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Saturday, July 14, 2012

14 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Apple's Clean Energy Promise Draws Greenpeace Skepticism
eWeek
Greenpeace is calling on Apple to use renewable electricity from onsite generation to directly power its North Carolina facility and use grid power from Duke Energy only for backup. It also is urging Apple to use biogas to directly power fuel cells at ...
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Renewable energy sources are the answer to power outages
Baltimore Sun
Renewable energy sources are the answer to power outages.
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Can Solar And Wind Power Save Our Rivers?
Huffington Post
The staggering water requirements of our current grid electricity are just one more reason to embrace water-sparing renewables, the group argues in “Burning Our Rivers: The Water Footprint of Electricity” [PDF]. “Expanding the deployment of wind energy ...
Spain Targets First Cash From Renewables With Energy Tax
Businessweek
Mariano Rajoy's pledge to tax utilities and power consumers signals Spain is planning to raise cash from renewable energy for the first time, a blow to an industry already struggling with subsidy cuts.
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Reefs in the Anthropocene – Zombie Ecology?
New York Times (blog)
Like Bradbury and Olson, I also see a need to recognize that the ecology of the Anthropocene is stunningly different than what preceded the dawn of this era in which humans are the dominant force shaping that thing once called “nature.” In an exchange ...
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The Ecology of Disease
New York Times
A developing model of infectious disease shows that most epidemics — AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease — are a result of things people do to nature.
Ecology scientists working on various field studies this summer in Stevens County
Access Washington
SPOKANE—Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) scientists and contractors are working in Stevens County this summer to collect data for a variety of studies that are part of normal Ecology work in all areas of the state. “If you see someone ...
North American Invasive Plant Ecology & Management Short Course
Fence Post
Participants at the North American Invasive Plant Ecology and Management (NAIPSD) Short Course came from as far south as Mississippi to the northern (read more)
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SF considering ways to curb plastic water bottles
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco, the city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags, has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. City officials are considering an ordinance that ...
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Asteroid crashes likely gave Earth its water
Fox News
Asteroids from the the inner solar system are the most likely source of the majority of Earth's water, a new study suggests.
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Water more than a festival for 90-somethings in Beaufort creek
Hilton Head Island Packet
Beaufort celebrates its waterways for the 57th time this week with a festival full of events.
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Water Ban: Enforcement officers checking for violators; usage down 20 million ...
Indianapolis Star
First time violators face a $100 fine. The second offense will cost $250 and a third ticket is $500, minimum. Code Enforcement won't know how many citations were issued until Monday after the property owners had been formally notified and paperwork was ...
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  • Assad Confined to Palace by his Republican Guard
    .. the Republican Guard battalion commander charged with the Syrian president’s security is keeping Bashar Assad shut away in his “Unity” palace. Assad and his family may not leave the building without the commander’s permission under an order current since the second half of last week. It is no ...
  • Why Fairfax Matters
    WHEN Rupert Murdoch came to Melbourne in October 2008, he met with Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie and other senior News Limited executives. After expressing satisfaction at how his Melbourne tabloid was progressing, but wanting to lift circulation further, Murdoch asked, “How is the Ag ...
  • Review: Henry Reynolds’ "History of Tasmania"
    ..This sense of “islandness” – the geographical and historical factors that shape Tasmanian identity – is an important theme in Henry Reynolds’s lucid and engaging new history of Tasmania. But Reynolds also argues that writing a history of Tasmania inescapably means writing about nation and empi ...
  • Saudis forces mass on Jordanian, Iraqi borders.
    The Syrian crisis was Friday, June 29, on a knife edge between a Western-Arab-Turkish military offensive in the next 48 hours and a big power accord to ward it off. .. military sources report heavy Saudi troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders Thursday overnight and up until Frid ...
  • Rinehart to Corbett: fix share price or quit
    THE gloves have come off in the battle for control of Fairfax Media with its major shareholder, Gina Rinehart, and the company exchanging increasingly personal salvos. Mrs Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting sent two letters to the Fairfax chairman, Roger Corbett, yesterday. The first ...

Independent - London

  • Iran issues new oil blockade warning
    Iran could prevent even “a single drop of oil” passing through the Strait of Hormuz if its security is threatened, a naval chief said today, as tensions simmer over Tehran's nuclear programme. Related StoriesUS: Syria moving its chemical weaponsTerrified villagers tell of the horror of TremsehIs ...
  • Suicide bomb kills four in Syrian town of Muhrada
    A suicide bomber blew up his car in a central Syrian town today, killing three civilians and one security officer, Syria's state news agency said. Related StoriesUS: Syria moving its chemical weaponsTerrified villagers tell of the horror of TremsehIslamists boycott election in JordanSyria says s ...
  • Syria says suicide bomber kills four in Muhrada
    Syria's state news agency says a suicide truck bomb in the central province of Hama has killed three civilians and one security officer. Related StoriesUS: Syria moving its chemical weaponsTerrified villagers tell of the horror of TremsehIslamists boycott election in JordanSuicide bomb kills fou ...
  • Judge upholds Mississippi anti-abortion law
    A US federal judge upheld Mississippi's anti-abortion law but said the state's only clinic can stay open and will not face any penalties as it tries to comply with the new mandate.Related StoriesYes we can! The US election posters that won voters' heartsMitt Romney cashes in on Condoleezza Rice ...
  • Man jailed for Obama death plot
    A man from Uzbekistan was sentenced to more than 15 years in a US prison for plotting to kill President Barack Obama.Related StoriesYes we can! The US election posters that won voters' heartsMitt Romney cashes in on Condoleezza Rice speculationUnearthed: The drug tunnel under US-Mexico borderSui ...

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  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

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  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • 'Security Fears Help Enrich Financial Super-Elite'
    Tightening security screws in the US serves the ultimate goal - to implant the atmosphere of fear in the American society. It serves to raise sales of security equipment, independent journalist Charlie McGrath told RT. ­The latest initiative of the US Department of Homeland Security is t ...
  • Students sue school district for violating the ...
    Students are suing the state of Michigan and their Detroit-area school district for violating their "right to read." The class-action lawsuit appears to be the first of its kind, and potentially signals a new wave of civil rights litigation in the United States to enforce laws intended to boost ...
  • Why Don't the Corrupt Players On Wall Street a ...
    Scandal After Scandal, Lie Upon Lie ... What's Going On? Many bankers, regulators and politicians have been caught in lie after lie and scandal after scandal. Why haven't they been shamed by all of the disclosures about their behavior, and chastised by the destruction their actions are causing ...
  • Nasa's seven minutes of terror as Mars probe h ...
    A giant space probe is set to plunge into the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of more than 13,000mph in a few weeks' time. For the following seven minutes, its onboard computer will issue electronic instructions to direct the craft through manoeuvres of unprecedented complexity to guide it to the ...
  • Georgia aims to defy Supreme Court by executin ...
    A death row prisoner in Georgia who has been officially deemed by the courts to be "mentally retarded" is scheduled to be executed next week despite a supreme court ruling that bans the death sentence for people with learning difficulties. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles was due ...

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  • Why is this man smiling?
    This photo of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with Canada's last penny cost taxpayers $56,000.  That is more than many rank and file public servants make in a year. That is the annual salary of a nurse or government clerk or soldier. So, the next time you get pissed off about how long you ...
  • MLVW 4ever!
    Wow. No tanks. No planes. No helicopters. No subs. Now, no trucks. Those trucks are important. The Army cannot move without them. Just watch what happens when we have another Ice Storm and there's no transport. And by my read, this is the second cancellation. The first one was buggered last D ...
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    The second segment of yesterday's The Current is a Chris Hedges interview which is excellent.  Take 24 minutes out of your day and listen to the audio here. The man nails it once again using terms to describe "the people who essentially hold power in the US" as those "with unchecked c ...
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  • Spinning on The World Stage (tm): the reviews ...
    A bullet-riddled map of Afghanistan, painted on a wall of an abandoned Canadian-built school in Zharay district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, on June 9, 2012. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov, via The Atlantic. Brian Stewart has a piece up suggesting Canada's Kandahar mission ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Manufactures Heavy Tax Burden For The Weal ...
    Fox News' chief national correspondent Jim Angle attacked President Obama's call for a fairer tax code, claiming that the wealthiest Americans shoulder most of the federal tax burden, while the rest pay very little. However, the rich pay a larger portion of federal taxes because their income ha ...
  • Fox Bashes Insurance Mandate As Middle-Class T ...
    Fox News has spent years complaining that roughly half of all Americans "don't pay taxes" and calling for tax hikes on working Americans. Now Fox is decrying the insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act as a tax hike on the middle class -- even though it will affect only a small amount of p ...
  • Right Wing Tries To Move Goal Posts By Redefin ...
    After Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion upholding health care reform, the right-wing media have attacked his conservative credentials. Despite experts' statements that the opinion might have cleared the way for more rulings restricting federal power and progressive legislation, media ...
  • Fox News Inflates Impact Of Bush Tax Cuts
    Fox News anchor Jon Scott claimed the Bush tax cuts generated growth and substantially increased revenue. In fact, economists say the Bush tax cuts produced anemic growth at best while creating substantial budget deficits that persist to this day.Fox's Jon Scott: Bush Tax Cuts "Did Generat ...
  • Fox Stacks The Deck Against The UN Arm ...
    Fox News has featured seven appearances by opponents of a proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty since a conference discussing it began on July 2, and none by the treaty's supporters. Treaty backers say it is essential for curtailing the illegal arms trade that keeps guns flowing to human ri ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...
  • GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT
    The following story on the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT Enbridge says public data don’t back up spill concerns As the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Baltic anomaly - is it a Nazi secret weapon ?
    Some scientists believe the anomaly could be a WWII weapon designed to thwart enemy submarines. Consisting of a concrete base covered in wire mesh, th...
  • Fifth moon of Pluto discovered
    Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new moon orbiting Pluto. Known as 'P5', the small moon is only between 6 and 15 miles a...
  • Can scorpion venom tackle superbugs ?
    New research suggests that scorpion venom may hold the key to tackling drug-resistant bacteria. As superbugs such as MRSA become increasingly problema...
  • UFO abduction sparked military probe
    A famous abduction case in Scotland in 1992 allegedly sparked a top secret investigation by the military. Newly declassified documents have detailed t...
  • Is the Moon toxic to humans ?
    Even with spacesuits and other protective equipment the lunar dust could prove lethal to astronauts. A team of researchers investigating the health da...

