12 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

BRADFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 30: People walk along the River Aire at Saltaire Village World Heritage Site on March 30, 2012 in Bradford, United Kingdom. Saltaire is named after Sir Titus Salt who built a textile mill and housing for his workers on the banks of the River Aire. In 2001 the historic industrial village was granted a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)BRADFORD, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 08: Victoria Hall at the Saltaire Village World Heritage Site in Bradford, West Yorkshire on February 8, 2011 in Bradford, England. Saltaire is named after Sir Titus Salt who built a textile mill and housing for his workers on the banks of the River Aire. The historic industrial village was granted a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001. Titus Salt (1803-1876) became one of Britain's most successful industrialists. A deeply religous man who believed in education and a healthy environment for his employees. It took 25 years to build the village and mill producing his top quality cloths and became a town planning model for many cities across the world. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)English: Shureimon of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan. Shuri Castle was registered as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu". 日本語: 首里城の守礼門。所在地は沖縄県那覇市。ユネスコ世界文化遺産「琉球王国のグスク及び関連遺産群」の一部 Camera: Sony NEX-5 Lens: Sony SEL1855 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Shikinaen in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan. It was registered as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu". 日本語: 識名園。所在地は沖縄県那覇市。ユネスコ世界文化遺産「琉球王国のグスク及び関連遺産群」の一部 Camera: Sony NEX-5 Lens: Sony SEL1855 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Fortress of Suomenlinna in Helsinki in one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Suomi: Suomenlinna on UNESCOn maailmanperintökohde (Photo credit: Wikipedia)photo of Himeji Castle The Keep Towers(view from Nisi-no-maru) Bahasa Indonesia: Istana Himeji dilihat dari wilayah Nishinomaru (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Logo of the . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Yale Creates the First American PhD in Law
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization ...
• Yale Creates the First American PhD in Law
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization ...
• James Crawford: The EU May Ban Imports from th ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Independent has the story: European governments, including Britain’s, have received legal opinion from a leading international counsel who argues they would be fully within their rights to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West ...
• James Crawford: The EU May Ban Imports from th ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Independent has the story: European governments, including Britain’s, have received legal opinion from a leading international counsel who argues they would be fully within their rights to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Ansar Dine, an al-Qaeda linked group, has destroyed more shrines at a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, and vowed to continue destroying UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Foreign Policy discusses the issue further here and offers a slideshow of images of the wreckage her ...

Public News Service

• Celebrity Chefs: Protect SNAP for Kids
  Celebrity Chefs: Protect SNAP for Kids PHOENIX, Ariz. - Some of the biggest names on the food scene are using their celebrity clout to ask Congress to keep the recipe for SNAP strong. SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is the food assistance program formerly known as food stamp ...
• Discovering the Truth about Health Reform
  Discovering the Truth about Health Reform PHOENIX - Republican leaders in the House plan to vote today on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act because they say it's not good for the nation. Experts say Americans are still confused about whether the law will help or hurt them. That's why Craig Ei ...
• Group Working to Undo Citizens United
  Group Working to Undo Citizens United PHOENIX - According to people working to undo Citizens United, that Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited political contributions is so unpopular it won't be the law of the land much longer. The group Move to Amend says corpo ...
• A los educadores se les “cede el paso&#8 ...
  A los educadores se les “cede el paso” en tarifas de curso de manejo este verano PHOENIX – Durante verano es cuando el tráfico se pone más pesado en las autopistas, especialmente entre el 4 de julio y Labor Day. Este verano, la AARP ofrece un descuento en el curso de ...
• Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course
  Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course PHOENIX - Summer is the heaviest time for traffic on American highways, especially around July 4 and then again around Labor Day. This summer, AARP is offering a discounted driver safety course to any current or former employee of a school dis ...

Center for Food Safety

• House Farm Bill’s ‘Backdoor Biotech Riders’ En ...
  Sweeping pro-chemical industry provisions attack GE crop safeguards and USDA review process, set controversial allowance for transgenic contamination of the nation’s food supply The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a group of 40 food businesses and retailers, and farm, food safety, environmental ...
• This is Your Meat on Drugs. CFS Joins Consumer ...
  The Center for Food Safety has joined Consumers Union and Fix Food for the launch of “Meat Without Drugs,” a campaign urging supermarkets to only sell meat raised without antibiotics. The campaign’s first target is Trader Joe’s, one of the leading national supermarket chains best poised to make ...
• 250,000+ to EPA: Time for Emergency Action on ...
  Beekeepers, Environmental Groups Still on Hold for Agency Response to Legal Petition Citing “Imminent” Harm to Bees A coalition of environmental groups and beekeepers submitted over 250,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging immediate suspension of a pesticide l ...
• The Sanders Amendment on GE Labeling Fails in ...
  Last week the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment supporting the rights of states to enact their own laws requiring the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods. Offered by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Mark Begich (D-AK) to the Senate Farm Bill, the amendment faile ...
• Farm Groups and Public Interest Advocates Join ...
  Hidden rider poses unprecedented constitutional assault, blocks USDA authority and denies GE crop safeguards The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of farm, food safety, environmental and consumer advocacy groups today formally submitted a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Co ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Grain
  I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
• Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
  I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
• The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
  An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
• Magic Wands Almost Possible
  “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...
• Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
  Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Environmental News 30/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Spooked rare cockatoos fly away from Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo is calling on the public to help find three rare red-tailed black cockatoos after they were spooked by four sea eagles during a bird show at 3pm on Monday and flew away, spokesman Mark Willi ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Age of Stupid – US Govt forced to deny mermaid ...
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• CERN announces Higgs boson particle discovery
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• Family Planning sex education book gets trashed
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• Children raised in gay and lesbian households ...
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• Three New Zealand triplets killed in Doha mall ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Susya
  June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
• My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
  Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
• Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
  Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
• “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
  In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
• Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
  I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Our corrupt, complicit government
  U.S. Gave Tens of Billions to Libor-Manipulating Banks … Even AFTER Learning about the ManipulationThe post Our corrupt, complicit government appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
• Roadrunner Sports. Perfectly fitted running sh ...
  (This is an unsolicited, unpaid testimonial!)Like any sport, distance running is increasingly high tech. I recently went to a Roadrunner Sports store for new running shoes, used their sophisticated Shoe Dog technology, and got maybe the best running shoes for my feet ever.I’ve been running ...
• Dogma or Revolution? The Choice Is Ours for Am ...
  By Christian WrightI like this article, and I am glad it is written.The American left barely exists. The self-consciously “anti-imperialist” American left, in a country of 300 million people, can probably be housed in its entirety in one of our smaller to mid-sized sports areas. Its influence is ...
• California water bond postponed yet again, vic ...
  Sacramento River delta Credit: commons.wikimedia.orgA crucial $11.1 billion California water bond measure has been postponed again by the legislature, a sad result of cynical election year maneuvering and pork barrel politics. The water bond was originally scheduled to be voted on in 2010 but wi ...
• Credit cards no longer accepted for medical ma ...
  The federal government has pressured Mastercard and Visa into no longer accept transactions from medical marijuana dispensaries.Emptywheel has more.The post Credit cards no longer accepted for medical marijuana appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• TSA mocks deaf man, steals his candy, eats it ...
  by Joel McDurmon on Jul 11, 2012 American Vision News Another episode from the TSA’s finest. (From Reason.com and BoingBoing.net): A group of students leaving the annual conference of the National Association of the Deaf in Louisville had a rather awful experience courtesy of the Transportation ...
• Increased Violence runs out of control in Rham ...
    Chicago police sergeant: 'Tribal warfare' on streets... Comparable to Iraq, Afghanistan... Boy, 13, shot in chest while standing on his porch... TOURISM PLEA TO GODFATHER: Violent crime wave must be defused...   (CBS News) CHICAGO – Chicago is in the grips of a deadly gang war. ...
• FLASH: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. ‘in Rehab& ...
    Persistent "sleep disorder"... Has Been Under investigation by House Ethics Committee... NYT: His Father's Son...   The Jesse Jackson Jr. camp Wednesday night released only the barest of details of the congressman’s purported illness. “The congressman is receiving intensive medical t ...
• New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads Peop ...
  WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away. Gizmodo reports a scanner that could read people at the molecular level has been invented. This laser-based scanner – which can be used 16 ...
• Wayne LaPierre Fights for the Second Amendment ...
  NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks before the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Conference

The Air Vent

• Putting the K back in Skeptic
  I received this email today.   It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic,  (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though   ) due to your high profile interes ...
• Are Climate Models Spatially Consistent?
  An interesting link left by Curious on the open thread. I will read later. –Jeff h/t Curious, HR at Watts Up tips and notes: http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/2409/2012/cpd-8-2409-2012.pdf Climate of the last millennium:ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions O. Bothe, J. ...
• Descent
  Today’s supreme court “health sickness care” ruling is an enormous blow to Americans. Our past successes have been created by a governmental philosophy of ‘the people know best’. Today we are told that in fact, ‘government knows best’. They flat stated, ...
• Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivi ...
  Nic Lewis has spent a great deal of time analyzing this important paper in climate science. He has posted an article at Climate etc., readers may comment here or there, Nic will be around to answer technical quesitons.  — Jeff Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivity study by Nicho ...
• Penguin Divination
  Climate science hasn’t changed a bit since climategate. Sure there are now some climate scientists trying to find a middle ground between insane liberal energy activism and reality, but why is anything other than simple reality necessary? A slow path to Euro-crazy politics is still the wro ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook puts events in calendar view for easi ...
  Facebook has redesigned its events dashboard to include new calendar and list views that help users see upcoming events and friends’ birthdays more efficiently than before. Previously, Facebook presented events in a single list that didn’t allow users to easily … Continue readi ...
• Facebook and NBC partner for Olympics coverage ...
  Facebook and NBC today announced a partnership for the upcoming London Olympics that will give the network data about what users are talking about related to the Games and includes Timeline integration for the NBC Olympics website. The companies will collaborate … Continue reading →
• Facebook groups will soon show members who has ...
  Facebook groups will now show users which members have seen each post, the social network announced today. Below each post within a group will be a check mark followed by the number of people who have seen the post. Hovering … Continue reading →
• Facebook updates developer SDK for iOS
  Facebook today released a new beta version of its developer SDK for iOS that aims to make it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. The update will also help developers integrate Facebook Login for their apps when Apple’s … Continue reading →
• Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patte ...
  As adoption of smartphones and tablets continues to increase, mobile is becoming an essential platform for games companies. For social games companies, mobile is an ideal cross over platform. Both platforms capture a casual gaming audience and both audiences enjoy … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: RT @garonsen: Jason Leopold's really ...
  truthout: RT @garonsen: Jason Leopold's really been killing it with the FOIAs. Latest's on US forcibly injecting detainees w powerful drugs http:/ ...
• truthout: RT @TheBradBlog: On with @JasonLeopo ...
  truthout: RT @TheBradBlog: On with @JasonLeopold of @Truthout now, discussing his FOIA reporting on Drugging of Detainees. LIVE ON KPFK: http://t. ...
• truthout: Creating an Unhealthy America is a P ...
  truthout: Creating an Unhealthy America is a Pre-existing Condition for the Right Wing http://t.co/V6F9E47I #ACA #GOP #HCR @buzzflash
• truthout: RT @bermaninstitute: Advocate Len Ru ...
  truthout: RT @bermaninstitute: Advocate Len Rubenstein speaks out on @truthout re: DOD Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees @ #Guantanamo http: ...
• truthout: RT @theCCR: RT #DoD Declassifies Rep ...
  truthout: RT @theCCR: RT #DoD Declassifies Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees http://t.co/mbm4lwVy Fantastic reporting by @JasonLeopold @jeff ...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bob Seger Tonight’s BFP/Jamiol music pick is Bob Seger’s Roll Me Away.. No intro necessary…Seger’s music is simply outstanding. This song is one of my favorites and is a perfect song for a Saturday night in June…Enjoy…DJPJ This site depends exclusively on read ...
• Classified Woman Review by Nanore Barsoumian a ...
  A string of suspicious events and encounters lead FBI translator Sibel Edmonds to the center of a conspiratorial net of cover-ups and possible espionage, as she attempts to unravel the truth behind buried sensitive case files that could shed light and incriminate high-profile individuals in conn ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 14, ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
• Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
  Africa’s Hour has Arrived By Rick Rozoff As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared for redeployment to Africa an ...

