12 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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E U Times

• Obama Raises Historic “Medical” Army As US Eli ...
  Federal Security Services (FSB) experts reporting in the Kremlin today are confirming that United States President Barack Obama has been given unprecedented power to raise a “medical army” due to last months US Supreme Court ruling upholding The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more c ...
• Germans outraged at privacy law passed as foot ...
  Germany’s Bundestag passed its new registration law in just 57 seconds – as deputies rushed off to watch the national side play football against Italy. But it could undermine Germans’ right to privacy for years to come. ­Now, every single time a German moves to a new home, and gives the local au ...
• Russia to deliver air defense systems to Syria
  Russia says it has no plans to impose an arms embargo on Syria and intends to fulfill a contract for delivering air defense systems to the country. A senior Russian arms export official said on Wednesday that since the contract to deliver Syria the air defense systems were signed before the outb ...
• 60 Days in Prison and a $12180 Fine for Hostin ...
  The war on home Bible studies and house churches is heating up again. Down in Phoenix, Arizona a man has been sentenced to 60 days in prison and has been fined $12,180 for hosting a Bible study in his home. Since 2005, Michael Salman and his wife have been hosting gatherings of about 15 or [...]
• Feminist charged with hate crime for helping M ...
  Want an example of how a liberal society is set up to eventually commit suicide? A feminist journalist from England, Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury, got involved in a case that serves as just such an example. Heathcote-Drury got her world turned upside down over the last few months, and the liberalism ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2012-07-10 Julia Gillard comes clean on WikiLeaks
  I bumped into Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the train yesterday. I mean, literally bumped. I was lurching towards the last available seat on the 4:45 pm from Central when I tripped and collapsed over the armrest beside her, momentarily dislodging the blonde wig she was wearing as a ...
• 2012-07-10 Fear of U.S. backlash further justi ...
  Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19 in order to seek political asylum. His application is based on concern of U.S. extradition and prosecution. Since the announcement of his decision to seek asylum, there has been discussion of possible U.S. rebuttal if Ecuador ...
• 2012-07-08 WikiLeaks News Update: Syria Files ...
  WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 582 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 579 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 776 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 662 days. read more
• 2012-07-07 Sweden's 'reinterpretation' of MLA law
  Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) is a common legal practice in the European Union. It is an agreement between two countries to help cooperation during investigation of alleged crimes. The EU's website states "mutual legal assistance and agreements on extradition are essential for the EU in order to ...
• 2012-07-06 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks re ...
  WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 580 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 577 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 774 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 660 days. read more

U N News

• Historic forts on Panama's coastline placed on ...
  Citing environmental factors, lack of maintenance and uncontrollable urban developments, the World Heritage Committee today placed an historic Panamanian property on its list of endangered world heritage.
• Ban urges peaceful resolution of differences w ...
  Ahead of a regional meeting on Paraguay, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all concerned to "work in the days ahead to ensure the peaceful resolution of differences" which led to the removal of the South American country's president.
• Ban pays tribute to late scholar, friend and U ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Dr. J. Michael Adams, President of the International Association of University Presidents, paying tribute to the late scholar who was also a friend of the United Nations and its chief.
• Amid global uncertainty, G20 summit in Mexico ...
  Next week's summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies must achieve meaningful results, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told world leaders, stressing the need to tackle the global jobs crisis, ensure green growth and promote sustainable development.
• Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
  Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Sea Shepherd News
  Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...
• A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
  Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...
• END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
  Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate  to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
• Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
  How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
• Free Paul Watson!
  Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]

Asia Sentinel

• Falling Food Prices May Not Last, Report Says
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Populations pressures, degraded land, water scarcity, other problems may get in the way
• The US Cools on Outsourcing
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Politics, poor economy drive growing protectionism
• Failed Defense Pact Worsens Japan Nuke Fears
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Clandestine negotiations blow up
• Burma's Irresponsible New Media
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The media, the military and the Arakan conflict
• Malaysia Tilts Towards China
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Government prefers to look the other way on Beijing's South China Sea ambitions

We Know the Lies

• Television, Hypnosis and the Creation of a Zom ...
  When anyone watches television they are subjected to pulsations of radiant light which puts them in the same state of 'suggestion" attained by hypnotists and hypno-therapists on their subjects or patients. This is not a 'conspiracy theory' and has been tested scientifically. read more
• Barack Obama's Half Brother George to Make Fil ...
  Barack Obama’s half-brother, George Obama, is about to make his film debut, and in a feature-length documentary that is critical of the president, no less. ~ Paul Bond - Videos read more
• Breaking... House Votes 244 -185 to Repeal Oba ...
  The House voted again Wednesday to repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law, giving Republicans some revenge against the late June Supreme Court ruling that found the law to be constitutional. read more
• The Book of Deuteronomy Excludes Circumcision
  "The one who has crushed or mutilated genitals will not be admitted in the assembly of the Lord." - Deuteronomy (23: 2) ~ Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux read more
• Pennsylvania... New Study... Fluids From Marce ...
    New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies. ~ Abrahm Lustgarten - related articles read more

Tarpley

• Hillary Clinton Threatens Syria with “Ca ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 9, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Time to Organize a US National Anti-Austerity ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Progressive Radio News Hour with Stephen Lendman July 8, 2012 [download audio]
• Assange and Wikileaks Launch New Limited Hango ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 5, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Geneva Conference on Syria Ends in Stalemate a ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 30, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Reports of Turkish and Saudi Troops Massing on ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars June 29, 2012 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Survival Retreat Population Density
  Population density and survival retreat location are inversely proportional. That is, most survival retreat locations will tend to be located in low population density areas. A survival retreat, whether you live there full time or as a 2nd ‘home’ or BOL, is a location outside and awa ...
• Top 15 Prep Items, Amazon, first half 2012
  You may be curious to know which Amazon.com products are being purchased the most by folks who read Modern Survival Blog. We occasionally highlight or include various Amazon products from time to time which compliment the articles of this blog, and the following 15 items have been the most popul ...
• DHS Laser Scanners Coming Soon…
  A laser system that can measure the vibrational spectrum of the molecules on your body or the molecules of things you’ve come in contact with… and determine what they are? Sound like science fiction? Think again. The latest apparent ‘toy’ for the Department of Homeland Se ...
• Quadrupole Pole Shift On The Sun
  Normally during each 11 year solar cycle, the sun’s north and south pole will shift magnetic polarity (from positive to negative and visa-verse) whereby each pole remains opposite each other (one of them is ‘positive’ while the other is ‘negative’). The sun’s ...
• Prevent Dehydration with Proper Hydration
  Dehydration is a serious concern during outdoor activities, especially during hot summer months – although it can happen during colder months too. It can happen in summer or winter, on a day hike or several days into a long hike, even during normal daily activities. Vigorous activity, exce ...

Fast Company

• Google Engineer Ben Gomes On Knowledge Graph, ...
  The search giant wants to help you find what you're looking for, faster, by mapping every person, place, and thing on the planet.Bing and Yahoo both announced innovations in search earlier this year, and Google doesn't intend to get left behind. Recently, the company has started talking about it ...
• "Musical Brain" Echo Nest Raises $17 Million, ...
  Today Echo Nest, the "musical brain" that analyzes and learns user tastes, announced it raised a $17 million Series D funding round. Led by Norwest Venture Partners, the financing haul is the Somerville, Massachusetts-based company's largest yet, and a sign the startup is growing at a fast clip. ...
• Flames Of Fury, Animatronic Raptors, And A Bra ...
  When finished in 2014, Jurassic Dream will be one of the world's biggest indoor amusement parks. It will cover 13 acres, will be built in the heart of China's oil and natural gas producing region, and it will have culturally thematic attractions. Can it become Disneyland with dinosaurs? In ...
• Uber Taste-Tests On-Demand Ice Cream Trucks
  News updates all day from Fast Company.Uber, the mobile app that lets you order private cars on-demand, is getting a little sweeter. Tomorrow, the company is test-driving a mini-fleet of ice cream trucks in seven cities across the country and in Toronto. Uber users, who can already order the ser ...
• How To Woo Students And Influence Early Adopters
  They're young, smart, tech-savvy, trend-setting--and they might just be rich someday. Win them over now, says Atle Skalleberg of StudentUniverse.With student discounts from major tech companies all the rage--back-to-school offers are active until September from the likes of Microsoft (free Xbox! ...

Jadaliyya

• Jadaliyya Monthly Edition (June 2012)
   This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of June 2012. It also includes the most recent videos and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our Monthly Edition series, and we will have a page dedicated ...
• Nous n’avons jamais été aussi corrompus (?)
  Stupeur et incompréhension. Le grand corrupteur s’est enfuit mais nous n’avons jamais été aussi corrompus. C’est du moins ce que révèle la dernière étude de Transparency International. Un organisme sérieux et qui traque les perceptions d’un phénomène planétaire économique, politique, sociale mai ...
• Maghreb on Jadaliyya: June 2012 Edition
  This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Maghreb. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Maghreb-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical an ...
• "The Jews of Our Time?": Israel's Deportation ...
   Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters. Israel ha ...
• Will Syria Cause a Divorce Between Iran and Tu ...
  Turkey and Iran are two of the Middle East’s oldest and most powerful states. Both aspire to play a greater role in a new regional order. Major geopolitical developments in the Middle East—the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the expansion of Israeli settl ...

mediagazer

• For once, Nick Denton seems pleased with Gawke ...
  Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab: For once, Nick Denton seems pleased with Gawker's commenting system  —  I'm starting to lose track of which system Gawker is using for comments today, so here is a brief timeline of the evolution of Gawker's discussion platform:  &mdas ...
• Finally, a Talking Points Memo mobile app - bu ...
  Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab: Finally, a Talking Points Memo mobile app — but it might not be what you're expecting  —  Talking Points Memo launched a new version of its Polltracker vertical this morning.  It's accessible from its own domain, Polltracker. ...
• Fed Up With Lack of TechCrunch Coverage, Itali ...
  Jessica Roy / Betabeat: Fed Up With Lack of TechCrunch Coverage, Italian Startup Just Plain Clones the Site  —  Whatever your opinions on its ethics policy, it's hard to argue against the fact that getting a write-up in TechCrunch is basically the holy grail for startups.  ...
• Attacks on Mexico Papers Underline Peril to Jo ...
  Randal C. Archibold / New York Times: Attacks on Mexico Papers Underline Peril to Journalists  —  MEXICO CITY — Two newspapers in northern Mexico have come under attack by gunfire and grenades this week, in what both called an effort to silence reporting on criminal groups ...
• Jack Abramoff Gets A Radio Show (Associated Press)
  Associated Press: Jack Abramoff Gets A Radio Show  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has a new talk radio show to offer advice on reforming politics.  Premiere Networks, part of Clear Channel Media, announced Wednesday that “The Ja ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong says busines ...
  Tweet NEW DELHI: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday described India's business environment as complicated and said investors look for a "predictable regulatory regime and a hassle-free, rules-based business environment", hours before PM Manmohan Singh assured Lee of the co ...
• Adam Johnson ready to force his way into ...
  The young winger wants to impress his manager and break into the starting XI, while also speaking of his disappointment at not being selected for...
• Oil prices bounce back near $86
  NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil rose more than 2 percent Wednesday after the Federal Reserve released a report that signaled it may take further steps to lift the economy. China also reported strong auto sales for last month, and the U.S. said crude supplies declined last week by a much lar ...
• Watson, Couples shoot for 1st US Senior O ...
  LAKE ORION, Mich. (AP) — Tom Watson says winning his first U.S. Senior Open would mean a great deal to him. The...
• Darren Clarke 'frustrated' ahead Open Cha ...
  Open champion Darren Clarke is "incredibly frustrated" with his game as he prepares to defend the title at Royal Lytham next week. The Northern Irishman has failed to recapture the form which earned him a surprise victory at Royal St George's. "I play golf to win tourname ...