Grassroots

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      Qualifications:   Submission and Evaluation Process  Activity Due Date RFP shared publically July 6, 2012 Proposals due August 10, 2012 Proposal finalists notified, interview dates set August 20 – 2 ...
  • A Decade of Separation
    6583016675_1b765dda49_n.jpg The Separation Wall is now 10 years old. The Israeli government has not reversed course despite protests, a UN General Assembly resolution (ES-10/13), an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion, and ...
  • Later Is Too Late: Examining Gender-Based Viol ...
    Subheadline:  Overview of funding in Haiti to eliminate violence against women Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Alicia Tozour ...
  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
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  • Sea Level Rise Could Be Worse Than Previously ...
    (Climate Central) A new analysis released Thursday in the journal Science implies that the seas could rise dramatically higher over the next few centuries than scientists previously thought — somewhere between 18-to-29 feet above curre ...
  • Michigan Renewable Portfolio Standard Gets On ...
    (SustainableBusiness) A coalition of environmental groups and local businesses have succeeded in getting the signatures needed to put Michigan's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) on the November ballot. The referendum will ...
  • Retired U.S. Military Brass Wage Political Bat ...
    (Reuters) A coalition of retired U.S. military officers defended the Pentagon's plans to boost the use of more expensive biofuels, telling senators and their staff on Thursday that reduced dependence on oil from the Middle East would u ...
  • Small, Rooftop Solar Shines in Q2 Clean Energy ...
    (SustainableBusiness) Small-scale solar rose in influence in clean energy investments in the second quarter (Q2) 2012 and China claimed "star performer" status, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. ...
  • A New Source of Support for Natural Gas Vehicl ...
    (GigaOM) The Department of Energy’s high-risk, early stage program — ARPA-E — has announced a new project that will give $30 million in grants to companies, university labs and startups building the next-generation of natural gas vehic ...

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Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
    Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

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    Can you guess what I've been up to? Anything going on? Discuss
  • We Have 2 National Governments!
    You might be surprised to know that all of you have acquired dual citizenship - sort of. You see, recently a new country with a new government was created in which You and I are citizens. It just so happens this new country is coextensive with the one in which I always thought I resided, i.e., ...
  • Jonathan Karl Needs an Adult Diaper
    I wonder if Jonathan Karl thinks he did a good job of questioning Mitt Romney about the controversy surrounding his departure from Bain Capital. I hope Mr. Karl is currently hitting himself in the face with a 2x4 in some sort of ritual penance for dropping the ball. The first question is l ...
  • The Real Welfare Queens
    One time when I was in college I was traveling in Tennessee on I-75 when traffic came to complete standstill somewhere north of Knoxville. As it happened, I came to a stop a few yards from an exit. So, I pulled out my trusty Rand McNally atlas and discovered that I could follow some serpentine ...
  • Policeman Threatened to Kill Michelle Obama
    One of the DC police who provide motorcycle escorts to White House officials allegedly made death threats regarding the First Lady, Michelle Obama, to other officers, even describing the weapon he would use to kill her, according to the Washington Post: The police departments Internal Affairs ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Plumbing the Depths of the Largest Underwater ...
    Perhaps the only thing more claustrophobic than regular caving is cave diving. Yet as these amazing images of this giant underwater cave show, the rewards are also great. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Famous Musicians Who Started Their Careers ...
    Screaming kids or screaming fans? Some relatively recent history for you here: check out this article on 10 Famous Musicians Who Started Their Careers as Teachers. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Some Thrips are Destructive While Others H ...
    There are too many species of thrips to consider them all as insect pests. Indeed, some of these tiny bugs benefit us by eating other harmful insects. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Secret Nuclear Complexes of the ...
    Explore a chapter in history that changed the world forever – the making of the first nuclear bombs – through photos of these now disused Manhattan Project facilities. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Serious Public Health Scares
    From SARS to bird flu, it seems like we're always under the cosh from a new threat to our wellbeing. Learn more about the 10 most serious public health scares ever. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...
  • "Warning shot will not be fired" by MPs traine ...
    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...
  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
    TRAILBLAZER related NSA workstation privatization schema in FOUO document --- SOURCE WayneMadsenReport.com - http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/downloads/20110322_2/download - March 22-23, 2011 -- SPECIAL REPORT. NSA, DOJ, and courts conspire to cover-up NSA fraud, waste, abuse, and crimina ...
  • Homeland Security RAPS; Oklahoma jumps into Ho ...
    Basically drones are going into all kinds of state programs, including an interesting pilot program called DHS Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) Program between Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Guard. But first this sketchy nationwide coverup going on... The U.S. Special Opera ...

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

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  • They Want To Sterilize American Women: Sterili ...
    Did you know that sterilization will not cost women a penny under Obamacare? A new regulation that goes into effect on August 1st requires that health plans cover sterilization for all women with “reproductive capacity”. That includes teenage girls. According to the new regulation, w ...
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    Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post At the London Summit on Family Planning (LSFP), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) pledged $560 million to their campaign to depopulate underdeveloped nations. World leaders, private-sector corporations, UN representatives and non-governmental o ...
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    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Fake-Out Fashion: Women Paint Scarlet Soles to ...
    While it’s difficult to afford Christian Louboutins at prices hovering around a grand, it’s easy to buy a small container of red paint to fake the famous scarlet soles of the French shoemaker. This has become a fad in Britain, with paint sales of colors like “Flame” and “Show Stopper ...
  • This Awesome Origami Yoda is Just 7 Centimeter ...
    Artist Yoyo Ferro’s latest work appeals to Star Wars and origami fans alike! Using teeny tiny pieces of paper, the artist has made an origami Yoda, complete with wrinkled green face, orange robe and staff. The origami master based this awesome Yoda on an original design by Fumiaki Kawahata ...
  • Lisa Rodden’s Stunning 3D Sculptures Spring Up ...
    Read the rest of Lisa Rodden’s Stunning 3D Sculptures Spring Up From Simple Sheets of Paper Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco-art, green design, Lisa Rodden, paper art, paper sculpture, sustainable art, sustainable design
  • Keep Cool: 7 Delicious Ways to Make Sure Kids ...
    We know how much of a challenge it can be to stop the summer fun and make your kids (or yourself!) drink water. Hydration is so important, though, that we’ve came up with a few suggestions that are simple, delicious, and totally refreshing.  So click ahead and make sure you indulge in one ...
  • Incredible LEGO Colosseum Made from 200,000 Br ...
    Read the rest of Incredible LEGO Colosseum Made from 200,000 Bricks Unveiled! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, lego, Lego colosseum, Ryan McNaught, sustainable design, The Brick Man

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Solar Eruption Caught on Camera
    When a solar flare erupted yesterday, scattering a billion atomic bombs' worth of energy into space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was staring at the sun. They recorded this video, which NASA released Friday morning.
  • NASA Tests Robotic Gas Station Attendant for O ...
    Satellites use solar energy to power their electronics, but they rely on gas to maintain orbit or change position. Once tapped out, dead satellites become space junk, which threatens new orbital ventures. To prevent this, NASA is testing the feasibility of using robots to fuel and repair satelli ...
  • Hurricane Hunters Fly into the Eye of the Stor ...
    To gather information on violent storms, the National Hurricane Center relies on tools like sensors and satellites. And some badass Air Force Reserve pilots. The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flies directly into the world's worst storms to collect meteorological data.
  • Chicken Vaccines Combine to Produce Deadly Virus
    Scientists have found that two virus strains used to vaccinate chickens may have recombined to form a virus that is sickening and killing the animals.
  • Illegal-Ivory Bust Shows Growing U.S. Appetite ...
    The next time you browse cute little ivory objects in a jewelry shop, remember that those objects could be made out of the tusks of protected elephants illicitly killed by poachers and then smuggled to the United States. Their death could have far-reaching consequences, perhaps even affecting th ...