Afro Spear

• Endgame: AIDS in Black America
  Powerful documentary! Click on image.
• ♬ The wheels on the white supremacy bus go rou ...
  These two articles from Sis Deb over at Let’s Be Clear blog are worth the time to read: Part 1 Part 2 Enlightening. Provocative. Subversive. Truthful.
• sat’day riddymz
• Thoughts for Father’s Day
• Problem and Solution

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• The Current and Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in ...
  Daily news updates from Athens, Greece
• Follies of the Middle Class
  An attempt to explain why the middle class so often votes against its own best interests.
• To prevent reopening of graft cases: President ...
  Pakistan's National Assembly Monday (July 9) approved the Contempt of Court Act aimed at shielding top leaders from contempt charges and curbing the Supreme Court's efforts to push Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf into reopening graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The Contempt of Court Act ...
• The Revolution Equation
  Do you want to know when big change will come? Just do the math.
• Crashing at the Intersection of Women's Rights ...
  I defended the abortion clinics with my body for a very long time. I do not want to do that again and fervently hope that those of you who have not done so, never have to.

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 ...
• Government investigation provides damning pict ...
  Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) heard the major findings of its two year investigation of the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill, which released over a million gallons o ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Problems with Organized Labor
  Bill Moyers, Bill Fletcher, and Stephen Lerner talking about the decline of labor unions–you know this is going to be like 1000% more insightful than your average cable television news show. A very important excerpt: BILL FLETCHER, JR.: The difficulty in developing and moving in the direct ...
• More on Gratitutious Sexism
  To build slightly on Scott’s post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein’s excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy’s nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine views. McCarthy’s career is totally irrelevant to the issue. She is wrong and ...
• Operation Homex?
  Speaking of longreads, this is really a spectacular piece on police work and a ’60s era extortion ring: In the year following the Western Union arrest, the NYPD and the FBI, working in parallel (and sometimes at odds), would uncover and break a massive gay extortion ring whose viciousness ...
• Today In Severely Offensive Unfunniness
  I had never heard of Daniel Tosh before today, but when Dane Cook isn’t the least funny or most offensive comedian on a bill, that’s a pretty depressing achievement.
• Recommended Longreads
  Hopefully you’ve already read Monica Potts’s Prospect cover story. If not, you no longer have to take my word for it, so what are you waiting for?

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• In Ireland, An Epic Green Building For An Epic ...
• Apple Thinks It’s Products Are Just Fine Witho ...
• Invasive Species On Ship Repelled With Ultra-V ...
• Toyota COMS Electric Vehicle One Sexy Golf Cart
• Great Green Fleet Sails Toward Military Reduct ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Health Care and the High Court
  The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of the nation's new health care law — the individual mandate to buy insurance — as a constitutional exercise of Congress' taxing authority. Led by veteran reporters Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, NLJ wraps up its coverage of the week's hi ...
• Starting salaries continue slide as big firm o ...
  Research by NALP found that average starting salaries for members of the class of 2011 holding full-time jobs fell by 6.5 percent compared with the previous class, to $78,653 from $84,111. The median reported salary dropped by 5 percent, to $60,000 from $63,000.
• California business, entertainment firms merge
  Two California law firms have merged to create a 70-attorney business and entertainment operation with offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco.
• Penn to offer human rights fellowships
  The ACE Rule of Law Fellowship will send Penn law graduates on one-year projects with Human Rights First, a nonprofit organization that promotes human rights and the rule of law around the globe.
• Eighth Circuit rules missing exhibit did not p ...
  A missing trial exhibit isn't a ground for a new trial of a defendant convicted for aggravated sexual abuse of a child, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Refrigeration of Food Key to Wolverine Reprodu ...
  A new study released by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners says that the distribution of wolverines in the wild relates to the species' ability to store and 'refrigerate' their food supply through tough times.
• Two Hand Grenades Recovered in Karbi Anglong
  The militant group managed to flee from the encounter spot, but security forces recovered two hand grenades, two magazines and 30 rounds of live ammunitions.
• US Strongly Supports Kosovo's EU Aspirations
  The US believes that whatever government is formed in Belgrade it should fully implement the agreements that have been reached in the dialogue so far, and carry on with that dialogue in whatever form is necessary to reach the practical agreements
• NCRB Unveils Records of Accidental Deaths in India
  The report said out of the total accidental deaths, 3,67,194 (93.9%) deaths were due to unnatural causes.
• US and Vietnam Reaffirm Strong Partnership in ...
  Ms. Clinton reports that she discussed with Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh the legacy issues such as Agent Orange, unexploded ordnance, and accounting for those missing in action as well.

environment 360

• Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
  The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
• Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
  The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...
• Water Use by Tourists Outstrips Water Use By L ...
  The disproportionate use of freshwater by tourists in resorts across the developing world exacerbates the poverty of local residents and in some cases has triggered conflicts, a new report says. In a study of five tourist destinations — including Bali, Zanzibar, and Goa and Kerala in southern In ...
• Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
  American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...
• Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutioniz ...
  In the world of green architecture, no project has more stringent design criteria than the Living Building Challenge, a rigorous certification system that requires that structures follow 20 design “imperatives” across seven categories, from water and energy use to social HPA Hawaii Preparator ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Annan to Syrians: Cease fire or face consequences
  The UN special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, has urged the Security Council to warn Assad and the opposition of “consequences” if they do not comply with the ceasefire plan. Meanwhile, the Western members and Russia came... Read Full Article at RT.com
• A home from home: Adoption standoff between Ru ...
  An impasse over the controversial issue of the adoption of Russian children by foreign parents appears to be over after the Duma ratified new agreements with the US and France. The new rules are clearer, but place... Read Full Article at RT.com
• ‘We don’t want to negotiate with Bashar al-Assad’
  The recent split within the Syrian military shows the government’s reliance on violence has failed. Peaceful protests are the way to bring about the kind of outcome people see as desirable, says the head of the Syrian... Read Full Article at RT.com
• 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. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Thousands rally after death of protester in Sa ...
  Demonstrators have spilled on to the streets of the eastern Saudi city of Qatif, angered by the death of a man during the latest bout of protests in the country. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Fantasy Fine Art Gallery
  ____One can find lots of interesting art in this diverse genre here at the Fantasy Fine Art Gallery
• Romney tries to rally his racist supporters by ...
  Mitt Romney went today to the NAACP national meeting in order to rally his own White racist supporter base, who dislike him because he is a Mormon, but hate Obama even more because the is Black. By getting booed by the NAACP he showed his supporters in Redneck America that he may be a rich [...]
• ‘The Long March’ from Lahore to Is ...
• Spain responds with Police State violence used ...
  The bankers of Europe and the US are terrorizing entire countries in Europe, and nowhere more so than in Greece and Spain, where unemployment is already the current fate for 1/4 for the working population. Miners are in the forefront of the resistance against new government attacks against the s ...
• Workers got nothing for the dues money wasted ...
  From hot dogs to slick ads: Unions spent $4.4 billion on politics in past 6 years ___The union hacks seem to think that they can bribe and buy their way forward, however the union membership actually got virtually nothing from all the money the union bureaucrats wasted on trying to manipulate th ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

• Avocado Love: Infographic + Recipe
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! We are slightly (and by slightly we mean completely!) obsessed with avocados. This “fruit” is high in protein, has a bizarre etymology, and is extremely sc ...
• The OMG Diet – Motivating Teens to be Skinnier ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Want to lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks?  There is a big hoopla around a new book – Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends – which touts cold baths ...
• Soda and Cancer?
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! The American Cancer Society recently called on the US Surgeon General to conduct a comprehensive review on the effects sugary drinks have on obesity. Dick Woodruff, vi ...
• Maltodextrin – What is it Doing in Your Food?
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Maltodextrin is one of the most asked about ingredients found on food packaging. It is present in about 10% of packaged food products. So what exactly is maltodextrin? ...
• How to Burn 800 Calories in Just 30 Minutes
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Did you really think it’s that easy  to burn off 800 calories ?!? While some elite athletes can do it, for most of us it would take at least an hour or two of moderate ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Hunger - Ethiopia’s new weapon to force tribes ...
  Suri boy from Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. Violent land grabs are devastating the tribe. © Survival Survival has received disturbing reports from members of several tribes in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, which describe how the government is destroying their crops to force them to move ...
• Guarani leader killed in road accident in Brazil
  Many Guarani face huge risks after being forced to live in makeshift camps on the roadside. © Sarah Shenker/Survival One of the Guarani tribe’s most respected spokesmen, José de Almeida Barbosa, has died in a road accident in Brazil. Zezinho, as he was generally known, had just retur ...
• Amazon Indians demand Italian priest’s expulsi ...
  Italian Priest Miguel Piovesan who backs the road, with Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. © Anon Amazon Indians in Peru have demanded the expulsion of a controversial Italian priest, accusing him of ‘racism and aggression’ over his role in promoting the construction of a new road, which the ...
• Alarmed UK MPs urge Brazil to save Earth’s mos ...
  Brazil’s Awá tribe are the Earth's most threatened tribe. © Survival Dozens of British politicians are calling on Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe by halting illegal logging and land invasions in their territory. Expressing their ‘concern’ and ‘alarm’ to the UK Parliament ...
• Ranchers burn bridges in anti-Indian protest
  Xavante Indians protest for land rights at Rio+20 © G1 Ranchers are blocking roads, burning bridges, and threatening Brazilian Indians in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land. The violence began after the Brazilian courts ruled that the ranchers must be removed imminen ...

