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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

10 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Renewable fuel standard hits political divide at energy hearing
The Hill (blog)
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) for transportation fuel is becoming another proxy battleground between Republicans and Democrats in the renewable energy debate, as the parties demonstrated Tuesday during a House Energy and Commerce ...
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Gevo and Beta Renewables (Chemtex/TPG) Sign Agreement to Develop ...
Reuters
For Immediate Release Potential for bio-based isobutanol and derivatives, including jet fuel, from cellulosic biomass.
Foreign Policy: Made In The Shade
NPR
Photovoltaic panels stand in a solar energy park on June 27, 2012 outside Berlin, Germany. Germany is investing heavily in renewable energy sources as part of a government initiative to wean the country off nuclear, and eventually coal-based, energy.
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New UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Dean named
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“We're very pleased to have someone with Soyeon's experience and capability join us as dean of the School of Human Ecology,” says Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. “She is an accomplished academic and leader who will help guide the school as we open the ...
Puri Shankaracharya concerned over Amarnath ecology
IBNLive.com
Srinagar, Jul 10 (PTI) Puri Shankaracharya Adhokshajanand Teerth Maharaj today expressed grave concern over the harm to the ecology of Kashmir caused by.
Ecology Science Camps for Your Kids
Patch.com
Learn about water skimmers, banana slugs and Quidditch in one of three summer camps, each one a week long.
Independent environmental review of Shipyard development
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Pennsylvania Fracking Can Put Water at Risk, Duke Study Finds
Businessweek
A study that found hydraulic fracturing for natural gas puts drinking-water supplies in Pennsylvania at risk of contamination may renew a long-running debate between industry and activists.
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Key's stand on water insult to us all - Maori Party
Stuff.co.nz
The Maori Party is accusing Prime Minister John Key of inflaming a row over Maori water claims after the Waitangi Tribunal heard his comments could spark "race riots".
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Cholera kills at least 3 in Cuba, bad water wells blamed
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HAVANA, Cuba - Cholera has killed three people and sickened another 85 in Cuba, according to a government official, although the number of those dead could be as high as 15, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. A handful of unconfirmed cases have also ...
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UK Plans Water Law to Spur Competition, Investment
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U.K. Minister David Cameron's government published a draft bill to make it easier for water users in England to switch suppliers and save consumers as much as 2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) over the next three decades.
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  • Assad Confined to Palace by his Republican Guard
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  • Why Fairfax Matters
    WHEN Rupert Murdoch came to Melbourne in October 2008, he met with Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie and other senior News Limited executives. After expressing satisfaction at how his Melbourne tabloid was progressing, but wanting to lift circulation further, Murdoch asked, “How is the Ag ...
  • Review: Henry Reynolds’ "History of Tasmania"
    ..This sense of “islandness” – the geographical and historical factors that shape Tasmanian identity – is an important theme in Henry Reynolds’s lucid and engaging new history of Tasmania. But Reynolds also argues that writing a history of Tasmania inescapably means writing about nation and empi ...
  • Saudis forces mass on Jordanian, Iraqi borders.
    The Syrian crisis was Friday, June 29, on a knife edge between a Western-Arab-Turkish military offensive in the next 48 hours and a big power accord to ward it off. .. military sources report heavy Saudi troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders Thursday overnight and up until Frid ...
  • Rinehart to Corbett: fix share price or quit
    THE gloves have come off in the battle for control of Fairfax Media with its major shareholder, Gina Rinehart, and the company exchanging increasingly personal salvos. Mrs Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting sent two letters to the Fairfax chairman, Roger Corbett, yesterday. The first ...

Independent - London

  • Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga jailed for 14 ...
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    More than 100,000 women could be saved from dying prematurely every year by simply improving access to family planning information and contraception, new research reveals.
  • Armed man takes hostages at Paris school complex
    An armed man took hostages at a school complex just south of Paris this morning, according to French police.Related StoriesAfter 17 years, victims who escaped the 'Butcher of Bosnia' confront him in courtAnti-Putin band denied bail after hunger strikeSaintly rock caught in an unholy rowEurozone ...
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    Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been cleared of the major charges in a corruption trial which forced him from power. Related StoriesRussia to end new arms sales to SyriaKim Sengupta: The Arab Spring has given way to an Islamist summer, but not in LibyaRussia cuts off Assad's milita ...
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Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
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    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • UFO sighted by many tourists on Phoenix Mounta ...
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    Only a tiny fraction of the brain is dedicated to conscious behavior. The rest works feverishly behind the scenes regulating everything from breathing to mate selection. In fact, neuroscientist David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine argues that the unconscious workings of the brain are so ...
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    World food prices are likely to rise in the coming months in the wake of record-breaking temperatures and drought in the major maize and soybean producing regions of the United States, economists say. It would be the third spike in food prices in the past five years. Previous hikes - during 2 ...
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    The worst U.S. drought since Ronald Reagan was president is withering the world's largest corn crop, and the speed of the damage may spur the government to make a record cut in its July estimate for domestic inventories. Tumbling yields will combine with the greatest-ever global demand to leave ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Poor choice of metaphor, CBC.ca
    "Vancouver police take aim at women's safety" does not inspire the image you're trying to communicate.
  • Gotta pass this on . . .
    — 15 is THIS many — NUMERICALLY-CHALLENGED AMERICA. Chatham County Online BBS in North Carolina reports the signage above with the comment: Remember when America was dumbing down? No more. We have arrived...
  • Tries your patience . . .
    THOSE KIND FUNDIES in Afghanistan are at it again, with a disturbing report from CNN, "Video: Taliban shoot woman 9 times in public execution as men cheer". Officials in Afghanistan, where the amateur video was filmed, believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders ...
  • Whodunnit?
    POLONIUM 210 is a nasty way to off somebody. The assassination of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 was the first known use of the radioactive isotope. WIRED's Deborah Blum has an article about the history of Polonium, "A Poison for Assassins", which takes a close look at the substan ...
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    Doing his thing. I wonder how fast his reflexes are. h/t harebell

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Use Deceptive Numbers ...
    Fox News and Breitbart.com are cherry-picking numbers to suggest that the election of Republican governors in 2010 led to lower unemployment in 17 states. In fact, the trend toward lower unemployment began in these states before the new governors took office, ...
  • Fox News Gins Up "Controversy" Over Summer Lun ...
    Fox News trumpeted critics' complaints that the USDA's Summer Food Service Program might feed children who aren't in need. However, as even Fox acknowledged, meal sites operate only in low-income areas where at least half of children qualify for free or reduced lunches during the school year. F ...
  • STUDY: Media Avoid Climate Context In Wildfire ...
    While numerous factors determine the frequency, severity and cost of wildfires, scientific research indicates that human-induced climate change increases fire risks in parts of the Western U.S. by promoting warmer and drier conditions. Seven of nine fire experts contacted by Medi ...
  • The Right-Wing Media's "Biggest Tax Increase" ...
    Right-wing media have responded to the Supreme Court's decision that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional by claiming the act's revenue-generating provisions will be the "biggest tax hike in the history of the universe." But those provisions are significantly smaller than many previous rev ...
  • Right-Wing Media Praise GOP Governors' Decisio ...
    Right-wing media have praised the decision made by many Republican governors to not participate in the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid eligibility. But the provision being rejected by GOP governors would expand affordable health care coverage to millions of struggling Americans.GOP ...

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TPM Cafe

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

  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...
  • GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT
    The following story on the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT Enbridge says public data don’t back up spill concerns As the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...
  • At Energy Future Holdings, Failure Pays Well f ...
    If you think that bonuses are supposed to reward success, you’re not alone, but the reality is more bizarre.  While Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas continues its downward spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s handing out millions in bonuses to its executives. The bonuses are called rete ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Is evidence of Mars life below the surface ?
    Simple organic molecules could be present just a few inches below the soil on the surface of Mars. In August NASA's ambitious car-sized rover, Curiosi...
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    A man in Japan has built a partner using virtual reality goggles and motion-tracking hardware. By wearing the goggles it is possible to see his signif...
  • Al Capone's car goes on sale
    A green 1928 Cadillac that belonged to infamous gangster Al Capone is being sold for £325,000. The car features a lavish interior, steel armour and bu...
  • Ex-CIA agent claims Roswell UFO was alien
    65 years after the event CIA veteran Chase Brandon has claimed that the crash was no weather balloon. In 1947 a mysterious object crashed at Roswell i...
  • Dutchman builds full-size ark replica
    A carpenter has spent three years and over one million pounds building a full size replica of Noah's Ark. Johan Huibers undertook the mammoth project ...