PakAlert

  • Warning: Solar Proton Event Could Fry Earth
    Tight-lipped heliologists are studying the sun more intently than they ever have―as if their lives depended on it. And well it may. In fact, everyone's lives may depend on just what the sun does during the last part of the current solar cycle, a cycle that NASA and the ESA spent the past 5 years ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day. The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the greatest standard of ...
  • Report Links H1N1 Vaccine to Deadly Nerve Dise ...
    As a result of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu scare, millions of people around the world received the H1N1 vaccine, but what these millions of individuals may not have known was that this vaccine comes with numerous risks. Some might say that protection from the scary swine flu is worth any risk, but i ...
  • Big Brother Australia Looking to Monitor Full ...
    The most expansive set of surveillance powers since the attacks of 2001 are set to be rolled out in Australia unless there is overwhelming public resistance. The new proposals are being issued by the intelligence community itself, and involve collecting data on every Australian's telephone co ...
  • Image Shows Military Spraying Over Florida City
    An image posted on Facebook shows a C-130 cargo plane spraying mosquitoes over the Florida city of Homestead at an altitude of just 150 feet, again stoking concerns that the military is becoming an increasing presence in domestic affairs. The photo was taken by Tico Vilarioo, who questioned w ...

Andy Worthington

  • Pentagon Report into the Drugging of Guantánam ...
    Ten and a half years into the Guantánamo experiment, as it becomes ever harder for those who are still appalled by the prison’s existence, and by the failures of all three branches of the US government — under Barack Obama — to close it, my friends and colleagues Jeffrey Kaye a ...
  • In Search of the Olympics: Photos of a Journey ...
    In Search of the Olympics: A Journey from Limehouse to Stratford, a set on Flickr. On July 5, after I had undertaken the photographic tour of Canary Wharf that I recorded in my previous set of photos, The Power of Greed: Photos of Canary Wharf, I headed north, up to Commerical Road, unsure if I ...
  • Unaffordable London: The Great Housing Rip-Off ...
    On Monday, a rather unprecedented event occurred. The BBC, in its long-running but generally dumbed-down Panorama slot, broadcast a half-hour programme — Britain on the Brink: Back to the 70s? — which took off the blinkers, or the rose-coloured spectacles, that much of the mainstream ...
  • The Power of Greed: Photos of Canary Wharf
    The Power of Greed: Photos of Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. I have long had a horror of the unfettered greed signified by the creation, in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, of Canary Wharf, even though, initially, this “enterprise zone,” dropped onto Millwall and Poplar, on the Isl ...
  • Bring Omar Khadr Home from Guantánamo: Please ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • FRC Appoints Islamophobic Ex-General as Execut ...
    The Family Research Council (FRC), an anti-gay hate group that claims LGBT rights advocates want to “recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” announced on Friday the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin as its new executive vice president. The press releas ...
  • Anti-LGBT Activist Targets ‘Gay Fascism’ Ordin ...
    Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist behind Abiding Truth Ministries, has been engaged in a decades-long, international campaign to demonize the LGBT community. He has lobbied on behalf of a law in Uganda to make homosexuality punishable by death and has worked hard to propagate the myth that gay ...
  • FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ O ...
    The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the anti-immigrant hate group behind draconian immigration enforcement laws in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere, appears to have misled law enforcement officers about a training program it’s sponsoring in Texas, Hatewatch has learned. In an in ...
  • Tea Party Nation: Oath Keepers is Last Line of ...
    The Tea Party Nation, one of the more extreme factions of the Tea Party movement, has dipped deeper into the conspiratorial waters of antigovernment lore, most recently promoting the Oath Keepers and other antigovernment “Patriots” as the last line of defense for Americans increasingly confronte ...
  • Convicted Alaska Militia Leader Fires Attorney
    Alaska militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox has fired his attorney, likely laying the groundwork for an appeal of his nine convictions, which include conspiring to kill a judge and law enforcement officials. In a two-sentence document filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, the 28-year ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Green Party Convenes in Baltimore to Nominate ...
    The Green Party of the United States is set to nominate Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates at their National Convention being held in Baltimore, Maryland this weekend. About 275 delegates pre-registered to attend the convention, and organizers say as many as 400 could show up. Jill St ...
  • Increasing Militarization at London Olympics: ...
    The already militarized tone at the London Olympics is ratcheting up with the Royal Air Force (RAF) stating that it is ready to use "lethal force" against unauthorized aircraft during the games. "As a last resort, we will have lethal force as an option," said Air Vice-Marshal ...
  • Predictions Realized: With Taxpayers on the Ho ...
    Georgia Power customers currently are paying the financing costs of Plant Vogtle's twin reactors. (Photo: Georgia Power)Despite assurances from the nuclear industry that they would not repeat mistakes of the past, the first nuclear reactors being built in the United States in over 30 years are h ...
  • 'Extinction Debt': Reaping What We've Bulldozed
    Humanity's debt collectors may be coming soon to collect on the 'extinction debt' owed due to massive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with dozens of species slated for extinction mere decades from now. As a group of scientists explain in a new study in Science Magazine, 80% of ...
  • USDA Declares 'Natural Disaster' in 26 States ...
    The US Department of Agriculture declared a natural disaster on Thursday as a widespread drought stretched over 1,016 counties in 26 states, covering over half the country. The natural disaster is said to be the largest in US history due to its breadth. ...

Lifehacker

  • Decorate a Cake Using a Coloring Book Page [Ca ...
    If you want to make a cake using a specific character you can use a coloring book page of that character to guide the process with a handy tutorial from household weblog Brass Tacks and Basics. In addition to the coloring page you'll need wax ...
  • Bring a Salad to a Picnic in a Drinking Glass ...
    If you'd like to have a picnic lunch and don't like sandwiches you can always put your salad in a drinking glass and cover it with bandana or cloth napkin and a rubber band. More »
  • Build an Urban Window Garden
    If you'd like to grow some herbs, salad greens, or other small plants but live in an apartment or condo with no land you can buy or build an urban window garden that uses a pulley system to convert the vertical garden space to horizontal so i ...
  • Top 10 Hardware Boosting Hacks
    With great hardware comes great opportunity. Thanks to the internet and clever hacking communities, there are plenty of ways to boost the capabilities of your everyday gadgets. Some save you money, some add features, and some are the entire ...
  • DIY Shade Sail [Weekend Project]
    Shade Sails are partial canopies designed to keep your favorite outdoor chair shaded on hot sunny days. Here's a simple DIY plan to make your own shade sail using fabric, a sewing machine, and attachment hooks. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • EPA: Iowa must fix regulation of livestock farms
    DES MOINES (AP) – Federal environmental regulators have sharply criticized the state of Iowa for failure to enforce the Clean Water Act and gave the state 60 days to come up with a written plan to fix
  • City denies rumors of more privatization
    Rumors that privatization of city departments is taking place are untrue according to City Manager Brenda Samford. She says that while the city did privatize trash service, she does not believe that a similar plan would be viable for the street or water department.
  • The Privatization of Public Services: We Have ...
    This article is by Mary Scott Nabers, the president and chief executive of Strategic Partnerships, Inc., and co-founder of the Gemini Global Group, both of which specialize in public-private partnerships. She is the author of Collaboration Nation: How Public-Private Ventures Are Revolutionizing ...
  • For Sale By Owner: Greece
    In an effort to stay good on its bailout promises, Greece is looking to sell off a variety of public assets, potentially even monuments and museums.
  • Maynilad replies to Cruz
    This is in response to Neal Cruz’s column “Water firms illegally collecting fees” (Inquirer, 7/9/12) so the public may know the truth. 1. Contrary to claims that we engage in advance collections, we are actually required by the government to advance our investments so we can meet our service lev ...

Guardian

  • How Google Street View is inspiring new photog ...
    You can take a virtual walk down almost any street in the developed world – and it's resulting in some fascinating new art"All streets in time are visited."— Philip Larkin, AmbulancesIn the pre-computer world of the 1960s, various board games promised "all the thrills and spills" of Formula 1 or ...
  • Syria massacre: Assad's forces 'shot anything ...
    The small town of Tremseh has suffered what may be the single worst atrocity of the Syrian uprising, say eyewitnessesResidents of the battered Syrian town of Tremseh have described being chased from their homes and hunted down by regime forces after seven hours of shelling during a major assault ...
  • Four in 10 female police officers have conside ...
    Survey prompts demand for ministers to tackle morale crisis at heart of the professionMore than four out of 10 female police officers are so disillusioned with their profession that they have seriously considered quitting, according to a survey of all female members of the force in England and W ...
  • George Osborne in standoff over coalition's gr ...
    Treasury in dispute with Tory-led select committee over efforts to encourage private sector to fund cleaner energyGeorge Osborne's Treasury has refused to co-operate with a powerful committee of MPs preparing the coalition's flagship plans for low-carbon, affordable energy in what is being seen ...
  • Mont Blanc avalanche victims remembered at Cha ...
    Mourners gather in mountaineers' church of St Michel for the nine climbers, three of them British, killed on Mont MauditNine candles were lit on the altar of the mountaineers' church of St Michel as Chamonix paid tribute on Saturday to the nine climbers whose lives were taken by a monstrous ...