Greg Palast

• Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
  We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
• Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
  by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
• Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
  The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
• Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
  Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
• The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
  by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Video Presentations Challenging IACC "Results"
  Here are four videos of the public comments about IACC presented on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Each presenter summarized in his/her own fashion the utter failure of the IACC to address - let alone act - on their mission, which...
• Ohio Newspaper Suggests Fines/Incarceration fo ...
  Interesting read on the lack of teeth in monetary fines for Pharma from the Youngstown (Ohio) "Vindy.com" Opinion page: Fines Hurt But There May Be Stronger Medicine. Thanks to AK for sending it to us. "There’s no question that $3...
• The IACC (I Am Completely Clueless) Meets Again
  By Dan Olmsted Bernadine Healy must be barfing in her grave. At least the former National Institutes of Health director, who told the self-evident truth that vaccines could not be ruled out as a cause of autism, because the research...
• A Critical Review of the Performance of The In ...
  Thank you to EBCALA (Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy) for this report: A Critical Review/History of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee In 2006, Congress passed federal legislation that allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to address the...
• When Science and Health Policy Trumps Inconven ...
  Below are Mark Blaxill's public comments to the IACC. My name is Mark Blaxill. I am the co-author of the book, The Age of Autism and recently helped to launch a movement called The Canary Party, which was created to...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Cambodia cracks case of mystery illness
  Combinations of factors responsible, doctors say. View video
• Alzheimer’s ‘early signs timeline ...
  BBC – Scientists have assembled a “timeline” of the unseen progress of Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear. A team at Washington University School of Medicine looked at families with a genetic risk of the disease. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, they say si ...
• US ambassador Derek Mitchell arrives in Burma
  BBC – The first US ambassador to Burma in 22 years, Derek Mitchell, has arrived in the country and met President Thein Sein. His arrival comes as the US is expected to further ease sanctions on Burma this week. It suspended investment sanctions against Burma last month. Burma has embarked ...
• US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on histo ...
  BBC – The US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War and unexploded bombs are still affecting lives and agriculture in the South East Asian nation. The last top US diplomat to visit Laos was John Foster Dulles in 1955. The US and Laos also “agreed to improve ...
• Lahore ambush: Militants kill nine Pakistani p ...
  BBC – Militants have shot dead at least nine Pakistani trainee policemen after ambushing their housing compound in the eastern city of Lahore. Reports say up to 10 masked gunmen arrived on motorcycles and stormed a rented building in the Rasool Park area where the trainees were staying. Al ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Refrigeration of Food Key to Wolverine Reprodu ...
  A new study released by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners says that the distribution of wolverines in the wild relates to the species' ability to store and 'refrigerate' their food supply through tough times.
• Two Hand Grenades Recovered in Karbi Anglong
  The militant group managed to flee from the encounter spot, but security forces recovered two hand grenades, two magazines and 30 rounds of live ammunitions.
• US Strongly Supports Kosovo's EU Aspirations
  The US believes that whatever government is formed in Belgrade it should fully implement the agreements that have been reached in the dialogue so far, and carry on with that dialogue in whatever form is necessary to reach the practical agreements
• NCRB Unveils Records of Accidental Deaths in India
  The report said out of the total accidental deaths, 3,67,194 (93.9%) deaths were due to unnatural causes.
• US and Vietnam Reaffirm Strong Partnership in ...
  Ms. Clinton reports that she discussed with Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh the legacy issues such as Agent Orange, unexploded ordnance, and accounting for those missing in action as well.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Our Genes Are Not Yet Ready For So Many Wheat- ...
  According to an expert in digestive disorders, the current rise in dietary problems related to gluten could be due to over reliance on wheat-based products...
• Programs Launched To Develop Medical Counterme ...
  Concerns about terrorist attacks, the prospect of a rogue nation using nuclear weapons and the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan are fostering efforts to develop a new family of drugs that everyone hopes will never be used, according to an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engin ...
• ScienceShot: Magnetic Tornadoes Rage on the Sun
  Pervasive swirling vortexes may heat the solar corona
• Eating Vegetables May Protect Pancreas, Study ...
  4 servings a day cut risk of acute pancreatitis by 44% compared to 1 helping, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Nutrition, Pancreatitis
• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution
  Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.

Common Dreams

• Record US Drought Causes Corn Shortage, Price ...
  Due to extreme drought conditions and record heat waves across the country, corn yields are projected to be the lowest in nearly a decade, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The statistics have also sparked concern over food prices in the near future. The USDA expects that this yea ...
• Media Pounces on False DNA Link to OWS Protest ...
  Earlier today, corporate media outlets were headlining shocking news: the New York Police Department had found DNA that linked the Occupy Wall Street protests to an unsolved 2004 murder. read more
• Hard Times, USA: Cities and Workers Driven to ...
  Municipal workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania have filed federal lawsuits after the mayor cut all city employee's pay to $7.25 an hour, the state's minimum wage. San Bernadino, California, meanwhile, became the third city in California this year to declare bankruptcy. ...
• Portuguese Doctors, Nurses Launch 48-Hour Stri ...
  Thousands of Portuguese doctors and nurses are staging a 48-hour strike to protest austerity measures they say are destroying the country's public health care service. Although the strike will cause widespread disruption to patients, it has attracted widespread public sympathy from people fe ...
• Spain Announces Massive Cuts Amid Intensifying ...
  Prime minister Mariano Rajoy announced the latest round in massive austerity cuts to Spain's public spending on Wednesday as police fired rubber bullets at protesters during growing demonstrations in Madrid. The $79.85 billion austerity package is designed to meet conditions imposed by the E ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: The Church is not an arm of t ...
  ExamineReligion: The Church is not an arm of the government http://t.co/xed4tn2k
• ExamineReligion: Mal. 1:2-5. http://t.co/sRmNBQVY
  ExamineReligion: Mal. 1:2-5. http://t.co/sRmNBQVY
• ExamineReligion: Meditations on Phil. 4:11, Pt ...
  ExamineReligion: Meditations on Phil. 4:11, Pt. 11. http://t.co/D1U6Xouu
• ExamineReligion: Begin the day in a positive w ...
  ExamineReligion: Begin the day in a positive way: The first teleclass http://t.co/yw0llbIJ
• ExamineReligion: Episcopal leaders approve gay ...
  ExamineReligion: Episcopal leaders approve gay marriage http://t.co/65Qa59f2

Energy Collective

• Carbon Dioxide and Nuclear Energy: The Great D ...
  "Cult Versus Cult" on Global Warming
• Does energy independence = energy security?
  We hear these terms used frequently, often interchangably, when we here talk of energy - especially during political discourse. But what do they really get at?I think one of the best ways to think about this topic is by thinking about an investment portfolio, and diversifying risk. In its most s ...
• Can Solar And Wind Power Save Our Rivers?
  In an era of stressed watersheds and aquatic ecosystems rendered fragile by global warming, we’re learning more about our hidden water use. For instance: 42 gallons – that’s the water footprint for the average kilowatt-hour of U.S. electricity as of 2009.OK, it’s nothing compared to how much wat ...
• How to build a 1.4MW solar power station in 1 hour
  Queensland Premier Newman Campbell must have one hell of a solar hangover today.Following his announcement to cut the $0.44c Net FIT he provided the industry and solar consumers with a window of opportunity to sign up before the scheme was switched to $0.08c, and sign up they did.Energex reporte ...
• How Australian Boom/Bust PV Policies Created a ...
  For the solar industry, things have gone a little crazy in Queensland, Australia. Over the past two weeks Energex (who makes up approximately ½ of the Queensland grid network) reportedly received over 75,000 applications for grid connection - equivalent to around 12 applications per minute. But ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Hillary Clinton, Queen of Hearts
  By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 7/11/12) Hillary Clinton has a very serious problem. She thinks that she runs the world and that those who disobey her must be punished, China and Russia in particular. Our chief diplomat behaves like a drunken bully, makes rash demands, and spoils for a fi ...
• Modern crusade against Muslims
  Kourosh Ziabari Despite constituting a significant minority in the western countries, Muslims around the world are subject to disproportionate, unjustifiable bias. Such attitudes distance them from their most fundamental social rights by portraying them as extremists and fanatics. The group is ...
• Clinton: Assad's Days Are Numbered
  by Stephen Lendman At a Tokyo Afghan donor's conference, Clinton barely stopped short of declaring war. Time is running out to save Syria, she told reporters. Kofi Annan's admission about peace failing is a "wake-up call for everyone." "The sand is running out of the hourglass." ...
• Sham Libyan Elections
  by Stephen Lendman In 2011, Washington-led NATO forces destroyed Libya. It was ravaged, not liberated. Humanitarian intervention was cover to wage war. "Responsibility to protect (R2P)" was subterfuge to colonize and plunder another country. Tens of thousands were killed. Vital soci ...
• Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101
  by Stephen Lendman Hillary Clinton's outbursts reflect bullying, bluster, and imperial arrogance, not diplomacy. More on her strong-arm tactics below. On July 6, Friends of Syria met in Paris. Tunis and Istanbul meetings preceded this one. Conflicting reports said representatives from 6 ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Improve seniors care to improve healthcare for all
  Our latest study shows that BC seniors' access to home and community care continues to decline, while at the same time our population is aging. Home and community care includes services like home nursing, residential care and home support that help keep seniors healthy and independent. Without t ...
• The Dark Side of Investment Agreements: Video
  Movements around the world have put the spotlight on bailouts and tax evasion that have enriched the 1% at the expense of the 99% but this is only part of the picture. Now the Transnational Institute (TNI) has launched a new accessible popular video animation that exposes how inte ...
• CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an E ...
  Join CCPA-NS and its community of supporters on October 25th for its 5th annual fund raising gala. World-renown CCPA economist, Armine Yalnizyan, will deliver an address on the current federal government's agenda of austerity.  This will be a must-see for any Nova Scotian. Purchase tickets ...
• CCPA's National Office is moving!
  The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
• Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...

World Wide Hippies

• This scum-bag is Mr. Rogers compared to Bush-C ...
  International Criminal Court sentences former Congolese warlord to 14 years WWH/CJE,UN – The International Criminal Court (ICC) today sentenced Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a former Congolese warlord, to 14 years of imprisonment for his involvement in child soldier recruitment. In March, the ICC ...
• Slut or Whore?
  By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies/CJE – Are you a slut or a whore? There is a difference you know. A slut is someone who is indiscriminate, promiscuous, and hedonistic. Maybe the image of a gutter comes to mind. Maybe it’s that drunken babe doing it in the alley with some equally inebriat ...
• ANSEPCF is a BFD! President issues Executive O ...
  By Sebastian Anthony,extremetech.com – Without even the faintest toot of a fanfare, President Barack Obama has issued an Executive Order that outlines an extreme level of communications preparedness in case of crisis or emergency, including the ability to take over any communication networ ...
• Scranton Workers See Pay Slashed To Minimum Wage
  From NPR – A fight between political leaders in Scranton, Pa., has left each and every city employee earning $7.25 an hour — minimum wage. Last week Mayor Chris Doherty slashed pay, on his own, saying Scranton had run out of money. Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse issued an injunct ...
• Wall Street is toxic, says Occupy activist who ...
  Wall Street WWH/CJE from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. WWH/CJE,RT News – Occupy activist Alexis Goldstein, who worked on Wall Street in technology for seven years before joining the protest movement, comments on her career, in an interview to RT. Goldstein says extremely good pay, the opportunity t ...

