- Health Care Reform Will Not Be Televised
from brasschecktv.com: (Flashback) Related article... Small Group Now Leads Closed-Door Reform Negotiations By Perry Bacon Jr. Washington PostSunday, October 18, 2009 Three months before he was elected president,
Barack Obama vowed not only to reform health care but also to pass the ...
- Drought Hits 56 Percent of Continental U.S.; ‘ ...
from cryptogon.com: The prolonged heat across the Midwest has not only set temperature records, it is also expanding and intensifying drought conditions — and relief isn’t on the horizon for most areas, the National Weather Service reported Thursday. Drought conditions are present in 56 perce ...
- Merck Accused of Lying about Vaccine Effectiveness
from mercola.com: 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 ...
- Author, Farmer Joel Salatin Says: "Folks, This ...
from therealfoodchannel.com: "We've been snookered by the drug companies, we've been snookered by the mechanical food companies..." Farmer Joel Salatin and his family have created a model for sustainable farming. They live it. This interview about his book "Folks, this ain't normal" gives a glim ...
- #Audio: Episode026 - Rare Earth
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu offers up Big Pharma, Fracking and Fraud + Healthcare, Headlines, the 'Binge and Purge' and more... ...
- The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
source: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of
Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
- Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
- Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
- The changing face of the church
source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
- Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
- 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 ...
- The Global Uprising 2012: Add Mexico to your l ...
From massive demonstrations in Greece, open warfare between miners and the state in Spain, what looks to be a tidal wave of global uprisings has just splashed down on the shores of Mexico. This protest is being dubbed 'the biggest protest the world has ever seen'... and just as with all other ...
- Thumping poll majority for those who say the U ...
The Sun newspaper today publishes the findings of it's YouGov poll on all matters European Union. The headline figures are that 48% of people in the UK would vote to LEAVE the European Union in any referendum. Only 31% would vote to stay in. 43% say our membership of the EU is BAD for Brit ...
- Spain: Tell me this isn't what civil war looks ...
On Friday, we posted on disturbances in Pola de Lena in the Spanish Asturias as the conflict between miners and the Spanish state escalates out of control with a huge swathe of the Spanish population seemingly taking the side of the miners, if social media is indicative of opinion. Now, more ...
- Quote of the Day: When 'The Telegraph' starts ...
"This lack of trust in politicians is scarcely new, although it has certainly grown since the expenses scandal. Yet historically, the institution of Parliament itself managed to rise above the incompetence and venality of its occupants. No more. Ever since Britain’s accession to what was then th ...
- EU austerity impositions creating conditions f ...
A week or so ago, The Guardian ran a worthwhile back-story on issues facing miners in Spain as they commenced a series of what The Guardian described as "acts planned to protest at the proposed 63% cuts in coal subsidies already approved by the EU". Yes, we know - it's The Guardian... but do ...
- Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
- Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
- How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
- What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
- EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...
- Guest on Dr Rebecca Carley’s radio show ...
Listen to Dr Rebecca Carley’s radio show on Sunday where I will be joining in to discuss topics such as the new wave of pandemic hype, oral vaccines, tweaked rabies viruses causing a rash of acts of cannabalism around the world as well as the Olympics as a possible venue for another pandem ...
- SWISS COLLECT ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO TRIGGER REF ...
It has been one of the most dramatic campaigns to collect the 50,000 signatures for a referendum in the history of Switzerland. Yesterday, on the final day, and at the last possible hour, the organizers of a referendum against a new centralised law allowing for forced vaccination handed over 51& ...
- MEXICO SOURCE OF NEW BIRD FLU PANDEMIC HYPE
Mexico declares emergency over new bird flu outbreak Published: 03 July, 2012, 07:19 RT The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead. http://www.rt.com/news/m ...
- GERMAN ECONOMISTS CALL ON CITIZENS TO RESIST E ...
*172 GERMAN ECONOMISTS LEAD RESISTANCE TO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AND DEBT SLAVERY BONDAGE *ECONOMISTS CALL ON CITIZENS TO TAKE TO THE BARRICADES *GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT EXPECTED TO PASS ILLEGAL ESM AND FISCAL PACT *GERMAN CONSTITUTION MAKES RESISTANCE TO ABOLITION OF DEMOCRACY AND ...
- Bank of England colluded in interest rate Libo ...
The Bank of England has been implicated in a scandal in which banks rigged a key interbank lending rate to maximise their profits. In an email, Barclay’s chief Bob Diamond relates a conversation in which Bank of England’s deputy government Paul Tucker told his bank to manipulate Libor rates and ...
- Small Business Assault from Obamacare
Hold on to your socks, the part time hiring of employees will become the new normal. The biggest prohibitive hit against job creation is in full motion. The consequences from Obamacare place a drag on the economy that is undeniable. This mugging of small business will guarantee that the primary ...
- PRI Regains Mexican Presidency
Like its northern neighbor, wealth and power dominate Mexican politics. Elections are notoriously tainted. Populist candidates are excluded. The late John Ross said Mexico perfected the art of electoral theft.
- VA Exceeds Government-Wide Goal for Veteran-Ow ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded by more than six times the Small Business Administration (SBA) goal of government procurements to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) according to the SBA scorecard released today. That total surpassed the combined procurements fro ...
- VA’s Detroit Hiring Fair Connects Thousands of ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has concluded its National Veteran Small Business Conference, Open House and Hiring Fair in Detroit, where employers offered more than 1,300 jobs to Veterans and conducted more than 5,500 interviews.
- U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
Marlex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*, New Castle, Del., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $79,952,403 for various pharmaceuticals.
- Things That Go Bump In the Night
To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
- Damascus Burning
To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
- UFOs, What Are They?
For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
- "Age of Ignorance"
By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
- Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...
- Syria, the United States and the El Salvador O ...
Rob Prince Blog July 8, 2012 Syria, The United States and the El Salvador Option (Part Two) By Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince So what is the Salvador option? “The Salvador Option” is a “terrorist mode”” of mass killings that was perfected by the US to destabilize regimes that th ...
- America’s Afghan Enemies And Syrian Frie ...
RT July 10, 2012 ‘America’s Syrian friends and Afghan foes are same people’ ==== The US in particular wants to topple the Assad regime, which has long been considered anti-American. I believe Assad’s good relations with Russia have also played a role. Washington treats any government on friendly ...
- West Buys Influence In Afghanistan
Voice of Russia July 10, 2012 Influence bought in Afghanistan John Robles ==== [T]he $16 billion will be able to assist the Afghan people in paying all of the Western reconstruction contractors and the special status will only serve to give the U.S. a legal framework for its long-term geo-strate ...
- Russia Sends Naval Flotilla To Syrian Port: Report
Interfax-Military July 10, 2012 Group of Russian Northern Fleet ships heading to Syria – source MOSCOW: The large anti-submarine ship, Admiral Chabanenko, and three large landing ships left Severomorsk on Tuesday for the Mediterranean Sea, where they are due to enter the Syrian port of Tar ...
- NATO Steps Up Activity In Mediterranean, Syria ...
Stop NATO July 10, 2012 NATO Steps Up Activity In Mediterranean, Syria Responds Rick Rozoff Shortly after NATO Allied Maritime Command Naples completed a ten-day air surge in the Mediterranean as part of the Western military bloc’s almost eleven-year Operation Active Endeavor, Standing NAT ...
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: “Report o ...
http://mxgm.org/report-on-the-extrajudicial-killings-of-110-black-people/ July 9, 2012 Report on Black People Executed without Trial by Police, Security Guards and Self-Appointed Law Enforcers — January 1 – June 30, 2012. This report was produced for the “No More Trayvon Martins Campaign”, ...
- Growing resistance to Alaskan police killings
Polynesian community questions police policies after shooting deaths Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch | July 6, 2012 Almost a month after the police shot and killed a Mountain View resident, the Polynesian community of Anchorage is still looking for answers. Their questions have sparked a ...
- The Jackson Plan: A Struggle for Self-Determi ...
Written by Kali Akuno, For the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — (Wednesday, July 4, 2012) A major progressive initiative is underway in Jackson, Mississippi. This initiative demonstrates tremendous promise and potential in making a major contribution towards improving the overall quality of ...
- Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Militar ...
Jul 05 2012 by Salma Shukrallah, http://www.jadaliyya.com Speculation is rife that the Muslim Brotherhood are again reaching a deal with the ruling military council after weeks of what seemed to be escalating tensions between the two. The long awaited government Morsi is expected to appoint soon ...
- Hot Potato: Brute Pig Toys and the Red-faced ...
[The point of this article is: the state is not renouncing the use of brutal equipment and weaponry--which they will be keeping nearby and available. But maintaining the image of democratic civilization means keeping, for public view, the iron fist inside the velvet glove. Democratic illusio ...
- Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
- Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
- Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
- Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
- Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
- Life is change and change is life
And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
- Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
- De-pinkifying breast cancer
There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
- Why the occupation?