no frakking consensus

• Delusions Down Under
  Concerned about climate change, coral reef experts say they can predict the future with startling precision.
• The WWF’s Supermarket Offensive
  The World Wildlife Fund is reaching into new corners of your life.
• From Canada, With Love
  Audience members at my upcoming Australian speaking tour are in for a special treat.
• Is the WWF Telling the Truth About Electric Cars?
  The World Wildlife Fund's praise for electric cars demonstrates its profound disconnect from reality.
• Solar Pie-in-the-Sky
  How plans to run an entire Australian town on solar energy failed miserably.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

• 7/6/12 - Physician-Assisted Suicide Act Approv ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - Physician-Assisted Suicide Act Approved for Massachusetts Ballot
• 7/2/12 - Is medical marijuana an effective tre ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Is medical marijuana an effective treatment for depression, bipolar disorders, anxiety, and similar mood disorders?
• 6/29/12 - Is a two-state solution (Israel and ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) an acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - Read pro and con arguments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pro), US Representative Joe Walsh (con), US President Barack Obama (pro), Z ...
• 6/28/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
  healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - Updated with a point-by-point outline of the June 28, 2012 US Supreme Court decision finding "Obamacare" to be constitutional. Read a case summary, a timeline of how the case made it to the Supreme Court ...
• 6/28/12 - Health Care Mandate Upheld by Suprem ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Mandate Upheld by Supreme Court's 5-4 Obamacare Decision

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Excessive Endurance Training Can Be Deadly
  Micah True, legendary ultra-marathoner, died suddenly while on a routine 12-mile training run March 27, 2012. The mythic Caballo Blanco in the best-selling book, Born to Run, True would run as far as 100 miles in a day. On autopsy his heart was enlarged and scarred; he died of a lethal arrhythmi ...
• Exercise and the Brain
  The effects of exercise are different on memory as well as on the brain, depending on whether the exerciser is an adolescent or an adult. A gene has been identified which seems to mediate the degree to which exercise has a beneficial effect. This has implications for the potential use of exercis ...
• TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
  Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
• Origins of the Arts
  Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
• Middle Age
  Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Lessons from across the pond?
  When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century).  The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight.  Both nati ...
• Sowing the seed corn…
  Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
• A timely contribution to a fractious debate
  For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
• Science’s Olympic legacy
  Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
• Making an open enterprise work
  Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
  To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
• Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
  In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
• Short, powerful video explains why we must opp ...
  This excellent video was produced by the video production company Koozzoo for Civil Liberties Australia.
• Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
  BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
• Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
  DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...

Beacon

• If You Were President...
  We asked our Ocean Heroes finalists: If you were elected President, what would be the first thing on your agenda? They gave us some pretty great answers, check them out below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalist! Who knows, maybe one of our finalists will be running for Presid ...
• What Motivates You?
  To be an Ocean Hero, you have to have a strong commitment to your work—so what keeps our finalists going when the going gets tough? The voting is open for our 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, but if you're having a hard time deciding who your favorite finalist is, here's a chance to get to know ...
• Need a Beach Soundtrack? We’ve Got You Covered.
  Heading out of town for the fourth of July? As with any trip, you need a great destination and some tunes for the ride. Our Ocean Heroes finalists have spent time on the beach and on the water, learning to appreciate and protect all the ocean has to offer. Each shoreline has its own unique qu ...
• Video: Mercury from Source to Seafood
  The health benefits of seafood are well-documented, but some people avoid eating it after hearing reports of high mercury levels. This video might help make things a little clearer. Produced by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, the video explains how mercury gets into water ...
• Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing ...
  © Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by the scene in Peru, where earlier this year, h ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Nazis Funded War Effort With Stolen Jewish Money.
    “Nearly 120 billion Reich marks – over £12 billion at the time – was plundered from German Jews by laws and looting….The official study commissioned by the ministry examined the years from 1933 to 1945. Hans-Peter Ullmann, a Cologne history professor, said the tax authorities under ...
• The Three Waves. Why Ninth And Tenth Century E ...
  There are some stubborn romantic notions of Kings ensconced in cozy castles, in repose by vast fireplaces, the air thick with the scents and sounds of feasts warming in brick ovens tucked near ornate halls. Chicken fat spitting and roiling on hot coals, minstrels strumming ancient tunes, and win ...
• Before He Was In McHale’s Navy, He Was I ...
    Ernest Borgnine, (January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) a graduate of James Hillhouse High School in New Haven Connecticutt, 18  year old Ernest Borgnine joined the United States Navy six years before Pearl Harbor. He served as a Gunners Mate 1st class aboard the destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-11 ...
• More Flying Car Concept From Paleofuture.
       
• The Future Of Aviation According To The Past.
       

Taylor Marsh

• New Romney Ad Slams Obama, Says He’s Lying on ...
  “Just like he did against Hillary Clinton, President Obama now continues to spread dishonest attacks about Mitt Romney to distract from his failed record. Even though fact check after fact check have found his claims to be false, he continues to mislead the American people. It is no wonder ...
• DoD Inspector General Report on Interrogations ...
  A DECLASSIFIED DoD Inspector General’s report obtained by Truth-Out titled “Investigation of Allegations of the Use of Mind-Altering Drugs to Facilitate Interrogations of Detainees” reveals information for the first time about interrogations at Guantanamo. The impetus of the in ...
• A Personal Note
  I met my husband Mark ten years ago today. When you do the work I’ve done over my life having a solid relationship is at best difficult, in reality impossible. Then I met him. I’d just moved to Las Vegas to launch my radio show under what we all knew were impossible odds. It was [...]
• Summer Fundraiser & Book Giveaway
  Issue articles appear below fundraiser and book giveaway. Support independent political analysis with a proven track record. Lots of options! Option 1: $5.00 USD – monthly Option 2: $10.00 USD – monthly Option 3: $15.00 USD – monthly Option 4: $20.00 USD – monthly Option ...
• What Stupak Wrought in the Obama Era: Self-Det ...
  So far this year, states have enacted 39 new restrictions on access to abortion. Although this is significantly lower than the record-breaking 80 restrictions that had been enacted by this point in 2011, it is nonetheless a higher number of restrictions than in any year prior to 2011. Most of th ...

Hudson New York

• Sodomy "For the Sake of Islam"
  Not only did the original "underwear bomber" Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old holy warrior "feigned repentance for his jihadi views"—but al-Asiri
• Who Will Speak for the Ahmadi Muslims?
  Rejected by many in the Islamic world as heretics and routinely persecuted because their more moderate beliefs do not accord with mainstream Islamic interpretations of the Quran, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community is arguably one of the most persecuted
• Britain Ruled by Political Correctness
  A three-month trial that recently ended in Liverpool, where nine Muslim men were found guilty of raping dozens of British children, revealed that police and social workers in northern England repeatedly refuse to investigate Muslim paedophile gangs: they
• Iran Infiltrates Canada, Calls to Attack America
  Iran is expanding a "fifth column" in Canada. This warning, articulated by David Harris, former head of operations for the Canadian Intelligence Service and now a strategic intelligence expert, highlights some disturbing facts: many expatriates have been
• Wahhabi Vandalism Reaches Timbuktu
  At the beginning of July, Ansar Al-Dine (Volunteers of Faith), a Wahhabi Islamist group previously allied with Tuareg (a Berber group) rebels in Timbuktu, Mali, began systematically demolishing centuries-old Sufi shrines and mosques. Timbuktu is known as

