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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

10 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Yasser Arafat with other engineering ...English: Yasser Arafat with other engineering students at Cairo University. He is the second from right (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook adds music sharing feature, total Spo ...
    Some artists’ Facebook pages now include an option for fans to search for and share Spotify links to their favorite songs, as well as a way for users to see which songs, videos and news stories related to an artist … Continue reading →
  • TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, SongPop, SimCity S ...
    TripAdvisor again takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 540,000 and 2.1 million … Continue reading →
  • Facebook now allows pages to make ‘unpublished ...
      Facebook recently added an option for pages to make “unpublished” posts through the Pages API. Unpublished posts do not appear on a page’s Timeline or in fans’ News Feeds, but they can be promoted with ads. Facebook ad and … Continue reading →
  • Face.com shuts down API and Klik mobile app fo ...
    Three weeks after being acquired by Facebook, Face.com announced it will shut down its facial recognition APIs and it has already removed its mobile app Klik from the App Store. The Israeli company built facial recognition software for web and … Continue reading →
  • Facebook and CNN team up for U.S. presidential ...
    Facebook has partnered with CNN to offer apps and insights related to the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the social network announced today. Facebook and CNN will launch an “I’m Voting” application for users to commit to vote and endorse particular … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
    Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.
  • The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
  • Palestinians, beware false friends
    Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
  • Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
    Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
  • An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
    Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Silicon Spies: The US governmen ...
    Earlier this week Wired Magazine released a background check of Steve Jobs conducted by the Department of Defense in 1988. The background check highlights Jobs’ use of LSD in the 1970s and his fears of blackmail or kidnapping due to his substantial wealth. The check was part of a security ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 11, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay International Newsworthy Iran Wants Leadership at OPEC Tensions Rise again Between Iran & ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    John Lee Hooker This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is all about me. Tonight we’re featuring my all-time favorite singer John Lee Hooker. I’ve got a good size collection of his CD’s and never ever tire of his music. When it comes to the Blues, John Lee is/was the man! Tonight we ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • War on Whistleblowers: Manning & Assange Just ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Worst Person in the World?
    This woman (and I use the term loosely) is going to start a war. She's already laying the groundwork for World War 3 and it appears that she has Obama's blessing. On Friday in Paris, she slammed both China and Russia for blocking military intervention in Syria.
  • Romney's Disastrous Prescription for the Black ...
    GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has managed an incredible feat. In a Google search of millions of references of his campaign speeches, interviews, and his writings, I could not find a single word that he has written or spoken about the greatest economic crisis that faces any of the nation ...
  • Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101
    Hillary Clinton's outbursts reflect bullying, bluster, and imperial arrogance, not diplomacy.
  • Israel: land of Inequality and Injustice
    Conditions go from bad to worse. Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians suffer.
  • Assange's Last Stand?
    If there was ever a clear-cut case of good versus evil, then surely it is the contest between Julian Assange and most of the world's governments. They hate him because he exposed their lies, their manipulations, and their routine violations of the most elementary rules of human decency. The US g ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Why are some members of Congress fighting to p ...
    Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco “America’s continued global competiveness in the 21st century will be significantly affected by whether we can efficiently produce and distribute electricity to our bu ...
  • Writing on the Wall: Illinois EPA Throws in Ca ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL Sometimes it is important to beat a supposedly dead horse, especially when that horse can make bad legal precedent.  News out of the Illinois EPA (“IEPA”) – ac ...
  • 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 ...
  • Dave Matthews Band on Deforestation: We need t ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Stefan Lessard, founding member of Dave Matthews Band, recently wrote an editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which condemned efforts to undermine a critical U.S. law that is he ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Inevitability of Strategic Voting at the S ...
    One interesting thing to me about the thread on the Kagan/Breyer Medicaid vote is the number of commenters who seem to think that strategic voting by Supreme Court justices is inherently problematic. Pithlord expresses this sentiment in its most extreme form: Scott, this post strikes me as reall ...
  • The Problems with Zinn
    History News Network has a poll up right now asking readers to vote for the least credible history book in print. I’ve read two of the five: Zinn’s People History and Gavin Menzies’ 1421. The latter is the worst book I’ve ever read. It would be laughable if people didn&#8 ...
  • Hack of the Day
    Michael Gerson. I’m so old I remember when Gerson was allegedly the reasonable, moderate, thinking person’s Republican because when he favored the same upper-class tax cuts as other Republicans, he added some talk about how he’d really like it if these polices reduced poverty.
  • Snappy Answers to Idiotic Smear Jobs
    Disturbing as the use of Revolutionary Fonts of anti-American sentiment might be, I must agree that this is the appropriate response: “Your GOP operative should have had the courtesy to stay sober before noon, and BuzzFeed should go back to labeling cat slideshows.” I also like the idea of to re ...
  • Black Lung
    NPR, along with Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo, provide the day’s most powerful and disturbing story: the return of black lung disease to coal miners. Despite the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which was groundbreaking workplace safety legislation, not only have coal miners been ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Copper Exposure Increases Salmon Vulnerability ...
    Exposure to even tiny amounts of copper can impair a salmon’s ability to detect and evade predator species, a new study has found. While salmon typically become still and alert after they smell a compound called Schreckstoff, which is released when a fish is damaged nearby, Washington State Univ ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...
  • Water Use by Tourists Outstrips Water Use By L ...
    The disproportionate use of freshwater by tourists in resorts across the developing world exacerbates the poverty of local residents and in some cases has triggered conflicts, a new report says. In a study of five tourist destinations — including Bali, Zanzibar, and Goa and Kerala in southern In ...
  • Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
    American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Gang of Four: Presidents propose power of ...
    European leaders have drafted a radical plan to turn the 17 countries of the eurozone into a full-fledged political federation within a decade in an attempt to placate the financial markets by demonstrating a political will to save the single currency in the medium-term. Herman Van Rompuy of the ...
  • Three Legged Bear No Bigfoot
    In this video, a 3 legged bear adapts to its situation and walks upright. It’s impressive, but it eerily mimics many witness reports of the elusive ’Sasquatch’. Could this behaviour account for some of those reports? Video from: YouTube.com
  • The Elliot Lake mall collapse: Official Demoli ...
    Video from: YouTube.com DEMOLISH WITH SURVIVORS INSIDE?? Video from: YouTube.com The Elliot Lake mall collapse and going ‘missing’ in the digital age By Matt Gurney | NationalPost.com On Saturday, a rooftop parking lot collapsed into a busy shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ont. One person is believ ...
  • Prediction: Global Warming Will Cause Everything!
    The following news headline appeared on the internet last week: "Scientists warn global warming will fuel spread of ticks that carry Lyme disease." The corresponding article begins this way: Another effect of climate change may be crawling up your leg this summer as you frolic in the woods. Scie ...
  • Madonna using ’DNA sterilization’ team on tour
    Madonna doesn’t want you to have her DNA. The pop star apparently uses a "DNA Sterilization Team" on her current tour, according to Britain’s Daily Mail. The team cleans and disinfects each dressing room Madonna uses on the tour, literally wiping away any trace of the singer. "We have to take ex ...

Russia Today

  • Russian Church defends Brits who lost jobs for ...
    The Russian Orthodox Church has stepped in to support two British women who are taking their case for wearing religious symbols at work to the European Court of Human Rights. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘America’s Syrian friends and Afghan foes are ...
    It’s puzzling how the US can treat radical Islamists in Syria as allies while fighting against them as enemies in Afghanistan, says the chair of the Russian parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russian Wikipedia protests online censorship w ...
    The Russian version of Wikipedia has declared a 24-hour-long boycott in protest against a child protection bill, which the community says paves the way for internet censorship in Russia. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • French hostage crisis deflates: Gunman arrested
    After hours of stand-off, French police have taken in custody an armed man, who took hostage several people at a Paris suburbs school. He surrendered without incident, police reported. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Disaster-united communities rebuilding after d ...
    Search and rescue is over in southern Russia, where flash floods have killed 171 people. The Emergencies Ministry is focusing on rebuilding the water-damaged cities. Residents are trying to cope with the terrible losses... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Workers got nothing for the dues money wasted ...
    From hot dogs to slick ads: Unions spent $4.4 billion on politics in past 6 years ___The union hacks seem to think that they can bribe and buy their way forward, however the union membership actually got virtually nothing from all the money the union bureaucrats wasted on trying to manipulate th ...
  • US-NATO out of Pakistan and Out of Afghanistan ...
    Pakistanis protest NATO route reopening ___We have no right to be killing people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  • The real reason why Mexico can’t hold an ...
    Mexican leftist candidate wants presidential election annulled ___The real reason why Mexico can’t hold an honest election, is that the US government colludes, time after time, in rubber stamping its approval for allowing Mexican presidential candidates the US wants in top office to commit ...
  • Now is the time of the Biggest Financial Scand ...
    Where is British Occupy? Where are they? Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened? by ALEXANDER COCKBURN This commentary by Cockburn only goes to demonstrate that Occupy’s tactics and operations do need to be discussed out some and not jus ...
  • Zapiro vs Zuma- We need Shapiro over here in ...
    ___Zapiro is a South African cartoonist who is in trouble with the President of that country, Zuma, because he is always drawing him as a big bad penis which Zuma is! Zapiro Check out here also More Zapiro ___ Now, can we find an American Zapiro to draw us Hillary and Barack?