You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
- Cleansing after Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
- Nieto Brings PRI Back into the Spotlight as Ne ...
Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI party has been named Mexico's new president, following the results of the national elections on Sunday.Contributor: Vanessa Evans Published: Jul 02, 2012
- Iconic Big Ben to Become Elizabeth Tower
Members of Parliament, along with the Prime Minister, proposed to rename Big Ben or the Clock Tower by honoring Queen Elizabeth’s recent Diamond Jubilee. Its new name would be the Elizabeth Tower. According to a poll many Britons are not in favor.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jun 27, 2012
- Supreme Court Defends Constitution on Immigrat ...
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-3 to uphold the federal government's authority to set immigration policy.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 26, 2012
- The Sandusky Case: From the Eyes of a Juror
One Juror's View of the Trial that Shook Penn State to It's CoreContributor: Robert Watkins Published: Jun 24, 2012
- Robots Found Titanic, Will They Find Amelia Ea ...
In July, a new team will go underwater to search for Amelia Earhart's lost plane. But, this time, it will consist of robots instead of people, the same way that the Titanic wreckage was found.Contributor: Jean Kelly Published: Jun 23, 2012
- Video: A Smartphone App Helps the Visually Imp ...
Using a smartphone and ultra wide band (UWB) transmission technology, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Fujitsu have teamed to create a realtime positioning system for the blind that works indoors where GPS can’t reach. Using base stations to tri ...
- MIT Energy Scavenger Harvests Power from Light ...
Combining energy from multiple ambient sources generates a more stable supply for sensors Small power generators that can harvest energy from ambient sources like heat, vibrations, and light hold a lot of promise across a range of applications, particularly in things like remote monitoring. The ...
- FYI: Will Climate Change Make the Weather Too ...
They could be a big problem. Simon N. Gosling, a geographer at the University of Nottingham in England, and Robert E. Davis of the University of Virginia agree that hotter weather on average isn’t as dangerous as unexpected weather. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy o ...
- Strategies for a Changing Planet: Food
It won't be easy, but there are ways to make the food production math add up Climate change is already happening, and it's time to get ready. Here's how we could adjust our most basic needs--food, water, shelter--to survive. The calculus of human sustenance is simple: to feed the planet’s seve ...
- For $10,000 on Kickstarter, Google Lunar X-Pri ...
Kickstarter can be a great way for people to help out with projects they care about. Make a small donation, and maybe even get a little trinket for your time. But what about the rich eccentric with money to burn? For 10,000 bucks, they too can help out with a project--and in exchange get their ...
- Small Business Assault from Obamacare
Hold on to your socks, the part time hiring of employees will become the new normal. The biggest prohibitive hit against job creation is in full motion. The consequences from Obamacare place a drag on the economy that is undeniable. This mugging of small business will guarantee that the primary ...
- PRI Regains Mexican Presidency
Like its northern neighbor, wealth and power dominate Mexican politics. Elections are notoriously tainted. Populist candidates are excluded. The late John Ross said Mexico perfected the art of electoral theft.
- VA Exceeds Government-Wide Goal for Veteran-Ow ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded by more than six times the Small Business Administration (SBA) goal of government procurements to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) according to the SBA scorecard released today. That total surpassed the combined procurements fro ...
- VA’s Detroit Hiring Fair Connects Thousands of ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has concluded its National Veteran Small Business Conference, Open House and Hiring Fair in Detroit, where employers offered more than 1,300 jobs to Veterans and conducted more than 5,500 interviews.
- U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
Marlex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*, New Castle, Del., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $79,952,403 for various pharmaceuticals.
- Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
- Poor summer weather to continue well into July
UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
- Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...
- 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...
- All eyes on June after an 'average' May
The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...
- Huawei to Hell: PRC Threatens Trade Spat w/ EU
There's so much controversy over Chinese-made and -designed telecommunications gear: While the American solution to denying market access to budding Chinese telecoms giants / national champions Huawei and ZTE is to treat them as security threats--their investment is not welcome in the "Land of t ...
- South Sudan Cuts Off Its Oil To Spite Its Economy
It seems like only yesterday that we were wishing the new nation of South Sudan all the best after it voted to create a new, independent republic. However, it probably wasn't long in coming that the tensions with Sudan (call it the old, "North" Sudan) resurfaced. You see, while many of the oil-r ...
- Success Stories: Philippines, the Next Indonesia?
In contrast to the America #1 cheerleaders I am duty-bound to debunk day in and day out, I am actually rather guarded about my home nation's economic prospects. This despite it growing at rates that make the United States look lethargic by comparison. Indonesia has somewhat surprisingly become o ...
- Why China's Communist Party Will Endure, AEI
There's a much-read contribution by Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute on why "China's Party is About to End" from (surprise!) the WSJ op-ed pages. This coming from the libertarian AEI, you pretty much know how their story goes in following the classic American narrative: Politi ...
- Obama, Bernanke, Stimulus & American Brattiness
The New Yorker has an interesting new take on one of my favourite research genres, the search for the behavioural pathologies which account for terminal American decline, be it in health, income, wealth, life satisfaction or what else have you. Why should a clearly regressive society influence s ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
- Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
- Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
- Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
- Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...
- Historic forts on Panama's coastline placed on ...
Citing environmental factors, lack of maintenance and uncontrollable urban developments, the World Heritage Committee today placed an historic Panamanian property on its list of endangered world heritage.
- Ban urges peaceful resolution of differences w ...
Ahead of a regional meeting on Paraguay, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all concerned to "work in the days ahead to ensure the peaceful resolution of differences" which led to the removal of the South American country's president.
- Ban pays tribute to late scholar, friend and U ...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Dr. J. Michael Adams, President of the International Association of University Presidents, paying tribute to the late scholar who was also a friend of the United Nations and its chief.
- Amid global uncertainty, G20 summit in Mexico ...
Next week's summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies must achieve meaningful results, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told world leaders, stressing the need to tackle the global jobs crisis, ensure green growth and promote sustainable development.
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Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.
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Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
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Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
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You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
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Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
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How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
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This is the first in a series of videos explaining the individual income tax through the eyes of a team of pro se litigants who have "cracked the code" through 7 years of litigation against the DOJ Tax Division. ~ Video read more
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Though few Americans are aware of it, the unconscionable ObamaCare ruling of Chief Justice John Roberts stands to provide Barack Hussein Obama unlimited and fundamentally irrevocable power less than 2 years after the November election... ~ Doug Book read more
- The Final Showdown!... Banking Cartel Set to U ...
Alex breaks down the banking cartels final assault against the american people, in what will become the 2nd american revolution! ~ Video read more
- The Obama Death Pool... 'Mysterious' Deaths Su ...
Deaths connected to the Obama White House... read more
- Cell Phone Radiation... What Is It That Telec ...
In 2010, Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, president of the Environmental Health Trust, and former White House adviser, wrote the book titled, "Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What The Industry Has Done To Hide It, and How To Protect Your Family." Dr. Davis shares her concerns, "If th ...
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The latest in a string of executive orders from Barack Obama is the order titled “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions” in which the underlying commonality is apparently to establish methods of command and control over all communications ...
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- Kickstarter To Expand To Funding U.K. Projects ...
News updates all day from Fast Company.In a tweet late yesterday, crowdfunding enterprise Kickstarter revealed that it's taking its first proper steps overseas and will, come Autumn time, be offering the ability to fund projects in the U.K. Little more information is known about the new as yet. ...
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The U.K. startup says it's figured out a secure way for any developer to make social gambling a reality.This morning a U.K. startup called Betable announced that it has figured out how to attach real money to social games in a secure way. It won't be coming to the U.S. anytime soon--online gambl ...
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News updates all day from Fast Company.Why doesn't Pinterest have an affiliate program that pays out whenever someone buys a product that you pin on the site? The idea is so obvious that two Pinterest-like competitors have already begun doing just that. The latest is social photo-sharing site Th ...
- Rumor: Samsung Building A Windows RT Tablet
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- Why Nashville Companies Are Targeting Tweens F ...
Eager to lure (and keep) a strong high-tech workforce, the capital of country music resorts to some unconventional recruiting strategies. Among them: going after middle school kids. WHY YOU SHOULD START A COMPANY IN... New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights It used to be, if you were seriou ...
- 'The last reporter in the YouTube world' (Dyla ...
Dylan Byers / Politico: ‘The last reporter in the YouTube world’ — Vanity Fair's Marie Brenner discusses the late Marie Colvin on MSNBC. — Vanity Fair's Marie Brenner has a fantastic article on Marie Colvin, the foreign correspondent who died in H ...
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AdAge: Blog Network Say Media Poaches Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher — Leaves Time Inc. Flagship Magazine for Blog Network — Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that ...
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge: Judge Sends Dish Ad-Skipping Dispute to California, Where Broadcasters Want It — Dish Says Precedent Still Favors ‘The Hopper’ — Dish Network has lost its bid to handle the legal dispute over its ad-skipping technology, dubb ...
- DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 2 ...
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 20 Million Customers — DirecTV customers may lose access to Viacom's 17 television channels, including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, at the end of the day on Tuesday because of a dispute between ...
- NPR unpublishes intern's execution story after ...
Steve Myers / Poynter: NPR unpublishes intern's execution story after discovering parts were plagiarized — NPR has deleted a story from its website, an intern's first-person account of witnessing a public execution in Kabul, after learning that parts of it were plagiarized fro ...
- Japan stocks close down 0.44%
Tweet TOKYO: Tokyo stocks gave up early gains to finish 0.44 percent lower on Tuesday as a stronger yen weighed on Japanese exporters' shares while investors look ahead to a Bank of Japan policy meeting this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 39.15 points t ...
- Rape charge: Pinki Pramanik gets bail aft ...
Asian Games gold medalist Pinki Pramanik, arrested after a woman charged that the athlete was a male and had raped her, was granted bail by a court in North 24 Parganas district after spending...
- Whooping cough cases prompt warning from ...
In just the first six months of 2012, the Southern Nevada Health District reports there have already been two more cases of potentially fatal whooping cough, or pertussis, in Southern Nevada than the 20 experienced all of last year. Statewide, the number of cases is at 37, three more than in ...
- Galaxy Tab ‘not as cool’ as iPad
London - Samsung Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals' patent wars when a British judge ruled Samsung's Galaxy tablets did not infringe the US company's designs for the iPad because they were “not as cool”. In Monday's High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss ...
- Congolese warlord jailed for 14 years ove ...
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga to 14 years in jail for using child soldiers in his rebel army, in the tribunal's first such order. Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Photo: JERRY LAMPEN/AFP/GettyImages 10:12AM BST 10 Jul 2012 "Taking into ...
- National Parks at Risk: Photos
National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
- Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
- Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
- South Sudan becomes an independent nation
South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- News of the World staff shocked at closure
Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Excessive Endurance Training Can Be Deadly
Micah True, legendary ultra-marathoner, died suddenly while on a routine 12-mile training run March 27, 2012. The mythic Caballo Blanco in the best-selling book, Born to Run, True would run as far as 100 miles in a day. On autopsy his heart was enlarged and scarred; he died of a lethal arrhythmi ...
- Exercise and the Brain
The effects of exercise are different on memory as well as on the brain, depending on whether the exerciser is an adolescent or an adult. A gene has been identified which seems to mediate the degree to which exercise has a beneficial effect. This has implications for the potential use of exercis ...
- TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
- Origins of the Arts
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
- Middle Age
Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...
- Sowing the seed corn…
Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
- A timely contribution to a fractious debate
For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient. Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
- Science’s Olympic legacy
Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport. As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
- Making an open enterprise work
Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...
- Dual use education in neuroscience
The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
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- If You Were President...
We asked our Ocean Heroes finalists: If you were elected President, what would be the first thing on your agenda? They gave us some pretty great answers, check them out below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalist! Who knows, maybe one of our finalists will be running for Presid ...
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To be an Ocean Hero, you have to have a strong commitment to your work—so what keeps our finalists going when the going gets tough? The voting is open for our 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, but if you're having a hard time deciding who your favorite finalist is, here's a chance to get to know ...
- Need a Beach Soundtrack? We’ve Got You Covered.
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- Video: Mercury from Source to Seafood
The health benefits of seafood are well-documented, but some people avoid eating it after hearing reports of high mercury levels. This video might help make things a little clearer. Produced by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, the video explains how mercury gets into water ...
- Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing ...
© Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by the scene in Peru, where earlier this year, h ...
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There are some stubborn romantic notions of Kings ensconced in cozy castles, in repose by vast fireplaces, the air thick with the scents and sounds of feasts warming in brick ovens tucked near ornate halls. Chicken fat spitting and roiling on hot coals, minstrels strumming ancient tunes, and win ...
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Ernest Borgnine, (January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) a graduate of James Hillhouse High School in New Haven Connecticutt, 18 year old Ernest Borgnine joined the United States Navy six years before Pearl Harbor. He served as a Gunners Mate 1st class aboard the destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-11 ...
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- World War I Mortality Figures. 8.9 Million Dead.
No two sources really quotes the same numbers. So these are rough median figures. Austria – Hungary 1,200,000 Belgium – 13,716 United Kingdom – 900,000 Bulgaria – 87,000 France – 1,375,000 Germany – 1,773,000 Greece – 5,000 Italy – 650,000 ...
- Liberalism Brings Happiness in Massachusetts
Mr. Frank, famous for his tirades, appeared close to tears as his sister, Ann Lewis, walked him down the aisle. He was trailed by a few hired photographers and by Ms. Kucinich, who leapt with joy as the bridegrooms appeared and snapped dozens of photos for an album that she planned to present as ...
- Another Negative Poll on Obama from The Hill
Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative wa ...
- Odes to Obama: An Heroically Enhanced Photo is ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The candidate as hero, if not near god-like, is a predictable piece of political branding. Of course a part of the hero myth is that he / she is really just an average Joe / Jane, when it comes to understanding We the ...
- Pres. Obama to Campaign on Extending Bush Tax ...
With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000. Mr. Obama plans to make his announcement at the White House ...
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CONSERVATIVES ARE happier than liberals? That’s the analysis offered here. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge. Many data sets show this. For example, the Pew ...
- The Islamist Tsunami and Arab Society
When the news came that Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) had been declared Egypt's President, the immediate concern was about what kind of society the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists would want to create, and how this election would
- Will Syria Remain a Unified State?
While the news is filled daily with terrible atrocities which the Syrian regime is carrying out, these reports mask another development: the breakup of Syria into at least two, if not more, statelets. Is Assad trying to create an Alawite homeland in the
- Islamic Jihadists Using Switzerland as Base
Radical Muslim groups are using Switzerland as a base from which to promote Islamic jihad in Europe and beyond. Islamists in Switzerland are providing jihadists with logistical support, and also stepping up their use of Internet websites there to spread
- Syria: UN's Newest Champion of Human Rights
According to UN Watch, an independent human rights group based in Geneva, Syria is now running for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council: "The murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad is a declared candidate for a seat on the 47-nation U.N. body, in elections
- Who Is Being "Intransigent"?
Forty-five years after the Six Day War, declassified transcripts were released this June of the Israeli cabinet and government committee meetings in the days after war that ended on June 10, 1967. The documents provide a breathtaking insight into the
- Consumers Loosen Up
Something huge just happened in the economy: Consumers started to get “off their wallets” and they are ready to start spending again, in a huge way. That is the gist of the Consumer Debt report released yesterday by the Federal … Continue reading →
- Coping: Mabus, HAARP, and other Ponders
(Gig Harbor, WA) Although we’re on the road (part work, part play, part hiding out from the heat E. Texas), the largest surprise of the trip so far has been our after dinner round of put-put golf. Elaine came in … Continue reading →
- Decision Week for Markets
Holiday Week is over for millions this morning, though the Fourth of July period has been a lot of fun…pass the aspirin and sunburn creme, please. But this morning we’re back to the grind of figuring out what’s ahead for … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Community Planning
(Tacoma, WA) Seems an appropriate starting point for this week’s discussion of what we’re seeing on our Trip Round America to ponder where the country is going – longer term – and where we might find a slice of peace … Continue reading →
- Jobs Humbug
Here it is, well after July 1 and I haven’t done my first “bah-humbug” of the coming Christmas season – which, if you have a calendar handy has only 172-shopping days away. Since it’s a little early to go-a-wassailing, I’ve … Continue reading →
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Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
- AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...
I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
- FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...
Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
- Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
- Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
- New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
- BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
- Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
- Big News in Shark Conservation
Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco It’s been a big couple of months for sharks. Last week -- in-part due to the hard work of NRDC's Chicago team -- a fifth U.S. state took a strong stand to protect sharks when Il ...
- NRDC in the News 7/9: Beach pollution solution ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Mark Izeman was interviewed by “Click and Clack,” the iconic hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk” about the Nissan NV200 winning New York City’s “Taxi of Tomorrow&rdquo ...
- Government investigation provides damning pict ...
Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) heard the major findings of its two year investigation of the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill, which released over a million gallons o ...
- Why Baseball's Green All Star Game Matters
Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world The sports industry’s growing embrace of energy efficiency, renewable energy, recycling, water conservation, safer chemicals and healthier food is educating millions of fans abo ...
- The opportunity that Apple is missing to build ...
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC What Cupertino, California is getting What Cupertino, California needs I never intended to become so knowledgeable about Apple, Inc.’s new &ldqu ...
- ‘Not in the Face’
From the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles County sheriff’s captain who ran the Men’s Central Jail fostered a culture of brutality by protecting dishonest deputies and permitting his underlings to use excessive force on inmates, his former lieutenant alleged … Continue reading ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 6th, 2012: Houlton, ME: A 24 year veteran police officer was accused of operating her state police cruiser while under the influence of alcohol. She was issued a … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsF ...