FourWinds10

• Massive Oil Slick Found At BP's Deepwater Hori ...
  VIEW HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1pe-hvHdEg&feature=youtu.be Aug. 25, 2011
• US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...
  (NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...
• Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
  MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
• Climate 'science' gone wild: UK researchers to ...
  (NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate "scientists" have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a ne ...
• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Ener ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s high ...
• Renewable Energy — Facts and Figures
  Today’s article is the 5th and final installment of my graphical look at the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous installments were: How Much Oil is Left in the World? How Much Oil Does the World Produce? World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shocke ...
• Announcing Energy Trends Insider
  Consumer Energy Report covers a wide variety of energy topics, and is targeted at a broad audience. Our columns tend to identify risks and opportunities, but we generally stop short of providing specific financial advice that may be better suited for a narrower subset of our audience. Of course ...
• Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
  Robert Rapier looks at the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions since 1965. A great deal has changed over the past 46 years.
• World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and S ...
  Robert Rapier investigates the data from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy and highlights some of the key numbers in consumption of crude oil, coal, and natural gas.

Discovery Educator Network

• MapBox | Fast and beautiful maps
  Tags: maps, mapping, opensource, tools, visualization, software, cloud, geographyby: Dean Mantz
• One-bit Internet: The iPad is/isn't a content ...
  Comments:This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice.  - Dean MantzTags: internet, ipad, content, creation, deviceby: Dean Mantz
• tracking shot
  Comments:No need to learn the aesthetics of movie making or wade through a complicated user interface. Tracking shot will create a movie instantly and automatically by grouping photos into scenes and shots, creating transitions, synchronizing with the music, and more. All you need to do is uploa ...
• The Best Tools For Cutting-Out & Saving Portio ...
  Comments:From Larry Ferlazzo- Best Tools for cutting out or saving nonlinear videos - Suzanne CaseyTags: videos, tools, online, editingby: Suzanne Casey
• Camtasia for Mac Version 2 Tutorials
  Tags: camtasia, tutorialsby: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

• Dogs Help People Breathe Easier
  Dander particles, fuzzy fur, hairballs accumulating in household corners…Everything about owning a pet suggests breathing problems. In fact, it's quite the opposite. A new study out of Finland discovered another one of the benefits of owning a dog. Researchers found that babies living in a home ...
• 5 Disturbing Facts about Plastic
  Take a quick look around you and inventory all the plastic products you see. Your computer monitor and keyboard, your pens, even the carpet under your feet—all are made possible by plastic. The American Chemistry Council likes to throw out its old adage, "Plastic makes it possible." A ...
• The Natural Ingredient That's Wrecking Your Gut
  A completely unnecessary food additive used in conventional, natural, and even some organic food and drink products could be causing digestive problems and even cancer, according to a new report from the organic watchdog group the Cornucopia Institute. The compound in question is carrageenan, ...
• Can You Be Allergic to Wine?!
  Yes it's heart healthy, full of cancer-fighting antioxidants, and a great accompaniment to that grilled chicken or fish—but wine is not for everyone. If a glass of red makes your skin start to flush, or gives you a runny nose or an extremely upset stomach, you fall into a group of people that's ...
• Why Is Your Ice Cream More Expensive? Blame Na ...
  Natural gas production: It's destroying towns, polluting the nation's water supply, and even releasing radioactive material into the environment. But perhaps the greatest insult of all? It's driving up the cost of ice cream during the hottest time of year! It turns out that an ingredient popula ...

big think

• Why Government Agencies Are So Infamously Lame ...
  What’s the Big Idea?  In Kafka’s appropriately unfinished novel The Castle , the protagonist – K. – spends the whole book trying to gain access to the castle that governs a village to which he’s been summoned by a bureaucratic error. He never gets beyond a petty official called “the ...
• Long Live Andy of Mayberry!
  ...in reruns, of ourse.  So I realize I've been pretty short on pop cultural commentary lately.  It's not that I haven't seen the new Wes Anderson movie and don't have opinions about it.  I'm just not sure yet whether it's mainly edifying and encouraging--a testimony to the America of 19 ...
• Daylight Atheism, The Book Now Available on Sm ...
  We're more than half-done with the week, and I have more good news for your Wednesday night: Daylight Atheism, The Book is now available on Smashwords! With this expansion, we now support pretty much every e-reader format that isn't Kindle: ePub, PDF, RTF, Palm, and more. Here's the link: ...
• 573 - Look Mum, No Mermaids!
  Remember that guy in the Truman Show who pretends to be the protagonist’s best buddy [1]? Who takes him out for a few brewskis on the beach when Truman starts to suspect he’s at the centre of... something? The buddy offers Truman the proverbial shoulder to cry on, but his apparent sincerity is f ...
• Dear Online Commenters, Regarding Sexism & Mis ...
  Intro This post may be mostly about what's happening in gaming culture, but it concerns online conduct in general.  Some background: online video blogger, Anita Sarkeesian, started a campaign to fund a series looking at women in gaming. Alyssa Rosenberg from ThinkProgress describes what ...

Information Liberation

• Sportscasters and the Troops
  I find it fascinating how American television sportscasters steadfastly hew to the official line regarding the continued occupation of Afghanistan. During virtually every game, the sportscaster will make some reference to U.S. soldiers who have died ...
• Amerika, 2012: Constant Surveillance, Civilian ...
  Drone operators training at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base use civilian automobiles to practice surveillance techniques, according to a recent report in the New York Times Magazine. The bleak, stony desert terrain in that part of New Mexico ...
• Why the War on Drugs Should Be Ended
  The War on Drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. Taking drugs harms the person who partakes, but not those who abstain; the War on Drugs harms everyone, even those who abstain from taking drugs. Yet the ...
• A Comically Dishonest Defense of the Drug War
  There's a fun little debate series over at U.S. News & World Report featuring some of the usual suspects squaring off over whether the drug war is the best or worst thing in the world (well, it can't be both). My favorite part is Kevin Sabet's attemp...
• "This is my friend's son being searched by the ...
  The TSA makes sure a cancer stricken boy on his way to Disneyland is not a terrorist. Via Reddit...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• New Moon for Pluto: Hubble Telescope Spots a 5 ...
  As humankind's first robotic visitor to Pluto approaches its destination, astronomers working to understand what it will find there have uncovered a tiny moon orbiting the dwarf planet. [More]
• 'Improved' Cookstoves May Do Little to Reduce ...
  TOTORABAMBA, Peru – Smoke swirls around the hearth and hangs in the sunny doorway of the adobe kitchen where Espirita Lima Bautista crouches by an open fire, toasting barley grains. Soot dangles from the thatch roof in six-inch stalactites, a grim reminder of the particles she inhales when ...
• How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Commun ...
  Fifty years ago, a small spherical satellite weighing about 170 lbs. (77 kg) was launched from Cape Canaveral.  Its name was Telstar 1, and it was the first commercial communications satellite--the first in a long line of telecommunications satellites that have led to the digitally connecte ...
• Male Dragonflies Color Shift via Simple Chemic ...
  Each summer, scores of sunny yellow dragonflies transform into vibrant scarlet flyers. Behind this showy makeover scientists have discovered a simple chemical reaction every bit as elegant as the spectacle itself. [More]
• Dead Zone Pollutant Grows Despite Decades of Work
  HERMANN, Mo. – The Missouri River stretches more than a quarter-mile from shore to shore here, its muddy water the color of coffee with a shot of cream. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• The Co-op Covers Council
  July 10: World Trade & Convention Centre Gets the Green Light, and Solar City is Saved — For Now That’s right. The Halifax Media Co-op has decided to enter the shady, confusing, frustrating and often boring world of municipal poli ...
• What's In a Drum?
  Not just a beat, but the heartbeat of Mother Earth. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - I had the good fortune of meeting Al Carter, drum maker, at "Experience Native Culture and Traditions" ceremonies at Victoria Park in Halifax on July ...
• Provincial police threatens Algonquins of Bar ...
  Native Solidarity News - Interview with Michel Husky
• Community Confronts Condo Developers in Centre ...
  Dozens of Centretown residents rallied to disrupt a launch party hosted by condominium developers at James Street Pub on Bank Street Tuesday evening, July 10. Residents and some local business owners are angry over attempts by Urban Capital, a Toronto-based group of developers, to unilaterally r ...
• Sliammon Treaty Ratified Amid Total Voting Chaos
  With incomplete voter eligibility guidelines, payments dangling over a "yes" vote and hard questions unanswered, the Final Agreement passed with 57 percent approval Sliammon members who voted on their First Nation's Final Agre ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Globalization: King and country
  David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
• The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
  David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...
• India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
    "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
• Why is the American left so useless? - II
  David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
• Why is the American left so useless?
  David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Romney Courts the White Vote by Talking to the ...
  Mitt Romney gave a speech to the NAACP today, and it didn't go well. He was interrupted by periodic booing, got poor reviews from the audience afterward, and was lambasted by NAACP leaders after he had left. This was pretty predictable, so why did Romney bother? I think Jamelle Bouie has ...
• The Amazing Power of Fed Announcements to Buoy ...
  Riskier investments generally have higher returns. That's why, over the long term, stocks have higher returns than government bonds. But how much higher should those returns be? There's a problem here. No matter how you figure it, historical returns on stocks seem to be a lot higher than they ...
• Mitt Romney Should Get Used to Hearing "Swiss ...
  Bob Somerby says he "cringed a bit" when Maryland governor Martin O'Malley went to town on Mitt Romney's Swiss bank account during last Sunday's chat shows. But he cringed even more yesterday when he heard Ed Schultz frame the issue like this in a question to O'Malley: "What do you think? Is i ...
• BREAKING: "Repeal and Replace" Just a Big Scam
  You should probably be sitting down before you read this. Ready? Congressional Republicans, who once promised to "repeal and replace" President Obama's healthcare law, for now have all but given up pushing alternatives to the sweeping legislation the president signed in 2010. ....As the Ho ...
• Let's Index Everything for Inflation!
  Andrew Stuttaford is unhappy about the state of the U.S. tax code: And then there’s capital gains (due to rise, of course, courtesy of Mr. Obama), and still not adjusted for inflation, a deliberate anomaly that means the taxpayer pays real taxes on unreal “gains”. Even th ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Ancient domesticated remains are oldest in sou ...
  Researchers have found evidence of the earliest known instance of domesticated caprines (sheep and goats) in southern Africa, dated to the end of the first millennium BC, providing new data to the ongoing debate about the origins of domestication and herding practices in this region. read more
• Fossil turtle from Colombia round like car tire
  Paleontologist Carlos Jaramillo's group at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and colleagues at North Carolina State University and the Florida Museum of Natural History discovered a new species of fossil turtle that lived 60 million years ago in what is now northwestern South ...
• A deeper look into the pathogen responsible fo ...
  Next week's Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" by Wai Mun Huang and colleagues at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and the University of Minnesota reveals new insights into the molecular properties of the rod-shaped soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens ...
• Giving ancient life another chance to evolve
  It's a project 500 million years in the making. Only this time, instead of playing on a movie screen in Jurassic Park, it's happening in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. read more
• Native American populations descend from 3 key ...
  Scientists have found that Native American populations -- from Canada to the southern tip of Chile -- arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely from a single group of First American migrants that crossed over through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and Ameri ...