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Andy Griffith VS the PATRIOT ACT
    Published on Jul 5, 2012 by Cincinnati911Truth Rest in Peace Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 -- July 3, 2012) Related: The Patriot Act was planned before 9/11: Major Wars and Suppression of American Freedoms Planned BEFORE 9/11
  • Why False Flag Terrorism Works. 911 Truth and ...
  • And they say I'm paranoid!
    Ground to air missiles are to be deployed in London, ready defend the skies from a terrorist attack during the Olympics. Anyone who thinks this is justified needs to admit themselves to an asylum for people more delusional and paranoid than even the most stereotypical tinfoil hat-wearing conspi ...
  • 6 more "insane" conspiracies that actually hap ...
    One popular humour website I enjoy reading is Cracked.com. I like learning about terrifying insects and fish and reasons why my sci-fi fantasies will probably never come true. Every now and then though they do articles on conspiracy theories and make them out to be insane. Two weeks ago, they pu ...
  • Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth
    Please join me at my new Yahoo group Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth. Description: Hello, John-Michael Talboo from the Debunking the Debunkers blog here, located at http://911debunkers.blogspot.com. Welcome to Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth, a group for people from the Keystone State who questi ...

Fooducate

  • The OMG Diet – Motivating Teens to be Skinnier ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Want to lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks?  There is a big hoopla around a new book – Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends – which touts cold baths ...
  • Soda and Cancer?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! The American Cancer Society recently called on the US Surgeon General to conduct a comprehensive review on the effects sugary drinks have on obesity. Dick Woodruff, vi ...
  • Maltodextrin – What is it Doing in Your Food?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Maltodextrin is one of the most asked about ingredients found on food packaging. It is present in about 10% of packaged food products. So what exactly is maltodextrin? ...
  • How to Burn 800 Calories in Just 30 Minutes
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Did you really think it’s that easy  to burn off 800 calories ?!? While some elite athletes can do it, for most of us it would take at least an hour or two of moderate ...
  • Don’t be a “Dumb” Vegetarian
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App!  This is a guest blog post by Lior Torenberg Being a 16-year-old girl, I have a seemingly unlimited threshold of energy befitting my age group, but this is a relativel ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • Guarani leader killed in road accident in Brazil
    Many Guarani face huge risks after being forced to live in makeshift camps on the roadside. © Sarah Shenker/Survival One of the Guarani tribe’s most respected spokesmen, José de Almeida Barbosa, has died in a road accident in Brazil. Zezinho, as he was generally known, had just retur ...
  • Amazon Indians demand Italian priest’s expulsi ...
    Italian Priest Miguel Piovesan who backs the road, with Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. © Anon Amazon Indians in Peru have demanded the expulsion of a controversial Italian priest, accusing him of ‘racism and aggression’ over his role in promoting the construction of a new road, which the ...
  • Alarmed UK MPs urge Brazil to save Earth’s mos ...
    Brazil’s Awá tribe are the Earth's most threatened tribe. © Survival Dozens of British politicians are calling on Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe by halting illegal logging and land invasions in their territory. Expressing their ‘concern’ and ‘alarm’ to the UK Parliament ...
  • Ranchers burn bridges in anti-Indian protest
    Xavante Indians protest for land rights at Rio+20 © G1 Ranchers are blocking roads, burning bridges, and threatening Brazilian Indians in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land. The violence began after the Brazilian courts ruled that the ranchers must be removed imminen ...
  • India bans controversial tourist resort but fa ...
    Tourists who use the Andaman Trunk Road for ‘human safaris’ are exploiting India’s Jarawa tribe. © Survival The controversial tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India’s government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffe ...

Greg Palast

  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
  • The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
    by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...
  • Palast London Events Schedule
    Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's  100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Live From DC: IACC Event
    Katie Wright, Mark Blaxill, Jen Larsen. Watch a short video from the Autism Community Speaks Out About IACC Failure. The registration desk opens at 8:00 a.m. Eastern for members of the public attending in person, and the meeting will also...
  • The Feds Fail Autism: Watch the IACC Meeting O ...
    Watch the IACC Meeting Where Parents Will Call Out the Federal Government Failures in Autism Treatment and Prevention The U.S. government has again failed at autism treatment and prevention, says a coalition of autism advocates representing tens of thousands of...
  • Follow IACC Meeting LiveStream from your iPhone
    Stream the press conference from your iphone. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ustream/id301520250?mt=8 http://ustream.tv username: CanaryParty password: Tweetstream1
  • Best of AofA: Why Autism is Like Watergate
    We'll have news from Washington DC from the IACC meeting later today. You can participate online or by conference call (see below.) Dan Olmsted's report on the parallels of Watergate and the mishandling of the autism epidemic seemed an appropriate...
  • Enough is Enough
    By Melissa Christopher When do you hit the point at which enough is enough? My name is Melissa and I was torn apart by autism; the fabric of my life was rent into tatters. My son was injured by vaccines...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Russia rights groups fear crackdown as law changes
    Reuters – Russia’s lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a law that would brand many rights and campaign groups “foreign agents”, a move opponents say is an attempt to stifle protests against Vladimir Putin. The law, presented by the president&# ...
  • US: Kansas: Groups debate over fluoridation of ...
    MSNBC – A familiar debate surrounding the fluoridation of Wichita water is back. Those for and against are raising awareness of the issue and want you to know more about your drinking water. Read article
  • Syria: Annan holds ‘constructive’ ...
    BBC – He told reporters they had “agreed an approach” to end the violence, and he would share this with rebel groups. Mr Annan admitted on Saturday that the international community’s efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence had not succeeded. A ceas ...
  • DR Congo rebels ‘advance on Goma’
    BBC – The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has expressed alarm as rebel forces advance towards the country’s main eastern city of Goma. Witnesses told the BBC that rebels of the M23 group were 40km (25 miles) from the city, near the Rwandan border. They said rebels appe ...
  • News Archive In Focus – Education (415 articles)
    A right to education has been created and recognized by the European Convention on Human Rights and, at the global level, the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees this right. Despite this edict, education in its broadest, is still not co ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.