Grassroots

  • Consultant for Direct Mail and Public Outreac ...
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  • Later Is Too Late: Examining Gender-Based Viol ...
    Subheadline:  Overview of funding in Haiti to eliminate violence against women Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Alicia Tozour ...
  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
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Climate

  • Crews Eye Winds, Heat at Wildfires Across West
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  • Japan Agency Says High Chance El Nino to Emerg ...
    (Reuters) Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday its climate models indicate there is a strong possibility the El Nino weather pattern, which is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, will emerge this summer. The Japan Meteorolo ...
  • Germany Sees ‘Intensive’ EU Carbon Talks in Se ...
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Duly Noted

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    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Booman Tribune

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  • Casual Observation
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Environmental Graffiti

  • Seal Island: Where Great White Sharks Eat Seal ...
    With fish aplenty and a rock for sunbathing, Seal Island is the perfect spot for fur seals. Until they stray into the 'ring of death,' where the great white shark awaits. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
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    If you ever thought you spied a UFO – maybe it was a lenticular cloud. We've covered mammatus clouds before here on EG; now it's time for lenticular clouds to take a bow! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Amusement Park Being Swallowed by the Sea
    Faced with the wrath of the elements and coastal erosion, Blackgang Chine on England's Isle of Wight is an amusement park that is literally falling into the sea. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    It's almost 50 years since the JFK assassination, and many conspiracies theories surrounding Kennedy’s death continue to have their adherents. These are our 10 favorites. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...
  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
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  • FAA Sets Large ND Drone Training Airspace - Fe ...
    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
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    On Friday July 13th, David Swanson will be speaking at 7 p.m. at Mayday Books 301 Cedar Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55454 Learn more. And Saturday, July 14th is PEACESTOCK 2012 in Hager City, WI, with music, tents for shade, lots of cold water, and speakers including Father Roy Bourgeois, the Rev. Du ...
  • Three Oklahoma City billboards call for ‘No Wa ...
      Oklahoma City - Oklahoma activists from the group Americans Against the Next War (AANW) are working to prevent military action or war against Iran.  They have contracted with a local outdoor advertising company for three billboards, now on display in the metro area, carrying their me ...
  • Give Tony Blair the boot: Protest 11 July
    Stop the War Coalition Bulletin 10 July 2012     Email: office@stopwar.org.uk     Tel: 0207 561 9311     www.stopwar.org.uk     Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition     Twitter: https://twitter.com/STWuk ...
  • TSA mocks deaf man, steals from him
    As I wrote the other day, just when you think the TSA can’t get any more stupid or abusive, they prove you wrong. The agency is reliable: there’s always a new low. READ THE REST HERE.
  • Stolen Haitian Relief Money
      Stolen Haitian Relief Money   by Stephen Lendman   Following Haiti's catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake, billions of dollars in relief aid were raised. Suffering Haitians got virtually none of it.   Hundreds of thousands remain homeless. A cholera emergency still ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Visible Enemies and Invisible Friends
    By Les Visible Readers here are aware that I eat large quantities of garlic, usually around a bulb a day. When I first started eating garlic, I left a swath of aroma in my wake. Time has passed and you can’t smell it on me at all most of the time. The reason for this [...]
  • Iceland forgives mortgage debt of its population
  • Revolution 2012: It’s Time To Rise
  • Will Gun Confiscation begin with Debtors’ Courts?
    by Henry Shivley As more and more jobs continue to leave the United States, there are fewer and fewer people paying taxes and making purchases within our economy as consumers, which means less business for small businesses and less taxes being paid by them, hence further layoffs and a continuanc ...
  • RomneyGate looms: The Governor’s secret ...
    by Sean Cruz Portland, Oregon– When Mitt Romney left the governor’s office, he took the unprecedented step of taking all of his staff hard drives and the mail server with him, despite the fact that the drives and all of the information on them were the property of the People of the State o ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Spiraling Day-Lit Buddhist Temple Rises from a ...
    Read the rest of Spiraling Day-Lit Buddhist Temple Rises from a Pool of Floating Lotuses in China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist Temple, china, Daylighting, eco design, green design, lotus, Milly Design, natural ventilation, religious arc ...
  • Huell Howser’s California House is Perched Ato ...
    Read the rest of Huell Howser’s California House is Perched Atop a 150-foot Volcano — and it’s Now Up for Sale! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: california architecture, desert homes, house on top of a volcano, huell howser, natural architecture, the v ...
  • Green Horizons’ Mobile Central Service Unit Su ...
    Green Horizons‘ Central Service Unit 40 mobile infrastructure trailer is the emergency housing version of the Swiss Army knife. Developed for rapid emergency response after a calamity, the trailer provides much of the support needed to create a temporary, off-the-grid village. Fresh water, ...
  • Jayson Fann Builds Giant Spirit Nests for Huma ...
    Read the rest of Jayson Fann Builds Giant Spirit Nests for Humans from Sustainably Harvested Wood Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", big sur, California, eco design, green design, human nests, locally sourced materials, Nature, nest, pacific ocean, Sp ...
  • IEA Predicts 40 Percent World-Wide Increase of ...
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) just published an optimistic prediction for the future of renewable energy, suggesting that world-wide green energy usage will increase by forty percent or more by 2017. The agency estimates that the use of wind, solar, hydro and biopower will jump exponenti ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, The ...
    A computer scientist has detailed how artificial intelligence systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.
  • Fiery Image Shows Life and Death of Stars in V ...
    Two nebulous blue orbs stand out against a wispy red background in this image of the Vela C region. Vela C is one of four regions in what is called the Vela Molecular Ridge, a vast complex of gas and dust located 2,300 light-years from Earth and weighing approximately 500,000 times the mass of o ...
  • Inside Brooklyn’s DIY Spacesuit Startup
    A Brooklyn-based startup called Final Frontier Design is building spacesuits. Get an exclusive look inside their workshop.
  • Traditional Sexual Values Challenged in Classi ...
    From peacock tails to stag antlers, the idea that animal evolution is shaped by males boasting and fighting to win female favor is a central biological dogma. Under closer scrutiny, however, the dogma doesn't seem to hold. A new replication of a foundational mid-20th century mate choice study by ...
  • Physics Shows Batman’s Cape Is Suicide Machine
    Physicists have revealed that the impact of the Batman's plunge back to Earth after a little lofty cape-gliding would be the equivalent of being hit by a car at 50 mph.

PakAlert

  • Obama Seizes Control of All Communications Sys ...
    President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under executive order (EO) , Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications under a ...
  • 14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies ...
    Most of us don't think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations monitoring tools that the d ...
  • “Super Event” Warned Near As Weather Chaos Pou ...
    A grim report prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) for President Putin on the catastrophic flooding in the ‎Krasnodar region that has killed at least 144 people warns that our world is fast approaching what is termed as a “Chizhevsky Super Event” due to the rapidly growing number of ...
  • Looming Health Crisis: Wireless Technology and ...
    As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes, schools and workplaces, government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary. A major health crisis looms that is only hastened through the extensive ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying. If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next. Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster. If there is not signific ...