unEarthed

• Why Are You Proud to Be An American?
  Mountain Heroes are my inspiration With the Fourth of July comes a resurgence of patriotism, fireworks, and tasty BBQs, but also the opportunity to reflect on wh ...
• Protecting the Arctic by Doing Their Job
  A tale of Americans hard at work Many Americans used a Wednesday Fourth of July as an excuse to take the entire week off as a holiday. Here’s a patriotic ...
• Three Coal Trains Derail In One Week
  Accidents are an ominous harbinger for the Pacific Northwest On Monday, a coal train derailed in Washington on its way to Spokane, spilling tons of coal and coal ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: The Good And Bad Coal Ash News
  Josh Galperin on growing threat of toxic waste Devastation following the Kingston coal ash disaster (Note from Lisa Evan: Last week, we nearly lost the battle ...
• It’s True: Feds Must Protect False Killer Whales
  NMFS dragging its feet on implementing safeguards If you were a false killer whale off the Hawaiian coast you’d probably be calling ocean 911 right about n ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

• Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
  Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
• Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
  PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
• Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
  All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
• Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
  On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
• Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
  West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• Israeli choreographers call for strike
  This morning, I saw this statement as the opening log in a new group on Facebook called The Choreographers’ Strike. “Why the hell do we put up with it? Dance theaters and City municipalities love having festivals of all kinds. It shows how cultural the city is or how central the thea ...
• The name game: What should we call the situati ...
  First they told us we can’t call it “apartheid”. Now, they say we can’t call it “occupation”. But we have to call it something!!!!! I’m waiting to hear your suggestions in the comments section below. Single-word terms/nouns are preferred (with short expl ...
• Don’t abandon the legal system in fight ...
  By Noam Wiener Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy submitted on Monday his report on the legality of settlements in the occupied territories, recommending we change the very language we use to describe the territories, taken by force of arms by the Israeli army in 1967. The report d ...
• Report that claims ‘there is no occupati ...
  What is behind the left’s anger at a government commission report that rejects the existence of the occupation? The report presents an opportunity to replace empty political rhetoric and legality with a focus on facts on the ground. By Itamar Mann The Israeli left responded with a mixture of lau ...
• While you weren’t looking: Gov’t o ...
  The front page of Israel’s main financial daily, The Marker, pretty much says all you need to know about the capital-government-military relationship in 2012 Israel: Top headline: “They earned 120 billion – and will only pay  3 billion in taxes. A new proposal from the treasury ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

• ATTENTION SOLDIERS~! SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELI ...
  One of the most critical elements of the Attorney General Fascism Mortgage Fraud Sellout Agreement, was the requirement that the servicers pay money to soldiers who they terrorized and abused, often while these soldiers were being shot at or were otherwise in harm’s way. But there is no wa ...
• The LIBOR Scam, Not At All Subtle….Gone ...
  The “new” LIBOR scam has been round for quite some time….. Finally, we present suggestive evidence that the misreporting incentives are partially driven by member bank portfolio positions. We nd that several banks in the U.S. Libor panel have very large interest rate derivative ...
• The Banks and Blatant Violations of The Servic ...
  Remember the 49 State AG Settlement? It was supposed to provide protections to the men and women who serve in uniform and protect our nation. The agreement provides that when the banks engage in improper practice and say, take a home from a soldier when they’re serving abroad getting shot ...
• Mortgage Condemnation- The Pied Pipers of Wall ...
  From over at Naked Capitalism- A scheme proposed by a group called Mortgage Resolution Partners, which is being considered by San Bernardino, CA, to use the traditional power of eminent domain to condemn mortgages, was pretty certain to be a non-starter, so I’ve ignored it. But it’s gotten enoug ...
• WATCHOUT! Misleading paperwork, bullying homeo ...
  A homeowner that receives the attached letter might be intimidated to think that they needed to leave the home within 20 days. They would reasonably think that the letter was put at the direction of a federal agency, HUD.  My question is, who authorized this activity? did HUD tell this law firm ...

abelard - news

• duck's disease and power | fun news at abelard.org
  Rather a lot of short men rise high in politics (and some tall ones as well). Is being vertically challenged the motivation, or the cause?
• hoc treasury committee and the banks | politic ...
  Why Barclay's and other banks got in a mess, and why socialist policy has no chance of sorting it.
• Pedalare! Pedalare! | the Cycling zone at abel ...
  Short, sharp review on a recent Giro d'Italia book. Plus tactics glossary updated.
• pfis - 16% gdp off-budget | politics uk news a ...
  Another mess left behind by Gordon Brown and his mates.
• analysis: cameron and a possible eu referendum ...
  No wonder Ed Milliband and his comrades are floundering, more than one variable is in play.

The Parallel Parliament

• Humanity In An Image
  You can see why I was so affected immediately upon focusing your eyes on the picture. It’s from south Sudan …Continue reading »
• While the Sun Is Above Us
  Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »
• Fox In The Henhouse
  My Huffington Post piece on Julian Fantino’s appointment as the new minister for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) created …Continue reading »
• Troubles Ahead For CIDA
  The following is my Huffington Post piece for today on the appointment of a new minister for the Canadian International …Continue reading »
• Losing Humanity
  Some stories are just so gut wrenchingly moving that you’d have to be a pretty hard-hearted sort not to be …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Important letter to House Agriculture Committee
  The House Agriculture Committee began marking up the farm bill this morning. As we’ve described in past posts, this bill has significant implications for public health. CLF sent the letter (below) to the House Agriculture Committee, emphasizing important changes needed in the bill in order ...
• Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
  Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...
• Meatless Monday and Meat Without Drugs
  In a concise, accurate, and artful video directed by Robert Kenner (director of Food, Inc.) in consultation with CLF, the Meat without Drugs campaign highlights how industrial farming practices facilitate the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the threats that these bacteria pose ...
• Book aims to fast-track transition to sustaina ...
  What progress has the U.S. made in the area of sustainable development? What are the barriers to further progress? How do we overcome them?
• Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Support ...
  What’s better than a government program that improves the health of SNAP participants, while simultaneously driving local economic activity and addressing health care costs?

k2p blog

• Higgs Boson may not have been found after all. ...
  CERN may not have found the Higgs Boson after all.
• Apple dumps “green” certification ...
  Apple has removed its 39 products which were certified "green" in favour of design freedom. They said that their design direction was "no longer consistent" with the requirements.
• Solar influence confirmed by new high-res reco ...
  Solar insolation changes, resulting from long-term oscillations of orbital configurations, are an important driver of Holocene climate.
• “Even the dead don’t escape the ca ...
  A family in Australia have been charged $55 as a carbon tax for a relative's funeral.
• As with peak gas, peak oil and rampant pessimi ...
  The recoverability of oil and gas from shale postpones "peak oil" and "peak gas" indefinitely. A change of mind-set from the "glass half-empty" view of pessimistic environmentalism to the "glass half-full" view is called for.

Left Foot Forward

• Addressing the challenge of transforming childcare
  Stephen Twigg, Yvette Cooper and Liam Byrne write for Left Foot Forward on Labour’s plans for better childcare.
• Labour seize on CBI’s “damning ind ...
  Labour sought to pile the pressure on George Osborne today following last night's savaging of the government's growth record by CBI chief John Cridland.
• Fergie: ‘I hope Cameron is a one-term pr ...
  So Tony Blair may have the great Sir Alex Ferguson’s support, but does he have yours?
• Genuine opposition or political posturing on A ...
  Despite strong opposition in the media and on the ground, Andrew Lansley is still signing off on A&E closures.
• Northern Ireland urges politicians to make goo ...
  Today marks the yearly protestant celebration in Northern Ireland, marking the victory of Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic King James II.

Consumerist

• Viacom Takes Down Full Episodes Of TV Shows To ...
  The catfight between DirecTV and Viacom took a nasty turn this afternoon, as the broadcaster decided that it would temporarily stop streaming full episodes of some its shows simply because DirecTV pointed out to its ticked-off customers they could get some of their blacked-out favorites online. ...
• Should DirecTV Customers Get Refunds For Going ...
  It's one day into the standoff between DirecTV and Viacom and neither side is showing signs of backing down (though, the way these things go, they could be kissing and making up within the hour). In the meantime, millions of DirecTV customers have to go to their friends' houses to watch Teen Mom ...
• FAA Fines Delta Almost $1M For Flying Two Plan ...
  The Federal Aviation Administration is cracking down on Delta Air Lines, after the agency claimed the carrier failed to make or took its time making necessary repairs to two planes after inspections found damages on the aircrafts. The grand total for such infractions is close to $1 million. In t ...
• One Surefire Way To Destroy Your Attic Is By F ...
  When a broom or shoe just won't do to kill spiders and/or rid your home of their cobwebs, we beg you, do not take matters into your own fire-weapon wielding hands. A man trying to clear his yard of cobwebs picked up a blowtorch and began blasting away, causing a fire that severely damaged his [...]
• Comcast Tech Tells Me He’ll Be Right Bac ...
  One of the most frequent complaints we get about cable installers and techs is the blown-off appointment, wherein the tech claims they showed up at your house and you weren't there. But here's a story of a Comcast tech who actually showed up at a customer's home and then skipped out before compl ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• More Coverage of Wall Street Wrongdoing Survey ...
  The New York Times: Wall Street Short on Ethics, Report Finds Summary: More coverage of the recent Labaton Sucharow (a law firm that works with investors and whistleblowers) survey that showed 26 percent of Wall Street workers surveyed had observed wrongdoing in the workplace. More than t ...
• Assange Asylum Bid Could Discredit Ecuador in ...
  ABC News (Australia): Assange Asylum Could Discredit Ecuador – Envoy Summary: The Ecuadorian ambassador in Washington, DC is concerned that if Ecuador decides to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the decision “could be used to discredit Ecuador in the United Stat ...
• July GAP eNews: Whistleblower Issues Abound at ...
  International Program Update – Wrongdoing at the World Bank; A Landmark UN Decision GAP's Shelley Walden spoke with Al-Jazeera about a very positive decision from the UN Dispute Tribunal. With a new World Bank president taking office last weekend, this Forbes cover story ...
• GAP Statement on World Bank Criticism of Forbe ...
  World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCIn response to Richard Behar’s article in Forbes, "The Fate of a World Bank Whistleblower,” the World Bank claimed that GAP client John Kim, the subject of the piece, was not, in fact, a whistleblower. We at the Government Accountabili ...
• In WikiLeaks Debate, Let's Talk Whistleblowers ...
  The Guardian (UK): Whistleblowers Need Our Help – Let’s Move on from WikiLeaks Bickering Summary: This article argues that the “bickering” over WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are detracting from the real issues – transparency, international law, and source protection. WikiLeaks receives a m ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

• 17% - Share of Cell Phone Owners Who Use Phone ...
  Pew Research
• Change your passwords now: Nearly half a milli ...
  The Daily Mail
• Barack Obama's Brother Calls Him 'Half-White Guy'
• Field Studies of Private Education in Developi ...
  LRC Blog
• Liberal Radio Host Phones Satan in Hell to Ch ...