water.org

  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
    Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Clinton: Assad's Days Are Numbered
    by Stephen Lendman At a Tokyo Afghan donor's conference, Clinton barely stopped short of declaring war. Time is running out to save Syria, she told reporters. Kofi Annan's admission about peace failing is a "wake-up call for everyone." "The sand is running out of the hourglass." ...
  • Sham Libyan Elections
    by Stephen Lendman In 2011, Washington-led NATO forces destroyed Libya. It was ravaged, not liberated. Humanitarian intervention was cover to wage war. "Responsibility to protect (R2P)" was subterfuge to colonize and plunder another country. Tens of thousands were killed. Vital soci ...
  • Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101
    by Stephen Lendman Hillary Clinton's outbursts reflect bullying, bluster, and imperial arrogance, not diplomacy. More on her strong-arm tactics below. On July 6, Friends of Syria met in Paris. Tunis and Istanbul meetings preceded this one. Conflicting reports said representatives from 6 ...
  • It's Complicated
    By Timothy V. Gatto There is a stir in the air. Something is changing but I don’t think that anyone can actually put their finger on it. People are just tired, tired and disgusted. They don’t seem to believe anyone or anything anymore. The trustful population of a sleeping nation ...
  • TPP: A Trade Deal from Hell
    by Stephen Lendman Obama and political Washington support an alphabet soup of repressive police state laws, other freedom destroying measures, and hellish trade deals. SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA threaten online freedom. Free speech and civil protections are endangered species. So are other in ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The Dark Side of Investment Agreements: Video
    Movements around the world have put the spotlight on bailouts and tax evasion that have enriched the 1% at the expense of the 99% but this is only part of the picture. Now the Transnational Institute (TNI) has launched a new accessible popular video animation that exposes how inte ...
  • CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an E ...
    Join CCPA-NS and its community of supporters on October 25th for its 5th annual fund raising gala. World-renown CCPA economist, Armine Yalnizyan, will deliver an address on the current federal government's agenda of austerity.  This will be a must-see for any Nova Scotian. Purchase tickets ...
  • CCPA's National Office is moving!
    The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
  • Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...
  • Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
    In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Jordanian parliment member throws shoe, pulls gun on critic on live TVTalk about must-see TV. In Jordan, a furious TV debate turned into a YouTube moment when a member of parliament threw a shoe and pulled a gun on his rival. The scene has been replayed on the Web more than 110,000 times, and co ...
  • That Weed You’re Smoking May Actually Help Pro ...
    By Richard Gray,telegraph.co.uk - Researchers have discovered two compounds from cannabis leaves that can increase the amount of energy the body burns. Test in animals have already shown the compounds can help treat type two diabetes while also helping to reduce levels of cholesterol in the bloo ...
  • Israel’s social protest: Will you stand with t ...
    By Udi Pladott,.haaretz.com - Do Israelis involved in the social protest movement really have a moral argument for affordable housing in Tel Aviv while, only a few kilometers away, the same system of power targeted by protesters has turned entire villages into refugee camps? “If you have c ...
  • Worldwide Hippies takes no Corporate Money But ...
    Worldwide Hippies: Hip Poetry Book Hip poetry 2012 is an original work like no other, includes over 250 pages of poetry, essays, and fiction from more than 50 of the most renowned and well-versed artists of our time, some representative of the “hippie” era, and some younger, fresher voices. all ...
  • Julian Assange The World Tomorrow : Anwar Ibrahim
    Published by AssangeWorldTomorrow Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has twice been imprisoned after what he calls politically-motivated cases. But he keeps fighting for democracy in a country he brands less democratic than even Burma. Ibrahim’s opposition party is gaining more and ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Renewable Energy — Facts and Figures
    Today’s article is the 5th and final installment of my graphical look at the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous installments were: How Much Oil is Left in the World? How Much Oil Does the World Produce? World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shocke ...
  • Announcing Energy Trends Insider
    Consumer Energy Report covers a wide variety of energy topics, and is targeted at a broad audience. Our columns tend to identify risks and opportunities, but we generally stop short of providing specific financial advice that may be better suited for a narrower subset of our audience. Of course ...
  • Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
    Robert Rapier looks at the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions since 1965. A great deal has changed over the past 46 years.
  • World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and S ...
    Robert Rapier investigates the data from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy and highlights some of the key numbers in consumption of crude oil, coal, and natural gas.
  • How Much Oil Does the World Produce?
    In the first installment of this series, I took a look at U.S. and global oil reserves according to the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Today, I want to examine oil production statistics since 1965. Highlights of this article and topics that will be explored include: New global oil p ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Why Is Your Ice Cream More Expensive? Blame Na ...
    Natural gas production: It's destroying towns, polluting the nation's water supply, and even releasing radioactive material into the environment. But perhaps the greatest insult of all? It's driving up the cost of ice cream during the hottest time of year! It turns out that an ingredient popula ...
  • Proof That GMOs Really Are Unhealthy
    Government researchers in Denmark are suddenly paying a lot closer attention to the health effects of genetically modified (GM) crops, after a Danish farming newspaper published the account of a pig farmer who reported significant health improvements in his pigs (and in his farm's bottom line) ...
  • Is Vinyl Flooring Causing Your Love Handles?
    In the early 1960s, just 13 percent of Americans were classified as obese. Fast-forward to 2012 and that number is creeping toward 40 percent, a dangerous shift that costs the country billions in health care costs annually. Certainly, the food industry isn't getting off the hook on this one. To ...
  • The Best All-Natural Ways to Stay Cool
    Summer can be a very energetic time of year, a time when many of us head to the outdoors for increased activities during the longer, warmer days. But as heat wave records make headlines across the country, it’s critical to protect yourself by staying cool. While extra movement, time in nature a ...
  • The New Poisonous Seafood Threat
    When you think of industrial agriculture, you might picture windowless factory farm buildings or fields being blasted with pesticides. We may soon have to add oceanic aquaculture to the industrial ag equation if the soy lobby gets its way. Currently, major biotech-, pesticide-, and food-industr ...

big think

  • The Net is Nothing Good or Bad but Surfing Mak ...
    What's the Latest Development? More than a decade after its entrance into the mainstream, the Internet has established itself as both a public health menace, enslaving us to our machines, as well as a boon for society, enabling people to connect with each other from far and wide. But cri ...
  • The Power of Honest Reflection
    The summer is in full swing. School leaders around the country had big plans for this summer. Many walked into June saying, "This is the summer that I will do X for my school."  How is that working out? Ok, so many of us had big hopes and dreams for the summer but those may be fa ...
  • Climate Change. The Fear of the Physical Threa ...
    Human behavior is controlled by a lot of neural wiring and chemistry, and an incredible range of cognitive shortcuts and instincts, over which we have practically no conscious control. A lot of this behind-the-scenes “thinking”, which often leads to decisions and behaviors that seem to fly in th ...
  • Email Is Getting Out of Hand and Must Be Stopped!
    What's the Latest Development? Email use has gotten out of hand, which in its ever-present state is taking up too much of our time and, frankly, making us a little crazy. "Last year, Royal Pingdom, which monitors Internet usage, said that in 2010, 107 trillion e-mails were sent. A report ...
  • Is the Digital Data Boom Creating a Surveillan ...
    What's the Latest Development? Local, state and federal law enforcement officials made 1.3 million demands for cellphone subscriber information last year, according to a Congressional inquiry created to address the matter. It seems that, thanks to the boom in digital data activity, autho ...

Information Liberation

  • TSA Invades Chicago's Union Station
    As I entered Chicago's Union Station back on July 5th, I noticed 3 Fully Uniform TSA Agents sitting inside the office of Amtrak Police. I took out my cell phone and started to follow these TSA agents, and it appeared to me that they were setting up...
  • Convicted 'kicking' cop fights for job
    NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) * Convicted Lincoln Police Officer Edward Krawetz was a no-show on the first day of an administrative hearing to determine if he can continue to wear a badge. The 12-year veteran of the force is fighting to keep his j...
  • NYPD Put Couple On 'Wanted' Poster For Videota ...
    We've had plenty of stories lately about police overreacting to people filming them -- and multiple courts have ruled that filming the police is perfectly legal. Even the Justice Department has spoken out and warned police departments that they need...
  • '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 lieutena...
  • Lamar Smith Looking To Sneak Through SOPA In B ...
    While it didn't get nearly as much attention as other parts of SOPA, one section in the bill that greatly concerned us was the massive expansion of the diplomatic corp.'s "IP attaches." If you're unfamiliar with the program, basically IP attaches ar...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Run without thinking
    Over on Facebook, a friend is currently bemoaning her iPhone and more specifically the NikePlus app that allows you to track your walking and running. I used to run, dodgy leg precludes that now, can barely run for a bus these days…I also used to swim (not great for electronic gadgets) and ...
  • Rolls-Royce Lego jet engine
    Rolls-Royce today unveiled the world’s first jet engine to be made entirely of Lego at the opening of Farnborough International Airshow. The engine, which is one of the most complex Lego structures ever built, is a half size replica of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 which powers the Boeing 787 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • 2012–2017 Final Programmatic Environmental Imp ...
    Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Interior Dept. http://www.boem.gov/5-Year/2012-2017/PEIS.aspx [Website] This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) analyzes potential environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with the proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and ...
  • The Official Report of the Fukushima Nuclear A ...
    The National Diet of Japan | Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission http://www.slideshare.net/jikocho/naiic-report-hires [From the New York Times]  The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a preventable disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst con ...
  • Oil: The Next Revolution
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Leonardi  Maugeri http://bit.ly/MxuIIb [From Green Car Congress] Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the curren ...
  • In Fracking’s Wake: New Rules are Needed to Pr ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/energy/fracking-wastewater.asp [Fracking Insider] On Monday, Michael Krancer, Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, responded by letter to a May 2012 Natural Resources Defense Council report entitled In Fracking’ ...
  • Shale Gas Extraction in the UK: a Review of Hy ...
    Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering http://bit.ly/KQtA5L [Website] The key findings of this review were: The health, safety and environmental risks can be managed effectively in the UK. Operational best practices must be implemented and enforced through strong regulation. Fracture ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • This is Athens
    A personal account of my short visit to Athens, Greece. My initial intent was to do a report on the anarchist neighbourhood assemblies. Truth be told this task was more ch ...
  • Montreal group calls on Cirque du Soleil to re ...
    Montrealers are speaking out against home-grown entertainment phenom Cirque du Soleil's plan to perform in Israel this August. Calling the Cirque a "global ambassador" for Quebec and Canada, Palesitinian solidarity collective ...
  • An Exhibit That’s Been a Long Time Coming
    The Snapshot: East Coast Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibit fills a much needed and wanted gap in Halifax’s art world Local Indigenous art isn’t all craft and legend paintings. A new exhibit at the Khyber Institute of Contempora ...
  • Montreal Medical Professionals Protest Refugee ...
    Several hundred people gathered at the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada in downtown Montreal on June 18 to protest the cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides temporary health insurance for refugees, asylum seekers, and certain other migrants. &n ...
  • Montreal Medical Professionals Protest Refugee ...
    Several hundred people gathered at the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada in downtown Montreal on June 18 to protest the cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides temporary health insurance for refugees, asylum seekers, and certain other migrants. &n ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...
  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
  • Why is the American left so useless?
    David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
  • Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
    David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Fun With Numbers From the #4 Man in the Senate
    A few days ago, the clue in one of my daily crossword puzzles was "#4 name in Senate seniority." Hmmm. Five letters. Hatch? He seems like he's been around long enough that he might be #4. But the last two letters were IN. Maybe Levin? He also seemed like a decent candidate. But no: I was right ...
  • It Doesn't Really Matter Who Runs the Fed
    Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers note that the Fed has consistently undershot its inflation target lately. Monetary policy today only makes sense if the Fed not only doesn't care about unemployment at all, but also, for some reason, is hellbent on getting inflation under its 2% target. Matt ...
  • Why Doesn't Obama Have a Bigger Lead?
    Ezra Klein points out today that presidential polling has been unusually stable this year: Neither Romney nor Obama has managed to open up a lead of more than a couple of points over the past 12 months: This is a good moment for my typical polling disclaimer: At this point in 1980, Jimmy Ca ...
  • We Make More Money Than Our Parents, But We Ar ...
    Here's an interesting pair of charts from the latest release of the Pew Economic Mobility Project. It compares income and wealth between generations at roughly age 45 (though there's a bit of statistical massaging involved to make the ages similar), and the results are shown below. Income &mda ...
  • Fear and Loathing at the Supreme Court
    Conservatives are mad at Chief Justice John Roberts for voting to uphold Obamacare. But two liberal justices, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joined Roberts in ruling that Congress went too far when it threatened to remove all Medicaid funding from any state that didn't accept Obamacare's new ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...
  • IC 332: Return of Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: FUCK PEPCO Could Sony & Marvel Studios/Disney work together? Cap Cod has great white sharks Bullsharks are like modded Xboxes Great Moments in White Privilege: White folks mad at Chris Rock Slavery was a long time ago….so what? Admitting and recognizing mistakes doesn’t ...
  • IC 331: Pants Down, Man Down
    Topics: Tyler Perry as Alex Cross Tyler Perry wants to branch out Every Black man wants to play Black Panther Don’t fuck up Black Panther Chris Nolan to be on the walk of fame Bad Internet music How to shoot a music video while at work Obama Care survives Mark Jackson gets blackmailed Fear ...
  • IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
    Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...
  • IC 329: The Liam Neeson Okie Doke
    Topics: The Worst Three Days The Liam Neeson Okie Doke The Lindsay Lohan Death Clock Watch Tourist injured by Drake & Chris Brown scuffle Forcing empathy never works Australia…God’s way of saying he hates us Uncle Luke as a father figure The false false equivalency Serial Teddy ...