McClatchey

  • Suicide blast at a wedding kills lawmaker in A ...
    A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest Saturday at a wedding in the northern Samangan province killing at least 22 people including the brides father, a prominent Afghan parliamentarian, officials…Click to Continue »
  • Obama casts himself as middle-class tax cutter ...
    . President Barack Obama cast himself Friday as a tax-cutting friend of the middle class, portraying the Republicans as defenders of the wealthy and hoping the pitch would help him…Click to Continue »
  • Nation’s capital beset by scandal, bad news
    Residents of the nations capital may have thought theyd outgrown the scourge of a crack-using mayor and high murder rates, of exploding manhole covers and crumbling schools. But an embarrassing…Click to Continue »
  • Poll: Majority want tax cuts for all, even the ...
    A majority of Americans want the Bush tax cuts extended for everyone, despite a strong push by President Barack Obama to eliminate them on higher incomes, according to a new…Click to Continue »
  • Media oppose Guantánamo hearing closure
    Media organizations filed a motion Thursday opposing a Pentagon prosecution proposal to close portions of the hearings next week at Guantánamo in the USS Cole bombing death-penalty case.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Marines confront Afghan enemy in firefight
    Staff writer Gretel C. Kovach, who covers military affairs, and photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda are embedded this summer with Camp Pendleton-based Marines in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Amid a U.S. ...
  • Suicide bomber kills 23 at Afghan wedding
    A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the ...
  • Deadly blast hits wedding reception in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan Police in Afghanistan say as many as 22 people including a politician are dead after a suicide bomber attacked a wedding party in the country's north.Officers say the attacker ...
  • Suicide Bomber Kills 23 at Afghan Wedding
    A suicide bomber blew himself up as he hugged a prominent anti-Taliban lawmaker at his daughter’s wedding. Twenty-two other guests at the wedding reception were also killed, ...
  • Afghan police hunt woman’s executioner
    A manhunt was under way on Monday for Taliban militants who publicly executed a woman accused of adultery, Afghan authorities said, as outrage mounted after a video of the cold-blooded killing ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Twenty Years Later, DOJ Finally Admits Mistakes
    Readers of The Washington Post found out this morning that the FBI and DOJ are launching the largest post-conviction case review in American history. Readers of the Whistleblower Protection Blog know that this review should have begun twenty years ago when Dr. Frederic Whitehurst first exposed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief in Major Tax Whistleblo ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a precedent-setting whistleblower tax case pending before the U.S. Tax Court. The case, Insinga v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, alleged that the IRS delay in ruling on whistlebl ...
  • DOL issues final regulations for consumer prod ...
    The Department of Labor today issued final regulations for handling whistleblower complaints under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), 15 U.S.C. § 2087. On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), I submitted comments on the proposed regulations in 2010.  To ...
  • NWC Announces Seminar on New Whistleblower Laws
    On Monday, July 16, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center will host a 2-hour training seminar that covers new whistleblower laws and the special Department of Labor litigation process. These new laws cover millions of employees who blow the whistle on a wide variety of issues, so this trainin ...
  • Truck Safety victory in Congress
    My friends at the Truck Safety Coalition are reporting a victory for truck safety advocates in yesterday's deal between the House and Senate for transportation reauthorization.  The Senate bill, called MAP-21, included a number of truck safety initiatives, and those have survived in the fin ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Wendy Cockcroft's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of T ...
    There's always something interesting to read here at Techdirt, so picking out favorite posts, even for one week, is a tough job. The stories I've been following have histories and watching them unfold has been fascinating and fun in equal measure. On the political front we've ha ...
  • If You Behave Like Your Own Fans Despise You, ...
    So we recently had a bit of a debunking of writer Ewan Morrison's nearly 100% factually incorrect discussion of what the failure of ACTA in Europe means. Morrison made a few responses on his Twitter feed -- bizarrely claiming (for example) that I'm wrong about the DMCA and that it wasn't celebr ...
  • Is The Six Strikes Plan Being Delayed Because ...
    As you probably know, last year, the big ISPs agreed to a six strikes plan (really five strikes), after the White House pressured the ISPs to cave to Hollywood's interests. What many of us noticed, of course, is that this backroom deal left the public out of the equation, which was obvious from ...
  • Is Open Data A Boon Or A Bane?
    Techdirt often writes about the benefits of openness and sharing. One area that is increasingly coming to the fore is open data -- for example, for some time both the US and UK have had major projects aimed at opening up the stores of data held by their respective governments, and other countri ...
  • DailyDirt: I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday...
    Lots of people seem to have an unhealthy obsession with hamburgers. So much so, that they're willing to pay incredible sums of cash for a single meal that includes cooked ground meat between two pieces of bread. Spending hundreds -- or thousands -- of dollars on a burger might not sound like a v ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Encouraging (in)Visibility
    I am one of those people who would rather be in the coffin than delivering the eulogy.  I am also one of those people who takes a while to get to know someone, especially when I’m thrown into a whole group of new people. The result of those two things is that I am often [...]
  • Hellllooooooooooooo
    Anybody still out there? I keep trying to get back to this blog and life keeps conspiring against me. But if I don’t do it soon, my new roommate is likely to walk in on me ranting out loud in a way that may compel her to have me institutionalized. You really have to introduce [...]
  • Interview on KDVS
    Still trying to get back on my regular posting schedule, hopefully this coming week. In the meantime, Richard Estes was kind enough to invite me on his show Speaking in Tongues. You can listen here.
  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...
  • Shame Redistribution
    A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The master planners of regime change in Syria
    The bombs doors are open. The plans have been drawn up. This has been brewing for a time. The sheer energy and meticulous planning that’s gone into this change of regime – it’s breathtaking. At least it takes Charlie Skelton’s breath away. He’s been busy trawling the arch ...
  • Assad’s useful idiots
    How can Assad’s useful idiots be characterized? Firstly, they will offer a perfunctory declaration that they oppose tyranny and tyrants everywhere and have no sympathy for Syria’s president or its government. They will nevertheless refrain from using the term Syrian/Assad “regi ...
  • Is Assad dangling WMD bait?
    (Update below.) As much as Bashar al Assad pushes the narrative that he is quelling unrest spawned by foreign agitation, he is also sending a strong message to his challengers. That is, that he has the power to act with impunity, confident that whatever atrocities his forces commit, these action ...
  • Eight ways America’s headed back to the robber ...
    Erik Loomis writes: Over the past 40 years, corporations and politicians have rolled back many of the gains made by working and middle-class people over the previous century. We have the highest level of income inequality in 90 years, both private and public sector unions are under a concerted a ...
  • Video: Paul Zak — Trust, morality and oxytocin

Watts Up With That?

  • Study: Wolverines need refrigerators
    [That headline is from the Wildlife Conservation Society press release, printed as is. And why do Wolverines need refrigerators? The climate is getting warmer of course.  - Anthony] Will insects and bacteria consume more of the wolverine’s food if the … Continue reading →
  • X class flare CME arrival updated
    From Spaceweather.com The CME launched toward Earth by yesterday’s X-flare is moving faster than originally thought. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have revised their forecast accordingly, advancing the cloud’s expected arrival time to 09:17 UT (5:17 am EDT) … Contin ...
  • Coldest July in history for Anchorage?
    From the Alaska Dispatch and the weather is not climate unless it’s 100 degrees outside department comes this report: Could this be the coldest July in history for Anchorage? According to the National Weather Service, Anchorage, Alaska is experiencing record … Continue reading →
  • After pointing out an airplane got stuck in he ...
    From Al’s Journal, some seriously dysfunctional thinking using props he doesn’t understand. Al brings attention to the fact that at Washington Reagan National Airport some tarmac asphalt got soft on a hot day, and the tires sunk into it a … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny Bonus – the company you keep
    Post Climategate, we’ve seen a fall of sorts lately. Papers like Gergis et al are retracted for errors, then we have Michael Oppenheimer’s trainwreck of claiming climate change induced crop failures will drive Mexican climate refugees into the United States … Continue reading & ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • Cytoskeleton Microtubules
  • Think that’s not fair? Your serotonin transpor ...
    “That’s not FAIR!” This is the line that rings through most houses with at least one kid. We all know when something’s not fair. That car that drove up the shoulder while you waited in traffic (rrrrr)? That’s a cheater, and that’s not fair. The person who cut in line at the grocery store instead ...
  • Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...
    Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Commission Approves New Space Station Crew
    A Russian state commission on Friday gave the final approval for the main and backup crews of a new expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of their launch on July 15.
  • Scientists Spot Fifth Moon Around Pluto
    Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday announced that they have found a fifth moon circling the dwarf planet Pluto.
  • Russia Launches Proton-M Rocket with Dutch Tel ...
    A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-5 telecoms satellite lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
  • China Beats Russia on Space Launches
    For the first time in the history of space exploration, China beat Russia on the number of space launches in a given period of time, a rocket engine manufacturer said on Wednesday.
  • Higgs Boson Candidate Found – CERN
    The final elementary particle needed to complete the Standard Model of particle physics might have been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...
  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: myths and talking points
    Part 1.Part 2.Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy’s article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I’m focusing on today. He writes: ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Six Reasons We Can't Change The Future Without ...
    One of the great historical strengths of the progressive movement has been its resolute commitment to the separation of church and state. As progressives, we don't want our government influenced by anybody's religious laws. Instead of superstition and mob id, we prefer to have real science, base ...
  • Healthy Teeth? Try a Healthy Diet, Not Water F ...
    In 1994, a tanker truck carrying fluorisilic acid lost a set of wheels, causing its 4,500-gallon load to spill onto Interstate 4 in Volusia County Florida. Forty-seven people were sent to the hospital as a result, and 2,300 in the area had to be evacuated.Click here to read this article
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods for a Healthy I ...
    Three recent studies highlight the importance of maintaining a healthy gut to avoid disease and optimize your health. The first, published in the journal Celli, shows that "host-specific microbiota appears to be critical for a healthy immune system."Click here to read this article
  • Votes Assails State Laws on Food Safety
    Washington -- A California voter-approved law requiring that hens have cages large enough to let them spread their wings has drawn a national backlash from other livestock producers that threatens not only the state's humane treatment of hens, but also its new ban on foie gras.Click here to read ...
  • Former Monsanto Employee Talks GE Crop Concern ...
    This week the Food Nation Radio Network interviewed former Monsanto employee Kirk Azevedo about his concerns with the leading biotech company's practices, a timely interview as the battle over genetically engineered (GE) food regulation continues on a state, national, and international scale.Cli ...