Urban Survival

• Consumers Loosen Up
  Something huge just happened in the economy:  Consumers started to get “off their wallets” and they are ready to start spending again, in a huge way.  That is the gist of the Consumer Debt report released yesterday by the Federal … Continue reading →
• Coping: Mabus, HAARP, and other Ponders
  (Gig Harbor, WA)  Although we’re on the road (part work, part play, part hiding out from the heat E. Texas), the largest surprise of the trip so far has been our after dinner round of put-put golf.  Elaine came in … Continue reading →
• Decision Week for Markets
  Holiday Week is over for millions this morning, though the Fourth of July period has been a lot of fun…pass the aspirin and sunburn creme, please.  But this morning we’re back to the grind of figuring out what’s ahead for … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Community Planning
  (Tacoma, WA)  Seems an appropriate starting point for this week’s discussion of what we’re seeing on our Trip Round America to ponder where the country is going – longer term – and where we might find a slice of peace … Continue reading →
• Jobs Humbug
  Here it is, well after July 1 and I haven’t done my first “bah-humbug” of the coming Christmas season – which, if you have a calendar handy has only 172-shopping days away.  Since it’s a little early to go-a-wassailing, I’ve … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Gerald Celente : The Politicians are leading u ...
  Gerald Celente - The Mancow Show - June 21, 2012... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Age of Deceit: Fallen Angels and the New World ...
  AGE OF DECEIT Fallen Angels and the New World... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Chris Putnam : The Final Pope Is Here
  Chris Putnam: Petrus Romanus - The Final Pope Is... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Why George Carlin is not Voting !
  George Carlin : in election day I stay home , I... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Barclays Scandal : Bob Diamond Resigns in anger
  Barclays Scandal : Bob Diamond Resigns in... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Ocean Devotion (part 2)
  Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California In my inaugural switchboard blog post, I outlined three major threats to the living ocean; plastic pollution, oil drilling, and ocean acidification. Here are two more to rou ...
• Climate Change Deniers Resurface; Who Will You ...
  Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC The temperature’s cooling, the power is back on in Washington, D.C., the fires are almost out in Colorado and they’ve almost cleaned up from the flooding in Florida. So naturally, those ...
• Survey of State Solar Projects Reveals Immense ...
  Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Last week, one of India’s leading solar energy developers, Mahindra Solar One announced plans to move forward with a 50 megawatt solar plant in Rajasthan ...
• Torturing Statistics: Wildlife Services' Big C ...
  Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC "Just to give tons of raw data to people would not be smart. Torture numbers long enough and they are going to confess to anything." That’s what Jeffrey Green, Western Regional Director of US ...
• Big News in Shark Conservation
  Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco It’s been a big couple of months for sharks.  Last week -- in-part due to the hard work of NRDC's Chicago team -- a fifth U.S. state took a strong stand to protect sharks when Il ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Shakedown in Utah
  From the Wall Street Journal: Small-town speed traps are legendary among travelers, who often suspect police of targeting tourists from other parts of the country to help fill local coffers. But officers in tiny Springdale, Utah, may have used their … Continue reading →Shakedown in U ...
• Junk Food Theft Triggers Chase, Crash
  From Cincinnati.com: PLEASANT RIDGE – Potato chips, cookies, beef jerky, a couple fruit-flavored drinks, energy bars and candy – stolen goods valued at $26.29. That alleged theft from a convenience store during the wee hours Tuesday morning touched off a … Continue reading &#85 ...
• Kyle Miller Shooting
  From the Denver Post: A 911 call recorded just before Kyle Miller was shot to death by Broomfield police officers last week shows that his family warned dispatchers the 21-year-old was armed with an Airsoft pellet gun — not a … Continue reading →Kyle Miller Shooting is a post f ...
• Thousands of Criminal Cases Now Under Review
  From the Washington Post: The Justice Department and the FBI have launched a review of thousands of criminal cases to determine whether any defendants were wrongly convicted or deserve a new trial because of flawed forensic evidence, officials said Tuesday. … Continue reading →Thousa ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday July 10, 2012: Princess Anne, Maryland: A high-speed chase that began over a seat belt infraction ended with a state trooper seriously injured, a burned up police car, and … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct N ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose: Ouya games console is ...
  The Ouya games console has raised more than $2m in its first 24 hours on Kickstarter, Twitter partners with Mediatek, and Amazon launches its own version of Apple’s Game Center....
• TNW’s Daily Dose – “Record&# ...
  “Record” FTC fine imposed on Google. Extradition of Kim Dotcom pushed back to 2013. Total TV shipments are falling in 2012. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Windows 8 on track for ...
  Windows 8 will be released to manufacturers next month ahead of a late October launch, Microsoft Office is now on one billion machines worldwide, and Facebook’s App Center rolls out...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: New discovery options ...
  Twitter is set to tweak its discovery methods today. Amazon could finally be entering the phone market. The UN calls for similar rights online as offline. You can catch The...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: WikiLeaks’ lates ...
  WikiLeaks releases another batch of data, this time from Syria; iOS and Mac apps blighted with a crashing problem, and Apple sued in China over Siri. It’s all in today’s...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
  If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
• Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
  Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
• Solar Thermal Models Built
  Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
• WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
  The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...
• Now we’re cooking without gas!
  Zero emissions buildings are good for your health Common wisdom has it that gas is the best for cooking and it’s the most efficient for heating. This thinking is out of date, as will be demonstrated in a talk at the Healthy Buildings Symposium by Trent Hawkins, Buildings Plan project director ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Indigenous tribes end occupation of Belo Monte
  After occupying the construction site of the massive Belo Monte dam for 21 days, some 300 indigenous people have left and gone home. The representatives from nine Amazonian tribes abandoned their occupation after two days of meeting with the dam's builder, the Norte Energia consortium.
• Animal picture of the day: the greater roadrunner
  Charging at speeds up to 26 miles an hour (42 kilometers), the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) chases down prey like lizards and snakes. It is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List, and is found across the Southwestern U.S. Although the greater roadrunner is capable of flight ...
• Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru get big boost ...
  Efforts to rapidly and accurately track deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru got a boost this week with a special technical training session organized by the Governors Climate and Forest Task Force. The meeting, convened at Stanford University and Google's ...
• Thousands of scientists hold mock funeral in C ...
  Carrying signs that said 'Stop Harper's War on Knowledge' and 'Scientists Shouldn't Wear a Muzzle,' Canada's scientists were unusually theatrical yesterday at a rally against the Canadian government's cuts for basic science funding and environmental protections. Scientists, dressed in white coat ...
• Climate change increased the probability of Te ...
  Climate change is here and its increasing the chances for crazy weather, according to scientists. A prestigious group of climatologists have released a landmark report that makes the dramatic point that climate change is impacting our weather systems—and in turn our food crops, our economi ...

Sierra Express

• Notice of Vacant Positions – Senior Community ...
  AFRICAN MINERALS (SL) LIMITED has vacancies for site based SENIOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS OFFICERS. The Role Reporting to the Head of Corporate, Social and Community Relations, the Senior Community Relations Officers will be responsible for implementing the community relations strategy of the compan ...
• HRCSL moves to Bumbuna for public hearing
  Freetown, July 11, 2012: HRCSL wishes to inform the public and its partners that the Panel Hearing of the Public Inquiry into the alleged gross violation of Human Rights in Bumbuna, Tonkolili District, in relation to the events of 16th, 17th and 18th April, 2012 has been scheduled to be held fro ...
• APC-UK and Ireland Branch Extends Condolences ...
  The entire executive and membership of the APC-UK and Ireland branch are saddened by the death of our nation’s first mum, Madam Alice Rosaline Koroma, aged 80. Mammy Alice Koroma, a highly religious personality, had always been a guiding and shining light to our leadership- a role we, as nation ...
• Death of Mrs Alice R Koroma, Mother of His Exc ...
  PRESS RELEASE, State House, Freetown – The attention of the Koroma family has been invited to a circular memorandum addressed to all Permanent Secretaries and professional heads by the Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service soliciting financial contributions from Ministries ...
• London Mining Rescue 11 at Sea
  Tugboats working for London Mining rescued 11 people from rough seas after their boat sank off Freetown harbour at about 8pm on 22 June. The operation lasted nearly an hour following a distress call about the sinking boat to the LAMNALCO tugboats, stationed off the harbour, by London Mining staf ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• 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...
• Dairy prices bode ill for Fonterra payout - ec ...
  It's early days, but Fonterra will need to revise down its dairy payout for 2012/13 if the weaker prices evident in today's dairy auction are anything to go by, rural economists say.The price of dairy product fell in Fonterra's...
• Dairy prices fall 5.9pc in overnight auction
  Prices of dairy products fell in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, mirroring a broader decline in New Zealand's primary sector exports in the face of doubts about the strength of the world's economic recovery.The...
• Europe's troubles hit core exports
  Heightened concern over Europe's sovereign debt crisis pushed the prices of New Zealand's core exports to their lowest level in more than two years last month.ANZ's commodity price index dropped 2.4 per cent in June, marking the...
• Bernard Hickey: Farmers right to be wary of sh ...
  This week I watched two great debates about what type of company structure is best for local people. The first one was over our biggest and most influential company - the future of New Zealand Inc.Fonterra's farmer shareholders...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Roderick T. Long on Remaking Marriage
  The Arizona State University philosopher Elizabeth Brake believes that marriage should not be restricted to opposite-sex couples, or indeed to couples at all. Indeed, she argues, it constitutes unjust discrimination to restrict marriage to romantic or sexual relationships: The social ...
• Steve Chapman on How Afghanistan Has Gone From ...
  This year, 176 American military personnel have been killed, bringing the total to more than 2,000 dead and 15,000 wounded. At the current rate, 2012 will be the third bloodiest year of the war. We have also lavished upward of half a trillion dollars on the effort at a time when we ar ...
• President Obama: Not Being Outspent or Outrais ...
  In his State of the Union address this year, President Obama lamented "the corrosive influence of money in politics." These days he seems more worried that there's not enough money in his own political campaign. Over the last few weeks, the Obama reelection team has sent multiple ...
• Where Incomes Are High and Prices Are Low
  Where do Americans earn the highest effective incomes -- that is, the highest incomes once you adjust for the local cost of living? Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill ran the numbers, and this is what they found: In first place is Houston, where the average annual wage in 2011 was $59,838 ...
• Randy Barnett: Losing ObamaCare While Preservi ...
  “We won in our effort to preserve the Constitution and, in fact, we moved the ball in a more positive direction,” says Georgetown Law's Randy Barnett, one of the legal architects behind the constitutional challenge to ObamaCare. Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority op ...

Mercury Rising

• Cheaters prosper: survey of finance professionals
  Via La Jornada, this gem from law firm Labaton Sucharow: Labaton Sucharow LLP today announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. … According to the survey, 24 percent of respondents reported a belief that financial ...
• The reason for transparency in elections: Mexi ...
  Mark Weisbrot, on a little history of why there is such suspicion on the Mexican elections: But it got worse than that: because of public pressure, the Mexican electoral authorities did two partial recounts of the vote. The second one was done for a huge sample: they recounted 9% of the ballots. ...
• Yet Another Republican Favors Medicare For All
  And this is one of the two currently on Mount Rushmore: Of course, it’s quite likely that the other Republican on Mount Rushmore would favor it as well. Hat tip to Juan Cole.
• Someone has courage
  Abdel-Rahman Hussein, Guardian: On Sunday, [Egyptian president Mohamed] Morsi had called on the old parliament to reconvene until a new parliament was elected. After last month’s supreme court ruling, [the military council] Scaf decreed that parliament was dissolved, with legislative power ...
• Hey Congress! Make Corporations Play By The Ru ...
  Last month, the far-right-wing judicial activists running the Supreme Court did this: So with Citizens United, the activist conservative Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of unregulated money to buy elections. Today, that same activist conservative Supreme Court ...

Reality Sandwich

• Time Keeps on Slipping
    Professor Jose Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raul Vera from the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca set out to explore the accelerating expansion of the universe.  The commonly accepted theory suggests that dark energy is the force responsible for this growth, bu ...
• Women's Visionary Congress
  The sixth annual Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) http://visionarycongress.org/ takes place July 27 - July 29, 2012 at the IONS Earthrise Retreat Center http://www.noetic.or /earthrise/ in Petaluma, California. The WVC is an annual gathering of visionary women healers, scholars, botanis ...
• Drugs and Redemption: An Interview with Charle ...
  An interview with Charles Shaw, author of Exile Nation, which appeared in serialization on Reality Sandwich and was recently published by Soft Skull Press. read more
• This Week in Psychedelics
    Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine describes the value of his magic mushroom experiences, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks out against the war on drugs, and the Chicago City Council decriminalizes small amounts of marijuana in this week's psychedelic news.   read more
• Ring of Bone (New and Expanded Edition) Releas ...
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Desertification

• China Battles Desertification
  As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
• RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
  When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
• Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
  Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
• New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
  When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...
• Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in ...
  Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. Cilantro is the favourite “because of the flavour it adds to bean ...