Simple Climate

  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Taking a bird's eye view could cut wildlife co ...
    Using lights to make aircraft more visible to birds could help reduce the risk of bird strikes, new research by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has found. The study, which examined how Canada geese responded to different radio-controlled model aircraft, is the first of its kind and is pu ...
  • Regulation by proteins outside cancer cells po ...
    Protein interactions outside breast cancer cells can send signals to the cancer cells to permanently stop proliferating, a new study showed in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. read more
  • Drug from Mediterranean weed kills tumor cells ...
    Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, working with Danish researchers, have developed a novel anticancer drug designed to travel -- undetected by normal cells -- through the bloodstream until activated by specific cancer proteins. The drug, made from a weedlike plant, has been sh ...
  • HPV vaccine reduces infection, even in unvacci ...
    The HPV vaccine not only has resulted in a decrease in human papillomavirus infection in immunized teens but also in teens who were not immunized. read more
  • Study finds 'mad cow disease' in cattle can sp ...
    Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") is a fatal disease in cattle that causes portions of the brain to turn sponge-like. This transmissible disease is caused by the propagation of a misfolded form of protein known as a prion, rather than by a bacterium or virus. ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
    Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
  • BNC Discussion Forum updates
    In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • .: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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
  • Donate to Support Mountain Heroes Arrested Today!
    Donate here to support the 22 arrested today sitting in Congressional Offices to stop mountaintop removal. NOTE: this button will take you to Rising Tide America’s website.  We can’t yet release the names of those arrested by Capitol Police, but … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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  • Report that claims ‘there is no occupati ...
    What is behind the left’s anger at a government commission report that rejects the existence of the occupation? The report presents an opportunity to replace empty political rhetoric and legality with a focus on facts on the ground. By Itamar Mann The Israeli left responded with a mixture of lau ...
  • While you weren’t looking: Gov’t o ...
    The front page of Israel’s main financial daily, The Marker, pretty much says all you need to know about the capital-government-military relationship in 2012 Israel: Top headline: “They earned 120 billion – and will only pay  3 billion in taxes. A new proposal from the treasury ...
  • Olmert ruling: On princes and minions
    Ehud Olmert, one of the erstwhile “princes” of the old Likud, was convicted today of breach of trust and acquitted on more serious charges of corruption in two cases, Rishon Tours and the Talansky money envelopes. Somehow, this seems apt: breach of trust is a term that might well be ...
  • BREAKING: Olmert acquitted on major criminal c ...
    JERUSALEM – Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli Prime Minister, has been acquitted of criminal charges in two out of out three cases in a rare triple trial. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emerged from the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday morning promising this will not be the las ...
  • Israeli held in custody for 3 days on baseless ...
    IDF allegations that Israeli activist Elyakim Nitzany threw stones in Nabi Saleh had no evidence and no basis. Despite that, he was held in jail for three nights before being released. Another case of unfounded police claims.  Towards the end of the weekly protest in Nabi Saleh last Friday, a mi ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural w ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • DISGUSTING- THE DOCUMENT THAT REVEALS THE LIBO ...
    The Barclays/LIBOR scandal is only now just beginning to unravel.  The question is why this was allowed to go on for so long….and why none of these monsters have been strung up, drawn and quartered. When will there be any accountability for the bankers that engaged in fraud, conspiracy and ...
  • Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads, Your Gove ...
    So one of the key, perhaps the key, function of government should be to keep us safe…..right? Well, what if the government was actively conspiring to withhold key information that WILL DEFINITELY, POSITIVELY LEAD TO DISEASE AND EVEN DEATH? It is happening…as detailed in this truly di ...
  • The (Cases) of The Faulty Default Letters Goin ...
    The issue is very clean, crisp and simple.  The banks produced the contracts they wanted to rely upon. They made them long and detailed; they contained page after page and provision after provision….and nearly every one of those provisions were intended to protect the banks.  Surprise, sur ...
  • The Epic LIBOR Banking Fraud Exposes That All ...
    The story ain’t about Barclays and LIBOR anymore…it’s about the apparent fact that all the banks are in on the game…and that world governments knew about it….FOR DECADES AND NO ONE HAS GONE TO JAIL YET. What emerges from the BANKING SCANDALS DU JOUR, the near daily ...
  • The Mortgage Meltdown- The Coup d’Etat/L ...
    First, learn who Catherine Austin Fitts is….a high ranking official from the Bush I administration…next, read the very complex, yet conceptually very simple description of what’s happened here in this country in the context of larger financial warfare that has been waged on Ame ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • While the Sun Is Above Us
    Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »
  • Fox In The Henhouse
    My Huffington Post piece on Julian Fantino’s appointment as the new minister for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) created …Continue reading »
  • Troubles Ahead For CIDA
    The following is my Huffington Post piece for today on the appointment of a new minister for the Canadian International …Continue reading »
  • Losing Humanity
    Some stories are just so gut wrenchingly moving that you’d have to be a pretty hard-hearted sort not to be …Continue reading »
  • Start Living
    All that is left is to act. The entire citizen engagement process culminates in this one moment. All the work, …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • La-Z-Boy: Don’t Clean Your Leather Chair ...
    When Stephen bought a pricey La-Z-Boy recliner, the salesperson handed him a leather care kit along with the warranty information. When the color of the chair arms began to fade, he tried using that kit, which removed the leather's color entirely. When he contacted La-Z-Boy, he learned that the ...
  • How Far Would You Drive To Return A Redbox DVD?
    Joe lives in a pretty rural part of Vermont. Rural living has many advantages, but one disadvantage that you may not have thought of: low density of Redbox kiosks. Which is fine. You only need one, after all. Unless you're Joe, and that one kiosk in your town has broken down. Your movie is due, ...
  • Personal Finance Roundup
    8 Reasons You’re Not Earning the Salary You Want [US News] "Not getting the salary you think you deserve?" Consumers Prefer to Get More Rather than Pay Less – Because They’re Bad at Math [Moneyland] "Is it better to get more or pay less?" A Complete Guide to Saving at America's Baseball Stadiu ...
  • Judge Says Samsung Tablet Can’t Possibly ...
    The good news for Samsung over in Britain is that a judge says the company's three Galaxy tablets aren't rip-offs of Apple's iPad. The bad news is that they're not copies because they're just like, so uncool and couldn't possibly be edgy enough to be mistaken for an iPad by anyone who knows anyt ...
  • How Does Netflix Categorize Movies?
    What makes a Screwball Comedy different from a Slapstick Comedy? Why is Son of the Pink Panther considered a comedy at all? These decisions -- at least as far as Netflix is concerned -- are being made by a few dozen folks throughout North America who get paid to watch -- and answer questions abo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Assange Asylum Bid Could Discredit Ecuador in ...
    ABC News (Australia): Assange Asylum Could Discredit Ecuador – Envoy Summary: The Ecuadorian ambassador in Washington, DC is concerned that if Ecuador decides to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the decision “could be used to discredit Ecuador in the United Stat ...
  • July GAP eNews: Whistleblower Issues Abound at ...
    International Program Update – Wrongdoing at the World Bank; A Landmark UN Decision GAP's Shelley Walden spoke with Al-Jazeera about a very positive decision from the UN Dispute Tribunal. With a new World Bank president taking office last weekend, this Forbes cover story ...
  • GAP Statement on World Bank Criticism of Forbe ...
    World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCIn response to Richard Behar’s article in Forbes, "The Fate of a World Bank Whistleblower,” the World Bank claimed that GAP client John Kim, the subject of the piece, was not, in fact, a whistleblower. We at the Government Accountabili ...
  • In WikiLeaks Debate, Let's Talk Whistleblowers ...
    The Guardian (UK): Whistleblowers Need Our Help – Let’s Move on from WikiLeaks Bickering Summary: This article argues that the “bickering” over WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are detracting from the real issues – transparency, international law, and source protection. WikiLeaks receives a m ...
  • UN Tribunal Issues Important Decision for Whis ...
    GAP's Shelley Walden spoke with Al-Jazeera about a very positive decision from the UN Dispute Tribunal.In a major victory for employees at the United Nations, the UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) has found that the office charged with reviewing retaliation complaints and safeguarding the interests of ...