- ‘Reckless’ Prosecutors Escape Accountability
Attorney Brendan Sullivan: In late May, the Justice Department finally completed its three-year investigation of the miscreant prosecutors who obtained an illegal verdict against Sen. Ted Stevens in 2008. That verdict caused the Alaska Republican to lose his reelection bid … Continue readi ...
- Agency Declines to Name Officer Involved in Fa ...
From the Washington Post: Nearly three weeks after a Metro Transit Police officer shot and killed a 44-year-old man in a Lanham neighborhood, officials have not disclosed the identity of the officer or divulged many details of the deadly encounter. … Continue reading →Agency Declines ...
- Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct in Texas
From the Dallas Observer: He stood, encircled by reporters. After some thank yous, he lit the fuse: “I want to say that me and my lawyer, Cheryl Wattley, we’ll make a formal complaint against Thomas D’Amore for prosecutorial misconduct,” Miles … Continue reading  ...
- Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
- Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
- Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
- Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
- China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...
- Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
- Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
- Repowering Port Augusta 6:30pm Monday 2 July
At this critical time for South Australian energy policy, Beyond Zero Emissions has released the long-awaited Repowering Port Augusta report. This report presents the compelling economic and environmental case for why Port Augusta’s ageing coal-fired power stations should be replaced with concen ...
- Solar Thermal Models Built
Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
- WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...
- Indigenous tribes occupy Belo Monte dam for ov ...
As of Tuesday, the occupation of Belo Monte dam by indigenous tribes entered its 13th day. Indigenous people, who have fought the planned Brazilian dam for decades, argue that the massive hydroelectric project on the Xingu River will devastate their way of life. According to a statement from the ...
- Tracking elephants in Cameroon to mitigate con ...
Elephant conservation is imperiled by poor spatial planning, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Tracking two elephant matriarchs in and around Bénoué National Park in Cameroon, scientists found that the herds spent over half t ...
- Bad science journalism: articles spread misinf ...
The death of one of the world's largest recorded whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Arabian Sea provoked a sudden global interest in these massive shark. Weighing 14.5 tons, the fish in question made 'whale shark 'whale shark' the number 3 top search in Google Trends on the day the news hit. ...
- Endangered fruit bats, and many other species, ...
Bushmeat hunting is well-known to be decimating animal populations in Africa, but has been little studied much of Southeast Asia. However, a new paper in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science shines light on the size and scale of bushmeat poaching in the Philippines. S ...
- Poaching results in elephant gender imbalance ...
Scientists have undertaken a new census of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in India's Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve (BRT) following almost 30 years of sustained poaching. Estimating that the park contains four female elephants for every male, the scientists warn in a new study in mo ...
- A Case of Missing Faces – Where is NEC’s Credi ...
We are not frowning at technology, instead we embrace, kiss and hug it, because it is a necessity where and when necessary. In every four corners of this planet of worries, people yearn for technology – they yearn for a positive transformation. We all would agree that a jet-like pace is rapidly ...
- Geko Sierra Leone Denies Claims
German corporation Geko Sierra Leone has denied all claims made against their operational activities of having dealings with precious minerals and hard substance courtesy to a publication dated the 11th May 2012. Talking to our reporter Associate Director, Isheika Turay explained that his organi ...
- Sister Stabs Brother to Death
Rebecca Conteh a resident of No 29 Thunder Hill Road on Wednesday 4th July was in a bitter brawl and stabbed her elder brother Lansana Conteh to death. Speaking to the accused person Rebecca Conteh in an interview with Sierra Express Media, she revealed that the incident occurred at around 1:30 ...
- Capsized Boat Drowns Two
Sierra Leone’s Boat Owners Union (SLBOU) chairman, Abdul Konike Kamara has confirmed to this press that on Thursday June 5th a boat called ‘Sierra Leone’ has capsize along side the Guinean territorial water which resulted to the death of two crew members. In a telephone conversation with Mr. Kon ...
- Ex–Soldiers Continue Protest Action
Ex-soldiers constituted as wounded in action (WIA) yesterday July 9th staged another protest strike action called operation pay your-self in the capital of Freetown. The ex-soldiers started the protest action by a strike-march to the Ministry of Defense Tower Hill Freetown, and also strike-march ...
- Tate Watkins on How Joplin, Missouri Circumven ...
On May 22, 2011, a tornado ripped through the town of Joplin, Missouri. The multi-vortex storm cut an eerily straight west-east line through Joplin’s downtown street grid, growing to three quarters of a mile wide at its peak. It was the deadliest tornado since modern recordkeeping beg ...
- Brickbat: You Can't Get Here from There
Ali Ahmed, a U.S. citizen of Somali descent, finds himself trapped in Bahrain, after his name was placed on the U.S. no-fly list and he was blocked from boarding a plane home. Officials are refusing to say why his name was placed on the list.
- The Secret History of New York's Playgrounds
In a great piece for Cabinet, James Trainor tells the tale of New York's adventure playgrounds of the 1960s and '70s -- how they flourished in reaction to the antiseptic old playspaces that planners like Robert Moses had imposed on the city, and how they declined in an era obsessed wi ...
- Reason Writers Around Town: Big City Democrats ...
Reason Foundation policy analysts Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny have a column in The Wall Street Journal examining the growing trend of local Democrats turning to privatization and public-private partnerships to cope with budget deficits: We often hear that America's infrast ...
- Bernanke is Helping Destroy the Global Economy ...
Business Insider has made a list of ‘The 13 People Who Are Destroying The Global Economy’. I agree with most of the list, but not the reasons. The most notable example of this is Business Insider’s fourth choice, Ben Bernanke. I am not going to disagree with the lovely people at BI th ...
- Yet Another Republican Favors Medicare For All
And this is one of the two currently on Mount Rushmore: Of course, it’s quite likely that the other Republican on Mount Rushmore would favor it as well. Hat tip to Juan Cole.
- Someone has courage
Abdel-Rahman Hussein, Guardian: On Sunday, [Egyptian president Mohamed] Morsi had called on the old parliament to reconvene until a new parliament was elected. After last month’s supreme court ruling, [the military council] Scaf decreed that parliament was dissolved, with legislative power ...
- Hey Congress! Make Corporations Play By The Ru ...
Last month, the far-right-wing judicial activists running the Supreme Court did this: So with Citizens United, the activist conservative Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of unregulated money to buy elections. Today, that same activist conservative Supreme Court ...
- I guess we can take comfort in the fact that h ...
Lisa Wines, Wonkette, via Mexfiles: Peña Nieto, during what he calls a “difficult time of crisis” in his first marriage to Monica Pretelini, cheated on his wife with two different women and had two children outside of his marriage. … Ashleymadison.com, the dating website for married people ...
- Bradlee Dean Ordered To Pay Court Costs Of His ...
Looks like Bradley Dean “Bradlee Dean” Smith, Minnesota hate preacher, radio show host, and Republican ally, forgot the first rule of SLAPPers — never sue anyone who can afford to fight you in court: Via Ken Avidor’s Bradlee Dean Info, an interesting development in the de ...
- China Battles Desertification
As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
- RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
- Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
- New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...
- Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in ...
Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. Cilantro is the favourite “because of the flavour it adds to bean ...
- SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council. The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School. Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
- Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
- Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council. The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School. Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
- Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
- Silently Waiting
The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
- Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
- The Dawn of Medicare
A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
- Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
- Inflation of the University Degree
Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
- After The Fireworks Have Faded
On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
- The Greatest Threat To Mankind
The self-destructive, self-loathing, nihilistic drivel that poses as popular culture and modern society is like a ball and chain to humanity’s innate desire to realize its true potential. In the video above, Alex Jones explains how the people in control of our planet are wantonly hurting the ...
- The Greatest Threat To Mankind
The self-destructive, self-loathing, nihilistic drivel that poses as popular culture and modern society is like a ball and chain to humanity’s innate desire to realize its true potential. In the video above, Alex Jones explains how the people in control of our planet are wantonly hurting the ...
- French president: zero growth so far this year
France enjoyed a boost in investor confidence with a successful bond auction Monday - but also got a warning from the president that growth so far this year is "nil" and that the country needs to rethink its social model. France's government sold (EURO)6 billlion in short-term bonds at negati ...
- French president: zero growth so far this year
France enjoyed a boost in investor confidence with a successful bond auction Monday - but also got a warning from the president that growth so far this year is "nil" and that the country needs to rethink its social model. France's government sold (EURO)6 billlion in short-term bonds at negati ...
- Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Dem ...
A newly leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest. The document (PDF), which is dated 2006 and was ...
- Family Planning Summit Offers New Hope
The Summit on Family Planning that is taking place in London on Wednesday is a bid to get governments around the world to commit more resources to safeguarding women’s reproductive rights, according to the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin ...
- Libya May Steer Clear of the Islamist Way
Libyans appear to be putting their hopes in Mahmoud Jibril’s liberal National Forces Alliance (NFA) to cement a coalition and build bridges between Libya’s fractious militias. Many believe the party can also unite other ideologically opposed political parties, and both opponents and supporters o ...