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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • What the Frack!?!
    In more and more areas across America, families are discovering to their astonishment that their "water" has turned combustible. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Nessie is being used to debunk evolution -- on ...
    Government-subsidized private schools will start teaching that the Loch Ness Monster is a factual living creature and use it to debunk evolution in science classes. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Never Ending Vandalism
    Collected articles including hydrofracking and Gulf of Mexico blowout information re: health risks from chemicals Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Afghans (and Pakistanis in tribal areas across the border) surely know the rules of the road of the American war: there is no sanctity in public or private rites. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PNAC: The Dawn of a New Fascism
    an animated look at War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the PNAC as stated in the September 2000 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Through the Eyes of a Goose
    Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • New York Fed Was Aware of False Reporting on Rates
    ShareThisNew York Fed Was Aware of False Reporting on Rates 13 Jul 2012 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York learned in April 2008, as the financial crisis was brewing, that at least one bank was reporting false interest rates. At the time, a Barclays employee told a New York Fed official that " ...
  • Greens sue to block Shell drilling in Arctic A ...
    ShareThisGreens sue to block Shell drilling in Arctic Alaska 12 Jul 2012 Leading national conservation groups are going to federal court in a last-ditch effort to block Shell from drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic waters of Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. The U.S. Department of Interi ...
  • Obama campaign worker, 29, dies at Chicago hea ...
    ShareThisObama campaign worker, 29, dies at Chicago headquarters 13 Jul 2012 A 29-year-old campaign operative working on President Obama's re-election effort died today after falling ill at campaign headquarters in Chicago, according to the Obama campaign. Obama was campaigning in southern Virgi ...
  • Tiny 2-Foot Missile Could Be 'Months' Away Fro ...
    ShareThisTiny 2-Foot Missile Could Be 'Months' Away From Drone War 13 Jul 2012 The drone war could be shrinking faster than anyone expected. Raytheon's teeny, tiny drone missile might be ready to arm a small drone within months, the defense giant says. Since 2009, Raytheon has been experimenting ...
  • Olympic security: MoD to set up forward operat ...
    ShareThisOlympic security: MoD to set up forward operating base for troops --MoD intends to equip base in the same way it would a FOB in Afghanistan --Troops will start arriving next week 13 Jul 2012 The Ministry of Defence is to establish a forward operating base close to the Olympic Park in ea ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Calls Murder of Woman Idiotic and Horrific
    12 July 2012 A recent video surfaced in Afghanistan showing an unarmed woman being murdered by gunfire.  There has been much speculation about why the murder occurred, and who is responsible. I asked the Taliban for a statement:  "Does the Taliban agree with the execution that was on ...
  • Mexico AAR July 2012
    07 July 2012
  • Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable ...
    03 July 2012 Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable Army Times, By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Thursday Jun 28, 2012 16:04:10 EDT A new study finds that nearly a quarter of the 4,596 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2011 were “potentially survivable,” meaning th ...
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...

The Killing Train

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

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Thai PM to forward constitution ruling to Coun ...
    [JURIST] Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday she would send Friday's ruling by the Constitutional Court [official website] to the Council of State to determine what the next steps will be in amending the country's constitution. The Constitutional Court ruled [JURIST report] ...
  • UN Secretary General expresses concern about m ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] released a statement [text] on Friday expressing deep concern regarding the most recent violence in Syria, casting doubt over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's commitment to the recent peace plan agreed to by the Syrian government [JU ...
  • ICC issues new arrest warrant for Congo general
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] issued a second warrant [text, PDF] on Friday for the arrest of Congolese General Bosco Ntaganda on charges of war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Septe ...
  • African Union to consider creating criminal court
    [JURIST] The African Union (AU) [official website; JURIST news archive] will vote on whether to establish a continental criminal court to try human rights crimes, an AU official said Friday. Judge Gerard Niyungeko, president of the African Court on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR), said that he ...
  • Turkish court releases 16 individuals accused ...
    [JURIST] A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of 16 individuals detained on accusations of having links to Kurdish militants. Busra Ersanli [personal website, in Turkish], a professor from Istanbul's Marmara University, and 15 other individuals will be released after having been detaine ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Moment Magazine Pockets Pearl Foundation Funds ...
    The assistant editor of my local Jewish newspaper, JTNews, received a $5,000 Daniel Pearl Foundation grant (pdf) from Moment Magazine to publish an investigative piece that would explore “modern manifestations of anti-Semitism and other deeply-ingrained prejudices.  After she wrote An Olym ...
  • Israel Invents Syrian WMD Threat, IDF Commande ...
    Syria appears to be entering an even more chaotic and dangerous period in its civil war now that Israeli officials are concocting potential threats that must be addressed by Israeli intervention.  The latest series of stories derives from U.S. and Israeli intelligence circles and suggests that S ...
  • U.S., France Pressure PA Not to Seek Internati ...
    China’s Xinhua news agency reports that Palestinian officials told it that the PA has come under serious pressure from the U.S. and France not to seek an international tribunal to investigate the possible murder of Yasser Arafat: The Palestinians’ efforts to launch an international p ...
  • We Need to Talk About Anat Kamm
    Sol Salbe has translated this op-ed by Israeli novelist, lawyer and poet, Alon Hilu: We need to talk about Anat Kamm. We need to do so mainly in view of last week’s announcement that Uri Blau, the journalist to whom she handed over classified documents, will not be sent to prison but will ...
  • U.S. Sends New Navy Forward Staging Ship to Gu ...
    The U.S. sent the U.S.S. Ponce, described as a floating command post for forays into Iran, to Gulf waters for the first time.  Although, the Ponce has been described as a forward staging base for attacks against Iran by special forces personnel, the latest PR from the Navy minimizes the ship&#82 ...

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • The Tiziano Project Debuts StoriesFrom
    On Saturday, The Tiziano Project launched StoriesFrom -- a new, open platform for community-based storytelling. The site allows individuals and organizations to easily create immersive documentary projects that combine the work of both community members and professional journalists and fil ...
  • At Datafest: Journalists, Scientists, and Engi ...
    Datafest, a two-day contest to analyze campaign finance data that I organized last month at Stanford, was one of the best experiences of my wonderful year as a Knight Fellow. The event was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to learn. It produced very interesting insights and illuminated possib ...
  • Behind the FrontlineSMS Redesign
    Three weeks ago, FrontlineSMS launched its first new full release in more than a year. Now, we're releasing Version 2.0.2, which includes useful bug fixes and small tweaks to the functionality that make it even easier to use. You can expect regular releases from us from now on, with new feat ...
  • When News Organizations Geocode, How Accurate ...
    In my intro news writing class at UNC-Chapel Hill we ding students 50 points for allowing a fact error to creep into a story. If the fire happened at 123 W. Main St. and it really happened at 123 E. Main St., it's an instant F. But I've learned from working on OpenBlock that online maps seem to ...
  • How the Tulsa World Used AP's Overview to Repo ...
    In May, I published a story which described how the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma purchased millions of dollars of under-powered and under-tested computer hardware, resulting in a multitude of problems. Emails showed complaints from the field in which officers were unable to get basic p ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - College: Yesterday and Today
    Andrew Delbanco, an award-winning humanities scholar at Columbia University, is the latest in a long, distinguished, and, alas, largely unsuccessful line of writers who for over a century have opposed the relentless march toward utility at the expense of liberal education on American campuses.&n ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Congressional Panel Ho ...
    The Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, chaired by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), is holding a closed hearing entitled “Securing Ammonium Nitrate: Using Lessons Learned in Afghanistan to Protect the Homeland from IEDs� this morning ...
  • The Ancient Edge - The Secret Life of Plants i ...
    Ramat Rachel is an ongoing archeological dig on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem. A 2,500-year-old garden at the site, probably built by local Judeans, holds many secrets about the past waiting to be uncovered. An elaborate network of irrigation channels made it clear that this was a garden, ...
  • Iran on Edge - Is Iran Afraid of A 12-Year-Old ...
    A court in Tehran has banned the 12-year-old daughter of jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh from leaving Iran. Sotoudeh's husband, Reza Khandan, who was also banned from traveling abroad, states the court did not provide any reason for its decision. It can be appealed within ...
  • The New Egypt - Clinton to Visit Egypt as Rela ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Egypt over the weekend to meet the nation's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood whose Islamist followers want to reassess the previously close relations between Washington and Cairo.Clinton's visit, sche ...