Blogging Canadians

• Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
  The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
• Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
  “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
• TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
  There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
• Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
• U.S. Healthcare Legislation
  Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • Syria sacks ambassador for defection
    Syria’s Foreign Ministry says the country’s ambassador to Iraq has been relieved of his duties after the envoy defected to the Western-backed opposition.
  • ‘West’s regime change bid in Syria failed’
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Western powers have failed in their bids to overthrow the Syrian government and have been forced to bow down to the will of the united Syrians.
  • Palestinian killed in Israeli raids on Gaza
    One Palestianian has been killed and several others injured in Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
  • ‘Al Saud kills Shias to scare Sunnis’
    The oppressive regime of Al Saud believes that if it kills one Shia, then ten Sunnis will consequently be scared to join the popular uprising in the kingdom, a political analyst tells Press TV.
  • Turkish premier slams Egypt’s junta
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Egypt’s ruling military council over dissolving the country’s parliament and failing to hand over power to the people.

  CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

  Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

  Destructionist

  • The Greatest Threat To Mankind
    The self-destructive, self-loathing, nihilistic drivel that poses as popular culture and modern society is like a ball and chain to humanity’s innate desire to realize its true potential. In the video above, Alex Jones explains how the people in control of our planet are wantonly hurting the ...
  • The Greatest Threat To Mankind
    The self-destructive, self-loathing, nihilistic drivel that poses as popular culture and modern society is like a ball and chain to humanity’s innate desire to realize its true potential. In the video above, Alex Jones explains how the people in control of our planet are wantonly hurting the ...
  • French president: zero growth so far this year
    France enjoyed a boost in investor confidence with a successful bond auction Monday - but also got a warning from the president that growth so far this year is "nil" and that the country needs to rethink its social model. France's government sold (EURO)6 billlion in short-term bonds at negati ...
  • French president: zero growth so far this year
    France enjoyed a boost in investor confidence with a successful bond auction Monday - but also got a warning from the president that growth so far this year is "nil" and that the country needs to rethink its social model. France's government sold (EURO)6 billlion in short-term bonds at negati ...
  • Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Dem ...
    A newly leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest. The document (PDF), which is dated 2006 and was ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
    Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate – and potentially dangerous. The International Criminal Court sentenced Lubanga, a forme ...
  • Voting for Peace in the Distant Desert
    On election day long lines of people from Sabha’s impoverished community of Tayuri waited to vote under the harsh Saharan sun. Four hundred miles from the Mediterranean coast, Sabha is tucked into the volatile southwest bordering Algeria, Niger and Chad. Tayuri’s non-Arab Tabu and Tuareg excited ...
  • U.S.: Latinos Could Shift Outcome of 2012 Elec ...
    As the Latino population in the United States rises, the demographic shift will affect future as well as current voting habits, and therefore election outcomes, in the United States, according to several experts. In the highly competitive upcoming presidential elections, “a couple hundred ...
  • Colombian Informant Exposes Destabilisation Plot
    The same week that a bomb attack targeted Colombia’s former interior and justice minister, Fernando Londoño, a Colombian national came forward and confessed that similar attacks were being planned against former senator Piedad Córdoba and current Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro. The individual, ...
  • U.N. Increasingly Reliant on Private Security ...
    The United Nations is increasingly hiring Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) for its missions across the world, raising concerns over the use of firms known for participation in human rights abuses, as well as an overall lack of accountability structures governing these contractors ...

  My AntiWar

  • With Military in Disarray, Tuareg Rebels Gain ...
  • It’s Time to Say Hello! to the Glamorous ...
  • Amid War Fears, Some Israelis Reach Out to Iran
  • Guatemala’s President Urges Debate on Dr ...
  • J Street Stresses Urgency of Peace in Opening ...

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Don't Plan for a Short War with Iran
    Summary: Amid all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding Iran and its nuclear program (some of which The Buzz has previously highlighted), it is refreshing to see a sober, historically grounded look at the subject. This is precisely what Brookings’ Bruce Riedel provides in a sharp piece at ...
  • Covering Syria: The information war
    Summary: The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it i ...
  • America’s own Terror group
    Summary: Yesterday morning, The Huffington Post published a post by Hossein Abedini, who was identified in the byline as a “Member of Parliament in exile of Iranian Resistance.” His extended HuffPost bio says that he “belongs to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Re ...
  • India Follows Japan's Suit to Ensure Oil Impor ...
    Summary: The New Delhi government ordered Indian state-run insurers to provide cover to the country's ships transporting Iranian oil, allowing refiners to avoid any interruption in supplies due to the western sanctions. United India Insurance Co. has agreed to provide protection and indemni ...
  • Misleading Guardian Headline Portrays Iran as ...
    Summary: The Guardian has run an article about Iran's statement that they will respond, in the Guardian's words, 'within minutes of an attack on the Islamic Republic'. The text of the article clarifies that the statement was about retaliation, however the headline given t ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA Scientists Insert a 500-million-year-old ...
    It’s a project 500 million years in the making: Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing...
  • Dark Galaxies of the Universe --Observed for t ...
    Dark galaxies are small, gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe that are very inefficient at forming stars, predicted by theories of galaxy formation, and are thought to be the building blocks of today's bright, star-filled galaxies. Astronomers think that they...
  • Image of the Day: Winter Arriving on Titan
    Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's largest moon. "The structure inside the vortex is reminiscent...
  • MIA: Where are the Milky Way's Missing Orbitin ...
    Astronomers have used Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood --fossils of the early Universe that have barely changed for 13 billion years. The discovery could help explain the so-called “missing...
  • Image of the Day: Violent Glowing Blob 100-Bil ...
    This dramatic Hubble image shows the Nebula M1-67 around star WR124 as 100 billion-mile wide glowing gas blob 15,000 light-years away, located in the constellation Sagittarius. Each blob is about 30 times the mass of the Earth. Vast arcs of...

  Natural News

  • How to raise an earth-conscious child
    Children these days have many technological distractions that keep them busy and less connected with the environment. Whether it's a video game, television program or computer screen, children are forgetting how to connect with their natural side. Many parents seem to...
  • Take control of your stress with HeartMath
    On the latest episode of Mental Health Exposed, I speak with a world leader on stress reduction and personal biofeedback. Three of four American workers describe their employment as stressful. In fact, occupational stress has been called a "global epidemic" by the United...
  • Common childbirth procedures are NOT supported ...
    Many commonplace procedures that are practiced during routine, low risk, deliveries have no scientific evidence to back them up. These unnecessary medical processes can actually increase many risks in the mother and child. Many women are following the Midwife of Modern...
  • Is white sugar the gateway drug to alcoholism ...
    As a species, we consume almost 2,204 pounds of white sugar each year, this equates to an average of approximately 81.4 pounds per person. Many health professionals have noted the negative health effects of sugar, from excessive weight gain to diabetes. It has also been...
  • EPA spying on farms and ranches from the air, ...
    (NaturalNews)The expanding Leviathan state appears to be on auto-drive these days; the latest example of Big Brother's overreach coming from the always-intrusive Environmental Protection Agency. Farmers around the country are complaining about the EPA flying over their property...

  Threat Level

  • When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide ...
    Kyle McDonald launched an art project taking pictures of people using Macs inside Apple stores. Then the Secret Service came knocking and the project took on another life. Here's the inside story from McDonald himself.
  • Tiny Antennas Save Streaming Internet TV Service
    Aereo, a startup based in New York City that lets customers stream over-the-air broadcasts to their tablets and smartphones, won a key ruling Wednesday, all but ensuring that it can continue providing its service to paying customers.
  • 1.3M Cellphone Snooping Requests Yearly? It’s ...
    For the first time ever, the public knows a bit about how often the police ask mobile phone carriers for data on Americans. It's just enough data to know that we need some transparency and better privacy protections. Congress, can you hear us now?
  • Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Offers to Surrender to ...
    Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload associates are seeking to break the legal impasse between him and the FBI, by offering to fly to the United States without an extradition hearing in New Zealand. In return, Dotcom demands a fair trial guarantee and return of money to support their families and to pa ...
  • Gone in 3 Minutes: Keyless BMWs a Boon to Hack ...
    You've recently spent $64,000 on your flash new BMW with keyless entry. But when you wake up one morning, you discover, in a flash, that it's gone, stolen by hacker thieves who used the car's keyless feature to pinch your luxury ride.

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Recycles Debunked Talking Points on Taxes ...
    The GOP response to the President's call for higher tax rates on upper income Americans came fast and furious. His proposal, Republicans warned, was "class warfare" and a "job killer" which will "kill the current recovery and put us back in a recession" and still "not give you deficit reduction ...
  • You Know Mitt Romney Is Out of Touch When...
    For months, Mitt Romney like John McCain before him has tried to compare President Obama to Marie Antoinette, an Ivy League educated elitist who is out of touch with the American people. Of course, that task is a daunting one for the $250 million man who insists his personal finances remain a m ...
  • 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know abo ...
    With the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 once again set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama on Monday once again proposed temporarily extending them only for families earning less than $250,000 annually. Predictably, his Republican rival Mitt Romney called the return of upper-inco ...
  • The Discovery of Mitt's Boson
    Even with four months to go until Election Day, Mitt Romney's shameless lying has already become one of the defining storylines of the 2012 campaign. Theories abound as to why Romney has emerged as a reverse George Washington, a man who cannot tell the truth. Jonathan Chait turned to Freud, expl ...
  • GOP Declares New War on IRS over Health Care Law
    With the Affordable Care Act having passed constitutional muster, Republicans are once again targeting the Internal Revenue Service in order to deny funding for the ACA's implementation. Hoping to repeat the GOP's successful 1990's war on the agency, Republicans like Maine Governor Paul LePage ...