- The Guinean Women Who Earn a Little Coin From ...
Market gardening in the peri-urban areas of Conakry, the Guinean capital, is growing quickly, bringing in income for groups of women and giving them some autonomy. IPS visited one group of 14 women who are working a low-lying parcel of land at Kobaya, just outside Conakry. The women have leased ...
- Mauritania’s Emergency Food Programme Un ...
The sun is beating down on Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, and Habi Amadou Tidjane Diop is a tired and frustrated woman. Seated on an empty upturned bucket, the mother of nine is waiting in a long queue to buy food. “I got here early because it’s Thursday and I need to buy groce ...
- U.S. Urged to Increase Bomb-Clearing Aid for Laos
Disarmament activists and former U.S. ambassadors are urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to increase U.S. aid to Laos to clear millions of tonnes of unexploded ordinance (UXO) left by U.S. bombers on its territory during the Indochina War during her brief visit to the country Wednesday. T ...
- Online polls about Iran's nuclear program -- p ...
Summary: Omid Memarian considers an online poll which was removed by the authorites in Iran as some sort of valid evidence that Iranians don't really support their nuclear program. This has been a sort of "holy grail" talking point by the hardliners in Washington who have ...
- Iranian oil sanctions trigger Urals price jump
Summary: What does an oil refinery do when it loses its supply of Iranian crude? A contract for Saudi Arabian oil is probably the best replacement, over the medium term. But in a rush, little beats a few barrels of Urals, the Russian main export oil stream. source: FTread more
- Iran continues oil exports to EU through priva ...
Summary: Iran’s central bank and Oil Ministry have signed an agreement with the Iranian Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Association to secure delivery of 500,000 barrels per day to Europe, bypassing the EU sanctions. source: RTread more
- Iran's right to enrichment questioned again
Summary: Considering how many other nations have enrichment technology, then it is far too late in the day to proclaim that enrichment isn't part of the deal. Certainly, the other nations of the world don't think that enrichment was excluded, and theyv'e gone to extreme ends to make their voi ...
- The arms race that won't happen
Summary: The United States keeps trying to force Iran to abandon its suspected efforts to build a nuclear arsenal, and so far it has been rebuffed. Both Obama and Mitt Romney have said they would use force rather than let Iran acquire nukes. Chances are good that whoever wins in November, we ...
- Mineral deficiencies can be fatal to athletes
In the growing market of nutrition and health, where being a vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, or fruitarian has been integrated into the mainstream diet of millions of Americans, one thing that is not being mentioned enough is the importance of minerals. A quick rundown...
- 10 reasons to take a probiotic daily
Probiotic intake for overall good health has been underestimated by even the alternative health community. The fact is that gut bacteria greatly affects both overall physical and mental health. There are 400 to 500 species of bacteria residing in your gut or gastrointestinal...
- Seven ways to find joy in tough times
These are tough times getting tougher. We all should know by now that stress may be the number one catalyst for bad health. But denial is not the answer. We need to understand more about the reality of our times in order to survive. The trick is to do so while retaining...
- If you believe in liberty, the U.S. government ...
In this season of Independence, it's important - and sad - to note how far we've come from our nation's founding, where brave, insightful men laid everything on the line just a couple of centuries ago in an all-or-nothing effort to birth the greatest, most successful...
- Proof that green tea reduces "bad" cholesterol ...
Green tea has always been cited to improve a number of health benefits through its consumption. A recent study targeted LDL, or "bad" cholesterol and brought forth evidence that green tea reduces those levels. The question of how much and whether or not green tea should...
- Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anon ...
One fine day, Sony called Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot to use a song of his in a commercial. Little did they think that the request to use the anthem extolling Anonymous and Bradley Manning would turn into an event, bringing Empire and Sony's longtime foe Anonymous together. Wired brings Em ...
- Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Postponed Unt ...
The United States' court case against Megaupload founders Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk for alleged copyright infringement was dealt another setback Tuesday, after the New Zealand extradition hearing for the four was moved to March 2013.
- Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in ...
A handful of pornography producers are being accused of racketeering, fraud, defamation and other charges in connection to their BitTorrent online litigation trolling strategies.
- Anonymous Group Says It Gave Syrian E-mails to ...
Days after WikiLeaks began releasing a trove of more than 2 million emails stolen from Syrian officials, ministries and companies, members of an Anonymous group have claimed responsibility for the hacks and document dump to Wikileaks.
- Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Mi ...
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.The companies said they were working around the clock and charging millions in fees to keep ...
- 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know abo ...
With the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 once again set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama on Monday once again proposed temporarily extending them only for families earning less than $250,000 annually. Predictably, his Republican rival Mitt Romney called the return of upper-inco ...
- The Discovery of Mitt's Boson
Even with four months to go until Election Day, Mitt Romney's shameless lying has already become one of the defining storylines of the 2012 campaign. Theories abound as to why Romney has emerged as a reverse George Washington, a man who cannot tell the truth. Jonathan Chait turned to Freud, expl ...
- GOP Declares New War on IRS over Health Care Law
With the Affordable Care Act having passed constitutional muster, Republicans are once again targeting the Internal Revenue Service in order to deny funding for the ACA's implementation. Hoping to repeat the GOP's successful 1990's war on the agency, Republicans like Maine Governor Paul LePage ...
- The Return of the Republican Medicare Frauds
Back in 2010, Republicans swept to power in no small part by scaring the bejesus out of elderly voters over supposed Democratic cuts to Medicare. But now that the Supreme Court has preserved the Affordable Care Act, Mitt Romney and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill are once again darkly warning th ...
- Supreme Court Opens Door for States to Drop Cu ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the greatest threat to enabling health insurance for 30 million uninsured Americans may come not from Republicans in Congress, but in the states. With the Court's ruling that the federal government cannot penalize states who refuse ...
- Sounds Of The Aurora Borealis Confirmed
Auroral sounds have, for the first time, been confirmed to exist. The sounds accompanying the Northern Lights have long been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers, but evidence until now has been scarce. Researchers from Aalto University in Finland have also located where the sounds ...
- Cross-Country Electric Bike Ride Completed by ...
Normal bikes get a whopping 984 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent), and that might be as good as it gets for green transportation (well, it can actually be much better if the bicyclist is vegetarian). However, I’m sure electric bikes are also up there for such efficiency… and ...
- Amazing Video Of The Earth Filmed From The ISS ...
This video filmed from the International Space Station is really striking. This is the view that the astronauts living there see everyday. It’s definitely worth a watch. The video was put together by Tomislav Safundžić, “described on his Vimeo page as an 18-year-old who enjoys photog ...
- Robot Developed That Can Walk Like A Human (VIDEO)
A robotic set of legs that is able to fully model walking, in a biologically accurate manner, has been produced by a group of US researchers. The remarkably human-like walking gait was produced by simplifying the neural architecture, musculoskeletal architecture and sensory feedback pathways of ...
- Going Solar Step 1: Check Out Your Solar Poten ...
I thought I’d do a little “Going Solar” series here on Planetsave, to help nudge you all along and to have resources available for this great opportunity. This first step is not really required (and not an option for those without an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch — l ...
- Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
- CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
- UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
- The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
By @BGinKC Good to know. The always-awesome Left Leaning Liberal Lady has the voter ID requirements for all fifty states, compiled in one handy bookmarkable post. So bookmark it already. Because your vote counts, and you preserve it by knowing the rules where you live -- and if they cheat ...
- Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Seek Up"
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- Monday Morning Quad Shot
Monday Morning Quad Shot By @BGinKC * Yeah, we really do. And we're pissed off about it. Some snotty Koch-sucker bitch en route to a Rmoney fundraiser at David Koch's Hampton's home told a reporter from Think Progress that you and I are too stupid to "get it." She actually said this: "I don't th ...
- Mainstream Media And Corporate Neoliberalism
Biased toward the left -- and biased toward the right. How can both be true? Leave it to America's Mainstream Media -- they have somehow managed to give both impressions to different groups of activists, and I think I can explain why. I will preface by saying that I have a very admitted and open ...
- Stupid, Self-Destructive City Budget Tricks
By @KYYellowDog Smart people don't stiff their hairdresser, insult their food server or cut cop and firefighter pay to less than teenagers get to flip burgers. Think Progress: Ignoring a federal judge's injunction, Scranton, Pennsylvania moved ahead with its plan to reduce the pay of city worker ...
- He’s Not Boring, He’s Just Sane
What’s the biggest complaint I keep seeing about Governor Mitt Romney, the man expected to go up against President Barack Obama this November? What’s that one characteristic flaw I hear over and over? “He’s boring.” Well, shit. Too bad, so sad. Boring is the husband who diligently goes to work e ...
- Breaking News: Agent Brian Terry’s Murder
I hope that Larry weighs in. In the meantime, I just heard the breaking news that [correction: a sealed indictment has been revealed showing that] two Mexicans have been arrested for the murder of Agent Brian Terry, and that more suspects are being sought. The FBI also reports that U.S. agents f ...