Andy Worthington

  • Doctors Urge Government to Scrap Callous Disab ...
    Two weeks ago, doctors at the annual conference of the British Medical Association (BMA), which represents 141,000 doctors and trainee doctors in the UK, delivered a resounding rejection of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which is being used by the government to establish that people who h ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: London At Night – C ...
    London At Night – Canary Wharf, Millwall, Greenwich and Deptford, a set on Flickr. The latest set of photos uploaded to my recently established Flickr account is my fifth set of photos of London, part of an ongoing and recently established project in which I plan to cycle around the whole ...
  • Andy Worthington Speaks at Screening of Omar K ...
    Recently, I was delighted to be invited to speak at a screening of “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo,” the excellent documentary film, directed by Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, about the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr, based on seven ...
  • US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners ...
    Earlier this year, there was much discussion in the US media about the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the US would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo to Qatar, where they would be held under a form of house arrest. Those pla ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: The Isle of Dogs and Rege ...
    The Isle of Dogs and Regent’s Canal, July 2012, a set on Flickr. In the latest set of photos uploaded to my recently established Flickr account, I’ve posted photos that I took on the American Day of Independence, July 4, 2012, when I spoke at a screening of “Extradition,” ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Farah: If Obama Re-Elected, ‘We Will Be Hunted ...
    Certain things should not be mixed together. Bleach and ammonia. White wine and red meat. Alex Jones and Joseph Farah. Proof of the latter mixture’s toxicity came last week, when Jones, the gravelly voiced Internet personality best known for his obsession with “truther” theories about the govern ...
  • The CCC’s Kyle Rogers Makes Himself Known on S ...
    As one of the key players in the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), Kyle Rogers has never backed down from urging politicians to stand up for whites. But in recent months, when not mugging for the camera in an ill-fitting suit, the modern face of the council has another life posting anti-Se ...
  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Daughter Indicted in Telem ...
    In the family of one of the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement’s most notorious ideologues, the apple seems to have fallen tragically close to the tree. Jessica Gutierrez, the daughter of the late sovereign citizen Jerry Kane, was among 18 suspects charged by the Ohio attorney general i ...
  • Dawn of ‘Red America’: Extremists React to SCO ...
    Antigovernment activists and far-right extremists are waxing hysterical over yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mike Vanderboegh, an antigovernment activist who in 2010 reacted to the imminent passage o ...
  • Arizona Bar Admonishes Oath Keepers Founder St ...
    It turns out Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Oath Keepers to encourage police and military personnel to disobey orders they deem unconstitutional, has a hard time following the rules of conduct for lawyers. Hatewatch has learned that the State Bar of Arizona has admonish ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • 3 Years w/out Charge, 90 Days w/out Food: Pale ...
    After more than 90 days on hunger strike and three years in Israeli custody without charge or trial, Palestinian soccer player Mahmoud al-Sarsak was released on Tuesday and returned to his home in the Gaza strip. read more
  • Canadian Scientists 'Mourn Death of Evidence' ...
    A funeral procession of scientists wearing white lab coats and mourners dressed in black will take to the streets of Ottawa today to "mourn the death of Evidence" and protest what they see as an attack on environmental science by the Harper government. ...
  • Spanish Miners' Battle Against Austerity Inten ...
    An Associated Press video released today shows Spanish miners in the northwestern provinces of Asturias and Leon in clashes with police over harsh austerity measures including major cuts to subsidies in the mining industry. read more
  • Spanish Miners' Battle Against Austerity Inten ...
    An Associated Press video released today shows Spanish miners in the northwestern provinces of Asturias and Leon in clashes with police over harsh austerity measures including major cuts to subsidies in the mining industry. read more
  • 'Romney has a Koch Problem': Protesters Stake ...
    Hundreds of protesters descended upon a fundraising trifecta for Gov. Romney in the Hamptons on Sunday that brought $3 million for the Romney campaign. read more

Lifehacker

  • The Three Questions Rule Keeps Negative Opinio ...
    It's easy to go with your gut reaction and quickly form a negative opinion about something. Sometimes that can even lead to a healthy argument. However, if you're looking to think more critically about those opinions, blogger Dustin Curtis sha ...
  • Scan Your Receipts for Safe Keeping, but Hold ...
    We can all use a little less paper cluttering up our file cabinets and desk drawers, and we've frequently suggested using document management systems like Evernote or OfficeDrop to scan your reciepts and keep them safe, backed up, and online ...
  • Minimalist Timer Is the Least-Distracting, Sim ...
    iOS: Using a timer while you work can help you remember to stay on task, remember to take breaks, and is essential to the Pomodoro productivity technique. If you use a timer during the day and have an iPhone or iPad nearby that's doing nothin ...
  • How to Break Into Hobbies with an Intimidating ...
    Always wished you knew more about wine, coffee, or fashion but not sure where to start without buying overpriced junk? You're not alone. Hobbies like coffee, wine, and tea are often associated with steep learning curves, difficult to understa ...
  • Passion Can Make Your Work More Enjoyable, But ...
    Passion matters. It keeps us motivated. It also isn't everything, like we sometimes want to believe. Despite Confucius' assertion that if you "find something you love to do, you'll never work a day in your life," it's never quite that simpl ...

Water Privatization

  • Enraged by Privatization Plan, Greek Left Resists
    Calls by Greece's ruling coalition government to speed up the sale of state-owned assets -- including state railway systems, water infrastructure, and power utilities -- compelled Syriza, the left coalition party, to say the move was tantamount to putting a 'for sale sign' on the cou ...
  • Greece's program of privatization aims to ...
    ATHENS, Greece - Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.
  • Greek finance minister: Privatizations are &#3 ...
    ATHENS, Greece - Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.
  • Minister: Privatizations are Greece's top ...
    Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister ...
  • Minister: Privatizations are Greece's top ...
    Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.