High Country News

  • The Forest Service faces a test in Arizona
    Will Forest Service efforts under the 4FRI program to reduce fuels in Arizona pay off? This summer will tell.
  • Watch out for those fake Canadians
    Denny Rehberg's proposed law to protect the U.S-Canadian border would give border patrol agents ability to supersede environmental protection laws
  • "Tiananmen Sid" shakes up a small town
    When Paonia hairdresser Sid Lewis protested billionaire Bill Koch's land swap deal in Paonia's July 4 parade; the resulting shakeup shone a light on small town and national tensions.
  • On the prowl with Oregon's pygmy owls
    Biologist John Deschler knows more about pygmy owls than just about anyone. Writer Nick Neely spent a fascinating day with Deschler tracking, capturing and measuring the owls in Portland's Forest Park.
  • Afield with a vegan gas man
    HCN talks with Eric Sanford of SG Interests about the politics of energy development, split estate, and more.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Israel's Security Is In Good Shape-Her Neighbo ...
    By Barry Rubin The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks.  Obviously, this is counter-intuitive given the media bias, academic distortions, and campaigns for sanctions of various kinds. And, of course, Israel starts from a basis of ...
  • HERE IT COMES-Egypt’s New Constitution Shows a ...
    By Barry Rubin Although it isn’t official, the first two articles of Egypt’s new Constitution have been reportedly drafted by the committee of parliamentarians charged with that task. Article 1 defines Egypt as part of the Arab and Muslim nation, a compromise between acceptance of the country a ...
  • Scientist Prove Earth's Been in 2,000 Yr Long ...
      Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have proved why the ancient Romans wore togas....it was too damned hot! On the bright side temperatures in Europe have been declining for the past two thousand years. In other words, global warming is bunk. Professor Dr. J ...
  • Newsbusted: Chief Justice Roberts Offered Job ...
    Though he has been on the nation's highest court for less than seven years, Chief Justice John Roberts is considering a career change. In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that Roberts has been contacted by liberal mouthpiece MSNBC. The network has asked the Chief J ...
  • Does Power Moderate Radicals? (It's Never Happ ...
    by Barry Rubin Julius Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Marc Antony: Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous; He is a noble Roman ...

The Real Agenda

  • El planeta Tierra se ha estado enfriando por 2 ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 14 JULIO, 2012 Un estudio publicado el 9 de julio por el Profesor Dr. Jan Esper de la Universidad Johannes Gutenberg en Mainz llegó a la conclusión de que la Tierra, a pesar de alarmismo climático, se ha estado enfriando por lo menos desde 138BC, el ...
  • US Claims Syria “Moving Nerve Gas Out of ...
    NATO-FSA False Flag Alert By TONY CARTALUCCI | LAND DESTROYER | JULY 13, 2012 Citing no evidence, and on the heels of  yet another baseless “activist” report claiming a massacre has taken place in Homs, nameless US officials claimed to the Wall Street Journal that the Syria ...
  • Holanda publica los documentos del rescate ban ...
    El Ministerio de Finanzas del país hizo pública la información que su parlamento necesita para pronunciarse sobre el plan de rescate bancario español. By BEATRIZ NAVARRO | LA VANGUARDIA | 13 JULIO, 2012 La transparencia llega de Holanda. El Ministerio de Finanzas del país hizo pública ...
  • Planet Earth has been Cooling for 2000 years
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 13, 2012 A study published on July 9 by Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz concludes that Earth, despite climate alarmism, has been cooling at least since 138BC, the time at which professor Esper began analyzing fos ...
  • Algoritmos e Inteligência Artificial escrever ...
    Nota: Não aqui, na The Real Agenda POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 12 JULHO 2012 Enquanto os militares estão tentando acabar completamente com soldados humanos, empresas de alta tecnologia estão fazendo agora o mesmo com a profissão jornalística. Embora no passado os militares e a ...

Wind Watch

  • Judge upholds Hammond wind law
    HAMMOND – After four months of deliberations, the State Supreme Court dismissed the case that pitted five landowners against The Town of Hammond. According to court documents, State Supreme Court Judge David Demarest sided with the town in the Article 78 lawsuit, finding the town’s Wind Energy F ...
  • An ill wind blows over Church of England&#8217 ...
    As the Church of England considers planting yet more lucrative wind turbines on its land, parishioners are banding together to halt the eco-bishops Are windfarms God’s gift or the devil’s work? It’s a topic which is being ever more hotly debated within the Church of England. Only last month, as ...
  • Taxpayers hit with £1m bill for turbines
    The cost of resisting the spread of wind turbines across Perth and Kinross has now reached a staggering £1 million. The council has repeatedly attempted to block the proliferation of windfarm developments, which it believes threatens the landscape and its vital tourism industry. But time and aga ...
  • Italian wind farm seized in mafia probe
    Italian police have seized assets worth 350 million euros ($A424 million) including a giant wind farm in a crackdown on the ’Ndrangheta mafia in the southern region of Calabria, investigators say. The main suspect in the investigation is 55-year-old Pasquale Arena, the nephew of a notorious loca ...
  • Residents say no to wind farm
    Residents packed the community hall in Comeau’s Hill Thursday night and made it clear they are against a wind farm project planned for their community. They expressed various concerns regarding the project, saying they worry what it could do to their health, the environment and wildlife, among o ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • “Piracy” Student Loses US Extradit ...
    “Richard O’Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country. When still a teenager O’Dwyer set up a website, TVShack, which posted links to pirated mat ...
  • UCLA Study of Japan’s Bullet Train Raise ...
    “A new UCLA economic analysis of Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train and its impact on the growth of cities along its route calls into question claims by state officials that California’s high-speed rail project will create up to 400,000 permanent jobs. Construction of Japan’s vaun ...
  • The Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care
    Rationing suggests conscious decision-making. In a free market there is no consciousness overseeing the “distribution” of resources.
  • Insurers Pay Big Markups as Doctors Dispense Drugs
    “The number of doctors nationwide who dispense drugs in their office is not known and the practice is prevalent only in states where workers’ compensation rules allow for large markups. . . . Both Dr. Zimmerman and physicians who sell drugs also said the workers’ compensation system was so burea ...
  • W.Va. Officials Defend Stimulus Broadband Spending
    “But critics of this approach include the West Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association, which represents providers that offer such services as high-speed Internet access. While welcoming broadband stimulus funding, the trade group disagrees that the state is as lacking in access as officia ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • How Fossil-Fuel Democrats Became An Endangered ...
    In an election pivoting on jobs, energy could be the issue that comes back to haunt Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as the cultural and ideological schism between energy-producing Republican states and energy-dependent Democratic ones widens. As the economy has sputtered since 2008, ...
  • High Speed Rail Advocates Discredit Their Caus ...
    Is there any high speed rail boondoggle big enough to make rail transport advocates reject it?  Sadly, for all too many of them, the answer is No, as two recent developments make clear. The first is in California, where the state continues to press forward on a high speed rail plan for the ...
  • Core City Growth Mainly Below Poverty Line
    Over the toughest economic decade since Great Depression, the nation's core cities continued to gain more than their share the below poverty line population in the 51 metropolitan areas with more than 1,000,000 population. Between 2000 and 2010, core cities (Note 1) attracted approximately 10 ...
  • China and the Future of Hong Kong
    Last week Hong Kong’s new leader Leung Chun-ying was sworn into office by Chinese President Hu Jintao. The ceremony coincided with the 15th anniversary of the British handover of Hong Kong to China so there was plenty of rhetoric about ‘strengthening ties with the motherland&rsqu ...
  • The Cities Where A Paycheck Stretches The Furthest
    When we think of places with high salaries, big metro areas like New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco are usually the first to spring to mind. Or cities with the biggest concentrations of educated workers, such as Boston. But wages are just one part of the equation — high prices in those Ea ...

GM Watch

  • English-German translators needed for GMWatch ...
    Dear reader, the German translation team is looking for German native speakers with very good English skills. Do you like translating? Maybe you want to improve your English skills? Or you just want to give a little time (around 2 hours/month) to support something you believe in? Please email Cl ...
  • Foodies mobilize against effort to speed GM ap ...
    NOTE: Even the National Grain and Feed Association, representing the likes of Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill, are alarmed by what is happening. --- --- Foodies mobilize against effort to speed GMO approvals Carolyn Lockheed, Hearst Washington Bureau http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05electio ...
  • Maharashtra may ban Monsanto's Bt cotton
    1.Mahyco may lose license to sell Bt seeds in Maharashtra 2.Vidarbha Cotton Farmers Welcome Maharashtra Govt. decision to Ban Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB) Bt Cotton Seed NOTE: The company referred to as Mahyco in item 1 is actually Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB), a 50:50 Monsanto joint venture ...
  • Sustainable EU's GM debate
    NOTE: It's possible to comment on the contributions to the debate at the link below. Comments are moderated. --- --- Is the GM debate based on emotion, not evidence? Sustainable EU, 10 July 2010 http://www.sustainableeu.com/article/243/is-the-gm-debate-based-on-emotion-not-evidence In a recent ...
  • Former Monsanto employee warns of GM food conc ...
    Former Monsanto Employee Warns Of Genetically Modified Food Concerns – Audio Elizabeth Dougherty, Special correspondent, Food Nation Radio Network CBS Tampa July 9, 2012  http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/07/09/former-monsanto-employee-warns-of-genetically-modified-food-concerns-elizabeth-dougherty ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...
  • Scenes Of Despair
    Sometimes it can be easy to forget that behind all of the horrible economic numbers that we hear about are millions of real people that have had their lives absolutely devastated by this economy.  Elderly couples are being brutally evicted from their homes, young families are liv ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...
  • 25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding U ...
    The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.  The truth is that there are signs of deep decay wherever we look, and without question the United States is rotting from the inside out in thousands of different ways.  For a lon ...