UK Progressive

  • Denis Has Gone Walkabout….
    by Bob Thanks for your support of UK Progressive Magazine. We’re on holiday until the 23rd. Boss is in China and I’m in charge. Problem is this opposable thumbs thing and, as you can see, I can’t be bothered. So I’m watching the lot of you, staring at the computer to make ...
  • FBI Out to Lure Muslims into “Terror” Plots
    By Sherwood Ross Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation at the center of which is a government informant, “The Nation” magazine reports. The publication cites the findings of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. The ...
  • Mystery After the Health Care Ruling: Which St ...
    by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For many people without insurance, a key question raised bythe Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law’s big Medicaid expansion. Although the court upheld the law’s ...
  • The Elite Coup is Complete (Part 2)
    by Robert Hunziker The thirty-year bloodless coup, taking over America, conducted by the political, academic, and financial elite is a fait accompli as evidenced by the failure to charge anybody for the horrendous, and well documented, criminality behind America’s housing/financial bust of 2008 ...
  • Hate Crimes Against US Muslims Are on the Rise ...
    By Sherwood Ross Muslims may make up fewer than one percent of the U.S. population but they were nearly 13 percent of victims of religious-based hate crimes in 2010, “The Nation” magazine reports (July 2nd). “These crimes include intimidation, burglary, arson, vandalism, and aggravated assault,” ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Queensland science is a mental construction
    I’m impressed (really quite surprised) that this made it to the top story of the front page of The Australian. The syllabus for Years 10 -12 science students in Queensland contains this nonsense. What is good about it though (see below) is how it forces influential science leaders in the c ...
  • Dr Paul Bain replies about the use of the term ...
    Dr Paul Bain has replied to my second email to him which I do most appreciate. (For reference, see the letter he is replying to here: “My reply to Dr Paul Bain — on rational deniers and gullible believers” ). He deserves kudos for replying (it’s easier to ignore inconvenient em ...
  • I’ll post Dr Paul Bains reply later toda ...
    Dr Paul Bain sent me his second reply to my second letter late on Friday, which I am grateful for. I’ll post it in a few hours (scheduled 9am Monday morning Eastern States time, which is 7pm NY Time). It seemed fairer to let the conversation unfold in business hours, rather than releasing ...
  • Unthreaded — Weekend July 7th 2012
    Keep talking… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
  • Brumby’s bakery boss forced to resign ov ...
    It was a dumb memo to write: “Brumby’s recommended some “simple things for you all to do to find some extra sales”. “We are doing an RRP (recommended retail price) review at present which is projected to be in line with CPI (consumer price index), but take an opport ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • How To Tell People The Sky Is Falling?
    Asteroids and comets represent, in the long-term, very serious threats to modern civilization. And little is being done about it. NASA spends a tiny amount of money looking for Near Earth Objects. A couple of non-government organizations are researching the best ways to prevent a collision. A th ...
  • I’m Not Keen On Guns…
    In Australia, semi-automatic weapons are rare and unusual (and illegal). So I consider them to be beyond my reach – which is fine seeing as I can’t see me using a gun in the every day world. But if the SHTF, I might need to become gun savvy quick smart. If I were in America, and I ch ...
  • Critical Asteroid Telescope Might Shut Down
    More evidence that global governments are incredibly ignorant of the serious asteroid threat. Detection of asteroids is severely under-funded, even though it has the best long-term cost-benefit ratio of almost anything they could pay for. An Australian telescope at the Sliding Spring observatory ...
  • Cosmic Dust Just Vanished
    We can’t see our galactic center properly because of the interstellar dust that is in the way. While it might take a very long time for that dust to move out of the way, it appears that it could just vanish one day. Dust surrounding a star has disappeared in the space of a year, without a ...
  • Another Apocalypse Fail
    National Post reported: A Christian sect with hundreds of followers in Canada that had proclaimed Armageddon would strike over the weekend was met with a picture-perfect Canada Day and left waiting for their prognosticated superhuman-powers to kick in. Growing in Grace, also known as Creciendo ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • `Al Qaeda on the ropes, LeT most dangerous ter ...
    LeT with the help of its Pak backers, is now the most dangerous terror group in the world, says an ex CIA-analyst. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Libya early poll results show lead for Jibril ...
    10 Jul 2012 In Libya, the partial results released show National Forces Alliance led by Mahmoud Jibril has taken an early lead in Libyas National assembly elections.The trends so far indicate a weaker than expected performance by the Islamist parties.Jibrils National Forces Alliance ... Re ...
  • Puducherry bandh evokes partial response
    10 Jul 2012 In Puducherry, the 12 hour bandh call given by some political parties and organizations evoked mixed response.The strike call was given to protest against the regional reservation for students of outlying areas of Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam in professional colleges. Reported by A ...
  • Vidya Balan is totally ‘thanda’ with her borin ...
    Instead of stepping up with her hot, bold and dirty image, Vidya Balan decides to dish out a highly uninteresting cover for Hello! Reported by Bollywood Life 2 hours ago
  • Katie Holmes to get primary custody of Suri Cruise
    Katie is also thought to have insisted that Suri is accompanied by the actress' own team of bodyguards when she visits Tom to ensure she isn't indoctrinated into sci-fi cult Scientology. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • That's a Bat, Not a Cicada
    In every marriage, there's a moment in which you get to be the one who is right. My moment came on Saturday night. On Saturday, a series of events led to my victory. A two-week heatwave was flaming out in a 105-degree burst of glory. My brother- and sister-in-law and their two daughters were st ...
  • Use 80/20 Rule for Happier Work Life
    Happiness is ultimately what we seek. No matter what we do, we actually at the most basic want to be happy and be loved. If you think you don't have enough time, money, or whatever to do what makes you happy. Consider using the 80/20 rule to make yourself happier on the job and off. Spend more ...
  • Middle Class Snack Kids
    “Middle Class Snack Kid” is a term I made up for people who do not spend a lot on themselves on the whole, but are running themselves into the ground buying food and drink. I coined this term for myself because I needed to diagnose my disease —- the disease being that no matter how much money I ...
  • Let Them Fly, but Please -- Please -- Talk to ...
    I get it. I was one of the lucky ones. My Mom is an angel walking this earth, and made Motherhood look so easy. I could talk to her about anything, and was never told a subject was off limits, or it could wait til I was older. If I was asking, then the conversation must need to happen. She actua ...
  • Feministe Named One Of The 100 Best Sites For ...
    Forbes named Feministe as one of the 100 best sites for women. JL Fields of JL Goes Vegan is now a vegan lifestyle coach, certified by the Main Street Vegan Academy. Beth Morey of Beth Morey: Finding beauty among the ashes recently released her first-ever eBook! It is a workbook called Lif ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Chronic Pain Is Determined By Emotions Scienti ...
    The emotional state of the brain can explain why different individuals do not respond the same way to similar injuries, say scientists. Some recover fully while others remain in constant pain. Brain scan studies showed for the ...
  • US Beaches Laden With Sewage, Bacteria: Study
    US beaches can be dirty places, making about 3.5 million people sick each year from sewage in the water, said an annual study Wednesday that rates American beaches by how dirty they are. The Natural Resources ...
  • Tasty, Affordable Hydration Requires no Specia ...
    The dollars you drop at the grocery store have a direct impact on your health and the health of the planet. But try to tell that to Nestlé Pure Life, a brand of bottled water sourced ...
  • America Is Not Over Fat – It’s Under Muscled!
    Obesity is an epidemic. Globally, more than 1 billion adults are overweight – at least 300 million of them clinically obese. The obesity and overweight epidemic pose a major risk for serious diet-related chronic diseases, ...
  • Waist-To-Hip Circumference Ratio (WHR) May Be ...
    Waist-to-hip circumference ratio (WHR) may be a better predictor of all-cause mortality in older adults vs body mass index (BMI), according to the results of a study reported in the October issue of the Annals ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Special report: The new face of black lung
    A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Anybody who cares about worker health and safety issues is following the fantastic series of articles being prod ...
  • Tuesday roundup, July 3, 2012
    I’m still catching up on the news following some time off, and obviously here in West Virginia the big story remains the aftermath of last Friday’s terrible “dereche” storm that hit our state and some neighboring areas.  Thousands of residents remain without power. The st ...
  • NPR misses mark with Mingo ‘war on coal ...
    I’m generally a fan of NPR and also an admirer of the work of their longtime journalist Noah Adams, especially his book Far Appalachia. So maybe I was expecting too much when I heard he was working on a piece about the results of West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary, in wh ...
  • AP: ‘This is what global warming looks l ...
    A tree lays down in the front lawn at a home Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Charleston, W.Va.  Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits.  ...
  • Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
    Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Flirting With Android Again: Galaxy S III
    I am demoing a Samsung Galaxy S III. It’s the new flagship Android device, and I like a lot about it. The screen is stunning and call quality actually seems better on it. It’s also on AT&T’s 4G network, which I’ve honestly noticed when using a speed test app, actually ...
  • One Person’s Thoughts on India
    And that is the second thing to strike you about India. The poverty. It is legitimate take-your-breath-away poverty. Like the kind you see on TV charity ads but far worse. And far more real. Limbless men stewing about in their own feces. Emaciated children playing on a piles of garbage. A man wi ...
  • The Most Amazing Con in History
    The most amazing con in history has to be the one perpetuated by the modern Republican Party. These politicians have actually convinced the poor that ultra-wealthy corporations and business magnates have their best interests at heart. via reddit.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com &#124 ...
  • “Stateless” Mobile Security
    Forrester analysts say that to stay ahead of evolving mobile business requirements, S&R and I&O pros cannot rely on the old approach of end-to-end control over the data path, device, and applications. Instead, they must embrace a “stateless” architecture in which IT decouples security co ...
  • 20 Beautiful World Bookstores
    Unbelievably gorgeous. Bookstores make me happy. via flavorwire.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentWorld Map Of Touristyness | Information is BeautifulTry a BookInformation is Beautiful: SupplementsThe Bible is Awesome | Bad AstronomyA Digital ...