Guardian

  • Egypt: Morsi's showdown with the military put ...
    • Egypt's parliament adjourns after brief meeting • Appeal court to decide future of parliament • Is Russia distancing itself from Assad?11.51am: Syria: Jordan is to start setting up emergency camps for Syrian refugees, the government news agency Petra reports.During a session [on Monday] presid ...
  • Body of Clacton gunman Peter Reeve found in ch ...
    Essex police say they discovered 64-year-old suspect dead along with handgun in grounds of church near ChelmsfordThe body of the man wanted for shooting dead an off-duty police officer and wounding another man has been found in a churchyard in Essex, detectives have confirmed.Police said they di ...
  • Barclays chairman Marcus Agius faces MPs over ...
    The treasury select committee will question Agius on the rate-rigging scandal and former CEO Bob Diamond's payoff11.37am: Agius says he doesn't know at what management level Libor decisions were being taken. He says they took place a a level below the board. MP Stewart Hosie makes a good point. ...
  • Olympic test-run on London transport leaves co ...
    Exercise to test the capital's Olympic rail capacity coincides with the temporary closure of King's Cross stationThousands of London commuters endured a gruelling journey into work on Tuesday morning after an exercise to test the capital's Olympic rail capacity coincided with the temporary closu ...
  • Barclays warned by FSA admits Agius as Diamond ...
    Chairman admits to strained relationship with FSA about public perception of bank as Bob Diamond 'voluntarily' waives bonusMarcus Agius was warned by the Financial Services Authority about the public perception of Barclays' use of complex tax and accounting rules in what the out-going chairman o ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Execution video Revulsion as ‘Taliban’ shoot w ...
    Kabul directly blamed the Islamist group."We will take revenge for this. Their brutality and such inhumane acts are why we hate the Taliban," said the 42-year-old shopkeeper in Charikar, ...
  • Afghan president hails aid
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai on Monday hailed international donors for pledging $16 billion in aid to the war-torn nation, but called for more help to clamp down on ...
  • Bombs clashes in Afghanistan kill 35 including ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - At least 35 people, including seven American NATO soldiers, were killed in a string of roadside bombs and clashes on Sunday, one of the most violent days in the country for months. ...
  • Hillary Clinton puts conditions on U.S. portio ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, during a group photo of participants at an international conference on Afghan civilian ...
  • In video of execution reign of Taliban recalled
    KABUL, Afghanistan >> The scene that Afghan officials say was caught on video last month near Kabul was as horrific as it was once common in Afghanistan: a Taliban fighter executing a woman ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Announces Seminar on New Whistleblower Laws
    On Monday, July 16, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center will host a 2-hour training seminar that covers new whistleblower laws and the special Department of Labor litigation process. These new laws cover millions of employees who blow the whistle on a wide variety of issues, so this trainin ...
  • Truck Safety victory in Congress
    My friends at the Truck Safety Coalition are reporting a victory for truck safety advocates in yesterday's deal between the House and Senate for transportation reauthorization.  The Senate bill, called MAP-21, included a number of truck safety initiatives, and those have survived in the fin ...
  • NYC Premiere of Whistleblower Documentary "Top ...
    The whistleblower documentary Top Priority: The Terror Within makes it east coast premiere at the IFC Film Center in New York City tomorrow, June 29th. It will be playing in NYC through July 5th and then will be showing at Laemmle NoHo Theatre in North Hollywood, California from July 13th throu ...
  • NWC amicus seeks SOX protection for internatio ...
    Yesterday, I had one of those moments that makes a lawyer's adrenalin run.  At 4:00 p.m., the clerk's office called to inform me that my request for an extension of time was denied. My brief would be due by midnight. Luckily, I was somewhat prepared with a draft of my brief on whether Congr ...
  • NWC Announces Seminar on New Whistleblower Laws
    On Monday, July 16, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center will host a 2-hour training seminar that covers new whistleblower laws and the special Department of Labor litigation process. These new laws cover millions of employees who blow the whistle on a wide variety of issues, so this trainin ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Matthew Inman Takes Photos Of $211,223 In Cash ...
    Charles Carreon dropped his highly questionable case against Matthew Inman, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Fund last week. It was pretty clear he was going to lose (and in a big, bad way). However, he claimed "victory" because, to avoid further complications, ...
  • DC Seeks To 'Legalize' Uber... By Forcing It T ...
    If you want to understand local corruption at a really, really deep level, do something simple: fly into a new city, hop into a cab at the airport and ask them about taxi licensing. I've done this a few times, and you'd be amazed at what a ridiculous situation this is. For reasons that still d ...
  • Megaupload Extradition Hearing Postponed Until ...
    Given all of the mistakes made by both US and New Zealand officials in the raid on Kim Dotcom and Megaupload, there are a series of appeals going on in the case in New Zealand concerning some of the evidence as well as what information Dotcom is allowed to see. While the extradition hearing was ...
  • Google Asks For $4 Million In Legal Fees From ...
    Having lost its patent/copyright case against Google in somewhat spectacular fashion, Oracle is now facing the possibility of having to also pay Google over $4 million in legal fees. Google has submitted its calculation of legal fees that it's seeking from Oracle, and it totals up to $4,030,669 ...
  • DailyDirt: Advertising Mistakes; Hilarity Ensues
    Advertising is a tricky business. Not only do you not know where half your marketing budget goes, but it's possible to waste 100% of your advertising with an innocent mistake. It's tough to try to make funny and catchy ads, and not everyone has the same sense of humor. Here are just a few exampl ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The lethal presidency of Barack Obama
    Tom Junod writes: You are a historic figure, Mr. President. You are not only the first African-American president; you are the first who has made use of your power to target and kill individuals identified as a threat to the United States throughout your entire term. You are the first president ...
  • John Clare, the poet of the environmental cris ...
    George Monbiot writes: The land around Helpston, just to the north of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, now ranks among the most dismal and regularised tracts of countryside in Europe. But when the poet John Clare was born this coming Friday in 1793, it swarmed with life. Clare describes species ...
  • Music: Arve Henriksen — ‘Sorrow and its Opposite’
  • Annan: Iran should be part of Syria solution
    The Associated Press reports: International envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday that Iran must be “part of the solution” to the bloody crisis in its close ally Syria, and that the Tehran has offered its support to end the conflict. Annan was in Iran in a bid to salvage his faltering peace plan for the ...
  • Why Russia supports Assad
    Ruslan Pukhov writes: Many Russians believe that the collapse of the Assad government would be tantamount to the loss of Russia’s last client and ally in the Middle East and the final elimination of traces of former Soviet prowess there — illusory as those traces may be. They believe that Wester ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Unexplored Possible Climate Balancing Mechanism
    Effect of CO2 levels on phytoplankton. Story submitted by Don Healy This article opens up a whole new vista into the relationship between CO2 levels, oceanic plant growth and the complex relationships that we have yet to learn about in … Continue reading →
  • John Nielsen-Gammon: Skeptics Are Not Deniers
    From his Climate Abyss blog at the Houston Chronicle, Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon takes an extended interest in Dr. Robert Brown’s comment-turned-essay on WUWT. Skeptics Are Not Deniers: A Conversation (part 1) Robert Brown, a Lecturer of Physics … Continue read ...
  • This is what global cooling really looks like ...
    Since Princeton’s Dr. Michael Oppenheimer conflated weather with climate last week, proclaiming a short lived heat wave as “This is what global warming really looks like” in a media interview, it seems only fair to show what real science rather than … Continue reading →
  • Here we go again: row, row, row, your boat &#8 ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I must admit, being an oceanic adventurer myself, I do love to read about outrageous voyages. The feats of Shackleton in the Endurance stir my blood. I’ve stood on the deck of the Gjoa, the … Continue reading →
  • No baloney: Global Warming creates a largesse ...
    Who says “global warming” doesn’t have some positive value? Well I guess if you are a tofu chomping green that recoils at the thought of eating lobster, you wouldn’t see this in a positive light, but many people do. Miguel … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Prostate cancer patients given hope by new &#8 ...
    A new drug that tackles advanced prostate cancer in three different ways has passed its first hurdle towards being approved. Scientists reported promising early trial results using galeterone, which is designed to treat cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy. However, researchers coun ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • Cytoskeleton Microtubules
  • Think that’s not fair? Your serotonin transpor ...
    “That’s not FAIR!” This is the line that rings through most houses with at least one kid. We all know when something’s not fair. That car that drove up the shoulder while you waited in traffic (rrrrr)? That’s a cheater, and that’s not fair. The person who cut in line at the grocery store instead ...
  • Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...
    Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Putin Urges to Amend NGO Law
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for amendments to a controversial bill that would force non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded from abroad and engaged in political activity to declare themselves “foreign agents."
  • Polish Court Frees 2 Russian Fans
    A Polish court has freed two Russian football fans jailed for their part in Euro 2012 riots, but left a third in prison.
  • Ural Rally Сamouflaged as Beauty Salon Line
    Protesters at a picket in the Urals had to pretend that they were out for beauty treatment, not their rights, to dodge a new draconian law on unsanctioned rallies, local media reported on Tuesday.
  • A fantastic airshow display in the skies of Fa ...
    The 48th International Airshow opened on July 9 in Farnborough (UK), one of the world’s major air displays. Around 1500 different types of aircraft and equipment from over 30 countries are featured at the airshow this year.
  • Women Talk: Parenting Kicks and Disasters
    “Shut up and get the f..ck out!,” a Russian woman shouted, startling the entire beach in Antibes, France. The words actually sounded much harsher in Russian, verging on obscene, even though all the commotion was about getting her three or four-year-old son out of the sea.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia Launches Proton-M Rocket with Dutch Tel ...
    A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-5 telecoms satellite lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
  • China Beats Russia on Space Launches
    For the first time in the history of space exploration, China beat Russia on the number of space launches in a given period of time, a rocket engine manufacturer said on Wednesday.
  • Higgs Boson Candidate Found – CERN
    The final elementary particle needed to complete the Standard Model of particle physics might have been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers said on Wednesday.
  • Space Station Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
    A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said.
  • Japan Reactor to Go Back Online
    A reactor at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan is set to go back on line later on Sunday, NHK Television reported.

