuries
    "Put a Lid on It" to Prevent Cycling Injuries PHOENIX – Summertime school vacations in Arizona mean more time on two wheels - and riding a bike without a helmet significantly increases the risk of a head injury in the event of a crash. Emergency Room Doctor Mike Gittleman says wearing a ...
  • Violence Against Women Act Stalls – NOW ...
    Violence Against Women Act Stalls – NOW "Condemns" House Version PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has been renewed twice with bipartisan support since it originally passed in 1994, but this year's reauthorization has become the object of a political battle. The Senate ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
    by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...
  • Mercury Bigger Worry than Radiation in Tuna
    By Michele Simon Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on our plates, and people suddenly get very serious about what they are eating. A ...
  • Groups ask FDA for final response to petition, ...
    Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ...
  • Supporting Vets’ Letter to President Oba ...
    by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...
  • More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Market ...
    by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Bad Cop, Worse Cop?
    A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...
  • Defend our Right to Create and Share!
    I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
  • Meet the Rollerman
    Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
  • RSA: The Empathic Civilization
    With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
  • Hitchiking the Platforms
    Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel’s “Super-Stinky Unity Deal& ...
    The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...
  • Music and Friendship at Salem: Sunita, Yasmin ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...
  • Um al-’Amad Update: April 21, 2012
    Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...
  • Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Wee ...
    (this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...
  • When My Partner Went to Jail
    Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – June 8 2012
    We all know that Jack Blood is not a “good soldier” for the GOP – No surprise that Jack takes Rand Paul to task in the first hour of this broadcast, for his endorsement of NDAA lovin Mitt Romney. Rand says he is going on tour with Mitt to help him get selected (which is [...]
  • Former Ron Paul Campaign Advisor / Medina Camp ...
    Wanna know what might REALLY be going down inside the 2008 – 2012 Paul campaign? Take a listen – stay all the way through. (Disclosure – Penny Freeman is a great friend of this site and show) Ron Paul’s previous political director came out with some interesting backstory ...
  • U.S. agency wants 9/11 health program to inclu ...
    NEW YORK (AP) — First responders and residents who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment of the disease and potentially hefty compensation payments under a rule proposed F ...
  • CIA director beat up his deputy in front of Obama
    WTF?     Former CIA Director Michael Hayden found an unusual way to show President-elect Barack Obama how the agency’s interrogation techniques worked during a December 2008 briefing: Hayden beat up his own deputy in front of the future commander-in-chief. Kill or Capture is Dani ...
  • June 8th 1967 – a day covered up in Infa ...
    …And not ONE PEEP from the US Media. Apparently Russia is not afraid of Israel. Our June 7 and June 8 shows (The Jack Blood Show) are dedicated to this infamous cover-up!   Before Israeli commandos shot 9 peace activists to death aboard the Mavi Marmara, 34 American military men were ...