JoNova

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

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Why Would A Survival Group Want You?
  Across my websites, and from emails I receive, it is clear that there are thousands of people out there that would love to join a survival group. Most of them don’t seem to have much to offer, and typically fall into these categories: no money no specialized skills willing to “help ...
• How To Tell People The Sky Is Falling?
  Asteroids and comets represent, in the long-term, very serious threats to modern civilization. And little is being done about it. NASA spends a tiny amount of money looking for Near Earth Objects. A couple of non-government organizations are researching the best ways to prevent a collision. A th ...
• I’m Not Keen On Guns…
  In Australia, semi-automatic weapons are rare and unusual (and illegal). So I consider them to be beyond my reach – which is fine seeing as I can’t see me using a gun in the every day world. But if the SHTF, I might need to become gun savvy quick smart. If I were in America, and I ch ...
• Critical Asteroid Telescope Might Shut Down
  More evidence that global governments are incredibly ignorant of the serious asteroid threat. Detection of asteroids is severely under-funded, even though it has the best long-term cost-benefit ratio of almost anything they could pay for. An Australian telescope at the Sliding Spring observatory ...
• Cosmic Dust Just Vanished
  We can’t see our galactic center properly because of the interstellar dust that is in the way. While it might take a very long time for that dust to move out of the way, it appears that it could just vanish one day. Dust surrounding a star has disappeared in the space of a year, without a ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Nation condoles veteran actor Dara Singh's death
  12 Jul 2012 The death of wrestler-actor and former member of Parliament Dara Singh has been widely mourned.In separate condolence messages, the leaders of various political parties and cine actors have hailed the role of Dara Singh in film industry and as a wrestlers. Reported by All India R ...
• Kalmadi moves court to attend London Olympics
  Sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused in a games-related graft case, sought a Delhi court's permission to attend the 2012 Olympics in London. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago
• Junagadh HIV transfusion case: BJP MLA Mahendr ...
  BJP MLA, Mahendra Mashru, could face serious charges of culpable homicide in Junagadh HIV transfusion case being investigated by the CBI. Sources said that the CBI will soon start identifying the guilty people. Reported by DNA 3 hours ago
• Jagadish Shettar rubbishes land denotification ...
  A complainant alleged Shettar, without cabinet approval, had in 2006 denotified 178 acres out of 376 acres acquired for establishing a single roof mega farmers market Reported by DNA 3 hours ago
• Salman Khan, PM Dr Manmohan Singh pay tribute ...
  Salman Khan maintained silence for a minute at the Ek Tha Tiger song release in Mumbai. Reported by Bollywood Life 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola ...
• Syria 'Friends' Fuel Murder with Promises of W ...
• UN Should Investigate Arms Smuggling into Syria
• Clinton: Russia and China "will pay" for Suppo ...
• Dead AND Alive? Aid Worker Shows up at Friends ...

Daily Tech

• Chevy Malibu Eco Deemed Most Disliked Car of 2012
  CNN/Fortune bestows this unwanted title on GM's mainstream, midsize "mild" hybrid
• Twitter CEO: We're Not Going Public Anytime Soon
  Twitter's CEO said his company has a "truckload of money in the bank"
• Apple Pulls EPEAT Certification from Certain D ...
  Apple has pulled the EPEAT Gold rating from 39 of its gadgets, including certified monitors, laptops, desktop computers and older versions of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro
• New Homeland Security Scanners Could Lead to M ...
  Have even a trace of gunpowder on you from a shooting range? You may be in for a "deep frisking"
• Windows 8 Gets OS X Time Machine-Like Backup W ...
  Users will be able to precisely control what is backed up and how often

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• BlogHer '12 Interviews: Why Did You Start Blog ...
  As we continue to speed toward BlogHer '12 in New York City this early August, I wanted to ask a question I ask almost every blogger I meet -- whether at a conference or a meetup or a one-on-one or eventually by individual email. It's the question that, really, leads us all to BlogHer.com and th ...
• Tips for Photographing and Processing Silhouettes
  A good photo using a silhouette can be so dramatic and effective! Courtney Keim has some tips for how to take good shots, and how to process them afterwards to make them really pop. She wrote at Clickin Moms, There are many different ways you can create and process a silhouette and some of the ...
• WATCH: Michelle Obama Chats with Latina Moms
  In a Mamiverse.com exclusive, First Lady Michelle Obama sat down to chat with six Latina moms to discuss their lives and the key issues impacting Hispanic families across the nation. Our roundtable was moderated by CNN analyst and Mamiverse contributing political editor, Maria Cardona.Click here ...
• Stand Picky, Stand Proud: Lucianovic Demystifi ...
  In her first book, Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate, Stephanie Lucianovic combines plenty of research, a healthy dose of science, and her own memories of growing up as a picky eater to present a thoroughly entertaining, thoughtful look at why ...
• The Passing of the Problem Child Torch
  [Editor's Note: You know how one kid will be driving you crazy as they go through a phase (not sleeping, growth spurt, mouthy, and on and on)... and just when they get it all worked out (get back to sleep, stop eating everything in sight and growing out of pants, shut their mouth), one of your o ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• 6 Evidence-Based Ways To Burn Belly Fat AND Ex ...
  The ongoing battle of the bulge, while once considered primarily a matter of vanity, may actually be one of the best ways to reduce your risk of dying from a multitude of causes (i.e. all-cause ...
• The Remarkable Healing Properties of Pumpkin Seed
  Pumpkin seeds, like all edible seeds, pack an immense nutritional and medicinal punch. After all, they contain future worlds within their compact structure. As Emerson said, “the creation of a thousand forests is within one acorn.” In ...
• Gene mutation defends against Alzheimer’s disease
  Almost 30 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease worldwide, a staggering health-care burden that is expected to quadruple by 2050. Yet doctors can offer no effective treatment, and scientists have not been able definitively to ...
• Unhealthiness vs Disease
  There are many so called diseases, that are actually not ‘diseases’, they are actually serious ‘unhealthiness’.  We need to distinguish between unhealthiness and disease. What’s the difference?  In the posts Concepts of Illness and Disease, andHealthiness and ...
• Chronic Pain Is Determined By Emotions Scienti ...
  The emotional state of the brain can explain why different individuals do not respond the same way to similar injuries, say scientists. Some recover fully while others remain in constant pain. Brain scan studies showed for the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Power lines: Will W.Va. PSC step up on reliabi ...
  We published a story in today’s Gazette print edition (it’s online here) about an issue that’s been mostly ignored by other mainstream media, despite the endless amounts of coverage devoted to the June 29 “derecho” storm and its lingering power outage impacts across ...
• Special report: The new face of black lung
  A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Anybody who cares about worker health and safety issues is following the fantastic series of articles being prod ...
• Tuesday roundup, July 3, 2012
  I’m still catching up on the news following some time off, and obviously here in West Virginia the big story remains the aftermath of last Friday’s terrible “dereche” storm that hit our state and some neighboring areas.  Thousands of residents remain without power. The st ...
• NPR misses mark with Mingo ‘war on coal ...
  I’m generally a fan of NPR and also an admirer of the work of their longtime journalist Noah Adams, especially his book Far Appalachia. So maybe I was expecting too much when I heard he was working on a piece about the results of West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary, in wh ...
• AP: ‘This is what global warming looks l ...
  A tree lays down in the front lawn at a home Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Charleston, W.Va.  Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits.  ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Video of Protests and Clashes in Saudi Arabia
  By ROBERT MACKEY,NYT - Updated, 2:13 p.m. As my colleague Kareem Fahim reported, video posted online by Saudi activists late Tuesday appeared to offer a glimpse of protesters clashing with the security forces in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province. According to the Saudi journalist and blog ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
  A scandal over rate-fixing is about to hit the US t may seem like just another obscure banking scandal at a 322-year-old British bank, but there are a number of good reasons why you should care about the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal now roiling the world’s biggest and most powerful banks, includin ...
• Hippie Health Digest: Mental health – B ...
  More Health Professionals Needed To Treat Boomers’ Mental Issues, Drug Abuse – (RTTNews) – The baby boomer generation is facing a severe shortage of mental health professionals available to treat them as they age, a new report by the Institute of Medicine of National Academies ...
• Nuclear Foxes In Charge of the Nuclear Hen Houses
  By Karl Grossman,OEN – The conclusion of a report of a Japanese parliamentary panel issued last week that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster was rooted in government-industry “collusion” and thus was “man-made” is mirrored throughout the world. The & ...
• This scum-bag is Mr. Rogers compared to Bush-C ...
  International Criminal Court sentences former Congolese warlord to 14 years WWH/CJE,UN – The International Criminal Court (ICC) today sentenced Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a former Congolese warlord, to 14 years of imprisonment for his involvement in child soldier recruitment. In March, the ICC ...

reference frame

• Knowledge and passions: why various physicists ...
  I started this blog on October 10th, 2004. It wasn't any big transition: my previous experience with scientific interactions on the Internet had been intense and included Bulletin Board Services (BBS), USENET groups, and an unknown Czech-language blog in the same blogspot.com domain ...
• Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality (in Czech)
  In April 2011, when I was serving as a jury member at an academic film festival in the historical city of Olomouc, I got a call from a woman I collaborated with ten years earlier. The question was whether I wanted to translate Brian Greene's third major popular book, The Hidden Reality, first ...
• Texas nationalizes the atmosphere
  Soylent Green Jr has linked to an article at Grist with news that seem rather incredible. Cowboy of Teplice City, a 1995 song by Mr Kamil Střihavka (CZ) that happens to describe the health of a Texas district judge, too. A group of children (run by adults who aren't ashamed of ...
• Landscape wars: David Gross vs Brian Greene's ...
  Next month, my translation of Brian Greene's third major popular book, The Hidden Reality, should be released in the Czech Republic. It's a good book and I still consider Brian to be a top physics writer but I plan to write down a blog entry summarizing the book, its content and scienti ...
• Two papers: no bacteria use As to grow
  At the beginning of December 2010, I was excited by claims by Ms Iron-Lisa Wolfe-Simon that she had found bacteria that used arsenic instead of phosphorus to grow. Note that phosphorus is one of the five main elements for life. Within days, however, I was persuaded by various cr ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• 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 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

• Hill politics churns small streams
  By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Pick the best sunscreen for kids
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
  Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
  By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
• "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
  Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Gersh Kuntzman to leave Fort Greene Local for ...
• Five Democrats vote for Obamacare repeal, none ...
• Ray Kelly stirs a debate and Cuomo attends an ...
• Rise in crime could push stop-and-frisk off th ...
• The extraordinary ordinary: Rineke Dijkstra at ...