Pruning Shears

  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...
  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: myths and talking points
    Part 1.Part 2.Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy’s article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I’m focusing on today. He writes: ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: how the movement could h ...
    Part 1.Since the recall was run as a conventional political campaign, instead of one grounded in the turmoil of last year, it’s fair to ask how the latter might have looked. Doug Henwood offered these thoughts:Suppose instead that the unions had supported a popular campaign - media, door ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Hope Is For The Lazy: The Challenge Of Our Dea ...
    Click here to read this article
  • The "Empire Strikes Back" Against California's ...
    Charges are flying. Here are some facts. As we have reported many times, GMO foods are not safe. Remember those rats fed GMO corn whose offspring were fine but whose grandchildren were sterile? Is this uncontrolled experiment on human beings a good idea?Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Fails at Improving Agriculture: UCS S ...
    Monsanto's advertisements tell an impressive tale of the agribusiness giant's achievements: Feeding a growing population. Protecting natural resources. Promoting biodiversity. It sounds wonderful, but unfortunately, there's a catch Click here to read this article
  • Anti-fracking Blockade in Pennsylvania's Mosha ...
    Activists from Marcellus Earth First! have erected a slash pile blockade and two tree sits blocking an access road to an EQT hydro-fracking site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, PA., halting drilling operations set to begin this week. The blockaders were joined by 40 supporters an ...
  • Climate Change: 'This Is Just the Beginning'
    If our news media continue to ignore the essential link between extreme weather and climate change, then we may not act in time to avert even greater catastrophe. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
    Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...
  • Meatless Monday and Meat Without Drugs
    In a concise, accurate, and artful video directed by Robert Kenner (director of Food, Inc.) in consultation with CLF, the Meat without Drugs campaign highlights how industrial farming practices facilitate the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the threats that these bacteria pose ...
  • Book aims to fast-track transition to sustaina ...
    What progress has the U.S. made in the area of sustainable development? What are the barriers to further progress? How do we overcome them?
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Support ...
    What’s better than a government program that improves the health of SNAP participants, while simultaneously driving local economic activity and addressing health care costs?
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Funding ...
    There is one program that, if implemented, will not only benefit both farmers and eaters, but may have the added benefit of job growth and economic activity.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Nessie is being used to debunk evolution -- on ...
    Government-subsidized private schools will start teaching that the Loch Ness Monster is a factual living creature and use it to debunk evolution in science classes. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Never Ending Vandalism
    Collected articles including hydrofracking and Gulf of Mexico blowout information re: health risks from chemicals Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Afghans (and Pakistanis in tribal areas across the border) surely know the rules of the road of the American war: there is no sanctity in public or private rites. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PNAC: The Dawn of a New Fascism
    an animated look at War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the PNAC as stated in the September 2000 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Water customers threatened with debt collector ...
    Tens of thousands of families have been wrongly billed $177 in desalination plant charges. David Galbally, QC, said the charge was illegal . City West Water managing director Anne Barker said in extreme cases water supplies may be restricted to customers Submitted by John Farnham to Business & ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
    A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...
  • Behind the GM Wheat Trial
    Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US crew singing as they open Hellfire on Afgha ...
    ShareThisUS crew singing as they open Hellfire on Afghans: Video 09 Jul 2012 In the latest scandal [war crime] to engulf the American troops in Afghanistan, a video has been released online of a US helicopter crew singing "Bye-bye Miss American Pie" upon pounding a group of Afghan men with a Hel ...
  • Men charged with terrorism after weapons found ...
    ShareThisMen charged with terrorism after weapons found in car 10 Jul 2012 Three men will appear in court today charged with terrorism offences after firearms were found in a car stopped by police on the M1. West Midlands Police said Jewel Uddin 26, Omar Mohammed Khan, 27, and Mohammed Hasseen, ...
  • Canadian nuclear power engineers walk off jobs
    ShareThisCanadian nuclear power engineers walk off jobs --About 850 engineers now on strike 10 Jul 2012 Nuclear engineers at the Candu Energy subsidiary of Canada's SNC-Lavalin Group Inc went on strike on Monday in a contract dispute and no talks to end the walkout are scheduled, their union sai ...
  • Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret
    ShareThisWorst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret --State rushes closure of its only TB hospital in Lantana 08 Jul 2012 The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 year ...
  • New law allows U.S. companies to cut billions ...
    ShareThisNew law allows U.S. companies to cut billions in contributions to workers' pensions --Business community gets more leverage on contributing to workers' funds 09 Jul 2012 A new law will let companies contribute billions of dollars less to their workers' pension funds, raising concerns ab ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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    07 July 2012
  • Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable ...
    03 July 2012 Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable Army Times, By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Thursday Jun 28, 2012 16:04:10 EDT A new study finds that nearly a quarter of the 4,596 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2011 were “potentially survivable,” meaning th ...
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...
  • Another Smoking Gun: The Pentagon Caught Again ...
    12 June 2012 The Pentagon has repeatedly deceived Senators, Representatives and the Public on the MEDEVAC issue.  This fact pattern has been systematically revealed and irrevocably proven. For instance, top Generals have said that if ground commanders requested changes to MEDEVAC procedure ...

The Killing Train

  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

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Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Romania court approves vote to suspend president
    [JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Romania [official website, in Romanian] on Monday approved the Parliamentary vote to suspend President Traian Basescu [official website, in Romania] and replace him with a member of the centre-left coalition. Last Friday the Romanian Parliament [official webs ...
  • ICC sets April trial date for Kenya post-elect ...
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Monday set the trial dates for two Kenyan post-election violence cases for next April. The trial of former Kenyan minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang [case materials] will begin [decision, PDF] on April 10, 2 ...
  • Wireless carriers report rise in data requests ...
    [JURIST] US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) [official website; press release] on Monday released data from wireless carriers showing large increases in law enforcement agencies' requests for customer cell phone records. Last month Markey sent letters to nine cell phone companies [materials] ...
  • UN commission: laws restricting global AIDS as ...
    [JURIST] Laws in all countries of the world are limiting assistance and options available to individuals infected with HIV/AIDS, a UN commission reported [text, PDF; UN News Centre report] on Monday. The Global Commission on HIV and the Law [official website] found that a variety of laws and pra ...
  • South Sudan celebrates first independence day
    [JURIST] South Sudan [BBC News backgrounder; JURIST news archive] celebrated its first anniversary on Monday, marking one year since it seceded [JURIST report] from northern Sudan [BBC News backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to become the world's newest nation. President Salva Kiir [BBC News pro ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Jerry Seinfeld Major StandWithUs Donor
    From the Department of Weird comes word tonight that StandWithUs’ “Diaspora Education Director,” Michelle Rojas-Tal, began her career in 2005 at the pro-Israel advocacy group as the “Jerry Seinfeld Family Scholar.”  Given how endowed programs like this work, this me ...
  • Melman’s Romance with Mossad Continues with Ne ...
    Yossi Melman, who as recently as a few months ago unceremoniously and rather abruptly departed Haaretz, has come roaring back with a new book, Spies Against Armageddon.  During the time when Melman and I were on speaking terms (we’re not any longer), he derided those who published cloak an ...
  • Israel’s Lethal History with Polonium
    With news breaking in Al Jazeera this week about the possible poisoning of Yasser Arafat by polonium, I thought it worthwhile to examine an interesting line in Clayton Swisher’s report, which refers to an accident in an Israeli lab involving the material.  Through further research, I disco ...
  • Jerusalem Light Rail Promises Palestinian Righ ...
    Hey, who said Israel had the only intelligence services capable of launching psyops against its enemies?  Apparently, Palestine does as well.  I’ve learned from an Israeli source that the PA recruited a Palestinian working for the Jerusalem light rail system to program a bit of psychologic ...
  • Blau Plea Deal Criminalizes Pursuit of Journal ...
    Sorry, I know my title contains strong language, but what Israel’s attorney general, Yehudah Weinstein, has done is to rape freedom of the press in Israel.  The first violation of the body of journalism occurred when he pursued espionage charges (charge sheet in Hebrew) against Uri Blau fo ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • At Datafest: Journalists, Scientists, and Engi ...
    Datafest, a two-day contest to analyze campaign finance data that I organized last month at Stanford, was one of the best experiences of my wonderful year as a Knight Fellow. The event was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to learn. It produced very interesting insights and illuminated possib ...
  • Behind the FrontlineSMS Redesign
    Three weeks ago, FrontlineSMS launched its first new full release in more than a year. Now, we're releasing Version 2.0.2, which includes useful bug fixes and small tweaks to the functionality that make it even easier to use. You can expect regular releases from us from now on, with new feat ...
  • When News Organizations Geocode, How Accurate ...
    In my intro news writing class at UNC-Chapel Hill we ding students 50 points for allowing a fact error to creep into a story. If the fire happened at 123 W. Main St. and it really happened at 123 E. Main St., it's an instant F. But I've learned from working on OpenBlock that online maps seem to ...
  • How the Tulsa World Used AP's Overview to Repo ...
    In May, I published a story which described how the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma purchased millions of dollars of under-powered and under-tested computer hardware, resulting in a multitude of problems. Emails showed complaints from the field in which officers were unable to get basic p ...
  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to Offer Source for Jo ...
    Way back in November, as the ideas that led to Knight-Mozilla's OpenNews relaunch were starting to be articulated, I wrote about the need for something to "shine a spotlight" on the code being written in journalism: I think that there's real work to be done in advocating for, shining a spotl ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Drug Wars - Colombia Enlists New Justice M ...
    On July 6, Colombia's President Juan M. Santos appointed popular attorney and law professor Ruth Stella Correa as the nation's Justice Minister, according to a source at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Correa, a member of the Board of Directors at the Colombian Institute of Procedural L ...
  • Faster and More Furious - AG Eric Holder Annou ...
    Following public outcry over a perceived cover-up and a charge of contempt of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on July 9 that five Mexican nationals suspected of murdering U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry were indicted in Tucson, Arizona. The indictment charging the five susp ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Considering a Sunni Reg ...
    Last week's publicized defection of the Tlass family marked a potential turning point for Syria's al Assad regime.The Tlass family formed the main pillar of Sunni support for the minority Alawite regime. The patriarch of the family, former Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, had a strategic, brother ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Is the Israeli-Palestin ...
    Western governments, experts, and journalists have long assumed that an Israel-Palestinian or comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement ending the conflict was near at hand and easily achieved. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite. Indeed, there has not been any real “peace process� or ...
  • Healthcare on Edge - Health Care's Community-B ...
    Back during the debate on the Clinton health care reform proposal, insurance executives tried to convince lawmakers that they were on the same side of health care reform as consumers were, so they embraced the idea of “community rating� in which insurers charge everyone in a given community ...