  Blackspot News Feed

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Assignment of ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 06, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by th ...
  • Life Is Cheaper -- And Richer -- In Co-Housing
    It's not just about saving money; it's also about re-creating the community and connection that we've been missing
  • How Millennials Are Driving The Great Migratio ...
    Suburbs are so 20th century. Here's why so many of us are moving back downtown.
  • Don't Blame Technology For The Shrinking Middl ...
    Some economists are arguing that high tech inevitably doomed the middle class -- but they're not telling the whole story.
  • Why Don't Americans See Climate Change As A Mo ...
    New research uncovers potential strategies to engage our moral intuition to solve the biggest problem of all

  Consortium News

  • The Second-Half Fund Drive
  • Seeking Failure in Iran Nuke Talks
  • Buying What’s Left of Democracy
  • The ‘America-Held-Hostage’ Narrative
  • The Battle over the Constitution

  TruthOut

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

  Planetsave

  • Native American Populations Descend from Three ...
    New research has discovered that Native American populations ranging from Canada to the southern tip of Chile all arose from three migrations, with the majority descended almost entirely from one single group of First American migrants that crossed from Asia into America across the then existing ...
  • White LED Lighting Grows Directly On Paper
      White LEDs that can be printed and manufactured directly on paper have been developed by researcher Gul Amin from Linköping University. With the development of this new technology, applications as diverse as luminous curtains, bright wallpaper that functions as lighting, self-lit books, e ...
  • Harness the Sun: 4 Solar Panel Benefits the Ec ...
      As energy demand worldwide increases, alternative energy sources such as solar power continue to gain popularity. There are many benefits to the science of harnessing the sun’s power in order to convert it into usable energy. Here are just a few benefits that you may, or may not, know: So ...
  • Migratory Animals Use Magnetic Cells To Navigate
      Migratory animals utilize the Earth’s magnetic field in order to find their way across large distances. The exact biological source for this ability has previously been unknown, but according to new research it’s been located. The ‘internal compass needles’ for the perce ...
  • Sounds Of The Aurora Borealis Confirmed
    Auroral sounds have, for the first time, been confirmed to exist. The sounds accompanying the Northern Lights have long been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers, but evidence until now has been scarce. Researchers from Aalto University in Finland have also located where the sounds ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

  • Fracking in L.A.? (Workshops to be held on 6/1 ...
    A Dimock, Pennsylvania resident lights their flowing tap on fire, a result of natural gas drilling a
  • Orica to defend chemical leak charges
    ABC News 9 June 2012 The chemical maker Orica says it will fight charges alleging it leaked chemical
  • Lost and Found and Risen in Time
    Happy Sunday afternoon everyone! I feel honored and blessed to share with you a quality guest blog,
  • Lake and River Water Quality: Shoreline Planti ...
    Natural shoreline in Michigan Lake and river shorelines covered with a rich layer of native vegetati
  • A License to Serve
    Today’s guest post comes from Joshua Cunnigham, an NCCC Alum and current AmeriCorps member ser

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

  • Root of Evil by Rand Clifford
    by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 29, 2012 Image by Adam Crowe via Flickr As such
  • Out of the Mouths of Babes by Ellen Brown
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com May 29, 2012 Image by colros via Flickr
  • US Launches New Computer Virus "Weapon of Mass ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ireland May 29, 2012 The US-led economic war on
  • Red Raspberries Ripening - Garden Update by Lo
    by Lo Dandelion Salad May 28, 2012 Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr Garden update: Lots and lots
  • The Democrats are a damn disaster by Bruce Gagnon
    by Bruce Gagnon Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes May 27, 2012 Image by Dandelion Sal

  Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • No Nice Park Pictures For You!
    By @KYYellowDog Apparently because there is no law in Richmond, Kentucky, saying that gay people have a right to have their picture taken in a public park, it is perfectly legal for some mouth-breathing, homophobic goat-fucker to chase them out of the park just because they are gay. I defy even ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC The House had it's 31st nervous breakdown today, voting 244-185 to "repeal ObamaCare!!!1!" -- again. The Senate will ignore it, of course,  but it made for mediocre political theater, so there's that. Whatever. It's summer. We're bored. We'll take what we can get, and they've al ...
  • President Obama in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - photos ...
    By @MBersin President Obama spoke at a campaign event at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday. Approximately sixteen hundred people were in attendance in the hall (with plenty of media, too). The president addressed the economy, jobs, the recovery and about sustaining midd ...
  • Killing Public Education By Charter
    By @KYYellowDog At Governor Beshear's Tax Reform Committee public hearing in Louisville last night, one speaker listed charter schools as one way to reform Kentucky's archaic, regressive and inadequate tax system. The utterly false assumption being that charter schools would save money. She said ...
  • Mean For Mean's Sake
    BY @TomBales1  When you take time out to really just sit back and look at the sorry assed mess politics has become in this country, the one inescapable fact that's going to jump right in your face is there are a hell of a lot of Americans out there who are simply mean minded, intolerant peo ...

  Care 2

  • OUTRAGEOUS ANIMAL CRUELTY: Hope The Dog Tortu ...
    Hope's attacker purposefully pulled her tongue out & taped her mouth shut. Her tongue grew to such an enormous size & sustained so much damage vets almost had to amputate it. The torturer also left deep bloody gashes on her body with a blade. HELP POLICE! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...
  • Open Thread - 7/10/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Value Of Taxing The Wealthy: $56 Billion
    The debate is back over what to do with the Bush tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire at the end of the year.So just how much are those worth? About $56.3 billion in fiscal 2013 alone, the Tax Policy Center estimates, using Treasury data, or about $850 Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politi ...
  • Lennox - Dog murdered by Belfast City Council
    Lennox the dog was murdered after his family tried to get him back for 2 years. There is no evidence that this dog was a threat in any way. Belfast City Council must be made accountable and answer for this heinous crime!! Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals  |   Note- ...
  • GENEVA, July 8, 2012 - Iran was elected to a t ...
    GENEVA, July 8, 2012 - Iran was elected to a top post on the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference, - days after being found guilty of illegally shipping guns & bombs to Syria regime Submitted by Vivien Green to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  Smirking Chimp

  • What Romney's Right-Wing Media Revolt Reveals ...
  • Crooked Bankers Are Corrupting Government: The ...
  • Medicare. For All. For Life. Everywhere.
  • 'Where Am I Complicit in the War Against the E ...
  • Mitt Romney's Current Focus: The Conservative ...

  Paul Krugman

  • Filters and Full Employment (Not Wonkish, Really)
    No, we aren't operating at potential.
  • Zombies on CNBC
    A torrent of misinformation.
  • Pointless Pain In Spain
    Imposing suffering for no good reason.
  • Whose Incentives?
    There are serious issue -- but not for the rich.
  • Sixties Madness
    Hippies and budget deficits.

  No Quarter

  • Obot Economic Delusions
    If you have taken time to read any of the crazy rantings of resident Obot, LOLA828 aka PPAA, then you are familiar with his excuse that the bad economic news is really good economic news because there is really no significant unemployment. Here, read the crap for yourself (LOLA posted a comment ...
  • Romney rocked today, and nailed Obama on Venez ...
    UPDATE: Video of Bret Baier’s All-Star Panel on Romney’s speech to the NAACP. Krauthammer was good, and amusing. Juan Williams? Oh, you watch. (And it was cool to hear from Pat Buchanan. He’s still in the deep freeze at MSNBC, right?) Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ...
  • Delicious Dirt on the Dope-In-Chief and DNC Debbie
    This is a follow-up to John Batchelor’s insightful post below on whether it is effective for a presidential campaign to pin the “rich rich” label on the opponent. First, we have jrterrier‘s find in an MSNBC transcript that shatters the glass house that Barack Obama has bu ...
  • Time Will Tell + Open Thread
    How things can change. Yet not at all. Or? I see good signs for Romney. Rasmussen finds him up in Florida, and he outraised Obama in June. (My inbox is full of frantic e-mails from Obama’s campaign begging for $3.) Ed Morissey of Hot Air concurs in “This just in: Bain attack still no ...
  • Kennedy, Rockefeller, Romney and the 1960 Tras ...
    OFA launches a familiar theme against the villainous plutocrat MR, restating for the five hundredth time that MR is rich rich from plundering the American working man and making deals with the Red China devils. Arrest the usual suspects. I am reading over Theodore White’s original “T ...

  Futurismic

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

  Therapy News

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

  Mountaintop Removal

  • Acting Against Their Own Interests: Appalachia ...
    Acting Against Their Own Interests: Appalachian Coal Miners Huffington Post (blog) Despite the evidence, the coal industry and its allies in Washington have persuaded the majority of their constituents to ignore such environmental consequences, recasting mountaintop removal as an economic boon f ...
  • Why Are You Proud to Be An American? - unEARTH ...
    Why Are You Proud to Be An American? unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Over our years of working to stop mountaintop removal mining, we at Earthjustice have met so many brave and dedicated people fighting for their commun... by Liz Judge: Spruce Court Decision: A Sad Day in West Virginia &midd ...
  • Appalachia Turns on Itself - New York Times
    Appalachia Turns on Itself New York Times ANYONE traveling on Interstate 77 just north of Charleston, W.Va., can't miss the billboard perched high above the traffic, proclaiming “Obama's No Jobs Zone,” a reference to increased regulations on the coal industry and mountaintop removal mini ...
  • Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis ...
    Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal ... Huffington Post (blog) As reports of revamped mountaintop removal operations and detonations continue to rock the electricity-bereft disaster areas in the West Virginia coalfields, ailing residents -- entering their s ...
  • Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis ...
    Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal ... AlterNet (blog) As reports of revamped mountaintop removal operations and detonations continue to rock the electricity-bereft disaster areas in the West Virginia coalfields, ailing residents — entering their second we ...

  Memeorandum

  • Brown, Warren offer different ideas on deficit ...
    Boston Globe: Brown, Warren offer different ideas on deficit  —  Democrat Elizabeth Warren would impose higher taxes on top earners, end oil subsidies, and raise estate taxes to cut the federal deficit.  Senator Scott Brown would repeal President Obama's health law, freeze ...
  • Cruz to Pay $200 Fine for Late Report (Jay Roo ...
    Jay Root / The Texas Tribune: Cruz to Pay $200 Fine for Late Report … U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Cruz is facing a $200 fine for failing to file his personal financial statement on time as required by law, his campaign acknowledged Tuesday evening.  —  Candidates for the U.S. ...
  • U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to op ...
    Mark Porubcansky / World Now: U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose Iran  —  WASHINGTON — The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from clo ...
  • TPM2012 - Mitt Romney: I Have Secret Black Sup ...
    Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com: TPM2012  —  Mitt Romney: I Have Secret Black Supporters  —  Mitt Romney told Fox News Wednesday that black leaders support him, but are afraid to say so publicly.  —  After his speech to the NAAC ...
  • The SUV Did It! - Scott wrote here about the a ...
    John Hinderaker / Power Line: The SUV Did It!  —  Scott wrote here about the appalling case of a 16-year-old St. Paul girl, Clarisse Grime, who was sitting in the grass at her high school, nowhere near the street, when she was struck and killed by a vehicle that careened out of ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • Baghdad Journal: Iraq’s Electricity Min ...
    Iraq’s Electricity Ministry, which is is making only halting progress in solving the country’s power woes, has put an image of Katie Couric on billboards as part of a public relations campaign.
  • At Kansas Station, E15 Fuel Reaches the Masses
    Ethanol makers want to offer a blend of fuel that is 15 percent ethanol rather than 10 percent. At a Phillips 66 station in Lawrence, Kan., E15 is catching on.
  • Decades-Old U.S. Embargo Delays Foreign Drilli ...
    Finding rigs can be a challenge for oil companies operating in Cuba because the machinery must have less than 10 percent of its parts manufactured in the United States.
  • Dot Earth Blog: A Gates Summit Aims to Fill Fa ...
    A look at ways to ensure women have the right and capacity to have the family size they desire.
  • Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Leap in Clean Ener ...
    A 92 percent increase in investment by China in solar and wind power drive an upturn.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