Fitwatch

  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Jordanian parliment member throws shoe, pulls gun on critic on live TVTalk about must-see TV. In Jordan, a furious TV debate turned into a YouTube moment when a member of parliament threw a shoe and pulled a gun on his rival. The scene has been replayed on the Web more than 110,000 times, and co ...
  • That Weed You’re Smoking May Actually Help Pro ...
    By Richard Gray,telegraph.co.uk - Researchers have discovered two compounds from cannabis leaves that can increase the amount of energy the body burns. Test in animals have already shown the compounds can help treat type two diabetes while also helping to reduce levels of cholesterol in the bloo ...
  • Israel’s social protest: Will you stand with t ...
    By Udi Pladott,.haaretz.com - Do Israelis involved in the social protest movement really have a moral argument for affordable housing in Tel Aviv while, only a few kilometers away, the same system of power targeted by protesters has turned entire villages into refugee camps? “If you have c ...
  • Worldwide Hippies takes no Corporate Money But ...
    Worldwide Hippies: Hip Poetry Book Hip poetry 2012 is an original work like no other, includes over 250 pages of poetry, essays, and fiction from more than 50 of the most renowned and well-versed artists of our time, some representative of the “hippie” era, and some younger, fresher voices. all ...
  • Julian Assange The World Tomorrow : Anwar Ibrahim
    Published by AssangeWorldTomorrow Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has twice been imprisoned after what he calls politically-motivated cases. But he keeps fighting for democracy in a country he brands less democratic than even Burma. Ibrahim’s opposition party is gaining more and ...

reference frame

  • Landscape wars: David Gross vs Brian Greene's ...
    Next month, my translation of Brian Greene's third major popular book, The Hidden Reality, should be released in the Czech Republic. It's a good book and I still consider Brian to be a top physics writer but I plan to write down a blog entry summarizing the book, its content and scienti ...
  • Two papers: no bacteria use As to grow
    At the beginning of December 2010, I was excited by claims by Ms Iron-Lisa Wolfe-Simon that she had found bacteria that used arsenic instead of phosphorus to grow. Note that phosphorus is one of the five main elements for life. Within days, however, I was persuaded by various cr ...
  • Obama SSN: the question to which the answer is ...
    What is the Connecticut prefix for SSNs in the late 1970s? Exactly one year ago, I was intrigued by some interesting digital observations about Obama's birth certificate and then, just a day later, I figured out how the strange patterns could have been created in such a way that nothing ...
  • Buckley, Hooper: Higgs decay deviations due to ...
    We may already be looking at the first signs of supersymmetry at the LHC No one was too interested in the Higgs $500 bet I won – and was paid yesterday – but I have a more interesting outstanding bet against Adam Falkowski in which I would win $10,000 if supersymmetry is found. Of ...
  • LHC Higgs: does it deviate from the Standard M ...
    A textbook pedagogic exercise on chi-squared distributions On the 2012 Independence Day, the world of physics has made a transition. The question "Is there a Higgs-like particle with mass near \(126\GeV\)?" has been answered. Weinberg's toilet, i.e. Glashow's model of the SM ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
    Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
    By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
    Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
    By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Homeless beggars settle around Oslo church
    Around 150 homeless beggars, many from Romania who have traveled to Norway in the hopes of earning money, moved into a parking lot adjacent to Oslo’s Sofienberg Church this week, near the heart of the trendy Grünerløkka neighbourhood. They’re seeking refuge after police routed them o ...
  • Missing elderly woman died after being found
    A major search effort in suburban Bærum over the weekend appeared to have ended well on Monday, when civil defense crews found a missing elderly woman behind a busstop at Hosle. On Tuesday, however, the 84-year-old woman died at the hospital where she’d been taken for follow-up care. The w ...
  • Mountains open for the high season
    Record numbers of Norwegians are heading for the mountains this summer as the high season for hiking, cycling or simply gazing at the scenery gets underway. Recent surveys indicate that a vast majority of Norwegians are more keen on the great outdoors than ever before. Nine out of 10 Norwegians ...
  • Police still tracking ‘terror convert’
    Norwegian police are frustrated that they legally can’t issue a warrant for a 33-year-old Norwegian man who converted to Islam and is believed to have trained with terrorist organization Al-Qaida in Yemen. There’s no law against terrorist training in Norway, and the man isn’t g ...
  • More delays at Oslo-area airports
    A lack of air traffic controllers on duty has led to delayed flights in and out of OSL Gardermoen, Oslo’s main airport and widely viewed as the gateway to Norway. Staffing shortages forced the airport to close at various points during the night. Avinor is the state agency in charge of the ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Letters from New Zealand – Koanga Sows Seeds o ...
    Current evidence indicates that New Zealand may well be "the youngest country on earth". Possible fellow competitors for this claim are Greenland, Iceland and Madagascar. All of these landscapes were so isolated they managed to avoid human settlement until relatively recent times. Bu ...
  • Geoff Lawton Speaks at TEDx in the UAE
    On March 31, in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Geoff Lawton gave a TEDx presentation. This has just been uploaded to YouTube: For more background on some of the before/after images used, please see: Hope for a New Era: Before/After Examples of Permaculture Earth Restoration – Solving O ...
  • Share the Love – Seed Saving
    Onion going to seed When I started to take an interest in permaculture, one of the first things I wanted to learn but had no reference to guide me on was seed saving. The idea of seed saving felt close to the core of a regenerative way of life: [...]
  • Ordeal: Mulling the Meaning of Rio+20
    Leaving Rio de Janeiro, site of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we mulled the meaning of what we had witnessed, but could hardly put it any better than Charles Eisenstein in his excellent summary, Why Rio+20 Failed: You know folks, I’m a bit worried about my 16-year-old son, ...
  • My Permaculture Internship at the PRI’s Zaytun ...
    Can the human race build an environmentally sustainable culture? Can we disprove the myth that humans are inherently destructive? Here at The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, myself and 18 others are a part of an intensive internship in an attempt to answer these big, big questions. ...