- “Dirty Mitty”
Marshall Mcluhan famously said, “The medium is the message.” With that in mind, here are my perceptions of one of Mitt Romney’s major issues: How he comes across when he speaks in front of people, particularly large crowds. This issue breaks down to two problems: Problem No. 1: ...
- The Supremes Feud + Open Thread
BELOW: CBS’s Jan Crawford interviews Mitt Romney about nominating justices. First, via Huffington Post’s “John Roberts Health Care Switch Sparks ‘Deep’ Supreme Court ‘Discord’: CBS News (VIDEO)”: The plot thickens. Now Mitt:
- THE BRIAN TERRY EXCEPTION
(FROM LARRY JOHNSON–My business partner, Bobby Nieves, drafted this op-ed, which is now published by The Washington Times and will appear in their print edition on Monday.) Anyone who has spent time in Washington knows government runs on process. There is a procedure for everything, and th ...
- 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 ...
- Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
- Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
- GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
- Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
- Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
- Why Are You Proud to Be An American? - unEARTH ...
Why Are You Proud to Be An American? unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Over our years of working to stop mountaintop removal mining, we at Earthjustice have met so many brave and dedicated people fighting for their commun... by Liz Judge: Spruce Court Decision: A Sad Day in West Virginia &midd ...
- Appalachia Turns on Itself - New York Times
Appalachia Turns on Itself New York Times ANYONE traveling on Interstate 77 just north of Charleston, W.Va., can't miss the billboard perched high above the traffic, proclaiming “Obama's No Jobs Zone,” a reference to increased regulations on the coal industry and mountaintop removal mini ...
- Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis ...
Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal ... Huffington Post (blog) As reports of revamped mountaintop removal operations and detonations continue to rock the electricity-bereft disaster areas in the West Virginia coalfields, ailing residents -- entering their s ...
- Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis ...
Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal ... AlterNet (blog) As reports of revamped mountaintop removal operations and detonations continue to rock the electricity-bereft disaster areas in the West Virginia coalfields, ailing residents — entering their second we ...
- LETTER: Help fight Round 2 iron mining - Super ...
LETTER: Help fight Round 2 iron mining Superior Telegram Walker signaled round two in the Penokee Mountain top removal fight, Bad River tribal elder Joe Rose and I were drinking coffee at the Golden Glow Café in Ashland. ... rights war, stopping local garbage incineration and Terra Energy from d ...
- M 5.2, near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:27:00 UTC Tuesday, July 10, 2012 07:27:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.70 km (19.70 mi)
- M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:28:12 UTC Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:28:12 PM at epicenterDepth: 18.10 km (11.25 mi)
- M 5.5, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Monday, July 9, 2012 19:25:08 UTC Tuesday, July 10, 2012 04:25:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 49.50 km (30.76 mi)
- M 5.6, eastern Mediterranean Sea
Monday, July 9, 2012 13:55:00 UTC Monday, July 9, 2012 04:55:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 56.50 km (35.11 mi)
- M 5.4, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Monday, July 9, 2012 12:25:46 UTC Monday, July 9, 2012 08:25:46 PM at epicenterDepth: 86.90 km (54.00 mi)
- China brings dams back to Africa
Chinese investors have broken a boycott on investment in African dams – and loosened the grip of the environment lobby. This is good news for the continent, water expert Mike Muller tells Olivia Boyd.Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He ...
- Beijing seeks to kill coal with gas
Public anger over air pollution has helped drive plans, once thought fanciful, to make a wholesale shift away from coal. But can other cities follow suit? An Geng and Xu Nan report.For Beijing, a wholesale switch from coal to natural gas was once considered a pipe dream. But today, a gas-powered ...
- Restoring eco balance
A 1970s botanist and his theory of ecological balance are all but forgotten in China. But the country needs them today more than ever, writes Jiang Gaoming.In the late 1970s, China was swept by a wave of economic growth, and with it a wholesale attack on nature. Grain was planted on grasslands a ...
- Restoring eco balance
A 1970s botanist and his theory of ecological balance are all but forgotten in China. But the country needs them today more than ever, writes Jiang Gaoming.In the late 1970s, China was swept by a wave of economic growth, and with it a wholesale attack on nature. Grain was planted on grasslands a ...
- Can Bhutan forge a new tourist path?
The Himalayan kingdom, until now wary of holidaymakers, is hoping to boost visitor numbers without tarnishing its environmental record. Tashi Dorji reports.Most of the 3,400 tourists who trekked the lush green mountains of Bhutan in 2011 were blithely unaware they were breaking the law of the la ...
- Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anon ...
One fine day, Sony called Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot to use a song of his in a commercial. Little did they think that the request to use the anthem extolling Anonymous and Bradley Manning would turn into an event, bringing Empire and Sony's longtime foe Anonymous together. Wired brings Em ...
- Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Postponed Unt ...
The United States' court case against Megaupload founders Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk for alleged copyright infringement was dealt another setback Tuesday, after the New Zealand extradition hearing for the four was moved to March 2013.
- Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in ...
A handful of pornography producers are being accused of racketeering, fraud, defamation and other charges in connection to their BitTorrent online litigation trolling strategies.
- Anonymous Group Says It Gave Syrian E-mails to ...
Days after WikiLeaks began releasing a trove of more than 2 million emails stolen from Syrian officials, ministries and companies, members of an Anonymous group have claimed responsibility for the hacks and document dump to Wikileaks.
- Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Mi ...
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.The companies said they were working around the clock and charging millions in fees to keep ...
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
- Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...
- Video: Translogic checks out the made-for-whee ...
Filed under: Videos, Hatchback, Specialty, Electric The people behind the subway-friendly, all-electric Kenguru have experienced many of the ups and downs that other start-up EV companies are all too familiar with. In fact, when you first go to the Kenguru website, it doesn't ask if you want ...
- Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...
- How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...
- Climate Change: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent “derecho” storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia. ...
- FRIDAY: Amy Goodman on HBO's Real Time with Bi ...
Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, June 29th at 10 pm ET.
- Big Money Wins in the Big Skies of Montana
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale,” William A. Clark reportedly said. He was one of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” a man who used his vast wealth to manipulate the state government and literally buy votes to make himself a U.S. senator. That was more tha ...
- Watch Democracy Now! Special: Supreme Court Up ...
A one-hour Democracy Now! special broadcast hosted by Amy Goodman, covering the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in upholding the Act, joining Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan ...
- Democracy Now! Live Coverage of U.S. Supreme C ...
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman will host a live one-hour broadcast on Thursday morning, June 28, covering the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Guests will include health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter, Georgetown Un ...
- The Post-Employee Economy
[click on the image for a larger version] By Conor Sen Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re taking our jobs, and are forcing us to reexamine how we value ourselves. Continue [...]
- Precious Metals Market Report – 7.12.12
“Keep Calm and Carry On” ~ British government advice regarding the possibility of invasion during WWII By Catherine Austin Fitts It’s time for the Precious Metals Market Report. As a Solari Report subscriber, you surely know that markets are managed – they do not function according to fr ...
- Oil: The Next Revolution
Published by Harvard University Whatever the future, the analysis reported in this paper reveals some important points: • Oil is not in short supply. From a purely physical point of view, there are huge volumes of conventional and unconventional oils still to be developed, with no “peak-oil” i ...
- Money & Markets – Week of 7.8.12
Germans Oppose Further Euro Crisis Bailouts Spiegel on Line (6 July 12)
- Geopolitical – Week of 7.8.12
U.S Military’s Robot Soldiers by Boston Dynamics BIGDOG Robot YouTube (11 March 12) Sikorsky, U.S. Sign $7.3 Billion Black Hawk Order Yahoo Finance (8 July 12) [click on the image for a larger version] US After Large-scale War in Middle [...]
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
- Ignorance and propaganda about extreme cliamte ...
Summary: Another post showing that we’re ignorant because we listen to journalists. Why do these people get airtime when the US has thousands of articulate experts on every subject? Today we look at the nattering that too often passes for debate about the important topic of climate change ...
- Roubini tells us some harsh truths about the p ...
Summary: In this July 7 interview on Bloomberg TV, Nouriel Roubini tells us how our folly has brought us to the brink of another economic downturn. Perhaps worse than the crash in Winter 2008, since we’re in many ways weaker than we were then. We’ve wasted the time bought us by th ...
- A lesson from history about wasted valor, for ...
Summary: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other small wars we have and are fought. All fruitless in terms of our nation’s needs. All fought at great personal cost by our troops, up to and including the ultimate payment. But no nation can continue to waste the valor of its troops in s ...
- Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”: post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions. This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Questio ...
- Three important things to know about todayR ...