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  China Dialogue

  • Appropriating nature?
    Putting a value on nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but in an interview with the Transnational Institute, Melissa Leach argues that it has instead turned into a wave of land grabbing.Transnational Institute (TNI): What is green grabbing? Melissa Leach (ML): I thi ...
  • Why big dams don’t work
    Yesterday, Mike Muller argued on chinadialogue that China’s investment in dams is good news for Africa. Here, Lori Pottinger writes that large dams are costly and destructive, but Chinese experience in renewables still has a lot to offer.The record of Africa’s large dams is one of wi ...
  • China brings dams back to Africa
    Chinese investors have broken a boycott on investment in African dams – and loosened the grip of the environment lobby. This is good news for the continent, water expert Mike Muller tells Olivia Boyd.Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He ...
  • Beijing seeks to kill coal with gas
    Public anger over air pollution has helped drive plans, once thought fanciful, to make a wholesale shift away from coal. But can other cities follow suit? An Geng and Xu Nan report.For Beijing, a wholesale switch from coal to natural gas was once considered a pipe dream. But today, a gas-powered ...
  • Restoring eco balance
    A 1970s botanist and his theory of ecological balance are all but forgotten in China. But the country needs them today more than ever, writes Jiang Gaoming.In the late 1970s, China was swept by a wave of economic growth, and with it a wholesale attack on nature. Grain was planted on grasslands a ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

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    Does the reappointment of University of Virginia's president mark a triumph over corporate interests? Or is it more proof that public universities are headed for demise?
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  Threat Level

  • When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide ...
    Kyle McDonald launched an art project taking pictures of people using Macs inside Apple stores. Then the Secret Service came knocking and the project took on another life. Here's the inside story from McDonald himself.
  • Tiny Antennas Save Streaming Internet TV Service
    Aereo, a startup based in New York City that lets customers stream over-the-air broadcasts to their tablets and smartphones, won a key ruling Wednesday, all but ensuring that it can continue providing its service to paying customers.
  • 1.3M Cellphone Snooping Requests Yearly? It’s ...
    For the first time ever, the public knows a bit about how often the police ask mobile phone carriers for data on Americans. It's just enough data to know that we need some transparency and better privacy protections. Congress, can you hear us now?
  • Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Offers to Surrender to ...
    Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload associates are seeking to break the legal impasse between him and the FBI, by offering to fly to the United States without an extradition hearing in New Zealand. In return, Dotcom demands a fair trial guarantee and return of money to support their families and to pa ...
  • Gone in 3 Minutes: Keyless BMWs a Boon to Hack ...
    You've recently spent $64,000 on your flash new BMW with keyless entry. But when you wake up one morning, you discover, in a flash, that it's gone, stolen by hacker thieves who used the car's keyless feature to pinch your luxury ride.

  Equality Trust

  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
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  PDA AMERICA

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

  Marler Blog

  • Ohio E. coli Outbreak Increases to 55 with 10 ...
    Germantown Picnic the likely source - no food item implicated yet. According to Peggy O'Farrell of the Middletown Journal and Dayton Daily News the Dayton & Montgomery County health department is reporting at least another 19 people are sick and one more is hospitalized after an E. coli out ...
  • E. coli O157:H7 Sickens 36 at Neff's Lawn Care ...
    Nine Hospitalized According to a press release from the Dayton & Montgomery County, as a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, Ohio at least 36 individuals have become ill. Of those, 9 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery ...
  • Restaurants from Hell
    Bill Marler - version 2001: 07 RestaurantsFromHell from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
  • Norovirus Hits California Guest Ranch
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that noroviruses cause nearly 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis annually, making noroviruses the leading cause of gastroenteritis in adults in the United States. So it should come as no surprise that, according to press repo ...
  • Real Raw Milk Facts - Legislative Packet Avail ...
    From Real Raw Milk Facts:  The use of heat is central to the culinary arts and dates back to the beginning of human civilization. Heat enhances the flavor of animal- and plant-based foods. Heat is also a way to destroy harmful germs that can cause disease or spoil the food. Pasteurization i ...

  AutoblogGreen

  • Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...
  • Video: Translogic checks out the made-for-whee ...
    Filed under: Videos, Hatchback, Specialty, Electric The people behind the subway-friendly, all-electric Kenguru have experienced many of the ups and downs that other start-up EV companies are all too familiar with. In fact, when you first go to the Kenguru website, it doesn't ask if you want ...
  • Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...
  • How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...

  Rafe's Radar

  • How Next Issue can rescue magazine publishing
    The all-you-can-eat magazine-reading app and service Next Issue is now on the iPad. It's really worth a read. Origin ...
  • Solariat's plan to fix Facebook's ads
    Beyond demographics and psychographics, Solariat CEO says he knows the perfect time to send ad messages to social-ne ...
  • News360 news reader app massively improved, bu ...
    A new front-end on top of a strong news-scanning algorithm makes all the difference. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Cloze gives relationship scores to everyone yo ...
    It's LinkedIn with a dose of Klout, and it's actually pretty useful. Check out this new e-mail harvesting tool. Orig ...
  • Cloze gives relationship score to everyone you ...
    It's LinkedIn with a dose of Klout, and it's actually pretty useful. Check out this new email harvesting tool. Origi ...

  Camera Obscura

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

  Democracy Now!

  • The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain (Folk)
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As Spain’s prime minister announced deep austerity cuts Wednesday in order to secure funds from the European Union to bail out Spain’s failing banks, the people of Spain have taken to the streets once again for what they call “Real Democracy Now.” This come ...
  • Tune in Thurs: Woody Guthrie's Daughter & Gran ...
    We will spend the hour Thursday, July 12, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the country’s greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie, with his daughter, Nora, and granddaughter, Anna. Also joining us in studio — with his guitar — will be three-time Grammy Award-winning m ...
  • Climate Change: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent “derecho” storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia. ...
  • FRIDAY: Amy Goodman on HBO's Real Time with Bi ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, June 29th at 10 pm ET.
  • Big Money Wins in the Big Skies of Montana
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale,” William A. Clark reportedly said. He was one of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” a man who used his vast wealth to manipulate the state government and literally buy votes to make himself a U.S. senator. That was more tha ...

  Suzie-Q

  • Ben Labolt: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Bank ...
    Published on Jul  8, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Ben Labolt, National Press Secretary, has some questions concerning Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts and tax returns.
  • Where the Money Lives
    © Ruth Tomlinson/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis (beach); by Justin Sullivan/Getty images (inset). BURIED TREASURE Grand Cayman, where Bain Capital maintains at least 138 funds. Inset, Mitt Romney tries to spot his La Jolla home from the campaign plane Vanity Fair August 2012 For all Mitt Ro ...
  • These Five People Just Saved Millions Of Ameri ...
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  • Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual ...
    HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/28/2012 10:10 am Updated: 06/28/2012 11:16 am WASHINGTON — The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. The co ...
  • WaPo Will Not Retract ‘Outsourcing&#8217 ...
    POLITICO By DYLAN BYERS| 6/27/12 3:33 PM EDT The Washington Post will not retract their June 21 report about Bain Capital‘s investments in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs, POLITICO has learned. “We are very confident in our reporting,” Washington Post s ...

  Solari

  • LIBOR Scandal: Let’s Play 20 Questions
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Basic Facts: LIBOR = London Interbank Offered Rate See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor LIBOR is an estimate set daily in London by a poll of 18 banks for interest rates for 10 currencies for 15 maturities. The banks estimate the rate that they would be charged if b ...
  • Bohemian Grove Starts Saturday, July 14th!
    “The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d be good for you. You’d get some fresh air.” — Bill Clinton &# ...
  • Mandelman Matters, with Catherine Austin Fitts ...
    Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD, where she basically ran the Federal Housing Administration or FHA….
  • The Post-Employee Economy
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Conor Sen Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re taking our jobs, and are forcing us to reexamine how we value ourselves. Continue [...]
  • Precious Metals Market Report – 7.12.12
     “Keep Calm and Carry On” ~ British government advice regarding the possibility of invasion during WWII By Catherine Austin Fitts It’s time for the Precious Metals Market Report. As a Solari Report subscriber, you surely know that markets are managed – they do not function according to fr ...

  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

  • Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
    Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
  • Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
    There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
  • Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
    A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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    The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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    A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

  Sideways News

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

  Fabius Maximus

  • Europe has a political crisis. The economics a ...
    Summary: The Euro-crisis is at root a political one. Like all such, there are several levels to it.  All different.  Mostly invisible in the analysis featured by the general media, which prefer to describe this in bogus fashion as a morality play. The economics are exhaustively covered; here we ...
  • Europe has a political crisis. The economics a ...
    Summary: The Euro-crisis is at root a political one. Like all such, there are several levels to it.  All different.  Mostly invisible in the analysis featured by the general media, which prefer to describe this in bogus fashion as a morality play. The economics are exhaustively covered; here we ...
  • Ignorance and propaganda about extreme climate ...
    Summary: Another post showing that we’re ignorant because we listen to journalists.  Why do these people get airtime when the US has thousands of articulate experts on every subject? Today we look at the nattering that too often passes for debate about the important topic of climate change ...
  • Ignorance and propaganda about extreme cliamte ...
    Summary: Another post showing that we’re ignorant because we listen to journalists.  Why do these people get airtime when the US has thousands of articulate experts on every subject? Today we look at the nattering that too often passes for debate about the important topic of climate change ...
  • Roubini tells us some harsh truths about the p ...
    Summary:  In this July 7  interview on Bloomberg TV, Nouriel Roubini tells us how our folly has brought us to the brink of another economic downturn. Perhaps worse than the crash in Winter 2008, since we’re in many ways weaker than we were then.  We’ve wasted the time bought us by th ...