Pointman's

  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
    Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
  • Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
    From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
  • Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...
  • Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
    From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade:  Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
  • Celebrate Juneteenth
    A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States.  The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...

Information Underground

  • Social Engineering • Hooked-Nosed Jew Stanford ...
    This "History" Channel expose of "Stalin's Crimes" has a hooked-nosed Jew whining about "Stalin" instead of the Jew NKVD henchmen. Note the "JEW" is never mentioned during the liquidation of the "Kulaks" or the starvation of the Ukraine. The Je ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    From VT : "....As of June 2012, there has been only one exception to this sad tale of gargantuan theft—Iceland. There, thanks to an inordinately courageous and decent president, the people were allowed to decide their fate, twice, despite the strenuous opposition of the international ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    The Ugly Talmudic International Banking "Jew" needs to be put in striped clothes, put in a cattle car and then shipped to a "work camp": ---------------- The Biggest Manipulators of All People are justifiably furious over the big banks' manipulation of hundreds of tril ...
  • Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Obama ...
    Christopher Marlowe wrote: I'm interested to see how this will play out. CSR brought up the birth certificate issue before the 2008 election, and it was dismissed because of standing. This lady claims standing as a "write-in" candidate. I don't know how that will fly. A lawyer might ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    First are a couple of videos on the recent protests over the re-opening of the NATO supply lines. Below those videos is an audio that Mark Glenn did w/Zaid Hamid that kind of goes over what he thinks the American/ZATO agenda is in Pakistan (and what the NATO deliberate bombing of those 24 soldie ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Copper Exposure Increases Salmon Vulnerability ...
    Exposure to even tiny amounts of copper can impair a salmon’s ability to detect and evade predator species, a new study has found. While salmon typically become still and alert after they smell a compound called Schreckstoff, which is released when a fish is damaged nearby, Washington State Univ ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...
  • Water Use by Tourists Outstrips Water Use By L ...
    The disproportionate use of freshwater by tourists in resorts across the developing world exacerbates the poverty of local residents and in some cases has triggered conflicts, a new report says. In a study of five tourist destinations — including Bali, Zanzibar, and Goa and Kerala in southern In ...
  • Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
    American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Media’s November Wake-Up Call
    Wrong calls on the court’s health-care ruling didn’t affect that outcome, but imagine if it had been an election night, writes Michael Medved.
  • The GOP’s Vacation Edge
    Mitt Romney left the trail for a bout of family Olympics at his lavish getaway. But then, Republicans usually win this primary. Michelle Cottle on the Dems’ holiday gap.
  • Duran Duran Looks Back
    The iconic British rockers reminisce with Marlow Stern on 30 years of the album ‘Rio,’ their upcoming Olympics concert, and more.
  • A ‘Perfect Storm’ of Scandals
    Peter Jukes on Barclays, NatWest, and LIBOR—the crises rocking London to its core.
  • Mexico’s Telenovela President
    The telegenic president-elect is married to a soap-opera star, fathered two kids out of wedlock, and is close to a disgraced former president, says Teresa Puente.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Hornets, Magic have trade in place
    Orlando has agreed to a sign-and-trade deal, sending restricted free agent forward Ryan Anderson to New Orleans for forward Gustavo Ayon, a person familiar with the agreement said. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the NBA's trade moratorium prevents cl ...
  • Chinese experts split over effects of Ozawa mo ...
    While some Chinese experts on Japanese affairs have lamented the defection of kingpin Ichiro Ozawa and his followers from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, others predict the move will undermine his influence and reputation as a power broker. "Ozawa wants a Japan that is more independent f ...
  • 3-D 'Toy Story' attraction opens at DisneySea
    The Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, opened a new Toy Story-themed 3-D attraction Monday. Visitors to Toy Story Mania! can take in the world of the "Toy Story" movie series, earning points by shooting targets such as balloons and eggs on a big screen.
  • North Korean Olympic soccer berth angers Austr ...
    Australia women's soccer coach Tom Sermanni launched a blistering attack on the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency for allowing North Korea to take part in the London Olympics, despite being banned by FIFA from the 2015 Women's World Cup for steroid use at last year ...
  • Japanese rally in N.Y. to slam reactors
    About 40 people, mainly from Japan, mounted an antinuclear rally in downtown New York on Saturday in what the organizers called a joint action with huge weekly demonstrations opposing nuclear energy near the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The demonstrators, including Akihiro Yamamoto, a 35- ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
    The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The plan is to bring solar hot water to a 1,000 homes in the city, allowing homeowners to rep ...
  • 800,000 Years
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from the UN quadrant where the IPCC’s decision-making body met lies Mont Blanc. At 4800 metres Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. Like near ...
  • Union Density and Unemployment
    A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact, despite some evidence of a shift of manufacturing investment and production to lower wage/anti union jurisdictions (as in the Caterpillar case) , th ...
  • More Canadians Give Up Looking for Work
    Canada’s labour market stagnated again in June. Employment edged up by only 7,000 as the working-age population grew by 30,000. In response to this job shortage, 17,000 Canadians dropped out of the labour force. Canada’s economy is not generating nearly enough jobs to keep pace with the number o ...
  • Equalization: is Québec committing a hold-up?
    Is it normal that Albertans pay the much too generous social programmes to which the people of Québec are treating themselves through equalization, especially when they are being patronized regarding the environment by people that refuse to exploit their own gas and oil resources? That would sum ...

ReDress

  • Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
    Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.
  • The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
  • Palestinians, beware false friends
    Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
  • Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
    Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
  • An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
    Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Tourism Impacts Gambian Water Supply
    “Unregulated water consumption at tourist resorts in Gambia threatens water access and livelihoods of the country’s residents, according to a report released Monday by the U.K.-based group Tourism Concern. “Rachel Noble, the organization’s head of policy and research, said one of the ...
  • Let civic agency manage Delhi’s water supply
    “At a time when the national capital is reeling under a water crisis, mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Meera Aggarwal Friday said the civic agency should be given back its task of managing water supply in the city. “The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled corporation strongly ...
  • US Drought Monitor shows record-breaking expan ...
    “More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said today. Analysis of the latest drought monitor data revealed ...
  • China declares Three Gorges hydro project complete
    “The construction of the world’s biggest hydropower plant began in 1994 and its first generating unit was connected to the grid in July 2003. Official news agency Xinhua said it has already generated a total of 564.8 billion kilowatt-hours, saving nearly 200 million tonnes of coal a ...
  • Laos’ work on the Mekong river draws cri ...
    “In a dusty gorge deep in landlocked Laos, work is underway on a project that could change South-East Asia forever. Despite the protests of countries downstream and the warnings of scientists, a construction company has begun building the first dam across the lower reaches of one of the wo ...

D. Kucinich

  • Solidarity With Hungry Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video continuing his support of postal workers across the country who are demanding Congress amend a 2006 mandate to prefund pension benefits for workers to the tune of $5.5 billion per year. On Monday, Congressman Kucinich hosted ten postal wo ...
  • Kucinich: I Agree with Jimmy Carter
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video calling attention to an OpEd in The New York Times by former President Jimmy Carter titled, “Cruel and Unusual Record.” In the video Kucinich states, “I agree with President Carter when he says America’s violations of international human ...
  • ICYMI: Pakistani Objection to U.S. Drones puts ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29, 2012) – Please find below an interview and an article recently published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit organization funded by the Potter Foundation, and dedicated to raising the standard of journalism through high quality investigative reporti ...
  • Kucinich Announces Academy Appointments
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that four students from the 10th Congressional District nominated to military academies have been offered and have accepted appointments for the class of 2016. The following students will join military academies in the 2012-2013 academic year: ...
  • The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...