High Country News

  • "Tiananmen Sid" shakes up a small town
    When Paonia hairdresser Sid Lewis protested billionaire Bill Koch's land swap deal in Paonia's July 4 parade; the resulting shakeup shone a light on small town and national tensions.
  • On the prowl with Oregon's pygmy owls
    Biologist John Deschler knows more about pygmy owls than just about anyone. Writer Nick Neely spent a fascinating day with Deschler tracking, capturing and measuring the owls in Portland's Forest Park.
  • Afield with a vegan gas man
    HCN talks with Eric Sanford of SG Interests about the politics of energy development, split estate, and more.
  • High Noon for solar
    Why does solar power development lag in the United States when it has taken off all over Europe?
  • A different voice on the phone
    The author's weary 21-year-old son, who has always wanted to be a firefighter, shares his frustrations from the fire lines.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Democrats Try New Campaign Tactic--STALKING
    How DARE they run against Democrats!  Across the country Democrats are stalking Republican candidates and posting the raw footage on line.  We are not talking about showing up and video taping town halls, no these operatives are taking pictures of candidate's homes and following them a ...
  • The Palestinian Authority Presents: Weekend At ...
    The President of the Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas has given the green light to the exhumation of the rotting corpse of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat. Last week a Swiss lab ran radioisotope tests on his the deceased mass murderer. The Lab found "very small" quantities of polonium, a ...
  • Summer Rerun? Obama to Double-Down on Class W ...
    For the broadcast television networks its summer rerun season, apparently it's rerun season for the President as well.  In a Rose Garden speech later today the president is expected to call for an extension of the "Bush tax cuts" for families making under $250,000/year and allowing them t ...
  • "Friend Of Israel" Obama Invites Muslim Brothe ...
    Once again Barack Obama is proving what he meant by "having Israel's back." The US president is thrusting another knife into the back of the Jewish State. US President Barack Obama has invited Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, to visit the United States in September, an ...
  • Who Really Killed Yasir Arafat
    By Barry Rubin Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his bookshelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. It’s not my fault. I told him to start jogging and cut ...

The Real Agenda

  • Euforia do pré-sal ‘sucumbe à realidade& ...
    BBC | JULHO 9, 2012 Investidores brasileiros têm descoberto que os recursos naturais do pré-sal não significam exatamente dinheiro na mão” e que a “euforia (do petróleo) sucumbiu à realidade”, diz uma reportagem publicada nesta segunda-feira pelo jornal norte-americano Wal ...
  • Overweight? There is an Vaccine for that
    By DAVE MIHALOVIC | PREVENT DISEASE | JULY 9, 2012 A new crop of bogus vaccines are claiming to promote weight loss. A new study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, promoted the claimed benefits of two vaccines which chemical ...
  • Big Pharma’s Criminality is out in the Open
    By MIKE ADAMS | NATURAL NEWS | JULY 9, 2012 Those of us who have long been describing the  pharmaceutical industry as a “criminal racket” over the last few years  have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own sci ...
  • Barack Obama Issues Executive Order to Control ...
    There is little that needs to be added as press when the words are so clear. The Executive Order below calls for the seizing of the communications infrastructure in cases of “crisis”. THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 9, 2012 Executive Order — Assignment of National Security and Emer ...
  • Obamacare is Mandated Social Engineering
    INFOWARS.com | JULY 6, 2012 Retired neurosurgeon, author, lecturer and educator Dr. Russell L. Blaylock gives his expert doctor’s perspective analysis of the unconstitutional Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Filed under: English, North America Tagged: healthcare, obamacare, Patie ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine opposition mounts; Brown County f ...
    MORRISON — Sue and Darryl Ashley moved their family out of their Glenmore home last summer and are now working to pay mortgages on two houses so their 16-year-old daughter can find relief from constant headaches, ear pain and sleep deprivation. The Ashleys say their daughter Alyssa’s health prob ...
  • Legislator pushes for increased regulations on ...
    A state lawmaker is challenging a group to increase its regulations for wind turbines. State Sen. Frank Lasee, R-Ledgeview, says low-frequency noise from wind turbines causes a variety of health problems, and says the Public Service Commission needs to enact new rules to protect the health of th ...
  • Legislator pushes for increased regulations on ...
    A state lawmaker is challenging a group to increase its regulations for wind turbines. State Sen. Frank Lasee, R-Ledgeview, says low-frequency noise from wind turbines causes a variety of health problems, and says the Public Service Commission needs to enact new rules to protect the health of th ...
  • Wind farm called threat to condors
    California illegally approved a giant wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains that will kill California condors and golden eagles, environmentalists claim in Kern County Court. Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, and Center for Biological Diversity claim the Department of Fish and Game violated its ...
  • Wind farm too noisy – court
    Residents complaining the nearby Te Rere Hau Wind Farm is too noisy have been vindicated, with the Environment Court ruling the farm owner breached its resource consent. Noise predictions supplied by NZ Windfarms were wrong. In a potentially precedent-setting decision released yesterday, the cou ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Veto Promised on Tax Cut Extension for Rich
    “President Obama is threatening to veto any legislation that extends all the tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, as he presses Congress to extend those cuts only for families whose yearly income is less than $250,000–and raises taxes on everyone earning more.” (Fox N ...
  • Doubts Arise Over Whether IRS Can Enforce Insu ...
    “Can the Internal Revenue Service police President Obama’s health care mandate while simultaneously collecting all the taxes for running the federal government? . . . Nearly 2½ years before taxpayers will have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insura ...
  • Individualism Versus Selfishness-ism
    Individualism is a way of seeing and understanding how we live together. It is about how best to promote social cooperation.
  • President to Ask for One-Year Middle-Class Tax ...
    “President Barack Obama is expected to call on Congress to pass a one-year extension on the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year. A White House official said Obama will make the announcement Monday at the Rose Garden, surrounded by working people.” (CNN) Tax ...
  • Economists Foresee More Monetary Stimulus
    “Another month of weaker-than-expected U.S. hiring has increased the chances of the Federal Reserve launching a new round of monetary stimulus to boost growth, a Reuters poll of Wall Street economists showed.” (Reuters) In other words, inflation. FEE Timely Classic “Quantitativ ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...
  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Cities Where A Paycheck Stretches The Furthest
    When we think of places with high salaries, big metro areas like New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco are usually the first to spring to mind. Or cities with the biggest concentrations of educated workers, such as Boston. But wages are just one part of the equation — high prices in those Ea ...
  • Modern Families: Fact from Fiction
    I sometimes struggle with our willingness to look straight through evidence to see only what we want to see, or what we believe we should be seeing. Some recent interpretations of the Australian census and conclusions about housing form and consumer choice regrettably fall into this category ...
  • Coney Island's Invisible Towers
    When crowds throng Coney Island for the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest on July 4th, they'll find a boardwalk amusement strip that is, for the umpteenth year in a row, undergoing a summer of change and transition. There is the new: go-carts and a new roller coaster for the "Sc ...
  • Misreferencing Misoverestimated Population
    I know the media confusion story of the past week is all about the momentary misreporting that got the story of the Supreme Court ruling backwards. Yet there was some real misoverestimating across the nation over the latest census numbers that were released recently on municipal population estim ...
  • Localism As An Anti-Depressant
    Are we heading into a new era of local solutions? Western economists and governments usually measure the health of the job market by unemployment percentages, with unemployment defined as less-than-full-time employment. But the reality for many Americans today is more akin to the rest of the w ...

GM Watch

  • The NFU fall out with Morrisons and ASDA
    A few months back the UK supermarket chain Morrisons broke ranks with most other UK supermarkets by saying it would allow poultry farmers supplying both meat and eggs to use GM feed, in a move that lined Morrisons up with another UK chain, the Walmart-owned ASDA.  Many of Morrisons' customers w ...
  • The NFU fallout with Morrisons and ASDA
    A few months back the UK supermarket chain Morrisons broke ranks with most other UK supermarkets by saying it would allow poultry farmers supplying both meat and eggs to use GM feed, in a move that lined them up with another UK chain, the Walmart owned ASDA.  Many of Morrisons' customers were o ...
  • Crazy GM patent system
    Crazy GM patent system Latha Jishnu Down To earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/crazy-gm-patent-system *The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto's royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops Patent laws governing the use of geneticall ...
  • Crazy GM patent system
    Crazy GM patent system Latha Jishnu Down To earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/crazy-gm-patent-system *The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto's royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops Patent laws governing the use of geneticall ...
  • Crazy GM patent system
    Crazy GM patent system Latha Jishnu Down To earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/crazy-gm-patent-system *The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto's royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops Patent laws governing the use of geneticall ...