  Open Your Eyes News

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

  The Progressive Realist

  • The Illogic of “Letting Langley Loose” in Syria
    Reuel Marc Gerecht has a piece out arguing it’s time for the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government: Yet there is an alternative that could crack the Assad regime: a muscular CIA operation launched from Turkey, Jordan and even Iraqi Kurdistan. The trick for Washington is to go in big, depl ...
  • Reading the Iran Military Report Carefully and ...
    Shahab 3 MRBM launch during Iranian military exercise on July 3. (Photo credit: ARASH KHAMOOSHI/AFP/GettyImages) Last week the Pentagon delivered to Congress an unclassified report on Iranian military power, containing just enough information to leave its readers yearning for more. Signed on J ...
  • Maternal Deaths: A Preventable Global Tragedy
  • How a Small Group of American Activists Helped ...
    As part of Reuters’ Birthing of a Nation series marking the Republic of South Sudan’s first year of independence, reporter Rebecca Hamilton writes a deeply reported history of a group that can be considered South Sudan’s American Mid-wives. This is a small group of well connect ...
  • Egypt's Struggle: Islamists versus State Insti ...
    "Morsi has now said, 'I am here,'" a secular businessman said, referring to President Mohammed Morsi's bold--perhaps reckless—cancellation of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decree that dissolved parliament shortly before his inauguration. In two days of conversati ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Games People Play
    Mitt Romney comes under withering fire for offshoring his millions to Bermuda and Switzerland—and for refusing to allow light to shine into what the Times calls his “financial black hole”—Senator Lindsey Graham came up with what is surely the year’s most novel line of defense today: “It’s reall ...
  • Mitt Romney's Successful Speech to the NAACP
    As an attempt to persuade, Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP this morning was an exercise in futility. African Americans are loyal Democratic voters, and aren’t particularly interested in an agenda of tax cuts for the rich and spending cuts for everyone else. But that wasn’t the point. Romney a ...
  • The Myth of Rags to Riches
    In the latest version of SimCity, a computer game that let's you pretend to be an urban planner, city residents are born into an economic class and there they remain for life. This may have been done for simplicity's sake, but the scenario makes the popular computer game disturbingly similar to ...
  • Sorkin's Newsroom
    So Aaron Sorkin is redoing The West Wing, but this time in a newsroom. The West Wing redid the Clinton administration, but better, with everyone making the right decisions for the right reasons despite their charming and lovable personal failings. In the same way, HBO's Newsroom gives us a set ...
  • The Insidious Threat of Telecommuters
    A couple of weeks ago, upon the release of a study suggesting that people who work at home spend a lot of time not working but nonetheless are more productive than their office-bound colleagues, I argued that people who work at home don't goof off less, we just goof off differently. Not only is ...

  Buzzflash

  • Creating an Unhealthy America is a Pre-existin ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The House Republicans are set yet again to cast a symbolic vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which means that they support insurance companies excluding coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. According to the Wall Street Jour ...
  • The Citizens United Trap for Republicans
    STEPHEN CROCKETT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Republicans have been cheering loudly for the unleashing of corporate and billionaire spending that have been flooding the campaign coffers of Republicans all over the United States. It has mostly been a huge plus for a political party that has little e ...
  • Mitt in the Hamptons: Let Them Eat Road Kill!
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This past weekend in the Hamptons, the gluttonous orgy of Romney campaign fundraising among America's Marie Antoinette crowd was so brazenly contemptuous of non-millionaires that the only thing missing was a raffle prize for an offshore bank account i ...
  • Three Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated ...
    PAUL BUCCHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT My own generation faced the Vietnam War. We were at risk of getting drafted, and then maimed or killed in an unwinnable battle against imagined evils.read more
  • Mitt Romney's Current Focus: The Conservative ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Several years ago, when Mitt Romney was merely a multi-millionaire Massachusetts politician, he couldn't locate the conservative Christian evangelical movement with a GPS or MapQuest. Over the past few years however, Romney and his team have been holding ...

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
    Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
  • Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
    A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
  • Celebrating the fall of a dictator
    Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
  • A tweet that explains everything
    The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • The truth about lying and NLP
    As a follow up to that item on eye movements and lying, here’s a quote from the Skeptics’ Dictionary about the pseudoscientific nonsense with the fancy name, Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP: “It seems that NLP develops models which can’t be verified, from which it devel ...
  • Liar, liar, pants on fire
    There’s a weird piece of Deceived Wisdom that emerged from so-called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that suggested that one could somehow tell whether a person was lying by looking at their eye movements. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that it’s nonsense. All that guff about looking ...
  • Vocal cords and asthma
    A diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchospasm – asthma – is commonly given to patients who present with cough, breathlessness and wheeziness after exertion despite being otherwise physically fit. An alternative explanation to bronchial (airways) constriction was discussed on BBC Radio ...
  • 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 ...

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CAP and Sierra Club Unveil Video Series 'Publi ...
    Today the Center for American Progress and the Sierra Club released “Public Lands, Private Profits,” a series of mini-documentaries featuring the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, and the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, and will hold a discussion ...
  • Rights Group Urges Release of Gitmo Prisoners ...
    In response to today’s announcement that a former al-Qaeda member has been released from Guantanamo to Sudan, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy issued the following statement:read more
  • Crop Insurance Subsidy Reforms Could Save Tens ...
    A new report shows that Congress could save taxpayers at least $42 billion over 10 years, provide farmers with a more fiscally and environmentally responsible safety net and avoid deep cuts to vital nutrition and conservation programs by scaling crop insurance subsidies back to more reasonable l ...
  • EPA Finds Maine River Herring Exclusion Law is ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found Maine’s 2008 Alewife Law preventing the passage of river herring past the Grand Falls Dam on the St. Croix River to be illegal under the federal Clean Water Act. River herring migrate from the ocean, upriver to spawn during spring. In the ...
  • Kucinich Calls Health Care Debate Political Th ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called the latest in the more than 30 votes so far in this Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act as nothing more than political theater. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks follow.read more

  Common Dreams-Views

  • Medicare. For All. For Life. Everywhere.
    Donna Smith After spending the past month on the California Nurses Association 'Medicare for All' bus tour in California, I am more confident than ever about the prospects of winning guaranteed healthcare for all under an improved M ...
  • A New Way to Recharge the Economy
    William Greider Rome is burning while Congress fiddles. The president is out on the road trying to secure a second term, while the economy once again teeters on the brink of bad possibilities. The governors of the Federal Reserve Board seem ...
  • The New Company Store: The Final Step in the C ...
    John Atcheson Well, here we are, slouching toward another national garage sale in which corporations bid on and buy candidates the way futures traders bid on commodities – or as our founders used to call it: an election. As we go to t ...
  • Tucson Freedom Summer, Or 5 Ways to Fight Back ...
    Julianne Hing Arizona’s ethnic studies ban may have shut down Tucson’s Mexican American Studies classes. But this summer in the southern Arizona city, class is in session. Educators are holding weekend community forums to educat ...
  • Irregularities Reveal Mexico's Election Far fr ...
    Mark Weisbrot The media rewrites history every day, and in so doing, it often impedes our understanding of the present. Mexico's presidential election of a week ago is a case in point.read more

  Newshoggers - AfPak

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  Water Wars

  • Opinion: A way forward in California’s water wars
    Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 8, 2012, Los Angeles Times Southern California’s most important lake is located in a distant part of the state and has a name most of us wouldn’t recognize. Clifton Court Forebay, between Oakland and Stockton, forms the manufactured headwaters of ...
  • Beat the heat at Shell Factory Fun Park
    You can beat the heat by visiting the Shell Factory Fun Park this summer. There are bumper boats with water guns, shaded spots on the miniature golf course and the popular "Water Wars" where you can shoot water balloons at friends and family.
  • Green Building Consultant Releases “Water Wars ...
    Sustainability planning, green building and water efficiency consultant, Jerry Yudelson, released a three-part video series aimed at preventing future urban water crises through public education.Tucson, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 10, 2012 Noted green building expert, author, water crisis guru and sustai ...
  • July 4 'water wars' let loose at Dana ...
    Dana Point Harbor's informal Independence Day tradition, "water wars," in which hundreds of participants of all ages celebrate by fighting one another with water cannons, fire hoses and buckets, served as the wilder, wetter alternative Wednesday to...
  • Former presidential candidate Gary Hart takes ...
    Former Sen. Gary Hart writes about national and international issues in his nonfiction books. "Durango" is a novel, but Hart still manages to include a cause — the Animas-La Plata storage project near Durango.

  WordPress | Economics

  • JPMorgan Complicit In Vatican Bank Money-Laund ...
    Silver Vigilante, July 3rd, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7aync57 Embroiled in another financial scandal p
  • San Bernardino Bankruptcy: Third CA City In Le ...
    By AP reporters, Huffington Post – July 11, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7zex7ns SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —
  • Have We Hit the Bottom with Home Prices?
    My daughter, the economist, tells me was are in a New Economy.  I believe her, because we have suffe
  • If It's Good Enough For Congress, It's Good En ...
    Charles Rowley argues that Congress is riddled with insider trading.  Unfortunately, he does not not
  • How to eat a Choco-ade
    First of all, you buy a packet or two of Choco-ade biscuits. Two packets of Choco-ade biscuits Then

  Electronic Intifada

  • Book review: Finkelstein airbrushes Palestinia ...
    Asa Winstanley 11 July 2012 In his latest book, Norman Finkelstein superbly criticizes Zionist revisionist historians but ignores Palestinian agency.
  • How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Pal ...
    Linah Alsaafin Ramallah 10 July 2012 Is it really “popular resistance” when Palestinians are sometimes outnumbered by Israeli activists at weekly demonstrations?
  • Exhibition review: when lemons have more freed ...
    Sarah Irving 9 July 2012 An exhibition at Amman’s Darat al Funun explores varying responses to decades of conflict in the Middle East, in which the Palestinian people have often played an involuntary and tragic role.
  • Palestinians reclaim streets despite PA police ...
    Eoin O'Ceallaigh Ramallah 8 July 2012 The violence of the Palestinian Authority police is not unexpected, yet it was still shocking to see such unfettered brutality on the streets of Ramallah in the middle of the afternoon.
  • Repressive PA police trained, equipped by West ...
    7 July 2012 Many Palestinians and external experts say the developments inside the PA and its security services are worrying.