Desertification

  • Seeds for Food on Dutch TV (Willem Van Cotthem)
    An interview for the Dutch YV : http://youtu.be/4v_DTOdFcWk EO NEDERLAND HELPT – ZADEN VOOR VOEDSEL (SEEDS FOR FOOD) Het laatste deel van de EO-uitzending op Nederland 2 (Aflevering 322/Georgië 3 van 23 februari 2012) waarin vooral de actie “Zaden voor … Continue reading →
  • To reclaim the desert through an innovative in ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa drought http://cironline.org/reports/re-greening-sahel-3643 Re-greening the Sahel PBS VIDEO Fred de Sam Lazaro Niger races to reclaim the desert through an innovative initiative that puts Nigeriens to work to help rebuild arable … Continu ...
  • The worst drought in nearly 25 years spread ac ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa drought http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/usda-drought-cuts-projected-corn-harvest-yields-by-12-percent-to-146-bushels-per-acre/2012/07/11/gJQAo1BwcW_story.html Drought scorches much of US corn crop, but plant technology could still ...
  • The worst drought to hit Brazil’s impove ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa drought http://www.brecorder.com/world/south-america/67205-northeast-brazil-reels-from-worst-drought-in-30-years-.html Northeast Brazil reels from worst drought in 30 years APODI: The worst drought to hit Brazil’s impoverished northeast i ...
  • Drought, famine, conflict, hunger and death in ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa drought http://www.ids.ac.uk/news/pastoralism-in-africa-the-hidden-story-of-development-at-the-margins Pastoralism in Africa: The hidden story of development at the margins 12 July 2012 – Ian Scoones The Horn of Africa is in the headlines ...

The Paper Trail

  • Panel calls for annual PTSD screening
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are wor ...
  • Child sex abuse: A North Dakota agent shines c ...
    The Penn State child sexual-abuse scandal suggests, once again, that institutions intoxicated by power and celebrity will go to great lengths to protect their own – even at the risk of grave harm to children.You can read the independent task-force report on the university’s assistant football co ...
  • AdWatch: Obama ad hits Romney's tax plan
    WASHINGTON (AP) — TITLE: "Two Plans." LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: In Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. KEY IMAGES: The ad, from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, o ...
  • IMPACT: Labor Dept. assembling expert team on ...
    Federal regulators are assembling a team of lawyers and other experts to consider how to bolster coal mine dust enforcement given systemic weaknesses revealed by an investigation into the resurgence of black lung by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR, according to an internal Labor Departme ...
  • AdWatch: Romney ad accuses Obama campaign of lies
    WASHINGTON (AP) — TITLE: "No Evidence."LENGTH: 30 seconds.AIRING: Several battleground states.KEY IMAGES: A narrator asks: "When a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead?"The words "Obama's Outsourcing Attacks: 'Misleading, Unfair and Untrue'" fill the screen, quoting fro ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]
  • Chip bandits and Nic Cage: Canada’s very ...
    It’s been a very good week for Canadian students on the internet. Or perhaps a very bad one. First, York University student Vanessa Hojda went viral after she accidentally attached a picture of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application, rather than her resumé. It wasn’t so much the fac ...
  • Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks ...
    By Montreal Simon About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do tostumble through our computers without ...
  • Supreme Court copyright ruling is (amazingly) ...
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Today’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on copyright and fair dealing contains some not-so-small victories. In fact, there is so much common sense in it that I can’t help but feel the justices have taken leave of their old-people senses! Copyright expert Mi ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Kenya police: Iranian terror suspects shipped ...
    Two Iranians accused of planning attacks on Western targets in Kenya shipped more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of powerful explosive into this East African country, and most of it has not been recovered, a police officer told a court Tuesday. read more
  • Canada keeping close eye on Iranian embassy re ...
    “The embassy in Ottawa sometimes uses cultural events as an excuse to spread their own propaganda,” said Ms. Afshin-Jam, a human rights activist who fled Iran in 1979 after her father was imprisoned and tortured. read more
  • Iran’s quest to possess nuclear technology
    Iran said it has made advances in nuclear technology, citing new uranium enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel.
  • We've thwarted Iran's nuke plans, says MI6... ...
    British spies thwarted Iranian attempts to acquire nuclear weapons, the head of MI6 has revealed. In a rare public appearance, Sir John Sawers said covert operations by UK, American and Israeli agents stopped Tehran’s plans as early as 2008. However the Secret Intelligence Service chief warn ...
  • صادرات آمریکا به ایران ۳ برابر شد
    در حالی صادرات آمریکا به ایران افزایش یافته است که این کشور فشار زیادی را به کشورهای دیگر وارد کرده تا از سطح مبادلات خود با ایران بکاهند.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Russia’s New Muscle
    The Russian PAK-FA (T50) Below an interesting article from the Australian Business Spectator provides an intriguing analysis of the global positioning behind Russia’s stand on Syria. One Americans won’t find in the US business press. Among the issues highlighted is the fact that Rus ...
  • Homeless Indian Kids Start Their Own Bank
    In a shelter for homeless runaway teens in New Delhi, the residents have created an unlikely society where everything from healthcare to banking has been initiated, implemented and executed by the kids themselves.     If video fails to play, go to: http://www.rt.com/news/ ...
  • An Unlikely Folk Hero
    Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom Last March, I blogged about Kim Dotcom [1], the Internet multimillionaire the FBI is trying to extradite to the US on Internet piracy charges. In brief the FBI is accusing the founder of Mega Upload of illegal file sharing and copyright violation. Dotcom, much of the ...
  • Britain Cuts Defense Force by 20%
    Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond In an effort to reduce its debt burden, Britain plans to cut its defense force by 20% by 2020. In announcing the UK’s plans to cut 102,000 to 82,000 military personnel, Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammon signaled his int ...
  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part II
    Michael Shuman Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review  – Part II Unconventional Funding Models for Small Local Businesses Local Dollars, Local Sense is basically a compilation of interviews with US activists and small businesses who ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • McKinsey Report Sees a Bright Future for the A ...
    McKinsey predicts that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from $500 to $600/kWh today to about $200/kWh by 2020 and to about $160/kWh by 2025. According to the report, about 33% of these cost reductions will come from increased manufacturing efficiency, 25% f ...
  • New Solid Fuel Cell Makes Power When Fuel Runs Out
    Imagine a kerosene lamp that continued to shine after the fuel was spent, or an electric stove that could remain hot during a power outage.Materials scientists at Harvard have demonstrated an equivalent feat in clean energy generation with a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that converts hydrogen in ...
  • Are Smart Meters Hazardous To Your Health?
    We all need energy to survive. That’s just the facts in our modern society. The problem is that producing energy is a dirty business, and actually burning it’s even worse. Since we can’t give up on fossil fuels all at once (although we do have the capacity to produce plenty of clean, affordable ...
  • Fix the Renewable Fuels Standard
    There was good discussion of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) during a Hill hearing this week. API supports the appropriate use of ethanol, biodiesel and other biofuels in transportation fuels, but, unfortunately, in some ways the standard is bearing out the law of unintended consequences.
  • The limits of energy efficiency
    Many commentators and policymakers continue to believe that energy efficiency alone can address much of the CO2 problem – and that it can do so at very low cost (or even negative cost), at least compared to a ‘do nothing case’. But any successful policy toward mitigation of CO2 emissions must ...