The Air Vent

  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Understanding Growth Response Modeling
    As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology.   This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Sometimes they forget
    So I left a comment at RC today bolded below.   The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...
  • Some Unsolicited Advice to Heartland
    It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading!   Very unusual  for me.   I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook stock back up, Nasdaq under fire, Yah ...
    Facebook stock ends week on a high note – Facebook closed today at $27.10, up 3 percent from Thursday. Shares fell below $26 on Wednesday, their lowest since the company’s initial public offering on May 18, which priced shares at … Continue reading →
  • How Facebook is redefining mobile app discovery
    Facebook launched two game-changing features for mobile app developers this week: App Center and mobile-only Sponsored Stories. App Center’s “send to mobile” button is an efficient way to get users to download a mobile app after learning about it on … Continue reading →
  • Join the Inside Network Happy Hour / PageData ...
    Join us for a casual celebration at the Inside Network Happy Hour / PageData Launch in San Francisco. Grab a drink on us and meet others within the Inside Network community of Facebook developers and marketers. We’re also excited to be … Continue reading →
  • Dragon City, Lol Turtle, Tumblr, Glassdoor, mo ...
    Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was canvas-based RPG game Dragon City. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew … Continue reading →
  • Facebook introduces new security features for ...
    Facebook today announced new security features for mobile devices, allowing users to confirm logins made from new devices, report unwanted content from their mobile feed, and more easily recover compromised accounts. The social network updated its login approvals process to … Continue read ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. B ...
    Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in breach of numerous international conventions, the UN Charter and countless UN Security Council resolutions.
  • The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon
    Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to learn lessons from what was in fact a political and military disaster not only led to another disaster ...
  • Bring Gaza race-car students in from the cold
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international cowardice and sheer bad luck.
  • The lies about the 1967 war are still more pow ...
    Alan Hart views the Zionist-manufactured myth that the 1967 war was a defensive war - rather than a war of aggression - launched by Israel because it faced a threat of extermination by its Arab neighbours, and laments the lazy - or Zionist-motivated - journalism which continues to perpetuate thi ...
  • The Ethiopian land giveaway: what is yours is ...
    Graham Peebles highlights the injustices and hardships caused to ordinary Ethiopians by their government's policy of giving away agricultural land to foreign cash-crop investors and land speculators.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Marvin Gaye This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is Inner City Blues from the soulful artistry of Marvin Gaye. He wrote the song in 1971 for his album What’s Going On. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Marvin Gaye number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time. This soulful tune is one ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #87- The Balochistan Nexus
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to discuss Balochistan, a region rich in oil reserves and mineral deposits in Southwest Asia bordering Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a nexus at which diametrically opposing strategic interests converge. He talks about US suppo ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 31, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical an ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Welcomes New Partner Eric D ...
    “Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War” We are proud to announce the addition of a new partner to our team here at Boiling Frogs Post. Please welcome Eric Draitser: Eric Draitser- Partner Analyst & Producer Eric Draitser is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. He is the ...

Afro Spear

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  • “Why is MRC taking Kenya back to colonia ...
    Although there have been much brouhahas and rumpus from Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), agitating for cessation from Kenya, the truth is what MRC is trying to do is treason. For nobody can declare a republic within a republic and fall short of committing treason. Therefore, legally speaking, MRC ...
  • “We Don’t Need Another Hero” By Li ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Our nation’s current political battle about same-sex marriage reminds me of the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in which rivals fight it out in a cage to chants of “two men enter, one man leaves!” I also recall Tina Turner’s song from the film. She belts out: “We ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Another missionary in Africa: the Bill Gates myth The Egyptian Elections and the Arab Spring  The War on Gays Why I Don’t Support Same Sex Marriage New French Socialist Government Appoint 3 Black Cabinet Ministers
  • Madonna and Child
    A gift of love from Deb to my wife and I to congratulate us on the new addition to our family A heartfelt thank you! Here are a couple photos of our princess and prince:                        Alana                                                 Alana and Asa

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Clinton Pledges Increased Military Assistance ...
    Clinton Pledges Increased Military Assistance to Georgia for New Conflicts
  • Pre-election rigging in Pakistan: Zardari regi ...
    In a pre-election rigging attempt, the regime of President Asif Ali Zardari conspired to damage the independent judiciary in Pakistan that may not allow rigging in the forthcoming elections which are due some times later this year or early next year. The conspiracy was revealed by a renowned jou ...
  • The drug days of summer horse racing
    Thoroughbred I'll Have Another would seem to be in an exalted position as the Belmont Stakes approaches--but even horses at the top of the racing world are at constant risk. I'll Have Another's trainer, Doug O'Neill, has a long rap sheet of drugging violations, and his horses break down or show ...
  • No-one left to trust in Washington, as the shi ...
    It feels as though everyone in politics at present is in it for him or herself. How else can you explain the Republicans defeating a bill that would have allowed wage parity for women? Equal pay for equal work is enforced in most countries of the world, and yet here, a nation built on promises ...
  • Can We Get Along Without Authorities?
    I've just read Chris Hayes' new book "Twilight of the Elites," and am reminded of the question that progressive blogger and then-Congressman Alan Grayson staffer Matt Stoller asked Ellsberg.

Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile On June 5, the president of Endesa España, Borja Prado, whose company is a co-owner of the HidroAysén hydroelectric project, met with the Energy Ministry in Santiago, Chile ...
  • Responding to the bat signal: scientists at wo ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC I recently got back from the annual meeting of scientists working on white-nose syndrome and I have to say – although white-nose syndrome (the fungal disease causing mass bat die-offs) is a depre ...
  • Mexican regulators find that proposed Cabo Cor ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC The verdict on the Cabo Cortés mega tourism project in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula is in: the Mexican Environment Secretariat (Semarnat) found the project proponent failed t ...
  • A Beacon in the Fog: Opportunities for Interna ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco June 8 is World Oceans Day, and I’m thrilled to celebrate it from Rio de Janeiro, where I’ve just arrived for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.  50,000 people a ...
  • "Extremely Vulnerable" South Atlantic Grouper ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York A year and a half ago, the National Marine Fisheries Service concluded that two species of deepwater grouper – speckled hind and warsaw grouper – were both so “extremely vulnerable&rd ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Collective No-Hitter
    Not quite as satisfying as the individual one, but we Mariners fans take what we can get these days…
  • The European Championships
    [NB: I wrote this before today's results.] This might be a bit rubbish.  If you want a solid analysis, turn to long time friend of LGM Randy Paul, who did a better job than I ever could.  Find it here. 16 teams, four group.  Who will be this year’s Spain?  Or Greece? Up front, I’ll [...]
  • Caro and RFK
    The Passage of Power is a terrific book — perhaps not as essential as The Master of the Senate because the material is more familiar, but very, very good. One thing that leaves me with a slightly sour taste in my mouth, however, is that Caro seems to be setting up a Means of Ascent [...]
  • Expand the kill list, improve the economy.
    I can’t disagree with Mr. Thill’s logic: It would be foolish indeed to have invested so much in [drone] technologies only to watch them molder as mere weapons of war-force and terror. Like all modern technological artifacts, at rest they are value-neutral; it is only the uses to whic ...
  • Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, War On (S ...
    Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana isn’t enough to address the serious problems with New York’s stop-and-frisk policies, but it’s a laudable step. Alas, not enough is apparently too much for Senate Republicans.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Parasitic Mite Found to Play Key Role in Colla ...
    Extensive research in Hawaii has shown that a major cause of so-called colony-collapse disorder, which has sharply reduced bee populations in many parts of the world, is related to the spread of the parasitic varroa mite. Scientists at the University of Sheffield in England were able to track th ...
  • Major NASA Discovery Finds Phytoplankton Bloom ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered extensive blooms of phytoplankton under Arctic Ocean ice, contradicting the widely held conviction that such blooms could not occur under sea ice that blocked the sun's rays from triggering the blooms. Scientists on a NASA-sponsored expedition to th ...
  • Mexico President Signs Ambitious Climate Targe ...
    Mexico President Felipe Calderon this week signed into law ambitious climate targets aimed at drastically cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the share of clean energy in the coming decades. The law, passed unanimously by the Senate, commits Mexico to cut greenhouse gas ...
  • On Safe Drinking Water, Skepticism Over UN Claims
    With great fanfare, the United Nations announced in March that the world had reduced by half the proportion of people drinking unsafe water, meeting a critical development goal five years ahead of schedule. But a closer look reveals that the facts simply do not support this claim. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Flame Retardant Triggers Health Risks at Low D ...
    Even small doses of a flame retardant commonly used in furniture and baby products has been linked to harmful health effects, including obesity and developmental and reproductive problems, according to a new study. Speaking at a conference in Canada, Duke University chemist Heather Stapleton sai ...

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