  The Wonk Room

  • Initial Jobless Claims Fall To 350,000, Lowest ...
    According to the Labor Department, initial jobless claims fell to 350,000 this week, well below economists’ expectations. This is the fewest claims since March 2008, Bloomberg News reported. The drop was likely caused by the fact that auto companies are keeping more factories than normal o ...
  • The Morning Pride: July 12, 2012
    Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality. - The Advocate profil ...
  • July 12 News: Texas Judge Rules Atmosphere Is ...
    A round-up of the top climate and energy news. A Texas judge has ruled that the atmosphere and air must be protected for public use, just like water, which could help attorneys tasked with arguing climate change lawsuits designed to force states to cut emissions. [Washington Post] Adam Abrams, o ...
  • Econ 101: July 12, 2012
    Welcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. The number of new foreclosure starts jumped 9 percent during the second quarter of t ...
  • Justiceline: July 12, 2012
    Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice Yesterday was the anniversary of the Burr-Hamilton duel, and, in celebration, the Constitution Center looked at famous Americans who particip ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • Tuesday News Round-Up
    There's three things I'm just aching to write about today, so I'll dump 'em all out in a dog's breakfast of a post. First of all, this CBC report from Brian Stewart: "Canada in Kandahar, some allies weren't impressed." It's based on a recent series of books and reports, some written by US or Br ...
  • Opitz's "Argument" (So to Speak)
    So, the party that screamed blue murder about "illegal polls" in Etobicoke-Centre and in Guelph, and which (shamefully with the NDP) was having hysterics about veiled Muslim women voting (although people voting through the mail from overseas somehow never appeared on their radar), has now argued ...
  • A Message to the harpercons About Today's Etob ...
    Obviously I don't know what's going to happen. But I'd just like to clear up the stupid things that these whining, hypocritical, self-righteous harpercon cry-babies are attempting: "This was an Elections Canada screw-up, NOT Conservative Party fraud." That's true. But given your party's track re ...
  • A Couple of Things ...
      First off is a recommendation that you read Haroon Siddiqui's "West Speaks with a Forked Tongue on the Arab Spring." It's a pretty clear and coherent defence of what is happening in Egypt with a clear and coherent critique of Western hypocrisy:We profess fidelity to democracy, especi ...
  • Irrelevance
    John Baird is irrelevant. He's a rat, too fucked-up and stupid to realize that he's on a sinking ship. He's an incompetent blowhard and an international embarrassment for Canada. More to today's point, ... his own government's cavalier response to accusations of Canadian complicity in torture ...

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  Digital Journal

  • Airport security: How much is too much?
    As acts of terrorism and other crimes have occurred over the past decade, government entities across the globe continue to tighten airport security.
  • Brutal game shows the dark side of Twitter bul ...
    Social Media can have a very dark side where bullies taunt, threaten and endanger another. One example of this appeared recently with the Beat up Anita Sarkeesian game.
  • Costa Concordia captain denies blame but trans ...
    In a TV interview, his first press interview since his ship, the Costa Concordia, hit a reef and listed over, partially sinking on Jan.13, Captain Francesco Schettino said he was not to blame. However, transcripts released tell a different story.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper declares Calgary ...
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper – possibly inadvertently – called Calgary the "greatest city in the greatest country in the world" during a visit to the century-old Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo exhibition
  • Blue Jay Bautista strips down for ESPN: VIDEO
    Baseball fans are now able to see a side of Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista that they have never seen before... in the buff!

  End Homelessness | Change.org

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

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Steven Staples comments on Canada’s Afgh ...
    Canada commits to give $227 million dollars for development in Afghanistan- but will it do any good?
  • Still no helicopters
    The project to replace the Navy's Sea King helicopters with the Sikorsky Cyclone has been incredibly long and expensive. And it's not over yet.
  • Canada’s next top soldier
    Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk will be retiring in a few days' time. Who will replace him?
  • Veteran left out in the cold
    The Harper government promotes itself as a strong supporter of the men and women serving in the Canadian Forces. But its dealings with Canada's veterans often tell a different tale.
  • Guilty plea on chopper software export
    Pratt & Whitney Canada has pled guilty to U.S. federal criminal charges in connection with the sale of software to the Chinese military.

  Kevin Trudeau Show

  • TSA Continues To Expand Operations Outside Of ...
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “If you don’t think the TSA is out of control yet, read this article.” –KTRN Through so-called VIPR teams, meaning Visual Intermodal Protection and Response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a child agency o ...
  • Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
    March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...
  • Gold Juniors to Explode?
    March 30, 2012 321 Gold By Scott Wright Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered. The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly re ...
  • Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
    America no longer has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. KT tells you what went wrong and how we can fix it. Plus, Dr. Josh Axe, author of The Real Food Diet Cookbook, stops by to talk with Kevin about eating real, healthy food. Self Help: Global Information Network Your Wish Is Your ...

  Armies of Liberation

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

  Dark Politricks

  • NAACP official: Romney ‘rigged crowd’ by havin ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau revealed on Thursday that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney had conservative African Americans “flown in” to the 103rd convention of the National Ass ...
  • What if those ultra rich super pac donors were ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politricks I have just watched last nights episode of Tom Hartmans ”The Big Picture” on Russia Today (watch live online here) Tom is obviously a Democrat and a liberal but in his last segment somethin ...
  • Video: Man Refuses To Comply With Internal Che ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScore one for the Fourth Amendment Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, July 12, 2012 Using the excuse of attempting to apprehend illegal immigrants, Border Patrol agents have set up a network of unconstitution ...
  • The War on Privacy World Wide with UK Activist ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com July 12, 2012 Anti-Big Brother crusader Steve Jolly talks about the psychological reasons behind mass surveillance.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Feds move to shut down West Coast’s largest me ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Feds move to shut down Harborside dispensary Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary on the West Coast, is the latest and biggest target of a federal crackdown on pot clubs. The di ...

  Dandelion Salad

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Assignment of ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 06, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by th ...
  • The Wobblies (1979)
    Dandelion Salad scientifique on Oct 31, 2011 Documentary movie for “Industrial Workers of the world” (IWW, also referred to as The Wobblies), the largest union in the history of the labor movement in the United States. The Wobblies (Full Documentary) see Moyers and Company: Is Labor ...
  • Chris Hedges: And It’s Called Class Warfare!
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 3, 2012 Jul 6, 2012 by sosebee2 Chris Hedges, hero of the Occupy Movement, brings his “Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt” message to the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. [June 28, 2012] Occupy Presents Chris Hedges: ...
  • New Report Finds Oversight of Natural Gas Frac ...
    Dandelion Salad OMB Watch PRESS RELEASE -For Immediate Release- July 9, 2012 Contact: Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812, bgumm@ombwatch.org State Disclosure Policies, Oversight of Natural Gas Fracking Are Inadequate Protection for Water Supplies, Public Safety, New Report Finds WASHINGTON, July 9, 2012 ...
  • “Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives” ...
    Dandelion Salad Jul 9, 2012 by greenman3610 Don’t miss the Companion video at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media yaleclimatemediaforum [see below] Dallas Hail Storm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47836374/ns/weather/t/dallas-hailstorms-pack-bill… http://www.wfaa.com/news/l ...

  Your New Reality

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

  Wired - Science

  • Hubble Discovers New Moon Around Pluto
    Astronomers have detected a new, fifth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, in images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The irregularly shaped moon is between 6 and 16 miles across. It circles Pluto in a 60,000-mile-diameter orbit, roughly a quarter of the distance at which our moon orbits ...
  • Defying Gravity: When Strange Liquids Act Like ...
    Walk across water and people may start to think you can work miracles. But dashing atop the surface of certain liquids has an entirely down-to-Earth scientific explanation: the stress compresses the fluid into a solid-like material that can support a person's weight.
  • Scorpion Venom Heals Drug-Resistant Bacteria I ...
    A substance found in scorpion venom could fend off bacterial infections in mice, research suggests, including those caused by the deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). As bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics, antimicrobials such as this one could provide an ...
  • Doubt Is Good for Science, But Bad for PR
    The world appears suddenly engulfed in an epidemic of uncertainty. Uncertainty plagues banks and the economy, the Middle East, elections in the U.S. and other countries, the Euro, and of course the weather. But now it has cropped up in a most unexpected place: science.
  • Global Warming Linked to 2011 Weather Extremes
    A first attempt to dissect climate and weather extremes only months after they happen is confirming more leisurely analyses of earlier heat waves, droughts, and flooding. Human-induced global warming is indeed increasing the chances that Texas will be hit with record heat and dryness or that the ...

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Abir Kopty: Israel’s civil service bill distor ...
    A new bill is being debated in the Israeli Knesset: compulsory civil service for all citizens, including Palestinians and ultra-Orthodox Jews, the two groups that have been exempt. If passed, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli eradication of history ...
    The discovery of a rare aerial photo of Jerusalem in the 1930s, taken by a Zeppelin, has provided the long-sought after proof that when Israel occupied the Old City in 1967 it secretly destroyed an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis Join “C ...
    On Friday, June 22 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the ...
    On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The evil of humanitarian wars
    Societies cannot have democracy imposed from without, as though it were an item to be ordered from a lunch menu. The West’s democracies, imperfect as they are, were fought for by their peoples over... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

  Ria Novosti - Military

  • Tajikistan Demands Russia Pay $250 Mln Base Rent
    Tajikistan wants Moscow to pay at least $250 million a year for the Russian military base deployed in the Central Asian state, Kommersant business daily reported on Thursday citing an unnamed Tajik source.
  • Iran Completes Air-Defense Drills
    The Iranian Army has successfully completed three-day air-defense exercises, downing several mock pilotless aircraft, Press TV reported on Wednesday.
  • Russia to Draft New Rules on International Air ...
    Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation and the Defense Ministry will prepare a framework agreement regulating Russia’s participation in international airshows.
  • No Russian Embargo on Existing Syria Arms Contacts
    Russia has not embargoed its existing arms contracts with Syria, Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, the deputy head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said on Wednesday.
  • Russia, Italy to Jointly Develop Patrol Aircraft
    Russia and Italy are to jointly build and modernize maritime patrol aircraft, after signing a cooperation agreement at the Farnborough Air Show in Britain.

  NewsWise

  • Concussions Affect College Players at High Rat ...
    As interest in concussion rates and prevention strategies at all levels continues to grow, one population that appears to have increasing head injury rates is collegiate football players. Research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in ...
  • Non-Surgical Treatment of Common Shoulder Inju ...
    Surgically repairing a painful shoulder injury in baseball players known as a SLAP tear (superior labral) varies widely and often doesn't allow for return to play at the same level as before the injury. However, researchers presenting their findings at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports ...
  • For Romantic Partners Left Out of a Meal, Lunc ...
    If you're meeting an ex lover plan on coffee instead of lunch if you'd like to keep the peace at home: When it comes to consuming calories with a person of the opposite sex, sharing meals sparks significantly more jealousy than meeting that same person for coffee.
  • HIV Drug Reduces Graft-versus-Host Disease in ...
    An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic significantly reduces the incidence of a dangerous complication that often follows bone marrow transplants for blood cancer patients, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be published ...
  • OxyContin Formula Change Has Many Abusers Swit ...
    A change in the formula of the frequently abused prescription painkiller OxyContin has many abusers switching to a drug that is potentially more dangerous, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The formula change makes inhaling or injecting the opioid ...

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