Views & News from Norway

• New charges filed against terror suspect Mulla ...
  State prosecutors have filed new charges against Muslim cleric Mullah Krekar, who came to Norway as a refugee from northern Iraq and later was designated as a threat to national security. Now he’s in trouble again, for allegedly making death threats and encouraging terrorist acts. His targ ...
• Airline passengers warned of delays
  UPDATED: A lack of air traffic controllers on duty in southern Norway has led to delayed flights in and out of OSL Gardermoen, Oslo’s main airport and widely viewed as the gateway to Norway. Staffing shortages forced some airports to close at various points earlier this week, and new delay ...
• Nidaros Cathedral hit by vandals
  One of Norway’s most cherished buildings, the national cathedral known as Nidarosdomen in Trondheim, was vandalized during the night, reportedly by three youths who were seen throwing rocks at its ornate facade. Glass panes just below the cathedral’s famed rose window were shattered. ...
• Buyer reported for Munch’s ‘Scream’
  UPDATED: International art experts initially thought that Norway’s most famous painting, The Scream by Edvard Munch, was most likely to be bought by the wealthy royal family in Qatar. Now reports are swirling that the painting remains in the US, where it set a new record when it was sold a ...
• First national park turns 50
  The majestic, almost moon-like peaks of Norway’s Rondane National Park have drawn hikers and climbers for years and now they have a reason to celebrate once they get there. This year marks 50 years since Rondane became Norway’s first nasjonalpark, and the festivities have already beg ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• I Am (Video)
  I think you’ll find this documentary highly watchable. At least, I did. So, be warned — if you click play ten minutes before heading off to work, you may well be late… I am, written and directed by Tom Shadyac, stands in stark contrast to his previous productions. Tom is w ...
• Upcoming Jordan Courses with Geoff and Nadia L ...
  If you live in the northern hemisphere and want to take a course with Geoff and Nadia Lawton, but don’t want the expense and carbon footprint of travelling to Australia to do so, then consider heading to Jordan, site of the last International Permaculture Conference (IPC10), instead. H ...
• Compost Teas and Extracts: Brewin’ and Bubblin ...
  by Rob Avis Permaculturists everywhere are crazy about their compost teas and extracts. They have turned building compost tea brewers into a science and concocting the perfect tea recipe into an art. We love our compost brews too, and since we’re always getting questions about the compost ...
• Pietro Zucchetti Interviews Chris Evans
  Chris Evans, who co-created the invaluable Farmers’ Handbook, has lived and worked in Nepal since 1985, co-founding the Jajarkot Permaculture Project, which successfully spread new ideas in line with existing cultural traditions. Chris started his career as a VSO volunteer in a community ...
• Coevolution
  Kay Baxter All photographs © Craig Mackintosh The more I learn about living simply, about permaculture design, about seeds and gardening, about food, nutrition, animals and about health and the regeneration of our soils and our own DNA, and about epigenetics, the more I real ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
  From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...
• Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
  Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
• Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
  From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
• Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
  From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...
• Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
  From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade:  Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • B ...
  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-1 ... -ring.html Jewish Billionaire Leon Black was the anonymous buyer of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people close to the private equity manager. At the May 2 evening sale in New Yor ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  via CTRL on Bookface http://forward.com/articles/158866/jewi ... z2059xVHtY Jewish institutions throughout the United States will receive $9.7 million in federal anti-terrorism grants this year out of a total of $10 million allocated to not-for-profit institutions by the Department of Homeland ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  maz wrote: Ognir wrote::D hard to fight the tribe when you are the tribe Yes, it is a daily struggle not to let the slip out and give myself away LordLindsey wrote: Thank God that we have TIU to have this information archived so that people know what has been done, and with that control ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Ognir wrote: :D hard to fight the tribe when you are the tribe Yes, it is a daily struggle not to let the slip out and give myself away Statistics: Posted by maz — Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:26 pm
• Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Obama ...
  The world has five (5) more days before Sheriff Arpaio does his press-conference to show the world the absolute-proof of the scam that has been pulled on the entire world, and announcing the person who committed the crime. FIVE MORE DAYS... LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Wed Jul 11 ...

TVNZ

• Olympics put British spy agencies under pressure
  Preparations for the Olympics have strained Britain's intelligence agencies.
• Avalanche in French Alps kills at least five
  Two or three people remain missing after an avalanche near Chamonix.
• Torrential rains claim lives in Japan
  At least three people have died as heavy rain continues to drench the Japanese island of Kyushu.
• Crowds gather to catch a glimpse of Tongan Roy ...
  Tonga's Crown Prince has married his cousin in the capital, Nuku'alofa.
• Royal wedding causes royal divisions
  Tonga's Crown Prince has married his cousin in the capital, Nuku'alofa.

environment 360

• Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
  The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
• Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
  The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...
• Water Use by Tourists Outstrips Water Use By L ...
  The disproportionate use of freshwater by tourists in resorts across the developing world exacerbates the poverty of local residents and in some cases has triggered conflicts, a new report says. In a study of five tourist destinations — including Bali, Zanzibar, and Goa and Kerala in southern In ...
• Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
  American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...
• Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutioniz ...
  In the world of green architecture, no project has more stringent design criteria than the Living Building Challenge, a rigorous certification system that requires that structures follow 20 design “imperatives” across seven categories, from water and energy use to social HPA Hawaii Preparator ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Ernst v. EnCana Corporation | Landowner Jessic ...
  Tags: water contamination fracking
• FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry
  Tags: chemical disclosure registry fracking water drilling
• CHEMICALS USED ON SPILLS
  Tags: BP Corexit cancer crude health_concerns
• Hands Off the People of Iran
  Tags: Iran blog anti-sanctions
• Food Freedom News | Decentralize – Grow Your O ...
  Tags: food news gardening survivalism GM_'food' pesticides seeds ...

backofthebook

• Don’t just thank Jason Kenney — th ...
  By Frank Moher Jason Kenney, or perhaps someone on his ace staff, has come up with a brilliant idea: hosting a petition on his own website allowing the public to thank him for being such a fine minister. Specifically, the petition invites you to thank Jason for “his efforts to streamline b ...
• Job stats baffle easily baffled media
  By David@Sixthestate.net As usual, the moment StatsCan’s monthly jobs survey numbers go even slightly squirrelly, the media proves utterly unable to handle it. Last week, Canadians were variously told that the employment rate was unchanged, that the job market was in bad shape, and that the job ...
• Just what the Internet needs: more cats
  A BoB short: Forget LOL cats and Stuffonmycat.com. A new service from Vancouver-based technology company Mobify allows you to inject cat-related animated images into any website you please. Is the Government of Canada website too stodgy for your tastes — or do you simply think it could use ...
• Canadian tech: thriving, not vanishing
  By Mark Evans According to a feature story in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Canada’s tech sector is vanishing. Not only that but “the air is quickly coming out of Canada’s high tech sector – or what’s left of it.” First reaction: this is a troubling situation. Second reaction after reading the leng ...
• Spider-Man when he was Approved by the Comic C ...
  By Mark Leiren-Young I read Spider-Man in the original Sanskrit. No, I’m not old enough, or lucky enough to have picked up Amazing Fantasy number 15, which featured the first ever appearance of everyone’s favourite wacky wall-crawler, whose latest movie incarnation debuted in North America this ...

Daily Beast

• ‘Damages’’ Final Run
  Jace Lacob talks to ‘Damages’ creators about the final season, Julian Assange, and that shocking twist.
• The Rape Joke That Wasn’t Funny
  Rape jokes aren’t always terrible. But Daniel Tosh used humor to assert his power, says Elissa Bassist.
• Obama’s Exaggerated Cash Call
  Obama is predicting doomsday to get more cash—but he’s raised more than Romney, writes Daniel Stone.
• Self-Protection
  The Daily Pic: Chris Rucker makes quilts from old moving blankets
• Let Us Now Praise Evans
  Walker Evans’ photograph of Ellie Mae Burroughs is one of the icons of American art. Jerry L. Thompson shows us why. By Malcolm Jones.

Loonwatch

• Spain: Far Right Tries to Exploit Opposition t ...
  Fears of the Muslamic Mooslim hordes seems to have reached a fevered pitch in Torrejón, Spain.
• Many Muslims Join US Military to Kill Fellow S ...
  Gaubatz claims an Islamic leader told him that Muslims join the military to kill US soliders.
• EDL Raise Funds Inside the European Parliament
  Far right members from organisations in Germany, Sweden and the UK attended a meeting in the European Parliament on 9 July at which literature was sold to attendees.
• TheReligionOfPeace.com: Working to Streamline ...
  Conflating terrorism with Islam: a strategy of the anti-Muslim Islamophobia Movement.
• Tariq AlMaeena: Islam Has No Links to the Dest ...
  Ansar Dine are a band of thugs and criminals destroying Mali's ancient Islamic heritage.

Energy News

• Tepco releases labeled image indicating locati ...
• Japanese Doctor’s Fukushima Warning: I am worr ...
• New images of Unit No. 3 from camera lowered i ...
• Before and After: Tepco says debris removal co ...
• Study finds 12 millisievert average thyroid do ...

Japan Times

• Reported domestic violence cases surged 46% in ...
  Domestic violence reports in the first half of this year skyrocketed 46.3 percent from a year before to 2,016, National Police Agency data showed Thursday. Women were the victims in 94.3 percent of the cases.
• Yamada Denki to buy rival Best Denki
  Yamada Denki Co. will buy out competitor Best Denki Co. in a bid to solidify its position as the biggest home electronics retailer in Japan, industry sources said Thursday, adding the new group will have sales of over ¥2 trillion. As moves to consolidate pick up in the retail industry, Ya ...
• With record of flips, the risk of a flop
  The launch of Ichiro Ozawa's new party Wednesday adds another chapter of inconsistency on taxes and nuclear power by the former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan. While the new party bills itself as a force against tax hikes and nuclear power, Ozawa has a history of flip-flopping on tax ...
• Paterno family denies abuse coverup
  Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno didn't cover up for retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky when he was accused of molesting boys and didn't act to hinder an investigation of him, Paterno's family said Tuesday. Paterno's family also called Sandusky, who was convicted last mon ...
• Man confesses to being paid by Pyongyang for d ...
  A 41-year-old man recently arrested for fraud has confessed to receiving money from North Korea in exchange for information about foreign and defense affairs he acquired in Japan, it was learned Wednesday. Seiichi Yoshida told Osaka Prefectural Police investigators that he collected such infor ...

Alexander Higgins

• It’s Over For The Global Banking Cabal
  Watch this video to understand the largest banking corruption scandal in history.
• Israeli PM involved in nuclear smuggling
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was involved in smuggling nuclear triggers out of the United States carried out by a network of front companies, a report says.
• The Deer Is Back As Markets Go Reality-On
  US stock markets go from 'risk on' 'risk off' to 'reality on' 'reality off' as indexes crash as the reality of a global recession sets in.
• Video: Zimmerman Reenacts The Trayvon Martin S ...
  George Zimmerman reenacts the night of the Trayvon Martin shooting, taking police through the neighborhood.
• Seattle Cops Continue To Use Excessive Force a ...
  ABC KIRO 7 news reports on the police brutality and excessive force that continues to be used against peaceful protestors in Seattle.

Macleans - Central

• Wind turbines and the need for consultation an ...
  I asked Megan Leslie for an NDP response to the general issue of wind...
• CETA: Matthew Kronby, ex-negotiator
  We’re all chuffed at news that Matthew Kronby has found new work at Bennett...
• The meaning of Etobicoke Centre
  The Toronto Star, Greg Fingas, Omar Alghabra and, quoted below, Adam Goldenberg consider the...
• The quiet cuts
  The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says parks are under threat. Federal budget cuts...
• Place your bets
  Thomas Mulcair makes a wager. “I don’t think the Northern Gateway is on,” Mr....