Summary: Looking at today’s employment report (PDF here) we can draw three big conclusions. Oddly enough, these are not obvious to all. Contents The change in June was statistically about zero The cumulative change over the past year was very small This is bad news; worse might lie ahead ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
- Peter Piot's Memoir on Infectious Disease
I just finished reading Peter Piot's lively memoir No Time to Lose of his time as an epidemiologist helping identify the Ebola virus in the 1970s through to his service as the first director of UNAIDS. It is an engaging read not least because Piot conveys a profound empathy for those a ...
- All at Sea: the Future of Western Navies
Admiral, the Lord Nelson, one-time senior naval super-person, once said that, “Desperate affairs require desperate measures”. Had he attended the Royal United Services Institute Future Maritime Operations Conference 2012 in London he might have amended that to read, “Desperate ...
- Afghanistan Update: 900+ Days to Go
There are roughly 900 days to go until NATO plans to shift responsibility for combat operations to Afghan forces in December 31, 2014. This is a long time and the timetable could shift through progress or frustration, but the force that will assume the lead for combat is being built today. While ...
- South Sudan at One: Why Cows Matter
The World Food Programme began food distribution on 12 January for 19,000 internally displaced persons in Pibor, Jonglei State. Some 60,000 people in the state have been displaced over the past few weeks by inter-communal violence between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes. Photos: Isaac ...
- Morsi’s Counter Coup
President Mohammed Morsi’s July 8 decree (Arabic text) calling the dissolved parliament back into session has stunned all of Egypt and set off heated debates about whether the move is even legal, let alone advisable. At the same time, it should not be entirely surprising: the Muslim ...
- Vive la France!
Yes, folks, it's another Tigger day. Last week, while I was talking about how straight people changed marriage so that same-sex couples now belong in it, the new French government announced that it will gender-neutralize the entrance requirements for marriage early next year, which will also gr ...
- Giving Local Food the Raspberry
(Flickr / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) The sustainable-food movement has finally been around long enough to face its first cold front. Pickled okra, critics want the world to know, is not as desirable as sales at the Prospect Park farmers market might indicate. The most r ...
- A Test of Ideology
Texas has a higher proportion of its population living without health insurance than any other state. But like many other states with lots of poor people, it has the misfortune of being governed by Republicans. That explains why yesterday, Governor Rick Perry announced that the state will refus ...
- The Fundamentals Are Still in Obama's Corner
The latest poll from The Washington Post and ABC News reflects a point I’ve been making for awhile: The presidential race is basically stable. If the election were held today, 47 percent of voters would support Barack Obama, and 47 percent would support Mitt Romney. Moreover, the bulk of these ...
- When Is Judicial Behavior Political?
The debates about Chief Justice Roberts’s motivations for his health-care opinion rage on with new leaks appearing almost every day. Randy Barnett responds to Jonathan Adler’s attempt at showing that Roberts’s opinion is quite consistent with his past judgments: But this does not [make] his ben ...
- Three Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated ...
PAUL BUCCHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT My own generation faced the Vietnam War. We were at risk of getting drafted, and then maimed or killed in an unwinnable battle against imagined evils.read more
- Mitt Romney's Current Focus: The Conservative ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Several years ago, when Mitt Romney was merely a multi-millionaire Massachusetts politician, he couldn't locate the conservative Christian evangelical movement with a GPS or MapQuest. Over the past few years however, Romney and his team have been holding ...
- The United States Is Profoundly Uncomfortable ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "We have always been at war with Eastasia," George Orwell wrote in "1984." That's the spartan message a women named Emily Othus e-mailed me in January, and it has been sitting there in my inbox like a chicken bone caught in my throat. From time to tim ...
- Is It Time for a Human Preservation Movement?
JEREMY BRECHER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A quarter-century ago, when "Save the Whales!" was a popular slogan, a New Yorker cartoon showed one whale asking another, "But can they save themselves?" In the early 21st century, experts and ordinary people alike are asking each other how we humans ca ...
- Support Negotiations, Not War, With Iran
MARY FRANCIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Hawks in the U.S. and Israel believe military action against Iran is justified because Iran enriches uranium for its nuclear power plants and medical uses. This enrichment activity is entirely legal under the Treaty for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Wea ...
- Blog plugin KCite excites research papers
I just discovered the KCite WordPress plugin from a team at my alma mater which lets you improve reference citations in your blog Install and activate the plugin and surround any DOI or PMID number with the following tags: [cite][/cite] and the link becomes automagically active. A mouseover brin ...
- Alchemical chemistry news
The Alchemist gets down and dirty with the geckos this week, or not, as the case may be. Meanwhile learns how to make multi-layered graphene flakes with ultrasound and finds caffeine, cocaine and more in ultratrace quantities in the water supply. In ancient news, we hear that Libyans have been d ...
- Peter Higgs and the chocolate cookie
Back in 1993, the then UK Science Minister, William Waldegrave (remember him?) launched a competition for the best lay explanation of the Higgs boson and how it might theoretically endow other particles with mass. The prize-winning Higgs analogy came from Professor David Miller of University Col ...
- The Demi God Particle
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Confidence ...
- We’ve observed a new particle #Higgs
We had the leaked CERN Higgs video yesterday, thanks to Kate Travis who unearthed it first, I do believe, well ahead of the rest of the media. It was playable for a while, then CERN cut it off. I hadn’t been quick enough to save the movie file from their server and couldn’t resurrect ...
- Green Building Consultant Releases “Water Wars ...
Sustainability planning, green building and water efficiency consultant, Jerry Yudelson, released a three-part video series aimed at preventing future urban water crises through public education.Tucson, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 10, 2012 Noted green building expert, author, water crisis guru and sustai ...
- July 4 'water wars' let loose at Dana ...
Dana Point Harbor's informal Independence Day tradition, "water wars," in which hundreds of participants of all ages celebrate by fighting one another with water cannons, fire hoses and buckets, served as the wilder, wetter alternative Wednesday to...
- Former presidential candidate Gary Hart takes ...
Former Sen. Gary Hart writes about national and international issues in his nonfiction books. "Durango" is a novel, but Hart still manages to include a cause — the Animas-La Plata storage project near Durango.
- Water Wars Not Over
APALACHICOLA, FL- The legal battle over water from Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system appeared to be over after the supreme court refused to hear Florida's latest appeal. But members of Apalachicola Riverkeeper say that may not be the case.
- What Others Say: State wins battle in 'wat ...
Most of the media coverage centered on the high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decisions on immigration and Obamacare.
- Despite Cautious Cost Reduction Projections, I ...
Expectations in the battery industry were, until recently, that the cost of Lithium-Ion, sodium nickel chloride (known as ZEBRA), and vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) would plummet to less than $200/KWh in the next decade. Instead, Lux Research has released a market report that says that th ...
- Attorney General Holder On State Voter ID Laws ...
HOUSTON, Texas — As conservatives threaten the voting rights of millions of Americans with new voter ID laws, Attorney General Eric Holder shot back on Tuesday, calling the laws an unconstitutional “poll tax.” During a speech to the national NAACP Convention, Holder denounced the fact that ...
- 130 House Members File Amicus Brief Against DOMA
130 House members, led by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Steny Hoyer (D-MD), filed an amicus brief today making a federal case against the Defense of Marriage Act’s constitutionality. The brief weighs in on the legal challenge that Karen Go ...
- Medical Marijuana On The Ballot In Massachusetts
An initiative to allow the use of medical marijuana will be on the ballot this November in Massachusetts. This makes the state the fourth to tackle medical marijuana this year, joining Colorado, Washington State and Montana in considering the issue. A survey of voters in Massachusetts found supp ...
- Anita Sarkeesian, Stephanie Guthrie, And The S ...
I know I’ve been writing a lot about Anita Sarkeesian, the Feminist Frequency video blogger whose attempts to raise money to fund a series examining the portrayal of women in video games resulted in vicious, sexist attacks on her—and much higher levels of contributions to her project than ...
- A Couple of Things ...
First off is a recommendation that you read Haroon Siddiqui's "West Speaks with a Forked Tongue on the Arab Spring." It's a pretty clear and coherent defence of what is happening in Egypt with a clear and coherent critique of Western hypocrisy:We profess fidelity to democracy, especi ...
- Irrelevance
John Baird is irrelevant. He's a rat, too fucked-up and stupid to realize that he's on a sinking ship. He's an incompetent blowhard and an international embarrassment for Canada. More to today's point, ... his own government's cavalier response to accusations of Canadian complicity in torture ...
- WTF???
Via Dawg's Blawg, we find a curious last-minute ploy by Elections Canada with regards to Ted Opitz's desperate attempts to retain his stolen election in Etobicoke-Centre:Elections Canada has filed a chart with the Supreme Court, showing that 44 of the 52 people whose ballots were discarded due ...
- Discouraged Workers, Deficits and the Whole Da ...
The Progressive Economics Forum summarizes the latest StatsCan labour report. 17,000 workers dropped out of a job market that has only produced 7,000 jobs for a labour force that grew by 30,000 in June. Here's a good (old) article about how the real source of stephen harper's deficits have been ...