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Cryptogon

  • Greece: Official Projection of Result: New Dem ...
    Via: BBC Liveblog: That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.
  • Living Large in a Tiny House
    Via: Yahoo Finance: Imagine living in a space that measures a mere 168 square feet, more than 14 times smaller than the average American home. That’s the reality for one family of four who, for the past year, has been living in their “Tiny House” tucked away in the rural mountains of Virginia. I ...
  • Ottawa Airport Wired with Microphones to Recor ...
    Via: Ottawa Citizen: Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is nearing completion of a $500,000 upgrade of old video cameras used to monitor its new “customs controlled areas,” includ ...
  • China Launches Its First Female Astronaut Into ...
    Via: PC Magazine: China on Saturday launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman to travel to space. The Long March-2F rocket lifted off successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m local time an ...
  • Financial Firms Ready ‘Special Teams’
    Via: New York Times: The banks are on high alert. Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...
  • 25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding U ...
    The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.  The truth is that there are signs of deep decay wherever we look, and without question the United States is rotting from the inside out in thousands of different ways.  For a lon ...
  • There Will Never Be Enough Jobs In America Again
    Well, we just had another bad jobs report.  The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June.  Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth.  So it is a bit odd that the official unemployment rate did ...
  • The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
    We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.  It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years.  Barclays has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating L ...
  • Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About ...
    America absolutely loves Wal-Mart.  100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country.  But is Wal-Mart good for America?  That is a question that most people never stop and ask.  Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap ...

Desertification

  • Bells are ringing in a bottle (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Please check my latest video : http://youtu.be/hyjrW8bZ1TU 2012-07 BELLS ARE RINGING IN A BOTTLE Growing bell peppers in a recycled plastic bottle is very easy.  It is a simple form of container gardening and can be done indoors and outdoors.
  • My videos on bottle gardening against hunger a ...
    VIDEOS : Building a bottle tower for container gardening http://youtu.be/-uDbjZ9roEQ Plastic bottles stacked into a bottle tower can be recycled to set up a vertical kitchen garden at home. The bottle towers are used for container gardening of vegetables and … Continue reading →
  • Container gardening in drought affected region ...
    Seen at : Container Gardening Alliance http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3307198241817&set=o.342950872403966&type=1&theater Terry SCHREINER “Teaching in the Zona Maya of the Yucatan in Mexico. I started container gardening with recycled Coke bottles, then a 5 gallon bucket ...
  • Economic assessment of desertification (UNCCD ...
    Read at : CALL FOR ABSTRACTS on the “Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas” The call for contributions for the UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference is now open. Abstracts can be … Continue reading →
  • The ZIMCONSERVE poject in Zimbabwe (Gabriel MU ...
    We as Zimconserve, received seeds and agroforestry training material from the African Community Project and Trees of the Future. This report serves, however, as an attempt to inform you about our current project stage in setting up the centralised nursery. … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Surveillance requests to cellphone carriers surge
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report finds that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for customers' cellphone records last year.It's an alarming surge over previous years, reflecting the increasingly gray area between privacy and technology.Sprint says it received a ...
  • Casino mogul gives $1M to new 'super' PAC
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is giving $1 million to a "super" political committee aimed at helping conservatives get elected in Florida.Federal filings show the new Freedom PAC supports "strong conservative candidates" in the state, like Senate contender Connie Mack. ...
  • New optimism about stemming spread of AIDS virus
    WASHINGTON (AP) — An AIDS-free generation: It seems an audacious goal, considering how the HIV epidemic still is raging around the world.Yet more than 20,000 international HIV researchers and activists will gather in the nation's capital later this month with a sense of optimism not seen in many ...
  • Gov. Perry tells feds Texas won't expand Medicaid
    DALLAS (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that Texas won't establish an online marketplace for patients to shop for insurance or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul.In a letter sent to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Perry said both e ...
  • New law gives US companies a break on pensions
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A new law will let companies contribute billions less to their pension funds. And some people are concerned that that could weaken the plans millions of Americans rely on for retirement.Yet with numerous companies already dropping or curtailing their pension plans, many of the ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Job stats baffle easily baffled media
    By David@Sixthestate.net As usual, the moment StatsCan’s monthly jobs survey numbers go even slightly squirrelly, the media proves utterly unable to handle it. Last week, Canadians were variously told that the employment rate was unchanged, that the job market was in bad shape, and that the job ...
  • Just what the Internet needs: more cats
    A BoB short: Forget LOL cats and Stuffonmycat.com. A new service from Vancouver-based technology company Mobify allows you to inject cat-related animated images into any website you please. Is the Government of Canada website too stodgy for your tastes — or do you simply think it could use ...
  • Canadian tech: thriving, not vanishing
    By Mark Evans According to a feature story in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Canada’s tech sector is vanishing. Not only that but “the air is quickly coming out of Canada’s high tech sector – or what’s left of it.” First reaction: this is a troubling situation. Second reaction after reading the leng ...
  • Spider-Man when he was Approved by the Comic C ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young I read Spider-Man in the original Sanskrit. No, I’m not old enough, or lucky enough to have picked up Amazing Fantasy number 15, which featured the first ever appearance of everyone’s favourite wacky wall-crawler, whose latest movie incarnation debuted in North America this ...
  • Bev Oda’s last long ride
    By Montreal Simon Bev Oda has taken her last long limo ride. The kind of ride the Con mob gives you when you become a liability. First comes the horse’s head, then the scenic limo ride, in the middle of the night. And then da cement shoes. From The Globe and Mail: “Bev Oda, the CIDA ...

libcom

  • Major rent strike against millionaire slumlord ...
    slumlord.jpeg As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants. ...
  • Final sentences for police forces involved in ...
    6fd8543299fe911fe4459a0e34ab676f_L.jpg Impunity for police and security forces involved in the raid at the Diaz school during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa After a 9-hour debate, ...
  • Holland & Barrett quit workfare after direct a ...
    holland-barrett-picket.jpeg Campaigners are claiming a major scalp in the fight against workfare after retailer Holland & Barrett announced they were pulling out of the scheme. ...
  • Pisa: the "Nuova Periferia Polivalente" has op ...
    600352_252009214915109_1116199826_n.jpg After being left derelict and neglected for 6 years, during which the only intervention by the local authorities has been the building of a wall around the old ...
  • Week of Action Against Workfare
    SLSF Press release on week of action against workfare FIGHTING AGAINST WORKFARE South London Solidarity Federation will be joining a week of action against Holland and Barrett's involvement in workfare from 7th to 14th July. The ...