Making It Count - CCPA

• Medicare’s 50th Anniversary Sets Important Con ...
  July 1 of this year marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare in Canada. On June 29, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Health and Wellness released for public input proposed new legislation to replace the outdated Health Services and Insurance Act. Are these two events related? Probably not, but I think th ...
• The Death of Evidence or 2 + 2 = 5
  The scientific community is sad to report the death of evidence, which passed away June 18th, 2012, after an over six year battle with Harper government policies. Objective and honest, evidence was heavily involved in all aspects of Canadian prosperity and will be sorely missed by all Canadians, ...
• Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
  The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The plan is to bring solar hot water to a 1,000 homes in the city, allowing homeowners to rep ...
• 800,000 Years
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from the UN quadrant where the IPCC’s decision-making body met lies Mont Blanc. At 4800 metres Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. Like near ...
• Union Density and Unemployment
  A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact, despite some evidence of a shift of manufacturing investment and production to lower wage/anti union jurisdictions (as in the Caterpillar case) , th ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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• New debt ceiling deal
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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video on YouTube explaining the “LIBOR scandal” and why it is important to everyone who participates in the economy. Kucinich explained in easily understandable language what the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is, how it affects world ma ...
• On 11th Anniversary of Department Of Peace Kuc ...
  On the 11th anniversary of initial introduction of H.R. 808, to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged our nation’s reliance on violence and encouraged all Americans to live a personal commitment to peace. See the video here. The full te ...
• 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. “Before the Affordable Care Act was ...
• Kucinich: End the Partisan Debate on Affordabl ...
  Washington D.C. (July 10, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), coauthor of H.R. 676, Medicare for All, today addressed a hearing in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee addressing the Affordable Care Act.  Kucinich called the Affordable Care Act a step, but not the final ste ...
• Kucinich Asks Political Campaigns to Respect P ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to the Chairs of both the Republican and the Democratic National Committees asking them to “immediately make clear to all campaigns that it is unacceptable that campaigns ‘track’ people at their homes or otherwise invade a candidate’s personal space ...

Authentically Wired

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• ANYONE FINDING THIS THE LEAST BIT SURPRISING & ...
  … ANYONE FINDING THIS THE LEAST BIT SURPRISING … PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND … YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY BE FITTED WITH A CUSTOM MADE DUNCE CAP … Corporations Line Up to Sponsor Meeting of Nation’s Governors Read the Article at Republic Report Filed under: Blogroll
• WHEREAS DOROTHY WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET A LION W ...
  …WHEREAS DOROTHY WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET A LION WILLING TO CONSIDER TRANSFORMING … AMERICA MAY NOT BE SO FORTUNATE …   Bill Moyers | The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: "In all the hullabaloo over the Supreme Court’s decision on health car ...
• HELL YES … THANKS TO THE PATRIOT ACT PAS ...
  ...HELL YES … THANKS TO THE PATRIOT ACT PASSED BY “W” BUSH/CHENEY … Obama To Control Communications During Crisis 07-09-2012  •  White House The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sens ...
• Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide
    28 Amazing Benefits and Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide   9th July 2012 …,by Andrea Harper  docakilah.wordpress.com …   Hydrogen peroxide is the only germicidal agentcomposed only of water and oxygen. Like ozone, it kills disease organisms by oxidation! Hydrogen peroxide is ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
  In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
• In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
  In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
• Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
  North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
• The rarest rhino's last stand
  Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
• Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
  Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.

Science - NZ Herald

• Meet Bob Marley the ocean parasite
  A tiny blood-sucking parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs has been named after Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley.The parasite was discovered a decade ago off the US Virgin Islands but it was only recently unveiled as...
• Smallest moon yet seen around ex-planet Pluto
  Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion.Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the icy orb, bringing the count of its known moons to five."We're...
• Man pays $50k to go in deep-freeze when he dies
  Meet Deck Hazen, time traveller.Mr Hazen, a retired IT specialist living in Kerikeri, is one of 10 start-up investors in an Australian cryogenics facility expected to open within two years to store bodies in the expectation that...
• Role of research institute in new structure un ...
  Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce is to launch the Government's flagship innovation engine, the new Advanced Technology Institute, today but the Crown Research Institute at the heart of the proposal appears not to have...
• Deep freeze downunder for a second shot at life
  The world's second cryonics facility outside the United States is expected to be operating in regional Australia within two years, storing bodies in the expectation that at some stage in the future science will be able to bring them...

The Bovine

• The very model of a post-modern raw milk dairy ...
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the … Continue reading →
• One big step for big city farming
  From Colleen Kimmett in The Tyee: “Nearly 3,000 rectangular planter boxes, which stand out in varying shades of green and brown against a concrete parking lot, make for an impressive sight when viewed from high above on the Georgia Street … Continue reading →
• FTCLDF: Big hearts for small farms
  From Kimberly Hartke on her “Hartke is Online” blog: “This week, The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. Tomorrow, Geoffrey and Sally Morell will host a lovely ‘Birthday” party for the Fund at their P.A. Bowen Farmstead, … Continue read ...
• WTO vs Country of Origin Labeling
  From Rebekah Wilce, on PR Watch: “The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a final ruling today against the U.S.country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. This popular pro-consumer policy, which informs shoppers where meat and other foods were raised or grown, enjoys the support of 93% of &#8 ...
• More debate over supply management
  From Peter O’Neil in the National Post: “OTTAWA — Farms in the heavily protected dairy, poultry and egg sectors, concentrated primarily in Central Canada, are far more likely than those in other sectors to be high-priced operations owned by corporations, according to … Continue readi ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Mish on Capital Account: "Time for Krugman to ...
  I was on Capital Account once again on Wednesday with Lauren Lyster. The topics of discussion this time were the US and global recessions, auto sales, and Paul Krugman. Here is a video clip: Link if video does not play: Paul "King" Krugman knocked off his Ivory Tower as Fools Sac ...
• Lies You Can Believe In
  Congratulations to Spain's prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, for the lie admission of the day as Spain steps up austerity amid protests The Spanish government unveiled €65bn worth of tax increases and public spending cuts as part of a deal to secure European aid to rescue its banking system as ...
• Treasury Yields Near Record Lows Amid "Suspici ...
  Curve Watchers Anonymous is investigating the yield curve in the wake of reported "suspicious" bids for treasuries at the latest auction. US Treasury Yield Curve Since 2003 click on chart for sharper image Legend $IRX: 3-Month Discount Rate $FVX: 5-Year Treasury Not ...
• Email Comments From Hussman Regarding Start of ...
  I received a nice email from John Hussman regarding my post earlier today Case for US and Global Recession Right Here, Right Now; Recognizing the Limits of Madness; Permabears? John Writes ... Hello Mish I enjoyed your latest piece, as always. In Lakshman’s defense, we’re clie ...
• How To Protect Yourself From Collapse of the F ...
  With the LIBOR manipulation scandal and the collapse of commodity brokers MF Global and PFG Best, what is the average investor to do? Lauren Lyster discusses the answer in a Capital Account interview with Simon Mikhailovich, co-manager of Ediesis Capital. The topic is "Death of Price S ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Classified Woman Review by Nanore Barsoumian a ...
  A string of suspicious events and encounters lead FBI translator Sibel Edmonds to the center of a conspiratorial net of cover-ups and possible espionage, as she attempts to unravel the truth behind buried sensitive case files that could shed light and incriminate high-profile individuals in conn ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 14, ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
• Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
  Africa’s Hour has Arrived By Rick Rozoff As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared for redeployment to Africa an ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Pain for Spain While Quebec’s a Wreck The International Economic Forum of the Americas is taking place in Montreal, Quebec, where central bankers, private bankers, corporate executives, heads of universities, media barons and politicians are meeting to promote neoliberalism and austerity, ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Colombo Dockyard Delivers Support Vessel to Gr ...
  Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd. (GGOS), a subsidiary of India’s Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd, has taken delivery of a Platform/ROV Support Vessel, Greatship Roopa, from Colombo Dockyard Plc, Sri [...]
• It’s a Good Time to be an Offshore Contractor, ...
  It’s been a helluva year so far for Singapore-based offshore contractor, Ezra Holdings Limited, who has reported a 244% leap in net attributable profit (PATMI) to USD $22.4 million for the [...]
• Shipowners Are Beaching Ships in Asia at a Bla ...
  (Bloomberg) — Scrap prices for dry-bulk ships have plunged 13 percent in the past year as oversupply and unprofitable charter rates prompt owners to demolish vessels at a record pace. Shipbreakers [...]
• COSCO Shipyard Delivers Pair of Bulk Carriers
  COSCO Shipyard Group Co., a 51 percent-owned subsidiary of the COSCO Corporation, announced today that the following newly-built bulk carriers have just been delivered to their respective owners: 1. COSCO [...]
• Ship Photo of The Day – USS Harry S. Truman Go ...
  Today’s ship photo has pretty much virally blown up since we posted it to the gCaptain Facebook page yesterday. Since then, the photo has had 400 “likes”, 115 “shares” and [...]

Press TV

• Human rights report proves UK hypocrisy
  In the last example of the British government’s political play with international concepts and norms, the British Foreign Office has published a one-sided report on human rights situation of 28 Middle Eastern and North African countries between April and June 2012.
• Earthquake hits northern Afghanistan
  An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has rocked the northern area of Afghanistan, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
• Iran successful in P5+1 talks: Lawmaker
  A senior Iranian lawmaker has lauded Iran's success in the course of talks with the six major world powers despite the Western-led campaign aimed at halting Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
• ‘US imposes martial law on information'
  An investigative journalist says the US President Barack Obama has practically imposed “martial law” on free flow of information by allowing the government to intercept all private communications, Press TV reports.
• 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.

SciDev.net

• Deep sea mining — a dangerous experiment
  Pacific governments should not approve deep-sea mining until more is known about its likely impact, says conservation biologist Mellie Samson Jr.
• Researchers design 'smart' waterpumps for rura ...
  A UK team has developed 'smart' water pumps using mobile phone technology to communicate faults to engineers, to improve water access in Africa.
• Climate scientists and communities can find co ...
  Fruitful dialogue in Africa shows the gap between climate scientists and decision makers can be bridged, says adaptation specialist Arame Tall.
• Farmers' income study stirs up GM cotton debate
  Controversy continues over the impact of Bt cotton on the lives of farmers in India, report M. Sreelata and T. V. Padma.
• Jordan's nuclear programme comes under fire
  Opinion in Jordan is divided over the country's planned nuclear reactor and training centre, which protestors say jeopardises public safety.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

• An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEME ...
  An activist from Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN stands near barbed wire during a topless protest on February 1st, 2012, in Zurich against the Hockey world cup in 2014 in Belarus. Getty
• nickturse:The Unconquerable Spring: The Visi ...
  nickturse: The Unconquerable Spring: The Visionary Author Who Saw the Arab Spring on the Horizon… in 2003! Since the 1960s, Jonathan Schell has regularly been producing incomparable works about everything from civilian carnage in Indochina to the the dark days of the Nixon years to the perils ...
• “Mexico, my near neighbor, I have been trying ...
  “Mexico, my near neighbor, I have been trying to imagine the export economy of pain. What does it look like? I think it might look like air-conditioning. This is how an air conditioner works: it sucks the heat out of the room and pumps it into the air outside. You could say that air-conditioner ...
• Olympian Landscape
  guernicamag: With the 2012 Summer Olympics just around the corner, Owen Hatherley examines what...
• Book Briefs: Extraordinary Pigeons
  strandbooks: I left this book in a conspicuous place and watched customers discover...

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