EU Times

  • Major Earthquake Warning Issued As Massive Sol ...
    The International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics (MITPAN) department of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is reporting to President Putin today that our world faces the “imminent threat” of a “major” to “catastrophic” earthquake to occur within the fort ...
  • Image Shows Military Spraying Over Florida City
    An image posted on Facebook shows a C-130 cargo plane spraying mosquitoes over the Florida city of Homestead at an altitude of just 150 feet, again stoking concerns that the military is becoming an increasing presence in domestic affairs. The photo was taken by Tico Vilarioo, who questioned why ...
  • Lobby in Washington Ensures America Does Israe ...
    When the US House of Representatives, with the coercion of the Obama administration, passed the HR 4133 United States – Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (USIESC), the US-Israeli relationship took a new turn. In one fail swoop, Obama tied America to the agendas of Israel and broug ...
  • Hundreds clash with riot police in Madrid
    Hundreds of protesters have clashed with riot police in Madrid over the new set of austerity measures. One person suffered a broken nose and three people were arrested. ­The protesters demonstrated on Friday evening outside the People’s Party offices of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy ...
  • Whoever Controls the Media Controls the World
    Perhaps the greatest unknown fact about life on Planet Earth concerns the MEDIA, and in particular, the Mainstream Media (MSM). The etymology of Media takes us back to the time of the ancient Persian Empire to a people known as the Medes. According to Herodotus, there were six primary Mede tribe ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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

Groklaw

  • A long trek blog in search of the worst CEO ev ...
    MeeGo was the Linux based open source smartphone operating system, that Nokia had developed together with Intel, that Nokia therefore did not have to pay to use. Windows Phone is a closed system, where Nokia has no control, and Nokia has to pay to use. Here is a short table of the main differenc ...
  • ITU Calls Summit To Tackle Patent Litigation
    A press release last Friday showed that the most important regulatory body in the telecommunications industry is starting to have second thoughts about so-called "RAND Terms" for patent licensing on standards. ... The whole thing has the atmosphere of an old-fashioned gentleman's club, with the ...
  • Appellate Practice Tips from the Ninth Circuit
    In June, this blogger attended a presentation sponsored by the Hawaii Chapter of the Federal Bar Association entitled "Appellate Practice Tips, An Informal Hour Discussion." The panelists were three Ninth Circuit judges who were in Honolulu for oral argument: Honorable Mary M. Schroeder, Honor ...
  • In Patent Cases, Companies Looking Toward ITC ...
    Companies are increasingly filing patent infringement cases before the International Trade Commission instead of the federal courts, because it is easier to get an order stopping the infringement at the ITC, Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission officials told Congress this week. " ...
  • Tasmanian cops to world: it's not our job to c ...
    The cops in Tasmania, Australia have informed the general public that it's not illegal to call people nasty names on Facebook, and that they don't want any more complaints on those lines: "If this behavior occurred in a public place it would not be a reportable offence. It is not the role of Tas ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Happy birthday, Woody Guthrie
    The post Happy birthday, Woody Guthrie appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • PFGBest used one-person accounting firm. Regul ...
    PFGBest used a one person accounting firm to audit their books, this for a company that had $500 million in customer accounts.Russell Wasendorf Sr., founder and CEO of PFGBest has admitted to stealing $100 million over 20 years. He was the only one who had access to the bank accounts and always ...
  • The Prissteens. Sorrow
    The post The Prissteens. Sorrow appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Peregrine CEO admits to massive fraud. Another ...
    Dunno about you, but I’m beyond tired of the parade of thieving 1% maggots who loot their companies like it’s a private piggy bank. Since Peregrine founder and Chairman Russell Wasendorf Sr. has admitted to the fraud, I suppose there’s a wee bit of a teensy chance he might actu ...
  • Liebor. Bankster cartel rigged
    The post Liebor. Bankster cartel rigged appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, July 14, 2012
    Happy Bastille Day!
  • Fishy figures from fisheries
    The Ministry of Primary Industries and our commercial fishing industry, which is largely reliant on the honesty of its fishers, are known for gilding the lily when it comes to sustainability of fisheries. The commentary we are seeing around the latest UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) report on the ...
  • The fight to save TVNZ 7 isn’t over yet
    On June 30th 2012 the Goodnight Kiwi said farewell from TVNZ 7 and then TV One ‘Plus One’ kicked in. You might consider having “plus” in the title something of a misnomer – and you wouldn’t be wrong. TVNZ 7’s closure means the end of almost any commercial free public broadcast televi ...
  • Something to go to on Saturday: Asset sales pr ...
    There are protests being organised nationwide this Saturday against John Key’s Government’s proposed asset sales: AUCKLAND 2pm at Britomart, Queen Street, Auckland Central HOKIANGA 12pm at the Town Hall Square, Rawene HAMILTON 10am until 12 noon at the Corner of Te Rapa Road & Avalon Drive, ...
  • Turbulent waters ahead for Government
    Anyone feel a hīkoi coming on? Angry protests on the cards? Cracks in the coalition? Iwi/Kiwi billboards and rednecks freaking out on talkback radio? One flip comment from the PM saying his Government could ignore whatever the Waitangi Tribunal decides about Māori water rights and it’s all on. T ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Viruses Worldwide Battled by Gut Microbes
    By Dr. Mercola Three recent studies highlight the importance of maintaining a healthy gut to avoid disease and optimize your health. The first, published in the journal Celli, shows that "host-specific microbiota appears to be critical for a healthy immune system." According to Medical ...
  • When Treatment is Poison
    By Dr. Mercola In 1994, a tanker truck carrying fluorisilic acid lost a set of wheels, causing its 4,500-gallon load to spill onto Interstate 4 in Volusia County Florida. Forty-seven people were sent to the hospital as a result, and 2,300 in the area had to be evacuated. The highway was clos ...
  • Why Your Doctor's Advice May Be Fatally Flawed
    By Dr. Mercola Curious about the prevalence and extent of scientific misconduct, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research investigated the reasons why research studies were retracted, and from wherei. The highest number of incidents of misc ...
  • New Studies on 3 Important Nutrients
    By Dr. Mercola Your body not only depends on nutrients in the food you eat, but is actually composed -- atom-by-atom, molecule-by-molecule – by them, which is why we should not be surprised by the profound power that certain nutrients and food constituents have in supporting optimal health. ...
  • Surprising Cancer-Fighting Benefits of Pineapp ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the reasons why conventional cancer treatment is such a dismal failure in the United States is because it relies on chemotherapy. Chemotherapy drugs are, by their very nature, extremely toxic and typically work against your body's natural ability to fight cancer, e.g. d ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
    PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...
  • Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked ...
    The Gibe III dam threatens the livelihoods of 200,000 Lower Omo tribal people, including the Karo. © Survival Human rights organizations, including Survival and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controvers ...
  • Anoushka Shankar backs Survival
    Anoushka Shankar supports Survival International and the need to 'protect all cultures'. © Survival British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival International and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt desig ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
  • Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
    It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
  • Student protests, pro and con
    "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
  • Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
    A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.

Food World Order

  • War on Health: FDAs Cult of Tyranny
    from therealfoodchannel.com: In the US, the FDA wants to control everything you put in your body. They walk hand-in-hand with Big Pharma to approve drugs that not only don't work, but are deadly. They shut down small organic farmers. They threaten produce growers who link to medical sites offeri ...
  • Florida Keys Residents Resist Release of Dengu ...
    from guardian.co.uk: A British company that has developed a genetically modified mosquito to resist the spread of dengue fever is coming up against growing opposition to a plan to release the insects into the Florida Keys. A Change.org petition started by a woman in Key West opposing the rele ...
  • Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts: How ...
    from cryptogon.com: In a small, anonymous office in the Trump Tower, 28 floors above Wall Street, a man sits in front of a computer screen sifting through satellite images of a foreign desert. The images depict a vast, sandy emptiness, marked every so often by dunes and hills. He is searching ...
  • Health Care Reform Will Not Be Televised
    from brasschecktv.com: (Flashback) Related article... Small Group Now Leads Closed-Door Reform Negotiations By Perry Bacon Jr. Washington PostSunday, October 18, 2009 Three months before he was elected president, Barack Obama vowed not only to reform health care but also to pass the ...
  • Drought Hits 56 Percent of Continental U.S.; ‘ ...
    from cryptogon.com: The prolonged heat across the Midwest has not only set temperature records, it is also expanding and intensifying drought conditions — and relief isn’t on the horizon for most areas, the National Weather Service reported Thursday. Drought conditions are present in 56 perce ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...
  • Scenes Of Despair
    Sometimes it can be easy to forget that behind all of the horrible economic numbers that we hear about are millions of real people that have had their lives absolutely devastated by this economy.  Elderly couples are being brutally evicted from their homes, young families are liv ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...
  • 25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding U ...
    The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.  The truth is that there are signs of deep decay wherever we look, and without question the United States is rotting from the inside out in thousands of different ways.  For a lon ...

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The Talking Clock

  • The truly insane global elite are about to be ...
    As a political blog, we cover some weird stuff sometimes, boldly daring to post what other political blogs are too fearful for their credibility to risk. It is for that reason that we were very thrilled this year to see the Bilderberg Group blown wide open and irretrievably. No longer is that ...
  • Quote of the Day: 13th July 2012
    "This is a genuinely chilling development. For centuries, habeas corpus has been the ultimate safeguard against wrongful imprisonment by the state. Should these proceedings be pushed into secret courts, the possibility emerges that citizens could be detained without the government having to p ...
  • Nigel Farage: The EU is like a weird cult...
    So there you have it. The European 'Parliament' is like the epicentre of a weird cult. That's C-U-L-T. Not the same as most of the people in it, who are C-U-N... never mind.
  • Police Brutality: We're all... errr.... Spanis ...
    After February's particularly brutal exchange between police and peaceful demonstrators in Athens, a whole series of solidarity demonstrations took place outside Greek Embassies around the world under the moniker 'We're All Greek Now!". While lacking originality, the same looks to be happenin ...
  • Quote of the Morning: TTC Goes Sh*t-Stirring f ...
    "Senior Tory sources last night conceded they [The Conservative Party's 'Fresh Start Group'] may have to postpone many of their demands until after the 2015 election." - Tom Newton Dunn, Political Editor, The Sun TTC says: But you think Cameron will win the 2015 election? He couldn't even ...

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...

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