Free Range International

  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]
  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...
  • The Harbinger – A Book Review (i.e. Refl ...
    The “New York Times Bestseller” book The Harbinger was written by a Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn.   Its subtitle is: “The ANCIENT MYSTERY That Holds the SECRET of America’s Future.”   Rabbi Cahn claims to be a “Messianic Jew” – i.e. a practicing Rabbi ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
    I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • An Unlikely Folk Hero
    Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom Last March, I blogged about Kim Dotcom [1], the Internet multimillionaire the FBI is trying to extradite to the US on Internet piracy charges. In brief the FBI is accusing the founder of Mega Upload of illegal file sharing and copyright violation. Dotcom, much of the ...
  • Britain Cuts Defense Force by 20%
    Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond In an effort to reduce its debt burden, Britain plans to cut its defense force by 20% by 2020. In announcing the UK’s plans to cut 102,000 to 82,000 military personnel, Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammon signaled his int ...
  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part II
    Michael Shuman Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review  – Part II Unconventional Funding Models for Small Local Businesses Local Dollars, Local Sense is basically a compilation of interviews with US activists and small businesses who ...
  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part I
    Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Hudson (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review – Part I There is growing consensus among economists and anti-corporate and sustainability activists about the importance of relocalization as the centerpiece part of genuine economic and political ref ...
  • I Think I Hear the Fat Lady Singing
    Dr Guy McPherson “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings” – Dan Cook, sports writer and broadcaster 1978 I have spent this past weekend at a lecture and workshop by Arizonan Guy McPherson, who is currently touring New Zealand. McPherson blogs at Nature Bats ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...
  • Twenty Names
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore "Moore, YOUR SHIRTTAIL is out!" It was the voice of Mr. Ryan, the assistant principal for discipline at my high school, and he was right on my back. Not figuratively. He was literally on it. "Turn around!" I did as I w ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Outage outrage — Lessons from the 'Derecho' Storm
    For the more than 5 million customers who saw their power wiped out by the so-called “derecho” storm that swept across six states in the upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic U.S. June 29, there was little if anything energy and telecommunications companies did to minimize the damage, the 22-person dea ...
  • The Strong Grid: Beyond Smart
  • Getting Your Wind Energy Project Funded? Tips ...
    Today we're talking about wind energy and getting that wind farm project financed.  Why? Because not everyone knows how and it's important to know what to do beyond picking the right spot and the right manufacturer.
  • Reflections on Rio: Encouraging Cloud Over the ...
    Since returning from Rio, I have already participated in a number of debriefings about the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I am pleased to see the interest, but dismayed to find many people have already accepted the message that the Summit had been a “flop” or a “failure.” Focused on the conference’s unins ...
  • Coal Rising in Europe While Gas Eyes the Thron ...
    Despite highly touted climate policies, European utilities are rushing to capitalize on the cheapest and dirtiest source of electric power in the continent: coal.

EU Times

  • Communists and Migrants in Greece protest agai ...
    Immigrant shopkeepers from the suburb of Nikaia, near Piraeus, held a demonstration in the central Aghiou Nikolaou Square on Thursday evening to protest a wave of threats by extreme rightwing protesters against them and a recent spike in racist attacks. According to the migrants, members of the ...
  • European nationalists reject Acta
    Nationalist MEPs across Europe voted against the infamous Acta treaty on Wednesday as the bill was rejected by an overwhelming majority. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was defeated by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions, after failed attempts by the centre-right European People’ ...
  • Super Event Warned Near As Weather Chaos Pound ...
    A grim report prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) for President Putin on the catastrophic flooding in the ‎Krasnodar region that has killed at least 144 people warns that our world is fast approaching what is termed as a “Chizhevsky Super Event” due to the rapidly growing number of ...
  • 18,000 acre devastated in deadly Colorado wildfire
    The devastation caused by Colorado’s Waldo Canyon wildfire is so severe that the burn scar is clearly visible from space, as a incredible picture clearly shows. The shocking photograph showing the worst fire in the state’s history was taken from Nasa’s Terra satellite on July 4th, as the fire ra ...
  • ­Smoking orang-utan to be forced to quit
    Keepers at a Zoo in Indonesia are planning to help an orang-utan named Tori give up smoking. The animal started ten years ago after visitors to the Zoo on the island of Java began throwing him cigarettes, reports the Jakarta Globe newspaper. “It is very common in Indonesian zoos for people ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • How Big Music Threatened Startups and Killed I ...
    An unprecedented new report has detailed how the destruction of Napster chilled a decade's worth of innovation in the music industry. Through interviews with 31 CEOs, company founders, and VPs who operated in digital music during the period, we hear how Big Music collapsed startups, turned down ...
  • Microsoft claims collecting royalties on 70% ...
    Two more Android tablet makers will now have to pay Microsoft a royalty on their products or risk winding up in court. Aluratek and Coby Electronics are the latest companies to be added to Microsoft's ever growing patent-licensing list, with Microsoft saying that it now collects royalties on 70% ...
  • Charts: If youre concerned about privacy, dont ...
    A couple of carriers, including Verizon and T-Mobile, noted user-data request increases in the 15 percent per-year range. Further, as some companies explain in their responses to Rep. Markey, many requests ask for information on numerous parties or location data that might identify everyone who ...
  • Exclusive: Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Down Gau ...
    Declaring that Microsoft and its partners had in the past "ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation" to Apple, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN in an exclusive interview Monday that the company's Surface tablet marks a new era in which the computer software giant w ...
  • Google releases Android 4.1 source code
    The source code for the latest version of Google's mobile operating system was released today as part of the Android Open Source Project, Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru, lead engineer on the project, said in a company blog post. "We recommend that you create new clients, even if you're working in ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Dogma or revolution? The choice for the Hard Left
    The North Star sums up the problems with the American hard left, which has succeeded magnificently in becoming almost entirely irrelevant, locked into outmoded ideas, and unable to act.The American left barely exists. The self-consciously “anti-imperialist” American left, in a countr ...
  • Gun-walk critic now heads Tucson ATF office
    A year ago, Carlos Canino testified before a U.S. House committee in Washington, D.C., about Operation Fast and Furious, passionately criticizing Arizona-based ATF agents for their actions.Now he’s one of them.This link is from the Arizona Daily Star which in my estimate is the best newspa ...
  • The Economist uses the word “banksters”
    BankstersHow Britain’s rate-fixing scandal might spread—and what to do about itThe post The Economist uses the word “banksters” appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Libor rate fixing scandal swindles trillions f ...
    The Libor rate fixing scandal may seem remote and distant from everyday life, but its effects on us all are difficult to understate. Millions of people have been cheated by what The Economist calls “the rotten heart of finance.” Simply put, the core of the global financial system is ...
  • El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency. ...
    Author Ioan Grillo wrote El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency after spending years researching the drug cartels in Mexico, often at great risk to himself. He traveled to opium-growing areas in the Sierra Madres, talked with assassins and smugglers, and explains how the various car ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Day in court for organics
    Organic farmers are hitting back at biotech by taking to the courts. In Western Australia, organic farmer Steve Marsh has taken his neighbouring farmer to court for contaminating of Steve’s crops with GE canola, leading him to lose his organic certification. The Pastoralists and Graziers Associa ...
  • More jobs derailed as Government fails to addr ...
    Slashing jobs at state-owned KiwiRail while the Government heaps pressure on unemployed people to go back to work – disconnect much? Today’s revelation that up to 220 KiwiRail workers could lose their jobs is shocking on many levels; the loss of paid work for so many families, erosion of rail sa ...
  • Delivering as One? Reflections on the UN in Ti ...
    The UN has been effective in Timor Leste.  There is doubtless scope for improvement, as with any organisation, and not least the global body that combines differences of culture and professional style into one pea-soup of international engagement, literally from the ashes of internal conflict. B ...
  • Minewatch Northland
    It is supposed to be warm in Te Tai Tokerau but it was a freezing outside when I went exploring the dirt roads behind Puhipuhi, north of Whangarei last week. Some tangata whenua and other locals showed me the old mercury mining and new gold exploration areas which mining company Newmont Gold is ...
  • Assisting according to our weight – a tr ...
    It is more than a passing irritation, as has been noted in various speeches and blogs of recent past, that NZ government leaders are unable to resist the temptation to crow, once safely tucked up in Parliament back home, about how we have punched above our weight at various international meets. ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Monsanto Promises Pain to EU, Assault Underway
    By Dr. Mercola The European Union (EU) has historically taken a strict, cautious stance regarding genetically modified (GM) crops, much to the chagrin of Monsanto and in stark contract to the United States. For instance, while GM crops are banned in several European countries, and all geneti ...
  • Merck Accused of Lying about Vaccine Effectiveness
    By Dr. Mercola Things aren't going so well lately in the litigation department for Merck, which stands accused of lying according to not just one, but two class-action lawsuits. In the first case, two former Merck virologists accuse their former employer of overstating the effectiveness of t ...
  • Pfizer 'Cherry-Picked' Celebrex Data, Memos Say
    By Dr. Mercola Celebrex is a type of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) known as a COX-2 inhibitor. Basically, it works by blocking COX-2 enzymes, which become overly active in your body when it becomes inflamed, and is widely used as a form of pain relief; in 2011, 2.4 million Ame ...
  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    By Dr. Mercola H5N1, aka the bird flu, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability to mutate has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. According to the featured article in The New York Timesi, a 10-year old Cambodian girl died on May 27 after ...
  • Gaea Powell on Safer Breast Cancer Screening
    By Dr. Mercola Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the age of 40-55, and the high prevalence has spawned a very lucrative industry; from mammography and other dangerous or invasive testing methods, to “preventive” double mastectomies and cancer drugs ...

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