- "Find one voter who didn't vote because of our ...
There were an UNPRECEDENTED number of complaints about electoral irregularities arising out of the 2011 federal election. Call centres, in the pay of the Conservative Party of Canada, were (among other things) giving voters deliberately false information about polling stations moving to new loca ...
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- TSA Continues To Expand Operations Outside Of ...
March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “If you don’t think the TSA is out of control yet, read this article.” –KTRN Through so-called VIPR teams, meaning Visual Intermodal Protection and Response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a child agency o ...
- Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...
- Gold Juniors to Explode?
March 30, 2012 321 Gold By Scott Wright Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered. The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly re ...
- Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
America no longer has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. KT tells you what went wrong and how we can fix it. Plus, Dr. Josh Axe, author of The Real Food Diet Cookbook, stops by to talk with Kevin about eating real, healthy food. Self Help: Global Information Network Your Wish Is Your ...
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
- British farmers told to grow curry ingredients ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Farming chickpeas and spices would open up new markets and reduce dependence on imports, a new report says Growing ingredients for Indian curries such as chickpeas for roti flour as well as a range of ex ...
- Monsanto Launches Massive Campaign Against GMO ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com July 10, 2012 We’ve gone on at great lengths discussing the dangers of genetic modification. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been linked to weight gain and organ function disruption, while GMO crops ...
- 14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder The American Dream July 10, 2012 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 e ...
- Venezuela’s Chavez insists he is cancer-free
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story CARACAS ” Firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted that he is “totally” cancer-free and ready to take on what promises to be a tough’re-election battle without “p ...
- Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Swanson Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. ...
- “Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives” ...
Dandelion Salad Jul 9, 2012 by greenman3610 Don’t miss the Companion video at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media yaleclimatemediaforum [see below] Dallas Hail Storm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47836374/ns/weather/t/dallas-hailstorms-pack-bill… http://www.wfaa.com/news/l ...
- Thomas Drake: After 9/11, NSA had secret deal ...
Dandelion Salad Jul 9, 2012 by RussiaToday RT talks to former a National Security Agency executive in the US [Thomas Drake] who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. ‘After 9/11 NSA had secret deal with White House’ see Blowing the whistle on Obama ...
- Poe’s Purloined Letter and Musings About ...
by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) July 9, 2012 I have never been one to take the bait of the red herring of the so-called evolution/creation debate because it is so charged with a political power play on both sides, and al ...
- To Be Or Not To Be… Subversive by Chris ...
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 9, 2012 Cultures that endure carve out a protected space for those who question and challenge national myths. Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians, actors, directors and renegades must be t ...
- Surviving Progress (2011)
Dandelion Salad Jun 10, 2012 by SurvivingProgress Film about the risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress; connecting financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind. ©2011Cinémaginaire Inc. – Film Progreso Inc. Invisible Hand ...
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This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
- Lia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis Join “C ...
On Friday, June 22 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the ...
On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Jonathan Cook: The evil of humanitarian wars
Societies cannot have democracy imposed from without, as though it were an item to be ordered from a lunch menu. The West’s democracies, imperfect as they are, were fought for by their peoples over... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Author: Israel can claim the title of the most ...
Sami Michael: "Israel is in danger unless its leadership understands it isn't located in Europe's tranquil north but in the Middle East's seething center," said Michael. "We may lose everything.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Akiva Eldar: Palestinian disinheritance sponso ...
It's a shame the police don't show the same determination treating the settlers who invade private Palestinian land as they do evicting the temporary settlers on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard. It's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The International Criminal Court handed down the sentence for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, who received 14 years’ imprisonment for conscripting, enlisting and using children under the age of 15 to participate actively in hostilities. The time since March 16, ...
- Lubanga Sentenced to Fourteen Years
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first person convicted at the ICC, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison. From the Court’s press release: Today, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to a total ...
- Final days to complete the Readers’ Survey
by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Dear Readers, thank you very much to all our readers who have already taken the time to complete our Readers’ Survey. The survey closes at midnight on July 12, Pacific time, so we hope that those who haven’t had a chance to complete it yet, will do so ...
- Is American Foreign Policy Christian? A Conver ...
by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Over at the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion Forum, my colleague Mark Movsesian has posted a fascinating conversation with Professor Andrew Preston (Cambridge), author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of the Faith. Preston’s book examine ...
- Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 9, 2012
by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre re-enacted their escape in Bosnia this weekend ahead of Ratko Mladic’s trial, which resumed today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Tomorrow, the International Crimi ...
- Group Working to Undo Citizens United
Group Working to Undo Citizens United PHOENIX - According to people working to undo Citizens United, that Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited political contributions is so unpopular it won't be the law of the land much longer. The group Move to Amend says corpo ...
- A los educadores se les “cede el paso ...
A los educadores se les “cede el paso” en tarifas de curso de manejo este verano PHOENIX – Durante verano es cuando el tráfico se pone más pesado en las autopistas, especialmente entre el 4 de julio y Labor Day. Este verano, la AARP ofrece un descuento en el curso de ...
- Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course
Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course PHOENIX - Summer is the heaviest time for traffic on American highways, especially around July 4 and then again around Labor Day. This summer, AARP is offering a discounted driver safety course to any current or former employee of a school dis ...
- Poll Shows Democrats Lead Growing Among Latino ...
Poll Shows Democrats Lead Growing Among Latino Voters PHOENIX - President Obama has received a bump in support from Latino voters as a result of recent events. That's one finding of a new poll taken in five potential battleground states, including Arizona. The poll also found Arizona Latinos put ...
- Health Reform Focus now on Arizona Decision-Ma ...
Health Reform Focus now on Arizona Decision-Makers PHOENIX – Arizona's leaders have some big decisions to make now that the U.S. Supreme Court has largely upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among them are expansion of the state's AHCCCS indigent health care program and creation of a st ...
- This is Your Meat on Drugs. CFS Joins Consumer ...
The Center for Food Safety has joined Consumers Union and Fix Food for the launch of “Meat Without Drugs,” a campaign urging supermarkets to only sell meat raised without antibiotics. The campaign’s first target is Trader Joe’s, one of the leading national supermarket chains best poised to make ...
- 250,000+ to EPA: Time for Emergency Action on ...
Beekeepers, Environmental Groups Still on Hold for Agency Response to Legal Petition Citing “Imminent” Harm to Bees A coalition of environmental groups and beekeepers submitted over 250,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging immediate suspension of a pesticide l ...
- The Sanders Amendment on GE Labeling Fails in ...
Last week the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment supporting the rights of states to enact their own laws requiring the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods. Offered by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Mark Begich (D-AK) to the Senate Farm Bill, the amendment faile ...
- Farm Groups and Public Interest Advocates Join ...
Hidden rider poses unprecedented constitutional assault, blocks USDA authority and denies GE crop safeguards The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of farm, food safety, environmental and consumer advocacy groups today formally submitted a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Co ...
- Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...
- .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
- GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
- A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
- The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
- The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...
- Grain
I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
- Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
- The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“, asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
- Magic Wands Almost Possible
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...
- Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...
- Kangaroo cull
Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
- Environmental News 01/06/2012
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
- Green Capital Australia
Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
- Environmental News 31/05/2012
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
- Environmental News 30/05/2012
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Spooked rare cockatoos fly away from Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo is calling on the public to help find three rare red-tailed black cockatoos after they were spooked by four sea eagles during a bird show at 3pm on Monday and flew away, spokesman Mark Willi ...
- Susya
June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
- My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
- Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
- “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
- Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...
- 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 ...
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
- Putting the K back in Skeptic
I received this email today. It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic, (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though ) due to your high profile interes ...
- Are Climate Models Spatially Consistent?
An interesting link left by Curious on the open thread. I will read later. –Jeff h/t Curious, HR at Watts Up tips and notes: http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/2409/2012/cpd-8-2409-2012.pdf Climate of the last millennium:ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions O. Bothe, J. ...
- Descent
Today’s supreme court “health sickness care” ruling is an enormous blow to Americans. Our past successes have been created by a governmental philosophy of ‘the people know best’. Today we are told that in fact, ‘government knows best’. They flat stated, ...
- Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivi ...
Nic Lewis has spent a great deal of time analyzing this important paper in climate science. He has posted an article at Climate etc., readers may comment here or there, Nic will be around to answer technical quesitons. — Jeff Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivity study by Nicho ...
- Penguin Divination
Climate science hasn’t changed a bit since climategate. Sure there are now some climate scientists trying to find a middle ground between insane liberal energy activism and reality, but why is anything other than simple reality necessary? A slow path to Euro-crazy politics is still the wro ...
Indian kids (Photo credit: Ben Sutherland)
CHICAGO, IL - JANUARY 13: Former media baron Conrad Black (R) arrives at the Dirksen Federal Building for a status hearing on his criminal conviction January 13, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Black, who has served 2 years of a 6 1/2 year prison term, was released on bail in July while the court reexamines his case. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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