Authentically Wired

  • COME ON NOW THIS CAN’T BE TRUE … F ...
    …COME ON NOW THIS CAN’T BE TRUE … FOX, CNN, AND COPYCATS CORORATE$ ALL REPORT THAT OBAMA IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE AND THAT ONLY MR. TRANSPARENT “MITTEN$” CAN LEAD US TO SALVATION… Five Ways Republicans Have Sabotaged Job Growth Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress: "Republican intransigence on econ ...
  • SOMEHOW THE HEAT WAVE JUST HAS TO OBAMA’ ...
    …CON-ED … CORPORATE OWNED – MANAGED… BUT SOMEHOW THE HEAT WAVE JUST HAS TO OBAMA’S FAULT …   Con Ed Locks Out 8,500 Workers as Summer Heat Wave Hits Mike Elk, In These Times: "On Sunday, after the 8,500 members of Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) Local 1-2 in New York ...
  • AT THIS POINT LARGELY SYMBOLIC NONETHELESS IT ...
    …AT THIS POINT LARGELY SYMBOLIC NONETHELESS IT UNDERSCORES FESTERING PUBLIC DISCONTENT…   California Legislature Approves Resolution Opposing Citizens United Ruling   Edited by Valerie Gotten            …published Thu, 05 Jul 2012 ...
  • Liar, liar pants on fire
    .. Liar, liar pants on fire …   Mr. Romney Changes His Mind, Again   Massachusetts residents who file a state tax return have to provide proof that they have health insurance. If they can afford insurance but don’t have it, they must “pay a penalty through their tax returns,” according ...
  • JURY NULLIFICATION
    … DOUBTFUL THAT MOST AMERICAN ARE REMOTELY AWARE OF WHAT JURY NULLIFICATION IS OR HOW IMPORTANT IT CAN BE IN OUR JUDICAL SYSTEM … New Hampshire Strikes a Blow Against the Sovietized Amerikan ‘Justice’ System When New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed HB 146 into law on June 1 ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Boost for Maori science and innovation
    Science and innovation within the Maori business sector is set for a boost following the formation of a partnership between a major Maori body and a Crown research institute. The Federation of Maori Autho
  • Jeff Tallon: Triumphs of physics aren't cheap
    Cost may limit our expansion of knowledge of the universe, writes Dr Jeff Tallon, a NZ physicist specialising in superconductivity. Place five thousand billion torch batteries end on end and they will stretch from here to the sun...
  • 'Osteoporosis of the sea' alarm
    Ocean acidification has emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs across the world, acting as the "osteoporosis of the sea" and threatening everything from food security to tourism to livelihoods, the head of a US scientific...
  • Success: Helping hand for farmers
    Put aside your cornflakes, please, because this morning you're going to read about mastitis in cows' udders.It's an expensive problem, costing the country $280 million a year in lost production and treatment costs, according to...
  • Pakistan shuns physicist linked to 'God particle'
    Pakistan's only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic "God particle" last week, yet his legacy has been largely scorned in his homeland because of his religious...

The Bovine

  • One big step for big city farming
    From Colleen Kimmett in The Tyee: “Nearly 3,000 rectangular planter boxes, which stand out in varying shades of green and brown against a concrete parking lot, make for an impressive sight when viewed from high above on the Georgia Street … Continue reading →
  • FTCLDF: Big hearts for small farms
    From Kimberly Hartke on her “Hartke is Online” blog: “This week, The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. Tomorrow, Geoffrey and Sally Morell will host a lovely ‘Birthday” party for the Fund at their P.A. Bowen Farmstead, … Continue read ...
  • WTO vs Country of Origin Labeling
    From Rebekah Wilce, on PR Watch: “The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a final ruling today against the U.S.country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. This popular pro-consumer policy, which informs shoppers where meat and other foods were raised or grown, enjoys the support of 93% of &#8 ...
  • More debate over supply management
    From Peter O’Neil in the National Post: “OTTAWA — Farms in the heavily protected dairy, poultry and egg sectors, concentrated primarily in Central Canada, are far more likely than those in other sectors to be high-priced operations owned by corporations, according to … Continue readi ...
  • Bureaucrat is moved to a new post
    So why is that newsworthy you might wonder. Well, his new post is with the “Normal Farm Practices Protection Board”. Never knew there was such a thing? Join the club. Obviously someone has to be standing on guard for normal … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Scranton Mayor Slashes All Public Worker Wages ...
    Scranton, Pennsylvania's, the state's sixth-most-populous city (population of 76,089 in 2010 census), is down to its last $5,000 and has no way to pay salaries. The mayor wants an immediate tax hike of 29% and 78% over three years. In every sense of the word, Scranton is bankrupt. NPR ...
  • Negative Yields In France For First Time, Reco ...
    Add France to the list of eurozone countries with negative short-term interest rates. The Wall Street Journal reports France Joins Germany to Sell T-Bills At Negative Yield France joined a handful of euro-zone countries Monday in selling short-term debt at negative interest rates as investo ...
  • Global Collapse In Auto Sales Coming Up
    In response to my post Plunging New Orders Suggest Global Recession Has Arrived I received a couple of interesting emails from readers, one from the US, the other from an employee of the world's largest automotive parts manufacturer. Small US Distributor Responds Dear Mish, I am a ...
  • Bug In Search of Windshield; Japan’s Current A ...
    With every data point, I become more convinced the Global Recession is Upon Us. Here is another data point to add to the list. Bloomberg reports Japan’s Current-Account Surplus Shrinks 63% As Machine Orders Drop. Japan’s current-account surplus was the smallest in May since at least 198 ...
  • Italy's Prime Minister Blames Finland and Neth ...
    Like a drunk blaming a pebble in the road for causing his fall, Italy's Prime Minister Blames Finland and Netherlands for Spike in Yields. Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti denounced unnamed "northern" EU states on Sunday for taking positions that contributed to spikes in borrowing costs f ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Silicon Spies: The US governmen ...
    Earlier this week Wired Magazine released a background check of Steve Jobs conducted by the Department of Defense in 1988. The background check highlights Jobs’ use of LSD in the 1970s and his fears of blackmail or kidnapping due to his substantial wealth. The check was part of a security ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 11, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay International Newsworthy Iran Wants Leadership at OPEC Tensions Rise again Between Iran & ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    John Lee Hooker This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is all about me. Tonight we’re featuring my all-time favorite singer John Lee Hooker. I’ve got a good size collection of his CD’s and never ever tire of his music. When it comes to the Blues, John Lee is/was the man! Tonight we ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story
    In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spea ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Lockout Avoided on Norwegian Continental Shelf ...
    Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is preparing to resume production at installations that have been affected by a strike, after the government decided to impose compulsory arbitration in the pay [...]
  • Petrobras Takes Delivery of Third Tanker Under ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian state oil and gas producer Petroleo Brasileiro S/A (PBR. PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, took delivery Monday of a third oil tanker under its current 10.8 billion-Brazilian-reais ($5.32 billion) [...]
  • Ship Video of the Week! Quadcopter Plus HD GoP ...
    On board the MV Pioneer, Australian marine engineer and videographer Luke Annells captured some very unique perspectives of his ship by using a “quadcopter” and an HD GoPro video camera while underway [...]
  • Jack-Up Rig Rates Show No Signs of Letdown wit ...
    For those analysts who were predicting jack-up day rates to remain flat for the forseeable future, international offshore drilling contractor, Atwood Oceanic (NYSE: ATW), is bucking the apparent trend. Glencore [...]
  • Danaos’ Fleet of Containerships Expands with L ...
    ATHENS – Greek containership owner, Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC), announced today that on June 29, 2012, it took delivery of its fifth and final 13,100 containership, the HYUNDAI AMBITION, expanding [...]

Press TV

  • Britain can legally ban Israeli goods
    Britain enjoys the legal apparatus to impose a ban on all goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to a university professor.
  • ‘Saudi-Bahrain merger bid, Zionist ploy’
    An analyst says the plan for the Saudi-Bahrain merger is devised by the ‘Zionist-controlled world order’ with Israel at its heart, trying to change the face of the Middle East for its own existence.
  • German tank runs over Afghan children
    An Afghan child has been killed and two others wounded as a German tank runs over them in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, Press TV reports.
  • UK govt. to axe pensioners' benefits
    Better-off pensioners in Britain are to lose universal benefits including winter fuel payments, free prescriptions, bus passes and television licenses, as part of the Coalition government’s plan to cut an additional £10.5bn from the welfare budget by 2016-17.
  • ‘Zionists behind current euro crisis’
    The formation of the euro currency by the Zionist banking cartels has been largely responsible for the economic crisis in many eurozone member states, an analyst says.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

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